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38,534,805 | The Reds rejected an offer of more than £2.5m from Derby for the 26-year-old former Arsenal midfielder, who has scored six goals this season.
Montanier admitted other clubs have bid for Lansbury, but did not name them.
"We've had an offer but it's not me who makes the decision to sell him," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"He's my captain and the best player on my team. It is confidential but we have received offers from teams.
"I know in football some situations are difficult when a player receives a big offer and it is then difficult to play 100%."
Montanier said Lansbury, whose contract expires in the summer, will play no part in Saturday's FA Cup third-round tie at Wigan Athletic because of a hamstring injury.
He suffered the injury in the pre-match warm-up ahead of their 3-0 loss to Derby on 11 December. | Nottingham Forest head coach Philippe Montanier says it is not his decision whether Henri Lansbury will remain at the City Ground. |
37,531,680 | Prandelli, 59, replaces former Liverpool assistant manager Pako Ayestaran, who was sacked after Los Che lost their opening four La Liga games.
Valencia won both games under caretaker boss Voro to move off the bottom.
Prandelli, who has not managed since a brief spell at Galatasaray in 2014, will take over after Sunday's home match against Atletico Madrid.
He will watch the game against fourth-placed Atletico from the Mestalla stands before leading his first training session on Monday.
The Italian led his nation between 2010 and 2014, taking them to the Euro 2012 final where they lost against Spain, then resigning after group-stage elimination at the World Cup in Brazil two years later.
He returned to management shortly after at Turkish giants Galatasaray, only to be sacked 147 days later. | Spanish side Valencia have appointed former Italy boss Cesare Prandelli as their new full-time manager. |
33,130,231 | Among those sites set to open are the historic Durbar squares or "noble courts", which were badly damaged.
Unesco raised some concerns over the safety of reopening the sites. But media reports cite officials as saying the necessary measures are in place.
More than 8,000 people were killed and the destruction was widespread.
Shortly after the quake, Unesco's director-general Irina Bokova described damage to the Kathmandu valley as "extensive and irreversible". It sent a team to assess the damage and is continuing to monitor the situation.
On 11 June Unesco issued a statement asking the public to be extra cautious at the sites, adding that it hoped the decision to reopen them could be re-examined.
Security will be in place, tourists will be given guided tours and signboards will indicate specified routes to cause minimal disturbance to structures, officials are quoted as saying in local media.
Nepal's Kathmandu Valley treasures: Before and after
Nepal earthquakes: Devastation in maps and images
Recent images and status of some of the damaged sites
The seven protected monument zones are:
The Durbar Square in Kathmandu's Old City is a mesh of palaces, courtyards and temples. Unesco calls it "the social, religious and urban focal point" of the Nepalese capital. The UN has urged security perimeters be put in place here.
Unesco says the process of salvaging the artefacts at the Buddhist temple complex at the Swayambhunath temple complex - founded in the 5th Century - is still ongoing. It also believes that opening the area could risk the theft of art and cultural objects.
The main temple in Bhaktapur's Durbar Square lost its roof, while the 16th Century Vatsala Durga temple, famous for its sandstone walls and gold-topped pagodas, was demolished by the quake. Local media reports that tourists to severely damaged Changu Narayan of northern Bhaktapur will be carefully monitored .
Patan's Durbar Square, the 3rd Century site across the Bagmati river to the east of Kathmandu, was opened to the public last week. | Nepal is set to reopen all the heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley to the public, in a bid to attract tourists after April's devastating earthquake. |
37,396,039 | The video claims to show a Met officer smashing the windscreen after the driver refuses to get out of the vehicle.
The incident took place in Camden, north London, at 17:00 BST on Friday.
The Met said the Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) has launched an investigation.
It added that "as this matter is in its early stages, the officers have not been suspended or placed on restricted duties".
It is not known what led up to the incident and no one was arrested.
The video, which has not been independently verified, shows a police officer pulling at a partially-opened driver's side window, repeatedly telling the driver "get out of the car".
He orders the driver to get out of the car one more time before saying "you're not allowed to drive yet."
When the driver continues to refuse to leave the vehicle the officer then begins to hit the driver's side window with what appears to be a baton.
Meanwhile, a voice from inside the car can be heard saying: "I've got a licence. I've got a licence. I've got insurance. You're smashing this for no reason."
The officer can then be seen striking the windscreen, shattering the glass.
He then begins to start slicing around the damaged area with what looks like a cutting tool.
When asked by the driver what the problem is, the officer tells him he is "not allowed to drive".
A man who identified himself as Leon said he was the driver and the person who filmed the footage.
He told the Press Association the incident was just a case of "mistaken identity", but that it was "complete madness" and he is "still in shock".
Leon, who said he spent the evening in hospital due to getting glass in his eyes, added: "Every time he smashed the glass, fragments of glass were just ricocheting in my face."
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is aware of footage circulating on social media of an incident involving two uniformed officers in Camden.
The incident took place at Weedington Road, NW5, at around 17:00 hours on Friday, 16 September.
The footage will now be subject to an investigation by officers from the Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS).
As soon as the MPS was made aware of the footage, the DPS was contacted immediately.
The individual who uploaded the footage has been contacted by DPS officers.
As this matter is in its early stages, the officers have not been suspended or placed on restricted duties. No one was arrested during the incident. | The Metropolitan Police has said it is investigating footage released on social media of an incident appearing to show an officer attacking a car. |
33,615,464 | The Venerable Rachel Treweek, 52, who is Archdeacon of Hackney in the Diocese of London, will become the new Bishop of Gloucester.
Two women bishops have already been appointed, but Archdeacon Treweek is the first woman to run a diocese and will be one rank below archbishop.
She is succeeding The Right Reverend Michael Perham, who retired last year.
Representatives and clergy from churches across Gloucestershire are expected to be in attendance to welcome the new bishop to the diocese.
She is expected to join a procession to the cathedral before being consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury and giving her first sermon.
It is understood she will also become the first female bishop to enter the House of Lords.
Archdeacon Treweek said it was "an immense joy and privilege" when she was appointed to the role in March.
The Church formally adopted legislation to allow women bishops last November. | The most senior woman bishop in the Church of England is to be consecrated at Canterbury Cathedral later. |
33,271,632 | It has taken Dr Andrew Beaumont six months to build, using 30,000 bricks to build the 6ft (1.82m)-long version of Hertford College.
Inside is a "Hogwarts-style" spiral staircase, copies of rooms and a Lego version of principal Will Hutton.
The model is to be unveiled at the college's open day on 1 July.
Dr Beaumont, a colonial historian, has previously made Lego versions of the 700-year-old college chapel and Bridge of Sighs.
His models, built in his spare time, are all constructed from memory. He does not use drawings or plans, he said.
Dr Beaumont said the bricks were sourced from distributors in Eastern Europe.
The model includes two parts which have a QR code, enabling hopeful students to scan and view college's prospectus.
"It's a useful message to show prospective students that we don't take ourselves too seriously,' he said. | An Oxford University professor has created a Lego version of his college, complete with an "alien experimentation laboratory" and a graffiti tag. |
29,593,127 | People will be able to ring a special phone line and will be asked questions about their travel history and possible symptoms.
Experts will be on standby with several hospitals ready to deal with any possible cases.
The Ebola virus has spread across West Africa in recent months and prompted lots of questions from you.
We spoke to virus expert Doctor Benjamin Neuman to answer some of them. | The government has announced that more is going to be done to deal with the risk of the Ebola virus in the UK. |
41,029,626 | The 38-year-old arrived at Sixways in 2015 when he joined from Munster.
"There is no doubt that other players in the squad look up to him. I am sure he will do a superb job," said Worcester director of rugby Gary Gold.
Warriors' former captain South African GJ van Velze, and centre Ryan Mills have been named vice-captains.
Worcester begin the new season away to Newcastle on Friday, 1 September. | Former Ireland and Lions lock Donncha O'Callaghan has been appointed Worcester Warriors' club captain ahead of the new Premiership season. |
40,543,681 | France's 12th seed Kristina Mladenovic complained about a "damaged" court in her second-round defeat on Thursday.
Following his four-set win against against Fabio Fognini on Centre Court, Andy Murray said the court conditions were "not as good as previous years", while Jamie added they "weren't good."
Italian Fognini went further, saying they are "really, really bad".
Temperatures have reached 30C in the first week at Wimbledon, with little rain.
Head groundsman Neil Stubley said: "Obviously we're dealing with the extreme heat, which we're not used to every single Championships.
"There's not a doubt in our minds that the courts will be as good as they need to be for the end of the Championships."
The first week of last year's tournament was affected by bad weather, with organisers forced to schedule matches on the middle Sunday.
At one point in Friday's third-round match, a return from Fognini bounced on the baseline underneath Andy Murray's racket.
"There's quite a few spots on the court, just behind the baseline and just in front of the baseline, where there are quite big lumps of grass, almost like little divots there, which I don't remember really being the case before," defending champion Murray said.
"I don't think the court is in as good a condition as previous years.
"I don't know if it's anything to do with the weather that they've had over the last few weeks and months. It's been pretty hot, pretty extreme conditions. Not much rain."
The 30-year-old is back on Centre Court against Frenchman Benoit Paire on Monday.
And he added: "The court, when I played the first match, was great. I think it's just getting a bit beaten up early. A few of the players have said that about some of the outside courts as well."
Mladenovic twisted an ankle in the warm-up and damaged a knee during her defeat by American Alison Riske on court 18.
She said both players wanted to stop after only two games "in case something bad happened".
Jamie Murray was knocked out of the men's doubles in the second round on Friday on court 18.
He told the Times: "Wimbledon think they're the best tournament in the world, so they need to be held to those standards, and I don't think that this year the courts were [of] as high a standard as they could have been."
Despite his strong criticism, Fognini agreed that the hot conditions had caused the problem, saying: "They do the best that they can. It's not their fault. I think this year was really sunny days, so the grass is not really good like the last years."
Stubley added: "The players have their reasons why they're saying they're more slippery. I don't know if there's been more slips this year or whether it's just a couple of high-profile ones.
"We listen to players, because their feedback is important. But the data shows to us those courts that are in question are within range of the other courts, and they are within the range of previous years."
Cooler temperatures are forecast for the second week, but there is currently no rain predicted. | Andy and Jamie Murray have become the latest players to criticise the state of the courts at Wimbledon this year. |
39,850,634 | Katy Skelton, 25, from County Antrim, parked her blue Mini before going for a walk with friends on 3 May.
She said she returned to find her car "completely ruined".
"My sat nav took me to the back entrance of Cave Hill. There were a few other cars around so I parked up behind them on the grass area," she said.
"I didn't imagine that I'd come back to my car like that."
Katy, who works for mental health organisation Inspire, said she found the "car on its roof on the road".
"The windscreens have been smashed and the roof is caved in," she added.
"It is absolutely destroyed."
It was Katy's first time up Cave Hill and she said she would not be back anytime soon.
"I waited from 8pm to midnight until the police arrived," she added.
"It was pitch black, I was freezing and I was terrified they were going to come back and do something to the car or me."
Police are urging anyone who saw anything suspicious between 18:00 to 20:00 BST to contact them. | An incident in which a woman returned from a walk up Cave Hill in Belfast to find her car flipped on to its roof is being investigated by police. |
37,030,439 | After Dwight Gayle had a goal disallowed for handball, the hosts went ahead when Isaac Hayden was first to react to a loose ball in the box.
Garath McCleary equalised from the spot on the stroke of half-time.
Matt Ritchie's penalty edged the hosts ahead again, while Gayle's free-kick and close-range finish secured Newcastle an emphatic victory.
Roy Beerens thought he had scored Reading's second goal but his effort was ruled out for offside.
Rafael Benitez's side, playing in the second tier for the first time since 2009-10, had lost their opening two matches at Fulham and at home to Huddersfield on Saturday.
Newcastle started the stronger but had Gayle booked when he turned the ball into the back of the net with his left hand.
Debutant Ciaran Clark headed a Jonjo Shelvey corner over the crossbar, before Hayden pounced after Ali Al-Habsi saved a Ritchie free-kick
Reading grew in confidence and Beerens hit the bar, while McCleary scored from the spot after Clark brought down John Swift.
Ritchie put his spot-kick into the bottom left-hand corner to restore Newcastle's lead and Gayle's 30-yard free-kick and close-range finish made sure of a much-needed victory.
Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez:
"It was important for me, for the fans, for the players, for everyone here to get three points today.
"The first two games without playing so badly, we didn't get any points.
"Today we showed character, a good reaction after the goal we conceded, and that's what we have we to do, play well sometimes and show character all the time."
Reading manager Jaap Stam told BBC Radio Berkshire:
"I think if you look at the game in total, we were the better team in how we played. If we concede goals like this every time, we're going to make it very hard for ourselves.
"But, if you look at the way we played in our intention and style of play with what we did on the pitch, I think we can be very proud of the guys as they've done a very good job.
"We had a lot of possession and created some very good chances and were a threat coming forward.
"If we keep on playing the way we did today, I'm sure we're going to be winning a lot of games."
Match ends, Newcastle United 4, Reading 1.
Second Half ends, Newcastle United 4, Reading 1.
Foul by Joseph Mendes (Reading).
Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. John Swift (Reading) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Isaac Hayden.
Attempt blocked. Yakou Meite (Reading) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris Gunter.
Joseph Mendes (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Newcastle United. Rolando Aarons replaces Matt Ritchie.
Goal! Newcastle United 4, Reading 1. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Isaac Hayden.
Foul by Yann Kermorgant (Reading).
Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Paul McShane (Reading).
Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Newcastle United. Jonjo Shelvey tries a through ball, but Dwight Gayle is caught offside.
Foul by John Swift (Reading).
Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Chancel Mbemba.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Jack Colback replaces Yoan Gouffran.
Substitution, Reading. Joseph Mendes replaces George Evans.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Paul Dummett.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) because of an injury.
Substitution, Reading. Yakou Meite replaces Roy Beerens.
Attempt missed. George Evans (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Roy Beerens (Reading) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Newcastle United. Jamaal Lascelles replaces Ayoze Pérez.
Foul by Joey van den Berg (Reading).
Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Reading. John Swift tries a through ball, but Garath McCleary is caught offside.
Danny Williams (Reading) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United).
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Paul Dummett.
Goal! Newcastle United 3, Reading 1. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
George Evans (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by George Evans (Reading).
Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yann Kermorgant (Reading). | Newcastle secured their first win since relegation to the Championship as they beat Reading at St James' Park. |
36,551,896 | It fell apart in acrimonious fashion last month over the SRU's concern about their respective financial inputs.
The English Championship club said its plans for next season had been "suddenly blown off course".
But they have now admitted that the SRU board's concerns "were entirely legitimate" and had been addressed.
The relationship had begun on a trial basis in January, with Sean Lineen, the head of Scotland's age-grade programme, joining the club as part-time director of rugby, former Scotland forward Roddy Grant on the coaching staff, and a handful of players joining on loan.
Their new agreement means that, instead of the governing body providing up to 14 players for the coming season, up to eight will be on loan to the Exiles.
London Scottish president Rod Lynch said: "We regret that our recent statements and media coverage of them may have cast a cloud over such an exciting opportunity and are grateful that Scottish Rugby was still willing to continue a dialogue with us.
"We are now looking to move this mutually beneficial opportunity forward and will provide young players with exposure to Championship rugby and its associated benefits.
"Championship rugby is a challenging environment commercially and we acknowledge that the concerns Scottish Rugby's board voiced were valid."
Some, including former Scotland centre Alex Grove, who had spent time on loan at the club, had expressed concern that London Scottish had allowed senior players to leave in anticipation of receiving players from Scottish Rugby.
However, the governing body had been looking to reduce its own financial commitment, with more being underwritten by the club.
London Scottish will be sent players from Scotland's academy system, those on the fringes of the Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Pro12 first-team squads and those recovering from injury and requiring match fitness, all under Lineen's guidance.
Scottish Rugby chief executive Mark Dodson said: "We see this as a 12-month relationship at this time.
"We want to move this initiative forward to continue to give identified Scottish players the opportunity to develop into international players of the future.
"We had to satisfy ourselves that the club could deliver a performance environment suitable to enable talented young players to develop, before we committed further.
"We are pleased that the club has addressed our concerns and are now satisfied that the reduced scale of the programme matches the support the club can provide."
Scottish Rugby said that the scheme will operate on "a more modest and achievable scale better suited to the support available from London Scottish".
London Scottish chairman Sir David Reid had previously expressed disappointment that the SRU had revised its offer to 10 players "and none of them senior players" but welcomed the new deal.
"We fully recognise that the concerns expressed by Scottish Rugby's board over the financial commitment and infrastructure needed from London Scottish under the previous arrangements were entirely legitimate," he said.
"London Scottish will now take full financial responsibility for its areas identified in the partnership, which are designed to enhance the performance environment in which London Scottish players can train and prepare." | London Scottish and Scottish Rugby have resurrected their partnership for next season - but with a smaller financial commitment from the governing body. |
40,924,217 | Froome leads a strong Team Sky line-up in the race, which begins on 19 August in Nimes, France.
The 32-year-old, who won a fourth Tour de France in July, has never won the Vuelta, finishing second three times.
"Aiming for the Tour-Vuelta double this season has been a huge motivation," he said.
France's Jacques Anquetil in 1963 and Bernard Hinault in 1978 are the only other riders to have achieved the Tour and Vuelta double in the same season.
"It feels like we're on much more of a mission this year," said Froome. "It certainly feels as if I've got unfinished business with this race.
"I don't think we've been to the Vuelta a Espana with a team as strong as we've got this year and I've got a good feeling about this year's Vuelta."
Two-time Tour de France and three-time Vuelta champion Alberto Contador will retire from professional cycling after the race, which ends on 10 September.
Team Sky team: Chris Froome, Wout Poels, Mikel Nieve, Diego Rosa, David Lopez, Gianni Moscon, Salvatore Puccio, Ian Stannard and Christian Knees. | Britain's Chris Froome says he has "unfinished business" at the Vuelta a Espana, as he aims to win the Vuelta and Tour de France double. |
37,436,117 | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang marked his 100th Bundesliga game with his 59th goal, a tap in after Ousmane Dembele's cutback shortly before half-time.
It looked all over when Lukasz Piszczek drilled home from inside the area to double Dortmund's lead.
Max Philipp's composed finish reduced the deficit before Raphael Guerreiro sealed the points.
Dortmund, who have won four of their first five league games, twice hit the woodwork through Emre Mor and Aubameyang.
Thomas Tuchel's side have 12 points - the same number as Bayern Munich, who are away to struggling Hamburg on Saturday.
Dortmund host European champions Real Madrid in the Champions League next Tuesday.
Match ends, Borussia Dortmund 3, Sport-Club Freiburg 1.
Second Half ends, Borussia Dortmund 3, Sport-Club Freiburg 1.
Offside, Sport-Club Freiburg. Georg Niedermeier tries a through ball, but Onur Bulut is caught offside.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Georg Niedermeier.
Attempt saved. Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Sebastian Rode.
Goal! Borussia Dortmund 3, Sport-Club Freiburg 1. Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Gonzalo Castro.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Caglar Söyüncü (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Attempt missed. Sokratis (Borussia Dortmund) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Raphael Guerreiro with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Nicolas Höfler.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Georg Niedermeier.
Foul by Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund).
Janik Haberer (Sport-Club Freiburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Caglar Söyüncü (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Sebastian Rode replaces Ousmane Dembélé.
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Roman Bürki tries a through ball, but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is caught offside.
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Marcel Schmelzer tries a through ball, but Ousmane Dembélé is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Caglar Söyüncü (Sport-Club Freiburg) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Caglar Söyüncü (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Attempt missed. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Christian Pulisic.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Alexander Schwolow.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Georg Niedermeier.
Attempt blocked. Gonzalo Castro (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Corner, Sport-Club Freiburg. Conceded by Roman Bürki.
Attempt saved. Onur Bulut (Sport-Club Freiburg) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Vincenzo Grifo.
Foul by Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund).
Christian Günter (Sport-Club Freiburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Raphael Guerreiro replaces Mario Götze.
Sokratis (Borussia Dortmund) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sokratis (Borussia Dortmund).
Florian Niederlechner (Sport-Club Freiburg) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Amir Abrashi (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Sokratis (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Florian Niederlechner (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Substitution, Sport-Club Freiburg. Florian Niederlechner replaces Maximilian Philipp.
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Ousmane Dembélé tries a through ball, but Mario Götze is caught offside. | Borussia Dortmund moved level on points with Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich after victory over mid-table Freiburg. |
33,210,322 | McClean has scored 11 goals 87 appearances for the Latics and was voted player of the year last season as they were relegated to League One.
The 26-year-old played for Derry City in Northern Ireland and signed for Sunderland in August 2011, before joining Wigan in August 2013.
The Premier League club expect the deal to go through on Monday. | West Brom have agreed a fee in the region of £1.5m with Wigan for Republic of Ireland winger James McClean. |
19,750,336 | Sgt Steven Leslie, of the Black Watch, avoided machine gun fire and grenades in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
The 30-year-old helped to lead his unit through open ground and provided cover for the two men to get to safety.
He was one of more than 100 service personnel honoured in the latest Ministry of Defence Operational Awards.
Sgt Leslie's award is one of the oldest forms of Army recognition. His name appears in an official report sent to the high command.
The MoD said insurgents had been firing on the patrol in Nad-e Ali district and Sgt Leslie directed machine gunners to cover them until they reached their check point 300m away.
The enemy was attacking from five different positions when Sgt Leslie spotted the two isolated men and covered 150m of open ground to reach them.
He grabbed the soldiers and led them out of danger to the check point, still under fire.
"You don't think about it at the time, you just know you have to go and grab them," Sgt Leslie said.
"If it wasn't me then it would have been someone else - I just took the instant to run out and get them. You don't have time to reflect really."
Sgt Leslie was also awarded a Queens Commendation for Bravery in 2004 for going to the aid of soldiers injured by an improvised explosive device in Iraq.
He added: "You don't even realise there are rounds landing around you. Everyone has had rounds landing at their feet over there. It's not just me.
"You just do what you need to do and get out. Anyone would have done what I did, just as I would do it again."
The enemy continued to attack the unit for the next half hour and the patrol had to continue fighting before they could break away to make for their command post.
Sgt Leslie's citation states: "Sergeant Leslie's exemplary gallantry and leadership throughout a complex and dangerous withdrawal kept his young soldiers alive but he thought little of his own life.
"Through his selfless bravery, and putting the safety of his men before his own, Sergeant Leslie is worthy of national recognition."
The awards handed out by the MoD on Friday recognised service on operations in Afghanistan and national operations between 1 October 2011 and 30 March 2012. | A Scottish Army sergeant who risked his life to save two soldiers stranded in an enemy attack has been awarded a Mention in Despatches. |
39,121,559 | At the regular press briefing, the PM's spokesman said her favourite flavour was salt and vinegar - but stopped short of endorsing a specific brand.
He was also unable to tell reporters how often Mrs May tucks into a bag.
"I don't know how many packets of crisps the prime minister consumes per week, per day or per month, but she will be giving them up," he told them.
Christians traditionally give up certain foods over Lent, which leads up to Easter and this year begins on 1 March, to mark Jesus's 40 days of fasting in the desert. | Prime Minister Theresa May will refrain from tucking into crisps for Lent, Downing Street has revealed. |
36,319,617 | A number of windows were broken in the attacks, the latest of which happened on Monday night.
Translink said the safety and welfare of customers and staff is their top priority. The service resumed on Tuesday.
Sinn Féin councillor Tony Hassan has condemned the attacks.
"Translink are saying that this problem has been there for the last three or four weeks but that on Monday night it was the worst incident yet.
"The driver, and some of those on the bus, stated that some of these young people were around the age of 12 or 14 years of age.
"Parents need to know what their children are up to. There's about three or four thousand people relying on that service," Mr Hassan said.
A Translink spokesperson said: "We can confirm that 4 incidents of stoning have occurred in the past few weeks on Ulsterbus services in the Galliagh area resulting in broken windows.
"We strongly condemn this dangerous behaviour. Following the latest incident last (Monday) night, bus services were withdrawn from the area at 8pm.
"If these attacks continue more services will have to be withdrawn to uphold our duty of care for staff and customers," Translink said. | Translink temporarily withdrew bus services from the Galliagh area of Londonderry after several stone throwing incidents by young people. |
31,619,058 | From 8 April, immigration officials will record passport details of everyone when they leave the country.
Eurotunnel's John Keefe said the changes were likely to cause tailbacks.
The government said the exit checks were needed to combat illegal immigration and would be introduced with the "least possible disruption".
"On a peak day we might be carrying 10,000 or 12,000 cars. The smallest delay in the journey at any point in the terminal results in an immediate tailback," he said.
"Those tailbacks - cars or trucks - are the kind of thing that can very quickly overflow on to the motorway and if they overflow on to the motorway then we're into a broader problem and we've got the possibility of Operation Stack being brought into place.
"If we can generate a system for the future which is much more automated and uses the advances in technology that have happened over the past few years and are growing apace at the moment then we could find a technological solution to this."
But Mr Keefe added: "It's unlikely the technological solution will be in place by 8 April.
"If trade and tourism is stopped at the border by the border control process, somehow we've missed the point."
When Operation Stack is put in place lorries are parked on the M20 and non-freight traffic diverted off the motorway.
A spokeswoman for the Home Office said: "We already collect most of this information automatically in advance, and have been working closely with ports and carriers to ensure checks on remaining routes are introduced properly and with the least possible disruption to customers.
"The data collected will provide the most comprehensive picture we have ever had of whether those who enter the UK leave when they are supposed to.
"It will improve our ability to identify which people have overstayed, take targeted action against those abusing the law and identify and tighten the immigration routes and visas that are most vulnerable to abuse.
"Exit checks will also improve security by helping the police and security services track the movements of known criminals and terrorists." | Eurotunnel says plans to introduce exit checks on all people leaving the UK will lead to major cross-Channel delays unless new technology is developed. |
35,106,691 | Over the next few weeks, they will settle into homes and communities.
They will try to integrate into a country that they know little or nothing about.
What is it like to come to Northern Ireland as a refugee? Abir and Mahfouz and their four children have lived in Lisburn for the last two years.
They do not want to use their surname, such is the fear of reprisal against family members still living in Syria.
Little did Abir know when she was growing up in Syria that the fact her mother was from Belfast would secure her family's future.
Thelma was from the Lisburn Road and married a Syrian who was studying pharmacy at Queen's University in the 1960s.
"That is why I find it easy living in Northern Ireland. It's better for me and my children to come and live with my mum. It was a new culture and new friends, but I find it easy. I enjoy everything here," she said.
But that journey was not straightforward.
Abir had to leave her four children in Turkey for a year while she came to Belfast to live with her mother who returned in 2012.
"It was very hard to leave my children. Nadine was just two years old when I left, but I had to come to try to get passports for the children," she said.
The link to Belfast meant Abir and the children could gain residency. Her husband Mahfouz, 47, had to come as a refugee.
The family had no future in their own country, he said.
"I discovered we must find a safe place," he said.
"I told my wife because she has a foreign passport to go there and find safety for my children - anything, I told her - I'm ready to pay everything I have because there is no future in Syria within this war. No schools, no safe roads, no electricity, no drinking water, even the universities are broken. So I told her to go and find any way."
Mahfouz is a dentist, but he would have to sit exams in London costing £5,000 to be able to practise in the UK.
"I don't have the money to do that," he said.
Instead, he is working in a factory making window blinds.
"I found a job here in a factory close to my house for eight hours a day for five days a week.
"I find it good for me to busy myself - not stay at home, and to save some money for that exam.
"It's manual work for blinds. It's hard work - it's not easy, eight hours standing on your feet. I have been working for 22 years as a dentist and I don't want to lose my skills."
Their four children have a variety of memories of life in Syria.
Hamza, 12, said: "I remember the bombings and at night you heard the rockets."
Northern Ireland is different.
"It's really nice and peaceful and quiet and the people are really friendly. It's much better than Syria," he said.
Abir has already volunteered to help translate for the newcomer families. None of her children nor her husband had any English when they arrived, but all have worked hard to learn the language.
"At the start, my children needed extra time at school but after one year they were able to manage," she said.
Mahfouz sums up how the family now feels about living in Northern Ireland.
"We find it like a gift from the sky - anything to put our children in a safe place." | Five Syrian families have arrived in Belfast from refugee camps in Beirut, part of a group of 1,000 refugees to come to the UK. |
37,284,878 | The victim was assaulted in the early hours of Saturday morning in Talavera Close, in the St Philips area of Bristol.
He was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police said his condition is not life-threatening.
The 17-year-old is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
He has also been charged with a public order offence. | A 17-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after an 18 year old was seriously injured in an attack. |
37,687,562 | "Calcutta," wrote the British colonial general Clive, "is one of the most wicked places in the Universe... Rapacious and Luxurious beyond conception."
In the late 18th Century, the British bridgehead in Bengal was the City of Palaces, littered with magnificent Palladian mansions, and already the jewel among England's overseas trading stations.
It was a city where great wealth could be accumulated in a matter of months, then lost in minutes in a wager or at the whist table.
Death, from disease or excess, was commonplace, and the constant presence of mortality made men callous: they would mourn briefly for some perished friend, then bid drunkenly for his effects.
Like many Scots trying to make ends meet in the past couple of centuries, generations of my family were born, lived and died in what was then Calcutta (now Kolkata), and their houses and graves still lie scattered all across the city.
The first out was Stair Dalrymple, who died in the Black Hole in 1756 and whose name can be found on the Memorial in St John's Church.
My great-grandfather Walter was born there as recently as a century ago, and was - so I've now discovered - part-Bengali.
No one in my family seemed to know about this, though it should not have been a surprise: we had all heard the stories of how our beautiful, dark-eyed, Calcutta-born great-great-grandmother, Sophia Pattle, with whom the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones had fallen in love, used to speak Bengali with her sisters and was painted by Frederick Watts with a rakhi - a Hindu sacred thread - tied around her wrist.
But it was only when I poked around in the archives that I discovered that she and Walter were descended from a Hindu Bengali woman from Chandernagore (now spelled as Chandannagar), who had converted to Catholicism, taken the name Marie Monica and married a French officer.
I recently returned to Calcutta to see Durga Puja - the great annual festival of the city in honour of the great Goddess who is worshipped on this occasion as a symbol of familial love.
I watched statues of the Goddess be sculpted from mud and straw by specialist idol makers, then brought into worship for a week, before finally being immersed in the Ganges.
"It breaks my heart to take this wonderful statue to the river and drop it in," said Abhoy Bhattacharjee, who was organising one of the pujas. "It is a moment beyond tears. Durga is our mother. The very day after the immersion we begin counting again until the next Durga Puja."
But I also went to rediscover some of my lost Bengali roots.
Over the course of the Durga Puja week, I toured what remained of the graves, monuments and houses and palaces that my ancestors must have known, ranging from the great Marble Palace of the Mullick family in north Calcutta, through the National Library, once the centre of the administration of Warren Hastings, to South Park Street Cemetery, St John's Church where my great grandfather was baptised, and the crumbling mansions of Garden Reach where he was brought up.
Both worlds came together when I saw images of the Goddess immersed at Prinsep Ghat, which was named after my Orientalist great uncle, James Prinsep, who unlocked the secrets of Kharoshti and Ashoka Brahmi, the script of the Ashoka Pillars, so rediscovering a whole new chapter of forgotten ancient Indian history.
The effort cost him his life: he developed "an affectation of the brain, and by the time he was bundled aboard the Herefordshire to be sent home, "his mind was addled".
On the wall of St John's Church there I found a memorial to my favourite Calcutta ancestor, James Pattle, my great great grandfather.
Pattle became famous as "the biggest liar in India" after he allegedly claimed to have rowed across the Atlantic in a hen coop.
According to the memoir of another of his great-grandchildren, Virginia Woolf - who also shares my trickle of Bengali blood - Pattle eventually drank himself to death and was put in a casket of rum to preserve him during the voyage back to England.
His wife had the cask placed outside her bedroom door. In the middle of the night there was a violent explosion, and when the widow rushed out into the passage, she found the container had burst and her husband half in, half out of the barrel.
"The shock sent her off her head then and there, poor thing, and she died raving…" But the worst was yet to come. The cask was nailed down and put on board ship.
Sometime after the boat had set off, the sailors guessed it was full of liquor, bored a hole into the side of it and began to get drunk. The rum continued to run out, caught fire and set the ship ablaze.
While the drunken sailors were trying to extinguish the flames, the ship ran onto a rock and blew up. So it was that Pattle was cremated rather than buried in Britain, as he had wished.
William Dalrymple is a writer and historian. He is the author, most recently, of Return of a King: The Battle of Afghanistan | Author William Dalrymple has visited the Indian city of Kolkata, where he brought back some striking photos - and connected with his Bengali roots. |
28,761,383 | The IS advance forced thousands from their homes in the north-west cities of Qaraqosh and Sinjar, seeking safety in nearby Kurdish provinces.
Islamic State fighters take control of the town of Zumar, which Kurdish forces had held since the Iraqi army retreated from the area in June. Eyewitnesses said militants also seized control of two small oilfields near Zumar.
IS militants take over the town of Sinjar, home to a large community of the Kurdish Yazidi religious minority community.
The UN warns that up to 200,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in recent days.
At least 50,000 members of the Yazidi religious minority community are trapped on Mount Sinjar.
The militants also take control of Mosul's hydroelectric dam after the withdrawal of Kurdish forces.
The dam is of huge strategic significance in terms of water and power resources.
In Baghdad a series of car bombs strike crowded markets in Shia districts, killing at least 47 people.
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, comes under pressure to step down due to his handling of the crisis.
Iraqi and Kurdish forces attack Mosul, which IS has declared the capital of its Islamic caliphate.
At least 60 people are reported killed in an Iraqi air strike on a building in Mosul, while Kurdish forces shell the city's northern and eastern districts.
Islamic State militants capture Qaraqosh, considered the centre of Iraq's Christian community.
As many as 100,000 people in the surrounding province of Nineveh are believed to be fleeing toward the autonomous Kurdistan Region.
US military aircraft drop food and water to Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar by IS fighters.
30,000
people trapped on Mount Sinjar surrounded by Islamic militants
85,928 ready-to eat meals have been dropped by US flights along with
20,151 gallons of fresh water
528 shelter kits have been dropped by RAF along with water containers and
1,056 solar lanterns which can be used to recharge mobile phones
The United Nations Security Council meets in an emergency session to discuss the situation.
Pope Francis makes an impassioned appeal to the international community to do much more to address the crisis.
The US launches air strikes against IS militants - the first time the US has been directly involved in a military operation in Iraq since American troops withdrew in late 2011.
The Pentagon reports that drones and F/A-18 Hornets aircraft, operating from a carrier in the Gulf, dropped laser-guided bombs on mobile artillery near the city of Irbil.
The United Nations says it is working on opening a humanitarian corridor in northern Iraq to allow stranded people to flee.
The US make a third air-drop of food and water to refugees on Mount Sinjar, as Britain and France join the relief effort.
President Obama says the US would consider broader use of military strikes, but puts pressure on Iraq's political leaders to figure out how to work with each other.
There is no American military solution to the larger crisis in Iraq
US launches a fourth round of air strikes and Kurdish forces claim to have regained control of Gwer and Makhmur after heavy fighting.
The political leader of Iraq's Kurds, Massoud Barzani, appeals for international military aid to help defeat Islamist militants.
IS fighters seize the town of Jalawla, north-east of Baghdad.
The US is reported to have begun supplying weapons to Kurdish fighters. This follows three plane-loads of ammunition already delivered by Iraqi security forces.
Iraq's president asks Haider al-Abadi to form a new cabinet. Mr Abadi's appointment comes after months of political infighting, which analysts say is partially to blame for Iraq's inability to effectively fight the IS threat.
A Kurdish government helicopter delivering aid crashes on Mount Sinjar, killing the pilot and injuring a journalist.
The US government says its planes have air-dropped nearly 100,000 meals and more than 27,000 gallons (123,000 litres) of fresh drinking water to the area, with the latest operation taking place on Tuesday.
However, tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped on the mountain and need "life-saving assistance", the UN warns.
The US says it is unlikely to launch a mission to evacuate people trapped on Mount Sinjar, following an assessment that there are fewer people on the mountain than previously thought.
US officials suggested that air-strikes in the region had created an escape route for thousands, who had managed to leave the mountain over the past few nights, helped by Kurdish fighters. | Fighters from the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as Isis, expanded their areas of control in northern Iraq between 2 and 14 August. |
36,843,386 | Uber, which allows users to book and pay for a cab through a smartphone app, is used by some two million Londoners.
The test case centres around whether the drivers can be considered workers or, as Uber argues, as self-employed.
The two legal definitions are accorded different employment rights.
Workers are given similar rights to employees in that they are entitled to holiday pay, are protected from unlawful deductions from their pay and may be entitled to sickness pay.
This is the first time that Uber will have faced legal action in the UK over whether their drivers are workers or self-employed.
The two test cases, which will determine a further 17 claims against the firm, are being brought by law firm Leigh Day on behalf of the GMB union.
It argues Uber does not currently ensure its drivers are paid the minimum wage or that they receive paid holiday.
From the tribunal: John Moylan, BBC Employment correspondent
This test cases involves two drivers, James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam.
On the first day of the tribunal case David Reade QC, acting for Uber, sought to demonstrate that Mr Farrar was self-employed as he can choose when he works.
"I don't believe I have a free choice" Mr Farrar said. "I consider Uber work as my job."
Mr Farrar also insisted that his pay was often lower than the national minimum wage.
In a witness statement he said that Uber claimed it paid him £13.77 on an average hourly basis, based upon the hours he was logged on to its driver's app.
But Mr Farrar insisted that his net earnings in August 2015 after expenses amounted to just £5.03 an hour.
David Reade QC suggested that during that period Mr Farrar had cancelled a high number of jobs sent by Uber.
But Mr Farrar denied this, claiming that the number of jobs he did per hour had been in line with Uber's recommendation.
"I don't see that I lost any money," he said. "I worked as hard as I could".
The union also says Uber does not provide its drivers with the rights normally afforded to employees, claiming instead that they are "partners".
Uber has always maintained that its drivers are self-employed and as such are able to work as little or often as they wish.
Justin Bowden, national secretary of the GMB union, told the BBC: "The issue here is not about taking away the flexibility… but the high degree of control that Uber exercises over their drivers.
"You either have employment laws that people have to follow or you don't."
Mr Bowden said the GMB union wanted to ensure that Uber drivers had the same employment rights as everyone else.
Uber's rise has been meteoric. In just six years it has ballooned from a tiny start up to a £50bn company spanning 450 cities across 70 countries.
But it's not been an altogether easy ride.
This is the latest in a series of legal challenges about the way it does business. At the heart of the matter in this case, is an argument over whether the UK drivers who earn money from the app work for the company or for themselves.
If these judges rule that they are company workers, tens of thousands of other Uber drivers could potentially claim more cash. It's not clear if that would then push up fares.
A ruling in favour of the two drivers could lead to dozens more coming forward and affect the firm's reliance on those it considers as self-employed.
"This claim is vital for the thousands of Uber drivers who work in England and Wales and has implications even wider than that," Annie Powell, employment lawyer at firm Leigh Day said.
"We are seeing a creeping erosion of employment rights as companies misclassify their workers as self-employed so as to avoid paying them holiday pay and the national minimum wage," she said.
The case also claims that Uber acts unlawfully by deducting sums from drivers' pay for customer complaints.
Uber said it was rare for pay to be deducted and it would only occur in circumstances where the route taken by the driver was deemed to be excessively long, for example.
In a statement Jo Bertram, regional general manager at Uber UK, said: "More than 30,000 people in London drive with our app and this case only involves a very small number.
"The main reason people choose to partner with Uber is so they can become their own boss, pick their own hours and work completely flexibly.
"Many partner-drivers have left other lines of work and chosen to partner with Uber for this very reason. In fact two thirds of new partner-drivers joining the Uber platform have been referred by another partner."
The tribunal is expected to last until the start of next week but a ruling is not expected for several weeks.
Using the Uber app, passengers can request to be picked up from any location within London, or 450 other cities worldwide.
Passengers pay Uber for the journey, and it then passes on a percentage of that payment to the driver.
The firm, whose investors include Goldman Sachs and Google, has grown rapidly around the world and is valued at $62.5bn (£47bn) but has faced protests, bans and restrictions in a number of cities.
Last month, Uber agreed to pay $7.5m to settle a lawsuit brought by drivers over background checks at the Federal Court in San Francisco, where the app is based.
In the UK it has fended off attacks from London's black cabs to have the app ruled illegal, and transport bosses decided earlier this year not to impose tough new rules on the app. | Cab hire service Uber has been taken to a London employment tribunal by two of its drivers who claim it is acting unlawfully by not offering holiday and sick pay. |
38,235,199 | Canon Jeremy Pemberton had claimed the Church of England's stance on same-sex marriage breached equality laws.
But last year it was ruled he was not discriminated against when stopped from taking up a new post as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner.
Mr Pemberton said the Employment Appeal Tribunal has given him leave to go to the Court of Appeal.
Mr Pemberton, a hospital chaplain in Lincolnshire, was barred in 2014 by the then acting Bishop of Southwell from taking up a job for the NHS in Nottinghamshire, just weeks after marrying.
The Church had warned him marriage other than between heterosexual couples was against its teaching.
In a statement today, Mr Pemberton said his appeal had been dismissed on every ground but judge Jennifer Eady QC had granted leave to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.
Mr Pemberton said: "The result is, obviously, not the one my husband and I had hoped for.
"I appreciate that this case was a source of hope for many people and I am grateful that the judge has recognised its significance and indicated that its importance warrants permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal.
"I am now going to take some time to consider the lengthy judgment with my husband and we will decide on the best way forward."
A spokesperson for the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham said: "Churches across the diocese continue to offer a generous welcome to people from all backgrounds and we remain fully engaged in the Church's exploration of questions relating to human sexuality.
"The Church of England supports gay men and women who serve as clergy in its parishes, dioceses and institutions.
"It has no truck with homophobia and supports clergy who are in civil partnerships, as set out in the House of Bishops guidelines in 2006."
A copy of the ruling is yet to be published by the judicial office. | A gay clergyman who lost an employment tribunal against the church has had his appeal dismissed. |
39,306,683 | North opted to bat but were unable to get a foothold, folding for 202 all out with Tom Curran taking three wickets.
But Malan and fellow South opener Daniel Bell-Drummond (92) had no such problem, reaching the total with more than 16 overs left to play.
The second of the three matches will be played on Sunday.
Malan, who was called up to England Twenty20 squad to face Sri Lanka in June but has yet to make his international debut, hit 16 fours and a six from 109 balls after being dropped in the third over off the bowling of Tim Bresnan.
After surviving that scare amid a probing early spell from Bresnan and Mark Wood, South kicked on with only Northampton spinner Graeme White able to slow the scoring.
The South's bowlers impressed earlier in the day with pace bowler Toby Roland-Jones and leg-spinner Mason Crane taking two wickets apiece. Steven Finn struggled however, conceding 43 runs for no wicket in his eight overs.
The three-match series is designed as a warm-up for county cricket's 50-over competition, the Royal London One-Day Cup, as well as helping players prepare for international cricket.
Eight players earned an automatic place on each team - with North represented by players from northern counties and South from southern counties - through the Professional Cricketers' Association's Most Valued Player ratings formula, while the remaining players were chosen by the England selectors.
The PCA MVP rankings system identifies the match-winners and key influencers of matches throughout the domestic season.
It takes into account conditions, quality of opposition, captaincy and strike rates as well as runs scored and wickets taken.
South are coached by England assistant Paul Farbrace, while bowling coach Ottis Gibson oversees the North squad. | Middlesex and England Lions batsman Dawid Malan hit an unbeaten 109 as South beat North by 10 wickets in the one-day series opener in Dubai. |
35,727,473 | Insurgents are using unscrupulous middlemen to sell stolen cattle, the governor of Borno state said.
Trade was suspended about two weeks ago at Gamboru cattle market - one of the biggest in Africa.
Boko Haram has stolen thousands of cattle in Nigeria and nearby Cameroon.
The group's six-year insurgency has led to the deaths of some 17,000 people, destroyed some 1,000 schools and displaced more than two million people.
The suspension of the cattle trade has affected businesses in a region already battered by Boko Haram's deadly campaign to establish an Islamic state.
Much of Nigeria's cattle trade passes through Borno and the closures have reportedly caused cattle prices to rise in Lagos, more than 1,500km (940 miles) away.
A civil-military management team has been set up to monitor the activities of cattle traders and butchers in order to stop all illegal activities, Borno Governor Kashim Shettima said in a statement.
All transactions must be vetted and approved by the new team, he added.
Cattle markets in Dusuman, Shuwari and Ngom have also been suspended. The insurgency had already forced the closure of other markets in Borno's capital, Maiduguri.
The government has also suspended all cattle imports and banned the sale of dry meat.
Thousands of cattle and goats are dying from lack of water and food after being locked in at the main abattoir in Maiduguri, Abubakar Abba of the Livestock Traders' Union told the Associated Press news agency.
Correspondents say the militants, who have pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group, are in dire need of food after regional troops cut off their supply lines.
The group has also lost most of the territory it once controlled but still carries out frequent suicide attacks in northern Nigeria and Cameroon.
Using football to tackle Boko Haram
Why Boko Haram remains a threat | Four cattle markets in northern Nigeria, where stolen animals were allegedly being sold to finance the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency, have been shut down. |
26,450,643 | The staff member has been suspended while it decides whether "internal control processes" were followed.
The UK's central bank said there was no evidence to date that its staff had colluded with forex rigging.
But minutes of meetings suggest Bank officials were aware of rigging attempts as early as 2006.
The minutes were published following a Freedom of Information request.
They show that a senior member of the Bank of England's staff was told of "attempts to move the market" and a meeting with senior foreign exchange dealers from some of the world's largest banks.
It a statement earlier, the Bank said it "does not condone any form of market manipulation in any context whatsoever".
It said an oversight committee will lead further investigations into whether bank officials were involved in forex market manipulation or were aware of manipulation, or at least the potential for such manipulation.
Travers Smith, a law firm, will prepare a report after the investigation. So far, the central bank has reviewed 15,000 emails, 21,000 chat room records and more than 40 hours of telephone recordings.
Meanwhile the Treasury Committee says it will quiz Bank of England officials, including governor Mark Carney, about the forex investigation when they make a scheduled appearance before MPs next week.
Speaking to the BBC, banking expert Philip Augar said the possible involvement of Bank staff in the forex scandal was "embarrassing" for the Bank of England, which acts as a regulator for the market.
Regulators have expressed concern that alleged forex manipulation could become the latest banking scandal.
Traders are alleged to have colluded in setting certain key exchange rates in the foreign exchange market, resulting in big profits.
The head of the Financial Conduct Authority, Martin Wheatley, said last month that currency manipulation was "every bit as bad" as the Libor scandal, where banks including Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS paid fines totalling $6bn relating to Libor fixing.
Mr Wheatley told MPs 10 banks were helping the regulator with its investigations.
Reports seen by the BBC suggest banks knew of unusual currency trading four years before regulators began investigating possible manipulation of rates.
They suggest bank analysts had noticed sharp movements in exchange rates, and even warned their clients about trading at that time. | The Bank of England has suspended a member of staff as part of an investigation into potential rigging of the foreign exchange market. |
17,494,730 | The airport had wanted to extend the north-east end of the runway by 590m.
The proposals were first submitted to the planning authorities in 2008.
In a statement on Friday, the airport's Chief Executive Brian Ambrose said the planning application for the extension was being withdrawn as some of the information in the original plan was "out-dated".
Management at George Best Belfast City Airport originally planned to extend the north-east end of the runway, while retracting 120m from the south west.
It was claimed that this could create 100 jobs and £120m in tourism revenue.
Management also claimed that the proposed runway extension would have allowed it to attract a number of new airlines that could not use the existing runway to fly to European destinations.
However, the proposals proved controversial, and the Department of the Environment received 1,486 letters of objection and petitions with 499 names, as well as 2,241 letters of support over the scheme.
Belfast City Airport Watch, a group which opposed the runway extension, said they were still worried about noise nuisance.
"We are concerned that the international flights the airport is still intending to go ahead with, regardless of any runway extension, is going to make that situation worse," said Liz Fawcett from the group.
"We look forward to the fact that the environment minister intends to hold an inquiry into the whole noise issue. What is needed is robust regulation."
The then Environment Minister Edwin Poots announced a public inquiry into the plans in 2010.
Hearings were delayed a number of times and have not taken place.
Ryanair pulled flights out of the airport in October 2010, citing those delays to the public inquiry as a reason.
They were subsequently replaced by other airlines.
On Friday, management at Belfast City Airport confirmed that they had notified the Department of Environment of their decision to withdraw the current planning application to extend the runway.
Mr Ambrose said: "As the planning process relating to the runway application is now in its fourth year and some of the information contained within is now out-dated given our current operations, we have taken the decision to withdraw the current application.
"Our shareholder has therefore reprioritised capital expenditure within its extensive portfolio.
"Re-submitting the runway application in the future remains an option as the airport reviews its operations on an on-going basis.
"We are however looking confidently to the future. In recent years our owner has invested £12m in developing the airport facilities including a new departures lounge, increased airside retail space and front of house developments.
"We listen to and value the support of the local community and operate an open door policy for anyone that wishes to discuss our developments.
"Through our Airport Forum, extensive community outreach programme and our social media channels we will continue to be transparent in all our operations."
A Department of the Environment spokesman said: "Representatives from George Best Belfast City Airport have advised the department of its intention to withdraw the planning application for a runway extension.
"The department notes the withdrawal and confirms that the public process aroundthe modification of the planning agreementto establish a noise management system will commence shortly.
"After the process is complete the minister will take account of the outcome of the public consultation and the subsequent independent public examination before deciding if or how the agreement should be modified." | The management of Belfast City Airport have withdrawn their plans to extend the runway at the east Belfast site. |
40,348,719 | Louise Martin was in the city following concerns that funding for the games had not been signed off by Stormont.
Belfast is due to be handed the Games at the closing ceremony of this year's event in the Bahamas on 23 July.
About 1,000 young athletes are due to take part in the Games in Belfast in 2021.
The Commonwealth Youth Games launched the careers of Carl Frampton and Jessica Ennis, and would be a landmark event for Northern Ireland's centenary year.
On Friday, it emerged that the future of the 2021 games was in doubt as funding had not been signed off before the Northern Ireland Executive collapsed.
Ms Martin said she only found out there was a problem on that day.
"As far as I was concerned, the games were on target. Belfast had a fantastic bid and I couldn't believe what I was reading," she told BBC News NI.
During her meeting in Belfast, Ms Martin told politicians that funding must be signed off by 29 June to allow Northern Ireland to take part in the closing ceremony.
A delegation from Belfast is to be presented with a Quaich - a ceremonial drinking bowl which is the Commonwealth Games' equivalent of the Olympic torch - at the ceremony in the Bahamas.
"We are on a very tight timeline here because the handover ceremony is only 33 days away," Ms Martin said.
"We have to have everything signed off by 29 June and money already handed over. We have to have a handover ceremony and hand over the Quaich."
She said if funding was not in place it would not be a case of "taking the Games away" from their Belfast hosts.
However, she added it would be a case of "not being able to hand the Games over at the closing ceremony to showcase Northern Ireland to the rest of the world and the Commonwealth".
Asked about how she felt about the political situation in Northern Ireland, she said that this wasn't a "blame game but it's about finding a solution so we can deliver the games".
Northern Ireland's five main political parties attended the meeting but officials from Stormont's Department of the Economy, who had been asked to fund the Games, did not attend.
Roy Millar, the chairman of the NI Sports Forum, said it was a very positive meeting and thinks a deal can be done by 29 June.
"It can be done because we are already getting in touch with the permanent secretary of the Department of the Economy and the five main party leaders are meeting," he said.
"Obviously I'm disappointed that the Department of the Economy wasn't there, but I'm sure they have their own reasons.
"It's disappointing when civil servants don't show up to a meeting as important as this."
Following Tuesday's meeting the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, Robin Swann, said it was "actually ridiculous" that the funding had not been signed off.
"We've now got time to do it so we can deliver these games," he said.
"It's important that our young people have the opportunity to compete in these games."
Mr Swann said he has now written to the interim Head of the Civil Service, David Sterling, and the chairman of the Stormont talks, Sir Malcolm McKibbin, to "try and remove the blockage".
Chris Lyttle, Alliance Party MLA, said he was grateful that Ms Martin had come to Belfast for the meeting.
"We gave our assurances that the people of Northern Ireland are ready to deliver an outstanding Commonwealth Youth Games," he said.
"We will be doing all we can to make sure that the handover does take place in July." | The president of the Commonwealth Games Federation has given politicians until 29 June to salvage Belfast's bid to host the next Commonwealth Youth Games. |
29,929,423 | The delegation bought so much ivory prices in the local market soared, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said in a report.
Tanzania rejected the report as "stupid nonsense". China said the allegations were "groundless".
Conservationists say demand for ivory in China is fuelling poaching.
In recent years, poaching has increased across sub-Saharan Africa, with criminal gangs slaughtering elephants for ivory.
Tanzania is the largest source of poached ivory in the world, according to the EIA.
The EIA report cited a trader in Tanzania's main port city, Dar es Salaam, named as Suleiman Mochiwa, who met undercover investigators.
He said that when the Chinese government and business delegation arrived, ivory prices in the local market doubled to $700 (£438) per kilo during the visit.
"The [delegation]... used the opportunity to procure such a large amount of ivory that local prices increased," the report says.
Investigators alleged that the Chinese buyers could take advantage of a lack of security checks for those in the country on a diplomatic visit.
"The two traders claimed that a fortnight before the state visit, Chinese buyers began purchasing thousands of kilos of ivory, later sent to China in diplomatic bags on the presidential plane," the report added.
"When your president [Xi Jinping] was here… many kilos go out… many kilos. Half of his plane go with that," one of the traders told the EIA investigators.
The trip was Xi Jinping's first foreign tour as head of state. Traders told the group that similar ivory sales took place on an earlier trip by China's former President Hu Jintao.
Analysis: Celia Hatton, BBC News, Beijing
The illegal ivory trade is flourishing in China, where many prize ivory carvings as valuable status symbols.
However, a portion of Chinese society, including some parts of the government, is working to eradicate illicit ivory sales.
The country's state media publicises the arrests of smugglers and, earlier this year, the first televised destruction of confiscated ivory.
However, education campaigns have a long way to go.
Some in China don't realise that one has to kill an elephant in order to harvest its tusks. In Chinese, the term for ivory is translated literally as "elephant tooth", leading a sizeable portion of the population to believe, in error, that elephants can re-grow their tusks.
Complicating the issue is that China allows limited sales of legal ivory. Conservationists, both inside China and outside its borders, argue that the government needs to ban sales completely in order to stop the trade in its tracks.
"The report is groundless, and we express our strong dissatisfaction," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei is quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
The director of China's endangered species import and export management office also dismissed the claims: "Allegations without evidence are not believable," Meng Xianlin said.
A spokesmen for the Tanzanian government, Assah Mwambene, said the EIA was trying to "frustrate" efforts to halt the ivory trade. "Everybody knows we have been at the forefront of fighting this illegal trade."
The ivory trade was banned in 1989 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites). Both China and Tanzania are signatories.
China does have about 150 legal, government-licensed ivory shops, which sell ivory collected prior to this. They are the only places allowed to sell ivory to individual buyers.
Earlier this year China for the first time destroyed a large quantity of confiscated ivory, in a public event described by conservation groups as a landmark move.
Just over six tonnes of carvings, ornaments and tusks amassed over the years were fed into crushing machines. | Officials travelling to Tanzania with Chinese President Xi Jinping went on a buying spree for illegal ivory, an environmental activist group has said. |
33,383,437 | John "Goldfinger" Palmer, who allegedly amassed a huge fortune in a time-share scam, was treated for a cardiac arrest on 24 June at his home in South Weald.
But a post-mortem examination on 30 June revealed the 65-year-old convicted conman had been shot in the chest.
His family said they had suffered a great loss and appealed for anybody with information to help the police.
They described his murder as a great shock and a family spokesman said: "To lose someone you care about and who is a key part of your family so suddenly is traumatic and completely overwhelming.
"If anyone knows anything about John's death which could help police please get in touch with them so we can find some answers."
DCI Simon Werrett said: "I am making a further appeal for anyone who was in the Sandpit Lane area of South Weald between 16:00 and 18:00 BST on the day that Mr Palmer died to come forward.
"The area is rural but is used by dog walkers and people out running.
"Any information people may have about any possible suspicious people or vehicles in the area at that time may help us."
Essex Police has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
The force said police and paramedics who were called to Palmer's house in Sandpit Lane "initially assessed the death as non-suspicious due to pre-existing injuries due to recent surgery".
"Closer inspection raised doubt and a post-mortem examination was conducted to establish the cause of death," he added. | The family of a notorious criminal shot dead in his Essex home say they are "seeking answers" over his death. |
40,191,411 | Stephen Kelly said the work did not go ahead because of a lack of funds.
Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, died at Liberton High School in April 2014.
But Mr Kelly told a fatal accident inquiry there had been no concerns over the wall and the proposal to remove it was part of a refurbishment programme.
Earlier, a teacher told the inquiry no one had reported concerns about the structure to her.
Mhairi Henderson said she had never seen anything about the fabric of the building that caused her concern.
She said she could not recall any pupil saying the modesty wall was wobbly.
The hearing in Edinburgh has previously heard of the moments after the wall collapsed and crushed Keane to death.
In a statement read to the inquiry on Tuesday, PE teacher Kerry Sweeney said she heard a bang from a girls' changing room.
She said she heard pupils shouting and saw panic on their faces. She described how she found a wall on top of Keane.
She said the pupil was lifeless, not conscious or breathing.
Both Ms Sweeney and head of PE Stuart Robertson said no-one had previously reported any problems with the modesty wall.
In her opening remarks on Monday, Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen said the two-week inquiry would focus on why the wall collapsed, why it collapsed when it did and the property maintenance regime at the school.
The inquiry at Edinburgh Sheriff Court continues. | The head teacher of a school where a pupil died after a wall fell on her has told an inquiry there had been a proposal to remove the structure before the accident. |
36,435,727 | Despite qualifying for their first European Championships mainly playing with one striker, the majority of users of BBC Sport's team selector have gone for a more attacking line-up.
Almost 30,000 teams have been chosen so far, with West Brom defender Jonny Evans and Southampton midfielder Steven Davis getting the most picks - 28,000 apiece.
Lafferty - who scored seven in nine qualification games - is third choice (25,500), and in-form Wigan striker Grigg is the sixth-most selected player (21,000).
O'Neill's team finished top of their qualifying group and will take on Poland, Ukraine and Germany at Euro 2016.
Despite starting the final five Group E qualifying games, Hamilton goalkeeper Michael McGovern is very much the second-choice among fans (7,000 picks) behind veteran Roy Carroll (16,000).
Those playing just in front of the goalkeeper were also in the forefront of fans' minds, with West Brom centre-back Gareth McAuley and Manchester United defender Paddy McNair among the top five most selected players.
Grigg just missed out on the top five after a 28-goal promotion season for Wigan and 88th-minute strike in Northern Ireland's 3-0 warm-up friendly win over Belarus.
In order of the most selections to the fewest, here are the most popular Northern Ireland players after almost 30,000 teams were selected:
Don't agree? Select your Northern Ireland Euro 2016 XI and share via #MyNorthernIrelandXI
Who do you think should start at Euro 2016? Step into Michael O'Neill’s shoes and pick your XI - and then share it with your friends using our brand new team selector. | Northern Ireland fans think Michael O'Neill should play 4-4-2 at Euro 2016 - with Will Grigg starting alongside Kyle Lafferty. |
40,386,070 | The water runs into the River Ogwen and the aim is to capture the power of its flow to produce electrical energy using hydro technology.
It would provide power for Bethesda and Llanberis whose communities funded the £700,000 project through shares.
Both schemes will be launched on Saturday.
Keith Jones, environmental adviser for National Trust Wales, said a return on its investment was only one of the reasons for the communities getting involved in the hydro projects.
"The main motivation was that the residents wanted to invest in their own area for future generations to have their own electricity supply", he added.
"People from one of the poorest areas of western Europe wanted to control their own future and now they can.
"They have locally-generated electricity from natural water in the mountains that surrounds their homes." | Two communities in Wales will receive energy from a hydro scheme using rain water in Snowdonia. |
38,185,818 | 4 December 2016 Last updated at 00:15 GMT
But in the country where football is a major passion, women are fighting for their place in the game.
They do not fit everyone's idea of what a footballer is, and have to battle sexism.
The BBC's 100 Women season speaks to Marta and hears her message for other female footballers.
Produced by: Renata Mendonça, Dina Demrdash
BBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. We create documentaries, features and interviews about their lives, giving more space for stories that put women at the centre.
Other stories you might like:
'I married a man to keep my girlfriend'
Science turns its attention to the female orgasm
Who is on the BBC's 100 Women 2016 list? | Marta Vieira da Silva became a football hero in Brazil during the 2016 Olympics in Rio, where she captained the women's team. |
37,576,472 | Kayden Culp is in an induced coma with serious burns after the attack on Sunday afternoon in Kerrville, 70 miles northwest of San Antonio.
Kerrville's Fire Marshal said the accused, who has not been named, is "responsible for causing the victim's severe burns".
Kayden's mother said burns cover 20% of his body, from his ears to his belly.
His condition deteriorated on Wednesday, according to his family. His organs were failing and he remained on life support.
Kayden was playing in a field with two other children when he was doused with petrol and set alight, family members told local media.
His mother, Tristyn Hatchett, told the San Antonio Express-News: "The other boys who were there have been telling kids at school that it was not an accident, that it was intentional."
Kayden has a speech impediment and exhibits autistic behaviour, but has not been diagnosed, say family members.
His aunt, Alike Richardson, told the Express-News: "They make fun of him. He gets beat up in Carver Park every time he's goes up there.
"That's just the way it is. The kids are really mean." | A juvenile has been charged with first-degree arson on a 10-year-old Texas boy with special needs. |
39,155,154 | The incident happened at about 19:30 on Tuesday in Duddingston Park South, outside Scotmid and Duddingston Fry.
A 32-year-old man was shouted at before being hit over the face with a weapon. The man's jaw was broken and he lost several teeth.
The man pictured is white, in his early to mid-20s, and 5ft 8in tall.
He has short, black hair and was wearing a white shirt, black trousers and braces.
Det Con Iain Wallace, from the Violence Reduction Unit, said: "This attack has seen the victim sustain serious facial injuries and we're currently pursuing various lines of inquiry as part of our investigation.
"Anyone who may recognise this man, or who witnessed the incident itself, is urged to get in touch with officers as soon as possible." | CCTV images have been released of a man police want to speak to following a serious assault in Edinburgh. |
38,012,393 | North and southbound carriageways will be closed between J4 Maryville and J5 Raith from 20:00 on Friday 18 November to 06:00 on Monday 21 November.
It is for the safe demolition of Bothwellpark Road Bridge near Hamilton.
The work is part of an ongoing £500m works programme to improve Scotland's motorway network.
Graeme Reid, Transport Scotland project manager for the M8, M73, M74 Motorway Improvements Project, said the bridge's inclined pier supports added extra challenges but the team would be working around the clock to get the demolition completed on schedule.
He said: "This is the most significant road closure we have implemented as part of the works and we are anticipating major delays on all approaches, the surrounding roads and the main diversion route.
"We are advising road users to plan their journey, avoid the area and surrounding local roads and, if possible, to use alternative modes of transport for the weekend."
The weekend closure will result in no access from the M73 to the M74 southbound at J4 Maryville or to the M74 northbound at J5 Raith.
Signed diversion routes will be in place via the A725, A8 and the M73, although Transport Scotland is warning road users to expect major delays on all surrounding routes.
Motorists will continue to have access to the M74 southbound at J5 Raith and the M74 northbound at J4 Maryville and J3A Daldowie.
However, there will be no access to Bothwell Services from the M74 southbound.
The next available service area is the M74 southbound at J11 Happendon and J13 Abington.
Ch Insp David McKenzie, of Police Scotland, said a lot of planning had gone into the diversionary route.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: "That's the main thing so that motorists who were going to be on the M74 are going to be diverted off onto well-signed and managed diversionary routes.
"The policing operation around that is to make sure that diversionary route has adequate patrols and police response so we can deal with any incidents that happen there."
In a bid to reduce congestion on alternative routes, South Lanarkshire Council will put in place parking restrictions on a short section of Main Street, Bothwell, for the duration of the weekend closure.
ScotRail will also provide extra capacity on trains on Lanarkshire railway services throughout the weekend. | Traffic between Scotland and England faces "significant" disruption this weekend with the complete closure of a busy section of the M74 motorway. |
38,207,977 | The four tech firms plan to create a database that contains "digital fingerprints" of the content.
The database will be used to screen uploads in order to spot violent or extremist material before it is shared.
Eventually, the database will be made available to other firms keen to police this content.
"There is no place for content that promotes terrorism on our hosted consumer services," said a spokesman for Twitter in a statement.
He said the initiative was aimed at the "most extreme and egregious" images and videos.
The database would be populated with digital snapshots of images and videos known as "hashes", which were an industry standard way of uniquely indentifying a file, he added.
The hashes of content recognised as extremist or violent will be shared among the four firms, who can use them to scrub the same images from their respective sites and services.
Anyone who believed content they had posted had been incorrectly flagged as promoting terror groups would be able to appeal against its removal, said the statement.
Twitter's spokesman said the joint project would make the firms more efficient at removing content that violated their policies governing what could be posted and shared.
The tie-up between the four firms comes as the European Commission calls on US tech firms to act faster when tackling hate speech.
The EU's justice commissioner, Vera Jourova, said firms had fallen short of a commitment given six months ago in which they pledged to act within 24 hours of being told about hateful and racist content.
She said Brussels would introduce laws mandating swift action if tech firms did not start to respond more quickly. | Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are collaborating to stop violent, extremist images and video being spread via their sites. |
40,890,164 | The 35-year-old retuned to Wales this summer after six seasons in England.
Henson was named in the side in France while a different Dragons team will play Northampton at Franklin's Gardens on Saturday, 12 August (15:00 BST).
Wales wing Hallam Amos made his first appearance since suffering shoulder damage in November, 2016.
Amos missed the rest of last season after coming injured while playing for Wales against Australia.
The pre-season friendly against Montpellier was part of the Vaquerin Challenge and will be the first match for new head coach Bernard Jackman.
The former Ireland hooker travelling to Northampton for Saturday's game.
Dragons: C Meyer; A Hughes, S Beard, J Dixon, H Amos; G Henson, S Pretorius; T Davies, E Dee, L Fairbrother, M Screech, A Sweet, J Thomas, H Keddie, J Benjamin.
Replacements: R Buckley, P Price, L Brown, M Williams, N Cudd, C Davies, A O Brien, P Howard, A Hewitt, W Talbot Davies. | Gavin Henson made his Dragons debut at 10 in their 40-15 pre-season friendly defeat against Montpellier in Saint-Affriqueon. |
35,953,055 | An early own goal from Ally Gilchrist and a thunderous strike from James Tavernier put the Championship winners into an unassailable lead.
Andy Halliday added a penalty and Kenny Miller tapped home to make sure Rangers took the trophy at the fourth attempt.
Celtic are the next opponents for Mark Warburton's side in next Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-final.
Rangers had toiled in the Challenge Cup in the tournament's various guises, losing previously to Queen of the South, Raith Rovers and Alloa Athletic. They have finally won it and now move on to play the Premiership leaders back at the national stadium.
There will be a new pitch at Hampden by then - much needed, too.
The surface Rangers and League One Peterhead were forced to play on was scarcely fit for purpose. Barely five weeks ago, the current pitch was laid at a cost of £200,000 but it's about to be dug up again having failed to bed in.
The part-timers of Peterhead were 22-1 to cause a shock but their prospects all but went out the window when Miller slid a cross into their six-yard box that was turned in by a panicked Gilchrist.
Rangers huffed and puffed for a period after that and it was only when Tavernier volleyed in from distance that they doubled their lead. It was the full-back's 14th goal of the season.
Peterhead dug in, however, Rangers' level dropped and the underdogs had two fine chances to score before the break.
The first of them came when Scott Ross's downward header was cleared off the line by Jason Holt, the next when Jordon Brown failed to read Rory McAllister's delivery into the six-yard box. Had he done so, Rangers would have been in trouble.
The final was meandering to a conclusion before Rangers roused themselves in the final minutes.
With Peterhead tiring, Halliday was denied by a point-blank save from Graeme Smith and the goalkeeper blocked again from Tavernier soon after.
The goals would come, though. Steven Noble fouled Holt and Halliday converted the spot-kick.
Then Miller, working as hard at the end as he was at the beginning, put away the fourth from close range.
Two titles in a week is fine work by Rangers. But the biggest test is to come next Sunday. | Rangers comfortably saw off Peterhead to take the Petrofac Cup in front of a crowd of more than 48,000 at Hampden. |
38,642,434 | The 17-year-old boy said he was drunk and targeting taxis in Birmingham on 25 May.
He appeared with three other youths at Birmingham Youth Court on Monday, where he admitted wounding.
The others, two aged 16 and one 15, were convicted of wounding. All four were convicted of conspiring to damage taxis.
The victim was in the back seat of the vehicle as it drove along Bellevue Avenue, Edgbaston.
She was injured when the stone smashed through the glass and hit her.
She was left with multiple fractures and severe bruising to her eye.
The court heard at least three taxis were hit that night, with £1,600 damage caused.
The youths were arrested six weeks after the attack.
In a witness statement to the court, the victim, who does not want to be named, said: "We shouldn't have to put up with this sort of violence.
"If the brick had hit the taxi driver, we could have all been killed."
The teenagers, all from Birmingham, will be sentenced on February 3. | A teenager has admitted throwing a stone at a taxi, leaving a 77-year-old woman with a fractured skull. |
29,490,769 | The route through the parkland at Croome Court, near Pershore, was built by the 6th Earl of Coventry to showcase his finest plants, the National Trust said.
Lost over time, the organisation said archaeologists discovered the original path, which has been rebuilt.
Croome warden Hugh Warwick said it had been a "huge task".
He said work started about a year ago and saw 84 trees felled among other work.
The scheme is part of a larger project to restore the parkland, much of which was built by Capability Brown in his very first design, the National Trust added. | An 18th Century path at a historic house has been restored after 12 months of work. |
36,277,085 | But just how much do you know about the world's "greenest" football club?
BBC Sport looks at five things you may not be aware of about the non-league outfit, founded in 1889.
They have not kicked a ball yet and Forest Green have already broken an EFL record.
The Gloucestershire town of Nailsworth, where Rovers are based, has become the smallest settlement to ever host a Football League club.
With a population of just 5,800, Nailsworth is home to about 2,000 more people than attended the second leg of Rovers' 3-1 aggregate play-off semi-final win over Dagenham & Redbridge at The New Lawn.
In July 2015, Forest Green unveiled plans for a new stadium within an 'Eco Park', to be ready later this decade.
Owner Dale Vince, who believes the club can "easily win promotion to League One", ambitiously and confidently declared that Forest Green "will be" a Football League club by the time they eventually move in.
The plans for an all-seater stadium and a 100-acre sports and green technology centre - all next to junction 13 of the M5 - have impressed supporters.
Similarities can certainly be drawn with Gloucestershire's newest 'environmentally-friendly' service station, nearby on the same stretch of motorway, serving locally-sourced food, and this new stadium is part of Vince's vision for a green club.
But their existing ground is hardly a menace to the environment...
For example, in December 2012, the club won an award for growing a pitch without using chemicals.
The 'organic' playing surface, spread using Scottish seaweed, is thought to be the first in the world.
The surface was criticised by former manager Ady Pennock last season, perhaps accelerating him being replaced by current boss Mark Cooper.
But with solar panels powering the electricity at The New Lawn and the club even using a solar-powered lawn mower to trim the grass, Vince has gone all-out in his aim to be the greenest club on the planet.
Fans of League Two clubs visiting the Gloucestershire side next season will not be seeing beef burgers and steak pies on the menu at The New Lawn.
That is because owner Vince has introduced vegan-only food for supporters.
But the players themselves are banned from eating red meat and dietary habits have been known to be a factor during recruitment.
The National League side take bringing players in very seriously.
The club use the 'Moneyball' philosophy, using statistics to determine which players to sign.
However, they now have a vacancy in that department after performance analyst Charlie Reeves left to take up a role with Premier League side Everton.
The economics graduate joined the club in October 2015 and said: "I'm extremely grateful to Forest Green for supporting my work - they have always given me all the tools I needed to push the analytics as far as I could.
"At Everton, I hope to have a meaningful effect on the way the club works, utilise the power of data analysis and ultimately the performance of the team on the pitch."
The original version of this story appeared on the BBC Sport website on 13 May 2016. | Forest Green Rovers have been promoted to the English Football League for the first time in their history after a 3-1 win over Tranmere Rovers in the National League promotion final at Wembley on Sunday. |
34,578,111 | Police said the 39-year-old was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault of his 25-year-old wife at their Sydney home.
El-Masri is a former ambassador for anti-domestic violence charity White Ribbon Australia.
Outgoing NRL head Dave Smith said Mr El-Masri has been stood down from ambassadorial roles with the sport.
"There is absolutely no place for domestic violence in our game, it's abhorrent to us," Mr Smith told the media on Tuesday.
"I don't know the details of that case but I can say that any ambassadorial role that he was playing with us, he's been stood down from."
"People have to make good choices and if they don't, there are consequences."
White Ribbon Australia - a male-led campaign to raise awareness of domestic violence - distanced themselves from Mr El-Masri, taking his photo down from their website.
"White Ribbon is very disappointed to learn of the charges laid against former Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs player and former White Ribbon Ambassador Hasem El-Masri," the group's Australian head Libby Davies said in a statement.
"White Ribbon advises that Hasem El-Masri is not currently a White Ribbon Ambassador and as always, White Ribbon will provide no further comment on a case before the courts."
His duties with the Bulldogs have also been suspended.
"As a club we are committed to our work with White Ribbon Australia to eliminate violence against women and firmly believe there is no place for it in our society," Bulldogs CEO Raelene Castle said. | Retired Australian Rugby League (NRL) star Hazem El-Masri has been charged over an alleged attack on his wife. |
35,966,433 | Media playback is not supported on this device
Hugo and Mariano Jinkis bought TV rights for Uefa Champions League football and immediately sold them on for almost three times the price.
The 2006 contract was signed off by Infantino when he was a Uefa director.
Infantino says he is "dismayed" that his "integrity is being doubted".
News of the contract came to light after 11 million documents were leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
Uefa initially denied doing business with any of the 14 people who have been indicted by the FBI in its investigation into corruption in world football.
It has now told the BBC the TV rights were sold to the highest bidder in an open and competitive tender process.
A senior Fifa source has told the BBC the deal should be examined by the governing body's ethics committee in the interests of transparency.
Hugo Jinkis and his son, Mariano, are fighting extradition from Argentina to the United States.
In May 2015, US prosecutors alleged that, as the owners of Cross Trading, they paid millions of dollars in bribes to South American football officials over several years in order to gain lucrative television rights for regional football tournaments.
It is claimed the money was paid to senior football officials in exchange for cheap broadcasting rights that could then be sold on for a substantial profit.
Infantino is named on a contract with Cross Trading that concerns the Ecuadorian rights for Uefa Champions League football between 2006-7 and 2008-9.
Cross Trading, an offshore company registered to the tiny Pacific island of Niue, paid $111,000 (£78,000) for those rights.
Then, according to leaked documents, it sold them to Ecuadorian TV broadcaster Teleamazonas for $311,170 (£220,000).
Cross Trading also paid $28,000 (£20,000) for the rights to the Uefa Super Cup, selling those to Teleamazonas for $126,200 (£89,000).
There is no evidence to suggest Infantino received a bribe relating to the 2006 contract with Cross Trading, and no suggestion Teleamazonas was in any way complicit in any wrongdoing.
At the time, Infantino was the director of legal services with European football's governing body, Uefa.
Cross Trading also has links to Juan Pedro Damiani, a member of Fifa's ethics committee who has already been placed under internal investigation.
Uefa insists it has done nothing wrong and dealt with Cross Trading because the company was acting as the buying agents for Teleamazonas.
A Uefa spokesman said the rights were sold following an "open, competitive, tender process".
He added the bid from Teleamazonas was accepted because it was "considerably more" than that from a rival broadcaster.
The spokesman added what Teleamazonas then did with those rights was "their business, not ours".
Uefa points out the Cross Trading contract was one of many hundreds of deals it conducts in relation to Champions League TV rights and comprises a tiny amount of its overall income.
It also stressed it has been "conducting a review of its various commercial contracts" following the US indictments in May 2015.
"The TV contract in question was signed by Gianni Infantino since he was one of several Uefa directors empowered to sign contracts at the time," added a Uefa statement.
"As you will have observed, the contract was also co-signed by another Uefa director. It's standard practice."
Uefa issued a further statement later on Tuesday calling Infantino "an outstanding member of Uefa staff for many years" and "a man who has always acted with complete professionalism and integrity".
It also sought to explain why it had initially denied having dealings with any of the 14 people originally indicted by the FBI.
"At the time of our initial response, we had not had the opportunity to check each and every one of our (thousands) of commercial contracts and so the answer given was initially incomplete," read a statement.
"That is the reason why Gianni Infantino initially thought, based on the information provided by Uefa, that there had been no previous Uefa contracts with any companies and/or individuals named in the indictment.
"That is also why Fifa gave this information to the media."
As well as being "dismayed" and upset that his "integrity is being doubted", he said he reacted quickly to media enquiries by contacting Uefa "to seek clarity".
He added: "I did this because I am no longer with Uefa and it is they who exclusively possess all contractual information relating to this query.
"In the meantime, Uefa has announced that it has been conducting a review of its numerous commercial contracts and has answered extensively all media questions related to these specific contracts."
Infantino insisted he had "never personally dealt with Cross Trading nor their owners" because the tender process was conducted by Team Marketing on behalf of Uefa.
He added: "I would like to state for the record that neither Uefa nor I have ever been contacted by any authorities in relation to these particular contracts.
"Moreover, as media themselves report, there is no indication whatsoever for any wrongdoings from neither Uefa nor myself in this matter."
The revelations are potentially damaging for both Infantino and Fifa.
It is also the second setback for world football's governing body in recent days.
Damiani is facing an internal investigation into suspected links with Eugenio Figueredo, another allegedly corrupt football official.
Infantino became president of Fifa on 26 February, succeeding Sepp Blatter as boss of world football's crisis-hit governing body.
On his election, the former Uefa general secretary pledged to "restore the image" of Fifa.
While neither Uefa nor Infantino have disclosed the Cross Trading transaction to the FBI - both pointing out they have not been contacted by the US agency over the deal - Uefa said it would co-operate or provide information in connection with a US Department of Justice investigation.
As for Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, a lawyer acting for the father and son did not reply to a request for comment.
It is down to a leak of more than 11 million documents from the internal files of Mossack Fonseca.
Mossack Fonseca is a Panama-based law firm that specialises in helping the wealthy and powerful set up offshore companies, like Cross Trading.
The documents were obtained by the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
BBC Panorama and the Guardian newspaper are among 107 media organisations in 78 countries that have been analysing the documents. | Fifa president Gianni Infantino has denied wrongdoing after leaked documents suggested he signed off on a contract with two businessmen who have since been accused of bribery. |
26,592,508 | The industry body is fronting a campaign calling on the UK government to abolish the automatic annual increase in duty on wines and spirits.
The alcohol duty escalator, which goes up by inflation plus 2% each year, was introduced in 2008 but was scrapped for beer in George Osborne's last Budget.
The Treasury has said 90% of Scotch was exported and unaffected by UK duty.
But, according to the association, some 79% of the price of an average bottle of Scotch whisky is made up of duty and VAT.
It said if the alcohol duty escalator were implemented again at this week's Budget, this would raise that figure to 81%.
The whisky industry body claimed Scotch sales in the UK had declined since the introduction of the escalator.
Its Call Time on Duty campaign was also backed by the Wine & Spirit Trade Association and the Taxpayers' Alliance.
Scotch Whisky Association chief executive David Frost said: "We urge the chancellor to listen to that large majority of the population who believe the alcohol duty escalator is simply unfair to a major Scottish, and British, industry.
"An overhaul of the alcohol duty system would support not just the Scotch whisky industry, but also the wider hospitality industry, which provides employment across the UK." | The Scotch Whisky Association has appealed to the chancellor to freeze duty ahead of his Budget this week. |
31,740,489 | The 176.5m-long suspension bridge, which links Anglesey to mainland Wales, was completed in 1826 to Thomas Telford's design.
Royal Mail said the stamps demonstrate "leaps in engineering" by progressive architects.
Others featured include Pulteney Bridge in Bath and Middlesbrough's Tees Transporter Bridge.
Royal Mail will also issue a special postmark to mark the stamps release. | The Menai Bridge is one of 10 iconic UK river crossings to feature on the latest set of first class stamps. |
39,906,815 | Addressing Labour activists in Fife, he said poverty levels were set to eclipse those last seen in the early 1990s.
He acknowledged the challenge facing Labour but said "no Tory prime minister should ever be given a free hand".
Mrs May has urged lifelong Labour voters who feel "deserted" by Jeremy Corbyn to put their trust in her.
In his biggest intervention to date in the election campaign, Mr Brown attacked the record of the Conservatives and the SNP in power and said a Labour government was needed more than ever.
Earlier on Saturday, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson warned of a "Margaret Thatcher-style landslide" for the Conservatives if his party fails to turn around current poll numbers.
Labour had a "mountain to climb" to catch up with the Tories before 8 June's vote, he conceded in an interview with the Guardian.
Mr Corbyn said both he and Mr Watson were "working flat out to get Labour elected" on 8 June.
Asked whether senior party figures were already admitting defeat, he replied: "Not at all."
He added: "I am out round the whole country, the party is out round the country putting out the message we are for the many, not the few."
Mr Brown - campaigning in his former constituency, which Labour lost to the SNP in 2015 - defended the legacy of the Labour governments of which he was a key figure and suggested they were under threat from the government's squeeze on welfare spending allied to the rising cost of living.
Citing figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Joseph Rowntree Trust, he claimed the number of people deemed to be living in poverty had risen last year to levels last seen in the early 1990s and that the numbers were set to rise sharply by 2022.
"Mrs May says she wants to unite the country but she will create a country that is more divided economically and more socially polarised than at any time in the last 50 years," he said.
"We have got to get MPs to Parliament to fight a war against poverty and stop this war against the poor."
The prime minister, he suggested, wanted to turn the election into a "one-issue" campaign on Brexit and marginalise important subjects such as the future of the NHS, education and levels of inequality.
"She wants you to strengthen her hand with Europe but won't tell you what that hand is. What she wants is a free hand.
"She wants carte blanche to do whatever you want. No prime minister should ever be given a blank cheque. No Conservative prime minister should ever be given a free hand."
In his interview, Mr Watson asked for voters to consider that "a lot of local MPs are running on a good track record" when people head to the polling stations next month.
Speaking on a tour of marginal seats in Wales, Mr Watson said Labour had "terrifically exciting" proposals in its manifesto - a draft of which was leaked earlier this week - but he was concerned about how far behind Labour were.
"If we get to 8 June and [Theresa May] still commands the lead in the polls that she had at the start of the election, she will command a Margaret Thatcher-style majority," said Mr Watson, referring to the Tories' 144- and 101-seat victories in 1983 and 1987 respectively.
Appealing for voters' backing, he added: "A Conservative government with a 100 majority... it will be very hard for them to be held to account in the House of Commons. "It means there won't be the usual checks and balances of democracy. All those things go out of the window."
On Friday, Mrs May travelled to Tyne and Wear to appeal to an area that traditionally voted Labour.
"Proud and patriotic working-class people in towns and cities across Britain have not deserted the Labour Party - Jeremy Corbyn has deserted them," she said.
"We respect that parents and grandparents taught their children and grandchildren that Labour was a party that shared their values and stood up for their community.
"But across the country today, traditional Labour supporters are increasingly looking at what Jeremy Corbyn believes in and are appalled." | Theresa May is "waging a war against the poor" and risks leaving the country more divided than at any time in 50 years, former PM Gordon Brown has said. |
40,709,374 | Rupert Soames tweeted on the matter after the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) raised concerns about ScotRail's ban on guns.
BASC said the ban threatened Scotland's field sports tourism.
ScotRail's ban, which affects lawfully-owned guns, came after a firearm was left unattended on a train this year.
Mr Soames, chief executive at Serco, tweeted: "Worried about Scotrail Fireams ban? Relax @CalSleeper welcomes responsible customers with licensed firearms. #bestwaytotravelnorth."
The Caledonian Sleeper provides services between London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen and Fort William.
Among BASC's concerns was a "negative impact" on the Glorious Twelfth.
Traditionally, the first day of the grouse shooting season is 12 August.
ScotRail said the decision to introduce the ban was made for safety reasons after a licensed firearm was left unattended on one of its trains earlier this year. | A boss at the company that operates the Caledonian Sleeper has issued a message that licensed firearms can be transported on that train service. |
34,207,366 | The union and management agreed to resume negotiations over reforms to its pay structure, but the workers could go on strike as early as 14 September.
Hyundai is in the middle of restructuring its seniority-based pay system.
Strikes by its workers over wages occur almost yearly as the union seeks to raise monthly wages and bonuses.
This year would mark the fourth year of strike action if the two sides do not reach a deal.
Workers are asking for a 7.8% increase in their monthly basic wage, guaranteed job security until age 65 and bonuses worth 30% of the carmaker's net profit for last year.
The union represents more than 48,000 workers and about 78% of the 89% that voted supported the strike action.
Hyundai, together with affiliate Kia Motors, is the world's fifth largest carmaker.
The car giant's second-quarter net profit fell nearly 24% from a year ago, because of a stronger local currency and more competition at home and abroad. | Union workers for Hyundai Motor voted to strike on Thursday after being unable to reach a deal in wage talks. |
38,151,669 | Monday's attack at Ohio State University was carried out by one of its students, Somali-born Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the authorities said.
The IS-affiliated Amaq news agency called the 18-year-old business undergraduate a "soldier".
Artan drove his car at a group of people, then attacked them with a knife before being shot dead.
The IS claim does not prove much in terms of the attack in Ohio. The group often refers to individuals who carry out attacks as its "soldiers", but the crucial question is firstly whether the individual had any form of direct contact with IS.
Face-to-face contact may be unlikely but online communication is possible. If there was no direct contact, it could still be the case that an individual was inspired rather than directed by the group. In this case, an individual may leave his or her own pledge of allegiance in written form or online or in a video.
But until such evidence emerges, it remains hard to know if this is just an opportunistic claim by the group rather than one based on real substance.
Most of the victims were injured by Artan's car, but two were stabbed with a "butcher's knife" and another suffered a fractured skull, officials said.
One of the wounded victims, William Clark, an Ohio State University professor, described how Artan's vehicle had crashed into a large concrete planter before bouncing off and striking him.
"It clipped the back of my right leg and basically flipped me up in the air and I landed on the concrete," he told a news conference.
Mr Clark said Artan then got out of the car and began attacking students before he was shot down.
Surveillance photos showed Artan in the car by himself just before the attack, but investigators are looking into whether anyone else was involved.
Dozens of FBI agents have searched Artan's apartment for clues as to what may have triggered the attacks.
Neighbours described him as polite and said he attended daily prayers at a local mosque.
Artan, who was born in Somalia and was a US permanent resident, arrived in the country in 2014 as the child of a refugee.
He had been living in Pakistan from 2007 to 2014.
Artan recently posted on Facebook about the US treatment of Muslims, according to the AP, citing a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"If you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks, then make peace" with the Islamic State group, he allegedly wrote.
Representative Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said the act was indicative of someone who may have been self-radicalised.
Militants of the so-called Islamic State have found recruits in the US Somali community in recent years.
About a dozen young men and women from Minnesota's Somali community have travelled to Syria to join militant groups.
Nine men in Minnesota were sentenced on terror charges for plotting to join the Islamic State group.
And a Somali-American man attacked 10 people with a knife at a central Minnesota mall before he was killed by an off-duty police officer in September.
Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of Council of American-Islamic Relations' Minnesota chapter, said some Somali-Americans were concerned about being viewed as "guilty by association".
After Monday's attack, he said: "We must not let the act of one individual, no matter what his motive or background, to further divide our community or our nation." | The Islamic State group says it was behind a car and knife rampage at a US college that left 11 people injured. |
40,908,334 | The match was short on entertainment until Robson-Kanu gave it a shot of adrenaline with a brilliant strike. The Wales international, who came on seven minutes earlier, pounced on a Matt Phillips flick, held off two challenges and fired in low past keeper Tom Heaton.
However, the 28-year-old striker did not see out the rest of the match as he was shown a red card in the 83rd minute for catching Matt Lowton with his elbow.
Burnley wasted chances at the other end, and will be hoping Leeds striker Chris Wood, who they look likely to sign, will be less profligate.
Ben Mee had the Clarets' best chance but missed with a two-yard header, and team-mate Johann Berg Gudmundsson also went close with a low curling shot.
It was a brief, yet eventful appearance by Robson-Kanu.
His goal was brilliant, and will rank alongside the strikes against Southampton last season and his Euro 2016 effort against Belgium.
I've not looked at the red card incident. I don't want to say things that will get me in trouble.
This one was about perseverance. The forward, with the ball in possession, battled past Gudmundsson and James Tarkowski before striking past Heaton.
He led the line well after the goal, but then showed a bit too much aggression as he challenged Lowton for the ball right in front of referee Martin Atkinson.
There were few complaints from both Robson-Kanu and his team-mates.
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West Brom manager Tony Pulis will have been delighted with his side's display, particularly at the back.
The visitors restricted Burnley to largely half-chances, with six of the 15 efforts on goal falling to Jeff Hendrick.
The Republic of Ireland midfielder had one angled strike in the area superbly blocked and was rushed by the Baggies backline into producing inaccurate shots.
Iceland international Gudmundsson was unlucky to see his excellent low curling shot drift wide, but his team-mates Mee and Jon Walters will not want to see a replay of their golden heading chances.
West Brom boss Tony Pulis: "It is a great start for us, especially with two clean sheets.
"I've not looked at the red card incident. I don't want to say things that will get me in trouble. The decisions stands. I am so pleased we got through that final 15 minutes with 10 men. There is good spirit in the dressing room and we needed that today. Our fitness level were fantastic."
On Jonny Evans and reported interest from Manchester City: "They all deal through the football club, I won't get involved in that."
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Burnley boss Sean Dyche: "The game is unfair sometimes and today I thought it was. We gave a very good performance, we created enough to get something from the game.
"I have been very pleased. It is a tough one today because I was not happy with the result but I was happy with the performance. We are laying down some good markers for how we want to play and where we want to be."
On link with Leeds striker Chris Wood: "We've been linked with lots of players. We will watch this space and see what comes. We are still in the market, still looking at different options."
West Brom's Ahmed Hegazi was a man-mountain at the back for the Baggies. The on-loan Egyptian needed treatment from a bad cut early in the match but soldiered on, making vital clearances for his side.
After the Lancashire derby against Blackburn in the EFL Cup on Wednesday, the Clarets are at Tottenham next Sunday (16:00 BST).
The Baggies are at Accrington on Tuesday in the EFL Cup before they host Stoke next Sunday (13:30 BST).
Match ends, Burnley 0, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Second Half ends, Burnley 0, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Walters (Burnley) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Jeff Hendrick with a cross.
Foul by Ashley Barnes (Burnley).
Ben Foster (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ashley Barnes (Burnley).
Ben Foster (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Sam Vokes (Burnley) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Steven Defour with a cross.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Chris Brunt.
Attempt missed. Jeff Hendrick (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Offside, Burnley. Jonathan Walters tries a through ball, but Ashley Barnes is caught offside.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Salomón Rondón replaces Sam Field.
Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Matthew Lowton (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stephen Ward.
Attempt missed. Matthew Lowton (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Matthew Lowton (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jay Rodriguez (West Bromwich Albion).
Substitution, Burnley. Ashley Barnes replaces Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
Substitution, Burnley. Jonathan Walters replaces Robbie Brady.
Jack Cork (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jay Rodriguez (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt missed. Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jay Rodriguez with a cross.
Stephen Ward (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion).
Foul by James Tarkowski (Burnley).
Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Burnley 0, West Bromwich Albion 1. Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matt Phillips with a headed pass.
Foul by Jack Cork (Burnley).
Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
James Tarkowski (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion).
Foul by Jeff Hendrick (Burnley).
Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Stephen Ward (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Attempt blocked. Robbie Brady (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jeff Hendrick (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion). | Substitute Hal Robson-Kanu scored the winner and was later sent off as West Brom made it two wins from two with victory at Burnley. |
36,379,546 | Business fraud accounted for £144bn, the study said, while fraud against individuals was estimated at £9.7bn.
The last estimate - made in 2013 by the now defunct National Fraud Authority - put the cost of fraud at £52bn a year.
Report author Prof Mark Button said that fraud was now on an "industrial scale".
The study was produced by Experian, PKF Littlejohn, and the Centre for Counter-Fraud Studies at the University of Portsmouth.
According to the Annual Fraud Indicator 2016, the biggest loss was due to procurement fraud - estimated at £127bn a year - which included the submission of false invoices and the awarding of contracts in exchange for bribes.
The fraudulent cost to charities was estimated at £2bn per year, while mortgage lending losses were put at £1.3bn a year.
Insurance sector fraud cost £1.3bn a year, tax fraud was estimated at £15.4bn every year, while fraud losses in the NHS were £2.5bn.
The largest fraud carried out against individuals was identity fraud, estimated at £5.4bn a year from about 3.25 million victims.
However, the report said the true scale of fraud in the UK may still not be known.
"Despite a broadly conservative and prudent approach being adopted in this report, it is likely annual fraud estimates are being under-evaluated," the report said.
It added: "Fraudsters are fast, inventive, adaptable and willing to quickly exploit new opportunities.
"The speed and shape of global innovation, along with the growth of the Internet of Things, make on-going investment in the development of improved fraud detection systems ever more important."
City of London Police Commissioner Ian Dyson said the findings illustrated "the cost of fraud to business, individuals and the public sector is vast and continues to rise".
"What the report can't illustrate is the human cost of fraud which ruins lives and blights every community in the UK," he added. | The annual cost of fraud in the UK has been estimated at £193bn - equal to nearly £3,000 per head of population - according to a new report. |
35,191,595 | Wada also described the allegations, which Manning dismissed as "complete garbage", as "very concerning".
Al Jazeera reported that Denver Broncos quarterback Manning was treated with human growth hormone (HGH) during his recovery from neck surgery in 2011.
Its source - Texas-based pharmacist Charlie Sly - has since recanted.
The Al Jazeera documentary linked players from the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB) with performance-enhancing drugs.
"Al Jazeera's allegations are very concerning, particularly as it relates to the NFL's and MLB's testing programmes," David Howman, director-general of Wada, said in a statement.
"While the NFL and the MLB are not signatories to the world anti-doping code, in recent years Wada has been working with them and other professional leagues in the United States to try to bring them closer to Wada's programme.
"As it relates to the particular allegations by Al Jazeera, Wada expects that they will be carefully investigated by the relevant authorities and that, if warranted, necessary and appropriate steps would be taken."
The NFL collective bargaining agreement, ratified in 2011, banned HGH but players were not tested for it until 2014. No NFL player has tested positive for HGH.
MLB said it would investigate allegations made in the documentary that several of its players took banned hormone supplement Delta-2. | Allegations that American football legend Peyton Manning took human growth hormone should be investigated, says the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada). |
27,789,632 | Station Approach, Manchester, was painted in 1960 and depicts the scene outside the London and North Western Railway Exchange Station.
It was sold on Tuesday at a sale of modern and post-war British art at Sotheby's auction house.
Sotheby's spokeswoman Frances Christie described it as "a superb example of Lowry at his very best".
She added: "Station Approach, Manchester is one of Lowry's most exciting works to emerge on to the market in recent years.
Source: Sotheby's
"Lowry was a master at portraying the energy and vitality of everyday life and in Station Approach, Manchester he captures the hustle and bustle of the crowds heading home after a hard day's work."
Built in 1884 and closed in 1969, the Victorian front of the station had already been taken down by the time Lowry painted the work.
The station, which lay close to Manchester Cathedral, has since been fully demolished and the station approach is now a car park.
A collection of 13 paintings by LS Lowry sold at auction in March for a total price of more than £15m.
And in November, a painting of a scene in a Caithness town by the artist sold for £890,500. In 2011, The Football Match, painted in 1949 and which depicts hundreds of the artist's signature stick figures, sold for a record £5.6m. | A painting by LS Lowry described as one of his "most exciting works" has been sold for £2.3 million. |
29,197,291 | Since early August, its Rosetta probe has been in close proximity to 67P/C-G - a 10-billion-tonne mass of ice and dust some 400 million km from Earth.
Engineers and scientists have spent the weekend debating where on the surface it might be possible to put down a small contact robot.
Esa is expected to announce its primary and reserve choices on Monday.
Whichever site is chosen will be extremely challenging.
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is highly irregular in shape, with a terrain that is marked by deep depressions and towering cliffs.
Even the apparently flat surfaces contain potentially hazardous boulders and fractures.
The plan still is to make the attempt on 11 November.
Rosetta will despatch the piggybacked Philae robot from a distance of about 10km to 67P.
The spider-like device will hope to engage the surface at "walking pace", deploying screws and harpoons in an effort to lock itself down.
It will be a one-shot opportunity. The event will take place so far from Earth that real-time radio control will be impossible.
Instead, the process will have to be fully automated with commands uploaded several days in advance.
To successfully soft-land on a comet would be a first in the history of space exploration.
But Esa cautions that this high-risk venture should be seen as an "exciting extra" on the Rosetta mission.
The major objective from the outset has really been to catch the comet with the Rosetta probe and to study it from orbit.
This is happening right now. In the past few days, Rosetta manoeuvred to within 30km of 67P - close enough to be gravitationally bound to the "ice mountain".
The spacecraft's array of remote-sensing instruments are currently investigating the comet's properties, endeavouring to find out how the object is constructed and from what materials.
"Everything we've discovered at 67P/C-G so far says that we've chosen a fantastic comet to visit," said Dr Christopher Carr, a principal investigator on the Rosetta Plasma Consortium instruments.
"There's a genuine sense of excitement within the Rosetta community, and we're all looking forward to the year ahead.
"No spacecraft has ever orbited an active comet before, so there's a lot to learn about spacecraft and instrument operations, but we've got a really robust mission carrying some of the best instrumentation possible, and I have to say that the operations teams at the European Space Agency are doing a great job - they are true professionals," the Imperial College London scientist told BBC News.
But, of course, an in-situ analysis of the surface chemistry would be a huge boon to the mission overall, and this is what Philae aims to provide.
It will carry a drill to pull up comet samples into an onboard laboratory.
The long-list of five Rosetta candidate landing sites
Scientists and engineers went into their weekend deliberations in Toulouse, France, with a long-list of five potential landing sites.
In reducing that number to two, they will have assessed the very latest imagery to be downlinked from Rosetta.
And they will continue to study the pictures in the run-up to the final go/no-go decision on the landing site, which is expected in mid-October.
Irrespective of the outcome on 11 November, Rosetta will continue to follow 67P for at least a year.
The probe will get a grandstand view of the comet as it warms on a swing around the Sun.
67P's ices will vaporise, throwing jets of gas and an immense cloud of dust out into space.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | The European Space Agency is about to release more details of its audacious bid to try to land on a comet. |
40,043,146 | Gemma Leeming, 30, was found dead in a bedroom at an address on Hollinshead Street, Chorley, at about 22:35 BST on Tuesday, police said.
A post-mortem examination revealed she had been strangled.
A 39-year-old man, from Chorley, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody for questioning. | A murder investigation has been launched by police after the death of a woman in Lancashire. |
29,598,098 | Stephen Powell, 47, from Guiseley, pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court to conspiracy to import the class A drug.
Powell was charged after about a tonne of cocaine was found on the Makayabella yacht off the coast of Ireland.
He was told by Judge Peter Collier he faced a "significant custodial sentence" and was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on 5 December.
The Makayabella was intercepted about 200 miles of the south west coast of Ireland on 23 September following a covert surveillance operation to track it from Venezuela.
Intelligence sources said it was understood the drugs were heading for the north Wales coast.
Investigators also seized a second vessel, the motorboat Sea Breeze, at Pwllheli in Gwynedd, on 26 September.
Three other men have been charged in connection with the plot following an international operation involving the Irish Naval Service and the National Crime Agency.
Powell's father John Powell, 70, of Silsden, West Yorkshire, Benjamin Mellor, 35, of Bradford, West Yorkshire, and Thomas Britteon, 28, of Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, have been charged with possessing cocaine with intent to import after they were detained on board the yacht.
They have appeared at Cork District Court in Ireland.
A 43-year-old man and a 29-year-old man, both from Leeds, have also been arrested in connection with the investigation. | A man has admitted plotting to smuggle cocaine with an estimated street value of £100m into the UK. |
34,831,046 | That's according to veteran environmental campaigner Jonathon Porritt anyway.
And you thought smart meters were just about saving a few quid on your gas and electricity bills? Think again.
These gadgets being rolled out in many developed nations around the world will not only save people money, they'll promote more competition, more innovation, and change the way the global energy industry works, proponents argue.
So here's all you need to know about the huge project to introduce digital meters into British homes.
The UK government has told energy suppliers that they must offer to replace the old analogue gas and electricity meters in homes and small businesses with digital meters instead.
The aim is to install 53 million of them by 2020 - a target Lord Bourne, the minister responsible for the smart meter roll-out programme, recently admitted was "an ambitious and challenging aim". It has also had plenty of critics.
No, the scheme is voluntary - perhaps explaining why just 1.7 million have been installed so far. It's being paid for by the energy industry to the tune of £11bn.
The first thing to say about smart meters is that they're not all that smart - all they do is measure our gas and electricity consumption.
But they do it digitally, which means we can see exactly how much energy we're using - and how much it's costing us - in real time via a wirelessly connected in-home display. That data is also sent wirelessly to the energy company.
For one thing, it means no more estimated bills because your energy supplier will know precisely how much energy you've consumed at any point.
It also means an end to people having to come into your home to take meter readings, or you having to send readings to your supplier.
With annual dual fuel energy bills running at £1,300 on average, cost savings would be welcomed by most of us.
But this won't happen simply by having smart meters installed.
It's how we respond to the data - seeing the effect in pounds and pence of boiling a full kettle when we only want to make a single cup of tea, say. Or noticing the difference it makes when we switch off the TV and set-top boxes at night rather than leaving them on stand-by.
"We're all going to be much more in control of our energy usage than we are now," says Ann Robinson, director of consumer policy for U-Switch, the price comparison website.
"We'll have so much more data about how we use energy and how we can reduce the costs. We'll be able to pay less, use less and waste less."
But the government estimates smart meters could save us £17bn on our energy bills over the next 15 years.
Smart meters will increase competition by making it easier for new suppliers to enter the market, says Sacha Deshmukh, chief executive of Smart Energy GB, the body responsible for publicising smart meter roll-out.
Not so long ago there were just six energy suppliers in the UK - now there are 31, and many more could enter the market.
"The reason companies like Amazon, Tesco, Virgin, or Google haven't entered this retail energy market yet is because it hasn't been digitised," he tells the BBC. He also envisages media companies like Sky and BT potentially including energy as part of their bundles of services.
And more accurate, up-to-date data will enable households and businesses to switch supplier far more quickly. Energy regulator Ofgem is aiming for energy supplier switching within 24 hours.
Not yet. The in-home display will merely show the total energy usage, so you'll see the display and cost fluctuate as you switch things on and off.
To reach that more sophisticated level of analysis we'll need smart appliances that can talk to the in-home display via another piece of kit called a consumer access device, explains Howard Porter, chief executive of Beama, the trade association for the UK electrical infrastructure industry.
"Smart meter roll-out is a catalyst for change... it's stage one in the move towards connected homes and buildings linked in to smart grids," he says.
You own your energy usage data - that's a basic principle of this whole programme, says Smart Energy GB. It will be transferred to the energy suppliers over a dedicated secure network being built by a new consortium called the Smart Data Communications Company (Smart DCC), comprising O2/Telefonica and Arqiva. This network is due to go live in August 2016.
"If consumers want it they may choose to share their energy data with third parties to help manage their energy consumption," says Smart DCC's managing director, Jonathan Simcock.
You might want to allow price comparison websites or energy management companies to shop around for the best energy deals on your behalf and switch suppliers for you, for example.
Or you may want advice on how to improve your energy efficiency, by upgrading appliances, switching to LED lighting, or using the dishwasher and washing machine at times when electricity is cheaper. Such companies could effectively manage your energy usage for you.
For business processes that don't have to be done immediately, it makes sense to do them when energy is cheapest or at its most plentiful.
For example, a big food retailer running energy-hungry chiller and freezer cabinets can run them at a colder temperature at night when electricity is cheaper, then use them less intensively during the day when electricity is more expensive, knowing that there is enough stored coldness in the equipment to keep it running properly.
"We can achieve energy savings of 15% to 25% for our customers," says Sara Bell, chief executive of Tempus Energy, a new energy supplier offering this type of service.
Follow Matthew on Twitter here: @matthew_wall | Replace your old gas and electricity meters with natty new digital ones and you could be helping to tackle "the biggest single challenge that humankind has ever faced" - global warming. |
33,819,637 | The adaptation of Julian Barnes' Booker Prize winner will also star Emily Mortimer and Harriet Walter.
It sees Broadbent take the leading role as Tony Webster, a retired divorcee who sets out to retrieve a bequeathed diary from an old girlfriend.
It is the first film adaptation from acclaimed playwright Nick Payne.
Barnes' 11th novel explores childhood friendship and the imperfections of memory. Booker judges described the novel as "exquisitely written, subtly plotted and reveals new depths with each reading".
"We thought it was a book that spoke to the humankind in the 21st Century," said Dame Stella Rimington, chairwoman of the 2011 judges, when it won the Booker prize.
'Remarkable book'
Filming of the adaptation, which begins this month, will take place over seven weeks on location in London and Bristol, under the direction of Ritesh Batra.
"We are really excited about making this film, based on Julian Barnes' remarkable book," said producer David Thompson.
"Ritesh is a major directing talent, as shown by his wonderful film The Lunchbox that had such sensitivity and emotional punch.
"We're thrilled also to be working with Nick Payne on his first feature film script - he has a startlingly original voice."
Earlier this year, Rampling won the best actress award for her role opposite Sir Tom Courtenay in 45 Years at the Berlin Film Festival.
Joe Alwyn, who plays the eponymous star in Ang Lee's upcoming Iraq War drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, is also among the cast. | Charlotte Rampling and Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery will co-star with Jim Broadbent in a big screen version of the 2011 novel The Sense of an Ending. |
36,735,804 | Michael Freshwater, 49, was found stabbed to death at a property in Westridge Road on 29 April.
A 28-year-old man is being held on suspicion of assisting an offender, conspiracy to supply class A drugs and money laundering.
At least 13 people have so far been arrested as part of the investigation.
A 25-year-old man from Southampton has become the latest to face charges.
He is being held on remand, accused of conspiracy to supply class A drugs, and is due before Southampton Crown Court on 5 August.
Last month, Mr Freshwater's partner, Jenny Downey, made an emotional appeal for help in tracking down his killers.
Hampshire Constabulary said it is believed there was a dispute at the property before Mr Freshwater's body was discovered. | A further arrest has been made as part of an investigation into a fatal stabbing in Southampton. |
35,261,948 | The Puma running shoes, signed by the Olympic champion sprinter, had been bought at an auction raising money for a sport charity.
They were in a frame with a certificate of authenticity and a photo of Bolt, both of which were also taken after thieves broke into the BMW in Watling Street, St Albans on 21 December.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
The owner of the shoes had paid "a significant amount of money" for the shoes, Hertfordshire Police said.
Thieves broke into the car between midnight and 10:00 GMT, smashing the frame which held the trainers, and making off with all the items.
Jamaican-born Bolt won three gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a further three golds in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. | Thieves have stolen a pair of Usain Bolt's trainers after breaking into a car in Hertfordshire. |
36,802,565 | The pop star wrote on Instagram her gig on Friday at the city's Allianz Stadium "would not be going ahead as planned... due to the tragic events".
The Nice Jazz Festival, due to start on Saturday, has also been cancelled.
Many figures from the entertainment world have expressed shock at the news, with Simon Cowell among those sending "thoughts and prayers to all affected".
Rihanna, currently in Europe with her Anti tour, was in Nice at the time of the attack but was said to be "safe" by her representative.
The makers of the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey - which had been filming on location in the south of France - also said everyone working on the film had been accounted for and was "safe and sound".
Producer Dana Brunetti circulated the statement on Facebook, saying it was "another sad day for France and the world".
Boy George tweeted his "heart breaks for France", while Cyndi Lauper said she was "so sad for the people of Nice".
Comedian Amy Schumer, actress Mia Farrow and TV personality Kim Kardashian West are among others to express their sympathies.
At least 84 people were killed when a lorry ploughed through a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice on Thursday evening.
The driver drove 2km down the city's Promenade des Anglais at about 23:00 local time, before being shot dead by police.
Youssou N'Dour, Melody Gardot and Britain's Laura Mvula were among those who had been scheduled to appear at Nice's Jazz Festival.
The event was to have run from Saturday to Wednesday but has now been cancelled, as have some of the city's other Bastille celebrations this weekend.
Festival organisers told the BBC all tickets would be refunded and thanked ticket holders "for their understanding".
US singer George Clinton, who had been due to perform at the festival on Sunday, sent his "sincere condolences and prayers to the families of the victims".
London-based rapper Tiggs Da Author, who was also scheduled to appear on Sunday, is another performer to have sent "thoughts and prayers" via Twitter.
Thursday's events have cast doubt on whether Bastille Day, an action thriller starring Britain's Idris Elba, will continue to be shown in French cinemas.
A spokesperson for distributor StudioCanal told the BBC it would let cinemas decide whether to show the film and would support them if they chose to withdraw it.
The UK release of the film - which features a bomb blast in central Paris - was put back two months to 22 April following the terror attacks that took place in the city in November last year.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email [email protected]. | Singer Rihanna has cancelled a concert in Nice in the wake of the Bastille Day attack that left at least 84 dead. |
34,466,479 | The experts said many thousands of patients had received treatment that may have done no good at all.
They are calling for comprehensive trials during the next pandemic, with some patients receiving the drug and others being given routine care.
The report was put together by the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Together with the Wellcome Trust the team reviewed all recent evidence on Tamiflu.
Their new analysis suggests the antiviral pills are helpful in certain, limited circumstances - for example for people unwell in hospital with seasonal flu.
But when it comes to pandemic flu, researchers say there needs to be much more work to find out if the drugs will provide a good defence.
They are urging hospitals and members of the public to be ready to take part in clinical trials when the next large flu outbreak emerges.
Prof Chris Butler, who was involved in the review, told the BBC: "Last time we gave people Tamiflu rather indiscriminately.
"We really missed a trick... by not doing clinical trials early on and just making assumptions.
"Here we are having treated many thousands of patients still not knowing whether it was a good thing or not."
But experts say the approvals and infrastructure for these trials need to be put in place now, in "peace time", so they are ready to start when the next pandemic strikes.
Dr Butler added: "What we would like to happen next time is you would contact your GP practice and they would explain there is a trial going on.
"And you could then be randomised - that is allocated by chance - to get lots of fluids and paracetamol for example or that plus Tamiflu or another antiviral."
Prof Wendy Barclay, from Imperial College London, said the report was helpful in pulling together current knowledge about the drugs but warned there must be a cautious approach to trials so people are not denied treatment.
She said: "It will be important... to be clear about how such trials will be conducted, for example, how does one allocate a placebo (dummy pill) group in this situation?
"Whilst new styles of clinical trials are being designed to address these concerns, it is important that patients at high risk are not denied this licensed drug."
The report was developed after a request from the Department of Health. The expert group involved clinical researchers, industry and public health specialists. | The antiviral drug Tamiflu was handed out "indiscriminately" during the last swine flu outbreak, a leading panel of UK scientists has said. |
40,550,018 | Yn ôl adroddiadau disgynnodd Thomas o dîm Sky oddi ar ei feic wrth ddod lawr disgyniad serth.
Ddoe yn dilyn yr wythfed cymal roedd Geraint Thomas yn parhau i fod yn yr ail safle.
Yn ôl gwefan Tour de France mae 'na ofnau fod Geraint Thomas wedi torri pont ei ysgwydd.
Thomas enillodd gymal cyntaf y Tour De France eleni ac fe gadwodd y crys melyn tan i Froome ei gipio oddi arno ar ôl cymal pump.
Digwyddodd y ddamwain ar ddisgyniad Col de la Biche - ychydig yn llai na hanner ffordd o'r cymal mynyddig rhwng Nantua a Chambery. Fe geisiodd e barhau â'i daith ond roedd hynny yn amhosib.
Dyma bedwerydd cwymp Thomas yn y Tour - fe gwympodd e hefyd yn yr ail gymal ac yng nghymalau pedwar ac wyth.
Fe gafodd e ddamwain arall ym mis Mai yn Giro d'Italia a gorfod rhoi gorau i'r ras.
Bydd ei absenoldeb yn ergyd i Froome sy'n ceisio ennill ei drydedd fuddugoliaeth o'r bron yn y Tour a'i bedwerydd teitl.
Ddydd Sul yn Velothon Cymru yng Nghaerdydd a'r cyffiniau roedd 'na anogaeth i seiclwyr wisgo lliw melyn i gydnabod camp anhygoel Geraint Thomas i fod y Cymro cyntaf i wisgo'r crys melyn. | Mae'r Cymro cyntaf i wisgo'r crys melyn yn y Tour de France wedi cael ei orfodi i adael y ras wedi iddo gael damwain yng nghymal naw. |
35,606,137 | The prints are most likely to have belonged to craftsmen handling it before the varnish dried, according to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
The discovery was made public ahead of a new exhibition on how Egyptian coffin design changed over 4,000 years.
The prints were "one of many small details that bring us closer to the ancient craftsmen," a spokeswoman said.
Julie Dawson, head of conservation at the museum, said the prints were first identified in 2005 by researchers at the Fitzwilliam but had "not been widely publicised" before now.
They were discovered on an inner coffin lid belonging to the priest Nespawershefyt, dating from about 1,000 BC.
Organisers of "Death on the Nile" said it was the first time a major exhibition has "put the focus" on ancient Egypt's artisans. | Three-thousand-year-old fingerprints have been found on the lid of an Egyptian coffin by researchers. |
40,113,307 | The British number three lost 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-3 to Czech Vesely at Roland Garros on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old then clarified earlier comments suggesting he might switch allegiance back to Slovenia.
"I really want to play for Great Britain and I'm still hoping," he said.
"I haven't really thought anything outside of that."
Bedene became a British citizen in 2015 but has been unable to overturn a ban preventing him from representing Great Britain in the Davis Cup.
After his first-round win on Monday, he said he hopes to play at the Olympics and to do so players must be available for the Davis Cup.
"I read a few interviews, and I don't actually remember what I was saying because I get nervous," he added.
"But until it looks like it's done, it's not done yet for me."
Great Britain Davis Cup captain Leon Smith said: "As a player of course you want to the play at the Olympics - that's why we want to help and get him available for selection as those players already in the team are."
Bedene's French Open campaign ended with defeat by Vesely over two hours and 52 minutes.
The world number 52 started sloppily and, while he was able to win the third set, he had no answer to the tall Czech.
The pair played out a 13-minute final game, but Vesely went through when Bedene hooked a cross-court shot narrowly wide.
World number one Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund are now the only Britons left in the tournament.
"I fought really well and I'm proud of that but disappointed to lose, especially after I thought I was better in the fourth set," said Bedene.
"I have to learn from it, especially when those first two sets weren't great.
"Then I played well and started to show myself that if I can play my game. I can beat those guys." | Aljaz Bedene was knocked out of the French Open in the second round by Jiri Vesely - but then said he "will fight" to represent Britain over his native Slovenia. |
19,768,043 | Two soldiers will ride each bus in the capital, Tegucigalpa, and the second city, San Pedro Sula.
President Porfirio Lobo said the move would free police officers for street patrols in crime-ridden neighbourhoods.
Public buses in Honduras are frequently attacked by gangs who rob passengers and extort money from drivers.
The Honduran government began deploying troops on the streets last year in response to a public outcry over violent crime and the failure of the police to ensure security.
Honduras has the world's highest murder rate, according to the UN, with much of the killing linked to drug-trafficking.
In an address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, President Lobo again blamed the international drug trade for the violence afflicting his country.
"Our misfortune is to be in between the north and south," Mr Lobo said, referring to Honduras's role as a transit point for South American cocaine being smuggled to the US. | The government of Honduras has begun deploying soldiers to protect public buses as part of a campaign to reduce soaring levels of violent crime. |
39,289,206 | The company behind Crossrail and the transformation of the former Olympic Stadium into West Ham's ground made an £8m profit, after a £199m loss in 2015.
Balfour said it had allowed its business to become too complex after a series of takeovers.
Chief executive Leo Quinn said the company's leadership, processes and controls had been upgraded.
"The transformation of Balfour Beatty is well under way," he said.
The company said that, by 2014, it had become overly complex following more than a decade of acquisition-led growth.
It added there had been an overall lack of leadership and strategic direction, and that its businesses had a tendency to compete with each other. However, Balfour says its business has now been simplified.
The company is involved in some of the country's highest profile building projects.
As well as Crossrail, which will link west and east London, it is upgrading motorways and working on the Thames Tideway Tunnel.
In the next few years it plans to be part of the country's three biggest infrastructure projects: High Speed 2 (HS2), the new nuclear power stations at Hinkley Point C and Wylfa, and the third runway at Heathrow airport.
Analysts have been encouraged by the company's progress.
"The self-help phase of the turnaround plan has restored the group to reasonable foundations, with the all-important construction division back in profit in the second half," said Nicholas Hyett, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"The strategy now calls for the group to rebuild margins towards something close to industry standard - at around 2% it's not an overly ambitious target on the face of it, but something Balfour have failed to achieve for some time," he said.
Balfour said it was upbeat about prospects as the "trading environment in the group's core UK and US markets remains positive".
"In the UK, government policy is helping to drive a strong pipeline of major infrastructure projects in transport and energy.
"In the US, the new administration has made infrastructure one of its key priorities." | UK engineering giant Balfour Beatty has returned to profit after two years of losses. |
34,945,382 | Anthony Steele was hurt when the dog's tether got tangled in his wheel in Heysham, Lancashire, in August 2012.
He suffered fractures to his skull, shoulder and ribs and a permanent loss of hearing in one ear.
The 59-year-old said he made the insurance claim "so people are aware of the dangers of retractable dog leads".
Mr Steele was training on Heysham promenade for the Coast to Coast cycling event with around 10 other riders when he saw "a small white dog dart across my path".
"I had no idea of the severity of my injuries suffered until I had come round in hospital."
He said he had not cycled since his fall and now suffers from "permanent hearing loss, dizziness, headaches, balancing issues and pain in my right shoulder".
He added that he could not "quite believe all of this has been caused by someone who could not control their dog".
The compensation, which was awarded to help with his rehabilitation, was agreed in an out-of-court settlement ahead of a hearing in Manchester. | A cyclist who suffered life-changing injuries when an "out-of-control" dog's lead caught in his spokes has received £65,000 in compensation. |
34,868,143 | Chris Turner died in April aged 64, after being diagnosed with a form of dementia in 2006.
He spent nine years as a player with Posh before winning back-to-back promotions as manager in the early 1990s.
Sculptor Sean Hedges-Quinn has been commissioned and fans have so far raised £15,000 of the £75,000 cost.
One fan, Adi Moles who is involved in the fundraising campaign, said: "We want to have a large plinth, all lit up and covered in granite and very tall, because Chris Turner was a very tall man, standing at London Road.
"He'll have his arms up and we're transfixing the face he had when we won at Wembley, absolutely laughing his head off and having the time of his life."
Phil Adlam, Peterborough United press officer, said the club was "very much behind" the plan and it was a "perfect, fitting tribute" to Turner.
They will donate the 5p plastic bag charge from all sales at their shop towards the costs of the statue.
The fans are launching the fundraising campaign at two events later and on Friday.
Mr Moles does not yet have a date for the statue's provisional completion and unveiling saying he expected fundraising to be "a marathon not a sprint". | Peterborough United fans are hoping to raise enough money to memorialise their former manager with a statue. |
40,108,334 | It is believed the man, a foreign national, was crushed by a road roller while laying a new road surface on Bog Road outside Forkhill on Wednesday afternoon.
Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating.
The road is understood to be regularly used by children walking to and from a local school.
The school was informed and alternative arrangements put in place on Wednesday. | A road worker has died following an accident in County Armagh. |
39,649,680 | "For many, the post-earthquake reconstruction has not begun as long as the National Palace has not been rebuilt," he said.
The new complex would be on the same site as the ornate domed building in the capital Port-au-Prince.
More than 250,00 people are estimated to have been killed in the quake.
About 300,000 were injured and more than 1.5 million left homeless after the magnitude 7.0 quake on 12 January 2010.
Speaking on Wednesday at the temporary presidential residence on the grounds of the collapsed palace, President Moise set up a committee of engineers and architects to oversee the project.
He said he wanted construction to begin before the end of 2017.
President Moise, who assumed office in February, also said the facade of the palace should look the same, but the interior would be adapted to the needs of a modern presidency.
The cost of the project is yet to be estimated.
Decades of poverty, environmental degradation, violence, instability and dictatorship have left Haiti as the poorest nation in the Americas. | Haiti's President Jovenel Moise has launched a project to rebuild the presidential palace, destroyed by a devastating earthquake in 2010. |
39,645,414 | A bitter feud for Brazil's 1987 football championship has finally been laid to rest by judges.
Brazil had competing leagues back then and the Supreme Court has ruled that Sport Recife, and not Flamengo, be deemed the overall champions.
The judges said this was the final whistle on the matter, but the clubs' Twitter responses begged to differ.
Sport Club do Recife said that 1987 was "indisputably ours, again... In court, once more, Sport beat those who ran away."
Flamengo wrote "in the field, on the ball, always Flamengo. Champions of Brazil 1987".
At the time, a dispute led to two leagues running at the same time - a breakaway competition that was won by Flamengo and the traditional Campeonato Brasileiro organised by Brazil's football confederation, which was taken by Sport.
The confederation tried to get the two to play off for the overall title but the Rio-based Flamengo, one of the biggest clubs in the country, refused.
So Sport took the slot in the Copa Libertadores, South America's Champions League.
The panel of five judges gave Sport a 3-1 victory. One of the justices abstained as his son was linked to a Flamengo lawyer.
But the judges were clearly unhappy that the ball had been put in their, erm, court.
Justice Luis Roberto Barroso voted to split the title between the clubs, saying: "There is no place worse than the judicial system to discuss sports." | "Thirty years of hurt" the song goes, and it's just as relevant in Brazil as it was for England back in 1996. |
39,255,909 | Mae disgwyl i "Yr Egin", sy'n cael ei adeiladu gan Brifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant fod yn barod erbyn gwanwyn 2018.
Dywedodd penaethiaid y Brifysgol wrth aelodau seneddol eu bod yn gobeithio y byddai'r adeilad yn llawn maes o law.
Does yr un cwmni ar wahân i S4C wedi arwyddo cytundeb prydles hyd yma.
Dywedodd Is-ganghellor Prifysgol Y Drindod Dewi Sant, Medwin Hughes, ei fod yn gobeithio y byddai Yr Egin yn cyrraedd capasiti o 60% o fewn y ddau fis nesaf, ond cyfaddefodd byddai angen mwy o gwmnïau.
Dywedodd Mr Hughes wrth y Pwyllgor Materion Cymreig: "Mae £3m o'r arian rent sydd wedi'i dalu rhag blaen gan S4C yn helpu gyda llif arian am 2 i 3 blynedd, ond bydd angen iddo fod yn 60% llawn er mwyn i'r cynllun dalu ffordd."
Fel rhan o'r cytundeb gyda'r Brifysgol, bydd S4C hefyd yn talu £60,000 mewn taliadau gwasanaeth blynyddol.
Dywedodd AS Ceidwadol Brycheiniog a Maesyfed, Chris Davies, wrth y pwyllgor bod "arogl o gwmpas" y prosiect a "niwl" yn amgylchynnu y berthynas rhwng y Brifysgol ag S4C, ond gwadu hynny wnaeth Mr Hughes gan ddweud: "Mae hi wedi bod yn neges glir a chyson rhwng S4C a'r Brifysgol.
"Fel gydag unrhyw gytundeb mawr ceir cytundebau cyfrinachedd. Ar y cyfan, mae'r cysylltiad rhwng S4C a'r Brifysgol wedi cael ei gyflwyno mewn modd priodol."
Yn gynharach ym mis Mawrth fe gafodd yr Egin £3m o gyllid gan Llywodraeth Cymru ar ôl i'r Brifysgol sylweddoli na fyddai'r cyllid Ewropeaidd oedd ar gael iddynt yn ddigonol. | Does dim cwmnïau eraill wedi ymrwymo i symud i'r adeilad a fydd yn gartref newydd i S4C. |
30,468,862 | The girls, 13 and 15, were trapped at the the base of the cliffs at Warden Bay, Isle of Sheppey, on Saturday.
The RNLI was called after Kent Fire and Rescue Service could not reach the pair.
They were eventually released and taken to an ambulance where they were assessed to be "frightened but unharmed". | Two teenage girls who were trapped in mud at the base of cliffs in Kent have been rescued. |
38,933,817 | The newspaper has been widely boycotted in the city following a campaign by the Total Eclipse of The S*n group.
Its journalists will no longer be allowed on site to cover matches and press conferences.
The Sun said the move was "bad for fans and bad for football". The club declined to comment.
The Total Eclipse of The S*n group tweeted: "Further to conversations with LFC directors we are happy to inform you that Sun journalists [will] no longer enjoy access to club premises."
A spokesman for the paper said it "deeply regrets" its reporting and understands the damage caused was still felt by many in the city.
"The Sun and Liverpool FC have had a solid working relationship for the 28 years since the Hillsborough tragedy.
"Whilst we can't undo the damage done, we would like to further a dialogue with the city and to show that the paper has respect for the people of Liverpool.
"Banning journalists from a club is bad for fans and bad for football." | Liverpool FC has banned The Sun journalists from its grounds over the newspaper's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster. |
35,741,241 | Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam has told the BBC a private company will fund the six-year-old's education until he leaves school.
Donors will also provide the boy and his mother with a new home, he said.
Parents at the old school kept their children at home amid false rumours that the boy was infected.
As of last year, 3,200 adults and 100 children were living with HIV/Aids in Sri Lanka, a country of 21.2 million, according to government data. | The Sri Lankan government says it has found a new place for a boy who was excluded from school after other families shunned him over HIV rumours. |
39,478,417 | Rohan Beyts is accusing the company of breaching data protection law by filming her without her permission or notice.
She claims she was filmed by male employees as she urinated in sand dunes while out walking at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire a year ago.
Trump International has denied the claims.
The company was run by Donald Trump before he became the US president.
Ms Beyts told the court in Edinburgh that she had gone walking with a friend in April last year and had to pass through the Trump International Golf Club to get access to the beach.
The 62-year-old said that while on the beach she had gone into the dunes after realising that, due to a medical condition, she needed the toilet urgently.
She said she had taken notice of Mountaineering Scotland's guidelines for what to do if you need to urinate outside, and that she would have been horrified if anyone had seen her.
Ms Beyts, from Montrose in Angus, told the court: "I needed to go as a matter of urgency. I was crouching down in the dune area. I was covered by Marram grass once I crouched down.
"There was no golfers visible."
The retired social worker also said the civil action was about a "mixture of things."
She added: "Don't be intimidated. Please exercise your right to roam. And it's about not being bullied. I feel being filmed secretly is a bullying act."
Three days after the incident, police officers arrived at her house to charge her with urinating in a public place that could cause annoyance.
After speaking to police on a further occasion, she was told three men had mobile phone footage of her urinating.
The court also heard from the golf course irrigation technician who said he had taken a photograph with his mobile phone of Ms Beyts urinating.
But Edward Irvine, 23, said he had not filmed Ms Beyts.
He added: "I took her picture for evidence that she was urinating in a public place. I believed that it was a criminal offence to do that."
Mr Irvine then gave a statement about what he had witnessed to a police officer.
The green keeper also told the court that he had seen golfers urinating on the course. He said those golfers went into bushes before going to the toilet.
He said Ms Beyts did not do this and he was able to photograph her.
Ms Beyts was reported to the procurator fiscal, but no action was taken against her. She in turn launched a claim for damages against Trump International.
The hearing continues. | A privacy case against Trump International Golf Clubs Scotland is under way at a small claims court. |
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Phillips was involved in a crash before a collision with another rider pushed him off the track in the first of a three-race heat at the Rio Games.
The 2013 world champion, 27, was competing at his second Olympics.
British Cycling tweeted: "Sad to confirm that Liam Phillips has been forced to withdraw from #CyclingBMX at #Rio2016 after that crash."
Fellow Briton Kyle Evans, 22, also went out at the quarter-final stage after finishing fifth and seventh twice in his three races.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Great Britain's Liam Phillips has had to withdraw from the quarter-finals of the Olympic BMX after a heavy fall. |
40,492,149 | The Irish back was withdrawn from last week's match against Hurricanes after complaining of headaches.
He has stayed in Wellington for further tests while the Lions squad has moved to Queenstown before Saturday's third and final Test against the All Blacks.
Fellow Lion Robbie Henshaw faces a 16-week lay-off with a shoulder injury and could miss Ireland's autumn series.
Lions medical chief Dr Eanna Falvey said there is no clear return date for Payne, despite the 31-year-old progressing through a raft of tests.
"He's actually suffering from migraine," Dr Falvey said.
"He had a bang in the Chiefs game (on 20 June), but he was fully cleared from concussion.
"But he's been struggling with migraines and that's an independent process since then."
Payne missed the Lions' 31-31 draw against Hurricanes draw, and was then not involved in Saturday's 24-21 victory in the second Test.
It was the tourists' first win over the All Blacks since 1993 and set up Saturday's decider at Auckland's Eden Park.
"Jared's slightly more difficult," Dr Falvey said of the Ulster player's recovery situation.
"Thankfully all his tests have been good. He's suffering from migraine symptoms at the moment.
"The specialist is quite happy with him. He'll have a couple more minor tests, and that will give us more idea. But while he still has a headache, he won't be training."
Ireland and Leinster centre Robbie Henshaw could face a four-month lay-off after tearing his pectoral muscle off the bone.
"The muscle needs to be reattached, and that's usually about a 16-week recovery," Dr Falvey said.
"He may do slightly better, but that's probably what we're looking at." | Jared Payne will have further tests on the migraines that ended his British and Irish Lions' tour of New Zealand. |
34,990,290 | The Austin race is in doubt because of a 20% cut in Texas state funding.
Meanwhile, FIA president Jean Todt and commercial boss Bernie Ecclestone have been given a mandate to make changes on "pressing issues".
The FIA has also allowed in-season engine development and increased tyre choices for next season.
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The longest season in the history of F1 starts in Australia on 20 March and features a new race in the Azerbaijan capital Baku on 19 June.
The Mexican Grand Prix has been moved forward seven days to 30 October, a week after Austin.
Among other changes from this year, the Russian Grand Prix moves from October to 1 May, with Malaysia moving from its previous slot after Australia to 2 October.
The British Grand Prix is on 10 July.
The FIA World Council has taken the unusual step of giving Todt and Ecclestone the right to "make recommendations and decisions regarding a number of pressing issues in F1 such as governance, power units and cost reduction".
This move follows the rejection of a plan by the pair to introduce a low-cost 'alternative engine', after opposition from Mercedes and Ferrari.
F1's two bosses are locked in a fight with the major teams over power and control of the sport, with engines the main battle ground.
Ecclestone wants to re-establish his authority, while Todt's main aim so far has been to persuade the engine manufacturers to lower the cost of the power-units they supply to customers.
A statement by the FIA said Todt and Ecclestone had "expressed their intention to establish conclusions on these matters by 31 January 2016".
That is two weeks after the engine manufacturers have agreed to present a proposal on engines, including ways to reduce costs, increase availability and simplify their design.
Major steps have been made by the FIA to free up engine development in an attempt to allow rival companies to catch up with the dominant Mercedes team.
All manufacturers will have 32 development 'tokens' available next season, ascribed to parts of the engine depending on their influence on performance. That is an increase from the previous number of 25 for next year.
The amount of tokens available in succeeding years has also been increased, to 25 in 2017, 20 in 2018 and 15 in 2019.
The rules governing potential new entrants have also changed.
Honda had to fight to be allowed only nine tokens in its first season this year and was scheduled to then move into step with the restrictions on its three rivals, Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault, all of whom have had one more year's racing with their engines.
But now any new manufacturer will be allowed 15 tokens in its first season, and then 32, 25 and so on in succeeding years.
In another change to the engine rules, manufacturers will now be allowed to supply more than one specification of engines to customers.
The FIA has agreed to allow Ferrari make a supply of 2015 engines to a team which it did not specify, but which is known to be the Red Bull junior team Toro Rosso.
Teams will be allowed to choose from three tyre types at each race next year, compared to the current two.
This is an attempt to introduce more strategic variety and uncertainty into the races.
Teams will still have to use at least two different types in each race, unless there is wet weather. | The 2016 United States Grand Prix has been listed as provisional on a record 21-race calendar confirmed by Formula 1's governing body the FIA. |
36,995,591 | Viewers in the US had to make do with not-so-live coverage of Rio's Olympic opening ceremony, and many were not happy about it.
The country's Olympic broadcaster, NBC, decided to show the ceremony at prime time in all time zones - meaning that audiences on the east coast saw it with an hour's delay, while those on the west coast had to wait for four hours after the ceremony had started before coverage began.
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NBC responded to online criticism by saying that its team needed time to edit the ceremony and put it into context for viewers in the US.
In a statement, a spokesperson said: "It's not a sports competition.
"It's a cultural ceremony that requires deep levels of understanding, with numerous camera angles and our commentary laid over it.
"We think it's important to give it the proper context. And primetime is still when the most people are available to watch."
But for many, the non-live coverage sat uncomfortably with the fact that they could follow news and updates in real time online. Some took steps to stream the coverage from overseas broadcasters.
The New York Times has hinted that perhaps the decision to delay the coverage was commercial, as more viewers joined for its "nakedly promotional introductory half hour".
The newspaper said: "NBC featured the American athletes it is counting on for story lines, like the swimmer Michael Phelps and the sprinter Allyson Felix; and an intrusive, embarrassing promo touted NBC's most prominent announcers.
"The nadir of the evening was a five-minute segment, positioned just before the start of the opening ceremony, that was ostensibly about Olympic golf but was really a plug for the NBCUniversal-owned Golf Channel."
In another indication of commercial concerns, the network's executives reportedly lobbied the International Olympic Committee unsuccessfully to have the athletes parade in English language alphabetical order rather than Portuguese.
According to a report by Bloomberg, the reason for this was that "United States" comes right towards the end giving stateside television audiences an incentive to watch to the end.
"Estados Unidos", on the other hand, comes midway through the parade and provides the audience with an easy point to tune out and turn in for the evening.
On Twitter, many people complained about the frequent ad breaks.
But some people thought that despite the extra time for preparation, the NBC hosts got the tone wrong.
Writing in Vox, culture editor Todd Van Der Werff said the hosts contributed "inane chatter", including joking about how Djibouti (a country in east Africa) sounds like "yer booty".
Mr Van Der Werff blamed an "entertainment-first approach" to the Olympics.
NBC has had the licence for broadcasting the Summer Olympics in the US since 1998, and the Winter Olympics since 2002. | When is a live spectacle not a live spectacle? |
36,859,103 | Police confirmed the discovery following a search by emergency services which had been called to reports that one person was trapped in the vehicle.
The incident happened on Lapwing Road, next to the Braehead shopping centre in Renfrew, at about 13:20.
The car was later lifted out of the water by a recovery vehicle.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Inquiries are continuing to establish the exact circumstances of how the vehicle came to enter the River Clyde, with crash scene examiners conducting an investigation at the location."
A post-mortem examination will take place to establish the exact cause of death.
A hole could be seen in a safety fence where the vehicle crashed through and into the river.
The site is close to a large housing block, and a crowd gathered at the police cordon.
Witnesses said the car was seen driving "at speed" and clipping another two cars before breaching the metal fence and entering the water.
One resident who asked not to be named said: "I heard a loud noise and minutes later there were police everywhere then the helicopter arrived.
"I heard that it was a woman driving alone." | The body of a woman has been recovered from a car which plunged into the River Clyde. |
33,379,468 | 4 July 2015 Last updated at 00:09 BST
Steve Wilcox, who ran a crowd-funding campaign to recreate the rubbery keys, told the BBC his team had received what was likely to be the final product.
He said the project had been delayed after the team decided to support Android tablets as well as Apple's iOS devices.
The new keyboard can be connected to a tablet computer with Bluetooth and used to control retro gaming apps.
A majority of the computing is done by the tablet, not the keyboard.
Mr Wilcox said the company had the necessary licence to use the ZX Spectrum name and the software it was offering in the keyboard's companion app.
He said he hoped the finished keyboards would be delivered within six weeks and sent to those who had backed the project.
The initial production run of 5,000 units has already sold out. | Fans of the ZX Spectrum's spongy keyboard are one step closer to typing on it again. |
40,403,635 | The proposals to overhaul education provision in Jedburgh emerged earlier this year.
They would see Parkside and Howdenburn primaries and Jedburgh Grammar shut and replaced by a new campus for children aged two to 18 at Hartrigge Park.
The latest consultation event is being held in the Grammar School's assembly hall from noon until 19:00.
Scottish Borders Council has said the campus would have state-of-the-art classrooms and learning spaces, the very best IT infrastructure and first-class leisure and dining provision, as well as the very best sporting and PE facilities.
The project could be approved later this year with the new Jedburgh campus operational by 2020. | Plans to merge two primaries and a secondary in a Borders town are set to receive further scrutiny. |
40,576,442 | Former Colchester loanee Pyke, 19, scored twice for Vale in a pre-season friendly win over non-league neighbours Kidsgrove on Saturday.
Pyke failed to score in 12 outings for Colchester last season after joining the Essex club on loan during the January transfer window.
Vale have signed two other strikers Tom Pope and Tyrone Barnett this summer.
Boss Michael Brown has also made six other close-season signings, winger Cristian Montano, goalkeepers Rob Lainton and Sam Hornby, and defenders Joe Davis, Graham Kelly and Antony Kay.
They are also expected to sign experienced full-back Lawrie Wilson following his release from promoted Championship side Bolton Wanderers.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Huddersfield Town striker Rekeil Pyke has joined relegated League Two club Port Vale on a season-long loan. |
34,432,697 | Kunio Hoshi, who worked for a farming project, was attacked in the town of Kaunia.
Islamic State (IS) militants said they had carried out the attack.
It comes days after an Italian aid worker was murdered in the capital Dhaka in an attack also claimed by the jihadist group.
The authorities have not verified the claims.
Mr Hoshi's body has been taken to a state-run hospital. An investigation is under way.
The killing of the Italian man, Cesare Tavella, prompted the US and UK to warn its citizens to be cautious.
Attacks on foreigners in Bangladesh are rare, correspondents say, but Islamist violence has surged recently, including high-profile attacks on atheist bloggers. | A Japanese man has been shot dead in northern Bangladesh, police said, in the second killing of a foreign national in a week. |
38,651,816 | In an interview on Monday, Mr Trump had said Mrs Merkel had made an "utterly catastrophic mistake by letting all these illegals into the country".
But Anthony Scaramucci said the incoming president had an "enormous amount of respect for her".
Mr Scaramucci also told the BBC the US would win a trade war with China.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Scaramucci said that Mr Trump had been "trying to be complimentary" about Mrs Merkel.
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Mr Scaramucci, who will enter the White House on Friday as a senior adviser to the president, acknowledged that Mr Trump's comments had been received by many as an attack on the European community, but dismissed reports of a feud between the US and German administrations.
"You shouldn't be worried," he told the BBC.
"We have a very longstanding, very close cohesive relationship with western Europe and that will remain in place during the Trump administration."
In the controversial interview with The Times and Germany's Bild, Mr Trump also appeared to put Russia's Vladimir Putin and Chancellor Merkel on an equal footing, saying he would "start off trusting both".
But Mr Scaramucci denied that the president-elect was being disparaging of Mrs Merkel.
"He was basically saying that he holds her in a tremendous amount of respect, but she may have made some mistake as it related to the influx of immigration, which from what I have read from the German press, she has admitted to. So I don't understand why this is such an international outcry."
Mr Scaramucci, who is the only member of the Trump administration to attend this year's World Economic Forum, also predicted that European leaders would warm to the incoming president.
"Over the next two to three years… I think Chancellor Merkel will respect the strength of President Trump. I think she will have a great relationship with him." | One of Donald Trump's closest advisers has told the BBC the US president-elect's criticism of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been misinterpreted. |
23,830,590 | Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama spoke on the telephone for 40 minutes on Saturday.
Both were "gravely concerned" by the "increasing signs that this was a[n]... attack carried out by the Syrian regime", Mr Cameron's office said.
But intervention would have serious consequences and the US case was weak, the Syrian information minister warned.
In an interview with Lebanese TV, Omran Zoabi said: "If the US leads a military intervention, this will have dangerous consequences. It will bring chaos and the region will burn."
The Syrian government has denied any use of chemical weapons, blaming rebel fighters instead.
State television reported on Saturday that soldiers had found chemical agents in tunnels used by the rebels to the east of Damascus.
It broadcast images of gas masks and plastic containers, but nothing to support official statements that soldiers had "suffered from cases of suffocation" when rebels used poison gas "as a last resort" after government forces made "big gains" in the suburb of Jobar.
Opposition activists accuse forces supporting President Bashar al-Assad of killing between 500 and more than 1,000 civilians in several suburbs east and west of capital in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
They want the areas inspected by UN chemical weapons experts who are already in Damascus to investigate other suspected attacks.
By Jim MuirBBC News, Beirut
Out of the chaos and confusion of the past few days, several things have emerged clearly.
Even the regime itself and its closest allies, Russia and Iran, do not dispute that chemical weapons were used in the suburbs of Damascus on Wednesday. The evidence from a huge flow of distressing amateur video is too massive to dismiss.
Both Moscow and Tehran have said they are urging the Syrian authorities to co-operate with the UN chemical weapons inspectors already in Damascus, and the Iranian foreign minister has quoted his Syrian counterpart as saying the government is preparing the conditions for a site visit.
With combat continuing in the affected areas, there is clearly scope for prevarication and delay, although Western patience is short.
But at least an appearance of regime willingness to co-operate may for the moment let the US and its allies off the hook.
For one of the other elements that has become clearer than ever in the past few days is the great reluctance of US President Barack Obama and others to plunge into an embroilment that would be hard to get out of, and which would carry a very high risk of aggravating the situation even further.
Attack may force search for peace
The UN's disarmament chief, Angela Kane, arrived in Damascus on Saturday to press the authorities for access.
Iran's Irna state news agency reported that Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem had told his Iranian counterpart that Damascus was "co-operating" with the UN experts and "preparing the opportunity for them to visit areas which have been attacked chemically by terrorist groups".
"The UN Security Council has called for immediate access for UN investigators on the ground in Damascus," Downing Street said in a statement.
"The fact that President Assad has failed to co-operate with the UN suggests that the regime has something to hide."
It said Mr Cameron and Mr Obama had "reiterated that significant use of chemical weapons would merit a serious response from the international community and both have tasked officials to examine all the options".
The statement said the two men had agreed it was "vital that the world upholds the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons and deters further outrages".
They would keep in "close contact", it added.
The US president earlier convened his National Security Council to discuss options on Syria.
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said the American military, which is repositioning naval forces in the Mediterranean, was ready to act.
"President Obama has asked the defence department to prepare options for all contingencies. We have done that and we are prepared to exercise whatever option - if he decides to employ one of those options," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said he understood that the "serious response" mentioned in the UK statement would not include "boots on the ground".
But a range of other options was not ruled out, he said, potentially including air strikes.
On Sunday, Iran's deputy armed forces chief, Massoud Jazayeri, warned the US against crossing the "red line" on Syria, saying it would have "severe consequences", according to the Fars news agency.
The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said three hospitals it supports in the Damascus area had treated about 3,600 patients with "neurotoxic symptoms" early on Wednesday morning, of whom 355 have died.
While MSF said it could not "scientifically confirm" the use of chemical weapons, staff at the hospitals described a large number of patients arriving in the space of less than three hours with symptoms including convulsions, pinpoint pupils and breathing problems.
MSF director of operations Bart Janssens said the symptoms - as well as the "massive influx of patients in a short period of time" - strongly suggested mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based activist group, meanwhile said it had documented the deaths of 322 people, including 82 women and 54 children.
On Sunday morning, several suburbs of Damascus reportedly came under heavy shell and mortar fire, as government forces continued their offensive on rebel strongholds.
At least 114 people were killed across the country on Saturday, including 33 people in the capital, according to the Local Co-ordination Committees, an opposition activist network.
The UN says more than 100,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Assad began more than two years ago. | The UK and the US have threatened a "serious response" if it emerges Syria used chemical weapons last week. |
39,255,460 | Brentford defender Egan and Reading midfielder Kelly are in the 39-man provisional squad with Newcastle keeper Rob Elliott, who returns after a year.
Brighton defender Shane Duffy and Reading midfielder Stephen Quinn miss out because of injury.
The Irish host Wales on 24 March before a 28 March friendly with Iceland.
The extended panel for the two Aviva Stadium games was announced on Monday by Republic boss Martin O'Neill.
Everton midfielder James McCarthy is an injury doubt after suffering a recurrence of a hamstring injury.
Elliot returns to the squad for the first time since being injured against Slovakia in March last year.
The visit of Wales will be the Republic's fifth qualifying game following victories over Georgia, Moldova and Austria, as well as a draw away to Serbia.
The results have taken O'Neill's men to the top of Group D with six qualifiers remaining.
Wales have won just one of their four qualifiers and lie four points behind the Republic.
Republic of Ireland provisional squad:
Goalkeepers: Colin Doyle (Bradford City), Rob Elliot (Newcastle United), Darren Randolph (West Ham United), Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday)
Defenders: Seamus Coleman (Everton), Cyrus Christie, Richard Keogh, Alex Pearce (Derby County), Paul McShane (Reading), Andy Boyle (Preston North End), John O'Shea (Sunderland), Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United), John Egan (Brentford), Stephen Ward (Burnley), Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
Midfielders: Aiden McGeady, Daryl Horgan (Preston North End), Glenn Whelan (Stoke City), James McCarthy (Everton), Jeff Hendrick, Robbie Brady (Burnley), David Meyler (Hull City), Liam Kelly (Reading), Darron Gibson (Sunderland), Harry Arter (Bournemouth), Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United), Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa), Stephen Gleeson (Birmingham City), Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City), Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City), Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City), Jonathan Hayes (Aberdeen), James McClean (West Bromwich Albion)
Forwards: Kevin Doyle (Colorado Rapids), Shane Long (Southampton), David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town), Daryl Murphy (Newcastle United), Adam Rooney (Aberdeen), Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) | John Egan and Liam Kelly have been given their first call-ups in the Republic of Ireland squad to face Wales in a World Cup qualifier. |
14,465,546 | Investigators can apply to see the contents of text and instant messages, as well as their location.
However, authorities may not be able to access the full wealth of data available to telecoms companies because of legal restrictions.
Guidelines require police to find out individuals' identities first before obtaining records from trouble spots.
Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, has already said that it will be cooperating with investigations, and pointed out that it is bound to hand over subscriber information when it relates to criminal activity.
The company's BBM instant messenger has been identified as one of the services used by rioters to coordinate their actions.
Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), police can apply for details of a customer's phone records, including their location, details of calls made and received, and internet activity.
But requests must be made for each suspect on a case-by-case basis.
Police would be unable to carry out a broad-based search, identifying, for example, every person who was in Clapham Junction sending the word "riot".
"They would have to say we want this individual's comms data and these are the reasons why," said solicitor advocate Simon McKay, who has written a book on the subject.
"When it comes to the next person they would have to look at that completely separately and re-apply."
Initial identification data would likely need to be taken from video, photographs, CCTV footage and other intelligence.
Those limits mean telecoms subscriber data becomes useful additional evidence, rather than a first port of call.
Mr McKay explained that, when considering requests, the issue of collateral intrusion also had to be taken into account - specifically, how much of other people's data might inadvertently be disclosed, along with that of the suspect.
Such safeguards make investigations extremely labour intensive according to Barrie Davies, a retired chief inspector who now teaches RIPA procedure for Baron Training.
"It is a lot of paperwork," he told BBC News.
"People don't always believe us but there is a lot of oversight that is done by authorising officers to make sure that anything that is done is necessary and proportionate."
Despite the restrictions, some legal experts believe there is scope to push RIPA guidelines further than they have been in the past.
One senior barrister, with extensive experience of this area, told the BBC that doing a "trawl" for mobile phones in a particular location where rioting was taking place might be considered proportionate in this case.
However, he conceded that it was unlikely police would make such a request.
Another possibility, according to solicitor Mike Conradi from DLA Piper, would be for BlackBerry to pro-actively offer a limited portion of their user data to police.
"They could say 'this person in in Brixton and he sent messages to 40 people and an hour later 25 of them turned up'," said Mr Conradi.
That basic information could be used to narrow down suspects worthy of further investigation, without violating either data protection or RIPA guidelines, he explained.
"There's a specific section in the data protection act which says you can disclose personal information for the purposes of detection of crime without the consent of the person to whom it relates."
The Met Police was unavailable for comment on this matter at the time of writing. | Police may be able to use rioters' mobile phone information to help convict them, say legal experts. |
32,884,304 | The Barnsley-born 24-year-old made 46 appearances for the Shaymen this season, scoring four goals.
He told the club website: "The gaffer here is great and I'm looking forward to working for him.
"I'm an old-fashioned defender. I'm strong in the air and won't lose many headers. I'm not bad on the floor but I'm looking to improve." | Barnsley have signed FC Halifax Town centre-back and captain Marc Roberts on a three-year deal. |
38,684,380 | The 60-year-old replaced Craig Hignett at Victoria Park on Wednesday.
The former Cardiff, Wolves, Southampton and Stockport boss was last in management at Sheffield Wednesday, but left Hillsborough in December 2013.
"The chairman sold me it, Gary sold me a dream. He showed an ambition and why not?" Jones told BBC Tees.
He will take over officially on Monday, and his first game in charge will be a trip to Wales to face Newport County on 28 January.
"I've had people phoning me and saying it is fantastic and I've had other people saying are you mad?" he said.
"I just felt it was right for me after talking to Gary. He's very ambitious, young, he's a bit naive on certain things but that's why he's employed me as a football manager.
"He's employed me to build this football club. That's hopefully how he sees it."
Pools have also announced that Alex Armstrong will be another assistant manager along with Kevin Cooper. | New Hartlepool manager Dave Jones says the vision of chairman Gary Coxall persuaded him to agree to take charge of the League Two side. |
29,060,917 | Alice Gross of Hanwell, west London, was last seen by her family at about 13:00 BST on 28 August.
Her mother told the BBC Alice had recently been diagnosed with anorexia.
CCTV footage shows her walking along the Grand Union Canal tow path near the Holiday Inn at Brentford Lock between 13:30 BST and 17:30 BST.
Speaking on BBC London 94.9, Alice's mother Rosalind Hodgkiss said: "Alice had been diagnosed with anorexia and was going through a tough time in a number of ways and we are wondering whether her disappearance had anything to do with that, but we don't know.
"That is the main reason why we have had such concerns for her well being and her health in particular."
The teenager had told her family she was going to meet up with friends but went for a walk alone on the riverside tow path, CCTV footage showed.
"We are desperate to know that she is safe and we really want her to know that we want her home, and we are desperate for her to know how loved she is," the mother added.
The Met Police's homicide team has "taken the lead" on the case.
The purple rucksack, which contained items that have been identified by Alice's family, was found alongside the towpath on Tuesday, police said.
CCTV footage of the towpath shows the Brentside High School student wearing a rucksack-style bag while walking in the River Brent area.
She was heading in the direction of the Kew at about 14:23 BST and more than an hour later was seen on the same tow path, walking alone, heading in the direction of Hanwell.
The Met Police said it was "not unusual" for the homicide team to be involved, although it remains a missing person inquiry.
Det Ch Insp Andy Chalmers said: "A week on since Alice was last seen by her family we are becoming increasingly worried about her welfare and safety as each day passes.
"Her disappearance is out of character and this investigation continues to be a priority for us.
"Our investigation has reached a point where we now know Alice was heading along the Grand Union Canal tow path in the direction of Hanwell and one would assume she was heading home."
Divers have also been seen in the River Brent near to where the teenager went missing.
Police have appealed for anyone who saw Alice on the towpath or befriended her while she was on a song-writing workshop at the Camden Roundhouse to contact them.
The teenager has been described as being 5ft 2in tall, slim, with shoulder-length light brown hair.
When she was last seen by her family, she was wearing dark blue jeans, a dark green lacy cardigan and denim Van's shoes. She may also be wearing tartan-framed spectacles. | A rucksack belonging to a 14-year-old girl who has been missing for a week has been found beside the River Brent in west London. |
34,861,073 | The blockade has also prevented the delivery of earthquake relief supplies.
Ethnic groups from the southern plains, reportedly backed by some Indians, have been stopping supply trucks entering Nepal since September.
They are protesting against a new constitution which they say discriminates against them.
Nepal produces around 40% of its medicines internally and imports 60% from India.
Because of the blockade, Nepal is neither receiving enough new medicine from Indian nor able to produce its own supplies as raw materials have also been prevented from entering the country.
The Himalayan nation is already grappling with the aftermath of two earthquakes earlier this year that killed almost 9,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
"Hospitals have run out of essential drugs and supplies, vital social services have been disrupted and aid agencies such as Oxfam have not been able to secure fuel to deliver relief items to prepare people for the winter in earthquake-affected districts," said Cecilia Keizer, head of Oxfam in Nepal.
The acting director general of Nepal's Department of Drug Administration, Narayan Dhakal, says he has been asked by the WHO to assess how much medicine is left in the country.
The Manmohan Thoracic Centre in Kathmandu has said it no longer has stocks of a number of essential medicines including adrenaline, atropine and saline.
Another heart hospital in Kathmandu, Shahid Gangalal Heart Centre, has postponed bypass surgeries because it had run out of the special thread needed to sew up the heart.
As well as causing a medicine shortage, the blockade has meant towns and cities across Nepal have run low on fuel, food and general supplies. More than three quarters of Nepal's international trade is with India, and it relies almost wholly on its southern neighbour for fuel.
Protesters in the country's southern plains are angry with the country's new constitution which they say discriminates against them because it fails to give them equal representation with Nepal's other ethnic and regional groups.
The Nepalese government has accused India of unofficially backing this protest by slowing or stopping completely traffic from crossing the border into Nepal.
The Indian government has denied this, but has said it cannot allow trucks to enter Nepal while conditions are unsafe.
It has also criticised the new constitution and urged Nepal's leaders to engage in dialogue with the protesters. | Doctors in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, say hospitals are running out of medicines because of a blockade by protesters on the border with India. |
34,028,507 | The 24-year-old had a previous loan spell at Roots Hall in January 2014 but only played once before it was curtailed by injury.
He joined the Clarets from Leicester in 2012 but has only made two first-team appearances, and has had loan spells at York, Scunthorpe and Leyton Orient.
He started on the bench in Saturday's League One match against Swindon.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League One side Southend United have re-signed Burnley defender Luke O'Neill on a one-month loan. |
34,453,391 | The film, which features scenes shot on Skye, stars Michael Fassbender in the lead role and Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth.
The costumes include Macbeth's boots, Lady Macbeth's banquet dress and one of the three witches' garments.
Moray has connections to the real and fictional Macbeths.
Clothes-maker Johnstons of Elgin is displaying Lady Macbeth's Inverness banquet costume and Macbeth's tunic and wool blanket.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's coronation costumes will later be added to the Johnstons display following a show in London.
Lady Macduff's banquet dress and riding outfit together with accessories are on display at Elgin Museum.
Macbeth's battle costume has been loaned to Brodie Castle near Forres as well as Lady Macbeth's dress and cloak in which she delivers the famous "Out damned spot" speech.
The Falconer Museum in Forres has one of the witches' costumes as well as the costumes of the characters Duncan, Banquo and Fleance.
The costumes and props, including daggers and jewellery, have been loaned by film distributor Studiocanal as part of a partnership agreement with VisitScotland to promote Scotland on the back of the film's release in UK cinemas on 2 October.
They will be displayed at the four venues until the start of November when all the items will move to the Moray Art Centre in Findhorn.
Scott Armstrong, of VisitScotland, said: "I've no doubt that film fans up and down the country will relish the opportunity to see costumes that not only appear in this new film but are also worn by some of its biggest stars.
"It's fantastic to see local tourism businesses capitalising on this outstanding opportunity and I hope that the film will lead to even more visitors coming to the Highlands and Moray to tread the same ground as one of Scotland's most famous kings."
Esme Saville, of Moray Speyside Tourism, said: "We are delighted to have these costumes here bringing a little of the magic of the movies to Moray and we hope that it will bring people to the towns to appreciate their history and culture." | Costumes and props from the new big screen adaption of William Shakespeare's Macbeth have been loaned to museums in Moray. |
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