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36,418,657 | Among the items is an original signed edition of Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
After Proust's death in 1922 the collection passed to his brother Robert. A great-great-niece is selling the items at Sotheby's auction house.
There are boyhood photos of Proust and Man Ray's image of him on his deathbed.
One of the photos, dated 1896, shows Proust with his secret lover Lucien Daudet. Proust's mother had ordered him to destroy all copies of it.
There is also a letter from Proust to another lover, the pianist Reynaldo Hahn, whom he describes as "really the person who, besides mummy, I love most of all in the world".
The collection, put up for auction by Patricia Mante-Proust, is valued at between €520,000 (£396,000; $580,000) and €740,000.
The seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past is considered a literary masterpiece, rich in personal memories, the most famous being the evocative taste of a madeleine bun dipped in tea. | Intimate letters and family photographs that belonged to the celebrated French writer Marcel Proust are being sold at auction in Paris. |
33,239,318 | He is acknowledged as the author of baseball's first rule book and remains to this day the only journalist to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
But not many people know Henry Chadwick, the man who helped oversee baseball's meteoric rise to national prominence, hailed from a county town in the south west of England.
A historian for Major League Baseball, John Thorn, explained: "No man was more important to the rise of baseball from boys' game to national pastime than Henry Chadwick, the game's great promoter."
Chadwick was born in Exeter in 1824 and grew up with a passion for cricket. When he was 12 years old, his family emigrated to the US where he continued his love affair with the sport.
Following in his father's footsteps, Mr Chadwick became a journalist, and by the mid-1850s, he was writing for the New York Times as a cricket reporter.
He soon turned his attention to baseball after watching a game between New York's Gotham and Eagle clubs in 1856.
He was immediately taken by the pace of the game.
"Americans do not care to dawdle over a sleep-inspiring game, all through the heat of a June or July day," he said.
"What they do they want to do in a hurry. In baseball, all is lightning; every action is as swift as a seabird's flight."
Through his cricketing background, Chadwick had developed a love of statistics and he refined the 'box score', which helped supporters follow the sport from home and allowed them to compare players' records.
He quickly found a place on the Rules Committee in 1858, but his main ambition was to take baseball to the masses. He was a prolific writer who penned the first baseball guide in 1860 and took on the role of editor for Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide.
At this time, baseball and cricket were both vying for the nation's attention, yet by 1866 the former had pre-eminence.
Thorn explains: "There were many factors here, not least the Civil War and American jingoism about Britain's role in it by continuing to buy cotton from the South, for example."
Interest in baseball was carried to other parts of the country by Union soldiers, and when the war ended there were more people playing baseball than ever before.
This helped to contribute to the creation of the first National League in 1876. As is the way with baseball, a counter-claim states the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which operated between 1871 and 1875 was the original Major League.
Not everyone believes Chadwick's role contributed as much to the sport as he liked to claim. The suggestion he wrote the first rule book is one of many claims from the game's fledgling years that is disputed.
"Baseball is our national religion, and thus people and ideas will contend for primacy," Mr Thorn said.
"The notion that Chadwick wrote the first rule book was advanced by Chadwick himself, a relentless self-aggrandizer.
"In his later years, he was ridiculed by players and sportswriters for his overblown claims of influence. In truth, he did a great deal, and did not need to resort to hyperbole."
'A family of reformers'
One thing that is unquestioned is Mr Chadwick's desire to institute moral reform, using his newspaper columns to chastise players and managers who drank and gambled.
His great-great-granddaughter, Frances Henry, who lives in Massachusetts, is proud of his lasting legacy.
"Henry Chadwick lived a life of integrity and intelligence," she said.
"He embodied those qualities as he helped to develop the rules of the game. As one of his descendants, I rightly admire his lifelong enthusiasm for baseball."
Such was Chadwick's standing in American society, recognition for his work stretched as far as the White House, with President Roosevelt, who formally referred to him as the "father of baseball", sending birthday wishes in 1904.
"My Dear Chadwick," he wrote, "I congratulate you on your eightieth year and your fiftieth year in journalism . . . and you are entitled to the good wishes of all for that part you have taken in behalf of decent sport." | President Theodore Roosevelt dubbed him "the father of baseball", but the man widely credited with popularising the US national sport was actually from Devon. |
36,584,885 | The attack took place at about 05:30 (02:30 GMT) in the remote Rukban area, a few hundred metres from the camp.
A number of other vehicles involved in the attack were destroyed.
It is not yet clear who carried out the attack, but the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has threatened in the past to "break down" Jordan's borders.
The kingdom is part of the US-led coalition against IS and has carried out air strikes on militants in Syria.
Tuesday's attack, the first of its kind since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, saw an explosives-laden vehicle blown up beside a military post.
The blast left four border guards and two personnel from the Civil Defence and Public Security Department dead, a military statement said.
"Such criminal act will only add to our unshaken determination to fight terrorism and terrorists' ideologies regardless of their motives," it added.
Earlier this month, Jordanian intelligence service officers and two other employees were killed in a Palestinian refugee camp near the capital, Amman, in what the government said was a terrorist attack.
The Rukban camp is located beside an earthen berm in the desert, about 8km (5 miles) west of the point at which the Iraq, Syria, and Jordan borders meet.
The rocky area is devoid of shade, water or vegetation and is far from any towns.
Aid workers say more than 50,000 refugees are stranded at the camp, living in deplorable conditions while awaiting entry to Jordan.
UN satellite analysts mapped more than 6,400 probable shelters in the area in late April.
The Jordanian authorities currently only allow in about 50 to 100 refugees each day, citing security concerns.
Many of the refugees are believed to have fled areas controlled by IS in eastern Homs province and neighbouring Raqqa, where forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have made gains in the past year with the support of Russian air strikes.
Thousands of other refugees are stranded at another tented camp on the border at Hadalat, about 90km west of Rukban, where the UN mapped 1,900 shelters.
The UN acknowledged in December that Jordan had legitimate security concerns, but called on the country to allow all the refugees at the two camps to enter.
Jordan is hosting 655,000 of the 4.84 million Syrians registered as refugees with the UN.
The government says more than one million other Syrians are living there, including those who arrived before the uprising against Mr Assad began. | Six Jordanian security personnel have been killed and 14 hurt in a car bomb attack near a makeshift refugee camp on the Syria-Jordan border, officials say. |
39,357,459 | Mariusz Winiarski, 35, attacked Brian Stirling in King Street, Bathgate, on 17 December last year.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Mr Stirling (54) had been holding the woman's handbag before Winiarski attacked him.
Lord Burns, deferred sentence until May and remanded Winiarski in custody.
Defence counsel John Scullion said Winiarski, who had been drinking, saw the victim looking into the handbag.
He said: "His initial reaction was the deceased was stealing from her. He accepts the conclusion he reached was entirely wrong and he accepts his reason in punching Mr Stirling cannot be justified."
He added: "He accepts full responsibility for the tragic consequences of his actions."
Winiarski was originally charged with murdering Mr Stirling, but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide.
He admitted assaulting and killing Mr Stirling, formerly from Bathgate, by punching him on the head, causing him to fall to the ground where the victim struck his head. Mr Stirling later died of his injuries.
The Polish national, who worked as a driver, also admitted assaulting Mr Stirling's friend Robert Parker by punching him on the head outside Dreadnought nightclub in Bathgate.
Advocate depute Lynsey MacDonald said Winiarski did not know either of the men that he attacked.
The defence counsel said that although it was a case in which a prison term was "almost inevitable" a background report would be required on the first offender before sentencing. | A man has admitted killing a stranger with a single punch after he mistakenly thought he was stealing from a woman's handbag in West Lothian. |
38,143,120 | The Labour activist was among Remain supporters who spent less than £250,000 during the campaign, according to the Electoral Commission.
Unite union spent £140,173 while the National Farmers Union spent £73,565.
Leave backers included Sun publisher News Group Newspapers with £96,898 and pub chain JD Wetherspoon £94,586.
Tim Martin, the boss of Wetherspoon, was one of the most outspoken supporters of Brexit in the business community. His pubs launched an advertising campaign attacking the European Commission and other organisations such as the IMF on their beer mats.
Figures published on Tuesday largely cover registered individuals and campaign groups who spent between £10,000 and £250,000 during the referendum campaign.
Details of expenditure by the official two lead campaigns - Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe - and the majority of campaigners which reported spending of more than £250,000 will be released next year.
Mr Izzard, a longstanding Labour supporter who has said he would like to run for London Mayor one day, was a prominent figure during the campaign and its aftermath - addressing a number of pro-Remain rallies.
It is not clear whether he funded his campaign himself or whether he relied on donations from others. In total, Remain supporters reporting expenditure under the £250,000 threshold spent £2.9m, compared with the £1.9m spent by those supporting Leave.
Leading Remain supporters included telecoms firm Lebara, which spent £220,573, business lobby group London First which spent £101,655 and the City of London Corporation, £48,612. Others to support a Remain vote included the CWU trade union with £86,543, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans spent £33,758 and Universities UK, which lobbies on behalf of leading universities, £69,365.
On the Leave side, prominent backers included the Grassroots Out movement, spending £219,215, the Freedom Association, £90,341 and Veterans for Britain spending £146,945.
The largest single reported spend on either side in this category was the £676,016 attributed to Darren Grimes, who submitted his invoices early - the larger spending amounts do not have to be registered until just before Christmas.
In August, it was reported that Vote Leave gave £625,000 to the fashion design student in the days before the EU referendum to persuade young voters to opt for Brexit. Mr Grimes is now head of digital for the Brexit Central website.
The Conservative Party remained neutral in the referendum but the figures show the Conservative Group for Europe spent less than £10,000. The Labour Movement for Europe spent £11,309 while the Green Party spent £48,815 on a remain vote.
The Electoral Commission said the figures were a vital part of ensuring "transparency and accountability both in how campaigners obtained funds as well as how they spent them". | Comedian Eddie Izzard spent £36,229 on his campaign to keep the UK in the EU, official details of spending in this summer's referendum show. |
21,327,920 | Malala, 15, had surgery on Saturday at a Birmingham hospital to fit a titanium plate over her damaged skull.
In a video recorded on Sunday, she is seen telling a consultant that her mission now is to "help people".
It was earlier revealed a fund would be set up in her name to help all children get an education.
The teenager was shot on a school bus in October in Pakistan by the Taliban after campaigning for girls' rights to education.
Following the shooting, the bullet was removed from her head by surgeons in Pakistan and she was flown to the UK for further treatment.
Malala was discharged as an inpatient from Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital last month.
Surgeons at the hospital said Saturday's operation, which also involved fitting a cochlear implant to help her get over deafness on her left-hand side, had gone well. They said they did not expect she would need any further surgery.
Speaking in the video in English, Malala said she was feeling "all right".
She said: "I can walk a little bit, I can talk - I am feeling better. It seems like I have not had a very big operation - it just feels like I had an anaesthetic injection for five hours and then I woke up."
She added: "My mission is to help people and I will do that."
In an earlier video, filmed before her operation, Malala had said she wanted to "serve the people" and said she was "getting better day by day".
Earlier it had been announced that the first grant from the Malala fund would go towards an organisation in the teenager's home region of the Swat Valley in Pakistan to encourage girls to go to school instead of going straight into work.
The Taliban had previously said it attacked the campaigner for girls' education for "promoting secularism".
The Birmingham hospital's medical director Dr Dave Rosser said: "To be sitting up 24 hours after an operation, talking about helping other people instead of thinking about herself sums up what we have seen from Malala over the past few months."
He said the teenager had coped "remarkably well" with what she had gone through and that doctors hope she will have completely recovered from her injuries over the next year. | Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai who was shot by the Taliban has told how she is recovering well hours after undergoing a five-hour operation. |
38,884,611 | It could mean the number of staff may have to be reduced by about 200, although the local authority is hoping to avoid compulsory redundancies.
The authority could generate money by raising Council Tax.
However no final decision has been taken on that option. | Aberdeen City Council has warned it faces making cuts of more than £21.5m. |
39,490,800 | The design contract is worth up to £50m.
The work forms part of a wider Scottish government project to upgrade the A96 to dual carriageway between Inverness and Aberdeen.
AECOM Limited, Amey Arup Joint Venture, Atkins WSP Joint Venture and Jacobs UK Ltd have been invited to bid.
Economy Secretary Keith Brown said: "When this contract is awarded later this year, design work for the eastern section will step up a gear with route option assessment work getting underway.
"This contract will also provide the successful bidders with steady work for years to come, and many more opportunities for small and medium enterprises through subcontracted work."
Mr Brown said other parts of the road project were also being progressed, including work on the planned Nairn bypass and the design of a section between Hardmuir and Fochabers. | Four business have been invited to bid for a contract to design new dual carriageway on a 26-mile stretch of the A96 road between Huntly and Aberdeen. |
19,635,639 | Details emerged as the prosecution opened its case against Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, 30, who denies a charge of supplying the weapon.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard Mr Duggan, 29, had travelled by cab to Leyton to collect the gun.
His death sparked riots in London which spread across England in summer 2011.
Edward Brown QC told the court that a handgun found on 4 August on a grass bank in Ferry Lane, Tottenham Hale, north London, had been in Mr Duggan's possession.
Mr Brown said Mr Duggan travelled by minicab to the area where a girlfriend of the defendant lived to collect the gun, which was hidden in a shoebox.
After the handover, Mr Duggan carried on towards Tottenham Hale with the gun, taking it out at some point during the journey, the court was told.
"It was not long into this second part of his journey that the minicab with Mark Duggan inside was stopped by police.
"There in Ferry Lane Mark Duggan was shot and fatally injured by the police as a result of his possession of that gun and what he was thought to be about to do with it," Mr Brown said.
He told the jury that armed police surrounded the cab but as Mr Duggan got out he was seen to have a gun in his hand.
"The police marksmen were in no doubt that this was as dangerous a position as possible - gun in hand - and he was seen to start to bring it round as if to shoot.
"The gun was found to be loaded with a bullet, as you know and as you will see in photographs. He was shot."
The court heard the gun, a BBM Bruni Model 92 handgun with one bullet in it, was found near the scene of the shooting.
Mr Brown said it was in a black sock which was ripped at the toe to expose the barrel of the gun and at the heel so the cocking lever was showing. It had been modified to take live 9mm bullets.
Mr Duggan's fingerprints were found on the shoebox which was recovered from the boot of the minicab, jurors heard.
Mr Brown told the court telephone data showed Mr Duggan and the defendant had been in contact.
He said the defendant lied to police about his possession of the gun and about his links to Mr Duggan.
"He provided a dishonest explanation as he hoped it would avoid his true responsibilities, say the Crown, in respect of the gun and its supply by him to Mark Duggan," Mr Brown said.
Mr Brown told the court there was a "breadth of evidence" supporting the case that Mr Hutchinson-Foster supplied the gun to Mr Duggan and that it was the same weapon used by Mr Hutchinson-Foster during a fight with a man a week earlier.
Blood from both Mr Hutchinson-Foster and the person involved in the fight was found on the gun and sock, he said.
Mr Brown told jurors it was not their task to decide "one way or the other the rights and wrongs of the shooting of Mark Duggan" and that those "tragic events" were for the inquest next year to determine.
Mr Hutchinson-Foster, of no fixed abode, denies selling or transferring a prohibited firearm to Mr Duggan between 28 July and 5 August last year.
The trial continues. | A loaded handgun was given to Mark Duggan 15 minutes before he was shot dead by police in Tottenham, north London, last year, a court has heard. |
31,805,067 | The Care Quality Commission (CQC) found some "outstanding practice" at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Hospital Trust, in Surrey.
Inspectors praised older people's assessments and the intensive care electronic patient record system.
In January, the trust cancelled most outpatient appointments, due to a high number of emergency patients.
Professor Mike Richards, the CQC's chief inspector of hospitals, said: "When we inspected the hospitals run by Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, much of what we saw was good.
"It was clear staff took great pride in their work. We saw some good examples of collaborative working to improve the treatment and care people received."
The inspectors said the trust needed to make improvements in the storage of medicines and had some concerns about staffing levels.
The report said: "All departments must have sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, skilled and experienced nursing staff on the units and the outreach team to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of patients at all times."
Suzanne Rankin, Ashford and St. Peter's chief executive said: "Our primary concern is always to provide the best possible services for patients that we can and this report bears out some of the excellent work we are doing to improve patient care and experience.
"We also recognise that there are some areas for improvement and we are already well under way in putting in place robust action plans to address these." | A hospital trust which said it was under "severe pressure" has been praised by the health watchdog. |
39,598,699 | At times the crowds of people thronging the sidewalks have turned the streets into a blaze of colour - the women, vivid explosions of rainbow hues in their traditional Korean dresses, and the men, although black or grey suited, carrying large artificial pink and red flowers.
These plastic, pom-pom like azaleas are used for waving in the ritualised adulation of their leader for which they are now so busy rehearsing.
Some sit in large groups waiting for instructions, others walk purposefully to or from the parade ground, chatting or laughing together along the streets of a capital city that is still largely devoid of traffic.
Antiquated army trucks with open tops trundle into town, in convoys dozens long, each packed with soldiers in uniform.
There's a relaxed, holiday feel: the female conscripts, separated in their own trucks, smiling and waving at passers-by, the male troops singing merrily in unison.
It gives this city the air of a giant film set for a war-time period costume drama.
But in the world's last truly totalitarian state, this is the reality.
Mass mobilisation is the defining essence of social and political life and there is no more important occasion for the expression of absolute fealty to the leader than The Day of the Sun.
Saturday marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of North Korea's long-dead founding president Kim Il-sung, although according to the country's constitution he remains formally in office.
The celebrations this year have taken on an added sense of symbolic meaning as they take place amid one of the periodic peaks in the tension that has so often defined the country's relationship with the outside world.
This isolated regime has shown a skilful knack of posting itself into the priority inbox of every US president who has come to office in recent years.
This time is no different, with an underground nuclear test shortly before the election, followed by a flurry of ballistic missile tests during the first few weeks of Mr Trump's presidency.
And like other presidents before him, Mr Trump appears to be exploring whether - instead of the failed diplomacy, debate and delay - a more direct, dramatic option might be available.
Whether he will, like others, finish his term having eventually decided that there is no realistic alternative remains to be seen.
But the fact that no US administration has yet been able to find a way to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions is a measure of the remarkable success of its game of brinkmanship with the outside world.
It is a classic study in military deterrence.
The regime's most powerful weapon has long been its conventional artillery.
Placed close to the border, it could cause significant damage and large loss of life in the South Korean capital within a matter of minutes.
For the government in Seoul it makes not just any offensive military option unthinkable, but complicates even defensive calculation.
In 2010, following an audacious and unprovoked torpedo attack on the South Korean warship the Cheonan - claiming the lives of 46 sailors and widely believed by the international community to have been carried out by the North - the South sat on its hands.
A few months later there was also no retaliation when North Korea shelled a South Korean island, hitting both military and civilian targets.
It is proof that the North has calculated all too well the costs of military engagement for its democratic, populous and economically vibrant neighbour.
Employing exactly the same logic, Pyongyang has been edging ever closer to possessing a deliverable nuclear arsenal with the aim of forcing its foes further afield into the same strategic bind.
The one thing that keeps the North Korean leadership awake at night is the thought of the B52 bombers stationed on the Pacific island of Guam.
And they have learned a very particular lesson from the US-led efforts to bring about regime change elsewhere in the world.
Iraq didn't have nuclear weapons and Libya had given its up.
Unless North Korea can be given the kind of guarantees that would make it feel secure enough - which seems unlikely in the short term - then any effort to negotiate away its nuclear programme is bound to fail.
So for now, the world is left with two stark choices.
Accept North Korea as a member of the nuclear-armed club, or try to force it to disarm, either through ever tougher sanctions or the incalculably risky option of military action.
As President Trump weighs these options, North Koreans are preparing to march, dance and sing to the glory of the country's ruling family this weekend.
And there is speculation that another nuclear test could be a matter of just days away. | This week Pyongyang is a city in a frenzy of preparation. |
35,910,223 | 28 March 2016 Last updated at 08:20 BST
But have you noticed how most of those animals are cute ones? What about the not-so-cute animals?
Well a study has found that ugly animals are struggling to get the same attention.
Here's Hayley with the story. | We often hear about animals that are endangered or facing extinction. |
40,066,015 | Silva is the ninth Watford boss in five years and the eighth since the Italian Pozzo family took over in 2012.
The 39-year-old Portuguese replaced Mike Phelan at Hull in January but was unable to prevent relegation to the Championship and resigned on Thursday.
Chairman Scott Duxbury said Silva is "one of the most sought after head coaches in the Premier League".
He added: "His pedigree and promise speaks for itself with his achievements in top divisions elsewhere across Europe, as well as his work at Hull City last season."
Silva succeeds Walter Mazzarri at Vicarage Road, with the Italian dismissed before the final league match of a season in which the Hornets finished 17th.
Silva previously managed at Estoril, Sporting Lisbon and Olympiakos and during his Hull reign he extended a combined unbeaten home record with all four clubs to 41 matches, which was ended by a 2-0 defeat against relegated Sunderland.
Hull were relegated in the penultimate week of the season and Silva said at the time: "It's my goal as a manager to work in the Premier League."
The Tigers won only once away from home and lost their final three matches, suffering a 7-1 thrashing by second-placed Tottenham on the final day. | Watford have appointed former Hull boss Marco Silva as their new manager on a two-year contract. |
34,190,600 | He has taken control following Jon Brady's resignation on Sunday after six and a half years with the club.
Sinclair, 43, has been playing for the sixth-tier side since resigning as manager of Colwyn Bay in January.
A statement on the club website read: "Frank Sinclair has been appointed to take charge of the first team until a replacement can be found."
Brackley are 19th in the table and are away at Stockport on Saturday. | Ex-Chelsea defender Frank Sinclair has been named as caretaker manager of National League North side Brackley. |
33,748,256 | Kevin Whyman, 39, was flying a Folland Gnat aircraft that came down near the event at Oulton Park at about 14:00 BST.
BBC presenter Chris Evans, CarFest's founder, confirmed his death and said the pilot's family had been informed.
A visibly upset Mr Evans delivered a statement saying the display pilot had been killed in a "tragic accident".
The Heritage Aircraft Trust, operator of the Gnat Display Team, said in a statement: "Kevin was a Royal Air Force-trained fast jet pilot whose enthusiasm for flying the Folland Gnat was infectious.
"He will be greatly missed by his family, the team and many friends.
"Kevin leaves a wife and young daughter."
Mr Whyman, who was born in Chester, is a Cambridge University economics graduate.
He trained with the university's boat club and coxed Cambridge to victory in the 1996 and 1997 boat races against Oxford.
He had a career with the RAF from 1998 to 2001, when he left for a trading job with a US investment bank in the City of London.
He completed his civilian flying licences so that he could continue with his passion for flying.
BBC producer Justin Bones, on the scene at Oulton Park, said two planes performed a low-level, close-proximity pass just before the crash.
One of the aircraft failed to pull up and crashed north of the circuit, he said.
Mr Evans said: "The event will continue on the advice of the three aviation authorities we are currently involved with, as part of the ongoing investigation to what happened.
"And the police have also advised us that the best thing, and the safest thing to do, is to carry on with the event, bearing in mind there are 10,000 children here, and that's what we are going to do."
Cheshire Police say they are working to establish how the accident happened.
Eyewitnesses described horrified spectators screaming as the plane nosedived suddenly.
Witness Steve Gluning, who works with aircraft, said: "It's an airshow and it's dangerous. You know these things can happen but when they happen in front of you it's shocking.
"We were at the CarFest, my partner and I. Two Gnats came in. Five or six minutes doing individual and pair displays. They did a crossover. One went north and the other, I saw it jink. It went past the trees. Two or three seconds later there was a fireball.
"Instantly, you know that could be fatal."
Tessa Angel was watching the display with her husband.
"We saw two planes flying, weaving side by side. One was at a strange angle. My husband said: 'That's low. I hope he comes back up.' Then it went down," she said.
"People were staring, asking what happened. I didn't see any parachute. There were sirens within seconds, then a helicopter hovering."
Aviation expert Julian Bray said the type of Gnat plane involved in the crash had been around since 1955.
Peter Collins, a test pilot and former RAF pilot based in Cheshire, is familiar with the aircraft.
He told the BBC: "I flew it during training. I rate it as one of the best aeroplanes I've ever flown.
"It was designed as a fighter that was later turned into a trainer."
CarFest's organisers said in a statement: "Our thoughts are with the family of the pilot and all those affected at this time.
"We have helpfully received images and footage captured by those close to the site, which will aid with the police investigation.
"Should anyone else have similar photo or video footage, they are asked to keep hold of it in case the authorities request further information."
An Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) spokesman said: "AAIB will be investigating and is sending a team to the site."
Mr Evans, a car enthusiast who has just become the new presenter of BBC Top Gear, created the motoring and music festival, which raises money for BBC Children in Need.
Other celebrities attending CarFest included TV chefs James Martin, Tom Kerridge and Paul Hollywood. | The pilot of a display team aeroplane has been killed in a crash at the CarFest motoring event in Cheshire. |
21,779,050 | Caerphilly Castle Ladies' results in the Women's Welsh Premier League will be wiped out.
This season the side, whose first team walked out last summer, also found themselves on the wrong end of 36-0, 28-0 and 26-0 scorelines.
The Football Association of Wales (FAW) said the club had taken the move "with regret".
SOURCE: Welsh Premier League
The team, known as the Castle, found themselves in the headlines following the latest defeat, which meant the side had let in 219 goals and scored just one in 10 games.
Club officials had said earlier this week they were putting a "brave face" on the results and had no intention of giving up, but the statement issued through the FAW indicated the club will focus on bringing on youth players.
It said: "With regret, the club has decided to withdraw its membership from the Welsh Premier Women's League with immediate effect.
"Caerphilly Castle is very proud of its tradition of nurturing young footballing talent over the years but the club has found it difficult to compete at the highest level of Welsh Women's Football this season.
"The committed officials of the club fully intend to continue their passion of developing players throughout the different age groups and hope to return to the Welsh Premier Women's League as soon as possible."
The senior team's results will be wiped from the records, but the club wished the 11 sides remaining in the league luck for the rest of the season.
In terms of numbers participating at all levels, Caerphilly Castle rival Cardiff City for the title of biggest women's club in Wales.
They finished mid-table in the last two Welsh Premier League seasons, and in 2010 lifted the Welsh League Cup. | A football team who suffered a 43-0 defeat at the weekend have withdrawn from the league they were playing in. |
33,840,815 | About 70 farmers took two of their cattle into Asda, in Queensway, Stafford at about 12:30 BST to clear milk from the shelves, police said.
Shopper Adam Williams said "staff looked on in amazement", as the cows moved to the back of the store, "creating mess as they walked".
Farmers want the price of milk paid to them by supermarkets to be increased.
Supermarkets say there is no link between the price of milk on the shelves and what farmers are paid.
Stafford farmer Matthew Weaver, 38, said: "We needed something that would catch people's attention and be a bit of fun."
Mr Weaver said farmers had come from Derbyshire, Shropshire and Warwickshire to take part in the protest. They were also planning to visit a Lidl store in Stafford and an Asda in Wolstanton.
Dairy company Muller UK and Ireland recently announced it would cut the price it paid farmers by 0.8p, because of low demand. | Cows have been taken into a supermarket by dairy farmers protesting against the price they are paid for their milk. |
38,685,269 | Pte John Fielding, of Cwmbran, received the Victoria Cross for his part in the 1879 defence of Rorke's Drift.
A band and parade of veterans marched from Abbyfields to St Michael and All Angels church, Llantarnam, where a service marked the battle's 138th anniversary.
Pte Fielding joined the 24th Regiment of Foot at the age of 20 in 1877.
Two years later, he was one of about 140 British troops who fought hand to hand with 4,000 Zulus.
He lived to the age of 75, dying of heart failure in 1932.
Newport Road was closed for a short time for the event which was organised by Cwmbran and District Ex-Service Association. | A parade and service to remember a war hero from Torfaen was held on Saturday. |
40,432,040 | Nicky Schellander, 44, from Barnstaple, Devon, had her ovaries removed when the cancer was found in August 2015.
After pioneering surgery in London, she is fundraising £66,500 for the drug Olaparib to stop the cancer growing.
If the fundraising is successful, she hopes to be back to jousting by October, when she also plans to marry.
Ms Schellander, who has worked on films such as Snow White and the Huntsman and TV series Merlin, went to her GP in August 2015 with stomach pain and was sent home with painkillers.
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But five days later the pain was so bad she could barely walk, and after an ultrasound a "large mass" was found on her ovary.
She had surgery and chemotherapy and went into remission, but the cancer returned aggressively in February.
Ms Schellander, who lives with fiancé Cy Margieson, said: "It was devastating for me.
"The dreams that my fiancé and I held, are getting harder - we lost our baby and chance of starting a family, so now, the priority is to concentrate on staying alive."
Ms Schellander was told about the drug Olaparib, which will stop the cancer's DNA from replicating, but won't be able to access it on the NHS until she has had three rounds of chemotherapy.
"Rather than waiting for it to come back a third time I'd rather have it now," she said.
"This is the first ovarian cancer treatment to get approval from the NHS in over a decade.
"If it wasn't the only thing that might help me, I would not even consider it.
"I want to get back to full health and get back to doing what I am passionate about and also marry my soulmate." | One of the UK's only female jousters is fundraising for ovarian cancer treatment which is not available to her on the NHS. |
32,701,001 | Police said Ananta Bijoy Das was attacked by a masked gang wielding machetes in the north-eastern city of Sylhet.
Mr Das wrote blogs for Mukto-Mona, a website once moderated by Avijit Roy, himself hacked to death in February.
Mr Roy, a Bangladeshi-born US writer, had criticised religious intolerance.
He was killed in a machete attack while he was visiting the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, as he returned with his wife from a book fair in the city. His widow suffered head injuries and lost a thumb.
In March, another blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was hacked to death in Dhaka.
Police say there are similarities in the way all three bloggers were killed - hacked to death with sharp weapons. In each case, attackers carried out their plan on a busy street.
Death threats to secular bloggers are on the rise in Bangladesh. A few years back, hardline Islamists demanded a blasphemy law to stop bloggers they perceive to be anti-Islamic from writing about Islam.
Secular forces in Bangladesh say that their views are under threat. Intolerance is growing as the country's politics increasingly diverge into secular and non-secular poles.
Bangladesh is officially secular. But critics say the government is indifferent to the problem of blogger killing - pointing out that no-one has yet been punished for any of the attacks.
Sara Hossain, a lawyer and human rights activist in Dhaka, told the BBC that Mr Das and Mr Roy were on a list of targets.
"They've always believed and written very vocally in support of free expression and they've very explicitly written about not following any religion themselves," she told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme.
"These last two have been part of a blog called Mukto-Mona [Free Mind], which is about free thinking and is about explicitly taking on religious fundamentalism and particularly Islamic religious fundamentalism. Their names have been on lists of identified targets."
The attack on Mr Roy prompted massive protests from students and social activists, who accused the authorities of failing to protect critics of religious bigotry.
An Islamist has been arrested over his murder, while two madrassa students have been arrested over Mr Rahman's killing. | A secular blogger has been hacked to death in north-eastern Bangladesh in the country's third such deadly attack since the start of the year. |
34,166,359 | The American married Kevin Anderson, now the world number 14, in 2011 after meeting the South African at the University of Illinois, and has been travelling full-time on the tennis tour for three years.
It meant giving up an accountancy career in Chicago, a matter of days after being promoted.
"I think that option is always out there but for now I'm just a tour wife, which is a little bit demeaning in a way, but I think I play a pretty big role on Kevin's team.
"I don't let it bother me too much if people call me a WAG [Wives and Girlfriends]. I just kind of embrace it. If you can't beat them, join them."
On Monday in New York, Anderson will take her seat at Flushing Meadows to watch her husband play Andy Murray, with the Scot's wife Kim in the opposite corner.
"I know exactly how she feels sitting there," says Anderson.
"It's tense and it's stressful and it's impossible to ignore those feelings. As much as sometimes we try, it boils over."
Kelsey Anderson began charting life on the tour in a blog last month and it has already proved quite a hit, with Murray describing one effort as "absolutely fantastic" and husband Kevin saying other players have "really enjoyed it".
Whether it is dealing with the regular defeats that tennis players suffer, coping with long-distance relationships, or describing the best and worst laundry, food and transport on offer, the blog details the hours spent away from the world's centre courts.
"I feel like the wives and girlfriends don't get a whole lot of exposure beyond what we look like from the players' box," she says.
"I'm really proud and excited to be giving a voice to some of the other women who commit their lives to travelling with their partners."
Anderson estimates that she is one of three wives or girlfriends on the men's ATP Tour who travel to every tournament with their partner.
Earlier in his career, her husband would often share a room with his coach to keep costs down, and her decision to join the travelling team was not without consequence.
"Fortunately, when I started travelling with him he was ranked about 30, 35, so he's gone up and we can justify the cost of me being around," she says.
"It was a big decision, though. Not only was I giving up my career and earning potential, we had to start getting an extra hotel room every week, we had to start paying for extra flights, extra food.
"It's not insignificant and I think it it really is part of the reason why certain people don't come to every tournament - they just can't justify the cost."
Those costs can begin to mount up pretty quickly - Anderson estimates that they spent between $40,000 (£26,000) and $50,000 (£33,000) on air fares last year, and approximately $1,000 (£700) to $2,000 (£1,400) a week on hotel rooms.
"If you've got a team with you, you've really got to be earning money to cover your expenses," says Anderson.
She deals with the business side of Kevin's career and so is responsible for booking those plane tickets, with the air miles and deals proving invaluable to make sure his 6ft 8in frame arrives ready for competition.
That can often mean Kevin heading to business class while his wife sits at the less glamorous end of the plane - at least on the way to tournaments.
"It's just not worth the risk of him showing up having pinched his neck because he's sleeping funny on the airplane," she says.
"My job, and the job of the rest of the support staff, is to take as much pressure off Kevin as we can, so that all he has to do theoretically is show up and play."
Her husband won £898,765 in prize money last year, but only reached his career-high ranking this summer at the age of 29, having turned professional in 2007.
"Of course the guys at the top have great endorsements but Kevin's from South Africa; he doesn't have a federation funding him," she adds.
"He's paid his own way every dime of his career, he's built it on his own merits, and it makes me really proud of him. He's managed it all really smartly. He's treated it as a business from day one as a pro."
Despite the hours spent in airports, restaurants, gyms and hotel rooms, the focus remains on what happens out on court.
That is when Kelsey Anderson and the rest of the team have to play their part from the sidelines.
"Sometimes we'll say something like, 'stay committed'. That's a trigger word for him and he knows in his mind, when we say 'committed' he has a thought process and a target associated with that, so just the one word is significant.
"He does give me feedback and we appreciate it because we want to do the best we can, within the rules obviously, because we're not allowed to coach, or say anything specific from the sidelines."
Kim Murray, a veteran of 10 years in the world's player boxes, will be going through a similar routine on Monday.
The then-future Mrs Murray became caught in a media storm at this year's Australian Open after images of her swearing went viral, prompting her to respond by wearing a 'parental advisory explicit content' t-shirt at the next match.
"It's so tense and so emotional, I completely understand how that type of stuff happens," says Anderson.
"I think it was unlucky for her. I think she's a lovely girl and I don't think that's reflective of her character or her values.
"[The t-shirt] was the perfect response, I loved it. It showed her sense of humour and it was great."
Anderson admits she gets very nervous when watching - "truly, on the inside I'm dying" - but hopes to stay on the road for as long as her husband is competing.
"It's been an absolute pleasure to watch and to experience all of it and it's been so fun," she says.
"I can't even explain how proud it makes me to have seen the development and really know how hard he works, and how much he earned where he is right now." | Kelsey Anderson might describe herself as a "WAG", but there is more to being a tennis player's partner than maintaining your game face when the camera pans your way. |
33,670,478 | Bill May, 36, and Christina Jones, 27, scored 88.5108 to beat favourites Russia in the 'duet technical' final, with Italy third.
It was the first time male synchro swimmers had been allowed to compete at World level.
"I can't believe that this moment has finally happened," May told BBC Sport.
"This is the future of synchronised swimming because we've seen such strong calibre male athletes here and I really think it's going to help the sport grow."
The pair are full-time Cirque du Soleil performers in the USA with May having retired over a decade ago after becoming frustrated by the lack of international competitions available for male synchronised swimmers.
He and Jones only returned to the sport late last year following the decision by Fina - swimming's governing body - to allow men into the competition for the first time. Jones told the BBC earlier this month that reaching the final would be the best day of his life.
"It's an event people can relate to like ballroom dancing," said Jones.
"I think that the strength and power of a man is the perfect balance to a woman's qualities."
The event is not yet part of the Olympic programme, but the International Olympic Committee are keen on more competitions featuring men and women meaning there is potential for inclusions come the 2020 Tokyo Games.
"We want to be there, it's our dream and we want in," added May.
Elsewhere, on the second day of the World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, China claimed gold in the men's synchronised 10m platform final.
Mexico secured silver ahead of Russia, whilst Britain's young pair James Denny and Matty Lee were ninth in their first-ever World final together. | Synchronised swimming events featuring men and women are the "future" of the sport say the winners of the first-ever World Championship gold in the event. |
34,833,800 | John Edwards told the inquest of Gavin Williams, 22, from Hengoed, Caerphilly county, he was unaware disciplinary rules had changed when he carried out part of the young soldier's beasting.
Pte Williams died from heart failure at Lucknow Barracks in Tidworth, Wiltshire, on 3 July 2006.
Cpl Edwards said he questioned the extent of Pte Williams's punishment.
He told the inquest in Salisbury, Wiltshire, he had followed orders to march Pte Williams until he was "panting like a dog" as punishment for disobedience and a series of drunken incidents.
The inquest was told that in January 2005, new disciplinary rules, known as AGAI 67, were brought in by the Army.
Coroner Alan Large said using physical drills as a punishment was not within the AGAI rules, but Cpl Edwards said he was not aware of that at the time.
He asked Cpl Edwards what he thought about claims from higher ranking Army personnel that physical drills were not being used as punishment at the time.
"I would say certain people within that area are lying," he replied.
Mr Large said: "Are you able to recall either of those regimental sergeant majors giving you direct orders after January 2005 to carry out these quick sharp unofficial punishments?"
"Yes sir," he said, but could not provide an example when asked.
Cpl Edwards said he followed orders to march Pte Williams until he was "panting like a dog" but planned not to be out long because it was a very hot day and it "would not be fair".
After writing letter of apology for his drunken behaviour, Pte Williams was told to do further physical training (PT) sessions by Sgt Russell Price.
Cpl Edwards said he queried Sgt Price's order, asking: "are you sure", but Pte Williams was still taken to the gym.
He said it was not his decision to order Pte Williams to carry out a second round of exercise.
"I'm not a monster," he said.
Cpl Edwards, Sgt Price and Sgt Paul Blake were cleared of manslaughter at Winchester Crown Court in 2008.
The hearing continues. | A former Army corporal has said former colleagues lied about using unofficial physical punishments on soldiers. |
38,718,499 | Like-for like fourth quarter revenue in the US, McDonald's biggest market, fell by 1.3% compared with late 2015 when it launched its all day breakfast.
While total global sales grew in the fourth quarter and full year, menu changes have eaten into growth.
Analyst Neil Saunders said instead of it pulling new customers into McDonalds, people had been switching to cheaper meals, including the breakfast.
Under president and chief executive Steve Easterbrook, McDonald's has been working on revitalising the business, which had been suffering under falling sales.
Mr Easterbrook said on Monday: "Throughout 2016, we worked diligently to lay the groundwork for our long-term future. We focused on driving changes in our menu, restaurants and technology to deliver an enhanced McDonald's experience for our customers around the world."
Mr Saunders, chief executive of retail research business, Conlumino, said: "In our view, as much as menu change was right, one of the impacts of the all day breakfast options has been to provide diners with cheaper options. Many have exploited this and average transaction values for lunch and dinner have fallen as a consequence, something that has put a dampener on overall growth.
"In this regard, putting to one side the initial uplift in interest when all day breakfast was launched, the initiative seems to have ultimately created quite a lot of menu choice switching rather than driving new customers to stores."
Operating profit in North America for the three months to December also fell, down 11%, although the previous year's profit was flattered by a gain on the sale of a restaurant property.
In other regions, growth was stronger. International comparable sales for the final quarter rose 2.8% led by the UK, while in McDonald's high growth markets revenue jumped by 4.7% helped in particular by China.
Globally, like-for-like turnover increased 2.7% in the final three months of the year, and for the whole of 2016 expanded by 3.8%. | McDonald's has become a victim of its own successful all day breakfast. |
38,995,687 | They say the bird's body was found near a car park and was identified by the number 53 on its wing.
Some German media reports say the penguin was decapitated.
The penguin's body is now being examined by veterinary surgeons, reports say, with police ruling out suggestions it was killed by a wild animal such as a fox or a bird of prey.
A full scale hunt for the perpetrator has begun.
Staff at the sanctuary from where the bird disappeared are devastated by news of its death, Spiegel online (in German) reported.
They had been searching for the bird ever since it disappeared, even draining the pond of the enclosure to check that it had not died on site.
Humboldt penguins are thought to be declining in number. One of the reasons is thought to be due to the El Nino weather pattern, which is increasing water temperatures and reducing their food supply.
They breed on the Pacific coast of South America and the offshore islands of Chile and Peru.
BBC Nature - Humboldt penguin videos, news and facts | A Humboldt penguin stolen from a zoo in the city of Mannheim on Saturday has been found dead, German police say. |
39,442,971 | The incident involved a blue Lupo and lorry at Llanelwedd, near Llandrindod Wells, at 19:50 BST on Wednesday.
While the driver of the lorry was uninjured, a woman who was driving the car died.
Dyfed-Powys Police has appealed for witnesses. | A woman has died after a crash on the A481 in Powys. |
37,036,579 | Industrial action on Thursday and Friday has been called off for negotiations to resume.
RMT members began a five-day walk out on Monday but Southern said it was encouraged its offer of talks had been accepted.
Union chief Mick Cash said he had contacted Southern with a way forward.
A spokesman for Southern said: "For our passengers' sake, we truly hope these talks will be productive and bring this long-running dispute to an end."
The RMT is fighting plans by Southern owner Govia Thameslink (GTR) to turn conductors into "on-board supervisors" from 21 August, with drivers taking over responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors.
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The rail operator said the strike timetable - which is running 60% of normal services - would run on Thursday.
"Regrettably, this means tomorrow's service will be based upon the present strike timetable but we will do our very best to add services in and extend the hours of operation wherever possible," a spokesman said.
The company said it planned to revert to the revised timetable that had been operating before the strike on Friday.
The revised timetable was brought in last month to cope with ongoing disruption. It saw 341 trains axed per day from the 2,242 weekday services Southern had provided.
Mr Cash said in a message to members he had heard from Acas that Southern would enter into negotiations "without any preconditions".
He said: "The National Executive Committee (NEC) has had time to consider this matter and have acknowledged that some progress is being made.
"As the company have now agreed to meet with our union officials without the caveat of any preconditions, the NEC has therefore instructed me to inform you and your colleagues that the strike action has now been suspended with immediate effect until further notice."
Mr Cash told members they were instructed to return to work for all shifts starting from 22:00 BST on Wednesday.
34.8%
Southern Mainline and Coast trains at terminus at least 5 minutes late
12.6%
Total trains late for England and Wales
12% Govia Thameslink Railway services cancelled or significantly late
4.4% Total England and Wales trains cancelled or significantly late
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said it was "good news for passengers".
He said: "It's important now to leave the union and the train operator to undertake these necessary talks. I hope they reach a positive conclusion as quickly as possible."
Passengers have joined a protest march from London's Victoria station to the Department for Transport (DfT) in central London.
Summer Dean, from Brighton, spokeswoman for the Association of British Commuters said: "We are directing our attentions towards the DfT.
"Obviously we know they are playing a large role in the relationship and situation that is going on here.
"We've now recognised that the DfT needs to play a bigger role. So we're here to ask for fare freezes, we're here to ask for them to meet with us and other passengers and the companies, and for meaningful compensation."
The Campaign for Better Transport and the Association of British Commuters were presenting a 6ft-high letter to rail minister Paul Maynard calling on him to attend a "passenger assembly" to answer questions and arrange better compensation for customers affected by the dispute. | A strike on the Southern rail network has been suspended to allow fresh talks in the row over the role of conductors, Acas said. |
38,472,135 | Easyjet said it had cancelled 56 flights at Gatwick airport, which has drafted in extra staff and ground handlers to keep people moving.
Heathrow said more than 100 flights had been cancelled.
A spokesman for Gatwick said dense fog had caused delays and cancellations and apologised for the "unavoidable and unfortunate disruption".
He said air traffic control restrictions had been imposed because of the heavy fog over south-east England and parts of Europe, where many aircraft were headed.
"Passengers are strongly advised to check with their airline as to the status of their flight before travelling if possible," he added.
Heathrow told the BBC 119 flights had been cancelled and more may be cancelled later.
London City airport said about 26 flights had been diverted, and more than 60 arriving and 70 departing flights had been cancelled.
Easyjet said all airlines had been advised by Gatwick to cancel some flights.
An airline spokesman said: "While these circumstances are outside of the airline's control, Easyjet apologises for any inconvenience caused and would like to reassure passengers that we are doing everything possible to minimise the disruption."
The National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) said the fog had caused disruption because greater spacing was required between aircraft to ensure safety when visibility was poor.
A spokesman for Nats said: "We are working closely with our airline and airport customers to minimise disruption to their operations." | Flights have been cancelled at the UK's two biggest airports because of freezing fog. |
35,296,730 | Hallam Amos crossed less than a minute into his comeback, while tries from Nic Cudd and Lewis Evans gave the Dragons a 24-10 half-time lead.
The home side found it hard going despite a 58th minute red card for Alexandre Bias, before Ashton Hewitt scored the vital fourth try.
Dragons stay two points clear of Sale Sharks, who won 27-3 at Pau.
The top two face each other in the final round of matches on 21 January at Sale's AJ Bell Stadium, with the five pool winners and three best-placed runners-up qualifying for the quarter-finals.
The Dragons showed their intent from the start as a Castres knock-on allowed Sarel Pretorius to start a counter-attack and Jason Tovey to work Amos clear.
Cudd then smuggled his way over from a driving line-out maul and Evans crossed from close range. Tovey converted all three touchdowns.
David Smith shot over in the final minute of the first half for a converted score that seemed to turn the tide in favour of the French.
Lock Christophe Samson charged in after 50 minutes after some snappy handling and a Geoffrey Palis penalty on 56 had the home side rocking at 24-18.
Two minutes later, Castres were let down by their discipline as replacement lock Bias put in a reckless head and shoulder charge on Phil Price, and referee Peter Fitzgibbon brought out a red card.
French woes deepened as replacement prop Eric Sione saw yellow for a clumsy challenge, but the Dragons laboured to press home their advantage.
Eight minutes from time they finally cracked the Castres defence, with a Taulupe Faletau charge producing the chance for Hewitt to grab the loose ball for the crucial fourth.
Tovey converted for an 11-point haul to go with his man-of-the-match award.
Newport Gwent Dragons head coach Kingsley Jones told BBC Radio Wales:
"We wanted to play with ambition and not kick the ball too much.
"We had them under pressure and played good rugby. Our errors in the second half were 60% and we can't make that many errors, it was poor.
"We're still top of the group and hopefully we'll go to Sale on a positive note and have a go there."
Dragons: Meyer; Hewitt, Hughes, Warren, Amos; Tovey, Pretorius; Price, Dee, Harris, Hill, Landman (capt), Evans, Cudd, Faletau.
Replacements: T Rhys Thomas, Stankovich, Knight, Screech, Jackson, Davies, O'Brien, Scott.
Castres: Palis; Sivivatu, Combezou, Cabannes (capt), Smith; Fontaine, Seron; Diarra, Babillot, Caballero, Desroche, Samson, Martinez, Rallier, Taumoepeau.
Replacements: Sione, Beziat, Wihongi, Hannoyer, Bias, Wulf, Urdapilleta, Lamerat. | Newport Gwent Dragons maintained their lead in Pool Two of the Challenge Cup with a bonus-point win over Castres. |
39,809,168 | The American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed with a vote to spare, after weeks of cajoling within the Republican party to muster enough support.
Democrats were unanimously opposed and their House leader Nancy Pelosi called it a "cowardly choice".
President Trump predicted this "great plan" would now get Senate backing.
"Make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of Obamacare," he said from the Rose Garden at the White House, soon after the vote.
Its safe passage through the US lower chamber provides the new president with his first legislative victory, three months into his term.
And it marks a remarkable turnaround after the bill was left for dead in March when Republicans were unable to agree on its provisions.
But it was a close-run thing - Republicans needed 216 votes in the House and it passed with 217. No Democrats voted in favour.
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Round one of the battle over Obamacare repeal is in the books. Round two is set to begin, with the opponents more powerful and the obstacles more imposing.
It's worth remembering that passage of the Republican healthcare plan in the House of Representatives was supposed to be the easy part. House Speaker Paul Ryan had a sizeable majority at his disposal and the political tools to reward support and punish transgressions.
Instead the American Health Care Act's long, laborious journey exposed divisions within the Republican Party and the limits in Donald Trump's powers of persuasion. These challenges won't disappear. The fault lines will be put under greater pressure and Mr Trump's skills will be further tested when action heads to the Senate.
Unlike the House, the Republican majority there is narrow, and already some in the party are showing misgivings about the current legislation. Democrats, who have more parliamentary tricks up their sleeves, will attempt to disrupt the process at every turn.
Still, a win is a win. It wasn't pretty. It may not last. But Mr Trump and the Republican House leadership will take it.
But the speed at which it has been resuscitated since then, with several amendments aimed at winning over Republican rebels, has provoked criticism.
It is not known how much the revised bill will cost, nor how many people will lose coverage, because the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has not had time to assess it.
Before the latest revisions, the CBO estimated 14 million more Americans would lose insurance in 2018 alone.
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About 20 million Americans gained healthcare coverage under President Barack Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act, nicknamed Obamacare.
But Republicans viewed it as an overreach of the federal government and said patients had less choice and higher premiums.
There were shouts of "Shame on you!" from protesters directed at congressmen and women as they left Capitol Hill.
Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said: "Very sad. One of the biggest transfers of wealth in the history of our country. Their desire to give a tax break for the rich just trumped everything."
But Republicans were jubilant.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the bill would give Americans greater choice and stop the current Obamacare "death spiral" of higher costs and fewer healthcare options.
The White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said it was a "big win for Americans" and would deliver expanded access and lower costs.
Before the vote, the Republican leadership in the House played "Eye of the Tiger", the pre-fight song in Rocky, at a closed-door meeting.
The bill goes to the Senate, probably next month, where it faces a precarious passage.
Although the chamber is Republican controlled, their majority is a thin one and several of their senators said after the House victory they will write their own bill rather than amend that one.
The influential Senator Bob Corker said the present bill had "zero" chance of clearing the upper chamber.
Any new revisions made by the Senate would need approval from the House. | The US House of Representatives has passed a healthcare bill, bringing President Trump's pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare a stride closer. |
40,367,636 | The government said the independent report clearly blamed union action and sick leave for disruption.
The DFT had said the paper could not be published before the election but has now made it public.
It was written by Chris Gibb, a non-executive director at Network Rail.
Last week the RMT union demanded it should be released immediately.
Both unions have been in dispute with Southern's parent company, Govia Thameslink (GTR), for more than a year in a row over guards' roles on trains.
RMT general secretary, Mick Cash, said: "No wonder the government have sat on the Gibb report for seven months. It's taken them that long to slice and fillet it into a document that they can spin up as an attack on the unions and the staff."
Aslef general secretary, Mick Whelan, noted Mr Gibb said no single party was responsible and added: "He's right. It's a combination of the Department for Transport (DFT) and GTR/Southern deliberately provoking an industrial dispute."
A DFT spokesman said: "The report makes absolutely clear that passengers would have had reliable services had staff come to work as normal - despite the other challenges faced by the network."
He said recommendations included spending £300m to improve infrastructure resilience and establishing a new board to tackle problems ahead of "huge" Thameslink upgrades in 2018.
So how does Chris Gibb propose fixing matters?
Some of his recommendations have already been carried out - remember, the government has had a copy of this since late 2016.
So, it chose to spend £300m on Thameslink upgrades before 2018 to avoid scrapping the programme. It chose to reduce overnight services on the Brighton mainline to make room for engineering work. But other recommendations remain.
They include closing the line between Horsham and Three Bridges for a fortnight to upgrade the track, phasing out older trains, spinning off parts of the network to Transport for London, using simpler and more sensible ways of rostering staff, and fewer trains through underused stations like Newhaven Harbour.
But what about stripping Govia Thameslink of the franchise? Gibb says this may be counterproductive and would probably lead to work on the Thameslink programme pausing.
The report described Southern as "running at absolute capacity at peak times and undergoing a period of dramatic and traumatic change" from 2015 to 2018, including revised working practices, new trains and major infrastructure enhancements.
In addressing how the system got to this point, Mr Gibb wrote: "I do not believe any single party to have been the cause."
He also said some elements of the system had been considered "as an afterthought", including train maintenance depots and stations such as London Victoria.
He added: "At the time of writing this, the RMT and Aslef leadership, supported currently by their members, are the primary cause for the system integrity to fail.
"Whatever their motives, which are debatable, I do not support their action."
Mr Gibb made more than 30 recommendations, concluding Southern's performance "can and will improve", as these were implemented.
GTR chief executive, Charles Horton, said it was a thorough review of the UK's most congested railway and the only way to address capacity problems was to modernise infrastructure, trains, systems and working practices.
He said: "We urge our trade unions to play their part by working with us on the modernisation of working practices and have assured them that there will be no job losses."
He added some recommendations had already been implemented and performance was improving. | A long-awaited report into the troubled Southern rail franchise has blamed the unions for widespread disruption - but the RMT and Aslef have slammed it as "an attack on staff". |
26,449,536 | In his first public comments on the Ukrainian crisis, Mr Putin said on Tuesday that Moscow reserved the right to act to protect Russian citizens and speakers anywhere in Ukraine, but added that military action was "a last resort".
Ukrainian newspapers say that the threat of war has been averted, but warn that Russia may now attempt a plan of "creeping federalisation" to split the country.
Most of the major Russian dailies adopt a staunch pro-government stance, praising President Putin as a "man in control" who has clearly outlined his "negotiating positions" to the West and Ukraine.
Russian pundits dwell not so much on the messages relayed by Mr Putin but rather on the political and personal qualities that they feel he displayed during the news conference.
Izvestiya daily notes that the president was "calm and confident" and "clearly answered all questions" asked by journalists.
"By not going to war, Putin proved himself as a statesman, not just as a tactician," says an editorial in Vedomosti, adding that a crisis in relations with a neighbour "is a maturity test for every head of state".
Writing in Moskovskiy Komsomolets, Mikhail Rostovsky says that "having faced such a heavy flow of threats from almost all Western leaders" Mr Putin did not look like a "frightened politician" but behaved like it was "water off a duck's back".
"Vladimir Putin communicated indirectly with his G8 colleagues… and defined his negotiating positions," says the article.
"The president feels the master of the situation," exclaims Nikolai Petrov in Nezavisimaya Gazeta. He argues that Mr Putin's position is "strengthened by the fact that the new Ukrainian authorities are not in control of Eastern Ukraine… and also by the fact that the West cannot quickly provide the money that Kiev desperately needs". That is why "with each passing day Kiev is pushed towards making concessions to Putin," concludes the pundit.
"Putin made his move. It's the turn of Ukraine and the West to respond," another political analyst, Igor Bunin, tells Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
"Confessions of a mad aggressor" is how the main headline in Ukrainian daily Ukrayina Moloda describes the news conference by President Putin.
A cartoon on its front page shows the Russian president sporting an "I love Ukraine" badge. He is wearing a nappy, with an olive branch in one hand and a toy tank in the other. "While listening to the leader of one of the biggest and most powerful countries of the world, one starts worrying not only about Ukraine, but also about the entire world," the paper comments.
Ukrainian commentators are sceptical about Mr Putin's claims that he will not yet resort to the use of force.
"There will be no military aggression, but he will not give up on Crimea," Vadym Karasyov tells Kommersant Ukraina. He predicts that Crimea "will remain part of Ukraine but will be turned into Ukraine's Dniester region". The mainly Russian-speaking Trans-Dniester region proclaimed independence from Moldova in 1990 and Russian troops now have a heavy presence there.
The front page of the daily Den carries a picture of soldiers putting up a Ukrainian flag in defiance at Belbek airport in Crimea, apparently surrounded by Russian troops with machine guns. "We are proud of you" is the main headline. "Restraint and patriotism displayed by the Ukrainian military marked a turning point in the Crimean situation," says the paper, while warning that "it is too early to relax".
Den also quotes pundit Olena Hetmanchuk as saying that Vladimir Putin's seemingly peaceful tone "is a tactical defeat".
"We should brace ourselves for a long exhausting war which will not be waged with the help of tanks. This news conference marked the start of a new phase of Putin's diplomatic and PR war," she argues.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | The press in both Russia and Ukraine interpret President Vladimir Putin's press conference as a new approach by the Kremlin in dealing with its neighbour. |
35,201,176 | The Giants had lost 4-1 to Braehead Clan at home on Tuesday night but this victory sees them remain six points adrift of leaders Cardiff Devils.
Mike Radja (2), James Desmarais, Michael Forney and player-coach Derrick Walser found the net for Belfast, who have three games in hand over Cardiff.
Lou Dickenson and Mikael Lidhammar were the scorers for Dundee.
Goals from Dickenson and Radja saw the sides tied at 1-1 after the first period, with Desmarais and Forney on target to move the hosts two ahead by the end of the second period.
Walser scored for Belfast, Lidhammar pulled one back, but Radja completed the scoring soon after to make it a convincing triumph for the Giants.
The Giants had been on a four-game winning run, before they went down to Clan on Tuesday.
That reverse was their sixth in 12 games in Belfast, but the success against the Stars will boost confidence in the Belfast camp.
Cardiff saw off Manchester Storm 3-2 on Wednesday to maintain their advantage at the top of the standings.
The Giants will host Coventry in their next fixture in Belfast on Saturday night. | The Belfast Giants returned to winning ways on Wednesday as they defeated Dundee Stars 5-2 at the SSE Arena. |
38,394,556 | Fire crews from Northamptonshire Fire Service were called to the blaze at Multy UK on the Earlstrees Industrial Estate in Corby at 11:45 GMT.
Eight fire engines are at the scene off Brunel Road as well as two aerial platforms.
A fire service spokesman warned residents who are living nearby to keep doors and windows closed.
Multy UK makes a range of cleaning products. | A massive fire has broken out at a cleaning products firm on an industrial estate in Northamptonshire. |
39,967,374 | Emily Price, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, studied maths and physics and was due to do a Masters degree in Aberystwyth.
She was taken ill after being elected to the town's central ward.
Her family said they plan to establish a memorial at Aberystwyth University.
"She fell in love with Aberystwyth and planned to make her life there," her mother Natasha Price said.
"Emily was special to us as a family and it is comforting to know that she was also loved by so many others.
"Emily was a gentle girl who always had a smile on her face and never said no to helping others. We will miss her terribly, a light has gone out of our lives.
"There are no words that seem to describe Emily, she was quite simply just Em."
Ms Price's family said she enjoyed being president of the physics society at Aberystwyth University and went into local schools to educate children about science.
She loved politics, Sherlock, the Big Bang Theory and Harry Potter.
Ms Price's funeral will take place at Cambridge crematorium on 2 June.
Her family said anyone who loved her was welcome to attend.
The council held a minute's silence at its meeting on Monday, where Ms Price was due to make her declaration to become a councillor. | A 22-year-old who died shortly after being elected to Aberystwyth town council has been described as a "gentle girl who always had a smile on her face". |
38,014,661 | Arthur Rennie, 20, from Port Glasgow, targeted Cowden's News and Fast Food Shop in Greenock, on 16 March 2015.
He waved the sword and pushed 23-year-old Julie Crighton and demanded cash. She refused, pushed him back and chased him while clutching the plastic fork.
Rennie was caught when a bag containing the sword and clothing, which had his DNA on them, was found near the shop.
Jailing Rennie at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lady Rae told him: "I appreciate you don't accept the jury's verdict, but the evidence showed that you went into the shop - along with another - with your face covered and with a large sword.
"That young woman was extremely brave to tackle you and you then ran away."
The court heard that Rennie went into the shop, pushed Ms Crighton and repeatedly asked for money while waving the sword about.
When she pushed him back, Rennie then fled with Ms Crighton giving chase while clutching a plastic fork.
Lady Rae added: "This was a large sword and the incident must have been very frightening. She is an extremely brave young woman that tackled Mr Rennie despite the fact he had that sword."
In evidence Ms Crighton said:: "He was brandishing what I thought was a machete and made his way to the side of the counter.
"He came towards me and pushed me and I pushed him back. I think he realised I wasn't going to give him anything. He went out and I went out the shop after him.
"I wasn't thinking of catching him. Just seeing where he was going."
In court Ms Crighton was shown a sword and identified it as the weapon she saw in the shop.
Rennie, was convicted, while acting with another, of attempting to rob the shop. | A sword-wielding robber who was chased by a shop worker armed with a plastic fork has been jailed for four years. |
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Nearly 100 other spectators were injured as Ouakam fans clashed with those of rivals Stade de Mbour during Saturday's League Cup final.
"US Ouakam are temporarily suspended," the FSF said in a statement.
The FSF's disciplinary committee will decide on sanctions against Ouakam shortly, it added.
The AFP news agency said multiple witnesses reported seeing Ouakam fans throw stones and other objects at the Mbour supporters.
This came moments after the visiting side had taken a 2-1 lead in extra-time of the final.
A wall at the Demba Diop stadium in the capital Dakar collapsed following the fighting between fans.
Police responded with tear gas, sparking the stampede.
"My thoughts with those who lost loved ones or were injured during (the) tragic stampede at Demba Diop Stadium. Heartfelt condolences," tweeted Fifa Secretary General Fatma Samoura, who is Senegalese.
While US Ouakam - the 2011 Senegalese champions - hail from Dakar, Stade de Mbour are based 80km (50 miles) further south.
On Sunday, Senegal's government announced an inquiry into the disaster while suspending all sports and cultural events until political elections take place at the end of the month. | US Ouakam have been suspended by Senegal's Football Federation (FSF) following a stampede which resulted in the deaths of eight fans. |
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Captain Rooney, 31, has missed four games with an ankle injury but could be fit enough for the bench as United look to build on a 1-1 draw in Belgium.
United boss Jose Mourinho has confirmed that Argentina keeper Sergio Romero will start ahead of David de Gea.
Phil Jones (foot), Chris Smalling (knee) and Juan Mata (groin) are out.
Rooney trained on Wednesday and Mourinho said the England forward would be named as a substitute if he came through the session "positively".
"He is a player that can be useful and if we need a goal he can help us," added the Portuguese boss.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic may start after spending the first 83 minutes of Sunday's 2-0 home win against Chelsea on the bench.
The Sweden striker, 35, was rested after admitting to feeling tired, while teenage replacement Marcus Rashford scored in an impressive display.
United are hoping to reach the Europa League final on 24 May at Stockholm's Friends Arena - where Ibrahimovic is having a statue erected in his honour.
Ibrahimovic is yet to reveal if his initial one-year United contract will be extended in the summer.
"I don't think about whether it would be a perfect ending for him, I just think about Manchester United," said Mourinho.
"Winning the Europa League would be the perfect finale for us. It would be a perfect end to a difficult season, trying to build a team to recover a certain mentality, by playing in a European final."
Winning the Europa League would guarantee a Champions League place, even if United finish outside the Premier League's top four. | Wayne Rooney could return to the Manchester United squad for Thursday's Europa League quarter-final second leg against Anderlecht at Old Trafford. |
34,587,280 | Mr Webb has said on Tuesday that he is considering how he might "remain as a voice" in the campaign, possibly as an independent candidate.
Mr Webb has struggled to gain traction in the Democratic primary, often polling at or below 1%.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leading the race, followed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
"I am withdrawing from any consideration of being the Democratic Party's nominee for the presidency," Mr Webb said. "This does not reduce in any way my concerns for the challenges facing the country … or my intentions to remain fully engaged in the debates that are facing us."
During the first Democratic debate, he struggled to explain why he was at odds with his party on key issues like gun control and affirmative action.
He also often complained about his lack of speaking time.
Mr Webb, who was a Navy secretary under Republican President Ronald Reagan, became a Democrat after opposing the Iraq War.
He had been promoting criminal justice reform and an overhaul of campaign finance laws while criticising President Barack Obama's foreign policy. | Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb will no longer seek the Democratic presidential nomination. |
33,955,931 | Officials have confirmed they spotted debris near the town of Oksibil.
The Trigana Air flight was heading to the town from the provincial capital, Jayapura, when it lost contact at 14:55 local time (05:55 GMT) on Sunday.
The plane was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children and infants, and five crew members.
It is not yet known if anyone survived.
Indonesian post office officials told the BBC the plane was also carrying four bags containing about 6.5 billion rupiah ($486,000; £300,000) in cash, which was being taken to villages in remote areas.
"Our colleagues carry those bags to be handed out directly to poor people over there," said the head of Jayapura's post office, Haryono, who goes by only his first name.
The head of Indonesia's national search and rescue agency, Bambang Soelistyo, said a search plane had spotted suspected debris and billowing smoke at 8,500 feet above sea level, about 50km (31 miles) from Oksibil Airport.
About 50 search and rescue workers, soldiers, and policemen are making their way from Oksibil to the site.
The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane took off from Sentani airport in Jayapura at 14:21, but lost contact with air traffic controllers half an hour later.
Bad weather is believed to have been a possible reason for the crash. A search plane was forced to turn back on Sunday because of dangerous flying conditions.
Villagers had earlier told officials that a plane had crashed into a mountain.
Bad weather and rugged terrain are said to be hampering efforts to reach the site.
Oksibil, which is about 280km south of Jayapura, is a remote, mountainous region, which is extremely difficult to navigate.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has expressed his condolences on Twitter and called for the country to "pray together" for the victims.
Trigana Air has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, losing 10 aircraft in the process, according to the Aviation Safety Network.
It has been on a European Union blacklist of banned carriers since 2007. All but four of Indonesia's certified airlines are on the list.
Indonesia has suffered two major air disasters in the past year.
Last December an AirAsia plane crashed in the Java Sea, killing all 192 people on board - and in July a military transport plane crashed in a residential area of Medan, Sumatra claiming 140 lives. | Indonesian search and rescue teams are heading to a remote part of the western Papua region where a plane is believed to have crashed on Sunday. |
35,675,595 | After Anthony Forde's free-kick had hit the post, the visitors went up the other end to seize a 17th-minute lead through Ash Fletcher's low effort.
Walsall top scorer Tom Bradshaw poked in to level by half-time for the hosts.
But Barnsley then scored twice in six minutes, Josh Brownhill's dipping drive beating Neil Etheridge before Harry Chapman sealed it with a low drive.
The Saddlers, who have now failed to win in six home games at Bescot since the turn of the year, sit fourth in the table, five points behind second-placed Wigan.
Barnsley's 11th win in 13 league games lifts them up into the play-off zone into sixth, after leapfrogging over Coventry City, who are three points behind.
Walsall head coach Sean O Driscoll told BBC WM:
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"A disappointing result. They're a really good team. If you give them two goals it's going to be difficult for you.
"First half, we were excellent. We were the best team. Their goalkeeper's kept them in it and they scored against the run of play.
"We got back into the game, created chances and came in at half time extremely confident that we could go on and win." | Walsall's League One promotion hopes took another blow as in-form Barnsley left them without a win in six games. |
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The Welsh fighter, 24, was beaten 14-8 by the home favourite in South Korea.
There were also bronze medals for Bradly Sinden and Damon Sansum on the final day of competition in Muju.
It means the British team have gained a record five medals at the 2017 Worlds, beating their previous best of four, achieved in 2011.
Jones, who won a world silver in 2011, was guaranteed a bronze for reaching the -57kg semi-finals - but her wait to complete a career grand slam continues.
She holds the European Championships, European Games and World Grand Prix titles.
"Sometimes you lose and I just have to go away from here and train hard get better," Jones told BBC Sport.
"I'm obviously saving it for the big occasion in Manchester for the Worlds [in 2019].
"I just wasn't me. I didn't fight as well as I normally fight and I just didn't pressure enough. I didn't do enough."
Former European junior champion Sinden took bronze in the -63kg category after losing his semi-final to China's Zhao Shuai 29-43.
The 18-year-old, ranked 62 in the world, had qualified for the last four by beating the defending world champion in the division, Belgium's Jaouad Achab.
"I know I've still got a lot of work to do, but seeing as I've only been in the academy for 11 months and it's my first senior World champs, to come away with a medal is a great feeling," said Sinden.
Sansum secured bronze after winning through to the -80kg semi-finals, but was defeated on golden point by Russia's Anton Kotkov.
The former Scottish world kickboxing champion, who won world taekwondo silver in 2015, defeated Nurlan Myrzabayev of Kazakhstan 21-8 in the quarter-finals.
The world number 104 had knocked out the Olympic champion Cheick Cisse in the previous round.
"I'm gutted at the moment because I knew I could win gold today," he told BBC Sport.
"Coming back from the devastation of missing out on selection for Rio 2016 and then having surgery on both hips in January of this year has been tough.
"With that in mind, I have to take some positives from the result - and from getting a second successive World medal, which no GB man has done before. But I'll be back fighting for gold next time."
Former Team GB fighter Aaron Cook, who defected to Moldova after his controversial omission from the London 2012 Olympic squad, was also eliminated in the -80kg semi-final to finish with bronze.
Rachelle Booth won bronze at the last World Championships in 2015, but there was to be no repeat of that success.
After a bye in the first round, she opened her account with a 17-11 win over China's Zhou Meiling, but Ivory Coast fighter Ruth Gbagbi proved too strong - winning their round-of-16 encounter 15-6. | Double Olympic champion Jade Jones took a bronze medal in the World Taekwondo Championships after losing in the semi-finals to Lee Ah-reum on Friday. |
39,096,472 | The 28-year-old Edinburgh player was forced off after 24 minutes in Saturday's 29-13 triumph over Wales at Murrayfield.
And the Scotland medical team have confirmed Hardie has damaged his medial collateral ligament (MCL) and is expected to be out for several weeks.
Tommy Seymour took a knock in the match but is "not considered a concern".
Hardie, who came on as a replacement and went off with a head knock after just four minutes during the defeat in France, joins a long list of Scotland injury victims.
Alasdair Dickinson, WP Nel, Sean Maitland, Duncan Taylor, captain Greig Laidlaw and Josh Strauss had already been ruled out of the championship.
Scotland started their campaign with a win over Ireland and are still in the title hunt after recovering from the defeat in Paris with the victory over Wales.
Vern Cotter's side face England at Twickenham in their next match on 11 March and finish at home to Italy. | Scotland back-row John Hardie will miss the remainder of the Six Nations with a knee injury. |
34,527,595 | Councillors paved the way for the order and collect store - at the Wellington Road industrial estate - last month.
Ikea hopes the store - which will also have a cafe - will be ready to open in Spring next year, subject to final approvals.
Recruitment of about 30 staff is now under way. | An image of a planned first Ikea store for Aberdeen has been released, as the Swedish furniture retailer begins recruiting staff. |
32,832,333 | Sean Heiss, 30, from Surbiton, is accused of strangling 58-year-old Margaret Sheehy at her home in Springfield Road, Kingston, in 2012.
Ms Sheehy was found dead the day before Mr Heiss used her credit card to travel to Europe by Eurostar, the Old Bailey heard.
Mr Heiss denies murdering Ms Sheehy on 11 June 2012.
Prosecutor Sarah Plaschkes QC told the jury Mr Heiss went on to use his mother's bank cards in San Sebastian before being extradited from Spain to stand trial.
Ms Sheehy, a telemarketing executive, had been planning to sell her flat and live mortgage-free in Bournemouth or Spain, the court heard.
The jury was told she had considered paying off some of Mr Heiss' debts after he had had some financial difficulties and was living on benefits.
However, the mother-of-two told colleagues she had changed her mind and was going to stay in her flat and continue working, the jury heard.
Mr Heiss, who had resigned from a job at Waitrose, was £200 overdrawn in one bank account and had £2.82 in his current account, the court heard.
The trial continues. | An unemployed man murdered his mother before fleeing to Spain, a court has heard. |
40,368,638 | The 47-year-old from Royton, Oldham was among 22 people who died in the suicide bombing at Manchester Arena on 22 May.
She was killed while waiting in the foyer to pick up her daughter with her friend, Alison Howe, who also died and whose funeral took place earlier at the same church - St Anne's in Oldham.
Her daughter India said she was the "best mum in the universe".
Mrs Lees' mother, Elaine Hunter, said: "You were an inspiration to all and should have had a great life ahead of you... don't know how we will go on without you but I know you would want us to."
Hundreds of mourners lined the street as the white and pink butterfly-adorned coffin arrived, pulled by two white horses.
Beside the coffin, white roses were arranged to spell the words "mum" and "daughter".
Mrs Lees' husband Anthony and her two daughters, India and Lauren, were comforted by the vicar outside the church.
The service heard how she had worked at Oldham College as a beauty tutor and recently studied for a degree.
The Revd James Read said: "She had so many plans for the future but she was taken on that awful, awful day."
Lisa's husband Anthony cuddled daughters India and Lauren as their mother's coffin was brought out from the horse-drawn hearse.
Many people attended the funerals of both Lisa and her friend Alison Howe. They died together in the arena foyer as they waited for their two youngest daughters.
Alison's daughter Darcy, 15, was wrapped in a jacket and hugged by her stepbrother as Lisa's coffin was brought out.
Pearl Jam's song 'Black' rang out over loud speakers as many people left the church.
Dozens of single red roses and pink carnations were then thrown into the air and over the hearse as it pulled away.
In a sign of solidarity, both families are meeting for a picnic later to "honour two angels who represented the best of us".
He read a tribute from Lauren that said: "Our mum was not just a mum, she was also our best friend.
"As long as we have each other, part of her will be always with us.
"She will live in our hearts forever."
Mrs Lees had been with her husband Anthony for 23 years. He said she was "the best wife a man can have". | Mourners gathered clutching single blooms at the funeral of Lisa Lees, who was killed in the Manchester attack. |
30,290,505 | But many residents are concerned it could create too much pressure on the town's infrastructure and lead to major traffic problems.
The town, which has a population of 31,000, was previously notable for the former US Air Force base in nearby Upper Heyford but in recent years it has grown rapidly.
Commuters are attracted by its location just off junction nine of the M40 and good train links to London, Birmingham and Oxford.
Bicester Village - a retail outlet - is also a major draw and last week police warned motorists to avoid the area as its roads had become gridlocked with Black Friday shoppers.
Carla Thomas, who lives in the town, said: "Providing they build the infrastructure first and get the new shopping facilities in, the new schools, they sort the roads out around Bicester, if they do that first I have absolutely no problem.
"But if they don't, it's already chaos - look at what happened on Black Friday with Bicester Village. That isn't a singular occurrence, it was just the worst day.
"That happens every weekend, and if you go and shove 13,000 new homes here you just make it worse.
"People have got to live somewhere, I don't want to see people without homes. It's a nice place to live, but I don't want it to reach the point where we can't get out."
Helen Bramley, who was born in Bicester, said she was also concerned about more traffic.
"Before they consider this, they've got to improve the infrastructure because the roads at the moment can't even cope with the current traffic.
"It was a small market town with a lot of character.
"It's growing too fast, but I like the prospect of bringing more employment into the town."
The garden city planning concept, by Sir Ebenezer Howard, was first used to create Letchworth Garden City at the start of the 20th century and Welwyn Garden City in the 1920s.
The concept was adopted again when the New Towns Act resulted in the development of new communities following World War Two.
The new communities were created to deal with an accommodation shortage caused by bomb damage, stagnation in the construction industry, returning service personnel and a baby boom.
They were called Garden Cities because their layouts included large amounts of green space.
Two years ago the government commissioned a report on the possibility of using Garden Cities to help deal with the housing shortage.
Chancellor George Osborne announced funding earlier this year to create Ebbsfleet Garden City in Kent.
Helen Marshall, of the Oxfordshire branch of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, said many people in the area would have mixed feelings.
"It may bring relief for some of the infrastructure problems and it might be good for the local economy but, at the same time, they don't want to lose the character of the town as it stands or the fact that it is in a rural setting surrounded by very lovely rural villages - so it's going to be a balance," she said.
Lynne Pratt, Mayor of Bicester, said she hoped a larger town would result in more jobs.
"A lot of people commute out of Bicester these days for work," she said.
"Let's try and get some more jobs here, perhaps more high spec jobs, so that people can stay in the town that they live in."
Edward Aimsworth, who lives in the town, echoed the mayor's hopes.
He said: "I've nothing against it as long as they bring employment with it.
"We don't want all the new houses there and nowhere for people to work. They've got to go hand in glove haven't they?"
Bicester resident Manpreet Singh said he thought the homes should go on the Calvert or Fringford side of town.
He said: "I think there's going to be more problems for the traffic. There are international people coming here for Bicester Village, so if they keep extending the town like that it will get worse.
"Garden cities, green cities, they're alright, but extending into the villages makes them more like cities so that's not very good because I like 'old England'.
"It is a booming town. There loads of things happening and people are getting more into entertainment. There are media students here who see it as a happening, lively town."
Source: Oxfordshire County Council | Bicester in Oxfordshire has been chosen as the site for the government's second new garden city, with 13,000 new homes due to be built on the edge of the town. |
35,325,729 | The bank said net profit rose to $3.34bn (£2.43bn) compared with $344m in the last quarter of 2014 when it paid $3.5bn in legal and other charges.
The bank's legal and repositioning costs fell to $724m for this quarter.
Citi - which is undergoing a restructuring - is the third largest US bank when ranked by assets.
The picture at Citi echoed that at JP Morgan Chase, which reported results on Thursday. Profits there also jumped thanks to lower legal expenses and better cost control.
Citigroup has been restructuring to focus on more profitable businesses and markets, and has closed consumer operations in 11 overseas markets.
Operating expenses fell 23% to $11bn, partly thanks to the fall in legal-related costs.
Chief executive, Michael Corbat, said: "We have undoubtedly become a simpler, smaller, safer and stronger institution.
"We have sharpened our focus on target clients, shedding over 20 consumer and institutional businesses in the process."
Citi's shares were down 5% in early trading on Wall Street.
The US's biggest mortgage lender, Wells Fargo, also released results on Friday.
It reported a 0.8% fall in profits for the final quarter of 2015 to $5.34bn after it set aside more to cover bad loans.
However, mortgage banking revenue rose 9.6% to $1.66bn, the first quarterly rise all year.
Its shares were 2.5% lower in early trading. | US bank Citigroup has reported a jump in fourth quarter profits compared with a year earlier, helped by a big fall in legal costs. |
26,225,045 | Geoffrey Sturdey, of Beth Berith, Tregaron, Ceredigion, was 60 when he disappeared in October 2008.
His widow Rebekah Sturdey, 56, and friend Boqer-Ore Adie, 43, admitted preventing his burial and fraudulently claiming £77,318 of his benefits.
Karmel Adie, 25, was given a suspended sentence for preventing his burial.
All three are from Beth Berith, Tregaron.
Swansea Crown Court heard the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) began investigating after staff noticed money in Boqer-Ore Adie's account exceeded her benefits amount.
Between October 2008 and 2012 Boqer-Ore Adie and Sturdey unlawfully claimed £21,718 in disability living allowances, £9,415 in carer's allowance, £10,143 income support and £36,041 in pension credits.
Sturdey, who was referred to in court as Ladan rather than Rebekah, told investigators her husband had left the country to travel Europe.
But the investigators later found he did not have a valid passport.
A specialist team of officers searched land at Beth Berith last year and found Mr Sturdey's body buried near a rockery.
He had died of natural causes.
More than £6,000 in cash and handwritten notes were also found indicating the time and date of his death.
The documents claimed Mr Sturdey had chosen his own burial plot and the women buried him in it immediately after his death.
Shortly after he died Boqer-Ore Adie made inquiries about buying gold worth £15,000, the court was told.
The women were arrested in June 2013 and refused to co-operate with police.
Christopher James, defending Sturdey, said the widow had expressed remorse and regret for her actions.
Carina Hughes, representing Boqer Ore-Adie, said the women simply intended to carry out Mr Sturdey's wishes.
Judge Paul Thomas said the pair had taken advantage of Mr Sturdey's death to claim benefits they were not entitled to.
"Whatever your intention for burying on your land without notifying the authorities, it gave you the opportunity to enrich yourself at the expense of the rest of us," he said.
"Although there is no suggestion of foul play, there is a clear public interest in deterring people from acting as you have, the three of you.
"His body was only discovered after an expensive police search, with you three having refused to co-operate.
"You could have said quite easily said where his body was to save the public from even more expense."
Adie was given a nine month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and must complete 150 hours unpaid work. | Two women who failed to report the death of a man and went on to claim his benefits have been jailed for 20 months. |
37,373,651 | The U's lie bottom of League Two after a winless start to their campaign.
"It's as clear as day, we've got a football club that's expecting more and I fully accept that," the 38-year-old told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"I understand that, for support to be heard, fans want to be looking at a performance level that's high, that's the pressure that we've got."
Cambridge face Morecambe, who sit seventh in the league, on Saturday.
"It's the first time we've really got our strongest squad available to us," Derry added.
"We are hopeful we can do this all together and change the fortune of our football club because no one likes to see us at the bottom of the league." | Cambridge United manager Shaun Derry has called for patience from fans following a poor start to the season. |
38,106,131 | Well, there is a good argument that the answer is not a newspaper or broadcasting organisation but a social network, Facebook.
After all, it has 1.6 billion users and is becoming an ever more important place for them to share news. More than 40% of the population of the United States say they get news on Facebook - and for many it is where they go to share and comment on stories.
Stories like this - "Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President", "Barack Obama Admits He Was Born in Kenya", or "Trump said in 1998 'If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country'."
What all of those stories had in common was that they were completely made up. That did not stop them being shared by millions of Facebook users.
Whoever created this torrent of untruth probably had two motives - to cause mischief and to make a large amount of cash through the adverts that are the lifeblood of Facebook and the businesses which live off what it describes as its ecosystem.
But they also succeeded in unleashing a debate about fake news and whether the internet, far from spreading enlightenment as its creators once hoped, was leaving us worse informed.
At first Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg appeared unwilling to engage with that debate, dismissing the idea that fake news could have swung the presidential election as "crazy".
But it soon became clear that this position was untenable and that even inside Facebook there was plenty of agonising going on over its role in fakery.
Some days later Mr Zuckerberg took to - you've guessed it - Facebook to share some good news. "We've been working on this problem a long time and take this responsibility seriously," he wrote.
Mr Zuckerberg detailed plans to identify untrue stories and, in his words, disrupt the economics of fake news by making sure that it did not benefit from advertising.
Of course Facebook is trying to apply a new technology solution to an age-old problem, hoping it can come up with an algorithm which will sift truth from falsehood.
We used to think that was a job for editors, so maybe journalists need to take a long hard look at their own profession before being too sniffy about the ethics of social media firms.
But Mr Zuckerberg's change of heart seemed to show that he now realises he is an extremely powerful editor - and that with this comes weighty responsibilities as well as huge power.
But earlier this week up popped a story in my Facebook feed. "Facebook worked on special software so it could potentially accommodate censorship demands in China," it said.
Surely fake, I thought - would a company dedicated to truth really be developing a tool which would allow the Chinese authorities to suppress it? But then I saw the report was from the venerable New York Times and Facebook was not denying it, merely saying that it was "spending time understanding and learning more" about China.
We know that Mr Zuckerberg does have a deep interest in China - he has been learning Mandarin after all.
And Facebook is not alone among Western technology firms in wrestling with the dilemma of wanting access to this lucrative market while holding on to some of their values of free expression.
The same can be said of a few media organisations - 20 years ago Rupert Murdoch opted not to publish a book critical of China at a time when his satellite TV empire was trying to expand there.
I am not entirely sure that Mark Zuckerberg would like the comparison, but in many ways he is shaping up to be the Murdoch of the next 20 years. A global media tycoon, with great sway over how we understand our world.
And one with commercial incentives to shape the news to suit all sorts of different views of what is truth and what is fake.
The World This Week is on BBC World Service Radio and available as a podcast. | What is the most important source of news and therefore the most powerful media organisation in the world today? |
39,719,464 | Batty's side are top of Division One, with one win and two draws from their opening County Championship matches.
He is now hoping they can continue the momentum when they begin their One-Day Cup campaign at Somerset on Friday.
"We're traditionally a club that starts slowly, so I'm really proud of the management and the lads for flying out of the gates," the 40-year-old said.
"We've really started at a gallop. The challenge will be to see if we can sustain it until the end of the season."
Surrey opened their season with a crushing win over Warwickshire, before high-scoring draws against Lancashire and the Bears took them top with 45 points.
Having made a positive start in the County Championship, attention now shifts to the One-Day Cup, with a block of eight fixtures scheduled over the next three weeks.
Surrey have finished runners-up in the last two seasons in the 50-over format, losing out to Gloucestershire in 2015 and Warwickshire last season.
However, with new additions Scott Borthwick and Mark Stoneman having settled in alongside Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara, Batty believes his squad are better equipped this campaign.
The off-spinner is even hopeful they can benefit from the new fixture schedule and improve on fifth in the County Championship and a T20 Blast group stage exit in 2016 to become the first side since Warwickshire in 1994 to win three competitions.
"I believe we're in a pretty good place across all facets of the game," he told BBC's Test Match Special podcast. "Can it ever be done again? I don't think so, but if anybody has a chance, I believe we do have a good chance.
"The Royal London One-Day Cup is done in July, so if you play well early in the season you could tick that one off.
"Then you have a bit more of the Twenty20 competition, which shouldn't be affecting your four-day stuff. So you can get that right, maybe tick it off, then you've got four games in four weeks to hopefully get you over the line in red ball cricket."
The county season moves into another phase with the next three-week period now dedicated to the One-Day Cup.
There will be extra interest with most England players involved ahead of the ODIs against Ireland and South Africa and the ICC Champions Trophy - for which the squad was announced on Tuesday.
The group stage ends on 17 May with a break before the quarter-finals on 13 June, the semi-finals on 16 and 17 June and the final scheduled for Lord's on Saturday, 1 July.
Ball-by-ball commentary of every game can be heard live via the BBC Sport website, with extensive coverage also on Radio 5 live sports extra. | Surrey captain Gareth Batty believes the club have a "good chance" of winning every competition this season. |
40,316,930 | The boat, the Hokule'a, took three years to journey around the globe.
Its crew navigated without modern instruments, using only the stars, wind and ocean swells as guides.
They aimed to use the same techniques that brought the first Polynesian settlers to Hawaii hundreds of years ago.
Hawaii celebrated the Hokule'a's homecoming on Honolulu's Magic Island peninsula on Saturday.
Built in the 1970s, it has travelled around 40,000 nautical miles (74,000km) on this latest trip, known as the Malama Honua voyage, meaning "to care for our Island Earth".
Its aim has been to spread a message about ocean conservation, sustainability and protecting indigenous culture.
"Hokule'a has sparked a reawakening of Hawaiian culture, language, identity and revitalized voyaging and navigation traditions throughout the Pacific Ocean," said the voyage organisers on their website.
Naalehu Anthony, crewmember and chief executive director of Hawaiian media company Oiwi TV which documented the trip, told Hawaii Public Radio that wherever they docked, people greeted them with a Hawaiian "Aloha" greeting.
"One of the things I really admire about the voyage, looking back on it, is that we always asked the first nations peoples from these different places for permission to come. We never said we are coming. We said, would it be OK for us to come and honour the native people of this place," he said.
The voyage, he added, had been an "opportunity to celebrate native knowledge and look at ways that we are more common than we are different". | A traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe has returned to Honolulu in Hawaii, completing the first-ever round-the-world trip by such a vessel. |
32,038,574 | A spate of assaults in the Scotch Street area of the city are thought to be linked.
The first, on 19 February, involved a 65-year-old woman who was slapped on her head after sneezing. On 17 March an 82-year-old woman was also attacked.
Cumbria Police described the incidents as "unique" and want to speak to a man captured on camera.
A force spokesman added: "The offender is assaulting innocent members of the public and that sort of behaviour will not be tolerated.
"We would like to speak to the person pictured in the CCTV image in connection with these offences and we appeal to anyone who recognises him to make contact." | CCTV has been released in the hunt for a man alleged to have attacked several people for sneezing in Carlisle. |
35,219,633 | Eight stations including Stratford and West Ham have been rezoned from Zone 3 to Zone 2/3.
It means the stations will be regarded in Zone 2 or 3 depending on which way the passenger is travelling, giving the cheapest travel option for the journey.
The Mayor of London said it was hoped 100,000 people per week would benefit from the change.
How a Zone 2/3 boundary station works
According to Transport for London a passenger would always pay the cheapest fare depending on which direction they were travelling in.
For example, if they were travelling from Zone 6 to Stratford they would pay a Zone 3-6 fare, whereas if they were travelling to or from Zone 1 from Stratford they would pay a Zone 1-2 fare.
The other stations that have been rezoned are Stratford High Street, Stratford International DLR station, West Ham, Canning Town, Star Lane and Abbey Road.
Sir Robin Wales, the Mayor of Newham, said: "We've been campaigning for this for some time. The truth is London's moving eastwards... and it's sensible to reduce the cost of travel.
"It's going to encourage people to come to Stratford, West Ham and Canning Town, which will be great."
Transport for London has made the changes as part of its 2016 plans, which include a ticket price hike of 1% in line with the July Retail Price Index and enabling children to travel for free on National Rail services in the capital.
The changes also include it becoming possible to use an Oyster or contactless card for journeys between London and Gatwick Airport on Southern, Gatwick Express and Thameslink services from 11 January. | Several Tube stations in east London have been rezoned to recognise the capital's "shifting economic map". |
35,765,378 | The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked Singapore as the priciest ahead of Zurich, Hong Kong, Geneva and Paris.
London was sixth and New York seventh on the list that compares the cost of a basket of goods across 133 cities.
The cheapest were Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, followed by Bangalore and Mumbai in India, the EIU said.
The EIU charts the expense of cities by comparing them to the cost of living in New York.
Although Singapore was the most expensive, the cost of living there was 10% cheaper when compared to New York than was the case in the EIU survey a year ago.
Researchers said they saw considerable movement in the rankings as cities coped with economic factors ranging from the strength of the US dollar and currency devaluations to falling oil and commodity prices and geopolitical uncertainty.
"In nearly 17 years of working on this survey I can't recall a year as volatile as 2015," said Jon Copestake, an editor of the survey,
"Falling commodity prices have created deflationary pressures in some countries, but in others currency weakness caused by these falls has led to spiralling inflation."
The EIU said India and Pakistan accounted for five of the 10 least expensive cities in the world. | Singapore has again been judged as the world's most expensive city but costs across the world have been highly volatile, according to researchers. |
35,413,130 | The 2.4m-high bronze statue, which will stand in Bellies Brae car park, is due to be unveiled at the annual Bonfest event in April.
AC/DC backed the fundraising campaign to commemorate the singer who died in 1980, aged 33.
The council has received over 80 letters of support for the new statue. | Plans for a statue of Angus-born AC/DC singer Bon Scott in his home town of Kirriemuir have been approved by councillors. |
38,807,695 | The country's Economic Survey, released on the eve of the national budget, said the measures had slowed growth.
The dramatic move to scrap 500 ($7.60) and 1,000 rupee notes was intended to crack down on corruption and so-called black money or illegal cash holdings.
But it also led to a cash shortage, hurting individuals and businesses.
The report forecast that India's economy would grow 6.5% in the year to March 2017, down from 7.6% the previous financial year.
But it also stressed that the estimate was based "mainly" on data from before the note withdrawal kicked in - causing some to suspect growth may be lower still.
India's Finance minister Arun Jaitley who will deliver the Union budget in Delhi on Wednesday, said he expected the economy to "revert to normal" from March onwards after supplies of cash in the economy were replenished.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the so-called "demonetisation" policy on November 8 last year.
Within hours the two notes were no longer accepted as legal tender - taking the equivalent of about 86% of India's cash supplies out of circulation and sparking scenes of chaos outside banks and cash machines.
Low-income Indians, traders and ordinary savers who rely on the cash economy were badly hit, with hordes thronging banks to deposit expired money and withdraw lower denominations.
"The adverse impact... on GDP will be transitional", the government's chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian, wrote in the report.
"Growth slowed as demonetisation reduced demand ... and increased uncertainty," he added, saying negative impacts included including job losses and falling income for farmers.
However the report said the scheme could be "beneficial in the long-run" if corruption fell and there were fewer cash transactions - many of which are done to dodge taxes.
The government has previously said the move was a success with the banks flush with cash and significant increases in tax collection.
"It's very nice to understand that the survey is acknowledging the negative impact," said Aneesh Srivatava, chief investment officer at IDBI Federal.
"This is perhaps the first acknowledgement coming from the government. Otherwise so far there has been a denial."
Deadlines for spending the notes or swapping them for new currency have already passed.
Some people, including those of Indian origin living abroad, will be able to exchange the notes in branches of India's central bank until 31 March 2017 - but the process will be more complicated than going to a regular bank. | India's controversial withdrawal of high value banknotes late last year has had an "adverse impact" on the economy, the government has admitted. |
36,764,417 | The conductors work on New Routemaster buses, introduced in a blaze of publicity by ex-mayor Boris Johnson.
The changes mean passengers will no longer be able to board the buses by hopping on/ hopping off.
TfL claimed having conductors on board made only a "modest difference" to customer satisfaction.
The conductors will disappear from six bus routes; numbers 9, 10, 11, 24, 38 and 390.
They are employed by operators Arriva, Go-Ahead, Metroline and RATP. TfL pledged to work with those companies to provide support and information on job opportunities for sacked conductors elsewhere.
The New Routemaster buses were a flagship transport policy of former London mayor Boris Johnson and were used as a political tool during his 2008 election campaign.
Criticisms were made over the cost of the new buses and there were problems with their hybrid engines and non-opening windows.
However, BBC Transport correspondent Tom Edwards said Londoners had a "begrudging affection" for them.
A small number of Heritage Routemaster buses on route 15 will continue to operate with conductors.
The role of conductor on the new buses was more for safety as they didn't sell tickets. They made sure passengers didn't hurt themselves jumping on and off the rear platform.
Now 300 of them will lose their jobs.
They were introduced by the mayor Boris Johnson, but now he's gone the flagship projects of the former mayor do not have as much political protection.
We are also seeing the start of big cuts at TfL, with its operational grant from the government cut by £591m in 2018.
Meanwhile the new mayor's TfL fares freeze will cost £600m, and on Friday there was a redundancy trawl for senior managers.
So this won't be the last cuts we see. What is a big surprise though is that front-line staff are seeing the cuts so soon. That will inevitably lead to political fall-out. | Three hundred London bus conductors are to lose their jobs to make savings of £10m a year, Transport for London (TfL) has announced. |
37,176,833 | The 30-year-old's arrest, by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Counter Terrorism Command, was followed by searches in Larne and Devon.
The pre-planned operation involved several UK police forces, including the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
It is understood MI5 is also involved in the operation in England.
Following the arrest on Wednesday afternoon, police in Devon searched a house in Exminster and a wooded area nearby, while the PSNI has carried out searches at a least two houses in on the Old Glenarm Road in Larne.
It is understood the operation is connected to the discovery of two arms dumps near Larne earlier this year, which were suspected to be linked to dissident republican paramilitaries.
In March, the PSNI said they had uncovered a "significant terrorist hide" of bomb-making components and explosives at Carnfunnock Country Park.
In May, a second significant arms cache, including an armour-piercing improvised rocket and two anti-personnel mines, was found at Capanagh Forest, near Larne.
The man under arrest is suspected of being involved in preparing for acts of terrorism
He is being held at a West Country police station.
Police said the arrest was pre-planned and intelligence-led as part of a collaboration between the Met, the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the South West Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit.
The arrest was made at 12:20 BST by Met detectives supported by officers from Avon and Somerset and Devon and Cornwall Police.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence said: "We are aware of a police investigation involving the arrest of a member of the armed forces under the 2000 Terrorism Act and will assist this investigation fully.
"It would be inappropriate to comment further on an ongoing investigation." | A serving Royal Marine arrested in Somerset over Northern Ireland-related terrorism is from Larne, County Antrim. |
37,587,188 | Brigid Jones, cabinet member for education and social services, said she was told a procedure did not exist for someone in her role.
Ms Jones, a councillor since 2011, branded the situation "ridiculous".
Birmingham City Council said it was looking at introducing a policy.
Ms Jones, who was 26 years old when appointed to the council's cabinet in 2013, said she was thinking about starting a family and had enquired about her rights.
The Labour councillor said she was told there was no provision for maternity arrangements attached to her £41,696.75 a year job.
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"I was told there isn't a policy and I'd most likely have to step down from my position if I were to have a child," she said.
"Obviously I thought this was ridiculous. I talked to the chief executive [Mark Rogers] and he thought it was ridiculous. He's now working on a policy."
Ms Jones, a councillor for the Selly Oak Ward, said she also felt that "the job of a councillor is from the dark ages."
Some of the constitutions for other major city authorities do not always have a clear policy on maternity rules for cabinet members.
Yet some, like the London Borough of Hackney, have included the policy in their constitution and the cabinet member's position will be filled on a temporary basis, as it would in any job.
But this approach is not put into writing everywhere.
Of course, this may have not been so much of a prevalent issue in the past. But with the number of women under 40 becoming councillors on the rise, it looks like it now has to be looked at by many councils.
And with Birmingham's history on gender equality - it was hit with a huge legal action over equal pay for female workers - the council will be keen to make sure it doesn't get this wrong.
She said the role had not moved with the times and was not representative of the main population.
"We haven't had a pregnant cabinet member in a very long time in Birmingham, so it actually hasn't been an issue before," she said.
"That's how unrepresentative things have been, but I have had assurances that things will change which I do believe."
Sam Smethers, from the Fawcett Society, the UK's largest membership charity for women's rights, said the political system regards councillors as effectively self-employed, so they did not have the same rights as someone who was employed and called for reform.
"We've got these big cabinet roles which effectively are full-time jobs in themselves and yet the policies around them, the procedures around them really haven't caught up with that," she said.
He said a third of all councillors were women, with only 15% of council leaders being female. | The councillor in charge of Birmingham's children's services was told she would probably have to step down if she became pregnant - because the council has no maternity policy. |
40,485,513 | Susan Benstead, 72, was given a two-year suspended jail term for money laundering in June 2015 for her part in the Crown Currency fraud.
She has now been ordered to pay £868,580 in a proceeds of crime hearing at Southwark Crown Court.
A hearing is under way for the former mayor of Glastonbury, Edward James.
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Crown Currency collapsed in October 2010, owing clients a total of £20m.
Up to 12,500 people are believed to have lost money, the court heard.
Benstead's trial at the same court in 2015 heard she used £900,000 of customers' money to buy a luxury home in Cornwall.
Her husband Peter, 72, killed himself during the trial.
She and James were two of five people found guilty of offences connected to Crown Currency's collapse.
Crown Currency, based in Hayle, was one of the UK's largest personal currency exchange businesses.
It allowed individuals and business customers to pre-order foreign exchange at a set price up to a year in advance.
It provided money in 80 currencies, as well as travellers' cheques and money transfers. | A woman involved in a multi-million pound foreign exchange scam has been told to pay more than £850,000 to her victims. |
37,540,927 | He located genes that regulate the cellular "self eating" process known as autophagy.
Dr Ohsumi's work is important because it helps explain what goes wrong in a range of illnesses, from cancer to Parkinson's.
Errors in these genes cause disease.
Last year's prize was shared by three scientists who developed treatments for malaria and other tropical diseases.
The body destroying its own cells may not sound like a good thing. But autophagy is a natural defence that our bodies use to survive.
It allows the body to cope with starvation and fight off invading bacteria and viruses, for example.
And it clears away old junk to make way for new cells.
Failure of autophagy is linked with many diseases of old age, including dementia.
Research is now ongoing to develop drugs that can target autophagy in various diseases, including cancer.
The concept of autophagy has been known for over 50 years, but it wasn't until Dr Ohsumi began studying and experimenting with baker's yeast in the 80s and 90s that the breakthrough in understanding was made.
Dr Ohsumi is reported to be surprised about receiving his Nobel Prize, but "extremely honoured".
Speaking with the Japanese broadcaster NHK he said that the human body "is always repeating the auto-decomposition process, or cannibalism, and there is a fine balance between formation and decomposition. That's what life is about."
Prof David Rubinsztein, an expert in autophagy at the University of Cambridge, said he was delighted that Dr Ohsumi's vital work had been recognised and rewarded.
"His pioneering work in yeast led to the discovery of the key genes and fundamental biochemical processes that are required for autophagy.
"As autophagy is well conserved from yeast to man, his laboratory's discoveries have also provided the critical tools to many labs to enable the appreciation of the important roles of autophagy in diverse physiological and disease processes.
"These include infectious diseases, cancers, and various neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease and forms of Parkinson's disease. Indeed, autophagy manipulation may provide a key strategy for treating some of these conditions."
More than 270 scientists were nominated for the prize, which was awarded at Sweden's Karolinska Institute and comes with eight million Swedish kronor (around £728,000 or $936,000 or 834,000 euros) for the winner.
The winners of the physics, chemistry and peace prizes are to be announced later this week.
2015 - Three scientists - William C Campbell, Satoshi ÅŒmura and Youyou Tu - for anti-parasite drug discoveries.
2014 - Three scientists - John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser - for discovering the brain's navigating system.
2013 - James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas Sudhof for their discovery of how cells precisely transport material.
2012 - Two pioneers of stem cell research - John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka - were awarded the Nobel after changing adult cells into stem cells.
2011 - Bruce Beutler, Jules Hoffmann and Ralph Steinman shared the prize after revolutionising the understanding of how the body fights infection.
2010 - Robert Edwards for devising the fertility treatment IVF which led to the first "test tube baby" in July 1978.
2009 - Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for finding the telomeres at the ends of chromosomes.
Follow Michelle on Twitter | The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for discoveries about the secrets of how cells can remain healthy by recycling waste. |
32,167,009 | Sumaya Rajab said that more than 20 police vehicles had been sent to detain him.
The activist has served several prison sentences since setting up the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights in 2002.
Human Rights First said the arrest was an "alarming setback" to hopes for easing the nation's political crisis.
Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers forcibly quelled a 2011 uprising which had been triggered in large part by unrest among the Shia Muslim majority.
Sumaya Rajab said her husband was arrested at 14:15 local time (15:16 GMT).
She said: "There were a lot of police, many more than needed to arrest one man. My relatives counted more than 20 police vehicles.
"Nabeel was sleeping and my daughter woke him to say the police had come. I went to the gate and asked what they were doing. They showed me an arrest warrant that said he was being arrested for tweets he had made about torture in Jaw prison."
Mr Rajab has already been charged over another tweet he sent in September in which suggested that security institutions in Bahrain served as what he called an "ideological incubator" for jihadists.
He was released on bail and his next court appearance on that charge is schedule for 14 April.
Human Rights First said Thursday's arrest was "the latest in a string of actions that should give Washington pause as it considers whether to lift restrictions on sending arms to the kingdom". | Prominent Bahrain human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has been arrested over tweets about torture practices in a prison, his wife says. |
34,904,166 | "Extensive damage" was caused in and around Fraser Hart in the Silbury Arcade, Milton Keynes during the break-in at about 03:30 GMT on Saturday.
The burglars tried to cover their escape by starting a fire nearby and padlocking a chain across the road to prevent a police pursuit.
Det Ch Insp Kelly Glister said it was fortunate that nobody was hurt. | Thieves who targeted a jewellery shop in an early-hours raid escaped with £650,000 of items, police have said. |
35,695,270 | One person died and five were injured at the decommissioned power station on 23 February. Three are still missing.
Assistant Chief Constable Scott Chilton added that the victims' families had returned home after visiting the site.
A four-minute silence was held at demolition firm Coleman and Company's sites across the UK.
A spokesperson said it was "a sign of respect to our men, their families, friends and work colleagues".
Npower said it still did not know how the collapse happened and would not speculate.
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Thames Valley Police said the site remained "highly unstable" but that emergency services were continuing to work closely together to establish the best way to recover the bodies.
ACC Chilton said: "It is now one week since this major incident occurred.
"I know that this makes it particularly difficult for the families involved, as they await the recovery of their loved ones. Our priority remains to return them to their families and we continue to support the families as needed."
Chief fire officer Dave Etheridge said: "I believe the emergency service teams working on site are the best in the world and know they are using their experience and expertise to the limits."
Will Hancock, chief executive of South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, said: "I would like to thank the many SCAS staff who attended the incident at Didcot A Power Station last week and who triaged and treated over 50 casualties, before taking five people to hospital.
"Our Hazardous Area Response Team has remained on site since the collapse and we continue to provide support to the recovery teams carrying out their difficult task."
In a statement Coleman and Company said: "It is now one week since this terrible accident and I would like to express our deep sorrow at this heartbreaking time for our colleagues, and their families and friends.
"Nothing can prepare you for, nor are there words to express, our devastation at the events of the last week.
"All our hearts go out to the family and friends of those who have died and are still, tragically, missing.
"At this time, our over-riding priority is to support those families affected by this terrible incident."
It described the scene as an "unprecedented and hugely-challenging environment".
Part of the decommissioned Didcot A plant collapsed a week ago as it was being prepared for demolition.
One person, named as Michael Collings, is confirmed to have died. The cause of the collapse is unknown.
Five others injured in the incident been discharged from John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and are expected to make a full recovery, the company said.
A search operation involving sniffer dogs, listening devices and a thermal imaging drone continues as rescuers try to locate the missing workers. | Recovering the bodies of the victims of the Didcot power station collapse is a "very complex operation" that will take "many, many weeks", police have said. |
30,335,266 | George Lancelot, 61, was jailed for 20 months on Thursday at Exeter Crown Court for breaching an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) banning him from swearing and drinking in public.
His latest offence was committed hours after he was released from prison.
As Lancelot was led from the dock on Thursday he shouted: "I'd get less for burglary." He then swore at the court.
Judge Phillip Wassall told Lancelot, of Higher Warberry Road, Torquay: "I am told there is unlikely to be any psychiatric disposition to help you.
"Unless you deal with this you could spend the rest of your life in prison."
Kevin Hopper, defending, said the court should order mental health treatment.
"He (Lancelot) cannot comply with the ASBO because he is mentally ill," said Mr Hopper.
"He faces a life term but I don't know what to suggest."
Andrew Neilson, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "We should not be filling our jails with people who have mental health needs, let alone someone who appears to pose no actual threat to the public." | A man with 176 convictions for repeated foul-mouthed outbursts risks spending the rest of his life in prison. |
33,952,928 | In the message, addressed to the leader of the Islamic State militant group to whom Boko Haram has pledged allegiance, Mr Shekau said he was still in command.
He had not featured in the group's recent videos, prompting speculation he had been killed or incapacitated.
Last week the Chadian president said Mr Shekau had been replaced.
Mr Shekau described as "blatant lies" reports that he was no longer in charge.
"I am alive," he said, adding: "I will only die when the time appointed by Allah comes."
The eight-minute-long recording mocked a recent statement by the new Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari that Boko Haram would be eliminated within three months.
Mr Shekau took over as the group's leader after its founder, Muhammad Yusuf, died in Nigerian police custody in July 2009.
Under his leadership Boko Haram has become more radical and has carried out more killings.
In numerous videos, Mr Shekau has taunted the Nigerian authorities, celebrating the group's violent acts including the abduction of the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014.
Last month, Mr Buhari said he would be willing to negotiate with the Boko Haram leadership for the release of the Chibok girls - depending on the credibility of those saying they represented the group.
A previous prisoner-swap attempt ended in failure.
Although momentum is gathering for a concerted regional offensive against the group, Boko Haram continues to carry out horrific attacks, not only in Nigeria but in its neighbours too, reports the BBC's Africa editor Mary Harper.
Profile: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
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Why Boko Haram remain a threat | An audio message has emerged of Nigerian-based Islamist militant group Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau, in which he denies he has been replaced. |
37,565,140 | Damir Begmatov, 25, will serve a minimum of 15 years for the murder of Bobir Esanov in Reading on 27 December.
Begmatov claimed to have discovered his housemate dead when he returned to their London Road home in the early hours, Kingston Crown Court heard.
The killer fled to Swindon where he was arrested on 9 January.
The jury at his trial heard the pair had "consumed substantial amounts of alcohol" before Begmatov killed 36-year-old Uzbek national Mr Esanov.
District crown prosecutor Tracey Johnson-Brown said: "This case represents a tragedy for Bob's family and friends who have been devastated by his death.
"I would like to pay tribute to Bob's family, friends and the witnesses for their wholehearted support of the investigation and prosecution." | A man who strangled his roommate with a cord then left his corpse in their house while he went out has been jailed for life. |
35,101,503 | He is here to boost sales of Cadbury's chocolates - the brand is owned by Mondelez - and expand the reach of the US firm's products in rural India.
But doing this is probably not as sweet as the chocolate.
To entice people into buying chocolates there are banners showcasing bars of 5Star, Perk and small packets of Gems and Oreo biscuits - all selling for about 10 rupees (9p; 15 US cents).
This is different from selling in Indian cities and towns where big packs of chocolates costing more than a dollar or a pound also sell.
As he meets the shopkeepers, he checks with them on sales of Cadbury's chocolates and business in general. The responses he gets from shopkeepers are probably a bit low-spirited.
Anand Talekar runs a shop at the village's bus stop. It's a prime spot as state-run buses on this road connect the village's 5,000 inhabitants to nearby towns and the national highway.
Yet he hasn't sold much even of his other goods such as washing powder, shampoos, baby diapers, biscuits and hair dye.
To make a living, Mr Talekar relies on the locals - who almost all make a living from farming - to have money to spend. But harvests have not been good this year.
"Farming is in crisis, the farmers that were trying to cultivate crops have had a huge set back due to low rainfall, as they couldn't grow anything.
"This has led to a 35% drop in my income from the shop" says Mr Talekar.
"I myself have started cutting down on my fuel expenses on bike and car by opting to travel by government-run bus. I am also limiting using my mobile phone for calls to avoid spending on its credit."
Mr Talekar himself is from a farming family but due to poor yields on his farm in the last few years he set up a shop to give his family another source of income.
His parents and siblings still work on the farm in a nearby village.
Executives at Mondelez, sitting in their central office in Mumbai, see Mr Talekar's worries from a wider perspective.
While individuals' spending power may be lower, there is such a vast number of people living in rural communities across India it is a market they would be foolish to ignore.
"The opportunity for most companies is to really access the potential of rural India. It is an extraordinary source of long term growth for big businesses," says Mondelez India's managing director, Chandramouli Venkatesan.
Rural India accounts for 70% of India's population and for 50% of its GDP.
"One of the greatest challenges is to identify and prioritise which villages and markets are accessible and have the potential to sell our products," says Mr Venkatesan.
Mondelez says it used sales analytics technology to help identify potential villages to do business.
"We chose about 20,000 high priority villages - this allows us to maximise our revenue at an economical cost," he says
Once it had identified its key villages, Mondelez distributed its chocolates to local stores and found out the earnings from them matched that of similar stores in towns.
But there's nothing anyone, not even a powerful multi-national can do about a lack of rain.
India's Meteorology Department recently said that 309 districts out of 641 across India had received little rainfall this year. This is almost half the country, and many millions of people have been affected.
People are dubbing the resulting loss of business the "monsoon deficit".
As well as spending less on non-essentials like chocolate, farmers are thinking twice before investing in the tools of their trade.
Sales of motorcycles, which many farmers use to get around, fell 4.6% in the five months to September, compared to the same period last year, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam), an industry lobby group.
Tractor sales are down too.
India's Mahindra Tractors one of the world's largest-selling tractor brand says that instead of sales growing 6% this year, they will actually fall 5%.
Along with monsoon deficit there are other challenges companies face.
Companies often conduct campaigns in small towns and villages through which they educate the consumers on the product and work on building the brand awareness.
The packaging of these products is also different - smaller packets for a lower cost often sell fast in villages where people do not want to commit a substantial amount to one product.
Devendra Chawla, a marketer and consumer brands specialist at Future Group, says companies need to have a different strategy for rural and urban markets.
"You cannot expect to expand every year in rural India. If there is a drought and purchasing power is down it does not take away the long-term potential of rural which is large."
But concerns remain over India's agricultural sector which grew by only 2.2% in the three months to September.
Meanwhile, back in Wing village, farmer Nirmala Talekar says she has stopped giving milk and buying new clothes for her children as she clears out the weed from the ruined crops in her field.
Her husband has taken up a job as a factory worker so that his earnings can help them cope with the drought.
"We have to continue to live on the most essential items for now - we are struggling to pay our children's school fees," says another farmer, Baban Mahangale.
Businesses may be waiting to see the rise in consumerism from India's countryside. But for now, many farmers' woes are far from over. | On a sunny afternoon a sales executive from the US multinational food company Mondelez International is out and about in the village of Wing in Maharashtra in western India. |
36,421,003 | "Vivien Leigh: Public Faces, Private Lives" includes pieces by set and costume designer Oliver Messel.
The exhibition is being held at the National Trust-owned Nymans property in West Sussex, until 4 September.
It features outfits, photos and scripts on loan from the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London.
It acquired the archive from the Gone with the Wind star's grandchildren in 2013.
It covers all aspects of Leigh's life and career, as detailed in diaries she started writing when she was 16-years-old in 1929 and kept until her death in 1967. | More than 100 items celebrating the life of Oscar-winning actress Vivien Leigh have gone on display at the home of her favourite costume designer. |
27,140,007 | A 300-strong colony of Natterer's bats roost in the roof of St Andrew's Church in Holme Hale but cannot be removed as they are a protected species.
Rev Stephen Thorp said the bats are "off-putting" and have made couples look elsewhere for their wedding.
The church hopes new ultrasound technology will resolve the problem.
The Home Hale colony, near Swaffham, is thought to be one of the biggest in England.
The bats tend to fly within the body of the church where excrement can then damage furnishings and sometimes irreplaceable objects of international significance, said experts.
In some cases the colony can also restrict the use of a church for worship or other community functions.
Mr Thorp, who has been the rector at the church since 2006, said the "pungent" faeces and urine from the bats in the pitch of the church roof "showers down on anybody inside".
"This does an awful lot of damage and in the breeding season it's also possible for pubescent bats to fall from the roof onto the floor," he said.
Funded by Defra, researchers from Bristol University have been working at the Grade I listed building which has suffered from the effects of the large maternity colony for a number of years.
Possible solutions to "deter" the colony include the use of strong artificial lighting to create "no-fly zones" within the church and ultrasonic signals.
"We don't want to kill or harm the bats in anyway, but we do think it's fundamentally wrong that human beings and bats should be forced to share the same indoor dwelling space," said Mr Thorp.
"It's one of those cases where the bats seem to have more rights that the worshipping community and that's why we've been involved with Defra and Natural England to try and come to a reasonable solution to the problem."
Julia Hanmer, chief executive officer at the Bat Conservation Trust, said they were "deeply sympathetic" to the church community at Holme Hale who "experience real challenges due to an unusually large number of bats in a small church".
She added the trust was "committed" to helping churches and where problems are experienced to find "lasting solutions that help both people and bats". | Bats "showering" parishioners with faeces and urine at a Norfolk church appear to have "more rights that the worshipping community", a vicar said. |
35,713,272 | The world number three posted a video on social media of himself gripping his putter with his left hand below his right during practice.
McIlroy plans to use the technique at this week's WGC-Cadillac tournament.
"I feel like it's something I'm going to stick with, regardless of what the outcome is tomorrow, or this week or next week," he said.
McIlroy missed the cut at the Honda Classic last week and is making the switch before the Masters, which takes place between 7-10 April.
"It's a drill I've been doing for a while," said the 26-year-old.
"I feel like my left hand controls my putting stroke and I felt over the past few weeks my right hand was becoming a little bit too dominant."
He added: "It's one of those things where the drill started to feel a little bit better than the real thing, so I'm just going to stick with it." | Rory McIlroy intends switching to the "cross-handed" putting method as he tries to improve his form. |
38,484,301 | The 33-year-old, who was captain at Leyton Orient when new Coventry boss Russell Slade was in charge at Brisbane Road, has agreed a deal until the end of the season on a free transfer.
Clarke spent 11 years at Huddersfield, playing more than 300 times for the club, before moving to Orient in 2012.
"He will bring assurance and knowhow, as well as have a positive impact on the younger players," Slade said.
Clarke is one of three players to join struggling Coventry as the January transfer window opens.
Striker Stuart Beavon and midfielder Callum Reilly have moved to the Ricoh Arena from Burton Albion, with forward Marvin Sordell moving in the opposite direction.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Coventry City have signed defender Nathan Clarke from Bradford City. |
33,251,595 | Gerrard says the Football Association's £105m national football centre needs to be more player friendly.
The 35-year-old also says that his slip against Chelsea, as Liverpool missed out on the 2013-14 Premier League title "kills" him, in a BT Sport interview.
And he admits being left out against Real Madrid in last season's Champions League hastened his Liverpool exit.
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The 330-acre St George's Park site in Burton, Staffordshire, opened in 2012 as a base for all 24 England teams at various levels. It includes a replica of the Wembley surface and an altitude chamber to mimic a variety of playing conditions.
But in an interview with Rio Ferdinand for a BT Sport programme, Gerrard said he thinks the complex needs a golf course to help overcome the "shyness" in the England squad.
St George's Park managing director Julie Harrington has since told BBC Sport that a nine-hole golf course is planned for the centre.
"It's an unbelievable site but they need to be a bit more realistic around it," he said. "They need to make it a little bit friendlier for the players.
"It's a top place to train and prepare but away from the training pitch and the games, it can be boring. We need to create that atmosphere where England players are desperate to get away and do well."
"When you get to England, you want to have your lunch and go to bed and keep away from everyone because there's a shyness. There needs to be an England atmosphere when you turn up and you know each other, you want to be with each other."
Gerrard announced in January he was leaving Liverpool after 17 years to join MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy.
But he has revealed it was during a 1-0 defeat by Real Madrid in November that he made his mind up about leaving Liverpool.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers chose to start with Gerrard on the bench for the match at the Bernabeu.
Gerrard said: "When I was told I wasn't playing for the sake of the team, because of my relationship with Brendan, I took it and I accepted it.
"But I sat on that bench devastated because I wanted to play. It pushed me into making a decision to move on and try something different."
In 2014 Liverpool were top of the Premier League with three games to go when they hosted second-placed Chelsea at Anfield.
But a slip by Gerrard allowed Demba Ba to score Chelsea's first goal and Jose Mourinho's side went on to win 2-0 as Liverpool's title challenge fell apart.
Gerrard has criticised Liverpool's tactics in the game and said they "lost their way" and went "gung-ho instead of being controlled" - but refused to blame Rodgers.
He said: "The inexperience showed from myself having not been in many title races and the inexperience of the team.
"The slip happened at a bad time, it was cruel for me personally.
"I'm not scared of any criticism or cruelty. I understand it and the impact it had - it kills me, don't get me wrong. Inside it kills me and it will do for a long time. I think to myself: 'If I'd have got that league, it would have been the icing on the cake'.
"That one moment will always hurt me until the day I go because I'd have achieved every dream with Liverpool. It hurts." | Former England and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has described St George's Park as "boring". |
40,874,571 | Analysis by Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University said the number of rough sleepers would double from 800 to 1,500 if current economic policies continue.
Researchers also forecast the number of people in unsuitable temporary accommodation would rise by a third in the next decade.
The study was commissioned by homelessness charity Crisis.
Across the UK, the number of people without a home will reach 392,400 by 2041, according to the analysis, compared with 159,900 in 2016.
The report states there are currently 11,800 people across Scotland either sleeping rough, staying in hostels, living in unsuitable temporary accommodation, sofa-surfing, sleeping in cars or staying in squats or refuges.
The team's analysis indicates this figure is expected to rise to 12,200 by 2021 before accelerating to 18,100 - a rise of 53% on current levels - in 2041.
11,800
Sleeping rough, in hostels or unsuitable accommodation
800 spent one night on streets
5,200 households 'sofa surfing'
2,300 households in hostels
2,100 households in unsuitable temporary accommodation
Jon Sparkes, chief executive of Crisis, said: "This year Crisis marks its 50th anniversary, but that's little cause for celebration.
"We still exist because homelessness still exists, and today's report makes it only too clear that unless we take action as a society, the problem is only going to get worse with every year that passes.
"That means more people sleeping on our streets, in doorways or bus shelters, on the sofas of friends or family, or getting by in hostels and B&Bs. In order to tackle this, it's crucial we first understand the scale of the problem."
He praised the Scottish government's commitment to build 50,000 new affordable homes by 2021 - of which 35,000 will be for social rent - which he said would help slow the rise in homelessness in the short-term.
He added: "Now is the time for action and we look forward to working with the Scottish government to find solutions and bring these forecasts down."
The report estimates that at any one time in 2016, 800 people had spent one night sleeping rough while 5,200 households were "sofa-surfing" - defined as staying with others who are not their parents on a short-term basis and wanting to move.
Another 2,300 households were staying in hostels while 1,400 households were living in other circumstances, including squats, women's refuges, winter night shelters, sleeping in tents, cars or public transport.
Scottish housing minister Kevin Stewart said Scotland had "some of the strongest rights for homeless people in the world", which had already led to falling homelessness despite the UK government's austerity measures.
However, he also said there was more that could be done, and pledged to continue working with other organisations to tackle homelessness.
He said: "Our priorities include addressing homelessness for people with more complex needs, who may be rough sleeping and for whom simply providing accommodation is not always enough, and ensuring temporary accommodation plays a positive role in improving outcomes for homeless households."
The Scottish Conservatives said the projected increase "could well come true if the Scottish government doesn't get to grips with this".
Housing spokesman Graham Simpson said: "Nearly 12,000 people are sleeping in unsuitable circumstances in Scotland every night. That should shame the SNP but maybe these people don't matter to them.
"Sadly, homelessness is a scandal which is often unseen but it could easily happen to any of us and that's why we need more action and fewer words and think tanks."
Scottish Labour said the projections were "horrifying" and blamed changes to the benefits system coupled with cuts to local authority budgets.
MSP Pauline McNeill called for a joined-up strategy involving house building and a crackdown on bad landlords. She added: "The warning signs are there - ministers must now take action. It would be grossly negligent for these warnings to be ignored."
The Scottish Liberal Democrats said the figures were a "national disgrace" and said the Scottish government must take some responsibility.
The party's housing spokeswoman Caron Lindsay said: "When the SNP government fail to get to grips with the housing crisis, they fail these people and their families.
"There would, of course, be more houses for social rent if the SNP had not downgraded the target for social house-building during the last parliament." | Homelessness in Scotland is predicted to rise by more than 53% in the next 25 years, according to new research. |
38,317,942 | Food Utopia said it planned to end production at Avana Bakeries in Rogerstone by the end of January.
The firm said the factory, which also cut hundreds of workers in 2014, had been running at a loss and it was "financially unsustainable".
The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union said a 45-day consultation with staff would start on Thursday.
It said there was a cake production surplus in the country and people were not eating as many baked goods as they used to.
Food Utopia said the site had been "unable to make sufficient progress in an increasingly competitive market".
The firm said it would explore all options and seek as much external support as possible as it began discussions about the future of the bakery. | A consultation over plans to close a Newport bakery with the loss of 150 jobs has begun. |
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Farah, 31, left the field behind as he stormed home in a time of eight minutes 3.40 seconds - breaking Kenenisa Bekele's previous record of 8:04.34.
It is the double Olympic champion's first world record.
"This means a lot to me," Farah told BBC Sport. "I love representing my country, giving something back to all the people. Unbelievable."
The build-up to Saturday's race had been dominated by
Farah claimed Vernon had questioned his nationality after the double Olympic champion won European 10,000m gold in 2014, with Vernon describing that as a "huge, huge misrepresentation".
The bad feeling clearly did not upset Farah on the track as he dominated the field in Birmingham, leaving Kenyan Paul Koech and American Bernard Lagat trailing as he ran a sub-four minute mile for the second half of the race, clocking 3:59.5.
"It (the row with Vernon) inspired me, I wanted to do it," said Farah.
"Whatever's happened has happened, we've got to move on, but at the same time I'm an athlete, that's what I do best. I just have to keep running."
Asked if he had a message for Vernon, Farah said: "No, at the end of the day whatever's done is done. I just have to move on.
"I think it's too soon to say anything right now. I've moved on and put that behind me. I want to keep running well."
Vernon congratulated Farah on Twitter, saying: "Everything aside that was a cracking run @Mo-Farah. Congratulations on the new WR."
Farah, who will skip next month's European Indoor Championships, has five global track titles over 5,000m and 10,000m but had not set a world record until Saturday.
"Definitely, it's about setting myself a goal and knowing what I want out of the year," he said. "It's two different things going for a world record or going for a championship.
"I shouldn't get carried away, it's only two miles indoors, but at the same time it would be nice to be able to do what I can do for 10k, if I can go close or break it.
"But I will never give up (on championships). I want to be able to know I collected as many medals as I could for my country." | Britain's Mo Farah broke the two-mile indoor world record with a superb run at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix. |
32,067,246 | It was highlighted when Zayn Malik left the Asian leg of the band's On the Road Again tour last week and was signed off with stress.
But Newsbeat wanted to know what life in a boy band is really like.
So we spoke to Scott Robinson from 1990s band Five, who left the group when he was just about to turn 22. Here is his story in his own words.
It is very difficult being in a boy band.
What it is, is people from the public just see the glamour side of it and obviously they see you doing the big shows and Top of the Pops on the telly and living a certain lifestyle.
They think it's amazing. And it is, but you're worked very, very hard. It is tricky and you get very tired.
So, for example, during a week, we could be starting off in London. We might be on the Big Breakfast Show, say for six in the morning. So we'd be picked up at four in the morning or maybe earlier.
We'd go straight into make-up, we'd go on the show. We would literally finish the Big Breakfast and we could be jetting off to America. And we could be in America for two days doing promo.
Then we could leave America after two days and go to, anywhere, Norway, Sweden, anywhere. It could be writing, it could be recording, it could have been touring.
It was non-stop and we didn't get any breaks.
I remember sometimes we'd set an alarm and you'd be given two hours kip and then we were up doing another round of promo or whatever.
Speaking to the manager of One Direction, who used to work at the record company that we did, he said that they're worked pretty much the same, although they are given scheduled breaks.
They will have a certain amount of time to relax. But in that relaxation time, obviously you can't go anywhere, so you're still very much in the bubble of One Direction or Five.
You never really get any time to yourself. I remember having to call off the end of a tour because we were just so tired.
I'm a really fussy eater, so I could never find anything to eat, ever, anywhere.
I remember there were four days left in our world tour and we said, 'Look, we just can't do it' and we were all very, very unwell because we'd been worked so hard.
I had four days off, and that was the longest I ever remember having off during the band.
When I got to America, my now wife and mum and dad looked at me, and said, 'Wow, you look so ill'.
I slept for the first three days of the holiday. I hadn't eaten properly, I was very skinny. It was horrible to be in the situation where you are that tired.
You had to be happy all day long. There were points where you were so incredibly tired you almost didn't know your own mind.
You would be interviewed and you were being asked exactly the same question again and again and you've got to be enthusiastic about that question.
I used to fall asleep in the make-up chair. I used to go to sleep in the make-up chair, for 10 minutes and I'd wake up looking like a pop star. But I promise you I didn't look like a pop star before I sat in the chair.
It was literally 24/7 and that's no exaggeration and I do genuinely remember times when we had no sleep. Like, you know, none. None whatsoever.
Five are back on tour from 16 April.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | The gruelling schedule the One Direction boys have been put through are no secret. |
26,784,070 | The construction project could last for about four months.
Transport Scotland said some lane closures would be required during the work, but added that this should not cause significant delays.
The new system between Inverness and Perth is opposed by campaign group A9 Average Speed Cameras Are Not the Answer.
It has called for action to tackle bad overtaking. | Work to build the infrastructure needed for a system of average speed cameras on part of the A9 will begin on Monday. |
37,517,687 | The Football Association is searching for a new England boss following Sam Allardyce's departure after 67 days.
Asked about taking the job, Wenger, 66, said: "One day, if I'm free, why not?" Pochettino, 44, said: "Yes, why not? In the future."
Both said they are committed to their current clubs.
Allardyce, who replaced Roy Hodgson following England's disappointing Euro 2016, left by mutual agreement on Tuesday after the Daily Telegraph claimed he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
Allardyce won his only game in charge, a 1-0 victory over Slovakia in their opening 2018 World Cup qualifier in September.
England Under-21 boss Gareth Southgate will take charge of the senior team for the next four matches, including three World Cup qualifiers, starting with Malta at Wembley (8 October), Slovenia away (11 October), Scotland at home (11 November) and Spain in a friendly (15 November).
Southgate could be an option for the permanent role depending on his success, while Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe, Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew and ex-Hull City manager Steve Bruce have also been mentioned as candidates.
Frenchman Wenger is the longest-serving - and most successful - overseas manager in England, having won 15 trophies during his 20-year tenure at Arsenal, including three Premier League titles and six FA Cups.
Arsenal, who are unbeaten in eight games in all competitions this season, play Burnley on Sunday at 16:30 BST aiming for a fifth consecutive Premier League victory.
Pochettino has earned a reputation as one of the brightest managerial talents in English football.
The 44-year-old Argentine led Southampton to eighth spot in the Premier League in 2012-13 before moving to Spurs in 2014.
Last season, he took Tottenham back into the Champions League with automatic qualification from a third-placed league finish.
Burnley boss Sean Dyche, 44, ruled himself out of contention for the England job because of a lack of experience.
"If you want to build a chance of being good at that kind of level, you need more years and layers of experience," he said.
"In the future, who knows? Maybe. But at the moment I think there are people better placed than me."
BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty
The Arsenal manager's credentials easily outstrip those of the other candidates being touted as Allardyce's replacement.
At 66, Wenger might even share Allardyce's view when he was appointed that his age and experience make him the perfect fit for international management.
Wenger is the perfect next England manager with the ideal credentials and track record if the FA can formulate a plan to somehow attract him to what many now call an impossible job.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger and Tottenham counterpart Mauricio Pochettino say they are open to managing England in the future. |
37,829,906 | Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen tried to block the appointment to the justice committee following newspaper claims that Mr Vaz paid for the services of two male sex workers.
But his attempt was rejected in a Commons vote by 203 to seven.
Mr Vaz quit as chairman of the influential home affairs committee in September.
Electing MPs to vacancies on committees is usually uncontentious, with each party given a set allocation of places.
Labour put forward Mr Vaz and Kate Green for the two vacant places on the justice committee, which is chaired by Conservative Robert Neill. | Labour MP Keith Vaz has comfortably survived a bid to prevent him getting a seat on a House of Commons committee. |
32,245,884 | Mr Modi made the announcement at a press conference in Paris with French President Francois Hollande.
The deal is the fruition of years of negotiation, with India intent on buying 126 jets in total for an estimated cost of $12bn (£8.2bn).
Mr Modi said the deal was done after talks with Mr Hollande but that terms and conditions still had to be agreed.
He added that he wished to buy the jets ready to fly. This means that they will be built in France, not India.
The Indian prime minister is in France on the first leg of a three-nation tour which also takes in Germany and Canada.
Mr Modi will visit the World War One memorial and pay tribute to Indians who lost their lives fighting alongside France.
He will then head to Germany, where he will inaugurate one of the world's biggest trade fairs and told talks with leaders to boost trade ties.
In the third and last leg of his tour, Mr Modi will travel to Canada, marking the first standalone visit by an Indian prime minister in more than four decades. | Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi has announced the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. |
40,785,377 | Gallagher agreed a new three-year deal in 2016 but has opted to stand down in the wake of the 4-17 to 0-14 hammering in the All-Ireland qualifiers.
Fermanagh native Gallagher succeeded Jim McGuinness in 2014 having earlier served three years as his assistant.
Donegal were defeated by Tyrone in this year's Ulster semi-finals.
That put Gallagher's men into the second round of the qualifiers in which they saw off Longford, followed by a narrow 1-15 to 1-14 victory over Meath.
Donegal were then drawn to face Galway in Sligo and the manner of their defeat saw 38-year-old Gallagher come in for strong criticism.
The county board announced Gallagher's departure on social media on Monday night.
They thanked him for his efforts and said a full statement would follow. | Rory Gallagher has resigned as manager of Donegal's senior football panel - nine days after the county's crushing 15-point defeat by Galway. |
33,159,341 | The proposal will set out how Hong Kong will choose its next leader in 2017.
The package will for the first time give citizens the right to vote for the chief executive - but candidates will be vetted by a pro-Beijing committee.
That ruling sparked weeks of large-scale protests in the city by people calling for greater democracy.
Details of the package are expected to be presented by the government at 11:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Wednesday.
Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers look set to vote against the reforms despite warnings from the Chinese government not to do so.
If that is the case, it is unlikely to get the two-thirds majority it needs to pass.
"If the pan-democrats stubbornly insist on vetoing the proposal, democracy in Hong Kong will come to a standstill," Song Ru'an, a Chinese foreign ministry official in Hong Kong, told reporters.
It is unclear what China's response will be if the package is vetoed in the vote, which is expected to take place on Thursday or Friday.
Security has been stepped up across the city, with both pro-democracy and pro-government groups due to rally outside the government headquarters when the debate starts on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, China warned against "radical forces" in Hong Kong after police arrested 10 people on suspicion of making explosives.
Police said one suspect had claimed to be a member of a "radical local group" but would not name the group or specify motives.
Pro-democracy activists have accused police of launching a smear campaign against them. | Hong Kong's government is set to present a controversial political reform package on Wednesday ahead of a much-anticipated vote later this week. |
32,083,978 | The Unite and GMB unions said their members had shown strong support for holding a ballot.
Several oil and gas firms operating in the North Sea have announced plans to axe jobs and reduce salaries, following a sustained fall in the price of oil.
The two unions had said previously that talks with the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA) had failed.
The Offshore Contractors Agreement covers workers in mechanical, electrical and allied services, construction, maintenance, design, project engineering, fabrication and decommissioning.
Unite Scottish Secretary Pat Rafferty said: "This massive support for industrial action should come as no surprise to offshore employers.
"It's not too late to talk but the ball is in the employers' court."
GMB National Officer Dave Hulse said "Members have voted overwhelming for the go-ahead for an official ballot over the proposals from clients and contractors to change terms and conditions of employment.
"The vote quite clearly demonstrates the anger and frustration of our members employed in the offshore industry."
Bill Murray, chief executive of the Offshore Contractors Association, said: "The decision by trade union officials to go to industrial ballot over changes to shift and holiday patterns is disappointing.
"The need to make efficiencies and increase productivity in order to prevent further redundancies and prolong the life of the North Sea is well understood by the industry following a period of unsustainable cost inflation.
"Strike action would only serve to make investment in the North Sea less attractive and jeopardise the long-term future of the industry.
"We remain committed to working closely with union representatives and our members to find a solution." | North Sea workers are to vote on industrial action over jobs, pay and shifts. |
34,647,110 | Ann Barnes crashed in September 2014, raising questions as to whether the journey was for business and if she was adequately insured.
Tuesday's report said there is evidence an offence may have been committed.
The report has now called for all police and crime commissioners to have valid insurance for business use.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation was sparked after Mrs Barnes's Mercedes was in collision with another car in Princes Road, Dartford, on 16 September 2014. Nobody was seriously hurt.
It said: "It is the investigator's opinion that there is evidence upon which the IPCC Commissioner could determine that an offence of using motor vehicle without insurance on 16 September 2014, contrary to The Road Traffic Act 1998, may have been committed by Mrs Barnes."
The IPCC said Mrs Barnes had visited the Kent Police Safety Shop at Bluewater shopping centre and was on her way to a meeting at Dartford Borough Council.
The report said Mrs Barnes was a named driver for a car insured and registered in her husband's name. She later produced a valid certificate which defined her insurance cover as "social, domestic and pleasure" including "to and from a permanent place of work".
It added insurers Oak Underwriting said it had not paid out under a commuting clause but because it was a non-fault claim.
In February, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was not in the public interest to prosecute.
Responding to the report, Mrs Barnes issued a statement which said: "This issue was dealt with last February when the CPS, having reviewed the evidence supplied by the IPCC, took the independent decision not to charge me.
"I have fully co-operated with the IPCC's lengthy investigation, and I am pleased that the matter has finally been resolved."
But Kent and Medway's Police and Crime Panel criticised the IPCC for taking 13 months to complete the report and the five months it took the watchdog to interview Mrs Barnes.
It said the time taken meant the CPS had to take a decision on prosecution without further investigation.
The process had damaged the PCC, her office, and the administration of justice, the panel said.
It said it had sought an assurance from Mrs Barnes that she had set up a system to ensure she and her staff regularly proved they were fully insured when driving on business.
Politicians have questioned Mrs Barnes's future.
South Thanet Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay said the IPCC report followed controversy over Mrs Barnes's youth commissioner appointments, a Channel 4 documentary, and her vehicle nicknamed Ann Force One.
He said: "It really doesn't end. She's the PCC that keeps on giving. Thankfully we've got elections next year. I don't know if she's considering standing. I hear she might be.
"The people of Kent will have a choice as to who they want to be a rather-more-competent PCC to represent them."
Medway Labour councillor Tristan Osborne has called for Mrs Barnes to be transparent about her intentions to stand again in May.
He said: "After four years of PR disasters, I think it's time she does think about that very closely." | Kent's police and crime commissioner may have been driving without insurance when she was involved in a crash, a police watchdog report has concluded. |
32,585,636 | Omar Khadr, once the US prison's youngest inmate at age 15, was granted bail by a Canadian judge in April.
The Canadian government sought the emergency stay on Monday. Khadr could be released as soon as Tuesday.
Khadr, now 28, spent 10 years in the Guantanamo prison after being captured in Afghanistan in 2002.
The Toronto-born Khadr was released from Guantanamo Bay after a plea deal and sent back to Canada in 2012.
He is currently serving an eight-year sentence in Canada for war crimes including throwing a grenade that killed a US Army sergeant in Afghanistan.
Khadr, whose family had ties to Osama Bin Laden, has said he only pleaded guilty so he would be released from the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been critical of the judge's decision, saying the release would jeopardise relations with the US.
"We feel that Mr Khadr, until a final decision is rendered by the court, should stay behind bars," Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney told CBC News. | The Canadian government is seeking to block the release of an ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate as he appeals against his war crimes conviction in a US court. |
34,983,732 | Francis Santhio, 53, attacked 49-year-old Amelet Francis at her home in Toryglen, Glasgow, on 4 September.
The couple's eldest son discovered his mother's body and Santhio was later arrested after making a tearful confession to another of his children.
He faces a mandatory life sentence when he is sentenced at a later date.
The court heard that Sri-Lankan born Santhio and his wife had been married since 1989, but he later became estranged from his family.
He lived at a flat in the city's Govan area while his wife stayed in Toryglen with their three sons.
On the morning of the murder Santhio was seen approaching his wife at mass at a local church.
Later in the day, their eldest son got a call at work to say something had happened to his mother.
He immediately called her home and his father answered stating: "She can't speak - there has been an accident."
Their son rushed to the flat and discovered the door unlocked.
Describing the horror he eventually found in a bedroom, prosecutor Bruce Erroch said: "On looking through the door, he saw his mother on her back on the floor.
"She was covered in blood and suffering from an obvious head injury.
"He immediately thought she was dead and did not fully enter the room."
The son dialled 999, but paramedics could not save his mother.
After the killing, an emotional Santhio turned up at the school of one of his other sons.
He told him Amelet had fallen after he hit her and that she "could not get back up".
Santhio was soon detained by police near the scene.
On being told his wife was dead, he said: "She treated me like a slave. She retained my passport and kept my money."
The court also heard that, while on remand, Santhio called his daughter, who had not heard from him for two years.
He admitted he had got "angry" with Amelet and smacked her on the head with a weight.
Mr Erroch told the court Amelet suffered "multiple fractures to the skull" consistent with being hit with a "heavy object".
The court also heard Santhio had previous convictions including "instances of domestic abuse" towards his wife. | A man who bludgeoned his estranged wife to death with a dumbbell after moaning she had been treating him "like a slave" has admitted murdering her. |
28,317,790 | When Mr Juncker made an impassioned defence of the euro - "the single currency didn't split Europe... it defends Europe" - there were howls of derision from the UKIP benches. Nigel Farage weighed in saying that "nobody knew him" and that his name had "appeared on no ballot paper".
Shortly afterwards Marine Le Pen was telling the former Luxembourg prime minister, "You weren't elected by the people… we'll fight you and your institutions."
But this was political knockabout. Mr Juncker knew he had the votes. The Liberals ensured he got 422 votes, 46 more than he needed.
Today - perhaps - we saw the real Jean-Claude Juncker, not the emollient vote-seeker doing the rounds of the parliamentary groupings last week.
Firstly, he is passionate in defence of the single currency which he described as an "affair of the heart".
While some argue that yoking such disparate countries with the same currency has sowed division and paved the way to mass unemployment, he would have none of it. Without the euro, he said, countries were pitted against each other.
He was prepared to lie in its defence. "When things get serious," he said, "you have to know how to lie."
As Commission president he will legislate to "deepen our economic and monetary union".
Secondly he may be a conservative but, as Daniel Cohn-Bendit once remarked, Mr Juncker has been the "most socialist Christian Democrat". He told the parliament today that the internal market was not more important than social affairs.
He described himself as a champion of the social market economy - but he said it would only work with social dialogue. He called for a "re-industrialisation of Europe". He came across as an activist, interventionist president with an ambitious programme of investment, mobilising a 300bn-euro (£239bn; $408bn) war chest over the next three years to be invested in key projects.
He said the growth and stability pact - which limits deficits to 3% and debt to 60% of GDP - would not be altered but flexibility would be explored in order to boost growth. And mindful of the damage done by austerity in countries like Greece, he vowed that no bailout programme would be introduced without assessing the social impact in advance.
Last week and again today he insisted he was not a federalist and had never used the words "a United States of Europe" but then he eulogised another Commission president, Jacques Delors: "He is my friend, my mentor. He inspires me every day." Jacques Delors was one of the architects of the euro.
Mr Juncker will take up his new office in November full of ambition. He envisages
He comes across as pragmatic, a man who says he wants a fair deal for Britain but, inside, the fires burn brightly for the European project. He will not allow a watering down of the key pillars like the free movement of people which he regards as an integral part of the internal market. He is very much a man who sees himself as continuing to build the European home.
Whilst he was listening to the speeches, I saw Mr Juncker looking down at his mobile pone. At that moment my own phone announced that Lord Hill would be nominated as the UK's next EU commissioner. In fact Mr Juncker had been given the name the night before by David Cameron.
In Strasbourg almost no one had heard of Lord Hill. There was a desperate online search to define him. In the corridors of the European Parliament there was much shaking of heads. Why once again was it asked had Britain not put forward a big political hitter, a Neil Kinnock, a Peter Mandelson or a Chris Patten?
Some questioned whether it was a tacit acceptance in London that the UK would not land a top economic post like the internal market or trade.
It was being said in government circles that Lord Hill was a good political fixer, who had set up a PR business and who had ably been the leader of the House of Lords when the Conservatives did not have a majority.
Jean-Claude Juncker over the next two months will decide in consultation with the member states who gets what posts.
He will not want to do anything that pushes the UK towards an EU exit but neither will he compromise what he called today the "European dream". | In the end Jean-Claude Juncker's anointment as Europe's most powerful official came with moments of theatre. |
36,318,132 | The odds were already favouring a draw after Surrey's openers had batted out the final 45 overs on the third day.
And the south London weather had the final word when the game was abandoned in mid-afternoon on Wednesday.
Middlesex, who have now drawn all five County Championship games so far, take 10 points and Surrey nine.
Both sides are back in Division One action this Sunday, when Middlesex host Somerset at Lord's and Surrey head to Manchester to take on last season's Division Two title rivals Lancashire. | Surrey's London derby against Middlesex was called off as a draw at The Oval after bad weather prevented any play on the final day. |
36,689,608 | Britain voted by a margin of 52% to 48% to leave the EU - and the contenders to replace David Cameron as PM have all vowed make it happen.
But 22% of people polled for Newsnight said they don't know if it will, while 16% believe the UK will stay in the EU.
Ipsos MORI interviewed 1,077 people between Wednesday and Thursday.
The poll also suggests almost half of voters - 48% - agree there should be a general election before Britain begins Brexit negotiations so that people can vote on plans for life outside the EU.
It comes after US Secretary of State John Kerry suggested the UK might not follow through with its decision to leave.
The vast majority of those interviewed said they would not change their vote if the UK held a second referendum on EU membership.
But 5% of Leave voters said they would now change their vote compared to just 2% of Remain voters.
Results also show that more than half of voters do not believe their current government and MPs reflect the views of the British public towards the EU - including 67% of Leave voters.
And 59% of respondents said they were not confident in Britain's political leaders to get the best possible terms for Britain - rising to 76% of Remain voters.
Quizzed on two of the most contentious issues of the campaign - free movement and membership of the single market - marginally more voters favoured the UK continuing without restrictions on migration in return for continuing to trade in the single market.
A total of 42% of respondents said Britain should continue to allow EU citizens to live and work in Britain in return for access to the single market - including 18% of Leave voters.
But 38% of those polled said losing access to the single market would be a price worth paying for new curbs on immigration.
The overwhelming finding of the poll was that most voters are sticking to their positions - 83% of Remain voters now feel less hopeful for the future of the UK, compared to the 80% of Leave voters who are now more hopeful.
Interviews with adults aged 18-75 across Great Britain were conducted online. Data are weighted to match the profile of the population, and to the estimated relative vote share of this group in the EU referendum.
More on the polling and latest referendum fallout on Newsnight at 22.30 BST on BBC Two, and available on iPlayer in the UK. | More than a third of voters are not convinced the UK will leave the EU despite last week's referendum result, a poll for BBC Newsnight suggests. |
17,490,027 | Twentieth Century Fox and the British Film Institute (BFI) are working to digitally re-master the film, directed by Hugh Hudson.
The film tells the true story of two runners who compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics despite religious obstacles.
It will be shown at more than 100 cinemas around the country from 13 July as part of the London 2012 Festival.
Starring Ian Charleson and Ben Cross, the film won four Oscars, including best picture, screenplay and music for Vangelis' acclaimed score.
Although the film is 31 years old, producer Lord Puttnam believes the message is still relevant.
"Chariots of Fire is about guts, determination and belief. At the heart of the film is the quest for Olympic glory, and I find it hard to imagine anything more likely to resonate throughout the country this summer," he said.
The BBC's home of 2012: Latest Olympic news, sport, culture, torch relay, video and audio
The BFI is allocating £150,000 of its lottery funding to support the film's release across the country, widening its reach beyond the London 2012 Festival.
The festival will also feature a new film by Bafta-winning Senna director Asif Kapadia - The Odyssey - which will explore the relationship between London and the Olympic games.
It is the last of four short films commissioned especially for the festival.
Directors Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay and Streetdance directing duo Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini are already confirmed as part of the project. | Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire is to be brought back to the big screen ahead of this summer's Olympics. |
41,047,208 | A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 18 and 25 August. Send your photos to [email protected] or via Instagram at #bbcscotlandpics | All images are copyrighted. |
14,698,536 | Earlier, the powerful storm caused widespread destruction along the US eastern seaboard.
BBC News website readers have been in touch sharing their photos and experiences of the storm.
The hospital where I'm due to deliver was evacuated so it was a little nervewracking.
I was anxious that if I did go into labour, what we would do.
I'm having some Braxton Hicks and getting some of those pre-labour pains.
We haven't lost power so we've heard from our parents in Hertfordshire and in Kent.
My two-year-old son Alex is going a little stir crazy because we haven't been able to go outside for the last 24 hours.
I'm really looking forward to being able to take him outside and let him run around and let off steam.
We're still not allowed to get in our cars and we have been notified that we still may lose power due to the rising floodwaters.
I am British and moved to New Jersey four years ago. I am a volunteer member of the emergency medical service for our town.
This video was shot at around 09:00 on Sunday and shows some wind damage, but mostly severe flooding in Englishtown.
The water level of the lake is normally 4ft below the roadway. As you can see the level is well over the roadway causing severe flooding for about one mile.
Because this road bisects the township, ambulances are unable to travel to both sides.
Last night, an ambulance was stationed on the south side, and that is the ambulance I am with. The north side has had six calls, and we have had four.
These calls have ranged from cardiac, to water rescue from trapped cars.
The gutter to my house has been completely destroyed and there is partial damage to the roof.
In addition, both my car and my neighbour's cars have been damaged. I got partial flooding in the basement too.
Despite all this, no-one has been injured in my neck of the woods.
I think I'll be stuck at home for a week because the emergency crews came to remove the fallen tree but they didn't succeed.
I was meant to fly out this morning, but now I'm stuck here until Thursday.
I walked from East 24th Street to 9th Street just now. There's plenty of rain but only random gusts of strong wind.
I saw a few broken branches.
There were still pigeons and sparrows loitering.
No public transport, and very few cabs around. It's very quiet, most shops are closed.
Irene is just getting started with us now. Trees are falling everywhere.
Utility crews are already hard pressed in New Haven just getting tree limbs out of the way.
Roads are blocked and our house is shaking. The temperature is very warm.
Yesterday, my daughter went to the shops to stock up - the price of water has doubled in the last couple of days.
Thursday late night I bought bottles of water after New Jersey declared a state of emergency. They were the last bottles of water on the shelves.
Friday early morning was spent trying to locate flashlights as I had only recently moved back to New York from London, UK.
It took me three stores to find, as it was sold out.
I also purchased easy cook food and essentials in case the electricity was cut. I spent 45 minutes in a line that extended from the entrance of Wholefoods in Columbus circle to the checkout.
I live on the 33rd floor so gusts are powerful up here. The rain is coming down consistently hard. There's low-ceiling cloud cover so you can't even see the top of the Metlife building.
Last time I checked from my window I only saw police cars on West 34th Street, which never happens. It's one of the busiest streets in Manhattan 24/7.
There is not much I can do right now. I've prepared the best I can. It's now up to fate - wrong place at the wrong time.
I have a flashlight and candles ready in my bathroom in case of a tornado warning, or if my window caves in from the strong winds.
I'm a college student and I'm up late reading the news. It's overwhelming. The wind and the rain has started really picking up.
As far as taking precautions, we have stocked up on food and candles.
We are not too close to low-lying areas near the shore so we're not too worried but we did park our car further into the drive as the road had started to flood.
This is my first time I've witnessed anything like this. The street was blanketed with a sheet of water.
It is tense. It's amazing - the wind.
The New Jersey governor has 6,000 electricians ready to fix down power lines but I don't think that's going to be enough given the damage that is bound to happen.
It could be as much as three weeks that power may be down.
Overall state and local officials have been doing a good job to get people prepared for this - but this is a new experience for us.
I have been up all night. I'm really worried about the rain which has come down since 14:00 yesterday.
I live in north-west Philadelphia so we don't have flooding yet. About five minutes away I heard there was some flooding but the city is taking care of it.
In north-east Philadelphia the local stations say there was some power out and we have a tornado warning out.
I stocked up before the weekend. I live with my uncle and we normally have radios and batteries, so when people were losing their minds trying to get some we already had that.
Even on a good day you don't know what is going to happen.
I remember Hurricane Floyd in 1999. We've been caught in the tail end of storms before but this is just ridiculous.
Last week we had the power out several times, then the earthquake, and now this. The road outside is just mud - 12 hours straight of rain.
The houses we live around here are Victorian, so my neighbours and I should be OK. There may be some flooding in the basement.
The biggest problem could be trees falling. | Hundreds of thousands of evacuated New Yorkers are being allowed back home after fears of major flooding due to Tropical Storm Irene have subsided. |
26,633,586 | A brass-bound "magic" lantern and more than 100 photographic slides, that were bought from a rag-and-bone man had been valued at between £800 and £1,200.
The lot sold at Newcastle's Anderson and Garland auction house for £6,200.
Scott's 1910-1913 voyage was the first polar trip to be visually recorded. The photographer returned home early but every other team member died.
Seller Michael Wilson said it was "just stuff I've hoarded over the years".
Mr Wilson inherited the pieces from his father, who bought them for half a crown - equivalent to 22.5p.
"It was just like another toy but it was educational as well," he said. "It was interesting so it was always kept over the years.
"I think when you're a hoarder, you just can't help yourself.
"I've told myself I'm not going to buy anything else until I've cleared out everything that needs to go."
Scott wrote in his journal at the time that he would have "cinematograph and photographic record that will be absolutely new in expeditionary work".
The slides' original negatives were shot by travel photographer Herbert Ponting.
Ponting returned from the expedition early in 1912, while the remaining team ran out of food and perished.
A spokeswoman for Anderson and Garland said the sale went "very well".
She said the lot attracted wide interest, with a UK buyer putting in the winning bid.
Fragments of a coffin and robe purported to belong to St Cuthbert, which were also due to be auctioned during the three-day fine arts sale, were withdrawn.
Anderson and Garland would only say the estate's executors had removed the item. | Memorabilia from Captain Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition has sold for almost five times its valuation. |
19,817,336 | Pietersen, 32, has signed a new four-month England contract but must undergo a "reintegration" period before he returns to the side.
Vaughan also believes Pietersen must "behave better" than he did during a controversial summer, adding: "England are lucky to have him, but the team will want actions."
Pietersen was dropped from the national set-up in August for sending "provocative" text messages to opposing players during the Test series against South Africa.
But the Surrey player, who now has a central contract which could be extended until September 2013, apologised to ex-captain Andrew Strauss and the ECB accepts the texts were not derogatory about the former captain.
Speaking to the BBC, Vaughan said Pietersen deserved a second chance ahead of the forthcoming Test series in India, but needs to repair his fractured relationship in the dressing room.
"Most of it is down to Kevin Pietersen - probably 80% of it," added Vaughan. "The issue is, can Kevin Pietersen be allowed back in that dressing room?
"Now he has got a four month trial period and the only way to find out is to go into the dressing room, make a speech, get round with some of the players he has had issues with, and have a beer.
"He needs to iron it all out because you want to see the best players playing. The way he speaks to the team, media conferences and statements are just words, the team will want actions. They will want to see how he behaves and how he is around the players.
"I do believe people do deserve a second chance, particularly in this case. Pietersen back in an England shirt will be a good thing in the long run.
In some ways, the Pietersen situation is similar to the Carlos Tevez soap opera last season. Just a few months after his manager said he would never play for Manchester City again, Tevez came back and played a vital role in the team winning the Premier League.
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"If I was [captain] Alastair Cook I'd want Kevin Pietersen batting at number four, but I'd want him to be in a better state of mind and I'd want him to behave better than he did in the summer towards the team."
Pietersen's new central contract will cover all forms of the game, while the decision over an extension - to make it a full-year contract - will be made by team director Andy Flower, who will also decide when the "reintegration" process is complete.
Matthew Hoggard, who played alongside Vaughan and Pietersen for England, said: "I sat down with Kevin Pietersen in Australia in 2006 I think it was. There were things that Kevin was doing that I didn't really like so I sat down with him over a beer in a bar and said 'look Kev, I don't agree with this, that and that, we need to have a chat'.
"We had a chat and we came out of that bar with a lot better feelings, a lot better friends and got on with that. I think that's what needed to happen two months ago."
Former England bowler Angus Fraser told BBC Sport: "Everyone will be looking around to see how he gets on with the players and what sort of environment it's creating in the dressing room.
"Clearly there were incidents that took place and you could tell by the language some England players used that they weren't enjoying his presence in the dressing room and were quite happy when he wasn't there. They will have to change their tune now.
"The real balancing act that Andy Flower has got to look at is the positive effect Kevin Pietersen can have because of the way he bats and the runs he scores, weighing that up against it having any detrimental effect on other players."
England legend Sir Ian Botham told Sky Sports that the matter should have been sorted out "months ago".
"He knows he made a mistake but it has dragged on," said the former all-rounder. "It's going to be difficult for both parties and in the dressing room he will have some work to do. But he's a world class player and everyone wants a world class player on their side." | Former captain Michael Vaughan says Kevin Pietersen must "make a speech and have a beer" with his team-mates if he is to be accepted back into England's dressing room. |
34,835,823 | Today's revolution for women is knowing exactly when to expect your period, according to Ida Tin, co-founder and chief executive of the reproductive health tracking app Clue.
Although Clue is not recommended as a contraceptive, the app tracks a woman's cycle, and can predict, not only fertility and menstruation, but also related symptoms such as mood swings or PMS (premenstrual syndrome).
As is the case with many good business ideas, Ms Tin's inspiration came from personal experience.
"Our reproductive health is an incredibly foundational and central part of our lives," she says.
"I was around 30 and I wasn't on the pill, because it didn't work that well for me. I was wondering why nobody had built a really good tool to manage this part of life."
She adds: "Clue is all about empowering women. It allows women to make better individual health decisions, and to improve their overall well-being."
Ms Tin, 36, knows from experience how empowering it can be, for a woman, to take things into her own hands.
Before she founded Clue in Berlin in 2012, she spent five years running a business in her native Denmark which organised motorcycle tours around the world.
Ms Tin also wrote a best-selling book about her motorcycling exploits in far flung parts of the planet.
Ms Tin runs Clue with her co-founder and partner Hans from an open plan loft office in the German capital.
Although the business is only three years old, more than two million women in over 180 countries now use Clue, which Ms Tin says is the world's fastest-growing menstrual cycle tracking app.
She says: "We don't have a typical app user. It is a group as diverse as women are on this planet.
"A lot of girls and women are using Clue because they want to know themselves and their bodies better.
"Some women are using Clue because they're trying to get pregnant, others to get reminders to take their birth control pills, or to share their data with a doctor."
The app is free - and hasn't made the company any money yet.
However, Ms Tin hopes that it will start to generate revenue within the next few years, and is continuing to explore the best ways of doing so.
She appears to have the confidence of her investors, as Clue recently raised $7m (£4.6m) of funding from venture capital firms Union Square Ventures, which is based in New York; and London's Mosaic Ventures. This brings the total Clue has secured to $10m.
The cash is being used to expand Clue's team of 22 full-time staff, develop new features for the app and increase the number of users.
Clue is the latest addition to an increasingly crowded market place. So the search is on for ways of distinguishing itself from the competition.
Right from the start Ida was determined that the app should not be "pink" or "girly".
So the design is gender neutral - and the company is at great pains to stress the scientific nature of the way the app works.
Users have to regularly enter information into a calendar. Topics range from menstruation to motivation, and from sex drive to appetite.
According to the company, the more information you put into the app the more accurate it is. And the firm works closely with doctors and reproductive health scientists to ensure that accuracy.
When it comes to the daily running of the business, Ms Tin encourages staff to work flexibly, so as to balance their work and family lives.
"Reaching the right balance between family and work is not only a personal responsibility and choice for both women and men." she says. "It's also a company's responsibility."
The needs of Ms Tin's two children are built into her busy daily schedule. She drops her five-year-old son Elliot at kindergarten each morning, before bringing her one-year-old daughter Eleanor to the office.
Ida happily describes the toddler as an "office baby".
"It's not always easy to balance a family and a company" she says, "but I'm a very stubborn person and I am just not willing to have to choose between the two.
"It has to be possible to have a family and work on something I deeply care about."
On the day that the latest tranche of money from investors hits the company's account, there's a quiet celebration in the office.
Ms Tin is clearly excited about what the money means for the future of her young company.
"I want to build a platform for women's health data," she says, "so women can get deep insights about their body."
She raises a glass of champagne in thanks to her staff, her daughter Eleanor cradled in one arm.
There's a real symbolism to the moment - a woman with big hopes for the future, balancing her twin loves - her family and her business. | The contraceptive pill revolutionised sexual and social behaviour in the 1960s. |
35,338,395 | The US Presidential candidate must be treated the same as anyone else making anti-Muslim remarks, the ex-SNP leader said, and a ban would "do him good".
MPs will debate a petition on Monday urging action against Mr Trump after he called for Muslims to be denied entry to the US on counter-terrorism grounds.
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Trump should be able to visit the UK and see the contribution made by Muslims.
The tycoon's call for a temporary ban on Muslims, which he made in response to the deadly shootings in San Bernardino in December, were criticised across the political spectrum in the US and Europe.
He caused further anger by claiming that areas of London and other parts of the UK have become so radicalised that they have become no-go areas for the police.
Despite the political backlash, Mr Trump is still leading several opinion polls in the race to be the Republican candidate for November's election ahead of the first primary contest next month.
Mr Trump, who owns the Turnberry golf course among other assets in Scotland, has threatened to cancel £700m of planned investment if he is blocked from returning to the UK.
But the former Scottish first minister, who once courted Mr Trump but whose relationship with him has deteriorated in recent months and who has been involved in a war of words with the tycoon, said he believed there were grounds for excluding him.
"What should happen is that the home secretary should consider Donald Trump's remarks in the same way as she consider the remarks of hundreds of other people and she should do it with exactly the same criteria.
"My view is that, yes, I would probably ban "The Donald" because it would do him some good. He wants to ban all Muslims from the US. I want to ban all Donald Trumps from Scotland."
The UK home secretary has the power to ban people from entering the UK on grounds of national security, if they are thought likely to incite racial hatred or if they are deemed not to be "conducive to the public good".
Theresa May has banned more than 200 people since 2010, according to figures published last year, although she has declined to comment on whether Mr Trump could be added to the list.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has joined prime minister David Cameron in opposing a ban, telling the BBC that although Mr Trump's views were "weird and off-the-wall", he would benefit from seeing first-hand how Muslims were treated in the UK and their contribution to British society.
"I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems with Muslims," he told the Andrew Marr Show.
"As you know my wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multi-cultural so what I was going to do was go down to the mosque with him and let him talk to people there."
He added: "I don't think we should ban people from coming to Britain on that basis. I think he should come here and have a lesson in going to all our cities. Why can't he go to Leicester, Birmingham and Newcastle and see that we have great diversity in our society."
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36,354,998 | The Scots trailed 26-15 with 30 seconds left but Edinburgh wing Dougie Fife scored twice - the second in added time - to clinch a thrilling 27-26 win.
Scotland upset England 17-0 in the quarter-finals before beating USA 24-17 in the semis to reach a first final.
Fiji secured the overall title by reaching the last eight in London.
"It is just an unbelievable feeling," said Fife, 25.
"This team have come a long way and we believe we can beat anyone on our day. I think we surprised a few people today."
Scotland's previous best finish in a World Series event was fourth.
Their squad included three of the five Scots - Jamie Farndale, Scott Riddell and Mark Robertson - named in a 25-man Great Britain squad for the Olympics.
That GB squad - which includes Glasgow centre Mark Bennett and another Scotland Sevens player, Gavin Lowe - will gather on 30 May for an intensive seven-week training block to compete for the 12 places available for the Rio Games.
South Africa grabbed an early lead in the final via Seabelo Senatla but tries from Farndale and captain Scott Wight saw the Scots lead 10-7 at half-time.
Converted scores from Roscko Speckman and Cecil Afrika put South Africa in control at 21-10 before Scotland's James Fleming made it 21-15.
Speckman's second try appeared to have sealed it, but Fife, who has won six Test caps for Scotland, pounced with 25 seconds left.
Then, after South Africa failed to retain possession at the kick-off, he sprinted over again in added time to clinch a dramatic victory.
"It has probably not sunk in yet," said captain Wight. "We were a long way behind in the final, but we stuck to task and got there in the end."
England, who topped their pool after wins over Fiji, Australia and Wales, were beaten 35-10 by New Zealand in the Plate semi-finals after their last-eight loss to Scotland in the main event.
"Today is very tough to take," said head coach Simon Amor. "Scotland are a good team and you can't afford to give them time and space with the ball.
"They moved us around brilliantly, we couldn't get our hands on the ball, and in sevens possession is everything."
Wales lost all three pool matches on Saturday but won the Bowl final 24-19 against Australia, after earlier wins against Kenya in the quarter-finals and Canada in the semis. | Scotland snatched a first World Sevens Series title with a last-gasp victory over South Africa in the London Sevens final at Twickenham. |
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