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39,424,034 | That result left First Minister Carwyn Jones - a staunch Remainer - in a tricky situation.
Despite the first minister's pre-referendum position, the Welsh Government has accepted the referendum result - but argued that Wales must retain full single market access.
Both the Labour Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru published a Brexit White Paper setting out what Wales wants post-Brexit.
They feel there are still plenty of battles left to fight.
Mr Jones' latest concern is over the future of economic aid (worth £2bn to Wales between 2014-20) and farming subsidies (£250m a year) - the concern being that there may be no money at all after 2020.
But the first minister does not think Prime Minister Theresa May is listening to him, accusing her in an article in the Guardian newspaper of having a "tin ear" on matters of devolution.
But Mrs May is more likely to need a tin hat when it comes to her relationship with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the relationship between the prime minister and the Welsh first minister is not so tense.
The number 50 has been prominent in Carwyn Jones's thoughts in recent weeks.
Last week he turned 50 - eight days ahead of the triggering of Article 50.
He told me at the Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno on Sunday that despite rumours he will step down before the next Welsh election in 2021 he had given "no thought" to the idea.
"I just turned 50," he said. "I'm still much younger than Theresa May, younger than David Cameron.
"There's a lot of work to do, particularly with Brexit."
There is support for Brexit in the assembly - the Conservatives have 11 seats and their leader Andrew RT Davies was arguably the loudest pro-Brexit voice in Wales during the referendum campaign.
UKIP entered the Senedd in Cardiff Bay for the very first time last May after winning seven seats in the assembly election.
There is no doubt Carwyn Jones would rather the UK was not leaving the EU- but his top priority in the post-Article 50 discussions will be to secure Welsh access to the single market. | Wales voted for Brexit - the result here roughly mirrored the UK result with 52.5% of people in Wales voting for the UK to leave the EU and 47.5% to remain. |
36,548,597 | Liberty House has announced that the former Tata plants at Dalzell and Clydebridge, which are set to resume production in September, will make the steel plate needed for the towers.
Liberty House started recruiting staff at the Scottish plants last week.
The site where the towers will be built has not yet been announced.
Liberty House bought the steel tower production equipment from Mabey Bridge Renewables at Chepstow, South Wales. which closed down last year.
The equipment makes towers of up to 56m (184ft) tall x 5m (16ft) diameter for onshore wind installations but Liberty plans to upgrade it to make 110m (361ft) x 10m (33ft) towers for the growing offshore market.
Towers and cross sections for the National Grid's new 35m (115ft) tall T-Pylons, expected to become a common feature across Britain, will also be made.
Liberty House's executive chairman Sanjeev Gupta said: "We are very excited about this new opportunity. It is an excellent example of how we are integrating our steel production and manufacturing supply chain to create a robust industrial eco-system.
"It is particularly appropriate that this new business will supply the renewable energy market in view of our own Greensteel strategy, which involves investing in green energy as the basis of a competitive UK steel and engineering industry."
He added: "Our aim is to create a world-class centre for the production of tubular towers and other large-scale steel fabrication.
"Most of these products are currently imported, so there is great potential to substitute this with our own production of best-in-class and competitive British towers, building sustained value and creating skilled jobs in a growth sector."
Liberty said it hoped to re-employ some ex-Tata employees who lost their jobs when the Socttish plants were mothballed by Tata last October.
However, applications are also being encouraged from those looking to join the steel industry for the first time.
Liberty said it planned to offer apprenticeship opportunities, including modern apprenticeships in engineering, finance and commercial planning.
WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said: "Following this week's announcement of over 100 new jobs at Nigg on the Cromarty Firth to support the construction of an offshore wind farm, it's great to hear of the potential for even more jobs linked to renewables.
"This news underscores the type of jobs benefits that will come as the UK transitions to a zero-carbon economy."
The Scottish government set up a steel task force after Tata announced it was mothballing the plants in Motherwell and Cambuslang.
The government later bought the mills and immediately sold them to Liberty. | Two Lanarkshire steel plants which were mothballed last October are to resume production with a contract to produce heavy-duty steel for wind towers. |
36,560,205 | Six men have become the victims of the scam in the past ten days.
They have reported being asked to share explicit images or videos with women online.
Then the blackmail begins - with threats made to share the content on the internet if the men do not co-operate.
Police have issued a warning to all internet users to be on high alert following the reports.
It is believed the men were drawn into a honey-trap through social media accounts which appeared to belong to women.
Several men report similar crimes to the police every week.
Det Chief Insp James Mullen said anyone who becomes the victim of a similar crime should not respond to the blackmailers demands or pass on any money, but report the incident to the police immediately.
He said most of the time those making threats do not follow through, and simply move on to their next victim.
"Generally people are very embarrassed, but we want them to know they can come to us.
"We all deserve to be able to use the internet to learn, explore and connect with each other.
"But, all of us need to be aware of the risks involved in doing so, especially on social media."
The advice from police is not to share personal information or images with people you do not know.
"Do not get lured into compromising situations such as removing clothes or performing intimate acts online. You do not know who may see the images," Det Chief Insp Mullen said.
"It may seem like a bit of fun at the time but there is always a chance those images could be shared or get into the wrong hands and could lead to harmful situations such as stalking, abuse or blackmail."
Police have also warned users not to accept friend requests from people they do not know and to set privacy settings on all devices so that only friends can view an account. | Men in Northern Ireland are being lured into performing intimate acts online by scammers who want to blackmail them, police have said. |
34,377,600 | In June, the mobile phone network had said it was talking to Liberty Global over "a possible exchange of selected assets between the two companies".
The two firms never disclosed which assets they were thinking of swapping.
The deal was seen as a key part of Vodafone's strategy and shares in the telecoms firm fell 5% in London.
Two weeks ago Liberty Global chairman John Malone had warned the two sides were struggling to find common ground.
Shares in the cable giant have also fallen in early trading in New York, losing 8% to $44 at 17:20 (BST).
Claire Enders, founder of research firm Enders Analysis, said: "Why were people disappointed when mission impossible foundered? I don't know."
She said one possible sticking point was on Liberty Global's high valuation of its prized asset, Virgin Media.
Regulatory issues in Germany, where Vodafone and Liberty Global own the two biggest cable operators, and the Netherlands also clouded the talks.
The telecoms industry has been going through a period of deal making as phone companies attempt to offer their customers packages of television, broadband, mobile and traditional phone services.
Investors have been keen to see Vodafone's next move after it sold a 45% stake in US-based Verizon Wireless for $130bn (£84bn) in 2013 - one of the biggest corporate deals in history.
Last year it acquired Germany's Kabel Deutschland for €7.7bn (£5.7bn), and was also linked to a deal for BSkyB. | Vodafone says it has ended talks with Virgin Media owner Liberty Global over a potential asset swap. |
38,067,811 | Chattanooga Police charged 24-year-old Johnthony Walker overnight with five counts of vehicular homicide, as well as reckless driving and endangerment.
There were 37 children on board when the bus swerved off the road, striking a tree and a utility pole.
Federal officials have arrived in Tennessee to assist the investigation.
On Monday evening police said that five children had died and more than 20 had been injured.
Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston said that a sixth child had later died in hospital, but that could not be immediately confirmed.
A police affidavit posted on Chattanooga station WTVC says that Mr Walker was driving well above the 30mph (48km/h) speed limit when the crash occurred. No other vehicle was involved.
Emergency crews took nearly two hours to get all the children off the bus. Many lay bleeding on stretchers, while others walked away stunned and in shock with their parents.
School officials quoted by the Chattanooga Times Free Press said that 12 children remained hospitalised on Tuesday, with six in intensive care.
Roads at the time "appeared to be clear and dry", officials said at a Monday afternoon press conference.
They added that Mr Walker had been co-operating in the investigation, and that a warrant had been issued to remove the bus's black box, which records data about the vehicle's movement.
The parent of two children who were aboard the bus told ABC News on Tuesday morning that he had sometimes seen the driver going faster than he should be.
"There has been times where I've seen him going a little faster than he probably should be going," Craig Harris told the programme, adding that his two children are in shock and pain but are getting better.
Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke said the "most unnatural thing in the world is for a parent to mourn the loss of a child".
"There are no words that can bring comfort to a mother or a father. So today, the city is praying for these families," he said.
The Woodmere Elementary School opened on Tuesday, with grief counsellors available to students, officials said.
Local blood banks have asked that people schedule appointments, as there have been long queues since Monday afternoon of people wishing to donate blood.
Mr Walker's bond has been set at $107,500 (£87,000) and he is due in court later this month, court records show. | Police in Tennessee have arrested the driver of a school bus that crashed on Monday, killing at least five children and seriously hurting several more. |
38,503,099 | When the sport switched to a summer season in 1996, the old Bradford Northern reinvented themselves.
As the rebranded Bulls they came kicking and charging into the new era and anything seemed possible.
Odsal Stadium, an inhospitable giant hole in the ground in the winter months, became rugby league's summer hot-spot.
Crowds doubled and tripled as the fabulously successful Bulls blasted their way to silverware success to a back drop of memorable matchday entertainment.
There was live music, fire-eaters, light shows and fireworks. It was rugby league rock and roll, on and off the field.
Multiple Challenge Cups, Championships and World Club titles were won and Odsal's capacity was frequently tested by a booming, bouncing fanbase.
The club was colourful, noisy and wonderfully good fun.
But those good times weren't to last.
The 2006 World Club Challenge was their last major success.
Suddenly the Grand Finals at Old Trafford, the showdowns against the best of the Australian clubs and a powerful presence at rugby league's top table ended.
A temporary slip in playing standards, part of the cycle of sport, was magnified by colossal mismanagement. It was the start of the plunge down the Super League table, into a string of administrations, relegation to the Championship and now liquidation.
The first of the crises became public knowledge in 2012 when Peter Hood, the then chairman, revealed a £1m black hole and the club went into administration in June of that year.
Coach Mick Potter was made redundant but carried on unpaid until the end of the campaign.
Fans rallied around to raise the £1m, but saw every penny disappear in a desperate but futile attempt to steady the ship.
Instead, a new consortium fronted by local businessman Omar Khan took over the club in August 2012, the first in a series of ownerships by different groups that have come and gone as the club continued to slip towards its current state.
With six points deducted for another financial calamity in 2014, the club was relegated.
A year later, defeat by Wakefield in the Million Pound game prevented an immediate return to Super League. And more financial woes followed.
Now the club is at the lowest it has been in the modern era. With the old club liquidated, there is even a chance that the name of the Bradford Bulls may cease to exist.
That's unlikely to happen, though. More probable is that a new club will be formed, maybe even rebranded, and launched again in the Championship this year with a 12-point deduction.
The Rugby Football League reports plenty of interest in breathing life back into the currently defunct club, but that would be on the buyer's terms. No debts need be honoured.
That will leave a bad taste in the mouth of those owed money by this most recent business collapse. And many will be disappointed that a succession of owners have not been held to account for their mishandling of the club.
The RFL's role in being part of the process of approving some of those owners must also be questioned. To get it wrong once is forgivable, but three or four owners have come and gone after satisfying the scrutiny of the RFL and all have failed the Bulls' fans.
For the sake of the reputation of the governing body, the next owners must deliver something other than failure. This time it will be the RFL alone who decide who the new custodians of the club will be, so they will be accountable for their authenticity.
Nor does it feel entirely comfortable that a new club should be placed straight back into the Championship. Even with a 12-point deduction they still have a chance of immediate promotion in the game's new Super 8s set-up.
There are several clubs in League One, who, having lived by the financial rules, possibly wouldn't mind being elevated into the higher league, even at this late stage of the pre-season.
Putting Bradford right back where the last club failed has a scent of flippancy around it; a disregard for those who have lost heavily investing in the previous failed venture.
But all that said, rugby league does need a buoyant Bulls to come bouncing back.
The game as a whole has gone a little grey over the last few years for all sorts or reasons - a sense of lowered playing standards, international failure, big stars exiting for the brighter lights of the NRL.
If someone could take Bradford back to those Friday nights of glitz and glamour and gladiatorial rugby league, it would reinject some of the sense of excitement that we had in the first 10 years of Super League.
Some of the biggest and most memorable games watched by the largest crowds in the summer seasons have involved Bradford Bulls.
The sport is getting something very new this year with the coming of the Toronto Wolfpack. But a little bit of the exciting old being restored would be very welcome too. | Bradford Bulls were Super League's iconic club. |
35,489,388 | She said a national mobilisation day would be held on Saturday, during which thousands of soldiers and state employees would work to eradicate the insects in homes and offices.
Ms Rousseff said most mosquitoes breed in or near people's homes.
Zika has been linked to babies being born with underdeveloped brains.
It is spreading through the Americas and the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the microcephaly disease linked to the virus a global public health emergency.
In her address, Ms Rousseff said that substantial federal resources were being released to fight Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, because it was a fight that "cannot be lost".
"All of us need to take part in this battle," she said.
"We need help and good will from everyone. Collaborate, mobilise your family and your community.
"I will insist, since science has not yet developed a vaccine against the Zika virus, that the only efficient method we have to prevent this illness is the vigorous battle against the mosquito."
The president also said that she wanted especially to send a "comforting message" to mothers and future mothers.
"We will do everything, absolutely everything in our reach to protect you. We will do everything, absolutely everything we can to offer support to the children affected by microcephaly and their families."
In a separate development, UN and US health officials have accused Brazil of not sharing enough samples and data to determine whether the virus is responsible for the increase in the number of babies born with abnormally small heads.
They say the lack of information is hampering efforts to provide diagnostic tests, drugs and vaccines, the AP news agency reported.
Laboratories in the US and Europe say they need samples from previous outbreaks if they are to carry out effective research on the evolution of the virus.
A major obstacle is Brazilian law, correspondents say, because it is technically illegal for Brazilian researchers and institutes to distribute genetic material, including blood samples containing Zika and other viruses.
European countries were warned on Wednesday that they too needed to make preparations once the Aedes mosquitoes become active on the continent during the spring and summer months.
In other Zika news:
Microcephaly: Why it is not the end of the world
What you need to know Key questions answered about the virus and its spread
Travel advice Countries affected and what you should do
The mosquito behind spread of virus What we know about the insect
Abortion dilemma Laws and practices in Catholic Latin America | Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has declared war on mosquitoes responsible for spreading the Zika virus in a recorded TV message to the nation. |
35,238,925 | The man, 72, and his 71-year-old wife have not been named.
An investigation was launched after a suitcase with some of the woman's body parts was found by a man walking near Traunsee lake on Sunday.
A day later, the German man's body was found in 5m (15ft) of water, with his wrists weighed down by bags of stones.
Investigators on Tuesday said the head of his wife, encased in concrete, was found near the man's body in the lake near the town of Gmunden, 80km (50 miles) east of Salzburg.
The couple were reported to be from Frankfurt.
Authorities believe the woman was strangled sometime between 25 December and 1 January but have not confirmed when the drowning occurred.
They believe he put her body parts in two suitcases. The second was found later on Sunday by a police dog.
The man's body showed no signs of a struggle, leading state prosecutor Birgit Ahamer to say: "We believe first and foremost that [the man's death] was suicide."
The bags tied to his hands contained personal belongings as well as rocks. | A German man strangled and dismembered his wife before encasing her head in a concrete block and drowning himself in an Austrian lake, police say. |
36,977,400 | In tests on 1,100 patients affected by a rare cancer called sarcoma, more than half were born with gene mutations known to increase cancer risk.
The study, published in The Lancet Oncology, said the inherited mutations could become targets for treatments.
And families affected by cancer could be offered screening and advice.
Inherited mutations in genes linked to breast, ovarian and bowel cancer, among others, were found to be common in sarcoma patients.
The researchers, from The Institute of Cancer Research, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said the results were revealing and gave a more detailed picture of how cancer risk is inherited.
Prof Ian Judson, who led the study at The Institute of Cancer Research in London, said: "We are going to need to think differently about inheritance.
"Sometimes you are confident there is something going on in the family - but standard patterns of risk might not fit.
"Now we can work out why that is because there may be two or three mutations going on."
Sarcoma is a very unusual cancer that develops in the bones, muscles or soft tissues of the body. There are around 3,000 cases of this cancer in the UK each year.
Because it can often affect children and young people, with low survival rates, the UK research team decided to find out more about the genetic causes of this particular cancer.
They analysed the DNA sequence of 72 genes linked to increased cancer risk in 1,162 patients with sarcoma.
One in five patients was found to have mutations or errors in more than one of the cancer genes tested.
Patients with mutations in multiple cancer genes were found to be more likely to develop cancer at a younger age than those with just one single genetic mutation.
So this suggests that many genetic mutations working together could be causing sarcoma in some patients, rather than just a single gene error causing their disease.
Prof Judson said that when such mutations are found, families could now be offered genetic screening and given proper advice on treatment.
Sarah McDonald, director of research at Sarcoma UK, said: "If we can identify individuals at high risk of developing sarcomas this could lead to earlier detection and more effective treatment of these tumours." | Scientists have discovered why some families are affected by many different types of cancer, thanks to genetic testing. |
25,058,345 | The captive's identity has not been confirmed as consular access has not been granted, AP news agency reports.
The disclosure comes amid concern for Merrill Newman, 85, who was reportedly detained weeks ago in North Korea.
Mr Newman's family have appealed to Pyongyang to free him, saying there has been "some dreadful misunderstanding" and that he may need medication.
North Korea's acknowledgement came via Swedish officials, who oversee consular issues for the US as it lacks diplomatic ties with North Korea.
The Swedish embassy in Pyongyang had been requesting access to the American on a daily basis, a state department spokesman said.
Mr Merrill's wife Lee said the family had had "no word on the state of his health, whether or not the medications sent to him through the Swedish Embassy in North Korea have been delivered or why he was detained".
"The family feels there has been some dreadful misunderstanding leading to his detention and asks that the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] work to settle this issue quickly and to return this 85-year-old grandfather to his anxious, concerned family," she said in a statement.
The couple's son, Jeffrey Newman, said earlier that Mr Merrill, a Korean War veteran, was taken off a plane by uniformed officers on 26 October at the end of a trip to North Korea.
He was visiting the country with a friend, on a guided tour arranged with a travel agent "approved by the North Korean government for travel of foreigners", Jeffrey Newman said.
US officials have not specifically confirmed the case, but have called on North Korea to "resolve the issue".
Merrill Newman appeared to have discussed his experience in the Korean War with North Korean officials the day before his detention, his son added.
Another veteran, also named Merrill Newman, was awarded a Silver Star medal for his efforts during the Korean War. In an interview with Reuters news agency, he said that he thought it was possible there had been "a case of mistaken identity".
The state department revised its travel guidance for North Korea this week, saying: "US citizens crossing into North Korea, even accidentally, have been subject to arbitrary arrest and long-term detention."
Another US citizen, Kenneth Bae, has been detained since November 2012.
US troops backed South Korea in the 1950-53 Korean War, which killed at least two million people. | North Korea has acknowledged that it is holding an American national, the US state department has said. |
36,418,383 | Muhiddin Mire, 30, admits attacking Lyle Zimmerman with a knife but denies attempted murder.
The court heard that on 5 December he attacked mandolin-carrying Mr Zimmerman, 56, from behind and kicked him in the head and body.
He then sawed at his neck with a knife.
Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said it was fortunate that the knife handle had become detached from the blade which made it harder to cut into his neck.
"Although he suffered three jagged wounds to the front of his neck, none of them caused any damage to any of the major blood vessels in that area."
An off-duty junior doctor treated Mr Zimmerman.
According to Mr Rees, Mr Mire also targeted a Polish man, Daniel Bielinski, swinging a knife at him.
He praised Mr Bielinski's bravery for filming the defendant on his phone "at considerable risk to himself" in an effort to stop him from attacking others.
In the footage, Mr Mire is shown lunging towards other Tube passengers.
He told the jury that Mr Mire, who was born in Somalia and moved to Britain as a boy, suffered from mental illness and had experienced delusions going back as far as 2006.
He stopped working as a taxi driver and a month before the attack his GP referred him to mental health services as he had again been experiencing paranoid delusions that he was being followed by members of the security services.
He was given an appointment, but did not turn up.
Mr Mire has pleaded guilty to wounding Mr Zimmerman with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and to attempting to wound four other Tube passengers.
He denies attempted murder.
The trial continues. | A man accused of trying to murder a passenger at Leytonstone tube station suffered from paranoid delusions that MI5 was pursuing him, the Old Bailey has heard. |
33,573,139 | Waseem Hussain, 27, Nadeem Hussain, 29, and father Abid Hussain, 54, all of Mary Road in Stechford, and Shahid Mahmood, 44, of Heather Road, Small Heath, were convicted of fraud.
The terms ranged from 18 to 61 months.
The case was brought after "numerous" complaints to Birmingham City Council.
Barbara Dring from the council said she believed it to be the biggest investigation into car clocking Birmingham trading standards had carried out.
"The distance dishonestly taken off the cars sold by this family is almost 10 times the distance to the moon and back.
"Not only is the mileage wrong but it is misrepresented, and as such could also have major mechanical problems that could put passengers' safety at risk".
The four were caught after trading standards officers monitored the Auto Trader car sales website, and discovered the family used several business names to sell seemingly low mileage cars.
Investigators arranged to buy a used Audi A8 advertised as having 125,000 miles on the clock - but checks revealed it had done more than 250,000 miles. | Four members of a Birmingham family have been jailed for "clocking" four million miles off vehicle odometers in what was described in court as "a professional operation". |
34,170,583 | Opener David Warner broke a thumb during Saturday's second ODI and was replaced by Yorkshire's Aaron Finch.
Injuries to all-rounder Shane Watson (calf) and Coulter-Nile (hamstring) in that game have forced the tourists to raid county cricket again.
John Hastings and Peter Handscomb join the squad for Tuesday's third ODI.
Seamer Hastings, 29, has been Durham's overseas player this summer. He has played 11 ODIs for Australia, with his last international appearance being his only Test in December 2012.
Uncapped wicketkeeper-batsman Handscomb, 24, born in Melbourne to English parents, has been playing for Gloucestershire this season on a UK passport.
Although he has featured for Australia A, if he were to appear for the full international side, it would threaten his ability to continue as a "domestic" player in England.
It means Australia have lost the services of seven players since their tour began in late June.
Paceman Ryan Harris retired before the start of the Ashes Test series, keeper Brad Haddin missed a Test for family reasons and left the tour early, while captain Michael Clarke and opener Chris Rogers retired after the final Test.
Coach Darren Lehmann said of the latest trio of withdrawals: "We looked at all options including the possibility of flying in cover from Australia.
"But the fact all three of the players we have drafted in are already in England means they can join us at short notice, be acclimatised to conditions and be available for selection immediately, if required."
Australia lead the five-match series 2-0, with the third ODI at Old Trafford on Tuesday. | Pace bowler Nathan Coulter-Nile has become the latest Australia player to be ruled out of the rest of the one-day international series against England. |
21,357,301 | Largely self-taught, his six-decade career saw him create make-up and prosthetics for such cinematic legends as Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers.
One of his most famous creations was Yoda, the diminutive Jedi master first seen in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back.
Freeborn based Yoda's look on Albert Einstein, as well as his own features.
Star Wars creator George Lucas paid tribute to Freeborn, saying he was "a makeup legend" before he began working with him.
"He brought with him not only decades of experience, but boundless creative energy. His artistry and craftsmanship will live on forever in the characters he created. His Star Wars creatures may be reinterpreted in new forms by new generations, but at their heart, they continue to be what Stuart created for the original films."
Born in 1914 in Leytonstone, east London, the young Freeborn resisted his insurance broker father's attempts to have him follow in his footsteps.
"I didn't want to spend my life in an office," he revealed in a BBC documentary broadcast last year. "I felt I was different."
Freeborn began his film career at the Denham studios in the 1930s, where he worked under the auspices of Alexander Korda.
"I never stopped from that moment," said the make-up artist, who soon found himself working with such leading stars of the day as Marlene Dietrich and Vivien Leigh.
When war broke out in 1939, Freeborn temporarily gave up his fledgling career to train as a fighter pilot, only to almost lose his life to Asian flu and haemophilia.
The war years saw him work on the prosthetics used to transform Roger Livesey into a balding, pot-bellied blusterer in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
Another notable success came in 1948 when he devised the make-up that Alec Guinness used to portray Fagin in David Lean's film of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
With its large beaked nose, hooded eyelids and extravagant facial hair, the characterisation was accused by some of being an anti-Semitic caricature.
Freeborn continued working with Sir David, travelling with him to Sri Lanka for the filming of his 1957 war epic The Bridge on the River Kwai.
The shoot was a dramatic one for the make-up artist, who almost perished in a car accident that claimed the lives of his fellow passengers.
Freeborn went on to work with director Stanley Kubrick, designing the three different faces sported by Peter Sellers in Cold War satire Doctor Strangelove.
That led to him designing the apes seen in the Dawn of Man sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a laborious two-year process that at one stage saw comedian Ronnie Corbett participate in make-up tests.
The 1970s saw Freeborn make a vital contribution to the Star Wars universe, for which he helped create such enduring characters as Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt and Yoda.
Freeborn's son Graham became a make-up artist in his own right, working alongside his father on the Star Wars and Superman films.
Nick Dudman, who worked with Freeborn on The Empire Strikes Back, remembered him as "a Renaissance man capable of doing absolutely anything".
"He was a Nutty Professor," he told the BBC News website. "He wanted to push boundaries and had the most inquiring mind I'd ever encountered."
Freeborn's death was confirmed by Nick Maley, a family friend who worked as his assistant in the 1970s. | Stuart Freeborn, the British make-up artist renowned for his contributions to 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Star Wars films, has died at the age of 98. |
30,524,122 | Minister Kris Hopkins said the funding grants settlement for 2015-16 was "fair for all parts of the country".
He said no council would face a loss of more than 6.4% - but Labour said councils in the greatest need were facing the biggest cuts in funding.
Local authority bosses said cuts of up to 6.4% would "push some authorities to breaking point".
Councils in England say the amount they receive from central government is being cut by 8.8%.
But central government says the amount they can spend - taking into account other resources, including business rates - will fall on average by 1.8%.
Most local authority funding comes from central government, with about a quarter raised through council tax.
Anthony Reuben, head of statistics, BBC News
The figure of an average cut of 1.8% in the spending power of English councils is not an entirely helpful one.
The spending power figure combines regular central government funding with one-off grants and things like council tax, a proportion of business rates and other fees and charges.
The Local Government Association calculates a figure excluding council tax and part of the Better Care Fund that it does not think is going to go to councils, and it reckons that funding is going to fall by an average of 8.8% next year.
And both of these figures ignore inflation. It's getting more expensive to dispose of waste, provide social care to an ageing population and employ staff even if they're only getting a 1% pay rise.
It means that savings of considerably more than 1.8% in some services will be needed.
Local Government Minister Mr Hopkins told MPs the settlement still left councillors with "considerable total spending power" and many councils were seeing growth in income from business rates. He said the actual drop in spending power was 1.6%, when other grants were taken into account.
He said, with an "unprecedented challenge to public finance" the government had "delivered a settlement that is fair for all parts of the country, whether North or South, urban or rural".
"Councils facing the highest demand for services continue to substantially receive more funding and we continue to ensure that no council will face a loss of more than 6.4% in spending power in 2015-16, the lowest level in this Parliament."
The minister told MPs that all councils had achieved a balanced budget in 2014-15, and, he said, the "majority of residents remain satisfied with the way their council has run things".
And he urged councils to use "freeze funding" provided by the government to keep council tax down. Councils which choose to increase their council tax by more than 2% will continue to have to hold a local referendum on the issue, he said.
Birmingham - the largest local authority in the UK - is facing cuts next year of £117m and similar savings each year until 2018.
Labour's Hilary Benn said councils resented the government suggesting cuts were "modest". He said that councils serving the poorest areas had seen the largest reduction in funding "relative to spending".
He said that the city of Liverpool, by 2017, would have lost more than half of its government grant - compared with 2010.
"Councils are showing clear signs of financial stress," he said, asking what contingency plans were in place "to deal with the failure of local councils".
"There is no justification for taking most from those who have least."
He asked how many children's centres would have to close, what the effect would be on women's refuges and day centres for the elderly.
The provisional settlement announced by Mr Hopkins will need the approval of Parliament.
Mark Easton, BBC Home Editor
Back in 1963, the earliest year for which I have found figures, local councils employed about two million people, 200,000 more than Whitehall. Ten years later, and the local authority workforce was close to three million and almost 900,000 greater than central government.
Today, though, the situation has almost completely reversed, with half a million more people on the national payroll than the local one. Indeed, the number employed by local authorities has fallen more than half a million since the last election.
In many towns and cities, the council was once the biggest employer by far. Nowadays, that's much less likely to be true and may be changing the relationship between local people and the local authority. Councils have become more of a service commissioner than the heartbeat of the local economy.
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The National Audit Office (NAO) estimates that by 2016, government funding for local government will have dropped in real terms by 37% since 2010.
Graeme McDonald, director of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers said: "This settlement reminds us that the financial challenge facing local government is immense. Cuts of up to 6.4% will push some authorities to breaking point.
"Government is beginning to recognise that councils have led the way on deficit reduction, but with cuts and demand increasing, fragility is beginning to show. The financial future of local services is unsustainable without a more ambitious plan for public service reform."
Councils are legally required to provide some services, such as adult social care, meaning most of the cuts have fallen in other areas, including leisure and culture.
Last month the NAO said some authorities were showing "clear signs of financial stress", but many had "coped well" with cuts, adding that there were "significant differences" in the size of budget cuts faced by different council areas, with those that depend most on government grants the hardest hit.
Earlier this month, Scottish local authorities were told they would get funding of almost £10.85bn in return for freezing council tax for the eighth year in a row, but Labour warned that people on lower incomes were the "hardest hit" by funding cuts.
Councils in Wales have been told they will get £146m less in 2015-16 from the Welsh government, an overall cut of 3.4% on this year. | English councils will face an average cut of 1.8% in their overall spending power, the government has said. |
35,261,700 | Cardiff Community Housing Association and Morganstone have submitted plans for the development next to Cardiff Council's offices on Schooner Way.
It will comprise an apartment block overlooking Atlantic Wharf with 85 flats and 32 affordable homes on the rest of the site.
Planners at Cardiff council have recommended the plan goes ahead. A decision will be made on Wednesday. | Plans for 117 homes on undeveloped land in Cardiff Bay look set to be approved. |
33,699,136 | The festival at the Hindu temple in Bariyarpur in Nepal sees tens of thousands of animals sacrificed to the goddess Gadhimai, and always provokes international outrage.
The announcement that sacrifices were now banned was greeted with delight by animal activists - but then the temple's chairman said it was not true. So what happened?
Every five years, Hindu pilgrims from Nepal and India buy animals ranging from buffalo to rats, and bring them to be sacrificed at the temple in Bara district.
Over several days of gore, thousands of buffalo and tens of thousands of smaller animals are killed, either by priests in the temple or by others in the surrounding fields.
The tradition dates back to a priest who was told about 250 years ago in a dream that spilled blood would encourage Gadhimai, the Hindu goddess of power, to free him from prison.
"Victory! Animal sacrifice banned at Nepal's Gadhimai festival, half a million animals saved," said the press release from Humane Society International (HSI) and Animal Welfare Network Nepal (AWNN).
After "rigorous negotiations", the temple agreed to "cancel all future animal sacrifice" and would "[urge] devotees not to bring animals to the festival", they said.
They quoted the chairman of the Gadhimai Temple Management and Development Committee, Ram Chandra Shah, as saying: "The time has come to replace killing and violence with peaceful worship and celebration."
The charities held news conferences in Delhi and in Bihar - where most of the sacrificial animals originate - with four key members of the temple committee, including the chief priest, though not Mr Shah.
Motilal Prasad, secretary of the temple trust, confirmed to AFP news agency: "We have decided to completely stop the practice of animal sacrifice," he said. "I realised that animals are so much like us... and feel the same pain we do."
Then Ram Chandra Shah, the man quoted by the charities, said flat out that the ban was not true.
"Devout Hindus could be requested not to offer animal sacrifice to the goddess, but they could not be forced not to do so - nor [could] the tradition be banned or stopped completely," he told the BBC.
It was not clear whether he denied giving the statement used by the charity, but he said the quotes from other officials had been taken out of context.
While he had "no objections" to the campaign against the sacrifices, "if people don't heed, we can't do anything about it".
"Nothing will change as far as the tradition of offering animal sacrifice during the festival is concerned. Things will not change no matter what the four [in the delegation] do or say. It's our age-old tradition," he said.
What did the charities say to that?
HSI spokeswoman Navamita Mukherjee said she was "surprised and confused" by Ram Chandra Shah's comments. The ban was true, she told the BBC. "Why would we organise a press conference on such a large scale to announce such a move" if it wasn't true, she said.
Another HSI spokeswoman, Alok, who was in Bihar with the temple officials, said the statement quoting Mr Shah "is definitely from him".
"We have the priests and the rest of the temple here," she said, all ready to promote the no-sacrifice rule to future festival pilgrims.
"There might be a misunderstanding - they might think we're implying that the entire festival is over but it's only the animal sacrifice."
Manoj Gautam, president of AWNN who was also in Bihar, said the temple had agreed outright to end their involvement in the killing inside the temple, and to dissuade others from "spontaneous" sacrifices outside.
The support of the chief priest - a direct descendant of the festival's founder - was key, he said. "Just a year ago he was a very proud supporter, but now he despises it and vowed to take a step forward on this matter."
"Without him sacrificing the animals, it cannot be done," he said, which would promote the view that a sacrifice is not expected.
He said the charities had been carefully campaigning against the festival for years, but that neither they nor the temple had wanted to risk resentment by issuing a ban before they had public support.
Are temple board members split on the issue?
Tripurari Shah, a member of the temple board, denied that temple trust members were divided.
"There's no rift. I think what [Ram Chandra] Shah is trying to say is that we have millions of devotees. We have to reach out to them and make them aware," he told the BBC.
The temple was campaigning to stop animal sacrifices, and he believed that the "2019 festival will be blood-free".
What does this mean for the next festival?
Mr Gautam said the slaughter tradition had been dying out anyway in recent years, with a huge drop in the number of animals killed, and the charities would spend the next four years working with the temple to ensure the 2019 gathering would be "completely bloodless".
"We don't oppose the festival," he said, but there was no reason people couldn't bring pumpkins or fruit, making it "a grand celebration of life itself ", as well as a boost to tourism.
But many in southern Nepal have a deep-rooted belief and faith associated with the festival, and feel the tradition is unlikely to stop anytime soon.
Reporting by Anna Jones, Surendra Phuyal and Geeta Pandey | News was reported around the world on Tuesday that one of the world's bloodiest religious ceremonies was being ended. |
36,406,958 | Wessels and Brett Hutton shared a 197-run seventh-wicket stand before the latter fell to Scott Borthwick for 74.
Borthwick's first five-wicket haul since 2013 saw Notts all out for 534, with Wessels finishing unbeaten on 159.
Bird then ripped through Durham's top order as the away side closed on 193-4, trailing by 341 runs at Trent Bridge.
After the hosts resumed the second day on 353-6, in a chanceless first session, Wessels and youngster Hutton ensured maximum batting points for their side.
Borthwick then wrapped up the tail before Durham openers Mark Stoneman (39) and Keaton Jennings batted with ease.
But Jennings was caught at midwicket by Samit Patel off Bird, Stoneman fell in identical fashion and Jack Burham was then trapped lbw next ball for a golden duck as the away side crumbled.
Bird was denied a hat-trick but soon sent Michael Richardson's off stump tumbling to put the home side in the driving seat.
However, Borthwick made 59 and captain Paul Collingwood 38 in an unbroken 72-run fifth-wicket stand which kept Notts at bay for the remainder of the day. | Riki Wessels' first century of the first-class season followed by Jackson Bird's four-wicket haul gave Nottinghamshire control against Durham. |
29,976,731 | Entered by thousands from around the UK, an image of a small stream created by heavy rain among the vast Glencoe mountains took the overall winning title.
A Beginning and an End captures a "fleeting moment of beauty" in the Scottish Highlands by photographer Mark Littlejohn from Penrith, Cumbria.
Mr Littlejohn said he got up at 01:30 GMT to drive to Glencoe but the rain had been torrential at dawn.
As he wandered about waiting for gaps in the weather, he saw the stream from high up on Gearr Aonach.
He said: "It tumbled steeply down the slopes before vanishing again near the base of the mountain.
"With more squalls coming through I decided to take this image as the light became slightly more diffuse. It had to be a quick handheld shot due to the sideways rain."
Founder of the awards Charlie Waite, said Mr Littlejohn's image discovered and isolated a "fleeting moment of beauty" within a vast and "slightly threatening" arena.
Other winning shots ranged from a close-up of a lichen-covered rowan tree to cityscapes dominated by striking buildings.
The Young Photographer of the Year category was won by Sam Rielly, 17, from London, for his black and white image of his mother walking through the landscape of Anglesey.
He said: "This image was taken on a particularly wet and windy day on Parys Mountain, the site of a former copper mine.
"The subject of the image is my mother, who was unaware that I was taking the picture."
The awards, held in association with VisitBritain, included a category for an image that would encourage people to visit Britain.
John Robinson, from Peterlee, County Durham, won this category for his shot of sunset over the heather-strewn Yorkshire Moors.
The winning entries will be on display at Waterloo station in London from 1 December. | Images ranging from a misty morning in the Peak District to sunset over the heather-strewn North York Moors are some of the winning shots from the Landscape Photographer of the Year awards. |
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Lawro's opponents for the FA Cup fourth-round weekend are indie-rock band The Libertines.
Pete Doherty is well known for being a QPR fan, while band-mates Carl Barat and Gary Powell both support Arsenal.
"The closest QPR have come to winning the FA Cup was when we lost in the final to Tottenham in 1982," Doherty told BBC Sport. "I was three and I remember crying a lot afterwards, which was strange because I was a happy child, but even then I knew what was what.
"It is a hard thing for me to admit, because I am not a Spurs fan, but the best FA Cup final song is 'Spurs are on their way to Wembley' by Chas and Dave in 1981.
"There is a certain beautiful melodic lyrical quality to the lyrics 'Ossie's going to Wembley, his knees have gone all trembley, tra-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la'."
The Libertines did not manage a prediction for Derby vs Man Utd on Friday night, and think Nottingham Forest's tie with Watford will be postponed because of a waterlogged pitch (which seems especially unlikely because very little rain is forecast in Nottingham in the build-up to the game).
But they backing the Gunners and Manchester City to reach round five, and think QPR's west London rivals Chelsea will lose 6-0 at MK Dons.
"All form goes out of the window on FA Cup day," added Doherty.
* Away team to win at home in the replay
** Postponement predicted (because of a waterlogged pitch)
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1 (United to win the replay)
The Libertines: No prediction made
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
The Libertines: 2-3
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
The Libertines: 3-1
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
The Libertines: 1-3
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Lawro's prediction: 1-2
The Libertines: 1-0
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Lawro's prediction: 1-2
The Libertines: 0-2
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1 (Stoke to win replay)
The Libertines: 1-1 (Stoke to win replay)
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Lawro's prediction: 0-1
The Libertines: P-P (Postponement predicted, because of waterlogged pitch)
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Lawro's prediction: 1-2
The Libertines: 4-0
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Lawro's prediction: 1-2
The Libertines: 2-2 (Bournemouth to win replay)
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
The Libertines: 2-0
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
The Libertines: 0-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
The Libertines: 4-0
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
The Libertines: 2-0
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Lawro's prediction: 1-2
The Libertines: 0-2
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
The Libertines: 6-0
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Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 160 points (week 19 v Guy Mowbray)
Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week one v Graeme Swann and week 23 v Ice Cube and Kevin Hart) | BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season. |
36,075,629 | The 36-year-old right-hander spent his entire career at Kent and captained the county in two spells.
The opener played 15 Tests for England, including a double century against West Indies at Lord's in 2004, and scored 19,419 first-class runs.
"The club and I have come to an agreement after a long and enjoyable career to call it a day," Key said.
"It's time for the younger players to have their chance," he added. "It doesn't feel right for me to stand in their way any more.
"It's been a great honour to represent Kent. I don't know what the future holds, but I look forward to what the next chapter has in store."
Key made his first-class debut 1998 and hit a career-best 270 not out against Glamorgan in 2009.
Capped by England at under-19 level, he helped his country win the under-19 World Cup in 1998 alongside players such as Graeme Swann and Owais Shah.
He made his Test debut in 2002 against India at Trent Bridge and, after a spell out of the side, returned in 2004 to hit 221 in the first Test against West Indies as England completed a series whitewash.
His two-term tenure as Kent captain was the longest at the county since Colin Cowdrey's 15-year spell from 1957 to 1971.
"Rob has been an outstanding servant of Kent and England throughout his career," chairman George Kennedy said.
"The current crop of exciting talent has learned much from his time at the helm.
"A Kent side without Rob at the top of the order will look very odd and everyone wishes him all the best for the future." | Kent and former England batsman Rob Key has confirmed his retirement after a first-class career spanning 17 years. |
35,744,406 | Dr Vladislav Rogozov, a consultant anaesthetist at Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital, spoke about the incident in an online blog.
He said he had confronted the unnamed surgeon when he realised she intended to keep the scarf on during surgery.
Hospital chiefs would not confirm if Dr Rogozov had been suspended.
Headscarves worn for religious purposes are permitted in most areas of hospitals but should be removed in areas such as operating theatres in the interest of patient safety and hygiene, according to hospital rules.
Dr David Throssell, medical director of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "The member of staff has not been excluded from work for raising patient safety issues as we take these very seriously.
"However, since the publication of articles attributed to the member of staff, we have received concerns about the tone he has used.
"On this basis the content and nature of the views published are currently being investigated." | A hospital consultant is under investigation over comments he made about a Muslim surgeon who wore a headscarf in an operating theatre. |
37,032,621 | The crash happened on Fellside Road at about 02:20 BST close to Whickham Golf Club.
A 43-year-old man, and two girls aged 17, all from Gateshead, died at the scene. The lorry driver was uninjured.
Northumbria Police urged anyone who saw the "distinctive" black Mercedes C63 AMG model in the hours leading up to the crash to contact the force. | Three people have been killed after the car they were travelling in collided with a lorry in Gateshead. |
35,255,052 | Threats to "kill as many people as possible" at Montgomery High School in Bispham were posted on Facebook last weekend.
Police dismissed the threat as "not credible" and while the school opened as normal, most pupils did not attend.
A 54-year-old man from Blackpool has been arrested on suspicion of public nuisance and malicious communication.
The school said more than 1,000 of its 1,375 pupils did not attend on Monday, but every staff member attended, School Principal Tony Nicholson said.
Police officers patrolled outside the school for "reassurance".
Detectives asked anyone with information to contact them or Crimestoppers. | A man has been arrested in connection with threats made against school pupils in Blackpool, Lancashire Police said. |
40,158,059 | Sixth-generation dairy farmer Derek Mead, 72, employed about 300 staff across the Mead Group.
A family statement said Mr Mead was killed in a "tragic accident" on Sunday afternoon "doing what he loved".
He was reportedly involved in a freak accident involving a dog and a tractor at his farm in Hewish, near Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.
The Health and Safety Executive said it had been alerted to the death of a farmer and an investigation was under way.
"It's with a heavy heart that we have to let you know our father and grandfather, Derek Mead, was killed on his farm," the family said in a statement.
Mr Mead campaigned hard for the dairy industry and had been a critic of the National Farmers Union (NFU) for many years, claiming it did not properly represent the interests of farmers.
Speaking in 2015 he described all areas of British farming as being "on the floor" but said dairy farming had "been in crisis for the last 20 years and it's about time it was sorted out".
Mr Mead was chairman of Puxton Park, near Weston-super-Mare, and of Junction 24, which is a business centre and one of the largest livestock markets in the South West.
Chris Rundle, who worked as an adviser for Mr Mead, said his investment of £10m to help develop Sedgemoor Livestock Centre had "put new heart back in to the livestock trade".
"But he never got recognition for it - people have got knighthoods for doing far less than Derek's done." | Tributes have been paid to a prominent farmer and businessman who was killed in an accident on his farm. |
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Sergey Novikov from computer security firm Kaspersky Lab says Russian gangs had moved their attention from attacking home users to corporations.
The deputy director of research and analysis said his company deals with 350,000 unique malware attacks every day. | BBC Scotland Investigates: Gangsters.com will be broadcast on Wednesday 11 June, at 22:35 on BBC One Scotland, and for a week afterwards on the BBC iPlayer. |
36,498,022 | The novel was submitted to the Eisteddfod's office in Mold as an entry for the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize.
It was handed to North Wales Police in March 2015, and investigated under the Obscene Communications Act.
At the time, Eisteddfod chief executive Elfed Roberts described the novel's content as "bluntly criminal."
In July 2015, officials told the BBC the novel referred to "criminal" acts and caused "concern".
Speaking at the time, Det Ch Insp Iestyn Davies said: "The work concerned has been assessed as being offensive and indecent in its nature and is being investigated as an offence under the Obscene Communications Act."
Back in July 2015, Mr Roberts told BBC Radio Cymru: "When you know that the work is against the law - then there was no other option but to take action."
He said a false name and address was supplied by the entrant.
The Daniel Owen Memorial Prize is given annually to a novel of no fewer than 50,000 words for a £5,000 prize. | No action will be taken following an investigation into an "indecent" novel sent to last year's National Eisteddfod, police have confirmed. |
39,016,392 | Mr Corbyn urged the former Labour prime minister to "respect" the referendum result and work on helping to define the UK's future EU relationship.
In a speech on Friday, Mr Blair said that a weakened Labour Party was acting as "the facilitator of Brexit".
But Mr Corbyn said: "We are going to be outside the European Union."
Speaking in the City of London, Mr Blair said that the British people had made the referendum decision without knowing on what terms Britain would leave the European Union.
He said pro-Europeans needed to build a movement across party lines to challenge Brexit, in the absence of effective opposition in Westminster.
"The debilitation of the Labour Party is the facilitator of Brexit. I hate to say that, but it is true," he said.
Mr Corbyn told reporters at the party's conference on local government at Warwick University on Saturday: "Well, it's not helpful.
"The referendum gave a result, gave a very clear decision on this, and we have to respect that decision, that's why we didn't block Article 50.
"But we are going to be part of all this campaigning, all these negotiations about the kind of relationship we have in Europe in the future."
He added: "The referendum happened, let's respect the result. Democracy happened, respect the result."
Mr Corbyn rejected Mr Blair's suggestion that the party was weak, pointing to its surge in membership to more than 500,000.
"I don't quite know what Tony means there. Our party membership has more than doubled, we had a big campaign to remain and reform the European Union," he said.
"We are now pursuing a policy which will try and protect jobs and conditions across this country but also maintain a good relationship with colleagues across Europe."
Mr Corbyn urged Mr Blair to get behind the party's vision of a future outside the European Union with high investment and reduced inequality, rather than a low-tax economy aligned with the US under President Donald Trump.
He said: "We are going to be outside the European Union. We are not leaving the continent of Europe, we are still going to work with them.
"I think it would be helpful if people put their energies in the direction of building those good relations and ensuring we have a viable economy, not some offshore tax haven bargain basement, doing deals with Trump's America.
"My job is to take our party forward into an investment-led economy that reduces inequality in this country, that builds houses when people need them, that gets the good jobs people need in the hi-tech industries the National Investment Bank will fund.
"Get on board with that strategy." | Tony Blair's call for a cross-party movement to try to force a change of course on Brexit is "unhelpful", Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said. |
35,226,633 | Benitez has been sacked after just seven months in charge, with club legend Zinedine Zidane replacing him.
Bale, 26, is reportedly upset by Benitez's exit but Toshack thinks his compatriot will stay at the Bernabeu.
"I don't see it affecting Gareth at all," Toshack said. "I don't see that as a problem."
Bale joined Madrid in a world record £85m move from Tottenham in 2013 and has scored seven goals in his past six games for Real - but he has been linked with a return to the Premier League with Manchester United.
Former Liverpool and Chelsea boss Benitez's final game was Sunday's 2-2 draw with Valencia, which left them third in La Liga, four points behind leaders Atletico Madrid and two adrift of Barcelona.
Frenchman Zidane is the 11th coach to be appointed in Florentino Perez's 12 years as club president and his first match in charge will be Saturday's home league game against Deportivo la Coruna.
Ex-Wales manager Toshack, who had two spells in charge at the Bernabeu, is not surprised by Benitez's departure.
"Benitez was up against it right from the off," Toshack told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"Right from the minute he walked through the door something was not quite right. I don't think his face fitted.
"I think he'll be looking to take a bit of a rest season, probably until the end of this season and maybe look at something next pre-season." | Former Real Madrid coach John Toshack says Rafael Benitez's departure from the Spanish giants will not adversely affect Wales forward Gareth Bale. |
36,392,737 | "We are talking here about one of the best players in the world," Real Madrid icon Emilio Butragueno says of a 26-year-old who is key to club then country this summer.
Real Madrid chase an 11th European Cup at the San Siro Stadium in Milan on Saturday where Bale scored a dazzling Champions League hat-trick for Tottenham in 2010.
A year before the Champions League final comes to Bale's home-town of Cardiff, the Welshman stands 90 minutes away from a second European triumph for Real - but Wales will watch nervously as their talisman is integral to Chris Coleman's Euro 2016 hopes.
Four goals and a man down after just 35 minutes on a clear October night in Milan, Tottenham had quite the task ahead of them in their debut Champions League campaign against Europe's champions.
But then Bale switched to another gear and forced Harry Redknapp's side back into contention.
His first goal came from a sensational 50-yard run down the left flank and a stunning finish from an angle past Julio Cesar.
His next came when he left veteran Javier Zanetti in the dust to score again with an almost identical goal, before capping off his hat-trick in injury time.
"Five more minutes and we would have drawn," his then Spurs manager Harry Redknapp told BBC Wales Sport's Gareth Bale documentary.
Then a 21-year-old, Bale had arrived on the world scene in stunning fashion.
Bale's heroics as Tottenham reached the quarter-final of the Champions League, only to lose, ironically, to Real, set the stage for him to become Spurs' star man and PFA Footballer of the Year before a world record £85m move to Madrid.
"He's playing with better players now, in what is technically the best league in Europe and he has the expectation on his shoulders," said former Spurs team-mate Jermaine Jenas.
"The art of winning things at a big club, when the expectation is there, that's something that helps your development."
He scored decisive goals in the 2014 Copa del Rey and Champions League finals to help Madrid to 'la decima' - a 10th European Cup title - in his first season in Spain but the notoriously tough Bernabeu crowd turned on the Welshman in a difficult second season as rumours swirled of a Premier League return.
"Because Gareth is such a great lad, I always had that worry that he would be in the shadow of Ronaldo, whether he would feel over-powered by him," explained Redknapp.
"But I thought Gareth coped great with it and has done really well. The Madrid fans can be critical, that's how it is there and players are going to come under fire if they have the slightest hiccup, but Gareth has come through that well."
Real legend Butragueno, who spearheaded the Spanish attack at the 1986 and 1990 World Cups, feels Bale has now won over the notoriously tough-to-please Madrid fans.
"Truly, he's an extraordinary player who is very committed and for us he's an essential player," Butragueno said.
"Here at Real Madrid, we play every game like it is a final. It is like an exam and our fans are very demanding because they are used to winning and seeing extraordinary players.
"Therefore we could say the Bernabeu is like a courtroom where they know a lot about football and the level of demand is very high.
"He has been with us for three years and we hope he will stay for many more. We are confident he will be a fundamental player for us over the coming years and will leave a lasting legacy at the club," he said.
"We consider ourselves very lucky to be able to count on a player like him. We are very happy and at the same time very excited about the future of Gareth at Real Madrid.
Bale has been a vital part of the Wales squad in the build up to this summer's European Championships as Chris Coleman's side reached their first major international tournament for 58 years.
He scored seven of Wales' 11 goals in qualifying to steer Wales to a second-placed finish in Group B.
Carlo Ancelotti, his former manager at Real Madrid, believes Wales will be able to draw upon Bale's experience in Spain during the Euros.
"Bale already helped his team from his experience in Madrid because he did really well in qualifications for the Euros," Ancelotti told BBC Wales Sport.
"For Wales it will be more competitive than for teams like France, Spain or Germany but I think Bale can be fantastic."
Who do you think should start at Euro 2016? Step into Chris Coleman’s shoes and pick your XI - and then share it with your friends using our brand new team selector. | Against the backdrop of the world's fashion capital, Gareth Bale is ready to once again strut his stuff at the ground where he became a worldwide sensation. |
33,149,470 | A man was treated for smoke inhalation after the blaze in Llandybie, Carmarthenshire, on Friday night.
Mid and West Fire and Rescue Service said the charger had set fire to curtains.
Steve Davies, head of community safety, said it had seen "heightened numbers" of fires caused by the devices.
He added: "Although this was a minor incident, based on previous cases the consequences can be devastating." | Firefighters have urged people to keep e-cigarettes away from flammable materials after a charger overheated and sparked a house fire. |
40,951,305 | The first device was destroyed last week by Navy divers close to Hinkley C power station in Lilstock.
On 8 August a 500lb (226kg) device was discovered 2.5 nautical miles (4.6km) from the coast, about 26ft (8m) below the surface.
The second device weighed 250lb (113kg) and was found 0.3 miles (500m) from the power station. It has also been destroyed in a controlled explosion.
A 0.6 mile (1km) exclusion was set up and The Ministry of Defence confirmed the bomb was "rendered safe with a controlled detonation" that took place at about 16.20 BST.
The coast around Lilstock was used as part of a practice bombing range for the Royal Navy.
David Eccles, EDF Energy's Head of Stakeholder Engagement for Hinkley Point C, said: "It is normal practice to check the seabed before construction activity starts on any marine project.
"The safety of the public and our workforce is our priority and we have a team of 10 divers checking the seabed ahead of the construction of the main cooling water tunnels and associated seabed structures for Hinkley Point C.
"We believe the unexploded ordnance probably dates back to the Second World War.
"As a precaution we put a cordon zone around the area and are working closely with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the Royal Navy." | A second suspected World War Two bomb has been found in the Bristol Channel. |
39,506,379 | The Blues are seven points ahead of nearest rivals Tottenham after a 2-1 win over Manchester City on Wednesday.
"Tottenham could win eight games. For this reason to win the title we need 18 points," said Conte.
Meanwhile Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino said his side are capable of winning all their remaining games and will fight to the end.
Tottenham scored three late goals to come from behind and win 3-1 at Swansea.
"If you compare Chelsea and Tottenham over the last 10 years, it is true Chelsea won more titles," Pochettino said.
"We believe and never give up, we always try and we were always pushing. I believe that we can win every game if we play like today - and then we'll see."
Tottenham have not won the league since 1961.
Their remaining eight games include a north London derby at home to Arsenal on 30 April and a visit from Manchester United on 13 May.
Chelsea still have to go to United on 16 April and Everton on 30 April.
Conte, in his first season as Chelsea boss, added: "We must be focused and try to win six games and take three points. If we are able to do this, we will win the title.
"Otherwise it will be a good season, but not a great season. We will remember this season if we win." | Chelsea boss Antonio Conte says his side need six victories from their last eight games to win the Premier League. |
35,300,839 | Community support officer Daniel Dawson also offered to sell his stab vest, CS canisters and helmet in August 2014, Teesside Crown Court heard.
The 26-year-old, from Middlesbrough, admitted attempted fraud and theft.
Dawson, who was dismissed from the force in 2015, was given a six-month jail term, suspended for two years.
A search of his house found 40 pieces of kit stashed in his wardrobe, the court was told.
He posted the items on the website, including the handcuffs with a holder and keys for £40, a cap for £30 and badges for £10.
Further posts offered a heavy duty utility belt, an extendable baton and a gas canister holder.
Michele Stuart-Lofthouse, prosecuting, said that despite the items being listed on the website, they had not actually been sold to anyone.
In mitigation, the court was told Dawson had suffered from mental health issues, including anxiety.
Rukhshanda Hussain, defending, said Dawson had no previous convictions, accepted his actions were "foolish and stupid" and that he was remorseful.
Dawson was also ordered to do 180 hours community service and pay £500 costs.
Judge Colin Burn said Dawson actions were "a serious breach of trust".
He added: "There was one item which was offered for sale, the baton, which if sold could have been putting a significant weapon in the hands of a stranger."
Judge Burn said Cleveland Police had to act to ensure equipment was properly accounted for when officers left the force. | A former Cleveland Police officer has admitted trying to sell equipment including handcuffs and a baton on website Gumtree. |
21,810,683 | The measure now needs to be signed by Governor Martin O'Malley to become law.
Correspondents say it will be a formality as the Democratic governor has campaigned for five years to have the death penalty repealed.
Once signed into law, Maryland will become the 18th US state to abolish executions.
"Evidence shows that the death penalty is not a deterrent, it cannot be administered without racial bias and it costs three times as much as life in prison without parole," Governor O'Malley said in a statement.
"What's more, there is no way to reverse a mistake if an innocent person is put to death."
Opponents of the bill insisted capital punishment was a necessary tool to punish those who commit the most serious crimes.
Maryland has had the death penalty since 1638 when the territory was a British colony.
However, the state has neither sentenced anyone to death nor executed a prisoner since 2005.
The vote took place in the Maryland House of Delegates in the state capital, Annapolis. Eighty Democrats and two Republicans voted for the bill, which needed 71 votes to pass. Eighteen Democrats joined 38 Republicans to vote against it.
Connecticut became the 17th state to repeal the death penalty last year, meaning more than a third of the 50 states have now renounced executions. | The US state of Maryland is poised to abolish the death penalty after its lawmakers voted 82 to 56 in favour of the move. |
31,495,360 | Theresa Morrisroe paid the money into her sick father's bank account between 2010 and 2013 while working for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Northampton Crown Court heard how she went on to defraud Phoenix IT of more than £24,000.
Martin Gosling, of Northamptonshire Police, said she had committed a "heinous crime".
Morrisroe, 51, of Talbot Road, Northampton, had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud. She was sentenced to two years in jail for the offence against the Motor Neurone Disease Association, and a further year for defrauding Phoenix IT.
Judge Lynn Tayton said the sentences would run consecutively.
Ayesha Bell-Paris, prosecuting, said Morrisroe had worked for the charity as a purchase ledger clerk between 2006 and 2013.
In June 2014 a supplier contacted the charity about an unpaid invoice, which investigations showed had been paid into an account belonging to Morrisroe's ill father,
The charity found payments to another 22 suppliers had been siphoned into this account.
In all, Morrisroe had made 80 fraudulent payments into her father's account and her own.
Miss Bell-Paris said Morrisroe had worked for Phoenix IT after leaving the charity in 2013.
The defence said Morrisroe had financial issues and had been supporting her father, brother and son.
The Motor Neurone Disease Association said the money had been recovered from its insurers, but almost £10,000 had been spent investigating the fraud. | An accounts clerk who defrauded a charity of more than £100,000 has been jailed for three years. |
39,339,455 | Camran Green, 17, originally from Wednesbury, West Midlands, was knifed in the stomach at an address in Shakespeare Road on 2 October.
Bristol Crown Court heard Steven Sharpe, 31, from Cheltenham planned to rob Mr Green of money. Sharpe pleaded guilty to the murder.
He also admitted assaulting three police detention officers.
The judge told Sharpe he must serve a minimum of 24 years and six months of his life sentence.
The court was told Mr Green travelled to Gloucestershire to supply drugs through the so-called "county lines" drugs network.
Sharpe was said to have been high on heroin and cocaine at the time and planned to rob Mr Green of his takings.
The robbery went wrong and Sharpe stabbed Mr Green a single time in the body with a 14in blade.
The weapon was described by the prosecution as being a hunting knife or a "Rambo" knife.
Sharpe fled the scene on his bike and evaded police for three days until his arrest on 5 October.
Gloucestershire Police said when Sharpe was taken into custody, he spat at and assaulted three police detention officers.
Jurors were told Mr Green was under the care of social services at the time of his death and had been in foster care.
Det Ch Insp Ruth Mather said: "Drug gangs from big cities have been using vulnerable young men on a frequent basis as drug runners in smaller towns to do their dirty work for them.
"Camran was being used in this way - basing himself at Sharpe's girlfriend's address to deal crack cocaine and heroin for gang leaders in Birmingham.
"Tragically Camran had his life taken as a result of that work."
Chief executive of Dudley Council, Sarah Norman, said: "This is a tragic case and our thoughts are with the family.
"As it will be subject to an independent serious case review, we cannot comment any further at this time.
"However, we are fully committed to learning any lessons that come out of the serious case review." | The killer of a teenager stabbed in Cheltenham has been handed a minimum jail term of more than 24 years. |
36,766,209 | Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie and two others were arrested in Johannesburg following police raids over the weekend.
They are said to have been planning to join so-called Islamic State in Syria.
In June, the US embassy in South Africa warned that US citizens in the country could be attacked by terrorist groups.
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Places where Americans congregate "such as upscale shopping areas and malls in Johannesburg and Cape Town" were thought to be possible targets, the statement said.
The 23-year-old brothers appeared briefly in court, initially covering their heads with hooded jackets, local reports say.
They will remain in custody until 19 July when they can apply for bail.
The brothers were arrested after the Hawks, an elite police unit, raided two houses where they confiscated a number of items including computers and mobile phones.
According to the provisional charge sheet, the two conspired to commit terrorist acts in Johannesburg.
The Hawks believe they may be part of a terror cell in the country. | A South African court has charged identical twin brothers with terrorism for allegedly plotting to attack Jewish targets and a US diplomatic mission. |
37,920,078 | The Conservatives at Westminster had pledged to end the support.
The UK government has also announced support packages for offshore wind and marine energy projects.
Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil and Scottish Renewables have criticised the government for not allowing developers of islands wind farms to bid for funds.
Scotland's Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy, Paul Wheelhouse, said he was "extremely disappointed" and "angered" by the UK government's handling of a "vitally important issue".
The UK government said the consultation showed that it had listened to representations from Scotland and the renewable energy industry on the matter of subsidies.
The consultation forms part of the UK government's wider announcement "to reaffirm" an earlier commitment to spend £730m of annual support to renewable electricity projects over the current term of this parliament.
In the announcement, it has also set out further details for a new round of support packages from a scheme called Contracts for Difference (CfD).
The UK government said this would see companies compete for the first £290m-worth of contracts for less advanced technologies, such as offshore wind and marine renewables.
The consultation on subsidies for onshore wind projects, which runs until the end of January, asks three questions.
They are:
UK Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said: "The renewables industry is a strong success story for Scotland thanks to UK government support, and this latest auction will enable many more companies to access funding.
"Last year alone a record £13bn was invested across the UK with Scotland continuing to benefit significantly.
"For onshore wind projects on remote islands, I have listened to partners and parliamentarians in Scotland and that's why I am launching a consultation to determine what support this technology should be eligible for."
But Mr MacNeil described the omission of developers of onshore wind on islands as "an epic kick in the teeth".
He said: "The only glimmer of hope is that Greg Clark promised me this morning that he will visit the Outer Hebrides and will launch an inquiry into the feasibility of remote island wind.
"I hope this will not just be a calming exercise to dissipate people's righteous indignation at this decision by the UK Tory government, on what is a perfect day for burying bad news," added Mr MacNeil, referring to the result of the US election.
Scottish Renewables, an organisation representing the development of the renewable energy sector in Scotland, has also criticised the UK government's announcement.
Chief executive Niall Stuart said: "We've waited a long time for this announcement, which signals further significant investment in the UK's offshore wind sector.
"However, developers and communities on the Scottish remote islands will be bitterly disappointed that government has put off a decision on allowing projects on Scotland's islands to compete for long-term contracts for renewable energy.
"After years of work on this issue, and many ministerial pledges to resolve it, we still seem no further forward to unlocking investment on Scotland's islands - home to some of the best wind, wave and tidal resources in Europe."
Energy minister Mr Wheelhouse said: "The Scottish government and the island councils asked the UK government for a meeting of the Scottish Island Renewable Delivery Forum on numerous occasions in the last year but received no response.
"At no time was it suggested there would be a further consultation. We now call upon the secretary of state to reconvene the forum and have the courtesy to explain this decision to those affected in person."
He said the Scottish government has also made Mr Clark aware of the "tight timeline" for the actions needed to allow island wind projects and the transmission links to be built. | The UK government has announced a consultation on whether to give subsidies to onshore wind development in the Western and Northern Isles. |
28,376,327 | In a recorded video to mark the anniversary, the Pope described the attack as an "act of madness".
Eighty-five people were killed in the attack, which was masterminded by Iran, according to Argentine courts. Iran denies any involvement.
Last year, Iran and Argentina agreed to set up a truth commission.
Pope Francis said the suffering of the families cannot be forgotten. He was the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires at the time.
"My prayers for all the victims are accompanied today by my call for justice. Justice must be done," he said.
"And may God give peace to all of those who died in this act of madness."
The video was recorded on the mobile phone of a friend of the Pope and Jewish community leader who went to visit him at the Vatican last month.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the reconstructed Jewish cultural centre and the Justice Palace building to pray for the victims and demand justice.
The old seven storey-building of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (Amia) in the centre of Buenos Aires was completely destroyed by a car bomb on 18 July 1994.
Two years earlier, a bomb attack against the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires had killed 29 people.
The Jewish community in Argentina - the most numerous in Latin America - said there was enough evidence to show that Iran planned and financed the attack against Amia and that the militant group, Hezbollah, carried it out.
Argentine prosecutors accused Iran and Hezbollah in 2006.
Eight suspects were named, including former Iranian Defence Minister, Gen Ahmed Vahidi. But no arrests have been made.
At the time of the attack, Gen Vahidi was the commander of a special unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Amia's vice-president Thomas Saiegh spoke to the Jewish community during the vigil to mark the anniversary.
He called for "concrete measures" by the Argentine government to arrest the Iranian citizens allegedly involved.
"We all have an empty chair at home," said Luis Czyzewski, who lost a daughter in the attack.
Relatives and Jewish leaders also criticised last year's joint decision by Argentina and Iran to set up a commission to investigate the bombing.
"Our victims demand justice, not agreements," Mr Czyzewski added. | Pope Francis has demanded justice for the victims of a bomb attack against a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires exactly 20 years ago. |
37,552,749 | The draft text calls for a UN-sponsored truce monitor, an end to all fighting and military flights over the city.
Parties who fail to comply with the truce could face "further measures".
Russia immediately questioned the proposal and the grounding of flights, saying it was unlikely to bring peace.
The besieged rebel-held east of Aleppo has come under intense and sustained aerial bombardment by Syrian government and Russian forces since a truce brokered by the Washington and Moscow collapsed last month.
France's permanent representative to the UN, Francois Delattre, said: "We consider that this is our responsibility to do absolutely everything we can do, everything humanly possible to unite the Security Council behind our efforts to end the martyrdom in Aleppo."
But Russia's ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Moscow was "a little bit baffled" by the proposal for a new ceasefire monitoring mechanism when there is already one in Geneva "which has been there for a long time and frankly has not been used very effectively".
"If they were sincere, we can have a resolution, I suppose, which would be more balanced proposal," he added.
UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura said he deeply regretted the US decision to suspend talks with Russia but vowed "to push energetically for a political solution".
His spokeswoman, Jessy Chahine, said he was "still in intensive consultations on the way forward".
Russian and American officials had been due to meet in Geneva on Monday to try to co-ordinate air strikes against jihadist groups on the ground in Syria, but the Americans were told to return home.
Suspending the talks, Washington accused Moscow of having "failed to live up" to its commitments under the recent truce deal.
In response, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the US was "trying to shift responsibility on to someone else".
"Washington simply did not fulfil the key condition of the agreement to improve the humanitarian condition around Aleppo," she said, referring to Moscow's claim that the US was unable to separate mainstream rebel factions on the ground from the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat Fateh al-Sham.
Hundreds of people, including children, have died since government forces launched an offensive to take full control of Aleppo on 22 September.
On Monday, the main trauma hospital in the rebel-held east was damaged in an air strike for the third time in a week, activists said.
The Syrian American Medical Society, which supports the facility, said the attack meant only five hospitals remained operational to care for as many as 300,000 civilians, including more than 85,000 children. There were only 29 doctors to treat the overwhelming number of wounded, it added. | France and Spain are trying to get UN Security Council agreement for a resolution seeking a truce in the Syrian city of Aleppo, after the US ended its negotiations with Russia. |
35,279,074 | They were arrested on firearms charges in October 2013 when the ship they were on was found to be full of weapons.
The charges were dropped, but the Indian authorities appealed against the decision and have now won their case.
All 35 sailors and guards on the boat received five-year sentences and were ordered to pay 3,000 rupees (£30).
The British men sentenced are:
The men were arrested on board a ship owned by an American company which offered armed protection services to vessels sailing through an area known as "pirates' alley" between the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.
Customs officials and police found 35 guns, including semi-automatic weapons, and almost 6,000 rounds of ammunition on board the ship which did not have permission to be in Indian waters.
A court in Tamil Nadu upheld the claim by the Indian authorities that the vessel was not properly licensed.
The men have consistently denied any wrongdoing and claim they have been abandoned by their American employers.
They also say they have not been paid since November 2013.
Speaking after being convicted, Mr Dunn said: "They have no evidence against us to say we've committed any crime and yet they have found us guilty.
"I have done six months in prison, I've done 27 months in total and now they've sentenced me to do a further five years. This is absolutely disgusting."
Meanwhile John Armstrong said: "I should be surprised but I'm not.
"I'm a bit speechless but I'd seen it coming. We will appeal, but I don't know when because I haven't spoken to the lawyer."
Billy Irving's partner, Yvonne MacHugh, said: "After two long years of fighting to get my partner Billy home I'm devastated with today's verdict.
"For the next five years our son won't have a father at home."
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said that the men had 90 days to appeal against the decision.
A spokesman said: "Our staff in India and the UK have been in close contact with all six men since their arrest to provide support to them and their families, including attending court.
"Ministers have also raised this case at the highest levels, pressing for delays to be resolved.
"We recognise what a difficult time this is for those involved. There is now a 90 day window to appeal and we will continue to provide consular assistance.
"However, we cannot interfere in another country's judicial process."
Ken Peters, director of Justice and Public Affairs at the Mission to Seafarers, said: "To think that highly trained professionals, properly accredited and doing a job that is protecting the world's interests are then penalised in such a way is unthinkable."
Ian Lavery, Labour MP for Wansbeck, said he would continue to campaign for the return home of constituent Mr Dunn and the other men.
He said: "This verdict will have come as a hammer blow to Nick and the other men coming only a matter of months after a court had quashed all of the charges.
"Sadly this bizarre judgment, charging former British servicemen with the maximum penalty for handling arms, means the nightmare continues.
"I will continue to work with Nick's family to fight for his release and return to the UK and am seeking urgent discussions on the way forward and seeking an early resolution to this miscarriage of justice." | Six former soldiers from the UK who worked on an anti-piracy ship have each been sentenced to five years in prison in India. |
40,114,637 | Diore Lia was a 1,000-1 shot for the race and Mangan has only ever ridden one winner - Roscommon in 2009.
Prize money was to be donated to Great Ormond Street's children's hospital.
The BHA said it had "a responsibility to place the welfare of our participants, equine and human, first".
A statement added: "While risk can never be removed entirely, it is possible to identify factors that can increase risk, and act on them.
"While Miss Mangan has held her licence for a number of years she remains inexperienced, with only 69 rides and one winner to her name. She has never ridden at Epsom and certainly never ridden in a race on the scale and stage of the Derby, with all the unique challenges it presents.
"We believe that the decision is the correct one in the best interests of all concerned and the sport. Should the BHA have not acted and an incident have occurred, then the disappointment of one rider could have been placed in stark contrast with the potential consequences."
The total purse is set to be £1.625m, the richest race ever staged in Britain, with the winner receiving £920,913 and prize money then paid down to sixth place, which will net £21,922.
Owner Richard Aylward said he would now refuse to run the horse.
He told the Racing Post: "We've had people donate tonight from America to the charity, all on the grounds of the horse being in the race. We're in the Derby to have a go at it, and the BHA has been got to. They've changed their mind."
BBC Sport horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
There are two ways of looking at this.
On the one hand, the owner's paid the entry fee, the run is for charity and Mangan is technically qualified for what has the look of a romantic, 'David against Goliath' sporting encounter.
On the other, the most famous flat race in the world is no place for an inexperienced apprentice, and she could blight the race.
The authority has decided, probably correctly, that the risk of a drama is just too high.
Unlike the Grand National, there are no jumps, but this race too is a considerable test of all involved. | Racing's regulator the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) is to bar inexperienced apprentice jockey Gina Mangan from riding rank outsider Diore Lia in Saturday's Epsom Derby. |
35,014,939 | The three-month trial will operate at weekends at 15 Metrolink stops on Fridays and Saturday nights.
The trial is being introduced at car parks with 30 or more spaces so customers can still find a space at smaller car parks, Transport for Greater Manchester said.
At the moment, drivers face a £60 fine if they park overnight.
Motorists will have to pick up their cars before noon the following day. | A trial of free overnight parking has started at some tram stops in Greater Manchester. |
39,171,379 | The 32-year-old suffered the injury during Ulster's Pro12 win over Treviso in Belfast on Friday evening.
Tommy Bowe has been drafted into the Irish camp as they prepare to play Wales in Cardiff on Friday night.
Ireland must also do without Connacht lock Ultan Dillane, who will be sidelined for at least two months after undergoing shoulder surgery.
Head coach Schmidt will now hope to have stalwart full-back Rob Kearney back in full training on Monday.
Kearney had been battling a hip issue but is now thought to be ready to come back.
The British and Irish Lions full-back's return could offset Trimble's loss, with Ulster's Jared Payne then likely to go head-to-head with Garry Ringrose to start at outside centre in Wales.
Ireland are second in the Six Nations table, three points behind leaders England.
Schmidt's side lost to Scotland in their first match but then beat Italy and France. | Ireland winger Andrew Trimble will miss the last two matches in the Six Nations after breaking a bone in his hand. |
29,811,682 | Shares in the social network fell almost 10% in after hours trading after it said expenses would be up to 75% higher next year.
The warning came after it reported third quarter revenues of $3.2bn (£1.98bn) well ahead of analysts' forecasts.
It made $806m profit, up 90% on 2013.
The increased profits were driven by another formidable three months for Facebook's advertising business.
Ad revenues for July to September were sharply higher than a year ago.
Perhaps most telling as an indicator of its future profitability was Facebook's performance in mobile advertising.
Mobile ads now make up 66% of its total advertising revenue.
A year ago they accounted for less than half of it, and at the time of its stock market debut in 2012 Facebook's mobile ads barely brought in any money at all.
Just as important to social networks as their earnings, are their user numbers, which in Facebook's case were also better than many expected.
As of the end of September, Facebook had 1.35 billion active users every month, 14% more than in 2013.
And the number of people checking their Facebook page at least once a day jumped 19% to 864 million.
"This has been a good quarter with strong results," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and chief executive.
However, costs increased by 41% during the quarter mainly due to its recent acquisitions: messaging app WhatsApp and virtual reality headset maker Oculus Rift.
Chief financial officer Dave Wehner said these would increase further over the next year, and forecast revenue growth would slow to between 40% and 47% in the fourth quarter from 59% in the third quarter.
"We believe that we have very substantial growth opportunities in front of us and we plan to invest aggressively to capitalise on those opportunities," Mr Wehner said.
Mr Wehner did not provide any prediction on revenue growth next year.
"Giving expense guidance without giving revenue guidance is frustrating and spooking The Street. The multi-billion dollar question is what's revenue growth going to look like next year," said BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield. | Facebook has warned that its spending will increase sharply next year and its revenue growth will slow in the fourth quarter. |
40,591,147 | Many activists saw him as a godfather for their cause, and have paid tribute to a man who was branded a criminal by Chinese authorities for his activism and jailed several times for "subversion".
One source of inspiration was the well-documented love between Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia, who has also been placed under house arrest.
This image of them, which was circulated recently by their activist friends, particularly resounded with many.
It has prompted several artworks paying tribute to their love, such as this one by political artist Badiucao, entitled The Patient of China.
The Australia-based artist also put up a version of the work on a wall on Hosier Lane in Melbourne on Wednesday, calling for Mr Liu's release.
Prominent political cartoonist Rebel Pepper drew and tweeted an alternative take on the photo.
Chinese cartoonist Xiaoguai also drew inspiration from the same picture and tweeted this image of two candles symbolising the couple.
In 2010, Mr Liu was not allowed to travel to Sweden to receive his Nobel Peace Prize.
An image of his empty chair has been inspiration for artists - such as in this work by Badiucao.
Rebel Pepper meanwhile drew a tribute to the chair with Liu Xiaobo's striped pyjamas.
In Hong Kong, where activists had been calling for Mr Liu's release, 17-year-old student Anson Hui told AFP news agency earlier this week that he feared what Mr Liu's death would mean.
"I feel scared. If we lose Liu Xiaobo, nobody could replace him... If there's no Liu Xiaobo we can't unite the whole world to speak out.
"The world will lose a spiritual leader." | Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo was an inspiring figure for a new generation of Chinese pro-democracy activists and his death is being remembered by political artists. |
36,102,371 | A market for people to sell their annuity will be launched in April 2017, meaning pensioners can exchange their set retirement income for a lump sum.
The government estimates that 300,000 people will cash in their products.
Now the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined the dangers that could result from selling up.
Concerns include individuals struggling to calculate what a good value for their annuity might be, vulnerability to scams, and people with debts being put under pressure to sell their annuity to settle the bill.
An estimated five million people in the UK have an annuity - a retirement income bought with pension savings.
As an extension to the pension reforms allowing people to cash in their pension pot before retirement, people who have already bought an income for life with their pension pots will be able to reverse that deal.
Currently, it is possible to sell an annuity, but a tax charge of between 55% and 70% makes it an impractical option for most people.
From April 2017, individuals who receive a lump sum from selling their annuity will only pay tax at their highest marginal income tax rate.
The Treasury is expecting a tax windfall of £960m over the first two years of the scheme, owing to the tax collection of an estimated £3,200 per annuity seller.
The FCA has now warned that "there is a significant risk of poor outcomes" for consumers selling their annuities.
Christopher Woolard, director of strategy and competition at the FCA, said: "We recognise that some consumers may be particularly vulnerable.
"We have set out proposed rules and guidance that will help ensure that consumers have an appropriate degree of protection should they decide to sell their annuity income."
Those proposals include:
Tom McPhail, head of retirement policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "This is a complex market to create from scratch; however, we know that many annuity holders will be interested in trading in their income for a lump sum.
"The FCA has come up with a good package of measures to try and protect investors, while also giving them the freedom to manage their own money."
Others are more sceptical.
"There are a number of missing pieces to make this brand new market work efficiently," said Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon.
"There is no central point for consumers to offer up their annuity to a range of buyers, with consumers instead being encouraged to approach each buyer separately to get the best deal.
"Each potential buyer may demand their own medical evidence which will be timely and costly."
The Association of British Insurers said there was a number of issues to work through in "limited" time before April 2017. | Significant risks face those who decide to sell a retirement income - such as running out of money in old age, the City watchdog has said. |
37,226,729 | The 35-year-old was banned for six months for calling Sweden "a bunch of cowards" after the United States' quarter-final defeat at the Olympics.
Solo, who has won the World Cup, said being "fired" from the national team after 17 years was "devastating".
NWSL side Seattle have four games of the regular season remaining.
"After careful consideration, I have decided to end my season with the Seattle Reign, an organisation I love playing for," Solo said in a statement. "Mentally, I am not there yet."
Solo has played 202 games for the US and won two Olympic gold medals.
Seattle coach Laura Harvey said she understood and respected Solo's decision. | US goalkeeper Hope Solo will not play for club side Seattle Reign for the rest of the season - saying she is not in the right mental state. |
36,166,990 | The two launches on Thursday came after a similar test on 15 April.
Observers say all the tests appear to have failed, but a UN spokesman said such actions, which violate sanctions, were "deeply troubling".
It comes amid a recent ramp-up in weapons activity as the North prepares for a rare party congress.
There are also indications it is planning to carry out its fifth nuclear test, despite condemnation of its last test in January.
In a rare comment on the situation, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China - North Korea's closest ally - was committed to ensuring stability.
He told a meeting of regional foreign ministers in Beijing on Thursday: "As a close neighbour to the (Korean) peninsula, China will never allow war to erupt on the peninsula. Once such a situation occurs, it will do nobody any good."
South Korean officials said the first mid-range missile launch on Thursday took place in the morning near the eastern coastal city of Wonsan but the missile "crashed a few seconds later" in the coastal area, Yonhap news agency reported.
A second test was detected in the evening, but South Korean officials said that too had failed.
Both tests, like the earlier one, are thought to have been of a mid-range missile which has been given the nickname Musudan by observers.
The missile is thought to have a range of about 3,000km (1,800 miles), meaning it could reach Japan or the US territory of Guam.
Japan's ambassador to the UN, Motohide Yoshikawa, said the missile was "a threat to Japan's national security".
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told a news briefing that such actions by North Korea "are extremely troubling" and said the UN urged Pyongyang to "cease any further provocative actions and return to full compliance of its international obligations".
Strengthened international sanctions were placed on North Korea after it tested what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb and launched a long-range missile.
It also recently claimed to have fired a submarine ballistic missile.
Observers have speculated that Pyongyang is boosting the development of its weapons programs ahead of the Workers Party Congress in May, the first in nearly 40 years.
The North announced this week that the congress would take place on 6 May.
It is aimed at solidifying the power of its leader Kim Jong-un, and will be watched closely for indications of political change and comments on the North's nuclear ambitions. | The UN Security Council is preparing a response to North Korea after it test-launched two mid-range missiles, China's UN ambassador Liu Jieyi says. |
38,611,820 | It includes some of the busiest days ever faced by hospital emergency units and the Welsh Ambulance Service.
It comes as December's A&E waiting times were published, which are the first indication of how Wales is coping with winter pressures.
Dr Andrew Goodall said currently up to 20% of admissions in some A&Es are of patients aged over 85.
"We're used to having a high proportion of over 85s - the normal level is around 10% but we're seeing levels close to 20% over the last two weeks," said Dr Goodall, NHS Wales chief executive.
The latest statistics suggest there has been a significant increase in the number of patients who have had to wait more than 12 hours in emergency departments this December compared to the same time last year.
In December, 2,425 patients had to spend over 12 hours in urgent care departments - compared to 1,457 in the same month in 2015 - a rise of two thirds. It is down from 2,471 in November however.
But the 81% figure suggests the performance of Welsh A&Es departments against the four hour waiting time target is slightly worse compared to the previous December's 82%.
The data excludes Glan Clwyd Hospital, which could not provide figures for technical reasons.
The winter picture so far includes:
Dr Goodall added: "We remain a system under a lot of pressure but we've prepared very well for this winter.
"There have been some difficult days. But the fact we've come in to this winter with an ambulance service which is performing much more resiliently has really helped us in our response and that we've kept our social care delays low is a positive issue but there is still more to go at."
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Dr David Bailey, deputy chairman of the BMA in Wales and a GP in Trethomas, Caerphilly county, said there had been a "more mature" response from the government in Wales.
But in terms of pressures they were "pretty much identical" in every aspect of the health service and there was no slack in the system.
"We've lost about 40% of the bed numbers in Wales over the last 15 years - like in England - so when there's a surge you haven't the capacity to cope," he said.
"The problems then knock on and even when you get back to more normal levels you have all the backlogs - you can't get people out of hospital because of social care cuts and difficulties in getting people back into their own environment.
"There are then all the concerns about extra overcrowding so you get more hospital-acquired infections - it becomes perfect a storm because of the additional numbers we're not set up to deal with."
Leaked data for NHS England seen by BBC News showed the figure reached a low of 75.8% on 3 January but had recovered to 82.4% last week. It followed claims of a "humanitarian crisis" in the NHS in England and that GPs in England were being made "scapegoats" for pressures on A&E departments.
Welsh Health Secretary Vaughan Gething has said winter pressures are driven by a large increase in much sicker patients.
He tweeted last week that "GPs are not to blame for that fact" and the UK government "picking a fight with NHS staff and demanding the same staff numbers work even longer is a crass attempt to deflect attention".
Dr Bailey said there were consequences of funding cuts and recruitment problems being felt across the NHS and efficiencies could only take us so far.
"If there isn't enough capacity, that doesn't help," he added.
He said there was a "slightly better balance in Wales" to protect social care budgets but it relied on Westminster funding which had been "cut across the board".
Analysis by Mark Dayan, policy and public affairs analyst, Nuffield Trust
"These figures aren't a surprise and are similar to this stage last winter. For some years Wales has been particularly struggling with four hour A&E waits, compared with England and Scotland although there are some signs England is catching up.
"These are issues rooted in the flow through hospitals, the ability to discharge patients to some extent and the ability to move through patients in a timely fashion. Ultimately, there is just the pressure of a growing number of patients on a limited number of beds.
"All parts of the UK tend to show trickier A&E performance in winter - largely due to more elderly patients with respiratory conditions who really need a hospital bed. The underlying factor is pressure to move patients into beds and then the difficulty moving them out to free beds up."
"Finances are very tight, particularly since the recession - Wales bears the brunt of that - but another factor is patients in Wales spend longer in hospital than England and Scotland and that's something we need to look into more. There are also the problems of shortages in key workforce groups, like GPs."
Dr Goodall said 400 extra beds had been made available this winter - the equivalent of a district general hospital - in temporary facilities in decommissioned wards and care homes.
He also said delays in transferring elderly patients from hospital back to care at home had "continued to reduce and improve" and were running much lower than historic levels.
Plaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun Ap Iorwerth AM said crisis levels of performance were becoming the norm throughout the year.
"Doctors in A&E departments rightly focus on those who are more seriously ill, but we should not have a situation where almost 3,000 people a month have to wait longer than 12 hours in A&E to be seen," he said.
Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns AM said worsening A&E statistics had become routine for the Welsh Government.
"Their constant inability to meet their own targets is not only frustrating but incredibly dangerous for patients; the longer patients have to wait for treatment the greater the risk to their health," she said.
The Welsh Government said winter was always a very challenging period for our health and social services.
A spokesman added: "It is testament to the commitment and skill of doctors, nurses, social workers, paramedics and other key staff that despite these difficult circumstances, the vast majority of patients continue to receive the best possible care in a professional and timely manner." | The NHS in Wales has already faced "exceptional" challenges this winter, the head of the organisation has said. |
34,339,216 | BBC Scotland has learned that Mr Green claims his contract with the Ibrox club entitled him to legal cover during and after his spell in charge.
His lawyers have written to Rangers and want a court ruling on the claim.
It is understood the fees involved could be in excess of £500,000.
The court ruling could happen as early as next week.
Mr Green and a number of others, including the club's former owner Craig Whyte, were arrested and charged earlier this month.
The moves followed an investigation by Police Scotland into off-field events at the club in 2012 and 2013. | Former Rangers chief executive Charles Green is taking the club to court in a bid to get them to pay his legal fees after he was charged with serious organised crime offences. |
37,151,406 | Shamir Fenelon broke the deadlock for the Shots midway through the first half with a crisp finish past Steve Arnold.
Liam Bellamy made it 2-0 four minutes before the break, cushioning a neat header back across the sprawling keeper.
Ross Lafayette still had time in first-half stoppage-time to pull one back with a sweetly struck 25-yard free-kick.
In a high-tempo second period, Aldershot had to work hard to hold on, but Matt McClure was unlucky not to extend the winning margin when he headed an effort against the underside of the bar.
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Match ends, Dover Athletic 1, Aldershot Town 2.
Second Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, Aldershot Town 2.
Richard Orlu (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Callum Reynolds (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Tyrone Marsh replaces Jack Parkinson.
Matt McClure (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Sammy Moore replaces Chris Kinnear.
Aswad Thomas (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Anthony Straker replaces Nick Arnold.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Scott Rendell replaces Jake Gallagher.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Josh Wakefield replaces Jim Kellerman.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Ricky Miller replaces Moses Emmanuel.
Second Half begins Dover Athletic 1, Aldershot Town 2.
First Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, Aldershot Town 2.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Aldershot Town 2. Ross Lafayette (Dover Athletic).
Goal! Dover Athletic 0, Aldershot Town 2. Liam Bellamy (Aldershot Town).
Goal! Dover Athletic 0, Aldershot Town 1. Shamir Fenelon (Aldershot Town).
Jim Stevenson (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Aldershot made their way into the top five of the National League with an excellent win at Dover. |
30,255,136 | Rice, 27, was handed an indefinite ban in September when a video emerged of him punching his fiancee in the face.
The player was released by the Baltimore Ravens, but he is now allowed to play should he sign for a new team.
The appeal, heard on 5 November but announced on Friday, had to decide if the NFL overstepped its authority.
American football's governing body had modified Rice's two-game suspension, making it indefinite after the video of the incident went public.
Rice has been eligible to sign for a new team since his ban was put in place, but he had not yet accepted a contract.
Rice and his wife Janay - who married after the incident - testified at the hearing, as did NFL security chief Jeffrey Miller and Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome.
In her decision, US district judge Barbara S Jones wrote: "Because Rice did not mislead the commissioner and because there were no new facts on which the commissioner could base his increased suspension, I find that the imposition of the indefinite suspension was arbitrary.
"I therefore vacate the second penalty imposed on Rice.
"The provisions of the first discipline - those regarding making continued use of counselling and other professional services, having no further involvement with law enforcement, and not committing any additional violations of league policies -still stand."
The NFL is yet to comment.
Earlier in November the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars Shahid Khan told the BBC the NFL "has to play a leadership role" when it comes to the issue of domestic abuse. | NFL running-back Ray Rice has won his appeal against an indefinite suspension from the game, and is now eligible to play again immediately. |
40,896,899 | The commission will hold a meeting with ministers and regulators on 26 September.
Its food safety chief has called countries to stop "blaming and shaming" each other.
A row has erupted over how long Belgian and Dutch authorities have known about the contamination.
Eggs, coming mainly from the Netherlands, have been found to contain fipronil, a substance used to kill lice and ticks on animals that is banned by the EU for use in the food industry.
It is thought it was used to combat lice in some chicken farms, affecting the eggs of laying hens.
The insecticide can damage people's kidneys, liver and thyroid glands if eaten in large quantities. However, food standards agencies are playing down the risks for anyone who has already eaten the tainted eggs.
Farms were shut down in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France after authorities confirmed that fipronil had been used, European Commission spokesman Daniel Rosario said on Friday.
The EU countries that have received the eggs are the UK, Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Denmark. Non-EU Switzerland is also affected.
Friday's revelation that tainted eggs had also been sent to Hong Kong marks the first time the widening scandal has spread outside Europe.
The UK food watchdog also said about 700,000 eggs had been sent to the UK from potentially contaminated Dutch farms, up from an earlier estimate of 21,000.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said it was very unlikely that there was a risk to public health.
Processed foods containing eggs, including sandwiches and salads, have been recalled by leading supermarkets, including Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Waitrose and Asda.
Supermarkets in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany have also withdrawn millions of eggs from sale.
On Friday, France's Agriculture Minister Stéphane Travert said about 250,000 affected eggs had been sold in the country since April, adding that all products containing eggs from contaminated farms would be taken off the shelves.
In Hong Kong, the government's Centre for Food Safety says it identified two samples of imported Dutch eggs containing excessive levels of fipronil last week and asked shops to remove the products.
It has since tested other European egg imports and has not found any more "unsatisfactory samples", the South China Morning Post newspaper quoted a spokeswoman as saying.
"Blaming and shaming will bring us nowhere and I want to stop this," European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis said on Friday.
"But first things first. Our common job and our priority now is to manage the situation, gather information, focus on the analysis and lessons to be learned in a view to improve our system and prevent criminal activity."
A commission spokesperson later added that the event scheduled for 26 September was not a crisis meeting. It is unclear whether the meeting will involve all 28 EU member states, or only affected countries.
On Thursday, Dutch police arrested two people in joint raids carried out with Belgian authorities.
A criminal investigation is under way, centring on two firms. Poultry Vision, a pest control firm from Belgium, is alleged to have sold the treatment to a Dutch poultry farm cleaning company, Chickfriend.
More than 100 poultry farms have been closed during the investigation, and 26 suspects identified and evidence seized from their companies.
The Netherlands is Europe's biggest egg producer - and one of the largest exporters of eggs and egg products in the world.
The problem first surfaced earlier in August, when supermarket chain Aldi withdrew all its eggs from sale in Germany.
It has since emerged that Belgian officials knew about the contamination in June, but did not make the information public.
Meanwhile, Belgian Agriculture Minister Denis Ducarme has accused the Dutch authorities of knowing about the problem as far back as November 2016. The food watchdog in the Netherlands has denied this.
By James Gallagher, health and science reporter, BBC News
Fipronil should not be allowed anywhere near food.
But the risk from eggs is thought to be low, because the number of contaminated eggs is also low.
While 700,000 eggs sounds like a lot, it is worth remembering we eat 34 million every single day in the UK.
It is why the Food Standards Agency says it is "very unlikely" there is any health risk.
Many of the affected eggs will have already passed through the food chain before anyone was aware of the scandal.
And the FSA has now pulled egg sandwiches and egg salads off the shelves that were made while contaminated eggs were still being imported.
It insisted there was "no need" for people to stop eating eggs.
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning | Fifteen EU countries as well as Hong Kong and Switzerland have received eggs contaminated with the insecticide fipronil, the European Commission says. |
26,745,196 | Mr Goodway was in charge of finance and economic development which has been taken on by the new council leader Phil Bale.
Mr Bale was voted in by the ruling Labour group last week following the resignation of Heather Joyce.
Mr Goodway is the councillor for Ely and was leader from 1996 to 2004.
Mr Bale said: "I have had to make some difficult decisions but I believe I have put forward a team that can continue to drive forward economic development, improve standards of education and skills as well as focussing on citizen engagement, improving performance and delivering on the co-operative council agenda."
Paying tribute to the outgoing leader Heather Joyce and her team, he added: "I would like to thank them all for their dedication and hard work.
"They have all contributed a great deal to Cardiff in very challenging times and my new team will now pick up that baton and take it forward to continue delivering a world class capital for Wales."
One councillor said he refused an offer to remain cabinet member for the environment because of "a number of things" he felt uncomfortable with, including the departure of Mr Goodway.
Grangetown councillor Ashley Govier said: "When considering a cabinet position, I need to know the team around me and I wasn't satisfied that certain conditions (for me considering the post) had been met.
"I didn't agree with the decision to remove councillor Russell Goodway.
"I think he would be an asset to any cabinet."
It has emerged Mr Govier and Mr Goodway were amongst five cabinet members who sent a letter to the new Labour group leader before the reshuffle, warning it could remove "people with experience who've worked well together".
Another signatory, Lynda Thorne lost her position as cabinet member for community regeneration and social justice.
She told BBC Wales the letter was "intended to encourage the council leader to consider making sure there was plenty of experience in the cabinet".
Ms Thorne said: "It was a letter from the five of us explaining the challenges the council faces and to raise concerns about changing the cabinet dynamics and getting rid of people with experience who've worked well together.
"There are massive changes facing the council and we believed it would be better if we kept the five of us in.
"We had major concerns about big changes in the pipeline, such as budget cuts that are still to be made this year and next. It was the reason we felt he needed to keep that experience in the team."
Cardiff council's budget will be cut by £50m in 2014/15, with a further £92m needs to be cut over the next three years.
But Ms Thorne, another Grangetown councillor, said the reshuffle would not affect the Labour group.
"We're all loyal party members. When the decision is made, it's made, and we'll all fall in line," she said. | The former leader of Cardiff council Russell Goodway has lost his seat in the ruling cabinet after the number of members was cut from 10 to nine. |
37,658,316 | Former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos said the businessman forced himself on her at a Los Angeles hotel and began "thrusting his genitals".
Kristin Anderson told the Washington Post he reached up her skirt and groped her in a New York club in the 1990s.
The Republican nominee branded the allegations as "lies and smears".
Ms Anderson, now 46, said the property mogul touched her through her underwear at a Manhattan nightspot when she was a waitress trying to make it as a model.
She said she was "very grossed out and weirded out".
Ms Anderson said she turned round to find a man sitting on a red velvet couch whom she recognised instantly as the celebrity property mogul.
"He was so distinctive looking," she told the Washington Post, "with the hair and the eyebrows. I mean, nobody else has those eyebrows."
She added: "It wasn't a sexual come-on. I don't know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it, and nothing would happen.
"There was zero conversation. We didn't even really look at each other. It was very random, very nonchalant on his part."
The newspaper said it had approached Ms Anderson after learning of her story through a third party, and she had spent several days deciding whether to go public.
Mr Trump's spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said in a statement emailed to the Washington Post: "Mr Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity. It is totally ridiculous."
Meanwhile, Summer Zervos, a former contestant on season five of The Apprentice in 2006, said she was sexually assaulted by Mr Trump after she was invited by him to discuss job opportunities.
Ms Zervos, 41, told an emotional news conference in Los Angeles that she met him in 2007 in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where the businessman greeted her by kissing her on the mouth.
She said he asked her to sit next to him on a sofa where he "grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast".
Ms Zervos fought back tears as she said Mr Trump attempted to lead her into the bedroom and "began thrusting his genitals", even as she fended off his advances.
She said Mr Trump then began talking to her as if she were a candidate for a job interview.
Ms Zervos, who described herself as a Republican, said she was subsequently offered a low-paid job at a Trump-owned golf course.
She was flanked during the press conference by well-known lawyer Gloria Allred, who has previously represented alleged sexual assault victims of entertainer Bill Cosby.
At the time of the alleged assault, Mr Trump was recently married to his third and current wife, Melania Trump.
His campaign said he "vaguely remembers" Ms Zervos, but insisted the meeting at the hotel never happened.
And during a rally in North Carolina on Friday, the Republican candidate said the several accusations were "sick" and fabricated.
"I don't know who these people are. I look on television, I think it's a disgusting thing and it's being pushed, they have no witnesses, there's nobody around.
"Some are doing it for probably a little fame, they get some free fame. It's a total set-up."
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Ms Zervos said she was spurred to come forward after Mr Trump denied during last Sunday's presidential debate ever having committed sexual assault.
He rebutted the suggestion on national television as he was asked about a leaked recording from 2005 in which he is heard bragging that he can force himself on women because he is a star.
Meanwhile, his campaign presented a British man who disputed the account of one of the accusers, Jessica Leeds.
Ms Leeds, now 74, said that when she was 38 Mr Trump groped her on a flight to New York, acting "like an octopus".
The New York Post reported that Anthony Gilberthorpe contacted Mr Trump's campaign to counter the claim. In an interview to the paper he said: "I was there, I was in a position to know that what she said was wrong, wrong, wrong."
Mr Gilberthorpe made headlines in 2014 when he alleged that he had provided underage boys to British politicians for sex parties.
Referring to Ms Leeds in the rally in North Carolina, Mr Trump said: "Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you."
Polls suggest Mr Trump is losing ground in some of the key battleground states against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with just 24 days until the election. | Two more women have come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault, in the latest such allegations against the embattled Republican nominee. |
31,834,301 | The officer left the bag containing the Pava spray, which is used to incapacitate suspects, and handcuffs on a pavement near Lower Vauvert in St Peter Port on Friday night.
On Tuesday, all items except the spray were found in wasteland off Park Lane.
Guernsey Police said it would not comment on whether any disciplinary action would follow.
Det Sgt Jason Savident said: "The officer had mistakenly left the bag at the scene after he arrested and helped escort a potentially volatile suspect to the police station.
"While we are pleased to recover the bag and the majority of its contents, and would wish to thank the member of the public who notified us, we remain concerned that the spray is still unaccounted for.
"Pava will not result in any lasting harmful effects, but nevertheless it is designed to temporarily incapacitate and we are concerned that someone is in possession of the spray who is not licensed to be." | A bag left on a pavement by a police officer has been found, but a gas canister remains missing. |
34,298,147 | Lynne Radke, 53, was reported missing after last seen being seen in John O'Groats on Monday morning.
Police Scotland said the body that has been found has still to be formally identified.
But the family of Ms Radke has been informed. | Police searching for an Australian tourist reported missing in Caithness say a body has been found at Duncansby Head. |
37,068,889 | The 31-year-old, who has won 22 Olympic gold medals, quit after London 2012 only to reverse that decision in 2014.
"I'm not going four more years and I'm standing by that," he insisted after finishing in a three-way tie for silver in the 100m butterfly final.
"I've been able to do everything I've ever put my mind to in the sport. I'm happy with how things finished."
He added: "No more. This is it. I said it a bunch before. But I'm not doing it.
"I swore in London I wasn't coming back and this is final. Were the papers here, I'd sign them tomorrow."
However, team-mate Ryan Lochte thinks Phelps will be in Tokyo in 2020.
"I guarantee he will be there,'' Lochte told NBC. "I think so. I really think so. So Michael, I'll see you in Tokyo."
Phelps can add to his Olympic tally in the 4x100m medley relay at 03:04 BST on Sunday.
"I'm happy," added Phelps, who said he wanted to spend more time with newborn son Boomer and fiancee Nicole.
Phelps made his Olympic bow in 2000, winning his first gold in Athens in 2004. He has 27 Olympic medals in total, nine more than his closest rival. | American swimming legend Michael Phelps says he does not intend to compete in another Olympics once Rio 2016 is over. |
34,727,496 | Playing for the Durban-based Dolphins franchise, the 35-year-old came to the crease in the first over and hit 10 sixes and five fours in his innings.
He moved to his hundred during a final over in which 30 runs were scored, with Pietersen striking four sixes.
The Dolphins made 174-6 and beat the Johannesburg-based Lions by one run.
Having been told in March he had no future with England, Pietersen has become a freelance T20 batsman and is playing in a Dolphins side alongside South Africa batsmen Morne van Wijk and David Miller.
They both fell cheaply against the Lions but Pietersen reached fifty from 49 balls with a six and then struck four successive sixes in the final over from seamer Dwaine Pretorius. | Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen struck his highest Twenty20 score, with an unbeaten 115 from 66 balls in South Africa's Ram Slam T20 competition. |
39,364,923 | Rescuers from the police, coastguard, ambulance and fire service were called to the scene shortly after 04:00 on Saturday.
The police's dive and marine unit carried out searches near to Moncrieffe Island and around the Friarton Bridge in the following days.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said the man's family had been informed.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) has been instructed to investigate the police's response before the man fell into the River Tay.
The watchdog will then submit its findings to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS). | A major search operation for a 25-year-old man who fell from the Queens Bridge in Perth has been called off. |
36,202,533 | Van Vuuren, 24, signed a short-term deal with the Tigers this season and has since made three appearances.
The former Stade Francais front-rower also has Super Rugby experience with the Cheetahs and Kings.
"This is a great opportunity for me to compete for a place in a team that is really going places," Van Vuuren said.
"I've had a taste of English rugby recently and I'm looking forward to playing in one of the toughest leagues in rugby."
Bath head coach Mike Ford added: "He is a robust, talented player, with a lot of potential to continue improving as a player, and we're looking forward to helping him do that." | Bath have signed South African hooker Michael van Vuuren from fellow Premiership side Leicester Tigers for the 2016-17 season. |
35,943,944 | He was speaking at the 100th passing out parade of new officers at Garnerville on Friday.
Mr Hamilton said: "We want the police service to be as representative as it possibly can be."
He said he wanted to go over and above the Patten recommendations.
The Patten Commission, established in 1998 as part of the Belfast Agreement, suggested at least 30% of police officers should be catholic.
Now about 32% of the PSNI is catholic, but Mr Hamilton told BBC News he wanted to go further.
"I'd like to see it at 50%", he said.
The 47 student officers who graduated at the milestone event will now complete a two-year probationary period. | Chief Constable, George Hamilton, says he would like to see catholic police officers making up half of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). |
35,020,427 | One man was seriously injured, while another suffered minor injuries during the knife attack at Leytonstone station, on Saturday.
The video of the aftermath of the attack shows a man being pinned to floor having been Tasered by police. It is then that you can hear an unidentified bystander shouting: "You ain't no Muslim bruv."
The phrase has been widely picked up by social media users who say it is the perfect riposte to attempts to spread violence and terror in London.
The first messages were posted shortly after the video emerged online on Saturday night.
However, on Sunday it topped the UK trending chart on Twitter, with thousands sharing the same message.
One user called Muthla said it was the "best trend I've seen", others said they were proud to be a Londoner, while another said the message "undermines" terrorism.
The #YouAintNoMuslimBruv trend follows other defiant messages on social media sites following terror attacks.
After the Paris attacks last month #PorteOuverte - or Door Open - was used for anyone who wanted to find refuge in Paris. Other hashtags on Twitter expressed outrage at the attacks, including #TerrorismHasNoReligion.
The hashtag #JeSuisCharliecharlie was widely used after the Charlie Hebdo killings in January, in which 12 people died.
And even politicians have backed the #YouAintNoMuslimBruv trend, with Labour's candidate for Mayor of London and a former London City Hall adviser tweeting supportive messages. | Twitter users are posting messages including the hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv to show their contempt for a man who allegedly stabbed three people at a London Tube station. |
31,709,115 | With wild bees already under threat from habitat loss and pesticides, diseases could have a profound impact on populations, say scientists.
In Britain, bumblebee species are declining, and two have become extinct.
Conservation groups are calling for tougher regulations on importing bees for commercial use.
Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London, collected hundreds of free flying honeybees and wild bumblebees in 26 areas of England, Wales and Scotland.
Analysis revealed that five common viruses which cause disease in honeybees are circulating in bumblebees.
More needs to be done to protect both wild bees and commercial honeybees, said a team led by Prof Mark Brown of the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London.
"Our findings reveal the widespread prevalence in wild bee populations of multiple RNA viruses previously associated with honeybees," the researchers report in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
Together with other environmental factors, such as habitat loss and pesticides, diseases could have a "profound impact on the long-term health of bee populations," they said.
In the UK there are 24 species of bumblebee but only eight are commonly found in most regions. Bumblebees have been declining due to a shortage of flowers to feed on and places to nest in the countryside.
Native honeybees living in the wild have largely disappeared, due to diseases and mites, such as the Varroa mite.
However, many honeybees looked after by bee keepers forage in the countryside and urban habitats, where they may come into contact with wild bumblebees.
Vanessa Amaral-Rogers of the insect charity Buglife said diseases found in honeybees were another factor to consider in bumblebee conservation.
"We need to consider the use of pesticides, increasing food resources so planting more wild flowers for all our pollinators, but also the diseases that are being brought in and transmitted between wild and managed bees," she said.
The research adds to growing evidence that multiple environmental pressures are driving the loss of bees in the wild and in hives.
In a review of evidence published last week in the journal Science, biologists at the University of Sussex called for practical measures to protect bees including:
Follow Helen Briggs on Twitter. | Wild bumblebees are infected with many of the diseases found in honeybees looked after by bee keepers, according to a national survey. |
33,678,466 | The new gas-powered plant will save up to £300,000 a year and make the company self-sufficient for energy.
It will also mean a 10% cut in the company's CO2 emissions - the equivalent of taking around 350 cars off Northern Ireland's roads.
The savings will be invested in the research and development of more efficient feed products.
The company has also signed what is known as a "prosperity agreement" with the authorities that regulate the industry.
The intention is to make the relationship between business and regulator less adversarial and more collaborative.
Businesses agree to operate above the minimum required environmental standards.
The regulator - in this case the Department of the Environment - agrees to cut red tape for companies that demonstrate compliance with environmental regulation.
Visiting Thompsons, Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said: "This is not just about reduced CO2 emissions. More nutritious animal food produced by it means less harmful emissions into the environment from farm livestock.
"Better awareness of environmental responsibilities on farms will further demonstrate that Northern Ireland is serious about creating a world-class clean, green agri-food sector."
Declan Billington of Thompsons added: "The signing of this agreement affirms Thompsons belief that improving on-farm production efficiencies through nutrition will also improve the environmental footprints of farms and will profit both rural communities and the environment as a result."
This is the third prosperity agreement signed by Northern Ireland companies.
Thompsons employs 165 workers and produces 850,000 tonnes of feed a year across all agricultural sectors.
It accounts for about 40% of the agricultural feed market in Northern Ireland. | Belfast animal feed company Thompsons is investing £2.5m in a new heat and energy plant. |
39,460,439 | He was found collapsed at Benson Road tram stop, in Winson Green, and pronounced dead at the scene, British Transport Police (BTP) said.
It is not known whether the man, in his 50s, was stabbed on the platform approach or injured elsewhere.
Police, who were made aware of the incident at about 16:50 BST, have started a murder investigation.
Det Ch Insp Tony Fitzpatrick, leading the investigation with West Midlands Police, said: "We're still trying to establish exactly how the man came to receive his injuries."
"The incident occurred around rush hour and I'm certain they would have been people around who can help us find out exactly what happened." | A man has been found dead with serious stab wounds at a tram stop in Birmingham, police have said. |
37,081,788 | The officer was struck by the vehicle on Hillcrest Drive, in Loughborough, Leicestershire on Sunday afternoon.
Courtney Mark Johnson, 34, of Armadale Drive, Leicester, has been charged with grievous bodily harm and dangerous driving causing injury.
He appeared before Leicester Magistrates' Court earlier and was remanded in custody.
The officer is in a "stable condition", Leicestershire Police said.
Mr Johnson has also been charged with driving whilst disqualified and two counts of robbery.
He is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court in September. | A man has been charged after a police officer was hit by a truck while responding to a report of a burglary. |
39,347,721 | MSPs will vote at 17:30 on the motion allowing the Scottish government to open negotiations with Westminster on the timing of a fresh poll.
Ms Sturgeon wants the referendum held between autumn 2018 and spring 2019.
Prime Minister Theresa May said last week that now was not the time to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.
She argued the focus should be on getting the best Brexit deal for the whole of the UK.
However, Ms Sturgeon said it was right to hold a vote within her timescale in order for the people of Scotland to be offered a choice between a "hard Brexit" and becoming an independent country.
On Tuesday members of the Scottish Parliament began a two-day debate calling for a Section 30 order from Westminster.
The order would be needed to allow a fresh legally-binding referendum on independence to be held.
The government is expected to win the vote with the support of the pro-independence supporting Scottish Greens - despite opposition from the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats.
On the first day of the debate Ms Sturgeon insisted that Scotland's future should be decided by the people who live there rather than being "imposed upon us".
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson claimed voters were "sick to death of the SNP's games" over independence as the pro-UK opposition parties argued that there was no appetite for another referendum just two and a half years after the first one.
In September 2014, voters in Scotland backed staying a part of the UK by 55% to 45%.
"That the parliament acknowledges the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of government best suited to their needs and therefore mandates the Scottish government to take forward discussions with the UK government on the details of an order under section 30 of the Scotland Act 1998 to ensure that the Scottish Parliament can legislate for a referendum to be held that will give the people of Scotland a choice over the future direction and governance of their country at a time - and with a question and franchise - determined by the Scottish Parliament, which would most appropriately be between the autumn of 2018, when there is clarity over the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, and around the point at which the UK leaves the EU in spring 2019." | Holyrood is expected to back First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's call for a second independence referendum. |
34,206,336 | The unnamed victim was injured in an incident at HMP Nottingham on Tuesday and taken to Queen's Medical Centre in the city for treatment.
The inmate, who has not been identified, has been placed on a segregation unit and police are investigating.
A Prison Service spokesman said all incidents are fully investigated.
"Any violence in prison is unacceptable - especially when it is directed at our hardworking staff," he said.
"All incidents are fully investigated and prisoners found guilty can find their sentences extended significantly." | A prison officer has been treated for a suspected broken jaw after he was attacked by an inmate. |
38,885,741 | RSPB Scotland launched an appeal to raise £285,000 for the Mersehead reserve on the Solway Firth in October last year.
The target has been reached enabling it to buy an extra 112 hectares (275 acres) of land in the area.
It will allow two separate parts of the reserve, situated south of Dumfries, to be linked up.
The reserve is a sanctuary for thousands of Svalbard barnacle geese every year as well as a home to natterjack toads and many different types of bird.
David Beaumont, RSPB Scotland reserves manager in south and west Scotland, said: "A huge thank-you to everyone who donated money to this urgent appeal.
"It really was a race against time when we launched our campaign to secure this site for nature.
"Thanks to the overwhelming public response, Mersehead has now been made whole, which is wonderful news for the special wildlife of the Solway Firth."
Over the next two years, RSPB Scotland will be working to restore the special saltmarsh and sand dune habitats on the newest part of the reserve.
This will create more nesting opportunities for birds such as redshanks and skylarks that breed in the saltmarsh and more ponds in the sand dunes suitable for the natterjack toad population to expand into.
Work will begin this spring with the removal of scrub and non-native plant species. | A nature reserve which is home to rare natterjack toads and other wildlife is set to expand. |
37,382,020 | Police said the vehicle left the carriageway near Clanfield at about 23:00 BST and came to rest on its roof.
The driver, a 22-year-old woman from Waterlooville, died at the scene.
The driver of a second car, a 26-year-old man from Portsmouth, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and driving under the influence of drugs.
Hampshire Constabulary said it did not believe the two cars had collided before the incident, which happened on the southbound carriageway.
The road was closed overnight but has since reopened. | A woman died when her car overturned on the A3 in Hampshire. |
39,279,534 | Alexander, 45, is alleged to have 'used abusive and/or insulting language towards a match official, contrary to FA Rule E3'.
The charge relates to an incident at the end of the 3-2 League One defeat by Gillingham on 11 March.
He has until 18:00 GMT on Friday 17 March to respond. | Scunthorpe United manager Graham Alexander has been charged with alleged use of abusive language towards a match official by the Football Association. |
35,207,451 | Despite the blaze at the Address hotel, the display at the nearby Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, started as planned at midnight.
Officials say the fire has been brought largely under control and 16 people suffered mostly minor injuries.
It is unclear what caused the blaze, which broke out as large crowds had gathered to ring in the New Year.
People were asked to leave the area around the Address Downtown Hotel, which was evacuated.
The fire broke out at about 21:30 local time (17:30 GMT) and appeared to engulf much of the building, a five-star hotel and apartment complex, within 10 minutes.
As I watched the flames engulf the massive building, I knew right away it was the Address Hotel in Dubai's downtown district that overlooks Burj Khalifa. I also knew that it was fully booked five years in advance.
There were also thousands of people in the streets below and in the adjacent buildings, all waiting to view the highly anticipated New Year's Eve fireworks display, among them my youngest sister.
After checking on my sister, I hastily decided to head out to downtown Dubai in the hope of seeing the scene on the ground for myself.
As I approached downtown, I realised that the normally brightly illuminated Burj Khalifa was only half-lit and I could barely see the imposing structure amid the black smoke from the Address Hotel.
I did not expect to spend the next four hours right outside the downtown area, in one of the worst traffic jams I have ever encountered.
As the clock struck midnight, I resigned myself to ringing in the New Year among thousands of strangers, all gazing out of our cars towards Burj Khalifa's spectacular fireworks display, alongside a burning hotel.
The blaze started on the 20th floor and did not spread inside the building, officials said.
The Dubai government tweeted that 14 people had suffered minor injuries, one had moderate injuries and there was one "heart attack case" due to "overcrowding and smoke".
Irish singer Anita Williams, who was performing at the hotel when the fire began, told the BBC that people left in a "stampede".
"We left everything. There was debris falling down. It [the fire] just shot up through the entire hotel.
"Everybody was screaming, everybody was running... I thought: 'This is a film'."
The fireworks display went ahead as smoke continued to billow from the hotel.
Alternative accommodation would be offered to evacuated guests, the Dubai government said.
BBC World Service Middle East editor Sebastian Usher says the display is a hugely prestigious event for Dubai, and authorities want the images that people look back on next year to be of the fireworks - and not of the blaze.
Tom Stroud, from London, who is staying near the hotel, said: "It happened so quickly. There was smoke billowing everywhere and people running away."
A tourist, Michelle Duque told the BBC: "All of a sudden we saw this huge black plume of black smoke coming between the Khalifa Tower and the hotel.
"The flames burst out really big and before we knew it, the whole of the Address Hotel was covered in orange flames." | A huge fire has engulfed a 63-storey hotel in central Dubai ahead of a New Year's Eve firework display. |
39,764,830 | They accuse Sushila Karki of delivering biased verdicts and interfering in the executive's jurisdiction.
At least 249 MPs signed the motion, well over the quarter required to open an impeachment investigation.
It comes after the Supreme Court overturned the government's choice of chief of police.
Last month the court ruled in favour of a claim by Navaraj Silwal, the most senior officer in the ranks, that he had been unfairly bypassed in favour of a less senior colleague, Jaya Bahadur Chand.
A hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday 2 May on the government's second choice of candidate, Prakash Aryal, local media report.
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Critics say there is a history of political parties determining police appointments on the basis of "undue favours rather than merit".
Nepalese media reports say there had been disagreement within the coalition over the appointment.
Ms Karki, the head of the Supreme Court, is now automatically suspended from her duties while an impeachment committee is formed and carries out an investigation.
The conclusion will then be put to a parliamentary vote, with a two-thirds majority required.
The ruling coalition, made up of the UCPN (Maoist-Centre), the Nepali Congress and some smaller parties, would need outside support to pass it.
Ms Karki, 64, was appointed in April 2016, and is due to retire in June. | Nepal's first female chief justice has been suspended after the two largest parties in the ruling coalition filed an impeachment motion against her. |
22,350,161 | The book will trace the rap crew's origins as a New York high school punk band through to their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Band member MCA, real name Adam Yauch, died from cancer aged 47 in May 2012.
Publishers Faber & Faber said the book was "a landmark acquisition".
"Beastie Boys have entertained us for years with classic albums like Paul's Boutique and Hello Nasty," said Faber's Lee Brackstone.
"They will now entertain us on the page, in this book which celebrates the 30-plus years of their unique story and influence."
Initially a hardcore punk band called the Young Aboriginals, Yauch and co-founders Mike D, aka Mike Diamond, and Ad Rock, real name Adam Horowitz, met in high school in Brooklyn.
They switched to hip-hop, renamed themselves the Beastie Boys and, in 1986, launched their debut album Licensed To Ill.
Its hit singles included (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) and No Sleep Till Brooklyn.
Although the music was acclaimed, the band's brash and bratty personas earned them more than their share of negative headlines.
Their penchant for wearing Volkswagen badges around their neck was also blamed for a rise in car vandalism.
But subsequent albums such as Paul's Boutique and Ill Communication are considered classics of the genre and cemented their reputation as one of America's most popular and enduring rap outfits.
In 2009 the band delayed their release of their album Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 1 following news that Yauch was suffering from cancer of the salivary gland.
Although Part 1 was delayed indefinitely, the album's second part was released by the band in 2011.
The band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Yauch died just a few weeks later.
Musicians from across the spectrum paid tribute, with electronic DJ Moby calling him "a wonderful, generous, remarkable and inspiring man and friend".
The new book, to be compiled by hip-hop writer Sacha Jenkins, will include contributions from writers exploring Yauch's musical legacy. | A new book telling the story of the Beastie Boys, to be written by surviving members Mike D and Ad Rock and reflecting the death of bandmate MCA, is to be published in 2015. |
33,912,057 | The section of 16th century tapestry was owned by Emma Budge, whose estate was confiscated after her death in 1935 and sold to benefit Hitler's regime.
A claim by her estate was upheld by the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel which looks into cases of looted artworks.
The amount of compensation due to the family is still to be decided.
The artwork at the centre of the claim is a tapestry fragment representing "The Visitation".
It depicts the pregnant Virgin Mary and Saint Elizabeth, the future mother of Saint John the Baptist.
The tapestry was made in Switzerland early in the 16th century. The fragment was cut from a larger tapestry and fashioned into the shape of an ecclesiastical cope hood.
It was acquired by Mrs Budge who, along with her husband Henry, amassed a considerable fortune after emigrating to the United States.
They returned to Hamburg where Mr Budge died in 1927. His wife died in 1935, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Mrs Budge's estate was confiscated by a Nazi official and sold at auction that same year.
The section of tapestry was acquired by Sir William Burrell in 1938.
Following his death in 1958, he left his thousands of paintings, sculptures, tapestries, ceramics and stained glass to Glasgow.
The famous collection, which is housed in a museum in Pollok Park, is controlled by the city council.
It has now agreed to pay compensation after a claim by Mrs Budge's heirs was upheld by the Spoliation Advisory Panel and it will discuss the amount at a later date. | Compensation is to be paid to a German Jewish woman's estate after it emerged a piece of Nazi-looted artwork ended up in Glasgow's famous Burrell Collection. |
38,585,595 | He was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele on 31 July 1917.
Some weeks later his poem won the prestigious chair prize at the Welsh National Eisteddfod cultural festival held in Birkenhead, Wirral.
A new chair will be presented at an event to mark the 100th anniversary.
Hedd Wyn, the bardic name of Ellis Humphrey Evans, born on 13 January 1887 in Gwynedd, was already a poet of some renown.
His death represented so many who marched off to war never to return, according to the Merseyside Welsh Heritage Society and the Welsh National Memorial and Hedd Wyn Society in Flanders.
In September, Hedd Wyn and others from Wales who fell in battle will be remembered in a poetry and arts festival to be held in Birkenhead Park.
A stone marks the spot where the eisteddfod was held 100 years ago and where Hedd Wyn won his posthumous prize - the Black Chair of Birkenhead.
The centrepiece of this year's event will be the awarding of a new chair designed by students in Flanders, a gift from the Flemish Hedd Wyn Society - a group of people who honour his memory.
Dr D Ben Rees, chairman of the Merseyside Welsh Heritage Society, said the 1917 eisteddfod had been a "huge occasion" due to the numbers of Welsh people living in the area.
"Wales was very much part of our heritage here on Merseyside," he said.
The society is to restore the stone and incorporate details of Hedd Wyn.
Dr Rees said the festival was being used to "remind people of the sacrifice made by Welsh lads from the churches and chapels on Merseyside".
About 220 men, members of a Welsh chapel in Bootle, fought in World War One, he said.
The initial intention had been to donate the Hedd Wyn Centenary Chair to this year's National Eisteddfod to be held on Anglesey, but that did not prove possible.
The design has come from a competition involving furniture design students at the Thomas More University in Mechelen, between Brussels and Antwerp.
The chair was originally planned to be a unique commission but, after learning about it, the Flemish government asked for a second to be made which it plans to give as a gift to the Welsh Government.
Erwin Ureel, from the Welsh National Memorial and Hedd Wyn Society in Flanders, said Hedd Wyn's Black Chair was "highly symbolic" because it was designed by a Flemish furniture maker living as a refugee in Birkenhead.
"We thought at the centenary this is a perfect moment to more or less repeat the story and bring another chair to Wales as Hedd Wyn's Centenary Chair," he said.
The chairs will be made from railway sleepers which were found buried in a farmer's field near the battlefield.
Hedd Wyn died at a crossroads just outside the Flemish town of Langemark.
The place is known now as the site of the Dragon Memorial, dedicated to all those from Wales who served in World War One.
He is buried not far away at Artillery Wood Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.
Both locations will be the focus of events in July to mark the centenary of his death.
Mr Ureel said: "Hedd Wyn is a symbol for all the Welsh men who fought in the area.
"In commemorating Hedd Wyn we are commemorating all the people of Wales who were here with us in Flanders and fought here nearly 100 years ago." | Welsh societies in Merseyside and the Flanders region of Belgium are marking the centenary of the death of World War One poet Hedd Wyn. |
40,516,368 | Peterloo tells the story of a mass rally by pro-democracy campaigners who gathered on St Peter's Fields to demand the right to elect their own MPs.
Hundreds were injured and 15 killed when armed cavalry tried to arrest a speaker at the event.
Filming for the feature is taking place close to Lincoln Castle.
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As part of the preparations, signs were replaced and stalls set up.
An exhibition of the Lincoln Knights was also moved.
Lincoln Knights†| Parts of Lincoln have been transformed to represent Manchester in 1819 for Mike Leigh's new film about the Peterloo Massacre. |
33,459,105 | Built at a cost of £0.5bn, Britannia was officially named by the Queen in a ceremony in Southampton in March.
The ship, carrying about 5,000 passengers, anchored off Newhaven, near Leith in Edinburgh, on Wednesday.
It has now arrived at Invergordon in Easter Ross and some of the thousands of holidaymakers have been making day trips into Inverness.
The 141,000-tonne, Italian-built ship has a 94m (308ft) Union Jack on its bow and is operated by P&O.
Its voyage around the British Isles has been described as a "lap of honour".
While anchored off Newhaven, the ship was visited by Edinburgh's Deputy Lord Provost Steve Cardownie. | The UK's largest cruise ship has arrived in Scotland as part of its maiden voyage around the British Isles. |
34,936,739 | Oscar Webb's eye was sliced in half by a propeller after the operator, Simon Evans, lost control of the drone.
The toddler, from Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, will need several operations before he can have a prosthetic eye fitted.
It was the first drone injury Oscar's surgeon had seen, but she said it was "inevitable" there would be many more.
Mr Evans said: "It was up for about 60 seconds. As I brought it back down to land it just clipped the tree and span round.
"The next thing I know I've just heard my friend shriek and say 'Oh God no' and I turned around and just saw blood and his baby on the floor crying."
Oscar's mother, Amy Roberts, said she was in the ambulance taking Oscar to hospital in Birmingham when he opened his eye.
"What I saw, I can still see it now, and what I saw or what I thought I saw was the bottom half of his eye and it's the worst thing I've ever seen.
"I just hoped and prayed all the way there that what I saw wasn't true and wasn't real."
Before Oscar's accident seven weeks ago his family were unaware of the potential safety issues surrounding drones.
Faye Mellington, consultant in oculoplastics and orbital surgery at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, said she and her team "knew straight away the outlook for Oscar's vision long term was extremely poor".
The little boy can still see out of his uninjured eye.
Source: Civil Aviation Authority
Miss Mellington said: "I have seen a lot of ocular injuries, but never in someone so young, and I've not seen one from a drone.
"That said, given their popularity and the common use, it's inevitable that we'll see a lot more."
The Civil Aviation Authority has released guidelines for flying drones safely, and there will be a public consultation before a government strategy is published in 2016.
The consultation, by the Department of Transport, will cover "the full range of issues relating to remotely piloted aircraft systems and drones and their use in UK airspace, including licensing and registration", said transport minister Robert Goodwill.
Oscar's grandmother, Anita Roberts, who contacted the BBC consumer affairs programme BBC Watchdog after seeing a broadcast about the safety of drones, said she was shocked at the number of people who thought the gadgets "were just toys".
Mr Evans, who has been forgiven by Oscar's family who regard what happened as an "awful accident", said he had not used a drone since it happened: "I look at the drones in the garage and I feel physically sick."
Oscar's story can be seen on BBC Watchdog on Thursday at 19:30, BBC One. | An 18-month-old boy has lost an eye after being hit by a drone flown by a family friend. |
34,246,637 | Three of its six cooling towers were blown up in July last year.
A section of the 48m (157ft)-high main building is expected to come down between 09:00 and 11:00 BST.
Part of the A4130 will be closed at Southmead Industrial Estate during that time. The rest of the main building will be demolished next year.
Hundreds of people turned out to watch the first towers come down last year, despite warnings of a huge dust cloud.
A spokeswoman said the building had been washed down to minimise the amount dust created by the latest blast.
The demolition of Didcot A, which was decommissioned in March 2013, started almost two years ago.
The northern cooling towers and chimney are expected to be demolished next spring and summer, with full clearance of the site expected by September 2016. | Explosions will be heard across the Oxfordshire countryside on Saturday as part of the main building at Didcot A Power Station is demolished. |
39,711,137 | The fund ran from 2010 to 2016, costing £1.27bn, following an election promise made by the Conservatives to pay for cancer drugs the NHS was not funding.
The researchers found only one in five of the treatments was of benefit.
But the Tories said the fund gave patients "precious extra time".
Nearly 100,000 patients received drugs under the scheme. It was run separately to the normal NHS process for assessing the effectiveness and affordability of new drugs, which is administered by a body called NICE.
The fund was promised by the Conservatives during the 2010 election campaign amid concern patients were not always getting access to the latest drugs.
Lead researcher Prof Richard Sullivan, from King's College London, described it as "policy on the hoof" because of the way it was announced.
"Populism doesn't work when you are dealing with complex areas of policy like this. When it was launched it was not monitored properly. It was politically and intellectually lazy."
He said it was not only politicians who were guilty, but leading doctors and cancer charities for not speaking out against the fund or scrutinising it more.
And he said by the end the initiative had proved to be a "huge waste of money" and a "major policy error", saying it was telling that in 2015 the committee that controlled the fund started delisting drugs and ended up striking off more than half the treatments from the list.
But the chief executive of Breast Cancer Now, Baroness Delyth Morgan, said the fund had "had a totally transformational impact" on many living with incurable breast cancer.
She added it had offered patients "significant and precious extra time with their loved ones", adding Perjeta could extend life by nearly 16 months, and Kadcyla by six to nine months, compared with existing treatments.
But Baroness Morgan did say the fund had only ever been "intended as a sticking plaster" while the "significant flaws" in the NICE appraisal process were fixed.
One patient, Julie Strelley-Jones who has breast cancer that spread to her brain took Kadcyla through the fund: "I wouldn't be here without this drug.
"It's everything to me and my family and my friends, and if you were in my situation I don't think you can put a value on saving somebody or extending somebody's life."
The fund was eventually brought under the remit of NICE last year and is now used to pay for treatments it believes there is a case to fund.
The study, which was published in the Annals of Oncology journal, looked at the 47 treatments that were being funded by January 2015, the point at which drugs started to be delisted because the cost of the fund was spiralling out of control.
They found only 18% met internationally recognised criteria for being deemed clinically beneficial.
This led them to conclude that a majority of patients may well have suffered because of side effects that the drugs can cause.
This can include anything from hair loss, upset stomachs and swelling in joints to an increased risk of stroke.
Of the drugs where there was some evidence of benefit, the average was an extra 3.2 months of survival.
Emlyn Samuel, of Cancer Research UK, agreed with the researchers that the fund "wasn't fit for purpose".
He said the charity would be closely monitoring the impact of the new system administered by NICE.
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Follow Nick on Twitter | The Cancer Drugs Fund in England was a "huge waste of money" and may have caused patients to suffer unnecessarily from the side effects of the drugs, according to UK researchers. |
37,658,035 | The army says 15 militants were also killed in the attack, which took place near the town of Bir al-Abd.
Gunmen from the Sinai Province group are reported to be behind the attack.
It is Egypt's most active insurgent group, which pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State in 2014.
Officials said a gun battle erupted after the militants opened fire on the checkpoint with light arms and heavy machine-guns.
Friday's attack was the latest in what appears to be a surge in the number of operations launched by the militants.
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However, the army has appeared to have had a degree of success in suppressing the militants recently, and it is some time since the fighters carried out an attack on the scale of this one.
Egypt has battled militants in Sinai for years, but Islamist militancy has risen since the army deposed President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013.
In August, the Egyptian military said it had killed the leader of Sinai Province, along with dozens of its fighters. | Suspected Islamist militants have killed 12 soldiers and injured eight in an attack on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian security sources say. |
38,208,794 | The band kick off their 19-date European tour at Dublin's Slane Castle on 22 May, 2017; and visit the London Stadium on 16 June.
Other dates are scheduled in Paris, Stockholm and Madrid.
Eagle-eyed fans have spotted a gap in the band's schedule during the Glastonbury festival, suggesting they could be the Sunday night headliners.
Guitarist Slash previously played there as a solo artist in 2010.
The original members of Guns N' Roses reformed in January after years of acrimony.
Singer Axl Rose, guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan launched their comeback in April with two well-received performances in Las Vegas; followed by a headline set at the Coachella festival, where Rose had to sing from a "throne" after breaking his foot.
The band spent the rest of 2016 touring North and South America; while Rose also played several shows with AC/DC, whose singer Brian Johnson had to quit touring due to hearing difficulties.
By playing Slane Castle next year, the band will be revisiting one of the most tense shows of their two-year Use Your Illusion Tour.
Twenty-five years ago, Rose skipped a sound check at the venue, and arrived by helicopter long after he was due on stage. While they waited, the rest of the band were sent a crate of Irish whiskey and a barrel of Guinness by U2.
"Axl Rose nearly induced a nervous breakdown," wrote the castle's owner Lord Henry Mountcharles, years later. "However, it was a magic show. It kicked off the 90s."
Despite starting the show more than an hour late, Guns N' Roses appeared to enjoy the show, too.
"Playing in sunshine - it's a new concept," remarked Axl, who played impromptu covers of Black Sabbath's It's Alright and U2's One alongside hits like November Rain, Paradise City and Welcome To The Jungle.
Speaking on Monday, Lord Mountcharles said he was "thrilled" to be welcoming the band into his back garden after 25 years.
Tickets for Guns N' Roses European tour go on sale this week. Full information is available on the band's website.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | The classic line-up of Guns N' Roses have announced their first concerts in the UK and Ireland since 1993. |
38,852,553 | The Stubbington bypass near Fareham has been "an aspiration for more than 30 years", ministers said.
The award supplements £8.5m already given to the project by Hampshire County Council.
The authority said work on the road was expected to start within two years and would take about two years to complete.
The bypass will run through nearly three miles of farmland near Stubbington village, connecting the A27 with the Solent Enterprise Zone on the former Daedalus airfield.
Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage said it would "unlock £200m of private sector leverage" as well as easing "terrible congestion" on the A32 and other routes.
The government, which announced funding as part of the latest round of local Growth Deals, said road users would enjoy "particularly strong forecast benefits".
The money was awarded to the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership which submitted a bid in July, naming the bypass as a top priority.
Hampshire County Councillor Rob Humby, in charge of transport, said it was "one of the biggest schemes by far" that the authority had delivered. | A long-awaited bypass to ease "terrible congestion" in part of Hampshire will finally go ahead after the government allocated £25.7m to build it. |
39,504,494 | English Heritage says that moth numbers have doubled in the past five years, most likely because of warmer weather.
A new species has been found feeding happily on the ancient wool carpets and tapestries under their care.
The charity is seeking the public's help to track the spread of the fluttering, destructive creatures.
With many historic houses and sites opening up to the public this week, conservation experts at English Heritage are concerned about the potential damage that clothes moths can wreak.
Many of the 2,400 species of moths found in the UK pose a threat to clothing, upholstery, furs and even stuffed animals.
The insects only fly when it is warm and tend to shun light, hiding in dark recesses where they lay eggs on wool, feathers or skins.
When these eggs hatch out, it is the larvae that do the real damage, spinning silk webbing into tunnel shapes across the carpet or fabric. They also eat the fibres, resulting in holes in clothes and the loss of pile in carpets.
English Heritage has been monitoring the the spread of clothes moths since 1997 and is now checking for the creatures at 40 sites, with the aim of preventing damage to around 500,000 artefacts.
As well as a doubling of the numbers in the past five years, it has also found a new species turning up in its traps, the Pale-backed Clothes Moth.
"Many people already know the exasperation of finding a much-loved jumper or coat destroyed by clothes moths," said Amber Xavier-Rowe, English Heritage's Head of Collections Conservation.
"They can eat through centuries-old carpets, tapestries and clothes in a matter of months. Clothes moths are a conservator's worst nightmare and it's an ongoing battle to keep them under control."
English Heritage is seeking the help of the public to track and monitor the moths.
Visitors to its sites will be able to collect a free clothes moth trap to place in their home, to help monitor the presence and type of moths. The collected data will be used to help the charity to decide how moths are spreading and how best to focus their conservation efforts.
"We want to know why numbers are rising so that we can continue to keep them under control," said Ms Xavier-Rowe.
"We need the public's help to get a better picture of the clothes moth threat. Come to our sites, pick up a free trap, take it home and leave it for a couple of months, and then share your findings with us on our website."
Among its tips for dealing with clothes moth infestations, English Heritage recommends avoiding old mothball formulations and instead encourages the use of safe alternatives such as bunches or sachets of lavender.
The best way of killing the adults, eggs and larvae of moths in clothing and small textiles is to deep freeze items for at least two weeks.
Follow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook. | Rare furnishings and fabrics in England's historic houses are under growing threat from an epidemic of clothes moths, say experts. |
34,912,234 | Fell, who was the county's top scorer in the County Championship in 2015, had an operation in October after a tumour was discovered.
"I got the results on 1 November and they broke the good news that it hadn't spread," the 22-year-old said.
"It was really the best news that I could have hoped for."
Fell is now back in training at New Road and is set to spend part of the winter in Australia playing grade cricket in Perth.
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"I was quite lucky. I was fairly stupid in the fact I didn't get it checked straight away," Fell said.
"When they did analyse the tumour, it was fairly big at the stage they operated.
"I think if I had left it any longer and I had gone to Australia without being checked, who knows how bad it could have been.
"Because I felt no different, that is why I didn't bother to get it checked sooner than I did."
Fell has chosen not to follow up his operation with any further treatment on the advice of his specialist.
"I was recommended by the professor I saw that if you can avoid chemotherapy it is definitely something I should do - especially as a sportsman - as the side effects and consequences can be quite severe," he said.
"It is something I want to avoid. I've been told there is a 65% chance it is all clear and a 35% chance it can come back and if it comes back, it will most likely be in the next three months and then I would have to go through three cycles of chemotherapy as opposed to two now.
"I've got back into training which has been a bit of a shock to the system this week but it's great to be back - playing cricket is the best thing about it."
More on this story and others around Herefordshire and Worcestershire. | Worcestershire batsman Tom Fell says he has been given the go-ahead to play next season after revealing he has had surgery for testicular cancer. |
35,487,258 | Eighty-five are full-time positions while the remaining 30 are part-time.
The jobs are across a wide cross-section of aviation support activities, including on-site food outlets, taxi operations and private charter services.
It brings the total number of new jobs announced at the airport in the past two months to 298.
Belfast International Airport director of commercial development Brian Carlin said: "These jobs have little or no lead-in times. There's a need for them now as we prepare for a bumper year with hundreds of thousands more passengers.
"Right across the board, we're seeing welcome growth. Airlines and airports generate jobs and new business opportunities at little or no cost to the taxpayer." | One hundred and fifteen jobs are being created by six businesses at Belfast International Airport. |
38,193,663 | The 100-page document highlights areas where the US falls short and calls on the private sector to help hasten the improvement of digital services.
President Barack Obama set up the commission in preparation for the new administration.
He said its recommendations should be followed within the first 100 days of Mr Trump's presidency.
"Now it is time for the next administration to take up this charge and ensure that cyberspace can continue to be the driver for prosperity, innovation, and change both in the United States and around the world,'’ the outgoing leader said.
However, the report is only advisory and Mr Trump could choose to ignore its suggestions.
Botnet attack
In its 16 recommendations, the Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity also suggested implementing a kind of “nutritional label” system for devices. The label would contain independent advice on how secure a particular device may or may not be.
Earlier this year it was discovered that thousands of poorly-designed webcams were hijacked by criminals to use in a botnet attack - a technique which involves directing large amounts of internet traffic to one target in order to overwhelm a system.
Army of webcams used in net attacks
What Trump means for tech
By alerting consumers to potential security risks - such as default passwords - this kind of situation could be avoided in future.
But the commission said it ultimately wanted to remove the burden of cybersecurity away from the general public and instead deal with it from the top down - suggesting, for example, that companies prohibit the use of popular passwords such as “password” or “password123”.
It set a target of eliminating identity theft by 2021, a task which the experts said would need 100,000 new workers trained in the field of cybersecurity.
Russia intrusion
The report’s backdrop comes amid ongoing concern about how weak cybersecurity is allowing other nations to interfere with US governance.
During the election campaign, Russia was blamed for a hack on the Democratic Party’s emails, causing a storm over, among other things, supposed efforts to suppress the emerging success of rival Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders.
The report said the cybersecurity ambassador should take up the challenge of establishing global rules over how nations behave when it comes to carrying out cyber-related operations.
The commission, which was made up of 12 security and legal experts, also said the private sector should work together with the government to utilise the best talent that may be working at the likes of Facebook, Google and others.
One hurdle to overcome, however, was what the report described as a “distrust” between Silicon Valley and government, fuelled by the fall-out from the Edward Snowden surveillance revelations.
Mr Trump’s team has not yet commented on the report. During the campaign, the president-elect outlined his own cybersecurity plan. It involved forming a cyber review team to assess the country’s readiness.
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook | Donald Trump should elect a cybersecurity ambassador to help keep the US secure, a new report says. |
37,550,669 | It follows the death of professional fighter Mike Towell following a bout in Glasgow last week.
Amateur boxer Daniel Flaherty had to have part of his skull removed after he collapsed in Motherwell last October.
His father, John Flaherty, told BBC Radio Scotland that his son will never go into a boxing ring again.
Daniel Flaherty, from Stirling, collapsed after losing a fight that could have seen him named Scottish Novice Champion.
He underwent life-saving surgery to stem the bleeding on his brain at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow that night.
A few days later, after taking a turn for the worse, he had part of his skull removed. He has since had a titanium plate fitted.
His father told the Good Morning Scotland programme that Daniel had made a "very good recovery".
He said: "At the time, there was questions whether there would be some sense of brain injury but that doesn't seem to have materialised.
"He's got back more or less full mobility. His speech is a bit slurred at times but he's ok with that.
"He had a wee problem with his eyes at first but that's settled down too. All in all, where we've been and where we are now, we couldn't ask for any more."
John Flaherty said neither he nor his son oppose boxing, despite their experience over the last 12 months.
But he added: "Daniel obviously, being through what he's been through, he wouldn't go in the ring again.
"And if he knew what was going to happen to him he wouldn't have gone into the ring."
Mr Flaherty pointed to the death of Mike Powell, the life-threatening injuries suffered by Nick Blackwell in a fight with Chris Eubank Jr in March, and the experience of his son, as evidence that there needs to be a rethink in the sport.
He called for head guards to be reintroduced to the amateur sport, after they were removed from men's boxing in 2013 amid claims it would reduce concussions.
He also suggested that the method of scoring could be changed, and they could "take away the head as a target", especially at amateur level.
"I don't believe for a minute, in all honesty, that a boxer goes into the ring thinking that he could die that day," Mr Flaherty said.
"I think boxers go into the ring and think it will never happen to me."
Mr Flaherty claimed that brain bleeds "happen quite regularly" in boxing.
"The problem is they're not reported very well, there's not record of it," he said.
"Boxing itself doesn't keep a record. Even Daniel's case wasn't investigated." | The father of a Scottish boxer who suffered a bleed on the brain after a fight last year has called for a rethink on safety within boxing. |
39,888,970 | There are four contenders vying for votes in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale and Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk.
However, Dumfries and Galloway will be a five-way fight with one independent standing against Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and SNP candidates.
Voting takes place on 8 June.
Standing in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk are:
Seeking election in Dumfries and Galloway are:
The four candidates in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale are: | The full list of candidates for the three constituencies covering Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders has been confirmed. |
26,834,267 | The number waiting more than 14 weeks has soared in the past year.
Ongoing problems with mental health services in Wales were previously highlighted in a report last year.
The Welsh government said cutting waiting times was a priority, and extra funding of £250,000 had been announced recently.
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams said: "Sadly the Welsh Labour government is determined to bury its head in the sand and ignore the catalogue of concerns and warnings that young people in Wales are being put at risk.
"This complacency is astounding and the Welsh Labour government should hang its head in shame."
The number of children in Wales waiting more than 14 weeks for psychiatric services rose from 199 to 736 in the 12 months up to January 2014.
Problems with the child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) were raised in a report last December despite some progress being recognised since a previous study in 2009.
The joint review by Health Inspectorate Wales and the Wales Audit Office said children were being put at risk because of inappropriate admissions to adult mental health wards.
The assembly's children's committee is currently holding an inquiry into the service.
In its evidence to the committee, the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales said there was "significant variation in access" around Wales.
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "Waiting times are a priority in our CAMHS improvement plan.
"We have seen an increase in demand in recent years in part because of changes in 2012 for services to care for young people until their 18th birthday.
"The Mental Health (Wales) Measure, which came into force in 2012, enables more patients be seen by local mental health services, which means that CAMHS can concentrate on treating the most complex patients.
"The health minister [Mark Drakeford] recently announced an extra £250,000 a year for CAMHS services, which will ensure more young people are cared for in Wales, reducing the need for costly out-of-area placements." | The growing problem of children waiting for psychiatric services in Wales is being ignored by ministers, it has been claimed. |
41,030,727 | Experts with advice for the health service are among those who have had applications refused, they said.
The Welsh Government launched the Wales For Africa programme in 2006.
The Home Office said all UK visa applications were considered on their individual merits.
It added this was in line with UK immigration rules and guidance.
Pontypridd GP Geoff Lloyd said while more than 100 Ugandans have visited the town over the last 10 years through the charity Pont, some were now being refused entry.
He said: "Most problematic of all, is that we started finding that the vast majority of visas were being denied and they were being denied at the last moment, which turned our plans to bring visitors of Uganda over into total chaos and left a lot of very frustrated people both in Wales and Uganda."
Duncan Cameron, a recently retired consultant paediatrician at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire, said it had charitable links with a hospital in Ethiopia and last year it invited two senior clinicians to visit.
But he said their visas were turned down because the Border Agency was not sufficiently reassured the Africans would return home.
Former First Minister Rhodri Morgan, who died in May, set up the Wales for Africa programme.
His wife, Labour AM Julie Morgan, said Wales learnt a lot from the projects and vice versa, and called the problems "deeply disturbing".
"Some of the visitors who have come here have been treated very badly at the borders, like dirt really," she said.
"They have been suspected of coming here to stay. These highly qualified professional people who have so much to give to our health service, they are suspected of coming to Wales and wanting to stay.
"They are treated as though they are trying to get something out of our country rather than give something."
Dr Tony Jewell, Wales's former chief medical officer, told a Wales for Africa conference in Cardiff he had taken the matter up with MPs.
He said: "I think people do recognise this is a problem, and sometimes this is hard to understand.
"These are either deans of medical schools in Africa or leading politicians in their own country and they'll come to give a talk and they'll go back. They aren't subversive economic migrants."
Dr Grace Kodindo, a consultant obstetrician in Chad, was refused a visa but the Home Office reversed that decision after the Cardiff West MP Kevin Brennan raised the matter in parliament.
She was, however, kept waiting at Heathrow Airport for several hours before being let through.
"I felt like I was nobody. A criminal. A no-good person. I was not expecting at all this treatment, especially as in 2007 I was invited to the House of Commons. I gave a talk there. So that was not my first time," she said.
Dr Kodindo was invited to Wales by Angela Gorman, a paediatric nurse in Cardiff who had seen a BBC Panorama programme about her work.
It inspired Ms Gorman to found the charity Life for African Mothers and she said she believes the difficulties with visas are undermining charities' work.
"It's just this frustration and anger at this attitude that everyone who comes to the UK wants to stay here and that's not the case," she said.
The Welsh Government said health secretary Vaughan Gething has written to the Home Office to make representations on behalf of those wanting to come to the UK as part of the Wales for Africa programme. | Welsh NHS charities with links to Africa have said some people they invite to Wales are being humiliated by the way the Home Office handles their visitor visa applications. |
32,633,718 | Ms Lucas, who became the party's first MP in 2010, gained 22,871 votes, ahead of Labour's Purna Sen with 14,904.
She said the election campaign was the "most successful" ever for the Greens.
However, despite a record vote share of 3.8%, the party did not add to its one seat, missing out in key targets Bristol West and Norwich South.
The swing of 10.1% to the Greens in Brighton Pavilion came largely at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, who were down 11% on 2010 with 1,525 votes, finishing fifth.
The Conservatives were in third place and UKIP fourth.
Following her win, Ms Lucas said the Greens had "made history" and had had the "most successful election campaign ever, with almost a million people voting Green".
However, she added that the results had shown "the political system in this country is broken".
"It's ever clearer tonight that the time for electoral reform is long overdue, and it's only proportional representation that will deliver a Parliament that is truly legitimate and better reflects the people it is meant to represent."
Green Party membership has surged in recent months and the party had hoped it would translate into more parliamentary seats.
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett finished third in the safe Labour sweat in Holborn and St Pancras.
Analysis, by BBC correspondent June Kelly
Natalie Bennett was one of the fresh faces of this election. Following in the trail of Caroline Lucas, an assured leader and media performer, was always going to be tough.
Ms Bennett came a cropper before the campaign had begun with a shambolic radio interview which she put down to "brain fade".
After that, her personal challenge was to demonstrate she was a competent leader with a grip on policy.
She stood in the central London seat of Holborn and St Pancras. This was safe Labour territory and she came third, ahead of the Lib Dems.
Like other leaders of the smaller parties, Ms Bennett was given a more public platform in this ground breaking election.
We were told voters were hungry for alternatives. The Green leader needed to capitalise on this and broaden the party's appeal. It appears they have increased their share of the vote, including in some of the big northern cities.
Put to her that there had been no Green "surge", Ms Bennett pointed to increases in the party's membership.
And she restated her pledge that the party would do "everything we possibly can" to ensure there was not a Conservative government.
Asked whether she would step down if the party did not perform well, Ms Bennett replied: "I'll be serving out my full two years' term." | The Green Party's Caroline Lucas has held her seat in Brighton Pavilion with an increased share of the vote. |
35,187,141 | The 29-year-old from New Zealand, who can play at both fly-half and centre, joins from Auckland-based Super Rugby franchise the Blues.
He will arrive at the club in January 2016 and previously played for London Irish and Leicester Tigers before returning to New Zealand in 2014.
"He's a good footballer, an intelligent footballer," Bath head coach Mike Ford told BBC Radio Bristol.
"We have a little bit of money left in the salary cap and it's an area where we think can be improved and have more rotation.
"It's a two-and-a-half-year contract and I think the fans at the Rec will enjoy watching him.
"I've got a lot of money left, so we're looking to sign one more in the forwards and in the backs."
Bowden himself added: "I know what a tough, entertaining competition the Premiership is, so I can't wait to get back to England and get started with Bath." | Bath have signed utility back Dan Bowden on a two-and-a-half-year deal. |
38,883,759 | Daw ar ôl i bedwar dyn gael eu rhyddhau ar fechnïaeth wedi'r digwyddiad yn oriau man bore Sul.
Daeth swyddogion o hyd i Peter Robert Colwell o Gapel Uchaf, Clynnog Fawr yn farw ym maes parcio tafarn y Llong ar ôl iddo ddioddef anafiadau saethu.
Wrth i'r ymchwiliad barhau, mae Mr Colwell wedi ei ddisgrifio fel unigolyn "tawel a chyfeillgar" gan un oedd yn ei adnabod.
Wrth roi teyrnged iddo, dywedodd pennaeth Ysgol Botwnnog, Dylan Minnice: "Rydym, fel ysgol, yn drist iawn o glywed y newyddion trychinebus am farwolaeth Peter.
"Roedd Peter yn ddisgybl tawel, cyfeillgar oedd bob amser yn rhoi o'i orau.
"Cafodd ei ddiwydrwydd ei wobrwyo pan enillodd wobr myfyriwr gorau ar gyfer disgyblion Blwyddyn 11 yng Ngholeg Glynllifon yn ystod ei flwyddyn olaf yma yn Ysgol Botwnnog.
"Gyrrwn ein cydymdeimlad dwysaf at ei deulu a'i ffrindiau."
Ddydd Llun, dywedodd y Ditectif Uwcharolygydd Iestyn Davies: "Er bod hwn yn ddigwyddiad trasig sy'n cael ei drin fel ymchwiliad llofruddiaeth, rydym yn cadw meddwl agored o ran amgylchiadau'r digwyddiad."
Ychwanegodd: "Rydym yn cydymdeimlo'n arw â theulu a ffrindiau Peter Colwell ar yr amser anodd hwn."
Mae swyddogion yn parhau i apelio am wybodaeth ynglŷn â'r digwyddiad. | Mae teyrnged wedi ei rhoi i ddyn 18 oed gafodd ei ddarganfod yn farw yn Llanbedrog dros y penwythnos. |
38,429,784 | The home side, who were beaten 1-0 last Monday, started well as Dan Fitchett's fizzing effort went narrowly wide, while Alan Julian's fantastic save denied Bedsente Gomis.
Sutton spurned further chances through Bradley Hudson-Odoi and Roarie Deacon but were in front at the interval when Maxime Biamou headed home a free-kick in the dying seconds of the half.
And Sutton sealed all three points shortly after the hour mark when Hudson-Odoi fired past Julian following a scramble from a corner.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Sutton United 2, Bromley 0.
Second Half ends, Sutton United 2, Bromley 0.
Adam Cunnington (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Bromley. Jordan Wynter replaces Daniel Johnson.
Joe Anderson (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Sutton United. Jeffrey Monakana replaces Bradley Hudson-Odoi.
Bradley Hudson-Odoi (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Bromley. Louis Dennis replaces Dave Martin.
Substitution, Sutton United. Adam May replaces Craig Eastmond.
Substitution, Bromley. Bradley Goldberg replaces George Porter.
Goal! Sutton United 2, Bromley 0. Bradley Hudson-Odoi (Sutton United).
Second Half begins Sutton United 1, Bromley 0.
First Half ends, Sutton United 1, Bromley 0.
Goal! Sutton United 1, Bromley 0. Maxime Biamou (Sutton United).
Jamie Collins (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Sutton United. Bradley Hudson-Odoi replaces Ben Jefford.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Sutton avenged their Boxing Day defeat at Bromley with victory over the Ravens at the Borough Sports Ground. |
36,375,869 | The Japanese company will invest an unspecified amount in Uber and offer new leasing options for its drivers.
Toyota said the two companies would share also knowledge and speed up their research efforts in areas such as driverless cars.
Volkswagen announced an investment in Gett, an Israel-based rideshare operator.
Toyota said that as patterns of car usage continued to change, it wanted the collaboration to be about more than simply providing vehicles but to also collaborate on technology such as in-car apps.
Gett chief executive Shahar Waiser also stressed that the partnership with VW would involve technology and innovation.
VW said: "The ride-hailing market represents the greatest market potential in on-demand mobility, while creating the technological platform for developing tomorrow's mobility business models."
Uber's deal with Toyota follows Apple's $1bn investment in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing. That has been regarded in some quarters as a political move by the US technology giant to bolster its presence in the crucial Chinese market.
Apple is also believed to be developing a car.
In March, General Motors invested $500m in US Uber rival Lyft to help develop an on-demand network of self-driving cars.
The partnership will also create a joint car rental service for drivers to increase the number of vehicles available through Lyft. | Carmakers Toyota and Volkswagen have struck separate partnerships with rideshare companies Uber and Gett. |
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