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40,957,867 | Fast forward to present day: now, the Philippines wants Chinese cash.
What happened? Well in part there is a genuine dilemma here for the Philippines.
It's a small island country, stuck on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific, surrounded by much larger, powerful nations.
The Philippines' main source of income and military assistance has been from its former colonial masters, the United States.
It also has a large population to find jobs for, and urgent infrastructure projects to fund, none of which it can do on its own.
So the Philippines is left playing a hedging game between the US and China - the world's old superpower and the new.
Despite competing claims in the South China Sea, Manila is now softening its stance in a bid to woo investment from Beijing.
"At this point it is very important for us to build confidence in each other," Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez told me in an interview in Singapore.
"We are not abandoning any claims [in the SCS] but the President thinks that this is the time to be more friendly rather than contentious."
But it wasn't always such a cordial relationship.
As recently as 2014, Chinese investment into the Philippines was worth a paltry US$42m, a fraction of what Beijing has invested in the rest of the South East Asian region - in part due to the suspicion many in Manila had over Beijing's motivations.
The new-found friendship that has blossomed under President Rodrigo Duterte is no doubt helped in part by the massive chequebook China has to finance the loans he needs to implement his "build, build, build" policy that is expected to cost US$180bn over the next six years.
As part of this new strategy, Secretary Dominguez also told me that the Philippines is launching a US$200m bond issue to China for the first time in October, to try and tap investment in the country.
But investment from China never comes without strings attached, I pointed out to him - and the list of Asian countries that have taken loans from Beijing only to find themselves unable to pay these debts back is growing fast. Is the Philippines next?
Secretary Dominguez was quick to dismiss such concerns.
"We think Chinese loans can be beneficial to us, particularly if we negotiate them in a clever manner," he told me. "Nobody is forcing it down our throats."
It's an argument I've heard from many Asian officials who privately have told me that the money from Beijing is too good to ignore, and are convinced that they will be able to exploit the relationship to their own advantage.
But it's also a dangerous path to tread.
"There are a lot of cautionary tales around the region of countries that come out on the losing end," Maria Ressa, chief executive of the Rappler website and long-time Philippines observer told me.
"The Duterte administration acknowledges that we are weaker, but that we also have something to offer China. They're trying something new - but are they really as clever as they say they are? We will have to wait and see."
For now though, it does look like China has the upper hand.
Beijing's One Belt One Road initiative, a massive infrastructure project across most of the world has also convinced many Asian partners that China's interest in them is for the long term.
Meanwhile, increasingly Asian countries feel that their traditional ally, the US, has become unreliable since Mr Trump was elected. Even if they won't say it publicly, the shift in economic and business strategy is revealing.
"Our business with the US will continue, but not be as big a part of the economy as the past," Secretary Dominguez told me. "We used to have only American cars in the sixties….now we are seeing Chinese motorcycles. We have to move with the times."
China's cash may come with its own set of unique complications but the view from here is at least it's paying attention to what Asia needs. | Two years ago the Philippines was entrenched in the bitterest of disputes with regional giant China, bringing a David v Goliath-style case against it over the South China Sea islands. |
12,813,228 | A bid was submitted last year by supporters who say the industry has shaped the social, political, economic and cultural landscape of Wales.
A World Heritage Site is chosen for its outstanding universal value to culture, history or science.
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan said heritage status would boost tourism.
Gwynedd's slate industry is one of the final 11 contenders announced by UK Tourism and Heritage Minister John Penrose to form the new tentative list for potential nominations for the status.
The 11 sites have been whittled down from 38.
Nominations from the list will be submitted from 2012 based on the strength of their case.
Mrs Gillan said the slate industry had played a dominant role in shaping the landscape and economy of north Wales since the 19th Century.
"Tourism is vitally important to the north Wales economy," she said bringing in up to £1.8bn of income to the region and supporting around 37,000 jobs.
'Global significance'
"Heritage status would help show the world just what Wales has to offer - from areas of outstanding beauty to dramatic industrial heritage."
Gwynedd council leader Dyfed Edwards said: "I am delighted that the government has recognised the global significance of the Gwynedd slate quarrying industry, and am now looking forward to working with Gwynedd's slate communities and our partners to develop our submission to Unesco."
The entire process of being selected for world heritage status can take between five and 10 years.
The bid must now move onto a nomination list where it will be assessed by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
If successful, the application is then judged by the World Heritage Committee, which meets once a year to decide which sites will be inscribed on the world heritage List. | Efforts to win World Heritage Site status for north Wales' slate industry have been boosted after it was put on a UK shortlist for potential nominations. |
40,887,520 | Peter Wrighton's body was found on Saturday near Fiveways Junction, three miles south of East Harling in Norfolk.
An inquest heard he had been stabbed repeatedly and died from "incised wounds to the neck".
Detectives want to trace three men who were seen around the woodland near the time Mr Wrighton was attacked.
Updates on this story and other Norfolk news
CCTV images have been released of Mr Wrighton, of The Moor, Banham, using a post office in Kenninghall at 10:10 BST, just 35 minutes before his body was found in the woods.
The drive between the post office and the woodland takes at least 10 minutes. He was found dead at 10:45 BST.
No-one has yet been arrested, and the murder weapon has not yet been found.
At a news conference on Thursday afternoon, Det Supt Andy Smith described the investigation as "large-scale, complex and detailed".
He said officers were appealing specifically to three men who police are yet to trace as potential witnesses.
The first is white, in his 50s, with pale skin and grey or white hair balding on top. He was believed to be wearing heavy-rimmed glasses and light-coloured trousers, and was seen in The Street changing into a white T-shirt.
The second man is white with a tanned complexion, aged 25 to 30, 5ft 9in to 5ft 11in, with an athletic build, short, dark wavy hair and dark eyes.
He was wearing a grey or blue T-shirt, grey floppy gym-style shorts above the knee and heavy duty flip-flops. He was seen within the boundary of the woodland site which police are searching.
The third man is described as a white male, aged 30 to 50, of medium build, who wore dark-coloured clothing and was seen walking without a dog in the northern area of the heath.
An inquest into the death of Mr Wrighton, of The Moor, Banham, opened in Norwich and adjourned for a review on 14 December.
The hearing, at Norfolk Coroner's Court, was told Mr Wrighton was a retired BT engineer who was born in Tottenham, London.
His body was formally identified by his wife Ann at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on Tuesday.
A post-mortem examination recorded the medical cause of death as "incised wounds to the neck".
Mr Wrighton's family and his wife of 59 years described him as "a lovely, gentle husband, dad and grandfather".
He had a "kind nature" and had a "love of walking his dogs and chatting with people to pass the time of day", his family said. | Police investigating the murder of an 83-year-old dog walker who was attacked in woodland have released descriptions of three "vital" potential witnesses. |
35,787,095 | The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled that Dr Waney Squier had given irresponsible evidence outside her area of expertise.
Dr Squier, 67, based at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, disputed the existence of "shaken baby syndrome".
She said she was "devastated" and stands by her evidence.
The MPTS considered her work as an expert witness in six cases, including the deaths of four babies and a 19-month-old child.
In each case, Dr Squier, a paediatric neuropathologist, gave evidence stating the injuries were not consistent with non-accidental injury, or were more likely to have been caused by other means.
Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
But the panel found she misrepresented research to support her views and had brought the reputation of her profession into disrepute.
Her minority view on shaken baby syndrome was in contrast to the opinions of the majority of experts in the field, who argue the so-called triad - swelling of the brain, bleeding between the skull and brain and bleeding in the retina - is a strong indicator of abuse.
The panel heard Dr Squier disagreed with those opinions unless there was other evidence of external or internal injury.
In her evidence, she was "dogmatic, inflexible and unreceptive to any other view" which led her "to misrepresent and 'cherry-pick' from the literature", it said.
After the finding, Dr Squier said: "I've done my best to give an opinion based on my experience, based on the best evidence I can find to support my view."
She added that it was "backed by many, many people who are cleverer than I am, who are scientists".
Opening the case last October for the General Medical Council (GMC), Tom Kark QC said Dr Squier's conduct was affected by her "preconceived and blinkered approach".
He said: "She failed in her overriding duty to the court to remain objective and to assist the court."
Mr Kark added that among those misled would have been the families and other parties to litigation - the judges, lawyers and the other experts.
In most of the cases, Dr Squier - who had not actively worked in paediatrics for more than 40 years - was the sole expert instructed on one side of the litigation.
The panel was told she had given evidence in between 150 and 200 cases since the mid-1990s involving either medical negligence or cause of deaths in early months and years of life.
The hearing has been adjourned until next Monday, when the panel will consider whether Dr Squier's fitness to practise is impaired because of her misconduct.
Analysis: Dominic Hughes, BBC News Health Correspondent
This case reflects a wider, bitter row within the scientific community over the signs associated with babies that have been subject to violent shaking.
The majority view is that a combination of three brain injuries - known as the triad - must be present: swelling of the brain, bleeding between the skull and the brain, and bleeding in the retina.
Dr Squier holds a minority view that these injuries can occur in other ways, for example through a baby suffering injuries while falling over.
Having once been an expert witness for the prosecution, Dr Squier switched to the defence team.
Her friends argue she is now subject to a witch hunt. But an independent panel has found she overstepped the boundaries of what is expected of an expert witness.
Panorama: Shaken Babies: What's the Truth? on Monday 14 March at 20:30 GMT on BBC One. | A leading doctor who was an expert witness for parents accused of killing their children has been found to have misled courts. |
38,759,164 | The midfielder, 32, was taken off on a stretcher in the 76th minute of the 2-1 loss at the Emirates Stadium.
"It doesn't look like a quick one. He is waiting to see the specialist today [Thursday] so we should know more after that," Dyche said.
Marney has made 21 appearances this season, and scored one goal.
The former Tottenham and Hull player also suffered cruciate knee ligament damage in February 2015. | Burnley's Dean Marney will be out "long term" after suffering a cruciate knee ligament injury in Sunday's defeat at Arsenal, manager Sean Dyche confirmed. |
15,193,433 | Microsoft, which last bid in 2008, joins a host of other companies which are considering buying Yahoo, one of the internet's best-known brands.
China's giant internet company Alibaba has already said it might buy Yahoo.
Rumours of a bid from Vodafone also pushed shares in Blackberry maker, Research in Motion, 12% higher.
Yahoo shares jumped 10.1% to close at $15.92 and Microsoft shares ended 2.2% higher at $25.89.
Yahoo's current market value is $20bn (£13bn), compared with Microsoft's previous bid of around $45bn.
Neither party has made any official comment.
Microsoft is said to be divided as to whether it would make sense to mount such a bid.
Reasons in favour include the ability to beat AOL as a competitor by creating a stronger web portal.
Microsoft already has an agreement with Yahoo involving its Bing internet search engine, which powers Yahoo's search but gives 88% of advertising revenue back to Yahoo.
Combing the two could give Yahoo 30% of the US search market, according to analysts.
According to the latest figures from research firm comScore, Google has 64.8% of the US search market, Yahoo has 16.3% and Microsoft 14.7%.
But Yahoo is seen as lacking in growth potential.
Early last month, Yahoo fired its chief executive in a row over the company's future direction.
It said last month that it had received "inbound interest" from a number of parties.
Sid Parakh, analyst at fund firm McAdams Wright Ragen, told the Reuters news agency: "There are many reasons why this thing probably makes sense.
"If you strip out the variety of assets Yahoo owns, you are pretty much paying nothing for the core business." | Shares in the internet portal firm Yahoo have leapt 10% on rumours that Microsoft is considering a second attempt at a takeover. |
22,702,176 | By the end of last year, 141,569 shotguns were held on certificate along with 72,005 firearms. Those figures represented a 10-year high.
The number of licences issued by the end of 2012 was 48,168, which represented a 10-year low.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said the weapons belonged to people who "had a legitimate reason for owning it".
He also made a fresh plea for responsibility for firearms to be devolved to Scotland, as he said it was "still cheaper to buy a firearms licence than a TV licence across the UK".
The figures from Scotland's chief statistician showed that there was an increase in the number of registered firearm dealers in Scotland to 353, a 2% increase on the previous year and the highest total for the last decade.
A total of 1,149 applications were made for a new firearms certificate last year, with all but 12 of these granted.
Meanwhile, 1,926 applications were made for a new shotgun certificate, of which 38 were refused.
Mr MacAskill said: "Scotland's police work extremely hard to make firearms owners aware of their responsibilities and at having the right procedures in place to prevent firearms from being used in criminal ways.
"However, firearms legislation remains reserved and it is still cheaper to buy a firearms licence than a TV licence across the UK.
"While I welcome the moves to tighten this legislation over recent years, there is no doubt that devolving this area will give the Scottish government the powers to better control the number of lethal weapons in society and thereby help to protect and reassure the Scottish public." | Scotland has fewer people with firearm licences but they own more guns, the latest statistics have shown. |
36,560,159 | Lyle Zimmerman, who moved from the US in 2001, was attacked by Muhiddin Mire at Leytonstone station on 5 December.
The medical researcher said he felt "spectacularly lucky" as a doctor was passing-by and thanked a man and woman who kept Mire away.
Mire, 30, was found guilty of attempted murder at the Old Bailey this month.
Mr Zimmerman, 57, was on his way to play with a band when he was attacked.
"I remember being struck a few times... being kicked, covering my head up with my arms and then the picture goes blank so I assume he must have kicked me hard enough to knock me out.
"I don't have any recollection of the knife or having my throat cut, the next thing I do remember is about five minutes later being on the stairs back up to the platform being attended to by an off-duty GP who was miraculously passing," he said.
He felt "spectacularly lucky - the knife apparently broke on my neck; there was a doctor wandering by".
As the doctor attended to him, a man and a woman confronted Mire.
"These guys are extraordinarily brave - both the man and the woman who verbally engaged and got him to move away from me and the doctor."
Mr Zimmerman said he was determined that the attack would have a "trivial" effect on him after a doctor in the hospital where he was treated said he had "life-changing injuries".
"I remember cheerily waving my hand from the hospital bed and saying: 'No I don't, I'm determined not to let this change my life'."
Mr Zimmerman said he had decided to speak out in the wake of the latest mass shooting in the US, when a lone gunman killed 49 people in Orlando.
He said Mire would have claimed many victims if gun control in the UK had not been so strict.
"I feel more free from the threat of lethal violence, even though somebody apparently tried to remove my head," he added.
Mire will be sentenced on 27 July. | The man whose neck was slashed by an Islamic extremist at an east London Tube station has said he is "determined not to let this change my life". |
37,451,667 | Former owner Dicky Evans has returned as a director as part of a £1.5m 're-capitalisation' of the club, which includes a tie-up with the Chiefs Super Rugby franchise.
"The club was in great danger of going under," Evans told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"I wouldn't have let it, no matter what happened, because my heart is in the club."
Evans, who saved the club from bankruptcy in 1990s, left in the summer of 2014, but agreed to remain a sponsor for the next two seasons.
This summer, after his sponsorship ran out, the club were forced to part company with director of rugby Ian Davies in a cost-cutting measure and operate with a smaller playing squad.
However, Evans, New Zealand-based Cornish businessman Colin Groves, shareholder Martin Hudson and former England player Martin Haag have all joined the Pirates board, with chairman Ian Connell among three directors stepping down.
"We had a situation where I had to come back to help fund the club going forward.
"We've got a good plan and a good club going forward and I've never felt more excited about the Pirates," Evans continued.
"I won't be putting as much money in as I did before, the money I put in before was just sponsorship, the money that goes in now is in terms of a shareholding.
"I'm putting in quite a lot of money this year, we've got to survive."
Under the plans, the Waikato-based Chiefs will provide commercial and coaching assistance to the Pirates.
"The Chiefs have a strategy to build four worldwide international partnerships, we've got two already, one in Japan and one in south east Asia, so it's a natural thing to develop one in the UK," said chairman Dallas Fisher.
"There's am lot of similarities between Waikato where we're based and Cornwall and we're very excited about the opportunity to put something together.
"We're working on finalising a high-performance partnership with the Chiefs which would see coach swaps and the exchange of rugby intellectual property.
"The aim is the have that in place so we can start exchanges in May next year."
Evans has also hinted that former Pirates coach Chris Stirling could return to the club.
Currently the high performance manager of the Hurricanes Super Rugby franchise in Wellington, Stirling coached at the Mennaye between 2008 and 2012, taking charge of the side from February 2009 until his departure.
"He said if the time is right and there's a possibility, we could actually take it forward," Evans added.
"Chris is a superstar and the boys would love to have him back. There is a real possibility that Chris could come back." | Cornish Pirates were in danger of going out of business before new funding was agreed for the Championship club. |
32,388,102 | Kazi Islam, 18, is accused of grooming 19-year-old Harry Thomas to buy ingredients for a pipe bomb and to kill two soldiers.
He used "flattery and threats" to incite Mr Thomas, the Old Bailey heard.
Mr Islam, from Newham, east London, denies preparing to commit acts of terrorism.
Prosecutor Annabel Darlow QC said Mr Islam had befriended Mr Thomas in October 2013 by pretending to sympathise with him over a break-up with a girlfriend.
He went on to encourage Mr Thomas to kill a soldier by telling him stories about innocent children being murdered by military forces, she told the court.
A series of exchanges on BlackBerry Messenger and social media sites were uncovered when police raided the house in east London where Mr Islam lived with his family, jurors were told.
In the exchanges, he encouraged Mr Thomas to buy the component parts of an improvised explosive device - referring to it in code as "cake", the court heard.
The Old Bailey was told Mr Islam's attempt to keep his plans covert failed when Mr Thomas replied: "cake? U mean the b o m b [sic]."
The court also heard how Mr Islam repeatedly praised the actions of those who had murdered Fusilier Rigby in Woolwich in May 2013 and actively encouraged Mr Thomas to take the life of one or more soldiers.
One message read to the court said: "When I give you the order I want you to kill a soldier..2 soldiers..not yet though."
Mr Islam allegedly asked Mr Thomas if he would carry out an attack similar to the one in which Fusilier Rigby was killed, asking him to "get a meat cleaver or a kitchen knife".
The Old Bailey heard that while Mr Islam was arrested in August 2014 and later charged, Mr Thomas was not arrested since a search of his home and examination of his electronic devices found nothing to incriminate him.
Mr Thomas will not be giving evidence as a witness in the trial.
Ms Darlow said: "As the messages between Harry Thomas and the defendant expose all too clearly, Thomas was a vulnerable, not particularly bright young man who was desperate to impress Islam and to try and forge some sort of friendship with him.
"Islam ruthlessly exploited to the utmost Thomas' vulnerability and obvious wish to try and ingratiate himself with Islam."
She added: "Rather than risk his own neck by going out and trying to assemble the necessary component for a bomb, he tried to exploit others - Thomas in particular - to buy the components for a bomb."
The case continues. | A teenager "ruthlessly exploited" a vulnerable young man in a plot to carry out a killing inspired by the death of Fusilier Lee Rigby, a court has heard. |
38,459,446 | Aya Parker died in the early hours of Sunday morning despite the efforts of police and paramedics at a property in Britton Gardens in Kingswood, Bristol.
Lee Parker, 33, of Britton Gardens, appeared before Bristol Magistrates' Court on Thursday to face the murder charge.
He was remanded in custody to appear before the court again on Friday.
Mr Parker was charged on Wednesday.
At the short hearing, no details about the case were given and he was not asked to enter a plea.
Chair of the bench Louise Perkins told Mr Parker that his case would now be dealt with by the crown court. | A man has appeared in court charged with murdering his six-month-old daughter on Christmas Day. |
39,624,823 | Toyota driver Jose Maria Lopez was taken to hospital after crashing into the barriers at Silverstone, forcing the team to make lengthy repairs.
However, Buemi made a move on Brendon Hartley with 12 minutes remaining to secure Toyota's 11th WEC win.
Porsche took the second and third spot in the season's opener.
The second round of the competition will take place at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on 4-6 May. | Briton Anthony Davidson and Toyota team-mates Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima won the first round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. |
33,776,388 | The 12-metre inflatable stopped cars on a busy road after strong winds had ripped the yellow giant loose from a nearby fairground.
No one was injured with one local calling the incident "a bit of fun".
The police, with the help of passers-by, eventually managed to let the air out of the yellow inflatable and took it away in a wheelbarrow. | A giant minion has been causing chaos in Dublin, Ireland. |
36,550,033 | Members of the country's largest teaching union, the EIS, have voted overwhelmingly for a work to rule.
Their concerns are related to the work linked to the new school qualifications.
Education Secretary John Swinney said: "The result of today's ballot is disappointing albeit on what appears to be a low turnout."
He added: "Given that we are addressing the issues of teacher workload, industrial action in our schools would not be in the interests of anyone, least of all pupils and parents. "
The union said members voted in favour of action by 95% to 5%.
The work to rule will be targeted at the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) - there is no suggestion of school activities being affected.
Possible action might include refusing to provide cover for colleagues absent on SQA business and not attending SQA seminars and sticking to working time agreements on any work associated with developing the qualifications.
The union said it would be issuing guidance to members immediately over what they should stop doing.
Earlier this week, the Scottish government called on unions to come up with ideas for cutting the workload.
General secretary Larry Flanagan said: "Scotland's secondary teachers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action against the severe workload burden that has been generated by the Scottish Qualifications Authority.
"This ballot result reflects the frustration of Scotland's secondary teachers over the excessive assessment demands being placed on them and their pupils, particularly around unit assessments at National 5 and Higher; and the EIS now has a very clear mandate to implement an immediate work-to-contract in relation to SQA activity."
Mr Flanagan added: "The target of this industrial action is both SQA bureaucracy and excessive internal unit assessment, with its associated workload burden for teachers and unacceptable assessment pressures on students.
"It is not our intention that this action should impact directly on pupils, and teachers will continue to teach classes normally and to assess pupils' work.
"We will be issuing guidance to our members advising which SQA-related activities they should withdraw co-operation from, and which activities teachers should continue to undertake as normal."
Mr Swinney said that he and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon were already taking steps to tackle bureaucracy and "free up teachers to teach" and were considering further measures.
These included creating a working group, involving the teacher unions, to focus on what more needed to be done to embed the new qualifications and to reduce assessment workload.
He said the chief inspector of education had written to schools with guidance on national expectations on qualifications and assessment that would further reduce unnecessary workload on teachers and provide clarity.
"Schools have a responsibility to apply this guidance, which will directly assist in reducing workload." he said.
"The concerns raised by teachers are being addressed - but we recognise there is more to be done to free up our teachers to teach for the benefit of all in our education system."
A spokesman for the SQA said: "We are disappointed the EIS has decided to take this action, particularly when we have taken steps to alleviate teacher workload without compromising national standards and maintaining the integrity and credibility of the qualifications.
"The priority of the entire education system is to work together to ensure the best possible learning opportunities are provided to our young people. We are deeply concerned that, as a result of this action, these opportunities could be jeopardised." | Secondary teachers in Scotland are set to take industrial action over their "excessive" workload. |
38,259,945 | It saw the Englishman, who dropped out of the world's top 10 last month for the first time since winning the Green Jacket in April, climb into tied third.
Spaniard Cabrera-Bello carded a 65 to lead on 11 under par, three shots ahead of Australia's Sam Brazel in Fanling.
England's Tommy Fleetwood is alongside compatriot Willett at six under par.
Willett, who pulled out of the World Cup of Golf last month with a back injury, holed six birdies to move up the leaderboard.
"It's nice to be in this position after the last few months," said the 29-year-old. "I came out here probably as fresh as I've been for a month and a half."
Fellow Englishman and defending champion Justin Rose finished the day on one under par and said he had been worried about missing the cut until he rolled in three late birdies.
"I was on plus one halfway through the back nine. From that point, you're aware of the cut line and it was nice just to get it," said the Olympic gold medallist. | Masters champion Danny Willett shot a four-under-par 66 to move five strokes behind leader Rafa Cabrera-Bello at the Hong Kong Open on Friday. |
40,785,906 | Chris Long went close to putting the visitors ahead when his long-range drive was saved by keeper Matt Ingram.
But the hosts went in front through Ngbakoto when he fired home on the rebound from Darnell Furlong's header.
Northampton almost equalised with 10 minutes remaining, but Leon Lobjoit's header was cleared by Ryan Manning.
Match ends, Queens Park Rangers 1, Northampton Town 0.
Second Half ends, Queens Park Rangers 1, Northampton Town 0.
George Smith (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Michael Petrasso (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George Smith (Northampton Town).
Attempt blocked. Matt Crooks (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Ilias Chair (Queens Park Rangers).
Matt Crooks (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Darnell Furlong (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leon Lobjoit (Northampton Town).
Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yaser Kasim (Northampton Town).
Attempt missed. Leon Lobjoit (Northampton Town) left footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Nedum Onuoha.
Attempt blocked. Aaron Phillips (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by George Smith.
Attempt blocked. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ilias Chair (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Conor Washington (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Darnell Furlong (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Smith (Northampton Town).
Attempt blocked. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) header from more than 35 yards is blocked.
Attempt saved. Ryan Manning (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Jack Robinson (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy Waters (Northampton Town).
Substitution, Northampton Town. George Smith replaces David Buchanan.
Attempt missed. Michael Petrasso (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Leon Lobjoit (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Nedum Onuoha.
Attempt missed. Conor Washington (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Aaron Pierre.
Attempt blocked. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Michael Petrasso replaces Idrissa Sylla because of an injury.
Delay in match Idrissa Sylla (Queens Park Rangers) because of an injury.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by David Buchanan.
Attempt blocked. Darnell Furlong (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Leon Lobjoit replaces Chris Long.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Marc Richards replaces Alex Revell.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Chris Long. | Yeni Ngbakoto scored the only goal of the game as Queens Park Rangers beat Northampton Town in the EFL Cup first round. |
32,954,918 | Media playback is not supported on this device
The Belgium international, 24, arrived in Glasgow on Sunday to become manager Ronny Deila's first summer signing in a deal worth around £1.5m.
Boyata made six appearances for City last season but was unable to secure a regular first-team place.
Speaking to Celtic's website, he described the Scottish Premiership champions as "a very big club".
Since moving to Manchester to be part of City's youth squad in 2006, Boyata had loan spells at Bolton Wanderers and FC Twente between 2011 and 2013.
His only senior cap came as a substitute against Austria in 2010.
Boyata will effectively replace countryman Jason Denayer, who is returning to Manchester City after a season-long loan, while Deila is keen to keep Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk.
"The manager came to see me in Manchester and I spoke to him about having me here and all the ideas he had for me playing for the team," added Boyata.
"So I was very pleased with his plans and from that point I thought that moving to Celtic would be a good idea and we tried to do everything right for me to move here." | Celtic have signed defender Dedryck Boyata from Manchester City on a four-year contract. |
40,480,405 | The military offensive has led to the destruction of some drug gangs, splits within others and the emergence of new groups.
With widespread corruption and impunity exacerbating Mexico's problems, there is no end in sight to the violence.
Which are the most powerful cartels today? And who is behind them?
Founded in the late 1980s, the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has long been considered Mexico's most powerful criminal organisation.
Having outfought several rival groups, the Sinaloa cartel dominates much of north-west Mexico and makes billions of dollars from trafficking illicit narcotics to the United States, Europe and Asia.
However, the cartel's future is uncertain after Guzmán was recaptured in 2016 following two daring prison breaks. He was extradited to the US in January and now awaits trial in New York.
Sinaloa's strongest competitor is its former armed wing, the Jalisco New Generation cartel. Formed around 2010, the Jalisco cartel has expanded rapidly and aggressively across Mexico and is now challenging Sinaloa for control of strategic areas, including Tijuana and the port of Manzanillo.
The Jalisco cartel is blamed for a series of attacks on security forces and public officials, including downing an army helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade in 2015. Mexico's Attorney General Raul Cervantes recently declared it the nation's largest criminal organisation.
Guzmán's latest arrest created a split within the Sinaloa cartel, fuelling rising violence in the region.
On one side are Guzmán's sons, Ivan Archivaldo and Jesus Alfredo. On the other side, his former associate Dámaso López Núñez, alias "El Licenciado", and his son Dámaso López Serrano.
Guzmán's son were kidnapped at a restaurant in Puerto Vallarta last year but released days later. López Senior was among the suspected culprits. Guzmán's sons also accused him of leading them into a near-fatal ambush in February.
López Senior was arrested in Mexico City in May. The cartel leadership remains under dispute.
Guzmán's older brother Aureliano is another influential figure vying for control, while Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, alias "Chapo Isidro", has emerged as one of the cartel's powerful local adversaries.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, an elusive veteran who ran the Sinaloa cartel alongside Guzmán, is one of the Mexican government's primary objectives.
Aged 69, Zambada is nearing retirement but is said to retain strong influence behind the scenes. Mexico offers a 30 million peso (£1.2m) reward for information leading to his capture.
Ruben Oseguera, alias "El Mencho", the head of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, is another of Mexico's most wanted kingpins. A former police officer and avocado vendor, he is the subject of a two million peso (£82,000) bounty.
Rafael Caro Quintero, the founder of the now-defunct Guadalajara cartel, is the DEA's most wanted fugitive. Convicted of the abduction, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, he served 28 years of a 40-year sentence in Mexico before being released after a court ruled he should have been tried in a state rather than a federal court.
The US state department offers rewards of up to $5m (£3.8m) for information on Caro Quintero, Zambada or Oseguera.
In eastern Mexico, the Gulf cartel and their fearsome former allies Los Zetas have been weakened by killings and arrests of top leaders, leading to splits within both groups.
In western Michoacán state, the pseudo-religious Knights Templar and La Familia cartels have been largely vanquished by vigilante groups, although the region remains contested by their remnants and several newer gangs.
To the north, the once mighty Juárez, Tijuana and Beltrán-Leyva cartels have all been weakened by Sinaloa cartel offensives.
Mexico's criminal landscape has grown more fragmented since then-President Felipe Calderón sent the army to combat the cartels in December 2006.
The government succeeded in capturing or killing the leaders of the biggest cartels, but this led to many smaller and often more violent gangs springing up in their place.
Without the capacity for transnational drug trafficking, these gangs deal in kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, illegal logging and mining, and stealing oil from government pipelines.
The level of violence dropped after the election of President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2012, but it has shot up dramatically in the last two years, with 2017 on course to be the worst year on record.
Activists and journalists are routinely murdered, while corruption and impunity remain rampant.
The legalisation of marijuana in parts of the US has driven Mexico's cartels to push harder drugs like methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. This has fuelled an epidemic north of the border, with over 33,000 Americans dying from opioid-related overdoses in 2015, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Mexico's cartels are notorious for their extreme violence. Beheadings and torture have become commonplace over the past decade.
Victims are sometimes hung from bridges or dissolved in barrels of acid. Some cartels post graphic execution videos on social media to intimidate their enemies.
Mexico registered 188,567 murders from December 2006 until May 2017, according to government records.
With 2,186 murders, May was the most violent month since records began in 1997.
More than 30,000 people are classified as disappeared. | More than 200,000 people have been killed or have disappeared since Mexico's government declared war on organised crime in December 2006. |
36,906,554 | Developing such a treatment is one of the biggest challenges in medicine.
But serious scientific questions remain as the drug - LMTX - inexplicably works only in patients not taking other dementia pills.
The data on 891 patients was presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Toronto.
Overall, the trial - which treated patients for 15 months - was a flop, as there appeared to be no benefit to taking LMTX.
However, an analysis on just the 15% of the patients who had not already been taking drugs to help manage their symptoms showed a benefit.
In this tiny subset of patients, tests showed thinking power was maintained and MRI scans found the death of brain cells was reduced.
Yet there are certainly too few patients in the sub-group to be certain of the drug's effect.
Dr Serge Gauthier, the director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit at McGill University in Canada, said: "It is both encouraging to see improvements of this magnitude in the standard cognitive and functional tests and reassuring to see the supporting brain scan evidence of a slowing in disease progression.
"In a field that has been plagued by consistent failures of novel drug candidates in late-stage clinical trials and where there has been no practical therapeutic advance for over a decade, I am excited."
Even the company that manufactures LMTX, TauRX, cannot explain why it might work only in patients not taking other dementia drugs.
Dr David Reynolds, the chief scientific officer at the Alzheimer's Research UK charity, told the BBC News website: "It does worry me as a scientist why it doesn't work with other therapies."
Possible explanations include:
Dr Reynolds added: "The data suggests it is slowing down the disease, but the important caveat is these small numbers.
"It is encouraging, but we need more data and will have to run a study with it as just a monotherapy [on its own].
"It will still be a years from reaching patients even assuming it works."
The drug targets one of the key characteristics of Alzheimeir's disease - the build of of tangles of the protein tau inside neurons.
It is thought these tangles may be the final stage that leads to the death of brain cells.
The study was eagerly awaited as it was the first to present large-scale data in patients on a drug that prevents tau tangles building up.
Dr Doug Brown, director of research and development at the Alzheimer's Society, said: "While it's disappointing to see another large clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease fail to meet its goal, there appear to have been some striking improvements for the subset of people who took the drug on its own.
"After years of failure, we are now starting to see glimmers of hope for dementia drug trials.
"The headway being made through research is starting to give a real sense of the possibility that we could one day stop dementia in its tracks." | A drug appears to slow the brain's death and preserve mental function in patients with Alzheimer's disease, a study shows. |
36,761,227 | The Dons initially toiled to get the better of the Latvian side, but Stockey bulleted in a cross from Jonny Hayes.
Within five minutes Adam Rooney's left foot shot made it two.
And a minute after coming off the bench for his debut, on-loan Bristol City winger Burns headed in a third.
The Latvians offered little other than a half chance in the opening 45 minutes, and the win means the Dons will head to the Baltics confident they can finish the job.
McInnes's side were keen to exorcise the ghosts of Luxembourg and last week's shock loss to Fola Esch, and they almost grabbed the lead inside three minutes as Kenny McLean headed a Hayes cross over.
However, there was an anxiety about the Dons after that with their Latvian visitors happy to sit in and frustrate with loose balls and an inconsistent referee irking the home fans.
Indeed Ventspils missed an opportunity to plunder an away goal when centre half Nikita Kolesovs sliced an effort well wide after goalkeeper Joe Lewis flapped at a well driven corner.
Hayes and Rooney combined with the latter firing wide with the ball just behind him, before Graeme Shinnie was unlucky to see his effort saved by Maksims Uvarenko in the tie's first save of note.
Niall McGinn was a driving force for the hosts and almost opened the scoring from a well struck free-kick just after half-time though it was well saved by Uvarenko.
Ventspils offered little and if anything, appeared inferior to Fola with little invention or ambition.
But whilst the score-line was blank, the doubts remained.
That was until McInnes rolled the dice, sending Stockley on for McLean and within seconds he headed a Hayes cross home at the far post.
The lead was doubled five minutes later as the tireless Rooney calmly rolled home into the bottom left.
McInnes was visibly keen for more and the potential tie-killer arrived in the first minute of injury time as Burns scored almost instantly upon his arrival from the bench.
It was a beautiful reverse header from a McGinn corner and the young Welshman was no sooner arriving at Pittodrie on loan from Bristol City than he was taking the acclaim of the home crowd. | Jayden Stockley and Wes Burns scored their first goals for Aberdeen as Derek McInnes' side saw off Ventspils in the Europa League second round qualifier first leg at Pittodrie. |
33,047,047 | His party, AKP, is meeting to try to form a government after losing its majority in a general election for the first time in 13 years.
It secured 41%, a sharp drop from 2011, and must form a coalition or face entering a minority government.
Mr Erdogan has called on all parties to "preserve the atmosphere of stability" in Turkey.
"I believe the results, which do not give the opportunity to any party to form a single-party government, will be assessed healthily and realistically by every party," Mr Erdogan said.
The AKP is now likely to try to form a coalition, but no party has yet indicated it is willing to join forces with it.
Opposition parties may yet try to form a coalition against the AKP.
But Numan Kurtulmus, one of Turkey's four deputy prime ministers, said there would be no government without representation by the AKP.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is meeting AKP cabinet members and officials to assess the election results in Ankara.
After the official final result is declared, he will have 45 days to form a government.
Mr Kurtulmus said another election was possible.
This is potentially a new political era in Turkey.
The AKP still won this election, with over 40% of the vote - a share of the vote that parties in any democracy would crave.
It still has a substantial power base, mainly of the more religious, conservative Turks, who feel liberated by the party and the president.
But the AKP's dominance, the one-man political show that has played out in Turkey for 13 years and polarised this nation, has just taken a very big kick.
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The result is a blow to Mr Erdogan's plans to boost his office's powers.
He had been seeking a two-thirds majority to turn Turkey into a presidential republic.
The pro-Kurdish HDP crossed the 10% threshold, securing seats in parliament for the first time.
"The discussion of executive presidency and dictatorship have come to an end in Turkey with these elections," said HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas.
Kurds, women, gays put faith in upstart Turkish party
On Monday morning, the Turkish currency fell to near-record lows against the dollar, and shares dropped by more than 8% soon after the Istanbul stock exchange opened.
The central bank acted quickly to prop up the lira by cutting the interest rate on foreign currency deposits.
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32,383,695 | Dumfries and Galloway Council has already lodged a formal objection to Wind Prospect's plans on moorland at Stranoch, near New Luce.
Developers say it could produce enough electricity to meet the needs of more than 40,000 homes.
The council has expressed its concerns about the cumulative impact of the scheme on the area.
The public inquiry, at the North West Castle Hotel in Stranraer, is expected to last three days.
It will be conducted by a reporter appointed by the Scottish government. | A public inquiry is set to get under way into plans for a 24-turbine wind farm in south west Scotland. |
26,823,346 | Georgia Williams was strangled in a sexually motivated attack by Jamie Reynolds in Shropshire last May.
He was cautioned by West Mercia Police after trying to strangle another teenage girl in 2008, but not charged.
Georgia's mother Lynette called on the watchdog to mount a full investigation.
She said she believed her daughter could still be alive if police had been more thorough during their earlier dealings with Reynolds.
The IPCC said it felt the public interest was best served by West Mercia Police investigating the complaint.
If the family had concerns with the outcome, an appeal could then be made to the IPCC, it said.
The force referred its handling of previous incidents involving Reynolds, 23, to the IPCC in January "with the strong recommendation that an investigation be carried out".
But this month the IPCC - which can mount its own investigation, order an internal case or call on a different police force to investigate - referred the complaint back for it to be handled internally.
Reynolds, branded a "sexual deviant" by a judge, lured Georgia back to his home in Wellington, Shropshire, before he committed her "carefully planned" murder.
In December, a court was told at the time of his arrest, he had 16,800 images and 72 videos of extreme pornography on his computer.
Ordering Reynolds to spend the rest of his life in jail, Mr Justice Wilkie said he accepted a psychiatric assessment of him that found he "had the potential to progressing to become a serial killer".
Mrs Williams, whose husband Steven is a detective with West Mercia Police, said officers should have realised Reynolds was dangerous after he attacked his first victim.
She said: "In 2008, Reynolds mirrored an attack basically that he committed on Georgia in that, he lured a girl round on the pretext of helping him out with a project and then there was a violent attack where he attempted to strangle her.
"Thankfully, she managed to escape, but it has traumatised her and it has totally changed her life."
Both Georgia's family and Reynolds's earlier victim lodged complaints with West Mercia Police over its "poor" handling of the incident, Mrs Williams said.
She said: "As parents, we feel that had it been investigated properly, we wouldn't be in this situation.
"I did get very angry with the police because I felt that if they had dealt with it properly in 2008 everyone would have known about his past, they would have known what he was like with girls.
"Obviously, I wouldn't have let Georgia anywhere near him.
"The young girl that was attacked has put in a complaint as she feels she wasn't dealt with properly at that time and ever since - she was interviewed initially, then that was it she had no other contact with the police.
"His [Reynolds] stepdad did actually go up with more evidence, some photographic evidence that he had found on his computer, and that was presented to the police and that was never acted upon."
The photos were of two girls with nooses superimposed around their necks and a photograph depicting pornographic scenes of a man raping, strangling and killing a girl, she said.
Mrs Williams said photos of Georgia's older sister Scarlett were also found on his hard drives.
Mrs Williams said: "I want the police to change how they view these attacks, I want police officers investigated properly, which is why I want the IPCC to do it, not another force."
IPCC commissioner Derrick Campbell said he had given the complaint "careful consideration".
"I have decided that the public interest is best served by West Mercia Police demonstrating that they are capable of conducting an open, fair and transparent investigation into this matter," Mr Campbell said.
If the force's investigation identified any misconduct "one would expect suitable action to be taken," he added.
"Following a local investigation the complainants will, if dissatisfied with the investigation, have a right of appeal to the IPCC and if necessary the IPCC will be able to direct further investigation," Mr Campbell said.
West Mercia Police said it was deciding how best to proceed with its own investigation.
"We take the concerns around these previous incidents very seriously and following the outcome of our referral to the IPCC we are reviewing their recommendation and how this investigation will progress," a spokesman said.
A separate independent review is also being conducted into various agencies' involvement with Reynolds before the murder. | The mother of a murdered teenager has criticised an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) decision not to investigate police contact with her killer. |
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As Labour meet for its annual conference in Brighton, the Shadow Scottish Secretary spoke to BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme.
He said: "My position on Trident has not changed - I will not support the renewal of Trident.
"My party leadership has changed, my party is changing, the Scottish party is changing - my view on Trident has not changed. I will not vote to support it.
"I have had the view for a long time, Jeremy [Corbyn] holds that view.
"If we all supported the same position it would make democracy a much less important part of British life. We should welcome the debate."
During the interview, the MP for Edinburgh South defended comments by Mr Corbyn - the party's UK leader - who said the SNP administration in Holyrood had "privatised CalMac", and was also "behind the privatisation of ScotRail".
Mr Murray said Mr Corbyn was raising a good point about "how we do things" and that "key pubic services should stay in public hands". | Scotland's only Labour MP Ian Murray has reiterated his opposition to the renewal of Trident, despite it remaining official party policy. |
24,173,324 | The building, in Boxford, Suffolk, is thought to have been in use as a shop since the early 15th Century.
It closed as a village store at the start of the year due to a change in ownership, but the building's post office counter remained open.
The Boxford Stores name has been retained as the premises reopens as a delicatessen and green grocers.
Roger Loose, treasurer for the Boxford Society, said there was evidence in church wardens' accounts the shop had been in continuous use since 1528 when it was rented to a butcher called Thomas Rastall.
It had also been a drapery and household goods shop in the 19th Century.
"It probably was a shop in the early 1400s, but we have found no documentary evidence of that," he said.
"The chances are that it was left to the church in a will."
The grade II-listed building on Swan Street was bought earlier this year by Lawrence Mott, who teamed up with local egg farmer Robin Windmill.
Mr Windmill said: "There are some others in the UK that claim the oldest shop title, but this is certainly one of the oldest.
"It needed a bit of freshness and quality and customers have told us what they wanted and we'll flex and do what they want us to do."
Julian Fincham-Jacques, chairman of Boxford Parish Council, said: "After years of uncertainty, this is great news.
"We were worried we could lose the post office, but now the store is re-opening, it looks as if the future of the post office is secured as well.
"There is a shop opposite which also sells groceries, but competition should be healthy and we hope there's room for both of them." | A shop, believed to be one of the UK's oldest, is to re-open after being revived by a couple of businessmen. |
37,050,277 | Daniel Mark Kelley from Llanelli has been accused of blackmail and money laundering.
He has also been charged in connection with an attack on a college computer system, which later affected coursework submissions and exam administration at Coleg Sir Gar, Llanelli.
He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 12 September.
Police from the Tarian Regional Cyber Crime Unit said he has also been charged with blackmailing an Australian company's employee on four occasions after allegedly exploiting vulnerabilities of the company's website to access confidential customer information.
He is also accused of blackmailing a Canadian employee with emails and phones calls to his home after allegedly hacking into private data.
He has been bailed ahead of the court appearance. | A 19-year-old man from Carmarthenshire has been charged in connection with international computer crimes. |
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The 30-year-old Briton will retain his world number one ranking for now, because Novak Djokovic was forced to retire from his match against Tomas Berdych later on the same day.
But what should Murray and his injured hip do next?
Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker explains how top tennis stars cope with advancing age and chronic injury - and why we should not give up hope of seeing the Scot manage a third triumph on Centre Court.
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The next Grand Slam is the US Open, from 28 August. Murray, the 2012 champion, lost in the quarter-finals in New York last year. Before then, he is scheduled to play at ATP tournaments in Montreal from 7 August and Cincinnati a week later.
Becker: Andy Murray's defeat should not be seen as the beginning of the end of his chances of winning another Grand Slam. Absolutely not.
I think what has happened so far this year has actually proved that, the older you get, the better you are - look at Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, what Serena Williams was doing and what Venus is doing now. They are all older than him.
Age is only a number, but you only have one body. Andy has to look after his.
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He has got to think long-term, not worry about making the US Open - if he is moving there like he did at Wimbledon, then he won't win it anyway.
So, the worst thing that can happen if he skips New York is that he misses one Grand Slam - that doesn't matter, because the Australian Open is around the corner at the start of 2018.
His ranking should not be a concern either. Again, he will not defend it if he is not healthy, so he should just forget it.
He has been there and done it and he does not have to prove anything anymore that he is good enough to be number one.
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Rafael Nadal pulled out of the French Open in May 2016 with a wrist injury and did not play again until the Rio Olympics in August. He won his 10th title at Roland Garros earlier this year. Roger Federer missed the final five months of 2016 to recover from his knee injury but returned to win the Australian Open in January.
Becker: With this injury, there are limitations to Andy's movement. There are some players who depend more on their serve who can get quick points, but Andy relies on his speed and footwork, which are an integral part of his game.
That is why he needs to be 100% fit. It's no good for him to be 75% - yes, he is maybe good enough to get to the quarters, like he did here, but he is the number one in the world and he enters tournaments to win them.
The Tour is a gruelling schedule and I would give the same advice to Novak too - rest.
They should both look at the examples of Rafa and Roger. Look at what they have done since coming back fully fit.
Nadal struggled last year with injuries, so he took some time off to get fully fit and look what a year he is having.
So maybe that is a lesson learned for Andy and Novak to really take care of their bodies - take their time and get healthy, and don't play when they can't.
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Murray admits he has managed his hip condition since he was 22. He has also suffered from chronic back pain that affected him earlier in his career, and he had surgery on an injured disc in 2013. Djokovic revealed after his Wimbledon exit that his elbow has been bothering him for more than 18 months.
Becker: Injuries are part of tennis. Most players have niggles and pains right through the year and usually you are able to manage them with the physios and recovery schedules you are given.
But in Grand Slams you play longer matches and there is more chance they can flare up.
I understand why Andy played Wimbledon, because it is his number one tournament every year, and he was also the defending champion. He was desperate to make it work.
I was always the same. In hindsight, I should not have played some of my matches but, in the heat of the moment, I always wanted to play the next round or the next event.
But you run the risk of doing yourself more serious damage if you play on, and that happened to me. I had my struggles with certain injuries, especially with my right ankle, and I am paying a heavy price today.
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Andy is now at the point where he needs to be really honest with himself because if he can't run, he can't play.
It looked bad for him on Wednesday but he probably does not know yet what is going to happen next.
I credit him for not wanting to use the hip injury as an excuse for his defeat but he needs to get a couple of opinions from doctors before he thinks about coming back.
Becker won Wimbledon twice as a teenager in 1985 and 1986. His last Grand Slam victory was the 1996 Australian Open at the age of 28. He retired at the age of 32 in 1999.
Becker: Turning 30 is a milestone for a tennis player but it is not a reason to be injured more. That is down to the amount of tennis you play, and how you deal with your injuries.
The attractions for me when I was unable to play were always the same - every week brought another tournament and more ranking points, and of course you want to get back to doing something you love.
I am sure Andy is the same - that desire to keep playing tennis is not his problem, but I think emotions are the wrong things for him to follow right now. He has to follow logic and just think about the rest of his career.
As you get older it does get harder to come back. If it is a new injury every year then it is manageable. If it is the same injury for a number of years, then eventually it can affect your mind-set - and that is the crucial thing here.
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In my experience, your motivation changes with age. It cannot be the same at 30 as it was at 20, and you cannot have the same motivation to win Wimbledon again when you have already won it once, because the second time is not the same.
You have to find different ways to stimulate yourself, because ultimately that is what prolongs your career and means you keep coming back.
Look at Roger Federer, who is playing the best tennis ever at the age of 35 because he has got everything right in the rest of his life too.
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The four players left in the men's singles have won a total of 19 Grand Slam titles between them. Seven-time Wimbledon champion Federer has won 18 of them - Marin Cilic, who won the 2014 US Open, is the only other major winner left in the tournament.
Becker: Roger will never admit it but he is the clear-cut favourite now.
But, having said that, the Wimbledon semi-final is never easy because your opponent has won five times to get there and is full of confidence.
Tomas Berdych will have nothing to lose when he plays him, and for Roger things are different this year.
No man has won eight Wimbledon titles and I think history is as much of an opponent for him as any of the players left in the tournament.
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In the other semi-final, I would give the edge to Cilic over Sam Querrey, because he has won a Grand Slam before and it just feels like his number has come up this year.
Cilic had gone out in the quarter-finals here in the past three years, so he has been knocking on the door for a while, and he has eventually gone through. | Andy Murray's defence of his Wimbledon title ended with him limping to defeat in his quarter-final against Sam Querrey on Wednesday. |
37,407,540 | But when it comes to the top academic jobs they stand accused of failing to give women a fair chance.
In the UK, only 24% of professors are women, even though half of lecturers are women. There are even fewer female university heads, with women accounting for 18% of vice chancellors or principals.
This isn't unique to the UK - a report from the United Nations shows a similar pattern of a lack of female professors across universities in the United States, Japan, China, Brazil, France and South Africa.
Elizabeth Nyamayaro, senior adviser to UN Women, says there needs to be direct intervention to change this, including the controversial idea of imposing quotas.
"There is a need to be pro-active, otherwise it will never happen," she says.
The UN identifies 10 "impact champions" trying to resolve this gender gap - including Paul Boyle, vice chancellor of Leicester University.
Prof Boyle has a target for a 1.5% increase each year in women professors, with the aim of having 30% of professorships held by women by 2020.
"I'll be frank, if we felt we could go faster than that we would," says Prof Boyle.
Other universities are going for bigger increases from lower starting points. The University of Hong Kong will use "compulsory diversity" in its shortlists to almost treble the proportion of women in dean-level positions from 9% to 26%.
The University of Nagoya in Japan will have women-only jobs, with the aim of a 75% increase in senior faculty positions, but only up to 20%.
But why is there such a huge gap in the first place?
Dame Athene Donald, professor of experimental physics at the University of Cambridge, blames a "subtle blend of cultural expectations".
This includes women not aiming high enough and a lack of relevant mentors to support their ambitions.
They can also face bias, "unconscious or otherwise", she says.
Prof Donald, who was her university's gender equality champion, says this might not be overt prejudice, but a corrosive form of "holding women to a different standard".
She has seen "appalling references" for female academics, using words such as "feisty", which would never be used to describe a man.
"It's a system that expects more of a woman than a man," she says.
Prof Donald also believes "blokeishness" among undergraduates is getting worse rather than better, with a "lad culture" of excessive drinking and online sexism.
Ms Nyamayaro, who runs a UN project to engage male support for gender equality, says part of the problem has been that the gender gap has not been presented as everyone's responsibility.
"It's been seen as a women's issue, lead by women and for women. We haven't done a good job in engaging the other half of society," she says.
Another practical obstacle for women academics is that they are more likely to have career breaks to raise a family, disrupting the trajectory of promotions.
Leicester University is adjusting the selection process to address this.
"At the moment we're not judging the CVs and the backgrounds of people fairly, we're not taking into account that women are more likely to have had breaks in their career," says Prof Boyle.
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The number of academic papers and research grants are "often taken as a pretty strong measure of your academic credibility".
Prof Boyle says this can work against women who might have produced less work, but of a higher standard.
"We're working with interview panels to prioritise quality over quantity," he says.
He argues this isn't positive discrimination, but a fairer way of choosing candidates.
But he also says "expectations" can play a part in who gets the top jobs.
"It's driven by the personal expectations of men and women and by the expectations of those who are assessing them."
But Prof Donald says she is "nervous" about the use of quotas. Women who are appointed can face the accusation that they only succeeded because of their gender.
"It's not healthy to feel that might be how you got the job."
But what makes the lack of female professors even more glaring is that universities have an increasingly female population.
The problem at undergraduate level is the shortage of male applicants.
The head of the Ucas admissions service, Mary Curnock Cook, this summer made the remarkable forecast that if present trends continue "girls born this year will be 75% more likely to go to university than their male peers".
This also raises another and unknown part of the current professorial gender gap. Is it a time-lagged, fossilised reflection of the peer group who entered academic jobs 30 or 40 years ago, in a much more male-dominated era?
Two of the world's most famous universities - Harvard and Oxford - have their first ever female heads. In the case of Louise Richardson at Oxford, she is the first woman to lead the university after almost 800 years.
Are the universities already catching up?
Prof Donald is not convinced by this time-lag theory, saying that rising numbers of women students and lecturers has not translated into equivalent increases in female professors.
Either way Prof Boyle says it's not enough to wait for time to resolve this inequality - because it would take another 39 years to even out at the current rate of change.
Is there also something about university cultures that can appear to be full of innovation, but below the surface remain deeply entrenched in tradition?
In the US, Ana Mari Cauce last year became the first female president of the University of Washington.
She said universities can have a strong cultural identity which can make those who don't quite fit in feel like outsiders.
Dr Cauce warned that universities could appear to be publicly supportive of diversity, while at the same time avoiding "difficult conversations" about putting it into practice. | Universities might have a reputation as bastions of Guardian-reading liberalism. |
34,602,129 | The warning comes as organisations set up to prevent wildlife crime begin a new awareness campaign.
Organisers say many native NI species such as deer, salmon and birds of prey are subject to poaching and cruelty.
But uprooting even common wildflowers without the landowner's permission is an offence.
There is a list of 70 protected wildflowers which it is an offence to interfere with in any way, including picking or taking their seeds.
Environment minister Mark H Durkan told the launch of the initiative: "We aim to educate people that sometimes their actions inadvertently cause significant harm to wildlife.
"Of course, there are also other elements which involve much more extreme forms of criminality - those who target wildlife inflicting great cruelty for their personal pleasure or those who illegally exploit or target our wildlife for financial gain.
"Our starting point is to drive increased awareness of what wildlife crime is and why and encouraging them to report it or seek advice, so that we keep this as a priority and work towards dramatically reducing all forms of wildlife crime."
Supt Brian Kee of the Police Service of Northern Ireland said: "Anyone who witnesses suspicious behaviour, or suspects a wildlife crime is taking place or has occurred, contact the police service on 101, or in an emergency ring 999.
"The report will be fully investigated and where evidence of a criminal offence is found the offender will be reported to the Public Prosecution Service with a view to a prosecution."
People can also report wildlife crime using the Crimestoppers number 0800 555 111.
The campaign has been organised by the Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime in Northern Ireland (PAW NI), which is comprised of statutory and non-government organisations involved in preventing wildlife crime. | Uprooting wildflowers, such as bluebells and primroses, without permission in Northern Ireland is a crime - and you could be prosecuted. |
38,351,317 | They were 0.23 seconds behind Lativa's Oskars Kibermanis and Daumants Dreiskens who finished in a time of one minute 51.18secs.
Meanwhile in the second round of the World Cup at Lake Placid, GB's Lamin Deen led his four-man team to sixth.
GB's Mica McNeill and Mica Moore were last in heat two of the women's event.
McNeill eventually righted the sled after it had tipped over to claim the points for finishing and move up to joint 10th in the standings.
Deen and his crew of Mark Lewis-Francis, Andrew Matthews and Tremayne Gilling now lie sixth in the standings.
On Friday, the two-man bobsleigh team of Deen and Judah Simpson finished 15th, 1.43secs behind gold medal winners Steven Holcomb and Sam McGuffie of the United States.
Deen and Simpson lie 17th in the World Cup rankings on 184 points, 118 points behind leader Justin Kripps and and Jesse Lumsden of Canada.
The third round of the World Cup takes place on the weekend of 6-7 January 2017 in Altenberg. | Great Britain's two-man bobsleigh team of Welshman Bruce Tasker and Englishman Toby Olubi won silver at the Europa Cup in Altenberg, Germany on Saturday. |
32,286,229 | Swansea council put the barriers up on Sunday, two weeks after the death of off-duty Sgt Louise Lucas.
Sue Mann said the barriers should continue into Dillwyn St as the same traffic system was in operation.
The council is meeting on Tuesday to consider changes to the road system.
At present traffic travels in one direction on one side of the dual carriageway, and in two opposite directions on the other.
Ms Mann, 48, from Killay, was on her way out to meet a friend in the city centre when she was hit by a taxi as she tried to cross the two-direction side of the road.
She said: "The road was completely desolate and no traffic. Next thing I knew a taxi just suddenly was there and all I can remember is my head was on the bonnet of the taxi."
She needed stitches and suffered from shock following the incident.
Ms Mann thinks the barriers do not go far enough and would like to see them extended.
"Maybe they have put them up because of that poor policewoman, but I doubt they have put them all the way around to Tesco," she added.
Sgt Lucas was the second person to die on the Kingsway in two years. In 2013, Daniel Foss, 37, was killed after also being hit by a bus.
The coroner investigating Mr Foss's death said the road had a "serious design issue" and called for urgent action. | A woman who was knocked down on The Kingsway in Swansea nine months before a police officer died there after being hit by a bus has claimed new safety barriers do not extend far enough. |
15,993,745 | 1 December 2011 Last updated at 17:02 GMT | Surfers in Australia welcomed the arrival of summer with a special night surfing session in neon-lit wetsuits that made them glow in the dark! |
37,393,497 | Stoke took the lead through Joe Allen when he poked home after West Brom's Jonny Evans nodded the ball down.
But Rondon headed a corner beyond keeper Lee Grant to thwart Stoke, who still move off the foot of the table.
In Tony Pulis' 1,000th game as a manager, his West Brom side created few chances before Rondon rescued them.
Erik Pieters had a penalty claim denied for Stoke in the second half, while Grant saved superbly from a header from the Baggies' James McClean.
Substitute Peter Crouch had gone close for the hosts before Allen's goal, but the dramatic finish means more frustration for boss Mark Hughes, whose side were knocked out of the EFL Cup by Hull in injury time on Wednesday.
Having just one point before kick-off and languishing at the foot of the table, it was hardly surprising Stoke looked tentative to begin with.
West Brom are a side who appear content to sit back away from home, and a lack of concerted threat from Stoke in the final third of the pitch added to the hosts' worries.
But Marko Arnautovic and Xherdan Shaqiri, Stoke's main creative forces, gradually asserted themselves as the game wore on.
The replacement of the mostly ineffective Wilfried Bony by Crouch went down well with the home fans, and brought greater urgency from Stoke, culminating in Allen's prodded finish from the six-yard line.
The Potters were much improved on their display in last week's 4-1 defeat at Crystal Palace, making Rondon's dramatic leveller from substitute Jonathan Leko's corner all the more galling.
West Brom's display in their manager's landmark game bore many of the hallmarks the Welshman, 58, has instilled in his sides in 24 years of management.
Defensive discipline, tenacity and the willingness to take what few chances fall their way are all traits of Pulis teams, and resulted here in what will be a satisfying point.
Crouch's arrival threatened to shake Evans' solid partnership with Gareth McAuley, but the way West Brom responded to that and Allen's goal will have delighted their boss.
Illness meant he did not have Saido Berahino to throw on from the bench, so Rondon's third goal of the season means Pulis can look forward to game 1,001 from a solid, mid-table position.
Stoke City manager Mark Hughes: "We feel deflated but it was a good performance from us.
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"We're trying to be progressive and we fully deserved the three points. We got one and we have to take it.
"I was encouraged by the performance and we asked questions of them. It's another point on the board. We didn't do too much wrong. I can't complain about our play, they put everything into it.
"Points are like gold dust, so we've got something for our efforts."
West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "That was a deserved point. We conceded a scrappy goal but the reaction of the players was absolutely first class. In the last 20 minutes we really pressed and we got the point we deserved.
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"I'm pleased because if we had lost I'd have been disappointed. We haven't got the array of talent like they have but the work-rate they put in was fantastic.
"We've got a fit group who never give up. We had to respond from going a goal down. I was so pleased with the attitude."
West Brom play the bottom-of-the-table side for the second week in a row when they visit Sunderland on Saturday, 1 October at 15:00 BST. And Hughes will be the manager revisiting old haunts when Stoke play Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday, 2 October at 12:00 BST.
Match ends, Stoke City 1, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Second Half ends, Stoke City 1, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Marko Arnautovic.
Charlie Adam (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Charlie Adam (Stoke City).
James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Peter Crouch (Stoke City).
Nyom (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Stoke City 1, West Bromwich Albion 1. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) header from a difficult angle on the left to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jonathan Leko with a cross following a corner.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Bruno Martins Indi.
Substitution, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Jonathan Leko replaces Matt Phillips.
Substitution, Stoke City. Charlie Adam replaces Joe Allen.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Glen Johnson.
Attempt blocked. Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Peter Crouch.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Nacer Chadli.
Peter Crouch (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt blocked. Nyom (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nacer Chadli.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. James Morrison replaces Claudio Yacob.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Hal Robson-Kanu replaces James McClean.
Attempt saved. James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Claudio Yacob.
Foul by Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City).
Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Stoke City 1, West Bromwich Albion 0. Joe Allen (Stoke City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Nyom (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nyom (West Bromwich Albion).
Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James McClean (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt missed. Peter Crouch (Stoke City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri following a set piece situation.
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt saved. Nacer Chadli (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Salomón Rondón.
Foul by Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City).
Nyom (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross.
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Crouch replaces Wilfried Bony.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Nyom.
Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. | Salomon Rondon's injury-time equaliser earned West Brom a point at Stoke to deny the Potters their first league win of the season. |
38,534,524 | A tribunal found that Maggie Dewhurst, a courier with logistics firm City Sprint, should be classed as a worker rather than self-employed.
As a worker, she would be entitled to basic rights including holiday and sick pay and the national living wage.
City Sprint said it was "disappointed" and will review the ruling "in detail".
While Friday's decision will only apply to Ms Dewhurst, it highlights the working practices of the so-called "gig economy", where people are employed by companies on a job-by-job basis.
It is the first of four legal challenges being taken against courier companies, which include Addison Lee, Excel and E-Courier.
The case follows a similar ruling against the taxi-hailing service Uber in October last year, which found that drivers should be classed as workers rather than self-employed. Uber intends to appeal.
City Sprint said: "This case has demonstrated that there is still widespread confusion regarding this area of law, which is why we are calling on the government to provide better support and help for businesses across the UK who could be similarly affected."
Ms Dewhurst, 29 from South London, said: "I'm delighted that the tribunal ruled in our favour as it has set a legal and moral precedent which others can use to make similar claims."
Ms Dewhurst has been with City Sprint for the past two years, during which time the company classed her as an "independent contractor", or self-employed.
However, she claimed her role was more like that of a worker. "We spend all day being told what to do, when to do it and how to do it. We're under their control. We're not a mosaic of small businesses and that's why we deserve basic employment rights like the national minimum wage," she said.
The tribunal ruling released on Friday stated that "the claimant was a worker of the respondent [City Sprint] and... it unlawfully failed to pay her for two days' holiday".
The Employment Tribunal judge, Joanna Wade, described City Sprint's contractual arrangements as "contorted", "indecipherable" and "window-dressing".
City Sprint said it enjoyed "a good relationship with our fleet" and said that evidence given at the tribunal highlighted that it is "a good company that pays its couriers some of the best rates in the industry".
Paul Jennings, a partner at law firm Bates Wells Braithwaite which represented Ms Dewhurst, said: "Until now couriers have occupied a vulnerable position. They carry out physically demanding work, in dangerous conditions, but cannot take paid leave. In the wake of this judgement, we expect to that thousands of couriers across the capital will look to assert their rights and seek back pay." | A bicycle courier has won an employment rights case in a ruling which could have implications for the "gig economy". |
35,830,691 | The improvements at Inveramsay Bridge, near Pitcaple in Aberdeenshire, mean traffic will no longer bottleneck at a set of lights at a railway bridge.
The new bridge takes the A96 over the Aberdeen to Inverness railway line.
Transport Minister Derek MacKay said the upgraded section of road would bring an end to years of delays and frustration for motorists.
The A96 links Aberdeen with Inverness. | A new bridge on the A96 is to open to traffic on Friday following a £10.2m construction project. |
35,014,991 | It happened on Main Street in Clady, as Storm Desmond continued to cause disruption in some areas.
Sean McCarry of the Community Rescue Service said: "The water level had risen fairly fast and he was unable to get away from his home in time.
"We managed to get a mechanical digger down the street through the flood waters and get him out."
Mr McCarry said the rescue operation, launched at about 18:15 GMT on Saturday, was a team effort between themselves, Foyle Search and Rescue and the Environment Service.
He said that after the man's ordeal, "he was relieved and happy to get away safely".
The man did not require further medical treatment.
Volunteers for the charity also managed to free a person who was trapped in their car near Strabane, County Tyrone.
Gerard Foley, who lives in Clady, said on Sunday that the village was badly affected by flooding.
"There are houses on the hill, and the rest is just water - Clady is a complete river," he said.
"You couldn't even pinpoint where the river is."
Flooding was reported on a number of roads in counties Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Londonderry.
On Sunday, the Gortnagarn Road, at Mountjoy near Omagh, is closed at the bridge due to flooding.
Road users have being warned about the risk of surface water flooding, as well as the risk of fallen trees or branches and other debris.
In Larne, County Antrim, Dunluce Street was closed due to damage to a building and concerns for its stability.
In the Republic of Ireland, thousands of homes were left without electricity and flooding affected many areas, particularly along the west coast.
Flights into and out of Irish airports have been affected by the weather, with some cancelled and others diverted. | A mechanical digger has been used to rescue an elderly man trapped by rising flood waters in his County Tyrone home. |
39,021,665 | Analysis of survival rates for six common cancers found wide variations depending on where patients lived.
Macmillan Cancer Support said there needed to be a major step-up in cancer screening in deprived areas.
The Scottish government said it recognised the need to tackle such variations.
The charity used data from the Information Services Division, part of NHS Scotland which specialises in health statistics.
The analysis examined the survival rate of patients diagnosed between 2004 and 2008 and followed them for five years up to 2013, to reveal the increased risk of death for patients living in deprived areas, compared with affluent areas:
Lung cancer patients faced poor outcomes regardless of their socioeconomic status, the charity found.
The study found lower rates of screening uptake and lower rates of treatment in deprived communities, while surgery was found to have had the most influence on survival.
This suggested those from deprived communities were less likely to receive surgery, possibly because of having more advanced cancer or poorer overall health, the charity said.
Janice Preston, head of Macmillan in Scotland, said: "It's completely unacceptable that someone's chances of surviving cancer could be predicted by their postcode.
"This new research gives us an up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the scale of the cancer survival gap in Scotland.
"It also provides the most comprehensive ever look at the reasons behind it. While the sheer number of factors that impact on survival means there is no magic bullet to solving this problem, this research points to clear areas for improvements, including encouraging earlier diagnosis and the take-up of screening in deprived areas."
Professor Jason Leitch, the Scottish government's national clinical director, told BBC Radio Scotland that he was "not surprised" by the data.
Speaking on Good Morning Scotland, he said people in more deprived areas were less likely to have their cancers detected early. Some would not go to routine screenings while others ignored the symptoms of illness, he added.
The former dentist and oral surgeon said: "I used to see patients with years of ulcers, people who would come in two years after their first symptom. And their cancer would be very advanced.
"Then I would see other people who would come within three weeks of seeing something that was a little bit unexplained and we could always treat that individual quickly and do very well.
"The same thing applies to bowel cancer, to prostate cancer, to lung cancer. So early diagnosis is the key."
Professor Leitch said that, historically, men in industrial areas like Glasgow and Lanarkshire, were reluctant to go to their GP.
But he pointed to the recent success of the Detect Cancer Early programme, which has recruited celebrities including Sir Alex Ferguson and Elaine C Smith to front awareness campaigns.
He added: "There is no question that poverty is one of the contributory factors to early cancer death. And the health service and the social care service is only part of that solution.
"We need solutions around employment, around housing, around education and around criminal justice. So all of that together is how government needs to tackle early cancer death."
Labour's health spokesman Anas Sarwar described the charity's report as "grim and deeply concerning".
He said: "We already know that a person is less likely to get diagnosed and less likely to survive cancer if they come from a poorer background.
"In Scotland, we are seeing the health inequality gap widen not narrow under the SNP government.
"This follows on from official figures which showed that cancer screening rates are going backwards in the poorest communities too."
A spokesman for the Scottish government said that cancer mortality rates had fallen by 11% over the past 10 years but that it recognised the need to tackle variations between least and most deprived communities.
He added: "This is why our cancer strategy, backed by £100m of additional investment, sets out clear actions aimed at reducing health inequalities.
"We're already seeing results, with increased screening participation and earlier diagnosis, however there's much more still to be done.
"Health inequality is closely linked to income inequality, which is why we have made tackling poverty as a priority." | A cancer survival gap is growing between people living in the most and least deprived parts of Scotland, a charity has warned. |
31,046,087 | The Crescent, in Buxton, Derbyshire has stood empty since 1992 and its conversion into a five star hotel has been planned for more than 10 years.
Various funding packages towards the £46m cost have been found but now the government-backed Local Enterprise Partnership has pledged the final £2m.
Developers said the two-year project could start as soon as April.
The building was designed to exploit an 18th Century interest in the area's mineral waters.
Source: Derbyshire County Council
Planning permission was granted in 2006 to convert the building into a 79-bedroom hotel and spa, with shops, visitor centre and tearoom.
But the project faced problems with funding and legal wrangles.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) awarded £12.5m in 2006 and £11.3m in 2014. Along with the Local Enterprise Partnership, other funding has come from the Trevor Osborne Property Group, English Heritage, Derbyshire County Council and High Peak Borough Council.
Caitlin Bisknell, High Peak Borough Council leader, said: "A lot of people have worked long and hard to achieve this result and it's a terrific result for them, for the Crescent and for the town. I know many local people have fond memories of the former hotel and baths and are as eager as we are to see work start on restoring this iconic building and bringing it back into use."
Developer Trevor Osborne said: "It has taken a long time to get here but it is tremendous it appears to have been finalised.
"We expect this to have a really positive impact on not only the building but Buxton as a whole.
"We are now vigorously talking to contractors to get things under way."
Parts of the refurbished complex will be open to the public. | The final funding for the delayed restoration of a Grade I listed building has been secured. |
39,909,897 | Archivist Alexander Singerman, 32, failed to turn up for a meeting at the Gaiety Theatre in Ayr on Wednesday .
Since then he has not been active on social media and extensive police searches have drawn a blank.
His parents have urged him to get in touch, or anyone with information to contact the police.
Mr Singerman, from Shawlands in Glasgow, travelled to Ayrshire on Wednesday morning and left his workplace at Auchincruive later that morning but never arrived for his scheduled meeting at the theatre.
His car was found near his work and he was last seen walking towards St Quivox, near to the Agricultural College on the B743.
His mother Claire Singerman said he was a very personable young man whose disappearance was totally out of character.
She said: "He's got loads of friends who he sees and contacts all the time.
"We are very, very worried because he's not been in contact with any of them - and normally he's in contact with us. All we want is a phone call to know he's safe.
"We don't mind that we've been looking for him for days. We want him home."
Alexander is described as 6ft tall, with short black hair and has a sallow complexion. When he was last seen he was wearing a red and black checked lumber-style jacket.
Ch Insp Annette Morrison of Police Scotland said inquiries both in Ayr and Glasgow had failed to shed any light on his disappearance.
She said: "We have conducted door to door in the area where he was last seen, CCTV, we've had helicopters out.
"We still currently have officers out searching that area. This is so out of character for Alexander. His family and his friends - as well ourselves - are really concerned."
Anyone with information is asked to contact police on the 101 number. | The parents of a man who went missing in South Ayrshire have appealed for information about his disappearance several days ago. |
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Jones successfully defended her title by defeating Spain's Eva Calvo Gomez in the -57kg category at Rio 2016.
The 23-year-old said she had found it hard to stay motivated after winning London 2012 gold.
"I've learnt a lot of lessons from London and I'm a lot wiser," she said.
"I know you have to take a good enough break to mentally refresh and just to have a bit of time to yourself and enjoy the success rather than get back in the gym."
Flint's Jones became the youngest British athlete to successfully defend an Olympic title following her 16-7 victory over rival Calvo Gomez.
Jones had already confirmed she wants to defend her Olympic taekwondo title at Tokyo 2020, where victory would secure her place in the sport's history books.
"No-one in taekwondo has ever done three Olympic gold medals," Jones told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"It's amazing to be on the same page as [two-time Olympic champions] Wu Jingyu and Steven Lopez, they're legends in taekwondo.
"They'll be retired and I can do one better and get three gold medals. It definitely spurs me on to think I can do that."
Jones could be joined in Tokyo by her fellow Welsh taekwondo athlete Lauren Williams.
Williams won 67kg gold in her first senior major final at the European Taekwondo Championships in May.
"She's a great training partner in the gym and she really pushed me for Rio so she's really helped a lot," Jones added.
"She's only 17 and already such a talent so she's definitely one to watch." | Double Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones says she will not make the same mistakes after Rio as she did four years ago when she suffered a dip in morale and form. |
34,798,790 | The latest figures show sales are now above what they were in 2007, before the financial crisis that triggered the recession.
Department for Communities and Local Government statistics revealed 12,304 sales under right to buy in 2014-15, compared with 5,944 in 2012-13.
Housing charity Shelter said the homes were not being replaced by councils.
Birmingham City Council sold 517 homes, the most in the last financial year.
Although back to pre-recession levels, the numbers of sales by councils to their tenants under the right to buy were still less than a fifth of those for 2003-4, the year with the largest number of transfers this century.
Council tenants have had the right to buy the homes they live in at a discount since the early 1980s.
The government plans to extend the right to buy homes at discounted rates to 1.3 million housing association tenants. Critics say it will make the housing crisis worse.
Shelter said one in three homes sold under right to buy have not been replaced by councils since 2012.
And Councillor Peter Box, housing spokesman for the Local Government Association, said: "These figures make it more important than ever for councils to be given the funding and powers to replace any homes sold under Right to Buy quickly and on a one-for-one basis.
"The current scheme only allows councils to replace half or fewer of the homes they have sold. Councils need to be able to retain 100% of receipts from sales while Right to Buy discounts should be set locally so they reflect the cost of houses in the area."
As the largest local authority in Europe, Birmingham City Council topped the list for sales of council homes under right to buy with 517 homes sold. Neighbouring West Midlands council Sandwell was also in the top 10 with 256 homes sold.
The London borough of Southwark sold 304 homes. Property prices have been rising steadily and a site containing a pre-fabricated shed in Peckham recently sold for just under £1m at auction.
Communities Secretary Greg Clark said the sales came alongside a 25% increase in house building in the past year.
He said: "We are going further and will do everything we can to help families buy a place of their own." | The number of council homes in England sold under the right to buy scheme has more than doubled in two years. |
39,063,311 | Coran Bogue, 23, from Newport, was involved in the incident on the A4810 Llanwern link road near Magor Brewery at about 05:50 BST.
He died at the scene after the crash between a Vauxhall Corsa and a lorry.
Specialist officers are supporting his family and police issued an appeal for information. | A man who died in a crash on the outskirts of Monmouthshire on Wednesday has been named by Gwent Police. |
39,572,985 | At 19, she is also the youngest ever person to receive the honour.
During the official ceremonies in Ottawa, she called on Canadian politicians to use their influence to help fund education for girls worldwide, including refugees.
Ms Yousafzai is a global advocate for women's rights and education.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised Ms Yousafzai for her advocacy, calling her "the newest and possibly bravest citizen of Canada".
The Pakistani schoolgirl activist was originally meant to receive her citizenship in October 2014, an honour bestowed on her under former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper's government.
That event was cancelled when it coincided with the shooting death of a ceremonial guard Nathan Cirillo and an attack on Parliament by gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.
Soldier killed in Canada shootings
Malala spoke of the attack in her address said in an address to legislators in the Canadian Parliament on Wednesday. Many in the audience were in Ottawa that day.
"The man who attacked Parliament Hill called himself a Muslim," she said. "But he did not share my faith."
She said he instead shared the same hatred as the man who allegedly shot six people at a Quebec City mosque in January, the attacker who killed six people in London in March, and the Taliban gunmen who in 2012 shot her for defying their ban on girls attending school in her native Pakistan.
"These men have tried to divide us and destroy our democracies, our freedom of religion, our right to go to school. But we - and you - refuse to be divided," she said.
She also praised Canada's embrace of refugees and its ongoing international development work for women and girls.
Only five other people have received honorary Canadian citizenship: Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, religious leader Aga Khan, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Malala was accompanied on Wednesday by her parents Ziauddin and Toor Pekai Yousafzai.
Earlier in the day, Malala surprised Ottawa high school students by arriving unannounced to take their questions during an event with by Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, Mr Trudeau's wife.
Ms Yousafzai will also meet with Conservative interim opposition leader Rona Ambrose, who called her a "symbol of determination and hope for young girls around the world".
In 2009, when she was just 11 years-old, Malala began writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service under a pseudonym, describing her life under the Taliban. | Nobel Peace prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says she is "humbled" to become the sixth person to receive an honorary Canadian citizenship. |
39,292,353 | Left-back Garmston, 23, is on his third injury lay-off of the season and has not played for almost four weeks.
"His parents know somebody over there and they want him to have some tests with the best in the world," Gills boss Ady Pennock told BBC Radio Kent.
"His parents are paying for it. We all want to do everything we can because he's a talented boy."
Garmston has been restricted to just 285 minutes of action this season and only made his first League One start of the campaign last month, before his latest injury.
Now the former West Bromwich Albion trainee, and Republic of Ireland Under-21 international, has sought out expert advice to get him back on the pitch.
Pennock added: "His dad's a physio and he spoke to our physio here and asked the question - we said of course, if it helps him.
"Fingers crossed that they find out the cause of all these injuries to his hamstrings." | Gillingham defender Bradley Garmston is to see a specialist in Qatar to try and solve his ongoing hamstring problems. |
27,521,649 | It will be based on the true story of James Donovan, a US lawyer recruited by the CIA to negotiate the release of a pilot shot down over Russia in 1960.
The Coens, best known for Fargo and No Country For Old Men, will write a new draft of the script, originally by British playwright Matt Charman.
It's the first time the duo have made a film with both Spielberg and Hanks.
However, Hanks starred in their 2004 remake of The Ladykillers; while Spielberg was an executive producer on their Western, True Grit, in 2010.
The four stars have 10 Oscars between them.
Joel and Ethan Coen's most recent film is Inside Llewelyn Davis. However, they are also known to write scripts on projects they are not directing, including the critically-panned Gambit - starring Colin Firth - and the forthcoming Angelina Jolie film, Unbroken.
Spielberg is believed to have several projects in the pipeline, including Roald Dahl adaptation The BFG, which is due to begin shooting in January 2015.
The new thriller will be his fourth film collaboration with Hanks, with whom he previously worked on The Terminal, Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me If You Can.
Charman, who wrote the first version of the screenplay, is best known for The Machine - a play about chess master Gary Kasparov's infamous match against the computer program Deep Blue. | Steven Spielberg is teaming up with the Coen brothers to make a Cold War thriller starring Tom Hanks. |
11,700,265 | The state-run Aerocaribbean aircraft had been flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to Havana.
The passengers included 28 foreigners. The other 33 passengers and seven crew members were all Cuban. There is no word on the cause of the crash.
However, both the data and voice flight recorders have now been located, investigators say.
"The black box and the voice recorder of the crashed plane... were found, so the investigation that is under way will have the basic elements to work with," Rolando Diaz, a prosecutor, told local media.
The French-built ATR twin turboprop went down late on Thursday local time in mountains near the town of Guasimal in Santi Spiritus province. Many of the 61 passengers it was carrying are believed to have been tourists.
A Civil Aviation Authority statement said the foreigners on the passenger list included nine Argentines, seven Mexicans, three Dutch citizens, two Germans, two Austrians, a French citizen, an Italian, a Spaniard, a Venezuelan and a Japanese citizen.
The twice-weekly flight 883 had originated in Port-au-Prince in Haiti and stopped over in Santiago.
The pilot reported an emergency before contact was lost.
Emergency crews and local residents had to use bulldozers to cut through thick vegetation to reach the crash scene, Cuban media say.
They pulled bodies from the wreckage but found no-one alive. One eyewitness described the crash site as "a ball of flame in the middle of the mountain".
It is not clear if bad weather was a factor in the crash. A tropical storm warning had been issued in Santiago de Cuba province where the plane took off.
One local resident said it was clear the plane was in difficulties before the crash.
"We saw it when it already had problems and was flying low," Miguel Garcia, a 68-year-old farmer, told the Agence France-Press news agency.
"At the moment, aviation and regional authorities are gathering the facts and details and have created a commission to investigate such a regrettable accident," the Civil Aviation Authority statement said.
News agencies report that the crash is the deadliest in Cuba since 3 September 1989 when a Soviet-built Ilyushin-62 heading for Milan crashed after take-off from Havana killing all 126 people on board and 40 on the ground.
The last passenger plane to crash on the island was an Antonov-2 which went down in Santa Clara province in March 2002, killing all 16 people on board. | A Cuban passenger plane has crashed in the centre of the country, killing all 68 people on board, officials say. |
34,291,726 | The clips were released through IS-linked Twitter accounts in the last few days, and are part of a co-ordinated social media campaign to convey a stark message to Muslims in the region.
The videos, which say that leaving what they call Muslim territory is a "grave sin", take advantage of the current European refugee crisis to tell prospective migrants that they can expect nothing but humiliation and exposure to immoral lifestyles should they decide to leave.
It is not the first comment from the extremist group on the refugee issue, but it is the clearest indication that IS is concerned by the numbers fleeing their rule.
The Arabic-language videos were produced by IS "provinces" in Syria, Iraq and Yemen and released by Twitter accounts linked to the group on 16 and 17 September.
According to the propaganda videos, life is calm under the governance and "complete security" of Islamic law under IS rule - glossing over entirely the daily fighting, air strikes and zero tolerance of dissent in the group's areas in Syria and Iraq.
The warm welcome to newcomers is a recurring theme in propaganda videos from IS, which desperately needs to sustain a viable population in order to bolster its claim to administer an Islamic "caliphate".
On the other side of the coin, they highlight what they say is the humiliation, deprivation and discrimination experienced by refugees and migrants under the canvas tents of refugee camps in freezing conditions and warn that they would be exposed to an immoral lifestyle in Europe.
Taking advantage of the European crisis, viewers are told that thousands are making a perilous journey to Europe to no good end, and face being met with heavy-handed treatment from security forces.
The stark choice presented by the clips is made clear: Heading for Europe is described as a "grave sin", with one commentary promising "hell-fire" for deserters.
IS had at first remained officially silent on the refugee crisis, but recently passed comment in its English magazine, Dabiq, released on 9 September.
IS' message on refugees has been amplified through a Twitter campaign that has attracted over 31,000 posts under a hashtag that translates as "where are you seeking refuge?"
As with any Islamic State propaganda campaign, powerful imagery is used to promote the videos. Viewers are drawn to one of the clips on Twitter with images of Alan Kurdi's body, juxtaposed with those of children injured in what IS claims are allied bombing raids.
But while the videos and social media campaign promote IS with a positive image, there is no mention of the brutal penalties meted out to those who dare question IS rule.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | The so-called Islamic State (IS) has released a series of video productions urging Muslims not to migrate to European countries, telling them to come to IS' self-declared caliphate instead. |
36,498,359 | Formula 1's Claire Williams and former jockey Hayley Turner become OBEs.
Davis Cup captain Leon Smith and player Jamie Murray, Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson and Welsh Rugby Union president Dennis Gethin are made OBEs.
There are MBEs for Chelsea Ladies' manager Emma Hayes, cricketer Stuart Broad and rugby referee Nigel Owens.
Former England and Newcastle captain Alan Shearer, who was made an OBE in 2001, becomes a CBE in recognition of his charitable services to the community in north-east England.
Shearer, 45, scored a record 260 Premier League goals in an 18-year playing career, hit 30 goals for his country and was top scorer at Euro '96.
Since retiring in 2006, he has worked as an analyst for the BBC's Match of the Day programme, and also acts as patron for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and the Alan Shearer Centre for people with complex disabilities.
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"It was a huge surprise and hard work to keep it quiet from the rest of my family and friends," he told BBC Sport.
Talking about his charity work, Shearer added: "I had to give something back. Footballers get a lot of criticism for not giving enough back.
"I was determined not just to hand the money over. I wanted to take an active part in helping to run it. It is great to be involved."
Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson is made an OBE for his services to the economy, sport and community on Teesside.
Gibson, 58, is the majority owner of a company that specialises in the transportation of chemicals and has used part of his estimated £195m fortune to bankroll Middlesbrough.
They will play in the Premier League next season after seven years in the Championship.
Gibson has also been an outspoken campaigner for the North East, and is a member of the Shadow Board of the South Tees Development Corporation, which aims to regenerate the region following the closure of the Redcar steelworks.
Chelsea Ladies' manager Emma Hayes is appointed an MBE for services to football.
The 39-year-old was named manager of Chelsea Ladies in June 2012 and won the Women's FA Cup and Women's Super League double in 2015.
England Ladies assistant manager Marieanne Spacey, 50, becomes an MBE for her services to football.
Rachel Anderson, the first Fifa-licensed female football agent, is also appointed an MBE - for services to gender equality in football.
Alastair Cook is made a CBE for his services to cricket, almost five years after he was appointed an MBE for his performances in the 2010-11 Ashes series victory in Australia.
The 31-year-old became the youngest player to reach 10,000 Test runs during the second Test against Sri Lanka in Durham in May.
He was appointed captain of the England Test team in 2012 following Andrew Strauss' retirement and led England to Ashes series wins over Australia in 2013 and 2015.
Cook's international team-mate Stuart Broad is made an MBE for services to cricket.
In January, he became the first England player for 11 years to top the International Cricket Council's Test bowling rankings, before being dislodged by new-ball partner James Anderson in May.
Broad, 29, took 8-15 as Australia were bowled out for 60 in their first innings of the fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge last year to set up England's series victory.
Welsh Rugby Union president Dennis Gethin is made an OBE for services to rugby in his homeland.
Gethin, 72, was awarded two rugby Blues at Cambridge in 1965 and 1966 and played club rugby for Swansea, Neath, Cardiff, and Glamorgan Wanderers. He was been president of the WRU since 2007.
Rugby referee Nigel Owens is appointed an MBE for services to sport.
The Welshman, 44, refereed the 2015 Rugby World Cup final in England, and has officiated in a record five European Rugby Champions Cup finals.
Leon Smith and Jamie Murray have been honoured after Great Britain won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936.
Captain Smith, who guided Britain from the third tier to the title in five years, is made an OBE for his services to tennis.
Murray, older brother of British number one Andy Murray, is appointed an OBE for his services to tennis and charity.
The 30-year-old won the men's doubles title at the Australian Open with Bruno Soares, and became doubles world number one in April 2016.
Murray and Colombian wife Alejandra are high-profile supporters of the charity Children Change Colombia, which works to protect children in Colombia from sexual exploitation.
The two-time Grand Slam winner said he only discovered a letter informing him of the award buried in the post after returning from a lengthy spell on tour.
"For some reason I just knew straight away what it was going to be," he told BBC Sport.
"It's a real honour to receive it and I'm really proud of what we've achieved over the past year, especially the Davis Cup. It was a huge thing for the team and the country."
Martine Wiltshire nee Wright, who lost her legs in the 7/7 London bombings in 2005 and went on to represent Great Britain at sitting volleyball at the London 2012 Paralympics, is made an MBE for her services to sport.
Claire Williams, deputy team principal of Formula 1 team Williams Martini Racing and daughter of team principal Frank, is appointed an OBE for her services to Formula 1.
"To be able to play a role in a family legacy is an enormous privilege," she said. "Formula One, and Williams, are great success stories for the UK and I will continue to use my role to help showcase what a great sport Formula One is, what a brilliant platform for this country's expertise in high class engineering it is."
Former jockey Hayley Turner, who retired last year after riding 763 winners in a 15-year career, is made an OBE for services to horseracing.
"When you're riding and you're in the bubble, you don't realise or appreciate what you've done until you stop," she said.
"It's only now it's sinking in. I think the further away I get from the career that was, I'm going to appreciate it more and more.
"Three or four of the times I rode winners for [the Queen] she was there, so I've been very lucky."
There are also MBEs for UK Anti-Doping's Richard Driscoll, and Anna Kessel, the sports journalist and co-founder of Women in Football.
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE):
Alan Shearer OBE, for charitable services to the community in North East England; Alastair Cook MBE, for services to cricket.
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE):
Jamie Murray, for services to tennis and charity; Leon Smith, for services to tennis; Steve Gibson, for services to the economy, sport and community on Teesside; Dennis Gethin, for services to Welsh rugby; Hayley Turner, for services to horseracing; Claire Williams, for services to Formula 1 Racing.
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE):
Stuart Broad, for services to cricket; Nigel Owens, for services to sport; Emma Hayes, for services to football; Rachel Anderson, for services to gender equality in football; Richard Driscoll, for services to anti-doping in sport; Martine Wiltshire, for services to sport; Anna Kessel, for services to journalism and women's sport; Marieanne Spacey, for services to football, Pauline Stott, for services to hockey and promotion of sport in Scotland, Shauna Coxsey, for services to climbing | Former England footballer Alan Shearer and England cricket captain Alastair Cook have been made CBEs in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. |
39,416,002 | In a statement issued through police, Rohey Hydara expressed her condolences to the families of the dead and wished a "speedy recovery" to those injured.
Masood killed three people when he drove a car into pedestrians last Wednesday. He then fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot dead.
Inquests into the deaths of his four victims will be opened on Wednesday.
Ms Hydara went on to "request privacy for our family, especially the children, at this difficult time".
Her comments came after Masood's mother, Janet Ajao, said she had "shed many tears for the people caught up in this horrendous incident".
Masood, 52, is reported to have at least three children and one previous wife.
He drove his hired car into people on Westminster Bridge and then stabbed PC Keith Palmer, 48, outside Parliament.
His other victims were teacher Aysha Frade, 44, who worked at a London sixth-form college, US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, and retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, 75, from south London.
Thirteen people are understood to remain in hospital.
The Metropolitan Police said the victims of the attack have been formally identified and inquests into their deaths are due to be opened and adjourned at Westminster Coroner's Court.
The inquest into Masood's death will be opened and adjourned the following day.
The so-called Islamic State group has said it was behind his actions. But Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said while Masood "clearly had an interest in jihad", police had so far found no evidence of an association with the group or al-Qaeda.
Officers investigating the attacks are holding two people from Birmingham on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. Nine people have so far been released without charge, while a 32-year-old woman arrested in Manchester remains on police bail until late March.
Masood was believed to have been living in the West Midlands before the attack, and had previously spent time in Luton, Crawley, Rye and Eastbourne.
He was registered at birth in Kent as Adrian Elms and used the name Ajao after his mother married a man with that surname. He later converted to Islam and became Masood.
Speaking on Tuesday, his mother, Janet Ajao, from Trelech in Carmarthenshire, also said she was "shocked, saddened and numbed" by the attack.
She added: "I wish to make it absolutely clear, so there can be no doubt, I do not condone his actions nor support the beliefs he held that led to him committing this atrocity.
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning | The wife of Westminster attacker Khalid Masood has said she is "saddened and shocked" and condemned his actions. |
36,011,901 | Christiansen, 28, topped the standings in her Grade Ia category in Deauville.
She won in both the individual and the freestyle events on her horse, Athene.
Wells, 25, filled the first two spots in the Grade IV individual with Valerius and Fatal Attraction and then claimed freestyle success on Valerius.
Christiansen, who is hoping to add to her five Paralympic titles in Rio this summer, claimed impressive scores of 75.739 and 77.150
There was also a strong performance in the event from 67-year-old Anne Dunham who finished third behind Christiansen in the individual event and was freestyle runner-up.
Deb Criddle took bronze in the Grade III freestyle, after just missing out on a medal in her individual competition, while the GB quartet also won team gold. | Paralympic gold medallists Sophie Christiansen and Sophie Wells started their international seasons with success at the International Para-dressage competition in France. |
40,724,022 | A frustrating display looked set to end in a draw until Baines cracked in a deflected shot from 20 yards.
Rooney was quiet when playing up front but improved once he moved back behind the striker in the second half.
The second leg takes place in Ruzomberok next Thursday.
Everton were dominant in possession throughout but still needed Maarten Stekelenburg to make a crucial save and turn Jan Maslo's header on to the crossbar.
Ronald Koeman gave debuts to summer signings Cuco Martina, Michael Keane, Davy Klaassen and Sandro Ramirez but will need a better performance if they are to reach the play-off round in August and avoid a repeat of him not reaching the group stage with Southampton two years ago.
It is 13 years since the then-teenage Rooney left Everton for Manchester United for £27m, with his move back this summer causing almost as much discussion and debate as his departure.
Is he the same player who left? No. But will he prove to be a shrewd signing for Koeman? For free, you'd think so.
He will be judged against stiffer opposition than the side who finished third in the Slovakian Fortuna Liga last season, but he will also have to play better to even keep his place in a rejuvenated Everton side.
Rooney has spent much of the last few seasons in midfield but started in the centre of a front three, showing some neat touches but also reminders that his sharpest days are perhaps behind him.
He had the best chance of the opening half hour, but his touch was not great and he could not get any power behind a shot, and he and Everton greatly improved once Sandro came on in the second half.
With Sandro stretching the Ruzomberok defence, Rooney and Klaassen looked dangerous in pockets behind him. Finding the right position for Rooney may be Koeman's biggest challenge in the coming weeks.
"It's something I've been looking forward to for the last few weeks," Rooney said.
"It's obviously great to be at Goodison wearing the blue shirt, it was a great feeling.
"But it was an important game for us so I had to put my emotions to one side. I've done that now and can get down to focusing more on the football."
What is not in doubt is that Koeman is in the process of assembling the strongest squad at Goodison in years. Ross Barkley may be set to leave but Everton continue to be linked to Swansea midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson as his replacement.
Even without Sigurdsson, Koeman now has plenty of attacking options to suggest losing Romelu Lukaku's 20+ goals a season may not be a disaster, although another out-and-out striker would be a shrewd addition before the end of August.
Sandro's arrival changed Everton's game, but Klaassen was the pick of the new signings on show, going close with a shot in the first half and a header in the second, all the time knitting together the best of Everton's play on a performance which was very much in pre-season mode.
But considering the injured Yannick Bolasie, Barkley, Ramiro Funes Mori and Seamus Coleman all missed out, £30m goalkeeper Jordan Pickford was on the bench with Sandro, Tom Davies, Gareth Barry, Phil Jagielka and Ademola Lookman and Aaron Lennon, and Muhamed Besic and James McCarthy were not involved at all, it is clear this is a Toffees squad packed with quality.
Whether it is good enough to challenge for a top-four place is another question, so perhaps winning the Europa League remains the best chance for Everton to qualify for the Champions League.
And for all the attacking talent on display, it was left-back Baines who found the breakthrough, scoring with a deflected shot from the edge of the area after a corner was only headed out to him.
Everton boss Ronald Koeman: "It's always difficult against these kind of teams who drop back. We are not 100% yet, it is pre-season and it is a good result. We would like to score more, we had chances but every clean sheet in European football is a good result.
"When Sandro came on Wayne Rooney had more freedom and we had pace up front which made the team better. We know that we would like another striker, you normally need two nines in the squad. I am really confident that we can bring in a good one to make us better.
"It is up to the board if we go back in for Sigurdsson, everyone knows our interest but I don't get involved in the finances." | A goal from Leighton Baines gave Everton a slender lead in their Europa League third qualifying round tie against Slovakian side MFK Ruzomberok on Wayne Rooney's return. |
33,978,150 | Farooq Siddique formerly of the Bristol Muslim Society and an ex-government adviser on radicalisation, pleaded not guilty at Bristol Crown Court.
The 46-year-old from Easton also pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm and one charge of making a threat to kill.
Speaking outside court he said the charges were "absolute nonsense".
"These are allegation that are, in my view, worse than murder," he claimed.
"You can't say anything worse to a man than these kind of allegations. I'm utterly flabbergasted that it's got this far.
"I'll prove myself innocent."
He was bailed and a trial date has been set for April. | A leading figure in Bristol's Muslim community has appeared in court charged with three counts of rape. |
35,775,743 | The small study, published in PLOS ONE, looked at 59 people who were all deemed to have mild to moderate dementia.
It is thought the body's response to gum inflammation may be hastening the brain's decline.
The Alzheimer's Society said if the link was proven to be true, then good oral health may help slow dementia.
The body's response to inflammatory conditions was cited as a possible reason for the quicker decline.
Inflammation causes immune cells to swell and has long been associated with Alzheimer's. Researchers believe their findings add weight to evidence that inflammation in the brain is what drives the disease.
The study, jointly led by the University of Southampton and King's College London, cognitively assessed the participants, and took blood samples to measure inflammatory markers in their blood.
Their oral health was also assessed by a dental hygienist who was unaware of the cognitive outcomes.
Of the sample group, 22 were found to have considerable gum disease while for the remaining 37 patients the disease was much less apparent. The average age of the group with gum disease was 75, and in the other group it was 79.
A majority of participants - 52 - were followed up at six months, and all assessments were repeated.
The presence of gum disease - or periodontitis as it is known - was associated with a six-fold increase in the rate of cognitive decline, the study suggested.
Dentist Dr Mark Ide from King's College London told the BBC News website he was "surprised" by the rate of decline, and said that as patients with gum disease chew on their teeth they were effectively giving themselves "mini-injections" of bacteria into their bloodstream.
"In just six months you could see the patients going downhill - it's really quite scary," he said.
Higher levels of antibodies to periodontal bacteria are associated with an increase in levels of inflammatory molecules elsewhere in the body - which in turn have been linked to greater rates of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease.
Prof Clive Holmes, senior author from the University of Southampton, said the results were "very interesting" and proved that this study needed to be carried out again but using a larger number of participants.
"However, if there is a direct relationship between periodontitis and cognitive decline, as this current study suggests, then treatment of gum disease might be a possible treatment option for Alzheimer's," he said.
He also said his researchers had taken into account the fact that gum disease may become more common in those people with Alzheimer's, because of a reduced ability to take care of oral hygiene as the disease progresses.
Dr Doug Brown, director of research and development at the Alzheimer's Society, also recognised that the study "adds evidence to the idea that gum disease could potentially be a contributing factor to Alzheimer's".
"If this is proven to be the case, better dental hygiene would offer a relatively straightforward way to help slow the progression of dementia and enable people to remain independent for longer," he said.
But he also described the study as "small" and said it was currently "unclear" whether the gum disease was the cause or the effect.
"We don't know if the gum disease is triggering the faster decline of dementia, or vice versa," he said.
In the UK around 80% of adults over 55 years old had evidence of gum disease, according to the adult dental survey of 2009, which is the latest data available.
There are around half a million people living with Alzheimer's disease in the UK . | Gum disease has been linked to a greater rate of cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer's disease, early stage research has suggested. |
32,089,838 | The grant, from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, was awarded to Swansea University's College of Engineering to fund new X-ray and electron microscopes.
It will allow scientists to look at objects on scales almost at the level of atoms.
The equipment could be used for imaging the structures of animal bones. | A university research team has been awarded £2.5m to buy high-powered microscopes. |
26,770,334 | Their teeth contain DNA from the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and their graves have been dated to 1348-50.
Records say thousands of Londoners perished and their corpses were dumped in a mass grave outside the City, but its exact location was a mystery.
Archaeologists now believe it is under Charterhouse Square near the Barbican.
They plan to expand their search for victims across the square - guided by underground radar scans, which have picked up signs of many more graves.
Crossrail's lead archaeologist Jay Carver says the find "solves a 660-year-old mystery".
"This discovery is a hugely important step forward in documenting and understanding Europe's most devastating pandemic," he said.
"Further excavations will follow to see if - as we expect - we are coming across a much bigger mass burial trench."
Between 1347 and 1351 the "Great Pestilence" swept westward across Europe killing millions of people. It later became known as the Black Death.
It arrived on Britain's shores in 1348 and is believed to have wiped out up to 60% of the population at the time.
In London, two emergency burial grounds were dug outside the walls of the City. One has been found at East Smithfield, while the other is known to lie somewhere in Farringdon.
In March 2013, Crossrail engineers uncovered 25 skeletons in a 5.5m-wide shaft - alongside pottery dated to the mid-14th Century.
Samples from 12 of the corpses were taken for forensic analysis. In at least four cases, scientists found traces of the DNA of the Yersinia pestis, confirming they had contact with the plague prior to their death.
To pinpoint which historical plague outbreak the "Charterhouse 25" could have fallen victim to, the researchers used radio carbon dating.
They determined the burial ground was used in at least two distinct periods - the earliest within the Black Death in 1348-50, followed by a later outbreak in the 1430s.
In a bid to understand just how far the grave extends across the square, Crossrail approached the University of Keele to undertake a forensic geophysics survey - using ground-penetrating radar.
The initial scan detected signs of further burials across Charterhouse Square and also the foundations of a building - possibly a chapel.
"We will undertake further excavations in Charterhouse Square later this year to confirm some of the results," said Mr Carver.
The skeletons provide a rare opportunity to study the medieval population of London, according to osteologist Don Walker, of the Museum of London Archaeology.
He said: "We can start to answer questions like: where did they come from and what were their lives like?
"I'm amazed how much you can learn about a person who died more than 600 years ago."
Analysis of the skeletons' bones and teeth indicates that:
Mr Carver said: "We can see from the people here that Londoners weren't living an easy life.
"The combination of a poor diet and generally a struggle means they were very susceptible to the plague at that time and that's possibly one of the explanations for why the Black Death was so devastating."
By sequencing the ancient bacterial DNA, researchers hope to understand how the plague has evolved and spread over the centuries.
Globally the infection still kills 2,000 people a year, including countries like Madagascar. Antibiotics are available, but if untreated the disease kills within four days.
Scientists hope to confirm whether the 14th Century strain was the grandmother of all plague that exists today.
The £14.8bn Crossrail project aims to establish a 118km-long (73-mile) rail link with 37 stations across London, and is due to open in 2018.
The excavations have already unearthed Roman skulls washed down a lost river, a Bronze-Age transport route, and the largest piece of amber ever found in the UK.
The latest announcement comes ahead of a Channel 4 documentary, Return of the Black Death: Secret History, on 6 April, which follows the Charterhouse Square discovery. | Skeletons unearthed in London Crossrail excavations are Black Death victims from the great pandemic of the 14th Century, forensic tests indicate. |
41,024,587 | They will be shown in the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography.
The Oxford academic photographed his neighbour Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, as a girl.
Years later she was photographed by him again, as well as by Julia Margaret Cameron whose work is also featured.
Carroll's fascination with Liddell, who died aged 82 in 1934, has been the subject of speculation.
Phillip Prodger, the show's curator, said: "Much has been written about the relationship between Carroll and Alice.
"We will never know exactly how Carroll himself felt about his subjects, and there is no doubt he developed deep personal attachments with many of his sitters.
"Nevertheless, Carroll nearly always photographed his children with their parents present, and no claims of impropriety were ever made in his lifetime.
"For Victorian artists, children represented the blank slate of humanity - the potential to experience pure thought and feeling before the corruptions of modern life intervened."
The images of Liddell as a girl come from the gallery's own collection, but have only rarely been on display.
The exhibition will also feature portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79), Oscar Rejlander (1813-75) and Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65) as well as Carroll (1832-98).
The exhibition runs from 1 March to 20 May, 2018. | Lewis Carroll's photographs of the girl who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will go on display alongside images of her as an older woman. |
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It says the law will help poor families earn a living and also give children a chance to gain skills and business knowledge.
Many fear that this will push millions of children into work, and out of school, taking away their right of a normal childhood.
Watch Jenny's report to find out more. | The Indian government is preparing a new law, which will allow children under the age of 14 to work in family businesses after school. |
35,220,360 | Humberside Police said the arrests were for "unrelated matters" and were made following searches, linked to the shooting, of houses in west Hull.
Armed officers and a police helicopter went to the restaurant on St Andrews Quay at about 11:30 GMT on Saturday.
The windows of a blue Volkswagen Golf were shot out. Nobody was hurt in the incident.
Police said two men who were arrested at the scene have now been released from custody.
The force said it believed it was an isolated incident, with the offenders and victims known to one another. No shots were fired by police.
Darren Woodhead was in the McDonald's drive-through queue when the shooting took place.
He said: "I heard gunshots close to us and a car sped off out of the drive-through.
"Within minutes police had arrived with pistols, then three police vans arrived with more heavily armed officers."
Officers cordoned off the scene for forensic examination of the area. | Four more people have been arrested after a car carrying two men was shot at in a McDonald's car park in Hull. |
34,395,569 | H2O is the "lubricant" of biochemical reactions, and Nasa's announcement that liquid water flows under certain circumstances on the Red Planet will heighten expectation that this normally freezing, desiccated world might just provide a foothold for microbial organisms.
We know from Earth that life is tenacious.
Even in super-salty or acidic lakes, toxic dumps, and even boiling pools, some bugs are capable of eking out an existence. We call them extremophiles.
The immediate reaction of many to Monday's announcement will be to want to go look for extremophiles on Mars - to send either scientific instruments to examine the briney streaks in situ, or better still to bring some rock and soil samples back to Earth labs for analysis. But that is easier said than done.
For one thing, many of the locations where these dark streaks are located are in pretty inaccessible places. They run down the steep slopes of peaks and crater walls. Quite a number are inside the giant canyon system Valles Marineris.
The probes we've sent to Mars hitherto have all been targeted at flat plains. For obvious reasons. The precision of our landing technology is such that we cannot yet guarantee to put down "on the button".
Even the brilliant "skycrane" that delivered the Curiosity rover to the floor of Gale Crater in 2012 had a landing error ellipse of 7km by 20km. That's amazing after a journey of 570 million km, but the risk of slamming into Gale's big central mountain, or its crater walls, meant that engineers had no choice but to play safe and aim for flatlands that then required months of driving to get to the rover's primary science location.
Landing tech will improve, of that there is no doubt. And the copy of Curiosity that Nasa will send to Mars in 2020 expects to shrink the ellipse considerably.
But assuming you can put down safely, how do you get a robot to work on a steep slope? Present day rovers can only handle gentle inclines. Completely new types of probes would be needed - robots that can climb or even clamber over difficult terrain.
And as if that's not all hard enough, getting to investigate the enigmatic streaks faces another big challenge - and that is the risk of contamination.
The major space agencies, from the likes of the US, Russia and Europe, belong to what's called the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), which has drawn up guidelines for exploration.
Adhered to under international treaty, these guidelines describe the sort of cleanliness required by spacecraft, depending on where they want to go and what they want to do.
A flyby of a planet carries minimal risk, but Mars, with its history of water and its potential for life, finds itself in one of the top categories; and the streaks constitute a special region where extra care would be required.
There's good reason to try to be really clean. We don't want to carry earthly microbes to a pristine environment because that will prevent us from answering definitively one of the most fundamental questions in science: is there, or has there ever been, life on a planet other than our own?
Imagine a dirty spacecraft at Mars claiming a "positive detection" of indigenous microbes. That claim would rightly be dismissed with the criticism that the robot had merely seen evidence for Earth microbes that had hitched a lift to Mars.
You might think that spacecraft that have spent months travelling to the Red Planet, in the vacuum of space, exposed to copious amounts of ultraviolet light and damaging cosmic radiation, would effectively be fully sterilised by the time they arrive at the surface. But the experiments by astronauts at the Moon and on the exterior of the space station show otherwise. Some of the simplest organisms can be incredibly robust.
COSPAR's Planetary Protection guidelines would demand that any robot sent to water-made streaks - "recurring slope lineae" (RSL) to give them their proper name - had the highest level of cleanliness even before launch.
That is difficult, complex and expensive to achieve, but very doable. The Viking landers that went to Mars in the 1970s to look for life managed to attain this level of control, said Gerhard Kminek, the chair of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection.
"These are not new concepts. For 13 years we've had measures in the policy to deal with special regions and these have been reviewed, and in fact they were updated only last week. We had a meeting in Switzerland where we discussed anything with consequences for the policy, and of course RSLs are part of that. The point is we do not want to spend a lot of money trying to detect life on Mars only to end up just detecting terrestrial (Earth) organisms." | Wherever there's water, there's a good chance life can thrive. |
35,586,217 | Renard led Ivory Coast to the Africa Cup of Nations title in 2015, three years after winning it with Zambia.
After his Nations Cup victory with the Elephants Renard left to take over at French club Lille in May but was sacked in November.
Zaki left as coach of the Atlas Lions by mutual consent on 10 February.
As well as the full national team the Morocco football federation have announced that Renard will coach the one for locally-based players and oversee the Olympic side.
He has been set the targets of reaching the semi-finals of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon as well as qualifying for the World Cup a year later in Russia.
Renard will have two assistants, one is his long-time deputy Patrice Baumel and the other is the former Morocco international Mustapha Hadji.
Their first competitive games will be home and away Nations Cup qualifiers against Cape Verde at the end of March.
The two sides are currently top of Group F having won both their matches so far, Libya and Sao Tome are the other teams in the pool.
The Atlas Lions have also progressed to the final round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup. | Former Ivory Coast boss Herve Renard has been appointed as the new coach of Morocco on a three-year deal, replacing Badou Zaki. |
35,998,788 | The 34-year-old former Republic of Ireland international joined Town last summer from Brentford, Ipswich's opponents on Saturday.
Douglas made 169 league appearances for the Bees, scoring 17 goals, before joining the Tractor Boys.
He has made 33 league appearances this season, contributing three goals. | Ipswich midfielder Jonathan Douglas has triggered a clause in his contract which will extend his stay at Portman Road by 12 months. |
35,757,738 | Set 171 to win, Scotland were well placed when openers George Munsey and Kyle Coetzer shared 84 in nine overs.
But as the Afghan spinners took hold, the Scots lost 4-24 and fell short on 156-5.
Earlier, Mohammad Shahzad hit 61 from only 39 balls and Asghar Stanikzai 55 not out as Afghanistan posted 170-5.
For Afghanistan, coached by former Pakistan batsman Inzamam-ul-Haq, it is the ideal start to a qualifying campaign from which one team from each group of four will advance to the main draw.
Scotland, however, will now need other results to go their way if they are to have a chance of reaching the second week.
Scotland have played in three previous World T20s and three World Cups - 19 games in total - without recording a win in a major ICC global event.
The closest they came was against the same opponents at last year's World Cup, when Afghanistan completed a thrilling run-chase in the final over to win by one wicket.
Here, Scotland had their opportunity, firstly when their bowlers applied the brakes in the second half of the Afghanistan innings and when Munsey and Coetzer were together.
But, after Coetzer holed out, the Scots fell behind and 39 runs off the final three overs was too big an ask.
While Coetzer busily accumulated and enjoyed some luck, Munsey showed power through the off side, before both fell in the space of three balls.
Coetzer dragged a Samiullah Shenwari long hop to deep square leg, while Munsey was lbw to 17-year-old leg-spinner Rashid Khan.
Indeed, Scotland faltered as Afghanistan used the slow Nagpur pitch to bowl 12 consecutive overs of spin.
While Matt Machan remained, they had hope, but after he sliced to point in off-spinner Mohammad Nabi's excellent penultimate over, the game was as good as done.
That Afghanistan, the highest-ranked Associate nation in T20 cricket, got to a target that was out of reach was thanks to the squat figure of Shahzad.
Not only did the right-hander show inventiveness with ramps and reverse-sweeps, but also the raw power to hit three sixes in four balls.
But after he lofted the left-arm spin of Mark Watt to long-on, Scotland halted the charge. At one point, Afghanistan went four overs without finding a boundary.
Captain Stanikzai was steady rather than destructive - his 50-ball stay included only three boundaries - so late impetus came from Shafiqullah's five-ball 14.
Scotland captain Preston Mommsen: "Unfortunately we couldn't quite get over the line, we lost a couple of wickets at crucial times and it wasn't to be.
"We got a brilliant start but couldn't keep the foot on the accelerator and it wasn't enough. If we'd kept them to 10-15 runs less it would have been a fairer reflection of our efforts, we've just got to address that middle period when their spinners tied us down."
Afghanistan captain Asghar Stanikzai: "The opening partnership started well and our total was good as it was a slow wicket. The first win is very important for us. We need good line and length bowling in the first 10 overs."
Scotland meet Zimbabwe on the same ground at 09:30 GMT on Saturday knowing that defeat will mean elimination. Afghanistan can move closer to the main draw later that day when they take on Hong Kong. | Scotland missed the chance to record a first victory at a World Twenty20 as Afghanistan held on to win by 14 runs in Nagpur. |
17,938,189 | Dessie Grew was shot dead alongside fellow IRA man Martin McCaughey in County Armagh in October 1990.
The pair, who were both armed with AK47 rifles, were shot more than 30 times when the SAS unit opened fire at isolated farm buildings near Loughgall.
The ruling is thought to be the first 'shoot to kill' verdict in Northern Ireland in 30 years.
The deaths caused controversy in Northern Ireland when it was revealed that neither of the IRA men had fired a shot during the incident, prompting claims that the SAS had opened fire on the men without making an attempt to arrest them.
The inquest, which opened in March, examined the cause of the men's deaths and the planning and control of the SAS operation - including claims that Mr Grew had been shot twice as he lay mortally wounded on the floor of a mushroom shed.
The County Armagh farm was believed to have been under surveillance on the night of 9 October 1990 and the SAS fired more than 70 rounds in the incident.
The Detail news website
reported that Dessie Grew had been shot 22 times with wounds to his heart, lungs, liver, kidney, ribcage and diaphragm while Martin McCaughey was shot 10 times.
During the case, an SAS witness identified only as 'Soldier D' admitted opening fire on Mr Grew while he was on the ground.
However, he insisted his actions been justified, claiming the IRA man had made a noise as the SAS entered the shed and he believed the soldiers' lives were in danger.
Reaching its verdict after hearing weeks of evidence, the jury ruled that that the SAS had used "reasonable force" during the operation and that the IRA men's own actions had contributed to their deaths.
"Mr Grew and Mr McCaughey put their lives in danger by being in the area of the sheds in the vicinity of a stolen car, which was expected to be used in terrorist activity," the verdict stated.
"They were both armed with guns, wearing gloves and balaclavas and were approaching soldiers who believed that their lives were in immediate danger."
The men's families had campaigned for an inquest to be held for more than 20 years.
During the case, their barrister said that the families accepted that that both men had been on what was described as 'active service' for the IRA and were therefore liable to arrest.
However they argued that the shooting of the two men as they lay dying on the ground was evidence of a shoot-to-kill policy.
The Detail reported that the jury could not agree on whether the SAS had attempted to arrest the IRA men.
However, they ruled that the soldiers were justified in opening fire as they thought the IRA men had moved towards their positions and they believed they were under attack.
"We cannot be unanimous on the balance of probabilities whether or not there was an opportunity to attempt arrest in accordance with the Yellow Card (British Army rules on soldiers opening fire) prior to the soldiers feeling compromised.
"However, once the soldiers felt compromised we agree that there was no other reasonable course of action," the verdict said.
The coronor, Brian Sherrard, praised the Grew and McCaughey families for the dignity they had shown throughout the inquest.
Dessie Grew was 37 at time of his death. His older brother Seamus had been shot dead by the police in 1982.
Twenty-three-year-old Mr McCaughey was a former Sinn Fein councillor. | An inquest jury has ruled that an SAS soldier was justified in shooting an IRA man as he lay dying on the ground. |
36,094,948 | The Royal College of GPs and the British Medical Association have been highly vocal in their warnings of the severe strain on primary care services in England and the sometimes intolerable workload.
Now they are talking of "a huge and important step in the right direction" and "a significant and comprehensive package of proposals". So what does it all add up to?
To an extent the positive reaction from the RCGP and the BMA reflects what they argue is the success of their lobbying campaign.
For some time they have highlighted and complained about the dwindling slice of the NHS cake awarded to general practice.
The new plan, set out by the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, involves a reversal of that trend with the share of the NHS budget for general practice increasing from just over 8% this year to more than 10% by 2020.
Mr Stevens' comments alongside the launch of the plan are revealing. With what looks like a dig at successive governments he is saying very plainly that general practice has been underfunded for some time and that has contributed to the pressures on doctors and surgeries.
"If anyone 10 years ago had said: 'Here's what the NHS should now do - cut the share of funding for primary care and grow the number of hospital specialists three times faster than GPs', they'd have been laughed out of court. But looking back over a decade, that's exactly what's happened," Mr Stevens said.
The head of NHS England wants to let it be known that the pressures on GPs are being addressed and that action is now being taken.
The recruitment of 3,000 mental health therapists to work in practices alongside more clinical pharmacists, practice nurses, managers and receptionists is part of Mr Stevens' plan to ease the burden on GPs and allow them to focus more on those patients who most need care.
Boosting the GP workforce in England by 5,000 by 2020, in line with a government commitment, is at the heart of the new plan.
Mr Stevens and Dr Maureen Baker of the Royal College of GPs acknowledge this will not be straightforward but both seem confident it can be achieved.
They argue that the funding increase for general practice should make it easier to recruit. To reach that target, 500 extra doctors from outside the new UK will be required although reports that most will come from India have been denied.
So what about patients? The theory is that more money will facilitate extended surgery opening hours and the appointment of enough GPs to bring down waiting times for appointments.
Tailoring practice services to allow more online and Skype consultations for those who want them and "named doctor" relationships for older patients will be encouraged.
And yet doctors have been complaining that there is a real and immediate crisis for general practice with increasing numbers of unfilled vacancies and staff ground down by the workload leaving the profession.
The funding increases from NHS England will build up only gradually until 2020. One London GP said the announcement fell far short of what was needed to deal with a "state of emergency".
The challenge for Simon Stevens and GP leaders who support his plan is to show that doctors and patients are experiencing a tangible improvement.
A promise of more money is one thing - ensuring that it results in more resources and people across the grassroots of general practice is another. | A warm welcome from two groups representing GPs suggests the new package of measures announced by NHS England may have struck some of the right notes. |
33,970,184 | The head of the search and rescue agency said his team had found the aircraft completely destroyed and partially burnt.
The black box flight data recorder has also been found.
The plane came down on Sunday in dense forest in a mountainous area, close to its destination of Oksibil.
It was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children, and five crew members - all believed to be Indonesian.
The plane was also said to be carrying about 6.5 billion rupiah ($486,000; £300,000) in cash, which was due to be distributed to poor families in the area. Officials have not said whether this has been located.
Members of the rescue team - made up of about 100 police, military and civilians - began reaching the site on Tuesday morning.
Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, told reporters: "The plane was totally destroyed and all the bodies were burned and difficult to identify."
Bad weather and difficult terrain at the crash site were hampering efforts to remove the bodies but they will eventually be taken to the provincial capital for identification.
Officials confirmed the black box had also been found. It contains data on the plane's operations and could yield clues as to the cause of the crash.
The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane took off from Sentani airport in Jayapura at 14:21 local time on Sunday, 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.
Oksibil, which is about 280km (175 miles) south of Jayapura, is a remote, mountainous region, which is extremely difficult to navigate.
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 rescuers have recovered the remains of 54 people who died onboard a Trigana Air plane that crashed in Papua region on Sunday. |
39,107,973 | The authors of a report to Parliament say 25 million existing homes will not meet the insulation standards required by mid-century.
The UK needs to cut carbon emissions by 80% by then - and a third of those emissions come from heating draughty buildings.
The government said it would devise policies as soon as possible.
But critics say ministers have been far too slow to impose a national programme of home renovation which would save on bills and improve people's health, comfort and happiness. It would also create thousands of jobs.
Successive governments have been criticised for failing to tackle the UK's poor housing stock - some of the worst in Europe.
Local authorities have limited cash to insulate council homes, and landlords and owner-occupiers have proved reluctant to invest large sums in disruptive improvements that will save on bills, but take many years to pay off.
The report from a group of leading construction firms - the Green Building Council - says four out of five homes that will be occupied in 2050 have already been built.
That means 25 million homes need refurbishing to the highest standards by 2050 - at a rate of 1.4 homes every minute.
The authors say this huge challenge also offers an unmissable opportunity under the government's infrastructure agenda. The fiddly business of insulating roofs, walls and floors creates more jobs and has more benefits than any existing infrastructure priority, they maintain.
The question is how to pay. The government's Green Deal scheme for owner-occupiers collapsed amid a welter of criticism that interest rates for insulation were too high, and that the insulation itself was too much hassle.
The government has failed to produce a replacement solution to stimulate necessary demand for refurbishments amongst owner-occupiers. The Treasury is reluctant to throw public money at improvements that will increase the sale value of private homes.
The report recommends:
It says the construction industry needs certainty about what it is expected to deliver, and measurement to discover what is already being built. This should stimulate innovation, it says.
Julie Hirigoyen, head of the GBC, told BBC News there was a great prize to be grasped in upgrading building stock: "People will have warmer homes and lower bills; they will live longer, happier lives; we will be able to address climate change and carbon emissions.
"We will also be creating many thousands of jobs and exporting our best skills in innovation.
"Driving up demand for retro-fitting homes is essential for any policy to be a success - the Green Deal told us just offering financial incentives isn't necessarily the only solution. We need to make it all easy, attractive and affordable.
"The good thing is that the business community is really starting to recognise the opportunity."
Insulation: The unspoken reason for high fuel bills
Ms Hirigoyen called for support for innovation amongst builders. The GBC pointed to a firm, q-bot, which insulates people's floors by sending robots to creep under people's floorboards and spray them with foam.
The firm's head, Mathew Holloway, told BBC News: "We have to find new ways of doing things. Normal refurbishment often means literally tearing a home apart.
"That means local authorities having to re-house tenants whilst it's being done. With our robot, we can seal and insulate wooden floors without hardly touching the inside of the house."
Mr Holloway's start-up business was funded by the EU and the business department BEIS, but industry experts complain that building insulation research has received a tiny fraction of the sums channelled into glamorous renewables.
In the last 25 years, governments have tended to shy away from the issue. The Labour government made a rule that people extending their properties should be obliged to insulate the rest of their home too.
However, the Coalition government dropped the clause after it was labelled a "conservatory tax" in the media, even though it was not a tax and did not refer to conservatories.
The government is currently focused on bringing down bills through fuel switching - but home energy expert Russell Smith said: "Switching saves on average £25 a year. That's not much help to a person in fuel poverty. The solution is refurbishing homes, but it's difficult, so politicians keep putting it on the back burner."
Mr Smith is currently refurbishing Ruth Baber's home in Wimbledon, south London. He says it has added 10% to the £250,000 total cost, which included major extensions, but will save 80% of energy bills and take about 20 years to recoup.
Ms Baber is downsizing into the house and said: "I'm worried about climate change and I look forward to being able to control the heat in my house better. I've done it [the insulation programme] for my grandchildren, for the future."
The government's task is to persuade another 25 million people to follow her lead.
Follow Roger on Twitter @rharrabin | More than one home every minute will need to be refurbished in the UK between now and 2050, experts say. |
36,764,397 | It didn't take long for him to dive into his celebrations, popping into an ice bath with the Wimbledon trophy.
Andy's mum Judy was also close by to join in with the triumph.
Not all Murray's family were able to witness his big day first hand - his grandfather Roy missed the Wimbledon final to look after his dog.
The morning after, twice Wimbledon champ Murray revealed on a Facebook Live that there had been some good celebrations and he now can't wait to go to Rio for the Olympics.
Meanwhile, all the jubilation brought to mind some of Andy Murray's other high times on social media. | Andy Murray has done it again - becoming Wimbledon champion for the second time - and this time he said he intends to really enjoy it. |
40,595,953 | "Chocolate is the essential ingredient," says Igor Levit, who will play Beethoven's groundbreaking third piano concerto at the First Night.
"If my white tie is here and chocolate is with me, all is fine."
The classical music festival kicks off on Friday night with the world premiere of Tom Coult's St John's Dance. It will be shown on BBC Four from 20:00 BST.
The first night continues with a celebration of American composer John Adams, who turns 70 this year.
His piece Harmonium - based on poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson - will be performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Edward Gardner.
The concert concludes with Levit's chocolate-assisted rendition of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor.
The performances will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and on BBC Two from 21:00 BST.
Overall, the Proms season incorporates more than 90 shows, including performances in Hull and a tribute to cult musician Scott Walker.
Stars including Nicola Benedetti, Jarvis Cocker, Beatrice Rana, Simon Rattle, Jools Holland and Tom Jones all appear on the line-up.
Here are some of the things you should know about this year's programme. And if you want to go behind the scenes, why not join Proms director David Pickard live on Facebook at 14:30 BST for a tour of the Royal Albert Hall as it is set up for the first night.?
Chineke! will make their Proms debut on 30 August.
The brainchild of double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku, the ensemble is Europe's first majority BME orchestra. Founded just two years ago, it is one of the youngest groups ever to play the festival.
The orchestra is "not just Black African-Caribbean," Nwanoku told BBC 5 live. "We have Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Iran, even an Aborigine amongst us."
She says the ensemble was formed "to change perceptions" not just for the audience "but also us musicians ourselves".
The musician added: "I didn't know if this could exist. I had no idea. At the time [I established the orchestra], I could count on the fingers of one hand how many musicians of ethnicity I had ever worked with, and three of those were singers."
Pianist Gerard Aimontche, who occasionally plays with Chineke! (although not at the Proms) said the project will "break stereotypes".
"As you may know, black musicians very often get pigeonholed to jazz or hip-hop. It's a huge stereotype. People may not even know that black classical musicians exist. In reality, there are tons of us. I'm very excited about it."
"The amazing thing about opera at the Proms is it's like lifting the lid on the engine of opera, because you can see into the orchestra all the time. It's like you're enmeshed in it," says Radio 3's Tom Service.
"The storytelling is actually much more vivid because there isn't scenery, because there isn't a director in the way.
"You're forced to focus on the interactions between the singers, and you see what's happening with the musicians. You feel part of the drama. That's the unique thing about opera at the Proms."
Tom recommends the following operas from the 2017 programme: Beethoven's Fidelio (21 July); Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina (6 August); and Mozart's La clemenza di Tito (28 August).
A BBC Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall is never "sold out" before the day of the performance, because for each Prom up to 1,350 standing, or "Promming" places are available in the arena and gallery on the day.
Queuing for those tickets is all part of the experience. But which should you plump for?
"As someone who's been Promming since I've been 13, here's my secret: If you stand in the middle of the arena, that is the best place in the entire arena to listen to the Prom," says BBC Radio 3's Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Her co-presenter Petroc Trelawney disagrees. "I want to make a cry for the gallery because I love going up there," he told BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright Show.
"Downstairs in the arena, everyone's packed in and standing up. Up there, people are lying down. People bring cushions and blankets, they bring a little picnic to have in the interval. And the sound up there is extraordinary. [It] sort of gets whooshed up through the hall and it sounds fantastic."
On 29 July, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales will stage the first ever "relaxed Prom", delivering classical music in an informal environment.
"It's specifically designed not just for families, but also for adults with autism, sensory impairments and learning difficulties," says Tom Service.
"The message is simple to anyone who comes along: You can do what you want. You can talk, you can relate to each other however you like to. It's going to be a wonderful experience."
The broadcaster points out that this casual atmosphere used to be the norm.
"If you rewind 150, 200 years, it wasn't the case that everyone was sitting in silence and worshipping the music.
"The concerts were much more like being at Glasto and Latitude. So, for me, the relaxed Prom is a return to classical music's roots."
Sir Tom Jones will make his first ever appearance at the Proms as part of a celebration of soul record label Stax Records.
The singer will take part in a concert celebrating the Memphis-based label, performing tracks such as (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay and Soul Man alongside Stax stars Booker T Jones and Sam Moore. There will also be appearances by Beverley Knight, James Morrison and Ruby Turner.
"What a voice and what a personality," said David Pickard, who books the Proms for the BBC.
"Stax is really interesting. Their first big tour to the UK was 50 years ago, and Tom Jones is one of hundreds of artists who were hugely influenced by them."
The BBC has been broadcasting the Proms for the past 90 years, and to mark the anniversary, BBC Radio 3 is streaming the entire event in lossless audio.
In layman's terms, the concerts won't be compressed or squashed like an MP3 (which chucks out sounds the human ear can't hear). If you're interested in the nuts-and-bolts of what's being called "concert quality audio", there's a BBC blog post.
This audio won't be available on your radio, though. You'll need to go to the Proms website or the BBC Radio 3 website to experience it.
Prom 13, on 24 July, recreates a concert that originally took place in 1966.
It's to honour Malcolm Sargent, who was chief conductor of the Proms from 1947 until his death in 1967.
"We are recreating his 500th Prom," says Petroc Trelawney. "Isn't that amazing? One man conducted more than 500 Proms.
"Now we have dozens of conductors each year. But back then. you just had one or two conductors. So we have got all of Malcolm Sargent's hits, if you like, from that 500th Prom he did."
"Symphonies are the bread and butter of the Proms," says Tom Service, who picks Elgar's first and second symphonies as his personal Proms highlights.
The symphonies will be played on 15 and 16 July by the Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
"This is one of the most characterful and deep and warm and emotional orchestras in the world," he told BBC 6 Music.
"You'll know Elgar from the £20 note, with that Edwardian moustache. There's an idea that he represents old-world imperialism [but] this music is shot through with a genuinely radical spirit and an emotion that cuts you to the quick.
"It's there from the first bar of the first symphony. And the second symphony is, for me, literally devastatingly moving.
"You're going to have the most shattering, private intimate emotions on show here. And if you go there with Barenboim and Elgar's music, you're going to discover things about yourself, not just the symphony."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | If you're heading to the BBC Proms this year, take a tip from the professionals: bring chocolate. |
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Heatley fired into the bottom corner from the edge of the box in the 68th minute and then curled a sublime right-foot effort into the top corner on 74.
Third-placed Glenavon continued their recent good form by beating Coleraine 1-0 at Ballycastle Road.
Kevin Braniff headed home the winner from six yards out on the hour mark.
The Lurgan Blues are now unbeaten in their last nine away matches, stretching back to November, while the Bannsiders have lost five of their last seven home games.
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In the first half, Coleraine's Ruaidhri Higgins saw his drive whistle past the post and Kevin Braniff and Declan O'Brien went close for the visitors.
Braniff netted the winner against the run of play after the home defence failed to deal with Andy Hall's free-kick.
The best of the second-half chances fell to the hosts but Rodney Brown's header clipped the bar and Darren McCauley was denied by Jonny Tuffey.
Tuffey also made a fine save from James McLaughlin's 83rd-minute penalty after Kris Lindsay had been sent-off for a second bookable offence, a handball inside the area.
Crusaders had seen their lead at the summit reduced to two points when Linfield defeated Ballinamallard on Thursday night and the champions' recent form was not encouraging, having picked up just nine points from their previous six league fixtures.
In contrast, the Swifts had accumulated 13 points from six matches and had suffered just one reverse in seven Premiership outings.
Stephen Baxter's side started brightly as Michael Carvill saw his overhead kick sail over the bar and Andrew Mitchell struck a right-foot effort from 25 yards just wide.
Jordan Owens's shot was saved by Andy Coleman but for the most part, it was a lethargic, unconvincing first-half performance by the leaders.
After the break, Jordan Forsythe's header came off the post and into the hands of the goalkeeper, then Swifts forward Ally Teggart found himself through on goal but his left-foot attempt flew over the bar.
Heatley's double salvo in the space of six minutes took his season's tally to 22 goals and ensured Crusaders enjoy a five-point cushion ahead of their trip to Ballinamallard on Tuesday night. | Paul Heatley scored twice in the second half as Crusaders beat Dungannon Swifts 2-0 to restore their five-point lead at the top of the Irish Premiership table. |
38,366,889 | Rowett had led the Blues to seventh in the Championship before his exit.
The Cumbrians are currently in talks with an overseas party with regard to a financial involvement in the club.
"We need to nail down what happens, because we're quite happy with [boss] Keith Curle," Clibbens said.
He told BBC Radio Cumbria: "I don't know the details [of the Rowett departure] but these are the realities of the world.
"Having a load of cash is only part of what we need to deal with here."
Carlisle have been linked with new investment for almost two years, while recent negotiations have accelerated to a point where finer details are being discussed.
On the field, manager Curle has assembled a team which is two points behind leaders Plymouth and second in League Two after 21 games.
"The investor has outlined his overall vision of what he thinks he would do with his club," Clibbens added. "We've got to drill down and see what that means in reality.
"That, being brutal, means right down to who will manage the team." | Carlisle chief executive Nigel Clibbens says Gary Rowett's sacking as manager of Birmingham, after the club acquired new owners, highlights the need for thorough negotiations with investors. |
32,991,036 | In a speech, he said people should not have to "make trade-offs between privacy and security".
While not naming Facebook and Google explicitly, he attacked companies that "built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency".
Rights activists Privacy International told the BBC it had some scepticism about Mr Cook's comments.
"It is encouraging to see Apple making the claim that they collect less information on us than their competitors," Privacy International's technologist Dr Richard Tynan said.
"However, we have yet to see verifiable evidence of the implementation of these claims with regard to their hardware, firmware, software or online services.
"It is crucial that our devices do not betray us."
Addressing an audience in Washington DC, Mr Cook said: "I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information.
"They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetise it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be."
Mr Cook had been given a corporate leadership award by the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, a US-based research group.
According to TechCrunch, he later added that Apple "doesn't want your data".
Google has not commented on Mr Cook's comments specifically, but a spokeswoman referred the BBC to the privacy section of its website, which the company has recently updated.
"Ads are what enable us to make our services like Search, Gmail, and Maps free for everyone," one page reads.
"We do not share information with advertisers in a way that personally identifies you, unless you gave us permission."
Facebook suggested this page outlining how it collects user data.
While Apple does not hold the same wealth of data looked after by Google and Facebook, it does use personal information to target advertising.
A page for marketers on Apple's website offers "400 targeting options" for reaching users.
It reads: "Whether you're looking for moms or business travellers or groups of your own customers, we've got you covered."
Apple's lack of data, when compared with some of its rivals, could be a disadvantage for future devices. Services such as Google Now, which use stored data to predict what information users may need, require vast amounts of personal data to be effective.
Mr Cook also spoke at length about encryption.
His company introduced encryption measures by default to its devices late last year, a move heralded by privacy campaigners but heavily criticised by several governments.
Mr Cook hit out at governments that had pressured technology companies to allow for so-called "backdoors" to aid with counter-terrorism and other enforcement.
"There's another attack on our civil liberties that we see heating up every day," Mr Cook said.
"It's the battle over encryption. Some in Washington are hoping to undermine the ability of ordinary citizens to encrypt their data."
He added: "If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it too."
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC | Apple chief Tim Cook has made a thinly veiled attack on Facebook and Google for "gobbling up" users' personal data. |
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The former captain scored 153 not out on day one at Edgbaston, as England closed on 348-3.
The England and Wales Cricket Board believes the Dukes ball is the closest in form to the traditional red one used in first-class and Test cricket.
"We'll know more two or three years down the line," said Cook.
"We'll then be able to see how it reacts in all kinds of situations, but I thought it was a good ball."
Cook scored 23 boundaries and batted out the full 90 overs of the opening day of the inaugural day-night Test in the UK.
"I can't see this not being a success in other parts of the world, but whether we need to do it in England is a different matter," he said.
"The trouble is that it's not dark until the last hour in England. In other parts of the world you get a session and a half in the dark."
The match began at 14:00 BST, with 'lunch' taken at 16:00, 'tea' at 18:40 and play finishing at 21:30.
"I was yawning at nine o'clock because that was about my bed time," said Cook.
"You're programmed to start at 11 with a red ball - the change can take a little bit of time."
The Essex batsman shared a 248-run partnership with captain Joe Root, the highest for the third wicket in a Test at Edgbaston.
Cook described Root - who made 136 - as a "genius," adding: "It's incredible how he manages to score like he does. If he's not the best English player I've played with then he's right up there.
"The way he moves, his rhythm - it's a lesson to us all."
West Indies bowling coach Roddy Estwick said the tourists were "disappointed in the dressing room", after the bowlers conceded 53 boundaries over the course of the day. | The "jury is still out" on the pink ball being used in the day-night Test against West Indies, says England's opening batsman Alastair Cook. |
32,236,454 | Carter, 26, will be available for Championship matches against Leicestershire, Surrey and Derbyshire.
Hogan hurt a hamstring playing for Western Australia and hopes to return against Derbyshire on 2 May, but is still awaiting further medical opinion.
"I've done a few running sessions, it feels positive but we'll wait and see how the scan comes back," Hogan said.
"I can do 85 to 90% of the things I'm required to do but we're not sure if I can bowl or not. We're quite tentative as to getting back into bowling because that's what happened last time I went back maybe a week too soon.
"It felt really good before and it happened [the re-occurrence].
"So it's frustrating I'm not able to participate in full training but positive in that it could have been a potential three-month injury and it's not going to end up like that."
In the meantime Carter, who has taken 70 wickets at 29.71 in 24 first-class matches since his debut in 2009, is set to make his first Glamorgan appearance at Grace Road on Sunday.
"I'm keen to play first-class cricket and Nottinghamshire want me to be involved in competitive matches," Carter told the Glamorgan website.
"I've never been one to sit around and my previous loan move to Essex worked out well for me and helped me to break into the Nottinghamshire team." | Nottinghamshire fast bowler Andy Carter will join Glamorgan on a month's loan to cover for Australian Michael Hogan. |
27,452,250 | In a joint statement, the companies said they would work together in "some areas of patent reform".
But the deal did not include licensing their technology to each other.
Apple - which produces iPhones - and firms that make phones using Google's Android software earlier filed dozens of lawsuits against one another.
Earlier this month, a jury in California ordered South Korea's Samsung firm to pay Apple $119.6m (£71m) for for infringing two of its patents.
The court also ruled that Apple infringed Samsung's patents and awarded $158,000 in damages.
Android software is now installed on some 80% of new phones sold every year. | Mobile phone industry giants Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss lawsuits they had brought against each other over technology patents. |
37,158,826 | After a 1-1 away draw last week, West Ham went behind when Filipe Teixeira precisely finished a swift counter-attack by the Romanian champions.
After the break West Ham's Jonathan Calleri and Winston Reid missed good chances and Ashley Fletcher went close.
But West Ham could not avoid a first competitive loss at the London Stadium.
"The disappointment is massive," said Hammers manager Slaven Bilic.
"We didn't play good in the first half or with desire as a team. We were second best."
Hammers boss Bilic had stressed the importance of "getting the job done" and reaching the Europa League group stage after starting their qualifying campaign back in late July.
But they could not break down a stubborn Astra side, who have only won once in five league games this season but went through on Thursday by converting one of just two shots they had on target.
In contrast, the Hammers had 17 unsuccessful attempts at goal - again highlighting Bilic's need for attacking reinforcements.
The Croat says he is interested in signing Manchester City forward Wilfried Bony, but will not "beg" anyone to join the club.
Bilic freshened up his side again, making eight changes from the starting XI which beat Premier League rivals Bournemouth at the weekend.
However, he had few attacking options to choose from, with Dimitri Payet, Andy Carroll, Manuel Lanzini and Andre Ayew all out injured.
As a result his team did not provide enough creativity and attacking threat against a side many expected them to beat.
Argentine striker Calleri missed two golden chances, one either side of the break, with only Fletcher - a young forward signed from Manchester United this summer - providing real spark when he came on shortly after the hour mark.
The Hammers' exit from Europe's secondary club competition leaves Manchester United and Southampton as the only English sides in Friday's draw.
Both teams moved directly into the group stage after finishing fifth and sixth in the Premier League last season, above seventh-placed West Ham.
Italian giants Inter Milan, Dutch runners-up Ajax and Spanish side Athletic Bilbao are all potential opponents for the English pair, along with Dundalk, who fell short of becoming the first Irish team to reach the Champions League group stage.
The draw takes place at 12:00 BST on Friday.
West Ham are left to focus solely on their domestic season. Next up is a Premier League trip to Manchester City, who have won both of their opening matches, on Sunday (16:00 BST). | West Ham failed to reach the Europa League group stage as Astra Giurgiu knocked them out in the qualifying round for the second year in a row. |
36,848,039 | Andrew RT Davies also said Labour-Plaid Cymru policy liaison committees, set up in May to ensure Carwyn Jones's nomination as first minister, lacked clear remits for farming or Brexit.
Mr Davies said important issues would "fall by the wayside".
Ministers said their top priority was getting Wales the "best possible deal".
On Monday, Rural Affairs Secretary Lesley Griffiths said Brexit was a chance to introduce a "made-in-Wales" approach to farming.
Mr Davies, who campaigned for Vote Leave during the EU referendum, was speaking to BBC Wales at the Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd, Powys on Wednesday.
Asked if he thought the Welsh Government could create its own agriculture policies after Brexit, he said: "From the discussions I've had on the show field there is a real issue around capacity in Welsh Government to reach for the challenge ahead and actually look at the opportunities that are opening up before us."
Mr Davies said: "At the moment I don't think that capacity exists and I don't think there [was] any pre-planning for the outcome of the referendum.
"That is deeply concerning."
Vote Leave had previously called for the Welsh Government to work with pro-Brexit politicians in forming their response to leaving the EU.
Mr Davies added that none of the working groups between Labour and Plaid Cymru "seems to have a clear remit when it comes to agriculture or indeed Brexit negotiations".
"Things will fall by the wayside that shouldn't be falling by the wayside," he said.
"We've heard on the show field today the lacklustre response to Bovine TB. As we can all look at the headlines about Brexit, there are the day to day challenges that the rural economy and agriculture faces.
"I see no impetus coming from government at the moment to address those day to day issues, leave alone the big headline issue of Brexit.
"I think it's deeply concerning that we had a priorities for government statement five days before the Royal Welsh... and not one mention of agriculture or the rural economy.
"If my memory serves me right there was little about rural broadband and connectivity, there was nothing about infrastructure and transport infrastructure for rural areas, or bovine TB...[or] to get small to medium sized businesses to locate to rural Wales to create quality jobs so we can have sustainable communities."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Our number one priority is to get the best possible deal for the people of Wales.
"Under the devolution settlement, we will work with the UK government to create a new context for policies and programmes in Wales as powers are repatriated from the EU." | Welsh ministers do not have the capacity to make Wales-only agriculture policies after the UK leaves the EU, the Welsh Conservative leader has said. |
12,816,930 | Noye, 63, stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron during a fight on an M25 slip road at Swanley in 1996.
He fled to Spain afterwards but was extradited in 1998 and jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2000. He denied murder, on the grounds of self-defence.
Two previous appeals by Noye, in 2001 and 2004, were unsuccessful.
Mr Cameron was stabbed in front of his fiance, Danielle Cable, who is now in a witness protection scheme.
Noye's case was being looked at again following a decision by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to refer it to the Court of Appeal.
Clare Montgomery QC had told Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, and two other judges that key prosecution witnesses at the trial were now "so discredited" that Noye's conviction should be quashed.
She said the court must regard pathologist Michael Heath and eyewitness Alan Decabral as being "so discredited or potentially discredited that the court would have to ignore their evidence".
Ms Montgomery said fresh evidence had demonstrated their unreliability and therefore the conviction was unsafe.
Mr Decabral, 40, from Pluckley in Kent, was shot dead in October 2000, six months after Noye's trial.
Noye launched his appeal in 2001 on the grounds that Mr Decabral had a criminal background and had lied in the witness box.
Kent Police said to date there had been no charges in relation to Mr Decabral's death, and the file on the case remained open.
Giving judgement on Tuesday, Lord Judge, sitting with Mr Justice Henriques and Mr Justice Davis, said there was no doubt that Mr Cameron was "deliberately stabbed" by Noye, and that it "was not self-defence".
Lord Judge said: "Rather it was a gross over-reaction in the context of a fight with an unarmed man, almost certainly consequent on the fact that the appellant was losing it."
He said nothing in Dr Heath's evidence "threw light on the truthfulness, or otherwise, of what the appellant asserted was in his mind, which was that he struck out in a panic while in mortal fear".
The prosecution case was that Noye had deliberately used the knife and caused the fatal injury, "not because he was in a panic or fearful of mortal injury, but because he had involved himself in a fight which he was determined he should not lose, and so he resorted to the use of a fatal weapon".
Lord Judge said: "To open the knife, and then return to the fight and 'punch' Mr Cameron with the open knife held in his fist was a wholly disproportionate response."
He went on to say that Noye could have tried to run away, or sought refuge among the many people who were nearby.
Lord Judge added that if Noye had genuinely thought Mr Cameron might have disarmed him and used the knife on him, he could have thrown it away.
"Dr Heath's evidence did not impinge on the essential issues in this trial, and the diminution of his standing as an expert witness does not undermine the safety of this conviction."
The judges found that no point raised during the appeal had caused the court to doubt the safety of the conviction.
Speaking outside court, Det Insp Dave Withers of Kent Police said: "We are pleased that the court have examined the evidence that has been presented and have found that the conviction is safe.
"We now hope that this brings some reassurance to Stephen Cameron's family and friends." | Kenneth Noye, one of the UK's most notorious criminals, has lost his appeal against his conviction for a road rage murder in Kent. |
32,832,466 | The US Capitol police have accidentally left their guns in the building's toilets three times in 2015.
The officers involved have been disciplined. One gun was found by a child.
"We are now providing additional training on what to do when you have to go to the bathroom," Capitol Police Chief Kim C Dine told Congress.
The Capitol Police are responsible for protecting senators, congressmen and women, other staff and visitors to the Capitol in Washington DC.
They also police the Capitol grounds and the surrounding area.
Mr Dine was testifying to the House Administration Committee after a series of embarrassing episodes affecting the police force.
He said there was no excuse for leaving guns behind in toilets and more lockers are being installed to store firearms.
A first-time offender is typically suspended for five days but this could be increased to 30 days, he said. There could be sackings for individuals who re-offend.
"I would be remiss if I did not say that the officers involved in these recent weapons cases reported in the media in no way intended to leave their weapons unattended.
"But as noted, this is not acceptable and they will be held accountable,'' he said. | Armed police officers in Washington DC are being trained in how to use public toilets without leaving guns behind. |
37,575,993 | Andrea Bald is the great-great-great-granddaughter of William Bald - the man whose road changed the face of the Glens forever.
In 1831, Mr Bald was tasked with connecting the area's small towns and villages.
Up until then, the people of North Antrim lived as one community with their closest neighbours in western Scotland - connected by the sea.
The Kingdom of Dalriada, as it was known, comprised the northern part of County Antrim and some of the Inner Hebrides and Argyll, in Scotland.
It was easier to trade with those across the water than to traverse the mighty Glen to the likes of Ballymena or Belfast.
Many other engineers had been consulted on how to link the Glens with the rest of Northern Ireland, but most suggested a series of complicated bridges and passageways.
Mr Bald had a different vision. He set out to literally blast a road into the miles of towering sea cliffs - and succeeded.
The Antrim Coast Road - or the A2, to give it its less romantic name - hugs the dramatic coastline. It is flanked on each side by lofty cliff faces or miles of deep blue ocean and is a jewel in the crown of the area.
Ms Bald, who is also an engineer, believed her father's story about his grandfather's accomplishment was nothing more than a family myth.
As a child in the 1950s my Dad was told by his father, 'my grandfather built the Antrim Coast Road,'" she recalled.
"Without any details to go on - not even a first name - in about 2002, Dad decided he should search on the internet and came across an academic paper from the 1960s about William Bald, the man who built the Antrim Coast Road.
"By 2007 he had found quite a lot of information about William, his work and his family, but we hadn't found any records to confirm that he was really ours.
"I sent away to the UK for my great-grandfather's birth certificate, which confirmed that his father was Charles Bald, CE (Civil Engineer), eldest son of William Bald."
Now Ms Bald, along with her son Levi, has visited the Antrim Coast to experience the road for herself.
"It was an amazing feeling, driving the road," she said.
"It's such a beautiful area and certainly lives up to its reputation, it's just spectacular, but having the family link made it super special for me.
"In one way it was like going to an ancestor's house or gravesite.
"What I found really weird was that there were all these people who knew all about William Bald, my mystery ancestor.
"Levi and I stopped at a spot just north of Carnlough that my Dad had researched on the internet, called Largy Road.
"We talked to some people at a house there, sure enough, they knew the little stretch of road as Baldy's Branch, linking the old road down to the new coast road, or Baldy's road.
"It sounds sort of cheesy, but I guess it really instilled in me a sense of pride, learning about how significant the road really was to the communities of the Antrim coast."
Ms Bald was struck by the enormity of the job taken on by her great-great-great-grandfather.
"It's hard to fathom the scale of construction so long ago, and how huge a job it was to blast the cliffs and build miles and miles of road," she said.
"It dawned on me when I was there that there simply was no road before, no access by land to some parts, especially the headlands - so William must have been out in a boat to assess and plan and figure out what he was going to do.
"He must have been a pretty intrepid sort of a bloke."
Shaping the Coast will air on BBC Two Northern Ireland on Sunday 9 October at 10pm.
The three-part series will explore the largely unknown story of the creation of the Antrim Coast Road, as well as stories about its history and its people. | The Antrim Coast Road has become one of the iconic drives of Europe - but for one woman it represents the journey of a lifetime. |
37,288,765 | The 33-year-old, who was most recently at Newcastle, quit rugby in May but has joined Andy Robinson's side to cover Marc Jones who has a knee injury.
Jones could be out for up to three months after sustaining the knock in a pre-season match.
Hawkins, a Premiership winner with Leicester in 2013, became a special constable with the police in November. | Former Newcastle hooker Rob Hawkins has come out of retirement to join Bristol on a short-term deal. |
38,959,441 | "The last thing Canadians expect is for me to come down and lecture another country on how they choose to govern," he said at the White House.
Both leaders stressed the countries' shared economic goals and co-operation at a joint news conference.
But their responses to questions about Syrian refugees underscored their contrasting policies on immigration.
Mr Trump defended his controversial travel ban, saying he wanted "to have a big beautiful, open door", but that "we cannot let the wrong people in".
The US president has stirred controversy for issuing an executive order temporarily banning entry of all refugees and visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries.
A federal judge has issued a temporary nationwide block on the travel ban, but the issue of refugees appeared to overshadow the joint news conference.
Mr Trudeau said the US and Canada had always been strong allies, fighting alongside one another on various battlefields.
"But there are times when we have differed in our approaches. And that's always been done firmly and respectfully," he said.
The prime minister added that Canada continues to "pursue our policies of openness" without compromising security and would serve as a "positive example in the world".
The Canadian leader made global headlines for accepting nearly 40,000 refugees, and has said his country will welcome those fleeing persecution and war.
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When Mr Trump signed the controversial order, Mr Trudeau tweeted his government's commitment to bringing in "those fleeing persecution, terror & war".
He also sent a pointed tweet that showed him greeting a young refugee at a Canadian airport in 2015.
"This is a delicate situation here I don't think it would help anyone in this country if the prime minister went to the US and started a fight," said Opposition Conservative leader Rona Ambrose.
The two men, however, emphasised their commitment to provide growth and jobs for people on both sides of the northern border.
"We will co-ordinate closely to protect jobs in our hemisphere and to keep wealth in our continent," said Mr Trump.
Mr Trudeau gave Mr Trump a framed photograph of the US president and the prime minister's father, Pierre Trudeau.
The picture was taken in 1981 when the then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau received an award in New York City, according to the prime minister's office.
The US president's pledge to renegotiate free trade deal Nafta has reportedly unsettled Canadian officials - 75% of the country's exports go to the US.
The two leaders, and Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka, also led a roundtable discussion on female workers.
The neighbouring countries launched a new task force called the United States Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Business Leaders-Female Entrepreneurs.
Ivanka Trump, who appealed to working women throughout her father's presidential campaign, helped secure female executives to participate and set the agenda for the meeting.
The joint task force may help allay tensions over some of the protectionist measures Mr Trump has issued since he took office in January.
It was a cold that Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal could barely comprehend.
On Christmas Eve, they found themselves struggling through a waist-deep field of snow in a rash night-time bid to sneak across the Canada-US border.
The two men had met a just few hours before at a Minneapolis bus station and both faced deportation back to Ghana after being denied refugee status in the US.
They had heard through a network of other refugees and African expats that if they could get into Canada, they had a second shot at asylum in the north.
By the time they reached Highway 75 in Manitoba, their hands had frozen into claws. They could not reach the phones in their pockets to dial 9-1-1 as planned. Mohammed's eyes had frozen shut.
Read the full story here: US migrants seek refugee status in Canada | Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he will not lecture President Donald Trump on Syrian refugees. |
39,740,582 | Theresa May: "What I recognise is that what we need in this country is strong and stable leadership."
It's probably fair to say that this is not the stuff of epic election moments - those times that have shaped all our destinies; moments when the country asks itself, truly, who governs?; days when suddenly, a leader, a party's fate is decided.
Theresa May, it's also probably fair to assume, did not dream of that question being put to her, nor of having to provide an answer, and, slightly robotically, grimly stick to her prepared script come hell or high water, rather than echo the colourful copy of her foreign secretary.
Nor perhaps, was Boris Johnson's first big day out on the campaign trail designed to land the prime minister with questions tonight about her intentions for Syria.
Would she just do Donald Trump's bidding if asked to help in another attack? Hypothetical questions she resolutely refused to answer at a rally of the party faithful in Yorkshire.
Yet few in Tory HQ will be weeping at the product of Boris Johnson's arrival in this campaign, whether it is his Victorian insult hurled at Jeremy Corbyn, which will have upset some voters, (we heard that sentiment that the Tories were "bullying" Mr Corbyn on the trail in Essex), nor his admission that it would be "very difficult" for the UK to refuse Donald Trump.
Whether it was the accidental or deliberate howls of not one, but two dead cats today, the foreign secretary's productive morning attracted yet more attention to one of the issues the Conservatives believe is most dangerous for Jeremy Corbyn.
His attitudes towards security and defence, long held, and central to his core supporters, are, the Tories believe, one of his greatest vulnerabilities in this campaign. For floating voters, or many traditional Labour voters, the Tories will have been only too glad to create as much noise as they can. | Presenter: "Do you know what a mugwump is?" |
33,285,950 | Brendan Boland was sexually abused by Fr Brendan Smyth in the 1970s.
An inquiry heard this week that police in Dublin were aware of Smyth's activities as far back as 1973, more than 20 years before he was convicted.
Mr Boland also said an apology to abuse survivors from a senior member of the Catholic church was "weak and feeble".
Smyth was a notorious child abuser, and was at the centre of one of the first clerical abuse scandals to hit the Catholic church in Ireland.
Details emerged at Northern Ireland's Historical Instutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry on Wednesday that gardaí (Irish police) were aware that a psychiatric hospital had diagnosed Smyth as "suffering from paedophilia".
But he was not jailed until the 1990s, when he was convicted of more than 100 indecent assaults against children, in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, over a 40-year period.
Mr Boland said the revelation that police knew of Smyth's offending was "shocking".
"[Gardaí] are equally as responsible as the Catholic church because they chose not to prosecute him," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"And if they had prosecuted him back then I would never have met him, so I'd never have been abused in the first place.
"I can't imagine what my life would've been like now. I don't think it'll ever leave me."
The retired Cardinal Seán Brady, the former head of the Catholic church in Ireland, appeared at the inquiry on Thursday and apologised to those affected by Smyth's actions.
He had been involved in a 1975 internal church inquiry into the priest's activities.
Mr Boland, who was 14 at the time, reported the abuse to the then Fr Brady, and was interviewed about his allegations.
Mr Boland was made to sign an oath of secrecy at the time, and police were never informed of the abuse.
Cardinal Brady's apology to Smyth's victims was "a last-ditch attempt to save his face and the face of the Catholic church", Mr Boland said.
He added that the senior cleric had made an attempt to contact him previously to apologise, but that it was to be "under his conditions".
"If I had have went I would've felt like a little boy again being scrutinised in his environment," he said.
"I refused to go." | A victim of a prolific paedophile priest has said Irish police must be held responsible for the abuse he suffered as a boy. |
38,593,247 | A statement from the organisers said they were advised to cancel the performance in light of "events that happened around New Years Eve".
This seemed to be a reference to reports that many woman were "molested" during celebrations.
However police have denied this is the reason for cancelling the concert.
"The organisers sought permission for today's programme only on 10 January. But our entire force is busy with security arrangements for the APMC Yard (agricultural produce marketing committee yard) elections. Let them seek fresh permission in time for their concert, we will allow it," Bangalore range Inspector General Seemant Kumar Singh told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi.
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The artist, best known for hits like Titanium and When Love Takes Over has a huge fan following in India.
He is scheduled to perform in Mumbai and the southern city of Hyderabad this weekend.
#DavidGuetta has begun trending on Twitter in India with many criticising what they call the police inability to maintain law and order in one of India's biggest cities. | The cancellation of a concert by international DJ David Guetta in the southern Indian city of Bangalore has been met with outrage. |
37,464,692 | Police were called to the River Erewash when the teenager did not re-emerge.
Fire officers and the ambulance service helped search for him and police divers found a body within two hours.
Nottinghamshire Police said in a statement that they were investigating the circumstances of the incident.
One local resident told the Nottingham Post that a boy had been there with his parents.
Another said: "He was just playing. You just don't think." | A body of a young male has been recovered from a river in Stapleford outside Nottingham, following reports of a 14-year-old boy going missing in the water. |
19,842,812 | The event had been facing the axe after sponsorship dried up.
However, councillors have now opted to spend £50,000 from the Common Good Fund to put on a display to see in the new year.
Fresh efforts will be made to attract private sector sponsors for future years. | Aberdeen's Hogmanay fireworks display will go ahead this year, despite earlier fears about funding. |
30,728,842 | The condition affects the internal organs, especially the lungs, by clogging them with thick sticky mucus, making it hard to breathe.
About a third of patients die before they get a donor lung. Here is one patient's story.
Matt Lodge, 23, from Bristol, had been on the critical list for two and a half years when he agreed to allow BBC Inside Out West to film his journey in May 2014.
Currently in England people have to opt-in if they want to donate organs when they die. Some campaigners are calling for an opt-out system to be brought in.
Mr Lodge and his family felt so strongly about the debate they agreed for the BBC to follow them regardless of the outcome.
He had to complete a furniture design course at home because he became too ill to continue his studies at university.
"My plan is to hopefully have a transplant, and get back to being able to work and to design," he said at the time. "It will allow me to get back to normal."
It was a race against time. Mr Lodge's condition was worsening. If he became too weak to endure the operation he would be taken off the waiting list.
Mr Lodge got the call to travel to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after a possibly suitable set of lungs became available. He said he had "mixed feelings".
He was ready to have the operation, but it was a tense wait while doctors decided whether the donor organ was suitable.
And then came the bad news. He was told the lungs were not of high enough quality and the risk of a transplant would be too great.
Later that month he received another call as he was preparing to go to the Glastonbury Festival.
Again he travelled to hospital and again he was told the lungs were not suitable.
"It's the right decision, it's just frustrating," he said, as he headed off to the festival.
Finally, a suitable donor was found and Mr Lodge, who was now 24, was called in for his surgery.
A difficult operation was complicated further because his old lungs were so badly damaged they had become welded to his ribcage.
But after many hours in surgery the operation was completed. Mr Lodge woke up with a new set of lungs and surgeons were happy with the way the operation went.
However, he was not out of the woods yet. He suffered some serious complications including a stroke, causing temporary paralysis and tremors.
Seven weeks later things had improved. He was still in hospital and was recovering well.
"My friends say the biggest change is that I don't cough any more.
"And I can walk and talk [at the same time]. Before the operation I had to choose [to do one or the other]."
His mum Liz said: "He's a real fighter and he's come through it really well."
Mr Lodge still has cystic fibrosis - the operation is not a cure, and it's likely he will need another transplant operation in future. A new set of lungs lasts for eight years on average. But, for now, his quality of life has been vastly improved.
"I've still got a long way to go but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel," he said.
"Hopefully, in a few more months I'll be feeling my normal self."
Follow Matt's journey on Inside Out: West on BBC One on Monday 12 January 2014, at 19:30 GMT, and on the BBC iPlayer after the programme has been broadcast. | People suffering with cystic fibrosis can face a wait of several years for a lung transplant operation. |
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Peter McGrail's victory over Ukrainian Mykola Butsenko in the 56kg final was the high point for England, while Joseph Ward (81kg) won gold for Ireland against Russian Muslim Gadzhimagomedov.
On Friday, Callum French (60kg) took bronze as he lost his semi-final.
England claimed eight medals in total Ukraine - the highest of any nation. Their previous best was six in 2015.
Two years ago in Bulgaria, England claimed four gold, one silver and one bronze.
In Kharkiv on Saturday, Russia's Vasilii Egorov beat England's Galal Yafai (46-49kg), before Daniel Panev Asenov of Bulgaria beat Niall Farrell (52kg).
After McGrail's victory, Luke McCormack (64kg) was beaten by Armenian Hovhannes Bachkov, Abbas Baraou of Germany beat Pat McCormack (69kg), Cheavon Clarke (91kg) lost to Russia's Evgeny Tishchenko and FrazerEdward Clarke (+91kg) was outpointed by another Russian, Viktor Vykhryst.
Many of the fighters competing in Ukraine are part of the new GB Boxing squad, which has changed significantly in preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as many athletes who competed at Rio 2016 have either turned professional or are set to do so. | England won one gold and six silver medals on the final day of competition at the European Boxing Championships. |
37,985,464 | The BBC's Price of Football, the biggest study of its kind in Europe and now in its sixth year, looked at more than 1,000 ticket prices at 223 clubs.
The average prices in all four ticket categories we analysed in both tiers of the WSL have gone up.
However, the women's league as a whole worked out cheapest, with no matchday tickets costing more than £8.
The average price of the cheapest season ticket in the top tier is £34.78, while the average price of the most expensive season ticket is £44.44 - a rise of 15% from 2015.
In WSL2, the average price of the cheapest season ticket is £31.56 and the most expensive averages £34.67.
WSL1 side Chelsea Ladies and Oxford United Women in the WSL2 are the only clubs who have frozen or reduced their tickets in all categories.
The cheapest matchday ticket is available at Watford for £3, while you will pay the most at Birmingham City and Bristol City (£8).
Notts County Ladies offer the most expensive season ticket at £75 and the cheapest can be found at Sunderland for £15. | The Women's Super League remains the cheapest league in the UK despite a rise in ticket prices. |
40,540,359 | Deadlock over the issue had held up the last day of talks in Hamburg but a final agreement was eventually reached.
It acknowledges President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement without undermining the commitment of other countries.
The compromise comes after violent protests in the host city.
The joint summit statement released on Saturday said: "We take note of the decision of the United States of America to withdraw from the Paris Agreement."
However, the leaders of the other G20 members agreed the accord committing nations to restrict global temperature increases was "irreversible".
In her closing news conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she still deplored Mr Trump's position on the Paris accord but she was "gratified" the other 19 nations opposed its renegotiation.
The statement also said the US would "endeavour to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently".
Mr Trump has pledged to help the US coal industry make a comeback and has previously characterised the Paris agreement as trying to disadvantage American workers.
He won another concession on a second sticking point - trade. While renewing a pledge against protectionism, the communiqué for the first time underlined the right of countries to protect their markets.
Mr Trump cancelled his own scheduled news conference on Saturday, reinforcing the image of the G20 as the G19 + 1, reports the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Robbins.
It has been divisive summit in which the rest of the world has been struggling to come to terms with the US president's "America first" policy, our correspondent says.
"I think it's very clear that we could not reach consensus, but the differences were not papered over, they were clearly stated," Mrs Merkel told reporters.
She said she did not share the view of UK Prime Minister Theresa May that Washington could decide to return to the climate agreement.
But Mrs May reiterated her belief that the US could rejoin the accord in her news conference on Saturday.
And French President Emmanuel Macron also remained hopeful of persuading Mr Trump to change his mind, saying: "I never despair of convincing him because I think it's my duty."
He announced that Paris would host another summit on 12 December to make further progress on the climate agreement and to address financing.
There have been large protests in the city, with demonstrators and armed police clashing into the early hours of Saturday.
Demonstrators - who were protesting against the presence of Mr Trump and Mr Putin, climate change and global wealth inequalities - set fire to vehicles and barricades, threw rocks at officers and looted shops.
At one point, police chased protesters across rooftops while officers on the streets used water cannon on protesters.
Nearly 200 police officers were injured during the protests. Dozens of protesters have been detained.
President Trump met Prime Minister May on the sidelines of the summit on Saturday and said a US-UK trade deal would be signed soon.
He also confirmed he would visit the UK, but said the details had still to be worked out.
On Friday, the US president used his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 to discuss the alleged Russian hacking of last year's US presidential election.
President Putin said on Saturday he believed President Trump had accepted his assurances that Moscow had not interfered in the vote.
He said he had established a working relationship with his US counterpart and a ceasefire in southern Syria - agreed between the US, Russia and Jordan on Friday - was a result of America becoming more pragmatic.
Mr Trump held his final talks of the event with President Xi Jinping, where they discussed efforts to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
President Xi suggested visits between the two countries' defence ministers, according to state news agency Xinhua. | Leaders of 19 nations at the G20 summit in Germany have renewed their pledge to implement the Paris deal on climate change, despite the US pulling out. |
36,376,196 | Jenny Downey, described Michael Freshwater, 49, as the "perfect gentleman" and said she "still can't accept" his death.
He was found dead at his flat in Westridge Road, Southampton, on 29 April.
To date 12 arrests have been made in connection with Mr Freshwater's death, but no-one has yet been charged.
In an emotional appeal, Ms Downey said: "Micky was the love of my life, my rock, my best friend, my world, my everything. I will never stop missing him or loving him.
"I feel so lost without him and the pain never ends. I still can't accept he's gone."
Crimestoppers is offering a £10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible.
Ms Downey added: "I just want to know what happened and get justice for something that is so, so cruel."
Hampshire Constabulary said it is believed there was a dispute at the property before Mr Freshwater's body was discovered. | The partner of a man found stabbed to death at his flat has urged the public to come forward with information. |
11,822,681 | The Bishop of Willesden, the Right Reverend Pete Broadbent, said the union between Prince William and Kate Middleton would last about seven years.
He apologised for the remarks on Monday but has been asked by the Bishop of London to withdraw from public ministry "until further notice".
The royal couple are to marry in April.
Clarence House announced on Tuesday that Westminster Abbey would be the venue for the 29 April wedding, which Prime Minister David Cameron said would be a public holiday to mark a "national day of celebration".
However, when the news of the engagement broke, the bishop wrote on the social networking site: "We need a party in Calais for all good republicans who can't stand the nauseating tosh that surrounds this event."
The Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, who announced the suspension, said he had been "appalled" by the comments.
In a statement, he said: "In common with most of the country, I share the joy which the news of the engagement has brought.
"I have now had an opportunity to discuss with Bishop Peter how his comments came to be made and I have noted his unreserved apology.
"Nevertheless, I have asked him to withdraw from public ministry until further notice.
"I have been in touch with St James's Palace to express my own dismay on behalf of the Church."
The bishop made a number of comments on the site on Wednesday.
He said: "Marriages should be about family, not "some piece of national flim-flam paid for out of our taxes, for a couple whose lives are going to be persecuted and spoilt by an ignorant media".
He criticised the monarchy for a history of broken marriages and a "corrupt and sexist" hereditary principle, before going on to attack the "gutter press" for "persecuting" the Royal Family.
In a statement published on Monday, Bishop Broadbent said he had conveyed his own "sincere regrets" to the couple and to Prince Charles and admitted he had been "unwise".
"I recognise that the tone of my language and the content of what I said were deeply offensive, and I apologise unreservedly for the hurt caused," he said.
"I accept that this was a major error of judgement on my part. I wish Prince William and Kate Middleton a happy and lifelong marriage and will hold them in my prayers."
Graham Smith, of anti-monarchy campaign group Republic, said while he would not have used Bishop Broadbent's language, he shared his concerns about the "celebrity culture" surrounding the Royal Family.
"He has every right to raise those concerns and speak his mind on the matter, even using strong language to get his point across."
Bishop Broadbent was not believed to be among those present at the general synod or during a service of Holy Communion at Westminster Abbey attended by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on Tuesday morning, the Press Association news agency reported.
At the synod, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams said he spoke for those present in expressing "delight" at the forthcoming marriage.
The Bishop of Willesden is responsible for churches in the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and Hillingdon. | A Church of England bishop who made "deeply offensive" comments on Facebook about the royal engagement has been suspended from his public duties. |
35,847,455 | The health and social services scrutiny panel said working conditions and staff contracts at Jersey General Hospital should improve.
Chairman, Deputy Richard Renouf, said higher salaries would help attract more doctors and nurses to the island.
Health Minister, Senator Andrew Green, said he would consider the report.
Mr Renouf said recruiting staff in Jersey was more difficult due to higher cost of living and uncertainty about accommodation.
He said: "During the review we found several factors which may deter hospital staff considering relocating to Jersey. One of these factors was the high cost of living.
"If we are to resolve recruitment issues, the issue of pay levels that are appropriate to higher costs of living in Jersey must be addressed."
He said the relative isolation of a small island meant certain specialisms were needed despite low volumes of patients. | Recruitment of medical staff in Jersey is being hampered by the high cost of living on the island, a report has said. |
25,409,413 | Scotland's Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland has told the BBC the Libyans will work alongside Scottish and US investigators.
Mr Mulholland, Scotland's senior prosecutor, said it was a welcome development.
Libyan agent Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of killing 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie in southern Scotland.
Mr Mulholland said: "As a result of developing good relations and understanding of what we're trying to achieve, the Libyan law enforcement have appointed two prosecutors to work with the US and Scottish prosecutors in investigating this.
"So that's a welcome development and hopefully this will progress matters."
Scottish investigators have said they hoped the Libyan revolution, which deposed Col Muammar Gaddafi in August 2011, would open up new lines of inquiry.
By Glenn CampbellBBC Scotland news
Lockerbie investigators think there may be documents and witnesses in Libya that could lead them to further suspects in the case.
The only person ever convicted of the bombing was a Libyan agent, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, and the court that convicted him said he had been part of a state-sponsored terrorist act.
Ever since the revolution that overthrew Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, Scottish and American authorities have sought fresh co-operation from Libya.
A year ago, the Libyan ambassador to London, Mahmud Nacua, said the new government in Tripoli would release all files relating to Lockerbie but only when the country's security had been established.
Libya has become less stable since then with militias exercising considerable power.
That instability will make it harder to pursue fresh lines of inquiry in the Lockerbie case.
Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the 1988 bombing, but British officials have been attempting to establish whether anyone else in Libya could be brought to trial.
The Scottish government released Megrahi from jail on compassionate grounds after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died last year still protesting his innocence.
Megrahi's release in 2009 was strongly criticised by the US administration.
US president Barack Obama said at the time: "We have been in contact with the Scottish government, indicating that we objected to this and we thought it was a mistake."
In March, Scottish police and prosecutors visited Libya to discuss the Lockerbie investigation.
The four-person team from the Crown Office and Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary was accompanied by an FBI delegation from Washington.
It met senior officials from the Libyan government in Tripoli. | Libya has appointed two prosecutors to work on the Lockerbie case. |
35,908,204 | Manchester United forward Rooney was sidelined by a knee injury as Hodgson's team came from two goals down to win Saturday's friendly 3-2, with the younger generation flourishing in his absence in Berlin.
Tottenham's 19-year-old Dele Alli was man of the match and his partnership with club-mate Harry Kane continued to develop as the striker, 22, scored the goal that started England's comeback.
Leicester City's Jamie Vardy increased the pressure on Rooney's place with his first England goal but Hodgson said: "I have to repeat Wayne is our captain and he has captained the team extremely well in the past two years.
"He took us through a qualifying campaign where we had a complete success with 10 wins out out 10. It doesn't please me too much that it is suggested now that the moment he is injured and doesn't play he gets jettisoned in some way. He doesn't deserve that."
If Hodgson keeps faith with Kane and Alli in their current positions - and bearing in mind Vardy was also on the scoresheet and Arsenal's Danny Welbeck was back in England colours for the first time in a year after injury problems - Rooney is facing the biggest challenge to his place in more than a decade.
Hodgson insists the 30-year-old, England's record goalscorer with 51 goals in 109 appearances, will not allow the new breed to rest on their laurels.
He said: "When he comes back and is fit again he is going to be putting enormous pressure on these players, just like these players will be putting enormous pressure on him - and that is the situation we are looking forward to."
Alli's display and his partnership with Kane is emerging as a key option for Hodgson, leaving questions over where Rooney could fit in.
"Dele's performance against France in November was a man-of-the-match performance as well," said Hodgson.
"He was fantastic in that game and if anything it has pleased me even more that he has come out and done exactly the same again, and what is more he has done it in perhaps even more difficult circumstances.
"At the moment, all you can see with Dele is a very, very bright future. It is up to him and his club but he has got to make certain he doesn't think 'I am the complete and finished article'. You cannot be the complete and finished article at 19 - not if we are talking about winning tournaments.
"You need a little bit more experience and games behind you. I'm not trying to detract from his performance. We thought he was excellent from the first minute to the last. He is getting a lot of praise and I hope he enjoys it because he truly deserves it."
The emergence of a crop of exciting young players, and the brand of football they produce, has led to suggestions Hodgson is altering his approach to the game.
The 68-year-old denies that is the case.
"No, not at all," said Hodgson. "Unfortunately - and I don't know when I got it - but at some stage I was told I'm conservative in some way and that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
"I don't have it in Italy, I don't have it in Switzerland, just in England. I believe that is what is said. It is not true in my opinion and certainly I have never felt that way.
"I have worked for one or two teams, of course, where we have been nowhere near as good as the opposition and we have been put onto the back foot.
"But whenever I have had the team that has had the ability to take control of the game, take the initiative and take the game to the opposition, all of my teams have done that."
That being the case, Hodgson insists he is not motivated by a desire to prove people wrong.
He added: "You can't disprove what people say or think about you, you can only do your work and hope the work you do with the players will give some sort of reward or success.
"Then people can have their opinions. It has never bothered me at all - I haven't started thinking 'someone said that, I better do something different'.
"I think I have been, not quite a model of consistency throughout the 40 years, but there haven't been many ups and downs or twists and turns.
"I believe in playing football, I believe in taking the initiative and you can only win things if you have a team who can take the game to the opposition. It is difficult to win things in the long term if you go on the back foot." | England manager Roy Hodgson insists captain Wayne Rooney is still a major part of his Euro 2016 plans - even though his side beat World Cup holders Germany without the striker. |
36,556,884 | West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) was inundated with more than 1,000 flood-related calls when the deluge started shortly after 18:00 BST on Thursday.
It said 1,000 homes in Birmingham either flooded or were at risk of flooding.
Worst affected areas were Selly Park, Harborne and Woodgate Valley.
The radiotherapy section of the former Queen Elizabeth Hospital also had to be cleared of 5,000 litres of water.
Latest Birmingham and Black Country flooding updates
It is the latest bout of flash flooding to hit the region in the last few days, with Birmingham's Heartlands Hospital declaring a major incident when its accident and emergency department was hit.
In the latest deluge, firefighters evacuated a children's home and helped eight youngsters into alternative accommodation.
Residents in Sir John's Road, Selly Park, had to move upstairs when 100 homes were flooded. The nearby Selly Park Tavern was also forced to close when water poured into its cellar.
Train services were cancelled and delayed through Lye in Stourbridge because of significant flooding on the track. Bournville railway station was also badly affected.
Network Rail said the lines had now been cleared, although passengers have been warned to expect some delays on services.
Fire crews warned drivers to stay away from roads around the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Dudley after roads became impassable.
A number of Birmingham schools are closed today, including Moor Green Primary School in Moseley, Oaks Primary School in Druids Heath and St Mary's Primary School in Selly Oak.
The Environment Agency has 10 flood warnings in place. More rain is expected later today but forecasters say it should then begin to clear.
WMFS area commander Ben Brook said: "Although we believe that the worst of the weather has now passed, we are still asking people to be vigilant and to beware of the likelihood of intense rain with little notice.
"There is also likely to be a lot of standing water on roads, and we would remind people not to enter floor water either in vehicles or on foot. There will also be debris and waste on some roads, so drivers should be alert." | Flash flooding across the West Midlands has caused chaos with hundreds of homes, businesses, cars and roads becoming submerged under water. |
36,992,847 | Athlete Stepanova, who helped expose state-backed doping, was ruled out when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned from Rio any Russian who had served a doping suspension.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) outlawed that ruling on Thursday.
But Stepanova, 30, said she was "hugely sad and heartbroken" at a lack of IOC support and therefore will not appeal.
Stepanova, who served a two-year ban for blood passport abnormalities in 2013, was not included in Russia's team but had hoped to be invited to the Games by the IOC to compete under a neutral flag.
She and husband Vitaly, a former Russian anti-doping official, said in a statement that the IOC had "turned a blind eye" to the risks the 800m runner took in exposing "systematic cheating in Russia".
"We believe that in exercising this discretion to deny Yuliya a place in the competition, it sends a message that the World Anti-Doping Code and the values of Olympism are merely words on a page," the statement added.
"As a result, we will not file an appeal to Cas."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova will not appeal against her ban from the Rio Olympic Games. |
38,771,056 | The Serb, who took Uganda to Gabon for their first Africa Cup of Nations in 39 years, says he is owed wages.
Micho concedes the FA is handicapped "without the support of government".
But he told BBC Sport: "If we can sort the situation amicably, that is good and well. But if not, I deeply regret I shall have to go the legal way."
Under Micho the Cranes bowed out in the group stage in Gabon after suffering narrow defeats to African heavyweights Ghana and Egypt before securing a 1-1 draw against Mali.
Uganda's performances are a sign that they are improving, especially considering their last appearance at the finals came in 1978.
But their development could be derailed as Micho warned he could soon be pursuing his options.
He has been heavily linked with a number of coaching posts, such as Ghana - the Back Stars' coach Avram Grant is set to leave after the Nations Cup - and South Africa.
"I have a contract until the 2019 Nations Cup but the bags of a coach are always half-packed - ready to stay, ready to go," he said.
"Uganda needs to decide. I am really open to everything because offers are coming.
"Uganda needs to provide better facilities, logistics and to fulfil contractual obligations - if they do that, we can continue because I am already heading the project in the right direction."
The BBC has contacted Fufa for comment but the governing body has yet to respond.
Despite the uncertainty over his role Micho, who has been involved in African football for 16 years, believes Uganda has a bright future after a host of young players gained crucial tournament experience in Gabon.
"The players have learnt that they are capable of playing at the highest level of international football - capable of playing against Egypt and Ghana, two teams we are playing in the World Cup qualifiers," he said.
When I look at everything that will happen, one thing is certain - I will still be in Africa
"We have removed that mental barrier that was in front of us. We have seen what we are capable of and whether with me or anyone else, I believe Uganda will be capable of going to the World Cup."
Later this year, Uganda continue their quest to reach the 2018 World Cup with home and away qualifiers against Egypt, a home tie with Ghana and a final qualifier in Congo in November.
The Cranes currently sit second in Group E with four points, two behind leaders Egypt and three ahead of Ghana while Congo have yet to win a point.
In June, qualifying for the 2019 Nations Cup in Cameroon also begins, with Uganda having been drawn against Cape Verde, Tanzania and Lesotho.
When devising a plan to qualify for the Nations Cup, Fufa and Micho had originally targeted the 2019 finals - only to achieve their aims two years earlier.
"Whoever (leads the team) against Cape Verde, Tanzania and Lesotho, Uganda can go to the Cup of Nations in Cameroon in 2019," he said.
"I count myself extremely proud man because I really left a legacy behind."
Micho's assertion is up by the fact Uganda were named as the National Team of the Year for 2016 by the Confederation of African Football.
His reputation has been further enhanced by his time with the Cranes.
And Micho's love for African football - which has led him to coach in Ethiopia, South Africa, Sudan and Rwanda - shows no signs of diminishing.
"When I look at everything that will happen, one thing is certain - I will still be in Africa, I will still be a servant and soldier of African football," he said of his future. | Uganda coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic has told the country's FA to fulfil its contractual obligations or he we will quit and take legal action. |
40,647,768 | The doors had been smashed, glass littering the floor. Police were called.
When staff at Argonics Inc's Colorado office realised nothing had been taken they reviewed CCTV footage of the doors.
The suspect had not even bothered to cover their face. Plus, unusually, protruding from that face were long horns - a rogue goat was behind the damage.
The company uploaded the footage to their YouTube account and the video has since attracted close to half-a-million views.
"Our office manager arrived at the office on Monday morning and saw the doors were smashed," a company spokesperson told the BBC.
"He called the police to report a break-in.
"Once the police arrived, he thought to check the camera footage and saw that it was actually the goat."
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What sparked the goat's violent outburst remains unclear, but it hasn't prevented social media users from speculating about the goat's motives.
"He probably saw his reflection in the glass, thought it was another goat, got intimidated and enraged and tried to fight it," one YouTube user suggested below the video.
"It was peer pressure from a gang of goat looters," mused another.
Argonics staff were left with a lot of mess to clear up (and likely an unusual insurance claim to make).
The whereabouts of the goat are unknown, though it can be seen trotting away happily from the scene of the crime at the end of the video.
By UGC and Social News team | On Monday morning staff at a US polymer manufacturer arrived at work to discover a break-in. |
22,622,158 | The latest instalment in the car-based franchise took more than £8.7m in its opening weekend, more than double the amount that Baz Luhrmann's film made between Thursday and Sunday.
Gatsby's £4.1m tally puts it just ahead of Star Trek Into Darkness, the weekend's third most profitable title.
The sci-fi sequel has now taken £15.6m since opening on 9 May.
Fast and Furious 6, which sees Vin Diesel return as fugitive race car driver Dominic Toretto, opened in 462 locations across the UK and Ireland, 60 fewer than The Great Gatsby.
On a screen by screen basis, however, the film proved much more successful, earning an average of £18,869 per screen compared to Gatsby's £7,845.
British actress Carey Mulligan, who stars alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Luhrmann's film, attended its star-studded premiere in Cannes last week.
Source: Rentrak
But the cast's promotional efforts did not help the F Scott Fitzgerald adaptation earn widespread critical acclaim, with the Daily Telegraph's Charles Moore calling it "terribly, terribly bad".
The latest instalment in Marvel's Iron Man series added £1.4m to its earnings in its fourth weekend in cinemas, taking its overall total to £33.8m.
Children's dance movie All Stars completes this week's top five, earning £196,579 in its third weekend on release.
US drama Mud, starring Matthew McConaughey as a drifter who befriends two young boys, climbs one place to six, while DreamWorks' animated comedy The Croods falls two places to seven.
Comedy 21 and Over, action thriller Olympus Has Fallen and Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited are ranked eighth, ninth and tenth. | Action sequel Fast & Furious 6 races ahead of The Great Gatsby in this week's UK and Ireland box office chart. |
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