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36,923,156 | David Henshall told the Manchester Evening News that he came home from work and "found they had barricaded my wife and daughter inside".
He emailed pictures of the work to Virgin Media chief executive Tom Mockridge.
The firm apologised for the inconvenience.
In a statement it said: "Virgin Media expects the very highest standards of work from all its contractors. We will be discussing the matter with the contractors as a matter of urgency."
The home in Bolton was completely surrounded by fencing which in turn protected a newly-dug trench.
"My wife informs me that the workmen left at 2pm with no thought to the fact she could not move her car from our drive and it is stuck now," he told the paper.
The incident does not appear to be an isolated one. On the Virgin Media community website, a member complained last month that workmen "have dug right across the driveway", blocking in a car and covering it in dust.
Another asked this week: "I am trying to find out who to speak to about Virgin laying cables and constantly digging up the road, then making a mess."
In February 2015, Virgin Media announced that it was to invest £3bn in improving its cable broadband service, increasing its network's reach from 13 million to 17 million homes. | A home in the north-west of England has been cut off by roadworks carried out by Virgin Media as part of its super-fast broadband rollout. |
34,671,390 | 29 October 2015 Last updated at 15:56 GMT
1.3 billion people live in China, more than any other country in the world.
The laws called "The One-Child Policy" were introduced in 1979 because the Chinese government were worried that their population was growing too fast.
BBC reporter Jo Floto is in China and told us what this new ruling might mean for the country. | The Chinese government have announced that they are going to end the laws which say that families are only allowed to have one child. |
36,781,839 | The show's head judge said on Wednesday the forthcoming series, which begins in the autumn, will be his last.
Here are seven possible contenders for the plum position on BBC One's hugely popular hit:
Street dancer Banjo shot to fame in 2009 when his dance troupe Diversity were crowned winners - at Susan Boyle's expense - of the third series of Britain's Got Talent.
The London-born performer and choreographer went on to become a judge on Sky1 talent show Got to Dance, which ran for five series between 2009 and 2014.
Earlier this year he was seen on BBC One game show Can't Touch This, co-hosting alongside Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two host Zoe Ball.
The 27-year-old recently told the Daily Mirror he would be keen to appear as a celebrity contestant on Strictly, while admitting "the disciplines are completely different" from his preferred form of expression.
Sir Matthew, 56, is one of the UK's most popular and successful choreographers and directors.
His production of Swan Lake, first staged in 1995, revolutionised the show by featuring an all-male swan corps de ballet.
The Tony and Olivier winner is also an avid fan of Strictly Come Dancing, regular commenting on the programme on his personal Twitter feed.
"I seriously appreciate what Strictly's done for dance," he said last year.
"What Strictly's done is make everyone into critics to a certain extent, because we all look and analyse the dances."
Du Beke has been a professional dancer on Strictly since the show began in 2004.
Were he to hang up his dancing shoes, he might be ideally suited to take on a judging role.
The 49-year-old has yet to be a winner on the show, but he reached the final in last year's series when he competed with Katie Derham. The pair finished in fourth place.
He has also been critical of the adjudicators in the past, finding particular fault with US singer Donny Osmond's role as guest judge in 2014.
"It wasn't the greatest thing to happen," he told the Telegraph. "They just need to make sure they have someone from a dance background on the panel."
Bookmaker Coral has made Du Beke 2/1 favourite to replace Goodman on the panel.
Karen Hardy is no Strictly stranger - she is a former professional dancer on the show and even won it in 2006 after being paired with cricketer Mark Ramprakash.
She left the programme in 2009, the year after she and partner Gary Rhodes were eliminated in the third week.
Hardy did, however, continue to appear on spin-off show, Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two, and became one of its regular guests in 2011.
Her "choreography corner" feature, where she would review the previous Saturday programme, has become a Tuesday night staple of the sister show.
She also opened her own London dance school - Karen Hardy Studios - in 2008.
Bookmaker Coral has made Hardy 12/1 third favourite to step into Goodman's shoes.
Lythgoe, 67, was already a successful choreographer and producer by the time he entered the public consciousness as "Nasty Nigel" on ITV's talent search Popstars.
The success of that show took him to the US, where he became producer, co-creator and judge on competition show So You Think You Can Dance.
The programme is now in its 13th season and has spawned a number of international spin-offs, including a BBC version that ran for two years.
But he may have been premature in 2010 when he told The Guardian Strictly would eventually suffer from "burnout" and would "go off air [for] 10 or 12 years".
Phillips, the driving force behind the hugely popular dance group Hot Gossip, sat alongside Goodman on the judging panel when Strictly began in 2004.
But she was sensationally replaced by Alesha Dixon in 2009, a controversial decision that prompted a heated debate about ageism in the television industry.
The former dancer turned choreographer went on to become a judge, with Nigel Lythgoe, on the UK version of So You Think You Can Dance.
Now 73, she says she has "moved on" from the Strictly furore. "I don't stop and think back about it," she told The Scotsman this year.
Bookmaker Coral has made Phillips 10/1 second favourite to be Goodman's replacement.
Sleep had a distinguished career at the Royal Ballet before touring the world with his own company Dash.
Like fellow Royal Ballet alumnus Darcey Bussell, he went on to become a judge and mentor on such shows as the BBC's Strictly Dance Fever and ITV's Stepping Out.
The diminutive 67-year-old has many other television credits to his name, among them The Hot Shoe Show, Come Dine with Me and I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
But perhaps his most famous moment came when he danced with Princess Diana to Billy Joel's Uptown Girl at the Royal Opera House in London in 1985.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email [email protected]. | The news that Len Goodman is to step down from Strictly Come Dancing after its next series has generated much speculation on who might replace him. |
32,316,731 | At least five foreigners, including a 14-year-old boy, have been killed in attacks in South Africa's coastal city of Durban since last week.
Some foreign-owned shops in the main city Johannesburg have shut amid fears that the violence could spread.
Zimbabwe has also condemned the attacks, blamed on locals who accuse foreigners of taking their jobs.
Tens of thousands of foreigners, mostly from other African states and Asia, have moved to South Africa since white-minority rule ended in 1994.
At least 62 people died in xenophobic attacks that swept South Africa in 2008.
Malawi is the only country which has so far decided to repatriate its citizens.
Information Minister Kondwani Nankhumwa said the first group would return at the weekend.
About 420 Malawians are reportedly living in refugee camps in Durban after fleeing the violence, he said.
The BBC's Raphael Tenthani reports from Blantyre that he received a call from a Malawian in Durban who said saw he some Malawians being killed - including a close friend who was burned alive.
Mr Nankhumwa called on the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to intervene to help protect foreigners.
"This is unfortunate coming at a time we are working on regional integration," he said at a press conference.
"We urge the government of South Africa to protect foreigners," he added.
At the scene: Milton Nkosi, BBC News
Standing in the middle of a football field that has been turned into a refugee camp overnight in Durban's Chatsworth township, one cannot help but feel ashamed of being South African.
There are white and green tents dotted around housing destitute African migrant families who fled the violence meted out to them by their South African hosts.
Two weeks ago locals began attacking and looting properties owned by fellow Africans, calling them "kwerekwere", a derogatory word for African migrants.
I did not even have to ask Memory Mahlatini, a Zimbabwean who works as a nanny, what happened to her because her story was written all over her face.
Her eyes alone made me look down in shame as she explained how a group of South Africans came to her rented home last Monday evening just as they were preparing to sleep and demanded that they go back to where they came from.
Fear and shame in South Africa
In total, the violence has left about 5,000 foreigners homeless in Durban, the main city in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, local media reports.
On Wednesday, the violence spread to the province's second city, Pietermaritzburg, where foreign-owned shops were looted.
Verulam, a town about 30km (18 miles) north of Durban, has been hit by similar violence.
The government has ordered police to step up patrols to prevent the violence from escalating.
The governing African National Congress (ANC) said in a statement that South Africans should "hang our heads in shame in the face of these misguided and misplaced assaults".
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has been accused of fuelling xenophobia after he was widely quoted as saying at a meeting last month that foreigners should "please go back to their countries".
He denied being xenophobic and claimed he had been mistranslated.
South Africa's official unemployment rate stands at 24%, but some analysts believe that it is much higher. | Malawi says it will repatriate its nationals from South Africa, following an upsurge in xenophobic violence. |
34,886,112 | The RSPCA's Rohan Barker was called to Greenhill Crescent, in Haverfordwest, after reports a ginger cat had been spotted on a roof in the rain.
The rescued cat was unharmed but "very scared" and seemed in good health.
Mr Barker said it was "very odd to see that a crisp packet was stuck on his head".
"He looked very wet as it was raining quite heavily," he added.
Mr Barker said there was a chance the cat was feral or unowned, but asked the owner, if there is one, to let the RSPCA know of his progress. | A cat has been rescued after getting stuck on the roof of a Pembrokeshire house - with a crisp packet on his head. |
37,051,444 | Scotland's makar Jackie Kay, comedian Alexei Sayle and Charlatans singer Tim Burgess are also in the line-up.
Organisers have said the festival would "explore the power of the mind to imagine a better world".
The EIBF runs from 13 August to 29 August.
More than 800 writers, poets, illustrators, politicians, journalists, historians, scientists, philosophers and playwrights from 55 countries are to take part in the 17-day event at Charlotte Square Gardens.
Director Nick Barley described it as a festival "bursting at the seams with big ideas".
The Good Wife actor Alan Cumming will preview his book You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams, a collection of anecdotes and photographs from the actor's time in Hollywood.
Comedian Sayle will read from his second memoir, Thatcher Stole My Trousers, in which he recounts his experiences with The Young Ones and The Comic Strip Presents…
Tim Burgess will lift the lid on life with The Charlatans and their experiences at the heart of the 1990s 'Madchester' scene. He will be joined by crime writer and fellow music fan Ian Rankin to discuss their passion for vinyl.
In the non-fiction category, the festival will feature appearances by musicians Wilko Johnson and Brix Smith Start, as well as cyclists Chris Boardman and David Millar.
Politics and current affairs continue to play a key part in the programme.
Gordon Brown is set to address globalisation while the new makar (Scotland's national poet) Jackie Kay is to be interviewed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Poetry further makes an impression on the programme with appearances from the likes of UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Billy Bragg and Luke Wright. | Rebus author Ian Rankin and Hollywood actor Alan Cumming are among the well-known names set to take part in the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF). |
40,126,614 | The properties, in Huddersfield and Sheffield, were searched by counter-terror officers after police received a tip-off.
Explosions heard by eyewitnesses in both locations were caused by police accessing properties, officers said.
Two men, aged 24 and 29, were held in Huddersfield and Sheffield on suspicion of terror offences.
The BBC understands the arrests are Islamist-related.
Police said the raids were not linked to the recent Manchester Arena attack.
In Sheffield, residents at the Daisy Spring Works apartment block in Kelham Island told the BBC a door was blown off at a second floor property.
Nick Meeks, who lives on the same floor as the flat which was raided, said he heard an "almighty explosion".
"I stuck my head out of the door and there were fully-armed police pointing guns down the hallway towards me screaming and shouting at me to get back in the flat," he said.
A resident on Rudding Street in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield, who did not wish to be named, said at one point his "house shook".
He said: "I heard a loud bang that sounded like a really big explosion, I thought it was a bomb.
"I ran outside and saw about 30 police and armed officers. People on the street have been kept inside their houses."
The North East Counter Terrorism Unit said the two arrested men, both from Huddersfield, were being held on suspicion of offences under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act. | Residents heard "loud bangs" when armed officers swooped on two addresses in terror raids. |
39,704,993 | These are the highest figures on record from the Trussell Trust network of food banks.
The Trust has linked increasing demand with the rollout of the universal credit benefits reform.
But the Department for Work and Pensions says food bank use has "complex" causes and it is "misleading" to point to any one cause.
The food bank figures, from April 2016 to March 2017, show an increase of about 74,000 emergency supplies provided compared with the previous year, based on a network of more than 400 distribution centres.
The charity says that delays in benefits, debt and insecure employment are among the reasons that people have to turn to food banks for help.
In particular, the charity says that the introduction of universal credit seems to be causing a gap in benefits which causes families to turn to food banks.
Trust chief executive David McAuley said the findings provided an "early warning" about "unforeseen consequences" from the benefits changes.
But a Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said there were more complex reasons underlying the use of food banks.
"Under universal credit people are moving into work faster and staying in work longer than under the old system," he said.
The food bank charity reports that more than 400,000 of the recipients were children.
Official figures published last month show that most child poverty is now concentrated in working families.
More than two-thirds of children classified as living in poverty are in families where at least one parent is working - the highest levels on record. | A food bank network provided almost 1.2 million batches of three-day food and basic supplies in the past year. |
39,010,813 | Kevin O'Leary is one of 14 candidates vying for the leadership of Canada's Conservative Party on 27 May and to challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the general election two years later.
"People are tired of politicians spinning them BS. They're done. They'd like to hire an operator, someone who has executional excellence, that puts together tasks and brings great people together to perform and delivers results," O'Leary said in an interview with the BBC.
If that sounds familiar, well hold on to your hat. It seems Canada may be dealing with its own Donald Trump.
O'Leary is a political neophyte, best known as one of the rainmaking tycoons on ABC's Shark Tank where hopeful entrepreneurs pitch their fledgling companies, in the hopes of securing a potentially lucrative investment. The show is produced by Mark Burnett, who also produces the reality programme The Apprentice, which helped make Donald Trump a household name.
And like Trump, O'Leary is campaigning on shaking up politics and running government more like a business. But the similarities between Trump, who through an executive order tried to ban people from several Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States, only go so deep, says O'Leary.
"I'm a half-Lebanese, half-Irish immigrant. If there was a wall around Canada, I wouldn't exist. So the policies he is pushing forward are not mine. Canada is a very inclusive country," says O'Leary, who made the bulk of his estimated $300m (£240m) fortune in 1999, by selling a software company he founded.
Since selling his business, O'Leary co-founded a mutual fund company and a venture capital investment company. He's written books and, like Trump, has a line of wines that bears his name. And in 2015, O'Leary launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Politics is clearly a deviation from his business enterprises. But O'Leary believes Canadians are looking for something different.
"I am not going to run business as usual, the way politics has been run in Canada," he says. That idea of disrupting the status quo is what brought Trump to power, and that led the UK to leave the European Union.
O'Leary is campaigning on lower taxes, cutting environmental regulations, and diversifying Canada's economy away from the United States, which takes in around 80% of the country's goods and services.
But O'Leary does not speak French.
Canada officially became a bilingual country under Trudeau's father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. O'Leary's lack of language skills is already hurting him, but it has not deterred him.
In fact, the bombastic reality TV star is confident he will win the leadership race in May and is already setting his sights on the next race.
"In 2019 in Canada, we're not going to have an election, we're going to have an exorcism. I'm going to unwind everything he [Justin Trudeau] did, he's a disaster." | An outspoken businessman who found fame on American reality TV is betting the wave of populist sentiment will help him upend Canada's political establishment. |
40,494,551 | The collision was on the West Calder to Forth road, near Longford, at about 10:35 on Tuesday.
Police said the 48-year-old woman who died was driving a black Citroen C1. The other driver involved, a 54-year-old woman, suffered minor injuries.
The road was closed for several hours while an investigation was carried out at the scene, before being reopened just after 16:00.
The injured woman, who was driving an orange Mini Cooper, was taken to Wishaw General Hospital.
Sgt Neil Inglis said: "A woman has very sadly lost her life as a result of this collision and her family have now been informed.
"As part of our ongoing investigation, we're keen to speak to anyone who may have witnessed the collision or saw either car travelling in the area beforehand." | A woman has died after two cars crashed on the A704 in West Lothian. |
19,315,210 | Police say the girl was arrested last week in a Christian area of the capital, Islamabad, after a furious crowd demanded she be punished.
Officials said the girl could not properly answer police questions.
Her parents have been taken into protective custody following threats.
Many other Christian families have fled the neighbourhood after unrest erupted. Reports say that police arrested her under pressure from the large crowd.
But there are conflicting reports about the details of the incident.
It is unclear whether the girl burned pages of the Koran or if she was found with pages of the Koran in a bag.
Christian leaders say she is as young as 11 but police quoted in some media reports also say she may be older and that she had no mental impairments.
The girl's 'trauma'
Some Christian groups suggested that the girl has Down's syndrome, which is a congenital condition that causes various degrees of learning difficulties and certain physical abnormalities.
State media said that President Asif Ali Zardari had "taken notice" of the reports of the arrest and asked Pakistan's interior ministry to present a report to him.
The incident comes amid a debate about Pakistan's strict anti-blasphemy laws.
Rights activists have long urged Pakistan to reform the laws, under which a person can be jailed for life for desecrating the Koran.
Many of those accused of blasphemy have been killed by violent mobs, while politicians who advocate a change in legislation have also been targeted.
By Raza HamdaniBBC Urdu, Islamabad
Social media have been at the forefront of the condemnation of the latest arrest, which has revived the old debate over the country's strict blasphemy laws.
But it is notable that the government has stayed silent on the issue. Interior Minister Rahman Malik on Sunday chose to speak for more than 30 minutes on allegations made against Pakistan by India but did not touch on this case.
And despite the voices of outrage, many people do in fact support these laws. Even if the girl is found innocent in this case, analysts doubt if any government will have the courage to address the blasphemy law.
Last month, an angry crowd seized a man accused of blasphemy, and who was also said to be mentally unstable, from a police station and burnt him to death in the Bahawalpur area of Punjab province.
Last year, Shahbaz Bhatti, the minister for minority affairs, was killed after calling for the repeal of the blasphemy law.
His death came just two months after the murder of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, who also spoke out about the issue.
Paul Bhatti, Pakistan's minister for national harmony, earlier told the BBC that the girl was known to have a mental disorder and that it seemed "unlikely she purposefully desecrated the Koran".
Q&A: Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws
"From the reports I have seen, she was found carrying a waste bag which also had pages of the Koran," he said.
"This infuriated some local people and a large crowd gathered to demand action against her.
"The police were initially reluctant to arrest her, but they came under a lot of pressure from a very large crowd who were threatening to burn down Christian homes."
The BBC's Orla Guerin visited the poor slum neighbourhood where the incident took place. Many Christian families have fled the area and although some men have returned to their homes, a sense of unease remains, our correspondent reports.
Police said they had no choice but to intervene, saying the angry crowd was threatening to set the girl alight.
Rights groups have condemned the arrest. The Women's Action Forum (WAF) demanded the girl's immediate release and expressed outrage at the "total inhumanity" of those who lodged the case with police, AFP reports.
WAF said the case should have been dealt with under the juvenile justice system. | Pakistan's president has ordered a report into the arrest of a young Christian girl, reportedly with mental impairments, accused of desecrating pages of the Koran. |
40,427,439 | Mr Trump told Mr Varadkar Irish media were in the Oval Office and called over RTÉ's Washington Correspondent.
"She has a nice smile on her face so I bet she treats you well," he said.
Reporters said Mr Varadkar kept Mr Trump waiting for around 90 seconds before answering.
Mr Varadkar later said there was "no significance" in the delay, putting it down to the time taken to put the call through to him.
Footage from Tuesday shows Mr Trump beckoning to Ms Perry and telling Mr Varadkar "we have all of this Irish, beautiful Irish press here".
"One minute we were outside the window and the next minute I'm meeting the President of The United States," Ms Perry told RTÉ.
"Usually we would shoot from outside the window of the White House and that's what we were expecting today, but instead we were invited inside to witness the President's call to the Taoiseach.
"When we went in he was already on the phone but I managed to catch his eye and he called me over."
Mr Varadkar was invited to the White House next year for the St Patrick's Day celebration during the conversation.
The US president also congratulated Mr Varadkar on his "great victory".
Mr Varadkar was confirmed as Ireland's youngest and first openly gay leader earlier this month.
"We have so many people from Ireland in this country - I know so many of them, I feel I know all of them," Mr Trump said.
"But I just wanted to congratulate you, that was a great victory that you had."
A spokesperson for Mr Varadkar said it was "a wide-ranging call" lasting between ten and 15 minutes.
A visit by Mr Trump to Ireland was not discussed, but both men agreed that the next time they would see each other would be in the White House next March.
Mr Varadkar raised the issue of the "undocumented Irish", while there was also a conversation about climate change and trade.
His spokesperson said Mr Trump was interested in discussing the peace process and the Irish border post-Brexit. | Irish reporter Caitríona Perry had an unexpected encounter with US President Donald Trump during his telephone conversation with Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar. |
33,664,219 | Sophie Walker took up her post with the Women's Equality Party this week.
The party was set up by broadcaster Sandi Toksvig and journalist Catherine Mayer four months ago and is said to be Britain's fastest-growing party.
Ms Walker told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement the party would be taking a non-partisan approach to elections.
"We've picked the perfect time to launch a political party because of the number of proportional representation elections coming up in the spring," she said.
"We are going to field candidates and we think we stand a good chance and we think that will form a very good basis going forward to 2020 and, given the state of various political parties right now, who knows what the political field is going to look like in 2020."
She added: "We will work with other political parties where they want to work with us and, where we see that other political parties are adopting our goals and taking on our agenda, then we would consider joint candidacies with them.
Ms Walker said the party was at the "very early stages of deciding how to go forward".
"We will be undertaking consultations with our members and deciding which seats to target," she added. | The new leader of the UK's first feminist political party has said she expects to be fielding candidates in next year's Welsh assembly elections. |
36,648,909 | He is just the eighth rider to win the race at least three times and is just two behind joint record holders Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault of France, Belgium's Eddy Merckx and Miguel Indurain of Spain.
The 2013 and 2015 champion took the race lead with a victory on stage eight and held on to it for the next 13 stages to win in Paris.
This is how the race unfolded.
Report: Cavendish wins to wear yellow for first time
Mark Cavendish produced a sensational sprint to claim his 27th Tour de France stage win and put himself in the yellow jersey for the first time. Coastal cross-winds did not create too much havoc on a day when one of the race favourites, Alberto Contador, crashed heavily but escaped with bruises. Defending champion Chris Froome was anonymous for much of the day, which is just how he would have wanted it.
Report: Sagan claims first yellow jersey with stage win
A solo break by Jasper Stuyven came within 500m of producing an upset but he was caught with the finish line in sight. Peter Sagan battled with Julian Alaphilippe on the run-in and the Slovak world champion emerged victorious, although he did not initially realise he had won the stage. Chris Froome and Nairo Quintana finish together but Alberto Contador and Richie Porte lose time.
Report: Cavendish edges out Greipel to draw level with Hinault
A photo finish was needed to split Mark Cavendish and Andre Greipel in Angers. The German looked to have won the stage but a late lunge from the Manx Missile saw him nick it by millimetres on the line. The victory was Cavendish's 28th Tour stage win, pulling him level with French legend Bernard Hinault and joint second on the all-time list behind Eddy Merckx on 34. Peter Sagan retained the race lead as the favourites for the overall win all finished together.
Report: Cavendish misses out as Kittel wins thrilling finish
For the second stage running, a photo finish was needed to decide the winner, and this time it was German Marcel Kittel holding off Frenchman Bryan Coquard by millimetres on the line. Peter Sagan retained the yellow jersey by finishing third and Mark Cavendish remained on 28 stage wins as he came eighth. Chris Froome and his overall rivals finished safely with the same time as the winner.
Report: Van Avermaet takes five-minute Tour lead
Belgian Greg van Avermaet was the sole survivor of an early breakaway as he conquered the first mountain stage of this year's Tour to take the yellow jersey. Defending champion Chris Froome dropped more than five minutes behind Van Avermaet, but remains level with his main rivals for the title.
Report: Cavendish secures 29th Tour stage win
Mark Cavendish earned a 29th career stage win, taking him above Bernaud Hinault to second outright in the overall Tour standings, after a thrilling sprint finish. The Manxman rode on the back of Marcel Kittel's wheel to beat the German to the line, also picking up the green jersey. Britain's Daniel McLay finished third, with Belgian Greg van Avermaet remaining in yellow.
Report: Cummings takes brilliant second Tour win
Steve Cummings formed part of a breakaway on the first stage in the Pyrenees to earn a brilliant solo victory and a fourth win for British riders in this year's Tour and for the Dimension Data team. Britain's Adam Yates fell foul of a collapsed inflatable marking the 1km to go point, while Greg van Avermaet produced a solid display to stay in yellow.
Report: Froome launches surprise attack to win stage and take yellow
After a quiet start to the Tour, defending champion Chris Froome exploded into this year's race by launching an unexpected attack on the descent into the finish at Bagneres de Luchon. Team Sky set up the win with a grinding surge up the Col de Peyresourde but Froome surprised his rivals by sprinting down the other side, edging fellow Briton Adam Yates into second place in the overall standings.
Report: Dumoulin breaks clear to take stage win as Froome retains yellow
On a day of contrasting weather, Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin was one of a big group to break free of the peloton in scorching temperatures. He attacked on the final descent of the first mountain-top finish of the Tour in pouring rain to earn his first Tour de France win. Chris Froome withstood several late attacks from his yellow jersey rivals to come through the day unscathed. Adam Yates stayed second in the general classification.
Report: Matthews sprints to victory as Froome enjoys easy day in yellow
Australia's Michael Matthews achieved a first Tour win thanks to a breakaway masterclass from his Orica-BikeExchange team-mates. Matthews beat the more isolated Peter Sagan to the line, although the Tinkoff rider took over in the green points jersey from Mark Cavendish. Chris Froome enjoyed an easy day in yellow as the main contenders gained no advantage.
Report: Sagan wins after unlikely break with Froome
The expected bunch sprint in Montpellier failed to materialise after Peter Sagan and Chris Froome took advantage of cross winds to break clear in the final 15km and take a one-two on the stage. Both riders benefited with Froome extending his lead over Adam Yates and Nairo Quintana by 12 seconds, while Sagan moved 90 points clear in the green jersey classification.
Report: Froome gets running after chaotic finish
It was one of the most remarkable days the Tour de France had seen in its 113-year history.
With the stage reaching the final moments, Richie Porte crashed into a motorbike, bringing Chris Froome and Bauke Mollema down with him, after the trio had escaped their yellow jersey rivals. Froome, with his bike unusable, started to jog towards the finish line, before being given a replacement bike, but could not get his cycling shoes into the pedals. The defending champion finally received a new bike, but finished down on his rivals. The times were eventually neutralised, meaning Froome kept hold of the yellow jersey. Thomas de Gendt won the stage having been part of an early 13-man breakaway.
Report: Froome increases lead as Tour pays tribute to Nice victims
Tour de France organisers had considered cancelling the stage after Thursday's attack in Nice that killed at least 84 people. But racing continued, with heightened security and in a sombre atmosphere, as a minute's silence was held before and after the stage.
On the road, Chris Froome extended his lead in the yellow jersey to one minute and 47 seconds, after finishing second in the time trial behind Dutchman Tom Dumoulin.
Report: Cavendish wins 30th career Tour stage
Mark Cavendish's excellent Tour continued as he won his fourth stage his year - taking his career tally to 30, just four short of Eddy Merckx's record. Cavendish upset rival Marcel Kittel, who believed he was cut up by the Manxman on the way to the finish line, but the result stood.
It was a more relaxing day for the general classification contenders, with Chris Froome finishing in the peloton and maintaining his lead of one minute 47 seconds in the yellow jersey.
Report: Froome maintains lead as Pantano wins
At the end of a stage considered one of the Tour's most difficult, overall leader Chris Froome went surprisingly unchallenged across the Jura Mountains and maintained his lead of one minute 47 seconds ahead of his closest rival, Dutchman Bauke Mollema. Briton Froome knows it will now take something special to prevent him winning a third Tour title.
Colombia celebrated its first stage win of the 2016 Tour, with Jarlinson Pantano (IAM Cycling) outsprinting Poland's Rafal Majka to claim his maiden Grand Tour stage win.
Report: Sagan claims third win as Froome stays in yellow
Peter Sagan beat Alexander Kritstoff in the third photo finish of this year's race to earn a third stage win. The victory also ensured that if the Slovak can make it to the finish in Paris, he will hold onto the green jersey for a fifth consecutive year. Chris Froome finished safely after what he called a "sketchy" end to the stage and admitted he was looking forward to a rest day before the final push in the Alps.
Report:Froome tightens grip on Tour as Zakarin wins stage
Any faint hopes that Chris Froome's rivals had of chasing down the 2013 and 2015 champion seemed to evaporate, as Bauke Mollema and Nairo Quintana were both dropped on the steep ascent to finish line at Finhaut-Emosson. Froome's fellow Briton Adam Yates continued his wonderful Tour, though, and Ilnur Zakarin had the legs to hold off Jarlinson Pantano to win the gruelling stage, which was held entirely in Switzerland.
Report: Froome close to third Tour title after time trial win
Britain's Chris Froome timed his race to perfection to beat Tom Dumoulin and win a second stage on this year's race and extend his lead over the field to move almost four minutes clear of Bauke Mollema in second. Fellow Briton Adam Yates retained third overall just 21 seconds clear of Nairo Quintana in fourth in the race for the podium places.
Report: Bardet wins stage as Froome suffers crash
In another dramatic stage, Romain Bardet attacked up the last climb of the day to earn a first French win on this year's Tour after several riders crashed in wet conditions, including yellow jersey holder Chris Froome. The Team Sky rider, who also ran up Mont Ventoux after crashing into a motorbike, is forced to borrow the bike of team-mate Geraint Thomas, but extended his lead as second-placed Bauke Mollema tumbled down the general classification.
Report: Froome set to retain Tour title
After all the drama of this year's Tour, the final day of general classification racing ended up being straightforward for Chris Froome. And he will have been relieved. The wet conditions and the steep, downhill finish could have made it difficult for team Sky to protect their man, but Froome was barely troubled and will go into Sunday's largely processional stage to Paris knowing he jut needs to finish to become the first Briton to win three Tour de France titles and be the first to successfully defend it since Miguel Indurain in the 1990s.
Movistar's Jon Izaguirre won his first grand Tour stage by outpacing Vincenzo Nibali and Jarlinson Pantano on the final descent.
Report:Froome wins third title as Greipel wins in Paris
Chris Froome sipped beer and champagne on the ride to Paris before crossing the finish line arm-in-arm with the eight Team Sky riders who helped him become the first Briton to win three Tour titles. Germany's Andre Greipel continued his record of winning at least one stage in each Grand Tour he has competed in with a second career victory on the Champs-Elysees.
Fellow Briton Adam Yates finished fourth to win the white jersey as best young rider, while world champion Peter Sagan claimed the points classification and Rafal Majka took the polka dot king of the mountains top.
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Geraint Thomas was talking to BBC Sport's Peter Scrivener. | Chris Froome became the first British rider to win three Tours de France with his victory in 2016. |
34,047,420 | The company said it was the first ferry operator in the UK and first major transport firm north of the border to gain official Living Wage accreditation.
The recognition is made by the Poverty Alliance on behalf of the Living Wage foundation.
CalMac said it was "right and proper" to pay staff "fairly for their work".
About 300 companies and organisations in Scotland, and 1,600 throughout the UK, have signed up to the Living Wage Foundation's higher rates.
Chancellor George Osborne announced a new National Living Wage as part of his Budget in July, but this is lower than the rates set by the Living Wage Foundation.
CalMac's managing director Martin Dorchester said: "It is absolutely right and proper that CalMac's employees should earn a Living Wage.
"It is something we were already doing with our staff and gaining accreditation simply formalises our commitment to this.
"A recent independent study by the Fraser of Allander Institute into CalMac's social and economic impact across the network found that its staff earn 12% more than the Scottish average.
"This reflects not only the importance we place on ensuring our staff - often in areas where job opportunities can be limited and also low paid - are financially recognised fairly for their work, but that they can live well within the prevailing financial climate."
Peter Kelly, director of the Poverty Alliance, said: "As the first ferry company to become accredited, CalMac is leading the way.
"With over half of children in poverty in Scotland living in a household where someone works, paying the Living Wage is now more important than ever.
"We hope to see more employers following in CalMac's steps in the coming weeks and months." | Caledonian MacBrayne has become the latest employer in Scotland to commit to paying the living wage. |
35,966,175 | WBA and WBO champion Fury called fellow Briton Joshua, 26, "useless" and said boxing was not just about "bodybuilding".
Fury also predicted Joshua would be "knocked out" on Saturday by defending champion Charles Martin when they fight for the IBF title Fury was stripped of.
"They're hating on my beach body," said Olympic champion Joshua.
"If they want, I'll give them some sessions. They can come train with me."
Joshua overcame Dillian Whyte with a seventh-round stoppage in his last fight in December to claim the British heavyweight title.
The bout against American Martin, who beat Vyacheslav Glazkov for the vacant IBF belt in January, will be his 16th fight as a professional. He has won by knockout in the first 15.
Fury was stripped of the IBF title in December after he opted for a rematch against Wladimir Klitschko, rather than face mandatory challenger Glazkov.
Joshua added he had "no comments" on Fury's physique.
"This is just how I am. There's a lot of jealousy, a lot of negativity, so that's why I shut it down and just focus on myself.
"I don't search for their attention. I'm not worried if he backs me or not, because I'll still handle my business. He's not supposed to back me realistically, so I expect no different." | Anthony Joshua says Tyson Fury is jealous of his physique and has offered his heavyweight rival help in training. |
34,681,638 | The Liberal Democrats on the London Assembly said diesels should be banned or face stringent tests to stop the city's air becoming more polluted.
But a spokesman for the mayor said it would have a "serious economic impact".
In September, VW admitted installing software to cheat emissions tests in 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide.
Previously the London Assembly environment committee said diesel vehicles accounted for 40% of the capital's air pollution with Public Health England suggesting 3,000 people die annually as a result of it.
In 2020 an Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) will be introduced restricting vehicle access to London's congestion zone
The cleanest vehicles will be allowed to travel for free, while cars, vans and motorbikes will be charged £12.50 and HGVs and lorry will have to pay £100.
But the Liberal Democrats fear the unreliability of emissions tests mean even those vehicles classed as "clean" could actually be polluters.
Lib Dem Stephen Knight said: "The Volkswagen scandal highlighted this more than anything else, so we need to make measures now to ensure that the only vehicles entering the ULEZ in 2020 are absolutely either zero emission or ultra low emission vehicles.
"The simple answer to that is to say we won't allow diesel vehicles into the zone. "
But the city's deputy mayor for environment, Matthew Pencharz, said: "To say to every van owner and to every HGV driver 'I'm sorry you can no longer drive into central London' may have a serious economic impact."
The experts, also, say the problem goes beyond the VW scandal.
Dr Gary Fuller from King's College London said: "The problem's to do with what comes out of the back of the car when they're driven. In the real world it isn't just confined to VW.
"We know all the most modern vehicles are emitting somewhere between six and seven times the amount of nitrogen dioxide pollution...so we hope that cars get better as the fleet is renewed, but we have to wait and see." | There are calls for London to ban diesel vehicles from the capital following the Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal. |
28,459,474 | In a speech launching his party's summer offensive, he said he was "not going to be able to compete" with David Cameron's slick approach.
But he said he wanted to offer voters "something different" at next year's general election.
"The leadership this country needs is one that has big ideas to change things," said the Labour leader.
Mr Miliband's personal ratings trail behind those of his party and in June fell to the lowest ever recorded in an ICM-Guardian poll - a distinction he shared with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Mr Cameron's ratings were also down but he remains well ahead of his two main rivals, particularly when voters are asked about who looks the "most prime ministerial".
Labour fears the Conservatives will target Mr Miliband personally at next year's general election, wrecking the party's chances of gaining power.
In what could be seen as an attempt to head off criticism, Mr Miliband spoke about some of the gaffes he has been accused of committing in recent months - including holding up a copy of The Sun and struggling to eat a bacon sandwich, as well as caricatures of him as Wallace from the Wallace and Gromit animations.
He said he wanted to stand up to powerful vested interests such as Rupert Murdoch, but added: "Sometimes you get it wrong. I know, especially for people on Merseyside, me holding up a copy of the Sun was one of those days."
Mr Miliband was forced to apologise last month after he was criticised by his own MPs for promoting the paper, which has been criticised for its reporting of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 people died.
The Labour leader said big ideas and principles were more important than image and Labour had the right policies on dealing with "the cost of living crisis", tackling low pay and building more homes.
Analysis
By Brian Wheeler, political reporter
Ed Miliband is taking quite a gamble with this speech. He knows he has an image problem - and many in his party fear it could cost them the general election.
But a slick relaunch is out of the question - a cynical public would never buy it and, by his own admission, he couldn't pull it off.
So he has opted instead for a bit of of self-deprecation. Yes, I know I look a bit weird - get over it. That is his message.
But the danger is that by talking about his past PR disasters he is simply drawing more attention to them.
Also, whenever he stages a photo opportunity in the future - as all politicians do - he will be reminded of his words.
His political mentor Gordon Brown also tried to make a virtue of his own ineptitude in the field of public relations.
But "Gordon unspun" sounded to many people like yet more spin.
He said: "David Cameron is a very sophisticated and successful exponent of a politics based purely on image.
"I am not going to be able to compete with that and I don't intend to. I want to offer something different.
"I am not from central casting. You can find people who are more square-jawed, more chiselled. Look less like Wallace.
"You could probably even find people who look better eating a bacon sandwich.
"If you want the politician from central casting, it's just not me, it's the other guy."
But he said his version of political leadership was about sticking to principles even when it was hard, caring about people's lives and not leaving decency behind at the door of No 10, like the "callous Conservative" David Cameron.
Mr Miliband's speech, at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, launched Labour's summer campaign, seen as an attempt to hit back at critics who accused the party of taking its eye off the ball during last year's parliamentary recess.
He said shadow cabinet members would be making a series of speeches about the "positive vision for the future from Labour".
Prime Minister David Cameron said Mr Miliband's speech proved that he was the leader who lacked substance.
"On a day when our national output has recovered to where it was before the great recession, which was brought to us by Labour, I think it was an extraordinary thing to say.
"The real substance is that because of the hard work of the British people we have actually reached a major milestone in our long-term economic plan." | Labour leader Ed Miliband has attempted to confront his perceived image problem - by saying it is not his top priority. |
36,082,125 | Ralph Cook said he made his decision after reading the party's manifesto for the assembly election.
He said he had been "a life long practical environmentalist" long before he was elected as a Labour councillor.
Mr Cook has served as an independent since quitting Labour in 2015 following a row over the way the party was running Cardiff.
"I am delighted to have joined a party that holds true to its values whilst also allowing its representatives to express their own positions on the big issues of the day: such a refreshing contrast to the controlling attitude of the Labour Party," he said.
Hannah Pudner, deputy leader of the Wales Green Party, said: "He isn't the first, and won't be the last, disillusioned Labour Party member who wants a fresh approach to politics in Wales and to join the Green party." | A former Labour deputy leader of Cardiff council has joined the Wales Green Party. |
35,553,059 | Kenneth Owen and Alan Todd, both 70, worked at Wisteria Lodge, which was run by Coventry City Council, in the 1980s.
A jury at Warwick Crown Court heard how Todd had sexually assaulted two of his victims, and also taunted a vegetarian child with a dead rabbit.
Owen verbally and physically abused children with Todd, including locking them in "time out" rooms for hours.
Todd, from Stretton-under-Fosse in Warwickshire, was jailed for eight years and two months after being convicted of six indecent assault and five cruelty charges.
Owen, from Dickon Hill Road in Boston in Lincolnshire, was given a prison sentence of four years and four months after being found guilty of five cruelty charges.
Judge Alan Parker said the pair carried out "grotesque" abuse of children at the home.
"It's barely comprehensible to right-thinking people but what happened here goes far beyond the depths of wickedness and depravity," he said.
A Coventry City Council spokesman apologised to the victims.
"These crimes happened a number of years ago and the safeguards we have in place now make it a priority for the voice of the child or young person to be heard," they said.
Det Con Emma Tyler, who led West Midlands Police's investigation, praised the "commendable courage" of those who spoke against their attackers, and urged others to help police and prosecutors convict offenders.
A spokesman for the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) said it hoped the convictions would encourage more victims of other crimes to come forward.
"It is deeply concerning that this went on for so long, but we hope the sentences imposed today send out a clear message that these appalling acts will not be tolerated," they said. | Two former children's home workers who ran "a regime of terror" have been jailed. |
40,910,627 | Johann Myburgh's 87 put the home side in the driving seat chasing 184, before Marchant de Lange bowled him and then conceded just six in the last over.
Glamorgan's 183-6 owed much to T20 rookie Nick Selman, who hit 66 off 42 balls.
Aneurin Donald (33), Colin Ingram (35) and Graham Wagg (28 not out) played valuable cameos.
Surrey's victory over Sussex meant that Glamorgan can finish no worse than fourth place.
But Glamorgan were pushed all the way by a fighting Somerset performance, with Myburgh's 87 off 51 balls putting Somerset in the driving seat.
De Lange's double strike, running out Jim Allenby before yorking Myburgh, dragged the visitors back into contention, but the South African paceman still needed to keep his cool in the final over.
He conceded two singles off the first five balls, with Peter Trego's four off the final delivery not quite enough to save Somerset, who remain in with a chance of a quarter-final place if they beat Hampshire at Southampton on Friday, 18 August.
Glamorgan fast bowler Marchant de Lange told BBC Wales Sport: "I was disappointed with my first two overs and you're always under pressure as a bowler then, but I like my death bowling - it's a good challenge especially in situations like today.
"In this situation I was really pleased, the wickets (in the 18th over) were important because it's a dot ball and it brings the flow of the game to a standstill, especially with a class player like Myburgh. It was important to get him out." | Glamorgan pipped Somerset by one run in a dramatic finish to earn a last-eight place for the third time in four years. |
39,599,645 | Alonso will miss the race on 28 May to compete in the Indianapolis 500, with the full support of both McLaren and the team's engine partner Honda.
"I'm thrilled to be making a one-off return," said Button, 37, who retired from F1 at the end of last season.
"I couldn't think of a better place to make that return than my adopted home grand prix - Monaco."
The 2009 world champion has spent the winter in California training for Ironman triathlons, his long-time passion.
He will learn a lot very quickly but with the amount of talent he has I wouldn't be surprised if he pulls it off
He signed a contract with McLaren last autumn that committed him to replacing any race driver not able to take part in a grand prix this year.
As part of that contract, the team also has an option to sign him to race in 2018.
Button described Monaco as a "tricky street circuit" but said the McLaren may be "more suited" to the venue than the "faster circuits" Alonso and team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne have driven on so far this season.
"I've won the race before, in 2009, and it's one of my all-time favourite racetracks," he added.
McLaren will be credited with any points won by Button. Both the team and Alonso have yet to win a point this season and are unlikely to be in the shake-up for either title.
Alonso said: "To be honest, if we were fighting for a world championship, we cannot afford to lose a 25-points possibility. Yet we are not in that position, unfortunately."
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier believes Button is fit enough to cope with rigours of racing in Monaco.
"Jenson spent 17 years in F1. He drove these levels of downforce before and, having gone through the differences in technicalities of driving this year's car and last year's car, we agreed that it would be better to spend a couple of days in the simulator than to test in Bahrain on a different circuit in completely different conditions from Monaco.
"He is fit and ready."
Nigel Mansell, another British former world champion, believes Button will do well at Monaco.
Mansell, 63, was the F1 champion when he won the IndyCar series in 1994.
"Jenson is a great world champion and a class act," he told BBC Radio 5 live. "He's probably fitter and more hungry now than he has been for many years.
"He loves Monaco, he's a tremendous driver, and he'll do exceedingly well."
Mansell said the key to succeeding at Monaco was being "incredibly fit and patient", and that Button might "surprise McLaren and himself".
He added: "They are in safe hands with Jenson. He knows the team and they know him very well. The last thing they need is a rookie doing one race, causing problems and crashing the car."
Mansell has no doubt Alonso has the talent to succeed in IndyCars and says he is joining "a great team".
The Spaniard, 35, will race for the Honda-powered Andretti team on 28 May, and the car will be branded a McLaren.
He said he had long held an ambition to win the so-called 'triple crown' of Monaco, the Indy 500 and Le Mans.
"The switch for Alonso will be learning the Indy circuit," said Mansell.
"You have to have the car carefully balanced because if it has any oversteer then it's an accident waiting to happen.
"He will find racing over Indianapolis over 500 miles is fascinating. He will learn a lot very quickly but with the amount of talent he has I wouldn't be surprised if he pulls it off."
Mansell described his time in the United States as a "wild-west experience".
"It's incredible to go across to America and experience that," he said. "It will be fascinating as a racing fan to watch everything unfold next month.
"It's so exciting for racing fans. I think the crossover is wonderful." | British former world champion Jenson Button will replace Fernando Alonso at McLaren for the Monaco Grand Prix. |
36,115,063 | The animal was wearing a leash and collar and appeared to be tame, police in Conroe near Houston said.
Animal control officers captured the animal and police are seeking its owner.
If the tiger and its owner live in Conroe, the animal will no longer be able to live there as a result of this incident, police said. | A young female tiger has been found roaming around a residential neighbourhood in a Texas town. |
37,732,033 | The Bengoa Report was commissioned by NI ministers seeking advice on how to improve services, cut waiting lists and care for an ageing population.
Written by experts, led by Prof Rafael Bengoa, it is expected to recommend widespread change and tough decisions.
It follows three previous major reviews that each recommended closing several hospital emergency departments.
Harsh medicine, but the earlier reports argued that resources and expertise were too thinly spread across too many locations.
However, closing hospitals is highly emotive and unpopular and so far, the pill has been too bitter for politicians to swallow.
Like the rest of the UK, people in Northern Ireland are now generally living longer than was the case in previous generations.
When the UK's National Health Service was set up in 1948, the average life expectancy in Northern Ireland was 65 for men and 70 for women.
In 2016, the average life expectancy of a man in Northern Ireland has risen to 78, while for a woman it is now 82 years.
The change is due, in part, to improved treatments for life-threatening conditions like cancer and heart disease.
Higher life-expectancy is a positive development, but it also means that there are more elderly people to look after, relative to the size of the working population.
As we live longer into old age, more patients are coping with chronic and complex medical conditions which can require years of treatment and support.
There are also lifestyle factors to consider which affect all age groups - eating too much, drinking too much alcohol and smoking are all putting pressure on health services.
So living longer does not necessarily mean we are living healthier lives.
The Bengoa Report is not the first prescription politicians have sought for the ailments facing Northern Ireland's health care services.
Since the turn of the century, three major reviews have been published and each suggested cutting the number of acute hospitals - those providing A&E services and emergency surgery.
Sir Liam's report recommended setting up an international panel of experts to redesign some health and social care facilities.
In January 2016, Stormont's then health minister Simon Hamilton agreed and appointed a panel of six, chaired by Prof Rafael Bengoa.
The Spaniard is an internationally renowned expert on health reform who has advised the European Union and the Obama administration in the US.
He worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO) for more than 15 years.
He is also a former minister of health in the Basque region.
This time last year, a senior health expert said heads would roll in England if hospital waiting lists were as long as those in Northern Ireland.
In an interview with the BBC in October 2015, Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, described the figures as "serious" and called for immediate action.
Between 2014 and 2015, there was almost a 50% rise in waiting lists.
The numbers jumped from 155,558 patients in September 2014 to 230, 625 in September 2015.
According to the most recently published data from August 2016, more than 225,000 men and women were on a waiting list to see a health consultant.
More than 70,000 were waiting for in-patient and day patient appointments.
More than 95,000 were in a queue for a diagnostic service.
Northern Ireland has nine acute hospitals that are open round the clock. Two others have reduced opening hours for their emergency departments.
The challenges posed by an ageing population are likely to be exacerbated in the coming years, unless the problems are addressed.
By the year 2024, Northern Ireland's 1.8m population is expected to rise by more than 5% to just under 2m.
The number of people aged over 65 is due to rise by almost 26%, while the working age population is set to rise by just 1%.
The wide-ranging demands placed on the health service are also increasingly costly and complex.
Last year, more than 6,000 people turned up at emergency departments across Northern Ireland having self-harmed - most were aged between 15 and 24.
Over-indulgence on food is leading to increased levels of diabetes and weight-related disorders, while the abuse of alcohol and drugs are putting a strain on emergency departments.
When he published his report into Northern Ireland's health care system last year, England's former chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, said acute hospitals were being "kept in place because of public and political pressure".
Since then, Stormont ministers have been making noises that suggest they are preparing to take some unpopular decisions.
This month, Health Minister Michelle O'Neill called the current waiting list figures "shocking" and "unacceptable".
Her predecessor Simon Hamilton talked about the need for consensus and taking the "politics out of healthcare".
Whether ministers will follow doctors' advice this time remains to be seen. | A long-awaited report on the future of Northern Ireland's health and social care system has been published. |
21,566,741 | He faces a tough battle in the presidential race against frontrunners Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta.
But he may have a key role to play should there be a run-off.
The quiet, soft-spoken politician is often accused of being indecisive.
Kenyan cartoonists depict him as a harmless yet gullible character, but social commentators accuse him of being too laid back, to the extent that many say he has no bottle for tough political battles.
Mr Mudavadi is an insider, with a typical Kenyan political pedigree.
He is the son of a powerful politician, Moses Mudamba Mudavadi, who served as a minister under President Daniel arap Moi.
Mr Mudavadi senior had worked his way up through the ranks of the civil service during the colonial era, starting his career as a teacher and ending up in charge of education in western Kenya.
He was largely seen as responsible for delivering his Luhya community's support to the Moi regime and he married one of the president's relatives; hence the close ties between the Moi and Mudavadi families.
Mr Moi's son Gideon, who is the current chairman of Kanu, the former ruling party, is backing Mr Mudavadi in this election.
Musalia Mudavadi entered politics in 1989, aged 29.
When his father died, he was persuaded to leave his practice as a land economist to take up his father's seat as an MP in western Kenya.
His father's close ties with Mr Moi ensured that his political career was fast-tracked; he was appointed to the cabinet soon after his election to parliament.
He served in key positions, including being finance minister between 1993 and 1997.
His tenure at the finance ministry was tainted by the Goldenberg scandal which had begun during the time of his predecessor George Saitoti.
However, Mr Mudavadi was condemned for approving further payments to the architect of the scam.
This remains the largest economic fraud in Kenya's history.
Millions of dollars were pilfered from the treasury to offer compensation to a scheme where individuals were paid for exporting gold, even though Kenya has no commercial gold deposits.
Although the 2006 Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry noted that Mr Mudavadi was not directly involved, the question remains how such large sums of money could have been siphoned off under his nose without his knowledge.
Mr Mudavadi's fortunes hit high and low in 2002.
While many thought it was time for him to dump Kanu for the opposition, where he stood a chance of winning the presidency, he instead agreed to Mr Moi's plans.
He was hurriedly appointed vice-president at a time when parliament had already been dissolved and was made running mate to Mr Moi's preferred successor Uhuru Kenyatta.
But it was a short-lived scheme. Mr Mudavadi holds the record of serving the shortest period as Kenya's vice-president - just two months.
He and Mr Kenyatta were defeated at the 2002 polls following the historic election victory of President Mwai Kibaki.
Worse still, he was humiliated by Moses Akaranga, a little-known preacher who clinched the parliamentary seat in western Kenya that Mr Mudavadi had held for more than 10 years.
Mr Mudavadi's political career was rejuvenated in 2005 when he aligned himself with Raila Odinga, who later in 2007 picked him as his running mate.
In the same polls he reclaimed his parliamentary seat and was subsequently appointed deputy prime minister and local government minister.
But he fell out with Mr Odinga early last year.
He was furious about a clause in the Orange Democratic Movement manifesto which gave the party chairman, Mr Odinga, the automatic right to be the presidential candidate.
He announced that he would be standing for president himself on the ticket of the United Democratic Front, whose most influential backers are thought to be close to State House and current President Mwai Kibaki.
This move has been seen as a betrayal of Mr Odinga, the man who revived his political career.
The Luhya community largely backed Mr Odinga in the previous election and so Mr Mudavadi's candidacy could split their vote.
Some commentators have labelled him a "project" - a Kenyan term for stooge - of powerful forces keen to block Mr Odinga's ascent to power.
Mr Mudavadi was briefly wooed by Mr Kenyatta' Jubilee Alliance but he backed out when it became clear that he would be expected to play second fiddle again.
This episode earned him a reputation for being seriously gullible.
Kenyans were incredulous that he appeared to believe that Mr Kenyatta would step down in his favour.
Mr Mudavadi has struggled to rally his home region of western Kenya to back his presidential bid.
Support from elsewhere in the country has been lukewarm.
His supporters view him as a sober, moderate and non-combative politician - a safe pair of hands.
For this very reason some reckon they would not vote for him, adding that he lacks the passion or drive to get things done, he is a fence sitter and an uninspiring pro-establishment politician.
During his years at the University of Nairobi, Mr Mudavadi was an astute rugby player, turning out for Mean Machine - the university's rugby club.
His interest in sports has lived on; he often likens himself to Lionel Messi, the Argentinean football star known for his swift passes and agile moves on the pitch.
His manoeuvres on the political field will be keenly watched if, as many predict, he finds himself having to choose between Mr Odinga and Mr Kenyatta in the second round of the presidential election. | Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi, who has spent significant moments of his career serving as number two to Kenya's political kingpins, is now making his first bid for the top job. |
35,549,508 | Ian Crichton took up the top job as the board struggled to roll out a new IT and call-handling system, which has suffered lengthy delays and is currently £40m over budget.
He was recently questioned by MSPs on the audit committee about the matter.
Mr Crichton told the committee that the system still had no launch date and could end up costing £125m.
He faced angry questions from MSPs, who said there had been "serious incompetence" at NHS24 leading to "a complete mess".
The new IT system, known as the Future Programme, was originally budgeted at £75m, but is currently forecast to cost £117m.
Mr Crichton took the place of John Turner, who was NHS24 chief executive between September 2008 and July 2015, and who signed the contracts for the system.
Mr Crichton apologised to MSPs, saying the organisation had underestimated the scale and complexity of rolling out the programme.
Formerly a senior manager at Gillette and NHS National Services Scotland, Mr Crichton is now taking up a role outside NHS Scotland.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said a process was in place to find a successor.
She said: "We'd like to thank Ian Crichton for his many years of dedicated service to the NHS.
"The management team in direct charge of the Future Programme remains in place and is making progress towards rectifying the issues identified and readying the system for implementation.
"The Scottish government continues to work closely with the NHS24 Future Programme board to support the team's governance arrangements and ensure a successful switch over to the new system in the summer." | The interim chief of Scotland's troubled NHS24 service is stepping down after six months in the job. |
36,443,900 | The decision to close 163 stores over the coming weeks came after a lengthy bidding process aimed at trying to save the High Street chain failed.
Some staff say they only learnt of the decision after hearing about it in the media.
Current and former BHS employees have been talking to BBC News.
"I started working there last year. I really like it. Everyone is so friendly.
"We had heard rumours about its future but I only found out on Thursday when I saw it in the news.
"We were doing so well. When the business went into administration in April, business was up. We saw lots of people coming into the store.
"They were obviously excited by all the discounts on offer.
"People say it is old-fashioned and yes we did see mainly older ladies in the store, but it was also very popular with younger people who seem to like the home section.
"It's a shame. I've lost my job and it's down to Philip Green, cheers pal. I am lost for words.
"I haven't heard anything from the company yet but I am not full-time so I don't think I am a priority.
"I have been phoning up about other jobs and I will keep looking around."
"I'm very saddened to hear the store could not be saved.
"I have really enjoyed working with the company. There is a real family-friendly atmosphere in the store.
"We have regular customers and they really value what we offer.
"The quality of the products is of a good standard and their children and baby sections are particularly popular.
"The management team are fantastic and I found them very supportive, helpful and caring when I was dealing with a death and last year when I broke my foot and had to take time off.
"I only work at the weekends so I really feel for all the full-time staff.
"I'm also disgusted by the fact staff were not told before going to press."
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8,000 members of staff and
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"I worked at BHS for 33 years but unfortunately over three decades I saw a change in attitudes at the company.
"When I joined the business many of the directors were home-grown. They knew the business inside out, they were long-serving and dedicated to the future success of the organisation.
"Then came the decade of incentives. The bonus culture, the offering of both cash and share options.
"From that day on, the focus of the business appeared to be how can we make money as individuals each year and even more next year. It was more about the personal need to make a fortune.
"This culture continued as directors started to search for jobs outside the company where the rewards were even greater, leading to replacement appointments of high-salary and bonus-seeking management with or without any retail experience.
"BHS needed investment but they took their eye off the ball.
"Now 11,000 staff have an uncertain future, along with pensioners like myself, who have worked with the company for decades.
"We have done no more than follow the rules and now our incomes will be reduced or capped, or won't rise with inflation for the rest of our lives." | Thousands of jobs at BHS are to be lost as a result of the collapse of the department store, announced on Thursday. |
38,535,391 | A murder investigation was launched after Ibrahim Ismail, 23, was found outside the Raxo shisha lounge in Highgate, Birmingham, on 17 December.
West Midlands Police said two men from the city, aged aged 23 and 24, were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder.
They have been bailed pending further inquiries.
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Det Insp Martin Slevin, said: "We continue to investigate all lines of inquiry into reports that there was an altercation prior to Ibrahim's death, but we still need to people to come forward with information."
A post-mortem examination revealed Mr Ismail had stab wounds to his chest and back. | Two men have been arrested and bailed in connection with the death of a man who was stabbed to death. |
37,444,759 | On Sunday, the royal couple will visit Sheway, which has helped vulnerable mothers since 1993 in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, an area of the city that has become synonymous with urban poverty and substance abuse.
The visit is part of the upcoming Canadian tour by Will and Kate, and one of their first engagements over the week-long visit.
Manager Patti Zettel, who described the duke and duchess's planned visit as "mind-blowing," noted Sheway was modelled on a facility in Glasgow, Scotland, that had received Princess Diana's support.
"It shows a commitment to a particular group of marginalised individuals - women and addiction - for a quarter of a century now by the royal family," she said.
Princess Diana, Prince William's mother, embraced a wide range of humanitarian causes before her death in 1997. She advocated for the homeless and vulnerable youth, and took a personal interest in some unpopular causes of the time, including people with HIV/Aids.
The Sheway stop itself is brief - it's expected to last about an hour - but is important to the programme's clients.
"It's a validation that their lives and their experiences have meaning and that their stories deserve to be told," Zettel said.
Besides the visit to Sheway, over the course of some 30 separate engagements the duke and duchess will pay tribute to veterans of the Afghanistan conflict, will visit staff and volunteers who helped support Syrian refugees recently welcomed to Canada, will meet first responders, will travel to the Great Bear Rainforest - the world's largest temperate rainforest - and will meet a number of First Nations communities.
While the tour itinerary nods to Princess Diana's legacy and doesn't shy away from social issues, it also offers many opportunities to showcase the breathtaking natural beauty of British Columbia - Canada's western-most province - and the Yukon, a territory in the country's north.
Nathan Tidridge, who has written extensively on the monarchy, said Canadians rarely spend time thinking about the royal family despite the fact that Queen Elizabeth is the Canadian monarch.
Still, Tidridge said Canadians will tune in due to the "glossy magazine" aspect of the youthful royal family. By highlighting efforts towards reconciliation with Canada's First Nations, conservation and charity work, these tours help "tell our national story".
"Any moments that gather us together as a community are really, really, important. It's those intangible moments that royal tours really offer us," he said.
This is Will and Kate's second visit to Canada as a couple. They were previously in Canada in 2011, shortly after their wedding.
The Duke and Duchess will travel with their two young children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
As during the 2011 visit, the family is expected to be a popular draw.
Shachi Kurl, executive director of the polling group Angus Reid Institute, said coverage of royal tours in Canada tends to be positive, and Canadian opinion on the royal family tends to be personality driven - many like and respect the Queen and her grandson Prince William, though have lukewarm feelings towards the Prince of Wales.
But they are divided over the role of the monarchy in this country.
"When you remove the personalities from the equation and ask the bigger question about who should be our head of state, should we continue as the monarchy, or is that an outdated notion - there you do see some pretty big division in this country," she said.
Carolyn Harris, an historian and author, said that Will and Kate, as young, modern and relatable royals, have sparked a renewed interest in the royal family among Canadians.
"There is a sense now of there being a very clear future for the royal family [in Canada]."
24 Sept Victoria, British Columbia: Their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte, arrive in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia.
25 Sept Vancouver, British Columbia: The Duke and Duchess will visit Sheway, the Immigration Services Society of British Columbia, an event celebrating young leaders in Canadian arts, music, sport, charity, business, and film, and finally the visit the Kitsilano Coastguard Station.
26 Sept Bella Bella and the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia: The Duke and Duchess will travel to the Great Bear Rainforest, visit with the Heiltsuk First Nations community and attend a reception hosted by the province of British Columbia at Government House.
27 Sept Kelowna, British Columbia and Whitehorse, Yukon: They will tour the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia and take part in the BC Government's "Taste of British Columbia" festival at Mission Hill Winery before flying to Whitehorse, where they will be greeted by members of the Canadian Rangers.
28 Sept Whitehorse and Carcross, Yukon: Will and Kate will visit the MacBride Museum and meet members of Whitehorse's cultural community before travelling to Carcross, where they will be welcomed by the Carcross/Tagish First Nation.
29 Sept Victoria, British Columbia: The royal couple and their children attend children's party in the grounds of Government House, which will be attended by military families.
30 Sept Haida Gwaii, British Columbia: The Duke and Duchess visit Haida Gwaii, the archipelago on the northern coast of British Columbia and is home to the Haida Nation. They will attend the opening of the new Haida Gwaii Hospital and Care Centre. They will join local youth for a fishing expedition on the waters of Hecate Strait.
30 Sept Victoria, British Columbia: The royal couple will visit the Cridge Centre for the Family, which provides services and support for women who have experienced domestic violence. They will then meet families who have received support from the Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre and later youth working with the Sail and Life Training Society. They end their tour with a public official departure ceremony at Victoria Harbour Airport. | Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's visit to a Canadian charity that supports pregnant women struggling with addiction will be a "wonderful closing of the loop" of the work Princess Diana did in that same realm some 25 years ago, says the organisation's manager. |
37,443,094 | Four other men arrested after searches in the County Armagh town and in Coalisland, County Tyrone, on Wednesday, are still being questioned.
Police evacuated an estimated 15 homes in Lurgan's Woodville Avenue during Wednesday's searches.
Forensic teams and police using a sniffer dog carried out the searches.
Three men, two aged 22 and one aged 24, were arrested in Lurgan and a 46-year-old in Coalisland.
Meanwhile, police in the Republic of Ireland have arrested a 53-year-old man in the Carrickmacross area of County Monaghan as part of an investigation into dissident activity.
A house and surrounding area were searched on Thursday. | Police investigating dissident republican activity have arrested a 22-year-old man in Lurgan. |
32,225,682 | An unannounced mental health and disability inspection at Cefn Coed Hospital also highlighted "significant issues" with staff numbers, patient privacy and poor ward environments.
Healthcare Inspectorate Wales visited on four days in November 2014.
The hospital's health board said it was addressing issues.
Areas in need of immediate improvement included the "run down and unacceptable" condition of some wards, with paper and towels being used as curtains.
Despite these issues, HIW noted the commitment of staff and rapport with patients throughout the visit.
HIW's Alun Jones said Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board has since submitted a comprehensive improvement plan addressing the issues.
A spokesman for the health board said that £65m out of a planned £100m has been invested in brand new mental health accommodation. | "Unacceptable" issues at a Swansea hospital impacted on staff safety and patients' physical and mental health, according to a damning report. |
40,671,472 | After closing at a record high on Wednesday, the Dow Jones fell 0.1% to 21,611.78.
The wider S&P 500 index slipped 0.02% to 2,473.45 while the Nasdaq index rose 0.08% to 6,390.
Shares in chipmaker Qualcomm dropped nearly 5% after its forecast for fourth quarter profits fell below market estimates.
Cigarette giant Philip Morris fell 1.2% after its quarterly profit missed expectations. | US markets were little changed on Thursday as investors assessed the latest wave of results. |
37,191,929 | Police said a car bomb exploded outside the Banadir Beach Club in the Lido area and gunmen then stormed the building.
Security forces say they killed two attackers and arrested another after a six-hour operation overnight.
The militant Islamist group al-Shabab stages regular attacks in Mogadishu and other parts of Somalia.
Earlier this year, 17 people died when the group stormed a restaurant on Lido beach.
Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, was ousted from Mogadishu in August 2011 but still has a presence in large areas of southern Somalia. | At least seven people have been killed in a bomb and gun attack on a seaside restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu. |
13,278,255 | Your face is your most expressive feature; it tells the world what you are feeling, who you are and where you come from. Although no two faces are exactly the same, they share a number of common characteristics; a couple of eyes, a nose, a mouth and a philtrum.
The philtrum is the groove on your top lip that lies just beneath your nose. You see it every day in the mirror so you probably never think about it
It has no obvious function. Instead it is an accident of our origins, a clue to our fishy past and how our faces first formed.
Your face is formed in the womb in the first couple of months of life, from when you were the size of a grain of rice to when you were the size of a kidney bean.
The video (above) of a growing human face shows how this process happens. It has been created from high quality scans of human embryos at early stages of development, provided by universities and hospitals.
This unique time-lapse video shows the face developing from a one-month-old embryo to an age of 10 weeks.
If you watch it closely, you will see that the human face is actually formed of three main sections which rotate and come together in an unborn foetus.
The way this happens only really makes sense when you realise that, strange though it may sound, we are actually descended from fish.
The early human embryo looks very similar to the embryo of any other mammal, bird or amphibian - all of which have evolved from fish.
Your eyes start out on the sides of your head, but then move to the middle.
The top lip along with the jaw and palate started life as gill-like structures on your neck. Your nostrils and the middle part of your lip come down from the top of your head.
There is no trace of a scar; the plates of tissue and muscle fuse seamlessly. But there is, however, a little remnant of all this activity in the middle of your top lip - your philtrum.
This whole process, the bits coming together of the various elements to produce a recognisable human face, requires great precision.
To fuse correctly the three sections must grow and meet at precisely the right time in the womb.
If the timing is out, by as little as an hour, the baby may grow up with a cleft lip or cleft lip and palate, which can be extremely disfiguring. Around the world one in 700 babies are born with clefts.
There are other odd things about human anatomy that can only really be explained by our fishy ancestry.
For example, if you were to cut up a shark you would discover that its gonads are lodged up in its chest, behind its liver.
Like the shark our gonads also start life high up, near the liver. But unlike the shark they need to descend.
In a woman they descend and become the ovaries, located conveniently near the uterus and the fallopian tubes
In men, they become the testes; but to get down and fill the scrotum they have to make a far longer and more tortuous journey south.
One consequence of this journey is the creation of a weakening in the abdominal wall. And as a result, men are far more prone than women to what are known as inguinal hernias.
An inguinal hernia can appear as a lump in the groin area and may be painful; the lump normally disappears if you lie down.
The lump is actually the contents of your gut protruding through that weakness in the muscle wall left behind by the descent of the testes.
Inguinal hernias often require surgery, and if you are unfortunate enough to get one, blame it on fish.
An American called Charles Osborne has the dubious honour of holding a record for the longest recorded bout of hiccups - 68 years worth, from 1922 to 1990. It seems that again it is our fishy ancestors who are partly to blame.
A hiccup is caused by a spasm of the diaphragm, a big muscle in the chest, followed by an involuntary gulp. Both these actions have watery roots.
In fish the nerves that activate breathing take a short journey from an ancient part of the brain, the brain stem, to the throat and gills. In us, it is more complicated.
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To breathe properly, our brain stem has to send messages not just to the throat, but down to the chest and diaphragm. This complex arrangement means that the nerves are prone to spasm, which can initiate hiccups.
Once a hiccup has started, it is kept going by a simple motor reflex that we seem to have inherited from an amphibian ancestor.
For the ancient tadpole, the nerve controlling this reflex served a useful purpose, allowing the entrance to the lung to remain open when breathing air but closing it off when gulping water - which would then be directed only to the gills.
For humans and other mammals who hiccup, it has no value but does provide another bit of evidence of our common ancestry.
Dr Michael Mosley presents Inside the Human Body, Thursdays, 9pm, from 5 May on BBC 1. | It may seem strange that humans have evolved from fish, but the evidence can be found not just in fossils but also within our own bodies. |
36,478,443 | The announcement came six days after European aviation safety officials extended the grounding of Super Pumas amid concerns about its gearbox.
Signs of metal fatigue were found in components after a crash off Norway that killed 13 people in April.
CHC said the H225 decision was "commercially driven".
Aberdeen-based offshore flight commitments are currently being met by Sikorsky S92s.
A CHC spokeswoman said: "CHC is committed to having a resilient, mixed fleet that provides the right aircraft at the right time to meet our customers' helicopter service requirements.
"In Scotland, over the past few weeks, we have engaged closely with our H225 customers about the immediate term but also looking forward to the future.
"As a service provider to our customers we must understand, accept and respond to their operational requirements and wishes.
"In the future, when the H225 fleet returns to service and customers wish to fly the aircraft, we will appropriately adjust the mix of aircraft in our fleet.
"As we win new contracts or if customer demand increases, we will appropriately adjust the number and mix of aircraft in our fleet.
"Providing safe and reliable service to our customers remains CHC's top priority."
Iain Stuart from Aberdeenshire was among those killed in the Norway crash.
Mr Stuart, 41, from Laurencekirk, was working for the oil field services company Halliburton and was a passenger on the helicopter.
The Airbus Super Puma 225 was travelling from the Gullfaks field to Bergen when it crashed near the small island of Turoey on 29 April.
The pilots had no time to issue a mayday and the main rotor is believed to have become detached before impact.
An online petition calling for all Super Puma 225s to be "permanently removed from service" has attracted tens of thousands of signatures. | Helicopter operator CHC has said it will no longer fly Super Puma H225s from its Aberdeen base unless customers specifically want them. |
33,494,885 | An investigation into the cause of the fire at Capel Aberfan is continuing.
The internal structure of the chapel, built in 1876, was completely destroyed by the blaze which broke out at 01:51 BST on Saturday.
The chapel was used as a temporary mortuary following the Aberfan disaster in 1966 and housed a memorial organ.
Some neighbouring properties were evacuated as a precaution while firefighters tackled the blaze, but the building has now been made safe.
An assessment is due to be carried out to determine what demolition work will be needed.
South Wales Police are working with the fire service to establish the cause of the fire.
Merthyr Vale councillor Darren Roberts said the building had been "totally gutted".
Although the chapel closed in 2012, occasional services still took place and renovations were ongoing to try and modernise it and bring it back into community use. | People living in the street where a fire gutted a historical Merthyr Tydfil chapel have been allowed back into their homes. |
37,023,821 | The 35-year-old joined from Middlesex ahead of the 2015 campaign.
Berg has taken nine wickets in five County Championship games this year and was the club's leading wicket-taker in the One-Day Cup, with 11.
"An extension is great but we need to make sure we stay in Division One," the South African told BBC Radio Solent. | Hampshire all-rounder Gareth Berg has signed a new contract, which will keep him at the club until the end of the 2017 season. |
20,860,569 | The 23-year-old had arrived in Singapore on Thursday after undergoing three operations in a Delhi hospital.
The attack earlier this month triggered violent public protests in India that left one police officer dead.
As news of the student's death spread across social media in India, police sealed off large parts of central Delhi and appealed for calm.
The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder tweeted that the centre of Delhi resembled a fortress, with armed police and riot troops maintaining a heavy presence.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was "very saddened" and promised to channel "emotions and energies" into a course of action.
Six men have been arrested and two police officers have been suspended following the 16 December attack.
A statement from the hospital said the woman "passed away peacefully" early on Saturday with her family by her side.
"The patient had remained in an extremely critical condition since admission to Mount Elizabeth Hospital," hospital chief executive Kelvin Loh said.
"She had suffered from severe organ failure following serious injuries to her body and brain. She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome.
"We are humbled by the privilege of being tasked to care for her in her final struggle," Mr Loh said.
A team of eight specialists had tried to keep the patient stable, but her condition continued to deteriorate over the two days she was at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, he added.
Officials from the Indian High Commission were also present when the patient passed away. The Indian home minister said the government had decided to send the victim overseas on the recommendation of her doctors.
Arrangements are being made to take her body back to India, said Indian high commissioner to Singapore TCA Raghavan.
"The requisite formalities for sending the body are being completed. The deceased and family members to be flown out in a chartered aircraft later today," Mr Raghavan said.
In a statement issued in Delhi, Prime Minister Singh said: "It would be a true homage to her memory if we are able to channelise these emotions and energies into a constructive course of action.
"The need of the hour is a dispassionate debate and inquiry into the critical changes that are required in societal attitudes.
"Government is examining... the penal provisions that exist for such crimes and measures to enhance the safety and security of women. I hope that the entire political class and civil society will set aside narrow sectional interests... to help us all reach the end that we all desire - making India a demonstrably better and safer place for women to live in."
The victim and her friend had been to see a film when they boarded the bus in the Munirka area of Delhi, intending to travel to Dwarka in the south-west of the city.
Police said she was raped for nearly an hour, and both she and her companion were beaten with iron bars and thrown out of the moving bus and into the street.
On arrival at the hospital in Singapore, doctors said that as well as a "prior cardiac arrest, she also had infection of her lungs and abdomen, as well as significant brain injury".
The government has tried to halt rising public anger by announcing a series of measures intended to make Delhi safer for women.
These include more police night patrols, checks on bus drivers and their assistants, and the banning of buses with tinted windows or curtains.
The government has also said that it will post the photos, names and addresses of convicted rapists on official websites to shame them.
It has set up two committees - one looking into speeding up trials of cases involving sexual assaults on women, and the other to examine the lapses that might have led to the incident in Delhi.
But the protesters say the government's pledge to seek life sentences for the attackers is not enough - many are calling for the death penalty.
Since the Delhi incident, several cases have been highlighted of authorities failing to respond to reported rapes.
On Wednesday, a woman committed suicide in the state of Punjab, after having tried to report to police a rape which allegedly took place last month, local media reports said.
At least one police officer involved in the case has been sacked, according to local officials. | A female student gang-raped on a bus in India's capital Delhi has died at a Singapore hospital, doctors say. |
34,322,016 | Michael Horn said the firm was dishonest with US regulators, adding: "We have totally screwed up."
Last Friday, the regulators said VW diesel cars had much higher emissions than tests had suggested.
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin has called for an EU inquiry, but a UK car industry spokesman said there was "no evidence" of cheating.
Mike Hawes, who is chief executive of the UK's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said the EU operated a "fundamentally different system" from the US, with tests performed in strict conditions and witnessed by a government-appointed independent approval agency.
"There is no evidence that manufacturers cheat the cycle," he said. "Vehicles are removed from the production line randomly and must be standard production models, certified by the relevant authority - the UK body being the Vehicle Certification Agency, which is responsible to the Department for Transport."
However, he also described current testing methods as "outdated" and said the car industry wanted an updated emissions test, "more representative of on-road conditions".
France's Mr Sapin said inquiries in Europe had to be conducted "at a European level".
"We are a European market with European rules," he told Europe 1 radio. "It is these that have to be respected. It is these that have been violated in the United States."
Elsewhere, the South Korean government said it would test up to 5,000 Jetta and Golf cars, along with Audi A3s made in 2014 and 2015.
Its investigation will be expanded to all German diesel cars if issues are found.
VW shares plunged nearly 20% on Monday after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that software in several diesel cars could deceive regulators.
Volkswagen was ordered to recall half a million cars in the US on Friday.
In addition to paying for the recall, VW faces fines that could add up to billions of dollars. There may also be criminal charges for VW executives.
The White House in Washington also reportedly said it was "quite concerned" about VW's conduct.
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€6.5bn Set aside by VW
$18bn Potential fines
No. 1 Global carmaker in sales
Analysis: Richard Westcott, Transport Correspondent
There's one question people keep asking me at the moment. Is this the car industry's version of Libor, the scandal that rocked the financial world?
It's way too early to say just yet. But the pressure is now on the car industry to prove that cheating the pollution figures isn't a widespread problem stretching across both sides of the Atlantic.
The German government is investigating whether other companies are massaging their emissions data. The American regulator is widening its probe to other carmakers.
If they dig up more examples, the implications could be huge. Fines running into billions. A complete loss of credibility. And worst of all, the possibility that people have become ill or even died early because of higher emissions.
Americans don't tend to buy diesels. They represent just 3% of their car market. But half of all new cars sold in Europe are a diesel.
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Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn apologised after the scandal emerged and said he would "support" the German transport ministry's investigation into the carmaker.
He has launched an investigation into the software, which allowed VW cars to emit less during tests than they would while driving normally.
"We do not and will not tolerate violations of any kind of our internal rules or of the law," Mr Winterkorn said.
The EPA found the "defeat device", the device that allowed VW cars to emit less during tests than they would while driving normally, in diesel cars including the Audi A3 and the VW Jetta, Beetle, Golf and Passat models.
VW has stopped selling the relevant diesel models in the US, where diesel cars account for about a quarter of its sales.
The EPA said that the fine for each vehicle that did not comply with federal clean air rules would be up to $37,500 (£24,000). With 482,000 cars sold since 2008 involved in the allegations, it means the fines could reach $18bn.
That would be a considerable amount, even for the company that recently overtook Toyota to be the world's top-selling vehicle maker in the first six months of the year. Its stock market value is about €66bn ($75bn; £48bn).
VW has ordered an external investigation, although it has not revealed who will be conducting it.
"It's clearly putting German industry under a very bad light," former VW employee Arndt Ellinghorst, now head of global automotive research at Evercore ISI, told BBC News.
Mr Ellinghorst explained why it was so difficult to sell diesel cars in the US: "Carmakers have to comply with 31mg NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions per km. In Europe, that's 80mg, so it's much easier to comply in Europe when you're selling a diesel vehicle compared to the US.
"It makes cars far more expensive, because carmakers have to add more technology." | The boss of Volkswagen's US business has admitted the firm was dishonest in using software to rig emissions tests. |
40,617,672 | Jason McCue, from East Kilbride, died after being found injured in John Hastie Park, Strathaven, on Tuesday.
A 49-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in connection with Mr McCue's death. He is expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
On Thursday, a 50-year-old man appeared in court charged with murdering Mr McCue.
The following day, a 27-year-old man appeared in court in connection with the death. | A third man has been arrested over the death of a 43-year-old man at a park in South Lanarkshire. |
34,997,672 | Pilot Peter Barnes, 50, died when his helicopter clipped a crane at St George Wharf in Vauxhall, in January 2013.
Pedestrian Matthew Wood, 39, from Sutton, Surrey, was also killed.
Former Met Police pilot Captain Paul Watts said the visibility was poor.
The inquest jury at Southwark Coroner's Court heard that Mr Barnes, who had 24 years' flying experience, was contending with poor visibility and freezing fog on the morning of the crash.
He had been flying from Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey to Elstree in Hertfordshire but was diverted to Battersea heliport.
Capt Watts, who worked with Mr Barnes and knew him to be an experienced flyer, was asked if he would have made the same journey at the same time.
He replied: "I believe his plan was not one I would have made."
Mr Barnes had been flying along the commonly used H4 route when he asked permission from air traffic control to proceed and was told to "hold on the river for a minute".
The court heard it was unclear how long he waited for.
Capt Watts told Coroner Dr Andrew Harris: "It is unlikely that he (Mr Barnes) would have ignored clearance, and he should not have expected to get it at that stage."
Simon Hutchins, the general manager of London's only licensed heliport, said he raised concerns about the St George Wharf construction site as early as 2008 but the matter was not taken further.
A jury member asked him: "Did you consider that the layout of the area at the time made it likely for an accident to occur?"
Mr Hutchins said a request for the heliport to be "officially safeguarded" had still not been met, though the matter was due to be addressed later this month.
The inquest continues. | The inquest into the death of two men killed in a helicopter crash in south London has heard from a pilot who said he would not have made the same journey because of the weather. |
33,424,493 | Reports say the Turkish Airlines flight, flying from Bangkok to Istanbul, made an emergency landing after crew spotted a message on a toilet mirror written in lipstick.
The message reportedly warned that there was a bomb in the cargo hold.
The plane landed safely at the Indira Gandhi International airport and all the 148 passengers were evacuated.
"There was a bomb threat to the Turkish Airlines flight and therefore they decided to land it in New Delhi," an official from the federal Central Industrial Security Forces told the Reuters news agency.
Local media have said that operations at the airport are operating normally, apart from the bay where the plane has been taken.
Investigations are continuing. | Police have searched an airliner at India's Delhi airport after a bomb threat, officials say. |
35,952,815 | Cristiano Ronaldo's late goal secured a 2-1 win at Barcelona - ending the league leaders' 39-match unbeaten run.
Zidane's side remain third, seven points adrift of Barcelona and one behind second-placed Atletico Madrid.
"We must go step by step," he said. "First we must pass Atletico. Then we'll see what happens. There are still games to play."
He added: "This can be a turning point. It is very important, for the rest of season, for our spirit."
Real, who last won La Liga in 2012, have endured a turbulent season, with Zidane taking charge in January following the dismissal of Rafa Benitez after just seven months in charge.
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They have, though, now won six matches in a row in all competitions as they prepare for Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final first-leg trip to Germany to face Wolfsburg.
"When I see a team that's united and all together, with everyone fighting for their team-mates and for their coach, there's nothing better," Zidane said.
"Coming into the game, we knew that we would have to work hard and be well prepared for it.
"We put in a good performance, we've got the three points and we now need to rest and start thinking about the Wolfsburg game because it's very important for us as we look to continue what we've started."
Barcelona's defeat was their first in any competition since they lost 2-1 at Sevilla in La Liga on 3 October.
They took the lead through Gerard Pique's header, but Karim Benzema equalised before Ronaldo struck his 42nd goal of the season with five minutes left.
The Portugal international's winner came two minutes after Real had been reduced to 10 men, captain Sergio Ramos sent off for a second bookable offence as he fouled Luis Suarez.
Barcelona centre-back Pique said: "We did not know how to play with a player more on the pitch and we lost control after the red card."
However, he added that Barca, who play Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday and also have the Copa del Rey final against Sevilla to look forward to in May, would not allow defeat to demoralise them.
"We have to move on and not dwell on this defeat," he said. "You cannot always win. We are still in a good position in three competitions." | Real Madrid's El Clasico victory could be a "turning point" for their poor La Liga season, boss Zinedine Zidane says. |
36,286,158 | 13 May 2016 Last updated at 12:23 BST
Starship Technologies said it had tested the robots in London, the US, and Estonian capital Tallinn.
Ahti Heinla told the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones that there had been no serious incidents of the public interfering with the robots.
He hoped they could begin their deliveries in London before the end of 2016.
Hear more about Rory's visit to Tallinn in today's edition of Tech Tent at 16.00 BST on the BBC World Service or catch the podcast after transmission. | An Estonian startup is building a fleet of delivery robots that it hopes will be able to drop off groceries and takeaway dinners. |
36,850,296 | Gomez scored 28 goals in 41 games for the Istanbul club, while on loan from Serie A side Fiorentina, and won the Turkish league title.
On Friday, an attempted army coup took place in Turkey with 161 civilians and police killed.
"There are no sporting or any other reasons that have made me make this decision," Gomez, 31, said on Facebook.
Gomez had agreed a season-long loan last year, which included an option to make the deal permanent.
But the former Bayern Munich player has decided to leave following the unrest in the country.
"It was a difficult decision that I had to think about a lot," he said. "I have to tell you Besiktas fans personally that it is very heavy for me that I will not be playing for this great club in front of you wonderful fans in this unique stadium anymore.
"It is purely down to the terrible events that happened in the last few days. I hope you can understand that.
"A huge thanks to the club, to you fans and to all the people with whom my family and I had a lot of wonderful times.
"It was a fantastic year with the championship providing the absolute highlight. I hope that these political problems can be solved in a peaceful manner soon."
Gomez represented Germany at Euro 2016, scoring twice as they went out at the semi-final stage to hosts France.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Germany striker Mario Gomez "will not be playing" for Besiktas again because of the "political situation" in Turkey. |
22,706,896 | The two protagonists in those series were strong, feisty females who took no nonsense from anyone.
So it seems a little surreal to be back in Denmark now to talk to the same broadcasting company about their new show, called Blachman, in which a woman is required to stand naked in front of fully-clothed men and to remain silent as those men talk about her body.
"It's not reality TV!" protests the show's inventor and host, Thomas Blachman. "And it's poetry, not porn."
Yet it makes uncomfortable viewing. Blachman, shirt carefully unbuttoned, sits with a fashion designer friend of his and stares at a woman's pubic hair.
"I'm not really keen on shaving and waxing," he comments, before remarking to his co-host that the woman has nice feet.
The woman, paid around 250 euros (£214) for her appearance, just stands there and takes it.
"Oh come on!" says Blachman, when I say I find this deeply unnerving.
"Women talk all the time - this show is about letting men say what they think about women's bodies."
Blachman believes that in modern Denmark, where there are strict equal opportunities laws, men have become emasculated by powerful women and silenced under a cloak of political correctness.
"Women's bodies thirst for men's words!" he insists. "We have had so much bad reaction from aggressive feminists and I didn't see it coming... Sure I wanted to provoke a little bit, but it's not sexist."
When I meet Nina - an attractive, bubbly primary school teacher who was one of Blachman's naked studies - she tells me she felt empowered by her appearance on the show.
Although she admits she would have liked to have been able to speak, particularly when Blachman and his guest were discussing her Caesarean scar.
Following the broadcast, Nina has not only had scores of fan mail letters, she has also had five marriage proposals.
But feminists - like Danish comedian Sanne Sondergaard - are outraged.
"In Denmark, sexism is not an issue," she says. "And then this show came along. It's sexist rubbish.
"I'm sorry but even if he says nice things, a man is not entitled to comment on my body, just because I'm a woman!"
DR2 has had more complaints about the Blachman show than any other. It has also had a huge number of viewings, particularly on its "watch again" internet site.
Sofia Fromberg, the commissioning editor of the programme, insists she is not chasing ratings with breasts and bottoms.
"Blachman certainly did not have the highest ratings of any of our shows. DR2's objective is to create debate about important issues in society. And it has created a lot of debate!" she says.
Thomas Blachman has been accused in the Danish media of being little more than a "sleazy middle aged man in a strip club". But, for much of the programme he seems ill at ease and a little awkward. His focus tends to be tamely set below the knees rather than on the more predictable breasts and bottoms.
"Nice ankles - I'm an ankles kind of a guy" he says. Before making a single remark about the nude female in front of him, one of his co-hosts takes a good five minutes to explain that he had been happily married for 50 years until his wife died last year - at such times, the silent naked woman in front of them almost seems forgotten and irrelevant.
But there is no hiding the fact that the more outrageous the show, the more it pulls in viewers.
Last week during a segment on breastfeeding, the host of the Dutch Saturday night show, Langs de Leeuw, suggested he would like to try breast milk.
An audience member offered him some milk she had expressed but host Paul de Leeuw told her he would rather take it from its source and suckled both her breasts on live TV.
A huge social media row followed quickly, although the network did point out that the act had not been sexual.
A few years ago I made a film on another controversial Dutch programme called I Want Your Baby!
A single woman who wanted a child, was allowed to select the father of her baby from a group of eligible men, voting off the weakest links each week. That show caused uproar in the Netherlands and prompted questions in parliament - it never got beyond the pilot.
Last month, reality TV in France was plunged into some deep soul-searching over its future after a contestant died on the tough desert island challenge Koh Lanta and the doctor - who was unable to save him - killed himself.
Poor ratings caused Italy's state broadcaster RAI to scrap all its TV reality shows back in 2007. RAI said it would put the money it saved into Italian-made films and more intellectual programmes.
Now its new female director has called time on sexily dressed showgirls and game-show assistants on screen, claiming she wants to project a more sophisticated image of women on the network - one where women are more than cosmetically perfect airheads.
For any viewer missing the hitherto ubiquitous bimbo though, she does remain intact on scores of programmes broadcast on the private channels owned by the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Back in Denmark, Blachman points out that he never judged or criticised the naked woman's body.
"It's a show, which actually is a tribute to women," he says.
Unfortunately for him, his "tribute" has not been re-commissioned. | A year ago I visited the headquarters of the Danish public broadcaster DR to film a piece about the international success of their dramas Borgen and the Killing. |
30,609,766 | The 24-year-old striker, who has scored twice in 15 games, has been linked with a return to Inter Milan by Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport.
"It's not something I have even thought about, to be honest," said Rodgers.
"We've had a lot of games this season in a lot of competitions and, at this moment in time, the key for me is to keep this squad together."
Liverpool were runners-up in the Premier League last season and were renowned for a high-intensity pressing style.
Before the 1-0 win at Burnley on Boxing Day, Rodgers admitted: "Working with Mario, we see he is someone who is better in and around the box so that level of intensity and pressing isn't part of his game."
Meanwhile, keeper Brad Jones will have a scan to determine the extent of the thigh injury that caused him to go off at Turf Moor on Friday.
His withdrawal meant a return to the first team for Simon Mignolet, who had been dropped for the previous three matches.
"In the main Simon is a very resilient character," said Rodgers. "Like everyone, he's taken a bit of stick but to operate at this level you have to be able to deal with that.
"He had a couple of edgy moments at Burnley and he'll recognise that. But he ended the game with a clean sheet.
"That's what he will want as a goalkeeper and what we want as a team." | Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has no plans to offload Mario Balotelli during the January transfer window. |
40,556,922 | In a small study, US researchers found decreased blood flow in bulimic women to a part of the brain involved in self-critical thinking.
This supports the idea they may be using food to avoid dwelling on negative thoughts about themselves.
Bulimia usually leads to binge-eating and then purging, through vomiting.
It is an eating disorder and a mental health condition that means people have an abnormal attitude to food and body image.
Psychologists have long thought that binge-eating is triggered by stress and gives women with bulimia a way of focusing on food, instead of being critical of themselves.
This is the first study to look at what happens in their brains.
Writing in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Washington researchers scanned the brains of 20 women - 10 with bulimia and 10 without - while carrying out experiments.
They fed them all the same meal before showing them a series of neutral pictures followed by pictures of high-sugar or high-fat food, such as ice cream, pizza or brownies, while having their brains scanned.
To make them stressed, the participants were given an impossible maths problem to solve - then they were shown different photos of sugar and fat-laden food and asked the rate their stress and food craving levels.
Although everyone said their stress levels had gone up and down at similar times during the tasks, the brain scans had shown very different results, the researchers said.
For women with bulimia, blood flow to a region of the brain called the precuneus decreased when they looked at food pictures - but in women without bulimia, it increased.
Sarah Fischer, co-author of the study and associate professor at George Mason University, said: "We would expect to see increased blood flow in this region when someone is engaged in self-reflection, rumination or self-criticism."
And in a second study, involving 17 different women with bulimia, the results were the same.
The researchers say the decreased blood flow is a sign that thinking about food shuts down thoughts about their own shortcomings in those with bulimia.
Ms Fischer said the findings could help women to control their binge-eating triggers.
"We found that it doesn't take much stress to trigger binge-eating," she said.
"I would love to see if teaching basic emotion-regulation behavioural skills works for some women.
"For others, they may need medication or trans-cranial stimulation to stop the rise in stress before they binge."
The eating disorder charity Beat said the first port of call for people looking for help was to visit their GP.
The GP may then recommend online support or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and sometimes medication. | The brains of women with bulimia react differently to food under stress than other women's brains, psychologists have discovered. |
35,516,114 | Callum Taylor top scored with 42 as England were dismissed for 184, four balls shy of completing their 50 overs.
England had lost wickets steadily throughout their innings but Sri Lanka breezed to victory with almost 15 overs of their allotted 50 to spare.
Avishka Fernando top scored with a brisk 95 off 96 balls as Sri Lanka set up a semi-final against India.
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That match will take place on Monday, while Thursday's second semi-final will see the host nation take on the winner of Monday's match between Pakistan and West Indies.
"I genuinely believe we had an off-day," said England captain Brad Taylor, whose team had won all three of their group games.
"You have days when it does not come off. I think Sri Lanka played very well, but on another day, we would back ourselves.
"We expected Sri Lanka to rely on spin, but the batsmen did not stay long enough to build partnerships. We had come here to win the tournament, so obviously we are very disappointed."
Durham's Jack Burnham and Essex's Dan Lawrence had been in superb form with the bat during the tournament but managed only 20 runs between them.
Leg spinner Wanidu Hasanranga claimed three wickets while seamer Asitha Fernando claimed two early in the England innings.
Media playback is not supported on this device | England were beaten by Sri Lanka in their quarter-final meeting at the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh. |
36,241,316 | The Independent Monitoring Board, which ensures fairness and decency for all prisoners, is aiming to increase its membership from eight to 15 for the city centre jail.
Duties include checking on inmates in solitary confinement and ensuring cells are adequate.
Training will be given to new members.
Steve Cocks, chairman of Cardiff IMB, said: "We're desperately trying to get a better range of people on the board.
"We're all basically white British so it would be nice to get ethnic minority representation and also younger people."
He said the role was "challenging but rewarding" - as official representatives of the justice minister, volunteers have "complete access to the prison".
"Our role is to look into all aspects of prison life and bring any concerns to the attention of those responsible," he added.
"We sample food, visit education facilities, monitor the admission of new prisoners, sit in on the governor's disciplinary hearings and a whole range of other tasks.
"We are also called into any serious incidents in the prison, though these are rare." | Volunteers are being sought to help monitor standards at Cardiff Prison - especially young people and those from ethnic minorities. |
17,984,239 | High-quality football, coupled with real drama? Success for the host nation? A star who lights up the competition?
The 1984 European Championship in France had the lot, a perfect storm that culminated in French glory, their first major trophy.
"It was the only final tournament where I wasn't injured. In 1982 I was injured - I had a groin problem - and in 1986 I was injured - with a nerve problem. In 1984 I wasn't injured and I was able to perform to my peak. It was a great moment for French football and for French sport as a whole. For us, it was also symbolic after the rather special defeat we had suffered in the World Cup semi-final in Seville against Germany in '82. Other than that, France had a very good tournament. We were superior to everybody and expressed ourselves on the pitch."
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"Until 1984, the European Championship had not been blessed with great football," said BBC football commentator John Motson. "Until 1980, only four teams took parts in the finals. In 1980, there were eight, but it was a poor tournament.
"Like Jules Rimet and the World Cup, the European Championship was really invented by the French, a guy by the name of Henri Delaunay, whose name is on the trophy.
"The question was, could France win the thing that they had started?"
France had gone out of the 1982 World Cup at the semi-final stage in controversial circumstances, beaten by West Germany on penalties in a game remembered for goalkeeper Harald Schumacher's challenge on France's Patrick Battiston.
In 1984, they began their home tournament with a revamped defence and added Luis Fernandez to a talented midfield containing Michel Platini, Alain Giresse and Jean Tigana - the carre magique or 'magic square'.
"After 1982, we were expected to win in 1984," Fernandez told BBC Sport. "We had to win, we were the favourites and France was hoping that the French football team would be the first French team to win a big international sporting trophy.
"Before the tournament, we had a training camp in the mountains. We were a group that were happy to be together. We had pressure, but we had lots of desire and focus, and we were full of motivation to win.
"Our style was typically French - a passing game with lots of movement, and getting the ball forward quickly because we had a player like Platini who could score lots of goals."
Fernandez's understated assessment may do Platini a disservice. The Juventus man arrived in 1984 at the peak of his powers, midway through a run of three successive Ballon D'or awards.
And it was to be he who took the tournament by the scruff of its neck, the France captain scoring in every game, nine goals in total.
"In that tournament, Platini was unbelievable," said Motson. "I'd put him on the same level as Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup and Johan Cruyff in 1976.
"He was playing teams on his own. He was out of this world, a superstar. No team was able to contain him."
Two Platini hat-tricks helped France breeze through their group with three wins from three. They were to meet Portugal in the semi-finals in Marseille, a match Motson calls "the most emotional game of the tournament".
Level at 1-1, the match entered extra-time, where it looked like Rui Jordao's volley might knock the French out.
There was no British representation in France. Scotland finished bottom of their qualification group, while England, Wales and Northern Ireland, who beat West Germany in the qualifiers, all just missed out. England, denied a place in the finals by Denmark, went on a summer tour to South America, with John Barnes famously netting in a 2-0 win over Brazil in the Maracana.
But, after Jean-Francois Domergue's scrambled equaliser, Tigana danced his way to the byeline in the final minute of extra-time and pulled the ball back for Platini, who fired France into the final.
"I've not seen a match like this in years," proclaimed Motson on commentary.
"Marseille was an exceptional atmosphere with a passionate crowd behind us," recalled Fernandez.
"We were in the zone, every player pushed himself to the limit because we had such an absolute need to win that game, so we dug incredibly deep to overcome Portugal."
In the final against Spain, a muted affair by comparison, goalkeeper Luis Arconada spilled a Platini free-kick to give France the lead, with Bruno Bellone's late chip sealing the trophy.
"We were not nervous because we had achieved our objective to get to the final," continued Fernandez, now 52 and the host of a sport talk show on French radio station RMC.
"It was a hard match but it was not the greatest match we had ever played. It was very cagey but we lifted the trophy and that was the most important thing.
"That tournament was perfectly right for the French team. They had the best scorer with Platini. It was probably the most beautiful French team to watch in history, probably even better than us (World Cup winners in 1998) in terms of football quality and I think they were stronger physically and mentally. I remember the World Cup in Spain, when they were beaten in the semi-final - I thought this generation deserved to win the World Cup before us."
"Before, France was a country that didn't know how to win - they used to say that the most important thing was taking part; in 1984 we showed people that we could win titles. We had become a footballing nation with the respect of other countries."
And what of Platini, the man whose dominance of a European Championship may never be matched?
"No-one can repeat what Platini did," concluded Fernandez.
"It's very important to have a great leader and he was just that. When you play with a genius like Platini, all the other players will improve.
"He was a player of enormous quality. He was a great passer and always scored decisive goals. He was a leader because he had lots of personality and was a good talker. He wanted to be a real number 10 and the real chief of the team.
"He had an exceptional tournament, scoring so many crucial goals. He was the difference in every match." | What makes a memorable tournament? |
36,239,599 | Romanian defence ministry officials are reported to have said those killed were members of the Romanian special forces.
The troops were shot while training police in the city of Kandahar.
There have been several incidents in recent years of Afghan security forces turning their arms on coalition troops.
However more recently so-called "green-on-blue" insider attacks - usually committed by Taliban members or supporters - have become much less frequent.
The attackers on Saturday were killed, a Nato statement said, and an investigation is under way.
One Afghan policeman is reported to have been been arrested and is being questioned.
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The latest violence comes as Nato commander General John Nicholson reviews plans to reduce the number of US troops in Afghanistan by next year almost 50% in a move that officials say would adversely effect the training mission.
The Nato statement insisted however that the incident would not jeopardise its training and advisory mission with Afghan forces.
Romania contributes about 600 soldiers to the nearly 12,500-strong Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.
US troop numbers are due to be reduced from 9,800 to 5,500 by the start of 2017, but there is increasing speculation that Gen Nicholson may request a delay in the drawdown to keep the training mission running. | Two Nato soldiers have been killed in the south of Afghanistan and a third was wounded when two attackers wearing the uniform of Afghan security forces opened fire on them, Nato has said. |
26,325,055 | The blast in the University Town area left about 10 others injured.
Reports said the bomber blew himself up after being stopped at a security post.
A group allied to the Pakistani Taliban claimed the attack, saying it would attack Shias everywhere. Sectarian violence is on the rise in Pakistan but attacks on Iranian targets are rare.
Neighbouring Iran, which is predominantly Shia, condemned the bombing.
Its foreign ministry urged regional countries to co-operate closely to combat the "spread of terror acts and extremism". | Two Pakistani security guards have been killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside the Iranian consulate in the city of Peshawar, police say. |
38,813,542 | Aydin Sefa Akay is part of a panel of UN judges reviewing the case of a former Rwandan minister convicted of involvement in the 1994 genocide.
The UN's Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals said Mr Akay was protected by diplomatic immunity.
Turkey has ignored past requests for his release.
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) ordered Ankara to release Judge Akay by 14 February and end all legal proceedings against him.
It cited a UN Security Council resolution requiring states to comply with its orders, which it said were legally binding.
Mr Akay was among tens of thousands of officials detained by the Turkish government after the bloody coup attempt last July, which it blamed on followers of exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Mr Gulen, who leads a mass movement in Turkey, has denied being involved.
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The MICT said that replacing Judge Akay, who has been detained since September, would have a "chilling effect" on judicial independence because it would allow a state to interfere in the conduct of a case.
"Diplomatic immunity is a cornerstone of an independent international judiciary," MICT President Theodor Meron said.
Mr Akay is involved in reviewing the 30-year sentence given to Augustin Ngirabatware, a former Rwandan planning minister, by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
His lawyers asked for the review based on new evidence.
Turkey was initially a strong backer of international courts set up in the 1990s to prosecute serious crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars and Rwandan Genocide, but it has shifted its stance to a more unilateral approach under current nationalist leader President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. | A UN legal body has ordered that Turkey release a judge detained in the aftermath of last year's failed coup attempt. |
37,185,992 | After we reported on the charity's findings, including that access to childcare was "insufficient" and "inflexible" in many council areas, lots of readers got in touch to share their stories.
Here are some of your experiences.
Matt Sears from Worcestershire emailed to say his family relies on a local charity to help with holiday care for his 14-year-old son Luke, who has learning difficulties.
"The summer holidays are an expensive time for us. Here it costs £20 a day for him to attend a weekday holiday play scheme which is run by a brilliant charity based in Malvern. Some days are discounted by the local council but not all, and only then if you receive direct payments for help from a carer. We get eight hours a month.
"I too gave up work to look after my son full time. Caring for him was my priority and it was good to read that I'm not the only one."
Samantha Martin from Staffordshire says her family has been "through hell and back" trying to get help for her five-year-old son Harley who has learning disabilities.
"We live in a much better world with regards to understanding and accepting disabilities yet the services provided are still very much in the dark ages.
"Very little is available with regards to support and families have to fight over and over again to get the support they are entitled to. Nobody seems to want to take responsibility.
"Social services deal with such severe cases of abuse and neglect and these cases are, rightly so, high on the agenda. However, families in severe need through no fault of their own are left to deal with it while desperately trying to keep their heads above water and get through each day with no respite support at all.
"I have found the voluntary services to be far better but unfortunately they are very limited."
Caroline from London has an 18-year-old son with severe autism.
"Ever since I returned to work, when he was five, the type of work and hours I have been able to do has been totally governed by my ability to find after-school and holiday care for him. This has got progressively more stressful and difficult as he has got older.
"After-school care has been impossible since he was 13 when our then local authority stopped the 'Count Me In' funding for inclusive access to after-school activities.
"Now he is 18 I am desperately trying to keep him in full-time education as long as possible so I can continue to do the job that I do and have him living at home with me and his sister.
"This will probably stop next summer when he will come under social care. Supported living has been mentioned but we have a long way to go before he is ready for this."
Natasha from Hertfordshire says her son also has autism but there is no specialised childcare provision locally that is suitable for him.
"I decided to have a look at the local kids clubs for mainstream children and see if they could accommodate me accompanying my son to their sessions. I had a mixed response - some did not allow this, others would for a limited time but one did allow me and it has been fantastic.
"My son was very uncertain and anxious at first but having me with him gave him the confidence to try new things in a new environment and on Monday he went for his first session unaccompanied by me.
"This is a major breakthrough for him and I am truly grateful to the kids cub provider who allowed this flexible approach. I hope now to be able to use this facility for future school holidays and am so grateful."
Caitriona McDermott from Selsey, West Sussex, says it is impossible for her to work and care for her 16-year-old daughter, who is physically and mentally disabled.
"She requires 24-hour care. She has had seven weeks holiday from her school this summer but we have had just five days respite in a local play scheme. The thoughts of our future with ongoing cost-cutting is overwhelming."
Meanwhile Alicia McColl from Surrey says childcare for her autistic son will cost £2,200 in August.
"I'm a single parent and this cripples me every year. Childcare costs come before all my bills, except rent, and then I spend months catching up." | Parents of children with learning disabilities are being left to struggle alone without support during the summer holidays, according to Mencap. |
34,374,335 | Wayne Rooney finally scored a league goal as Sunderland were beaten 3-0 at Old Trafford, while Manchester City were hammered at Tottenham.
Newcastle found some belief - if not three points - in a battling draw with Chelsea, while Leicester and Arsenal entertained us in a seven-goal thriller.
But who were the standout performers? Here's my selection - do you agree?
Tottenham's win against Manchester City was largely down to the exploits of Hugo Lloris. His save from Raheem Sterling when Spurs were trailing 1-0 was world class and a turning point in the game. He went on to make another string of important saves, which served to strengthen the belief Spurs could win the match.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - if Tottenham have any chance of claiming a European spot this season, they will have to keep Lloris fit.
I remember this lad when he was trying to make a name for himself when he was on loan at Aston Villa. Injuries have mostly inhibited the progress the England international was making since his return to the Lane, but against Manchester City he looked commanding.
There was a moment in the first half when Walker refused to let Sergio Aguero get past him in order to attack the ball from a set-piece - much to Aguero's annoyance. It was that determination and presence that I detected when he was making his way into the England squad and it's nice to see it in his performances once again.
It was a brave decision by Jose Mourinho to again leave out John Terry for Kurt Zouma, but one that was totally justified. Yes, the youngster will make mistakes, a feature demonstrated when Chelsea conceded their first goal, however that is not the point.
Zouma is getting better with every game and Chelsea look like a team that no longer has to worry about pace in the opposition ranks. His sensational 50-yard pass to Eden Hazard was the trigger for Chelsea's success and resulted in Ramires's stunning goal. The point is, and unpalatable as it might seem for some, Zouma is the future and Terry is the past. Time, I'm afraid, catches up with all of us in the end.
As far as Premier League debuts go, I don't think Kevin Mbabu could have done any better. The 20-year-old was playing against Spain international Pedro, who for much of the game got nothing out of the youngster, which tells you all you need to know about the quality of this performance.
Last week on Final Score I questioned whether Newcastle boss Steve McClaren could manage as effectively as he could coach. The jury is still out for me but if he has the courage to play youngsters such as Mbabu, who are keen to prove themselves against the champions, at the expense of players who have been tried but are comfortable then I may have misjudged him.
When I pick a substitute for my team of the week you can rest assured he has had a massive impact on the game. I don't know who deserves more praise, Mourinho for making the change at such a crucial time in the match or Ramires for believing he could actually make the difference.
Ramires could have scored a hat-trick in a matter of minutes such was his impact after coming on in the second half, but it was his sensational strike that turned the game back in Chelsea's favour. Be warned Manchester United and Manchester City, I saw a second-half performance from the Blues that reeked of hunger and desire. This game might prove to be a defining moment in Chelsea's season.
What a revelation this holding position in midfield is proving to be for Eric Dier. Not only is he the first name on Mauricio Pochettino's teamsheet these days, he looks imperious in front of his two centre-backs. What makes this position so exciting, particularly if you're a Spurs fan, is Dier occasionally goes walkabout looking for goalscoring opportunities.
His finish against Manchester City, who played like a team feeling sorry for themselves in the absence of Joe Hart, David Silva and Vincent Kompany, was so well struck and so timely it left City reeling. An excellent performance by Dier against a team with lots of good players but no backbone.
It was always going to take a performance like this to unseat Leicester City. This was Alexis Sanchez and Arsenal back to their counter-attacking best. Quite frankly, I'm amazed Sanchez is playing like this at all.
This lad only finished playing football for Chile in the Copa America when players were reporting back for pre-season training.
Arsene Wenger may have wanted to give him more rest, but it is just as well he can rely on Sanchez. I can't see anyone else in his side he can put his title hopes on at the moment.
Bearing in mind all the speculation surrounding Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, and with his team facing an Aston Villa side also in desperate need of points, it was just as well Philippe Coutinho was on top of his game. The Brazilian prized open Aston Villa's defence almost at will, leaving Tim Sherwood facing his first managerial crisis.
Strange that, because if Liverpool had lost to Villa it would have been Rodgers facing a crisis. At least Coutinho's brilliant performance has bought Rodgers time to get Christian Benteke and Jordan Henderson fit again. With all of them available for selection, and Daniel Sturridge coming back to full fitness, they just might save him his job.
It is with some irony that I find Chelsea struggling at one end of the table and Manchester United on top. It would be remiss of me not to mention Juan Mata at this point; the man who Mourinho couldn't wait to get out of the revolving door at Stamford Bridge.
It has been Mata's consistent performances for the Red Devils under Louis van Gaal that have helped transform their season. Mata was instrumental in United's victory over Sunderland and should they win the title, his departure could prove to be Mourinho's final embarrassment.
And about time. No-one said his second season was going to be easy for Harry Kane but I can't help feeling he could help himself by just keeping the game simple. He had a wonderful opportunity to slip Christian Eriksen in on goal in the second half against Manchester City and ignored him.
It's so important, particularly when things aren't going well for you, to keep it simple. You could feel the Spurs fans breathe a huge sigh of relief when Kane scored a wonderful, instinctive goal. Title favourites City looked like a team playing together for the very first time and Kane took complete advantage of the situation like all good strikers should.
If you want to see a top-class finisher at work then you should look no further than Daniel Sturridge. He's been out with injury for an age but he's lost none of his predatory instincts. His first goal against Aston Villa was a volley taken out of the Paulo di Canio school of finishing.
However it was his composure and the sheer authority as he stroked his second goal past Brad Guzan that left me breathless. Rodgers knows exactly how to manage Sturridge's fitness levels and originally lost the player to injury while on international duty for England. A repeat of such an unfortunate mishap could cost Rodgers far more than the player's services this time around. | Another thrilling, goal-packed Premier League weekend saw Manchester United return to the top of the table for the first time in more than two years. |
38,190,697 | Wright, 20, had been with former club Chelsea since the age of 10, and signed a professional deal in 2013.
Injuries hampered his first-team progress at Stamford Bridge, although the full-back did play youth team, reserve and under-21 games.
"It's very exciting for me, it's been a long journey since I left Chelsea," Wright told BBC Radio Cumbria.
"I'm excited and in love with the fans and the club already."
The Waltham Forest-born player has been on trial at Carlisle for some time, and is joined at Brunton Park by the returning Alexander McQueen, who has also agreed a short-term contract.
Wright admits his Chelsea departure was tough to take, having been so close to the club since childhood.
"It was quite upsetting because it was a big part of my life for so long,"
"That said, I was also ready to take the next step and start pushing for first-team football because that's my end goal."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Carlisle United have signed defender Kevin Wright on a short-term deal, that expires on 2 January 2017. |
39,225,828 | You can watch FA Cup highlights of Arsenal v Lincoln City and Middlesbrough v Man City at 23:05 GMT on Saturday on BBC One and the BBC Sport website. Highlights of three Premier League matches are on MOTD at 22:20 GMT.
Defeat at Emirates Stadium is simply unthinkable for Arsene Wenger's side, even given their current problems, but this sort of supposed mismatch brings its own pressure for their players.
The Gunners won away at another National League side, Sutton United, in the fifth round but now they face a challenge that will be completely new to them at the Emirates, where they have never played a non-league team before.
Hibernian boss and BBC pundit Neil Lennon draws on his experience as a player and manager in the FA Cup and Scottish Cup to explain what Arsenal must overcome, and why their psychology will be as important as their tactics when it comes to reaching the last four.
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Lennon: "In the space of four days, Arsenal will go from playing Bayern Munich, one of the biggest clubs in the world and with some of the best players, to taking on a team they will have hardly heard of until recently.
"In this sort of situation as a player I always prepared myself as best I could but, mentally, it is hard to approach a game like this the same way as you would normally do.
"When I was playing for Leicester under Martin O'Neill, I remember going to Hereford in the third round of the FA Cup in the 1999-00 season.
"We had played Arsenal the week before the first tie and I was up against Thierry Henry, Marc Overmars and Emanuel Petit. I went from that to playing, among others, an electrician, a teacher and a farmer.
"I had been in the lower leagues with Crewe, and played and scored at Edgar Street when Hereford were a Football League team, so I had an idea of what to expect, which helped. I knew it would be tough.
"Even so, sub-consciously, there was not the same level of intensity to my game as there had been against Arsenal. How could there be?
"Whether you are home or away against a non-league side, the occasion, atmosphere and opposition are completely different to when you are playing one of the big clubs.
"It is very difficult to have the same approach, even if the remit is the same."
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Lennon: "We drew 0-0 at Hereford and only just about ended up winning the replay 2-1 after extra time. Martin had done everything he could to prepare us the right way, but we still nearly went out.
"I have been there myself as a manager too. You know the situation is fraught with danger, you can see what might happen - but it doesn't mean you can stop it.
"With Bolton last season, we also needed a replay to get past Eastleigh. Before the first game at their place, I tried to make sure my players knew what to expect.
"I had done everything I could to get rid of any complacency, but I was still looking around the dressing room before kick-off wondering if they all really knew how tough it would be.
"I had it with Hibs this season too, on our way to the Scottish Cup semi-finals.
"In the fourth round we played a junior team Bonnyrigg Rose at Tynecastle. We ended up winning comfortably, but for the first five or 10 minutes we did not settle at all.
"It felt we had stepped into the unknown and the only way of dealing with that was by being out on the pitch."
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Lennon: "Believe it or not, with Arsenal there might also be a few nerves in there too, because they will not want to be on the end of an embarrassment.
"Unlike most other matches, they will be thinking about that. You cannot ignore it - you have to address it and try to turn it into a positive.
"Part of my pre-match team talk for Bolton was basically saying to the players that this is Eastleigh's cup final, and that they would be in their dressing room now thinking they can beat us.
"I said that the BBC TV cameras were here to see us lose, for the magic of the cup and all that. So, let's not be the story, let's not be on the receiving end of that.
"I tried to tell them if we play like we can then we will be all right, but we still had to show them the respect that we would do any other team."
Lennon: "Having some experience in the team will be vital for Arsenal.
"There is no way I could have played a lot of young players against Eastleigh because it would have been like throwing a kitten into the jungle.
"I am sure their scouting report for Lincoln will be similar to the one we got for Eastleigh because at that level, you expect sides to be hard-working and physical.
"Defensively, it is about the basics of the game - you have to stop the crosses and defend set-plays with your life because that is an avenue for them. You can prepare for that in training - we did.
"At Eastleigh, the pitch was so bad that we could not play football on it so we ended up playing their type of game - it became a dog fight.
"That will not happen to Arsenal on a nice surface at Emirates Stadium on Saturday but they still need to be careful."
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Lennon: "Off the pitch, there is plenty that can affect you too.
"Arsenal have to deal with all the attention on Wenger's future at the moment and speculation over Alexis Sanchez too.
"At least Sanchez won't be sold before Saturday, though. The day before Bolton played Eastleigh I was told bids had been accepted for two of my players who were going to start and they could not play.
"The expectancy levels of the supporters, press and people on social media play a part as well.
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"I am sure Arsenal are happier to be playing at home than having another away tie against a non-league team, like they did against Sutton United in the last round.
"But it means their fans will rock up thinking they will see them win by three or four goals, when it doesn't always work out that way.
"If their players think the same, then the longer the game stays at 0-0, the danger is that they will start thinking 'we should be beating these' and stop playing their normal game.
"The first goal will make a difference too - Eastleigh scored first in both ties against us and you could see the lift that gave them.
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"Lincoln's run to get this far will give them huge momentum and belief, but I still think Arsenal will get through this tie - in fact I think they will win comfortably.
"We can assume Lincoln will work hard and give everything, but they will probably end up being outclassed.
"Arsenal had the experience and quality to get past Sutton in their last match, so you would have to expect them to negotiate this tie as well."
Neil Lennon was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan. | Arsenal go into Saturday's FA Cup quarter-final against National League leaders Lincoln City as overwhelming favourites - but will the tie really be as easy as it seems? |
34,541,319 | The 29-year-old, who has taken 158 first-class wickets over the past two seasons, was included in England's squad for the fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge in August.
"We are delighted to have signed a bowler of the quality of Mark," Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart said.
"His talent with both a red and white ball will add so much to our attack."
Footitt took 76 wickets at an average of 23.63 in Division Two of the County Championship this summer, having finished 2014 as the leading wicket-taker in the country with 82 scalps.
"It is a fantastic opportunity for me," the former Nottinghamshire player told the Surrey website.
"Working with another strong coaching set-up at Surrey can only help to further my England ambitions, which were started during my time at Derbyshire"
Footitt was under contract at Derbyshire until the end of 2016 but rejected the offer of a new deal in August.
"We offered an improved contract to Mark which he turned down," Derbyshire chief executive Simon Storey told BBC Radio Derby.
"As soon as a player suggests he wants to look at options elsewhere, we felt it was something we should let him do.
"As part of the transaction with Surrey we have agreed a compensation package." | Surrey have signed left-arm seam bowler Mark Footitt from Derbyshire on a four-year deal. |
40,340,350 | Officers did not attend missing cases, make timely arrests or seize evidence fast enough, the police watchdog said.
Last week, Ofsted inspectors said Gloucestershire County Council had "serious and widespread" failings in its child protection services.
Gloucestershire Police has said it is working hard to make improvements.
The HMIC report highlighted a case of a 15-year-old girl in foster care who regularly went missing, but police did not record her absences "as they would serve no purpose".
No action was taken for 10 days to find her and when she was found, she had been drugged with crack cocaine and raped several times by older men.
Another case involved a five-year-old boy who was present when his mother was raped. The effect this had on him was not considered by police.
The report said: "When the incident was discussed at the central referral unit meeting, details of the incident were not forwarded to children's social care because it was decided the child was not at risk."
Gloucestershire Police said in the year leading up to the inspection, both child protection referrals and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) referrals had risen by nearly 50%.
Over the past six years the force has lost 240 officers, it added.
Assistant Chief Constable, Julian Moss said: "The understanding of officers is inconsistent, in some cases it is excellent, in other cases their understanding of the complexity and the risk isn't as well understood as it should be.
"What we need to do, and will be doing, is improve the training across the force."
Some of positives were highlighted in the report, such as the dedication of officers, the setting up a multi-agency to tackle child sexual exploitation and the force's work in managing convicted sex offenders in order to protect children. | Children who go missing regularly in Gloucestershire are at risk of sexual exploitation because police are not tracing them quickly, a report says. |
39,368,401 | Relatives of those killed by the IRA, including in the Enniskillen and Claudy bombs, took part in the service.
Prayers were said by Church of Ireland, Presbyterian and Methodist ministers.
A minute's silence was held beside a memorial in the grounds of Holy Trinity Church of Ireland as a mark of respect for victims of the IRA.
David Temple, whose 16-year-old brother William was killed in the Claudy bombing in July 1972, said Martin McGuinness would "go to his grave without telling these victims the truth of what happened".
He said he wanted to send his condolences to the McGuinness family but "Claudy hasn't gone away. We will still fight and look for justice for Claudy".
Church of Ireland minister Rev. Alan Irwin's father and uncle were killed by the IRA.
He said he did not think the service was insensitive to those mourning Martin McGuinness today.
"I don't believe it's insensitive to what's going on. I think we had to provide something for the innocent victims," he said.
Presbyterian Minister Rev. Rodney Beacom said the service was "not insensitive in any way, shape, or form".
"We're here to provide pastoral care for those folk who are hurting, and who are living day and daily for all of their lives with the hurt and pain of terrorism, so we have a duty and indeed a responsibility to be here today," he added.
The event was organised by the South East Fermanagh Foundation which supports victims and survivors of paramilitary violence.
Spokesman for the group Kenny Donaldson said that in the days since Mr McGuinness's death "survivors of IRA terrorism have been expressing feelings of being further cheated" of the prospect of learning more from the former IRA leader about what had happened to their loved ones.
"Martin McGuinness will now meet his Maker and unlike on this earth, he won't be able to dodge accountability citing the IRA's Green Book or any other document. Each and every one of us faces the same destiny," said Mr Donaldson. | A service of prayer and reflection for victims has taken place in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh. |
39,244,580 | The man, thought to be in his 20s, was found in Gilpin Place, Southampton, on Saturday shortly before 01:40 GMT and later died in hospital.
A cordon is in place in Gilpin Close and Hampshire Constabulary is making house-to-house inquiries in the area.
The death is being treated as suspicious but no arrests have been made, the force said. | An investigation has started after a man found with serious chest wounds died. |
35,171,569 | Mohammad Akhlaq was beaten to death by a mob in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh state in late September.
His son, 22, was badly injured and had to have hospital treatment.
The case sparked furious debate about religious tolerance in India, with some criticising the government for not immediately condemning the attack.
Daljeet Chaudhary, a senior police officer in Uttar Pradesh, told AFP news agency: "We have filed a charge sheet against 15 persons... It is a case of murder."
Two more suspects were arrested on Wednesday, while a further two suspects are still on the run, local media report.
Mr Akhlaq, a farm worker, was asleep next to his son when a mob burst in wielding sticks, swords and pistols on 28 September.
The attack came after a loudspeaker announcement at a nearby temple said beef had been found in his home.
However, Mr Akhlaq's family, who are Muslim, denied consuming or storing beef - and forensic tests later confirmed that meat found in their fridge was goat meat.
Government ministers from the Hindu nationalist BJP have said the incident was a spontaneous expression of anger.
However, a panel from the National Commission for Minorities concluded that the lynching was premeditated and the temple had been used to plan the attack.
Slaughter of cows is a sensitive issue in India as the animal is considered sacred by Hindus, who comprise 80% of the country's 1.2bn people.
Uttar Pradesh is among a number of Indian states who have tightened laws banning cow slaughter and the sale and consumption of beef. | Indian police have filed charges against 15 suspects, including a juvenile, over the lynching of a Muslim man accused by Hindus of eating beef. |
24,615,978 | They included sensitive information including prisoners' names, ethnicity, addresses and release dates.
The breaches were only discovered when the third recipient alerted the prison to the fact they had received a file.
The ministry said the prison had altered its procedures since the incidents in August 2011.
The fine was imposed by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
After the data breach was reported an internal investigation was launched and the same error was found to have occurred on two previous occasions within the previous month, with details sent to different inmates' families.
The ICO said neither incident was reported at the time.
The emails about upcoming visits came from the prison clerk but also included a spreadsheet containing sensitive information including the names, ethnicity, addresses, sentence length, release dates and coded details of the offences carried out by all of the prison's 1,182 inmates.
The ICO said police and a member of the prison staff were sent to visit the homes of those who had received the emails to check that the files had been deleted.
The unauthorised disclosures were reported to the ICO on 8 September 2011.
The ICO's investigation found that there was a clear lack of management oversight at the prison, with the clerk working unsupervised despite only having been at the prison for two months and having limited experience and training.
A lack of audit trails also meant that the disclosures would have gone unnoticed if they had not been reported by one of the recipients, said the ICO.
ICO deputy commissioner and director of data protection David Smith said: "The potential damage and distress that could have been caused by this serious data breach is obvious.
"Disclosing this information not only had the potential to put the prisoners at risk, but also risked the welfare of their families through the release of their home addresses.
"Fortunately it appears that the fall-out from this breach was contained, but we cannot ignore the fact that this breach was caused by a clear lack of management oversight of a relatively new member of staff."
Furthermore, said Mr Smith, the prison service failed to have procedures in place to spot the original mistakes.
"It is only due to the honesty of a member of the public that the disclosures were uncovered as early as they were and that it was still possible to contain the breach," he added.
The investigation also found problems with the manner in which prisoners' records were handled, with unencrypted floppy disks regularly used to transfer large volumes of data between the prison's two separate networks.
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: "We treat the security of information very seriously and took immediate steps to recover the data as soon as the loss was reported to ensure that it went no further.
"These types of incidents are extremely rare but this does not mean that we are complacent.
"A thorough investigation was held by the prison who immediately altered their procedures, and further changes were implemented across the prison estate." | The Ministry of Justice has been fined £140,000 after the details of more than 1,000 inmates at Cardiff prison were emailed to three prisoners' families. |
35,275,474 | The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh each placed a wreath at a war memorial on Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.
The service was held to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of one of the bloodiest World War One campaigns.
William and Kate, who were not scheduled to take part, attended a service at St Mary Magdalene Church.
The Gallipoli campaign was an allied operation which aimed to force the Ottoman empire out of the war.
More than 131,000 allied and Turkish troops died in the battle, including 11,400 Anzac (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) and 25,000 British soldiers. | The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have made a surprise appearance at a wreath-laying service to remember those who died in the Gallipoli campaign. |
31,432,302 | 5 March 2015 Last updated at 13:24 GMT
At the same time, he has been meeting some of the artists that have featured on his 1xtra show, Destination Africa.
In Botswana he met DJ Gouveia, the author of the country's most popular dance track in recent months, Ambuye - meaning God - and started by asking him about his DJing career.
DJ Edu and team would like to know the name of your favourite club and why you like it. Get in touch on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, using #ClubAfricaBBC. Make sure to include your location. | BBC Radio 1xtra's DJ Edu is travelling across Africa looking for the continent's best nightclub and exploring how clubbing reflects the growth of the middle classes as part of the BBC's A Richer World season, |
39,184,530 | Schmidt lost his job after four defeats in six Bundesliga games, ending with a 6-2 loss to Borussia Dortmund.
Ex-Hannover boss Korkut, 42, was named Kaiserslautern boss last summer but resigned after only six months.
Leverkusen are 10th in the league and trail Atletico Madrid 4-2 in their Champions League last-16 tie. | Bayer Leverkusen have named Tayfun Korkut as their head coach until the end of the season, after sacking Roger Schmidt. |
35,392,260 | Zambia had their captain and former Africa Cup of Nations winner, Christopher Katongo, to thank for their victory after he scored just before the break.
The result put Zambia top of Group D with a maximum six points from two games.
Katongo, who captained Zambia to their Nations Cup victory in 2012, was thrown out of the senior national team two years later after a row with the coaches.
But the 33-year-old was given a reprieve and picked for the CHAN squad. He now plays for Green Buffaloes in Zambia and can therefore play at the African Nations Championship which is for locally-based players only.
His 41st minute header against Uganda helped Zambia become the third team to qualify for the quarter-finals, joining hosts Rwanda and DR Congo in the last eight.
Earlier in Group D, a solitary goal from Moussa Sissoko was enough to give Mali a win over Zimbabwe in their second fixture.
It ended Zimbabwe's hopes of progressing further, after they had already been beaten 1-0 by Zambia in their opening match of the group.
Mali broke Zimbabwe hearts eight minutes from time, as Sissoko volleyed in from close range to score.
The final Group D games take place on Wednesday 27 January.
Uganda play Zimbabwe and Mali face Zambia. | Zambia qualified for the 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) quarter-finals with a 1-0 win over Uganda in Group D, but Zimbabwe were eliminated after their 1-0 defeat to Mali. |
38,104,273 | Delays to the A21 widening have been caused by the discovery of asbestos and heavy metals in the excavated earth.
The route which links south-east London, Tunbridge Wells and Hastings has been a bottleneck close to Pembury.
The road is now due to reopen in summer 2017 but may be later, Highways England said.
Campaigners worked for years to get the £69m scheme near Tunbridge Wells approved but groups including The Woodland Trust objected to the destruction of 22 acres of ancient woodland.
Andrew Broughton from Highways England said: "The site is progressing well."
He said the delay was caused when 30,000 tonnes of earth being moved was found to be contaminated and could not be reused elsewhere on the site.
Highways England said the work had been due to be finished by March 2017.
The work should now be finished by summer 2017, Mr Broughton said.
But he warned it could be longer "if we get a really wet winter". | Work on a 2.5 mile (4km) stretch of road being widened to improve links to the coast is set to overrun by at least six months. |
30,097,036 | Malik says he missed the interview on NBC because of illness. During the appearance, the rest of One Direction were asked about rumours of substance abuse.
Speaking to The Sun, he said: "I was really ill, that's why I couldn't fly to America."
1D are promoting their new album Four.
In a broadcast from Orlando, host of the NBC Today show, Matt Lauer asked Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan about Zayn's absence: "There's been a lot of action on social media about him. Is it something more serious than a minor illness? There've been rumours of substance abuse. What's going on?"
Liam replied: "No. He's just got a stomach bug. He's OK. He's just at home. He just needs to rest." He added that he didn't know when Zayn would join the rest of the group.
One Direction appeared on the BBC Children In Need appeal on Friday night, performing their new song Night Changes live from the set of Eastenders.
On Saturday, the band joined stars including Rita Ora and Ed Sheeran to record the Band Aid 30 single.
In a statement, One Direction's management explained that Zayn had been too ill to fly to America on Sunday: Zayn was taken ill after recording the Band Aid single. He will join the band for promotion for the new album as soon as he possibly can.
Earlier this year, the singer was seen in a leaked video smoking what appeared to be a joint while the group travelled in a van in Peru.
Louis Tomlinson could be heard saying: "So here we are leaving Peru. Joint lit. Happy days."
One Direction consulted lawyers after the video emerged.
Possession of a small amount of cannabis is not illegal in Peru.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | One Direction's Zayn Malik has said he's "angry and upset" about questions his bandmates were asked on American TV. |
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The Premier League champions are 17th in the table after losing three of their opening five games of the season.
Asked if he still has the qualities of a great manager, Mourinho replied: "The point is that the question is stupid. I am sorry."
The Blues face Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Champions League on Wednesday.
The Portuguese manager, who joined the club in 2013 for a second spell, said losing is a "strange feeling" after his side's worst start to a top-flight season in 29 years.
Chelsea's 3-2 victory away at West Brom in August is their only victory in the league so far.
He added: "I promise you I am fine. I am not happy. I am not used to losing so many times but I am adapting to the situation.
"You cannot expect me to say it is all smiles, laughing and jokes. When people are not getting success we work for, we are going to be frustrated.
"We know what we are - champions of England. The fans sing that. Nobody can steal what we are or our trophies or our history, you can try but you can't do that.
"When you are used to winning all the time, then when you don't it is a strange feeling. Some people deal well with it, others not as good."
In a testy exchange with BBC Sport's Ben Smith, Mourinho rejected the idea that performances of the teams he has managed deteriorated in his third season in charge:
Ben Smith: Do you believe that you still have all the qualities that made you such a great manager? A lot has been made of the third season in your time at clubs - what do you say to that?
Jose Mourinho: Look, my third season - in Porto, I didn't have a third season. My third season in Inter, I didn't have a third season. My third season at Chelsea the first time, I won the FA Cup and the Carling Cup, and I played the Champions League semi-finals. My third season in Real Madrid, I won the Super Cup, I lost the cup [Copa del Rey] final, and I went to the Champions League semi-finals. These are my third seasons...
BS: Sure, but you know what I'm getting at...
JM: So click Google, instead of making stupid questions, click Google and try to find.
BS: Jose, you know what I'm getting at though, don't you, how important is it for you to build...
JM: No, you spoke about the third season, and I am telling you that the question is stupid, because the third season is what I told you.
BS: Jose, you know the point of the question...
JM: No, I know the point, the point is that the question is stupid. I am sorry...
[At this point a Chelsea press officer intervenes]
Mourinho also rebuffed a suggestion from one journalist that his new short haircut was a response to the turmoil at Chelsea.
Asked if there was any correlation between his haircut and his mood, Mourinho replied: "My haircut isn't as radical as it has been. I am fine, I promise you."
Pressed further on whether the stress of Chelsea's poor run had caused his hair to fall out, Mourinho smiled and shook his head. | Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has rejected being affected by 'third season syndrome' and told a BBC reporter to "Google answers to stupid questions". |
23,831,696 | With the US stiffening its military posture in the eastern Mediterranean and the Russians continuing to defend their only staunch Arab ally, the dire predictions made months ago by some regional analysts that the situation could spiral rapidly into World War III are starting to look a little less fanciful.
Conversely, and for that very reason, there are those who believe that the level of tension that has now been reached may force the unblocking of the process to find a political settlement of the crisis.
Out of the chaos and confusion of the past few days, several things have emerged clearly.
Even the regime itself and its closest allies, Russia and Iran, do not dispute that chemical weapons were used in the eastern and south-western suburbs of Damascus early on Wednesday morning.
The evidence from a huge flow of distressing amateur video is too massive to dismiss.
Medecins Sans Frontieres says 3,600 patients with neurotoxic symptoms were treated at three hospitals and that at least 355 of them died.
That may not be the whole picture.
The Violations Documentation Centre, the most measured and least sensationalist of the organisations logging casualties in the conflict, listed the names and details of 457 people it said died of chemical poisoning in eight Damascus suburbs on Wednesday. That too is likely to be a minimum figure.
While acknowledging the event, Russian and Iranian officials have either adopted the Syrian government line that the attacks were carried out by armed rebels, or left the issue of responsibility open.
In any event, with UN chemical weapons investigators already in Damascus on a prior mission, the pressure to allow them to examine the affected sites is hard to resist.
Both Moscow and Tehran have said they are urging the Syrian authorities to co-operate with the inspectors, and the Iranian foreign minister has quoted his Syrian counterpart, Walid Muallem, as saying the government is in discussion with the UN team and preparing the conditions for a site visit.
The situation also prompted a rare direct contact between Mr Muallem and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry.
With combat continuing on the ground in the affected areas, there is clearly scope for prevarication and delay, although Western patience is short.
But at least an appearance of regime willingness to co-operate may for the moment let the US and its allies off the hook.
For one of the other elements that has become clearer than ever in the past few days is the great reluctance of President Barack Obama and others to plunge into an embroilment that would be hard to get out of, and which would carry a very high risk of aggravating the situation even further.
For the West, an almost irresistible sentiment that something has to be done is colliding with the reality that there is no course of action that is attractive or even acceptable in terms of that risk.
Mr Obama also knows that his own public does not want another costly, open-ended adventure in the Middle East.
Any military action would immediately bracket the West with Israel, whose air and missile strikes on Syria this year have been held up by the regime as evidence that its internal troubles are part of a Western-Zionist-Salafist plot to destroy a citadel of resistance to Israel.
Even the most minimalist response - stepping up arms and training to opposition forces - does not really amount to much of an option.
The Western powers have never wanted the rebels to win.
Their strategy has been to redress the balance so that the regime came under such pressure that it would cave in, dump the Assad leadership and negotiate a transition that would exclude the inner ruling circle while preserving stability and state structures.
There has never been evidence to suggest such an approach might work.
The signs have always been that the regime would pull the whole house down around it before capitulating, and also that its strategic allies, especially Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, would not allow that to happen.
In addition, the West faces the reality that the moderate opposition elements it has been trying to boost have proven neither cohesive, credible nor effective on the ground.
Instead, the running has largely been made by Islamist factions, many linked to al-Qaeda.
As happened in Iraq, intervention by the West risks fragmenting the country further, creating an uncontrollable situation and handing large parts of it to forces it regards as its enemies.
To that extent, there may be more common ground between Washington and Moscow than meets the eye.
The Russians, traumatised by Chechnya, are also mesmerised by the prospect of a radical Islamist takeover in Syria.
That is why some observers believe there is still a measure of understanding between the Russians and Americans, whose foreign ministers decided in May to work together to bring about the political settlement that everybody agrees is the only solution, but which is proving devilishly difficult to get under way.
So it is not out of the question that the huge pressures exerted on all parties by the chemical weapons attacks might just be enough to pop the cork and force movement towards negotiations, with the latest speculation focusing on Geneva in October.
Any such prospect, distant though it may seem, would clearly be set back by Western military action.
An eventual formula where regime forces join with elements of the Free Syrian Army to expel or crush the Islamist radicals is not beyond imagination.
The alternatives to political movement are starker than ever.
But that has always been the case, and it has not prevented the crisis from moving from one worst-case scenario to the next. | The apparent use of chemical weapons in the suburbs of Damascus, killing hundreds of civilians, has clearly lifted the Syrian conflict to a yet higher level of crisis. |
36,044,321 | Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said taxpayers were missing out on £16bn a year, as a result of evasion and criminal activity.
HMRC needed to increase the number of investigations, and prosecute more wealthy tax evaders, the MPs said.
But HMRC said it was one of the most effective tax collectors in the world.
And it revealed it had 26,000 staff focusing on tax evasion, avoidance and fraud, out of its total staff of 56,000.
Labour MP Meg Hillier, the chair of the PAC, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that HMRC "could clearly be doing more" with "the right resources".
"We have long felt that there should be more prosecutions because we think that sends a signal to the honest tax payer who is sweating over their tax returns and also a warning shot to those who are thinking about being fraudulent," she said.
Ms Hillier pointed out that over the last five years the level of tax losses - the difference between the tax that should be collected and the amount that is actually collected - had remained static at around 3% of all the tax owed to the Treasury.
She acknowledged the job of HMRC was "challenging" and welcomed international cooperation on tax evasion.
According to the report, HMRC had said it investigates around 35 wealthy individuals for tax evasion each year.
But it told the MPs that it did not know how many had been successfully prosecuted.
In addition, only one person was prosecuted after a former HSBC employee called Herve Falciani handed over a list of potential tax evaders with Swiss bank accounts in 2015.
The MPs said that created the impression that the rich can get away with tax fraud.
It follows a previous PAC report last November, in which the MPs said the number of prosecutions by HMRC was "woefully inadequate".
But as a result of extra funding given to it in the Summer 2015 budget, HMRC said it now hoped to investigate 100 companies and wealthy individuals each year by 2020.
Part of the answer may be that the richest and easiest pickings for tax sleuths lie elsewhere.
HMRC's estimate of the tax gap breaks down into £26bn not paid by businesses large and small, £6bn attributable to criminals, many operating in the black economy, and just under £3bn which individuals should have stumped up.
£3bn is a large sum of money, but it is the smallest category.
There is clearly a worry among tax officials about the cost of launching highly complex prosecutions and achieving disappointing returns.
The Falciani list of more than 3,000 possible tax evaders who hid funds in Switzerland resulted in 150 cases being looked at for potential prosecution, of which only 3 were passed to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider and, notoriously, only one was taken forward.
HMRC now names and shames deliberate tax defaulters by publishing a regular list of offenders.
But look at the characters on the list and you will see that they are small business people including restaurant owners, fishermen, newsagents and car traders, not the sort who have Swiss bank accounts.
Critics say that while this approach might be convenient for HMRC, it sends out entirely the wrong message, that they are keener to nab the small fry than to home in on the rich who might wriggle out of tax.
The current tax gap is around £34bn a year - half of which is down to fraud.
But HMRC said it collected 93 pence of every pound due, making it one of the smallest tax gaps in the world.
"We remain relentless and strategic in tracking down the few that try to get out of paying their fair share," a spokesperson said.
Nevertheless the MPs said HMRC had not set out a clear strategy, and it should do so by November 2016.
Jon Thompson takes over as the new chief executive of HMRC this month, following the departure of the previous boss, Lin Homer. | HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is still not doing enough to tackle tax fraud, a group of MPs has said. |
35,232,275 | Laura Davies, 21, was attacked near the Essex Horse and Pony Protection Society base in Basildon where she lived and worked.
Her ex-boyfriend, Jordan Taylor, 22, of Basildon, denies murder.
Chelmsford Crown Court was told the attack was so forceful that the knife used was left badly bent.
Prosecutor Peter Gair said: "We say her life was taken by this man during a sustained and brutal attack with a knife. She suffered 80 knife wounds to her body.
"That attack was as a direct result of her telling the defendant that their relationship was over.
"Whether it was motivated by jealousy or anger of a mixture of both and other emotions, he exacted a terrible revenge on her which caused her to die at the scene."
On the night of her death, Miss Davies had cooked a meal for them both at the flat they shared at the sanctuary, the jury heard.
Mr Gair added she had decided earlier that day to end the relationship but to let Mr Taylor continue to live at the flat as she did not want to make him homeless.
Police later found plates of uneaten food on the kitchen table, suggesting events had escalated quickly.
The prosecution told jurors that Taylor initially attacked her in the flat.
She fled outside in her pyjamas but he chased after her and killed her in an area known as the Wishing Well before dragging her body to some nearby bushes, Mr Gair added.
Pathologist Benjamin Swift said a post-mortem examination found she had suffered at least 80 stab wounds. There were also signs she had been struck all over her body.
"She suffered defensive wounds, suggesting she had been fighting for her life," Mr Gair said.
Witness Bruce Sequin arrived at the sanctuary to see a man holding a knife standing over a woman's body and making downward stabbing motions.
He raised the alarm and when police arrived they found Taylor covered in blood.
Officers rushed to help Miss Davies and she gasped 'help" before losing the strength to speak, Mr Gair said.
In the months before the killing, friends had become concerned about the couple's relationship, the court heard.
Mr Gair said: "You will hear evidence that he would take umbrage at her working with other young men and displayed a controlling nature, telling her for example what she could and could not wear."
The trial continues. | A horse groomer was killed after being repeatedly stabbed by her ex boyfriend when she ended their relationship, a jury has heard. |
34,703,490 | Ali Akbar Salehi said initial work to reduce the number of centrifuges had started, but would take some time.
Iran insists that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.
The July agreement involves the lifting of sanctions in return for Iran curbing sensitive nuclear activities.
The deal between the so-called P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany - was reached after 20 months of negotiations.
Mr Salehi was quoted by Japan's Kyodo news agency as saying that work had begun on reducing the number of active centrifuge machines.
They are key to the process of enriching uranium, and limiting their number is a central part of the deal.
Confirmation that the work is underway also appears to have come in a separate development in Tehran.
About 20 hardline MPs have written to President Hassan Rouhani to complain that work to dismantle centrifuges in two enrichment facilities at Natanz and Fordow is progressing too quickly.
Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, conditionally approved the nuclear deal last month.
The Iranian parliament also approved the deal last month, as did the US Congress, after Republicans failed to block the accord.
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The UN Security Council passed seven resolutions between 2006 and 2015 requiring Iran to stop producing enriched uranium - which can be used for civilian purposes, but also to build nuclear bombs.
Four of the resolutions imposed sanctions in an effort to persuade Iran to comply.
Uranium enrichment: Iran can operate 5,060 first generation centrifuges, configured to enrich uranium to 3.67%, a level well below that needed to make an atomic weapon. It can also operate up to 1,000 centrifuges at its mountain facility at Fordow - but these cannot be used to enrich uranium.
Plutonium production: Iran has agreed to reconfigure its heavy water reactor at Arak, so that it will only produce a tiny amount of plutonium as a by-product of power generation, and will not build any move heavy water reactors for 15 years.
Inspections: International monitors will be able to carry out a comprehensive programme of inspection of Iran's nuclear facilities.
Possible military dimensions: Iran will allow foreign inspectors to investigate the so-called "possible military dimensions" to its programme by December. This should determine whether the country ever harboured military ambitions for its nuclear programme - a claim it has always strenuously denied.
Sanctions: All EU and US energy, economic and financial sanctions, and most UN sanctions, will be lifted on the day Iran shows it has complied with the main parts of the deal. | Iran has begun to decommission uranium enrichment centrifuges in order to fulfil the nuclear deal struck with six world powers in July, its nuclear chief has announced during a visit to Japan. |
37,486,374 | Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa will share the 8m kronor (£727,000) prize for the design and synthesis of machines on a molecular scale.
They were named at a press conference in Sweden.
The machines conceived by today's laureates are a thousand times thinner than a strand of hair.
They could slip inside the human body to deliver drugs from within - for instance, applying pharmaceuticals directly to cancer cells.
This field of nanotechnology could also yield applications in the design of smart materials.
The prize recognises their success in linking molecules together to design everything from motors to a car and muscles on a tiny scale.
"They have mastered motion control at the molecular scale," said Olof Ramström, from the Nobel Committee.
Reacting to the award, Prof Feringa said: "I don't know what to say, I'm shocked. And my second remark was: 'I'm a bit emotional about it'."
Donna Nelson, president of the American Chemical Society (ACS) said she was "thrilled" by the Nobel Committee's decision.
"It's wonderful. I've done work in nanoscience for a while - though not in micromachines - so I think I have enough background to appreciate the difficulty of the work they did and its magnificence," she told the BBC News website.
The professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma added: "I'm also interested in the public perception of science and this topic is perfect for capturing the imagination of schoolchildren."
"The world is so aware of the Nobel Prizes and they influence the research. It will make the area blossom; more scientists will move into the area and it will attract more funding. You can expect the applications to appear much more rapidly now."
The celebrated physicist Richard Feynman is often credited with inspiring the concept of molecular machines.
In a lecture at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1959, titled "There's plenty of room at the bottom", he considered the possibility of the direct manipulation of matter at the atomic scale.
It was also in this lecture that he introduced the idea of "swallowing the surgeon".
Jean-Pierre Sauvage was born in 1944 in Paris, France. He is currently emeritus professor at the University of Strasbourg and director of research emeritus at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
His work provided early breakthroughs in the area of molecular machines. He had been researching the use of sunlight to drive chemical reactions but this work helped him work out that he could link different molecules together in a chain.
This was the first step towards building molecular machines. In 1994, Prof Sauvage's research group succeeded in making one molecule rotate around the other in a controlled manner when energy was applied.
Sir Fraser Stoddart was born in 1942 in Edinburgh, UK. He is currently affiliated to the Northwestern University, in the US.
The Briton made a key advance by threading a molecular ring on to a rod-like structure that acted as an axle.
Sir Fraser then made use of the ring's freedom to move along the axle. When he added heat, the ring jumped forwards and backwards - like a tiny shuttle.
His group later built on this discovery to build numerous molecular machines, including a lift, a muscle and - in partnership with other researchers - a computer chip.
"It's a recognition of fundamental chemistry and I think that should be celebrated today," Sir Fraser told the BBC.
But he condemned the outcome of the Brexit vote, saying international collaboration had been "absolutely critical" to his successes.
"Today I am distressed that the UK is looking at a situation where it would cut off that supply. This is not good news... I would hope that this whole business of Brexit would just go away or had not happened."
He said this placed British science "in jeopardy" and said politicians in the current government had "gone off the rails".
Bernard Feringa was born in 1951 in Barger-Compascuum, in the Netherlands. He is a professor in organic chemistry at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
In 1999, Prof Feringa led the first research to produce a molecular motor that continually spins in the same direction.
In 2011, his group built a four-wheel-drive nanocar: a molecular chassis holding together four motors that functioned as wheels.
Commenting on the award, he said: "I feel a little bit like the Wright Brothers who were flying 100 years ago for the first time and people were saying why do we need a flying machine and now we have a Boeing 747 and an Airbus.
"The opportunities are great."
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2015 - Discoveries in DNA repair earned Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar the award.
2014 - Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner were awarded the prize for improving the resolution of optical microscopes.
2013 - Michael Levitt, Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel shared the prize, for devising computer simulations of chemical processes.
2012 - Work that revealed how protein receptors pass signals between living cells and the environment won the prize for Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka.
2011 - Dan Schechtman received the prize for discovering the "impossible" structure of quasicrystals.
2010 - Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were recognised for developing new ways of linking carbon atoms together.
2009 - Discovering the structure and function of our cells' "protein factories", earned the chemistry Nobel for Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath. | The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world's smallest machines. |
33,186,220 | The Rt Rev Richard Inwood was speaking at a discrimination case brought by Canon Jeremy Pemberton against the Church.
The bishop told the hearing it was against Church of England doctrine.
But he said it would not "harm the [hospital] trust or Church".
Mr Pemberton brought the action against Bishop Inwood for discrimination after a licence to operate as a priest was refused when he married his partner Laurence Cunnington.
Although he was offered a job and would have been employed by Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, he needed permission to officiate from the bishop.
At the hearing in Nottingham, Bishop Inwood was asked what harm would come if Mr Pemberton was appointed.
"It is not a matter of danger, but by my own oath of honour and obedience, under authority, to maintain the doctrine of the church," he replied.
"It's my own personal choice."
The tribunal judge Peter Britton then pointed out the contradiction of arguing that the appointment was against the doctrines, established to protect the church, while also admitting it would not have harmed the church.
Bishop Inwood replied: "If you put it like that, I have to agree with you."
But he later said granting Canon Pemberton permission would have gone against guidance issued by the Church of England in 2014.
Mr Pemberton remains employed as a hospital chaplain in Lincolnshire and was issued with a formal rebuke by the Bishop of Lincoln after the wedding but no further action was taken, the tribunal was told.
The tribunal also heard that, following the refusal, Bishop Inwood was the subject of a social media and letter writing campaign from supporters of Mr Pemberton.
"Some of those emails I received were bonkers, frankly.
"Some were well-argued, some insulting, and some cast aspersions on my own marriage."
The hearing continues. | The bishop who barred a clergyman from a hospital chaplain post because he was in a same-sex marriage admitted the appointment would not have damaged the Church. |
35,277,249 | Police in Cologne investigating the crimes are focussing on people of North African origin, they say.
On Sunday evening six Pakistanis and a Syrian man came under attack in the centre of the western German city.
Angela Merkel's immigration policy has come under criticism since the attacks.
Around 1.1 million asylum seekers arrived in Germany in 2015.
The scale of the assaults on women in Cologne and other German cities on 31 December has shocked the country, and police handling of the events has been sharply criticised.
Riot police used water cannon to disperse anti-migrant protesters in Cologne on Saturday.
The attacks on Sunday took place in the early evening. In the first, a group of around 20 people attacked six Pakistanis, two of whom had to be treated in hospital.
Separately, five people injured a Syrian man who did not need hospital treatment.
The higher figures came as German authorities were urged to find out whether the series of New Year's Eve sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne were linked to similar crimes in other cities.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas told the Bild newspaper on Sunday that he was convinced the attacks were pre-arranged.
"If such a horde gathers in order to commit crimes, that appears in some form to be planned,'' he said. "Nobody can tell me that this was not co-ordinated or prepared."
Authorities and witnesses say the attackers were among about 1,000 people, mostly men, who congregated at Cologne's central train station before breaking off into small groups that molested and robbed women.
Victims described chaos as dozens of sexual assaults and robberies were carried out with little apparent response from the authorities around Cologne station.
Similar attacks to those seen in Cologne were also reported in Hamburg and in Stuttgart on New Year's Eve. In Bielefeld, hundreds of men tried to force their way into nightclubs, Die Welt reported (in German).
Police said several women had alleged sexual assault.
On Friday, the chief of police for Cologne was suspended. Wolfgang Albers had been accused of holding back information about the attacks, in particular about the origin of the suspects. | German police say the number of criminal complaints filed after the events on New Year's Eve in Cologne has risen to 516 - 40% of which relate to allegations of sexual assault. |
36,825,037 | Leeds mosque leader Qari Asim said victims had been spat at or physically attacked but it went unreported because of a lack of confidence in police.
The Muslim Community Safety Forum said police figures did not give a true reflection of the current situation.
West, South and North Yorkshire Police urged people to report hate incidents.
Data supplied to the BBC showed that over the last year, race hate crimes had gone up 13% in Yorkshire.
However, the data also showed that there was no strong link between the EU referendum vote and a rise in the number of racially motivated hate crimes being recorded.
For example, in June 2016, 472 race hate crimes were dealt with by forces in North, South and West Yorkshire - the same number as in March 2016, three months before the referendum was held.
Wakefield councillor Nadeem Ahmed said he had been subjected to racist comments whilst out with his family.
Mr Ahmed, leader of the Conservative group, said for every incident flagged up to police many more went unreported and has urged victims to take a stand.
He said: "If I would have been on my own I wouldn't have been that angry, but my wife and children were in the car - they didn't need to hear that sort of language."
The claims comes as a new report published by the Muslim Community Safety Forum said there needed to be better awareness of how victims can report a hate crime.
Dr Asim, Imam of Leeds Makkah Mosque, said people needed to work together to create a more stable neighbourhood.
He said: "People have voted to leave Europe because they think it's going to make their life better, economically, politically and socially.
"If that doesn't happen in six months' time, I fear there are going to be worse crimes and hate crimes committed against European and South Asian communities."
Angela Williams, Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, said: "We have had a slight increase in incidents reported to us, but only really small increases.
"We believe that they are not being reported through to us, which is the issue. We're trying to raise awareness for people to come forward." | Racist abuse incidents since the Brexit vote have been creating "real fear" amongst ethnic minorities in Yorkshire, religious and community leaders said. |
39,169,572 | With Dumbarton having conceded a second goal, Carswell walked off the pitch with blood streaming from his nose after he clashed with the defender.
"It's not nice when that happens," Aitken told BBC Scotland.
"We were disappointed with the start. They are probably as frustrated as each other but it shouldn't really happen."
With 27 minutes gone, Paul McMullan had added to Nicky Clark's opener for the hosts to leave the Sons trailing 2-0.
But following the altercation between the Dumbarton players, Carswell left the pitch for treatment and substitute Sam Stanton was quickly sent on.
The manager continued: "There was a coming together between the two players. The referee never saw it. Nobody saw it.
"He had broken his nose in previous weeks. We had to make the change because we couldn't stop the blood. I have spoken to the two of them and we will get to the bottom of it. It's a passionate game.
"He is obviously disappointed with the action of his team-mate. He feels there was a coming together. Mark thought it was tit for tat or that (Carswell) had raised his hands first.
"We won't condone it but we really have to see the footage to see exactly what happened. I will speak to the people in the stand who did see it.
"The players both know. Neither has denied it. It's passionate and it's fuelled in the dressing room right now. But let's just let it calm down and have a look at the footage and take it from there."
Aitken insists there has "never been an issue" between the players.
"It's out of character," he said. "The only thing I can put it down to, and it's no excuse, is we are disappointed with two goals we have lost. I think they blamed each other and sometimes you see that.
"I don't like seeing that in teams I manage and I don't want players to act like that and I have told them that." | Dumbarton boss Stevie Aitken plans to investigate a claim by Sons midfielder Stuart Carswell that he was headbutted by his team-mate Mark Docherty. |
32,166,019 | Properties within "easy reach" of a Waitrose cost 12% more than other homes in the same area, says the bank.
Homes close to a Sainsbury's carry a 10% price premium - and those near Tesco carry an 8% premium.
However, having a Lidl or Aldi nearby can actually reduce the value of your house or flat, it is claimed.
But having any sort of supermarket nearby can add an average of £15,000 to a property, concludes the research.
"Having a grocery shop within easy reach appears to be high on the list for homebuyers looking for good access to local amenities," said Andy Hulme, Lloyds Bank mortgages director. | Having a Waitrose near where you live - as every middle-class person knows - increases the value of your home, claims Lloyds Bank. |
37,789,644 | The 51-year-old will now stay with the Super League club until the end of the 2020 season.
Powell took over at Wheldon Road in May 2013 and guided the team to the 2014 Challenge Cup final.
"I think it's a massive boost for the club. He's probably been one of the best signings the club's made," chief executive Steve Gill told BBC Radio Leeds.
"Castleford is where he has always wanted to coach and hopefully he'll finish his career with us.
"He is a very hands-on and honest coach, and I think the players respect that side of it." | Castleford Tigers coach Daryl Powell has signed a new four-year deal. |
38,878,600 | Wins over Dundee Stars and Fife Flyers took them to within two points of the Stars at the bottom of the Elite League as they look to fight their way into the top eight.
However, he put the defeat to Belfast Giants down to fatigue as they could not make it three wins from three.
"We're happy with at least four out of six and we knew, coming into the weekend, we had to get that to keep pace going for the play-offs," Staal said.
"We ran out of gas against Belfast on Sunday, but we were pleased at the two wins before. We're not out of this by a long way and we have enough confidence to string some wins together.
"Our aim is to catch Dundee and Coventry and try to sneak into the play-offs, but I hope we have Dundee worried as things stand."
The Caps' two victories have breathed new life into their play-off hopes just when it seemed like they would be left behind.
Their weekend began at Dundee Stars on Friday night, taking a big win on penalty shots to close the gap on the Tayside club just above them in the table.
Mason Wilgosh and Staal saw their goals wiped out by two from Cale Tanaka and one from Justin Faryna before Capitals captain Jacob Johnston levelled to take the game into overtime.
When that couldn't separate them, penalty shots were needed and Johnston's crucial one was the one that got Edinburgh the two points.
It was on to Kirkcaldy on Saturday, where they needed overtime to beat their Fife Flyers 5-4 after a thrilling contest.
Ian Schultz and Chase Schaber traded goals for either team before Taylor MacDougall and Carlo Finucci did the same with Karel Hromas put the Caps in front.
Flyers briefly turned things around as Sebastien Thinel and Matt Sisca put Fife 4-3 in front, but Michal Dobron equalised to take the game to the extra period where he struck the winner.
The Capitals returned home to Murrayfield on Sunday where they took on title challengers Belfast Giants, but the Giants helped their own league hopes with an 8-3 win.
Edinburgh kept it close as Jaroslav Hertl, Hromas and Matt Tipoff all struck to keep the game poised at 3-3.
Belfast kicked on as Chris Higgins, Steve Saviano, Adam Keefe, Matt Nickerson and James Desmarais struck to make it a four point weekend for them.
Giants had begun their weekend in Glasgow and edged Braehead Clan in their only game of the weekend, taking a 5-4 result.
Mike Hammond and Scott Pitt scored two early for the Clan, but two from Mike Forney and one from Mark Garside had the Giants 3-2 up by the end of the first period.
Pitt's second levelled for the home team, but Desmarais restored Belfast's lead and although Hammond got his second to equalise, Forney completed his hat-trick to clinch the win.
Dundee Stars moved on from Friday's loss with a trip to Sheffield Steelers on Saturday, who themselves are staying in touch with the title race.
The Steelers edged another nine-goal thriller and went ahead early through strikes from Matthieu Roy and Robert Dowd.
Stars turned it around with goals two from Kevin Bruijsten either side of a Vinny Scarsella strike. Levi Nelson squared things up at 3-3 before Roy's second edged the Steelers in front again.
Although Joey de Concilys struck for Dundee to level again, Nelson's second of the game sealed a tough win for Sheffield.
Fife Flyers got the award for the most dramatic win of the weekend as they were 3-1 down with three minutes to go to take victory over Nottingham Panthers 4-3 in overtime.
Ryan Dingle gave them the perfect start, but Nottingham soared into the lead though David Clarke, Jeff Brown and Brian McGrattan.
Schaber pulled one back with three to go, but Bryan Cameron's last-gasp equaliser with four seconds to go sent the game into overtime.
Matt Sisca's goal claimed the win as Flyers strengthened their hold on fourth place over the Panthers.
Friday
Elite League
Dundee Stars 3-4 (PS) Edinburgh Capitals
Saturday
Elite League
Braehead Clan 4-5 Belfast Giants
Fife Flyers 4-5 (OT) Edinburgh Capitals
Sheffield Steelers 5-4 Dundee Stars
Sunday
Elite League
Edinburgh Capitals 3-8 Belfast Giants
Fife Flyers 4-3 (OT) Nottingham Panthers | Edinburgh Capitals forward Jared Staal says his team are not yet out of the play-off reckoning after picking up four points out of six at the weekend. |
33,567,024 | The violence broke out during demonstrations in support of ousted President Mohammed Morsi and the banned Muslim Brotherhood after prayers at the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
The authorities blamed unknown assailants for firing on the march.
But the Muslim Brotherhood said the deaths occurred when the police broke up the protest.
Supporters of the Brotherhood have faced a crackdown since mid-2013, with thousands jailed and hundreds, including Morsi, sentenced to death.
Demonstrations have dwindled under a law that requires a police permit.
But there were street rallies on Friday following morning prayers for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month.
They followed a Brotherhood call for protests, saying "your Eid is your revolution", says the BBC's Claire Read in Cairo.
On Thursday night, Morsi released a message from his jail cell calling on his supporters to "save Egypt from the oppressive military officials".
Friday's clashes happened in Talbiya district, near the Giza pyramids, and Nahya, near Cairo.
Police also made 20 arrests in Egypt's second city, Alexandria, state news agency Mena reported.
The Muslim Brotherhood was banned for decades until the 2011 overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
Their candidate Morsi won elections in 2012, but he lasted only a year in power before he was toppled by the military following popular protests. | At least six people have been killed in clashes between Islamist protesters and police in Egypt's capital Cairo. |
37,544,706 | Sobriety tags, GPS tracking and tagging as an alternative to remand would be used in Scotland for the first time.
Sobriety tags, which respond to the ethanol levels in a person's sweat, are among the pilots to be announced.
They would be used as an alternative to prison for those who offend under the influence of alcohol.
The changes will require new regulations and legislation.
Under the proposals, other pilots will be announced in the next couple of months.
All the proposals have been recommended by the expert working group on electronic monitoring, which was created by the Scottish government two years ago.
Tagging has been available in Scotland for almost 15 years and used predominantly to confine offenders to their homes overnight as an alternative to prison or under early release from jail - referred to as Home Detention Curfew.
There are currently more than 1,000 offenders tagged in Scotland.
But under the proposals, in future, tagging will be used as an alternative to remand in prison and as a condition of bail.
And GPS tracking will be used for the first time to monitor certain offenders' movements.
Another option is "voluntary" electronic monitoring for offenders willing to work with agencies to try to stop shoplifting, housebreaking and gang involvement.
The report also calls for monitoring alongside social work support.
Robert Johnson has been tagged more than once.
On one occasion he was sent to Barlinnie prison for drugs offences and released early on Home Detention Curfew.
Now 35, he says he has grown up and that he has not offended for more than two years.
He says that being tagged gave him the time and opportunity to re-connect with friends. He has now started up a café with some of them.
"When I was in prison I was ashamed and embarrassed and I didn't want my children to see me there in a place like that.
"Every dad wants to be superman to their children and I didn't want them to see me there, to see me exposed.
"Being at home with a tag and being able to spend time with my family and start looking at education and work, and being with my children, money can't buy something like that."
He added: "In prison you're left in your cell for 23 hours a day locked up with not a lot to do and the chances are if you do do something it's not going to be something worthwhile. On Home Detention Curfew you can be home with your family and your children and start rebuilding your life."
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said he wanted Scotland to look to the system used in the Netherlands which focuses on outcomes and support.
He hopes the extension of tagging will form part of extensive changes to the whole penal system.
"Rather than just deciding on what kind of electronic monitoring they're going to use, they work out what they're trying to achieve first of all and then look at whether electronic monitoring would help to achieve that aim," he said.
"And it could be different types. It could be GPS or the radio system which we have at the present time. We want to focus on outcomes.
"The report highlights that we could use electronic monitoring in a much more effective way, for example, for individuals remanded into custody."
Angela Smith, service director at G4S Monitoring Technologies & Services in Scotland, said the new system would mean that the numbers of offenders tagged across the country in the future could be "unlimited".
"This is not a soft option. It is a restriction placed not only on offenders but also on their families," she said. "But it does allow them to stay with their families and maintain their jobs and keep relationships together."
In England and Wales electronic monitoring has faced some controversy with a number of high-profile cases in which tagged offenders have been caught committing further crimes. In 2010 a man wearing an electronic tag in Manchester was left dead in his flat for weeks before his body was found.
Stirling University criminologist Hannah Graham said: "England and Wales have had some issues and scandals with their uses of electronic monitoring, whereas Scotland's approach has stayed fairly simple, stable and small in scale.
"The expert group's recommendations imply Scotland will take a more European approach, learning from the Dutch and Scandinavians as leading examples of how to use electronic monitoring well.
"There's evidence to suggest this is a better and bolder direction for us to pursue.
"But it's difficult to predict how much the use of tagging will increase because this depends on whether these recommended changes are embraced by decision-makers such as sheriffs, some of whom barely use it currently."
She added: "There's an acute need to reduce Scotland's disproportionately high prison population - making better use of electronic monitoring within community sentences offers one way of trying to do this."
Mike Nellis, Emeritus professor of law at Strathclyde University, previously worked as a social worker with young offenders.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio programme that tagging should be used in conjunction with other services.
"The technology by itself is very limited if you're trying to change any type of behaviour. Certainly, if we're talking about people with alcohol problems, they have to have the services to help them deal with their alcohol problems."
He added: "Some people are given a sense of self-discipline by having to wear the alcohol monitoring device or indeed any other form of electronic monitoring devices, and I think part of the art of using electronic devices wisely and well is to help people to understand that this is something that they can use to assist them on their journey of desistance."
Scottish Conservative justice secretary spokesman Douglas Ross said there was a place for electronic tagging but he could not accept the "creeping expansion" replacing custodial sentences for serious criminals.
He said: "We saw in recent weeks how some rapists have been escaping jail and instead handed community sentences.
"That's an indication that, when the Scottish government insists on an alternative form of punishment, it inevitably gets used on the wrong people.
"In order to retain public confidence in tagging, this expansion will have to be monitored exceptionally closely."
Scottish Labour's justice spokeswoman Claire Baker said Scotland has one of the highest prison populations in Europe and called for credible and robust alternatives.
"However, for tagging to work both the courts and the general public must have confidence in it as an alternative," she added.
"Without that we will still see people sent to prison on remand or for short sentences.
"Therefore the Scottish Government must ensure that electronic tagging is fully resourced and monitored, yet with cuts to the budgets of the police, our courts, and local authorities, this will be challenging." | The Scottish government is proposing a radical extension of the ways electronic tags can be used on offenders, BBC Scotland has learned. |
36,631,862 | Media playback is not supported on this device
Swansea defender Williams, 31, collided heavily with team-mate Jonny Williams late on in the Euro 2016 last-16 1-0 win over Northern Ireland.
Substitute James Collins was ready to enter the game, but the Wales captain insisted he stayed on the field.
"We think it was when he fell and landed on his hand with a straight arm which had an impact on his shoulder," Coleman said. "But he is okay."
Coleman dismissed speculation the shoulder was dislocated.
"Ashley will be fine. It sounds better actually, that he would play with a dislocated shoulder - and he would if we let him. But it was not.
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''It's probably a bit more sore today than yesterday because of the timing, 48 hours after the game. We will get him on the grass as soon as we can.
''I would not say he was a worry or a doubt, but we know we have to look after him. I would be surprised if he does not make the game.''
Williams had received hospital treatment on Saturday evening following the game in Paris
Having apparently recovered from the collision, Williams briefly sat down on the pitch as play continued, leading Coleman to ready a substitute.
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill felt Wales deliberately made the most of Williams' situation.
"I was disappointed with the time-wasting. The [Welsh] bench told Ashley Williams to sit down," he told BBC Sport.
Wales secured a quarter-final against Hungary or Belgium in Lille on Friday, 1 July thanks to Gareth McAuley's 75th-minute own goal. | Wales expect captain Ashley Williams to be fit to face Belgium on Friday. |
22,516,889 | Claire Lomas, from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, lost the use of her legs after a horse riding accident in 2007.
Last year she became the first person to complete the London Marathon in a robotic suit.
The Nottingham-to-London ride, on an arm-powered bike, took three weeks.
On completion of the route - which took in 161 towns - she said: "This has been the toughest mental and physical challenge of my life, a lot harder than last year's London Marathon.
"I'm relieved to have finished but so grateful to everyone that has text donated along the way, it's what kept me going through the really hard days.
"My cycle may be over but the search for a cure for paralysis isn't, so after a few days of rest, I'll start planning my next fundraising challenge."
During the cycle challenge she also visited schools to raise awareness about the work of Spinal Research and the Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation, for which she has so far raised £72,000.
As she neared the end of her ride in central London, Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted: "@claire80lomas sped past Downing St this morning on her 400m handbike cycle around Britain, raising money for @SpinalResearch & The Nicholls Foundation @TNSIF #Clairescycle"
The fundraiser was left paralysed when she broke her neck, back and ribs and punctured a lung in a riding accident at the Osberton horse trials in Nottinghamshire.
She walked up to two miles a day to complete the London Marathon course, accompanied by her husband Dan, mother Joyce and daughter Maisie and finished the route in 17 days. | A paralysed athlete who has just completed a 400-mile bike ride, has said she is already planning her next fundraising challenge. |
27,977,935 | We were both staying in the same crowded, shabby house, trying to make sense of the fighting nearby, and clinging on to a few home-comforts - something at which Peter, with his roll-ups, his music and his well-honed ability to put the stresses of the job to one side over a few beers, excelled.
Since then, our paths have crossed repeatedly, as they tend to in this relatively tight community of foreign correspondents, cameramen and producers.
Mogadishu, Goma, Juba, Abidjan… the big stories draw us to the same hotels, frontlines, refugee camps and government offices.
Peter is a fine journalist. Over the years I have watched with admiration and surges of envy, as he has set the pace for the rest of us in places like South Sudan and Somalia.
He is based in Nairobi, Kenya, covering the continent in much the same way I try to from Johannesburg.
And yes, like the rest of us, he has run into trouble.
Roadblocks, security scares, predatory bureaucracy, and the more complicated political minefields that come with the job.
It is not uncommon, on this continent and elsewhere, to run into the assumption that foreign journalists venture into places like Zimbabwe, or South Africa, or Egypt, with fixed agendas - either personal ones or those assigned to us by our editors back home.
Regime change, cultural imperialism or just a merciless addiction to reinforcing every wretched, negative stereotype we can lay our hands on.
The truth - from my experience - is almost always far less Machiavellian.
We are just trying to find good stories, understand what is going on, give a voice to those who seem to need it most, and make sure we get our reports on air.
In 23 years on the road, I can only remember one time when an editor asked me to make changes that I did not feel were warranted - and that was in Libya, when he was more sceptical than I was about the likelihood that the rag-tag rebels would ever take Tripoli.
It is subjective stuff, for sure. We are all prone to mistakes.
And with the internet, our audiences have the ability to dissect and re-dissect reports and blogs and tweets that have sometimes been scribbled at great speed and under enormous pressure.
A testy email exchange comes to mind - with a listener who bitterly objected to an infinitive that I had split on Radio 4 one morning, as I crouched behind a wall during a firefight on the outskirts of Abidjan, and which he believed fundamentally undermined the credibility of my entire report.
But the idea - and here I realise I am being subjective, though I hope impartial - that Peter was working in Cairo in support of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is absurd, and appears to have been revealed as such in court to most viewers, although not, as today's sentence makes clear, to the judge.
The news is - most importantly and pressingly - a terrible blow for both Peter and his family.
But it is also something that surely strikes at the entire journalistic community.
Sometimes, when the news comes in of another colleague killed or injured in conflict, I find myself clutching at the thought that the journalist had been too reckless - had taken risks so foolish that somehow they bore responsibility for their fate.
Over the years I have come to realise that this is just a self-defence mechanism - a way of trying to make it feel like that same fate could not be waiting for me on the next road in the Central African Republic or wherever.
Surely I would have been smarter. I would have pre-empted the threat. It couldn't have been me…
But what Peter's own agonisingly slow Cairo disaster has shown more clearly than any other instance I can think of is this: For however many days he and his colleagues remain in prison (and given the international outcry that must surely follow the verdict… it can surely not be many), Peter represents all journalists.
In that cage, in that cell, it really could be any of us. | I first ran into journalist Peter Greste in a sandstorm in northern Afghanistan in 2001. |
39,946,471 | The Turkish leader met US President Donald Trump for talks on Tuesday.
Hours after the meeting, around two dozen protesters gathered outside the ambassador's residence and traded insults with Mr Erdogan's supporters.
Video footage from the scene shows several people with bloody injuries.
Some US reports claim President Erdogan's protection officers were drawn into the fracas after he arrived to visit the ambassador.
Demonstrator Flint Arthur, from Baltimore, told CNN: "We are protesting [Mr Erdogan's] policies in Turkey, in Syria and in Iraq.
"They think they can engage in the same sort of suppression of protest and free speech that they engage in in Turkey.
"They stopped us for a few minutes ... but we still stayed and continued to protest Erdogan's tyrannical regime."
He accused the pro-Erdogan group of breaching police lines and attacking protesters at least three times.
Police intervened to end the violence, and the injured were taken to George Washington University Hospital.
The Turkish president's visit to Washington has raised eyebrows in some quarters, with opponents citing his use of mass arrests to silence dissent.
After their meeting, Presidents Trump and Erdogan told a joint press conference they had pledged to strengthen bilateral relations.
"We've had a great relationship and we will make it even better," Mr Trump said. "We look forward to having very strong and solid discussions."
However, Mr Erdogan reiterated that he will never accept a US alliance with Kurdish forces fighting in Syria.
"There is no place for terrorist organisations in the future of our region," he told journalists.
The US decided to arm the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia earlier this month.
Mr Erdogan also said he had pressed the US to extradite cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom he blames for the failed coup against him last July.
Mr Gulen has denied the accusation. | Nine people have been injured and two arrested outside the Turkish embassy in Washington, DC, after a brawl broke out between supporters and opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. |
39,692,240 | Ms Kaur completed the race in one minute 14 seconds and was the only athlete to compete in her age category.
She has been dubbed the "miracle from Chandigarh" in New Zealand's media.
She was cleared to run after a medical examination.
She started her athletic career at the age of 93 with her son, Gurdev. | Man Kaur, a 101-year-old athlete from India, won the 100 metres sprint at the World Masters Games in Auckland on Monday, celebrating with a little dance. |
36,128,069 | The bass player is urging Google to remember its former slogan - "Don't be evil" - in its dealings with artists.
"The idea behind that was to always compensate everybody," he said.
"That motto has since changed to 'Do the right thing'. It's time to live up to your corporate mottos, Google... and invest in the future of music."
The comments represent the start of a campaign by artists to challenge YouTube's system of royalty payments.
They come as the video streaming site's contracts with the world's three biggest record labels come up for negotiation this summer. Other artists are expected to weigh into the debate in the coming days.
A recent report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) pointed out an "alarming disparity" between the rise in music consumption and revenue going to artists.
It said that musicians in the US were making more money from vinyl sales ($416 million/£289 million) than from streaming on ad-supported sites like Soundcloud and YouTube ($385 million/£267 million).
Paid-for streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify contribute about $2bn (£1.4bn) to the music industry's coffers.
YouTube maintains that it has "paid out over $3bn (£2.1bn) to the music industry", although this figure is thought to represent more than eight years of payments.
"YouTube is paying out about a sixth of what Spotify and Apple pay artists," Sixx told the BBC.
"Artists are not being treated fairly when it comes to compensation for their art," added James Michaels, who sings with Sixx in his current band, Sixx AM.
"I think that especially affects young, up-and-coming artists and it really affects the future of music. And that's scary, so the reason we're talking about this now is that we feel it's more important than ever to put some type of mechanism in place that ensures that artists are treated fairly and are compensated when their music is used to generate massive profits for YouTube."
Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, Bon Jovi and Christina Aguilera have also campaigned for a change, calling on the US Copyright Office to make a "sensible reform" to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
They take issue, in particular, with the way user-upload sites deal with pirated material.
Currently, a pirated song or video can be removed once the copyright holder notifies the streaming site. Artists argue that the method is ineffective, as once an illegal video is taken down, another one is uploaded in its place.
In their letter, Perry, Richie and 45 other musicians called it an "all-purpose shield that tech companies hide behind while they threaten the livelihood of music creators".
They added: "This outdated law forces us to stand by helplessly as billions of dollars in advertising is sold around illegal copies of our work."
The music industry also argues that the "safe harbour" protection means YouTube negotiates from a position of strength when drawing up licensing deals with labels and publishers.
In response to Sixx's comments, Google said it was "engaged in productive conversations with the labels and publishers around increasing transparency on payouts".
It added in a statement: "We're also working hard to bring more revenue to the music industry through our subscription service, as well as continuing to grow our ad-supported business, which allows artists and labels to monetise the 80% of music listeners who historically have never paid for music." | Motley Crue co-founder Nikki Sixx has launched a campaign asking Google to pay musicians more money when their videos appear on YouTube. |
36,795,988 | Thrones, which won a record-breaking 12 awards in 2015, delivered almost a quarter of network HBO's 94 nods.
There were also several British nominees, including Sherlock, Luther and Downton Abbey and for talk show hosts James Corden and John Oliver.
The awards will be handed out in Los Angeles on 18 September.
Viola Davis, who also made history in 2015 by becoming the first black woman to win the best lead actress prize, has once again been nominated for her role in How To Get Away With Murder.
Comedy star Amy Schumer secured four nominations, the most given to any one person this year, for her acting and writing in Saturday Night Live, Inside Amy Schumer and Amy Schumer: Live At The Apollo.
The nods for Game of Thrones included best supporting actor and actress nominations for last year's winner Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headley, Emilia Clarke and Maisie Williams and nods for writers David Benioff and DB Weiss.
The People v OJ Simpson's lead actors, Courtney B Vance and Cuba Gooding Jr were both nominated for the outstanding lead actor award.
That category also saw nominations for Idris Elba for Luther, Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock and Tom Hiddleston for The Night Manager.
There were also nods for Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, for their writing on comedy Catastrophe, and for The Americans' Matthew Rhys, who was nominated in the best drama actor category.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus will go for her fifth best comedy actress title for playing Selina Meyer on Veep, while last year's winner Jeffrey Tambor was once again nominated for best comedy actor for his role as a transgender college professor in Transparent.
Tambor was one of several nominations for performances in shows on streaming services, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Others included both Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright for House of Cards; Aziz Ansari for Master of None; Kyle Chandler for the drama Bloodline; Rami Malek for Mr Robot; Lily Tomlin for Grace and Frankie plus Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Ellie Kemper.
Beyonce's film Lemonade took two nominations, with the singer receiving a personal nod for her directing work.
Five-time best comedy winner Modern Family was once again nominated - it is currently tied with Frasier for the show with the most titles in the category.
The nominations were announced by Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham and Black-ish's Anthony Anderson, who whooped and cheered as he read out his own nomination in the best comedy lead category, one of several the show received.
A full list of the nominations is available on the Emmys website. | Fantasy drama Game of Thrones has received 23 Emmy nominations, one more than its closest rival, crime series The People v OJ Simpson. |
39,174,357 | Mr Nesbitt announced he is to quit as soon as a new leader is appointed, after the party's disappointing performance in Thursday's election.
The UUP is now the fourth biggest party, having been overtaken by the nationalist SDLP for the first time.
Mr Swann said he was discussing a potential bid with his wife, Jennifer.
The UUP is due to elect Mr Nesbitt's successor at its annual general meeting on 8 April.
"Jenny's actually a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, so she'll have a vote at our AGM," Mr Swann told the BBC's Sunday Politics.
"If my name is on the ballot paper, I hope she will be voting for me."
The 45-year-old father of two was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2011 and he represents North Antrim.
He chaired the Public Accounts Committee during the last assembly's mandate and is former president of the Young Farmers' Clubs of Ulster.
Mr Swann was one of 10 UUP members who won seats in Thursday's poll, but he said the new leader did not necessarily have to be an MLA.
"Our party rules actually allow anybody who is in good standing, and a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, to put their name forward, so there is a misconception out there," he said.
One high-profile UUP member who has already declined the job is Upper Bann UUP member Doug Beattie.
Speaking live to the BBC minutes after Mr Nesbitt's resignation on Friday, Mr Beattie said he did not yet have the "depth of political knowledge" required to lead the UUP.
"I was only elected into the assembly last year, I've only been an MLA for about nine months and I've just been re-elected now."
Mr Beattie added: "It would not be right for me to lead the party, I do not have the political nuances that many other people have.
"I will be there to support whoever is the leader." | Robin Swann has said he is not ruling himself out of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leadership contest following Mike Nesbitt's resignation. |
38,554,357 | Ten people died of cold in Poland on Sunday. The bodies of three migrants, two Iraqi and one Somali, were found near the Turkish-Bulgarian border.
Deaths have been reported in Italy, the Czech Republic, Russia and Ukraine.
Dozens of flights have been halted. In Turkey, the Bosphorus is closed to shipping after a snowstorm. Even Greece's islands are covered in snow.
In Serbia, all river transport is suspended on the Danube.
Your pictures: Icy weather causes disruption across Europe
The Medecins Sans Frontieres aid organisation said it was "very concerned about the thousands of vulnerable people across the continent in danger and stuck in undignified conditions".
It said "of particular concern are the 2,000 people living in informal settlements in Belgrade where temperatures are currently reaching -20C (-4F)". It added that the majority of them were young people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Syria.
In Russia, temperatures in some regions have plunged below -40C.
Normally milder Greece has witnessed temperatures of -15C in the north, where an Afghan migrant died of cold last week and roads were closed.
In Athens, the temperature failed to rise above 0C over the weekend and many of the islands were covered in snow.
Some of the Greek islands are home to thousands of migrants and many are being moved to temporary housing and heated tents.
Homeless hostels in Italy are opening their doors day and night as the weather has been blamed for the deaths of seven people, five of them living out in the open.
Airports in Sicily, Bari and Brindisi closed over the weekend. Rome, too, saw freezing temperatures.
In Russia, Moscow experienced its coldest Orthodox Christmas in 120 years on 7 January.
Dozens of flights have been cancelled or delayed in the capital.
Schools in several regions of the country are closed on Monday, however officials say milder temperatures are expected in the coming days.
Prague had its coldest night so far this winter, Czech officials say, with six deaths reported, most of them homeless people.
With the 10 deaths confirmed in Poland on Sunday, officials say country's death toll from winter weather has risen to 65 since 1 November.
The cities of Warsaw and Krakow are on Monday providing commuters with free public transport as the authorities try to tackle high smog levels linked to the cold weather. | More than 20 people are now known to have died as icy temperatures continue to grip much of Europe. |
21,689,547 | It said the observers were monitoring a ceasefire between Syria and Israel.
A video posted earlier on the internet showed men claiming to be Syrian rebels standing next to vehicles with the letters "UN" written on them.
The Martyrs of Yarmouk group told the BBC they had taken the observers to stop Syrian troops from shelling them.
The UN mission in the Golan Heights is sending a team to assess the situation and negotiate the observers' release.
UN deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (Undof) were on "a regular supply mission" when they were stopped near an observation post by the armed men.
He said the post had sustained damage and was evacuated over the past weekend following "heavy combat in close proximity".
The spokesman did not provide any further details.
Some reports suggest the UN observers were from the Philippines.
In the video published on the internet, the gunmen identified themselves as the "Martyrs of Yarmouk".
Syria's millionth refugee
They are heard saying that the UN personnel would not be released until forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad withdrew from the village of Jamla in the area.
The rebels later admitted taking the monitors to try to stop the Syrian army from firing on them and civilians in the areas.
The rebels added that the UN team were their guests.
The video was circulated by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
The SOHR is one of the most prominent organisations documenting and reporting incidents and casualties in the Syrian conflict. The group says its reports are impartial, though its information cannot be independently verified.
Meanwhile, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) - the main rebel fighting force - condemned the seizure of the UN observers.
FSA leader Gen Salim Idriss told the BBC's Newshour programme he would "do everything what I can to liberate them".
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council also condemned the detention of the observers and demanded their immediate release.
In a separate development, the New York-based pressure group Human Rights Watch said it was investigating whether the same rebels were involved in the executions of seized Syrian government soldiers earlier this month.
The UN has had its monitors in the area since the 1974 ceasefire between Israel and Syria.
Israel has occupied the Golan Heights since 1967 and later annexed the territory - in a move that is not internationally recognised.
Recently there has been fighting in the eastern foothills of the Golan Heights between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels.
Israel has said its policy is not to get involved in the Syrian conflict. However, in recent months it has retaliated when there has been Syrian fire into Israeli-controlled areas.
Israel has also reinforced a fence that runs along the armistice line, and officials say Syrian refugees will not be allowed into Israel en masse.
Earlier on Wednesday, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said the number of Syrian refugees who had fled the conflict reached a million.
It said half of the refugees were children - most of them under 11 and often traumatised by their experiences.
The largest numbers of refugees were seeking shelter in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.
And in a separate development, Britain said it would provide armoured vehicles and body armour to opposition forces in Syria "to help save lives".
Foreign Secretary William Hague said London would offer millions of pounds in "non-lethal" equipment, including search and rescue, communications, and disease-prevention materials.
Up to 70,000 people have been killed and a million refugees have fled since the crisis in Syria began two years ago. | About 20 UN observers have been detained by about 30 Syrian armed fighters near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the UN has confirmed. |
36,240,523 | Guido Menzio was taken off and questioned by agents who did not identify themselves, after the woman next to him said she felt ill.
He showed them what he had been writing and the flight eventually took off - more than two hours late.
Mr Menzio told the Washington Post that the pilot seemed embarrassed.
He wrote on Facebook that the experience was "unbelievable" and made him laugh.
The University of Pennsylvania associate professor boarded the Philadelphia-Syracuse flight on Thursday on his way to Ontario, where he was due to give a lecture.
Before the flight took off, the woman sitting next to him passed a note to a member of the cabin crew.
She initially told them she was feeling unwell but then voiced her suspicions about Mr Menzio's scribblings.
He wrote: "It's a bit funny. It's a bit worrisome.
"The lady just looked at me, looked at my writing of mysterious formulae, and concluded I was up to no good.
"Because of that an entire flight was delayed."
He told Associated Press that the crew should have run additional checks before delaying take-off.
He said: "Not seeking additional information after reports of 'suspicious activity' is going to create a lot of problems, especially as xenophobic attitudes may be emerging."
American Airlines, whose regional partner Air Wisconsin was operating the flight in question, said the crew followed protocol to take care of an ill passenger and then to investigate her allegations. It was established that they were not credible.
The woman was re-booked on a later flight. | An Italian economist says his flight was delayed after a fellow passenger saw him working on a differential equation and alerted the cabin crew. |
40,654,443 | Campbell, 29, previously played for the club on loan in the 2007-08 season, scoring 15 goals to help Hull win promotion from the Championship.
He scored once in 13 appearances for Palace last season before leaving when his contract expired on 30 June.
BBC Sport also understands Hull have been given permission to speak to Liverpool midfielder Kevin Stewart.
The 23-year-old, who signed a new four-year contract in November, has left the Reds' pre-season tour of Hong Kong to hold talks with the Championship club over a transfer which could be worth £8m.
Hull manager Leonid Slutsky told the club website: "Each transfer is difficult work and it is like having two jobs at the moment - one as a coach and one having conversations with potential new players.
"There are a lot of negotiations going on right now and we are very close to more."
Meanwhile, goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic has signed for Leicester City for an undisclosed fee, joining Tom Huddlestone, Josh Tymon and Curtis Davies in leaving the Tigers this summer.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Striker Fraizer Campbell has rejoined Hull City on a two-year contract after being released by Crystal Palace. |
34,663,161 | The CSeries is a narrow-bodied passenger jet whose development has placed a major strain on Bombardier's finances.
Bombardier is based in Canada, but it is Northern Ireland's largest manufacturing employer.
Reuters news agency, citing unnamed sources, said it would form a joint venture with the Quebec government.
Such a deal would mean the government would fund half the final development costs of the jet, which is due to enter service next year.
Reuters said the government investment could ultimately be as much as $1bn (£496m).
Any deal could be confirmed on Thursday when the firm publishes its quarterly financial results.
The report added that Bombardier will also cancel the development of its Learjet 85 business jet.
Earlier this year, it suspended the Learjet 85 programme due to a lack of demand for the plane.
The wings for the CSeries are made at Bombardier's Belfast plant, as are some wing components for the Learjet 85.
A Bombardier spokeswoman and Quebec's economy minister Jacques Daoust both declined to comment.
The CSeries problems have made it a very challenging two years for Bombardier.
There has been an overhaul in its top management team and even speculation that the entire commercial aircraft division could be put up for sale.
Earlier this year, the firm confirmed it held talks with rival Airbus about selling a stake in the CSeries.
About 800 Bombardier jobs in Belfast have gone within the past year, mostly among its contractor labour force. | The provincial government in Quebec is poised to invest in Bombardier's troubled CSeries, according to reports. |
33,664,262 | When the musician returned to pick up the vehicle after nearly two hours, the attendant said he had given it to someone else thinking he was the owner.
The incident happened in a Manhattan garage on the evening of 16 July and is being treated as theft.
The DJ said the missing Dodge Charger had contained valuable vintage records.
Grandmaster Flash, 57, whose real name is Joseph Saddler, tweeted that the attendant "gave the car to somebody that was dressed like me, minus the Pumas".
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were at the forefront of developing hip-hop with their celebrated album The Message in 1982 and the hit White Lines.
They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. | A sports car belonging to US hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash has been mistakenly given away by a parking attendant, New York police say. |
37,590,024 | Fourteen-time major winner Woods, 40, has twice had back surgery since his last tournament appearance.
Last month, Woods, now ranked 767, had said he would play in the Safeway Open, from 13 to 16 October, "depending on his progress and recovery".
Woods was a vice-captain in USA's Ryder Cup winning side last week.
The American missed the whole of the 2015-16 season season through injury and was limited to just 11 starts in 2014-15.
Sweden's Jesper Parnevik, Open championship runner-up in 1994 and 1997, told Golf Digest he had been practising with Woods and the former world number one was "hitting it great" and "flushing everything".
Woods, whose last major triumph was at the 2008 US Open, had a back operation in March 2014, another in September 2015 and a follow-up procedure to relieve discomfort.
In September, he suggested he will also compete in the Turkish Airlines Open in November and the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in December.
The Safeway Open takes place at the Silverado Country Club in Napa. | Tiger Woods will return to action for the first time since August 2015 by playing at the season-opening Safeway Open in California next week. |
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