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37,386,490 | Bees play a crucial role in the survival of many of the crops in our food chain - one in three mouthfuls of food depends on the pollinating insects, according to the British Beekeeping Association - but their numbers are significantly declining.
A recent US report said that American beekeepers lost 44.1% of their hives between March 2015 - April 2016 - the highest rate of decline since the annual study began six years ago.
There are a number of reasons for this dramatic fall. One is the deadly varroa destructor, a parasitic mite that feeds on bees, and can kill off a whole hive.
At present, varroa infestations can be controlled, but not removed completely.
Bee populations have also been killed by disease, and the use of certain pesticides and fungicides on crops.
Together with the impact of varroa mites, this has also led to a big increase in colony collapse disorder - when worker bees abandon their hives.
In the US the precarious situation has been made much worse since the summer, due to aerial spraying of insecticides to target mosquitoes that could carry the Zika virus.
As the insecticides also kill bees, millions have died, wiping out whole honey farms. One report from South Carolina earlier this month said it looked as if the bees had been "nuked".
But despite the continuing woes faced by beekeepers, a number of technology firms are trying to help.
Bee Smart Technology aims to allow beekeepers to remotely monitor their hives, so that they can more quickly, and more easily, check whether there is a problem.
Ivan Kanev, co-founder and chief executive, says: "We figured beekeepers don't really rely on modern technology.
"The last meaningful innovation was the invention of the motorised vehicle so they could transport hives… so we decided to do something about it."
Bee Smart, which has a research and development division in Mr Kanev's native Bulgaria, and a marketing team in California, has developed a small box of sensors that attaches to the frames in a hive.
The system monitors a number of metrics including temperature, humidity, the colony's levels of activity, whether the queen is mating, and even the sound of the bees.
Bee Smart also claims that its sensors can predict when a swarm is imminent.
The box is battery operated and needs charging every three months. Data is sent via the cloud's data centres to Bee Smart, where it is processed, analysed and then sent to the beekeeper.
Mr Kanev adds that in the US the beekeeping industry is big business, but is not predominantly about harvesting honey.
"Here honey is a secondary thing for bee keepers, [instead] they rent out their bees for pollination services," he says.
"They are transporting bee hives across the country to pollinate different crops."
The almond farms of California, for example, which rely on honey bee pollination, will pay around $200 (£150) per hive for the service.
Mr Kanev adds: "When you're transporting your beehive, as a beekeeper you might think of those as your assets - being able to remotely monitor their state is becoming very important."
Bee Smart is set to launch a closed trial of its technology in the coming weeks, but Mr Kanev says that in tests so far there has been a "visible improvement" in beehive health, season after season.
"The product is based around the idea that bees are critical for us and they are in danger," he says.
In the UK Plan Bee is hoping to go one step further with a complete one-stop-shop for potential beekeepers when it launches in the next few weeks.
Based in Motherwell, Scotland, it offers a monitoring service for the hives, complete with data analysis, powered by a credit-card sized Raspberry Pi computer.
But Plan Bee does not want to exclude the human touch.
"We'll provide the hives, the honey bees, and 28 visits a year to the beehive," said chief executive Warren Bader.
"It's like garden maintenance but for bees."
Fellow UK business Tumbling Dice is another firm looking to help beekeepers.
It has developed an active vision system called Rana, which is currently being trialled by researchers in the US state of Utah.
It also uses a Raspberry Pi computer to analyse individual video frames received from monitor cameras. The system can be programmed to track a specific event, such as when individual bees leave a hive.
"This is more about looking at the foraging behaviour of the bees than the health of the hive," says Tumbling Dice founder Mark O'Neill.
But what about efforts to tackle the varroa mite?
Current treatments tend to involve chemicals, but one successfully crowd-funded scheme called Thermosolar Hives hopes to offer a hardware solution after raising more than $44,000.
Invented by Czech scientist Roman Linhart, the Thermosolar Hive uses solar power to heat the inside to 40C for 150 minutes. He says this doesn't harm the bees, but will destroy the mites.
The treatment then has to be repeated 10 days later to attack mites that return to the hive attached to bees who were out during the initial treatment.
Mr Linhart, who has been a beekeeper for 25 years, and spent 10 developing the product, says his technology is preferable to the uses of chemicals, to which he says mites are becoming resistant.
"Our [development] work took so long because we have tested it in different areas like high mountains, lowlands, cities, or regions with very hot summers," he told the Digital Trends website back in May.
He also said he faced hostility from rivals.
"There were some problems with company producing chemicals for varroa treatment, and some with people who are trying to breed varroa-tolerant bees," he added.
"They were not very happy to see that something like our hive can disrupt their business."
The Thermosolar Hive is due to start being delivered to buyers in January 2017. | The plight of the honey bee is a major cause of concern for the world's scientists, environmentalists and the food industry, not to mention beekeepers. |
29,508,489 | The men included 102 from Lewis, while others came from the Northern Isles, Wick, Avoch, Glasgow, Fife and Barra.
They were among 1,500 members of the Royal Naval Division held in a camp dubbed HMS Timbertown.
BBC Alba's documentary of the same name draws on Admiralty records to tell the stories of its Scots' inmates.
The Royal Naval Division was set up by Winston Churchill when he was lord of the Admiralty.
In October 1914, the division was caught up in the fall of Antwerp following a month-long siege by German troops.
Following Germany's invasion of Belgium in August 1914, Antwerp had sheltered the Belgian's King Albert I, along with his government, civilians and thousands of soldiers, including elements of the British Expeditionary Force.
After the city and its fortifications fell, the men of the Royal Naval Division crossed into Holland to evade capture.
They reached the town of Groningen where the authorities had a camp of wooden huts built to hold them until the end of the war.
In the documentary, BBC Alba's Angela MacLean retraces the sailors' journey and recounts the experiences of the Lewis men in the camp.
Interred with them were men from all over Scotland and the rest of the UK and included fishermen, an actor, a burglar and the Duchess of Cambridge's great grandfather, Frederick Glassborow.
There were escape attempts and deaths from illnesses in the camp.
Football matches and cabaret shows organised by the men were watched by local people, who were allowed, on occasions, to visit.
Some of the sailors were allowed to return to the UK on leave for family funerals and even to help with take in harvests on farms and crofts, on condition they came back to the camp.
HMS Timbertown will be shown on BBC Alba on Thursday from 21:00. | A new documentary explores the internment of Scots sailors in a camp in neutral Holland shortly after the outbreak of World War One. |
36,675,187 | But then the so-called Islamic State (IS) group has never claimed any of the attacks in Turkey that it is believed to have committed.
The Turkish government and the CIA both say the assault on Istanbul's Ataturk airport bears all the signs of the jihadist group.
Over the past year, Turkey has been gripped by a wave of bombings across the country.
Those claimed by Kurdish militants have tended to hit organs of the Turkish state - police vehicles or military buildings - with which the PKK is fighting a renewed conflict.
But a high-profile international target is more the style of IS.
In a recent message, a supposed spokesman for the group called for specific attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which is now. And Tuesday - the day the airport was hit - marks exactly two years since IS declared its "caliphate".
It's conceivable that this was an anniversary show of strength: the jihadists may have lost Falluja but they're certainly still in business.
Six big IS attacks in Turkey in the space of 12 months. What on earth is happening to the once stable corner of the Middle East?
As ever in Turkey, the answer depends on which side of the deep political divide you find yourself.
For the diehard supporters of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's polarising president, this is revenge for the country's fight against terrorism.
"[The West] left us alone in fighting Daesh that attacked Turkey," said Mr Erdogan last month, using another acronym for IS.
"None of those who said they're fighting Daesh have either made them suffer the losses or pay the price Turkey has done."
He and his government have even repeatedly suggested that IS and the PKK are working in cahoots to destabilise Turkey: a seemingly absurd suggestion, given the hatred between the two.
But for the arch critics of Turkey's president, the past 12 months show a litany of intelligence lapses and policy failures.
Known IS cells in Turkey, notably in the southern city of Adiyaman, were left to plot successive attacks in a murky tea-house before striking in Diyarbakir last June and Ankara in October - attacks that killed more than 100 people.
"We have the list of possible suicide bombers in Turkey - but cannot arrest them until they act", said the then Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
And, goes the argument, it proves the widely-held view that Turkey was too slow to wake up to the threat of IS.
Many believe that some elements within Turkey's Islamist-leaning government stomached, or even fostered, jihadist groups in Syria that tallied with their beliefs, creating an environment in which IS could grow.
For the first few years of the Syrian war, Turkey's border with Syria was somewhat porous, allowing jihadists and weapons to cross in both directions - until pressure from the US and others grew and Turkey tightened controls.
Ankara has always vehemently denied the allegations, claiming there is no proof of sinister cross-border movement and that the media and Western governments are attempting to besmirch Turkey while ignoring the fact that it has taken in almost three million Syrian refugees.
But what is clear is that as Turkey has become a more active part of the US-led coalition against Islamic State, it is considerably more vulnerable.
Any sympathies that the group thought it might have had in Turkey have been largely obliterated by successive attacks, making this country much more of a target.
Turkey's southern US airbase at Incirlik is used for nightly bombings of IS positions. Revenge is now a key reason why Turkey keeps getting hit.
And, as the attacks in Paris, Brussels and elsewhere have shown, IS remains a formidable force, albeit a depleted one.
Its militants have the ability to circumvent powerful governments with strong intelligence agencies. And in a country like Turkey, with a 500-mile-long (800km) border with Syria and 200 miles (320km) with Iraq, it has easier passage - and fertile ground.
Turkey is reeling from yet another devastating attack. Security across the country has been stepped up. But it's increasingly clear that the government is trying to close the stable door after the horse has bolted.
And the reality, for this nervous nation, is that more strikes will come. | Two days on from a brazen attack on Europe's third busiest airport, there has been no claim of responsibility. |
35,031,301 | 8 December 2015 Last updated at 06:56 GMT
The little reptile had travelled from Spain to a supermarket in Powys, Wales, hidden amongst the green vegetables.
Before the surprise discovery Charlie had wanted a gecko as a pet and had been asking his parents for one.
The family decided to keep the stowaway pet and have now named him 'Broc'.
So how has Broc's first year gone in his new home? Martin has been finding out. | Last Christmas 11 year-old Charlie's mum, Jolene, was cooking dinner when she found a live gecko in a pack of broccoli. |
40,715,865 | The 29-year-old scored 15 goals last season to help Europa FC to the Gibraltar Premier Division title.
Walker scored Gibraltar's first goal in a World Cup qualifying fixture when they lost 4-1 to Greece in September 2016 and has 22 caps.
He played in Portsmouth's 2012-13 campaign making 28 appearances.
The length of Walker's contract with County has not been disclosed.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Notts County have signed Gibraltar international midfielder Liam Walker after he impressed in pre-season friendlies for the club. |
32,809,527 | "The foreign spy was caught red-handed as he was receiving secret documents from a Russian citizen," the Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
Lithuania has refused to comment on the claims.
Russia's relations with its Baltic neighbours have deteriorated amid fears of a spillover from the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite has previously warned of the "very real" threat of Russian aggression.
Earlier this month Lithuania said it had detained a suspected Russian spy who had been trying to infiltrate the country's leadership, law enforcement and security institutions.
In a statement, the FSB said the suspect arrested on Tuesday had admitted to being an officer of Lithuanian military intelligence.
He was being detained in Moscow's Lefortovo jail, it said.
A court later ordered the man - named as Arstidas Tamosaitis - to be held in custody for two months pending investigations, a court spokeswoman told Interfax news agency.
The arrest is the latest in a series of spy cases amid tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine.
Baltic states shiver as Russia flexes muscles
US tanks in Baltics as Nato drills start
Ukraine conflict: Will the ceasefire hold?
EU leaders gathering for a summit in the Latvian capital, Riga, on Thursday are expected to focus on the conflict in eastern Ukraine as well as the tensions in the region over the crisis.
Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine last year alarmed its Baltic neighbours in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
The three ex-Soviet states have in recent days written to Nato military chief Gen Philip Breedlove, asking for a brigade-sized unit to be deployed permanently in the Baltics.
Nato forces have been conducting military drills in the Baltic states in recent months, while Russian soldiers have been taking part in exercises in its region bordering Estonia and Latvia.
Lithuania has said it is reintroducing military conscription due to "the current geopolitical environment".
Last September, an Estonian security officer investigating allegations of border smuggling was seized and detained in a Moscow prison. The EU says he was abducted on Estonian territory. | Russia's domestic security agency says it has arrested a suspected Lithuanian spy in Moscow. |
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A relatively quiet deadline still saw Premier League clubs part with £45m, taking the total January transfer spending to £130m.
But what did we learn from the window? BBC Sport takes a look.
BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty: "The bigger clubs are notoriously wary of buying in January unless they have a cast-iron guarantee of quality. The better players rarely become available and those of that quality have either played, or are playing, in the Champions League.
"It is a small market and consequently class is harder to find. Manchester City found it in a striker with proven Premier League quality in Wilfried Bony while Chelsea bought a player with World Cup pedigree in Juan Cuadrado.
"The clubs at the sharp end of the Premier League have a clear summer strategy and hope to get the major deals done then. They use January almost like a safety net should they need to top up their squad for any reason - although if that rare chance to sign a player of the highest quality becomes available they are at the ready."
McNulty: "The face of QPR manager Harry Redknapp told the tale as he looked back on a transfer deadline day in which he struggled to add new faces to a side lying 19th in the Premier League.
"Hull City manager Steve Bruce was also bitterly disappointed as a deal to sign Spurs winger Aaron Lennon fell through. Despite that, Bruce will have high hopes for striker Dame N'Doye, who completed his move just after midnight.
"West Brom manager Tony Pulis will be happy to have added Callum McManaman to provide pace and width and also Manchester United's Darren Fletcher for experience, although he would have liked to add even more numbers to his squad.
"Crystal Palace have pulled off the coup of signing Wilfried Zaha on a permanent deal so they will feel more confident of survival.
"So as the window closes, QPR will be unhappy, West Brom and Palace will be more optimistic and Hull will be somewhere in between."
There were 35 Premier League signings in the January window, compared to 46 last season, but why is that?
"More than any other transfer window to date, the impact of financial fair play seems to be taking hold, especially for the big clubs," said football finance expert Robert Wilson of Sheffield Hallam University.
"Chelsea demonstrate the real impact of the new regulations with a great deal of focus now being placed on their net transfer spend position. No longer are we seeing clubs 'splash the cash', instead they look to sell before they buy, hence selling Schurrle to facilitate the signing of Cuadrado.
"Manchester City have followed suit - they seem more cautious and no longer seem to throw the kitchen sink at player acquisitions. After being hit with a hefty fine they are looking to balance the books first and foremost.
"The anomaly is surely Manchester United. Many expected them to spend again. They can certainly afford to with the revenue they generate. I think that their lack of spend is much less to do with being worried about financial fair play and much more to do with a long term strategy to 'buy better'.
"It's good to see some good business decisions being made that will place the long-term stability of clubs first. Ultimately I think it will make for a more competitive league, albeit one that is more disparate - the rich clubs are able to get further away from those with less resources. The top six are more competitive with each other, the middle eight and the bottom six competitive with each other."
BBC World Service's John Bennett: "Just like in England, this window has felt quiet this year on the continent. Between them, the champions in Italy, France, Germany and Spain only made three signings, all of them on loan. In France spending was down 53% compared to last year.
"Inter Milan and Wolfsburg will be delighted with their work in January. Inter boss Roberto Mancini complained that he'd inherited the wrong type of players when he took over as head coach but Xherdan Shaqiri and Lukas Podolski have added quality and balance to the squad.
"Meanwhile, Wolfsburg beat Bayern Munich 4-1 on Friday and Andre Schurrle's arrival is the perfect way to build on that result.
"David Moyes will be one of European football's frustrated managers. Real Sociedad failed to sign anyone, missing out on possible targets such as Etienne Capoue, Nabil Bahoui and Joel Campbell."
Strikers - the players to save you from relegation or to kick-start a flagging bid for European qualification. Everyone wants to sign one, right?
On the evidence of this window, that is either not true or goalscorers are not readily available. Only eight of the 35 players signed by Premier League clubs in January were strikers and three of them were signed by Crystal Palace.
However, while more players from other positions were signed, clubs were less inclined to take a risk with their attacking recruits, opting for experience rather than youth, with the average age of strikers signed significantly higher than that of defenders or midfielders.
Sunderland and Crystal Palace brought in seasoned Premier League campaigners in 33-year-olds Jermain Defoe and Shola Ameobi respectively, while Manchester City made arguably the biggest move of the window by signing Wilfried Bony, 26, from Swansea.
Look down the list of confirmed transfers and one word pops up more than others: Undisclosed.
Officially, not a single club has chosen to reveal exactly how much money has changed hands for the purchase, or sale, of a player in the top flight.
It is a trend that has gathered pace in recent years. In January 2013, two of the 26 deals where a transfer fee was paid were disclosed while last year there was just one - Juan Mata's £37.1m move from Chelsea to Manchester United. The other 47 transfers involving a fee were undisclosed.
Drop into the Football League this season and not a single fee was revealed. Secrecy, it seems, is everything. | Chelsea signed Juan Cuadrado for £23.3m, Manchester United loaned an unheralded left-back from Bolton and a host of deals collapsed late on. |
37,694,879 | Emergency services were called to the A20 Airport Cafe in Sellindge, near Folkestone, at about 08:30 BST.
The man's body was found after the lorry pulled up at the Kent service station. It is believed it had travelled from France.
Kent Police and the South East Coast Ambulance service were called to the cafe, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of death is not yet known.
The lorry was being operated by Iberian-based transport firm KLOG.
A spokesman for the company said: "We are aware of the incident in England and you can say we are investigating what happened." | A suspected migrant was found dead in the back of an HGV at a lorry park. |
36,838,266 | South Africa's Oscar Pistorius was the first amputee sprinter to compete with able-bodied athletes at London 2012.
Pistorius was cleared to race by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and reached the 400m semi-final in London.
Inventor Van Phillips believes blade runners could soon "run faster than we have seen before" as designs improve.
"At some point they are really going to have to define what can be used," Van Phillips told BBC Radio 5 live.
Pistorius was originally banned from competing against able-bodied rivals by athletics governing body the IAAF before later being cleared to run by Cas.
"Oscar was first told he had an unfair advantage," said Phillips. "He went to a group of engineers, some of whom I know, and they showed after tests that he didn't have an advantage.
"I happen to believe that's not quite the way it is."
But German long jumper Markus Rehm will miss the Rio Olympics after failing to prove his prosthetic leg did not give him an advantage.
Phillips added: "It is a matter of time before you get a genetically gifted athlete who loses his leg and with a running prosthetic, he will run faster than we have seen before.
"It may not be in the 100m where the blocks make it more precarious, but maybe in the 200m where starting blocks aren't as important.
"The design of sprinting legs is still in its infancy and eventually the authorities will have to step in."
American Phillips shaped the future of Paralympic competition after he himself received a substandard prosthetic after he lost his leg in an accident in 1976.
With a background in engineering, it was the technology of swimming springboards that provided the concept of blades for athletes.
"We'd bounce on that board and it bends and swings you up," he said.
"I was going "come on, you've got to be able to put that into a foot."
Having spent 15 years working and developing blade technology, Phillips believes the current design propels athletes by a number of inches.
"I've built hundreds of feet," he said.
"Most were failures, some worked but were too complex and cost too much.
"This final evolution is a design that no matter how you land on it, it can have vertical travel for up to three inches."
Listen again to Van Phillips' full interview on Blade of Glory. | The International Olympic Committee will soon "have to step in" over the design of the running blade, according to its inventor. |
40,576,545 | It wants to recruit about 500 men and women to help deal with natural disasters and to patrol borders.
The recruitment drive follows the announcement by the United Nations mission that it would be leaving Haiti in October.
But critics say the island's small budget should be spent on the national police force of about 15,000 officers.
A Ministry of Defence statement said the recruitment drive is open to both men and women between the ages of 18 and 25, who have passed their secondary education exams.
The UN Security Council agreed in April to withdraw their security forces, the blue helmets, and leave only a small police presence to support the Haitian police.
The UN departure has sparked a debate over whether Haiti should or should not form a new army.
Many politicians support the idea arguing it would provide jobs for young people.
But the government's critics say a military force could quickly become politicised, becoming a weapon in the hands of whoever is the president or prime minister.
For much of Haiti's history, the army has been used to crack down on political dissent by a series of authoritarian presidents.
During the 29-year family dynasty founded by Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier in the 1950s, the army was pushed aside and replaced by the Tonton Macoutes, a feared private militia famed for its savagery.
But when Duvalier's son, Jean Claude, was ousted and fled to France in 1986, the army high command - notorious for its repressive tactics and packed with Duvalier appointees - remained in place.
After Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was ousted in a 1991 military coup, soldiers and paramilitary forces committed countless atrocities and are estimated to have killed about 4,000 people over the next three years.
Haiti's leaders argue the new army would have different kinds of military duties, providing help after natural disasters and fighting smuggling.
Many international donors have been unenthusiastic, after having poured billions of dollars into developing the Haitian National Police which now has about 15,000 trained members. | Haiti's government has launched a campaign to re-establish its army, dissolved more than 20 years ago. |
16,313,781 | These were the worst civil disturbances in England since 1919, according to contemporary historian Lord Hennessy, and had no parallel, in scale, until the riots last summer.
While there are many differences, the similarities between the riots of 1981 and 2011 are "uncanny", he says.
The then prime minister's personal file on the riots reveals she was warned in April that "spontaneous disorder" was "likely" among the country's ethnic minority communities by a secret Home Office report.
Britain was in recession. Unemployment was high, especially among the young, and among Britain's black and Asian population.
There was also considerable tension between police and some communities. There had been fierce riots in Brixton, south London, that month lasting several days.
TV news had shown police officers in their everyday helmets and uniforms, cowering behind flimsy-looking riot shields as bricks and bottles were hurled at them.
That happened again, as riots broke out in Toxteth, Liverpool, on 3 July, before erupting in other English cities.
Like last summer, police struggled to keep control of the streets and mass media were blamed for encouraging copy-cat rioting. But in 1981 the disorder took place mostly in the deprived inner city, rather than spreading to the suburbs.
The file gives an unusually detailed picture of how Mrs Thatcher responded, according to Lord Hennessy. He describes it as "almost blow by blow, minute by minute".
For instance, on 11 July, in the morning, she talked to her Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw.
He had just visited Manchester and Liverpool and reported that there was now "widespread anxiety" about civil unrest in London, and properties were being boarded up across the city.
There had been reports of disorder in many parts of the capital. Just the night before, according to the file, there had been rioting in Brixton, Battersea, Clapham, Streatham, Hackney and Acton.
Cars had been burned in Southall, and petrol bombs thrown in Dalston. Stoke Newington police station had been attacked.
Mrs Thatcher and Mr Whitelaw discussed how to get better equipment for the police, and briefly touched on the idea of sending in troops - something a Liverpool MP had called for.
They agreed that using the Army "could not be contemplated". They would prefer to arm the police, the record notes.
That very evening Mrs Thatcher visited the Metropolitan Police and spent more than seven hours with the commissioner, only leaving New Scotland Yard at three in the morning.
The police had appealed for a new Riot Act and they had also given her a shopping list of riot gear - shields, protective clothing, water cannon, CS gas, rubber bullets and surveillance helicopters.
New tactics, new equipment, "saturating" the cities with police, ended the riots.
"An age of innocence" had ended, according to Lord Hennessy. "People thought riots couldn't happen here - but they did."
The police got their equipment but they didn't get the new law immediately - it was only in 1986 that a new Public Order Act was passed.
Is there any lesson for today's politicians?
Lord Hennessy says while there is a great danger of excessive prime ministerial power in this country, in such circumstances "the prime minister has to speak out, to take a lead" as Mrs Thatcher did. | Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, newly-released National Archives files have shown. |
36,935,311 | Britain's Murray and Brazilian Soares beat the Canadian pair 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 10-7 in 97 minutes.
The Australian Open champions face third seeds Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Marcelo Melo of Brazil in Sunday's final.
"Today these guys were just a little bit more solid," said Nestor.
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The Canadians, who were teaming up at an ATP World Tour event for the first time since 2013, pegged back the second seeds from a set down but double-faulted in the third-set match tie-break to give their opponents the edge.
"They made a few more balls at the key moments," Nestor added. "They put a lot of first serves in play in the match tie-break and played solid doubles."
It is a second ATP World Tour Masters 1,000 final of 2016 for Murray and Soares, after they finished runners-up in Monte Carlo.
In the other semi-final, Dodig and Melo beat Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau of Romania 6-4 6-3 in 71 minutes.
You can now add tennis alerts in the BBC Sport app - simply head to the menu and My Alerts section | Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares beat home favourites Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil to reach the men's doubles final of the Rogers Cup in Toronto. |
29,518,392 | The party voted in favour of an independent review of the sport, stricter ownership rules, and tougher action against discrimination.
Activists at the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow were told of "huge levels of debt", fans being "priced out", and clubs being "trashed" by their owners.
The party agreed to adopt the motion, called "reclaiming the beautiful game".
It proposed making homophobic chanting a criminal offence, strengthening the "fit and proper person" rule to decide if an individual is fit to own or become a director of a club, and to divert a share of TV revenues to support the grassroots of the game.
The motion also expressed "concern" that "winning has become the primary motive in the sport", which it claimed was leading to "financial risk taking, high debt levels and almost a hundred instances of club bankruptcy since 1992".
Opening the debate, Steve Bradley, the party's prospective Parliamentary candidate for Bath, said: "Football has an appeal and a relevance in Britain that goes far beyond sport."
But the game also has a "dysfunctional side", he said, "which risks its future viability".
The motion "blows the whistle on the mismanagement of English football's boom", Mr Bradley told activists.
He said the wealth at the top of the game was not trickling down to lower levels, and raised fears about the amount of debt clubs were building up.
Mr Bradley said governing bodies had "ceded control of the game" to the most powerful clubs, and "large swathes of the population" were "priced out altogether".
And he said there was a need to protect some clubs from being "trashed on the whims of those who just happen to be the current custodians of long-standing institutions".
Edward Lord, a former anti-discrimination adviser to the Football Association, said an independent review of football governance would "make it more effective, inclusive, and no longer subject to conflicting vested interests".
But the line in the motion about the motive to win was branded "ridiculous" by Sheffield Central candidate Joe Otten.
He asked: "Are we a liberal party or a back-of-the-envelope over-regulation party?"
And Lib Dem councillor Prue Bray said she was "furious" the motion made what she said was little reference to women's football, and suggested the authors should go on equality and diversity training.
Winding up the debate, Manchester Withington MP John Leech said even many Premier League clubs struggled to make a profit, and said many smaller sides "teeter on the brink, year after year" financially.
As well as finances, Mr Leech said the motion was about fans, who he said were "the true life blood of football".
The Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee has previously published reports calling for major changes to the way football is run in England. | Wide-ranging reforms to British football have been demanded by the Liberal Democrats. |
37,725,187 | Some of the affected banks have been asking their customers to change security codes. They are also blocking and replacing debit cards.
The breach is thought to have been caused by malware on an ATM network.
Some customers are complaining that large sums of money have been taken from their accounts.
Indian banks have issued nearly 700 million debit cards.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which controls all retail payments systems in India, confirmed in a statement that there was a "possible compromise at one of the payment switch provider's systems".
A security breach of this scale is likely to create a lot of negative sentiment among bank customers.
While the government is now investigating the incident and most people don't expect a big monetary impact, the reputation damage will be large.
Already, Indians are suspicious of electronic payments and the country is largely a cash economy. Most people use cash for most purchases - whether it's buying vegetables from the street vendor or buying gold jewellery in high end store.
According to a study by Visa, only 10 digital transactions per capita are carried out in India compared to 163 in Brazil or 429 in Sweden. This poses a huge financial burden on the economy and banks have been trying hard to wean Indians from cash.
But they haven't been very successful. Indian banks had issued 697 million debit cards as of July this year - a small number compared to many other countries.
But while the government has been trying to sell cards as a risk free method of payment compared to using physical money, not many are convinced that banks are taking enough cyber security measures.
Indian banks have reported close to 12,000 frauds related to credit and debit cards and net banking in 2015, the government told the Upper House of the parliament earlier this year.
All Indian Banks have cyber security protocols comparable to their international peers says Mohit Bahl, Head, Forensic Services at KPMG India.
"But they are not as robust in constantly monitoring and updating their security measures. This breach could have happened in anywhere in the world. Banking and financial services sector is particularly vulnerable.''
"All affected banks have been alerted by card networks that a total card base of about 3.2 million could have been possibly compromised," the NCPI statement said.
It added that a total of 13m rupees ($194,612;£159,031) have been withdrawn, mainly in China and the US, through fraudulent transactions so far, affecting 19 banks and 641 customers.
The NPCI has urged customers "not to panic" because "corrective actions already have been taken".
"The advisory issued by NPCI to banks for re-cardification [reissuing of new cards] is more a preventive exercise," it said.
Payment platforms like Visa, Mastercard and RuPay said their own networks were not affected but they were helping Indian authorities in their investigation.
Several banks have also confirmed that they were taking measures to avoid fraudulent transactions.
The State Bank of India (SBI), the country's top lender, said it had found about 620,000 of its more than 200 million cards were "vulnerable". But Mrutyunjay Mahapatra, a deputy managing director at SBI, told the Reuters news agency that he did not expect any significant financial loss to take place.
Standard Chartered, Yes Bank, HDFC, ICICI and Axis bank have also taken similar "precautionary measures". | A number of major Indian banks are taking safety measures amid fears that the security of more than 3.2 million debit cards has been compromised. |
36,074,366 | The Dow Jones rose 106.7 points to 18,004.16, its first close above 18,000 since July.
The S&P 500 gained 13.61 points to 2,094.34, and the Nasdaq index climbed 26.15 points to 4,569.31.
Markets shook off early losses caused by a drop in the oil price after a meeting of oil producers failed to reach a dealnt to cap output.
News that Kuwaiti oil-workers were on strike helped bring the price of crude oil back up from severe lows.
Shares of Chevron rose 1.5%, while Exxon was up 1%.
Toymaker Hasbro rose 5.8% after it reported stronger-than-expected profits and revenues for the first quarter.
Net income jumped to $48.8m from $26.7m a year earlier, with net revenue up 16.5% to $831.2m. The toy company was helped by strong demand for Star Wars, Frozen and Disney Princess toys.
The news also helped lift shares of Walt Disney by 2.9%.
Shares in Morgan Stanley fell 0.12% after the bank reported a 54% fall in net profit to $1.1bn but beat earnings forecasts. | (Closed): US stocks closed higher, lifted by strong earnings from toy company Hasbro and a recovery in oil. |
20,942,145 | The UK soldier, of 28 Engineer Regiment, attached to 21 Engineer Regiment, died at Patrol Base Hazrat, in Helmand's Nahr-e Saraj district.
The gunman fired at Afghan troops and then British soldiers before being killed. Afghan officials dispute Taliban claims he was acting for them.
The male soldier's next of kin have been informed of Monday's attack.
Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman described it as a "tragic incident", adding: "The PM's thoughts are very much with the family and friends of the soldier who was killed."
The spokesman said the military had stepped up counter-intelligence efforts and the vetting and screening of new Afghan National Army recruits.
The attack comes as President Hamid Karzai is due in the US for a visit seen as key to the future of the American presence in Afghanistan.
Spokesman for Task Force Helmand, Major Laurence Roche, said: "This is an extremely sad day for the Corps of Royal Engineers and everyone serving with Task Force Helmand. Our thoughts are with the soldier's family and friends at this time."
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville said the attack is thought to have been triggered by an argument between Afghan National Army soldiers.
Shortly after details of the incident emerged, the Taliban said they were behind the shooting, but they often wrongly claim such attacks, he said.
By Quentin SommervilleBBC News, Kabul
There has been a dramatic rise in green on blue, or insider attacks. In terms of British soldiers, five were killed by Afghan colleagues back in 2009, last year, the figure was 14.
More starkly, all six soldiers killed in the current "Black Rats" tour of duty, died at the hands of Afghan security forces.
The Afghan military has grown at a tremendous rate over the past three years, the army is now 195,000 strong. But that has meant that there hasn't been proper screening of new recruits.
The Afghan government are trying to remedy that. Also, the Afghan intelligence service, the NDS, is deploying its men into the ranks, to look for Taliban infiltration. Soldiers returning from leave will be questioned to see if they or their families have been the target of Taliban infiltration.
There is recognition that the Taliban are coercing or compelling Afghan troops to attack foreign soldiers. And a grim acceptance from ISAF commanders that insider attacks cannot be completely prevented.
Afghan defence officials told the BBC that initial assessment suggested the gunman was a soldier from the eastern province of Laghman.
An official said: "Currently there is an investigation into the attack. Initial assessment and information shows the attacker was not linked to the Taliban.
"After he killed the British soldier, he tried to escape but members of the Afghan national security forces opened fire, killing him.''
There has been a sharp rise in so-called insider attacks against local forces and Nato troops in Afghanistan. In 2012, more than 60 Nato service personnel, and a quarter of the British troops who died in Helmand, were killed in such attacks.
All six of the British troops killed during the latest six-month tour of duty have died this way. A total of 439 UK service members have lost their lives in Afghanistan since operations began there in October 2001.
President Karzai is arriving in the US for a three-day visit, which will include a meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday.
It will be their first face-to-face talks since the US presidential elections.
Correspondents say relations between the two countries have been more fractious than usual in recent months.
Mr Karzai wants US troops out of Afghan towns and villages. Some 30,000 foreign soldiers left Afghanistan last year, and most of the remainder are expected to pull out by the end of 2014.
Our correspondent says the US president is likely to discuss the size of the force that remains, and whether they are there to fight the Taliban or shift their primary focus to tackling al-Qaeda.
Mr Karzai's visit comes days after a drone attack that killed Pakistan militant leader Mullah Nazir, who was accused of sending fighters to Afghanistan to support the Taliban.
Ahead of the trip, the White House issued a statement saying Mr Obama "looks forward to... discussing our continued transition in Afghanistan, and our shared vision of an enduring partnership" between the two countries.
Mr Karzai is expected to provide a request for future requirements for the Afghan military such as heavy weaponry, an improved air force and medical support.
Our correspondent says the US spent almost $120bn (£74bn; 91bn euros) in Afghanistan in 2011, a figure that diplomats in Kabul say will be increasingly difficult to justify because of economic problems at home and extensive corruption within Afghanistan.
Meanwhile Mr Karzai has held back from signing a long-term binding security agreement with the US, amid fears that Afghan sovereignty is being undermined.
He is unwilling to grant US soldiers immunity from prosecution and is unhappy that Afghans are still being held in US-run military prisons on Afghan soil, our correspondent adds.
Nato forces are committed to training Afghan security forces before foreign combat troops pull out. | A British soldier has been shot dead and six others injured by a rogue member of the Afghan National Army. |
38,517,578 | A woman was airlifted to hospital in Aberdeen after falling on the Mar Lodge estate on Wednesday - the third major rescue in the first few days of 2017.
Shaun Roberts, of the mountain centre Glenmore Lodge, said Scotland had good information services.
He urged hill users to "ask questions of themselves" before setting off.
Mr Roberts told BBC Radio Scotland: "What's really important about when people plan their day is the information that they put into the planning.
"We're kind of blessed with a quality avalanche information service and also quality weather forecasts.
"They're at our fingertips."
Rescues in the Cairngorms have included that of a couple who spent the night in blizzard conditions after getting into difficulties while walking their dog on New Year's Day.
In a second incident, two young climbers carried to safety a walker who was suffering from hypothermia.
"Also people need to ask some reasonable questions of themselves in terms of experience of the snow," Mr Roberts said.
"Often, if there is doubt, that's normally pretty much a red flag in terms of have you got the right information and do you have the right experience to interpret the information you've got." | A series of rescues in the Cairngorms has prompted a warning to climbers and hillwalkers to take adequate precautions. |
32,898,160 | Michael Matheson, who last year stopped plans for a new women's prison in Inverclyde, wants Scotland to "lead the world" with a fresh approach.
There are currently 450 women in Scottish jails, with the figure doubling in the past decade.
Mr Matheson will speak at an international summit in Edinburgh on the issue.
The justice secretary said jailing women wasn't part of his vision for a "modern and progressive country", and highlighted how many children of imprisoned mothers go into a cycle of offending.
He accepted serious offenders must be imprisoned, but has scrapped plans for a new jail, saying he wanted Scotland to be bolder and more ambitious in the way female offenders are managed.
On Thursday, he will be joined in Edinburgh by experts from Denmark, Sweden, Australia and Canada who are taking part in the three-day summit.
It is hoped their shared experiences can help shape Scotland's plan for dealing with female offenders. | The Scottish justice secretary has said he wants a radical shake-up in the way women are punished for crimes. |
37,613,989 | Buttler was reprimanded for reacting to what he called a "send-off" by Bangladesh after his dismissal.
The 26-year-old was out lbw as England, chasing 238, were all out for 204.
"He didn't react because he was captain - he thought Bangladesh stepped on his turf," Vaughan told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I don't think he did anything wrong. When the opposition comes at you what are you to do?"
Buttler and some Bangladesh players were seen approaching each other after the wicket - which came off a review - and the umpires had to step in.
Buttler was also found guilty of using "obscene, offensive or insulting" language - including as he walked off the ground - which Vaughan said the Lancashire man "will be disappointed with".
"Buttler has a lot more fire than you think," he said. "He's got the steel in his eyes. On this occasion he had some words that came out as well. Maybe Bangladesh know if they disturb the England captain they can win the series."
After the game, tempers appeared to flare between all-rounder Ben Stokes and Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal, as the teams shook hands.
Vaughan said: "I thought that was petty and immature (from both teams). You're playing for your country. Whatever happens in the game that's fine. After the game you shake hands. You look them in the eye and say 'well played Bangladesh'."
The series is level at 1-1 with the third and final ODI to be played at Chittagong on Wednesday. | England captain Jos Buttler did not do anything wrong when he reacted angrily during the second one-day international against Bangladesh, says former skipper Michael Vaughan. |
38,495,434 | Hatters midfielder McGeehan was injured early on during Pompey's 1-0 win.
"He's a young, talented kid that works hard, grafts, doesn't go down but the booing him off and cheering is an absolute disgrace," said Jones.
"When anyone gets carried off on a stretcher, I don't care who you are, you show an element of class."
He continued: "They showed what type of fans they were."
Pompey fans reportedly sang "you're going home in an ambulance" to the 21-year-old, who has scored 11 goals in 28 matches for League Two side Luton this term.
Portsmouth chose not to respond directly to Jones' comments, but a spokesman said everyone at the club sends their best wishes to McGeehan for a full and speedy recovery.
McGeehan was also shown a yellow card by the referee while on the stretcher after pounding the floor in pain or frustration.
Jones told BBC Three Counties Radio: "The referee showed a lack of understanding and empathy, maybe, but I'm just disappointed for the kid.
"Hopefully he'll recover quickly and be back sooner rather than later but it's a real travesty for the boy and obviously disappointing for us." | Portsmouth fans showed a lack of "class" towards Cameron McGeehan after he broke his leg in Monday's match, according to Luton boss Nathan Jones. |
40,199,683 | Staff at the Dublin Waste-to-Energy plant complained of breathing problems, blurred vision and nausea, according to Irish broadcaster, RTÉ.
Nine were discharged from hospital, but two were kept in overnight.
The plant's operators said the lime was "contained within the building and did not escape into the environment".
A spokesperson for Dublin Waste-to-Energy Ltd said the company was "investigating the incident thoroughly".
It is also co-operating with investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency and Health and Safety Authority.
The plant at Poolbeg started to incinerate waste for the first time last Thursday in what its operators described as its "important 'first fire' milestone".
The operators said the safety of its employees and contractors was of "utmost importance".
"Late on Wednesday night, a small amount of lime was inadvertently released inside the flue gas treatment area during the commissioning and testing of the Dublin Waste to Energy plant at Ringsend," their statement said.
"At the time, there were a number of workers in an adjacent area. As a precaution, eleven workers were sent to St Vincent's Hospital nearby for medical evaluation."
The statement added: "We are investigating to understand what exactly occurred, but it appears from preliminary investigation that the release of the lime was due to a problem with a door seal in the fabric filter bag house."
The facility was developed with the aim of reducing Dublin's reliance on exporting waster or sending it to landfill.
The operators have said the project will divert up to 600,000 tonnes of waste from landfill and export, while generating electricity "for at least 80,000 homes". | Eleven workers were taken to hospital after lime was "inadvertently released" inside Dublin's new incinerator plant on Wednesday night. |
34,668,166 | The Institution of Civil Engineers Scotland (ICE) will call for a national debate on energy in a report due to be published next month.
The organisation wants the government to outline how the gap caused by cuts to electricity-generating capacity will be filled.
The government said it had a "balanced energy mix to provide energy security".
The report will also highlight Scotland's energy "quadrilemma" - the need to reduce carbon, cut consumer costs, ensure security of supply and take into account the social acceptability of different types of energy sources.
It was announced earlier this year that Longannet, the largest power station in Scotland and the second largest in the UK, would be shut down in March next year after 46 years of producing power.
Debates continue over the potential use of fracking, the controversial gas drilling technique which is currently subject to a Scottish government moratorium, and the extent to which onshore wind farms are used across Scotland.
Professor Gary Pender, of Ice Scotland, said: "Scotland will transition from being a net exporter to being a net importer of electricity if the closures of Longannet, Hunterston and Torness are not replaced by new development.
"We will be calling for a national debate on how we, as a country, deal with this to ensure that we have a resilient supply with sufficient capacity for the long term.
"Energy policy is hugely politically controversial, with wind power, nuclear power and onshore gas extraction provoking particularly emotional and politically-motivated responses.
"We need to move beyond this, at times, irrational and ill-informed discourse about all these forms of energy generation and conduct a thorough, expert-informed assessment of the right approach for Scotland."
Ice Scotland represents 8,000 people.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "Scotland's abundant energy resources play a vital role in delivering security of electricity supply across the UK; Scotland exported 28% of all electricity generated in 2013.
"We have a clear policy for a balanced energy mix to provide energy security for the future that balances fossil fuels alongside the growing importance of renewables, which again saw record levels of generation last year, and without the need for new nuclear power.
"As we move to a low-carbon energy system over the longer term, we expect Scotland to maintain its position as a net exporter of power even after Longannet closes, whereas the UK as a whole is increasingly reliant on imports from other European countries." | Civil engineers want the Scottish government's energy policy to be informed by expert advice. |
37,544,913 | So she embarked on the road trip of lifetime and unwittingly became an internet hit along the way, when the Facebook page about her travels started attracting more than 440,000 followers.
Mrs Bauerschmidt, from Michigan, spent just over a year on the road with her son Tim and his wife, Ramie Liddle, in their motor home, before her death last week.
They had travelled more than 13,000 miles (20,900km) and visited 34 states.
The adventure began in July 2015, when, after a routine scan, Mrs Bauerschmidt's doctors told her she had terminal cancer.
It was just two days after the death of her husband, Leo.
Her daughter-in-law said: "Tim and I had lived on the road for a couple of years, and when her husband passed we did what all families do and invited her to live with us."
"She thought about it for about a minute-and-a-half and said, 'Yes'. She was ready for an adventure."
"One of the first things we did was buy a wheelchair for her, and that was her ticket to freedom," said Ms Liddle.
"From that point, on we could go out and about on outings or do whatever she wanted."
It was Ms Liddle's idea to start the Facebook page Driving Miss Norma.
"It was just so my family would know where we were, but Norma was absolutely shocked when it took off," she said.
Ms Liddle said they had travelled from place to place, staying anything from a day to a month depending on how they felt.
And as Mrs Bauerschmidt's Facebook following had grown, they had started to get invitations to lots of events and gatherings - including an Atlanta Hawks basketball game and countless people's homes for dinner in the evenings.
The family travelled across the country harvesting hazelnuts in Friday Harbour in Washington, taking part in the St Patrick's Day Parade in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, visiting Yellowstone National Park and touring the Massachusetts coast.
They took a trip underground to visit the Consolidated Gold Mine in Georgia and Mrs Bauerschmidt even managed to fulfil one of her lifetime ambitions when she took a ride in a hot air balloon in Florida.
"In the last year, we have seen the best of the best of the people in this country," she said.
Ms Liddle said her mother-in-law had been a very humble woman with no grand needs, but she had had a very clear idea about what had been important to her.
"She had a very happy last year, and was a very simple woman who had never had any attention in her life," she said.
"And that's the beauty of this story - she was just herself."
By Annie Flury, UGC and Social News team | When 90-year-old Norma Bauerschmidt was diagnosed with terminal cancer, her immediate instinct was to refuse treatment and instead find a more positive way to spend her final days. |
39,687,590 | Colum Eastwood said the idea of a deal being struck during the campaign was "not credible" and politicians "should give up the pretence of negotiations".
The parties will review the talks process on Thursday with the UK and Irish governments, Sinn Féin has said.
At Westminster, MPs have passed an emergency bill to extend the talks.
A new 29 June deadline is proposed to give parties more time for negotiations after the election.
The bill would also allow the collection of rates in the absence of an executive, and could become law by the end of the week.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has published indicative figures for a budget he will impose if Stormont's parties do not reach a deal.
It would include a 2.5% cut to spending on education.
Speaking in the House of Commons, he said the government would be prepared to implement it "as a last resort".
"This is not a step any government would take lightly," he said.
"But this house must not forget the duties we uphold for the people of Northern Ireland."
A round-table discussion involving the parties took place on Monday, with more bilateral meetings due in the coming days.
The leaders of the two main unionist parties are meeting on Monday to discuss a possible electoral pact.
But Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann said Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster has "made the conversation a bit more difficult" after she outlined her party's position in the Belfast Telegraph.
The snap general election comes after devolved government in Northern Ireland collapsed in January over a botched energy scheme.
The late Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Féin, quit as deputy first minister in protest at the DUP's handling of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme scandal.
It led to a snap Northern Ireland Assembly election on 2 March, which saw a surge in Sinn Féin's vote.
Stormont's two largest parties have been unable to reach agreement to share power since that date, and were warned they face either a second assembly election or direct rule from Westminster.
However, Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to call an election to the House of Commons made a deal even less likely as parties switched to campaign mode.
The government published its Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates Bill on Friday.
It began its accelerated passage through Westminster late on Monday afternoon, with MPs discussing the measures in a debate lasting just under four hours.
Members of the House of Lords will get their opportunity to scrutinise the bill on Wednesday.
Once passed, the law will give he Northern Ireland civil service the authority to collect the regional rate, increased in line with inflation, and push the deadline for restoring devolution back to 29 June.
That means the Stormont parties will not face the near impossible task of finding a compromise while campaigning in the general election.
However, whether they can reach a deal in the summer, which they could not do in the spring, remains open to doubt. | Talks to restore a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland should be "paused" until after the snap general election, the SDLP leader has said. |
38,397,304 | The cash comes from "efficiency savings" and money returned by BT as part of the government's flagship broadband rollout scheme.
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said the funds would bring faster broadband to some of the remoter parts of the UK.
Experts said it was not all "new money" but would still be welcomed.
The cash will be made up of £150m in cost savings and the rest in the form of returned subsidies from BT, the government said.
Under a 2010 deal, the government paid BT to roll out superfast broadband in hard-to-reach areas where providers had said it was not cost-effective to install broadband infrastructure.
As part of the agreement, if more than 20% of premises in those areas bought superfast broadband, BT had to repay some of the subsidy.
On average, the take-up has been 30.6%, leading to a forecast repayment of £292m, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said.
There are two views of the programme to roll out superfast broadband to places which might not be reached by the market.
To the government and BT it's that rare thing, a public/private partnership which is actually going to come in under budget and deliver more than was promised.
To its critics, the Broadband Delivery UK project has seen an overbearing monopoly handed huge sums of public money with little democratic accountability, and the result is that the UK has been given only a semi-fast network which is not future-proof.
But after some early stumbles, BT does look likely to meet the target of putting 95% of homes within reach of superfast broadband by 2017 - and this new investment could mean that 97% are reached by 2020.
The programme is doing what it promised - and the UK is ahead of other major European countries in rolling out superfast broadband.
Ah, say the critics, but only if you think a broadband connection that still makes its final journey into homes via a copper wire is superfast. If you're looking at fibre direct into the home - something even the government says should now be seen as the gold standard for broadband - the UK is still in the slow lane.
Openreach's answer to this is that a new "amazing" technology, called G.fast, will make it possible to achieve speeds of over 100 megabits per second over the copper connections.
The prospects for those people still waiting for any kind of decent connection have brightened slightly - but the row continues over what kind of broadband network will make the UK fit for the future.
The extra funds will be spent in all areas of the country through the Broadband Delivery UK scheme.
Ministers set up the programme so that by the end of next year, 95% of UK premises would be able to buy superfast broadband - defined as 24Mbps. Such speeds enable families to stream TV on multiple devices at the same time.
The extra funds are designed to reach the remaining 5% of the UK and improve speeds where coverage is patchy.
"The key point is this is not £440m of new money," said Andrew Ferguson, consumer telecoms expert at Think Broadband.
Of the £292m to be returned by BT, the company has already announced about £150m, he said.
Still, regardless of the source of the funds, more money going into infrastructure is "good news", he said.
"The pace of broadband rollout doesn't necessarily match what everyone wants and households aren't necessarily getting as much information as they would like," he added.
The village of Pudlestone in North Herefordshire is one rural location where higher speed broadband cannot come fast enough. The nearest telephone exchange for Pudlestone is about three kilometres from residents' homes meaning speeds are low. Pudlestone villagers have run a co-ordinated campaign to highlight the slow speeds they get and have written to politicians and BT to in a bid to accelerate work to improve speeds.
Linda Fryer, secretary of the Pudleston village hall committee, said everyone in the village was "fed up" adding that it was "extraordinary" if anyone's net connection went faster than one megabit per second (Mbps).
"I can't use Facetime to talk to my children, I can't download films and using things for shopping and banking can be very difficult when the thing drops out," she told the BBC.
Local residents are also wondering why they pay the same monthly fees as others in nearby towns who are enjoying speeds much closer to the national average of 28Mbps.
Retired nurse Judy Thompson said: "If you went in to a restaurant and ordered a cheese sandwich, why would you pay the same price as someone getting lobster? I just think it is completely unreasonable."
Mrs Thompson said she and her husband had sought help from BT but, so far, its advice had made no difference.
Kim Mears, the managing director for infrastructure delivery at BT's Openreach division, told the BBC's Today programme that there was "still more to be done" to improve broadband speeds in some rural areas.
However, she added that 4.5 million rural homes had already benefited from BT's efforts and that the company was "absolutely determined to look at how we go further and faster".
The company has faced criticism for the speed of the rollout and the quality of the broadband coverage.
However, the government and BT said it was a "win-win" in that more households were taking it up, triggering clawback payments that would help other premises access faster broadband speeds.
"We're delighted that the success and efficiency of our delivery will mean hundreds of thousands more homes and business could get faster broadband than originally expected," a BT spokesman said.
The government has not set a timeline for when the 600,000 premises will benefit.
It comes after Chancellor Philip Hammond announced £1.14bn in government funds in last month's Autumn Statement to improve fibre broadband and develop 5G. | Around 600,000 more homes and businesses could be connected to superfast broadband, after the government recouped £440m. |
37,822,044 | Commercial scallop fishing ended at Ceredigion's Cardigan Bay five years ago when it became a special area of conservation.
Opponents claim scallop dredging is "a highly destructive fishing method".
But the Welsh government said a two-year study found limited fishing was possible in specific areas and would have no adverse impact on the area.
Under the new plans, a flexible permit scheme with new guidelines has been introduced to ensure the "careful management of the fishery" to "maximise the fishery and protect the site features at all times".
An advisory board of industry experts will advise on permit conditions and the scheme it will be reviewed annually.
Environment and Rural Affairs Secretary Lesley Griffiths said: "Based on this and the fact no new evidence was produced to suggest this fishery would have an impact on the protected features within the bay, I have decided we should not stand in the way of economic activity.
"I want to reassure everyone this will be a carefully and proactively managed fishery, with the number of fishing boats being monitored.
"I am reassured the proposed new flexible approach is proportionate and will enable us to consider appropriate areas and management mechanisms for the future of this fishery."
Jim Evans, of the Welsh Fishermen's Association, said the decision was a "positive step towards the sustainable management of our fisheries in Wales". | Controversial plans to restart scallop fishing in a protected area have been approved. |
37,407,154 | Mandoza, 38, took to the stage in recent weeks at a concert at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, despite having lost his sight due to illness.
His friends and family say he was determined to perform until the end.
The musician's hit song Nkalakatha has been praised for unifying black and white South Africans.
Nkalakatha, a Zulu word which loosely means "the big boss", was about celebrating success.
South Africans have taken to social media to send condolences to Mandoza's family, and it has also become a way of honouring and celebrating the star for his contribution to the local music industry, says the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg.
Many are calling him a "legend", and he is being lauded for putting up a brave fight and insisting on performing even when his health was failing, our correspondent says.
Mandoza's friend Kevin Ntaopane, who says the musician died in his arms, spoke to SABC news about his last words.
"He was sick and was under doctor's orders but he said 'I'm going to perform and prove to the people that I'm not dead. I'll die on the stage‚ I'll die singing.
"'I was born to do this. And no sickness is going to stop Mandoza.'"
Kwaito is a South African genre of music which emerged in the 1990s, it is a unique dance and house style often likened to US hip-hop.
With most songs being about street culture, it was the sound of South Africa's new found freedom from white minority rule.
It was a chance for musicians to speak out about equality, poverty, oppression but also hope and overcoming great odds.
His son Tokollo spoke proudly of his father.
"I think I'm just happy that my dad died a proud man because he had everything he wanted in life. Every time he'd tell me that he never got a chance to spend time with his dad‚ so all he ever wanted was to raise his children‚" Tokollo said in an interview with SABC news.
Mandoza was born in 1978 in Zola, a notoriously rough area, in Soweto, a large township in the country's main city Johannesburg.
When he was 16 years old he was arrested for stealing a car and spent over a year in prison. After his release he was determined to make a life for himself and formed the group Chiskop, which went on to win multiple local awards.
He used his music to encourage young people in the township to turn away from crime.
Mandoza had not released a new song in years but his hits, Nkalakatha, Respect Life, Sgelekeqe and Tornado still remain crowd pleasers, transcending race. | Tributes are pouring in from across South Africa for kwaito musician Mduduzi "Mandoza" Tshabalala who died after a year-long battle with cancer. |
37,092,806 | Lawro's opponents for this week's Premier League fixtures are comedians Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson, who are behind the Athletico Mince podcast.
Mortimer is a Middlesbrough fan, while Dawson supports Sunderland and they decided on their joint prediction for Sunday's Wear-Tees derby by each of them independently choosing how many goals their team would score.
You can make your own predictions now, compare them to Lawro and other fans and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the new BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
On the opening weekend of the season, Lawro got four correct results, including one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 70 points.
He beat Stockport indie band Blossoms, who got three correct results, with no perfect scores, for a total of 30 points.
All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Athletico Mince's prediction: 2-0
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Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan. | BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson will be making a prediction for all 380 Premier League games this season against a variety of different guests. |
34,248,968 | The Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care said lessons of previous reports remained "largely unheard".
It said clinicians and service providers were working "against the odds" to address needs.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford is attending an event in the Senedd on Tuesday to launch the report.
About 1,054 children and young people required palliative care services in Wales in 2014.
Of these, it is estimated 10% died during the year.
One difficulty identified in the report was that children's palliative care services sometimes came under adult palliative care when decisions were made.
The report said much of children's palliative care is not about the final period of life but about helping children and families cope better with a series of conditions which may last many years.
The focus on end-of-life care means services are not sufficiently supporting the 90% of children requiring ongoing help, it said.
The University of South Wales report, commissioned by Welsh children's hospice Ty Hafan, makes recommendations including giving paediatric palliative care the same status as that for adults.
It also calls for a 24/7 telephone advice service for health professionals and to establish child-focused performance measures.
Though "considerable progress" has been made in recent years, the report claims progress now "seems to have stalled and needs new impetus".
Mr Drakeford said he welcomed Ty Hafan's commitment to working in partnership with the Welsh government to drive forward key improvements to palliative care for children and young people in Wales. | Children's palliative care in Wales needs more "strategic attention" by ministers and the NHS, a new report says. |
36,985,931 | David Hoare said he had been trying to highlight the unacceptably poor performance of schools on the island over many years.
His comments, made at a recent teaching conference, prompted a call for him to resign.
Mr Hoare apologised for any upset or offence he may have caused.
Green Party education spokeswoman Vix Lowthion said Mr Hoare's comments made him "unfit" for his post and called on him to step down.
Isle of Wight council leader Jonathan Bacon said he would contact Education Secretary Justine Greening to seek an explanation from Mr Hoare for his comments.
He said: "David Hoare's comments about 'inbreeding' and 'ghettos' on the Isle of Wight are truly offensive to the people of the Isle of Wight and bear no relation to the facts."
Ofsted said the chairman had been expressing his personal views and they did not reflect those of the inspectorate or its chief inspector.
The controversial comments, made at a teaching conference last week, were highlighted in the Times Educational Supplement.
Mr Hoare, who has a home on the mainland near the island, said education on the Isle of Wight was often a topic of conversation with his dinner party guests.
"They think of it as holiday land. But it is shocking," he said.
"It's a ghetto; there has been inbreeding.
"Seven state schools were all less than good. There is a mass of crime, drug problems, huge unemployment."
But Ms Lowthion, who is a teacher on the island, said: "'I am absolutely appalled that the chairman of Ofsted thinks it helpful, truthful or professional to describe our families and young people in that way.
"I think it reflects more on himself than it does on our hard-working teachers and schools.
"It is well-known that coastal towns need investment and support to improve education standards and participation.
"He has insulted residents of coastal towns across the country and should resign."
Following the outcry, Mr Hoare said: "My intention was to highlight how concerned I am about the unacceptably poor performance of schools on the Isle of Wight over many years and how this is damaging the prospects of young people who live on the island.
"Those who know me will realise that I am passionate about improving outcomes for children from our most disadvantaged communities and my comments were made in this context." | The chairman of Ofsted has apologised after he called the Isle of Wight a "ghetto" where "there has been inbreeding". |
33,181,102 | Andrew Dale Iveson, 48, of Anchorage Hill, Richmond, began abusing the girl in 2005 when she was under 10. The abuse continued until 2013.
Iveson had denied nine child sex offences, 11 counts of rape and five other sexual offences.
He was jailed for 20 years and put on the sex offenders register for life at Teesside Crown Court.
Speaking after sentencing Det Insp Shaun Page, of North Yorkshire Police, said it had been the "most horrific" abuse he had dealt with in 19 years as a police officer.
"The ordeal he put his victim through when she should have been enjoying her childhood was downright evil and I can only describe him as a monster.
"I would like to acknowledge the bravery of the victim for coming forward and telling the police what happened to her.
"Her courage has ensured that a vile and dangerous paedophile has been jailed for a long period of time." | A man, described by police as a "vile paedophile", has been jailed for the prolonged sexual abuse of a young girl. |
38,487,180 | Kathy Chen announced she was leaving following a restructure of the business in Asia.
While Twitter is blocked in China, it lets Chinese advertisers reach a global audience. It is also very popular with Chinese dissidents based in the West.
Ms Chen is the latest in a string of high-profile Twitter executives to depart from the firm.
Chief technology officer Adam Messinger and chief operating officer Adam Bain have both left recently.
Hong Kong-based Ms Chen, who had previously worked for Cisco and Microsoft, was hired as managing director for Twitter's China region in April 2016.
She also used to be in the Chinese military, and her apparent links with the Beijing government meant the appointment prompted concern from some China activists that it had hired somebody who was pro-China.
Since then Twitter has reorganised its Asia division, with country heads in India and Australia also leaving.
"Now that the Twitter APAC [Asia Pacific] team is working directly with Chinese advertisers, this is the right time for me to leave the company," Ms Chen wrote on the site.
Her 12-tweet message also included claims that revenue from Chinese advertising partners had soared 400% in the past two years and that the Hong Kong office - rumoured to be closing - would remain open "for now".
"Working at Twitter has opened my mind, my passion is to connect people to the world through cross-cultural communications & businesses," she added. | The head of Twitter's China operations has left the firm after seven months in charge. |
30,491,435 | Officials say the attack in the north-western city is over, with all the attackers killed. Seven militants took part in all, according to the army.
Scores of survivors are being treated in hospitals as frantic parents search for news of their children.
The attack - the Taliban's deadliest in Pakistan - has been widely condemned.
Describing the attack from his hospital bed to the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil, Shahrukh Khan, 17, said a gunman had entered his classroom and opened fire at random.
As he hid under a desk, he saw his friends being shot, one in the head and one in the chest. Two teachers were also killed.
A Taliban spokesman told BBC Urdu that the school, which is run by the army, had been targeted in response to military operations.
Hundreds of Taliban fighters are thought to have died in a recent offensive in North Waziristan and the nearby Khyber area.
US President Barack Obama said terrorists had "once again shown their depravity" while UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it was "an act of horror and rank cowardice".
This brutal attack may well be a watershed for a country long accused by the world of treating terrorists as strategic assets.
Pakistan's policy-makers struggling to come to grips with various shades of militants have often cited a "lack of consensus" and "large pockets of sympathy" for religious militants as a major stumbling-block.
That is probably why, when army chief Gen Raheel Sharif launched what he called an indiscriminate operation earlier in the year against militant groups in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, the political response was lukewarm at best.
We will get them, was his message, be they Pakistani Taliban, Punjabi Taliban, al-Qaeda and affiliates, or most importantly, the dreaded Haqqani network. But the country's political leadership chose to remain largely silent. This is very likely to change now.
Late on Tuesday, military spokesman Asim Bajwa told reporters in Peshawar that 132 children and nine members of staff had been killed.
All seven of the attackers wore suicide bomb vests, he said. Scores of people were also injured.
It appears the militants scaled walls to get into the school and set off a bomb at the start of the assault.
Children who escaped say the militants then went from one classroom to another, shooting indiscriminately.
One boy told reporters he had been with a group of 10 friends who tried to run away and hide. He was the only one to survive.
Others described seeing pupils lying dead in the corridors. One local woman said her friend's daughter had escaped because her clothing was covered in blood from those around her and she had lain pretending to be dead.
16 December 2014: Taliban attack on school in Peshawar leaves at least 141 people dead, 132 of them children
22 September 2013: Militants linked to the Taliban kill at least 80 people at a church in Peshawar, in one of the worst attacks on Christians
10 January 2013: Militant bombers target the Hazara Shia Muslim minority in the city of Quetta, killing 120 at a snooker hall and on a street
28 May 2010: Gunmen attack two mosques of the minority Ahmadi Islamic sect in Lahore, killing more than 80 people
18 October 2007: Twin bomb attack at a rally for Benazir Bhutto in Karachi leaves at least 130 dead. Unclear if Taliban behind attack
A hospital doctor treating injured children said many had head and chest injuries.
Irshadah Bibi, a woman who lost her 12-year-old son, was seen beating her face in grief, throwing herself against an ambulance.
"O God, why did you snatch away my son?" AFP news agency quoted her as saying.
The school is near a military complex in Peshawar. The city, close to the Afghan border, has seen some of the worst of the violence during the Taliban insurgency in recent years.
Many of the students were the children of military personnel. Most of them would have been aged 16 or under.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani said the militants had been "forced" to launch the attack in response to army attacks.
Leading figures in Pakistan expressed grief and indignation | Militants from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of them children, the military say. |
37,223,810 | The Scot confirmed captain Darren Clarke asked him to play in the Wyndham Championship, which began 11 days after he won the Travelers Championship.
He admitted it was a "tough call" but opted to stick to his chosen schedule.
"I decided to take two weeks off to enjoy my win and I will never regret doing that," he told BBC Sportsound.
"If it ended up hurting my [chances of a] place, I am comfortable with that.
"Maybe it did hurt me but my agent got in touch with someone at the European Tour and they ran some statistical analysis of what I needed compared to other people.
"It was still only something like a 5% chance - it wasn't as if I just had to show up to make the team."
Clarke opted for the experienced Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer and the in-form Belgian Thomas Pieters as his three wildcard picks.
Asked if he felt not playing a ranking event which could have seen him qualify automatically sent out the wrong message to Clarke, Knox was adamant his commitment to the European cause should not be questioned.
"It has got nothing to do with the message," said the world number 20. "I joined the European Tour and I was 100% committed to making the Ryder Cup team. I did everything I had to do.
"But I don't see the sense of running round like a headless chicken to try to qualify. We set our schedules and this is an insanely busy month for me with the FedExCup play-offs, which were just as much of a goal as the Ryder Cup at the start of the year.
"I took a week to decide and it was a tough call [not to play the Wyndham]. It probably shouldn't have mattered, and it probably didn't come down to that at all."
Despite his disappointment at missing out on selection for the biennial clash at Hazeltine, Minnesota, starting on 30 September, Knox was magnanimous in hailing Pieters as a future "superstar" of the game.
"I am disappointed but I don't feel angry or let down," the 31-year-old added.
"Let's be honest, it came down to Thomas Pieters or me. He couldn't have picked a wrong one.
"Thomas deserves to be in the team. He has played tremendously well the last couple of months and he is going to be a superstar."
The Belgian won the Made in Denmark title at the weekend, after a fourth-place finish at the Rio Olympics and a runner-up spot at the Czech Masters.
The 2016 event will now be only the third since the Second World War in which no Scot has played, following Nick Faldo's defeated 2008 team and Colin Montgomerie's victorious group in 2010.
"It is a shame for the Scottish game and it is a shame for myself not to make it," Knox added.
"I don't think I could have done a lot more to make the team outright, but it wasn't meant to be this time.
"In two years' time, I hope myself and a couple of other Scottish guys are on the team." | Russell Knox says he has no regrets about his approach to trying to qualify for Europe's Ryder Cup team after missing out on a captain's pick. |
37,574,389 | Abdul Abbasi, from Hull, appeared via videolink and did not enter a plea during the hearing at Hull Crown Court.
The court heard a 65-year-old pedestrian suffered "grievous injuries" when she was hit by a reversing car on Redmire Close in Hull on Sunday.
Mr Abbasi, 32, of Thorndale, was remanded in custody and will appear in court again on 16 December.
More on this and other Hull stories | A taxi driver accused of deliberately running his mother over has appeared in court charged with attempted murder. |
22,092,913 | The road markers have been commissioned by organisers to honour some of the event's most successful riders.
So far only two have been unveiled, one for McGuinness, who has 19 TT wins behind him, and the other for Dave Molyneux, winner of 16 side car races.
McGuinness said: "I was nearly in tears when I found out - really emotional."
He added: "It seems unreal, when I am long gone, it is still going to be McGuinness's corner, I am dead proud, my mum and dad are too."
The 40-year-old former bricklayer from Morecambe is the outright lap record holder at the TT races and is the second most successful rider in the event's history.
John McGuinness and Dave Molyneux lie second and third behind Joey Dunlop in the success ratings.
The point of the course now known as McGuinness's is at Shoughlaigue and Molyneux's corner is at the end of Cronk-y-Voddy straight.
In 2002 the 26th Milestone on the TT circuit was renamed "Joey's" in memory of 26 times TT winner Joey Dunlop, who died in a racing accident two years earlier.
The previous road markers for the races have gone up for auction on eBay, in a move to raise funds to run the event and the first, from Ballaugh Bridge, fetched more than £1,000. | Isle of Man TT star John McGuinness said he feels "emotional" about having a corner section of the 38-mile Mountain circuit named after him. |
35,725,775 | 4 March 2016 Last updated at 14:33 GMT
Laura Trott has won gold for Great Britain and Sir Bradley Wiggins and the British men's pursuit team have won silver medals.
Double Olympic cycling champion, Victoria Pendleton, retired from the sport after the 2012 Olympics but is now commentating at the event.
She sent Newsround this report from behind the scenes at the competition. | The best cyclists in the world are in London this week competing at the Track Cycling World Championships. |
35,234,297 | A total of 26.8 billion songs were streamed last year, a rise of 82%, according to trade body BPI.
Vinyl sales jumped 64% to 2.1 million, while retailer HMV says it sold a turntable every minute over Christmas.
Overall, the retail value of UK music rose from £1.03bn in 2014 to £1.06bn, the first increase since 2004.
That figure includes the retail value of physical albums - CD, vinyl, cassette and minidisc - alongside digital downloads and an estimate of revenues from streaming subscriptions.
"Yet again it's UK artists who are driving this growth and inspiring the fans," said BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor, "whether it's global icons such as Adele, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and One Direction, or recent British breakthroughs and newcomers like Jess Glynne, Little Mix and James Bay."
Adele's 25 topped the year-end charts, selling more than 2 million copies in just five weeks. By comparison, her previous album 21 took 13 weeks to reach the same milestone.
The rest of the top 10 presented a mixture of old and new releases, with Ed Sheeran's x (971,000 sales) and Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour (893,000 sales) taking third and fourth position. Both albums, which were released in 2014, have now achieved lifetime sales of more than 2 million.
If I Can Dream, an orchestral reworking of Elvis Presley's biggest hits, was the year's fourth biggest-seller, followed by resurgent teen star Justin Bieber, whose fifth studio album Purpose sold 645,000 copies.
For the first time in four years, pop group One Direction failed to make the top 10. Their fifth album, Made In The AM, was at 14; outsold by girl band Little Mix, whose Get Weird has become the best-selling of their career, shifting 389,000 copies.
The most-streamed track of the year was OMI's ebullient summer anthem Cheerleader, while Ed Sheeran was the most-streamed artist overall.
Adele topped the vinyl charts, where the best-sellers tend to include classic albums such as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and The Stone Roses' eponymous debut.
CDs are proving to be more resilient than analysts had thought. They remain the dominant format, with 53.6 million discs sold last year, down 3.9% from 2014.
Recent research from the BPI has suggested that people who subscribe to streaming services are beginning to buy CDs and vinyl as permanent mementoes of their favourite tracks.
The video industry has also proved resilient, with a 30% increase in digital video services and 119.6 million DVD and Blu-Ray discs sold last year.
Family movie Paddington was the year's biggest-seller, while Game of Thrones dominated the box set charts. | A huge rise in streaming, combined with the continued resurgence of vinyl, helped keep the British music industry buoyant in 2015. |
32,267,075 | Lenin Avenue runs like a spine through Zaporizhya, a major city in Ukraine's industrial heartland. At the top of the avenue is Lenin Square, adorned by a giant statue of the Russian revolutionary leader himself.
He points towards a hydropower dam, which bears his name and also has a huge bas relief depicting an Order of Lenin on one of its walls.
Behind the dam is Lake Lenin with Lenin Island in the middle, and all of this is located in the city's Lenin District.
This is the kind of legacy Ukraine's legislators are trying to get rid of.
On 9 April, they passed a bill banning communist propaganda as well as Nazi symbols. The ban applies to monuments, place and street names, which will have to go within six months once the president signs it into law.
Hundreds of statues will have to be removed, millions of street signs replaced and tons of paperwork processed. Clearly this will be an expensive exercise that Ukraine may struggle to afford at a time of war, but supporters argue it is a price worth paying for Ukraine to break with its totalitarian past.
"The issue of renaming was a serious destabilising factor, and by making this decision parliament has removed this factor from our level," Zaporizhya's mayor, Oleksandr Sin, told the BBC.
Critics, however, argue that the ban will worsen the sharp political differences within Ukraine.
"Laws like this only add to the tensions. They aren't what our society needs," political expert Kost Bondarenko told Segodnya, a Kiev-based daily.
After Ukraine gained independence in 1991, many communist names were removed from its map by local councils.
Later, the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych and the subsequent rise in Russia-backed militancy in the east triggered a wave of attacks on statues of Lenin across the country. They were toppled by activists angry at what they saw as the Kremlin's meddling in Ukraine.
But the Soviet legacy lingers, particularly in eastern parts of the country.
Several towns and cities may even have to change their names because of the new law.
Among them is Dnipropetrovsk, which lies about an hour's drive north of Zaporizhya and is partly named after Grigory Petrovsky, a Communist revolutionary and functionary.
Vadym Shebanov, a senior official at the Dnipropetrovsk city council, told the BBC that a commission was already being set up to choose a new name.
Reverting to the city's previous name will hardly work. Until 1926, it was called Ekaterinoslav in honour of Ekaterina (or Catherine) the Great, the 18th-Century Russian ruler who dismantled the Cossack movement, an important pillar of Ukraine's national identity.
The commission will also draw up a list of streets to be renamed. "Many still bear the names of people who tried to obliterate the Ukrainian nation," Mr Shebanov said.
Predictably, the Ukrainian parliament's move to ban communist symbols outraged Russia. Its foreign ministry called the move "sacrilege" and said officials in Kiev had "a perverse idea of good and evil".
"The country's leaders have declared war on their own past by banning communist symbols and turning Hitler's accomplices into heroes," state-run Rossiya-1 TV said at the top of its prime-time news bulletin on 9 April. It made no mention that the Ukrainian parliament had banned Nazi symbols, too.
Russia itself is no stranger to anti-communist measures.
It banned the Soviet Communist Party after the failed coup attempt against reformist President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
The names of many Russian cities reverted to what they were before the 1917 Bolshevik revolution: Leningrad became St Petersburg, Sverdlovsk became Yekaterinburg and Gorky became Nizhny Novgorod.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, many of its former republics and allies banned communist symbols, too.
In Poland, anyone convicted of disseminating them may face a jail term of up to two years. Georgia also removed communist street and place names and outlawed Soviet symbols. Similar bans are in place in Latvia and Lithuania.
Ukraine's journey away from its communist past will be long and arduous, but commentators within the country are hopeful. "Our ship has left the communist harbour," analytical daily Den said. "Fair seas and a following wind!"
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Ukraine's parliament has banned communist symbols, but what does this mean for a country where every other town has a street named after Lenin? |
36,046,505 | They have published a report saying the results of the IGCSE in English language were flawed and pupils received unfair grades.
The exam board, Cambridge International Exams, said it was "confident" in the accuracy of the results.
Exam regulator Ofqual said the exam results were reliable and pupils had received "appropriate" grades.
The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) and Girls' School Association said an "unprecedented number" of schools had come forward with concerns about the results.
The report said the exam results "cannot be trusted" and there had been a "large-scale award of false grades" for the IGCSE English language paper taken by pupils in May 2015.
The independent schools' groups said there had been problems with the grade boundaries and the results had been "exceptionally out of line" with expectations, with pupils forecast to get top grades receiving U grades.
Leicester Grammar School headmaster Chris King, who chairs the HMC, said they were publishing the report after months of "fruitless formal appeals".
"Yet again, schools have known that students have been graded unfairly but have been unable to gain justice for pupils under the current system," he said.
But the claims about the IGCSE were strongly rejected by the exam board.
Roderic Gillespie, director of assessment at Cambridge International Examinations, said the independent schools' report was "flawed" and had been based on a "small sample of self-selecting schools unhappy with their results".
"There is no evidence in the report to justify re-grading the exam papers," he said.
Ofqual said it had checked the schools' claims but remained unconvinced by the evidence.
"It is unreasonable for any study to make assertions about an entire cohort of students based on the results of an unrepresentative sub-set of schools," said an Ofqual spokesman.
The exam watchdog said it was "satisfied that the grade boundaries were suitable".
Last year saw a record number of grades being changed after pupils appealed against results.
There were more than 90,000 GCSE and A-level grades changed in 2015, almost twice as many as three years before. | Independent school head teachers have said there was a "major problem" with an exam taken last summer. |
36,172,706 | Ryan Brobbel's first-half goal put Saints ahead against rivals appearing in their first Welsh Cup final.
Scott Quigley scored a second soon after the break as Saints added the Welsh Cup to their Welsh Premier title and Word Cup win.
Saints' win also means MBi Llandudno make next season's Europa League.
Llandudno do so after finishing third in the Welsh Premier.
Airbus had edged an evenly-contested opening half-hour with Paul Harrison denying Tony Gray while Chris Budrys failed to find the target with a free header.
Craig Harrison's side took the lead when Aeron Edwards headed down Chris Seargeant's corner for Brabbel to fire home from close range.
After the break Airbus captain Ian Kearney headed over before Quigley slotted home Saints' second three minutes later.
Saints winger Adrian Cieslewicz had an effort parried by James Coates, who also denied Quigley with his legs as Saints pressed for a third goal.
Airbus refused to give up and Kearney was denied by Harrison while at the other end Quigley and substitute Mike Wilde fired over the crossbar.
Saints' victory secured their sixth Welsh Cup while Airbus will now feature in the play-offs as they bid for a place in next season's Europa League.
New Saints director of football Craig Harrison told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "It was a very tough game. We knew Airbus would make it tough for us.
"I don't think the first half was particularly pretty but I thought in the second half we were much better and we controlled the game.
"The players have got three weeks off and they will be back in training on 23 May so they've got a quick turnover and we're back at it."
Airbus UK Broughton director of football Andy Preece told BBC Wales Sport: "We're disappointed because I don't feel we deserved to lose the game. I think in the first half we were the better team by a long way.
"We pushed the champions all the way and probably deserved more from it. We have to take a lot out of that and take into the [play-off] game against Newtown." | The New Saints secured their second successive domestic treble with victory over Airbus UK Broughton in the Welsh Cup final at Wrexham. |
35,144,995 | Latest figures for passenger numbers are 12% up on the same time last year, according to Transport for Edinburgh.
The busiest week was during the Edinburgh Festival season in August when 137,000 passengers were carried.
Five major rugby fixtures at Murrayfield and a Foo Fighters concert each added an extra 10,000 to the year's total.
The city's tram network opened at the end of May 2014, having been dogged by delays, overspends and legal wrangles with the contractors.
But transport chiefs have stressed that since then the system has proved popular, with a satisfaction survey in 2015 showing a 95% customer satisfaction rating and a 99% rating for reliability.
The projected total for passenger numbers throughout 2015 is 5.1 million, higher than the targets set out in the business model.
Car parking at Ingliston Park and Ride has also increased, up by 60% compared with the same time last year.
Councillor Lesley Hinds, chairwoman of Transport for Edinburgh, said: "These latest figures demonstrate the continuing popularity of Edinburgh Trams and add to the success of our first year of operations, which saw almost five million passengers ride the trams.
"We now want to build on this success for the future of the service, as we look to extend and develop the network to provide for even more people in Edinburgh."
Ian Craig, chief executive of Transport for Edinburgh, said: "Edinburgh Trams continues to go from strength to strength and this is because of a huge effort from the team over the past two years.
"Our first year of operations was a big success and a time of much excitement but the real test is sustainability and continuing high quality operations.
"The service we're delivering is great, it's highly reliable and, as a result, we're seeing more passengers get on board than last year.
"Edinburgh Trams is getting more popular and we want to make sure that trend continues for the benefit of the city." | Edinburgh's trams are on track to have carried more than five million passengers by the end of the year. |
34,634,533 | A new version of the ministerial code omits a previous reference to ministers being bound by international law.
Senior lawyers claim this could affect the UK's international position and relationship with other states.
The Cabinet Office said the code was very clear on the need to comply with the law, including international law.
Some leading lawyers believe the change could loosen ministerial respect for the rule of law and affect decisions about declaring war or using military force such as drones in Syria.
It could also reduce respect for judgements by international courts on, for example, contentious human rights issues, they add.
By Clive Coleman, BBC legal correspondent
To some this may seem like lawyers arguing over semantics. What is the meaningful difference between the ministerial code referring to a duty to comply with the law "including international law and treaty obligations" or simply the duty to comply with "the law"?
Surely "the law" encompasses all domestic and international law? That is certainly the government's position. However, this dispute focuses on the exercise of prerogative powers by ministers.
These include the power to use force, for instance, in ordering drone strikes in Syria. They are not set down, defined and limited specifically in UK statutes, and are instead governed by international law and treaty, such as the use of force set out in the UN Charter.
It is for that reason that some leading lawyers regard the specific reference to international law in the code as critical.
Paul Jenkins, former head of the government legal service, said it was "disingenuous" to dismiss the changes as "as mere tidying up".
He told the Guardian: "Whether the new wording alters the legal obligations of ministers or not, there can be no doubt that they will regard the change as bolstering, in a most satisfying way, their contempt for the rule of international law."
Campaign group Rights Watch UK said it was challenging the government's claim that the amendment to the code does not reflect a substantive change.
The previous ministerial code, issued in 2010, stressed an "overarching duty on ministers to comply with the law including international law and treaty obligations and to uphold the administration of justice and to protect the integrity of public life".
A new draft simply refers to a duty to comply with "the law and to protect the integrity of public life".
Philippe Sands QC, a professor of law at University College London, told the Guardian the change was "shocking" and "another slap to Magna Carta and the idea of the rule of law".
Also writing in the Guardian, former legal adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Frank Berman QC said it was "impossible not to feel a sense of disbelief at what must have been the deliberate suppression of the reference to international law" in the new version of the code.
A formal letter, seen by the BBC, is being sent to Prime Minister David Cameron by Rights Watch making it clear it wants the original wording reinstated.
Rights Watch director Yasmine Ahmed said: "For the government to erase from the ministerial code the starting presumption that its ministers will comply with international law is seriously concerning.
"It evidences a marked shift in the attitude and commitment of the UK government towards its international legal obligations." | The prime minister is facing a direct legal challenge over changes to the code which sets out rules and standards for ministers' conduct. |
32,065,651 | Her statement followed publication of the Penrose Inquiry report.
Thousands of people were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV through NHS blood products in the 1970s and 80s.
There had been an angry response to the report from some victims, who publicly burned copies.
The inquiry's single recommendation was that the Scottish government takes all reasonable steps to offer a Hepatitis C test to everyone in Scotland who had a blood transfusion before September 1991 and who has not been tested for the disease.
Ms Robison told the Scottish Parliament she understood the anger of many of those affected by the scandal.
She said: "I am very aware that, for many, the outcome of the inquiry did not meet their expectations."
The minister told MSPs she fully accepted the recommendation on carrying out further testing of patients.
She stressed that blood supplies were now safe.
"Our current blood safety record is safe," she said, adding: "The blood supply is as safe as it can be."
Ms Robison spoke of the need to improve financial support for those who needed it.
She said: "We must resolve this issue as soon as possible... and we must listen to the views of infected patients."
The minister also promised core funding for bodies working in this area.
"Both Haemophilia Scotland and the Scottish Infected Blood Forum do vital work in supporting the affected patients and their families," she said.
"I am pleased to confirm today that the Scottish government will commit to providing core funding for both organisations for the next three years, to ensure they can continue their good work.
"I have today asked both organisations to help establish the reference group to help take forward the Penrose recommendation, the other actions I've highlighted and the consultation on the review of the financial schemes."
Labour's Jenny Marra said the inquiry laid bare the full horror of the tragedy with so many lives devastated.
She said the most common phrase used by families was "whitewash".
Ms Marra called for financial support to be in place without delay.
Conservative Jackson Carlaw asked when further action that might arise as a result of the Penrose Inquiry might actually come about.
Labour's former leader Johann Lamont said victims, including one of her constituents, just wanted to know why this had happened.
The statement can be watched on demand at BBC Scotland's Democracy Live website. | Health Secretary Shona Robison has described infections caused by blood transfusions as "one of the greatest healthcare-related tragedies in this country". |
40,670,714 | Corrie Mckeague, 23, was last seen in Bury St Edmunds in September.
On Friday, Suffolk Police confirmed it had ended its search of waste at Milton landfill, near Cambridge.
His mother Nicola Urquhart has urged the force to reconsider and is considering seeking an injunction to stop the site being backfilled.
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The RAF serviceman from Dunfermline, Fife, has not been seen since a night out in the Suffolk town when CCTV showed him entering a bin loading bay.
"Let us help financially, let us help physically searching, or ask the military to assist them," she said.
"But do something, don't just walk away if that's where they think he is."
"The biggest fear we have is that they're handing the landfill back and it's going to start being filled in before we've had the opportunity to understand what's happened, why they've just suddenly stopped."
Mrs Urquhart said her appeal for the search to continue "doesn't diminish" her gratitude for what police have done so far, but claimed "there are other things that could be done".
"The picture in my head is that Corrie is literally one more lorry load away from being found in that landfill, or he is one more lorry load away from the police being able to turn round and say 'we know Corrie is not in this landfill now' and that's the sort of answer we should be getting."
An online petition calling for the search "to continue until he is found or the area is thoroughly searched" was set up on Friday.
It passed the 20,000 signature mark on Sunday. The petition's founder Kelly Morris hopes to get 25,000 signatures.
Mr Mckeague's father Martin staged a protest by blocking the entrance to the waste site with his motorhome for a short period of time.
"I am calling on the police to continue the search. I want to thank the police for everything they have done and I know how hard it has been for them," he said.
"I have voiced my concerns and I had to come up here and block the entrance. I want the search to carry on. I hope the police make the right decision."
Det Supt Katie Elliott said the landfill search for Mr Mckeague had been "systematic, comprehensive and thorough". | More than 21,000 people have signed a petition calling on police to continue searching a landfill site for a missing airman. |
40,322,796 | Figures from the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) show only a modest rise in students taking the new computer science GCSE.
Experts are concerned.
The British Computer Society warns the number studying for a computing qualification could halve by 2020.
The organisation - which is the professional body for the IT industry - says that would be a disaster for the economy.
The old ICT course, which was the main way school students learned about computing, is being scrapped, with the last GCSE entrants taking the exam next year. The subject, which was described by critics as teaching little more than how to use Microsoft Office, is being replaced by the more rigorous computer science GCSE.
But figures from Ofqual showing entries for the exam rising to 67,800 this year from 61,220 in 2016 have set alarm bells ringing. With 58,600 still taking the ICT exam, the overall number getting a GCSE computing qualification has fallen slightly.
The British Computing Society says that when ICT disappears, the computer science exam will fail to fill the gap.
"If we don't act now," says Bill Mitchell from the BCS, "by 2020 we are likely to see the number of students studying computing at GCSE halve, when it should be doubling. If that happens, it will be a disaster for our children, and the future of the nation."
The other big concern is that too few girls are taking up the computer science exam - in 2016 they made up just 20% of entrants, while the figure for ICT has been around 40%.
Prof Rose Luckin says the subject has an image problem.
"Computer science is seen as more 'techie' and it is still dominated by men," explains the expert from University College London's Knowledge Lab, who has been researching and writing about the teaching of technology for 20 years.
"Many girls believe computer science and coding is 'for boys' and they do not see desirable career options that appeal to them."
What seems clear is that the computer science exam is far more challenging, both for students and teachers. That was of course the aim, but those who warned that ending ICT risked throwing the baby out with the bathwater may now feel vindicated.
Drew Buddie, who is head of computing at a school near London, has always argued that ICT was unfairly maligned and was far more creative than its critics assumed.
Now, he says, "it is clear that many 14-to-17-year-old students, particularly girls, are not attracted to such a specific and narrow course."
"The current GCSE in computer science has replaced the opportunities for creativity that existed in ICT with set programming tasks that have very few solutions," he adds.
The British Computing Society, which lobbied for the new GCSE, insists that it always argued for a new IT qualification to complement computer science, but that was rejected by ministers.
The organisation says it is unrealistic to expect teachers of ICT to turn into teachers of computer science without significant training and support - and despite initiatives from organisations like Computing At School there has just not been enough funding to usher in this revolution.
I put some of these criticisms to the Department for Education. A spokesman stressed that the new exam had been designed with industry experts to develop the computational skills needed for today's economy.
He pointed out that the numbers taking it had more than doubled since 2015 and said "we expect that number to continue to rise while ICT GCSE is phased out. We are continuing to work to encourage even greater uptake of computer science, especially among girls."
But Prof Luckin says the situation is urgent.
"We need to focus on understanding exactly why students are not attracted to computer science so that we can ensure an appropriately skilled workforce for the future, not least amongst the teaching profession," she says.
And she adds that the advent of artificial intelligence makes this mission even more vital.
Five years ago, it seemed just about everyone, from teachers to business leaders to politicians, was in agreement about the need for radical changes in the way children were taught about computers.
But today it is hard to find many who are happy with the speed and direction of the revolution in computing education. | Computing education in England's schools is going through a revolution, but there is evidence that too few pupils want to be part of it. |
32,532,058 | The men, aged 35, 33 and 30, were held in the Rotherham area on suspicion of rape, indecent assault and false imprisonment of two girls under 16.
The offences are alleged to have taken place between 1999 and 2001.
The men have been bailed. South Yorkshire Police has arrested 11 men in the inquiry since November 2014. | Three men have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into historical child sexual exploitation in Rotherham. |
20,390,778 | The value of pollinators to the UK government is estimated to be £430m a year, but populations have been on the decline for 30 years.
The Welsh government launched the action plan at the Royal Welsh Show in Powys in July.
Since then a review has looked at the reasons for the insects' decline.
The action plan will be developed in partnership with key agencies and might include changes to the planning system to help make development "pollinator friendly".
Other plans include planting more bee-friendly plants in areas such as railway embankments and road verges.
The Welsh government held a workshop at Aberystwyth University on Monday to share the results of its review with Friends of the Earth Cymru, the Welsh Bee Keepers' Association and wildlife trusts.
Speaking before the meeting, Peter Barrar, a director of National Bee Keeping Centre Wales, said: "A number of policies and programmes will be put forward for discussion and hopefully we're going to have a situation where we have an action plan that (can be implemented) throughout Wales, and addresses some of the really key issues that are facing pollinators, not just in Wales, but throughout the UK as a whole and elsewhere."
Mr Barrar said there was probably four of five issues affecting pollinators.
"Firstly, I think we've got problems with the loss of natural habitats which have resulted from ways in which we now manage the land," he added.
"For example, 97% of the UK's wild flower meadows have disappeared since the 1930s. That's an incredible impact due to farming practices and so on.
"There are issues about the use of pesticides which many beekeepers believe are having a disastrous effect, on not just bees, but on other pollinators as well."
Environment Minister John Griffiths said 20% of the UK's cropped area was made up of pollinator-dependent crops.
"In July I announced that Wales would produce an action plan for pollinators," he added.
"Since then a review has been undertaken in Wales to look at the reasons for the population decline and the impacts that such a decline will have upon our society.
"We now want to share this report with our relevant partners and take their views on how we can protect this vitally important eco-system service.
"Their views and expertise will be crucial is helping to shape this action plan which is the first of its kind in the UK." | The progress of an action plan to protect endangered insect pollinators like honey bees and hoverflies in Wales have been discussed in Aberystwyth. |
35,239,546 | HDR-enabled screens can show millions more colours and several more shades of brightness between black and white than normal displays.
This lets them show more detail.
The announcements follow the creation of a new scheme that defines what HDR standards a 4K TV must meet to let it be sold with an "Ultra HD Premium" sticker.
Sony, Panasonic, HiSense, TCL and Sharp have also announced forthcoming TVs that will qualify for the badge.
Over recent years, the TV industry has focused on marketing 4K as a reason to upgrade. This signifies that a television has four times as many pixels as a 1080p high definition set.
But many experts say adding HDR makes more of a difference to the picture, allowing a TV to get closer to replicating the amount of detail our eyes can see in the real world.
"The combination of having the extra levels of contrast between white and black and the increased range of colours really does take TV to next level," commented David Mercer from the research firm Strategy Analytics.
"We've always said selling Ultra HD to the public had to be about more than just the number of pixels.
"Once you've seen the full capabilities of HDR you never want to go back."
Coming up with the new standard had been problematic because the major brands use different display technologies.
Samsung's high-end TVs, for instance, use LCDs (liquid crystal displays) with quantum dots to create a picture. These are tiny particles that emit a different colour of light according to their size.
By contrast, LG uses OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screens. These use a carbon-based film that allows the panel to emit its own light when an electrical current is passed through it, doing away with the need for a separate backlight.
The issue was that OLEDs start at nearly perfect black levels and then work their way up to offer a wider-than-normal dynamic range.
Quantum dot LCDs cannot go as dark, but make up for this by having a higher maximum brightness level from which their dynamic range can go down.
In the end, a group of major industry players called the UHD Alliance set two brightness ranges, and said as long as a TV complied with one of them it could qualify.
Other requirements involve:
Adopting the new standard should give consumers confidence that if they buy a new TV it will be compatible with HDR transmissions.
The industry wants to avoid a repeat of the situation in which many of the original televisions sold as being 4K-capable ended up being unable to decode transmissions in the format even though they had enough pixels.
"The key thing is that you have had the involvement of both the content players as well as the technology guys," said Mr Mercer.
Disney, Warner Bros, Universal Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Netflix, Sky TV and Amazon were all involved in creating the new standard.
Amazon already started streaming a limited amount of shows in HDR via its Instant Video service in 2015, and Netflix has signalled it will also do so later this year.
New 4K Blu-ray players unveiled at CES will also allow compatible discs to play back in HDR, meaning films will be able to show more detail at home than when they were screened in most cinemas.
Traditional broadcasters, however, have still to agree a new standard of their own to enable HDR data to be tacked onto existing signals.
"Backward compatibility is important as service providers need to make sure that content can be viewed on legacy TVs, which will continue to represent the majority of installed TVs over the foreseeable future," said broadcast specialist Keepixo in a recent paper on the subject.
Mr Mercer added, however, that it was inevitable that this problem would be solved before too long.
"Clearly it will involve extra production costs, but the broadcasters will feel under pressure from Netflix and Amazon and know they have to do it sooner than later," he said.
"What we're all waiting for, of course, is sports in HDR - it really does have a tremendous impact there."
Read more of our CES articles and follow the BBC team covering the show on Twitter. | Samsung and LG have both said that all their new flagship TVs will support high dynamic range video playback. |
39,672,693 | Hayden, from Limavady, has autism and had limited speech until a momentous day in his life and the life of the astronaut, Tim Peake.
As the astronaut was being launched into space in 2015, Hayden began to count down to the rocket's take-off.
Since then, the little boy's speech has improved dramatically.
On Wednesday, Major Tim, who became the first British astronaut to blast off to the International Space Station, tweeted to say he was "delighted" that Hayden was making such great progress.
His mum Caroline said he is unrecognisable to the boy he was a year ago: "He was a very withdrawn little boy".
"He didn't make much eye contact and he was with very into himself," she said.
"We used to worry - are we ever going to find out what Hayden's all about?
"As the countdown began, he joined in. It totally transformed him and was the first proper sentence we'd had from him.
"He's been talking about space ever since".
Hayden is now the youngest member of the Astronomy Ireland club and even met his hero last year when Major Tim Peake visited Belfast in October 2016. | It's not everyday you get a message from a real live astronaut, but that's what happened to seven-year-old Hayden Geraghty. |
38,159,783 | The woman has made a full recovery, and it is thought she had been infected by her partner, who had recently visited a Zika-hit country.
Mostly spread by mosquitoes, Zika can linger in semen for months.
Cases of sexual spread have been reported in other countries and experts said the UK case was "not unexpected".
An update by Public Health England said there had been 265 cases of Zika in the UK with one "likely" spread through sex.
Seven cases were in pregnant women.
While Zika is normally a mild infection, it can damage the development of a baby's brain, leading to microcephaly.
Prof Dilys Morgan, the Zika incident director at Public Health England, said: "PHE advises all male travellers regardless of symptoms to avoid conception and use condoms and other barrier methods during sexual activities for six months following return from a Zika high- or moderate-risk country."
Earlier this month the World Health Organization said Zika virus will no longer be treated as an international medical emergency. By lifting its nine-month-old declaration, the health agency acknowledged that Zika was here to stay.
Prof Jimmy Whitworth, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "News that one case of sexual transmission of Zika has occurred in the UK is not unexpected.
"About 60 cases of sexual transmission of Zika have been reported worldwide, so we think this is quite rare.
"Discovering just how common it is for the virus to be passed during sex by a man or woman is a key focus for Zika researchers.
"Public Health England's updated advice is also welcome.
"Zika virus survives in semen longer than other body fluids so recommending male travellers returning from Zika transmission countries, with or without symptoms, practise safe sex for six months is sensible."
Follow James on Twitter. | The first likely case of sexual transmission of the Zika virus in the UK has been reported by the authorities. |
40,481,480 | Close to 70,000 pupils were eligible for the free lunches across Wales in the 2015-16 academic year.
But AM Joyce Watson said inconsistent and out-of-date systems across schools were leading to children being bullied.
Some councils told BBC Wales they were introducing fingerprint IDs for lunches.
Across Wales' 22 local authorities, different systems are in place for issuing free school meals, including fobs, cashless cards, online payments and biometrics.
Despite calls in 2014 for all councils to introduce fingerprint IDs or biometrics, many are still yet to roll-out the systems.
Labour AM for Mid and West Wales, Ms Watson, said councils were taking too long to implement the systems, which would help prevent children from poorer families being bullied.
"I'm really concerned about young people being stigmatised," she said. "We are now in a position where a lot of families are using food banks."
"If young people are not taking up the offer because the system currently singles them out, when are they eating? Their families at home are struggling, in work poverty is a big issue now."
Ms Watson's office carried out research into the systems back in 2014, highlighting issues, including the selling of tokens and a lack of take-up due to stigmatism.
A Wales-wide system, which all councils buy into, would help reduce budget costs and bring consistency across the country, she added.
"I just think councils really need to think about moving as quickly forward on this as they can," she said.
"There may be many reasons why this hasn't happened. Budgets are probably the main reason but this is a problem for our children.
"We should never put children in that position. It is not their fault - and it is not the fault of their families - that they find themselves in this position."
In Welsh secondary schools, average uptake for free school meals is 61.74% - below the UK average of 64.92% - according to figures from the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE).
Rob Bailey, of APSE, said while cashless systems go some way to removing stigma, other factors including peer pressure meant many chose not to eat them.
Some of the current arrangements across Wales
Issues around free school meals were highlighted at a recent poverty conference near Cardiff last month.
A Caerphilly Youth Forum representative said young people in one school were being left hungry as cards for the free meals were not being loaded with cash until lunchtime.
She said many were not eating breakfast due to time restraints or their parents not being able to afford it, leaving them "starving".
Children's Commissioner Sally Holland told the conference she would look into the issue, but Caerphilly council said the IT software system had been recently upgraded to load cash on to the cards automatically first thing in the morning.
Teachers and charities have also warned children in poorer areas may go hungry without access to the school meals during the summer holidays.
A National Union of Teachers' spokesman said teachers often noticed pupils were thinner and less mentally alert after the summer.
Sarah Crawley, director of Barnardo's Cymru, said the charity was increasingly seeing families using food banks and the school holidays were an especially tough time. | Children can face going hungry as some councils are taking too long to roll-out fingerprint ID systems for free school meals, an AM has warned. |
39,029,265 | A deficit of nearly £900m was racked up by NHS trusts in the first nine months of the 2016-17 financial year.
It comes despite the health service being given extra money to help it get on top of its finances after the record £2.45bn overspend in 2015-16.
Hospitals were seeing more patients than budgeted for, they reported.
They also said problems discharging patients because of a lack of community services had cost them, said the regulator, NHS Improvement.
The figures for April to December cover ambulances, mental health units and community services as well as hospitals - although most of the deficit has been accrued by the latter.
Between them they account for £80bn of fund, about two-thirds of the health budget, because spending on GPs, training, drugs and public health are accounted for separately.
NHS Improvement, which released the accounts, said it had been a "challenging winter".
Waiting times have reached their worst-ever levels in A&E, while nine out of 10 hospitals have spent the winter months overcrowded with unsafe numbers of patients on wards.
NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey said it was proving to be "extremely challenging times".
But the regulator predicted the deficit could be cut slightly by the end of the financial year in April to between £750m and £850m - but still above the £580m figure suggested earlier in the year.
Some 135 out of 238 trusts had racked up a deficit in the nine months between April and December.
The total deficit when taking into account surpluses was £886m - less than half the figure at this point last year.
But the improvement has only been achieved because of a special one-off £1.8bn fund this year to help hospitals plug the gap.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents trusts, described the latest figures as worrying.
He said trusts were expected to operate with a "wafer-thin" margin for error.
"We shouldn't kid ourselves. The NHS's underlying financial position is not sustainable," he added.
The NHS is in the middle of the tightest financial settlement since it was created. Since 2010 the budget has been rising by a little more than 1% on average compared to more than 4% during the rest of its history.
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Follow Nick on Twitter | Winter pressures have caused the NHS to overspend as hospitals and other services have struggled to keep up with demand in England, finance chiefs say. |
37,335,557 | General secretary Frances O'Grady told delegates at its annual conference in Brighton that mistreatment is becoming more widespread in the UK.
She warned "greedy" businesses that her organisation would "shine a light on you".
This comes amid a renewed focus by trade unions on improving conditions for workers.
The TUC said the type of working practices "typified" by Sports Direct, which has been under fire for the treatment of its staff, was becoming more widespread.
"Sports Direct may be in the spotlight now, but they are not the only ones. There are other big companies that bring shame on our country. So let me give fair warning to any greedy business that treats its workers like animals - we will shine a light on you," Ms O'Grady told delegates.
"Run a big brand with a dirty little secret? A warehouse of people paid less than the minimum wage? A fleet of couriers who are slaves to an app? Let me put you on notice. There will be no hiding place. We will organise and we will win," she said.
Sports Direct's decision to end zero hours contracts in stores and put some agency workers on permanent contracts was a spectacular win for the trade union movement.
But unions know that the number of people on zero hours contracts is rising and self-employment continues to grow.
So, they are responding to this growing casualisation of the workforce - both to help those that are being exploited but also to sign up young people who are under-represented in trade unions.
Unions have also launched legal action against businesses like courier and taxi firms which have thousands of self-employed drivers who are not classified as workers and who don't enjoy basic workers rights.
Last week, Sports Direct promised to improve conditions after the sportswear chain's lawyers produced a critical report of how some staff were treated.
MPs had previously said working practices at the Shirebrook warehouse in Derbyshire were closer to "that of a Victorian workhouse than that of a modern High Street retailer".
Ms O'Grady said the firm's promise to abolish zero-hours contracts for its directly employed, casual retail staff - and to make sure all staff were paid above the national minimum wage - was down to "trade union shareholder power".
"Britain's unions will not rest until every worker gets the fair treatment they deserve," she said.
The TUC general secretary earlier praised the actions of pub chain Wetherspoons which said it would now allow all staff on zero-hours contracts to move to ones that provided guaranteed minimum hours after trialling the idea in parts of the business.
"The success of the Wetherspoons trial proves that businesses can be successful without zero-hours contracts," she said. | The TUC has warned companies that there will be "no hiding place" if they exploit their workers. |
36,065,753 | The German, who finished runner-up to Hamilton last year, is 36 points ahead after winning the Chinese Grand Prix.
Hamilton, who was seventh in Shanghai, said: "There is a long way to go, but I've no more jokers available."
Rosberg has now won the first three races - and no driver has failed to win the championship from this position.
Hamilton, a triple world champion, remains upbeat.
He said the "dark cloud" that has hung over him in the past was no longer around, insisting: "We will get up and try harder next time."
He also told reporters he had expected to be further adrift of Rosberg after Shanghai.
"Thirty-six behind?" said the 31-year-old Briton. "OK. That's not as bad as I thought. I feel pretty good right now. I thought it was 50."
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Hamilton recovered from a 29-point deficit in 2014 to win the title but has had a troubled start to the current campaign.
"Of course it is a trying time and lots of different emotions are going through my mind," he said.
"But this is a part of motor racing and a part of the journey.
"I haven't got an amazing feeling, but I have the utmost confidence in this team and we will recover from this at some point.
"When? Who knows, but hoping for better races to come."
Hamilton started at the back of the grid in China.
He was already due to serve a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change before his engine expired in qualifying.
Still, he insisted there were lots of positives to take from the race, including a "good start" and "great overtaking".
Rosberg insisted he was taking nothing for granted.
"It's too early to make any summaries," he said.
"It's three races now and they've gone really well for me, but it's the longest season in F1 history with 21 races so that's 18 to go.
"Of course I'm happy with the way it's gone. I'm feeling good and the car's there, but I don't want to say more than that.
"Lewis is not many points behind. He will never give up and he's the benchmark. He's been the benchmark for the last years, so the battle is going to be a big battle as always."
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Chinese Grand Prix coverage details | Lewis Hamilton says he cannot afford any more bad luck if he is to beat Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg to the world title this season. |
38,574,917 | The trio were part of Donegal's 2012 All-Ireland winning squad and all three collected three Ulster Senior titles.
Toye, 33, was Donegal's longest serving player, having made his debut in 2002, but has suffered from injury and illness in recent years.
Midfielder Kavanagh, 34, left the squad after the 2014 All-Ireland final but decided to return after a year out.
Toye suffered a ruptured Achilles in a qualifier against Clare in 2009 and did not play again for Donegal for 25 months, enduring setback after setback.
A shoulder problem and a recurrence of the Achilles strain meant the Naomh Micheal clubman was never a regular starter during the tenure of former manager Jim McGuinness.
Toye played the last 13 minutes of Donegal's All-Ireland final victory but then contracted trigeminal neuralgia.
He was confined to a bench role for much of the 2016 summer campaign.
Meanwhile Anthony Thompson has joined Odhrán MacNiallais and Naomh Conaill clubmate Leo McLoone in opting out of the Donegal panel.
The 2012 All-Ireland winner and All Star nominee is unable to commit to the side for personal reasons but, unlike MacNiallais and McLoone, may rejoin Rory Gallagher's squad at a later stage of the Football League.
Thirty-year-old wing-back/half-forward Thompson works as an engineer and spent most of the 2015 season travelling back and forth between Donegal and Essex, England.
Gweedore player MacNiallais is "taking a year out" from Rory Gallagher's squad, while McLoone confirmed before Christmas that he had opted out of the panel for this year. | Christy Toye, Rory Kavanagh and David Walsh have called time on their inter-county football careers with Donegal. |
40,178,021 | The alarm was raised at about 01:00 on Tuesday, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said.
A coastguard helicopter, Fort William coastguard rescue team and the Oban lifeboat searched for the distress beacon near Fort William and Corpach.
The device was eventually found near the wreck at Corpach.
The vessel was abandoned at some point with the last 10 years. The MCA said the beacon may have been triggered as it deteriorated. | An emergency beacon from a fishing boat that was grounded and abandoned years ago has sparked a major air and sea search. |
40,786,073 | The Heed, who were beaten 2-1 at Woking on the opening day on Saturday, made a bright start and Scott Barrow headed narrowly wide from Callum Williams' cross.
Reece Thompson thought he had put Guiseley ahead but it was disallowed for offside before Jordan Preston fired into the side-netting at the other end.
Alex Purver then forced James Montgomery in the Gateshead goal into a fine save in first-half stoppage time as the ball bounced around the box.
And the hosts went ahead six minutes into the second half when Byrne climbed highest to send a header past Jonny Maxted from Paddy McLaughlin's corner.
Maxted then pulled off a super save two minutes from time to prevent Richard Peniket adding a second with a close-range header.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Gateshead 1, Guiseley 0.
Second Half ends, Gateshead 1, Guiseley 0.
Jake Lawlor (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Lee Molyneux (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Guiseley. Callum McFadzean replaces John Rooney.
Substitution, Gateshead. Richard Peniket replaces Danny Johnson.
Substitution, Guiseley. Raul Correia replaces Alex Purver.
Substitution, Gateshead. Jon Mellish replaces Jamal Fyfield.
Substitution, Guiseley. Euan Frank Mulhern replaces Kevan Hurst.
Goal! Gateshead 1, Guiseley 0. Neill Byrne (Gateshead).
Second Half begins Gateshead 0, Guiseley 0.
First Half ends, Gateshead 0, Guiseley 0.
Robbie Tinkler (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card.
Reece Thompson (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Jamal Fyfield (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Gateshead kick-started their National League season as Neill Byrne's strike gave them victory over Guiseley. |
18,503,550 | The man, Muree bin Ali bin Issa al-Asiri, was found in possession of books and talismans, SPA said. He had also admitted adultery with two women, it said.
The execution took place in the southern Najran province, SPA reported.
Human rights groups have repeatedly condemned executions for witchcraft in Saudi Arabia.
Last year, there were reports of at least two people being executed for sorcery.
Mr Asiri was beheaded after his sentence was upheld by the country's highest courts, the Saudi news agency website said.
No details were given of what he was found guilty of beyond the charges of witchcraft and sorcery.
Amnesty International says the country does not formally classify sorcery as a capital offence.
But the BBC's Arab Affairs Editor, Sebastian Usher, says there is a very strong prohibition of some practices from the country's powerful conservative religious leaders.
Some, he explains, have repeatedly called for the strongest possible punishments against anyone suspected of sorcery - whether they are fortune tellers or faith healers.
In 2010, a Lebanese television presenter of a popular fortune-telling programme was arrested while on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
Though sentenced to death, after pressure from his government and human rights groups, he was freed by the Saudi Supreme Court, which found that he had not harmed anyone.
More recent cases of death on charges of sorcery include that of a Saudi woman, executed for committing sorcery and witchcraft in December, in the northern province of Jawf, and that of a Sudanese man executed in September, despite calls led by Amnesty International for his release. | A Saudi man has been beheaded on charges of sorcery and witchcraft, the state news agency SPA says. |
30,391,342 | Cardiff council has opted for the Marland House and NCP car park site, which the authority owns.
The new station will be part of the Central Square project which will see BBC Wales move to its new headquarters from Llandaff in 2018.
The current station will close in 2015, with temporary stops set up elsewhere.
Final approval for the station, which should be completed in 2017, will be sought from the council's cabinet on Monday.
Ramesh Patel, cabinet member for planning and sustainability, said: "This strategic development will transform how public transport is delivered in this city and I am pleased to announce that the development is on schedule and the contingency arrangements will be in place by the time that the bus station will close in June 2015." | Work on an £11m bus station in Cardiff is expected to start next year as part of a development plan to revamp the city centre. |
29,591,916 | US National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who announced the development, said she welcomed the new agreement.
It has not yet been confirmed by Turkey, which has so far refused to send troops into Syria or Iraq.
And Turkey's PM says no deal has been reached to allow the US to use Incirlik air base to attack IS militants.
Turkish MPs recently passed a motion that could allow foreign forces to use its bases for activities in Syria and Iraq, although the final decision rests with the government.
The US-led coalition is carrying out air strikes against Islamic State militants, who have seized large parts of Iraq and Syria. Many have targeted IS around the key Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane.
Eight air strikes were launched by US and Saudi fighter jets on Sunday and Monday, with seven targeting IS near Kobane, US Central Command said.
Meanwhile, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said an IS suicide bomber had detonated a truck with explosives to the north of the besieged Syrian Kurdish town on Monday.
IS militants, who control some areas of the town, are continuing to meet resistance from Kurdish forces there.
Speaking to US broadcaster NBC on Sunday, Ms Rice said Turkey had agreed to let the US use Turkish bases and territory "to train moderate Syrian opposition forces".
"That's the new commitment, and one that we very much welcome," she added.
Analysis: Mark Lowen, BBC News, Istanbul
We knew last week that Turkey would get involved in training moderate Syrian opposition groups - but at the time it seemed that would take place in Saudi Arabia.
Now, after a visit to Ankara by US presidential envoy John Allen, Susan Rice says the training will take place in Turkey. A US military delegation will be here this week to discuss details - and how Turkish bases can be used for the coalition operation against Islamic State.
However, the prime minister's office has now said that the US airbase at Incirlik in southern Turkey will not be used for strikes.
The training is a long-term goal. The coalition's immediate concern is the fate of Kobane and, on that, Turkey is still unwilling to intervene militarily.
It argues no other country wants to commit ground troops and it cannot deploy unilaterally, especially given its long, vulnerable border with Syria and Iraq.
And it wants the coalition to commit to targeting President Bashar al-Assad and creating a no-fly zone, neither of which are on the cards. So while Ankara is inching forward in the role it will play, nobody expects it to go into either country with guns blazing.
The training of Syria's moderate opposition is part of US President Barack Obama's anti-IS strategy announced last month.
In recent days, IS fighters have advanced against the Syrian town of Kobane, which has a border crossing point with Turkey.
But neither side has been able to gain significant ground.
Kurdish sources in Kobane said that fierce clashes continued on Monday near aid supplies warehouses at the south-west entrance to the town.
The militants were pushed back as they tried to advance towards a border crossing.
Turkey has ranged its military forces on the border but has so far ruled out any ground operation on its own and has refused to allow Kurds in Turkey to cross the border to fight.
Turkey has been reluctant to get involved militarily, partly because it is concerned about arming the Kurdish forces fighting IS militants. Turkey fought a long civil war with its Kurdish minority.
Since the IS offensive against Kobane began in mid-September, some 500 people have been killed and up to 200,000 have fled across the border into Turkey.
IS says it aims to establish a "caliphate", a state ruled by a single political and religious leader according to Islamic law, or Sharia.
It has become known for brutal tactics, including mass killings, abductions of members of religious and ethnic minorities, and the beheadings of soldiers and journalists. | Turkey has agreed to allow moderate Syrian rebels to be trained on its soil, the US says, in its bid to combat Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. |
40,869,153 | A topsy-turvy contest ended with Chris Ulugia touching down for the visitors and Ian Hardman converting from the touchline to secure a point.
The hosts had led 14-0 but Rovers scored 22 points without reply either side of half-time to go in front.
London responded and were 32-22 up when Andy Ackers went over, but Rovers duo Luke Briscoe and Ulugia secured a draw.
London Broncos: Walker; Williams, Hellewell, Pewhairangi, Kear; Sammut, Barthau; Spencer, Ackers, Ioane, Wilde, Pitts, Davis.
Replacements: Boudebza, Gee, Battye, Bienek.
Featherstone: Hardman; Taulapapa, Ulugia, Briscoe, Hardcastle; Briggs, Thackeray; Baldwinson, Davies, Farrell, Moore, Carlile, Griffin.
Replacements: Brooks, Wildie, Bostock, Mariano.
Referee: Liam Moore | Featherstone Rovers scored a last-gasp try to draw a thrilling Qualifiers fixture against London Broncos. |
35,748,386 | 8 March 2016 Last updated at 09:19 GMT
Silja Bara Omarsdottir, an adjunct professor from the University of Iceland, said women tend to wait for their turn to speak, but men do not have these qualms.
If conversations between genders were more balanced, then women's voices could be properly heard, she added.
For more listen to the World Service's Forum.
Animation by Ian Lacey. Production by Emre Azizlerli. | A political scientist has suggested that for at least one day a year men should not be allowed to talk in a meeting unless a woman has expressed her opinion first. |
36,774,452 | Made On Our Land features material from the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.
The films include one made by an Aberdeenshire mother and daughter that documents farm life around Aboyne and another shows 1960s holidays to Islay.
There are also World War Two propaganda films and a post-war film made to dissuade Highlanders from leaving their home area to live and work in cities.
Using a mobile cinema and starting in Arran on 22 July, the tour will also visit Aboyne, Benbecula, Castle Douglas and Peebles.
Made on Our Land curator and tour producer, Shona Thomson, said: "I love the strong tradition of rural cinema-going that started with the Highlands and Islands Film Guild 70 years ago and continues today.
"It's an honour to be celebrating that tradition by showing films from the 1930s to the 1980s that have a relevance to the modern rural audiences now served by the Screen Machine and Film Mobile network." | A new cinema project is to take archived films on a tour of Scotland. |
38,228,411 | BBC analysis of NHS figures showed nearly 475,000 patients waited for more than four hours for a bed on a ward in 2015-16 - almost a five-fold increase since 2010-11.
Hospitals reported using side rooms and corridors to cope with the growing number of "trolley waits".
NHS bosses acknowledged problems, blaming "growing demand" on the system.
But doctors said hospitals were now dangerously overcrowded, with three quarters of hospitals reporting bed shortages as winter hits.
Bed occupancy is not meant to exceed 85% - to give staff time to clean beds, keep infections low and ensure patients who need beds can be found them quickly.
But 130 out of 179 hospital trusts are reporting rates exceeding this for general hospital beds.
Hospital managers said the problem was causing "deeply worrying" delays for these patients.
They are people who have already faced a wait to be seen in A&E but whose condition is deemed to be so serious they need to be admitted on to a ward.
About one in five people who come to A&E fall into this category and it includes the frail elderly and patients with chest pains, breathing problems and fractures.
11%
of emergency patients face a 4 hour "trolley wait"
5x increase in numbers waiting over 4 hours for a bed since 2011
474,453 patients waited +4 hours for a bed 2015-16
97,559 patients waited +4 hours for a bed 2010-11
The BBC analysed official NHS England figures and found 473,453 patients waited more than four hours for a bed between October 2015 and September 2016 - 11% of the 4.2 million patients admitted in total during the period. More than 1,400 of them faced delays of more than 12 hours.
It compares with 97,559 "trolley waits" in 2010-11 - although NHS England pointed out a small fraction of the rise could be attributed to a change in the way the waits were measured in December 2015.
Directly comparable figures are not available for other parts of the UK, although data suggests there is an increasing strain on beds.
While the delays are known as "trolley waits" not all patients find themselves on one. Hospitals use all sorts of areas, including side rooms, seats in the A&E department and spare cubicles depending on what is available.
Rupert Nathan, 55, was rushed to hospital in an ambulance when he started suffering chest pains at home in June. He had previously had two angioplasties - one in 2000 and one in 2001 - because of angina and feared he was having a heart attack.
He was taken by ambulance to Barnet Hospital in north London and was given blood and heart tests. At that point, staff decided to admit him for further checks. But he spent more than five hours waiting for a bed.
"I was left in a waiting area with my girlfriend. I was in pain and really concerned. There was little contact with staff and it was after midnight when I was finally found a bed."
He asked for morphine and was told he would undergo scans in the morning. But when morning came, he was in a much better state and was discharged.
"I was told the delays were because it was very busy. I could see that, but it's still not acceptable."
Mr Nathan has made a complaint about his care. The hospital said it was sorry about the long wait, but said this can happen at busy times. It said it had to prioritise patients and maintained the way he was cared for was "appropriate".
Siva Anandaciva, of NHS Providers which represents hospitals, said: "These figures are deeply worrying. We are heading into winter in a more fragile state than I have seen in the past 10 years or so.
"Even the historically top-performing trusts are being challenged, which shows that this is an issue affecting all parts of health.
"No-one wants to see people waiting in corridors, side rooms and emergency bays when they should be admitted to a hospital bed. These patients are still under the care of doctors and nurses of course, but it is not ideal for them and we know overcrowding leads to worse outcomes."
Dr Chris Moulton, of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, echoed the concerns.
"Patients who are delayed like this are still being monitored by staff. But we know that the overcrowding we are seeing is dangerous. It leads to worse outcomes for patients - higher infection rates, patients ending up on the wrong wards and generally a negative experience."
Dr Moulton believes there are too few beds. There are just over 100,000 general beds in England - a fall of 40,000 in the past 20 years.
"We simply don't have enough. If you compare us to other European countries we are really short and the demands being placed on the health service means we are now struggling to cope," he added.
A spokesman for NHS England said "growing demand" was putting pressure on the system - the number of emergency admissions having risen by more than 500,000 in five years to 4.2 million.
But he added it was "a tribute to front-line staff" that the NHS was able to handle so many patients.
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40,303,110 | Winchester Crown Court heard it was a "miracle" that the victim survived the attack in Bournemouth in January.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted of wounding with intent and possessing a knife following a trial in May.
He also admitted supplying heroin and crack cocaine.
Read more on this and other stories from across the south of England
The court heard the victim, a man in his 50s, had approached the teenager in Ashley Road shortly after being refused drugs because he lacked money.
The boy, described as a "career drugs dealer", plunged a small knife into the man's head behind his ear.
CCTV shown in court showed the victim walking into a shop with the knife still embedded to a depth of 3.5cm, before he collapsed.
In a victim impact statement, read in court, the man said he was convinced he would die in hospital during the operation to remove the blade.
Judge Jane Miller QC said the blade had "missed critical structures in the head by millimetres".
She told the teenager: "You are very lucky you did not face a murder charge.
"You are dangerous and lack ability to control yourself."
A jury previously cleared the defendant of a charge of attempted murder. | A teenage drug dealer who stabbed a customer leaving a knife embedded in his head, has been detained for 12 years. |
30,869,896 | Mr Varadkar said he had decided to speak about his sexuality as he would be campaigning for the government in support of same-sex marriage in the forthcoming referendum in May.
"It's not a secret - but not something that everyone would necessarily know, but it isn't something I've spoken publicly about before," he said.
The minister was speaking on RTÉ radio in an interview on his 36th birthday.
"I won't be allowing my own background or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I make," he said.
"I just kind of want to be honest with people. I don't want anyone to think that I have a hidden agenda."
The referendum comes 22 years after homosexuality was decriminalised by the state.
Same-sex couples in the Republic of Ireland have been able to enter a civil partnership since January 2011, but not marry. | Irish Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has revealed that he is gay. |
36,380,495 | They were among 149 children abducted in the raid by members of the Murle community who took them across the border to South Sudan, along with livestock they stole.
Ms Nyardhan's youngest, 11-year-old Jany, has recently been rescued, but her other two sons and her daughter are still being held captive.
"I didn't believe that I would see him ever again," she says, feeding him by hand.
"I am really happy to have one of my children back. It is a blessing and it is thanks to the on-going rescue mission.
"I have been worrying day and night about my children, that I might never ever see them again. I am still waiting for the others."
At least 53 children, the youngest being three months old, have so far been rescued in the Ethiopian army's on-going mission inside South Sudan.
They are from the Nuer community which has a history of ethnic clashes with the Murle - often linked to cattle vendettas.
Jany told his mother how he was locked alone inside a hut, surrounded by heavily armed men, and given only milk to drink during his captivity.
Like many other rescued children, he is now at the guest house of the region's president where they are receiving food and medical attention.
"We have established that these children would have been sold or exchanged for heads of cattle inside South Sudan," says Gatluak Tut Khot, Gambella region president.
"But we are not going to rest until we get them all back home," he adds.
Outside the guest house a group of women are sitting under a tree singing and clapping.
In front of them five boys are going round and round in circles dancing to a popular tune sung by the Nuer of Gambella.
Among them is 27-year-old Nyamak Oukuch, with 18-month-old twins on her lap - her niece and nephew.
Two other children are playing by her side - they are also the children of her elder sister who was killed in the attack on 15 April.
"I don't know where the eldest is. He was also taken and is probably with the Murle," she says.
Many of the freed children are severely malnourished and need urgent medical attention.
Officials from the UN children's agency and government are jointly providing medical help, counselling and basic necessities for the children, their families and caretakers.
"Whenever children undergo hard conditions like this - separated from their families especially violently, and they are staying with complete strangers for something like three or four weeks - they feel completely let down and some of these experiences last for a lifetime," says Mike Charley, a Unicef child protection specialist in Ethiopia.
Lare was one of dozens of villages attacked by the Murle and is about 70km (43 miles) from Gambella town.
A strong smell of cow dung hits you on arrival.
We were told there used to be thousands of cattle in the area but nearly all of them were stolen in the raid; only a few calves and goats now roam about.
There are several houses in the settlement but nearly all are now abandoned.
Some families have come back to rebuild their lives but most have decided to leave.
At least 22,000 people have fled their homes and residents say the unprecedented brutality of last month's attack has left them fearful.
"I can never return to my home again. My husband was killed that day and my two children taken," says Nyakuich Both.
"I have nothing left. Why should I go back there?"
On her forehead she has tied a strand of grass which she says is a sign of mourning for her husband, children and home.
"I have heard that one of my children was rescued and is now in Gambella town, but I have not seen him, the other is still in South Sudan. I don't think I will ever see him again," she says.
Like her, thousands of other villagers have now taken refuge in temporary shacks near the main road where they think it is safer.
Others have moved in with neighbours and relatives in nearby villages.
Two UN human rights experts, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio and Christof Heyns, have said communities on both sides of the border receive little protection from their governments and reported that increasing flows of smalls arms was making raids more deadly.
They said there was an "urgent need for an effective and well-resourced permanent presence at the border in order to monitor the area and prevent incursions".
Mr Gatluak has assured Gambella residents that "they are now safe".
"After we get our children and cattle back, we will seriously work on our border relationships," the regional president says.
"We must teach the Murle that there is a better way of life than cattle rustling and stealing children." | Four of Nyardhan Girmal's children were kidnapped from their home in Lare village last month in an attack on Ethiopia's Gambella region that left more than 200 people dead. |
33,164,434 | The figures revealed 91.7% of school leavers were in a "positive destination" in March 2015, up 1.3% since 2014.
But those leaving with no qualifications increased by 0.2%.
The findings were part of a range of education figures published by Scotland's Chief Statistician.
They also found the number of pupils registered for free school meals had increased from 49.8% in 2014 to 56.6% in 2015.
The rise was attributed to the extension of free school meals in January 2015 for all P1 and P3 pupils - with 80% of children in this age group now registered for a free school meal.
PE provision in both primary and secondary schools also improved with 98% of schools meeting the target of two-hours per week, an increase of 2% on 2014.
BBC Scotland data journalist Marc Ellison delved into the 34-page report of dense data and attempted to tackle a number of questions including;
Find out more....
The statistics used data from the Scottish Qualifications Authority, Skill Development Scotland's School Leaver Destination Survey and the latest Healthy Living Survey.
The number of school leavers attaining a qualification at SCQF level 6 or 7 increased from 55.8% in 2011/12 and 2012/13 to 58.8% for 2013/14.
Those leaving with no qualifications at or above SCQF level 3 increased slightly from 1.5% in 2012/13 to 1.7% for 2013/14.
Looked after children continued to have lower levels of attainment, but the gap has reduced during the last three years.
Education Secretary Angela Constance said the figures were encouraging, but there was still room for improvement.
She said: "There is a small number of young people leaving school without qualifications, although an increasing percentage are going onto college and employment.
"School leavers from disadvantaged areas are improving faster, but there is still a gap between those from the most and least deprived areas and I am determined to tackle this."
Larry Flanagan, general secretary of the EIS teaching union, also welcomed the figures but said more needed to be done to help those from poorer backgrounds.
He said: "Poverty continues to have a negative impact on the education and life chances of too many young people across Scotland and the attainment gap between Scotland's most and least deprived pupils continues to be a huge challenge that society must tackle.
"Measures that are already being taken, including the extension of free school meals to more young people and the launch of the Scottish Attainment Challenge and the Scottish Attainment Fund, have been very positive and welcome steps, but more must be done in terms of increased investment in schools, resources and staffing to ensure that all young people receive the support and opportunities that they deserve."
Opposition parties also said more needs to be done to bridge the attainment gap.
Labour's education spokesman Iain Gray said: "The attainment gap still persists - these statistics show that the poorest 20% are still half as likely as the wealthiest 20% to leave school with one or more Highers.
"That isn't nearly good enough, and again begs the question as to why Nicola Sturgeon, after eight years in power, is just realising now that this is a problem.
"Labour will close the attainment gap with targeted intervention paid for by a 50p top rate of tax.
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Liam McArthur said Scotland's attainment gap would not be closed "unless bold action is taken".
He said: "Four out of 10 pupils from Scotland's most deprived backgrounds leave school with one Higher or more compared to eight out of 10 from Scotland's least deprived backgrounds.
"Whilst there have been steady improvements in passes by pupils from the poorest backgrounds, there has been near corresponding improvements by pupils from better-off backgrounds."
And Conservative young people spokeswoman Liz Smith also said the attainment gap remains too wide.
She said: "We still have a situation where 15% of young people from the most deprived backgrounds leave school to go to absolutely nothing.
"And of course, the biggest concern remains the fact that literacy and numeracy rates fall between the middle years of primary school and the early years of secondary school with significant implications for the persistence of the attainment gap.
"This has to change, and the Scottish government has to be prepared to pursue the radical measures necessary to make that change." | More children in Scotland are leaving school to go into work, education and training than ever before, official statistics show. |
34,335,103 | The brief war cost the lives of more than 900 soldiers, mostly Argentines.
But for many young Argentine conscripts, the enemy was not the British troops, but their own superiors.
About 700 secret files released by Argentina's armed forces reveal that Argentine soldiers were subjected to abuse and torture at the hands of their officers during the 10-week conflict in the South Atlantic.
They are the first official documents from the war to be made public and contain testimonies from soldiers who say they were badly equipped and ill prepared for the cold.
For years a group of soldiers tried to bring those responsible for the abuses to justice, but in February Argentina's Supreme Court ruled that the statute of limitations had expired and closed the investigation.
This group is now appealing to the Inter-American Court for Human Rights.
BBC Mundo's Ignacio de los Reyes spoke to one of the soldiers who was tortured.
Silvio Katz, who is now 53, works as a cook at a school in the province of Buenos Aires.
He recalled the harsh punishments the conscripts would be subjected to and the abuse he suffered for being Jewish.
"I was just a 19-year-old boy fulfilling the mandatory military service.
"I had only seen weapons in films. Suddenly I was taken to a war I did not choose to fight in.
"Just like the other 10,000 conscripts, I had no idea of what was to come.
"I arrived on the Malvinas on 11 April 1982. I honestly thought we would only go and occupy a place where nothing was going to happen.
"The Argentine strategy was so bad and we had so little information that we thought Britain wouldn't send ships or planes. But the feeling of uncertainty soon turned into horror.
"The worst part was the psychological torture because of my beliefs. I was called a 'Jewish coward', 'Jewish traitor' or just 'shitty Jew'.
"They [my superiors] used to drive four stakes into the ground and tie our hands and legs to them [as a form of punishment].
"So I would be tied to the stakes in the rain, while my colleagues were forced to urinate on me. And I didn't know when the punishment would end.
"They would also put my head, hands and feet in icy water. {Other times,] I was forced to eat my food among faeces.
"That was the superiors' way of systematic punishment... their way to show their power.
"I used to lay down in a well and cry and my colleagues would come to comfort me. It is thanks to them that I am not insane now.
"My time on the islands was the worst of my life. My own war was against the Argentine military.
"As soon as I was captured by the British I felt relieved, liberated. They gave me food and I could feel alive again.
"There are many former soldiers who do not want to be seen as victims of the Argentine dictatorship [which ruled the country from 1976 to 1983 and under which as many as 30,000 people were forcibly disappeared].
"They are afraid they won't be regarded as heroes. But I think we were both victims and heroes.
"Because I feel the pride of fighting for my country, and at the same time I feel that those who tortured me were part of a system that left 30,000 people disappeared.
"Now that these documents have been released I feel relieved and happy. My sons can now see that everything that I told them is true.
"The judiciary did not believe me, but now we are getting closer to justice being served, even if it is late and slowly.
"Those responsible for my abuses are going to pay." | In 1982, about 10,000 Argentine soldiers were sent to the Falkland Islands to gain control of the territory from Britain, which had governed the islands - known as Malvinas in Argentina - for 150 years. |
37,091,541 | Brendan Rodgers' team were utterly dominant in the opening half, scoring through Tom Rogic and a terrific double from Leigh Griffiths.
The wheels fell off suddenly early in the second half as Lucio Maranhao and Maor Melikson netted.
But Moussa Dembele headed in a fourth and Scott Brown rattled home a fifth.
The two sides meet again in Beersheba on Tuesday but that game will have to go some to match a brilliant and madcap European night at Celtic Park.
Craig Gordon's magnificent save from a Maharan Radi header preserved Celtic's lead at 4-2 and Hapoel had a penalty claim turned down shortly before Brown's goal.
For Celtic, it had been so easy for so long.
Griffiths was so involved in the first half it was difficult to keep a check on how many versions of himself were out on the pitch. Scott Sinclair's pace troubled Beer Sheva, Rogic had a field day and Brown led the side well.
Celtic were ahead when Griffiths dinked a beautiful ball over the visiting defence to Sinclair, who was promptly taken out by goalkeeper David Goresh. It would have been a penalty had it not been for Rogic following up to drive Celtic into the lead.
Soon after, Sinclair went down in the box but a big shout for a spot-kick was waved away. It hardly seemed to matter because in Celtic's performance there was always the promise of more goals. And they came.
Kolo Toure strode out of defence and found Sinclair, who put James Forrest away down the right. His cross was nutted home brilliantly by Griffiths.
The third was even better, a sumptuous Griffiths free-kick from wide to the right of the Hapoel penalty area. The striker curled into the top corner. Total class.
Hapoel had no shots on goal and, seemingly, no hope of turning it around, but they did.
From a counter-attack, Lucio struck from close range to make it 3-1. From another advance down the left two minutes later, Melikson drove home from a central position and suddenly it was 3-2.
Celtic were in shock, but gathered themselves to score a fourth. Griffiths was involved again, swinging in a corner for Dembele to head home.
Gordon's superb save from Radi was as impressive as it was critical.
And then Brown added the dramatic flourish, his first shot fluffed, his second rifled into the Hapoel net to send Celtic Park back into a blissful state.
To call it a classic does not quite cover it.
Match ends, Celtic 5, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2.
Second Half ends, Celtic 5, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2.
Loai Taha (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Moussa Dembele (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Loai Taha (Hapoel Be'er Sheva).
Attempt saved. Maor Bar Buzaglo (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tony Nwakaeme.
Foul by James Forrest (Celtic).
Ofir Davidzada (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
James Forrest (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Nir Bitton (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).
Maor Bar Buzaglo (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by David Goresh.
Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Moussa Dembele.
Kolo Touré (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).
Maor Melikson (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Celtic 5, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by James Forrest.
Substitution, Hapoel Be'er Sheva. Vladimir Brown replaces Maharan Radi.
Foul by Saidy Janko (Celtic).
Maor Melikson (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by James Forrest.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by James Forrest.
Substitution, Hapoel Be'er Sheva. Maor Bar Buzaglo replaces Ovidiu Hoban.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Tony Nwakaeme (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Maharan Radi (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Bitton with a cross.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Ovidiu Hoban (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Celtic 4, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Leigh Griffiths with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Shir Tzedek.
Attempt blocked. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Saidy Janko.
Attempt missed. Kieran Tierney (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Forrest.
Substitution, Celtic. Moussa Dembele replaces Tomas Rogic.
Substitution, Hapoel Be'er Sheva. Ben Sahar replaces Lucio Maranhão.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Ofir Davidzada.
Substitution, Celtic. Saidy Janko replaces Mikael Lustig.
Substitution, Celtic. Nir Bitton replaces Callum McGregor.
Delay over. They are ready to continue. | Celtic took a giant step towards the Champions League group stage with an extraordinary play-off first-leg win over Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva. |
39,392,119 | 25 March 2017 Last updated at 11:47 GMT
After following it into a pen, the policeman got out to close the gate hoping the cow would stay inside.
No such luck! The policeman was forced to moooove out the way as the cow stormed out.
Luckily the officer managed to get away in time and no one was hurt.
Footage from Temple Police Department | Perhaps there was a bit of 'beef' between this cow and policeman in Texas, America. |
34,090,851 | The lagoon at Surf Snowdonia at Dolgarrog in the Conwy Valley was filled with more than six million gallons (33,000 cubic metres) of water for its opening on 1 August.
But it had to be drained so engineers could fix a fault affecting the wave foil which creates the waves.
About 14,000 people visited the centre in its first two weeks. | A new surf lagoon has reopened after engineers fixed a fault which closed the attraction for 10 days. |
39,371,548 | That is how Carol McCullough describes living with a rare disease and trying to find out what was wrong with her.
A rare disease is defined as one affecting not more than one person in 2,000.
According to the NI Rare Disease Partnership, one in 17 people in Northern Ireland has such a condition.
That is more than 100,000 people, or roughly the population of a city the size of Londonderry.
Carol McCullough, from County Armagh, was diagnosed with Wilson's Disease in 2010.
It is a rare disorder that results in a build-up of copper in the body. An overload of copper is poisonous and can damage the liver, brain and other organs.
If the disease is caught early enough it can be effectively treated - if not, it is fatal.
The 55-year-old says receiving the diagnosis was a relief.
"It has freed up a lot of anxiety about what actually is the cause. I can get support. It's made me more confident to go out with people, has made me much less angry and more settled.
"The name means an awful lot to people because you do need that label to say, 'That's what is happening to me.'"
Someone who agrees that knowledge is power is busy mother-of-four Gillian Cassidy.
Her eldest daughter Lucia was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder when she was about three and a half years old.
It is called 22q11 deletion syndrome. Children with the condition can have heart defects, learning difficulties, a cleft palate and may have many other medical problems.
In almost all cases, the symptoms and features result from a missing piece of chromosome. Gillian says she gradually began to notice signs that something was slightly wrong her daughter.
"When she was getting to the age of two we had had a number of different issues. When she should have been learning how to start to talk we realised she had no sounds. She'd always been a quiet baby who didn't cry a lot so I asked the health visitor to refer her on to speech and language."
That referral led to a series of tests and a diagnosis was eventually received.
The Bangor woman says when she first researched the condition online, she was amazed.
"When I typed in 22q11, it brought up all these images of other children from across the world, who looked exactly like my daughter. Like clones from around the world and I didn't even need the diagnosis. I knew."
Dr Tabib Dabir is a consultant in clinical genetics.
Nearly a year ago, he was instrumental in setting up an innovative clinic within the Belfast Health Trust which monitors the physical health of sufferers of 22q11 deletion syndrome - with an added mental health component. Gillian Cassidy is also a patient support worker at the clinic.
Dr Dabir says he was responding to the needs of his patients.
"Generally when a diagnosis of 22q11 deletion syndrome is made, patients will be sent for an echo-cardiogram, will be referred to an immunologist, will also have a kidney scan, be referred to a plastic surgeon, etc. All the structural malformations of the condition are regularly looked at - the gap we found was the psychiatric component."
This, says Dr Dabir, is key as teenagers and adults with the syndrome are more likely to develop some psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia.
"The feedback from the clinic has been very, very encouraging. The parents feel it was much needed and they feel like they can actually contact somebody if there are ongoing issues with their child. The psychiatric component was rarely mentioned - so having a psychiatrist at the clinic is very reassuring."
Further information about rare diseases can be found on the NI Rare Disease Partnership website.
The charity, together with the Department of Health, are holding a series of engagement workshops across Northern Ireland - with one being held in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, next week. | "It's terrifying, isolating - you're having these symptoms and you don't know what tomorrow is going to bring or where it will end up." |
39,277,735 | The article appeared on a website called Fox Channel.
The story, which was broadcast last week, said Mr Trump called Mr Magufuli an "African hero" compared to other leaders who are "doing nothing".
A statement from TBC said editorial procedures had not been followed.
The broadcaster's Director General Ayub Rioba said that the station should have verified the information before broadcasting.
The story said that the US president had called on other African leaders to follow Mr Magufuli's example with his emphasis on good governance and his war against corruption.
Mr Magufuli, known as the "bulldozer" for his hands on approach to leadership, has been waging a public war on corruption which has won him some support locally and internationally.
The article said that Mr Trump made the comments while signing an executive order excluding Tanzanians from a travel ban on African nationals "from countries where presidents are doing nothing and those [that] have declined to leave power". | Tanzanian public broadcaster TBC has suspended nine staff after it aired a hoax story saying that US President Donald Trump had praised President John Magufuli's performance. |
38,344,375 | The tune, which was written by Ed Sheeran, reached the top three after being available to buy and stream for five days rather than the usual seven.
Nine of the 12 previous UK X Factor winners have gone straight in at number one.
But Terry has fared better than last year's winner Louisa Johnson, who only managed to get to number nine.
Clean Bandit have held the number one spot for a sixth week with Rockabye, while One Direction star Louis Tomlinson's collaboration with Steve Aoki, Just Hold On, has landed at number two.
All three singles are now in a closely-fought competition for the Christmas number one slot.
But the bookmakers' favourite for the festive chart-topper is a tribute single to murdered Labour MP Jo Cox.
You Can't Always Get What You Want, which features Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs, KT Tunstall, David Gray, Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel and the cross-party parliamentary band MP4, will raise money for the Jo Cox Foundation.
The government has waived VAT on the single, while Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, who wrote the song, are donating their royalties to the campaign.
The Inspiral Carpets' 1994 indie hit Saturn 5 is also aiming for the top 10 as fans pay tribute to drummer Craig Gill, who died earlier this year.
Terry Wogan's TOGs are also hoping to send his version of the Floral Dance back into the chart, with the aim of improving on its 1978 chart placing of number 21.
Some of this week's new entries and high climbers have also set their sights on the upper reaches of the festive top 40.
Zara Larsson's I Would Like has jumped nine places to number 12 following her appearance at the BBC Music Awards on Monday, while Little Mix's performance on the X Factor finale has sent their new single Touch from number 159 to 23 in just five days.
Taylor Swift's duet with Zayn Malik, I Don't Wanna Live Forever, is a new entry at 16, while Lady Gaga's country ballad Million Reasons has made its first top 40 appearance at 39.
The Christmas charts will be unveiled at 18:00 GMT on Friday, 23 December.
Meanwhile, on this week's album chart, Michael Ball and Alfie Boe's album of duets has finally reached number one after six weeks on release.
Together, which sees the pair singing standards like When You Wish Upon a Star, has sold consistently well since November, but was kept off the top spot by Little Mix and Robbie Williams.
It has sold 96,000 copies in the past week, its highest tally so far.
"This is absolutely fantastic," said Ball. "We didn't expect this. It is just unbelievable."
With no high-profile new releases this week, the album is also likely to top the Christmas charts next Friday.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | X Factor winner Matt Terry has entered the UK singles chart at number three with When Christmas Comes Around. |
33,368,226 | Alan Tissington, 49, from Windmill Avenue in St Albans was arrested on 17 September last year, following the police operation.
Bomb disposal teams were called to the scene and nearby homes evacuated after police found the cache of weapons.
Mr Tissington has been bailed and will appear before magistrates next month.
He has been charged with four counts of possessing a firearm without a certificate, one of possessing a shotgun without a certificate and nine counts involving ammunition. | A man whose house was raided and a number of World War One and Two artefacts and munitions seized has been charged with 14 firearms offences. |
17,271,658 | Appointed second-in-command of Congress in January 2013, Mr Gandhi led the party into the general election and managed its campaign.
He criss-crossed the length and breadth of India, addressing election rallies and holding meetings with party workers and supporters.
But the race was extremely tough for him - Congress bore the brunt of voter unhappiness over a slowing economy, high inflation and a string of damaging corruption scandals.
Mr Gandhi has long been seen as a prime-minister-in-waiting but with the charismatic and populist BJP candidate Narendra Modi having declared his hand, Congress refrained from naming Mr Gandhi as their prime ministerial candidate.
Analysts said the move was aimed at protecting one of the party's main assets ahead of the drubbing the party received.
Many in the party ranks had long clamoured for a bigger role for Mr Gandhi.
But there had also been questions about how eager he was to embrace this role. Critics have often described him as the "reluctant prince" who has been the de facto number two for a long time, wielding the power, but shying away from responsibility.
Also, his campaigning in last year's crucial state elections failed to deliver the votes, raising further questions about his leadership abilities.
In his only television interview earlier this year Mr Gandhi gave the impression he was leading the party because his birth gave him no choice, rather than because of any ambition.
The son of murdered former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and his Italian-born widow Sonia, Rahul has been steadily building up his own political profile as he strives to emerge from his parents' shadow.
He was born on 19 June 1970 and went to the finest Indian schools, going on to study economics in the US and work in London before returning to work in Mumbai in 2002.
Rahul was seen as a shy man whose interests lay more in cricket matches and the outdoors than in political life.
His charismatic and popular sister Priyanka was thought to be more likely to take over the family's mantle of power.
His decision to enter formal politics before the 2004 general election therefore took many by surprise.
That year, Mr Gandhi stood for parliament and won the traditional family constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, which his father had once held.
In September 2007 Rahul was named as the party's secretary general, with his mother Sonia remaining as president, and in January last year, he was appointed the vice-president of the party.
He represents the fourth generation of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has led the Congress party, and India, for much of the time since independence from Britain in 1947.
His grandmother, Indira, was another prime minister, also assassinated, while his great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, was independent India's first leader.
Why Rahul, rather than Priyanka, answered the party's call for a new generation of Gandhis is still not fully clear.
Many within the Congress party saw his move into politics as positive, although the decision was seen by some as highlighting the party's lack of alternatives and its continuing reliance on the Nehru-Gandhi family for leadership and direction.
Whatever the concerns, expectations were high that he would play a major role in the government and the party. Despite his "dark horse" image, he is said by some analysts to have a detailed political knowledge and to be a practised backroom operator.
Although he turned down previous roles to take a prominent role in the party, by 2008 he had kicked off a campaign called the "discovery of India", aimed at winning over hearts and minds and projecting himself as a future leader.
In his campaigning in Uttar Pradesh in the 2012 state elections, he addressed more than 200 rallies, slept in villagers' huts and even grew stubble to give himself more of a "man of the people" look. | Rahul Gandhi, heir of the powerful Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty that has dominated Indian politics for decades, has accepted responsibility for the party's worst ever election performance. |
35,809,116 | They teased out the effects of the blade's sharpness, the tension applied to the ribbon and the speed it moves.
As the ribbon bends around the blade, its outermost side stretches and permanently deforms, producing curls.
Sharper blades and slower movement make tighter curls - but the pulling force has an ideal strength, above which the curls become less pronounced.
The UK-based team will present the study on Wednesday at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore; it also appeared last month in the journal PNAS.
In their experiments, a thin ribbon - made in this case from a transparent PVC film - was draped over a blade and a weight was hung from the end. The ribbon was then wound onto a cylinder in order to drag it across the blade.
The team measured the width of curls produced by different weights and winding speeds - and also created a mathematical model to show that these could be explained by predictable changes in the structure of the ribbon.
Senior author Anne Juel, from the University of Manchester, said it was fairly straightforward to understand why a slower movement produces greater curling:
"It takes a certain amount of time for the stress in the ribbon to relax, and the irreversible deformation to take place."
That relaxation - or "yield" - is what leaves the ribbon curled, because the outer side of the ribbon is permanently stretched compared to the side that was touching the blade.
Similarly, then, a sharper blade increases the stretch and the yield - making tighter curls.
But putting greater tension on the ribbon, with heavier weights, only increased curling up to a point.
This, Prof Juel explained, is because the deformation can spread too far into the ribbon:
"The first part that's going to start to yield is the outermost part of the ribbon, because that's the point where the stress is going to be highest. And then as you apply larger loads, the yield is going to infiltrate deeper and deeper inside the ribbon."
Eventually, with enough pulling power, the distortion of the ribbon's structure will cross the halfway point - which dampens the overall curling effect.
"So the tightest curl will be obtained when you manage to apply a load that will bring yield to exactly half the thickness of the ribbon," Prof Juel said.
And if you're wrapping a swag of presents with a few different kinds of ribbon, she added, that optimum tension will be a moving target.
"It has to be relative to the material properties of the ribbon. So it will be different for different ribbons."
Study co-author Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, of Durham University, presented some data on the same question at a previous APS meeting; Prof Juel said she and her colleagues at Manchester contacted Dr Chakrabarti when they realised they shared an interest in the problem.
Together, they have now published the first complete physical account of ribbon curling.
Follow Jonathan on Twitter | Scientists have explained precisely how and why a ribbon curls when we run a scissor blade down one side of it. |
35,270,862 | Cadden, Jim Lister and Marc Fitzpatrick all missed early chances for the hosts.
Second-bottom Forfar went ahead before the break, Omar Kader finishing well with his right foot.
Cadden levelled on the hour mark, his left-foot strike flying into the net, and Lister and Forfar's Danny Denholm had chances to score before the end. | Nicky Cadden's second-half goal secured a draw for Airdrieonians against struggling Forfar Athletic in Scottish League One. |
33,675,200 | The new at-a-glance scorecards rate their efforts at cutting the number of 16- to 19-year-olds not in education, employment or training (Neet).
The Department for Education says the 16-to-24 Neet rate is at its lowest level in a decade.
Youngsters must now stay in education, employment or training until age 18.
Skills Minister Nick Boles said: "With recent figures showing record lows in the number of young people not in education, employment or training, it is clear that our economic plan is working.
"But we know there is more to do, and the annual Neet scorecards will prove a highly effective tool in delivering our commitment to helping young people reach their potential."
The cards will rate councils' performance in a number of areas on top of the Neet rates.
These include the percentage of each age group offered a place in education and how well councils are tracking the occupation of teenagers who are not in school.
The scorecards, which have been tested for all local authorities over the past six months, will be published every summer.
Councillor Nick Forbes, vice chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: "NEET scorecards need to be broken down by government-commissioned schemes rather than by council area, if we are to see a true picture of performance.
"Whilst councils have reduced 16-18-year-old disengagement over the last 15 years to 7.1%, they have had their powers to carry out vital services such as careers advice, national engagement programmes and further education steadily removed, meaning that many will not necessarily be running their local area's employment scheme.
"In a recent LGA survey, four-fifths of councils said that greater devolution would enable them to further reduce youth disengagement and nine in ten felt they could deliver better value for money if resources went directly to local areas." | Local councils in England are to be scored annually on how well they tackle the dropout rate among teenagers from schools and colleges. |
33,226,618 | Thousands were protesting in the slum popularly known as Sodom and Gomorrah.
They blockaded roads after soldiers and police used earth-moving equipment to clear part of the slum.
Authorities say the slum blocks drains taking water to the ocean, causing caused floods at the beginning of June where an explosion at a petrol station killed at least 150 people.
The BBC's Sammy Darko at the scene of the protest says police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters but they seemed to be overpowered by protesters who threw stones and damaged police vehicles.
He also heard gun shots but could not confirm if the police were using live ammunition.
Police spokesman Cephas Arthur told the BBC that the situation had been brought under control, but the police would remain on the scene "for as long as it takes us to ensure that the situation doesn't resurrect".
Protest organiser Osman Alhassan said people now don't have anywhere to sleep.
Some 50,000 people live in the slum which is thought to be the biggest and oldest slum in the country.
BBC Africa Live: Updates through the day | Police have used tear gas on residents demonstrating against the demolition of their slum in Ghana's capital Accra. |
40,630,238 | UK Trading Standards officers launched an investigation after its office in Leicester received complaints.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is also planning to launch an inquiry, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The paper says more than half a million motorists could have been overcharged for repairs over many years.
In a statement, Europcar said: "Europcar's view is that the implications of the investigation will be somewhere in the region of £30m."
But the company - whose shares fell by 2.5% on Monday - said it had no further comment to make.
The Telegraph said some people were charged four times what they should have been for routine repairs.
The figures suggest an average compensation payment of up to £60 for every motorist who was overcharged.
Europcar's website says it charges an administration fee of £40 for each repair, plus up to £25 for a replacement wiper blade, and up to £350 for replacing a tyre.
The investigation appears to involve motorists who hired cars through Europcar UK, either via the website or on the phone. | French car hire firm Europcar has admitted that it may have to pay out as much as £30m to British motorists who were overcharged for car repairs. |
30,292,148 | Robert "Jim" Stuart and Darren Hughes were given kidneys infected with the meningitis-causing worms in transplants carried out in Cardiff in 2013.
Prof Christopher Watson said no-one could have foreseen the outcome.
But he told Cardiff Coroner's Court he would not have used the kidneys.
Speaking about the cases, Prof Watson from the University of Cambridge's department of surgery told the inquest that he had been asked if the donor kidneys should be accepted for transplant at his hospital.
"I declined it on the night when contacted by my colleague," he said.
But the expert added that the parasitic infection was incredibly rare.
"I doubt we'll ever see this again. No-one could have foreseen that," he said.
Both men died of meningitis two weeks after receiving the transplants, the same infection that had killed the kidney donor.
The cause was only established once post-mortem examinations were carried out on Mr Hughes' and Mr Stuart's bodies.
Prof Watson, who was part of a three-person panel asked to review this case, said it was a "concern" that the donor had been in hospital for nine days with no sign of improvement before he died despite receiving treatment.
He added: "I'm quite sure Mr Asderakis did these transplants with the best intentions for the two patients to have a successful outcome with no intention to cause any sort of harm.
"I can understand how he came to his risk/benefit equation. That's not the one I would have come to."
It emerged during evidence to the inquest on Wednesday that Prof Watson's own hospital had been offered the kidneys for transplantation.
But he advised colleagues
Prof Watson said he was "extremely impressed with the care when the diagnosis was made" and the efforts made across the UK and in the US to find out the cause of the infection.
Earlier, the court heard that both patients had been told the donor had had meningitis when he died, despite claims earlier in the hearing that relatives had made stating the opposite.
Usman Khalid, a clinical research fellow from Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales who was part of the transplant team, said both men had the opportunity to refuse the operations.
Mr Stuart's widow Judith challenged Mr Khalid's evidence from the courtroom floor, asking him to "tell the truth".
"I have," was the reply.
Mr Khalid also caused unrest in the public gallery after saying Mr Hughes signed his own consent form prior to surgery.
This contradicts what Mr Hughes's father Ian said previously when he claimed to have signed the form on his son's behalf to a neurological condition which left him unable to hold a pen.
The inquest also heard no case of infection by the worm had ever been successfully diagnosed and treated.
The inquest has been adjourned for the day. | A Cambridge professor rejected donor kidneys that were later found to be infected with a parasitic worm that killed two transplant patients, an inquest has heard. |
36,168,198 | Major League Baseball said the Miami Marlins player, 28, tested positive for exogenous testosterone and clostebol.
The second baseman, who led the major leagues in hits and stolen bases last season, is the seventh player suspended this year under the MLB drug plan.
Marlins president David Samson said the club "don't condone" Gordon's actions. | Reigning National League batting champion Dee Gordon has been suspended for 80 games after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. |
29,592,880 | "No doubt about it," the country's ambassador to the UK told the BBC, despite the leader's non-appearance in public since 3 September.
Ambassador Hyon Hak Bong also said US missionary Kenneth Bae was being held in a "reform institution", which was not the same as a labour camp.
Mr Bae was sentenced to 15 years' hard labour in 2013.
The ambassador said in an email to the BBC: "We have reform institutions where offenders sentenced to penalty of reform through labour by the relevant laws are held and educated through labour. Some Western media interpret them as 'labour camps', but they are reform institutions."
"If I take an example, the place where American citizen Bae Jun Ho (Kenneth Bae) is being held is a reform institution."
A month ago, under the supervision of North Korean officials, Mr Bae gave an interview to Western media where he said he was being treated "as humanely as possible".
His family said, though, that he had previously sent letters saying his health was failing and that he suffered from diabetes.
The ambassador to London seems to be part of a drive by North Korean diplomats around the world to counter criticism of the country's human rights record.
The United Nations accused North Korea earlier this year of crimes against humanity, including systematic extermination, torture, rape, forced abortions and starvation.
There are moves to indict the country's leader before the International Criminal Court.
The ambassador said the allegations were false and driven by the United States which wanted to topple the regime in Pyongyang.
"Let me make it clear", he said. "We do not have political prisons or political camps."
Human Rights Watch said earlier this year: "There has been no discernible improvement in human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) since Kim Jong-un assumed power after his father's death in 2011. The government continues to impose totalitarian rule."
It's hard to know if the ambassador's lengthy communication on the situation in his country is driven by immediate concerns such as any upcoming condemnation at the United Nations, or is a sign of a genuine change of policy.
North Korean diplomats have approached the European Union and said they are prepared to discuss human rights in North Korea.
Whatever is happening in Pyongyang, there is unlikely to be any great change from the West, though, while North Korea pursues nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
The ambassador said: "Under the present circumstances, there will be no alternative for us but to further strengthen the DPRK's self-defensive deterrence to protect its system and sovereignty." | The North Korean government has said that the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, is healthy. |
40,808,151 | 100m: Usain Bolt (Jam)/Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jam)
200m: Usain Bolt (Jam)/Dafne Schippers (Ned)
400m: Wayde van Niekerk (SA)/Allyson Felix (USA)
800m: David Rudisha (Ken)/Maryna Arzamasava (Blr)
1500m: Asbel Kiprop (Ken)/Genzebe Dibaba (Eth)
5,000m: Mo Farah (GB)/Almaz Ayana (Eth)
10,000m: Mo Farah (GB)/Vivian Cheruiyot (Ken)
Marathon: Ghirmay Ghebreslassie (Eri)/Mare Dibaba (Eth)
110/100m hurdles: Sergey Shubenkov (Rus)/Danielle Williams (Jam)
400m hurdles: Nicholas Bett (Ken)/Zuzana Hejnova (Cze)
3,000m steeplechase: Ezekiel Kemboi (Ken)/Hyvin Jepkemoi (Ken)
20km race walk: Miguel Angel Lopez (Spn)/Liu Hong (Chn)
50km race walk: Matej Toth (Svk)/NA
4x100m relay: Jamaica/Jamaica
4x400m relay: United States/Jamaica
High jump: Derek Drouin (Can)/Maria Kuchina (Rus)
Pole vault: Shawnacy Barber (Can)/Yarisley Silva (Cub)
Long jump: Greg Rutherford (GB)/Tianna Bartoletta (USA)
Triple jump: Christian Taylor (USA)/Caterine Ibarguen (Col)
Shot put: Joe Kovacs (USA)/Christina Schwanitz (Ger)
Discus: Piotr Malachowski (Pol)/Denia Caballero (Cub)
Hammer: Pawel Fadjek (Pol)/Anita Wlodarczyk (Pol)
Javelin: Julius Yego (Ken)/Katharina Molitor (Ger)
Decathlon/heptathlon: Ashton Eaton (USA)/Jessica Enis-Hill (GB)
Gold
Mo Farah (men's 5,000m) - day eight
Greg Rutherford (men's long jump) - day four
Jessica Ennis-Hill (heptathlon) - day two
Mo Farah (men's 10,000m) - day one
Silver
Shara Proctor (women's long jump) - day seven
Bronze
Women's 4x400m relay - day nine
Men's 4x400m relay - day nine | The reigning champions from the 2015 World Championships in Beijing: |
33,863,293 | Catalin Horhota, 42, of no fixed abode, was found unanimously guilty of nine counts including rape and sexual assault.
The Oxford Crown Court jury heard he raped one woman inside a property and returned an hour later to again sexually assault her, having stolen a pair of keys.
Horhota will be sentenced by Judge Peter Ross on 9 October.
He was found guilty on Tuesday of one count of burglary, two counts of attempted rape, three counts of sexual assault, one count of assault by penetration, one count of rape and one count of exposure.
Horhota burgled a property in Morrell Avenue, opposite South Park in Oxford, on 17 September last year and stole food.
Two days later he raped a woman at a nearby address in Headington. About an hour later he returned and sexually assaulted the victim again.
He then sexually assaulted another woman at the same address.
On 20 September Horhota sexually assaulted a woman in South Park by touching her inappropriately.
The final offence took place on 22 September when Horhota exposed himself in Abingdon.
Following Horhota's conviction, Det Con David Rogers said: "I would like to thank the victims for coming forward and reporting these serious offences to Thames Valley Police.
"Although horrific, I would like to reassure members of the public the offences carried out by Horhota are rare." | A rapist has been found guilty after "horrific" attacks on women in Oxford. |
37,864,965 | Christian Taylor, 50, who starred in the Channel 4 show The Hotel, rang up huge bogus refunds for rounds of cocktails at the Devon park.
He failed to attend his trial in September where he was found guilty of one charge of theft by an employee.
Taylor, who also did not attend his sentencing, claimed he had been set up.
A judge at Exeter Crown Court sentenced him to two years in prison in his absence.
Police are still hunting him and have nicknamed him the Scarlet Pimpernel because he frequently changes his name.
Judge Erik Salomonsen said Taylor was in a "position of trust" which he breached.
Managers became suspicious when they realised the huge refunds he was putting through the tills at Twitchen House Holiday Park at Mortehoe didn't match the stock records.
He started by creating refunds for fictitious rounds of Pimms, including one of 20 jugs costing £300, but moved on to other cocktails when this triggered a stock check.
In all there were 66 fraudulent transactions totalling £13,467.60. All were when he was on duty and 16 were caught on CCTV.
Taylor told police he had been framed and accused a colleague of altering computer records to cover up his own thefts.
When he was starring in The Hotel, filmed in the Grosvenor at Torbay, he called himself Christian Scott Lee but his original name is Nigel McCartney.
Taylor was also ordered to pay £850 compensation and £100 victim surcharge. | A reality television star has been jailed for stealing more than £13,000 from a holiday camp where he worked as bar manager. |
35,324,507 | Spanish forward Sola, 29, known as 'Kike', joins Boro for the rest of the season, having scored three goals for the Spanish La Liga side this season.
Boro also have ex-Murcia striker Kike, 28, and forwards Cristhian Stuani, Diego Fabbrini and David Nugent in their squad.
"He's bringing us something we don't have," Aitor Karanka told BBC Tees.
The Boro boss added: "He's another striker, he's a second striker or sometimes number 10. His skills are different and he can play English football because he is strong."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Championship leaders Middlesbrough have signed Athletic Bilbao striker Enrique Sola on loan. |
34,188,028 | Deborah Streatfield of MyBigCareer says it is "completely unfair" that pupils interested in studying medicine were being asked to pay for work experience to help their university applications.
The week's work experience is being offered through the Chartwell Trust which runs a private hospital in Essex.
The trust's directors said the offer was a "remarkable opportunity".
The "Chartwell Work Experience For Medical School Applications" offers an "in-depth insight" into working in a hospital and in healthcare, shadowing staff and gaining "valuable medical work experience" to support a Ucas application.
The brochure, sent to schools and aimed at 15-year-olds and upwards, promises "good supervision from motivated staff" in hospital and "interview training carried out by our qualified doctors".
The trust also operates care homes and the brochure says: "We will have you rotate through our care homes which are for children with learning difficulties and the elderly with dementia."
Medicine is one of the most competitive courses for university entry - and the work placement programme says students will "learn many valuable medical school interview techniques".
Mrs Streatfield's charity works to give young people better advice about careers, in the belief that social mobility will be improved if young people are better informed and understand what options are available.
But she believes that selling work experience in this way is a barrier to opening access to sought-after courses such as medicine.
"Work experience is really important when applying for medicine and many disadvantaged students have no family links to exploit. This scheme is completely unfair," she said.
MyBigCareer is going to pilot unpaid work experience placements with 43 GP practices in Hackney and the City of London.
In a statement, the directors of Chartwell Trust Care, say that the placement provides one-to-one meetings with "senior management, consultant physicians, surgeons and directors to provide an insight into healthcare".
"This remarkable opportunity is afforded by the company having diagnostic facilities, outpatient clinics, and care homes. The empathy and compassion which the individual has exposure to for their personal development is reflected by the infrastructure of health and social care.
"The fee charged is to cover administrative costs and coaching to the individual which is designed to increase their confidence and self-esteem to make an application to start their career in healthcare."
There have been particular concerns about the need to attract a wider range of applicants to medicine, with warnings that it draws too many recruits from wealthier backgrounds.
Research from the Medical Schools Council in December showed that half of UK secondary schools and colleges had not provided a single applicant to medicine in recent years. | A careers advice charity has criticised the selling of hospital work experience placements for £500. |
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After Paddy Jackson kicked two early penalties, the superb Williams finished off a well-constructed line-out maul to score his first try in the 11th minute.
Further Ulster pressure yielded a second try for Williams on 30 minutes.
Ulster laboured during the second half but a Peter Browne try and late Paul Marshall score secured the bonus point.
The Irish province looked set to miss out on the extra point as the clock ticked down but a break from replacement Darren Cave helped set Marshall's crucial 78th-minute score.
Ulster kept Zebre scoreless but it was not a particularly impressive display by Les Kiss' side, who remain fourth in the table after third-placed Scarlets beat Treviso.
The Irish province badly needed a win to maintain their push for a play-off place after back-to-back defeats by the Scarlets and Cardiff Blues.
Jackson's two early penalties gave Ulster a cushion as they punished Zebre indiscipline.
Another Zebre infringement was finished off by man of the match Williams mauling his way over the line after Jackson had opted to kick to the corner.
A missed tackle by Rob Herring meant Stuart Olding had to produce a try-saving tackle to deny Edoardo Padovani before more Ulster pressure was finished off by a second Williams touchdown.
After Ulster's scrum held firm in first-half injury-time to repel Zebre pressure, the Irish side appeared to have all the mental momentum heading into the second period.
Ulster did seem hard done by when TMO Kevin Beggs ruled that Rob Herring had knocked on before Williams appeared to notch his third try
However after lock Browne's 63rd-minute try, Zebre fought back to produce pressure as Ulster lost their way and the home side needed Cave's late break to set up replacement scrum-half Marshall's bonus-point clinching try.
Ulster: C Gilroy; R Scholes, L Marshall, S Olding, J Stockdale; P Jackson, R Pienaar; K McCall, R Herring (captain), R Lutton, P Browne, F van der Merwe, R Diack, C Henry, N Williams;
Replacements: J Andrew for Herring (57), C Black for McCall (66), A Warwick for Lutton (47), R Wilson for Williams (64), S Reidy for Browne (65), P Marshall for Pienaar (75), D Cave for L Marshall (64). Not Used: S Windsor.
Zebre: M Muliaina; G Toniolatti, G Bisegni, T Castello*, K Van Zyl; E Padovani, F Semenzato; A De Marchi, O Fabiani, D Chistolini; Q Geldenhuys, M Bortolami (capt); E Caffini, J Meyer, F Ruzza.
Replacements: E Coria for Fabiana (73), G Roan for A De Marchi (41), P Ceccarelli for Chistonlini (53), G Koegelenberg for Geldenhuys (66), F Cristiano for Ruzza (65), L Burgess for Semenzato (53), I McKinley for Padovani (41), G Toniolatti for Castello (67). | Two Nick Williams tries helped Ulster get back to winning ways in the Pro12 as they earned a bonus-point victory over Zebre at Kingspan Stadium. |
39,427,982 | About 150 people waved placards and flags at the Ferrybridge Multifuel 2 building site in West Yorkshire.
Protesters claim the general contactor Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) had contracted work out to some employers who were not taking on local workers.
An HZI spokesman said it was committed to using UK labour for the project.
Neil Dawson, who helped organise the protest, said: "There's a deep anger from these lads, a lot of them unemployed, who want to secure employment on the project.
"They have the skills, ability and want to make it a success.
"This dispute isn't about foreign workers, it's about the contractor giving these lads a fair opportunity to secure work."
Workers claim guidelines about using local labour under the National Agreement for the Engineering Construction Industry have been bypassed.
Keith Gibson, a construction worker from Hull, said: "At the minute, the construction industry is in crisis.
"We've got no worries whatsoever about European workers, what we're concerned about is companies undercutting terms and conditions."
But HZI said two thirds of workers on the site are from the UK.
It added: "We are confident that the majority of workers, representing hundreds of construction jobs, engaged over the lifetime of the project will be from the UK."
Multifuel Energy Ltd, a joint venture between SSE and Wheelabrator Technologies, opened the power station Ferrybridge Multifuel 1 in 2015.
A second power station, which aims to generate more than 50 megawatts of energy, is now under construction at the site.
SSE said it supported HZI's approach of "trying to maximise local employment opportunities where possible". | Construction workers have protested at an energy-from-waste plant over the alleged use of cheap labour from abroad. |
35,375,598 | 22 January 2016 Last updated at 07:22 GMT
More than a thousand people claim to have seen 'Nessie' the monster, but there has never been real evidence that she exists.
Now the hunt for Nessie might have just grown. Keith Stewart, a retired fisherman, claims to have found a deep crevice, large enough for the monster to hide in, which was never known about before.
Until now, the loch was thought to be 229.8 metres deep, but Keith used special sonar equipment and found that the crevice goes much deeper - to 270.9 metres.
According to him that's plenty of room for a monster to hang out... | For hundreds of years, people have been fascinated by Loch Ness and the mythical monster thought to live beneath its surface. |
38,979,100 | 15 February 2017 Last updated at 09:48 GMT
Tornado, the first mainline steam engine to be built in the UK since the 1960s, pulled an eight-carriage train between Appleby, in Cumbria, and Skipton, in North Yorkshire, along the famous Settle to Carlisle line on Tuesday.
It was the first time since 1968 that a steam locomotive has hauled a passenger train on a scheduled main line service.
Tornado will power two further return journeys between Appleby and Skipton on Wednesday and Thursday. | Drone footage has captured the moment Britain's newest steam locomotive, Tornado, crossed the stunning Ribblehead Viaduct in the Yorkshire Dales. |
33,098,702 | Just across the road in the city's conference centre it had been confirmed that very afternoon that Ed Miliband had pipped his brother for the Labour leadership.
The giant union had encouraged its members to back the younger Miliband and they were celebrating.
But after a messy row with Unite over the selection of a Labour candidate in Falkirk in 2013, the rules for electing Ed Miliband's successor were changed by the very leader who had most benefitted from them.
Previously, the unions commanded about a third of the vote in Labour's "electoral college" - with ordinary members' votes also counting for a third, and MPs and MEPs the remaining third.
Fast forward to 2015 and the special status of MPs in leadership votes has all but gone.
Hopefuls now require the support of 15% of their parliamentary colleagues to take part but when the ballot is held every MP, like every party member - and those who also sign up as registered supporters at a lower rate than the full membership fee - has just one vote each.
The unions' role has changed just as dramatically.
They no longer have a third of the vote guaranteed.
And while in the past any member who paid the political levy had the opportunity automatically to vote for the Labour leader, each member now has to make a positive decision politically and financially to participate in the ballot.
Each trade union member who isn't already in the Labour Party must agree to sign up as an "affiliated supporter" at a cost of £3.
To encourage this, unions have set up call centres and printed and distributed the appropriate forms.
The GMB union is using a picture of Lord Mandelson on their leaflet, in the role of a New Labour pantomime villain - suggesting he and his chums will have too much influence unless rank and file union members sign up for a vote.
But how influential will the unions be in determining the outcome?
The GMB general secretary Paul Kenny says his union has signed up just 10,000 affiliated supporters so far.
He has a target of signing up 60,000 - that's still only one in 10 of the membership.
The larger Unite union won't release figures but sources there say they have a similar tally to the GMB.
Their call centres tell members about the new process but officials believe most people will join up after face-to-face approaches by shop stewards.
They say outside London, where the Labour vote went up at the general election, it's been more of a challenge to encourage participation.
Overall, the unions have a target of signing up 200-250,000 affiliated supporters.
That would give them rough parity in the leadership contest with fully paid-up members of the Labour Party and registered supporters but it wouldn't allow them to dominate the process.
But this target may be ambitious, as only 250,000 union members took part last time when they didn't have to go through the hoop of consenting to cough up cash for the privilege.
But it's also misleading to assume that these new affiliated supporters would necessarily follow the lead of their union bosses in any case.
First of all, ballot papers will be sent out by the Electoral Reform Society not the trade unions.
Union leaders won't be able to send out literature for just one candidate along with the ballot paper.
The GMB and Unite were both accused of doing this in 2010 for Ed Miliband. GMB sources concede there was some Ed literature "in the overall wrapping".
Second, even under the old system recommendations weren't always followed.
So, for example, the GMB hierarchy 20 years ago urged members not to elect Tony Blair as leader - and were firmly ignored.
And far more recently - last year in Scotland - the Unite leadership urged a vote for left-wing MSP Neil Findlay. The members preferred the better-known Blairite MP Jim Murphy.
And the most Blairite of the Labour leadership candidates, Liz Kendall, approves of the new system which she believes diminishes the role of union general secretaries.
It's not clear how many unions will make any recommendations to their members this time. Some will hold off until after a hustings, to be organised by TULO - the umbrella body for unions that have a financial link with Labour towards the end of next month.
But even in the unlikely event that all of them backed, say, Andy Burnham then that's no guarantee of success. | Autumn 2010 and in the bar of the Radisson Edwardian hotel in Manchester the then general secretary of Unite union, Derek Simpson, and the union's political officer - and former Gordon Brown aide - Charlie Whelan were enjoying a drink and were in excellent spirits. |
38,391,337 | Martha and Oscar needed treatment by a vet after drinking the Advocaat which had been knocked over by a third dog Brecon.
Martha was found staggering and swaying in the garden of her Gateshead home by owners Fiona and Anthony Robson.
The Robsons said it should act as a warning to others about keeping alcohol out of the reach of animals.
Mrs Robson said: "I was panic-stricken as we are so careful with our pets and could never have imagined anything like this happening.
"I won't be keeping bottles on the top of unit anymore. I would advise pet owners to keep everything locked away."
The pooches were taken to Prince Bishop Veterinary Hospital in Consett where vet Emma Hindson induced vomiting before feeding them activated charcoal to absorb the remaining alcohol.
Dr Hindson said: "Alcohol affects pets in the same way it does humans, so Oscar and Martha were quite tiddly when they arrived.
"This was an unfortunate accident and their owner did the right thing by bringing them in immediately for treatment. Her responsible action meant everything turned out fine and they could go home."
It was the second case of drunk dogs the veterinary practice had seen this festive season after two Labradors were found drinking red wine. | Two spaniels are in the dog house after lapping up their owner's Christmas drink. |
35,384,181 | A curfew began on Friday evening after "attacks against public and private property", the interior ministry said.
Protests over youth unemployment have spread from the northern region of Kasserine to towns and cities.
In a televised speech, President Beji Caid Essebsi said the country would "get out of this ordeal".
How Tunisia is keeping Arab Spring ideals alive
"Arab Spring" pioneer under threat
In his first address since protests began almost a week ago, Mr Essebsi said on Friday night: "There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient."
He said there was a risk that the Islamic State group in neighbouring Libya "finds that the moment is opportune to infiltrate into Tunisia".
Mr Essebsi said on Wednesday that more than 6,000 jobs would be given to people from the town of Kasserine.
The government also promised an investigation into allegations of corruption.
700,000
unemployed people
62.3% of graduates without work
37.6% of young people have no job
15.2% overall unemployment rate
Unemployment has worsened since the 2011 revolution, when President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted. More than a third of young people in Tunisia are without work.
Tunisia's uprising was the first of the Arab Spring, and often hailed as the most successful.
But correspondents say the authorities have failed to resolve the problems of social exclusion and poverty, and face a growing jihadist threat.
The curfew, which runs from 20:00 to 05:00 local time (19:00 to 04:00 GMT), was put in place because of the "danger to the security of the state and it citizens", the interior ministry said in a statement.
Only night-shift workers and people needing urgent medical care are exempt.
The authorities called for calm after protests descended into vandalism, looting and violence in several areas.
The demonstrations started on Sunday in the central-western town of Kasserine, after a man was electrocuted while protesting over his rejection for a government job.
In the nearby town of Feriana, a policeman died after his car was overturned on Thursday.
Ridha Yahyaoui died on Sunday after climbing a utility pole in protest over a public sector job prospect that he was rejected for.
His brother, Mehrez, told the BBC's Rana Jawad in Kasserine that the 28-year-old had been fighting for a job for two years.
"His dream was to work, he didn't like taking money from people," he said.
"I'm his brother and when I would try to give him five dinars (£1.70; €2.50), he would not take it.
"This government has forgotten us... [Ridha] climbed a pole to tell them, 'give me my rights'. He was electrocuted and he died."
Prime Minister Habib Essid, who cut short a visit to Europe to deal with the protests, has said his government has no "magic wand" with which to tackle unemployment.
After meeting French President Francois Hollande in Paris, Mr Essid was due to return to Tunisia and visit Kasserine on Saturday.
Meanwhile the French presidency announced that the country would provide €1bn (£767m) $1.1bn) to Tunisia over the next five years as part of an economic support package. | Tunisia's president says he understands frustration that has led to protests over unemployment, but instability could be exploited by extremists. |
28,858,511 | Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can lead to the heart suddenly stopping.
Henry Roth, from Hampshire, proved different tests for the condition were needed for black and white athletes - which do not currently take place.
A cardiologist who worked with Henry on the project said he was "astonished" by the teenager's findings.
Henry was inspired to investigate the condition after the death of his uncle at the age of 21.
A research project emerged from a conversation with a cardiologist at St George's Hospital in London during tests on Henry's own heart.
They discussed how black athletes were at higher risk and the aspiring doctor resolved to find a better way of testing.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited disease where the heart muscle becomes thickened, increasing the risk of the heart suddenly stopping.
Screening does take place, but intense exercise can also lead to a thicker heart - so some athletes might not be aware they have the condition.
Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the pitch in 2012 when his heart stopped, despite being described as one of the fittest players at the club.
Marc-Vivien Foe, the Cameroon footballer, died during an international match in 2003.
An alternative way of testing involves looking at the maximum amount of oxygen the body can use up at the limits of physical exercise. Those with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cannot reach the same peak.
Henry's study on elite athletes found differences between black and white athletes, but these were not accounted for during screening.
It meant black athletes were less likely to be diagnosed.
Henry, who studied at Guildford's Royal Grammar School, said he could not believe the difference had not been identified already.
He told the BBC: "I was quite frankly shocked, but it takes people who are shocked to do something about it, make something happen and not sit back and accept normal practice."
Prof Sanjay Sharma, the medical director of the London Marathon and the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young, said: "Henry has a thirst for researching the heart, driven by his own family's experience of sudden cardiac death.
"He wants to make sure other families don't go through what he has experienced, and I have been really excited, and quite astonished, by the research he undertook with me and my colleagues at St George's Hospital.
"Henry's work has the potential to change the way we test athletes for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy."
Around one in 500 people in the UK has the condition, although it will not affect the lives of the majority of patients.
Henry explains: "An aeroplane on the ground with a mechanical fault is not dangerous, but as soon as you take it into the air it's dangerous.
"As soon as they go on to the field it leads to the possibility of arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat)."
Henry was also a finalist in the National Science and Engineering Competition.
He will be returning to St George's to continue the research before travelling during a gap year and then pursuing a career in medicine. | An 18-year-old student has made a scientific breakthrough that could help save the lives of black athletes with undiagnosed heart problems. |
34,261,357 | The authorities understood that few of the people coming in would want to stay, although some expressed regret that people desperately fleeing conflict did not view Serbia as a desirable destination.
But Hungary's fence and its criminalisation of unofficial border crossings has brought a halt to the flow of people across Serbia and left hundreds stranded at the fence.
If an exit into Hungary becomes impossible, the number of refugees here may begin to rise, challenging not only the country's capacity for dealing with asylum seekers but its citizens' hitherto admirable tolerance and empathy.
The government's Commissariat for Refugees has told the BBC that it is expecting more people to stay longer in Serbia. It has been preparing extra spaces at its existing asylum centres and is in the final stages of preparing several additional facilities.
But that might not be enough if Hungary carries out its proposal to send rejected asylum seekers back to Serbia - an idea that has not gone down well with Belgrade. Social Affairs Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said that Serbia would not accept any people that Hungary attempts to return under duress.
The UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) is backing Serbia on this issue. It says Hungary is wrong to classify its neighbour as a "safe country" for asylum seekers - as Serbia does not have the capacity to deal with a large number of refugees.
A spokesperson said: "It can't be expected to solve a problem the whole of Europe has failed to resolve."
In Belgrade, the informal transit camp next to the city's main bus station is quieter than it has been for weeks, with just a scattering of tents in the park.
Volunteers say many people left for the Hungarian border in a last-gasp dash to beat the barricade. But more may come from Macedonia to replace them before long.
Another possibility is that people will simply find another route into the EU's passport-free Schengen area. Serbia has borders with many countries, including EU member states Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia. Unlike Hungary, none of the three are yet in the Schengen zone.
Authorities in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, are preparing for migrants to try their luck. Croatia's Assistant Minister for European Affairs, Maja Bakran Marcich, told the BBC it was "a crazy situation" but that so far its borders with Serbia and Hungary were quiet.
"We are getting ready even though it's calm," said Ms Bakran Marcich.
"Things are moving fast. You cannot hermetically close a border and we are obviously aware that you can make a detour via Croatia and back into Hungary."
Croatia's preparations include bolstering its border police and ordering additional fingerprinting machines for the registration of asylum seekers.
"Croatia would not just allow people to move through," she said. "They would be stopped and returned at the Slovenian and Hungarian borders in any case. We would accommodate people, register them and see if they wanted to stay in Croatia or move on."
"We could absorb the immediate wave, and then we'd have to see. This is just the beginning." | All year, Serbia has taken a relaxed attitude towards the migrants and refugees entering from neighbouring Macedonia. |
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