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35,076,402 | The DSCOVR spacecraft, which was launched in February, has a camera that stares constantly at the sunlit face of the Earth.
The images are being used to track moving features such as clouds and dust storms, and to monitor the climate.
But on 27 September, it was in just the right position to see the Moon go behind the Earth and into its shadow.
On the ground at this time, skywatchers would have observed the lunar body turn a shade of red.
It does this because some sunlight is still able to reach the Moon's surface after being filtered through the Earth's atmosphere.
"Our camera is normally centred on the Earth but we use the Moon for calibration," explained Jay Herman, the US space agency's (Nasa) lead investigator on DSCOVR's Epic camera system.
"That's what we were doing on this occasion. We were staring at the Moon and the Earth moved in front about four hours before the eclipse was seen on Earth. And that's because we were at an angular position, just to the side of the Sun-Earth line.
"The Earth is rotating as it goes by. It's kind of neat because you can watch the motion of the clouds."
Dr Herman was speaking at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco - the largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.
The DSCOVR satellite is reported to be in excellent shape. In-space testing continues following the launch but science operations have started up nonetheless, and the AGU gathering is being used to report some early observations and results.
One of the satellite's objectives is to track cloud behaviour. The different wavelength filters on Epic allow the camera to estimate cloud heights. This is important not just for monitoring weather systems, but also to understand the clouds' impact on the climate. Some help to cool the planet by reflecting sunlight back out into space; other clouds actually warm the Earth because they trap heat.
And in pursuing this work, Epic data has already observed some unexpected things, like the tracks of ships. These are not the wakes created by the vessels cutting through the ocean surface, but rather the clouds their exhaust system are seeding up above.
"It was very surprising for us that we could see them from one million miles, and they're even better seen if we use a longer wavelength because this gives you a strong contrast with the dark ocean," said Alexander Marshak, the DSCOVR deputy project scientist.
Also still being tested is the satellite's NISTAR instrument. This is a radiometer that measures the total amount of solar energy being reflected off Earth, as well as the heat emitted from our planet.
Its principal investigator is Steven Lorentz from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. He explained how the amount of solar energy bouncing off the planet would vary depending on which continents or oceans are in view. The Earth was most reflective, he said, when Africa dominated the scene (land surfaces are brighter than sea surfaces) with Antarctica visible also during the austral summer.
"The two poles do show up very clearly in the data," he told BBC News.
"When the Earth is tilted this way or that way, it really does make a difference to the planetary albedo. And that just underlines the ice's importance to the climate because if the poles weren't there, or as they shrink, the amount of energy going into the system will go up."
DSCOVR's project scientist, Adam Szabo, added: "The type of measurements that the satellite is making is nothing new - we've been making these exact observations from low-Earth orbiting or geostationary satellites. But the vantage point is really unique.
"Sitting between the Sun and Earth, we are seeing the full sunlit face of Earth all the time, allowing Earth to rotate beneath us rather than the satellite going around the Earth."
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | An American satellite stationed a million miles from Earth has obtained a unique view of a lunar eclipse. |
39,312,508 | Both sides had chances to win an end-to-end game but a combination of good goalkeeping and poor finishing kept it a low-scoring affair.
Rovers arrived at the Ricoh Arena with a vocal 4,000 following, but it was the home side who should have been cheering in the 28th minute when Callum Reilly was put through on goal, only for the midfielder to poke the ball inches wide.
Coventry had Lee Burge to thank after the break for keeping them level, first tipping Ollie Clarke's 54th-minute shot over the bar before getting down low to save Tom Lockyer's effort a minute later.
And it was the Sky Blues who would eventually break the deadlock as striker George Thomas fired into the top corner to keep their faint hopes of avoiding relegation alive.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Coventry City 1, Bristol Rovers 0.
Second Half ends, Coventry City 1, Bristol Rovers 0.
Attempt missed. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Byron Moore (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City).
Stuart Beavon (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Daniel Leadbitter (Bristol Rovers).
Substitution, Coventry City. Chris Stokes replaces Kyel Reid.
Attempt saved. Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Coventry City 1, Bristol Rovers 0. George Thomas (Coventry City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ruben Lameiras.
Substitution, Coventry City. Ruben Lameiras replaces Jodi Jones.
Attempt missed. Jodi Jones (Coventry City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Byron Moore (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Robert Harris (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dion Kelly-Evans (Coventry City).
Attempt saved. Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Robert Harris replaces Jonathan Burn.
Daniel Leadbitter (Bristol Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Daniel Leadbitter (Bristol Rovers).
Substitution, Coventry City. Dion Kelly-Evans replaces Jordan Willis because of an injury.
George Thomas (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers).
Foul by Callum Reilly (Coventry City).
Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Jodi Jones.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Gael Bigirimana.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Daniel Leadbitter.
Delay in match Jonathan Burn (Bristol Rovers) because of an injury.
Callum Reilly (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers).
Attempt blocked. Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Lee Burge.
Attempt saved. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. George Thomas (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Stuart Beavon (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Lee Brown.
Foul by Jodi Jones (Coventry City). | Coventry defeated play-off hopefuls Bristol Rovers to record back-to-back League One wins for the first time in five months. |
33,106,492 | Myles Bradbury, 41, of Herringswell in Suffolk, admitted abusing 18 boys in his care at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, between 2009 and 2013.
He was jailed in December for sexual assault, voyeurism and possessing more than 16,000 indecent images.
His appeal was upheld at the Royal Courts of Justice earlier.
The paediatric consultant haematologist had taken images of his victims, some of whom had haemophilia, leukaemia and other serious illnesses, while treating them at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Victims also told investigators he had focused on examining their genitals, when there was no medical need to do so.
At Bradbury's sentencing in Cambridge, Judge Gareth Hawkesworth told him: "In many years' experience on the bench, I have never come across a more culpable or grave course of sexual criminality, which has involved such a gross and grotesque breach and betrayal of your Hippocratic Oath and trust reposed in you by your patients, their families and colleagues."
He was jailed for 22 years for 25 offences involving boys aged between 10 and 16.
His intention to appeal against the length of his term was described as "shocking" by a victims' solicitor.
However, Angela Rafferty QC, representing Bradbury in the appeal court, argued that insufficient credit had been given for his guilty plea at an early stage.
She also told the court his actions were "low level... not high risk, penetrative".
Appeal judges Lady Justice Hallett, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave and Mr Justice Goss determined Bradbury's original 22-year sentence should be "restructured".
His custodial sentence will now be 16 years with an additional six years on licence.
Bradbury will have to serve at least 10 years and eight months before being considered for release.
Under his original 22-year sentence, Judge Hawkesworth told Bradbury: "You will be released after service of half of that sentence and then be released on licence."
Speaking after the appeal was upheld, Renu Daly of Hudgell Solicitors, which represents a number of the victims' families, said while they were disappointed the sentence had been cut, the situation was "much better".
She said the restructuring meant Bradbury would serve 10 years and eight months before even being considered for release, and would have to meet "far stricter" criteria if he is to be freed. | A paedophile doctor who abused young cancer patients in his care has had his 22-year sentence reduced to 16 years on appeal. |
36,961,840 | The bridge crumbled on to the line at Barrow upon Soar in Leicestershire, causing disruption on Tuesday.
Services between London and Nottingham, Leicester, Derby and Sheffield resumed early on Wednesday morning with smaller stations added in the afternoon.
Network Rail said it was investigating the cause of the collapse.
The road bridge collapsed late on Monday night, reportedly moments after workmen were seen drilling in the road.
Trains between the region and the capital were cancelled or limited throughout Tuesday.
But at 5:00 BST, two of the four lines through the Leicestershire village reopened, enabling most rail services to start running again with all four opening from about 11:00.
Paul McKeown, investment director for Network Rail, said an investigation was under way.
"Our team was carrying out investigation work following reports of dips in the road at Grove Lane bridge when the parapet wall partially collapsed," he said.
"Our engineers have worked around the clock to make the area safe, remove debris and repair the tracks below."
Bill Harvey, from the Institution of Structural Engineers, said it was probably a combination of factors that had "caused trouble."
"It looks as though over recent months or years there's been water leaking from the main - Severn Trent don't think that's the case, but the hollows from the footpath shown in the photographs that I've seen look like that to me.
"So, water would have been washing down... That may then have caused the thing to be that little bit more fragile when they started with a digger - and away it went."
He added the section of wall that collapsed looked like it had been replaced in the past, potentially weakening the structure and "over it goes... eventually".
Network Rail confirmed all four tracks are now open and East Midlands Trains said it is gradually introducing its full timetable again.
Passengers are still warned to check their trains before travelling. | Rail services between the East Midlands and London have returned to "near normal" a day after a bridge collapsed causing widespread chaos. |
36,247,708 | He was found guilty of tax evasion by a court in his home country last June.
The ruling led to him being disqualified from involvement with Leeds under the Football League's owners' and directors' test.
His ban was deferred and the Football League will now discuss the matter at Thursday's board meeting.
Italian newspaper L'Unione Sarda reports that Cellino's acquittal was a result of a change in Italian law, which saw the offence he was charged with being decriminalised.
Leeds ended the Championship season in 13th place. | Leeds United chairman Massimo Cellino has been acquitted on appeal for failing to pay VAT on a Range Rover imported into Italy from the USA. |
39,215,713 | The loss is not as deep as the £610m recorded in 2015, but it is the fifth year in a row the bank has lost money.
The bank, in which the Co-operative Group still has a small stake, was rescued from the brink of collapse by a group of hedge funds in 2013.
So far, no bidder has declared themselves, but the bank said it was "pleased with the interest to date".
It was forced to offer itself for sale after it was unable to reach a strong enough footing to satisfy the Bank of England's regulatory requirements.
The bank blamed low interest rates and the higher-than-expected cost of its turnaround plan for its failure to meet the Bank's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) rules.
The PRA had welcomed the bank's decision to put itself up for sale.
But the planned sales raised concerns from the former business secretary, Sir Vince Cable, and two Treasury Committee MPs.
The Co-op Bank has four million customers and is well known for its ethical standpoint, which its board said made it "a strong franchise with significant potential" to prospective buyers. | The Co-operative Bank has reported another loss of £477m, one month after it put itself up for sale. |
37,220,114 | A government investigation concluded on Monday that photographs purporting to show the pair at the top of the world's highest mountain were faked.
Officials say the ban is intended to deter other climbers from making spurious and dishonest claims.
The pair's claims to have reached the peak in May were queried by climbers.
They argued that photos showing Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod at the summit were obviously doctored.
Nepal's tourism department initially certified their ascent but has now rescinded that decision after conducting an investigation.
Tourism department chief Sudarshan Prasad Dhakal told the AFP news agency that an analysis of photos submitted by Mr and Mrs Rathod revealed they had superimposed themselves and their banners on photos taken by another Indian climber who conquered Everest.
"Despite several attempts to get clarifications from them, they did not co-operate with us during the investigation. The two Sherpas that assisted them are also absconding," Mr Dhakal said.
"The ban should serve as a warning for mountaineers to follow ethics."
Mr and Mrs Rathod - who work as constables in the western Indian city of Pune - in July denied the claims, as did the guides who climbed with them.
But a climber based in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, Satyarup Sidhantha, later told reporters that the photographs presented by the Rathods as "proof" of their climb actually belonged to him.
Suspicions were further aroused because of the time lag between the day the Rathods claimed to have reached the summit and their news conference announcing their achievement.
It was alleged that the couple could not possibly have reached the summit so soon after they were seen to have arrived at the base camp, and that the photos appeared to show them in two different sets of clothes and boots while on the climb.
Many of those who have succeeded in scaling the 8,848m (29,029ft) mountain have subsequently gone on to have lucrative careers as motivational speakers and authors.
More than 450 people, including more than 250 foreigners, climbed Everest during the recently-concluded spring season. It followed two consecutive years of poor weather - made worse by the Nepal earthquake of 2015 - which resulted in almost all Everest attempts being abandoned.
Mountaineering is a major source of income for impoverished Nepal and this year's succession of successful summits is expected to provide the industry with a major fillip. | Nepal has imposed a 10-year mountaineering ban on two climbers who claimed to be the first Indian couple to have climbed Everest, officials say. |
25,242,803 | In a lecture at Swansea University, he said the buildings must be better protected by public bodies behind "some of the worst cultural damage".
He accused cultural and heritage chiefs of being "castle, cathedral and country house obsessives".
The Welsh government said chapels were a vital part of Wales' history.
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) has put together a register of more than 6,600 19th and 20th Century chapels.
More than half have shut with the others closing at the rate of one a week.
Mr Edwards is already leading a campaign to save Jewin Presbyterian Church, the oldest Welsh chapel in London, where he is a worshipper.
Mr Edwards's lecture called for the role of chapels in Welsh culture, history, and society to be recognised and rehabilitated.
He said: "Chapels can be championed in several meaningful ways.
"Their story can be retold and presented to a new audience, their place in the education curriculum must be revised, and the fabric of chapel buildings must be protected in a much more rigorous way."
He said the Welsh government, its heritage arm Cadw, and local conservation bodies and local authorities "who have often sanctioned some of the worst cultural damage" each had roles to play.
"It is already too late for some of our best chapel buildings," Mr Edwards said.
"Future generations will wonder what on earth we were doing. But it is still possible to save some for the benefit of their local communities."
A spokesperson for the Welsh government said: "Churches and chapels are a vital part of the country's history and culture and central to helping our understanding of the past.
"This year, grants of up to £375,000 in total have been awarded by Cadw to 13 projects to repair and restore historic places of worship across Wales.
"Cadw is also developing new guidance to support the care, conservation and sensitive development of places of worship.
"Cadw recognises that repair and restoration costs of chapels can sometimes be costly but a high standard of work is an investment which helps to safeguard the historic character of chapels for the future."
Mr Edwards is a trustee of the Welsh Religious Buildings Trust, a committee member of Capel - the chapels heritage society - and author of The Chapels of Wales.
The event was organised by the Learned Society of Wales. | BBC News presenter Huw Edwards is to call for more to be done to "champion" Welsh chapels and their contribution to cultural and historical life. |
21,002,918 | France's military has been in action against Islamist militants in Mali since Friday, helping government forces recapture the central town of Konna.
A resident in Gao told AFP news agency all Islamist bases in the town had been destroyed and the militants had fled.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the Islamist advance in Mali had been brought to a halt.
"Stopping the terrorists, that's done," he told RTL radio. Had France not intervened, there was a risk that the Islamists could have advanced as far as the capital, Bamako, he said.
Islamist groups and secular Tuareg rebels seized northern Mali in April 2012.
But the Islamists soon took control of the region's major towns and one group, Ansar Dine, began pushing further south last week, seizing the strategically important town of Konna.
The town has since been recaptured by Malian troops with French aerial support.
France's decision to intervene in its former colony took many by surprise. A UN-backed international force had not been expected in the west African state until the autumn.
France has called a meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss its action on Monday.
The foreign minister made it clear that France was now targeting Islamist bases in the north and said Algeria, which shares a long border with Mali, had given permission for its air space to be used for bombing raids "without limit".
For months, Gao has been in the hands of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), which along with Ansar Dine has sought to enforce an extreme interpretation of Islamic law in northern Mali.
The town is around 500km (310 miles) north-east of a de facto line dividing the rebel-held north of Mali from the government-run south.
Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said four Rafale fighter jets, flying from their base in France, had attacked and destroyed rebel training camps and logistics depots in Gao, which acted as back-up bases for terrorist groups.
The air attacks were continuing as part of an offensive to drive back Islamist militants who still controlled large swathes of northern Mali, he said earlier.
"There were [air strikes] last night, there are now and there will be today and tomorrow," the minister said.
BBC Africa correspondent Andrew Harding says it seems clear that French air power is now preparing the ground for a much bigger offensive against the Islamists.
A spokesman for Ansar Dine Islamist group was quoted as saying that the French attacks had focused on three areas: Konna, Douentza and Lere.
But later reports said French bombers had also targeted the northern town of Kidal, described as a headquarters for Ansar Dine and its leader Iyad Ag Ghaly.
Fearing further French air raids, the group's fighters have moved out of the historic town of Timbuktu, Sahara Media report from neighbouring Mauritania.
An unnamed Elysee Palace official quoted by AFP said on Sunday that French armed forces had been surprised by the fighting quality and the equipment of the militants they were up against.
"At the start, we thought they would be just a load of guys with guns driving about in their pick-ups, but the reality is that they are well-trained, well-equipped, and well-armed," the official said.
"From Libya they have got hold of a lot of up-to-date, sophisticated equipment which is much more robust and effective than we could have imagined."
France has sent around 550 troops to the central town of Mopti and the capital, Bamako. They are set to be joined by troops from the neighbouring African states of Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Togo, some of which are expected to arrive in Mali within days.
In December, the UN Security Council backed sending a 3,300-strong force from the Ecowas West African regional bloc to recapture rebel-held areas of Mali but their deployment was not expected for some months.
The UK has provided two C17 transport planes to aid the French effort and Mr Fabius said practical support was also coming from the US, Denmark and other European countries.
A Malian army officer said on Saturday he believed more than 100 militants had been killed.
Since the start of the French intervention on Friday, at least 11 Malian soldiers and a French helicopter pilot have also died.
Human Rights Watch believes 10 civilians, including three children, died in Konna as Malian forces fought to recapture the town.
Medical aid agency MSF said many civilians had fled the Mopti area and some places had become "almost ghost towns". Hundreds of people had already fled over the border into Mauritania, it said.
Islamist groups are still holding several French hostages and have threatened reprisals against them and other French targets.
This prompted the French government to step up security across the country on Saturday. | French warplanes have bombed the town of Gao in eastern Mali, extending their attacks deep into rebel-held territory. |
35,400,006 | It happened in Park Road, Crouch End. Police said officers in an unmarked car had tried to stop the driver in nearby Muswell Hill at about 10:20 GMT.
He failed to stop and later smashed into the frontages of Mr Dweeb Computer Repairs and Streathers Solicitors.
The driver fled the scene but was later held on suspicion of drugs offences.
The Metropolitan Police said officers were not pursuing the vehicle at the time of the crash.
There were no reported injuries. Road closures remain in place. | A car containing what is thought to be a large drugs haul has crashed into two shops in north London, causing extensive damage. |
19,879,890 | Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US will share the prize, worth 8m Swedish kronor (£750,000; $1.2m).
Their "quantum optics" work on single photons and charged atoms has opened up a whole new field of study in physics.
It could lead to advanced modes of communication and computation.
The Nobel citation said the award was for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".
Light and matter, when the minuscule scales of single particles are reached, behave in surprising ways in a part of physics known as quantum mechanics.
Working with light and matter on this level would have been unthinkable before the pair developed solutions to pick, manipulate and measure photons and ions individually, allowing an insight into a microscopic world that was once just the province of scientific theory.
Their work has implications for light-based clocks far more precise than the atomic clocks at the heart of the world's business systems, and quantum computing, which may - or may not - revolutionise desktop computing as we know it.
But for physicists, the import of the pair's techniques is outlined in a layman's summary on the Nobel site: they preserve the delicate quantum mechanical states of the photons and ions - states that theorists had for decades hoped to measure in the laboratory, putting the ideas of quantum mechanics on a solid experimental footing.
Those include the slippery quantum mechanical ideas of entanglement - the seemingly ethereal connection between two distant particles that underpins much work on the "uncrackable codes" of quantum cryptography - and of decoherence, in which the quantum nature of a particle slowly slips away through its interactions with other matter.
The prize is the second in quantum optics in recent years; the theory behind decoherence formed part of 2005's Nobel physics prize citation.
Prof Haroche was reached by phone from the press conference. He had been told he had won just 20 minutes before telling reporters: "I was lucky - I was in the street and passing near a bench, so I was able to sit down immediately.
"I was walking with my wife going back home and when I saw the... Swedish code, I realised it was real and it's, you know, really overwhelming."
Prof Sir Peter Knight of the UK's Institute of Physics, said: "Haroche and Wineland have made tremendous advances in our understanding of quantum entanglement, with beautiful experiments to show how atomic systems can be manipulated to exhibit the most extraordinary coherence properties."
The Nobel prizes have been given out annually since 1901, covering the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics.
Speculation had been rife, in light of the discovery of the Higgs boson announced in July, that Peter Higgs or his colleagues may have been in the running for the prize, but historically the prizes tend to honour discoveries after a period of years.
The first-ever Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Wilhelm Roentgen of Germany for his discovery of X-rays, and with this year's winners the total number of recipients has reached 194.
On Monday, the 2012 prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body.
This year's chemistry prize will be announced on Wednesday, with the literature and peace prizes to be awarded later in the week. | This year's Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to two researchers for their work with light and matter at the most fundamental level. |
37,605,948 | When passengers on aircraft are being told to turn off their Samsung devices, that sends out a negative message about your products beyond even your own customers.
Even now you can bet business schools are preparing to use the inflammable Note 7 as a case study in crisis management.
But back in early September when reports first emerged that the new phablet was overheating or even exploding, Samsung received praise for its swift reaction.
By quickly announcing a global recall, and spending a hefty sum on supplying replacement devices, the company was seen to be putting the safety of consumers above financial concerns,
Over the last week, however, it has looked flat-footed in responding to new reports from the United States of customers with replacement phones seeing them overheat or catch fire.
Thirteen-year-old Abby Zuis said she'd been told by her mum not to use her original Note 7 - but once she got a replacement she thought she was safe.
Then she says it started melting in her hand.
"I felt this really weird burning sensation on my thumb, pulled it up and I saw smoke and I threw it on the floor."
Samsung had said in September that it had tracked down the original issue to a faulty batch of batteries from one supplier. So the fact that some replacement phones are also faulty leaves the company struggling to explain what has gone on,
In the UK, few people have got the Note 7 as it was due to go on sale the very day of the global recall. But as an early pre-order customer Michael Rock from Wakefield did get his at the end of August, to his great delight.
Now, however, he wishes he had never bothered.
He told me that returning the original device to Samsung had proved tricky - Royal Mail had refused to take it on the grounds that it was dangerous.
Now he's heard the reports from the United States and is concerned about his replacement device - "I've got two young children, and I'm worried about charging it overnight at home."
He contacted Samsung and was told they have no advice in the short term.
But the firm has told us the replacement devices are safe.
"Yes, the replacement Note 7 devices are safe to use. All new Note 7 devices feature a green battery icon to give customers reassurance that their device is safe to charge," said a spokeswoman.
Meanwhile EE and Carphone Warehouse, which were due to start delivering Note 7 devices to customers by the end of the month, have said they know about the reports from the US and are in discussions with Samsung.
After such a repeatedly botched launch, it seems unlikely that the phone is going to be a best seller in the UK by Christmas - if it is here at all.
And the damage to Samsung isn't restricted to the one model.
Its Galaxy phones have enjoyed a resurgence in the last year, and are probably the most profitable devices the company makes. But now they face a new competitor at the high end of the Android market in the form of the two Google Pixel smartphones unveiled last week.
Samsung is not the only company to have had issues with batteries.
Will Stewart from the Institute of Engineering and Technology says Lithium batteries can overheat because their energy content is high per unit weight.
"That is great in terms of keeping phones and other devices light. But modern devices use quite a lot of power and we like to recharge them quickly - so if something does go wrong the total energy released is quite high, hence the fires."
Mr Stewart says such faults usually only affect a small proportion of phones.
The trouble is that even one phone which catches fire makes for startling pictures and a whole heap of consumer anxiety. Samsung may soon have to decide whether to cut its losses and abandon the Note 7 before it does more damage to its brand. | As brand-damaging, consumer alienating PR disasters go, Samsung's issue with its latest phone takes some beating. |
34,307,996 | Gen Gilbert Diendere made the proposal at talks brokered by West African mediators in the capital Ouagadougou.
On Saturday one of the mediators had spoken of a breakthrough and hinted at a new transition government reinstating interim President Michel Kafando.
At least 10 people have been killed in clashes since Thursday's coup.
The overthrow of the civilian interim government - carried out by the presidential guard - was widely condemned. Burkina Faso has been suspended from the African Union.
BBC West Africa reporter Thomas Fessy says the junta's proposal is unlikely to signal a return to power of the civilian authorities.
The document, signed by Gen Diendere and exclusively seen by the BBC, says he should remain president until elections - currently due on 11 October.
This is in stark contradiction to the optimism shown on Saturday by one of the mediators, Benin President Yayi Boni, who suggested the presidential guard might give up power, our correspondent adds.
Gen Diendere was chief of staff of former President Blaise Compaore, who was deposed in a popular uprising last October.
Meanwhile violence erupted on Sunday at the hotel in Ouagadougou, where the talks have been taking place.
About 50 coup supporters burst into the lobby of the Laico hotel, injuring several people.
"They invaded the hotel," an eyewitness told Reuters news agency. "They attacked ex-opposition members as they arrived. One had to be saved from the crowd by security forces."
Outside the building opponents of the coup held a protest but were later dispersed by security forces.
Mr Kafando, who was initially held by the coup leaders, is now free. However, other questions remain, including the fate of Prime Minister Isaac Zida, who was also detained.
Mr Compaore is currently in exile and was accused of committing widespread abuses, and trying to change the constitution to extend his term in office.
Some of his key allies had been barred from contesting the election.
Gen Diendere has said he has had no contact with Mr Compaore and will do everything to "avoid violence that could plunge the country into chaos".
The 'heroes' of Burkina Faso's revolution
The rise and fall of Blaise Compaore
Guide to Burkina Faso | The general who led a coup in Burkina Faso this week insists on remaining in power until polls are held, according to a document seen by the BBC. |
33,623,488 | Daniel Dreghorn, 39, took the haul over a two-year period while working in the decontamination unit at Ayrshire Central Hospital in Irvine.
He pleaded guilty to a theft charge and was remanded in custody until sentencing in September.
Judge Lord Turnbull told the court it was theft on a "massive scale" and said the crime was "shockingly cynical".
Dreghorn was employed as a supervisor at the Central Decontamination Unit, which sterilises all medical devices for theatres and clinics within the health board's area.
The court heard how each item has a unique identification number, which allows it to be tracked around the hospital system.
Prosecutor Bill McVicar told how between October 2012 and July 2014 Dreghorn managed to steal 136 pieces of medical equipment.
The crime only came to light when a patient complained to NHS Ayrshire and Arran about an operation being cancelled.
A stock-take was carried out and it revealed a large quantity of equipment totalling £1.28m was missing.
It was also discovered trays carrying the items had been scanned back in after use but not the equipment.
Records showed Dreghorn was the supervisor on duty at those times.
Mr McVicar told the court Dreghorn stole the equipment prior to sterilisation, which posed a serious health risk if they were not cleaned.
When arrested, Dreghorn admitted he had sold the goods to companies in Hong Kong and the USA.
Dreghorn said he had £1,000 remaining in a PayPal account but that the rest had been spent.
The prosecutor said: "From the existing tight budget, the health board is unable to fund the replacement of the stolen items."
Lord Turnbull deferred sentence on the first offender for reports.
He told Dreghorn: "You have pled guilty to an offence which displayed shockingly, cynical conduct.
"This was a theft on a massive scale of sophisticated medical equipment." | A hospital worker stole £1.3m of medical equipment then sold it for just £70,000, a court has heard. |
40,427,709 | Lead author Prof Kevin Morgan said a "lack of long-term vision" weakened the efforts of the sectors.
His report calls for new ways of teaming experts with new research and development businesses.
It comes as a new body is launched to provide specialist advice to unite the different groups.
Be The Spark, supported by the Welsh Government, brings nine experts from Welsh business, academia and finance together to offer support.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates has welcomed the new partnership and the publication of the report, Growing the Value of University-Business Interactions in Wales.
Prof Morgan cited the approach taken to develop the Institute for Compound Semiconductors at Cardiff University as a "blueprint for the development of hot spots involving key sectors, businesses and Welsh universities".
Welsh firm IQE, which is based in St Mellons, Cardiff, and exports around the world, has joined with Cardiff University and the Welsh Government to invest in developing a compound semiconductor cluster in the area.
The technology, which is behind smartphones, tablets and satellite communications, is key to a multimillion pound project in Newport which could create about 2,000 high skilled jobs in five years.
The report has been published by the Growing Value Wales (GVW) Taskforce which, with the National Centre for Universities and Business, is developing an online portal that helps businesses find expertise and identify collaborative projects.
GVW chairman Dr Drew Nelson, boss of IQE, said: "By launching Growing Value Wales alongside Be The Spark, we hope to unleash latent talent in our universities, team it with industry, and seamlessly develop really powerful partnerships for growth." | Creating new partnerships between businesses and universities could help boost the economy, according to a report. |
34,460,894 | The BBC understands that the Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen made a complaint to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards about the SNP member for Edinburgh West.
Ms Thomson has denied any wrongdoing or illegal activity.
She has resigned from the SNP whip in the House of Commons.
A police inquiry is being carried out into a solicitor who was struck off by the Law Society of Scotland over property deals carried out on Ms Thomson's behalf.
Mr Bridgen, who represents North West Leicestershire, has written to Kathryn Hudson, the parliamentary commissioner for standards at Westminster, asking for her to look into the matter.
He said the case raises "serious questions regarding the professional integrity required from a prominent public servant". | MP Michelle Thomson has been referred to the Commons standards watchdog over allegations regarding property deals being investigated by the police. |
36,679,577 | Sarah Nash, 37, a mother of two, was discovered in her home in Highfield Road, Berkhamsted on Thursday after concerns were raised for her welfare.
The man found at the house has been named as Lee Guntrip, 25, also of Berkhamsted.
Hertfordshire Police said it was not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
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The bodies were found at 11:30 BST after neighbours rang the emergency services.
Det Ch Insp Jerome Kent said: "This was a tragic, isolated incident and one which I know has caused concern within the wider community.
"Investigations are ongoing. However, we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths."
The parents of Ms Nash issued a statement, which said: "We are devastated by the loss of our beautiful daughter and request that we are left in peace to grieve her death."
Hertfordshire Police made a mandatory referral of the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission because they had prior contact with the deceased.
The commission said it would decide whether to investigate the police response in due course. | A man and a woman found dead in a house in Hertfordshire have been named by police. |
39,395,212 | The title race will go down to the last day after UCD and Monkstown both won.
Belfast Harlequins and Pembroke Wanderers remain in the battle to avoid the relegation play-off after defeats.
In the men's IHL, top three Banbridge, Three Rock Rovers and Lisnagarvey all won but Instonians inched closer to the drop after losing to Railway Union.
It's only twelve months since Ulster Elks won the Irish Senior Cup for the second year in a row and then progressed to the end of season play-offs.
However after losing a number of players last summer including Irish captain Megan Frazer they've struggled with only one win in this campaign.
A hat-trick from Jessica McGirr helped Loreto to a 6-1 win and meant the Elks couldn't force a final day relegation showdown with Pembroke.
The result also clinched fourth place for Loreto and they will join UCD, Monkstown and Cork Harlequins in the IHL Champions Trophy Play-offs weekend next month which means no Ulster involvement.
The battle for the title and to avoid the relegation play-off will go down the final day of the season in a fortnight's time.
UCD still lead Monkstown by a point at the top after both won - UCD defeated Belfast Harlequins 2-0 while Monkstown overcame Pembroke 4-0 with Anna O'Flanagan and Nikki Evans each scoring twice.
Neither side has lost this season but Monkstown have a game in hand against Pegasus next Saturday before facing UCD.
Meanwhile, with one game remaining, Belfast Harlequins have a three-point lead and a better goal difference advantage over Pembroke in their bid to finish eighth and consign the Dublin club to a one-game showdown to keep their place in the top league.
Pegasus produced an outstanding second-half performance to come from behind to beat Railway Union 2-1 with both goals scored from penalty corners by Hannah Craig while Cork Harlequins beat Ards 2-1.
Karen Bateman gave Cork the lead only for Rebecca Weir to equalise with the winning strike coming from Olivia Roycroft with eight minutes remaining.
After a three-week break while Ireland took part in World League 2, the men's IHL returned to action with the top three sides all winning.
Fraser Mills scored the winning goal for leaders Banbridge midway through the final quarter of a 2-1 victory at Cork C of I.
Three Rock Rovers are two points behind after edging Pembroke Wanderers 4-3 while Lisnagarvey are a further point adrift after a 4-0 home win over Glenanne with James Lorimer scoring twice and the other goals coming from Irish internationals Matthew Nelson and Neal Glassey.
At the bottom Instonians are seven points from safety after losing 6-0 at Railway Union while UCD were beaten 8-1 at Monkstown.
Inst have two games in hand on UCD and face Three Rock Rovers at Shaw's Bridge on Sunday.
Men
Cork C of I 1-2 Banbridge
Lisnagarvey 4-0 Glenanne
Pembroke 3-4 Three Rock Rovers
Monkstown 8-1 UCD
Railway Union 6-0 Instonians
Women
Loreto 6-1 Ulster Elks
UCD 2-0 Belfast Harlequins
Cork Harlequins 2-1 Ards
Pegasus 2-1 Railway Union
Monkstown 4-0 Pembroke Wanderers | Ulster Elks have been relegated from the Irish Women's Hockey League and will play in the Ulster League next season after a 6-1 defeat by Loreto. |
36,458,643 | He said of his late wife Linda: "I realised that she's always been very important to me, throughout my life.
"But I now I realise she might have been the most important thing in my life - and she still is."
A tearful Sir Tom was at the book festival to discuss his autobiography, Over the Top and Back.
The book covers his life and his career, which spans 50 years. Lady Linda died of cancer in April. The couple were married for 59 years.
The star told GQ editor Dylan Jones, who interviewed him on stage at the festival, that he never considered leaving his childhood sweetheart.
"No. Never. Never crossed my mind - it didn't cross her mind. It was solid. We had a solid marriage that nothing could shake and we both felt that.
"I felt very lucky to have fallen in love at an early age. We were teenagers, we fell in love, not just in lust.
"A lot of teenagers fall in lust and then it doesn't last. But we knew this thing was forever, for as long as we would be alive. That's how strong the marriage was."
Sir Tom is due to kick off his UK tour with a performance at Hampton Court Palace on 8 June. | Sir Tom Jones has told an audience that his wife, who died in April, was the "most important thing" in his life, at the Hay Festival in Wales. |
23,943,068 | Aberdare Coroner's Court heard it would take weeks to speak to them all.
L/Cpl Craig Roberts, of Penrhyn Bay, Conwy and L/Cpl Edward Maher died in July after a 40-mile (64km) hike in temperatures reaching 29.5C (85F).
Cpl James Dunsby, from Bath, died two weeks later in hospital.
A pre-inquest hearing into the deaths of L/Cpl Roberts, 24, L/Cpl Maher and Cpl Dunsby, both 31, was held by Powys coroner Louise Hunt.
Det Insp Iwan Jones told the hearing that the scale of investigation had widened and the 20 police officers on the investigating team would be talking to up to 96 soldiers who were present on 13 July as well as emergency service personnel and other witnesses who were on the mountain that day.
"Having reviewed some of the evidence we have decided to expand the investigation," he said.
"We aiming to have statements from a substantial number of soldiers - between 94 and 96 - emergency service personnel and members of the public.
"We are still waiting for (all of the) soldiers accounts from the army at this moment in time... there have been logistical problems as some of these are now serving abroad."
Representatives of the MoD, the HSE and L/Cpl Maher's and Cpl Dunsby's families were also present in court.
The coroner said she would be looking at four main areas: cause of death for each man, the preparation and planning of the exercise, supporting and monitoring during the exercise and procedures in place in case of an emergency.
L/Cpl Maher's father, also called Edward, spoke during the short hearing to stress his family's desire for the inquest to establish the army's chain of command on the day his son died.
Ms Hunt confirmed that the inquest would look at Article two of the Human Rights Act, which states a person's right to life should be protected by the state.
Both the police and the HSE could instigate criminal proceedings.
Lt Col Freddie Kemp, from the Parachute Regiment, representing the MoD, said the service police could also become involved in a criminal investigation once Dyfed-Powys Police had concluded its investigation.
Ms Hunt told the court: "No decision has been made about any further action at this stage."
She also asked the interested parties if they agreed that the inquest needed to take account of the right to life under Article Two of the Human Rights Act, which as well as protecting the right to life of a person also required a "positive duty to protect life" in certain circumstances.
There were no objections.
Provisional dates for a two-week inquest have been set for February and March 2014.
The coroner's investigation is part of a new system in relation to inquests.
At the end of an investigation, if the death is not due to natural causes, he will open an inquest.
Another pre-inquest review will be held on 19 November. | Police investigating the deaths of three army reservists after an SAS selection exercise on the Brecon Beacons are to interview more than 90 soldiers to find out what happened. |
33,961,241 | The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's Prof Mark Baker said 10 million prescriptions a year in England were inappropriate.
He said regulators need to deal with overprescribing doctors who failed to change their ways.
The Royal College of GPs said the call was "counter-productive and unhelpful".
There is universal consensus that the very basis of modern medicine is under threat due to rising numbers of infections that are resistant to drugs.
The "antibiotic apocalypse" not only means that long-forgotten infections could kill again, but jeopardises procedures including surgery and chemotherapy.
Using antibiotics inappropriately for sore throats and colds increases the risk of resistance. Yet the number of prescriptions continues to rise.
NICE has prepared fresh guidelines on antibiotic prescribing for the NHS in England, which can be adopted by other parts of the UK.
The guidelines acknowledge that there is huge pressure from some patients for the drugs.
Prof Baker even said some people were "addicted" to the idea of getting antibiotics, even for conditions that would clear up on their own.
He added 97% of patients who asked for antibiotics ended up getting them, often by identifying a "soft-touch" doctor.
The guidelines say doctors should tell patients when antibiotics are inappropriate and refuse to write prescriptions.
Prof Mark Baker, director of the organisation's centre for clinical practice, said: "We are proposing that evidence is collected so the finger can be pointed at people who are a soft touch."
He said antibiotics could cause more harm than good in some patients, so overprescribing was "really hazardous practice".
And, he said, doctors should be encouraged to change their habits. But ultimately some cases should be dealt with by the General Medical Council, which has the power to withdraw a doctor's right to practise, "if necessary".
NICE admits that if previous guidelines on respiratory tract infections, which include colds, were actually followed then prescriptions would be 22% lower.
The latest rules for doctors should cut the 42 million prescriptions given each year by around a quarter.
Dr Tim Ballard, from the Royal College of GPs, said the focus needed to be on "societal change" - not doctors.
He said: "Any suggestion that hard-pressed GPs - who are already trying to do their jobs in increasingly difficult circumstances - will be reported to the regulator is counter-productive and unhelpful."
Robert, from Dorset, says some doctors are too restrictive.
"My daughter was ill for many weeks because the doctor refused an antibiotic.
"She was very poorly and the doctor said it was just viral and told us to go away. We took her back again and got the same response. We took her for a third time and asked him to test her mucus. He phoned us - rather embarrassed - to say that she had pneumonia.
"He prescribed her antibiotics and she got better quite quickly.
"Weeks of needless suffering!
"I'm sure he was under pressure not to prescribe antibiotics."
NICE will be publishing guidelines on educating the public next year.
Other recommendations include the use of "delayed prescribing" where a patient can only use a prescription if his condition gets worse and creating "antimicrobial stewards" who identify high levels of prescribing.
Niall Dickson, the chief executive of the General Medical Council, said doctors should reflect on their prescribing habits as part of an annual appraisal.
He said "doctors can, and do, face sanctions for mis-prescribing." But the message is "more about changing the norms of practice generally than pursuing individual doctors". | "Soft-touch" and "hazardous" doctors should be disciplined for prescribing too many antibiotics, a leading NHS figure says. |
26,943,828 | The finale of the second series, starring Keeley Hawes and Vicky McClure, was watched by 4.1 million viewers last month.
Writer Jed Mercurio said he was "profoundly grateful" to fans for making the show such a "talking point".
Other commissions include a new series of James Corden's The Wrong Mans.
Both Corden and co-creator Mathew Baynton were nominated for TV Baftas earlier this week for their performances in the comedy thriller.
It is joined by a new comedy from Paul Whitehouse, based on the BBC Radio 4 series, Nurse.
It will star Esther Coles as a community psychiatric nurse, with Whitehouse playing many of her patients or their relatives.
Line of Duty - which revolves around a controversial police anti-corruption unit - will return for two more series of six hour-long episodes.
"For series three and four, I can promise two explosive new cases for AC-12, new guest stars as police officers investigated for corruption, further twists and turns from the loose ends of series two, and maybe even some surprise reappearances," said creator Mercurio.
Controller of BBC Drama, Ben Stephenson, said commissioning two more series of the "unique, powerful and gripping drama" was "the easiest decision I have made".
A documentary series on foster carers, War In Afghanistan and natural history series Beyond Human have also been announced for BBC Two.
The latter will explore how animals sense their world beyond human capabilities, focusing on a different sense in each episode.
Meanwhile, The World Made By Women will explore 20,000 years of women's history - from Empress Wu Zeitan to Margaret Thatcher - while several other documentaries will also look at the role of women throughout history.
They include a series on the suffragettes and a look at the Women's Institute, entitled The Real Calender Girls.
Women also feature heavily in Radio 2's latest line-up of special presenters for the spring, with Carla Bruni, Scissor Sisters star Ana Matronic and Sheila Hancock all fronting their own shows.
Carla Bruni's Postcards From Paris will see the model turned singer-songwriter and former first lady of France, presenting a three-part series taking listeners on a tour of the city and her favourite French music.
Ana Matronic delves into her disco record collection for a four-part series while stage and screen star Hancock will explore Music with a Message for two programmes.
"I'll be playing music which I hope will make listeners think, that can possibly change their thinking - it's music with ideas, music with a message," said Hancock.
The season will also feature a two-hour special with country queen Dolly Parton. | Two more series of hit drama Line of Duty have been commissioned by BBC Two, one of several programmes announced to mark the channel's 50th anniversary. |
36,816,326 | The victim, who is in his 20s was attacked at Seagull House on Ruthland Ave at about 16:00 local time on Saturday.
Police were called to the address and the man was brought to St James Hospital in the city where he died a short time later.
The scene of the murder is being preserved for a technical examination and the state pathologist has been notified. No arrests have been made. | A man has been killed in a stabbing in Dublin. |
36,945,148 | Almost 250 men have come forward to complain about physical and sexual abuse at HMP Kirklevington near Yarm.
They claim the abuse took place between the 1960s and 1990s when the prison was a mixed remand centre.
Cleveland Police said a 61-year-old man has now been bailed pending further inquiries, and another aged 70 released without any charges being brought.
The force said it was continuing to investigate.
One of the complainants, Andrew Drabarek, told BBC Tees: "The minute you walked through the gate to the minute you left it was just abuse.
"I got punched, I went blind for three days. I was punched at the dining room table because I was the last one to leave.
"You accept punishment but not like that, being beaten by a grown man when you are a teenager is something else."
The Ministry of Justice has urged anyone with allegations to report them to police.
Kirklevington was converted to a resettlement prison for adult male offenders in 1992. | Two men have been arrested as part of an inquiry into alleged abuse at a former detention centre. |
36,442,848 | Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz said top positions in the Territorial Defence Force had already been decided.
The force will have civilian volunteers trained in military skills. It is aimed at countering "hybrid" warfare of the kind that led parts of Ukraine to break away and pledge loyalty to Russia.
Nato also plans to reinforce Poland.
One Nato battalion will be deployed to Poland and three more to the neighbouring Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The total troop deployment is expected to be about 4,000, on a rotating basis.
A Nato summit in Warsaw on 8-9 July will finalise the details of that deployment. Several of Nato's 28 member states will send troops to beef up the alliance's presence in the east, near the Russian border.
Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea peninsula in March 2014 and the insurgency by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine sent a chill through Nato members who used to be in the Soviet bloc.
Russia has also deployed Iskander-M nuclear-capable missiles to Kaliningrad, a territory sandwiched between Poland and the Baltic states.
In April, Mr Macierewicz said the new Territorial Defence Force was needed because Poland "is threatened by the actions of our neighbour Russia, which makes no secret of its aggressive intentions and which since 2008 has systematically been undertaking action aimed at destabilising the peaceful order in Europe".
On Thursday he announced a September recruitment drive, at a conference of paramilitary organisations in Ostroda, northern Poland.
The idea of resurrecting Poland's territorial defence units gained traction following Russia's annexation of Crimea and its support for rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine.
When Mr Macierewicz signed the document initiating the volunteer defence system in a Warsaw secondary school in April, he said the units would serve to defend against Russian aggression and to promote patriotism.
He said Poland was the only Nato member without such a force. Warsaw abandoned its Soviet-era territorial units in 2008.
Volunteers will undergo about 30 days' military training a year and the first three brigades are scheduled to be operational in eastern Poland by the start of next year, with the remaining 14 in the rest of the country expected to be ready in 2019.
One of the first three brigades will defend Poland's border with Kaliningrad. The war in Ukraine triggered discussion about the territorial units in both Poland and the Baltic states, which already have them.
One of the main concerns is the threat of a hybrid attack, a combination of conventional and unconventional warfare and cyber warfare.
The Baltic region has experienced heightened military tension in recent months, with Nato complaining of aggressive behaviour by Russian air force jets.
Russian Foreign Ministry department chief Andrei Kelin, quoted by Reuters news agency, said the deployment of four Nato battalions to the region "would be a very dangerous build-up of armed forces pretty close to our borders".
Russia has announced plans to send three new military divisions to areas close to its western and southern borders.
Military sources quoted by Russian media say they are likely to be motorised rifle formations of about 10,000 soldiers each.
Next week some existing Polish paramilitary units will take part in a Nato defensive military exercise in Poland called Anaconda 2016. | Poland says it will start recruiting in September for a new 35,000-strong paramilitary defence force because of tensions with Russia. |
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Off-spinner Moeen and seamer Broad each took two wickets to reduce the Proteas to 104-4.
Temba Bavuma (48 not out) and Theunis de Bruyn (48) added 99 before James Anderson removed De Bruyn late on to leave the tourists 214-5, 244 behind.
Moeen (87) and Broad (57 not out) earlier took England from their overnight 357-5 to 458 all out.
Broad also shared a riotous last-wicket partnership of 45 with Anderson off only 27 deliveries.
When England took three wickets for 22 runs either side of tea, South Africa were in danger of subsiding, only to be steadied by Bavuma and De Bruyn.
The fifth-wicket pair looked set to reach the close, but Anderson had De Bruyn caught behind to leave England in the ascendancy on a surface showing sporadic signs of turn and low bounce.
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Moeen has batted in every position from one to nine for England and scored four Test centuries in 2016.
However, his bowling average has got worse each year since his debut and he has nominally been replaced as the number one spinner by slow left-armer Liam Dawson.
Here, he reached 2,000 runs and 100 wickets on the same day. It has taken him 38 Tests to do that particular double - only Tony Greig has done it faster for England.
The left-hander was fluent with the bat, moving from his overnight 61 before being bowled by Kagiso Rabada.
He then saw left-armer Dawson, in his second Test, used ahead of him and return an expensive 0-45 from eight overs.
Moeen found turn to trap Hashim Amla lbw for 29 and had captain Dean Elgar caught at short leg for 54, accounting for the two most experienced batsmen in the South Africa line-up.
Broad already had opener Heino Kuhn held at first slip by Alastair Cook when he returned to pin JP Duminy lbw with a full delivery to push South Africa firmly on to the ropes.
The stylish Bavuma and De Bruyn, in only his second Test, began tentatively, but gradually blunted the England attack. Dawson was targeted, Bavuma eased the ball through the off side and De Bruyn scored of his pads.
Joe Root, captaining England for the first time, shuffled his bowlers and showed occasional invention with his field.
"Root was clever at times and put in some good fields but almost too many - he was bowling a lot of people not enough," said former captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special.
Earlier in the day, Amla was greeted with an unconventional short cover, while at one stage Anderson was frustrated to be yanked from the attack after a spell lasting only two overs.
But Anderson, England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker, had the final say. With two overs remaining, he found movement down the slope and De Bruyn's flat-footed prod was edged to Jonny Bairstow.
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Root, 184 not out after his first day as captain, was caught behind off Morne Morkel for 190 in the third over of the day, with Dawson leg before two balls later.
Broad should have been lbw to Vernon Philander on four - South Africa chose not to review - and took full advantage.
What began with edges and inside edges turned into clean hitting - Morkel was hooked for consecutive sixes as Broad registered his first Test half-century for four years.
Anderson joined in - his hook off Kagiso Rabada was only his third six in 123 Tests - and by the time he edged Morkel behind, England had scored 101 runs and lost their last five wickets in 18.3 overs.
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BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "A dry pitch is producing some uneven bounce and also some slow spin, suggesting that England's 458 could be a winning total."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: "It's a day when England have got their noses in front - they've played well.
"Broad was very good with the bat, the way he attacked South Africa. They lost their discipline. Tail-end cameos are massive momentum-changers.
England all-rounder Moeen Ali on TMS: "I'm just pleased to have played so many Test matches. I'm much happier with the bowling stats - I never thought I would get 100 wickets.
"I feel like a big part of the team. I know I'm still a little inconsistent but I feel like I can change games. At number seven, I go in and play on instinct.
"Rooty has asked me to change my mindset, to take wickets rather than worry about runs. That's what I did when I first came into the side."
South Africa batsman Hashim Amla on TMS: "We're in need of a comeback. England were in trouble and they managed to get to more than 450. We have to get to score as close to their score as possible.
"It's turning a little bit, so it will probably turn more. I don't think the wicket will speed up, so it will probably get more difficult to bat." | Moeen Ali and Stuart Broad helped give England the advantage over South Africa on day two of the first Test at Lord's. |
38,308,399 | The claim: General secretary of drivers' union Aslef Mick Whelan said on Tuesday morning that rail safety, at the centre of the Southern rail strikes, has deteriorated in recent years.
Reality Check verdict: Slightly more people were hurt getting on and off trains last year than the year before, but overall there has been no significant increase in the past decade.
The unions who are behind Tuesday's strikes on Southern trains say the dispute is about safety on the railways.
Southern wants to give control of train doors to drivers and says there will still be a second member of staff on board.
Unions argue removing a conductor who is responsible for opening and closing the doors makes it more dangerous for passengers getting on and off trains at stations.
The number of people falling between the train and the platform while getting on or off a train was up slightly last year but lower than it was two years ago, according to the independent Rail Safety and Standards Board.
Overall, it concluded, over the past 10 years there had been "no significant increase" in the number of people falling between the train and the platform.
In 2015-16, it recorded eight passengers' deaths on the railways, up from four in 2014-15 and the highest number since 2006-07, but none of them resulted from people falling between a train and the platform when getting on or off a train.
Two fell between a train and the platform, but both incidents were after the doors had closed and the train had set off.
The regulator makes a clear distinction between people hurt getting on and off trains and those falling between the platform and a train arriving or departing.
The other fatalities were caused by passengers falling in front of a train, on to the track or on to the electric rail.
The Rail Safety and Standards Board also recorded a murder, a passenger who died after a violent assault and a passenger killed when a road sign was blown down in high winds.
There are some concerns about station safety, but the railway's safety watchdog, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), does not believe the driver controlling the doors of trains is the problem.
The sheer number of people using the railways - journeys are up by 57% in the past decade - is creating overcrowding at some stations.
This causes particular problems when the platforms are curved, making it harder for staff to see what is happening.
The ORR said in July that most train companies managed the safety of passengers on the platform well and had good systems in place but "careful assessment of the different risks caused and controls needed to dispatch trains safely and efficiently" was needed as drivers increasingly took over the opening and closing of doors.
However, Ian Prosser, HM chief inspector of railways, was emphatic in a letter to the Transport Select Committee last month.
Drivers operating the doors, if properly managed, "is a safe method of working", he said. | Mick Whelan, the general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers union, said: "We have had an awful increase in the number of people falling between the platform and the train." |
35,420,644 | The trial is part of an effort to cut down on binge drinking, but the students' union said it cannot be the only reason to refuse entry to someone.
A spokesman said the union was "happy to support any campaign that promotes and encourages responsible drinking".
Random breathalyser tests are carried out on night-time events and the scheme is being run with South Wales Police.
A Students' Union spokeswoman said: "Commercial impact, either positive or negative, had no bearing whatsoever on the Students' Union's decision to be involved in this trial scheme." | Students at Cardiff University are being breathalysed before they are allowed into union bars. |
38,287,924 | The Briton, who defended his IBF title against Eric Molina on Saturday, is set to meet ex-champion Klitschko in April.
Joshua, 27, has recently begun working full-time again with McCracken, who trained him as an amateur, helping him win Olympic gold at London 2012.
"Without a doubt, he can knock anybody out," McCracken told BBC Radio 5 live.
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"If he hits them hard enough, he will without a doubt knock them out.
"Anthony can box, can move well, has great balance. Speed is the key as well.
"When you have his speed, they don't see the punches coming. And that will be the plan for Klitschko, that he just can't avoid or defend what's coming from Anthony.
"He's looking forward to it. He's enjoying his boxing. The tests lie ahead but he's in a great place and we're more than confident that he'll beat Klitschko."
McCracken watched at Manchester Arena on Saturday as the Watford-born fighter stopped American Molina in the third round.
Promoter Eddie Hearn then announced that Joshua would fight Klitschko at Wembley Arena on 29 April, by which time the Ukrainian will be 41.
"Klitschko is a different type of test," McCracken said. "Klitschko won't be fazed - he's hugely experienced.
"He knows his way around, he knows how to jab and grab and nullify big punchers. He's beaten big punchers before, but I think Anthony's more than a big puncher."
Klitschko became free to fight Joshua for the WBA and IBF belts after Tyson Fury relinquished his titles in October.
Britain's Fury, who beat Klitschko to win the WBA and WBO titles in November 2015, had twice pulled out of scheduled rematches.
Find out how to get into boxing with our special guide. | Anthony Joshua has the speed to beat Wladimir Klitschko and become undisputed world heavyweight champion, says his trainer Rob McCracken. |
37,315,832 | Even those who have supported the drive to create academies, or change how teachers are recruited, are taken aback.
Inner city London schools have shown that comprehensives can help poor bright children excel.
Many thought the debate about grammars had become almost irrelevant.
But this is post-referendum politics - where the symbolic status of grammars as a chance to better yourself has trumped the expert consensus.
It is an unashamed pitch to the values of non-metropolitan England.
The government will hope to appease opponents within its own ranks by tying any new grammar schools into the wider system. Ministers will consult on a range of ways to do that.
A new law will be needed, and the actual number of grammar schools expanding or opening may ultimately be small. That's assuming a new law can be pushed through Parliament.
It's a big if. The brief debate in the House of Lords this week gave some sense of the difficulties that a bill would face. Most peers spoke against the idea of more grammar schools.
Ranged against the government will be a wide alliance of charities and academics as well as political opponents.
They will point to the lack of evidence for past social mobility, and the risks of allowing selection to be extended.
It's worth noting that these plans appear to rely on grammar schools driving expansion of selection.
That's because, if the senior people I've spoken to are an indication, most multi-academy trusts are hovering somewhere between disbelief and horror at the idea that some bright pupils might be cherry picked by new grammar schools.
This autumn, many will look with interest as data on school progress in England is released.
It will measure how well secondary schools help pupils progress, compared with the level they reached at the end of primary.
This is part of the measures to identify schools which are described as "coasting".
Grammar schools by definition take the children already doing well academically. Like other schools, they help their pupils make progress to varying degrees.
Their performance, especially in helping poorer pupils improve, could now come under much more intense scrutiny than before. | Theresa May's plans for more grammar schools have already triggered an avalanche of criticism. |
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The 2004 champion fell three times on court number two and required lengthy treatment on her hip in the second set.
At one point Sharapova complained to the umpire that the court was dangerous but after the match she refused to use this as an excuse for her defeat.
"Those conditions are there for my opponent, I just took a lot more falls than she did," said Sharapova.
"I've seen a lot of players fall and take a few hits and a few injuries. So I think that's just part of the game, part of what we have to deal with.
"I don't think I've ever fallen three times in a match before in my career, so that was a little strange.
"But that's certainly not an excuse. I give her a lot of credit, she played extremely well today. She was really solid from the baseline.
"I don't feel like I was aggressive enough. I wasn't ready after the returns or the serves. She's someone that plays extremely aggressive. I just wasn't there."
Portugal's De Brito, 20, suggested the court was slippery because there was cut grass sitting on the surface.
"The dead grass hasn't been swept off so it's made it quite slippery," said the 20-year-old, who has reached the third round for the first time.
"I just tried to stay calm. I was playing so well. I was just trying to hang on in there and gave it my all and went for it."
Number 12 seed Ana Ivanovic is also out, losing 6-3 6-3 to 2012 junior champion Eugenie Bouchard.
The match was moved from an outside court to Centre after Victoria Azarenka pulled out through injury.
The 19-year-old world number 66 broke Ivanovic five times in a match lasting only 63 minutes.
"We found out (about playing on Centre Court) 15 minutes before going on," said Bouchard. "It was crazy and great to play before this crowd."
Ninth seed Caroline Wozniacki also suffered a surprise defest as she fell 6-2 6-2 to Czech Petra Cetkovska.
In what was only her third tournament since four months out with a stress fracture of her foot, world number 186 Cetkovska comfortably saw off the Dane in just 75 minutes.
Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain is Bouchard's next opponent before a potential fourth-round meeting with former champion Petra Kvitova.
Navarro, who is the 19th seed, recovered after losing the first set to beat Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 1-6 6-3 6-3.
Monica Puig, who knocked out fifth seed Sara Errani, is through to the third round after she beat Silvia Soler-Espinosa of Spain 6-2 5-7 6-4.
Kvitova advanced without hitting a ball after her opponent Yaroslava Shvedova pulled out with an arm injury.
The Kazakh became the seventh player to withdraw through injury on Wednesday.
Victoria Azarenka, the Belrussian second seed, was among the casualties, handing a walkover to Italy's Flavia Pennetta as she failed to recover from a knee injury sustained in her first-round win over Maria Joao Koehler.
Former world number one and 16th seed Jelena Jankovic is out, beaten 7-5 6-2 by Vesna Dolonc.
The Serb, who is ranked 97 in the world broke Jankovic five times on her way to setting up a third round clash with German Kirsten Flipkens.
American Sloane Stephens did make it through but she had to be at her best to see off the challenge of German Andrea Petkovic.
The 17th seed was on court for two hours and 36 minutes before eventually prevailing 7-6 (7-2) 2-6 8-6.
Marion Bartoli and Kirsten Flipkens overcame unseeded opponents with straight-sets wins over Christina McHale and Bojana Jovanovski respectively. | Third seed Maria Sharapova is out of Wimbledon after losing 6-3 6-4 to world number 131 Michelle Larcher de Brito. |
39,772,679 | It followed up with a steady drumbeat of briefings suggesting the UK is unprepared for the talks ahead and is harbouring delusions about the possible outcomes.
Officials in Brussels naturally have a vested interest in stressing that leaving the EU is difficult and dangerous.
But there's enough detail in the descriptions of a difficult dinner in Downing Street last week to suggest that there are real problems alongside the tactical manoeuvrings.
It seems clear that the two sides were facing each other, not just across the dining table, but across a gulf of perceptions too.
President of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, who was a guest of Theresa May, apparently told his host that the more he heard about the British position, the more sceptical he was about the prospects of a deal.
His staff have made it known that he telephoned German Chancellor Angela Merkel to warn that in his view the prime minister was "deluding herself".
British perceptions of the meal have not been leaked in the same level of detail, but there's no doubt the European briefings will be seen in the UK as provocative - and designed to stir up fears among British voters about what Brexit is ultimately going to mean.
It's also worth pointing out that the hostile briefing carried in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is at variance not only with the British view that the meal went well, but also with Mr Juncker's own earlier public description of the dinner as "excellent".
But there are more concrete signs that relations between London and Brussels are strained.
The UK is said to be holding up a budget increase for the EU on the grounds that its hands are tied by the rules of purdah - the convention that politically controversial or sensitive spending decisions are avoided during the build-up to elections.
Some officials in Brussels may well believe that Britain is hiding behind the convention of purdah to avoid putting more money into the EU budget.
Indeed, Mr Juncker's chief of staff Martin Selmayr said at the weekend that the EU would respond by putting all preparatory talks about the Brexit negotiations on hold until after the election in return.
Leaders of the 27 remaining EU nations set out tough terms for the Brexit talks at the weekend, including the threat that they won't agree to start talks about a future trading relationship until progress has been made on settling how much the UK will have to pay to leave the European Union.
And several European politicians have contrasted the speed and unanimity of their negotiating position - for now at least - with what they claim is a lack of preparedness on the British side.
The Europeans say, for example, they can't be sure who will be Britain's chief negotiator - the main counterpart to Michel Barnier, who is the Commission's man. And they imply there's a lack of clarity even about who to talk to on the other side.
It's worth remembering that all this has come before formal Brexit negotiations have even started - they're likely to get going next month.
And every stage is likely to be accompanied by similar leaks and briefings. The only difference is, at some point, the British are likely to join in too. | The European Union set out tough terms for the Brexit negotiations at the weekend. |
36,170,289 | Everyone is living longer but rich people's lives are extending faster, the City University London study says.
Better life expectancy narrowed the gap in the early 20th Century but this trend reversed for men in the 1990s.
Author Prof Les Mayhew from Cass Business School said the difference was mainly due to "lifestyle choices".
Based on figures from the Human Mortality Database, researchers measured the differences in age between the youngest 10% of adult deaths and the oldest 5%.
From 1870 to 1939 the gap steadily closed, the report said.
"Everyone benefited from improvements in clean drinking water, better housing, higher incomes and better health," said Prof Mayhew.
After 1950 there were further rises in life expectancy - though inequalities in lifespan persisted rather than narrowing further.
But in the 1990s lifespan inequalities actually worsened, particularly for men, for the first time since the late 1870s, say the researchers.
They found that for men who died in 2010 aged over 30:
For women who died aged over 30 in 2010:
Commenting on the data, Prof Mayhew said: "This is partly due to some men now living to exceptionally old ages and in many cases equalling women - but at the other end of the distribution there has been a lack of progress."
The researchers attributed the widening disparity to poor lifestyle choices.
"Many of the big gains from public health improvements are in the past and personal choices are now much more important," the report says.
"Men in lower socio-economic groups are the most likely to make damaging lifestyle choices.
"They put themselves in harm's way on average more than women do - they smoke more, drink more and there are periods in their lives when they partake in riskier activities," say the authors.
The authors suggest lack of wealth is not directly responsible for the difference, but the poorest groups are more likely to suffer the cumulative effects of decades of poor lifestyle choices and income inequality - while wealthier, more educated people may find it easier to adopt healthier habits.
The authors say the negative health outcomes of smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, poor diet and lack of exercise "are disproportionately associated with the poorest in society".
They say it is vital to encourage healthier lifestyles and to counter pressure on individuals from "exposure to advertising, their communities and peer groups".
Baroness Sally Greengross, chief executive of the International Longevity Centre, said the figures were "particularly worrying".
"Preventing inequalities in ill health and disability must be a priority for policy action," she said.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said everybody should have the opportunity to have a long and healthy life.
"The number of workless households is at a record low and we know that economic security can provide the foundation for better physical and mental health.
"We have shown that we are willing to take tough action to protect the public's health." | The gap between the lifespans of rich and poor people in England and Wales is rising for the first time since the 1870s, researchers have suggested. |
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Collin rose to meet Ben Greenhalgh's cross to book the Isthmian Premier Division side a meeting with Wrexham.
He had earlier put Maidstone ahead from a rebound, only for Darius Charles to volley an equaliser for Stevenage.
But Collin had the last word, sending Maidstone to round two for the first time since they reformed in 1992.
Their victory was also the first match in the main draw of the FA Cup to be played on a 3G artificial surface.
A goalless draw at Stevenage had earned the Stones a replay at the Gallagher Stadium, the ground they moved into in 2012 on their return to the town after a 24-year absence.
They were ahead inside two minutes, with Jay May running onto a flick and seeing his shot parried by Stevenage keeper Chris Day into the path of Collin, who finished from an angle.
The visitors, 60 places above Maidstone in the league pyramid, remained vulnerable to long balls all night, but they improved and put pressure on the home goal, with Lee Worgan called on to save from Lee Barnard and Roarie Deacon.
The Boro got their reward after half-time when Simon Walton turned two defenders on the Maidstone left and crossed for Charles to volley home from 12 yards out.
From there, it was Stevenage who looked more likely winners - Worgan again forced to deny Chris Whelpdale - only for the visitors to be caught out late on.
Greenhalgh surged down the left and crossed to Collin, whose header sent Maidstone to Conference side Wrexham on Saturday, 6 December.
Match ends, Maidstone United 2, Stevenage 1.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Stevenage 1.
Jack Parkinson (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Charlie Lee (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jay May (Maidstone United).
Corner, Maidstone United. Conceded by Bira Dembele.
Foul by Jack Jebb (Stevenage).
Ben Greenhalgh (Maidstone United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bira Dembele (Stevenage).
Jay May (Maidstone United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Stevenage. Jack Jebb replaces David McAllister.
Attempt missed. Darius Charles (Stevenage) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Simon Walton following a set piece situation.
Alex Brown (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Charlie Adams (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jack Parkinson (Maidstone United).
Substitution, Maidstone United. Alex Brown replaces Frannie Collin.
Goal! Maidstone United 2, Stevenage 1. Frannie Collin (Maidstone United) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Greenhalgh with a cross.
Attempt saved. Chris Whelpdale (Stevenage) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Charlie Lee with a through ball.
Attempt blocked. Charlie Adams (Stevenage) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Simon Walton.
Foul by David McAllister (Stevenage).
Tom Mills (Maidstone United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ronnie Henry (Stevenage).
Alex Flisher (Maidstone United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Charlie Lee (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sonny Miles (Maidstone United).
Substitution, Stevenage. Charlie Adams replaces Roarie Deacon.
Substitution, Stevenage. Bira Dembele replaces Jerome Okimo.
Attempt missed. Charlie Lee (Stevenage) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ronnie Henry with a cross.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Ben Greenhalgh replaces Matt Bodkin.
Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Jamie Coyle.
Roarie Deacon (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Frannie Collin (Maidstone United).
Attempt blocked. Alex Flisher (Maidstone United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Jerome Okimo (Stevenage).
Jay May (Maidstone United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
David McAllister (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jack Parkinson (Maidstone United).
Attempt blocked. Matt Bodkin (Maidstone United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Parkinson with a headed pass.
Offside, Stevenage. Charlie Lee tries a through ball, but Lee Barnard is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Frannie Collin (Maidstone United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Matt Bodkin. | Frannie Collin's late header put seventh-tier Maidstone United through to the second round of the FA Cup at the expense of League Two Stevenage. |
17,811,752 | Sales growth in their home market slowed to a virtual trickle last year, at least when compared with the ballooning market a couple of years back, and it is set to remain relatively weak throughout 2012.
So Chinese carmakers, which have long fought tough rivals from well-established non-Chinese manufacturers, are looking to diversify abroad.
Many of the new Chinese cars displayed at Auto China 2012 are expected to be exported to Europe.
Some Chinese carmakers have entered Europe, already, of course, mainly through acquisitions.
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) owns MG in the UK. Geely owns Volvo and has a stake in Manganese Bronze, the maker of London's black cabs.
Others are even gearing up for direct investments in the mass-production of their own marques within the European Union.
Great Wall Motors was the first to arrive with The Steed, a small pickup truck that will be produced in its recently opened factory in Bulgaria.
Others are sure to follow as cash-rich Chinese companies target parts of the world where local investment has dried up because of the financial crisis.
"Just as the Japanese and Koreans did decades ago, Chinese carmakers are hoping to gain strong positions in the longer term in the Western European and US markets," observes the German magazine Der Spiegel.
Great Wall's Bulgarian factory, in the village of Bahovitsa, near the town of Lovech, is not the first car plant in the area.
Bulgarians used to assemble the infamous Soviet Moskvich here during communist times, and this was where Rover's plans to produce its old Maestro model flopped some 17 years ago.
Great Wall's joint venture with Bulgaria's Litex Motors comes across as much more ambitious than either of those, however.
Though initially no more than 120 people will work here, European Whole Vehicle Type Approval has already been granted for several models, and the plan is to expand the workforce to 2,000 people and produce 50,000 cars a year for the European market.
"Bulgaria is an excellent starting point for our entry into the European markets," Great Wall's president Wang Fengying said after opening the plant in February.
"In the next three to five years, we will have a great variety of car brands, which will be sold in all European countries," she said, according to an exuberant Bulgarian media.
"Bulgaria will flood the rest of Europe with cars made in Lovech," exclaimed the daily newspaper Standart, "just as the Japanese and Koreans."
Others were more guarded, pointing out that Chinese cars have yet to establish a reputation of quality and reliability in Europe.
Bulgaria might one day be remembered as "the place where the Chinese car expansion into Europe started", observed weekly magazine Kapital.
"The only question is, what cars will the plant produce, and who is going to buy them?"
Bulgarian-produced Chinese cars will go head-to-head with the Dacia brand, which is built at Pitesti in neighbouring Romania.
The Pitesti plant, owned by the French carmaker Renault, produces affordable cars that also rely on an "inexpensive but reliable" marketing strategy.
But Dacia and Renault are far from worried.
According to the Romanian website Ziare, Great Wall's cars will be more expensive than Dacia's, as well as inferior because of the company's lack of experience.
Great Wall's president acknowledges that the carmaker has much to learn.
"We realise that we have a long way to go to achieve some of the standards that German cars have," she told Bulgarian daily Dnevnik.
"But from a market point of view, we know that there are also people in Germany who would like to buy a quality car at a reasonable price.
"This is our chance to establish a presence in Germany."
Henry Li, general manager of BYD Auto's export division, agrees.
"In the short term, competition will be more fierce, especially when international brands are launching low-cost vehicles," he says.
"We try to create our own competitive edge. We are not only staying in a low segment, but are creating new technologies and improving quality."
Chinese ambitions in Europe are not limited to the motor industry, however.
"China is buying up Europe," the European Council on Foreign Relations notes in a current policy brief.
"Its automobile manufacturers have bought MG and Volvo. Its transportation firms are acquiring, leasing or managing harbours, airports, and logistical and assembly bases across the continent. Its development bank is financing projects in Europe's periphery, much like it does in Africa."
China has been actively seeking business opportunities in the Balkan region, "especially in Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria", according to Prague-based website Transitions Online.
In October last year, for instance, Guangdong Nuclear Power Group said it might take part in efforts to build two new reactors at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania.
In Serbia, a consortium of Chinese companies is investing some 2bn euros in the country's EPS power utility. Another Chinese company is building a 1,500m bridge over the Danube near Belgrade.
Similar stories are emerging across Europe, which last year attracted more investment from China than the rest of Asia or North America did.
"In 2011, for the first time since Chinese companies started heading abroad, Europe became their favoured destination," according to the French newspaper Les Echos.
As yet, China's non-financial investment in the 27 European Union member states totals just $15bn, or less than 0.2% of all foreign investment in Europe, according to the consultancy Rhodium Group.
But that proportion is set to soar as China's investment overseas trebles by 2020, Rhodium predicts.
The Beijing motor show is open to the public from 27 April until 2 May. | Chinese carmakers are vying to impress at this year's Beijing motor show as they look for opportunities outside their own borders to compensate for weaker demand at home. |
36,843,867 | The 28-year-old replaces Colin Doyle, who joined Bradford for just £1 on 12 July after they met a release clause.
Ex-Scunthorpe keeper Slocombe has the option of a second year with the League Two club in his contract.
"He's been promoted with Scunthorpe United and Oxford United and is another strong addition to the squad," said Blackpool boss Gary Bowyer.
Slocombe added: "The project that the gaffer is putting together here seems quite appealing and we have a really good opportunity this season to give it a right good go."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Blackpool have signed goalkeeper Sam Slocombe on an initial one-year deal after his departure from Oxford United. |
39,970,127 | The body of Sinead Wooding, 26, was discovered by joggers near Alwoodley Crags car park in Stairfoot Lane on Sunday.
Police said Akshar Ali, 26, of Kings Road, Leeds, and Yasmin Ahmed, 27, of Reginald Mount, Leeds, have been charged with her murder. 　
Asim Ali, 20, of Kings Road, has been charged with assisting an offender. 　
All three will appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Friday. | Three people have been charged in connection with the death of a woman found dead in woodland near Leeds. |
28,402,911 | The Grade II-listed "two up two down" home near St Davids, which dates back to the 1700s, was left to the charity by its late owner Glyn Griffiths.
The cottage needs "substantial" repair work and Mr Griffiths left it with the wish that it would be restored and its character preserved.
Once renovated it will be let as a holiday cottage.
The coastal home is a traditional lime-washed house with outbuildings, and was lived-in by Mr Griffiths since childhood.
It has been unaltered since it was built and its photo has featured in several publications celebrating the special character of the Pembrokeshire landscape.
Jonathan Hughes, the National Trust's general manager for Pembrokeshire, said: "We're delighted that Mr Griffiths has chosen the National Trust to safeguard his cottage and we know it holds a special place in the hearts of many people.
"The restoration work planned will preserve the layout as far as possible to provide simple accommodation, whilst retaining the spirit and charm of the traditional Pembrokeshire cottage."
Renovation work will be funded by the National Trust's Neptune Coastline Campaign, set up to protect coastal heritage.
Visitors will be able to view the repair work at a series of open days and people will eventually be available to rent it for short stays. | One of the last unaltered examples of a classic Pembrokeshire cottage is to be restored by the National Trust. |
32,194,927 | Doune Castle, near Stirling, is portrayed as the fictional Castle Leoch, the seat of Clan MacKenzie.
It also featured as Camelot in the film Monty Python and The Holy Grail and in the pilot episode of Game of Thrones.
Historic Scotland figures show year-on-year visitor numbers to the castle have grown by 30.2% to 49,553 in 2014/15.
The TV series follows the story of Claire Randell, a nurse from 1946 who is swept back in time to 1743.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: "Doune Castle is just the latest location to report the 'Outlander effect'.
"From Dumfries to Inverness, historic visitor attractions are reporting a rise in visitor numbers thanks to the popularity of the TV show and renewed interest in the novels.
"Canada, the USA and Australia, where the series is shown, all have a shared history with Scotland, and Outlander is a great introduction to our must-visit country.
"We hope that visitor numbers increase further as viewers in the UK and Germany get to enjoy the programme."
Outlander is based on novels by US author Diana Gabaldon.
Mike Cantlay, chairman of VisitScotland, said: "Scotland is the land that inspired Outlander and our locations map has already proved a big hit with visitors with many making the journey to stunning locations within the series such as Doune Castle.
"Furthermore, we are seeing more and more tourism businesses, including accommodation providers and visitor attractions, looking at ways in which they can capitalise on the show."
Ms Hyslop will travel to New York and Los Angeles for Scotland Week, attending a series of business, tourism, cultural and film industry engagements. | The number of visitors to a Scottish castle has risen by almost a third since it featured in hit drama Outlander. |
32,517,713 | But what about the candidates? How are they behaving?
Well things can get quite hot particularly in a two-horse race in a marginal seat.
The constituency of Rossendale and Darwen has attracted a great deal of attention with Conservative MP Jake Berry hoping to defend the seat he took from Labour back in 2010.
The campaign from both main parties has been intense and this missive from Mr Berry about his opponent Will Straw upped the stakes.
"He is your archetypal professional politician, he's never worked in a business, he's never been out in the real world and I don't think that is right for our area, so I am sure he will be going around making the arguments as to why you should support him, but I think somebody who hasn't got that experience, that experience of the real world, he just wants politics as a career isn't right for east Lancashire.
And this was Mr Straw's response.
"Well Jake Berry's never asked me what I did before I was selected as Labour's candidate.
"If he had done I would have told him I started my career as a civil servant and therefore had to be completely politically impartial, but doing a so-called proper job in the public sector and for the last four years I have been working for a national charity leading the energy transport and climate change team so I find it very ill-informed that he would use that phrase."
Both turned up recently at Bacup market, but managed at least not to bump into each other.
Over at Burnley two former council leaders battle for supremacy, no real fireworks, but I doubt if Gordon Birtwistle and Julie Cooper are meeting together for lunch.
It's an important moment for both, for the winner the spoils.
In Pendle, the Conservative candidate Andrew Stephenson and Labour's Azhar Ali both support the plans for Brierfield Mill but hardly spoke to each other at a recent event about the future of the mill.
You do wonder if they were pondering over their election and how their opponent was doing.
But many of the new candidates in Lancashire have not come out with any cheap shots at other parties.
UKIP's Clive Balchin, who's standing in Rossendale and Darwen, spoke positively of two former Conservative MP's, David Trippier and the late Ken Hargreaves.
Gordon Lishman, the Liberal Democrat candidate in Blackburn, stood by Jack Straw's achievements in the aftermath of the controversy over whether MP's should have second jobs.
He could have had a pop but didn't.
In fact for the most part the candidates have behaved themselves at our debates, prime ministers and party leaders take notice.
It's become very clear during the campaign that voters don't like to hear politicians bickering with each other.
The party which behaves itself might end up being rewarded for its efforts. | The election has at times got quite heated, with the pressure on the main parties increasing by the day. |
34,376,085 | They've today gone some way to answering that charge by recruiting some of the world's most influential left-wing economists to an advisory panel.
The panel includes Joe Stiglitz, the US Nobel prize-winner, Simon Wren-Lewis, Mariana Mazzucato, Danny Blanchflower and Thomas Piketty.
These are economists who've written powerfully about the need for new taxes, especially on the wealth of the rich (Piketty most famously) and on the role that governments can play in sparking wealth-creating innovation (a tour de force by Mazzucato).
And they are all opponents of austerity, or public spending cuts in a recession (Wren-Lewis in particular has been waspish about Osbornomics).
While their views are not shared by many economists of the centre and right, none are lightweight.
Which means that for the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Tories, when she sought intellectual ballast for her policies of controlling the money supply and shrinking the state from the likes of Friedman and Hayek, a leading British party is trying to establish an economic ideology outside the mainstream.
It means there will be a properly emotional debate between Labour and the Tories about how to maximise growth and prosperity.
What is striking is that Labour under Blair, Brown and Miliband never set up an equivalent panel of distinguished and ideologically left-wing economists drawn from all over the world.
It is also intriguing that Piketty is prepared to help Corbyn but has maintained a certain distance from the French socialist government of Francois Hollande.
The composition of the panel probably also tells us that the ultra formulation of "quantitative easing for people not banks" - till now seen as the quintessence of Corbynomics - is dead.
Or to put it another way, this group of economists would not sign up to a policy of the Bank of England providing cheap loans to a new state investment bank on a permanent continuous basis - for fear that the anti-inflationary credentials of the Bank of England would be destroyed.
If People's QE survives - which it may - it will be as a contingent rainy-day monetary tool, for when the economy is next in direst straits.
That said I would expect all these economists to back the notion of the government taking advantage of prevailing low interest rates to borrow considerably more for investment in infrastructure.
Even so Mr McDonnell has chosen not to have a public punch up over the government's proposed bill to make it mandatory for the government's deficit to be closed.
Labour will vote for the bill - while reserving the right in the next parliament to borrow whatever it thinks necessary for investment (as opposed to so-called "current spending" on the day-to-day bills of government departments).
As one of Mr McDonnell's colleagues told me, "we see no mileage in playing the chancellor's game and allowing ourselves to be painted as having no interest in the health of the public finances". | One criticism levelled at Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow chancellor John McDonnell both by the Tories and centrist members of his own party is that they are left-wing dinosaurs. |
39,987,278 | The highest number of applications so far was on 18 April, the day the prime minister made her announcement, when just over 150,000 people applied.
The number of young people registering is the highest of any age group.
The deadline to register online through the official website is 23.59 GMT on Monday 22 May.
The latest official figures published in March, before the election was called, showed that 45.7 million people were registered to vote in a general election as of 1 December 2016.
The Electoral Commission have warned that approximately seven million people across Britain who are eligible to vote are not registered, including 30% of under 34s while only 28% of home movers in the past year have registered.
Anyone wanting to vote on 8 June who is not already on the electoral register needs to sign up. It takes five minutes to register online if you live in England, Wales or Scotland. Alternatively, people can fill out and return a written form by post.
People are advised they may need their National Insurance number or their passport if they are a British citizen living abroad.
If you live in Northern Ireland you must fill in a form and take it to your local electoral office.
Since 18 April, 2.014 million people have signed up to vote although it has yet to be confirmed how many have been added to the electoral register.
Although the number of people applying has dropped off a little after an initial flurry in mid-April, there are still significant numbers of voters making sure they can have their say at the ballot box.
In six out of the past seven days, applications have exceeded 100,000. Of those applying to vote each day, nearly 40% have been under-25s, although people of all ages have been signing up.
The 150,364 people who applied to register on 18 April was the biggest total recorded for a single day since the EU referendum campaign in 2016.
There is expected to be a spike of applications in the run-up to Monday's deadline.
In 2015, 500,000 people applied to vote on deadline day while registration for the EU referendum in 2016 had to be extended by 48 hours after the website crashed in the final few hours.
Both Instagram and Snapchat will be carrying prominent reminders of the deadline on Monday in order to encourage their users to sign up. | More than two million people have applied to register to vote in the month since Theresa May announced plans for a snap general election on 8 June. |
16,170,668 | 14 December 2011 Last updated at 06:55 GMT
Like many other countries, America has big money problems.
So on Ricky's road trip, he visited one of the USA's worst-hit areas - Detroit in Michigan - to see if Mr Obama has been able to turn things around there.
Detroit was nicknamed "Motor City" because it once made the cars that powered America, but competition from other countries meant many car companies shut down for good.
In the past 10 years, almost a quarter of a million people have left to find jobs elsewhere.
In his report, Ricky visits a soup kitchen helping struggling families and meets a man who's turning spaces where houses used to stand into farms. | When US President Barack Obama first moved into the White House, there was one big word at the top of his to-do list... MONEY. |
38,505,033 | The £20m Leonardo AW189 - built in Yeovil, Somerset - is the first of two that will operate from Lee-on-the-Solent, near Portsmouth.
The aircraft will conduct training missions in the coming months before starting operational duties in April.
In the meantime the existing AW139 helicopters will continue to operate.
Bristow Helicopters, which operates the UK search and rescue (SAR) helicopter service on behalf of HM Coastguard, has been flying training missions to prepare for the aircraft entering service.
The remaining nine AW189s will be in operation at Prestwick, Lydd, St Athan and Inverness by May 2019.
The 11 AW189s have been specially fitted for UK SAR operations: | Hampshire's Coastguard base is to take delivery of the first of 11 new helicopters being given to five bases across the UK. |
37,289,352 | Northern Irish and Welsh teams featured in the draw for the last 16 of the Scottish Challenge Cup.
And Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Doncaster says member clubs should be "open-minded" to playing teams outside their borders.
"Over the next few years we're going to see the whole question of cross-border competition coming from Europe," he said.
Football League clubs in England are currently considering proposals to introduce a fifth division for the 2019-20 season, and which clubs to invite to the new set-up, including the possibility of involving Celtic and Rangers.
Proposals for a cross-border Atlantic League continue to be discussed, while other regional leagues in Europe have also been mooted.
In the fourth round of the Challenge Cup, Irish Premiership leaders Crusaders will host Livingston and Linfield visit Queen of the South.
Welsh Premier League leaders the New Saints visit Forfar Athletic while Bala Town welcome Alloa Athletic.
"There seems to be a willingness from Uefa to see cross-border competition develop," Doncaster explained.
"The Irn-Bru [Challenge] Cup and the innovations we've seen this year demonstrate that we're somewhat ahead of that game.
"Be in no doubt, cross-border competition is going to feature increasingly on the European football landscape. To have tried it out and had it endorsed by Uefa in a UK-football context is a positive development.
"We have to have an open mind about anything that is going to aid the game in Scotland and be of benefit to all 42 member clubs."
Any proposals for senior Scottish clubs playing outside the SPFL pyramid would need to be ratified by league clubs and governing bodies and may involve colt teams continuing to play in Scotland's senior leagues.
However, former Celtic and Arsenal striker John Hartson believes there would be a financial impact on other Scottish Premiership clubs if Rangers and Celtic played in one or more other countries.
He said: "You've got all the politics, do the chairmen and owners of the English league want Celtic and Rangers, does Scotland want to lose them?
"Look at the revenue and the finances, the crowds, especially now with Rangers back in the top flight. Teams like Motherwell, Dundee, they're very reliant on Celtic and Rangers, especially with the feel-good factor back now and playing in front of full houses.
"If you watch Motherwell most weeks there are 4,500 there, when Celtic go there are 18,000 people there. In terms of what Celtic and Rangers bring to the Scottish leagues, you can't put a price on that.
"Scottish football suffered when Rangers were out [of the top flight], so they'll suffer badly if both teams are out." | Neil Doncaster believes cross-border competitions will become a widespread feature across European football. |
38,393,188 | Patrick Warren, 11, and David Spencer, 13, vanished on 26 December 1996.
The pair were spotted at a petrol station close to their homes in Chelmsley Wood, near Birmingham, just after midnight.
At a press conference earlier, David's brother Lee O'Toole said his family wanted closure.
He said: "David was my backbone. If I needed anything I would go to him. I looked up to him like a role model.
"I'm convinced someone out there knows what happened. I am begging them to come forward."
West Midlands Police launched a missing persons investigation after Patrick - known as Paddy - and David failed to return home.
Despite a number of searches and appeals, the boys have never been found.
In 2006, child killer Brian Field, who was jailed in 2001 for the murder of schoolboy Roy Tutill, was questioned by officers in connection with the case but never charged.
Det Ch Insp Caroline Marsh, from the force's homicide team, said the case will never close.
She said: "I do believe that the boys are deceased and something very serious must have happened to them.
"If the boys were murdered someone knows who is responsible for that and I appeal to anyone with information to come forward." | A fresh appeal has been launched into the disappearance of two boys who were last seen alive 20 years ago. |
32,249,853 | The violence comes in the wake of alleged comments by the Zulu king telling migrants to go home - although the he says he was mistranslated.
But Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has called on traditional leaders to stop making remarks that "could result in a loss of life".
At least 62 people died in xenophobic attacks that swept the country in 2008.
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Following the alleged comments by King Goodwill Zwelithini at the end of March, 250 people have been attacked, mostly from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and foreign-owned shops have been looted in the port city of Durban.
More than 1,000 mainly African migrants have fled their homes, some going to police stations and other are being housed in tents on a sports field.
South Africa's Business Day newspaper reports that at least three people have been killed and that a Somali shopkeeper is in a critical condition.
Police spokesperson Maj Thulani Zwane told the BBC that the police do not know exactly how many people have been killed, but that some were South African nationals and some were foreigners.
South African President Jacob Zuma's son, Edward, has come out in support of the Zulu king's alleged comments.
"We need to be aware that as a country we are sitting on a ticking time bomb," he said, adding that foreigners were "taking over the country".
Raphael Baheybwa-Kambambire, president of Congolese Solidarity campaign, told the BBC that religious leaders met with Zulu monarch on Thursday.
King Zwelithini told them he was talking "only about those who don't have papers and documentation in South Africa".
Mr Gigaba said on Thursday evening that it was important not to incite violence.
"Africa in particular must not think that we hate fellow Africans so much that we are prepared to do the worst to cause them harm," he said.
On Wednesday, hundreds of people marched in front of the Durban's City Hall in protest against the xenophobic violence.
Durban-based journalist Jeff Wicks told the BBC's Newsday programme that it does not take much to stoke tensions.
Xenophobic violence flares up in townships where living conditions are poor for all those living there, irrespective of where they come from, he says. | South African police have arrested 17 people and opened murder cases after attacks on foreign nationals in Durban. |
27,364,311 | The 500-year-old Magnus building in Newark, Nottinghamshire, is being converted into a museum as part of a £5.4m project.
It survived three sieges in the English Civil War, during which nearly a fifth of the town's buildings were destroyed.
Experts said they had begun to uncover original roof beams which may bear scorch marks and shell splinters.
Between 1642 and 1646 England was torn apart by a bloody civil war.
It was fought between the Roundheads, supporters of Parliament, and the Cavaliers, those who backed King Charles I.
Parliament's New Model Army defeated the Royalists at Naseby and, sensing defeat was inevitable, Charles gave himself up to a Scottish army at Southwell, in Nottinghamshire.
But they handed him over to the English and, after a second uprising, he was executed in 1649.
BBC History: Choosing sides in the Civil War
The building's Royalist garrison finally surrendered in 1646.
Jane Roylance, a historic buildings architect said: "Some of [the roof structure] survived miraculously; other bits have failed spectacularly so we are at a point where we need to go through it and actually decide what repairs are needed."
It is hoped the Heritage Lottery-backed museum will open in spring next year, detailing the 17th Century conflict which deposed King Charles I.
As well as the Civil War displays, there will be galleries focussing on the local history of Nottinghamshire.
The Newark Torc, an Iron Age necklace found near the town, will also be displayed.
It will be the first time the item is displayed in the district after being loaned to the British Museum.
Officials estimate the centre could bring £1.3m into the local economy a year.
Michael Constantine, from the National Civil War Centre, said: "We've got some great interactive displays, arms and armour and all the weaponry from the Civil War and we've got some really gory stuff for the kids."
"Now we are taking a close look at the beams to see how they have survived 500 years of wear and tear and of course the Civil War.
"We are looking for bits of shrapnel and musket balls which might have gone in them." | Work on a new National Civil War Centre is expected to uncover damage from the conflict it will commemorate. |
32,755,095 | It is claimed miners are too slow to meet rules that at least 26% of company shares should be under black ownership.
But the Chamber of Mines told the BBC the confusion was due to the government using a different measurement system.
The government revealed this week that only about 20% of firms met its black economic empowerment rules.
The mining industry had been given a decade - until 2014 - to increase the shareholdings of black investors to at least 26%.
On Thursday, Mines Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi said that only a fifth of companies, based on the number of workers, had finalised the transfer of ownership. Several firms failed to meet "the full requirements of meaningful economic participation," he was reported as saying.
But, speaking to the BBC, Roger Baxter, the chief executive of the Chamber of Mines, the body that represents most of the industry, defended the sector's efforts to meet the rules.
"Our view is that the industry is way beyond the ownership required by the charter," he said.
If mining companies fail to meet the targets of having more black ownership the government can revoke their licences, so this is an issue that the industry could do without at a time when it is facing several challenges.
"It is indeed a challenging time for the industry, said Mr Baxter. "Obviously commodity prices have been weaker than they've been for some time, and we've had some domestic cost pressures feeding through."
Shares in mining companies have been battered as the markets have reacted to falling prices of commodities such as platinum or iron ore, so this could be a good time for black investors to acquire stakes in the sector.
"This is a very good time for local investors to buy into the industry, when valuations are very low," said John Meyer, a mining analyst at SP Angel, told the BBC World Service.
However, Mr Meyer also believes cheaper share values might actually deter investors, making it harder for mining companies to sell a stake to black people.
"Because mining companies are making less money than they were, it may be that indigenous investors have been more cautious, which would make it more difficult for mining companies to pull in more investors," he said.
Africa continues to attract billions of dollars of foreign investment, but industries other than mining look more attractive to fund managers around the world.
"They'd rather invest in media and telecoms and this is a very difficult time in the cycle for mining investment," said SP Angel's John Meyer, recognising the tremendous growth of the mobile phone industry across the continent.
Technology, media and telecoms are topping the charts for investment in Africa, but the banking industry also has a healthy future, according to Jalloul Ayed, a former finance minister in Tunisia.
"When I see what is happening today in the financial sector and the development of many African banks, from South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco and Tunisia, expanding their branch networks and their access platforms into Africa, I think that really bodes well," he said.
In theory, it should be easy to calculate if a mining company had met the black economic empowerment rules. However, confusion arises when rival parties ask if it should be calculated by taking the size of the workforce into account, or raise complex exceptions such as shares initially ceded to black investors, but then sold to other stakeholders.
The dispute between the government and the mining industry about which method to use when calculating share ownership is going to be decided by a court.
"The legal teams of the government and the industry, the Chamber, are still meeting and are still engaging on how the court process will unfold," said Mr Baxter.
"I suppose it does show some degree of maturity on behalf of the stakeholders, other than yesterday, when we agreed on a joint process," he added. | South Africa's government and the mining industry are at loggerheads over rules about black ownership and investment in the sector. |
37,335,629 | Demonstrators carried banners saying "I respect your family, respect mine."
The cardinal of Mexico City, Norberto Rivera Carrera, denied the Catholic church was behind the protests in cities across the country.
In May, President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed a bill which would legalise same-sex marriage nationwide.
Gay marriage is legal in Mexico City and three other states. Some states have less formal arrangements.
The marches on Saturday were organised by a Catholic organisation, the National Front for the Family.
In a social media post, the Front said that around 300,000 people had taken part in 16 cities.
Local media reports put the numbers much lower.
Despite denial of involvement by the Catholic church, in some states priests were seen taking part.
Speaking to Reuters news agency, a member of the Front in the city of Queretaro said that the marches were to "awaken society in defence of the family, of natural marriage between a man and a woman".
There have not been such big marches over government legislation on social and religious issues in Mexico since the 1930s during the country's civil war, the BBC's Katy Watson in Mexico City reports. | Supporters of gay and lesbian rights marched to Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral in response to protests on Saturday opposing same-sex marriage. |
33,125,974 | The project was thought up by a smartphone store based in the city.
It says that a significant number of mobile phone breakages happen because of "text walking" collisions.
There are now thought to be more mobile phones in the world than people.
Although the "text walking lanes" are temporary, officials say there is a possibility they will become permanent. | People sending text messages in the centre of the Belgian city of Antwerp have been provided with dedicated temporary "text walking lanes" so that they don't bump into pedestrians. |
39,545,552 | Weir, 37, clocked one hour 29 minutes 25 seconds as he prepares for the London Marathon, his final race before retiring, on 23 April.
Husband and wife Kenyans Paul Lonyangata and Purity Rionoripo won the respective men's and women's races.
Lonyangata won in two hours six minutes 10 seconds, while Rionoripo's time was two hours twenty minutes 50 seconds.
"I'm so happy, it's a great day for me to win and to beat my personal best," said Rionoripo. | Britain's six-time Paralympic champion David Weir won the Paris Marathon men's wheelchair race. |
35,307,155 | Rob Atkinson gave the lowly hosts an early lead from a corner but Craig Disley headed in Ryan Jennings' cross to equalise for the promotion chasers.
Nicky Boshell restored Guiseley's lead with a rebound but Amond scored with a looping header from Evan Horwood's centre to earn the Mariners a point.
Grimsby stay third while Guiseley are now six points above the bottom four.
Grimsby Town manager Paul Hurst told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"I think it was a missed opportunity for us as we had a lot of possession, missed some chances and conceded two poor goals.
"There were more chances to be had but that final pass, final bit of delivery we couldn't quite change advantage of.
"At 2-2 I still fancied us but I don't want to take anything away from Guiseley. I spoke well of them before and you can see they try and pass the ball." | Padraig Amond scored his 30th goal of the season as Grimsby equalised twice to earn a draw at Guiseley. |
38,763,961 | Mae'r tri undeb yn dweud bod problemau yn deillio o'r cynnig ond mai dyma'r "unig ffordd gredadwy ac ymarferol i sicrhau dyfodol."
Mae'r cytundebau ar newid i'r pensiynau yn cael eu gweld yn hanfodol ar gyfer buddsoddiad gwerth biliwn o bunnau ym Mhort Talbot yn ystod y ddeg mlynedd nesaf.
Mae disgwyl pleidlais ar y cynnig presennol ddydd Llun.
Yn y gorffennol mae'r undebau wedi bod yn dweud mai penderfyniad personol i'r gweithwyr oedd y pensiwn.
Ddydd Iau nododd datganiad ar y cyd gan undebau Unite, GMB a Community nad penderfyniad ysgafn oedd yr argymhelliad newydd.
"Does neb yn dweud bod y cynnig heb ei broblemau. Rydym yn deall pryderon yr aelodau, yn enwedig ynghylch cynllun pensiwn Dur Prydain (BSPS).
"Ond dyma'r casgliad yr ydym wedi dod iddo ar y cyd - mae ein penderfyniad wedi cael cefnogaeth arbenigwyr ariannol - hyd y gwelwn ni dyma'r ffordd orau i sicrhau dyfodol."
Cafodd yr ymgynghoriad ar newidiadau i'r pensiwn eu cyhoeddi ym mis Rhagfyr gyda'r bwriad i osgoi diswyddo gorfodol am bum mlynedd. Hyderir hefyd y bydd y newid yn creu buddsoddiad am gyfnod o ddeg mlynedd.
Mae'r cynlluniau newydd yn golygu na fydd cyfanswm Tata at y pensiwn yn fwy na 10% ac ni fydd hawl gan y gweithwyr gyfrannu mwy na 6%.
Roedd y cynnig gwreiddiol yn cynnwys cynllun pensiwn newydd gyda chyfraniadau o 3% yn unig gan Tata a 3% gan y gweithwyr. | Mae undebau wedi argymell gweithwyr Tata yn eu gweithfeydd dur yn y DU i bleidleisio o blaid cynnig fydd yn cynnwys newid i'w hamodau pensiwn. |
38,689,981 | The charity said the terrapins, which staff have named Jingle and Bell, were dumped near Muirton Place in Dundee on 17 December.
The turtles are being cared for at the charity's centre in the city.
Centre Assistant manager Dale Christie said: "Both Jingle and Bell are quite small and can be handled.
"They appear to be in relatively good nick, apart from some knocks to their shell.
"They're lovely little guys and we'd love for them to find a loving home after coming to us after being through such an ordeal." | Two terrapins found abandoned before Christmas in a Tupperware container are looking for a new home after spending a month with the Scottish SPCA. |
39,665,725 | David Sterling had to step in because the executive failed to agree a budget.
Like his fellow officials he was hoping for a quick resolution to the crisis.
When he took charge he wrote to all Stormont departments stating that while he can keep cash flowing to public services that is "not a substitute for a budget agreed by an Executive".
What that means is that he is not going to make policy decisions, so instead of political direction there is drift.
That is a particular issue for the health service, where some major policy decisions on acute hospitals, elective surgery and GP services need to be made.
With the talks deadline now pushed out until the end of June, Mr Sterling will be operating these emergency procedures for at least another two months.
While it means policy drift, it should not cause any immediate administrative problems.
On the day he took charge Mr Sterling also told all Stormont departments what their spending limits would be for the next four months.
That takes us until the end of July, well beyond the talks deadline.
The legislation says that if no budget is in place by the end of July, Mr Sterling will only have the right to spend an amount equivalent to 95% of the 2016 budget across the whole of the 2017 financial year.
So, at that point, he would have to tell departments to plan for in-year cuts of at least 5%.
However, officials think it is improbable that the emergency situation will continue for that length of time.
If there is no deal among the Stormont parties in June the expectation is that the Secretary of State will move to impose a budget.
Mr Brokenshire has already taken a small degree of financial control when it comes to rates, the property tax paid by households and businesses.
Rates bills are made up of two elements, one set by councils (the district rate) and one set by Stormont (the regional rate).
The councils have set their part, but the executive has not set the regional rate meaning that bills could not calculated.
The secretary of state has now decided that the regional rate will increase in line with inflation and will bring legislation to Westminster on Monday to allow that to happen. | The political crisis means that Stormont's finances have been under the control of a senior civil servant since the start of the financial year. |
38,907,107 | Gould, who beat Selby on his way to the semi-finals two years ago, came through a tense final frame to win 4-3.
The 35-year-old from Middlesex made a career-high break of 142 in the fourth frame and goes on to face Joe Perry.
Australian Neil Robertson beat Ricky Walden of England 3-2 to set up a last-16 clash with Ronnie O'Sullivan.
O'Sullivan beat Chinese 16-year-old Yan Bingtao on Tuesday.
Watch: 'Ronnie the robot': O'Sullivan's protest interview
China's world number five Ding Junhui saw off Yu De Lu 4-2, while England's Anthony Hamilton, winner of last week's German Open, lost 4-0 to Mark Allen of Northern Ireland.
Gould looked on course for a straightforward victory when he led Selby 3-1, and then 3-2 with a 58-0 lead, but the world champion hit back with a brilliant 64 clearance to force a decider.
In a final frame that required a re-rack, following an early stalemate, Selby surprisingly missed two opportunities before Gould took charge with a 54 that proved decisive. | World champion Mark Selby suffered a shock first-round defeat by world number 18 Martin Gould at the World Grand Prix in Preston. |
38,559,130 | The 30-year-old will have an operation on Monday and is expected to be sidelined for three months.
Robshaw, who has won 55 caps, aggravated a problem with his left shoulder at Worcester on 1 January.
The back row captained the national side between January 2012 and January 2016, but was replaced as skipper after Eddie Jones became England head coach.
Jones led the side to a Grand Slam in 2016 but the Australian has a number of injury worries going into this year's tournament, which England begin against France at Twickenham on 4 February.
Saracens forwards Billy and Mako Vunipola have been ruled out with knee injuries, while Leicester centre Manu Tuilagi is out for the season with cruciate ligament damage.
Lock George Kruis is a doubt with a fractured cheekbone, and flanker James Haskell was concussed on his return from six months out with a foot injury.
Captain Dylan Hartley, who is suspended until 23 January, will need to prove his fitness before the competition starts.
Chris Jones, BBC Radio 5 live rugby union reporter
After losing the captaincy following the World Cup, Chris Robshaw was a talisman for England on the blind-side flank in 2016 - playing in all but one of the 13 straight victories.
He was also repeatedly singled out for praise by head coach Eddie Jones for his outstanding performances.
However, while Robshaw's leadership and consistency will certainly be missed in the Six Nations, it may present Jones with the opportunity to move Maro Itoje from the second row into the back row, especially if locks Joe Launchbury and George Kruis can prove their fitness over the coming weeks. | Harlequins flanker Chris Robshaw will miss England's 2017 Six Nations campaign with a shoulder injury. |
38,395,419 | The forward, 33, is joint top-scorer with six tries this season.
The former England player crossed 16 times in 2014-15 and 13 last season.
"I would love to say he has a great opportunity to be top scorer for three seasons in a row because I'm hoping he stays playing very well and I hope the club plays very well," Baxter said.
"It would be fantastic to see that, but ultimately we just have to focus on the day-by-day to make the bigger picture happen.
"He puts himself in the positions to score tries, a lot of them are relatively close range, but that relies on the team getting us there and getting us close to the line," he added to BBC Sport.
Waldrom moved to Exeter from Leicester at the end of the 2013-14 season after four years at Welford Road, and has already beaten the number of tries he got in his entire career at the Tigers.
The number eight, who won five caps for England between 2012 and 2013, says he is not focusing on being top scorer at the moment.
"I'm just trying to do what's best for our team and whenever that opportunity comes you've got to try and take it, and for the last few seasons they've fallen my way," he told BBC Sport.
"It's a cliché, but I just take it a game at a time and if I get close to the five-metre line or a driving maul you just have to take the opportunity." | Exeter Chiefs boss Rob Baxter says Thomas Waldrom is capable of being the Premiership's top try-scorer for a third successive season. |
36,715,769 | Members of the Unite union plan to walk out for 24-hours from 02:00 BST on Friday and then for a further six hours from 04:00 on Monday, 11 July.
The drivers claim they earn £2 less per hour than other regional First drivers.
First Leeds disputed the claim and said it was "disappointed" to learn of the new strike plans.
Read more about this and other stories from across West Yorkshire
The company has queried the alleged pay-gap which has prompted two 24-hour strikes by union members since 13 June.
Unite regional officer Phil Bown said its members are seeking a 36p per hour increase with a view to further negotiations in April 2017.
First offered a 38p per hour rise frozen until May 2018 which the union rejected.
Mr Bown said: "We do not want to do this any more than the passengers wants us to do this, we want to go to work and earn a living.
"We're very sorry and we've just spent two weeks not taking any action to have a cooling off period but that's failed and left us with no option but to move to strike action."
First bus services in Bradford, Huddersfield and Halifax are unaffected. | Bus drivers in Leeds have announced plans to stage two further strikes in an ongoing pay dispute with First Leeds. |
38,438,588 | Landman was sent to the sin bin after referee Ben Whitehouse viewed video replays of his shoulder charge on Alex Cuthbert at a ruck.
Blues coach Danny Wilson said it was harsh, and Jones agreed.
"I don't know where the game is going. You can slow-motion every breakdown," said former Wales captain Jones.
"That's the way rucks are run, there's two big fellas bumping into each other.
"Alex has fallen over, but it's just nonsense. I don't really want to get drawn on it, but it's a poor decision for me."
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The incident came two minutes after the Blues had been reduced to 14 men when Rey Lee-Lo was sent to the sin-bin for a high tackle.
Speaking during the match, Wilson felt his player probably deserved to see yellow, but that Landman was unlucky.
Blues secured only their second win in their last six Pro12 outings, while Dragons are now 11 points adrift as the lowest placed of the Welsh regions.
It was an extraordinary match with all four tries and all 43 points coming in an exciting first half.
A second-half stalemate left Blues frustrated at missing out on the bonus-point they would have received for scoring a fourth try.
"I thought it was a pretty awful second half, if I'm honest," said Wilson.
"First half we saw some great rugby played, three good tries scored. You think then you can maybe win the game first and go on and look for the bonus point.
"But there were way too many errors and it was a 0-0 second half and that's a bit disappointing.
"I'm just pleased that we got the win, but maybe it's a second half when we've left it [the bonus point] out there." | Newport Gwent Dragons coach Kingsley Jones was unhappy with a yellow card given to lock Rynard Landman during his side's 27-16 defeat by Cardiff Blues. |
31,606,834 | The canteen at Kilbride Central near Doagh is also the assembly hall, sports hall and P7 classroom.
The video has been made for the attention of the Department of Education and North Eastern Education Board.
The school is appealing for a new hall or an extension to ease its plight.
Teacher Julie West said every day around lunchtime is a logistics nightmare.
"Each day there's quite a lot of disruption, because it's not just a dinner hall at dinners, there's a lot of time required to set up for the dinners," she said.
"I would estimate that I would lose at least 30 minutes teaching time every day.
"But then we have to up sticks, move all the tables, chairs and go somewhere else in the school, but there isn't really anywhere else to go.
"There's been days when we've had to squeeze into the staffroom."
Rebecca McCrea and June McNeil are classroom assistants and lunchtime supervisors.
"It's very disruptive and it's very noisy actually," June said.
"You could have 70 or 80 children in this tiny little room."
Rebecca added: "They come back, the food's all over the floor, it's just not a very hygienic situation really.
"You shouldn't have to have food served in a classroom under any circumstances. It's supposed to be education in the 21st Century, it's ridiculous."
The video was the idea of principal Christopher Currie.
"I came home at night to my wife griping about the situation," he said.
"She said 'there's no point griping or giving off to me about it, you have to tell people about it'.
"I decided there's only one way to do that, I'm going to show the North Eastern Board, I'm going to show the Department of Education and whoever is interested in looking at it, I'm going to show them how bad the situation actually is.
"Unless you work in the school on a daily basis, it's very easy to say we have a space shortage, but until you see it on the screen and you see it for real for yourself, it's not possible to imaging how bad it is." | A primary school in County Antrim has made a social media video to highlight their acute lack of classroom space for the growing number of pupils. |
35,821,725 | In Wales, councils are responsible for funding and overseeing schools.
But in England, Mr Osborne's plan will mean local authorities will cease to have a role in providing education.
Academies are directly funded by central government and head teachers have more freedom over admissions and to change the way the school works.
It is a significant development in the continued divergence of schools systems on either side of Offa's Dyke.
And although the Welsh Government will get extra cash to match the money for English schools to extend the school day, it can spend it on any devolved policy area.
Ministers have no plans to follow suit.
At the moment, governing bodies are responsible for setting school hours and they need ministerial permission to make significant changes.
There are already more than 2,000 secondary academies in England and its extension to all state schools is unlikely to shake the Welsh Government's attachment to what they call a "community, comprehensive model" for schools.
It rejects claims that freedom given to academies can help drive up standards, and it points to academy-free Scotland as the best performing school system in the UK.
Education Minister Huw Lewis said there was "very little evidence to suggest" academies have a positive impact in driving up standards and Wales would not be following the model.
"The Tories have wasted hundreds of millions of pounds on academies and free schools and as the Chancellor finalises his budget plans to slash vital services even further, he is committing them to wasting even more on a failing endeavour.
"We have no plans to introduce the chaos and waste of academies and free schools here in Wales."
None of the main parties in May's Assembly election - including the Welsh Conservatives - have said they want to introduce academies in Wales.
Owen Hathway, NUT Cymru's policy officer, called the academy plans for England "scandalous.".
"There is no evidence that academies work, no evidence that they raise standards, no evidence that they offer better quality education and no evidence that they are what parents and communities want," he said.
"Certainly a commitment to comprehensive education is something we would want, and indeed expect, all parties to hold firm to in their manifestos for the forthcoming Welsh election."
But the Welsh and English schools systems are still linked by a joint arrangement for teachers' pay and conditions.
Academies are not tied to these pay scales so in effect Wednesday's announcement will take all English schools out of the system and raise questions about the viability of an England and Wales pay and conditions structure.
There is already growing momentum for the devolution of teachers' pay and conditions.
Originally sceptical, the Welsh Labour Government is now broadly in favour.
Some teaching unions remain opposed because of concern that Welsh teachers would end up being paid less than those in England.
Mr Hathway said teachers were concerned it could lead to regional pay.
"At the same time we do of course recognise that the issue of pay is already becoming a grey area due to the negative changes we see taking place in England," he said.
But an even bigger difference between the schools landscape on either side of the border, appears to make separate arrangements for pay increasingly likely in future. | As Chancellor George Osborne announced all English state schools will become academies, the Welsh Government continues to reject the model here. |
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France midfielder Pogba, 23, has returned to Old Trafford for £89m.
"Paul is a huge talent and someone with the personality to handle that price tag," Ferdinand told BBC Sport.
"He can do everything. He is still working out the best way to use all of his weapons but, once he does, he will be an absolute monster of a player."
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Pogba joined United in 2009 but made only seven substitute appearances before leaving for Italy in 2012 as a 19-year-old, with a tribunal ruling Juve had to pay £1.5m for him.
"Paul told me before he left that he wanted to be the best player in the world," added Ferdinand, who made 453 appearances for United after a British record £30m transfer from Leeds in 2002.
"He is on the right track to achieving that.
"He won a lot of trophies at Juventus and his mentality means he wants to keep on winning things. If he does that at United then he will be up there to contend for individual accolades as well.
"From training with him and playing with him I know all about his self-belief and work ethic, as well as his ability as a player. Those are the two big things you need to be a success at United.
"Paul's character means he will deal with being such a big investment - so that won't be a problem.
"As well as that, he will relish the responsibility on his shoulders of bringing medals and trophies to the club. That won't faze him at all."
Pogba helped France reach the final of Euro 2016 as hosts - where they were beaten by Portugal - but did not always live up to his billing as one of the biggest stars at the tournament.
"Paul started off a bit anxious and eager to please but he settled down in the knockout phase," said 37-year-old Ferdinand, a former England captain.
"He produced two excellent and really mature performances in the quarter-finals and semi-finals against Iceland and Germany.
"I said two years ago at the 2014 World Cup that I thought he would become the world's best midfielder. He is not there yet - but there is a lot more to come from him.
"What I like about him is that he has so much in his armoury. He still has to learn to do certain things at the right times in games - and in the right order - but that is just fine-tuning really."
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Pogba's fee eclipses the £85m Real Madrid paid Tottenham for Wales forward Gareth Bale in 2013.
"It is a lot of money but United are getting a top player for the next five to 10 years for that price," said Ferdinand, who spent 12 years at Old Trafford.
"United are spending that money on someone who knows the club and knows the culture already, so it is less of a gamble than it would be on someone who has never been there before.
"It was a mistake to let him leave but bringing him back is a statement of intent. He is going to be a top player for years to come and he will make a big difference to United's title chances."
How do you think Man Utd should line-up for the 2016/17 season? Pick your XI - and then share it with your friends. | Paul Pogba is worth the world-record fee Manchester United have paid to re-sign him from Juventus, says former team-mate Rio Ferdinand. |
36,641,383 | The claim: There could be a free trade agreement between the UK and the European Union that allows the UK to limit freedom of movement.
Reality Check verdict: The UK can aim for a deal that allows full preferential access to the single market without having to accept freedom of movement, but no country has managed such a deal so far and some European politicians have said they would oppose it.
Is that realistic?
The 28 members of the European Union all get to trade on the single market without barriers, but they all have to accept freedom of movement, which means that any EU citizen is free to live, work or study in any member state.
There are other countries that have full access to the single market without being members of the EU.
Norway is a member of the European Economic Area. It has to contribute to the EU Budget and accept freedom of movement, although it does not get to vote on EU policies.
As a member of the European Free Trade Association, Switzerland has access to the single market in some, but not all, areas of trade. It makes a smaller contribution to the EU Budget than Norway does.
At the moment, Switzerland accepts freedom of movement, although it held a referendum in 2014 that supported placing limits on immigration.
Canada has been negotiating a free trade agreement with the EU that does not require it to accept freedom of movement, although it has not yet been implemented.
The deal eliminates most trade tariffs, but some "sensitive" food items, including eggs and chicken, are not covered by it.
Services make up about 80% of the UK economy, yet they are only partially covered by Canada's deal. Crucially, a deal like Canada's would not give UK financial services the EU market access that they have now. It would be hard for London-based banks to get "passporting" rights for their services in the EU - rights that they value hugely now.
Chris Grayling pointed out that "today, there is no single market in services". It is true that there is not an overall single market in services, although the EU is working on developing one.
But there are EU rules, such as passporting for financial services (which allows banks authorised to operate in one member state to operate in all of them) that help services providers.
Also, freedom of movement is helpful to many companies offering services throughout Europe as it allows them to send staff to offer support or training, for example, without needing any form of working visa.
Throughout the referendum campaign, Leave campaigners argued that the UK would be able to get a better deal than any currently in existence because it is such a big customer of European products.
On the other hand, Joseph Daul, the leader of the European People's Party, which is the biggest group in the European Parliament, has said he would "firmly oppose any attempts to interfere with the freedom of movement".
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate | Chris Grayling, leader of the House of Commons, has told BBC Radio 4: "We need a free trade agreement with the European Union, which allows us to control the flow of people into and out of the country." |
36,482,658 | They say the majority of people will be better off under those proposals.
The alternative is compensation from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).
However, analysis by pension experts for BBC Wales has found current pensioners will lose an average of 25% whichever option they take.
It also found members who are working and paying into the scheme will lose an average of 40% of their benefits under the UK Government's proposals and 45% in the PPF.
Cardiff-based pensions experts Quantum Advisory said these were broad estimates and would vary member by member.
There are 130,000 members in the current scheme.
Pensions have been a sticking point in the sales process for Tata, with potential buyers unwilling to take over the liabilities of the pension fund.
There is a deficit of £485m although in the worst case scenario it could reach £4.9bn.
The scheme's annual increase could be changed to use the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation measure, which is usually below the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure currently used.
"I have written to scheme members setting out why the trustee believes it is better and fairer to use the scheme's assets to provide modified benefits under the scheme than to hand the assets over to the PPF," said Allan Johnston, chairman of the board of trustees of the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS).
"The modified benefits would be more generous for the vast majority of members than PPF compensation.
"Not everyone responding to the public consultation will necessarily do so with the best interests of the scheme membership in mind. It is vitally important that scheme members have their voices heard."
Stuart Price, partner at Quantum Advisory, said: "Under either scenario, scheme members who are below the scheme's normal pension age will be hit the hardest financially.
"However, they are the ones who would benefit if the proposed changes were implemented compared to the scheme going into the PPF.
"For the 70,000 or so scheme members who are above the normal pension age, the proposed changes broadly results in the same benefits they would get if the scheme went into the PPF so they would be no better or no worse off."
Ministers have said the new proposals would only be for the Tata pension scheme and would not apply to any others.
Iestyn Morris, a pension lawyer with Capital Law in Cardiff, said: "The DWP has said in its consultation document that any changes to the law will only apply to 'BSPS as a specific scheme'. In other words, the changes will not provide other defined benefit schemes with a legal entitlement to follow suit.
"The government has also made it clear that it will only change the law if it results in the majority of scheme members being better off than they would be under the PPF."
However, some pension experts are concerned the changes would set a dangerous precedent.
The UK government's consultation runs until the end of the month. | Trustees of the Tata Steel pension scheme are writing to members urging them to take part in the UK government's consultation on changing the benefits they will receive. |
40,307,387 | Wayne Bulpitt, UK chief commissioner of the Scout Association from 2009-16, was one of four Guernsey residents recognised in this year's honours.
He introduced the alternative promise, welcoming all young people regardless of their faiths or religious beliefs.
Mr Bulpitt said it was "a privilege and an honour" to be recognised.
"If I've been able to help today's generation and future generations... I think that in itself is the only reward I think many volunteers would ask for," he said.
"As I've said many times before, scouting and in particular, the volunteers who make it happen, gave me the skills I needed to succeed in life.
"Any success I may have achieved, in whatever field, is down to those volunteers, and so it has been very satisfying to be able to help future generations in similar ways myself, especially in recent times when the needs are even greater."
Judge Russell Finch was also recognised in the honours, and was appointed an OBE for services to the judiciary in Guernsey.
He said the nomination was a surprise, adding: "You can't count on anything and it came to me out of the blue."
Businessman Stephen Landsdown was made a CBE for services to business and the community.
Lilan Bale, who was made an MBE for services to fostering, said the award was "humbling" for something she loved to do after her own troubled childhood.
"I felt called to do it," she said.
Beatrice Webber was also awarded the British Empire Medal for services to the blind on the island. | A former scout commissioner has been appointed a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his service to young people. |
34,977,768 | Controversial plans to add a further 16 turbines at Scout Moor, on land between Rochdale and Rossendale, were approved earlier this year.
But now the government has "called in" the decision by Rossendale Borough Council to approve 14 of the turbines.
It means a public inquiry will be held before further progress is made.
Scout Moor wind farm opened in 2008 with the 26 existing wind turbines generating enough electricity for 40,000 homes.
Rochdale Borough Council approved plans for the final two turbines to be added.
Opponents are concerned the expansion of the wind farm will impact negatively on the natural beauty of the area.
But energy companies Peel Energy and United Utilities said consultations have shown opposition to the plans is low.
MW = Megawatts
Source: RenewableUK | The government will make the final decision on plans to create what is believed to be England's largest onshore wind farm. |
36,824,489 | Ryan Gosling will star in the as-yet-untitled sequel, which is set several decades after the first story.
Harrison Ford, who played police officer Rick Deckard in the original 1982 cult movie, will also appear.
The film will be directed by Denis Villeneuve, whose films include Sicario and Prisoners.
Blade Runner 2 is scheduled for release in October 2017.
"I've always been attracted to science-fiction films with strong visual signatures that lead us into unique parallel worlds and the original Blade Runner is by far the best of all time," Villeneuve said.
"Ridley Scott had the genius to blend science-fiction and film noir to create this unique exploration of human condition.
"The new Blade Runner is an extension of the first movie a few decades later."
Principal photography is due to begin this month. The cast also includes Robin Wright, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Carla Juri, Mackenzie Davis, Barkhad Abdi and Dave Bautista.
The first look at the some of the film's concept art was unveiled in Entertainment Weekly.
The original film - set in 2019 - saw Deckard hunting lifelike robots, known as replicants, in a futuristic Los Angeles.
It was based on Philip K Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email [email protected]. | The first official artwork from Blade Runner 2 reveals a street scene that will look familiar to fans of Ridley Scott's original film. |
37,878,786 | Tylicki has had spinal surgery and has movement in the upper half of his body but not lower as the result of a T7 paralysis.
He suffered a heavy fall while riding Nellie Dean in Monday's 15:20 GMT race.
"Freddy remains in intensive care and is not receiving any visitors for the foreseeable future," said Lisa Hancock of the Injured Jockeys' Fund.
Tylicki is being treated at St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London.
Hancock added: "His family would like to thank the St George's staff for the care he has received. As this is a very difficult time for Freddy and his family, they would like to thank everyone for their good wishes, and for continuing to respect their privacy."
Champion flat jockey Jim Crowley suffered a broken nose in the incident, and jockeys Steve Drowne and Ted Durcan were also unseated.
Nellie Dean appeared to clip heels with leader and eventual winner Madame Butterfly as the field rounded the home turn.
Crowley and Electrify were racing immediately behind and were brought down, as was Drowne's mount Skara Mae. Durcan was also caught up in the melee and was unseated from Sovrano Dolce.
The horses involved were not reported to be seriously injured.
Retired 20-time champion jump jockey AP McCoy was among those who gave their support to Tylicki on social media. | Jockey Freddy Tylicki is paralysed from the waist down after a fall in a four-horse pile-up at Kempton on Monday. |
34,339,921 | The prime minister said £40m of the additional cash would go to support the underfunded World Food Programme.
Separately, £7m will be spent helping migrants travelling through Greece, Italy and the western Balkans.
The meeting comes amid a dispute over a mandatory EU refugee relocation plan.
Europe is struggling to deal with a vast influx of migrants and refugees reaching the continent - most fleeing conflict in Syria but large numbers also fleeing violence and poverty in Afghanistan and Eritrea.
On Tuesday, EU interior ministers agreed a mandatory plan to relocate 120,000 migrants across Europe, despite opposition from some countries.
The UK has opted out of the quota system but has agreed to take in 20,000 refugees from the camps bordering war-torn Syria over the next five years.
Arriving in Brussels for the meeting of 28 leaders, Mr Cameron called for more support for vulnerable people in Syria and the wider region.
The UK has already provided £1bn in aid to Syria and Mr Cameron said the extra cash - to be given to the UNHCR, UNICEF, the UN Relief and Works Agency and the International Red Cross - would help thousands of people displaced by the conflict.
"We must make sure that people in refugee camps are properly fed and looked after but also to stop people wanting to make or thinking of making this very, very difficult and very dangerous journey to Europe".
He added: "What Europe needs more than ever is a comprehensive approach to this migration crisis. We need to do more to stabilise the countries and regions from which these people are coming."
The UK's latest aid package also includes £14.5 million in new funding to provide assistance and protection in countries that refugees and migrants are leaving from and transiting through, including help for those already in Europe.
Of this:
International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the UK was helping to meet the most "immediate, basic needs" of displaced Syrians while also giving "immediate, life-saving humanitarian assistance to refugees in transit".
"The UN is desperately underfunded and more help is urgently needed in the short term," she said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the migration crisis in Europe "plays directly" into issues around the UK's renegotiation of its EU membership and was "focusing attention" on the challenges large-scale migration across the EU presented.
EU migration is one of the issues the government wants to address in its renegotiation of Britain's membership. | The UK is to commit another £100m to supporting refugees in camps bordering Syria, David Cameron has said, as he arrived for an emergency EU summit on the migration crisis. |
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GB's world number one Fox-Pitt and Chilli Morning had the second fence down to hand individual victory to German Sandra Auffarth and Opgun Louvo.
Germany reclaimed the team title, won by Britain in 2010, with impeccable jumping to preserve an overnight lead.
"I'm happy to have clung on to a medal," Fox-Pitt told BBC Sport.
"Chilli Morning had a fence down, which is a little bit frustrating, but he could have had two - he was leg-weary.
"I'd love to have won gold but I'm more relieved that I got bronze, than frustrated."
Fox-Pitt, 45, remains without an individual major championship title, having taken silver at the 2010 World Equestrian Games aboard Cool Mountain and twice finished second at the European Championships.
The team silver ensured Britain have secured their qualification for the Rio 2016 Olympics alongside Germany, bronze medallists the Netherlands and France, Australia and Ireland, who completed the top six.
Defending world champion Michael Jung, forced to ride back-up horse Fischerrocana FST through injury to star ride La Biosthetique Sam FBW, finished second behind compatriot Auffarth.
Zara Phillips and High Kingdom, the first British combination into Caen's D'Ornano Stadium for Sunday's showjumping finale, delivered an impressive clear round which saw the 2006 world champion take 11th place.
However, two fences down for Tina Cook and De Novo News - who placed 16th - eased the pressure on Germany, after Ingrid Klimke had gone clear with showjumping specialist FRH Escada JS.
Jung and Auffarth produced back-to-back clear rounds to put team gold beyond Britain and demand a clear round from Fox-Pitt to have any hope of individual victory.
"We're catching them," insisted Phillips - part of Britain's Olympic silver medal-winning team in 2012 - when asked if champions Germany could be overhauled at Rio 2016.
With the team medals settled, Chilli Morning - a stallion in only his second showjumping outing at an event of this standard - clipped the second fence to maintain Fox-Pitt's status as the nearly man at major championships.
"He's a very good horse and he knows his job, and he certainly tried his best," said Fox-Pitt.
"Yesterday was a long cross-country track on soft ground and definitely, today, you could feel he was looking forward to his holiday."
Nicola Wilson and Annie Clover, the other remaining British combination (riding as individuals and not counted towards the team score) had four fences down, plus a stop at the last, to finish 25th. | One fence deprived William Fox-Pitt of the individual world eventing title as Britain took team silver at the World Equestrian Games in Normandy. |
38,020,623 | Where the Boks were big, strong and predictable, Fiji - who won sevens gold as rugby union returned to the Olympics in Rio this summer - are as explosive, creative and off-the-cuff as you get in Test rugby.
They love to throw it around and offload out of contact but the likes of Leone Nakarawa, who won gold in Rio, will not get nearly the same kind of time and space they did in the sevens.
The 6ft 7in second row and his colleagues will probably still produce some moments of magic, but Saturday's game will be a very different kettle of fish to their Rio romp.
Fiji may be a very different side to South Africa but they still present a very physical challenge.
They are one of the most skilful rugby nations in the world but they are also big, big men, second behind only the Tongans in size.
Trying to tackle them can be a nightmare. If you go high you can get bounced off, but if you go low they've got a high-quality offloading game.
They also anticipate what is going to come off more than any other team and more often than not there is someone there to take the pass, no matter how unexpected it might seem.
When you play the likes of South Africa and they give it to one of their big blokes, you know he's going to run straight at you.
But against Fiji there are five or six thoughts going through your head when they've got the ball because these guys can produce all manner of offloads, if they haven't skinned you first.
The key is to hunt in pairs - one goes high, the other low - because you can't afford to let them have a one-one-one because they are quick, powerful and have great footwork.
More so than any other national team they want to play an expansive, loose game, so you have to impose your game-plan and play smart rugby. Its a case of worrying about yourselves first and foremost, and the Fijians second.
During the week, England head coach Eddie Jones has talked about boring them to death.
England have an exciting style of rugby but Fiji want you to play a high-paced game, so you have to ensure everything is done on your terms.
That means if you want a set-piece battle - historically Fiji have not had the best scrum, for example - you'll go to it. However, like any team they will be aware of their weaker areas and will no doubt put in loads of work.
But teams will also practise different scenarios so you've got the ability to match them in other areas - it's crucial to have a couple of game plans.
Fiji are always full of surprises.
I would expect them to try to keep things away from the set-piece, so look for quick-tap penalties as they try to get one-on-ones for their big, quick, power runners.
The biggest and quickest of those is the world class winger Nemani Nadolo, who now plays for Montpellier in France having starred in Super Rugby for the Christchurch-based Crusaders.
He also played four games for Exeter - I'm almost disappointed he's not tearing up the Premiership, but then I remember I'd have to tackle him. Well try to tackle him.
I've played against him a few times and he's a devastating player - such size, speed, footwork and skill is some package. And he can kick goals too…
They also have Olympic sevens gold medallist Nakarawa in the second row - his off-loading game is something special.
Go low on him and he offloads, go high and you can knock over and he'll just reach around the back to give the pass.
Fiji have so many powerful guys that the first 20 minutes are always a case of venturing into the unknown. You need to settle the game down, deal with the initial enthusiasm and physical endeavour, and get yourselves in the game. First-up tackles and discipline will be key.
Every team will have their defensive leaders, guys who will set the mood and who live and breathe defence, but it's up to all 15 England players to go out and defend on Saturday.
Fiji will try to do the unexpected. Expect cheeky pick-ups at the breakdown and players going through the middle of the breakdown - you can see Nakarawa doing just that for Racing 92 to score his first try for the French champions on YouTube.
The biggest tackle I was ever on the receiving end of came from Sam Tuitupou when I was playing for Wasps against Worcester.
He's not that big but boy can he hit. He must be made of concrete. It also helps that he loves smoking people. You can see it in his face. He will go hunting for big hits.
I was flat out, on the way to score,, and he came out of my blind-spot and smashed me sideways, knocking the ball out of my hands in the process. I was a little winded and wondered where he had come from. I also thought 'I wish I had been good at another non-contact sport'.
Later I watched it with one of the old England coaches, who told me: "You can give a bit more there, hold onto the ball."
I was just looking at him like 'are you kidding me? Keep hold of the ball'? I was completely ended. The only way I could have held onto the ball was if it was strapped to me like a car roof rack.
Some wags might suggest the biggest tackle was by the post I ran into in Cardiff in the win over Wales in 2015. It was certainly effective at stopping me. I still get heat for that every day. I still maintain there was not much I could do.
The biggest I ever dished out was a huge hit against Jordan Crane playing for Wasps against Leicester. And no, it's not the late one you can see on the internet, this one was perfectly timed. It was a clean dump tackle.
The one on David Pocock in the second-Test win over Australia this summer was also quite satisfying, I have to admit.
Mind you, I once lined up scrum-half Niko Matawalu, who is on the bench for Fiji on Saturday, and he stepped one way, then stepped the other, and ran right round me, leaving me clutching at thin air. Embarrassing to say the least.
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There's also been talk of Ben Ryan, who coached them to Olympic sevens gold, looking to get a Super Rugby team for Fiji, and I think it would be amazing as they have such unbelievable players scattered across the world.
So many clubs have players from the Pacific Islands and they're often the best players within those teams.
The game is growing so rapidly around the world, and China recently announced a $100m, 10-year investment in the sport by Alisports in partnership with the Chinese rugby authorities.
I think it will be amazing if China develops the game.
They have more than a billion people and you can see by what they do in the Olympics that if you distil that talent and get the country behind it, something impressive could occur.
I will be interested to see what happens. I've never been to China but in a few years, once Eddie Jones and Dai Young have retired me, maybe I'll have a look at the Beijing Dragons.
There is money coming into the sport but I don't think the game's values are being compromised.
I was saying just the other day that we are still the most accessible sport and the only one where - from club to international level - fans have total access to players.
I love interacting with fans but there has to be a balance. Someone grabbing you in a headlock for a selfie is not always great, and the other day at Twickenham someone was gesturing for me to come over and sign something when I was on air. They then look disappointed. I always stop for everyone, but sometimes it's not possible.
I was pointing at the headphones to suggest I was literally on television but he kept going. Generally the fans are great though and I think that relationship between players and fans is still one of the best things about rugby. Social media has broken down those barriers even more. It's just important to understand that not everything you see or read is real.
England will win. I just think that with the structure they have it will give them the edge.
They will try to meet fire with fire in defence but will worry about themselves and have the game plan in place to secure victory.
There was some disappointment after last week because there were certain things that didn't go well in the win over South Africa, and Eddie and his coaching staff will have been tough on the players this week because he aspires to excellence. .
The players will also have wanted to crank things up. The environment is such that it's so competitive, everyone wants to work hard and improve.
Fiji will produce those individual moments but hopefully England will close them down and not allow them time on the ball to produce those sevens skills.
I know England have silky skills of their own.
Whatever happens, the neutral or die-hard rugby fan will enjoy a great spectacle.
Hopefully it will be a cracker.
James Haskell was speaking to BBC Sport's James Standley.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | England welcome Fiji to Twickenham on Saturday and they are polar opposites of last weekend's opponents South Africa. |
40,402,869 | Steyn has not recovered from a shoulder injury, while De Villiers is continuing to take a break from Test cricket.
Heino Kuhn, Aiden Markram and Andile Phehlukwayo are the uncapped Test players named in the squad.
All-rounder Wayne Parnell, spinner Dane Piedt and Durham opener Stephen Cook have not been picked.
Kuhn has played seven Twenty20 internationals and replaces Cook after making centuries for South Africa A against Hampshire and England Lions recently.
Seamer Phehlukwayo, 21, was part of South Africa's squad for the recent Champions Trophy and the T20 series defeat by England.
Linda Zondi, Cricket South Africa's selection convener. said Kuhn was in "outstanding form" while "Andile's selection is a continuation of our drive to develop bowling all-rounders for the Test team".
He added: "He [Phehlukwayo] and Chris Morris will fill this role in support of Vernon Philander. At the age of 21, he is certainly one for the future."
Markram will provide batting cover for captain Faf du Plessis, who could miss the first Test at Lord's because his wife is set to give birth in early July.
Dean Elgar will captain the side in a warm-up match against England Lions and, if required, will stand in for Du Plessis in the first Test.
South Africa squad: Faf du Plessis (captain), Hashim Amla, Temba Bavuma, Theunis de Bruyn, Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy, Dean Elgar, Heino Kuhn, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, Morne Morkel, Chris Morris, Duanne Olivier, Andile Phehlukwayo, Vernon Philander, Kagiso Rabada. | South Africa have named three uncapped players in the squad for the four-match Test series in England, with Dale Steyn and AB de Villiers absent. |
36,985,400 | Kristofer Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving following the incident in Ardersier, near the Fort George base, on 19 January 2015.
The soldiers were out for a morning run when they were hit by Smith's Volkswagen car and injured. One had to be airlifted to hospital for treatment.
The 33-year-old will appear for sentencing in Inverness in September.
Dean Tudor, Craig Smith, Alan Bowe and Alan Murray were all hurt in the crash, which occurred at 09:20 on Ardersier's High Street.
There were initially fears that the crash may have been a terrorist incident, but this was quickly ruled out by police. Locals speculated that Smith may have been blinded by the low morning sun.
Fort George, an 18th Century artillery fortification that continues to operate as a barracks, is home to the Black Watch (3 Scots) regiment. | A soldier has admitted knocking down four of his colleagues with a car outside an army base near Inverness. |
39,020,133 | 19 February 2017 Last updated at 11:40 GMT
California is currently experiencing a very powerful storm, which has caused power cuts and sinkholes across the state.
Firefighters from the San Bernardino County Fire Department were out helping people in the storm, when a giant sinkhole opened up underneath their truck.
Thankfully, none of the firefighters were in the truck when it fell, and no-one was hurt. | A fire engine has been swallowed by a sinkhole in California in America when the road beneath it collapsed. |
36,506,451 | The bottles were seized as part of an operation to tackle organised crime within the city's Albanian community, Sussex Police said.
Several premises are being investigated for breaching licence conditions, a spokeswoman added.
Earlier raids also saw eight people charged with drugs offences and 11 people arrested.
Details of the businesses involved have not been released - but police said the pub, two kebab shops, three cafe bars and an off-licence were still being investigated.
They were visited on Thursday by officers from Sussex Police, the Immigration Service, HM Revenue and Customs, and Brighton council licensing, trading standards and environmental health. | More than 100 bottles of illegal alcohol have been seized from a pub, cafes and other businesses in Brighton. |
36,441,485 | On an emotional evening at the same venue where suicide bombers struck in the November attacks that killed 130 people across the city, Payet ensured the game ended on a high note with a sensational 20-yard strike.
France, who triumphed in their last two major tournaments on home soil - Euro '84 and the 1998 World Cup - are favourites to win this time too.
But after hitting the post early on through an Antoine Griezmann header, they struggled to find any fluency against a resolute Romania side, who also created good chances.
Relive France's opening game win over Romania
Les Bleus' star-studded attack had to wait until the 58th minute to make the breakthrough, when Olivier Giroud headed home Payet's cross.
Romania responded within seven minutes, with Bogdan Stancu scoring from the spot after Patrice Evra clipped Nicolae Stanciu inside the area.
A draw looked the most likely outcome until Payet capped a brilliant individual display with his wonder goal in the 89th minute.
The West Ham star apart, the hosts' performance was unconvincing but, for the whole of the France, the result mattered far more.
A win was the perfect start to a month of football which, it is hoped, can help to bring together a fractured country that will remain under a state of emergency for the duration of the competition.
The scale of the police presence outside the Stade de France on Friday was obvious, with two separate checkpoints where fans were searched and tickets checked, but the day passed without any serious security incidents in Paris.
Inside the stadium, the mood was set by a colourful opening ceremony followed by a stirring rendition of 'La Marseillaise' before kick-off but the game itself was far less entertaining.
Paul Pogba was billed as the star of this France team but it was Payet who was the outstanding performer against Romania.
This game will be remembered for his winning goal but he was also behind almost all of France's best moments going forward.
Before setting up Giroud's goal, he put chances on a plate for the Arsenal striker and Griezmann but both missed the target.
He made no such mistake himself but was overwhelmed with emotion soon afterwards, and was substituted in tears.
"At the start of the season, a lot of people would have found it hard to believe I would be here," said Payet after the game.
"I have got here by working hard. When I saw the stadium tonight I knew I was going to have fun."
Credit must go to Romania, who showed why they had the best defensive record in qualifying, but some France players were worryingly flat.
Pogba had a volley well saved by Ciprian Tatarusanu but failed to get his foot on the ball in midfield - and his side lacked a player who could dictate play from deep.
N'Golo Kante put in the kind of all-action display we are used to seeing from him for Leicester but, one swinging crossfield ball apart, did not open Romania up.
On top of the lack of balance in midfield, France were worryingly open at the back.
Their makeshift central defensive partnership of Adil Rami and Laurent Koscielny has played only two games together before this tournament and it showed.
Hugo Lloris rescued them with a brilliant early save from Stancu but better sides than Romania will be more ruthless in front of goal.
France manager Didier Deschamps said recently that "every time he touches the ball, something happens" and the West Ham star proved him right.
He was behind all of Les Bleus' best moments and looked like the only player capable of opening up Romania.
France manager Didier Deschamps: "It was a tricky match. Romania made it complicated - for the first 20-25 minutes we had a tough time of it. The opening match of a tournament is like playing in a cup final and we were a bit timid.
"But I put four attacking players on to go for the win and I am delighted for the players that they got it."
Former France striker Thierry Henry on BBC Radio 5 live: "Dimitri Payet thought he was going to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. He was involved in every qualifying game but they took that away from him.
"Tonight you saw a man who was hurt. He was saying with that performance 'you didn't take me to the World Cup and I am going to show you'. He wanted every single ball. You can't win a game by yourself. but that strike... oh my gosh.
"No one is going to take what is happening to him now away from him. He showed tremendous desire. He was the one that drove the team forward."
The other teams in Group A, Albania and Switzerland, meet in Lens on Saturday - the same day England play Russia and Wales take on Slovakia in Group B.
France are back in action when they play Albania in Marseille on Wednesday evening. Romania stay in Paris, and take on Switzerland at Parc des Princes earlier the same day.
Match ends, France 2, Romania 1.
Second Half ends, France 2, Romania 1.
Attempt missed. Moussa Sissoko (France) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Blaise Matuidi following a fast break.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (France).
Ovidiu Hoban (Romania) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, France. Moussa Sissoko replaces Dimitri Payet.
Goal! France 2, Romania 1. Dimitri Payet (France) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.
Offside, France. Dimitri Payet tries a through ball, but Bacary Sagna is caught offside.
Offside, Romania. Gabriel Torje tries a through ball, but Dragos Grigore is caught offside.
Foul by N'Golo Kanté (France).
Gabriel Torje (Romania) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Romania. Gabriel Torje replaces Adrian Popa.
Kingsley Coman (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alexandru Chipciu (Romania).
Adil Rami (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Denis Alibec (Romania).
Attempt saved. Anthony Martial (France) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Olivier Giroud.
Attempt missed. Ovidiu Hoban (Romania) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Vlad Chiriches.
Adrian Popa (Romania) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dimitri Payet (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adrian Popa (Romania).
Substitution, France. Anthony Martial replaces Paul Pogba.
Substitution, Romania. Alexandru Chipciu replaces Nicolae Stanciu.
Corner, Romania. Conceded by Dimitri Payet.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Mihai Pintilii (Romania) because of an injury.
Olivier Giroud (France) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Olivier Giroud (France).
Mihai Pintilii (Romania) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, France. Kingsley Coman replaces Antoine Griezmann.
Goal! France 1, Romania 1. Bogdan Stancu (Romania) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Patrice Evra (France) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Romania. Nicolae Stanciu draws a foul in the penalty area.
Blaise Matuidi (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mihai Pintilii (Romania).
Substitution, Romania. Denis Alibec replaces Florin Andone.
Attempt missed. Florin Andone (Romania) header from the left side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Nicolae Stanciu with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Romania. Conceded by Bacary Sagna.
Blaise Matuidi (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mihai Pintilii (Romania). | Dimitri Payet's spectacular late winner gave hosts France victory over Romania in the opening match of Euro 2016 amid a huge security operation at the Stade de France. |
40,150,899 | The Lions laboured to a 13-7 win against the Provincial Barbarians on Saturday, three days after arriving in New Zealand.
Head coach Warren Gatland says the players were still struggling to adjust to the time difference.
"It's an easy cop out to say these guys are jetlagged," Jones told the BBC Rugby Union Weekly podcast.
"If you go down the line of [saying it's] a scratch side, with jetlag, you can use that excuse only once on a tour, ever. You cannot go back on that.
"They have known a long time out they were going to play this game, so they had to go through their professional routines to get them into sync."
The Lions already face a decisive week on the tour, with matches against the Blues on Wednesday and the in-form Crusaders on Saturday.
The schedule has been labelled "suicidal" by former New Zealand coach Graham Henry, but Jones says the itinerary is a "non-issue."
"Let's not worry about the brutality of this tour, because they have 41 players," added Jones, who played in 79 Tests for New Zealand between 1990 and 1999.
"So that's a non-issue. Don't even worry about how tough this tour is.
"With 15 players you can call it brutal, but they have 41 players remember, and a huge medical staff, so it shouldn't be raised."
Jones played alongside Lions boss Gatland throughout the 1990s, and was coached by his fellow Kiwi when a player at Wasps at the turn of the century.
"I back Warren Gatland wholeheartedly," Jones added.
"A) because I've been coached by the guy, B) because I've played alongside the guy and know what he means, and C) because he can get things right off the field.
"When you get things right off the field, it just translates to things on the field."
The Lions have embarked on a charm offensive with the New Zealand public so far on this trip, and on Sunday visited the Waitangi Treaty Grounds for an official Maori welcome, or pōwhiri.
Despite fears the Lions are putting too much stall in off the field commitments, Jones feels embracing the Kiwi culture will be crucial to success.
"What he's doing off the field in terms of getting his players out there to meet New Zealanders, understand what New Zealand rugby is all about, learning the culture; it's 100% important," Jones continued.
"Once the Lions players get into the mind of Gats, or get into the minds of the New Zealand public and understand what rugby means to us - playing a home - I think that's actually a really important thing." | The British and Irish Lions can only use the jetlag excuse once, according to All Blacks great Ian Jones. |
35,898,925 | She was pronounced dead at University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire after a blaze at about 21:15 GMT on Thursday in Sydnall Road, Longford.
Firefighters were called to a fire in a first-floor bedroom of the end-of-terrace house.
Crews from Foleshill and Coventry fire stations attended. The cause was under investigation, a spokesman for West Midlands Fire Service said.
The fire was brought under control by 23:25 GMT. | A woman died following a house fire in Coventry. |
35,866,870 | The attacking midfielder missed 15 months of action after dislocating his knee cap playing for Hull City.
Gordon Strachan recalled him for Scotland's friendly against the Czech Republic on Thursday.
"I feel as if I'm back to where I was, but I don't feel that's good enough," Snodgrass said. "I want to kick on."
Snodgrass missed the conclusion of the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, but, having recovered from from such a serious injury, he now wants to leave the Scotland manager with a "headache" over selection.
He made his return to the Hull City side as a substitute in the side that lost to Manchester City in the Capital One Cup last December.
Since then, Snodgrass has started 12 games for Steve Bruce's team as they bid for promotion to the English Premier League, and he has scored twice.
He admits that he is behind some of his team-mates in terms of conditioning, but feels that he is returning to his best. The former Norwich City man considers his return to the Scotland squad as a reflection of his performances since overcoming the injury.
"I just turn up, try to perform at the best level that I can," he said. "The manager's got me back in the squad, so I must be doing something right. I'm always learning, so it can only be better for me working alongside this level of performers.
"It's always good to get back involved with the lads. It's a new campaign and we need to focus on the next one and trying to get the best possible results.
"The manager's still shouting at me, he was doing that this morning. I've put these long hours of rehab in to kick on, to be a better player. Hopefully he'll give me a chance to show what I can do.
"It's part of your rehab journey, I want to get back playing for Scotland. First, I wanted to get back playing for Hull City, scoring goals, creating goals.
"I've started doing all that, and they're surprised at how well I've done. It was only natural that this was the next step, to be doing what I'm doing at club level and continuing that into international level."
Snodgrass insists that the injury has not changed has game, but he believes the time out has tempered aspects of his personality.
"I've got a lot calmer. I always used to be on the edge, fiery, you want to win," he said.
"I don't know if that's just being Scottish, you're always that aggressive. With Norwich, we were fighting relegation, now at Hull we're going for promotion. It's different levels, stages, managers and players. You're always adapting.
"I want to try to excite, to create chances and get assist and goals. That never changes. The most important thing for me is never losing that desire for winning.
"I want to be part of it. I've missed too much football and I want to be back involved, helping the club to try to get promotion." | Robert Snodgrass considers his return to the Scotland set-up as "one of the last hurdles to jump" in his rehabilitation after long-term injury. |
36,858,317 | Ms Baloch's mother, Anwar Azeem, told BBC Urdu that her daughter had shared all her sorrows and secrets with her.
Her father, Muhammad Azeem, said his son should be "shot on sight".
Mrs Azeem said her son lost his mind because of taunts about his sister's frank and often risque posts online.
More than 500 people, almost all of them women, die in Pakistan every year at the hands of relatives who believe shame has been brought on their family.
Ms Baloch became a household name in Pakistan after posting sometimes raunchy photographs, comments and videos on social media sites, on which she had hundreds of thousands of followers.
The 26-year-old was well aware of the opposition she faced in the conservative Muslim country but was unapologetic.
Her brother Waseem has said he drugged and then strangled her to death last Friday "for dishonouring the Baloch name".
In their first interview with international media, Ms Baloch's parents said they had also been drugged on the night of the murder.
"My husband and I fell deeply asleep. We had drunk milk, it had been mixed with sedatives," Mrs Azeem said.
"In the morning, I called Qandeel for breakfast... but she didn't get up."
She found her daughter's body and found that "her whole face was covered in bruises, her tongue was black, her lips was black", and started crying, she said.
"We were mother and daughter, sharing all our sorrows and secrets. She used to tell me: 'Your daughter is working hard, she'll go far,'" she added.
But Ms Baloch's brothers "always had hatred in their hearts", Mrs Azeem said. "Before, they didn't care much. But recently, things got worse, people... poisoned their minds."
Mr Azeem said his daughter had been his "best friend", but described his son as "crazed".
"I say he should be shot on sight! He suffocated my little one," he added. "We were drugged, asleep upstairs. She must have called out to us."
Earlier this week, the Punjab provincial government also became a complainant in the murder case, designating it a crime against the state.
The rare move effectively prevented members of Ms Baloch's family from legally forgiving her brother - a common legal loophole that sees many so-called "honour killings" go unpunished.
An anti-honour killings bill to close the loophole nationwide has been bogged down in the Pakistani parliament.
But Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter said on Wednesday that the ruling party hoped to present it before a joint session of parliament within weeks. | The parents of Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch have spoken of their closeness to her and their bitterness towards their son, who has confessed to murdering her last week. |
28,649,830 | Ashurst, 24, has made 17 league appearances, scoring four tries for Iestyn Harris's side this season.
He joined the Red Devils from St Helens in October 2011 and joins Craig Hall and Mickael Simon in James Webster's squad at Belle Vue for next term.
"I'm excited for a new challenge," said former Chorley Panther Ashurst.
"Webbo [Webster] really sold the club to me and the work ethic that is in place there - and I'm just looking to come and work hard and do my part for the squad." | Wakefield Trinity Wildcats have signed back rower Matty Ashurst from Salford Red Devils on a two-year-deal from the 2015 season. |
29,593,710 | Dracula Untold, starring Welsh actor Luke Evans, took $23.4 million (£14.5 million), less than Gone Girl's second weekend haul of $26.8m (£16.6m).
Steve Carell's family comedy Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, made its debut at three with $19.1m (£11.9m).
Horror film Annabelle claimed fourth place, with The Judge in fifth.
Starring Robert Downey Jr as a successful lawyer who has to defend his estranged father, a veteran judge played by Godfather actor Robert Duvall, it earned $13.3m (£8.2m) in its opening weekend.
Annabelle, starring Peaky Blinders actress Annabelle Wallis, tells of a couple who experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll.
The film, a prequel to 2013 hit The Conjuring, spooked audiences into giving up $16.4m (£10.1m) in its second weekend on release.
A diversity of choices is resulting in robust post-summer ticket sales, according to Paul Dergarabedian of box-office tracker Rentrak.
"We're making up a lot of ground after a summer season that was down 15 percent," he explained.
Gone Girl stars Affleck as a writer who becomes a suspect when his wife, played by Rosamund Pike, goes missing.
Since opening in the US last week, David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel has earned $78.3m (£48.7m).
"To have an adult drama like this hold up so well for two weekends in a row is really unusual," said Dergarabedian. | A new Dracula origins story has failed to sink its teeth into Ben Affleck's Gone Girl at the US box office. |
34,230,195 | Windass turned home Piero Mingoia's cross for his first in the 33rd minute before a mistake by goalkeeper Bobby Olejnik allowed him to steal the ball and fire home moments later.
Mingoia drilled in a third and Billy Kee made it 4-0 from Matt Crooks' pass.
Lee Holmes claimed Exeter's first and substitute Joel Grant also netted, but the visitors were already well beaten.
Match ends, Accrington Stanley 4, Exeter City 2.
Second Half ends, Accrington Stanley 4, Exeter City 2.
Foul by Clinton Morrison (Exeter City).
Dean Winnard (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 4, Exeter City 2. Joel Grant (Exeter City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Manny Oyeleke.
Foul by Andrew Proctor (Accrington Stanley).
Clinton Morrison (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Adam Buxton.
Attempt saved. Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. David Noble (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Andrew Proctor (Accrington Stanley).
Christian Ribeiro (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Christian Ribeiro (Exeter City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 4, Exeter City 1. Tom Nichols (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Clinton Morrison.
Attempt saved. Tom Nichols (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Tom Davies (Accrington Stanley).
Jordan Tillson (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Christian Ribeiro.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Antony Barry replaces Seamus Conneely.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Andrew Proctor replaces Matt Crooks.
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Troy Brown (Exeter City).
Attempt saved. Christian Ribeiro (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Manny Oyeleke (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Adam Buxton (Accrington Stanley).
Lee Holmes (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Exeter City. Joel Grant replaces David Wheeler.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 4, Exeter City 0. Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matt Crooks.
Foul by Matt Crooks (Accrington Stanley).
Craig Woodman (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 3, Exeter City 0. Piero Mingoia (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Billy Kee.
Foul by Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley).
David Wheeler (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Crooks (Accrington Stanley).
Jordan Tillson (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Josh Windass (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Troy Brown (Exeter City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Josh Windass (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Troy Brown (Exeter City).
Attempt missed. Tom Nichols (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a set piece situation. | Josh Windass scored twice in a minute for Accrington Stanley in a comfortable win over Exeter City. |
34,365,974 | It would seem to be a bit of a challenge.
The New York billionaire said he doesn't know if he's ever asked God for forgiveness and referred to a communion wafer as "my little cracker" during a religious-affiliated presidential forum in Iowa. He won't cite a favourite Bible verse. He's been married three times. He was once avowedly pro-choice on abortion. And when an interviewer recently asked him about God, he spent more time talking about an oceanfront real-estate deal.
It's a far cry from the more detailed profession of faith made by competing candidates like retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Arkansas Governor (and Southern Baptist minister) Mike Huckabee and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
Even former Florida Governor Jeb Bush - a no-show at Friday's event - speaks openly of his adult conversion to Roman Catholicism.
And yet there was Donald Trump, childhood Bible in hand, making a play for the support of right-wing religious activists at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit in Washington DC on Friday.
"I brought my Bible," he said, noting it was from the First Presbyterian Church in New York City and pointing to an inscription on the inside cover. "This was written by my mother, with my name, with my address, with everything."
It took him a while to get back to religion in his speech - he first felt obliged to take swipes at departing House Speaker John Boehner (for which he was cheered) and fellow candidate Marco Rubio (for which he was booed), but he eventually tried to speak his audience's language.
"I believe in God," he told the crowd of over a thousand. "I believe in the Bible. I'm a Christian."
He followed it up by taking a firm stand in favour of Christmas.
"I love Christmas. You go to stores now, you don't see the word 'Christmas'," he said. "Remember the expression 'Merry Christmas'? You don't see it anymore. You're going to see it if I get elected, I can tell you right now."
And that was mostly it - the sum total of his appeal to his audience's evangelism in his nearly 30 minute address.
Many in the crowd weren't buying it.
"Only God knows his true relationship with God, but as the Bible says, 'you will know them by their fruit'," says Pam Orebaugh of Liberty Lake, Washington. "He's not a bad person, but he's definitely not one championing and being very verbal about being a Christian, religious freedom, being pro-life."
"Where was he 10 years ago?" she asks.
Damon Boyle of Eldersburg, Maryland, calls Mr Trump "very entertaining", but it would take more than that to win his support.
"He's an excellent businessman. He's an excellent executive," he says. "But in terms of a Christian, what has the man done?"
These sentiments were backed up by a straw poll of Values Voter Summit attendees released on Saturday, which put Mr Trump in fifth place with 5% - well behind Mr Cruz, who garnered 35%.
Mr Trump likes to boast that national opinion polls show him with strong backing from religious voters. A recent Fox News Survey had the New Yorker in first place among white evangelicals with 29%.
A Gallup poll from mid-September, however, found evidence of weakness in Mr Trump's support. He had a net favourability rating of 22% among "highly religious" voters, putting him 12th- well behind Mr Carson (56%), Mr Huckabee (49%) and Mr Rubio (49%).
"No sign here of any special appeal on the part of Trump to highly religious Republicans," writes Gallup's Frank Newport.
So does Donald Trump have a God problem?
White evangelicals made up 57% of the electorate in Republican Iowa Caucuses in 2012 and were essential to the former Senator Rick Santorum's surprise victory there. They're also a key voting bloc in the eight Southern states that are joining together to hold their primaries on 1 March 2016.
For a while, it appeared that Mr Trump was going to give the Values Voter Summit a pass, prompting Family Research Council President Tony Perkins to question his commitment to religious voters.
"I think that is going to send a message to evangelicals and values voters that he wants their support, but he is not really interested in having a conversation with them," Mr Perkins told the Christian Post.
When Mr Trump changed his plans, Mr Perkins changed his tune.
"It is part of beginning a conversation if he wants to build a relationship with evangelicals," Mr Perkins said in a Washington Times interview, adding that a fifth-place showing in the straw poll "is actually pretty good".
Mr Trump may not be a natural fit for this Republican constituency, but it appears he's not going to cede these voters to another candidate without a fight.
Candidates in (and out of) the Republican presidential field | Can Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump position himself as the candidate of the evangelical right? |
22,050,813 | The accident happened between Junction 19 at Ecclefechen and Junction 20 Eaglesfield at about 00:30.
The man, who was driving the pick-up, died after the collision involving one of the lorries. The other two struck debris from the crash.
The road was closed in both directions for about 12 hours but has reopened. | A man has died after a crash involving three lorries and a pick-up towing a caravan on the A74(M) south of Lockerbie. |
39,621,516 | It happened at about 04:00 BST at the Bijou Club, in Chapel Street, Manchester, which bills itself as a "celebrity hang-out".
Police said the victim, 31, was in a serious but stable condition.
"This was a particularly nasty assault, during which this victim sustained serious head injuries which at first were thought to be life threatening," said Det Ch Insp Elizabeth Hopkinson.
"Fortunately that is no longer the case, but that should take nothing away from the severity of this attack."
Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen what happened to come forward.
The Bijou Club opened in 2009 and said celebrity guests had included Justin Bieber, Ne-Yo, Tulisa, Drake, Rita Ora, Little Mix and The Wanted.
The club has not been available to comment. | A man suffered serious head injuries in an axe attack at a nightclub. |
38,221,431 | The 15ft (4.5m) statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared near the city hall.
The artist, Itay Zalait, said the statue - nicknamed "King Bibi" - was partly inspired by the idol-like status of Mr Netanyahu among some Israelis.
Officials said the statue was erected without permission and must be removed.
It took Mr Zalait two months to sculpt the statue, before he placed it on a white pedestal in Rabin Square overnight.
Passers-by reacted to the guerrilla artwork with a mix of amusement and disapproval, with many stopping to take selfies.
The golden statue was toppled by a spectator close to the lunchtime deadline for its removal, though it was unclear if it was intentional.
Mr Zalait then removed his artwork in one piece.
In Judeo-Christian cultures, a golden statue is sometimes seen as a reference to the story of the golden calf, an idol worshipped by the Israelites in a story from the Book of Exodus.
Such statues have also been associated with autocratic leaders such as that of Chairman Mao in China or Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov.
"Many people in Israel refer to Benjamin Netanyahu as 'King Bibi', so it was only natural to put the king on the square of the kings, the previous name of Rabin Square,'' Mr Zalait told the AP news agency.
"I just want to ask the question like to see if it's going to make some change in the people's mind."
In a post on Facebook, Culture Minister Miri Regev said the artist was "disconnected" and his "only golden calf is the hatred of Netanyahu". | Commuters in Tel Aviv awoke to the unusual sight of a towering golden statue of the Israeli leader on Tuesday morning. |
39,542,990 | The Carl Vinson Strike Group comprises an aircraft carrier and other warships.
US Pacific Command described the deployment - now heading towards the western Pacific - as a prudent measure to maintain readiness in the region.
President Trump has said the US is prepared to act alone to deal with the nuclear threat from North Korea.
"The number one threat in the region continues to be North Korea, due to its reckless, irresponsible and destabilising programme of missile tests and pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability," US Pacific Command spokesman Dave Benham said.
The strike group comprises the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, two guided-missile destroyers and a guided-missile cruiser.
As well as massive striking power, the carrier group has the capability to intercept ballistic missiles.
It was originally due to make port calls in Australia but instead has been diverted from Singapore to the west Pacific - where it recently conducted exercises with the South Korean Navy.
North Korea has carried out several nuclear tests and experts predict more could be in the offing as the country moves closer towards developing a nuclear warhead with a big enough range to reach the US.
On Wednesday North Korea test-fired a medium-range ballistic missile from its eastern port of Sinpo into the Sea of Japan.
The test - condemned by Japan and South Korea - came on the eve of a visit by China's President Xi Jinping to the US to meet President Donald Trump.
The two leaders discussed how to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes as the US steps up the pressure on China, a historic ally of Pyongyang, to help reduce tension.
China has however been reluctant to isolate its neighbour, fearing its collapse could spawn a refugee crisis and bring the US military to its doorstep.
Mr Trump said in a recent interview that Washington was ready to act without Beijing's co-operation: "If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will."
The North is banned from any missile or nuclear tests by the UN, though it has repeatedly broken those sanctions.
Last month, North Korea fired four ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan from the Tongchang-ri region, near the border with China.
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe called it a "new stage of threat".
The US Treasury recently slapped sanctions on 11 North Korean business representatives and one company, while US politicians overwhelmingly backed a bill relisting the North as a state sponsor of terror.
North Korea responded by warning that it will retaliate if the international community steps up sanctions, saying the US was forcing the situation "to the brink of war".
China has long been North Korea's closest diplomatic ally and trading partner, but the relationship has become increasingly strained over Pyongyang's refusal to halt nuclear and missile testing.
There are fears that Pyongyang could eventually develop the ability to launch long-range nuclear missiles capable of striking the mainland US. | The US military has ordered a navy strike group to move towards the Korean peninsula, amid growing concerns about North Korea's missile programme. |
38,730,051 | Adam Elliott was accused of showing off to other motorists with his head poking out of the roof of a convertible Ford Ka.
The 26-year-old from Newcastle, who is 6ft 7in (2m) tall, pleaded guilty at Newcastle Crown Court but later blamed his height.
Speaking after the hearing, he said: "I was not stood up, I am just tall."
Judge Robert Adams said it was "pretty obvious" Elliott had been "showing off, demonstrating your height to people in an open top small car".
"It was a dangerous thing to do," he said.
Mr Elliott, a car dealer, was seen in Gateshead and on the Tyne Bridge driving the car with the top down in January last year.
He had been delivering the vehicle to a customer, he said.
"I pleaded guilty to this because I was advised to, but I still insist I was not standing up," he said.
"It's just because of my height.
"I'm an excellent driver but I was advised to plead guilty to get it over with."
The court heard Elliott had 12 previous convictions for driving while disqualified.
He was given an interim driving ban of 12 months and will be sentenced next month. | A tall man has been convicted of driving while standing up after admitting dangerous driving. |
22,230,868 | Addison Lee, which started in 1975 in south London and now has 4,500 cars, has been bought by the Carlyle Group.
Carlyle said it hoped to expand the firm into international markets and continue to transport about 10 million passengers each year in London.
Founder John Griffin will remain chairman of the company and his son Liam will be chief executive.
Mr Griffin entered the trade after he gave up his accountancy apprenticeship to help his father.
He founded the company with Lenny Foster and both will retain minority stakes in the business.
Liam Griffin said: "From humble beginnings almost 40 years ago, Addison Lee has grown to become a well-known brand."
In a statement, Carlyle said: "The focus for Carlyle's investment in Addison Lee will be to drive business expansion both in the UK and internationally." | A minicab firm which started in London in the 1970s with one car has been sold for £300m to a private equity firm. |
37,530,284 | Conservationists say the bees face extinction through habitat loss, wildfires and the introduction of non-native insects and plants.
The bees are crucial to pollinating some of Hawaii's endangered plants.
The listing follows years of study by researchers including the Xerces Society conservation group.
Sarina Jepson, director of endangered species and aquatic programmes for Xerces, said although yellow-faced bees are found elsewhere in the world, the species now under protection are native only to Hawaii and pollinate indigenous plants.
While those species could potentially be pollinated by other bees, she said many could become extinct if the native bees were allowed to die off.
She told the Associated Press news agency that threats to the bees include feral pigs and invasive ants.
The bees had also suffered loss of habitat due to wildfires, invasive plants and land development, especially in some coastal areas, she added.
Hawaii-based entomologist Karl Magnacca, who worked with Xerces, said it had taken almost 10 years to achieve the listing.
"It's good to see it to finally come to fruition," he said. | Seven species of yellow-faced bee native to Hawaii have become the first bees to be added to the US federal list of endangered and threatened species. |
22,930,726 | The 32-year-old won by two shots from now six-time runner-up Phil Mickelson and Jason Day on a gripping final day.
Rose, also the first Englishman to win a major since Nick Faldo in 1996, fired a level-par 70 to end one over as overnight leader Mickelson carded 74.
Australian Day took 71 as England's Luke Donald (75) collapsed to six over on the treacherous Merion course.
Rose led by one going up the difficult 18th and hit a stunning four-iron approach to set up a par four.
After tapping in his final putt, he looked up to the sky with tears in his eyes, and admitted later to thinking of his father and long-time mentor Ken, who died from leukaemia in 2002.
Mickelson, celebrating his 43rd birthday, needed to birdie the last to force an 18-hole play-off on Monday, but the four-time major champion could only make a bogey five.
"It wasn't lost on me that today was Father's Day," said Rose of his gesture when he was presented with the trophy on the 18th green.
"A lot of us come from great men and we have a responsibility to our children to show what a great man can be.
"For it to all just work out for me, on such an emotional day, I couldn't help but look up to the heavens and think that my old dad Ken had something do do with it."
Rose, who was born in Johannesburg but brought up in Hampshire, burst onto the wider scene as a 17-year-old amateur when he finished in a tie for fourth in the 1998 Open at Royal Birkdale.
He went on to miss 21 consecutive cuts when he joined the paid ranks, before winning his first professional event in 2002. His biggest victory to date was the WGC Cadillac Championship last March.
Rose's previous best major finish was tied-third in the US PGA behind Rory McIlroy last year, while he has had six other top-10s in majors.
He becomes the third UK winner of the title in four years after Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy (2011) and Graeme McDowell (2010).
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The last Englishman to lift the US Open was Tony Jacklin, who won by seven shots at Hazeltine, Minnesota, in 1970. Five other Englishmen won the US Open pre-war, while a host of Scotsmen won early editions of the event.
Rose first hit the front at the eighth hole as the lead changed hands countless times on a tumultuous final day.
Mickelson was seemingly finished after two double bogeys in his first five holes, but the mercurial home favourite holed his second shot for an eagle at the 10th to regain top spot and reignite his challenge.
The pair duelled down the notorious final stretch - with Hunter Mahan also sharing the lead at one point - but Mickelson was unable to avenge his Ryder Cup singles defeat by Rose last year and clinch a first US Open title.
"For me, it's very heart-breaking," said Mickelson, who had previously finished second at the event in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2009. "This was my best chance on a golf course I really liked. I felt like this was as good an opportunity as you could ask for and to not do it hurts."
2013: Justin Rose (Eng)
2012: Webb Simpson (US)
2011: Rory McIlroy (NI)
2010: Graeme McDowell (NI)
2009: Lucas Glover (US)
2008: Tiger Woods (US)
2007: Angel Cabrera (Arg)
2006: Geoff Ogilvy (Aus)
2005: Michael Campbell (NZ)
2004: Retief Goosen (SA)
Former world number one Donald, who played alongside Rose, fell away early with three straight bogeys from the third and then a double bogey on the sixth.
Open champion Ernie Els (69) and Americans Jason Dufner (67), Hunter Mahan (75) and Billy Horschel (74) ended tied-fourth.
World number one Tiger Woods's challenge was already over before the final round and he ended 13 over after a 74, while second-ranked McIlroy took 76 for 14 over.
"I did a lot of things right. Unfortunately I did a few things wrong, as well," said Woods, chasing a 15th major title and first since 2008. "I struggled with the speed (of the greens) all week." | Justin Rose clinched his maiden major title to become the first Englishman for 43 years to win the US Open. |
40,681,759 | Triple world champion Niki Lauda - a man who knows something about risk having survived a fiery accident at the 1976 German Grand Prix - has called it the "wrong" move.
Lauda, now non-executive chairman of world champions Mercedes, told Germany's Auto Motor und Sport the move is an "overreaction" that has "destroyed" the good work F1 has done by introducing faster and more dramatic cars this year.
Other leading figures - including 1996 world champion Damon Hill - have also said they disagree with the decision, and fans seem generally opposed as well. So why has it happened and what effect will it have on F1?
F1's governing body the FIA is constantly striving to improve safety. While driving a racing car at such high speeds can never be safe, it has become clear in the past decade that the driver's exposed head is the last major risk left unaddressed.
The FIA has been striving to come up with a way to reduce the danger without compromising F1's central ethos as an open-cockpit, open-wheel formula.
The halo - a wishbone-shaped device that has two struts arching forward from behind the driver's shoulders and meeting at a central point in front of the cockpit - emerged over several years of research as the best option.
The original plan was to introduce this for 2017 but at a meeting of team bosses and the FIA in July 2016 it was decided that more development work was needed. But additional frontal protection (AFP) was locked into the rules for 2018.
Over the second half of last season, all teams and all but one driver tried the halo in practice sessions at grands prix and the number who said they felt it was not intrusive far outweighed those who disagreed. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg even set the fastest time of all in the first session at the Belgian Grand Prix while the device was fitted to his car.
Despite that, concerns remained over the halo's aesthetics and in April this year F1's bosses agreed to prioritise a 'shield' - a transparent front screen - for 2018.
A prototype was tested by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in practice at the British Grand Prix but he said it made him dizzy.
It was clear that the work needed to make the shield a success would go beyond the start of 2018, so the FIA decided to confirm the halo.
The final decision to introduce the halo was made at a meeting of F1's strategy group on Wednesday. This includes the FIA, the leading teams and the commercial rights holders, the F1 Group. The other teams not on the strategy group - Haas, Renault, Toro Rosso and Sauber - were also at the meeting as observers.
The FIA's decision to introduce the halo was backed by the F1 Group, whose sporting boss Ross Brawn has been working with the FIA on cockpit protection. A spokesman said: "We fully support the FIA on this matter."
With the FIA and F1 in favour, the teams' views are irrelevant - the FIA and F1 Group have enough votes together to get anything through the strategy group.
On top of that, the FIA has the right to bypass normal governance procedures and force the adoption of safety measures. This is effectively what happened, with the F1 Group's backing, through sporting boss Ross Brawn, adding further weight to its stance.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff has said he "understands" why FIA president Jean Todt has taken the position he has. But there is concern among the teams about the effects halo could have on F1's popularity, whether it will upset the delicate balance of risk, danger, glamour and excitement that define its appeal. But there is now no way back.
As for the drivers, while some have made clear their opposition to extra head protection, many leading drivers are in favour - including Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen, Daniel Ricciardo and Felipe Massa.
And the Grand Prix Drivers' Association as a body has made it clear it is in favour.
A survey by the FIA of drivers' views on the matter over the winter gave a pretty even split for and against but officials had suspicions that some of the drivers had been 'got at' by their teams and there was scepticism as to whether all responses were their own personal views.
The FIA has conducted extensive analysis and risk assessments on the halo and it has proved to be positive in the vast majority of cases.
A number of major incidents were analysed.
Among - but by no means all of - these were: Alexander Wurz's Williams flying over David Coulthard's Red Bull at Melbourne in 2007; Vitantonio Liuzzi's Force India riding up the front of Michael Schumacher's Mercedes at Abu Dhabi in 2010; Romain Grosjean's Lotus crashing over Fernando Alonso's Ferrari in Belgium in 2012; Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari mounting Alonso's McLaren in Austria in 2015; and the death of the Formula 3000 driver Marco Campos, who landed upside down on a wall in Magny-Cours in 1995.
In all of the incidents in which a large object could have intruded on the cockpit, the effects of the halo were found to be overwhelmingly positive on balance.
There has been concern expressed about whether the halo would make it more difficult for a driver to climb out of an upturned car.
But the FIA did a test with one of its operatives in a car in the same position as Alonso's McLaren ended up after his huge accident in Australia in 2016 and the man - considerably less lithe and fit than an F1 driver - was able to climb out without difficulty.
The FIA also modelled the IndyCar accident in which Justin Wilson was killed by a flying front wing assembly in 2015, and found the halo effect was positive in that, too.
Some have questioned the effectiveness of the halo in deflecting small objects, such as the spring that hit Massa and fractured his skull in Hungary in 2009.
The halo is not designed primarily for this eventuality, but even so in nearly a million tests conducted involving small missiles, the potential danger of these was considerably less with the halo than without. And again the net effect was positive.
As for claims that the halo could potentially deflect small objects towards a driver's body, the risk is low - and in any case these objects may well have hit the driver's head had the halo not been there.
The governing body feels it has addressed all concerns, has a device that is positive or neutral in the vast majority of cases, and that it is incumbent upon it to introduce a proven safety device, against which it believes there are not counter-arguments other than people not liking its looks.
There are also liability issues that could lead to legal problems - if the FIA has a device proven to work, makes an active decision not to use it, and then a driver is killed or injured in exactly the sort of incident it is designed to prevent.
On that basis, the FIA does not see any argument for not introducing it.
Many of the concerns expressed about the halo are based on its looks - it has been likened to a flip-flop, or a chicken wishbone, plonked on the top of the car.
There is no getting away from the fact that it changes the aesthetics of an F1 car. But the halos that are used next year will not look like the stark, black titanium structures seen in testing so far.
Teams can paint them any colour they like, and the rules allow for teams to fit a fairing around the halo, in all places other than the frontal strut, that can extend no more than 30mm on either side of the structure.
This rule was introduced because the halo affects the airflow - both into the engine air intake and the overall aerodynamics.
So teams will inevitably fit shaped bodywork to the halo, which will make it look less out of place.
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The FIA's view is that, when the arguments for increased safety are so strong, F1 simply has to get on with it.
It feels that by the time the cars have run in pre-season testing, people will have got used to the halo and that - as with many other changes introduced over the years - soon cars will look strange without it.
The argument against introducing it goes something like this:
F1 is pretty safe now, so why risk its popularity for a device that protects against accidents that are already very rare?
The halo would not have saved Jules Bianchi in his crash at Suzuka in 2014, it is said (although no-one is pretending it would). Wheels fly around only occasionally, people argue (although Sergio Perez's Force India lost one in a crash in Baku only last month). The deaths of Wilson and Henry Surtees were in other categories which are less safe than F1.
But F1 was also perceived to be doing well on safety in April 1994, when it was eight years since the last fatality and 12 since the last death at a race meeting.
And then came the San Marino Grand Prix, and the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna on consecutive days.
Will the halo affect F1's popularity? That remains to be seen - and GPDA chairman Alexander Wurz argues that F1 has become more popular as it has become safer, which is indisputable, but it is also hard to prove a causative link.
Overall, though, people opposed to the halo might ask themselves a simple question.
If it was not introduced next year and a driver was killed when the halo could have saved him, how would they feel then?
The risk might be small, but are aesthetics and the perceived appeal of something really more important than a driver's life? | Formula 1 is introducing additional cockpit head protection for drivers in 2018 with the 'halo' - and it is fair to say the decision is a long way from universally popular. |
36,683,991 | England opener Hales, 27, and Chopra, 29, are both out of contract with their respective Division One clubs at the end of the county cricket season.
Hales is England's first-choice opener across all three formats after making his Test debut in December 2015.
Chopra has made 527 runs in eight County Championship matches this term.
He began his first-class career with Essex, leaving for Edgbaston in 2010.
A move for Hales would see him join the same county as his England Test opening partner and captain Alastair Cook. | Division Two side Essex have requested to speak to Nottinghamshire's Alex Hales and Warwickshire batsman Varun Chopra, reports BBC Essex. |
27,238,990 | Public Health England (PHE) said it was investigating 11 confirmed cases following visits to Huntley's Country Store, Samlesbury, near Preston.
PHE advised anyone feeling unwell after attending a lambing event staged at the farm outlet between 29 March and 24 April to seek medical help.
It said the farm store no longer posed a risk to the public.
The health body said three people remained in hospital following complications from the E. coli O157 infection. A fourth person has been discharged and is recovering at home.
Source: Public Health England
PHE said all contact between animals and the public at the premises had now ceased so there was no longer any risk to the public.
PHE consultant for Cumbria and Lancashire Dr Ken Lamden said the outbreak is believed to have started before Easter.
"Investigations are still on going and all public health measures have been put in place," he said.
"The owners are co-operating fully and we are working closely with them and with colleagues across health and local authorities."
He said symptoms of E. coli O157 included bloody diarrhoea, which could be serious, or milder forms of the infection which are usually "self-limiting" and clear within seven days.
Dr Lamden said the best protection against E. coli O157 was thorough handwashing particularly after contact with animals, after going to the toilet, after handling raw meat products and before eating. | Four people have been treated in hospital after an outbreak of E. coli linked to a farm shop in Lancashire. |
23,230,279 | The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee suggested creatures such as camels, zebras and snakes could still take part in entertainments.
But it decided that lions, tigers and elephants no longer "have a place".
The government wants wild animals banned from circuses from December 2015, with fines of up to £5,000 imposed on owners who flout the law.
The decision followed a long campaign led by Conservative MP Mark Pritchard.
But the committee raised doubts over whether the ban, as laid out in the government's draft parliamentary bill, might be challenged under European law.
It also looked at the relationship between circuses and other forms of entertainment involving animals, saying: "It is not clear that there is a material difference between those who keep wild birds for falconry displays and those who keep such birds for displays in a circus.
"Nor is the difference clear between having a display involving a raccoon in a circus or a raccoon in an act on Britain's Got Talent."
The report added that separating some domesticated animals deemed "wild", such as raccoons, from their lifelong keeper or trainer might not be in their "best interests".
There are currently 21 licensed wild animals working in two circuses in England, including camels, zebras and snakes, but not elephants, monkeys, gorillas, chimpanzees or big cats.
The committee's chairwoman, Conservative MP Anne McIntosh, said: "The committee agrees with the government that the days when it was appropriate to have animals like lions or elephants travelling with circuses are long past, but the ban proposed in draft legislation goes too far in restricting the type of animals which travelling circuses might use.
"We believe that there should be a ban on big cat species and elephants, but it is possible to argue that, for example, camels, zebra or snakes can continue to have a place in the travelling circus."
The issue was highlighted last November, when circus owner Bobby Roberts was found guilty of mistreating a 58-year-old elephant called Anne.
But Miss McIntosh said: "The government itself accepts that there is no overwhelming welfare case for a ban on wild animals in travelling circumstances, and there is already legislation to deal with any welfare abuse, such as the case involving Anne the Asian elephant last year.
"There is also a regulation system in place since the beginning of this year, and we believe that the government should narrow the provisions of the draft bill and include a proscribed list of animals that can no longer be used in travelling circuses."
Prior to the ban coming into force, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has introduced a "tough licensing scheme" it claims will "ensure the welfare of wild animals."
The government invited the committee to scrutinise its draft parliamentary bill.
Negotiations are under way with the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland devolved administrations to see whether a UK-wide ban is achievable. | The government's plan for a total ban on animals in travelling circuses in England "goes too far", MPs have said. |
38,365,754 | The museum sought new premises due to a lack of space and because its lease was running out after 2018.
It has been awarded £725,600 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards converting an Anti-Aircraft Operations Room (AAOR).
The building, built in the 1950s, is known as the Old Radar Station.
In more recent years it was used as a roads maintenance depot.
Highland Council has approved the museum's plans and its managers hope the lottery funding will be a "catalyst" for further funding awards. | Gairloch Heritage Museum has secured funding to help it relocate to a blast-proof former Cold War building in the Wester Ross village. |
36,483,241 | The 32-year-old has agreed a two-year deal at Molineux, with the club having an option for an extra 12 months.
He began his career at Preston and had spells with Leeds and Bolton before joining the Whites in June 2015, making 31 appearances last season.
Lonergan will compete with Carl Ikeme and Jon Flatt for the number one shirt at Molineux.
The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
"Wolves is a massive club and one of those when you play them you always know it is going to be a tough game and the atmosphere is fantastic, " Lonergan told the club's website.
"To be part of that, and hopefully a successful team at Molineux, is something I am looking forward to.
"In my opinion Carl is comfortably one of the top three keepers in the league. It is up to me to put pressure on him."
Wolves failed to mount a serious challenge for promotion last season under head coach Kenny Jackett, finishing in 14th place, 16 points outside the play-offs. | Wolves have increased their goalkeeping options by signing Andy Lonergan from Championship rivals Fulham. |
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