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36,099,152 | Joshua, 26, broke the news in a video on his Twitter page, saying: "I wanted the closest date possible because I'm feeling good."
No opponent has yet been announced.
Joshua, the 2012 Olympic super-heavyweight gold medallist, won the IBF title with a second-round stoppage of American Charles Martin.
That victory earlier this month came in only his 16th professional fight, all of which he has won by knockout.
Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn had said Joshua's next fight was due to take place on 9 July at Wembley, but the plan was changed when Tyson Fury - the WBA, IBO and WBO heavyweight champion - announced his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko would take place on the same date in Manchester. | IBF heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua has announced he will make the first defence of his title at London's O2 on 25 June. |
40,193,469 | Irfon Williams from Bangor, Gwynedd, had moved to England to access the drug Cetuximab to treat his bowel cancer but died on 30 May.
The drug is now available in Wales following his campaign.
Bangor Cathedral was at capacity and hundreds more watched the proceedings on a screen outside.
He left his wife, Becky, and five children.
Leading the service, the Dean of Bangor, the Very Rev Kathy Jones, told the mourners Mr Williams "had not set out to be a hero .... but that's what he became".
She added: "He was unassuming, but his impression was immense. He was determined to make right what he saw as unfair."
There were performances from Britain's Got Talent finalists Cor Glanaethwy and singer Rhys Meirion.
Mr Williams' friend, the former rugby international Robin McBryde, gave a reading. | Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of a cancer patient who campaigned for better access to cancer drugs in Wales. |
38,768,343 | Ty Nant Cat Sanctuary in Cymmer was broken into on 30 July by two teenagers who stole 10 cats.
Three were found mauled to death, four were found caged and alive in a field behind the sanctuary, while three others are still missing but presumed dead.
Frank Lewis, 18, from Croeserw, near Port Talbot, admitted burglary and killing the cats and was sent to a young offenders' institute for 30 months.
Swansea Crown Court heard he used the cats as "live bait" for his dogs and slit one of the cat's legs to prevent escape.
The other teenager, a 15-year-old boy, was found not to have taken part in the killings and was given a nine-month curfew order.
The incident left sanctuary owner Teresa Ahmad and her volunteers heartbroken.
"The ones they took were old cats," said volunteer Nicky Morgan.
"They didn't even have teeth, so they couldn't have defended themselves against what was happening."
But the sanctuary was consoled by the "overwhelming amount of public support" and the response to a GoFundMe page which collected almost £20,000.
"I've seen the best of humanity and the worst of humanity all in a short space," said Ms Ahmad.
Six months on she said: "I don't feel that we have won.
"I attended court on Monday and I'm relieved he's in custody and that he was handed quite a lengthy sentence.
"But I just feel so sad because the cats aren't here and we can't bring them back.
"Everyday we think of how they suffered and what they must have gone through."
Ms Morgan recalls finding three cats alive in the cage.
"I can still remember their faces from that day," she said.
"Because we found the dead ones, we didn't think we would find them alive.
"We just couldn't believe it. They were very lucky."
Ms Morgan explained it took those cats a few weeks to settle back down as they had to be relocated while their room was repaired, which was "upsetting for them."
One of the surviving cats has since been adopted.
Ms Morgan said since the sanctuary became well known, they have seen a lot more cats come and go.
"Adoptions have increased, but then the other side of the coin we've had more in," she said.
"It's swings and roundabouts."
After the incident an online fundraising campaign was started with more than £17,000 raised in just four days.
That figure is now just shy of £20,000 thanks to the donations of 1,418 people.
"We were absolutely overwhelmed at the public response," said Ms Ahmad.
"I can't thanks everybody enough. They've really helped us and our volunteers."
Some of the money has already been spent repairing the pens that were broken into, with the old mesh replaced by galvanised fencing bolted down to the floor.
"There's no way anyone can cut through it," said Ms Ahmad.
Security around the sanctuary has also been improved with CCTV cameras, alarms and sensor lighting.
All the pens have also been renewed in the cattery, which Ms Ahmad said "provides the cats and future cats with a "higher standard of living".
A large amount of the money has and will continue to go towards the sanctuary's veterinary bills, which is a "huge outgoing."
The sanctuary is now campaigning for a change in the law to get harsher sentences for people convicted of animal offences.
Ms Morgan said: "At the moment judges' hands are tied by their sentencing guidelines.
"We were told we were lucky he was sentenced to 12 months as he could have got a suspended sentence."
A petition "demanding justice for the cats of Ty Nant Cat Sanctuary" has been set up and has so far collected more than 223,000 signatures.
It proposes a register be introduced which anyone convicted of animal abuse, neglect or cruelty will have to sign.
The petition said: "This will ensure that perpetrators are monitored and details of their crimes can be found." | A cat rescue centre tucked away in the hills of Neath Port Talbot became the most famous in Wales last summer - but for all the wrong reasons. |
39,429,103 | 29 March 2017 Last updated at 09:17 BST
A small group with at least six cubs were discovered in the jungle.
They were filmed by conservationists using special camera traps, which are triggered using motion sensors.
Poaching and the loss of habitat has reduced the global population of this rare species to under 250.
Conservationists said the success was due to an increase in anti-poaching efforts in Thailand.
John Goodrich, tiger programme director at wild cat conservation group, Panthera, said, "The extraordinary rebound of eastern Thailand's tigers is nothing short of miraculous." | A new population of the critically-endangered Indochinese tiger has been found in a national park in eastern Thailand. |
35,532,399 | 9 February 2016 Last updated at 11:51 GMT
British astronaut Tim Peake videoed time-lapse footage of a lightning storm he saw from the International Space Station.
He recorded it as the ISS flew from North Africa over Turkey towards Russia.
Check out the amazing video of the lightning storms. | Lightning storms can be pretty dramatic but some are so large they can be seen from space. |
32,082,975 | The benchmark FTSE 100 index fell 8.14 points to 6,887.19. Among the mining companies, Anglo American fell 2.4% and Randgold dropped 2.2%.
Airline shares rose as oil prices fell. Oil had jumped on Thursday following news of Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen.
Shares in Easyjet rose 2.7% while British Airways owner IAG climbed 2%.
Brent crude futures fell more than a dollar to $57.91 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate crude was also more than a dollar lower at $50.30.
Prices fell as fears eased that the airstrikes in Yemen could disrupt oil supplies.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.16% against the dollar to $1.4828. Against the euro, sterling climbed 0.28% to €1.3696. | (Open): The London stock market opened lower, with mining shares among the biggest fallers, but shares in airlines staged a recovery. |
16,530,012 | A total of 64% achieved this level in degrees awarded last year, up from 60% in 2006-7, while 15% got a first.
Data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) also shows a continuing rise in the number of students coming to the UK from overseas.
And there has been a sharp fall (8%) in those enrolling to study part-time.
The Hesa statistics cover all areas of the UK.
They show that 66% of first degrees awarded to women in 2010-11 were either firsts or upper second class.
Among men, 61% of first degrees were awarded at this level.
More women than men are studying for degrees - they accounted for 57% of first degree graduates in 2010-11.
The figures show that about one in six (53,215) of those graduating last summer was awarded a first.
In 2006-07, 36,645 did so and in 2009-10, the number was 46,825.
In total, 83% of those enrolled at universities in the UK are from the UK, while 5% come from other European Union countries and 12% from outside the EU.
Numbers coming from outside the EU rose by 6% from 2009-10 to 298,110, while those coming from other EU countries rose by 4% to 130,120.
At the same time, there was a 1% fall in UK students enrolled at UK universities.
In total, the number of students enrolled at universities in the UK is 2,501,295.
The numbers signing up to study part-time for the first year of a degree fell by 8%, while first-year enrolments were down as a whole by 3%.
When just first year enrolments are examined, there has been a 1% rise at post-graduate level and a fall of 5% at undergraduate level.
In both cases, declines in numbers of UK students have been off-set by those coming from overseas.
The past year has also seen a big increase in the number of students overseas studying for UK qualifications without coming to the UK - for example by attending an overseas campus of a UK university, or studying for a UK degree by distance learning.
Numbers rose from just over 400,000 to just over 500,000.
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of vice-chancellors' group Universities UK said: "As in previous years, the proportion of firsts and 2:1s awarded has increased marginally. But A-level performance has also improved in recent years, so it is unsurprising that degree results would also show an improvement.
"However, it has been clear for some time that the current degree classification system is a blunt instrument for assessing achievement, hence Universities UK's support for the ongoing trialling of the Higher Education Achievement Report (Hear)."
Pam Tatlow, chief executive of the university think-tank million+, said: "At a time of economic difficulty and rising unemployment, the decrease in students enrolling at university is disappointing.
"Demand for places reached record levels. Rather than threatening to fine universities if they exceeded their student numbers, the Government should have funded more places." | More students at UK universities are being awarded firsts and upper second class degrees, new figures show. |
38,640,410 | After four seasons of solid performances with Williams, the 27-year-old Finn has been rewarded with every driver's dream - a seat with the best team in Formula 1.
Barring a remarkable slip in form for Mercedes, Bottas will morph from being an occasional podium visitor to a race-winner and possibly title contender this year.
But in new team-mate Lewis Hamilton, Bottas faces an adversary far beyond anything he has experienced so far. How he measures up will likely define the rest of his career.
Bottas might not be the most exciting of choices for Mercedes. Fans around the world would have loved to see Hamilton battle McLaren's Fernando Alonso again, or take on Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo or Max Verstappen, or Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. But his appeal to Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff is obvious.
Bottas is Wolff's attempt to find a like-for-like replacement for German Nico Rosberg, who dropped Mercedes in the mire by announcing his retirement last year, five days after clinching his first world title. And it's not just about their blond hair or Finnish ancestry.
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Bottas shares many of Rosberg's characteristics. Both are calm, unobtrusive characters, who are generally pliable and understanding in terms of working with the team and lack the demanding nature of a Hamilton or Alonso.
On the track they are consistent, largely error-free performers. And Bottas has proved himself a resilient and hard racer.
Wolff should - he hopes - be able to plug Bottas in and carry on pretty much where Mercedes left off in the past few years.
Wolff rates Bottas extremely highly. But now he has joined Mercedes, the big question is: how good is he?
There have been flashes of brilliance - such as qualifying third in the wet in an uncompetitive Williams in Canada in 2013 - that suggest a real talent.
And overall, the general perception is Bottas' record against Felipe Massa at Williams over the past three years is similar to Alonso's against the Brazilian at Ferrari before that.
But the facts do not bear that out. While Bottas and Alonso beat Massa in both qualifying and races, the Spaniard's advantage over the Brazilian was significantly bigger.
Directly comparing the data suggests Bottas is as much as 0.2-0.3 seconds per lap slower than Alonso and considerably less effective in races.
Neither Massa nor Bottas have been team-mates to Hamilton. But Alonso has - at McLaren in 2007. They finished tied on points, with four wins each, and Hamilton edged qualifying by the tiniest of margins. By any measure, it was - and is - very difficult to separate Hamilton and Alonso.
If 2017 follows the trend of those results, Hamilton can be expected to be comfortably quicker than Bottas.
Perhaps more surprising is that those comparisons suggest that not only is Bottas not a match for Alonso and Hamilton, but he might not equal Rosberg either.
However, drivers' form does not always directly translate across teams and rivals in as linear a fashion as might be expected.
It is up to Bottas to prove the comparisons wrong and grab the opportunity with both hands.
Bottas was always the only realistic option once Wolff decided against Mercedes junior Pascal Wehrlein. Bottas is quick, dependable, has had a management relationship with Wolff, and raced for a team that had Mercedes engines, and with which a deal therefore might more easily be done.
All the A-list drivers - Alonso, Ricciardo, Verstappen and Vettel - were not available. They are under contract to leading teams that would have been left in a similar position to Mercedes had they allowed them to leave.
But if they had been available, Wolff may not have wanted most of them anyway.
Part of the decision to sign the same type of driver as Rosberg was a desire to retain the team dynamic.
Rosberg and Hamilton worked for Mercedes because only one of them saw it as a right and expectation to be in front. Spoken or not, there was a natural order. They were, as one senior Mercedes insider once put it, "a great driver and a very good one".
This is a way of keeping the rivalry manageable and under control without the need for too much team interference.
The faster driver - Hamilton - knows he will win most of the time as long as he performs at his best. And the other one - a different personality - is able to keep defeat in perspective more easily when it happens.
As Wolff put it on Monday: "Valtteri shares our values and passion, and he's modest, humble and hard-working."
But there is a possibility the team dynamic will change anyway.
Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche recently provided an amusing insight into Mercedes' relationship with Hamilton.
Talking to Autocar magazine about how he heard the news of Rosberg's retirement, Zetsche said: "I was stepping out of the shower lacking any clothes and my phone was ringing. And I saw it was Toto and I thought: 'Oh, again something with Lewis!'"
His remarks confirm the open secret that Hamilton is not an easy driver to manage.
Like all drivers of his stature, Hamilton can be awkward over PR appearances and other such matters that are expected of drivers but they find tiresome. And he has repeatedly bucked against the authority of the team.
In ignoring orders to speed up while 'backing' Rosberg into rivals in the title-deciding race in Abu Dhabi, Hamilton was metaphorically sticking two fingers up to team management.
Wolff initially said he would consider what actions to take. Then, Hamilton spoke of feeling "disrespected" by that call. Following Rosberg's retirement, Wolff and soon-to-leave technical boss Paddy Lowe said the orders should not have been issued.
Throughout last season, Hamilton repeatedly brought up the reliability disparity that was giving Rosberg an advantage in their title battle.
In Malaysia - after his engine failed while he was leading, costing him the championship lead and, as it turned out, the title - he went as far as saying "something or someone doesn't want me to win this year".
Many interpreted that wrongly as a suggestion there was a conspiracy in the team. But even as a reference to bad luck or divine intervention, it is a statement that causes Mercedes problems.
After Hamilton refused to take questions in a news conference at the Japanese Grand Prix last year, Wolff called such incidents "collateral damage", and insisted "his performances in the car justify" it.
But sometimes - if very rarely - Hamilton is not phenomenal in the car. And some in F1 question his 'off' weekends and occasional problematic behaviour as directly linked to his decision to pursue a Hollywood lifestyle. This, they argue, restricts his ability to perform at his absolute best all the time.
They see his jetting back and forth to the US as a lack of focus and blame it for weekends such as those in Baku and Singapore last year, where Hamilton quite patently, and for reasons that are not clear, just did not bring his 'A game'.
And they believe it is facilitated by Mercedes' choice of a team-mate Hamilton knows he can handle.
Wolff and Hamilton, meanwhile, insist it is the freedom Mercedes give him to be himself that allows him to perform at his peak - and everyone has a bad day once in a while.
And it seems more likely that the 'off' weekends are just part of him, and related to specific aspects of car behaviour, a set-up he cannot get right, or which he refuses to adapt to because he feels it is not working for him.
His occasional unpredictability is one of the reasons Mercedes need a strong team-mate for Hamilton - and not just to score regular points in the constructors' championship, the main reason Bottas was preferred over Wehrlein.
While Rosberg was not on Hamilton's level as a driver, he was close enough to give Mercedes a viable alternative as a counter-balance.
The likelihood is Bottas will slot in and be - at least - a direct Rosberg replacement. While that is the case, Mercedes might not want a driver with a talent comparable to Hamilton - and the attitude that tends to come with it.
But if he can't challenge Hamilton regularly, Wolff might, for a number of reasons, wonder whether signing another superstar alongside Hamilton is not such a bad idea after all.
Vettel and Alonso, both out of contract at the end of the year, will be watching this with interest.
Bottas will go into Mercedes aiming to win races and titles, but he will be as aware as anyone of the challenge facing him.
Hamilton will likely already feel emboldened, his position strengthened by Rosberg's departure, and a weaker team-mate would only enhance that feeling.
View the 2017 F1 race calendar here | Valtteri Bottas faces the opportunity and challenge of his life following his switch to Mercedes for 2017. |
36,318,227 | Resuming on their overnight score of 137-3, Sussex still needed a further 76 to make Worcestershire bat again.
But youngster Harry Finch scored his first Championship half-century (57).
And both Matt Machan (66) Ross Taylor (62) added to the lead set by Ed Joyce the previous day before declaring on 411-9, 158 runs ahead.
Despite the threat of early-morning rain, the weather remained kind, but Worcestershire still failed to finish the job off as Sussex comfortably cleared their overnight deficit for the loss of only nightwatchman Lewis Hatchett.
Matt Henry finished with 4-122, while his New Zealand international team-mate Taylor completed his second half-century for the county.
Worcestershire now visit Grace Road to face Leicestershire this Sunday (22 May), although they will be in T20 Blast action before then, at home to Durham on Friday night (20 May).
Sussex start their T20 campaign against Gloucestershire at Bristol the same night before an eight-day break ahead of their next Championship game, at home to Derbyshire, starting on Saturday, 28 May.
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"Both teams deserve a lot of credit. Worcestershire for bossing the game. We got a score on the board and made them follow on.
"But then you have to take your hat off to the opposition. They dug deep and made life very difficult for us.
"We really tried hard. I couldn't fault the efforts of the bowlers. We went through quite a lot of overs and there were a few tired and sore bodies afterwards."
Sussex head coach Mark Davis:
"After day one it was going to be hard work. We wanted to see character and skill out there.
"To get five points out of the game was not easy. We had to grind it out.
"Leaving with a draw is almost like a win. We played with heart, which is what I am after." | Sussex pulled off an unlikely escape at New Road as they and Worcestershire each shared a fifth County Championship Division Two draw of the season. |
40,558,938 | The number of violent incidents went up by 24% from 2014 to 2016, according to Metropolitan Police figures. There were also 24 sexual assaults recorded.
Criminal damage rose by a third in the same period.
The Association of British Bookmakers (ABB) says betting shops have one of the lowest rates of crime of any retailer.
It added these figures may not relate to betting shops themselves, due to police recording limitations, which record crime using the location code "betting shop".
The police say these figures could also include incidents in the vicinity of bookmakers.
925
Criminal damage incidents in 2016
703 Criminal damage incidents in 2014
780 Violent incidents in 2016
630 Violent incidents in 2014
Violent crime and criminal damage remained broadly stable over this period.
Some incidents of criminal damage in betting shops were previously going unreported to police, according to documents seen by the BBC.
Previous ABB guidance, agreed in consultation with the Met, stated it should only be reported to police when a suspect remained on site or staff could identify the culprit by name.
The association says all incidents are now reported but did not say when this guidance changed.
Leah Kay, who worked in a Welwyn Garden City bookmakers, said a customer smashed up the shop after she could not give him his £1,000 winnings immediately.
While working at a different store, she said management refused to ban a man who vandalised machines.
"Management told us that we couldn't intervene because he was making the company so much money. We were simply told to get the machine fixed," she said.
Barry Phillips, a former betting company head of security and former operational head of the Flying Squad, said the practice of lone working may be to blame for the rise in violence.
"Shops are vulnerable to anti-social behaviour in the evening, as this is the time that people just go on the fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs), and it's also the time when they have single staff," he said.
He added he had seen criminal damage to gambling machines rise across the industry, corroborating police figures.
In 2013, south London betting shop manager Andrew Iacovou was beaten to death by a gambler who had lost hundreds of pounds on a FOBT.
Mr Iacovou's widow, Anita Iacovou, has been campaigning to end single staffing of betting shops.
"They told me that the security was right. I told them if the security was right in the shop, then Andrew would not have died," she said.
"Where there's cash, they need people not to be working single-handed."
She said she was becoming frustrated that little is being done to make betting shops safer for their staff.
"I need the government to do something about it," she said.
"I'm trying to fight, not for me alone, but so Andrew's mind can be at rest, knowing that something has happened after what he gave his life away for."
A spokesman for the Campaign for Fairer Gambling said: "FOBTs are highly-addictive machines. They inevitably lead to customers losing more than they can afford and losing control."
Jennifer East, Met Police chief inspector for drugs and licensing, said: "We will continue to work with the ABB and betting shop managers to reduce crime on the premises." | Assaults and criminal damage in and around betting shops are on the rise in London, new figures show. |
35,619,373 | Hartlepool's Luke James fired the game's first chance wide, as they took the fight to the League Two leaders.
Northampton had to rely on committed defending to keep the hosts at bay, with James and Billy Paynter having efforts blocked.
Paynter went close to winning the game when his effort deflected wide but Northampton held on for a point.
Northampton Town manager Chris Wilder tells BBC Radio Northampton:
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"You have to give Hartlepool a load of credit because we are there to be shot at.
"To win 10 games of football at any level is an unbelievable achievement.
"It was a tough afternoon and I thought a draw was a fair result and we move on to the next game.
"We've picked up four points from our last two games and everyone knows if you keep doing that you will go up and probably win the league."
Match ends, Hartlepool United 0, Northampton Town 0.
Second Half ends, Hartlepool United 0, Northampton Town 0.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Joel Byrom replaces John Marquis.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Lewis Hawkins.
Attempt missed. John Marquis (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Rhys Oates replaces Nathan Thomas.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Lewis Hawkins replaces Brad Walker.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Carl Magnay.
Brad Walker (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Brad Walker (Hartlepool United).
Ricky Holmes (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Zander Diamond (Northampton Town).
Hand ball by Brad Walker (Hartlepool United).
Jake Carroll (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ricky Holmes (Northampton Town).
Foul by Luke James (Hartlepool United).
(Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Jason Taylor.
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Danny Rose.
Attempt missed. Ricky Holmes (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Carl Magnay (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Carl Magnay (Hartlepool United).
Ricky Holmes (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Lawson D'Ath replaces Lee Martin.
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Zander Diamond.
Foul by Billy Paynter (Hartlepool United).
Jason Taylor (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town).
Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Zander Diamond (Northampton Town).
Danny Rose (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jake Gray (Hartlepool United).
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Danny Rose.
Attempt missed. Jake Carroll (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.
Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Zander Diamond (Northampton Town). | Northampton Town's run of 10 successive wins was brought to a halt by struggling Hartlepool United. |
29,608,764 | In the US, the S&P 500 fell more than 1% on Monday, marking its worst three-day decline since November 2011.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 fell to a two-month low after being closed for a public holiday on Monday.
The benchmark fell 2.4% to 14,931.73 as a rise in the value of the yen affected shares in exporters.
The yen rose against the dollar to 107.10 after the US Federal Reserve hinted at delays in raising interest rates.
Chinese stocks were down despite stronger-than-expected September trade figures released on Monday.
On the mainland, the Shanghai Composite Index ended the session down 0.3% at 2,359.47, while the Hang Seng index closed 0.4% lower at 23,047.97, following Wall Street's losses.
In Australia, shares recovered even though a survey showed business confidence fell in September.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 1% at 5,207.4
Miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto were up 2.6% and 4% respectively as base metal prices rebounded.
Bucking the trend was shares in Australian online travel firm Wotif.com, which fell as much as 7% to three-week lows after the New Zealand Commerce Commission said it had delayed its ruling on Expedia's acquisition of the company.
In South Korea, the Kospi closed up 0.1% at 1,929.25 to end a three-day losing streak. | Asian shares have had a mixed day following a sell-off on Wall Street as investors worry about how weak global growth will affect companies' earnings. |
40,446,153 | Labour councillor and former train driver Alistair Watson died suddenly at his home on Wednesday evening.
It follows the death of the council's former Depute Lord Provost, Gerry Leonard, earlier this week.
The Labour group leader on Glasgow City Council, Frank McAveety, said Mr Watson was a "champion for the people" and a "loyal friend".
Mr Watson had been the councillor for Cardonald for 22 years, working most recently as the former Labour administration's business manager.
He also served as convener of the council's Land and Environmental Services Committee and was a former chair of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said his death was a "shock to the Labour family".
"Alistair Watson worked for his community and the Labour Party tirelessly," she said.
"Glasgow Labour has lost a giant and the city of Glasgow has lost a passionate advocate."
Mr McAveety said: "The city has lost a major political figure. He was a shrewd politician and a champion for the people of Cardonald.
"On a personal level, I have lost a loyal friend. The Labour Party and family has lost a crusader who was always fizzing with ideas."
He added that Mr Watson had been an "approachable, decent and compassionate man who made a real difference".
The council said Mr Watson had been a life-long Aslef member and trade unionist whose background in transport had "fuelled his passion" for projects like Glasgow Crossrail and the city's airport rail link.
Lord Provost Eva Bolander said: "Alistair was a towering figure, physically and politically. An astute and seasoned politician.
"He had a significant and hugely influential role in local politics. My condolences go to his family." | Tributes have been paid to a Glasgow councillor and "towering figure" in local politics who has died aged 59. |
35,827,490 | The £28m scheme, which will include a larger pool and expanded gym facilities at Fleming Park leisure centre, was approved by Eastleigh Borough Council on Wednesday.
It is hoped the replacement centre will open near Passfield Avenue, Eastleigh in 2017.
The current centre - built in the 1970s - will be demolished.
Grant funding of up to £2m from Sport England and New Homes Bonus funding of £3.8m will support the project with the remainder coming from Eastleigh Borough Council.
Keith House, Liberal Democrat leader of the authority, said the new centre "would underpin our ambitions for a healthy Eastleigh Borough and will allow us to develop our young talent while delivering sports and leisure opportunities for people of all abilities". | Plans for a multimillion-pound revamp of a Hampshire leisure centre have been given the go-ahead. |
23,027,595 | Brooklyn-born Goldberg, who based much of the show on his own life, died of brain cancer on 23 June at his California home, Hollywood Reporter and Variety said.
He went on to co-create the series Spin City, which also starred Fox.
The double Emmy-winner Goldberg also penned episodes of M*A*S*H.
He won one Emmy in 1987 for outstanding writing on Family Ties and the other for newsroom drama Lou Grant in 1979, for which he won an outstanding series award.
In total, Goldberg garnered seven Emmy nominations and he also wrote the critically-acclaimed Brooklyn Bridge, derived from his New York youth, in a noisy apartment building presided over by his matriarchal grandmother.
"She had the family's only telephone, television and car, thus consolidating her absolute power," he wrote in his official biography.
The writer was also behind episodes of The Bob Newhart Show and he wrote and directed a couple of films - 1989 comedy-drama Dad starring Jack Lemmon and John Cusack romantic comedy Must Love Dogs (2005).
Family Ties, which he created in the 80s, centred around a liberal hippy couple, whose offspring were more in tune with the materialism of the Reagan era.
"That sharp right turn was embodied by Fox, a baby-faced Canadian who played 17-year-old, tie-wearing Alex P Keaton, the oldest kid of aging flower children played by Meredith Baxter-Birney and Michael Gross," said the Hollywood Reporter.
Goldberg was quoted as saying the show was "totally autobiographical in concept", describing himself and his wife Diana as "the parents", adding: "Our daughter Shana was as smart as Alex but could shop with Mallory."
It went on to huge success, attracting US audiences of 28.2m at its peak, and casting a young Tom Hanks in a recurring role.
Running from 1982 to 1989, it notched up 180 episodes, 19 Emmy nominations and five wins. In the UK, it was broadcast on Channel 4.
Post 1980, all of Goldberg's shows were made via his own company, Ubu Productions, in partnership with Paramount.
All of the credits to his shows had a famous ending - a photograph of his black Labrador Retriever in front of the Louvre in Paris, with Goldberg saying: "Sit, Ubu, sit! Good dog," followed by a bark. | Gary David Goldberg, the creator of hit US sitcom Family Ties, which made Michael J Fox a star, has died at the age of 68, according to reports. |
39,266,358 | Tova Kararo, 56, was doused in a flammable liquid and set alight after a verbal exchange with a dissatisfied patient, a senior police officer said.
The suspect, a man in his 70s, fled the scene by car but was later arrested.
Israeli health workers plan to strike for two hours on Wednesday to highlight concerns over violence directed at their profession.
Many Israeli media outlets are reporting the perpetrator was a holocaust survivor suffering from mental illness.
Local police chief Sigal Bar Tzvi said the man had come in to the health centre and was thought to have been unhappy with his treatment.
"Following an argument, he poured a flammable liquid he had brought with him ahead of time on the nurse treating him and set her on fire," he was quoted by the YNet news site as saying.
"Resuscitation efforts failed and she was unfortunately pronounced dead at the scene." | An Israeli nurse has died after being burned alive by a patient in Holon, south of Tel Aviv. |
34,486,870 | They say the contraption is like a wind tunnel for studying movement on unstable surfaces.
Tests of this kind could help design robots to handle inconsistent terrain - such as might be found on Mars.
For now, the team has identified key aspects of leg shape and movement that help maintain speed on flowing ground.
The results appear in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomechanics.
"The pioneers of flight looked at different wing designs in a wind tunnel, and now we can do this with robotic design," said senior author Daniel Goldman, from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
By adjusting the rate at which air is pumped through the sand, Prof Goldman and his team can control precisely how fluid the surface becomes.
They used this system to observe the motion of a six-legged "Sandbot", four species of small lizard and one crab, over a range of conditions.
Then they modelled how the interplay of factors such as step rate, leg length and foot pressure affected the critters' progress.
Sure enough, it was shapes and gaits that minimise foot pressure that were the most useful on weak ground.
"It's important to understand the biomechanics and controls of good movement," Prof Goldman said. "If we can find out how these animals solve the problem, we can make better robots." | By puffing air upwards through a box of sand, a US laboratory has tested how lizards, crabs and robots cope with ground that is more or less "fluid". |
33,550,581 | Olive Cooke, from Bristol, was one of the UK's longest-serving poppy sellers and had collected money in Bristol for the Royal British Legion for 76 years.
A suicide note said she had managed to get "little sleep" and could "take it no more". Her body was found at the bottom of the Avon Gorge in May.
Avon deputy coroner Terence Moore recorded a verdict of suicide.
The inquest, at Flax Bourton Coroner's Court, heard Mrs Cooke had previously attempted suicide in 2009.
Her insomnia meant, in the months before her death, she was getting only two hours of sleep a night.
Mrs Cooke supported numerous charities and at one point received 267 charity letters in one month, leading to suggestions that being hounded for money pushed her to take her own life.
But her family insisted that - while the letters and phone calls were intrusive - the charities were not to blame for Mrs Cooke's death.
Nothing was said of the charities during the inquest.
But speaking after the hearing, son-in-law Brian Janes said the case had opened a "can of worms".
"She had 27 direct debits to charities, she was an older lady who had a hard time saying 'no' to anybody and they took advantage of her.
"Whether it was deliberately or what, it still ended up taking advantage of an older person and that shouldn't be.
"[We want] Olive to be known as a person with a big heart who loved life."
It is believed the former post lady sold some 30,000 poppies during her time helping the Royal British Legion.
She started selling poppies at the age of 16 as her father was an active Royal British Legion member, having served in World War One.
Mrs Cooke said, before she died, that selling poppies took on new meaning for her when her first husband was killed in action in World War Two. | A 92-year-old poppy seller killed herself after suffering problems with depression and insomnia. |
40,273,488 | But beyond the enjoyment of elite-level competition, these events are equally important in providing inspiration and a legacy for grassroots sport.
Women's Sport Week (19-25 June) provides a platform for governing bodies to boost female participation across all age ranges and abilities, so here are seven ways you can get involved...
The Football Association's SSE Wildcats initiative has created 200 clubs throughout the UK aimed at girls aged 5-11 in its bid to double participation in football from that age group by 2020.
The clubs run weekly sessions with FA-qualified coaches at local facilities which can be searched for at www.thefa.com/forgirls.
Karen Carney, an ambassador for the scheme who played 128 times for England, said: "I attended a similar FA initiative as a child and that was when I first fell in love with football.
"Hopefully the girls will get the same enjoyment I did and stay involved in the game for years to come."
The Women's Cricket World Cup starts on 24 June, with hosts England taking on India in Derby.
Meanwhile, at grassroots level, governing body the ECB has organised a series of events for women this summer across the UK, introducing beginners to the game with 'soft ball' cricket (as opposed to softball the sport).
They are designed to be fun, fast, social games with no specialist equipment or clothing required and are a key part of the ECB's plans to continue to make the sport accessible for all.
Clubs can register to receive soft ball cricket kit, here, while you can search for a soft ball cricket festival near you with the ECB's club finder.
The Women's Rugby World Cup (9-26 August) is split between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, with the group stage taking place in Dublin and the knockout matches, including the final, all being played in Belfast.
Find out how to get into rugby union with our special guide.
In the build-up to the tournament, WISPA (Women in Sport and Physical Activity) and Ulster Rugby have teamed up to offer a Get Fit Women's Boot Camp at Girdwood Community Hub in Belfast.
The sessions - hosted by qualified fitness instructors - cost £1 and are open to women aged 16 and over. They focus on physical and rugby activities in a fun and positive environment and no experience of playing rugby is necessary.
To sign up for sessions on Monday 26 June and/or Monday 3 July (6-7pm), call WISPA on 02890 314298 or email [email protected]
Since 2010, more than 60,000 women have taken part in Back to Netball sessions, an initiative from English Netball to bring back women who may have played the game at school, or those who have never played but want to give it a go.
Useful links
The sessions are run by passionate and enthusiastic coaches, with sessions covering the basics of the game including passing, footwork and shooting and finishing with a friendly game to put the skills you have learned into practice.
To find a session near you, use the netball finder and you can also have a look at stories and testimonials from some of those involved.
Talking of throwbacks to your school days, how about a game of rounders? Governing body Rounders England has a map to find clubs and leagues near you. And if you don't live near any of these, all you need is a bat, ball, some friends to play with and a bit of open space and you can set up a game.
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You can read testimonials from some of those who got involved through Sport England's This Girl Can initiative here and then (if it's not raining - it is the UK summer, after all) get out there with your kids or mates and have a go!
Since the start of the year, former Fed Cup captain Judy Murray has been heavily involved in a Lawn Tennis Association initiative called She Rallies, which aims to increase the proportion of female coaches in the UK (previously only 30%), delivering sessions specifically for girls and women to drive up participation and retention in the sport.
If you want to join in, check out courses near you with She Rallies course finder.
The Get Inspired Activity Finder has a host of sports and activities specifically tailored for women, so go here to find sessions in your area.
And if you run activities yourself as part of a club or community groups, you can sign up as a partner and add activities to the list as you schedule them.
Use the hashtag #mysportingsummer. The official message for Women's Sport Week is to engage, experience and enjoy all the top women's sport events this summer, so share your experiences on social media.
A full list of our Get Inspired activity guides can be found here. If none of the sports above inspire you, you're bound to find something more to your taste and ways to get involved! | This is a summer of great opportunity for the promotion of women's sport, with four major championships in cricket,football,rugby and hockey. |
40,131,082 | The National Museum of Scotland was contacted over the remains of a Beothuk chief and and his wife a year ago.
Campaigners claim they were taken from their graves and sent to a collector in Edinburgh in the 1820s.
The museum said it was "continuing a constructive dialogue" with the Canadian government.
Despite an indication last year from the Canadian department of heritage minister Melanie Joly of an intention to formally request repatriation, it has noy been made.
The skulls, thought to belong to chief Nonosbasut and his wife Demasduit, are not on display in the Scottish museum.
It said they were stored in environmentally-appropriate conditions at its collection centre.
Native American campaigner Chief Mi'sel Joe, of the Miawpukek First Nation, has visited Edinburgh and been allowed to see the skulls, which he says were taken from a grave site near Cormack.
The chief has led calls for the return of the remains since 2015.
Nonosbasut is believed to have been killed by John Peyton Jr and his men in 1819.
His wife Demasduit was captured and for a time lived with a Church of England priest. She died of tuberculosis in 1820 and her body was recovered by her tribe and buried alongside her husband.
It is thought the tribe died out within a decade of her death.
The National Museum of Scotland said the pieces in its collection came to Scotland through the actions of William Epps Cormack.
He was born in Newfoundland and educated in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
A collection of 11 pieces were sent to Professor Robert Jameson of the University of Edinburgh and entered into its collections on 15 March 1828.
Six items were subsequently transferred into the permanent collections of the National Museums Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century.
In addition to the skulls, the museum also has a model birch bark canoe, two birch bark dishes, and a birch bark drinking cup which it is thought was part of the original collection.
Two years ago, SNP MSP Michael Russell asked a question in parliament about what discussions the Scottish government had with the National Museum of Scotland over the request to repatriate the remains.
Mr Russell said: "The keeping of skulls is surely not a 21st-century response to the common humanity that we share with these two individuals, who were the last recorded individuals of this tribe, which was wiped out probably because of environmental pressures on their hunting grounds, as well as by cultural pressures."
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said the museum had met those wishing the Beothuk remains to be repatriated to Canada and it had explained the "established mechanism for making a formal repatriation request".
The formal procedure requires requests to be made by a national government, supported by a national museum and by a community with "direct genealogical descendant of the community whose remains are under claim".
For tribes like the Beothuk which have ceased to exist a claim can be made by a group that "continues to share the same culture (spiritual beliefs, cultural practices) attributed to the community whose remains are under claim".
Last year, councillors in the Borders returned a Maori war flag to New Zealand after an approach from the New Zealand museum and descendants of "key parties" involved in the battle.
The flag was taken by Crown forces from a Maori tribe during the Battle of Omaruhakeke in 1865.
The exact details of the flag's journey to the south of Scotland remain something of a mystery.
It was donated to Hawick Museum in 1921 by local artist Tom Scott.
In 1999, a relic believed to have been worn by a Sioux warrior killed in the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre was returned to its native land from Scotland.
The ghost dance shirt was officially handed back to descendants of the battle victims at a special ceremony in South Dakota.
The relic was displayed for more than a century in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow after George Crager, a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, gave it to the museum in 1891. | Museum officials have not yet received a formal request for the return of the skulls of two Native American people taken from Newfoundland 200 years ago. |
40,717,086 | William Burns, 56, threw sulphuric acid into Russell Findlay's face while disguised as a postman on the doorstep of his home in December 2015.
Burns denied the charge, but was found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow.
He was given a 15-year sentence at the High Court in Aberdeen, with 10 years in custody and supervision for five years after his release.
The attack took place months after Burns had been freed early from a 15-year jail term for shooting a woman during a post office robbery in 2001.
Burns, from Paisley, was convicted of assaulting Mr Findlay, 44, to the danger of his life.
He threw sulphuric acid on Mr Findlay's face before knocking the crime reporter to the ground.
During the trial, Burns said he had only turned up at Mr Findlay's door to "beat up" the journalist, who was investigative editor of the Scottish Sun at the time.
He claimed the journalist had told him he had a compromising photo of him with a young blonde woman.
He went on to suggest the journalist - who has also written books on gangland crime - must have thrown a corrosive substance in his own face.
Sentencing, Lord Matthews said: "You have been convicted of a vicious, premeditated attack by the throwing of sulphuric acid into the face of a journalist on the threshold of his own home two days before Christmas.
"You were caught virtually red-handed and your own evidence was an obvious fabrication from start to finish, plainly being made up as you were going along.
"Leaving aside your own explanation why you were there, the only reason I can discern for your actions is that you objected to something that your victim wrote.
"There are ways and means of dealing with grievances, real or imagined, against the media and this was plainly not one of them."
The judge added: "The freedom of the press is an essential tool in the armoury of any democracy and attacks of this nature will not be tolerated.
"You have a bad record and are clearly a dangerous man."
Burns and a co-accused had also been accused of attempting to murder Ross Sherlock in a shooting near St Helen's primary school in Bishopbriggs in September 2015.
They were cleared of that charge after Judge Lord Matthews ruled there was "insufficient evidence". | A man found guilty of an acid attack on a journalist at his home in Glasgow's west end has been jailed. |
40,779,074 | The line-up for the 68th annual event includes more than 250 pipers and drummers, five UK military bands and the event's first ever Japanese act.
Major contingents from France, India and the United States will also take part.
The show at Edinburgh Castle will pay tribute to the Royal Navy and the UK's maritime heritage.
The theme for this year's event, "Splash of Tartan", celebrates Scotland's Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology by hosting more than 3,000 clans folk from 57 clans across the 25 performances.
Brigadier David Allfrey, chief executive and producer of the tattoo, said: "The finished article is not just hugely entertaining, it is also inspiring. Each year, we reach out across the world to find the very best acts and bring them to Edinburgh.
"We are always looking to bring people together to celebrate the rich differences of our global community. There is something for everyone in this show and an opportunity for all of us to be proud."
UK military bands taking part include the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, The Queen's Colour Squadron, the Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment and the Band of The Royal Regiment of Scotland.
Other highlights will be a performance from the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force Central Band and the Indian Naval Band, appearing with an array of colourful dancers.
The Edinburgh Castle esplanade will be transformed into a Highland glen with illustrations from Scottish artist Stref, best known for his cartoons in The Dandy, The Beano, The Broons and Oor Wullie.
The tattoo has also launched its first app to provide an interactive guide to the 2017 show, which takes place from 4-26 August. | More than 1,200 performers from around the world will take part in this year's Royal Military Tattoo in Edinburgh. |
39,963,912 | Matthew Jarvis' three penalties to Ben Davies' try gave Merthyr the half-time lead.
James Garland's two penalties put Aberavon in front, but Merthyr's Richard Carter and Kyle Evans crossed.
Sam Williams replied while Merthyr's Rhys Williams and Craig Locke were in the sin-bin, but Jarvis added a last minute penalty to seal victory.
Hosts Aberavon had never won the competition, but beat Bedwas 31-24 in their semi-final and had home advantage after winning the coin toss.
Merthyr reached the final in their first season in the Premiership, seeing off RGC 1404 35-7 in their semi-final.
Division 1 Play-off - 1st Leg
Trebanos 25-18 Kidwelly
National League 3 West C Plate Final
Bynea 20-9 Newcastle Emlyn II
National League 3 West C Cup Final
Aberaeron 8-20 Llandybie
Premiership Tier 2 Play-off Final
Neath 14-32 Newport
Silver Ball Final
Rhydyfelin 17-10 Tondu | Merthyr edged a pulsating Welsh Premiership Tier 1 final by holding out while down to 13 men late on. |
35,516,054 | China has been running down its vast foreign currency reserves in an attempt to boost the value of its own currency and stem a flow of funds overseas.
At $3.23 trillion, China still has the world's biggest reserve of foreign currency holdings.
But that has declined by $420bn over six months and stands at the lowest level since May 2012.
"While the remaining reserves still represent a substantial war chest, the mathematics around this rapid pace of depletion in recent months is simply unsustainable for any length of time," said Rajiv Biswas, Asia Pacific Chief Economist, IHS Global Insight.
The Chinese authorities fear a rapid devaluation of their currency, as it could destabilise the economy.
Many Chinese businesses hold debt in dollars and managing those debts with a severely weakened yuan could cause problems and some companies to fail.
So China has been trying to engineer an ordered devaluation of the yuan, but that is proving hard to deliver.
Investors have been trying to pull funds out of investments priced in yuan and speculators have been betting on further falls in the currency.
To stabilise the situation China has been selling dollars and buying yuan.
And it has been using other tactics, including curbing currency speculation and ordering offshore banks to retain their reserves of yuan.
Commenting on the decline, veteran economist, George Magnus noted that there is "confusion" over China's foreign currency policy.
"Clearly this can't go on for long," he tweeted, referring to the fall in currency reserves. | China's foreign currency reserves plunged by $99.5bn in January, the People's Bank of China reported. |
39,283,177 | Local council elections are just days away but these volunteers are not seeking votes on behalf of councillors.
The members of the campaign group We Can Win want to make sure that residents are aware of the unique way that their local authority is elected. It is an electoral system that they object to.
The City of London Corporation covers the so-called Square Mile, which is London's financial centre, and is distinct from the Greater London Authority which covers the whole of the UK capital.
The City has a residential population of less than 8,000 but around 450,000 people work there - and the City Corporation enables a proportion of those workers to vote for councillors too, taking the electorate to almost 19,000.
"I was under the impression, in its simplest form, democracy was about one person one vote," says campaign director Dan Firth.
"But in the City of London Corporation elections, businesses have almost double the votes of ordinary people and to me that feels like an injustice."
We Can Win is targeting the City elections with two main aims: to oppose what it sees as votes for big business and to maximise the number of residents who turn out and vote.
The City is divided into 25 wards with residents mainly concentrated in just four of them: Portsoken, Queenhithe, Aldersgate and Cripplegate, which includes Golden Lane.
Each ward is represented by Common Councillors and an alderman. Elections for Common Councillors take place every four years, with the next election on 23 March, while aldermen are elected at least every six years as their terms expire.
"Some residents I spoke to were already aware of how the voting system worked," says campaigner Georgia O'Brien. "But those who didn't know were shocked. When I explained that workers had almost double the number of votes as residents, they just looked utterly defeated."
Golden Lane resident Beverley Bytheway is active in the residents' association yet unaware that workers as well as residents get a vote. The road straddles the border with the London Borough of Islington and she thought that both councils were elected in the same way.
She is not a fan of the Corporation: "If they could offload the residents, they would... they're really not interested."
Despite an apparent lack of awareness among some residents, the City of London Corporation is quite open about its system of elections and its website contains information on how to register to vote as a resident or as a worker.
"The City is a democratic institution," insisted a spokesman. "All of its councillors are elected."
For residents, it is one person, one vote but for businesses the number of votes depends on the number of employees.
Sole traders and businesses with up to nine employees get one vote, while organisations with up to 50 staff can appoint one voter for every five people who work there. Organisations with more than 50 staff can appoint 10 voters and then one voter per 50 voters after that.
The City's spokesman added: "As the local authority we provide public services to both 7,400 residents and 450,000 City workers. Therefore to reflect the needs of the workers who come to the City each day, businesses located in the City can appoint people to vote in our local elections.
"The votes allocated to a business are proportional to their number of employees - the first 50 staff entitles a business to appoint 10 voters, but every additional 50 members of staff only entitle it to appoint an extra one voter, so the largest firms do not dominate the list of voters as they could do if it was a simple proportional representation of their workforce size."
In its advice to firms wanting to sign up staff as voters, the Corporation says: "It is important that people nominated to vote reflect the make-up of the organisation as a whole - from chief executive to entry-level employees and even regular contractors - so that the City Corporation represents the full range of the City's workforce. Voters nominated should reflect the whole diversity of an organisation's employees, including gender, ethnicity and seniority."
Professional services giant Deloitte employs over 10,000 staff and has 260 voters across two wards.
A spokesperson said: "We value the votes we have in the City of London. The City does have an unusual electoral system due to its high number of workers and small residential population, but there are many local issues that Deloitte people care greatly about.
"For example, a thousand Deloitte people cycle into work every day. Their safety and the safety of all road users in our neighbourhood is important to us.
"The councillors provide a very valuable link between Deloitte and our neighbours - other businesses and local residents."
Local government in the City of London can be traced back to medieval times. It is the oldest local authority in Britain and a contender for the oldest continuing authority in the world.
Non-residential votes in other council areas were abolished in 1969 but the system continued for the City Corporation.
The current electoral system dates from an act of Parliament in 2002, which extended voting rights to companies limited by guarantee and increased the business vote. Boundary changes followed, which reduced the number of councillors.
The City is known for its financial institutions but bodies qualifying for a vote include shops, bars, restaurants, charities and even churches and hospital trusts.
Tobacconist Mukesh Gaglani has been a registered voter in the City for 25 years. As a small business owner with two part-time employees, he gets one vote.
"You have a say in the progress of the City," he tells me, adding that he does not feel that big business dominates.
"As far as I'm concerned, my vote is the same as anyone else's. You don't feel like you are in a minority."
What is his response to proposals that only residents should be allowed to vote?
"I don't think it's appropriate. The City gets most of its revenue from commercial properties."
So how does being elected by workers as well as residents affect the job of a councillor?
Sophie Fernandes has served as one of four independent Common Councillors representing Coleman Street ward since 2009.
"I get queries about rubbish collection, I get queries about the ease with which people get to work, about infrastructure," she says, adding: "The City of London is also a landlord. It owns a few buildings in my ward. I have complaints just like any other landlord has."
When asked how many residents her ward has, she can think of just four, two of whom moved out temporarily as a consequence of work on London's Crossrail transport project.
"We try to break up the wards, depending on whether it's a business vote or a residential vote, so that we can concentrate on the needs of that particular ward, because the needs of residents and businesses are very different," she says.
"It is workers who have a vote, it's not businesses who have a vote," she says.
She adds: "I don't think every worker should have a vote because it would completely outweigh residents but in wards such as mine, it is heavily business orientated without residents, so how would you represent this ward otherwise?"
What does she make of the allegation of Golden Lane resident Beverley that the City Corporation would rather be rid of its residential population?
"That's totally untrue. The residents bring diversity to the City."
To stand as a councillor you need to be a registered voter and a Freeman of the City of London. "If you are voter in the City then you can get freedom without cost, so there is no barrier to standing," Ms Fernandes says.
Like nearly all councillors at present, she sits as an independent and does not take a party whip. She is standing this time on a slate alongside fellow independents Michael Cassidy, Stuart Fraser and Andrew McMurtie and argues that being independent helps the City work with both a Conservative government and a Labour mayor of London.
"We do not want party politics," she says. "I fail to see the benefit that party politics will bring when you can still argue your point of view from an independent platform."
That view is being challenged by the Labour Party, which first ran candidates in 2009 and is contesting wards in 2017.
Paul O'Brien, who is contesting Coleman Street for the party, claims that there is an "urban myth of independents in the City". He argues that many councillors list party memberships in their declarations of interests but only Labour openly fields candidates.
A resident of the City himself, Mr O'Brien nevertheless agrees with Sophie Fernandes on the need for worker representation.
"Clearly there are wards with no, or virtually no residents, so there needs to be a different system," he says.
Both opponents and supporters of the voting system agree that the City of London is an unusual organisation with a reach stretching well beyond the Square Mile.
It owns and maintains housing estates and open spaces across Greater London and beyond, including Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest, and provides money to London boroughs though its City Bridge Trust.
The elections for the City of London's Common Councillors take place on Thursday 23 March - A full list of candidates is available here. | On a warm Saturday afternoon in March a group of campaigners heads to the Golden Lane estate in central London. |
34,322,276 | Kevin Nolan, of Whitchurch Close in Sunderland, appeared before Belfast Magistrates on Tuesday.
Semtex, explosives, two guns and more than 200 rounds of ammunition were discovered during a raid of a house on Ballymurphy Road on Friday.
Mr Nolan was arrested in Sunderland on Sunday.
A defence lawyer told the court Mr Nolan was not yet seeking to be released.
"There's no application for bail at this stage, it will be kept under review," he said.
Mr Nolan will appear in court again by video-link on 20 October.
Meanwhile, a 21-year-old woman arrested in west Belfast on Sunday over the arms and explosives find has been released pending a report to the PPS.
A 29-year-old man was earlier released without charge. | A 45-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged in connection with an arms and explosives find in west Belfast. |
30,978,152 | It was a rare moment of bipartisan support for a deal which came during a heady opening day of President Barack Obama's landmark three-day visit to India.
It was also ironical that the BJP which had steadfastly argued against the nuclear deal in its entirety when in opposition in 2007, had actually managed to pull this off now it is in power. Much of it has been put down to the personal chemistry between Mr Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It also helps that - unlike his predecessor Manmohan Singh, who was hobbled by difficult allies and reservations about the deal within his own Congress party - Mr Modi suffers from no such constraints.
So how significant is Monday's announcement?
The historic 2006 India-US nuclear deal had been held up for eight years amid US concerns over who would be liable for any nuclear accident. Mr Singh, the deal's architect, had told the parliament that it marked the "end of India's decades-long isolation from the nuclear mainstream".
Now, a large insurance pool will be set up, without the need for any further legislation. The plan, according to reports, is to transfer the financial risk to insurers in the case of an accident.
Analysts say the two governments have done "all they can do" and it is now up to the suppliers - or American firms wanting to sell reactor technology to India - to do business.
Energy-hungry India plans to generate 63,000 MW of nuclear power by 2032 - an almost 14-fold increase on current levels. It has 22 nuclear reactors and plans to build some 40 more in the next two decades.
American suppliers are already facing competition. Russia is planning to build 20 reactors in India. France is building six reactors in the western state of Maharashtra, one of India's most industrialised states. America will build at least eight reactors.
So what lies ahead for American companies?
"It is not going to be easy. Pricing will be a key issue," says science journalist Pallava Bagla. "New generation American reactors are three times more expensive than comparable India-made reactors. They are also untested as all of them are under construction, including in the US."
Both General Electric and Westinghouse Electric Company, two major US suppliers, have already been given land in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh state to build reactors. Westinghouse has praised developments and said it looked forward to the "fine print" of the agreement and further meetings, including a planned "insurance seminar". GE said it would review the agreement soon.
Clearly, it won't be a walk in the park for American suppliers. It is too early to say that the deal will spur billions of dollars worth of nuclear contracts.
Then there's a strong anti-nuclear lobby in India who fear a disaster similar to the one at Fukushima in Japan in 2011. The controversial Indo-Russian Kudankulam nuclear plant began producing electricity in 2013 after years of protest. India is still far from having non-partisan support for nuclear power.
Also, nuclear power itself presents a mixed picture globally.
There are more than 430 operational reactors in 30 countries around the world. Some 72 are under construction in 15 countries.
Despite new reactors, nuclear power is on the decline. It is generating less than 11% of the world's electricity production, the lowest level since 1982, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA) in its latest report. (Coal is still the fuel of choice.) On the one hand, Germany plans to phase out nuclear power by 2022; on the other, China plans to treble nuclear power capacity by 2020.
"Nuclear power is at a paradoxical stage," says the IAEA. "On the one hand, it appears to have entered an era of declining expectations. Yet a wave of countries is poised to introduce nuclear power, and the long-term potential remains high." Economic, technological, and political changes, as we have seen, can influence the spread of nuclear power. India is not an exception. | "It's a joyous, happy moment," chimed Abhishek Manu Singhvi, a senior functionary of India's main opposition Congress party, after the US and India announced a breakthrough on a pact that will allow American companies to supply India with civilian nuclear technology. |
35,628,609 | Police said three cars were involved in the collision on Doncaster Road, Mexborough, at 10:20 GMT on Sunday.
The driver of one car, a man, died while being taken to hospital by air ambulance.
A 31-year-old man, who was driving a Audi, was also arrested for driving while unfit through drink and drugs
He suffered abdominal injuries and was taken to Doncaster Royal Infirmary.
One of his passengers a 34-year-old man, suffered serious spinal injuries. Another passenger, 18, was also injured.
The driver of the third car suffered slight injuries.
Police are appealing for witnesses. | A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a 72-year-old was killed in a car crash in South Yorkshire. |
24,805,032 | Enfield Council has set up cameras outside schools that record number plates of cars parked illegally for more than three seconds.
The system's manufacturers say other boroughs are also trialling the system, but did not confirm which ones.
Local authorities say the cameras will improve safety but opponents say it is just a way of raising money.
The data is recorded and reported back to councils and either a warning letter can be issued or a penalty fine.
Paul Pearson, of parking campaign group Penalty Charge Notice, said there was not enough places for parents to park.
Alex Henney, the general secretary of the National Motorists' Action Group, said a civil enforcement officer should be used instead of the cameras.
"It seems to me that probably there's an agenda to generate money - that is illegal," he said.
"In my view, the sensible approach is to get the council and school head together to discuss it with the parents to sort out some arrangement."
However, Amanda Philips, the head teacher at Old Ford Primary School in Tower Hamlets, east London, said the school had tried to address parking issues by communicating with families, the local council and the police but there is a problem.
"It is as always a very small number of families with particular cars that we can identify that we constantly have conversations with," she said.
Dave Richmond, the joint director of camera manufacturers Videalert, said he did not believe it would be a "cash cow" as once several tickets were issued, drivers would stop parking illegally.
He said the problem with using civil enforcement officers is that drivers comply with the rules when an officer is present, but revert back to their normal behaviour when they have gone.
"If you watch the videos that I have seen, some of the behaviour of drivers outside schools is like the Rocky Horror Show," Mr Richmond said.
"It is really bad and therefore this is a safety issue and it needs to be dealt with."
In a statement, Enfield Council said it was "committed to improving road safety for all pedestrians, especially children walking to and from school, and reducing road safety related casualties.
"This is a pilot project and we will evaluate its success before making any decisions on future use," it said. | A north London council has confirmed it is using CCTV cameras to target parents who park illegally on the school run. |
30,377,460 | Simon Stuart, 30, attacked 19-year-old Jodie McKenna outside a McDonald's restaurant in Glasgow on 4 April.
At the city's high court, he admitted a string of charges, including assault and offences under the Firearms Act.
Judge Lord Turnbull told Stuart he was a "dangerous individual" that the public need protected from.
Stuart has a lengthy criminal record and was jailed for six years for assault in 2004.
He was on bail at the time of the pepper spray attack in connection with a breach of the peace.
Stuart's lawyer Sean Templeton said his client was sorry and told the court that Stuart claimed he had found the pepper spray before the assault.
But Lord Turnbull told Stuart: "That you simply found this item is simply preposterous and comes close to an insult to the court's intelligence.
"You possess an on-going willingness to resort to violence without provocation. You are a dangerous individual that the public requires to be protected from."
The court heard that Ms McKenna had been out with friends at Frampton's nightclub, in the Maryhill area, when she rebuffed Stuart's attempts to chat her up.
He then became abusive and threatened her by saying: "Just you wait and see what...happens outside."
Doormen were alerted to what had gone on and ordered Stuart out.
Later, Ms McKenna went to a nearby McDonald's restaurant with a friend after leaving the club.
Stuart, who by this time had changed clothes, suddenly re-appeared and approached Ms McKenna.
When she tried to ignore him he became aggravated and produced the pepper spray canister and discharged it in her face,
As Stuart fled, one of Ms McKenna's friends dragged her into the McDonald's and immediately washed her face.
The victim experienced problems with her breathing and eyesight and was treated in hospital. She suffered no lasting damage but continues to suffer from stress as a result of her ordeal.
Stuart was not traced until weeks later at his girlfriend's home after a warrant had been issued for his arrest. | A man who discharged pepper spray in a woman's face after she spurned his advances in a night club has been jailed for six years and two months. |
33,244,933 | The Royal couple are touring Wales for a week in July, staying at their home in Llwynywermod, Carmarthenshire.
They will also open a baking academy in Wrexham and attend the Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod.
A new winery at a vineyard in Monmouth will also be opened by the Duchess.
The tour starts on 6 July. | Prince Charles will meet members of the England and Australia cricket teams ahead of the Ashes Test in Cardiff as part of his annual summer visit to Wales with the Duchess of Cornwall. |
34,039,968 | It is a journey fraught with risk, braving the Aegean Sea, Balkan people smugglers and the long path over land through Europe.
BBC correspondents have traced that journey, describing what happens along the route.
Crossing into Europe often means crossing water for the refugees and migrants searching for a new life.
Between Turkey and Greece that can be a short trip, but it is also a dangerous one, particularly for people who have no experience with boats. And many don't.
Before dawn on Turkey's beaches it has become a regular sight to witness people struggling in the darkness with dinghies designed for tourists not travellers.
Some are picked up by coastguard ships and there have been others lost to the sea.
The relief is obvious for those who make it to the shores of islands like Kos and Lesbos, but for most that journey is just the beginning.
They then have to register for documents that will allow them to travel on to other parts of Europe and get off the island.
There are ships to Athens but many families want to go to elsewhere, and that means a long journey north out of the Greek capital, not just through EU countries but also the Balkans.
Macedonia has struggled to cope with the influx of people from Greece, at one stage shutting borders and declaring a state of emergency.
Macedonia's Gevgelija railway station just across the border has been the most obvious bottleneck.
The migrants need to register at the police station there to get papers, which will allow them 72 hours to cross the country. There have been long queues resulting in further frustrating waits before they get the chance to board a train out of Gevgelija.
Besides, there are regularly too many people for the carriages, leaving the police with the unenviable task of deciding who will be allowed to board and who will have to sleep another night on the platform.
The tracks from here lead towards Macedonia's border with Serbia, another Balkan state on the increasingly well-trodden path through Europe.
The migrants' welcome has been much warmer in Serbia than in Macedonia.
The authorities here have been preparing for an influx for months - and were ready with a temporary reception centre in the border town of Mitrovac as well as a more permanent facility in nearby Presevo.
These were places where people could enjoy food, water and shelter - as well as receive documents granting them leave to stay in the country.
Theoretically, they then have 72 hours to get to one of Serbia's five residential centres for asylum-seekers - but most just use the time to make their way to the border with Hungary, where they hope to cross into the European Union and the borderless Schengen Area.
181,500
migrants have arrived in Greece by boat so far in 2015
3,000
expected to enter Macedonia daily
90,000 have passed through Serbia since January
80,000 asylum applications expected in Austria in 2015
800,000 asylum applications expected in Germany in 2015
Many first come to Belgrade, where they change buses, receive cash at money transfer offices or just take a break from a long and often dangerous journey. The square next to the main bus station has been an unofficial refugee centre for months.
Small groups of well-dressed young men with rucksacks and women with headscarves were also relaxing in the central Tasmajdan park on Monday.
Some were drying out their shoes in the sun, after a soaking on the Greek-Macedonian border.
Serbia's refugee commissariat has registered 90,000 people with temporary "leave to stay" papers so far this year. But only around 500 have entered the country's asylum-seeking process.
For the rest, a new life in such countries as Germany, Sweden or Norway is the dream.
Migrant influx challenges Schengen accord
There's a mood of exhausted chaos at the roadside, where more than 100 Afghans, Syrians and Iraqis stretch out on the dry grass.
Hungarian police stand guard, their smart blue uniforms and red caps in sharp contrast with the rags of the refugees.
A police bus arrives and people line up to be taken to their first refugee processing centre nearby. Just across an open field, Hungary's new "wire barrier" glistens in the sunlight against the tall stalks of maize.
It consists for now of coils of razor wire - the real fence comes later - and some migrants have just pushed it down or thrown blankets or sleeping bags over it, to lessen the danger of injury.
But at this point on the border, most take the easier option, simply walking down a rarely-used railway line, which cuts a path through the fence. There, more policemen stand to welcome them in English - serious, but not unfriendly: "Carry on down the track - one kilometre."
A bizarre contrast has emerged in Hungary's handling of the refugee crisis. While the government rages against "illegal migrants", police on the border continue to work under procedures in full harmony with their country's obligations under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.
"Hungary police good. Serbia police good. Turkey and Iran police bad," explains a Syrian man in broken English.
Budapest has three major stations - Keleti, Nyugati and Deli - (East, West and South) are almost overrun with asylum seekers.
Some of the migrants do as they are told, travelling between refugee camps with documents that expire within 48 hours.
But most look for trains, buses, taxis, or car-drivers who will take them to Austria or Germany.
Read more: Hungary's double-sided response to migrant crisis
Many of the migrants arriving in Austria hope to travel on to Germany and elsewhere in northern Europe. Officials in the German state of Bavaria say about 1,400 migrants have crossed the border every day - most of them from Austria.
But, increasingly, people are claiming asylum in Austria - a country of 8.5 million people. Since May, an average of 2,000 people have claimed asylum here every week, according to interior ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck.
In the first six months of this year, more than 28,000 people requested asylum - more than the total for the whole of 2014 - he told the BBC. That number is expected to rise to 80,000 by the end of the year.
More than half the migrants come to Austria through neighbouring Hungary and the Balkans, by train, lorry or van.
Groups of migrants, often with children, are becoming a common sight at Austrian railway stations.
In recent days, there has been a spate of accidents in eastern Austria involving vans carrying migrants. Several people have been seriously injured. Some of the drivers were arrested on trafficking charges; others escaped.
Austria's main asylum processing centre at Traiskirchen, south of Vienna, has been overcrowded for weeks.
Hundreds of people, including children, have been forced to sleep outside, as the Austrian federal government and the provinces and municipalities wrangle over where they should be housed.
Amnesty International recently condemned the conditions at Traiskirchen as "shameful", particularly for a rich country like Austria.
To an onlooker, Germany's system appears dangerously chaotic; when I visited Berlin's reception centre hundreds of refugees stood for hours in intense midsummer heat waiting to be registered.
A volunteer doctor running a makeshift surgery in a nearby tent told me the authorities had been surprised by this sudden influx of people.
Put simply, here's what's supposed to happen to arrivals.
First they register with one of the German states, which provide some money - thought to be around €140 a month (£101;$160) - and temporary accommodation while their asylum applications are processed, That takes, on average, seven months.
If successful, the refugee is then found permanent accommodation by the state.
But every state has its own procedures and its own problems. Most are struggling to house the high number of people arriving every day. Refugees are living in tents, converted warehouses, hotels.
I met a Syrian man who pointed to his little girl and told me they had slept on the street for the last few days.
Almost every day the German government reiterates two demands - for other EU member states, the UK included, to take more refugees and for the EU to agree a co-ordinated response to the crisis.
Although attacks on asylum-seeker accommodation are rising, the numbers are relatively low and an extraordinary number of people here are giving up their time or their possessions to help the new arrivals.
Germany's interior minister estimated last week that 800,000 people would seek asylum here this year. He told the BBC he was worried the prevailing attitude of welcome might change. Without the efforts of volunteers, it might struggle to cope. | For many thousands of migrants heading to Europe from the Middle East, the long route to a new life now lies through Greece and the Western Balkans with the ultimate destination in Germany and other northern EU countries. |
33,411,774 | Mark Greenwood, 57, of Redbourn was cycling on the A5183 when he was knocked off his bike and killed.
John Michell, 26, of Whaddon Close, Northampton, admitted causing death by dangerous driving.
He was jailed for 21 months at St Albans Crown Court and disqualified from driving for three years.
The court heard Michell, an accountant, had sent at least two messages during a Whatsapp conversation with a woman at about 18:15 GMT on 9 January 2014.
Mr Greenwood had been wearing a high visibility jacket and helmet, although the court heard the last CCTV sighting of him showed he did not have his lights on as he cycled out of the city centre.
Other motorists reported he had been riding slowly along the A1538 in a straight line near the kerb.
He died from multiple traumatic injuries.
The woman who had received the messages told police Michell had later told her "It was my fault because I was looking at my phone."
By coincidence, the two men had been living in the same apartment block in Redbourn at the time, but they did not know each other.
Mr Greenwood's partner Susan Ullman told the court she did not want Michell to be jailed because it would be another "life lost".
John Dye, Michell's counsel, said his client was genuinely remorseful and had been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder as a result.
However, Judge Andrew Bright said the use of mobile phones while driving was like an "epidemic" and he had to send out a "loud and clear" message that if a death was caused then drivers could expect prison sentences. | A car driver has been jailed for texting a woman on his mobile phone shortly before causing the death of a cyclist in St Albans. |
34,537,806 | Gas supplies are expected to be "comfortable", while electricity margins, at 5.1%, are "manageable", the grid said in its Winter Outlook.
This means supply is expected to exceed peak demand by 5.1%.
The Grid may have to secure extra supplies to keep this margin, such as paying plants to remain on standby.
Without these measures, the margin would be 1.2%. With the additional measures, margins are at their lowest for seven years, and have deteriorated year on year. Over last winter, they were 6.1%.
"Our analysis suggests that electricity margins will continue to be tight but manageable throughout the winter period," said Cordi O'Hara, director of UK Market Operations.
"We have taken appropriate steps to support security of supply through the procurement of additional balancing services."
The Grid made similar provisions last winter.
Gas supplies are far more abundant. The Grid forecasts peak demand of 465 million cubic metres a day, with a potential supply of up to 613 million cubic metres.
"Keeping the lights on is non-negotiable," said Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd. "National Grid has the right tools in place to manage the system this winter and we will ensure that they continue to do so in future."
Keeping the lights on: John Moylan, BBC industry correspondent
The government has announced new measures to ensure the lights stay on in the future.
It's making changes to the Capacity Market, a mechanism which pays owners of power plants a subsidy to guarantee having the plants available from 2018 onwards.
The changes will increase the "incentives and penalties" on firms which agree to build new power plants, but then fail to do so.
It follows reports this week that the only company to win a subsidy to build a new gas power plant as part of the Capacity Market is struggling to find investors.
Carlton Power, which is proposing to build a power station at Trafford in Manchester, has confirmed that the project will be delayed by at least a year.
A number of power stations have closed down in recent years as they come to the end of their natural life. This has led to fears of blackouts in some quarters, with concerns that margins are getting too tight for comfort.
The GMB union accused the Grid of "complacency" and criticised as "bonkers" its policy of paying power stations to be on standby.
"That and bringing unused inefficient power production back into operation are the special measures National Grid is being forced to rely on to keep the lights on and the cost is added to consumers' bills," said national officer Brian Strutton.
But many experts believe fears of the lights going out have been exaggerated.
"The fact is that generation-related electricity outages are vanishingly rare - just one in the last 10 years," said Richard Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit.
"Almost all power cuts are down to problems with local distribution of electricity, caused by bad weather and other issues.
"Ten years of crying wolf on power cuts has probably served only to confuse the public, who will be entirely aware that their lights have stayed on." | Britain has enough gas and electricity to ensure there will be no blackouts through the cold winter months, according to the National Grid. |
37,594,219 | The Blues were ahead inside seven minutes when Nemanja Matic flicked on Eden Hazard's corner for Diego Costa to smash home.
A David Luiz free-kick struck the post, before Pedro played in Hazard, who rounded Kasper Schmeichel to slot in.
Luiz hit his own post when clearing a cross, but Victor Moses' finish after a one-two with substitute Nathaniel Chalobah completed the scoring.
Leicester, who left Riyad Mahrez on the bench for the first time in 36 league games, failed to register a shot on target as they struggled to cope against Chelsea's aggressive pressing and quick passing.
Defeat leaves Claudio Ranieri's side with eight points from their first eight games - the joint second lowest haul by a defending Premier League champion, along with Chelsea's team of last season.
Relive Chelsea v Leicester
Since joining Chelsea from Leicester this summer, N'Golo Kante has found himself doing slightly less of the defensive work that established him as such a prized midfielder at the King Power Stadium.
But he continues to enjoy the gift of being in the right place at the right time and this was another excellent performance from the France international - who is clearly missed by Claudio Ranieri's side.
However, much of Chelsea's success in stifling the visitors came courtesy of their wing-backs. When Marcos Alonso - making his home debut - harried Danny Drinkwater high up the pitch to win the ball back and deliver a dangerous low cross, he was repeating the pattern set by Moses on the opposite right flank.
Instead we saw the other side of Kante's game. The 25-year-old would have scored Chelsea's third had it not been for Foxes captain Wes Morgan, who made a brilliant block after a Costa cross spilled off Schmeichel's legs to leave the goalmouth exposed.
And his perfectly weighted through ball deserved a better finish from Moses, who eventually did settle the points for certain when latching on to a delightful flick by 21-year-old English midfielder Chalobah - making his senior home debut after six loan spells away from the club.
On Thursday, several bookmakers suspended betting on Chelsea boss Conte being the next Premier League manager to lose his job.
The Italian laughed off the rumours in his news conference on Friday -"I am trying to find out who put the money on" - but some may have wondered if there would be a sign of weakness in his side's performance.
There was not. Chelsea began with real swagger and Costa's early goal was the end product. The Premier League's top scorer gambled on a late move to the back post and, as Morgan did not stay with him, was left with an easy finish for his seventh of the campaign. It took the 28-year-old Spain striker until January to reach that total last season.
The dipping Luiz free-kick that crashed against the post would have been a fitting second, so when Hazard found himself through on goal after a slightly lucky bounce it was hard to deny a 2-0 lead was deserved. The Belgium winger showed superb composure for his third goal from eight matches this season - compared to four from 31 last term.
And one of the finest flourishes came from Conte himself. There was a huge round of cheers from the home crowd when he brilliantly trapped a misplaced long pass that plummeted down into his technical area.
The fans will have found it hard not to have been incredibly impressed by their team's performance - especially after what they witnessed over 2015-16.
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri: "When you concede a goal from a corner again it is clear: you come to Chelsea and your attention must be at the maximum. We made mistakes. We tried to react and the second half was much better. Now we must react because we have the Champions League on Tuesday.
"If we scored the goal when we create a chance we can re-open the match. But our approach to the match was not good. Maybe we were a little nervous.
"It is better that this happens now and we can react than at the end of the season. We must concentrate more.
"We miss him [N'Golo Kante] - but we have to play better."
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Chelsea manager Antonio Conte: "It was a good game. From the start I asked them to play well with intensity and to try to do what we are doing in training.
"I am very happy because I had a good reply. This is the best game for us. I saw good commitment. When you work hard it is important to have a good performance.
"In the week, we tried a lot to find a solution that gave us more compactness. For this team and squad this system is the right fit. The coach must understand and find the right suit. We are like a tailor."
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Former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin on BBC Radio 5 live:
"It's a very worrying time for Leicester. They've found out that getting to the top is one thing but staying there is quite another."
Former Leicester captain Matt Elliot on BBC Radio Leicester:
"It was a very, very bad day at the office for Leicester. Chelsea looked likely victors from the absolute start."
Leicester return to the Champions League on Tuesday with a home match against FC Copenhagen of Denmark (19:45 BST kick-off), before hosting Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday (15:00).
Chelsea entertain Manchester United in the Premier League at 16:00 next Sunday.
Match ends, Chelsea 3, Leicester City 0.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 3, Leicester City 0.
Foul by Marcos Alonso (Chelsea).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Nathaniel Chalobah.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by César Azpilicueta.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Marcos Alonso (Chelsea).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Chelsea. Ola Aina replaces Victor Moses.
Substitution, Chelsea. Ruben Loftus-Cheek replaces Eden Hazard.
Goal! Chelsea 3, Leicester City 0. Victor Moses (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nathaniel Chalobah with a through ball.
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Daniel Amartey.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Kasper Schmeichel.
Attempt saved. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Foul by Nemanja Matic (Chelsea).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leicester City. Andy King replaces Marc Albrighton.
Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Nathaniel Chalobah following a corner.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Wes Morgan.
Attempt blocked. N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Hand ball by Islam Slimani (Leicester City).
Substitution, Chelsea. Nathaniel Chalobah replaces Pedro.
Substitution, Leicester City. Riyad Mahrez replaces Jeffrey Schlupp.
Substitution, Leicester City. Islam Slimani replaces Ahmed Musa.
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Pedro (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christian Fuchs (Leicester City).
Attempt saved. Victor Moses (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Marcos Alonso.
Attempt missed. Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Daniel Drinkwater.
Attempt missed. Ahmed Musa (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a set piece situation.
César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by César Azpilicueta (Chelsea).
Ahmed Musa (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Victor Moses (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Chelsea condemned defending Premier League champions Leicester to a fourth consecutive away defeat with a dominant display at Stamford Bridge. |
35,231,556 | Forward Robinson, 20, scored seven goals in 28 games during two spells on loan with Preston last season.
Winger Reach, 22, joined the Lilywhites on a three-month loan in September and has scored twice in 17 appearances.
Meanwhile, manager Simon Grayson said he will look to make further additions to his squad in the transfer window.
Grayson has already signed Manchester United goalkeeper Sam Johnstone after Jordan Pickford's loan deal expired.
"We'll try and improve the squad," the 46-year-old told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"We had good news that Adam Reach will sign for the rest of the season now, which is fantastic for Middlesbrough to allow him to come and the lad has done fantastic for us.
"I'm sure he won't be the first of the signings we make over the next few weeks." | Preston have re-signed Callum Robinson on loan from Aston Villa and extended the loan of Middlesbrough's Adam Reach, both until the end of the season. |
34,604,387 | So does being rude, ruthless and self-absorbed give you an advantage when it comes to getting ahead in business?
Quite the reverse, according to Professor Christine Porath, at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University.
"I wouldn't recommend people try to emulate Steve Jobs' style," she says.
In her research, stretching back more than 20 years, respondents told her they worked less hard if managers were rude to them. In lab studies students given the brush-off by a professor were subsequently less successful at word puzzles.
She says uncivil behaviour from bosses and colleagues affects sickness rate and mental health, stifles creativity and above all affects staff retention. None of which reflects well on those in charge.
"The thing I hear a lot is - 'if I yell at them, doesn't it light a fire under them and I'll get more short term results?'
"But it robs people of focus and they don't perform. Cognitively you don't gain anything and you might lose out."
And she points out that even Steve Jobs mellowed when he returned for his second, and more successful, stint at Apple.
David Rawlinson, is founder of Restaurant Property, which manages sales and leases of restaurant sites in London.
The general atmosphere in his office is very positive, he says, when it comes to the nine people who work for him he's aware of the importance of getting the balance right between being friendly and being firm.
"It is difficult when you are working in the same room with people day in, day out, to be bad cop sometimes. But you have to. You can't just be nice all the time.
"Certainly I would like to be nice all the time. The reality is you just can't sometimes. If people aren't doing their job properly, or if you think people are taking liberties with sickness or something like that you, have to lay the law down.
"Mostly I start out with explaining things in a cool calm way. But, you know, losing your temper is a very powerful motivator sometimes, and that is something I have had to do in past. I don't enjoy doing it, and it's something I think you should use as final straw."
He says unlike in the old days when the mentality at some companies was to rule with a fist of iron, nowadays it's much more about looking after your staff.
He takes all his staff on a big night out once a month, so that the team can bond and he can get to know them better.
But showing off your cut-throat style - for example table-pounding at a meeting or a strategically-timed temper tantrum - won't always be the wrong choice, at least according to some.
Serial entrepreneur and now venture capitalist, Luke Johnson has overseen vast numbers of small and medium-sized businesses since he sold on his first successful enterprise, Pizza Express, in 1999.
"My observation, from my direct experience, is that to get ahead people have to have a glint of steel about them."
He says in his experience at the coal-face he has met plenty of successful entrepreneurs who aren't particularly polite but it's usually a symptom of the pressure they're under.
"I think all of us should respect basic social niceties and all of us who fail to do that - and I'm as guilty as the next man - deserve to be ticked off."
Sarah [a pseudonym] works for an international law firm. She says in corporate law it pays to be tough.
"This industry is one where being very self-centred is a help rather than a hindrance. In terms of charming your colleagues, it's a bonus rather than something that's necessarily important.
"The nature of the work is such that it really rewards hard-charging, it's not exactly aggressive but there are certainly very opinionated loud people, people who make their presence felt. That being the nature of the work, you don't see people progressing who don't conform to that."
"I definitely try and be one of the boys at the office lots of joking discussion with other people and I certainly have a slightly hard edge."
"But business is a serious affair and if you take on the mantle of running a company, the responsibility of employees and meeting that payroll at the end of the month and all the rest of it, you can't afford to spend all your time stopping at every desk and asking people how their weekend went.
"So probably there's a risk that you come across as uninterested or abrupt or impatient."
He says it is generally the egotists, those who like to take command, even to the point of arrogance, who succeed.
"Leadership is often about not caring whether you make friends or people like you, but doing the right thing.
"Putting people's feelings first and the right decision second is not what I call leadership."
Ben Dattner, executive coach and author of management book, The Blame Game, agrees.
"Even in the days of Machiavelli he said it's better for a leader to be feared than loved.
"If your ethics and integrity allow you to go the 'I want to be feared' route perhaps that can work in certain contexts. It might not get you any love [but] it's about achieving objectives.
He advises his clients to stick to their natural style but just adapt it where necessary.
"The aggressive, contentious approach might help you achieve certain things in the short term, but over the long term, if people don't want to work for you, you might pay a price for having that kind of style."
But just as bad, he says, is making yourself very popular but struggling to get things done.
Mr Dattner says different leadership styles may serve better depending on whether you are facing the tough decisions involved in shrinking an organisation, or building creativity and innovation in a growing business.
The bad news is that both strategies, nice and nasty, carry an extra risk if you're a woman. Highly collaborative women are frequently viewed as ineffective leaders.
But as Mr Dattner also admits: "It's easier for a woman to be perceived as bitchy than it is for a man to be perceived as an ass."
Behaviours best avoided
source: Professor Christine Porath | By most accounts the new biopic of Steve Jobs is an accurate portrayal of a man who shouted down colleagues at meetings, was visibly impatient and dismissive of others' contributions... and yet he is lauded as perhaps the most successful entrepreneur of his generation. |
40,354,815 | The claim: The Metropolitan Police is facing cuts of £400m by 2021.
Reality Check verdict: The Metropolitan Police's budget will be flat in cash terms, so there is not going to be a cut in that sense, but the Mayor of London's team calculates that rising costs will mean savings of £400m will need to be found between 2017-18 and 2020-21.
Later, a spokesperson for the Mayor of London said: "It is simply not true to say that the Met's budget has been protected... the Met now has to find a further £400m."
But on Wednesday's programme, First Secretary of State Damian Green said: "There are no police cuts. We have protected police budgets in this parliament."
So who is right?
The Met is getting the same amount of cash each year, so it is not being cut in that sense, but its costs are rising.
Reality Check has looked at the overall funding of policing in England and Wales before. Overall the police budget in England and Wales has been protected in real terms, but not every individual force will feel the benefit because the money is being targeted at specialist areas of policing. The relatively small funding boost comes off the back of five years of deep cuts.
The calculation that rising costs will mean that the Met needs to find savings of more than £400m by 2020-21 comes from the Mayor of London's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) budget submission from December last year.
It says the extra costs cover "a range of items" including:
The Home Office said: "Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary has been clear that there remain significant efficiencies in policing to be delivered from digitisation, collaboration and improving workforce capability," so it seems confident that efficiencies can be used to cover the extra money needed.
Speaking to the London Assembly on Wednesday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick outlined some of the areas where savings could be made and said that despite those: "If we don't get any further money it will be very difficult for us to provide some of the services we currently provide."
Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey said: "It's like saying you take home £1000 a month and in four years time you'll still be taking home £1000 a month. Will you still feel as well off? No you won't."
There are two other issues surrounding the Met's funding. The first is that the government has been considering a review of the police funding formula, which dictates how money is shared out between police forces.
There was concern that this might leave the Met with less money. There were reports on Tuesday that those plans had been scrapped, but the Home Office has stressed no decisions have yet been taken on that.
The £400m calculation was based on the old funding formula, so any changes to funding would be on top of that.
The other issue is that the Met gets a National, International and Capital City (NICC) grant, to cover the extra work it needs to do as a result of operating in a major city.
The tightened security in London means it is likely to have to spend more on these sorts of functions, but MOPAC says there is a £170m a year shortfall between what the Met is currently spending on such functions and how much it receives from the Home Office.
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40,281,100 | The collision between three lorries and an Audi happened on the northbound carriageway near Winchester on 6 June.
Susan Curtis, 67, from Buckinghamshire, and Michael James, 77, from Dorset, who were travelling in the Audi, died.
A 63-year-old man interviewed under caution in connection with the crash has since been released while inquiries continue.
A statement, released by police on behalf of the family of Mr James, of Broadstone, said: "Suddenly and tragically Mike James was taken from us and leaves behind two sons and two grandchildren.
"Much loved and will be terribly missed by so many."
Police said the family of Ms Curtis, from Aylesbury, were releasing the picture of her and with her sons in her memory.
Two of the lorry drivers were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Police have appealed for witnesses who may have seen or captured the accident on a dashboard camera to contact them. | Tributes have been paid to a man and woman who died in a multi-vehicle crash on the M3 in Hampshire. |
37,746,867 | The Celtic manager believes his players underlined their improvement with their performance in the 1-0 League Cup semi-final win over Rangers.
He wants them to carry that into next month's final against Aberdeen.
"In order to rubber stamp that [development], you want to get trophies," said Rodgers.
"There are areas I want to improve in over time, but the players are performing magnificently well, they have that hunger to succeed and they're playing the game at a real top-level tempo, with and without the ball.
"We can concentrate on [the final] in a couple of weeks' time, but [the win over Rangers was a] great performance deserving of getting to a final."
Celtic dominated possession at Hampden, creating a number of chances before eventually securing the victory with Moussa Dembele's 87th-minute goal, which was created by substitute Leigh Griffiths.
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Rodgers - who has now reached the final of a national cup competition for the first time in his managerial career - hailed the impact of Griffiths and fellow substitute Stuart Armstrong, but also the display of captain Scott Brown.
He felt the level of performance was equal to the one that delivered a 5-1 victory to Celtic in the first Old Firm league game of the season, but just lacked the finishing touch.
"We were very dominant in terms of chances, the power and strength of our game, the quality," Rodgers said.
"Sometimes you never know, if the chances don't go in or you don't get that little bit of luck, you're always vulnerable to a counter attack.
"Every element of our game was at a high level, and when you consider coming off the back of a Champions League [defeat by Borussia Monchengladbach] in midweek, the players deserve a huge amount of credit for the performance and their strength and mentality.
"I've been made aware since I've been here that the last game here [the Scottish Cup semi-final defeat in April], Rangers were much the better team, physically and technically, but the players feel their performance today and in the last Rangers v Celtic game was at a really top level and they're getting the reward and success for the hard work that they're putting in.
"It was after this game last season that there was talk Scott Brown might have been finished. He totally dominated the middle of the field, firstly defensively, how he orchestrated the game, his pressure, his physicality, then you see his quality, he makes the team tick, he gets on the ball and plays forward."
Mark Warburton felt his Rangers side improved from their performance in the last Old Firm game, and insisted there were "positives" to take from the defeat.
"We can't afford to sit and mope around," Warburton said. "We have a very important league game on Wednesday night and on Saturday, against tough opposition [St Johnstone then Kilmarnock]. The point is to learn from the game, and this so-called gap is a lot narrower than people think, I hope.
"The best way of keeping your critics quiet is to win games of football and that's what we have to do. We were far more aggressive in our pressing, the tempo was higher and we were on the front foot." | Brendan Rodgers has urged his Celtic players to emphasise the progress being made at the club by winning the first silverware of the season. |
40,848,321 | The singer from The Saturdays said she was "so excited" to be a contestant in the dancing competition.
She told Nick Grimshaw on Radio 1's breakfast show she always watched the show with her family and added that she "can't wait to get into the sequins".
The new series starts on BBC One next month.
King said: "I'm a huge fan of Strictly Come Dancing so I can't actually believe I'm lucky enough to be taking part in it this year! I'm literally so excited to learn Latin and ballroom dancing, and of course I can't wait to get into the sequins too!
"It's going to be a lot of hard work but I'm ready for the challenge."
The 30-year-old told Grimmie it had been tough to keep news of her involvement a secret.
She had previously only told her parents and bandmate Frankie Bridge, who made it to the final of Strictly three years ago.
King said: "It's something that I always said I wanted to do. I've always watched it with my family and it looks so fun.
"I'm going to be giving it my all. I'm very competitive so watch out, other contestants, I'm taking you down!"
She added that she would be up for having a "cheeky spray tan" and wearing sparkles, saying it was a chance to be a "princess".
King said she was starting training soon - and that she hoped she would not be voted out in the first week.
She also said she was a huge Britney Spears fan and would love to dance to her music on the show.
This year's contestants have all been given code names relating to classical Greece, with King's being Clio, one of the nine muses. | Mollie King is the first celebrity dancer confirmed to be taking part in the new series of Strictly Come Dancing. |
27,321,751 | They will be presented with their awards by King Carl XVI of Sweden at a ceremony in Stockholm on 26 August.
The million kronor prize (£82,000) was founded 25 years ago by Stig 'Stikkan' Anderson, the publisher, lyricist and manager of Abba.
The first Polar Music Prize laureate was Sir Paul McCartney.
The aim of the award is to "break down musical boundaries by bringing together people from all the different worlds of music.'
In a career spanning seven decades, pioneer Berry has released a string of classic songs such as Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny B Goode.
According to the award committee: "In the course of three minutes he conjures up an image of the everyday life and dreams of a teenager, often with the focus on cars. Chuck Berry, born in 1926, was the first to drive up onto the highway and announce that we are born to run."
Acclaimed opera, theatre and festival director Sellars is known for his re-interpretations of classic works.
Sellars is working with the English National Opera later this year for the world stage premiere of John Adams's latest work, The Gospel According to the Other Mary.
He is, said the award organisers, "a living definition of what the Polar Music Prize is all about: highlighting the music and presenting it in a new context".
Previous laureates include Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, BB. King, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. | US rock and roll legend Chuck Berry and American theatre director Peter Sellars have been named as 2014 Polar Music Prize laureates. |
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Tom Rogic's first-half half-volley at Aberdeen proved to be the winner as the champions weathered a late Dons flurry.
They have won nine and drawn one of their first 10 games - their best start to a league season since 2004.
"It was an outstanding result for us. The players are very hungry to succeed," Rodgers told BBC Scotland.
"The club has won the league for the last five seasons and we want to win it again this year.
"But it is not just about winning it, it is winning it the best way we possibly can, scoring as many goals as we can, and defending as a collective.
"We have set goals and targets that are not just about winning, but about performances. The performances in the first 10 league games have been outstanding.
"It is only a start. We are not even a third of the way into the season. But if we keep this momentum going and keep working, then we are setting a standard that we can keep building on."
Celtic might have won far more comfortably but missed half a dozen good chances, giving Aberdeen the chance to launch a late onslaught.
Rodgers thought his players "were outstanding in standing up to that", and defender Erik Sviatchenko also relished the opportunity to show a different side to their game.
"It was a tough game. Aberdeen did all they could to beat us and tried to bully us, but I think we showed that we can also play a physical game," the Dane told BBC Scotland.
"Some games we can play our game and score a lot of goals, but it is also really important to win these type of 1-0 games and keep a clean sheet.
"We know they are a good team when they are smashing the ball up to big guys like [Adam] Rooney, which caused us a few problems. But I think we were the better team.
"It is difficult to catch us because we are doing well but we just have to look at ourselves and try to improve in every game. If we continue to show our skills, we will be tough to beat."
Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes defended his decision to leave striker Rooney and midfielder James Maddison on the bench until the second half, insisting his fourth-placed side are not intimidated by Celtic's seemingly unstoppable title charge.
"There are acceptable ways of losing and I think today was one of them," he told BBC Scotland.
"We tried to play our game against them, but the danger is you don't want the game to get too stretched and then their quality up front comes through.
"That was in evidence for the Rogic goal, but there was a lot of determination, effort and thought in the way we played.
"We know we are capable of beating them and I am not having it that they are so far ahead of us.
"The difference between their players and mine might be £500,000 or £600,000 a year, but when you get on the pitch, it is 11 v 11.
"We can beat Celtic and I think today showed that. They will know that for the [League] Cup final next month." | Manager Brendan Rodgers says his Celtic players are hungry to win the Scottish Premiership "in the best possible way" after moving nine points clear. |
33,166,614 | The Arsenal FC midfielder, 24, uploaded a picture from his 2014 wedding with the caption "un flwyddyn heddiw", which means "one year [ago] today".
In contrast to positive responses, some users expressed confusion while others ridiculed the message.
One questioned whether the FA Cup winner was "drunk" and another asked if he had "had a seizure".
The tweet, posted on 8 June, attracted criticism for its lack of an English translation.
Twitter user @RightJudgeIam posted: "Did you lean on the keyboard?"
While @BanterousGooner said: "Did you have a seizure while typing this or something?"
Arsenal fan @MegatronAFC, who describes herself as an "Aaron Ramsey enthusiast", said: "I didn't know Welsh was a language lol [sic]."
Many of the tweets have since been deleted and people rushed to support Mr Ramsey on the micro-blogging site, calling the negative posts "horrible".
Andrea Williams, from Rhymney, Caerphilly county, using her twitter handle @tyclyd1972, posted: "Why put such horrible status don't be jealous cause we got a different language we r proud to talk Welsh [sic]."
"Good to see people like @AaronRamsey tweeting in Welsh," Ffion Elena posted. "Can only be positive for our language."
Mr Ramsey, who was raised in Caerphilly, attended Welsh-medium school Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni before signing with Cardiff City's youth academy.
He played in Wales' crucial 1-0 home win against Belgium on Friday and has scored nine times during his 34 appearances for his country. | Footballer Aaron Ramsey left some Twitter users nonplussed after posting an online message in Welsh. |
39,017,428 | Konta was seeded sixth and travelled to Dubai but was then forced to pull out on the eve of the tournament.
The world number 10 last played in Britain's successful Fed Cup Group I campaign in Estonia last week.
"I came here with every intention of playing," said the 25-year-old, who added: "Health has to come first and it's a long season." | British number one Johanna Konta has withdrawn from the Dubai Duty Free Championships with a foot injury. |
37,505,652 | Maersk Oil is planning to drill a total of six production wells at the high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) Culzean field.
The first gas is expected to be produced from Culzean in 2019.
The development, which lies about 145 miles east of Aberdeen, is one of the largest gas fields discovered in the North Sea in more than a decade.
The Maersk Highlander rig is drilling the first production well.
The drilling campaign will be supported by more than 30 UK-based well services companies.
Gretchen Watkins, from Maersk Oil, said: "This is an important milestone in ensuring that we can deliver Culzean on schedule, and with it 5% of UK gas demand in 2020-21.
Maersk has prepared the drilling programme on a digital "virtual well", using a specialised simulator at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University.
Culzean's wells delivery manager, Andrew Lough, said: "Working on a virtual rig, designed to look and feel like the Maersk Highlander, has been invaluable.
"It has enabled us to prepare, in a very life-like environment, for the drilling campaign, which will contribute to a safe and efficient drilling operation that will be an important milestone in developing the largest new field discovered in the UK North Sea for more than a decade."
In May, BP announced it had doubled its stake in Culzean as part of a £7bn investment programme.
The company said it had raised its interest in the Maersk Oil-operated Culzean development from 16% to 32%.
It did not disclose how much it paid co-venturer JX Nippon for the additional stake.
The gas condensate field has resources estimated at 250-300 million barrels. | Drilling operations have got under way on the first production well for a major gas field in the UK North Sea. |
38,542,127 | He coached the national side from 1979 to 1990, taking charge of 96 matches.
Born in Newcastle, Reagan played as a winger for York, Hull, Middlesbrough, Shrewsbury Town, Portsmouth and Norwich before taking up coaching.
England's assistant coach Marieanne Spacey said on Twitter: "Martin Reagan, my first England Women's coach. A gentleman who everyone that came into contact with him walked away smiling."
During his tenure, Reagan handed debuts to former striker Spacey as well as Hope Powell - who went on to manage England. | Former England Women boss Martin Reagan has died at the age of 92. |
22,679,092 | The club's motto - Nil Satis, Nisi Optimum - and a pair of wreaths have been removed from the badge.
An Everton spokesman said it was "more modern, cleaner and dynamic".
However, the petition states the "awful" crest would lead to losses "due to no-one wanting to buy any merchandise with that printed on it".
The Latin motto, which translates as "nothing but the best is good enough", was added to the club's crest in 1938, though it did not appear on a kit until 1978.
It was removed from the kit badges from 1982, but returned to the crest following a redesign in 1991.
The club spokesman said the new design combined "four historic elements of the previous badge - the tower, the shield, our name and the year of our formation - to form a concise, modern and dynamic representation of Everton".
Commercial director Dave Biggar said the club had met with "various fan entities" including "supporters' clubs, fans' forums [and] representatives of shareholders" during the design process.
He said the idea had been to create a "logo device which is easily recognisable, easily replicated and easily communicated".
Fans' forum chairman Tony Bott said he had been won over by the new design, although comments on the petition described it as "amateurish", "poorly designed", "ridiculous", "clownish" and "not fitting a club of Everton's rich history and stature".
Meghan Westerside, from Liverpool, said on the petition that the motto was "an important part of the club [and] taking it away is a disgrace", while Ellen Smith, from Formby, described the new design as "too plain".
Merchandise using the new design, which is the 10th version in the club's history, went on sale for the first time on Sunday. | More than 14,000 Everton fans have signed an online petition criticising the football club's "embarrassing" newly-launched badge. |
10,137,286 | If you wanted to start a modern art museum, these paintings would be high on your list of acquisitions as between them they tell the story of modern art's emergence, as the BBC arts editor Will Gompertz explains here.
Henri Matisse's Pastoral has the hallmarks of the Impressionists - painted outside or "en plein air", with loose brush strokes and an everyday, realistic subject.
What marks it out from the work of the early Impressionists is the bright, unnatural colours, which he has used to express the scene as he sees and feels it.
This was called Fauvism.
Georges Braque was inspired by the work of Matisse and developed his own Fauvist style which can be seen in the painting Olive Tree Near L'Estaque.
What is of particular interest about this work is the date Braque painted it - 1906.
That is the year Paul Cezanne died, and it was his later paintings that inspired Braque to develop one of modern art's most famous movements.
By 1907, Braque was painting similar scenes but his style had changed.
Together with Picasso they had started to define Cubism.
Picasso's Dove with Peas makes sense as the next painting to have, as it is a classic example of Cubism in its pomp.
By this stage Braque and Picasso had been joined by Fernand Leger as the other great exponent of Cubist art and techniques.
But Leger became disillusioned with the increasingly abstract nature of the Cubists' work.
During World War I, he chose to renounce abstraction and instead focus on painting common objects in bold colours.
As you can see in the next painting that was stolen - Still Life with Candlestick - Leger has retained the influence of Cubism while incorporating the saturated colours of the Fauves.
But by combining the two and adding his artistic developments the work moves towards modernism.
Amedeo Modigliani was the fifth artist to be targeted by the thieves.
They chose a work he painted in 1919, Woman with Fan.
He died a year later at the age of 35, having contracted tuberculosis.
Modigliani's portrait of his friend shows him using restrained colours out of respect for her and using "S" shapes to accentuate her graceful pose.
As Matisse used colour to express his feelings for his subject, so Modigliani used distortion.
Both fit within the expressionist movement inspired by the work of Vincent Van Gogh. | Five well-known masterpieces, by Picasso, Matisse and other great artists, have been stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. |
37,415,225 | Bendtner, who struck the bar with a thunderous 25-yard strike before the break, volleyed the hosts ahead.
Fulham levelled when Tom Cairney slotted the ball in from close range after the Reds failed to clear.
The visitors, who like Forest are now winless in five games, pushed for a winner but wasted late chances in a game full of poor finishing.
Former Arsenal striker Bendtner, one of six changes from Saturday's last-minute defeat against Sheffield Wednesday, had two glorious opportunities to open the scoring.
His first effort came thudding back off the bar, but his second chance should have found the net. The Dane kept his shot low from Mustapha Carayol's pull-back but was far from convincing allowing keeper David Button to save with his feet.
In between, Fulham had an even better opportunity with Matt Smith's point-blank header somehow kept out by a breathtaking one-handed stop from Reds keeper Vladimir Stojkovic.
More missed chances followed after the interval, notably when the otherwise impressive Sone Aluko hooked the ball over the bar from two yards when it seemed impossible to miss.
But after Cairney side-footed in Scott Malone's cross, Fulham pressed for a winner and came close to finding it, Smith having a strike ruled out for offside and substitute Chris Martin forcing another fine save from Stojkovic.
Nottingham Forest head coach Philippe Montanier:
"It was a tough and physical game and it could easily have ended 3-3. There were plenty of opportunities for both teams and it was played at a high tempo. It was important for us to have a decent result after three defeats to end this bad period.
"I thought if we scored first then we would go on to win the game, then again if Fulham had got the first goal then they could have thoroughly protected the lead and won.
"I made six changes - Fulham made five - and some of the players were very tired while Henri Lansbury was suspended and so we needed to freshen it up. It will be good for us to have the international break to recuperate and have a good break, the players need it."
Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic:
"My team showed a reaction after the embarrassing game against Bristol City but I am disappointed we didn't score a second and win the game. We created enough chances to have won the game but if we stay calm then the goals will come.
"The whole team played well, we all worked together and created plenty of chances and there is improvement to come.
"We have to be confident on the ball and be organised. Our one big problem is at home, when we don't have the ball, but we did that very well. Our movement was very good. We have to follow this up now."
Match ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Fulham 1.
Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Fulham 1.
Attempt missed. Matt Smith (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt missed. Ragnar Sigurdsson (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Sone Aluko with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Damien Perquis.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Vladimir Stojkovic.
Attempt saved. Chris Martin (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Matt Smith with a headed pass.
Substitution, Fulham. Dennis Adeniran replaces Tom Cairney.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Apostolos Vellios replaces Nicklas Bendtner.
Foul by Ryan Sessegnon (Fulham).
Licá (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Damien Perquis (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Denis Odoi.
Attempt blocked. Nicklas Bendtner (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Nicklas Bendtner (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Michael Mancienne with a headed pass.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Tim Ream.
Attempt missed. Licá (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ben Osborn with a cross.
Offside, Fulham. Chris Martin tries a through ball, but Matt Smith is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Chris Martin (Fulham) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Scott Parker.
Foul by Scott Parker (Fulham).
Licá (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Nottingham Forest. Ben Osborn tries a through ball, but Hildeberto Pereira is caught offside.
Substitution, Fulham. Ryan Sessegnon replaces Scott Malone.
Foul by Sone Aluko (Fulham).
Damien Perquis (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Daniel Fox (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Daniel Fox (Nottingham Forest).
Attempt missed. Ryan Tunnicliffe (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Scott Malone.
Attempt missed. Matt Smith (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Scott Parker.
Sone Aluko (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hildeberto Pereira (Nottingham Forest).
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Hildeberto Pereira replaces Nicolao Dumitru.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 1, Fulham 1. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Denis Odoi with a headed pass.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Fulham. Chris Martin replaces Lucas Piazon.
Delay in match Damien Perquis (Nottingham Forest) because of an injury.
Offside, Fulham. Tom Cairney tries a through ball, but Sone Aluko is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nicolao Dumitru.
Offside, Fulham. Ryan Tunnicliffe tries a through ball, but Matt Smith is caught offside.
Denis Odoi (Fulham) wins a free kick on the right wing. | Nicklas Bendtner scored his first Nottingham Forest goal but Fulham hit back for a deserved draw. |
40,642,891 | The body of Jeremy Dickinson, 57, was found at his house on Albemarle Road in Seacombe, Merseyside in March.
A post-mortem examination revealed he died after being hit over the head.
Lyndsey McCool, 37, of Whetstone Lane, Birkenhead admitted murder and was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to life in prison. She was told she would serve a minimum of 17-and-a-half years.
Det Insp Paul Lamb of Merseyside Police said: "This was a horrific attack carried out by McCool on Mr Dickinson in his own home, where he had every right to feel safest." | A woman who murdered a man in his own home before stealing money from him has been jailed for life. |
36,684,425 | After being dismissed for just 43 when beaten on their own ground by Worcestershire in May, Dexter did most to ensure there would be no repeat.
He hit 109 out of his side's 299-7 after Leicestershire had chosen to bat, having won the toss.
He was well backed by Angus Robson (50) and Ned Eckersley, unbeaten on 40,
Former Middlesex batsman Dexter's century was his second in succession after making 136 against Gloucestershire last week.
Ed Barnard was Worcestershire's most successful bowler, taking 3-49, including an impressive first spell.
The hosts included Tom Fell for the first time since making 171 against Middlesex here last September, following the Worcestershire batsman's recovery from two forms of cancer.
Worcestershire assistant coach Matt Mason told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"It was an even day. We were a little bit disappointed with the first two sessions. We just couldn't seem to make any inroads.
"It was hard work for them to be fair, but it was quite a flat pitch. We thought it might have had a little bit more in it.
"But that last session showed we kept to our task and got some rewards.
Leicestershire batsman Neil Dexter told BBC Radio Leicester:
"Obviously I was delighted to get past three figures again. However, in saying that, I was disappointed that I got out when I did. I had done the hard work until then and things were just starting to get a little bit easier.
"Credit to them, they stuck at it well. It's always good to score three figures but I've been wanting to get that really big one. That made it disappointing to get out when I had that chance to go big.
"There haven't been too many demons in the pitch, maybe a few that have gone lower." | Neil Dexter maintained his good form since moving to Leicestershire with a third County Championship century of the summer at New Road. |
38,054,997 | The Foxes needed a point to move into the last 16, yet secured three to ensure they will finish top of Group G.
A smart finish into the top corner by Shinji Okazaki, after a fine cross by Christian Fuchs, set Claudio Ranieri's side on their way.
Riyad Mahrez doubled the lead from the penalty spot - his fourth goal in five Champions League games - after Marc Albrighton was fouled by Dion Cools, before Jose Izquierdo hit a wonderful consolation after a 40-yard run.
Leicester were unrecognisable from the side who have struggled in the Premier League this season.
They are the second English team, after Arsenal, to secure a place in the draw for the knockout stages on 12 December.
The Foxes are just two points above the Premier League's relegation zone after back-to-back defeats.
Yet Ranieri's team cannot stop winning in Europe. Incredibly, they have picked up more points in the Champions League than the Premier League this season.
While they have lost to, among others, Hull City, West Bromwich Albion and Watford in the league, Leicester have beaten Brugge twice - as well as Porto and FC Copenhagen. It means they have 13 points from five games in Europe - yet only 12 from 12 matches domestically.
Leicester have won four Champions League games this season, but only three in the Premier League.
There may be disappointment that their run of four successive Champions League clean sheets is over.
Izquierdo's thumping finish, following a terrific solo run, sparked a late Brugge surge and ensured a nervous finish, yet the Belgians could not force an equaliser.
On this day eight years ago, Andy King scored the winner for Leicester in a League One game at Scunthorpe's Glanford Park. The midfielder played the full game as the Foxes wrote another chapter in their fairytale rise.
Okazaki's sublime fifth-minute finish sent home fans into raptures before Mahrez was denied by keeper Ludovic Butelle moments later.
Danny Drinkwater, Fuchs and Albrighton caused the visitors problems as Leicester turned on the style. It was Albrighton's pace that forced Cools to concede the penalty, which allowed Mahrez to make it 2-0 on the half-hour mark.
Victory almost slipped away as Brugge fought back, and nervous tension filled the night air at the King Power Stadium as Jelle Vossen went close to equalising late on.
But the final whistle was greeted by the kind of roar not heard since the Premier League trophy was paraded around the ground last season.
Leicester captain Wes Morgan: "For a club like Leicester to finish top of our Champions League group is an amazing achievement. It's been better than we could have imagined.
"We felt very comfortable at 2-0 up going into half-time. We just wanted to maintain our performance. That Brugge goal was a very big blow and we had to really dig in towards the end."
Leicester winger Riyad Mahrez: "I have the chance to win games and we're very happy to be first and keep going in the Champions League because it's an unbelievable feeling.
"We're feeling good. We wanted to finish first. It wasn't that easy, especially after it went 2-1 but we did it and we're very happy to be first."
With their place in the Champions League knockout stages sealed, Leicester will attempt to improve their Premier League form. They have three top-flight games before the draw for the last 16, starting at home to Middlesbrough on Saturday.
Match ends, Leicester City 2, Club Brugge 1.
Second Half ends, Leicester City 2, Club Brugge 1.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Ludovic Butelle.
Attempt saved. Demarai Gray (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniel Drinkwater.
Foul by Daniel Amartey (Leicester City).
Anthony Limbombe (Club Brugge) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ron-Robert Zieler (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Jelle Vossen (Club Brugge) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ricardo van Rhijn.
Attempt saved. Demarai Gray (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamie Vardy with a headed pass.
Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wesley (Club Brugge).
Corner, Club Brugge. Conceded by Robert Huth.
Corner, Club Brugge. Conceded by Robert Huth.
Foul by Andy King (Leicester City).
Jelle Vossen (Club Brugge) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Club Brugge. Wesley replaces Claudemir.
Corner, Club Brugge. Conceded by Jeffrey Schlupp.
Attempt missed. Daniel Amartey (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Club Brugge. Conceded by Wes Morgan.
Substitution, Leicester City. Daniel Amartey replaces Marc Albrighton.
Attempt missed. Ricardo van Rhijn (Club Brugge) right footed shot from long range on the right is too high. Assisted by Jelle Vossen.
Attempt blocked. Timmy Simons (Club Brugge) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ricardo van Rhijn.
Offside, Club Brugge. Ricardo van Rhijn tries a through ball, but Claudemir is caught offside.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Hans Vanaken (Club Brugge) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Ricardo van Rhijn (Club Brugge) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.
Substitution, Club Brugge. Ricardo van Rhijn replaces Laurens De Bock.
Corner, Club Brugge. Conceded by Christian Fuchs.
Corner, Club Brugge. Conceded by Wes Morgan.
Attempt saved. Jeffrey Schlupp (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Leicester City. Demarai Gray replaces Shinji Okazaki.
Substitution, Leicester City. Jeffrey Schlupp replaces Riyad Mahrez.
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Claudemir (Club Brugge).
Foul by Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).
Brandon Mechele (Club Brugge) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Club Brugge. José Heriberto Izquierdo tries a through ball, but Dion Cools is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Anthony Limbombe (Club Brugge) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Hans Vanaken.
Substitution, Club Brugge. Anthony Limbombe replaces Tomás Pina.
Offside, Club Brugge. Hans Vanaken tries a through ball, but Claudemir is caught offside. | Leicester City's remarkable debut Champions League campaign continued as they reached the knockout stages with one game to spare by beating Club Brugge. |
39,556,946 | The firm, which is owned by BT, said the extra roles follow a move to base all customer service calls in the UK and Ireland.
More than 800 people already work at its Rhyd-y-Car Business Park site.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said it was "excellent news for the local economy". | Mobile phone operator EE is to create 60 new jobs at its call centre in Merthyr Tydfil. |
39,016,629 | It took place on the A55 between St Asaph and St George on Saturday morning with the westbound carriageway shut from Junction 27 and diversions put in place.
Both lanes have since reopened.
North Wales Ambulance said it was called at 11:50 GMT and the man was taken to Glan Clwyd Hospital.
Bangor and Conwy football clubs delayed their kick-offs due to the delays.
The collision occurred between Junction 24A and Junction 24.
The air ambulance was also called to the scene, but the man was taken to hospital by road.
In a separate incident on the westbound carriageway of the A55 between Holywell and St Asaph, emergency services were called to a vehicle fire at 16.46 GMT.
One person was taken to hospital and treated for cuts and shock. | A man has been taken to hospital with "serious" injuries after a crash on the A55 near Abergele. |
39,159,824 | Dywedodd arweinydd y blaid wrth eu cynhadledd wanwyn yng Nghasnewydd na ddylai Cymru dderbyn bod yn israddol.
Yn wyneb Brexit, dywedodd Ms Wood hefyd mai bod yn rhan o'r farchnad sengl sydd bwysicaf i economi'r wlad, ac y byddai'r blaid yn "amddiffyn" y rheiny o dramor sydd eisiau byw yng Nghymru.
Cyfeiriodd hefyd at y ffrae ddiweddar am Ysgol Llangennech, Sir Gâr, gan ddweud ei bod hi'n "drasiedi i weld gwleidyddion UKIP yn ymyrryd i geisio stopio rhagor o blant rhag elwa" o addysg Gymraeg.
Yn ei haraith, fe ddywedodd Ms Wood, sy'n AS dros y Rhondda, unwaith eto bod ei phlaid yn gwrthwynebu Brexit caled.
"Does dim blaenoriaeth pwysicach i'n plaid ar hyn o bryd nac amddiffyn buddiannau cenedlaethol Cymru yn ystod y misoedd i ddod, wrth i Lywodraeth y DU ddechrau'r broses o adael yr Undeb Ewopeaidd," meddai.
Dywedodd bod "unrhyw gynnydd sy'n cael ei wneud ym Mae Caerdydd" oherwydd Plaid Cymru, sy'n cynnig rhywfaint o gefnogaeth i Lywodraeth Llafur Cymru o bryd i'w gilydd.
Ond roedd yn feirniadol o'r lywodraeth honno, ynghyd â llywodraeth Theresa May, gan ddweud bod "cyfleon a chyfoeth yn cael eu hailddosbarthu i'r cyfeiriad anghywir".
Beirniadodd Ms Wood wleidyddion UKIP am eu rhan yn y ffrae am newid ysgol Llangennech yn Sir Gâr yn un cyfrwng Cymraeg.
Dywedodd bod y ffrae yn "atgoffa ni gyd i ddewis ein cyfeillion gyda gofal, [ac] mae hefyd yn atgoffa ni o'n cyfrifoldeb, pa bynnag blaid ydym ni, i fynd i'r afael â'r cwymp yn nefnydd yr iaith".
Ychwanegodd: "Ac mae hefyd yn atgoffa'r pleidiau eraill sy'n cefnogi'r nod o gael miliwn o siaradwyr Cymraeg nad yw geiriau gwag yn ddigon, bod angen gweithredu a bod angen i ni gefnogi penderfyniadau fel un Cyngor Sir Gâr yn Llangennech."
Gan estyn croeso i bobl o'r tu allan i Gymru sydd wedi ymgartrefu yma, dywedodd: "I'r holl bobl sydd wedi symud yma o dramor, bydd Plaid Cymru byth yn ymuno â'r rhai sy'n gwneud i chi deimlo nad ydych chi'n haeddu bod yma."
Dywedodd wrth y gynulleidfa ei bod hi'n fwy tebygol y byddan nhw'n derbyn triniaeth gan fewnfudwr yn y gwasnaeth iechyd, na gweld mewnfudwr wrth eu hochr yn y ciw.
Ac roedd 'na gryn gymeradwyaeth pan ychwanegodd: "Os 'dych chi'n byw yma ac eisiau bod yn Gymry, cyd belled a 'dyn ni'n y cwestiwn, mi ydych chi'n Gymry a bydd Plaid Cymru yn amddiffyn eich hawliau."
Mae cynhadledd Plaid Cymru yn parhau ddydd Sadwrn. | Pleidleisio dros Blaid Cymru yw'r unig ffordd i bobl Cymru gael "rheolaeth" o'u bywyd, yn ôl Leanne Wood. |
20,693,734 | The Pope was shown pressing a button on an iPad tablet at the Vatican.
The message read: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart."
A spokesman said earlier the pontiff would "reach out to everyone" with accounts in eight languages.
After his introductory tweet on Wednesday, Benedict posted two follow-up messages.
By Alan Johnston BBC News, Rome
This venture into the Twittersphere is meant to reflect the Vatican's commitment to being part of the debate in cyberspace.
People are being asked to put questions to the Pope. And among those already posted, some are funny, and many others crude or silly. But some are sincere.
As one Vatican insider put: "The Pope's job description is to spread the word, and Twitter is a good way of doing that."
And being limited to the use of just 140 characters should not be too much of a hindrance.
The Christian message has often been at its most powerful when it's been at its most succinct.
Think of the Ten Commandments; "Thou shalt not kill" - just 16 characters.
They focused on promoting the Church's recently launched Year of Faith - an initiative intended to re-energise Catholicism.
"How can we celebrate the Year of Faith better in our daily lives?" the pontiff asked.
And he answered: "By speaking with Jesus in prayer, listening to what he tells you in the Gospel and looking for him in those in need."
Benedict's English account already has more than 700,000 followers and is growing fast.
So far, the Pope's accounts @pontifex - which mean "pontiff" or "builder of bridges" - are only following each other.
Last year, the Pope sent his first tweet from a Vatican account to launch the Holy See's news information portal.
The leader of the world's 1.2 billion or so Roman Catholics is expected to sign off, rather than write, each individual tweet himself.
The Pope's tweets are also expected to highlight messages from his weekly general audience, Sunday blessings and homilies on key Church holidays as well as papal reaction to world events.
The Vatican has long shown interest in using the latest communications technologies to spread the faith with the inventor of radio, Guglielmo Marconi, setting up Vatican Radio in 1931.
The Catholic Church also already uses several social media platforms, including text messages and YouTube, to communicate with young people.
Papal aides say the pontiff himself still prefers to communicate in longhand rather than using a computer keyboard.
Pope Benedict's six-year papacy has been bedevilled by poor communications.
Embarrassing clarifications had to be issued over such thorny issues as his 2005 speech about Islam and violence, and his stance on condoms and HIV. | Pope Benedict XVI has sent his first much-anticipated Twitter message using his personal account. |
31,866,783 | President Baldwin Lonsdale said the storm had "wiped out" all development of recent years and his country would have to rebuild "everything".
Aid has begun arriving in the storm-hit nation - one of the world's poorest - but contact has still not been made with some of its more remote islands.
Aid agencies say it could be one of the worst disasters ever to hit the region.
The official death toll stands at eight, but it is expected to rise.
The BBC's Jon Donnison, in the capital Port Vila, says just about every house there has received some damage and the situation for many people is bleak.
One village chief told our correspondent there was a desperate need for fresh water supplies.
896hPa
Low pressure reading (in hectopascals) makes it one of the most intense tropical storms
270km/h
Sustained winds - with gusts up to 300km/h - caused extensive damage
Largest ever recorded tropical storm was Typhoon Tip (North-west Pacific 1979):
Typhoon Tip's low pressure was 870hPa
Tip had sustained wind speeds of 305 km/h
Most intense Atlantic storm was Hurricane Wilma (2005) with low pressure of 882 hPa
At the scene: Phil Mercer, BBC News, Port Vila
The sense of devastation is absolutely immense and when you land it doesn't take long for that sense of devastation to increase.
Many family homes have been stripped of their roofs or flattened by very powerful winds and torrential rain.
The air here is very thick with smoke because the cleanup has already begun - the debris is being chopped down, collected and burned. There is a sense here that people will rebuild but it only takes a brief moment in the capital to realise that this rebuilding effort will take many months if not years.
This is a vast archipelago, the population is spread over more than 60 islands and communications are down. It's very difficult for the authorities to have a true picture of the devastation but it's clear the number of dead will increase when communications are made with those outlying areas.
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The category five storm, with winds of up to 300km/h (185mph), struck populated areas when it reached Vanuatu early on Saturday local time (+11 GMT).
President Lonsdale, who was attending a disaster preparedness conference in Japan when the storm hit, has appealed for international help, telling AFP news agency: "The humanitarian need is immediate, we need it right now."
"After all the development we have done for the last couple of years and this big cyclone came and just destroyed all the infrastructure the government has built. Completely destroyed."
Earlier, Mr Lonsdale had described the storm as "a monster", and said he had not been able to confirm that his own family was safe.
The president said climate change had contributed to the disaster, saying his country had seen changing weather patterns, rising seas and heavier-than-average rain.
Unicef worker Alice Clements in Port Vila said all the power lines were down, and many staff of the capital's only hospital were unable to get in to work.
She told the BBC a major bridge connecting Port Vila to the eastern part of the island looked like it had "a huge bite taken out of it".
"This isn't just some rickety bridge, it's made of concrete and steel, and now there's just steel girders sticking out. It really shows the sheer force of the storm."
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There is major concern about islands to the south, including Tanna, which was in the direct path of the storm. The Australian Red Cross tweeted that it had heard of "utter devastation" there.
Paolo Malatu, co-ordinator for the National Disaster Management Office, told the Associated Press news agency that planes and helicopters had been sent to fly over the islands and assess the situation.
Military planes carrying supplies have started arriving from Australia and New Zealand, and other countries have pledged to help. Commercial flights were due to resume on Monday.
In a statement on Sunday, Oxfam Australia said this was "likely to be one of the worst disasters ever seen in the Pacific".
World Vision said it had not been able to contact more than 30 of its staff.
Pam had already caused major damage on other Pacific islands, including Kiribati and the Solomon Islands. Tuvalu declared a state of emergency after the cyclone caused flash floods there.
It is now moving down the east coast of New Zealand. The storm has weakened significantly but about 100 people have been evacuated from coastal areas in Gisbourne, on the east of the North Island. An alert is also in place in the Chatham Islands, about 680km south-east of Wellington. | Vanuatu is in "immediate" need after Cyclone Pam tore through the country at the weekend, its president says. |
37,272,676 | The General Medical Council said the scale of the action, planned at such short notice, could not be justified.
The first of four five-day walkouts is due to begin from 12 to 16 September, with the last being in mid-December.
Junior doctors are striking over a new contract which is being imposed.
The GMC has set out advice to doctors before next week's series of one-day strikes and voiced a stronger warning than previously about the possible impact of the strike action.
GMC chair Prof Terrence Stephenson, said doctors have a right to strike but they must consider whether it will cause significant harm to patients.
The GMC will investigate any case where a patient has come to significant harm because of actions by a doctor.
Prof Stephenson told the BBC's Today Programme: "The idea that you can take a third of the workforce out of a busy emergency service for five days and have no consequences seems to me unlikely.
"We are quite clear in our guidance that every single individual doctor most put their patients first. And we make it clear that they are personally accountable for their actions and must be able to justify what they did afterwards if allegations our made against them."
He urged every doctor in training to "pause and consider the implications for patients."
Meanwhile, Chris Hopson, of NHS Providers, said: "The GMC is right to be 'extremely concerned' about the impact the series of strikes by junior doctors will have on patients.
"We share the GMC's view that the scale of action planned at such short notice cannot be justified."
Consultants will cover junior doctors in providing emergency care, as they did during two days of walkouts in April.
Hospitals will see junior doctors stage walkouts from 08:00 to 17:00 from:
The warning from the GMC comes after senior doctors last week urged the government and junior doctors to restart negotiations to avoid the series of strikes.
While some medical colleges have said the planned strikes are disproportionate, others say they support the junior doctors' stance.
The row over their pay and conditions has escalated into the worst industrial relations dispute in the history of the NHS.
The BMA has said the government could stop the strikes by calling off the imposition of the contract, which is due to be rolled out from October.
A spokesman said: "Patient safety remains doctors' priority and, since the announcement last week of further action, the BMA has been liaising with NHS leaders so that plans can be put in place swiftly to minimise disruption for patients."
But Prime Minister Theresa May last week told doctors to stop "playing politics" in the dispute and urged the union to cancel the strikes.
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Junior doctors have already taken part in six strikes this year, including two all-out stoppages.
Industrial action was put on hold in May when the two sides got back round the table at conciliation service Acas.
That resulted in the agreement of a new contract, which BMA leaders encouraged members to accept.
But when it was put to the vote, 58% of medics rejected it, prompting the resignation of the BMA junior doctor leader Johann Malawana and causing ministers to announce once again that they would impose the new terms and conditions. | The body that regulates the medical profession has warned that patients will suffer if junior doctors in England go ahead with a series of five one-day strikes next week. |
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Tamsin Greenway and Pamela Cookey, two of the biggest names in English netball, are spearheading two of Britain's three new top-flight clubs.
But, while their job titles are the same, their circumstances, approach and recipes for success are somewhat different.
Greenway left Surrey Storm after coaching them to a second-successive Grand Final triumph and moved to Coventry to join the Wasps family - or brand, depending on which way you look at it - as one of the country's top rugby union clubs decided to expand into netball.
Cookey, the former England captain who played in Greenway's Grand Final-winning Storm side, retired as a player only for her business career to unexpectedly return her to the sport within months as director of netball at Severn Stars - a club formed as a collaboration between the University of Worcester and University of Gloucestershire.
"It's exciting and I do love a challenge," Cookey, 32, told BBC Sport.
"I want to put my mark on something. And this is something new, something I could bring my ideas to."
The task? To help build an elite squad of 12 players, establish three development sides, build community support, a fan base and club identity from scratch in six months.
Sat in her first meeting with Wasps powerbrokers, Greenway admits she completely failed to "play it cool" as figures around the table discussed their plans to throw their Premiership-rugby-sized resources - including an exhibition centre - behind one of the Superleague's new clubs.
"I couldn't contain myself and think I said, 'oh my God, this is my dream job'," said 34-year-old Greenway.
"When I was sat there and they were telling me all these ideas of what they wanted to do, that is what I was thinking - this is what I've worked towards for 10 or 12 years and I can't believe I'm sat here."
Greenway, capped 67 times by England between 2004 and 2015, left Surrey after seven years to join Wasps, who identified her as the cornerstone figure of their audacious expansion project.
"She was one of the most talented players to play for England, but she's also got the business brain and sporting brain to go with it," said Wasps group chief executive David Armstrong.
"The world is her oyster in terms of netball. As the sport grows in popularity and in participation she is bound to be at the forefront of it, so recruiting her as director of netball was probably my best decision of the year.
"As a newcomer into the sport, the most important decision was always going to be the recruitment of director of netball or head coach because that is what was going to bring the idea to life and help recruit players.
"In Tamsin, we have got that."
Likewise, the Stars made sure their first appointment would be one that resonated in the netball world.
Even before seven-time Superleague winner Cookey arrived with her 114 England caps, Severn Stars were already being moulded by a former international playing great and new head coach, Mo'onia Gerrard - a two-time World Cup winner with the Australian Diamonds.
The pair, once fierce rivals on court, are now the closest of colleagues.
"Oh, I had plenty of battles with her on court. She was a pain," said Cookey. "It was weird, the first conversation we had, because it was like we had known each other for years."
The Australian's arrival was a "major coup" for the fledgling franchise, says founding director Anita Navin.
"She was a massive brand straight away that said we mean business," said Navin.
"I'd got an idea early on in terms of what we needed to do to be seen, as I was worried that we would be a new franchise and wouldn't be seen as a critical part of it and we wouldn't recruit players. That became a big issue early on, plenty of sleepless nights about how you build a brand in two weeks.
"You can't recruit players without a coach because they want to know the style of the coach.
"A lot of our athletes in this country have their own preference of style, they don't like the real authoritarian type of coaching, they want to be empowered, have ownership, so I knew the coach was a real critical appointment for us.
"And it couldn't just be someone that has a tiny element of experience at international level, we needed to get someone that had been there and lived it."
When Cookey walked off the Copper Box court after helping Surrey Storm defend their title in May 2016, did she expect to start retirement as a senior lecturer at the University of Gloucester and director of netball at the then, yet-to-be identified new franchise? No.
"It came at the right time," said Cookey, a figure that Navin had long tried to get involved with the game in Gloucestershire.
"I wasn't thinking about any netball jobs at all when I retired. It wasn't on the radar.
"This is a nice opportunity to stay in the sport and I could create something with netball and could develop my career on the other side."
While Severn Stars might lack Wasps' established professional sporting pedigree, they have the pooled resources of two universities.
They will play at the 2,000-seater Worcester Arena, calling on the netball nous of Navin - one of the country's foremost coaching advisors - while utilising communication, marketing, strength and conditioning, performance analysis and sports therapy expertise at the schools.
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As an athlete, Cookey was used to being busy as she effectively lived a double life, juggling an international playing career and club ambitions with business management jobs, which at a time also included commutes from Bristol to France.
Unlike Greenway's post at Wasps, Cookey is less focused on what happens on court as she only contributes as a specialist coach, with former Hertfordshire Mavericks head coach Sam Bird coming in as assistant coach.
Cookey's job is one that ranges from ensuring the complex partnership between the two universities works to helping sign players, establishing links with grassroots netball clubs, generating corporate support, working on events and helping to make sure that everything adheres to Superleague regulations.
She has even had an influence on the creation of Twitter accounts and merchandise.
Asked if she could have chosen a tougher job in netball after retiring from the game, she laughed: "Probably not. I tend to do that to myself, I'm never one to do things by half.
"This job brings together my talents. It's the right fit for me. I can still be in netball but not be playing or coaching."
With franchise bids won and bosses in place, both Wasps and Stars mounted bold recruitment drives.
Last season's top scorer Rachel Dunn is among several Surrey players to follow their boss to the Ricoh Arena, while fellow England international Natalie Haythornthwaite moved to Wasps from Manchester and South Africa captain Bongiwe Msomi returns to the English league to reunite with Greenway.
"It was nice to get my dream team and honestly this is the pick of who I wanted," said Greenway.
"I took a lot of stick for bringing so many players in from different clubs, but I've had relationships with these players, we have worked together a long time.
"We brought in big names, we knew we had to get people talking. I think we have become a target, of course we have.
"I had to work hard to convince some of them. There are some unknowns, we've still got George Fisher to make her mark, Fran Williams, Lucy Harris, Lucy Parize - these are important players because this is not about a one hit wonder, it's a building process."
From the sleepless nights thinking about how to approach and convince players to suit up for the Stars, the club has gone from zero to 100 players - across four teams and development squads and training partners - wearing the Severn colours in six months.
Jodie Gibson was the first player to sign and she was one of three England internationals to leave last season's losing finalists Manchester Thunder to join the new franchise.
"We needed quick wins before we could market who we were," said Navin. "We wanted the right people to share the identity, and that is the conversation we had with those three."
From there, the squad was built, taking in emerging England talent and those with Superleague experience, before looking at players in local trials.
"It feels like the jigsaw has come into place," she said. | Mix a legend of the game with lofty ambitions, throw in a dollop of endless hard work and add a pinch of star power, and voila - a new Superleague netball club is formed. |
35,512,405 | Klopp, 48, missed seeing his side lose a 2-0 lead before drawing 2-2 with Sunderland at Anfield.
The German's coaching staff, including Zeljko Buvac, Peter Krawietz, Pepijn Lijnders and John Achterberg took over.
Liverpool say Klopp "or a member of the first team coaching staff" will hold a media briefing on Monday ahead of the FA Cup fourth round replay at West Ham.
You can read a full report of Liverpool's game with Sunderland here. | Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has had surgery to remove his appendix after being admitted to hospital on Saturday. |
33,535,882 | The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the March to May period showed a rise against the December to February numbers.
But an annual comparison showed there were only 3,000 more people out of work than in the same period last spring.
Unemployment has risen across the UK for the first time in two years.
The number of people classed as in employment, however, is up by 36,000 compared to 12 months ago, and 34,000 fewer people described as economically inactive. | Unemployment has risen in Wales by 8,000 compared to the last quarterly figures, the latest statistics have shown. |
38,912,559 | Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an American-born Muslim convert, was sentenced to 30 years for what a judge called an "extraordinarily serious" crime.
His two friends were shot dead after opening fire at an event that featured cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
A security guard was wounded but no-one else was injured in the attack.
Kareem is the second person in the US to be convicted of charges supporting the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
Gunmen killed at Prophet Muhammad cartoons event
IS claims US Prophet cartoon attack
Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi were killed in a police shoot-out outside the conference in Garland, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, two years ago.
The event, organised by a group critical of Islam, included a contest for drawings of the Prophet Muhammad - such pictorial depictions are considered forbidden by many Muslims.
Prosecutors said Kareem had watched jihadist videos depicting violence with Simpson and Soofi, encouraged them to plot an attack to support the terrorist group and researched travel to the Middle East to join IS fighters.
Kareem told Judge Susan Bolton he "had nothing to do with this crime". He said he did not know his friends had been planning to attack the conference and only found out about the shooting after they were killed.
He also told jurors at his trial last year that he did not approve of Simpson using his laptop to watch al-Qaeda promotional videos.
But prosecutor Kristen Brook argued Kareem had played an active role in helping attempt mass murder.
"That just doesn't make him an outside participant or fringe guy," she said.
He was convicted of conspiring to support a foreign terrorist organisation and interstate transportation of firearms, among other charges.
Authorities also claim he inquired about explosives to blow up the Arizona stadium, which is where the Super Bowl was held that year, before deciding on the cartoon event.
Earlier this week, ex-convict Joseph Schreiber was sentenced to 30 years in prison for setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter had occasionally attended.
Schreiber pleaded no contest and was also ordered to pay $10,000 (£7,986). in compensation, despite damages to the mosque exceeding $100,000. | An Arizona man has been convicted of providing support to so-called Islamic State for helping two men in an attempted attack in Texas in 2015. |
26,062,354 | "You want pale red, big size onions for the Russians? I will send you a sample straightaway," he told an exporter as glum farmers in white pointed caps followed him.
He rang off, took a picture of an onion and sent it to the caller using a popular phone app.
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"Technology has made things easier for the trade," Mr Jain says with a grin. "After all we have no time to waste here."
Lasalgaon is Asia's biggest onion market - in Maharashtra, a state which accounts for a third of India's 16 million tonnes annual production.
Mr Jain is one of 200 licensed traders in the area who buy onions from some 1,700 farmers. They bring their crop from near and far in tractor trailers to the auction, one of the 13 that take place in the area, five to six days a week.
The onion is a remarkable vegetable. It is an essential part of the diets of millions of Indians, rich and poor. Few Indian kitchens can do without the pungent bulb.
It's pureed, sautéed and garnished in meals, eaten raw as a salad, used as a dip, fried as fritters and crisps.
"The demand for onions is completely inelastic. You cannot substitute it with any other vegetable," says farm economist Ashok Gulati, who also heads India's Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.
So, Indians cannot do without onions.
A glut in supply can bring down prices, hitting tens of thousands of farmers. Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka, the three main growing states that account for 60% of the crop and three-quarters of the trade, are particularly sensitive to price movements.
Conversely, a shortage can send prices spiralling and trigger angry protests and even bring down governments.
In 2010, the Congress-led ruling government was forced to ban exports and start importing onions to prevent street protests against rising prices.
As the New York Times put it "when the cost of onions goes up, governments can come down".
Last year, wholesale onion prices leapt over 270% after rains delayed the harvest and damaged crops. Expensive food hits the poorest households most as they spend some 60% of their earnings on it.
"The onion is a very volatile commodity," says Mr Jain. "Nobody knows when the prices will move up or go down. We can't hoard it for too long because it is perishable and it is bought and sold in the free market."
The onion trade also underlines the many weaknesses of India's trillion dollar economy - Asia's third-largest - which is grappling with high inflation and low growth.
For one, the trade demonstrates how the farm economy depends heavily on the vagaries of weather.
Unseasonal rain can damage crops, choke supply lines and drive up prices. A drought can lead to severe shortages and inflation. Where the consumers and farmers lose, the traders and retailers gain.
The trade is a glaring example of how a complex and messy supply chain sometimes involving just half a dozen middlemen setting prices can make the vegetable very expensive in retail.
During the weekend at the Lasalgaon auction, supply was good and Mr Jain was picking up the crop between 8 and 9.50 rupees (13-15 cents) a kilogram from farmers.
Some 233km (144 miles) away in Mumbai, onions were selling at at least three times the price in shops and markets.
"There have been instances of shortage of supplies leading to 400 to 500% increase in price of onions by the time the crop reaches retailers. Everybody is happily racking up margins," says Ashok Gulati, the farm economist.
Making sure that the crop reaches markets is another challenge. Transportation, or the lack of it, is part of India's story of patchy infrastructure which remains a major obstacle to economic growth.
On the day we met him, Mr Jain was working his phones to get some trucks to carry his onions to a buyer in the eastern city of Calcutta, some 1,750km away.
There were 165 onion trucks rumbling their way to the city every day, he explained, but that wasn't enough. Rail isn't an option. Despite four railway stations in the region there are too few freight cars to rush supplies to the big onion markets in the north and east of the country.
"There just aren't enough trucks and trains to carry the crops. And we cannot store onions indefinitely as it is a highly perishable vegetable," says Mr Jain.
Making matters worse is the fact that onions are 85% water. When stocked in archaic storage in India's blisteringly hot summers, they lose weight fast.
Mr Jain stores his onions in tarpaulin-covered sheds in a dusty two-acre plot, where around 60 workers are busy sorting and grading the onions for size and quality. He estimates that 3-5% of the crop he stores is routinely wasted in storage.
"What you sell eventually is considerably less than what you buy from the farmer," says economist Mr Gulati.
That is the way it is going to be until India sets up a network of countrywide cold storages.
A recent report by the UK-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers said 40% of fruit and vegetables in India was lost every year between the farm and the consumer due to lack of adequate cold storage.
One way to dampen volatility in onion prices, some economists believe, is to dehydrate the bulb and make these processed onions more widely available.
Currently, less than 5% of India's fruit and vegetables are processed, of which just 150,000 tonnes are onions.
"If you dehydrate onions, you save time cooking, increase the shelf life of the vegetable and stabilise the prices. I find no loss of taste either," says Mr Gulati.
Economists like him believe that India needs to scale up its infant food processing industry to make sure perishable vegetables and fruit are not wasted and fetch a stable price.
Back at the auction, Manoj Kumar Jain, says he cannot understand India's onion "mania".
"It is not something which is saving a lot of lives or anything," he says. "Why do people hanker after onions? Why do the people, media and politicians get worked up about it? Look at me, I don't have onions."
But then Mr Jain belongs to India's five-million-strong Jain community who while practising vegetarians avoid onion and garlic.
Despite this aversion to consuming onions, two generations of his family have grown rich trading the vegetable and that isn't going to end soon. | On a recent weekend morning, Manoj Kumar Jain waded through a mountain of onions in a sprawling car park in the western Indian town of Lasalgaon taking orders on his mobile phone. |
34,264,150 | They often revolve around standing outside a building, for ages, and waiting for a bloke to arrive and walk through the door. And yes, it usually is a bloke.
Today, the venue was a backstreet in Brighton. Fifty plus reporters caged behind metal barricades, with security guards demanding we stay on the pavement.
Opposite us, a multi-storey car park. Just along the way, the hulking, green industrial wheelie bins from the conference centre.
Then, up rolled a black people carrier, the leader of the Labour Party inside.
It has become almost a tradition that Labour leaders will be greeted by protesters as they arrive at the TUC Congress; angry at the compromises of government or opposition.
But traditions are changing rapidly within the Labour movement.
"Jez we can! Jez we can!" chanted supporters of the self styled People's Republic of Brighton and Hove who had gathered outside too.
"Finally we have someone who truly represents us!" one of the supporters, Libby, told me excitedly. But that moment at lunchtime wasn't the first illustration of how things are very different under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of Labour.
What usually happens with big political speeches is political reporters like me can sound all pompous in advance, going on the radio and TV and saying such and such a leader is expected to say... yadda, yadda and yadda.
We know, because we've been given extracts of the speech in advance, usually the night before. Well, how things seem to have changed.
We actually had to listen to this one as it was delivered.
In the conference hall, a string quartet played 'Hey Big Spender' as we waited for Mr Corbyn. His arrival, like the speech itself, wasn't slick or polished. As union activists got to their feet to welcome him, he was nowhere to be seen. But once he did walk in, they lapped up what they heard.
This was an ardent left-winger giving an ardently left-wing speech to an ardently left-wing audience. What's changed is he is the leader of the Labour Party.
What we heard was Jeremy Corbyn re-binding his party to the union movement; a relationship strained in the past, embraced in a bear hug today. He was received very warmly, if not with the ecstasy of his fans outside.
"He talks in the type of language we understand," Dave Prentis, the leader of Unison told me afterwards.
"There are going to be far more people who are interested in politics. Politics has become exciting!" gushed Marz Colombini from the train drivers' union Aslef. But others were more cautious.
Hilary Salt, an actuary, and a member of Unite told me: "I do think there is a bit of tendency within the trade union movement to be a bit giddy about where we are. The Labour Party is still in opposition and there is a lot of bridges to cross before we are in a position where real change might happen."
In short, the reaction here was a cocktail of excitement and enthusiasm, with a shot of nerves stirred in.
Oh, and with a large dollop of 'can you believe this has happened?' on the side.
This congress, like so many other people around the country, is still taking in this new Labour leader, who is anything but New Labour. | Political reporting is rich in moments of absurdity. |
37,284,378 | Tests in mice showed the one-off treatment prevented infection for the full 30 days of the study.
The chemical compound fought early infection in the liver, as well as malaria parasites that were circulating in the blood.
The researchers hope their early work, published in the journal, Nature, could lead to new drugs for people.
Malaria is spread to humans by the bites of infected female mosquitoes and it is estimated that about half of the world's population is at risk of catching the disease.
In 2015, there were 214 million new cases of malaria and 438,000 malaria deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
Aside from avoiding bites by using insecticides and bed nets, people can protect themselves against malaria by taking antimalarial drugs.
But existing treatments are less than perfect - people have to take repeated doses and the parasites that cause malaria are developing resistance to these drugs.
Along the Cambodia-Thailand border, one type of malaria parasite - P. falciparum - has become resistant to almost all available antimalarial medicines.
Dr Nobutaka Kato and colleagues, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, searched a library of more than 100,000 compounds for a new treatment.
They were hunting for something that would work in an entirely new way to existing drugs.
The compound they found targets an enzyme called phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase and appears to wipe out parasites before they can multiply in the liver and be released in bigger numbers into the bloodstream.
Lead researcher Prof Stuart Schreiber hopes the findings will lead to the discovery of better antimalarials in coming years.
He said: "We invite the scientific community to use this database as a jumping off point for their work developing antimalarial therapies."
The work was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Prof David Baker of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said the findings were exciting.
"The advantage of a single dose antimalarial is that it potentially reduces costs and removes the issue of patients not completing the course of treatment.
"One of the safety tests they ran on the new compounds gave results suggesting that there may be a degree of toxicity in human cells, but hopefully the chemists will be able to modify the compounds to remove this issue." | Scientists say they have found a new compound that stops malaria in animal studies with a single, low dose. |
30,628,191 | United manager Louis van Gaal said his team "struggled" during Sunday's goalless draw at Tottenham, which began just 43 hours after their 3-1 Boxing Day win over Newcastle.
England captain Rooney, 29, agreed the demands of the schedule had led to a decline in quality.
"Hopefully in the future it has to change," he said.
Rooney also suggested that fatigue may lead to a player being seriously injured.
On playing twice in three days between Boxing Day and Sunday, Rooney said: "It will probably take someone getting a really bad injury from doing it, which no-one wants to see, but it is very demanding and I think it does need looking at."
United had the better of the first half at White Hart Lane, with Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris making a series of saves to deny Robin van Persie, Rooney and Ashley Young, but Van Gaal's side faded noticeably in the second period.
"It is difficult. We started so well in the first half, but in the second half it was tough," Rooney said. "You do lose a lot of the quality from both teams."
Van Gaal described the congested Christmas schedule as "the culture of England", but said after Sunday's draw in north London that it did not allow players enough rest. | Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has called for a change to the congested festive fixture list. |
38,192,694 | His curling strike from 25 yards, after replacing top scorer Gary Roberts, was enough to settle the match five minutes from time.
A crowd of 6,560 attended the League Two clash in Cleethorpes.
Early on, it took a fingertip save from Grimsby stopper James McKeown to deny Gareth Evans, before Danny Rose also dragged wide for Pompey.
Other chances were few and far between for the remainder of the first half but soon after the restart, McKeown had to be on red alert as Michael Smith bore down on goal, only to shoot straight at the goalkeeper.
At the other end, a dipping volley from Ashley Chambers brought the best out of David Forde.
It sparked the season-high crowd into life and the introduction of Tom Bolarinwa from the bench had a similar impact on Grimsby.
But a spell of home pressure proved to be in vain as Naismith curled a fine winner past McKeown.
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Match ends, Grimsby Town 0, Portsmouth 1.
Second Half ends, Grimsby Town 0, Portsmouth 1.
Gareth Evans (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gareth Evans (Portsmouth).
Kayden Jackson (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Noel Hunt replaces Michael Smith.
Attempt saved. Scott Vernon (Grimsby Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Grimsby Town 0, Portsmouth 1. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the top right corner.
Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Gowling (Grimsby Town).
James Berrett (Grimsby Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Berrett (Grimsby Town).
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Enda Stevens (Portsmouth).
Tom Bolarinwa (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Luke Summerfield.
Foul by Michael Smith (Portsmouth).
Josh Gowling (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Conor Chaplin replaces Kyle Bennett.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Kal Naismith replaces Gary Roberts.
Foul by Michael Smith (Portsmouth).
James Berrett (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Josh Gowling (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Enda Stevens.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Scott Vernon replaces Brandon Comley.
Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Attempt missed. Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Berrett (Grimsby Town).
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town).
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by David Forde.
Attempt saved. Tom Bolarinwa (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Michael Smith (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Carl Baker (Portsmouth).
Danny Andrew (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Tom Bolarinwa replaces Ashley Chambers.
Attempt blocked. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. | A late free-kick from substitute Kal Naismith earned Portsmouth victory over Grimsby at Blundell Park. |
30,152,020 | More than 100 staff at Vibixa in Cheltenham were told last month they will lose their jobs when the Kingsditch Lane site closes early next year.
The company, which is owned by Weetabix, said it had offered an increased redundancy package.
A spokesman for the Unite union said the new offer was "not good enough".
Mike Meredith, who has worked at the factory for 12 years, said he was disappointed with the way Weetabix had handled things.
"We never seem to get any reasons why it's happened. We're a company that has made a profit and we feel we've been treated wrongly."
He said the protest was to "get a fair offer" for workers, some of whom have have served the company "for over 30 or 40 years".
Andy Hewlett, from Unite, said the redundancy package was "not good enough".
"These people have been making a million pounds profit each year. Weetabix think they can make more more by sending the work somewhere else.
"They've offered these people just over statutory redundancy for that. We don't think that's fair at all."
"I'd like to see them come back and give these people a fair offer. We've put proposals in that would give an enhanced package to older workers and workers who've worked here for a very long time."
A spokesman for Weetabix confirmed a "phased closure" of the business would begin in early 2015.
"An enhanced redundancy package has been offered and we will be supporting employees to find new roles with out-placement support and a number of local companies have already been in touch to make us aware of vacancies.
"Throughout this period we will be providing support to employees in the search for alternative employment."
The spokesman added it had been a difficult decision "and we appreciate it affects all of our people and their families". | Employees have held a demonstration against plans to close a factory which makes cardboard boxes for Weetabix. |
34,610,280 | The 34-year-old father was killed when his jet came down on farmland at Redmere, near RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, on Wednesday.
His squadron had just set off from RAF Lakenheath back to the US.
A memorial fund to raise money for his daughter Jade has been set up and has already raised $18,000 (£11,600).
Annie Driscoll, a friend of Major Sareen since 2005, said she set up the fund to help "his beautiful daughter Jade" and hoped it would "teach her about [her father's] incredible charity and allow his story to live through her".
Major Sareen, 34, was killed when his jet came down on farmland at Redmere, near RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, on Wednesday.
The pilot, who lived in San Mateo County, California, became a Marine Corps pilot in 2005.
He graduated from the University of San Francisco (USF) in 2004.
US ABC7 news photographer Chris Jewitt, who attended USF with Major Sareen, told the news network: "He had this confidence and this infectious smile.
"When he came in the room everyone wanted to talk to him."
Major Sareen ejected from the plane but did not survive, the US Marine Corps said.
Colonel Robert Novotny, Commander of 48th fighter wing at RAF Lakenheath, said: "We are very sad about the loss of a fellow team member. We are ready to assist in any way in the investigation."
He said Marine Corps investigators were arriving later and would lead the probe, which was expected to take two to three months.
"The mood is very sombre on the base, but very professional," he added.
The aircraft was part of a fleet of six fighter jets due to fly to California, the US air force said.
The remaining five FA-18 Hornets safely diverted to RAF Lossiemouth airfield in Moray. The aircraft had been en-route from Bahrain and were scheduled to fly to their base in Miramar. | The US pilot who died when his F-18 Hornet jet crashed in a Cambridgeshire field has been named as Major Taj Sareen of the Marine Corps. |
39,319,897 | The marine engineer in India does not blame his grandfather for giving him the Iraqi dictator's name 25 years ago.
But after being refused a job some 40-odd times, he has concluded employers are loath to hire him - even if his name is marginally different - spelt Hussain, not Hussein.
So he went to court to become Sajid. But the wheels of bureaucracy are turning slowly - and so is his search for a job.
It may never have opened many doors in India - and has raised eyebrows and grins elsewhere - but one thing was guaranteed: a name like Saddam Hussain was not likely to pass unnoticed.
Two years after graduating from Tamil Nadu's Noorul Islam University, the man from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand is feeling the strain.
He did well at college, and his classmates have already found jobs, but shipping companies turn him away.
"People are scared to hire me," Saddam-turned-Sajid is quoted by Hindustan Times as saying.
He says they fear complications from an encounter with immigration officials across international borders.
Saddam thought he might easily get around this obstacle, by getting a new passport, driving licence and more.
But his job applications are still not proceeding smoothly as he cannot provide proof, under his new name, that he went to school - and this is proving to be a time-consuming exercise.
Another court hearing beckons on 5 May, this time to force authorities to change the name on his secondary school certificates, after which his graduation papers will need amending.
Sajid is not alone in his plight - but he may feel more aggrieved than the numerous Saddam Husseins of Iraq, who feel cursed with a name that was originally given in tribute to a leader whose legacy is one of a brutal dictator.
One Saddam, a journalist working in Ramadi, a Sunni city in the desert province of Anbar, said his father was fired from his government job because he could not convince his superiors he was not a member of the dictator's Ba'ath party.
He had named his son Saddam, after all - what greater allegiance could he have shown to the ousted president, they argued.
Others had more terrifying stories - one said he was captured by a Shia militia, set down on his knees and had the barrel of a gun placed against the back of his head. Somehow, thanks to sheer luck, the weapon jammed, and the militia eventually released him.
One friend told me how, as a Kurdish schoolchild in Baghdad, he had known a fellow classmate named Saddam Hussein.
While playing football with the boy, they would often shout at him: "It is not only us who hate you, the entire country hates you."
Read Prashant Rao's BBC article | More than 10 years after being executed, Saddam Hussein remains a huge presence in the life of one man. |
35,924,924 | It is part of a planned expansion of the league, with the inclusion of a London-based team likely to follow.
"We are looking forward to having Milton Keynes on board," said Elite League chairman Tony Smith.
"We are very pleased that we are expanding the league. Hopefully this isn't the end of the expansion."
MK Lightning were founded in 2002 and are coached by Pete Russell, who is also in charge of the Great Britain senior men's team.
"The way hockey is going right now this is a really good move for a club which is growing," Russell told the Lightning website.
"I think we have a real core of top-end Brits, and if we can keep them here we will have a really good base to build from."
The Elite League currently has 10 teams - four from England, four from Scotland and one each from Northern Ireland and Wales. | Milton Keynes Lightning are to play in the Elite League, the highest level of professional ice hockey in Britain, from the start of the 2017-18 season. |
37,828,028 | Ryles is working with England's defence for a two-week period before the match against South Africa at Twickenham on 12 November.
"Melbourne Storm have been in six of the last 11 NRL Grand Finals," England head coach Eddie Jones told BBC Sport.
"Relentless defence has been their trademark and that's what we want."
We've got a new nickname for him - The Mummy - he's got wrapping everywhere
The England squad is at a warm-weather training camp in Portugal, with Ryles assisting defence coach Paul Gustard over the next fortnight.
"Gustard has done an outstanding job in putting that defence together, so we just want that to get better," Jones added.
"It's a great learning opportunity for the coaches and the players. Defence is one of the pillars of our game."
On the injury front, Jones is hopeful lock Courtney Lawes will be fit to face the Springboks, despite a knee injury that forced him out of Northampton's match with Gloucester last Friday.
"We've got a new nickname for him - The Mummy - he's got wrapping everywhere," Jones said.
"But we are cautiously optimistic he is going to be right for South Africa. We expect him to start training at the start of next week.
"He's got bone bruising so there's some swelling there, but the medics are confident he's going to be all right."
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Saracens' in-form prop Mako Vunipola is also struggling with a hip niggle, but is expected to train towards the end of the week in the Algarve.
Jones also says the camp will be crucial in assessing Dylan Hartley's fitness before the series. The skipper has only appeared twice for Northampton since early September because of a back problem.
"His attitude and his desire to get right is there, and if that is right then he is right," Jones added.
The England coach says there are contingency plans in place should Hartley not prove his fitness, with back-up hookers Jamie George and Tommy Taylor both playing well for their clubs.
Following the meeting with South Africa, England face Fiji, Argentina and Australia over successive weekends at Twickenham.
Meanwhile, Jones has warned Bath fly-half George Ford, who has been linked with a move to French club Toulon where his father Mike is head coach, that he will not be picked to play for England if he moves overseas.
England have a policy to only select overseas-based players in exceptional circumstances.
"It's an easy choice - you either sign for an English club or you sign for a French club. If you sign for a French club, you don't play for England," said Jones.
"I am not worried about it. I want players who want to play for England and to play for England, you've got to play for an English club." | England have recruited Melbourne Storm rugby league defence coach Jason Ryles on a short-term basis in preparation for the autumn Tests. |
34,046,619 | Police were called to Gainsborough House in the early hours of Friday morning, after reports that a woman had fallen from the fourth floor.
Ms John-Baptiste, of Enfield, was taken to hospital but died shortly afterwards.
Police are treating her death as unexplained.
A 24-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and bailed until late September, pending further inquiries.
Det Ch Insp Neale Baldock of the Metropolitan Police appealed for witnesses or information about the incident.
"We are especially keen to hear from anyone who may have witnessed what occurred on the victim's balcony prior to her fall to help us with our investigation," he said.
Ms John-Baptiste is reported to have worked for Liberty Gas, a central heating engineering company. | A woman who died after falling from a block of flats in Enfield, north London, has been named as 22-year-old Jourdain John-Baptiste. |
39,620,088 | The British couple were due to fly from Luton Airport to Catania in Sicily on Monday last week.
After boarding the aircraft they were asked to leave by staff because the plane had been overbooked.
Easyjet has apologised and blamed human error for the situation.
The two passengers, who had booked non-refundable accommodation in Italy, were told that the next available Easyjet flight was four days later.
The airline failed to tell them they were entitled to a flight the same day with another airline, or to compensation as stipulated under EU rules.
by Joe Lynam, BBC News business correspondent
Easyjet admits that this incident involved two distinct cases of human error. The final two passengers should not have been issued boarding passes at the bag-drop area in Luton airport. Their tickets had not been properly scanned and so the system thought there were enough seats on the plane.
The second human error was not telling their freshly deplaned and doubtless livid customers that they were entitled to compensation or indeed a free flight with a rival airline to their final destination.
But as United Airlines discovered last week, small human errors can cause big reputational damage.
This incident might never have been reported but for the United debacle, which will surely became a textbook example for aspiring public relations types of how not to do it.
The couple, who had planned a six-day break, then decided to cancel the trip.
Easyjet said the passengers should not have been cleared to board and that its staff had not provided the correct information.
It said it was "genuinely sorry" for what had happened and would be providing additional training for staff.
"Whilst [the passengers] were emailed a link to the web page for EU261 compensation applications and the website clearly outlines our policies, we accept that our agents could have pointed this out more explicitly," Easyjet said.
"The circumstances were very unusual and resulted from a manual error at the gate."
The airline said that any customers who had been in a similar situation and felt their case had not been handled appropriately should contact Easyjet.
A spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority said the rights of passengers denied boarding, including overbooking, were protected under European law.
"Passengers are entitled to a minimum level of compensation, and must be offered an alternative flight, or 're-route', at the earliest opportunity or at a date that suits you, or offered a full refund, if the passenger no longer wants to fly."
The incident followed the forcible removal of a passenger last Sunday from a United Airlines flight that had also been overbooked.
David Dao lost two front teeth and suffered a broken nose as law enforcement officials dragged him from the plane at Chicago O'Hare airport.
The situation escalated when a response from the airline's chief executive, Oscar Munoz, failed to mention any use of excessive force.
Mr Munoz has since said he felt "shame and embarrassment" about the incident and vowed it would never happen again.
The airline also promised to change its policy on giving staff last-minute seats on full flights. | Two Easyjet passengers were removed from an overbooked flight and not offered compensation a day after a United Airlines passenger was dragged off a plane in the US. |
31,431,487 | The man's name and the circumstances of his abduction in January 2014 remain unknown.
He was handed over to the members of the International Red Cross and the Catholic Church in a remote area of Norte de Santander province.
The ELN is Colombia's second largest group, after the Farc.
Dutch authorities had been involved in the negotiations to free the man, who is said to be 52 years old, according to Dutch media.
But local Colombian police said they were not aware that the man was being held hostage, El Tiempo newspaper reported.
The ELN, or National Liberation Army, announced last year that it was willing to enter peace negotiations with the Colombian government.
Talks have not begun, however, with President Juan Manuel Santos insisting that the left-wing group must first release its hostages.
Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), is in negotiations with the government to end five decades of conflict.
Both the ELN and the Farc are Marxist-inspired groups were founded in the 1960s to defend the rights of poor peasants and denounce the presence of "American imperialism" in Colombia.
But they later became engaged in criminal activities, such as drug trafficking and kidnapping, to support their activities.
The ELN has some 1,500 fighters, according to the Colombian government. The Farc are thought to have some 8,000 fighters, down from about 16,000 in 2001. | A Dutch citizen has been freed by Colombia's ELN rebel group after more than a year in captivity in the north-east of the country. |
36,462,248 | The former Liverpool and Swansea City boss has taken over from Ronny Deila.
"We can't wait to get in and see how he wants the team set up and how he wants us to play," Gordon told BBC Scotland.
"That's the most exciting part of it - going into pre-season. Normally, you dread going back in, thinking it is going to be hard work."
Celtic's close season is a short one as their new campaign starts with the second qualifying round of the Champions League on 12 or 13 July.
And, after chatting to staff at Celtic Park on Monday as fans queued to buy season tickets, Gordon came away with the impression that the choice of Rodgers has enthused others around the club.
"It is a massive appointment and a huge name with a great track record coming in," he said of Rodgers, who was greeted by 13,000 fans when he was presented as the manager.
"For me personally, it is very exciting and I think the rest of the players are of the same mindset.
"We are looking forward to getting down to the hard work and seeing what we can do this season."
Gordon was not surprised that Celtic - who have won five Scottish titles in a row - have been able to attract such a high-profile manager because of "the potential it has in Europe and the worldwide appeal that Celtic has".
"I can totally understand why Celtic went for a big name and why someone would want to come to Celtic as well - if somebody is willing to put footballing reasons above everything else," said the 33-year-old Scotland international.
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City rivals Rangers return to the top flight after winning promotion and they, along with Hearts and Celtic, are reporting healthy season ticket sales.
"It looks like it's going to be a good league with some big teams who are capable of beating each other at the top end of the league, which is perhaps something we've not had in recent seasons," added Gordon.
"Obviously, with Hearts coming back up there and doing pretty well and capable of taking points off the other teams in the top six, there's potential there for teams to drop points.
"That's what makes it exciting for everybody to watch and also to play in as well." | Brendan Rodgers' arrival as manager has Celtic players relishing rather than fearing the prospect of pre-season training, says goalkeeper Craig Gordon. |
36,491,598 | Police Scotland Chief Constable Phil Gormley revealed the figure in a letter to the Commons Home Affairs Committee.
Local police and fire services were exempt from VAT but this ended with the creation of national bodies in 2013.
The VAT issue remains controversial as Audit Scotland recently warned Police Scotland faced an £85m funding gap.
Westminster's Home Affairs Committee recently requested information from Police Scotland regarding its work training police forces of foreign governments.
At the end of a submission, sent on 2 June, Chief Constable Gormley stated: "Finally you ask, in reference to a question posed by Mr McDonald (SNP MP Stuart McDonald), how much VAT Police Scotland is unable to reclaim, or has paid.
"Since Police Scotland was formed in April 2013 we have paid £76.5M in VAT and we remain the only police organisation in the United Kingdom to pay VAT."
The situation arose as policing and fire services in Scotland were previously controlled by local council which can claim back VAT.
The new national forces are controlled by the Scottish government, which cannot.
The anomaly was known about when the Scottish government was piloting its single forces Bill through Holyrood.
It has since lobbied Westminster for a reintroduction of the VAT exemption, without success.
Following the committee meeting, a Scottish government spokeswoman said: "We remain deeply concerned about the glaring disparity of treatment between the service in Scotland and those in other parts of the UK where none of the other 44 forces have to pay VAT.
"We will continue to press the UK Government to bring their VAT status into line with all other British and Northern Irish Forces, as requested in the letter of 24 February 2016."
Recent concerns about budget shortfalls within Police Scotland have ensured that the issue has remained topical.
In October last year, the Scottish Police Authority, which oversees the national force, heard that Police Scotland was facing a £25m budget overspend by the end of the financial year.
Two months later, then Finance Minister John Swinney announced an extra £55m in funding for Police Scotland in his draft budget.
The same week, financial watchdog Audit Scotland warned of "significant issues" in the force's accounts, with a potential funding gap of £85m developing by 2018/19.
The annual VAT bill for the single Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is estimated to be about £10m. | Scotland's single police force has paid £76.5m in VAT since it was formed three years ago and remains unable to reclaim the tax. |
41,021,422 | QE was introduced as an emergency measure during the financial crisis to pump money directly into the financial system and keep banks lending.
A decade later, the stimulus policies are still in place, but he said they have "made the world more resilient".
But he also said gaps in understanding these relatively new tools remain.
As the economic recovery in the eurozone gathers pace, investors are watching closely for when the ECB will ease back further on its 60bn euro (£55bn) a month bond-buying programme.
Central bankers, including Mr Draghi, are meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, later this week, where they are expected to discuss how to wind back QE without hurting the economy.
On Monday, a former UK Treasury official likened the stimulus to "heroin" because it has been so difficult to wean the UK, US and eurozone economies off it.
In a speech in Lindau, Germany on Wednesday, Mr Draghi defended QE and the ECB's policy of forward guidance on interest rates.
"A large body of empirical research has substantiated the success of these policies in supporting the economy and inflation, both in the euro area and in the United States," he said.
The ECB buying relatively safe assets such as government bonds means that banks can lend more and improve access to credit for riskier borrowers, Mr Draghi said.
He added: "Policy actions undertaken in the last 10 years in monetary policy and in regulation and supervision have made the world more resilient. But we should continue preparing for new challenges."
Critics of QE argue it has inflated asset bubbles and stoked inequality by rewarding the asset-rich while punishing savers.
Lord Macpherson, who was permanent secretary to the Treasury when the Bank of England started QE in 2009, tweeted on Monday: "QE like heroin: need ever increasing fixes to create a high. Meanwhile, negative side effects increase. Time to move on."
The Bank of England's balance sheet swelled to £500bn last year, while the US Federal Reserve held $4.2 trillion (£3.3tn) of assets - which it is now looking to cut down.
The ECB's massive bond-buying programme, which started in March 2015, is expected to top 2tn euros by the year end.
Mr Draghi's comments came as a survey showed continued eurozone businesses growth in August, raising further questions about how much longer the stimulus is needed.
The fastest rise in manufacturing exports in six-and-a-half years helped to offset a mild slowdown in services growth, according to the Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers' Index. | European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has said unconventional policies like quantitative easing (QE) have been a success both sides of the Atlantic. |
37,968,017 | He was famed for his "gospel-infused southern boogie piano rock, blues, and country music", his website says.
Russell played anonymously as a studio pianist in the 1960s before his breakthrough in the 1970s.
He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011. Elton John has called him his "biggest influence as a piano player, a singer and a songwriter".
Russell's had a relatively brief period of stardom in the 70s which was later revived in 2010 with the help of Elton John when the two collaborated on an album called The Union.
The record took third place in a list of 2010's best albums by Rolling Stone magazine.
Over his career, Russell recorded more than 35 albums and was best known for his A Song for You.
The song was recorded and covered by the Carpenters, the Temptations, Neil Diamond, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and his good friend Willie Nelson. | Leon Russell, an America rock'n'roll hall of famer, died in his sleep at the age of 74 in Nashville, Tennessee. |
12,071,424 | Researchers in the US have found grains of cooked plant material in the teeth of the remains.
The study is the first to confirm that the Neanderthal diet was not confined to meat and was more sophisticated than previously thought.
The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The popular image of Neanderthals as great meat eaters is one that has up until now been backed by some circumstantial evidence. Chemical analysis of their bones suggested they ate little or no vegetables.
This perceived reliance on meat had been put forward by some as one of the reasons these humans become extinct as large animals such as mammoths declined.
But a new analysis of Neanderthal remains from across the world has found direct evidence that contradicts the chemical studies. Researchers found fossilised grains of vegetable material in their teeth and some of it was cooked.
Although pollen grains have been found before on Neanderthal sites and some in hearths, it is only now there is clear evidence that plant food was actually eaten by these people.
Professor Alison Brooks, from George Washington University, told BBC News: "We have found pollen grains in Neanderthal sites before but you never know whether they were eating the plant or sleeping on them or what.
"But here we have a case where a little bit of the plant is in the mouth so we know that the Neanderthals were consuming the food."
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One question raised by the study is why the chemical studies on Neanderthal bones have been wide of the mark. According to Professor Brooks, the tests were measuring proteins levels, which the researchers assumed came from meat.
"We've tended to assume that if you have a very high value for protein in the diet that must come from meat. But... it's possible that some of the protein in their diet was coming from plants," she said.
This study is the latest to suggest that, far from being brutish savages, Neanderthals were more like us than we previously thought. | Neanderthals cooked and ate plants and vegetables, a new study of Neanderthal remains reveals. |
37,249,363 | The 24-year-old was playing his fourth game since joining the Dons in August after leaving Championship side Leeds.
But after a collision in the game, the former Manchester United youngster will see a surgeon next week.
Dons boss Karl Robinson said the club was "gutted" for Wootton.
"Despite only being with us for a short time, Scott has made a big impression both on and off the pitch," Robinson told the club website.
"He's a leader and well liked by everyone so this is a difficult one to take, but knowing Scott like I do, he'll come back even bigger and better than before." | MK Dons centre-back Scott Wootton will be out for up to nine months after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament in Tuesday's EFL Trophy match against Barnet. |
40,187,366 | Relatives of the 21-year-old Australian, an au pair, said they were "deeply saddened at the tragic loss".
All of those who died have now been named.
Earlier, police searching for French national Xavier Thomas, 45, said they had recovered a body from the Thames.
Scotland Yard said the body was pulled from the river near Limehouse at 19:44 BST on Tuesday.
Mr Thomas's next of kin have been told, police said, but formal identification has not yet taken place.
Meanwhile, the prime minister of Spain said Ignacio EcheverrÃa, 39, who died defending a woman with his skateboard, should be given a posthumous award - the Silver Cross of the Order of Civil Merit.
Mr EcheverrÃa was from Madrid and was working for HSBC bank in London.
Another victim was named as Sebastien Belanger, from France.
Mr Belanger worked at the Coq d'Argent near Bank. He had been watching the Champions League final football match with friends at a nearby pub before the attack.
The others killed in the attack have been named as Australian Kirsty Boden, Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, from Hackney, London, and French national Alexandre Pigeard.
NHS England said 29 patients remain in London hospitals, with 10 in a critical condition.
Police have named Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Moroccan-Italian man who lived in east London, Khuram Butt, 27, from Barking, and Rachid Redouane, 30, who also lived in Barking, as the men who carried out the attack.
They drove into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people in Borough Market.
Redouane's ex-wife, Charisse O'Leary, said she was "deeply shocked, saddened and numbed" by his actions.
"My thoughts and efforts now are with trying to bring up my daughter with the knowledge that, someday, I will have to try and explain to her why her father did what he did."
Speaking at her house in Bologna, Italy, Zaghba's mother told the BBC she believed her son was radicalised in the UK.
She said he was under surveillance when he was in Italy and questioned why this was not the case in the UK.
An Italian police source confirmed to the BBC that Zaghba had been placed on a watch list, which is shared with many countries, including the UK.
In March 2016, Italian officers stopped Zaghba at Bologna airport and found IS-related materials on his mobile phone. He was then stopped from continuing his journey to Istanbul.
The BBC understands he was not prosecuted but was listed on the Schengen Information System, an EU-wide database which includes details of potential suspects.
When Zaghba entered Britain, staff at passport control should automatically have been alerted by the Schengen system, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.
"One unconfirmed report suggests that did happen, apparently when Zaghba arrived at Stansted Airport in January - but that border staff still let him in," he said.
A 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of terror offences as detectives raided an address in Ilford, east London, in the early hours of Wednesday.
On Wednesday night, detectives arrested two more men in Ilford - aged 27 and 29 - on suspicion of the preparation of terrorist acts.
On Tuesday a 27-year-old man was arrested in Barking on Tuesday in connection with the investigation.
A man was arrested in Limerick, in the Irish Republic, on Tuesday over the discovery of ID documents in Redouane's name. He was later released without charge.
A second man, who is in his 30s, was arrested on Tuesday evening, with the Garda saying it was also related to Redouane. He is being held in Wexford. | The family of London attack victim Sara Zelenak have paid tribute to their "beautiful daughter and sister," as police say the death toll from Saturday's attacks has risen to eight. |
36,304,880 | Signings confirmed in April can be found on the relevant page, while you can see who each club has released on our dedicated page.
Keep up to date with all of the confirmed deals in our list below.
You can also catch up with what the papers are saying in today's gossip column, or for manager ins and outs, see our list of current bosses.
Niall Canavan [Scunthorpe - Rochdale] Free
Darius Charles [Burton - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Danny Hylton [Oxford - Luton] Free
Liam McAlinden [Wolves - Exeter] Free
Johnny Mullins [Oxford - Luton] Free
Mark Randall [Barnet - Newport] Free
Yordi Teijsse [Quick Boys - Dundee] Free
Stephen Warnock [Derby - Wigan] Free
Antoni Sarcevic [Fleetwood - Shrewsbury] Free
Mathieu Baudry [Leyton Orient - Doncaster] Free
Louis Dodds [Port Vale - Shrewsbury] Free
Viktor Fischer [Ajax - Middlesbrough] Undisclosed
Russell Penn [York - Carlisle] Free
Louis-Michel Yamfam [Stevenage - Charlton] Undisclosed
Blair Alston [Falkirk - St Johnstone] Free
Gary Deegan [Southend - Shrewsbury] Free
James Jennings [Forest Green - Cheltenham] Free
Ryan Lowe [Bury - Crewe] Free
Josh Payne [Eastleigh - Crawley] Free
George Taft [Burton - Mansfield] Free
Alex Cairns [Rotherham - Fleetwood] Free
Erik Cikos [Unattached - Ross County]
Ross Etheridge [Accrington - Doncaster] Free
Danzell Gravenberch [FC Dordrecht - Reading] Undisclosed
Aaron Holloway [Wycombe - Fleetwood] Undisclosed
Lloyd James [Leyton Orient - Exeter] Free
Aaron McCarey [Wolves - Ross County] Free
Glenn Morris [Gillingham - Crawley] Free
Chris Neal [Port Vale - Fleetwood] Free
Jon Nolan [Grimsby - Chesterfield] Free
Danny Rose [Bury - Mansfield] Undisclosed
Christopher Routis [Bradford - Ross County] Free
Alan Sheehan [Bradford - Luton] Free
Robbie Simpson [Cambridge - Exeter] Free
Kenny van der Weg [NAC Breda - Ross County] Free
Granit Xhaka [Borussia Monchengladbach - Arsenal] Undisclosed
Nicky Adams [Northampton - Carlisle] Free
Jason Banton [Notts County - Crawley] Free
Joey Barton [Burnley - Rangers] Free
Matty Blair [Mansfield - Doncaster] Free
Loris Karius [Mainz - Liverpool] £4.7m
James Martin [Queen of the South - Hartlepool] Free
Joe McKee [Greenock Morton - Carlisle] Undisclosed
Ben Pollock [Newcastle - Hartlepool] Free
Kayden Jackson [Wrexham - Barnsley] Free
Ben Wyatt [Maldon & Tiptree - Colchester] Undisclosed
Cian Bolger [Southend - Fleetwood] Free
Michael Madl [Sturm Graz - Fulham] Undisclosed
Ashley Eastham [Rochdale - Fleetwood] Free
Oliver Lancashire [Rochdale - Shrewsbury] Free
Stefan Payne [Dover - Barnsley] Undisclosed
Tommy Rowe [Wolves - Doncaster] Undisclosed
Jamie Turley [Eastleigh - Newport] Free
Ashley Nadesan [Horley - Fleetwood] Undisclosed
Miles Storey [Swindon - Aberdeen] Undisclosed
Enzio Boldewijn [Almere City - Crawley] Free
Chris Maxwell [Fleetwood - Preston] Free
Havard Nordtveit [Borussia Monchengladbach - West Ham] Free
Hayden White [Bolton - Peterborough] Free
Andy Yiadom [Barnet - Barnsley] Free
John Goddard [Woking - Swindon] Undisclosed
Jordan Rossiter [Liverpool - Rangers] Undisclosed
Ousmane Dembele [Rennes - Borussia Dortmund] Undisclosed*
Lex Immers [Feyenoord - Cardiff] Undisclosed
*Deal to be completed on 1 July
Jayden Stockley [Bournemouth - Aberdeen] Free*
*Deal to be completed on 1 July
Kristian Dennis [Stockport - Chesterfield] Free
Mats Hummels [Borussia Dortmund - Bayern Munich] Undisclosed*
Jodi Jones [Dagenham & Redbridge - Coventry] Undisclosed
Renato Sanches [Benfica - Bayern Munich] £27.5m*
*Deal to be completed on 1 July
Keith Watson [St Mirren - St Johnstone] Free*
*Deal to be completed on 1 July
The page covers signings by Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premiership clubs, along with selected deals from overseas and the Scottish Championship. | The summer transfer window opens in England, Scotland and Wales in July and will close at the end of August. |
38,809,246 | The 33-year-old has scored 15 goals in 28 games since rejoining the Seagulls on a season-long loan last summer.
He has now agreed a two-and-a-half-year deal at the Amex Stadium.
Murray joined the Cherries for £4m in September 2015, but was restricted to just seven starts for the Premier League club last season.
He previously scored 56 goals for Brighton between January 2008 and May 2011 before moving to Crystal Palace on a free transfer.
Meanwhile, goalkeeper Christian Walton has been recalled from a loan spell at Luton to cover for David Stockdale while Niki Maenpaa recovers from a shoulder injury.
The 21-year-old made 33 appearances during his six-month stay with the Hatters.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | Championship leaders Brighton have completed the permanent signing of striker Glenn Murray from Bournemouth for an undisclosed fee. |
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The bid has been called into question after a damning report into IAAF governance claimed "corruption was embedded" within the organisation.
Authors of the report want police to investigate past bidding processes.
But UKA boss Ed Warner insisted: "All I know is that London's bid was completely by the book."
"We have nothing to hide and we would be delighted to spend any amount of time going through our processes with the investigators if that helps root out any miscreants," he added.
Richard McLaren, a member of the independent panel that produced the latest report on the world governing body, wants an investigation into how world championships were awarded under the regime of Lamine Diack.
The former IAAF boss, who stepped down in August last year, was accused of allegedly taking bribes to cover up positive drugs tests.
Information gathered by McLaren and the independent panel regarding the championships has already been passed on to French prosecutors.
"We don't have hard evidence, but it's enough information that we think it bears a serious investigation," he said.
McLaren, a renowned sports lawyer, added: "The process by which those decisions were made - who made them, why did they make them and why did other cities not get selected - needs to be investigated."
Asked if he would be prepared to make all emails and documents available, Warner said: "Absolutely."
He added: "It's right that these things are fair battles and the right city wins for the good of the sport and nothing more.
"There has been a very unhealthy smell at Fifa with some of football's World Cup bids and now it appears there may be some of that stench with some IAAF World Championships - and that is very unpleasant."
The report into IAAF governance was highly critical of Diack, who was in charge for 16 years.
It also said there "may be reason to believe" senior officials at the International Association of Athletics Federations and others acting on their behalf "may have benefited from decisions of the IAAF to award certain cities and countries" a world championship.
Moscow hosted the 2013 championships, followed by Beijing in 2015, with London and Doha due to stage the event in 2017 and 2019 respectively.
The decision to award the 2021 event to the American town of Eugene without the usual bidding process is already under investigation.
The report also raised questions about Tokyo's successful 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid.
The Japanese beat the Turkish and Spanish capitals of Istanbul and Madrid.
The report claimed that Diack allegedly dropped his support for Turkish city Istanbul after it did not pay sponsorship money of up to $5m (£3.5m) to the Diamond League or IAAF.
However, Japan did pay the sponsorship money, according to transcripts obtained by the independent panel.
In response to the report's claims, Hikariko Ono, spokeswoman for the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, insisted the bidding process had been fair.
She said the Games were awarded to Tokyo because the city "presented the best bid", adding: "The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee considers that the note in the report is beyond our understanding."
Tokyo collected 60 to Istanbul's 36 in the final round of voting. | London has "nothing to hide" over its successful bid to stage the 2017 World Championships, says the boss of UK Athletics. |
36,332,224 | In 2014, the firm said it aimed to employ 700 people in the city by 2019.
The new target is for 1,000 by 2020. That will make Belfast the firm's largest UK base outside London.
The firm currently has 460 employees in Northern Ireland, with 43 apprentices due to start in September.
The bulk of the new jobs will be in the firm's technology business.
The 2014 announcement included a £2.6m grant from Invest NI but the revised plans will not involve any more public money.
The firm operates from two offices in Belfast and is talking to developers with a view to leasing a new building.
First Minister Arlene Foster said Deloitte's move to increase its workforce "is a strong endorsement of Northern Ireland's dynamic economy".
"Deloitte is making this commitment based on the talent and quality of staff in Belfast and it is a clear indicator of the confidence that the firm has in Northern Ireland," she added.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said: "Deloitte is delivering on its recruitment plans and is also in the process of securing new grade A office accommodation."
Nick Owen, Deloitte's UK chairman, said the firm's decision to expand in Belfast showed that the city is "a great place to do business and a hotbed of talent".
He added: "It also demonstrates our continued commitment to social mobility as a core part of our talent strategy and our desire to continue to further deliver on this commitment in Northern Ireland." | Deloitte, the professional services firm, has said the expansion of its Belfast operation will create 300 more jobs than originally planned. |
33,308,124 | The 61-year-old man from Hastings was pronounced dead at the site of the crash on the A259 at Icklesham, near Winchelsea at 10:15 BST on Sunday.
The driver of the Ford Focus, a 53-year-old man from Dartford, Kent, and his passenger, a woman aged 51, were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
The A259 was closed between North Lane, Guestling Thorn, and Laurel Lane, Icklesham, for more than four hours.
Sussex Police have appealed for anyone who saw the crash or the Triumph Legend motorcycle or the car shortly beforehand to come forward. | A motorcyclist has died at the scene of a collision with a car in East Sussex. |
37,473,550 | The Scot was speaking after he won his latest tournament on the Seniors tour, the China Championship in Canada.
"I am obviously very happy with the victory, but it's a very sad day," said Montgomerie. "A great loss to golf.
"He and manager Mark McCormack took the marketing world by storm and produced the PGA Tour - and the Champions Tour."
Palmer's links with Scotland were long-standing, stretching from before his Open win in Ayrshire in 1962 to helping design the Palmer Tribute course at Castle Stuart, near Inverness, which is about to begin construction.
"I remember my father being the first to congratulate Arnold Palmer when he won the Open at our club at Troon," said 53-year-old Montgomerie.
"And, from then on, it appeared to be a marketing dream - him and Mark McCormack.
"Arnold Palmer became a worldwide figure and he was as popular and legendary in Britain and Europe and other parts of the world as he was here in the States."
Montgomerie, who won a record eight European Tour Order of Merit titles, beat American Scott McCarron in a play-off to win his latest title in British Columbia.
"Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus went out there and played together on this tour, but mainly Arnold Palmer because he was 10 years older than Jack, and we have a lot to thank him for," he said.
Montgomerie's father, James, recalled Palmer with fondness as "a lovely man and a gentleman".
"I always remember coming up the last hole - I was stewarding for the club at the time - and trying to keep the crowds back and the atmosphere was electric," he said of that 1962 win.
"The crowds were immense. It was the last Open that was held here where they had no stands at all and the crowds invaded the course from the beach, so it was quite dramatic."
Former golf broadcaster and writer Renton Laidlaw was also there that day and said modern golfers have much to thank Palmer for.
"I remember at Troon when he won, it was like the Pied Piper," he told BBC Scotland.
"In those days, the crowds could come on to the course and he would walk down the fairway leading this band of people and it meant that, in future, the barriers went up and you weren't able to walk on the course any more.
"He loved Scotland and he loved this place here at St Andrews.
"He was the man who started it all and popularised the game with his flamboyant and aggressive style.
"He grew the game around the world and people became aware of it like never before.
"He was a legend. He was called the king of golf and he deserved to be king."
Sportwriter Jim Black was too young to have seen Palmer in his prime but has his own fond memories of the American.
"At St Andrews when he walked up the 18th to end his Open career in the early 2000s and it was a very emotional moment," he said. "He himself shed a tear I think and most of us had a lump in our throat watching it.
"The whole atmosphere was incredible. Only someone of Palmer's standing and charisma could have got that reaction and it was one of these moments at St Andrews when the whole place erupted with emotion and appreciation.
"I met Arnold several times and the last time was at Turnberry at the Senior Open about 10 years ago.
"He came off the course, he was in his late 70s and was exhausted and we were standing, a group of us from the press waiting to speak with him, and he leaned on my shoulder and stayed there leaning on it for about five minutes.
"In all that time, I was desperately looking round for a photographer to get that picture - the one that, if I got it and sadly I didn't, would have had central place on my office wall."
Black thought the new course at Castle Stuart would be a "nice monument" when it is open.
"It is just sad he is not going to be around to see it," he added.
"He leaves a massive legacy in the game in terms of his achievements, his personality, what he did for the modern players." | Colin Montgomerie has led the tributes to Arnold Palmer, who has died aged 87, saying he owes a debt to the American for his own success in golf. |
32,485,577 | The Judge said Ashley Latty "never stood a chance" when he was attacked by a gang in a street in east London.
Nicholas Terrelonge 28, and Tyler Burton, 28, were both jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years.
Kestrel Dyer, 25, and Jerome Joseph, 28, were cleared of murder but found guilty of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.
They were jailed for six-and-a-half years and six years respectively.
Nana Oppong, 34, was found not guilty of murder but was jailed for four years after admitting causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
The attackers were all from east London. Judge Stephen Gullick said their victim, a 25-year-old father, "never stood a chance when faced by such a group of attackers".
The court heard Terrelonge had rounded up the group of men at a ticketed birthday party after he recognised Mr Latty as someone who had stolen from him in the past.
Mr Latty, from Leyton, died after he was kicked, punched and stabbed five times outside the Beaver Centre in Dagenham, at 05:30 BST on 18 May last year.
When onlookers tried to intervene they were also attacked by the men.
Prosecutor Simon Denison QC had told the court: "The defendants didn't care who at the party saw them. And they were careless enough to attack him as they did in the line of sight of CCTV cameras that recorded what they did.
"He didn't stand a chance. It was sudden, sustained, utterly brutal and without mercy."
In evidence at the trial, Oppong denied knowing any of the other defendants and said, when he was told Mr Latty had robbed Terrelonge of a necklace, he was "flattered" to be asked to get involved. | Two men have been jailed for life for the brutal murder of a partygoer in an attack caught on CCTV. |
35,502,211 | China is officially atheist but says it guarantees religious freedom.
However, serving Communist Party members are not expected to be religious.
Newly published Party rules now say retired officials are also barred from religion and must oppose cults, state media said.
The regulations were issued by the Communist Party's powerful Organization Department.
Chinese media quoted an official, explaining the new regulations, as saying: "There are clear rules that retired cadres and party members cannot believe in religion, cannot take part in religious activities, and must resolutely fight against cults."
Retired officials should "maintain a high degree of consistency, in thought, in political views and in action, with the central party committee which is headed by Xi Jinping", the official added.
China's constitution guarantees religious freedom, but in practise religious activities are tightly controlled.
All churches have to be approved by the state and authorities keep a close eye on their activities to contain their influence.
Muslims in Xinjiang have also faced restrictions on their religious activities, while the Falun Gong spiritual movement has been denounced as an "evil cult" and has been banned since 1999. | China has banned retired Communist Party members from believing in a religion or practising religious activities, state media report. |
38,733,786 | Natalia Wilkanowska, 50, disappeared in 2003 after visiting her ex-husband Gerald Doherty in Luton.
Joseph Doherty, 73, of Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, denied helping conceal her remains and lying to police.
The jury at Luton Crown Court could not agree on the charges against him. The prosecution intends to seek a retrial.
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Ms Wilkanowska's body was left under builder's rubble in the garden in Icknield Way, Luton, and was not discovered until December 2015.
The jury had been considering its verdict since Friday.
Mr Doherty, of Old Greenock Road, Port Glasgow, denied one charge of perverting the course of justice, one of obstructing the coroner by giving a false account of Ms Wilkanowska's death and one charge of preventing her lawful burial.
The case will be mentioned again in court on 3 February.
Last week the judge directed the jury to clear his younger brother 67-year-old Daniel Doherty, who owned the house where the remains were found.
The judge said that having heard the prosecution evidence, he concluded he had no case to answer.
Ms Wilkanowska's ex-husband hanged himself in July 2003 in a flat in Robert Street, Port Glasgow. | The jury in the trial of a man accused of keeping the murder of his sister-in-law secret for 12 years has been discharged. |
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UFC champion McGregor faces legendary American boxer Mayweather, 40, in Las Vegas on 26 August in a boxing match that could earn both men $100m.
Four-time super-middleweight world champion Froch told BBC Sport: "Everyone expects Mayweather to win.
"But McGregor is 29. He is young, fit, hungry and confident."
Nottingham's Froch added: "I know McGregor is not a boxer; he's a cage fighter.
"But Mayweather could just come unstuck early on and might get caught with something. That's the big concern. It's a fascinating match."
Froch retired in July 2015, 14 months after knocking out George Groves to retain the WBA and IBF titles at Wembley Stadium.
He won 33 of his 35 fights, with 24 victories by knockout, but has no intention of following Mayweather's example by making a comeback.
"I'm 40 years old now and have been retired for three years," Froch said. "It's too long to be out of the ring and then come back at a competitive level.
"I'm nearly 14 stone and box at 12 stone. For me to boil myself to 12 stone would be dangerous for a start.
"I retired because I was feeling the pace. Boxing felt like work in my last couple of fights and it had never felt like work. I was doing something I enjoy. Doing something you are good at and enjoy doesn't feel like work.
"I've have had a fantastic career. I was a four-time world champion and retired on a high. To fill Wembley Stadium with a boxing event was unprecedented. It was the biggest fight post-war." | Floyd Mayweather's two-year break from boxing gives Conor McGregor a chance of causing an upset in their controversial cross-code fight, says Carl Froch. |
36,212,080 | The 16-year-old was kidnapped from her home near Abbottabad, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and put inside a vehicle that was set alight, police said.
Graphic images of her body have been circulated on social media.
Police say the victim's mother and the leader of the local council, or jirga, are among several people arrested.
The killing has been linked to orders given last week by the jirga, a traditional assembly of elders, in Makol village, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported.
According to police, the 15-member jirga had ordered the girl, named as Amber, to be killed and set alight as punishment for helping her friend to marry of her own free will.
The girl was kidnapped, drugged and killed and then placed in the back seat of a parked van that was doused with petrol and set on fire, Dawn reported.
Other media reports said the victim was still alive when the van was set alight.
A local official who brought the charred body to the morgue said: "We went to the place and found three vehicles parked next to each other that were burnt. In one of them we saw a body. We couldn't recognise her then. But found a few bangles on one of her arms establishing that this was a woman's body."
Thirteen people have been arrested, police said.
The girl's school friend and her boyfriend are reported to have married and be living at an undisclosed location.
Correspondents say so-called honour killings are a major issue in Pakistan and many go unreported.
Last year, nearly 1,100 women were killed by relatives who believed they had dishonoured their families, a report by the country's independent Human Rights Commission said.
In February, Punjab, the country's largest province, passed a landmark law criminalising all forms of violence against women. | Police in Pakistan say village elders ordered the murder of a teenage girl because she had helped a school friend to elope. |
23,920,051 | An average 9.2 million tuned in to watch the launch show, peaking at 9.7 million, to see the return of Sharon Osbourne to the judging panel.
Sunday night's show was watched by even more viewers, averaging 9.9 million and peaking at 10.4 million.
Last year's opener fell to 8.7 million, down on the 12 million of 2011.
Boss Simon Cowell has promised changes to boost flagging ratings.
One of the big changes is the re-introduction of intimate auditions before the judging panel before contestants perform in front of an arena audience.
Osbourne has been brought back to replace the departed Tulisa Contostavlos. She was last on the judging panel in 2007, having been one of the original cast back when it started in 2004.
One of the highlights of Saturday's show was the appearance of prison officer Sam Bailey, who surprised the judges with her rendition of Beyonce's Listen, which saw all four judges rise to their feet in admiration.
From the start The X Factor will be running two shows every weekend, with the Sunday night programme showing the contestants performing in front of a live audience as well as the judges.
The BBC's own Saturday night entertainment staple, Strictly Come Dancing, returns on Saturday,
The two shows will have a short overlap between Strictly ending and X Factor starting.
The full line-up of Strictly Come Dancing contestants will be revealed on Wednesday night but four names have already been disclosed.
Broadcaster Vanessa Feltz, Countdown maths whizz Rachel Riley, golfer Tony Jacklin and Abbey Clancy, wife of footballer Peter Crouch, will all be donning Lycra and sequins for the new series.
ITV launched its own celebrity dancing shown on Saturday.
Stepping Out, which saw six celebrity couples learning to dance together, attracted an average of 3.7 million for its first show. | The return of The X Factor to Saturday night saw the ITV show win back some of the viewers it lost for last year's opening show. |
28,968,988 | The ground-breaking initiative by Stephen Perse Foundation school in Cambridge will make A-level, IB and GCSE courses available online.
They can be downloaded free through Apple's iTunes U service.
Principal Tricia Kelleher says: "The digital world requires teachers, like everyone else, to work differently."
The Stephen Perse Foundation, one of the country's highest achieving schools, has been experimenting with digital learning, with every pupil having their own iPad.
The school has been building digital support materials for each subject, including video, audio, written materials and links to online resources.
These digital text-books, produced by teachers for their specific lessons, form a library of materials for pupils to follow in class and for revision.
But from the new school year, these materials developed for this fee-paying school are being made available free online for students in the UK or anywhere else in the world.
In what will be one of the biggest such projects in the UK, there will be 87 course units on iTunes U, which is the non-charging academic version of iTunes. They include both exam subjects and lessons for pupils aged 11 to 14.
The iTunes U service has been associated with higher education, with many leading universities around the world making thousands of courses available.
There have been more than one billion downloads, with the current chart-topping collection being Philosophy for Beginners from Oxford University.
But the Stephen Perse Foundation has used iTunes U to offer a set of courses specifically for school-level subjects.
Simon Armitage, a senior teacher at the school who has used the digital resources with geography classes, said: "I think we are just at the beginning of the transformation of the way in which we teach in schools.
"Having the iTunes U units available to the world is an amazing step to take. Teachers have taken information from the web for years. This is a chance to put something back which could be interesting and useful to other teachers, schools and students."
Ms Kelleher, the school's principal, said that the focus "shouldn't be on the technology, it should always be on the learning".
But she said teachers can be "frustrated by the static nature of traditional textbooks. They are often expensive and out of date almost as soon as they are published."
Developing the digital course materials, which pupils can use at school or at home, has been "very positive" and rather than reducing the role of the teacher, she says that it makes the teacher "more important than ever".
The "novelty value" stage of using technology in schools soon wears off, she says. But students and teachers are seeing the practical advantages of online, digital materials.
"We are now seeing technology in schools enter a new era."
The idea of using shared, customised digital materials on the iTunes U platform has been taken a step further in Texas in the United States.
There are 14 school districts in the US state which collectively produce and share online course materials, which are designed to support the local curriculum and testing system.
There are 58 teachers working on content development for the online service, focusing on maths, science, social studies and English. | A leading independent school is making dozens of its courses available free online, so lessons can be downloaded by pupils or teachers at other schools. |
29,198,736 | It says home ownership is becoming an "exclusive members' club".
The NHF, which represents housing associations, says only the wealthiest of the next generation will be able to buy a home if current trends continue.
Its report, Broken Market, Broken Dreams, says the average first time buyer needs a £30,000 deposit and to borrow 3.4 times their annual income.
The NHF says that in 1979 the average amount needed to buy a home would be 1.7 times annual income.
It points out that first-time buyers have to earn more, borrow more, stump up a larger deposit and rely more on family wealth than even a generation ago.
Two thirds of first-time buyers receive financial help from parents - a figure that has doubled in the past five years.
The report coincides with a monthly survey of property prices by Rightmove, which says prices in September are 0.9% higher than last year, the first rise for this month since 2011.
It says enquiries to agents overall are up by 16% year-on-year, at their second highest ever monthly level.
David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, said: "With the high salary, and huge deposit younger generations now need to buy even a modest home, home ownership is quickly becoming an exclusive members club. Sadly, it will depend on the wealth of the family you were born into as much as your own hard work." | The National Housing Federation (NHF) says first time buyers need 10 times the deposit they did in the 1980s. |
38,496,414 | In footage that has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube, two young twin boys from Utah, US, can be seen climbing on a chest of drawers in their bedroom, playing happily.
Moments later, the chest of drawers falls, trapping one of the boys, Brock, underneath the upended dresser.
As he struggles under the weight of the furniture, his brother Bowdy weighs up how to free him. Fortunately, after some deliberation, he is able to push the chest of drawers off his twin.
The boys' parents, Ricky and Kayli Shoff, say they were hesitant about sharing the video, but did so "in order to spread awareness to other families".
And they say that all parents should be alerted to the dangers of unsecured furniture.
Speaking to CBS News, Kayli and Ricky Shoff said they did not hear the furniture falling and only realised the full extent of the situation when they saw footage from the video camera in their sons' room.
"My heart sank," Kayli said. "I felt like the worst mom in the world."
The chest of drawers has now been bolted to the wall and the handles removed from the drawers to prevent the boys from climbing on them.
"I think physically, you can't child-proof your house a hundred percent," Kayli told CBS News.
"I can do this one thing to make my home a little more safe for my children."
This is not the first time that the dangers posed to children by unsecured furniture have been highlighted.
Last year, Ikea agreed to pay $50m (£40m) to the families of three toddlers killed by falling chests of drawers in the US. Millions of chests of drawers were recalled by the Swedish firm.
Produced by the UGC and Social News team | It's every parent's nightmare - but thanks to the quick thinking of a two-year-old child there was a happy ending. |
39,134,598 | Best known for her role as Mary in Julian Fellowes' ITV adaptation of Anthony Trollope's Doctor Thorne, she also appears in US drama Emerald City.
Now she's playing the leading role as a young Jane Tennison in the prequel to popular crime drama Prime Suspect.
The role of Tennison was, of course, originally played by Oscar winner Dame Helen Mirren.
We spoke to Stefanie about the pressure of taking on such a well-known role, sexism in the industry and dealing with the insecurity of the acting profession.
I'm very excited for people to see it. And a little bit nervous of the response. I really hope that people like it.
I had seen all the series before and then re-watched five series before starting the job. It was helpful in lots of different ways. Obviously having Helen Mirren's performance to reference and work towards and also to get a glimpse into the world that she's in. The police force, the chaos - especially how the rest of your life goes on hold.
It was just so everyday, so casual, just so ingrained in the way people lived their lives. The expectation that women would perform more domestic duties than men and were generally considered less intelligent or important. That fed through to the way the male officers acted towards the female officers. I found it shocking how the female officers just expected it and were used to it, that's just the way things work.
Yes, I have, I think in the nature of parts - women are often portrayed as decoration, as sex objects, purely to bring in a certain kind of crowd with no three-dimensional personality. Luckily I don't get put forward for those parts very often but they are out there. Less and less but they are there.
There is such a pressure on female actresses to look a certain way, to be a certain shape and a certain size in order to get work. There are people that don't fit that mould who are incredibly talented, who don't get seen or given the opportunity to work as much as they could, simply because of the way they look. I think that's sad.
You'd like to think talent triumphs but it's not always the case if you can't even get through the door.
I tried to see it as a separate series in its own right even though obviously it's not - it was great to work off but she's so different as a character at that time of her life, so I couldn't copy what she would have been doing. It didn't feel like stepping into someone's shoes as the character is so different.
I love it when people ask me that - like I've got her phone number! She's supportive of the project I think, and I haven't spoken to her but if I met her in the future, I'd probably be a bit speechless and wouldn't know what to say!
What's happened for me is quite unusual. I'm very grateful and obviously I've put a lot of work in to being where I am but then at the same time, so much of it is luck, what projects are going and what you're right for.
And I've got such a great team of people behind me. They make everything possible and they believe in me.
It's a difficult career to be in and I'm very lucky to be in a very small percentage of people who have worked quite a lot over the last year. Acting goes up and down in waves.
Obviously because of what's going on with me right now, at some point in my life I'm not going to be in that situation and someone else will and that's the nature of the job. You've just got to enjoy the work while you have it. But also never get too secure or expect that's the way things are going to be.
It was a learning curve. There is a screen department at Rada and they teach you what they can, but I don't think anyone can prepare you for the scale of it. It's so different to theatre, in the way that you don't have four weeks of rehearsal. You have to make all the choices beforehand and be flexible.
You don't know what the final thing's going to look like, you don't have the experience of the live audience and being able to feel their feedback in the room with them. It's doing it and then six months or a year later, it's become something and you've no idea what it's going to be.
Prime Suspect 1973 is on ITV on Thursday 2 March at 9pm. | Actress Stefanie Martini has been kept pretty busy since graduating from Rada in 2015. |
37,871,398 | One believes fleets of drones will soon be filling our skies, delivering parcels to our doors. Another thinks we will be travelling at 700mph in a tube in a transport revolution that will transform travel between cities.
And, perhaps most outlandishly, a third is a fervent believer that governments can convince the public that technology - and in particular artificial intelligence - is a force for good.
Grab our podcast to hear these "blue-skies" thinkers.
When Amazon put up a video three years ago showing a drone delivering a parcel, many people thought it was a joke - or at least one of those concepts dreamed up in a strategy department never to see the light of day.
But when I met Amazon's Paul Misener in Manchester at the Innovate 2016 event, he made clear that Prime Air, as it is known, is deadly serious. The company's global head of innovation told a packed conference room that drone delivery was in a long tradition of Amazon ideas - from opening up its platform to other retailers to starting a cloud service - that were first pooh-poohed, then accepted as the norm.
Before his speech, he told me that much of the work on making Prime Air a reality was being done in Cambridge, England, where various types of drone suited to different territories and environments were being tested.
"We intend to deploy it around the world, " he said, "but we won't fly until we demonstrate the safety of the system." Mr Misener admits there are regulatory and ethical questions to be sorted out - and those worries seem to be mounting around the world as we heard from Sweden last week.
But when I put it to him that a future where the skies are filled with delivery drones will worry many he tells me "the sky is a big place". In a few years, Amazon reckons that when you want some small item in a hurry - say batteries for a new toy - you will click the button for drone delivery even if it is quite a pricey option. Maybe we had all better start marking out a drone landing zone in the back garden.
If Amazon's drone plans sound ambitious, the Hyperloop One project seems downright insane to some. The idea of a new transport system which involves sending pods carrying passengers and freight through a vacuum tube at speeds of over 700mph was floated by Elon Musk a few years ago.
Hyperloop One is trying to turn that vision into a reality, and Alan James, a British engineer who promoted a maglev train as an option for high-speed travel in the UK, is now touring the world selling vacuum-packed transport.
Before an open-mouthed audience in Manchester - again at Innovate 2016 - he put up slides showing a potential Hyperloop link between Helsinki and Stockholm or one from Manchester to Leeds. The fact that one route would involve taking a tube across the Baltic Sea and the other drilling a tunnel through the Pennines seemed of little consequence. The time savings - and the wider economic benefit - were attracting interest from politicians around the world, according to Mr James.
Surely not in the UK, where planning rows are making even good old-fashioned rail projects subject to infinite delays? Alan James insists he is getting a hearing and, as if to make his point, an official from the government-funded Innovate UK came up to shake his hand - and then confirmed to me that the Hyperloop idea was at least being put in front of ministers in briefing documents.
Mind you, it sounds as though Dubai, where Hyperloop will encounter far fewer planning constraints, is a better bet for the first commercial realisation of the idea. If - and it's a big if - the project proves that it is technically and financially viable.
If any politician seems willing to engage with such blue-skies ideas on our technological future it is President Barack Obama. He has just been a guest editor of Wired Magazine, talking with enthusiasm about how artificial intelligence is already transforming our world and promises more radical changes.
This week, his chief technology officer - an innovation introduced under his administration - is visiting the UK and talking about what has been learned about the process of digital government. When I caught up with Megan Smith at the annual Silicon Valley Comes to the UK meeting, she was bubbling with ideas about how to prepare society for the impact of artificial intelligence.
But we are in a period when the world and, in particular, middle America has fallen out of love with Silicon Valley's tech utopianism. I put it to her that people in America's rust-belt, where manufacturing jobs are threatened by outsourcing to China or to robots, would not be impressed by the Obama administration's promises of code camps to improve their digital skills.
She refused to concede that but admitted it would be a long road to transform America - or indeed the UK - to ready people for the full impact of technology such as AI.
Of course her road, along with that of President Obama, is now running out. I now realise I missed a trick by failing to ask how she thought technology might fare under a President Trump. | This week, Tech Tent features three people with far-fetched views of our tech future. |
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