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Muamba, 24, collapsed and suffered a cardiac arrest on 17 March during Bolton's FA Cup quarter-final tie with Tottenham Hotspur.
"While the news is devastating, I have much to be thankful for," Muamba told the club website.
"I thank God that I am alive and I pay tribute once again to the members of the medical team who never gave up on me."
Muamba had travelled to Belgium earlier in the week to have minor heart surgery, which was said to have been routine and had no bearing on whether the player would return to action.
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But Muamba says he received advice during his time there, prompting his retirement.
"Since suffering my heart attack and being discharged from hospital, I have remained utterly positive in the belief I could one day resume my playing career and play for Bolton Wanderers once again," said Muamba in a statement.
"As part of my ongoing recovery, last week I travelled to Belgium to seek further medical advice from a leading cardiologist.
"But the news I received was obviously not what I had hoped it would be and it means I am now announcing my retirement from professional football."
The news comes just six months after he suffered his cardiac arrest, with doctors saying he was "in effect dead" for 78 minutes.
Dr Leonard Shapiro - cardiology consultant to the FA
"We all were very happy he was able to be resuscitated and made a recovery into normal life, but it was always going to be unlikely that he would get back to playing football.
"It would be very difficult for him to return to the high levels of fitness needed to be a professional footballer."
He was given 15 defibrillator shocks before his heart started beating again, taking 48 minutes between collapsing and reaching the London Chest Hospital, and a further 30 minutes once at the hospital.
Muamba then spent around four weeks in intensive care, before being discharged from hospital on 16 April.
He then returned to the Reebok Stadium before Bolton's match with Tottenham on 2 May, to thank the Bolton supporters.
Muamba began his career at Arsenal and moved to Birmingham City, before spending four years at Bolton.
"Football has been my life since I was a teenage boy and it has given me so many opportunities," he said.
"Above all else, I love the game and count myself very lucky to have been able to play at the highest level."
Bolton manager Owen Coyle - who chatted with Muamba just three days after the midfielder's collapse - paid tribute to him and said the club will support him.
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"We have spoken with Fab and he knows we will always support him in whatever he wants to do and that we will always be here for him," said Coyle.
"He is obviously massively disappointed that he won't be able to carry on his career, but everyone has seen what a fighter and strong person he is in mind and body.
"We know that he will go on to achieve great things and within all this disappointment, the most important thing is that he is here, alive, today."
Bolton chairman Phil Gartside also said he was simply thankful for Muamba being alive.
He said: "To have Fabrice here and with us is truly amazing and we are all very thankful for that.
"The most important thing is that Fabrice and his family have the rest of their lives ahead of them."
Fifa president Sepp Blatter wrote on Twitter: "Have just read about your retirement. It's very sad for you and I wish you all the very best."
Football Association chairman David Bernstein was also among the well-wishers, saying: "His recovery has been miraculous and a great tribute to all who have been involved.
"I would like to wish him the very best for the future and I know that the thoughts of the entire football family will be with him." | Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba has announced his retirement from football. |
39,817,290 | The show's creator Jed Mercurio told BBC News last week he was uncertain about the possibility of a sixth series.
But BBC director general Tony Hall has now confirmed fans can look forward to two more outings.
"I am very excited to say there's not one but two more series of Line of Duty. So hooray for AC-12!" he said.
Mercurio had previously told Radio Times: "I certainly would make six. Whether I would go beyond six would depend on how series five went."
The fourth series of the BBC One police drama reached a dramatic climax on Sunday, with an average of 7.46 million viewers tuning in to the finale.
The new season of Line of Duty was one of a whole load of new commissions the corporation announced on Thursday including:
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Line of Duty has been commissioned for a sixth season, before the fifth has even started being made. |
40,169,657 | The collision between three lorries and an Audi happened on the northbound carriageway of the motorway near Winchester at 10:15 BST on Monday.
Police have appealed for witnesses who may have seen or captured the accident on a dashboard camera to contact them.
The motorway was closed between junction 10 for Winchester and junction 9 at Winnall throughout the afternoon. It has since been reopened.
More on this and other stories from across the South of England.
The man and the woman who died were both travelling in the Audi.
Hampshire Constabulary said the man was from Dorset and the woman from Buckinghamshire and their next-of-kin had been informed.
The force said a 63-year-old man had been interviewed under caution and later released under investigation.
Two of the lorry drivers were taken to hospital with minor injuries. | A man and woman have died in a multi-vehicle crash on the M3 in Hampshire. |
39,222,002 | It comes after the public services ombudsman for Wales asked it to pay the amount to Rob Johnson, 18, following an investigation which said monitoring of the savings was "inadequate".
The council said it took its role as corporate parents extremely seriously.
Mr Johnson said he was "over the moon" he will receive the payment.
In a joint statement, the ombudsman and council called for the clarification and strengthening of national policy regarding requirements for foster carers to set aside savings.
Foster parents are advised but not required in law to save for the young people placed in their care.
The statement explains the ambiguity of the requirement, saying it "can and does lead to inequality between foster children placed with different families, and a solution is needed at a national level which addresses this anomaly".
It goes on to say that "clarity is needed on the requirements to make savings, to record savings and to record expenditure from savings, as well as on the issue of who is responsible for savings made on behalf of a looked-after child and the duties on local authorities to oversee and monitor savings".
As a result of the investigation by the ombudsman, the council accepted their own procedures should be tightened up and followed consistently.
Ombudsman Nick Bennett said: "I am very pleased that the council has made this goodwill payment, and that our complainant will feel that his injustice has been corrected. We are in agreement on the need for broader change and clarity."
Council leader Huw David said: "Councils provide a wide range of care and support for looked-after children, but this specific issue needs to be urgently addressed as local authorities can only currently recommend that foster carers make savings for children in their care.
"I would like to see the policy strengthened and national measures put in place to prevent such a situation from reoccurring, and to help ensure that looked-after children can have the best possible start in life." | A "goodwill payment" of £3,310 has been paid by Bridgend council to a foster care-leaver whose savings were not monitored. |
36,842,188 | For the first time ever, all records, from aerial surveys and island expeditions to 19th Century diary entries and maps by Russian explorers, have been compiled in a single database.
"People have died making these observations," said Anthony Fischbach, the leading biologist behind the project. "This has not come lightly. It's a price you pay for working in the remotest corner of the world."
Scientists hope their data, assembled by the US Geological Survey, will give policy-makers the information they need to protect walruses, approximately 95% of which live in the Bering Sea.
Since 2007, the sea ice that females rely on to raise their pups has declined dramatically in the region, in some cases completely failing to freeze over where it was once historically plentiful.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service are debating whether to list walruses as an endangered species.
They will make their final decision by October 2017.
"Climate change poses several threats to walruses," said James MacCracken, biologist with US Fish and Wildlife Service.
"Loss of sea ice in summer opens up new areas for commercial shipping and oil and gas exploration. Acidification of the ocean is also a threat, due to CO2. It could potentially threaten their food source."
Walruses are predators and are known to occasionally eat seals, but the bulk of their diet is made up of clams and giant marine worms.
Male walruses migrate south from the Arctic and gather on land in their thousands each year, peppering windswept islands and coastlines in groups known as "haul-outs".
Amassing in large numbers is a social activity and a protection strategy, which helps the animals defend themselves from bear and killer whale attacks.
But haul-outs also make walruses especially vulnerable to human threats like oil spills and ship collisions. One strike could devastate an entire population.
The pacific walrus database, which was launched on 18 July, is an attempt to prevent such an event. It maps the location of every known haul-out, providing guidance for oil, shipping and natural gas regulators.
It can be viewed by the public through Google Earth.
A mixture of modern and archival research was used when building the database, beginning with an account from 1862 and a series of maps drawn by the Russian governor of what is now Alaska.
Ten years worth of recent studies have also been included, combining the work of the the Russian Academy of Sciences and their American counterparts.
Anatoly Kochnev, a Russian marine mammal biologist, spends between three and four months in the field studying the animals annually. His work brings him into contact with bears and biting weather conditions, which once left him stranded on a remote island in the Chukchi Sea for two weeks.
"In October and November it is stormy and snowy, but it's good for uncharted work," he said. With the help of local hunters, he remained well nourished throughout the course of his ordeal. "Walrus meat is good! Maybe once or twice I have killed one and eaten it."
For centuries, Native American and indigenous Russian peoples have harvested walruses for their ivory tusks and for food. To this day, at least 19 villages in Alaska continue to legally take a handful of animals for subsistence use each year.
Walrus haul-outs
Listen to a walrus haul-out audio recording
The species are especially interesting to scientists because of their unique behavioural and bodily features.
Male walruses are able to inflate themselves, pumping air into a sack beneath their skin around their shoulder blades. They use this to rest at sea after feeding on the ocean bottom. When not inflated or paddling, they sink.
"It's quite amazing," said Mr Fischbach. "I've often gone out with walrus hunters and if one is shot and it rolls off the ice, into the water, it will just sink and you'll lose it."
Female walruses do not have a "lifejacket" adaptation, which restricts their ability to travel long distances at sea. Traditionally, they have avoided journeying to haul-outs locations and remained on ice flows further north during summer months.
But with many areas melting, they are having to adapt their behaviour.
What will happen to female walruses as climate change progresses is one of the most pressing issues facing biologists in the Bering Sea. There are signs some females are beginning to form their own haul-outs along the coast, which is historically unprecedented.
The future health of the species is unclear.
"They aren't like zoo animals or medical patients where you can go out and weigh them," said Mr Fischbach. "We don't yet know if populations are declining or not."
Until scientists have a clearer idea how walruses are coping with climate change, they hope the new database will bolster their efforts to protect them.
'Drastic' Antarctic melt could double global sea-level rise
BBC Nature: The Walrus
Record walrus haul-out
Russian Arctic at threat from oil drilling | For 160 years, seafarers have braved polar bears, storms and bitter isolation to observe huge herds of walrus gathering off the coast of Alaska and Russia each summer. |
38,340,357 | The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted of attempted murder at Winchester Crown Court.
She lured her victim to a quiet area of their Hampshire school and stabbed her in the chest in April.
Mr Justice Fraser said the girl, who was 14 at the time, had a "far darker side to her personality".
She was given a 14 year sentence and will only be considered for parole after 10 years.
Her trial at Winchester Crown Court heard the girl was obsessed with mass murders and had compiled a "kill list" of 60 people.
Mr Justice Fraser said the "intelligent, articulate young girl" had watched snuff movies online and had previously planned to kill her mother and brother.
She turned up for school on 25 April wearing a bandana and with her mouth cut to resemble the Joker from the Batman film The Dark Knight, the jury heard.
She told her 15-year-old victim she had a present for her and to "close your eyes and put your hands out".
The attacked girl stepped back and although the knife went through her blazer and shirt she only suffered a superficial puncture wound to the chest near her heart.
Prosecutors said the girl bore a grudge against her victim who she believed had set up fake Instagram and Tumblr accounts in her name.
In a statement read out by the prosecution barrister James Newton-Price, the victim's mother said her daughter is haunted by the attack and has since been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder.
She said: "It's a nightmare no-one wants for their child and we're living it."
A psychiatric report found the attacker did not have a mental illness but instead had a personality problem and struggled with empathy. | A teenager who was obsessed with serial killers and school shootings has been detained for at least 10 years for the attempted murder of her friend. |
39,999,514 | The hog horned sheep were taken from land near the foot of the Ingleborough mountain.
Police said the theft happened sometime between 16 April and 20 May.
The sheep have two red markings on the middle of their backs and have the letters JN on one horn and the letter C and a crown on the other horn.
More on this and other North Yorkshire stories
Insp Jon Grainge said: "The difficulty with the nature of this crime is that it is not necessarily immediately obvious to farmers, who may only be able to identify their shortfall at the time of bringing sheep in to scan or to worm, which often gives a very wide timeframe for us to work with.
"Lines of inquiry are limited, and this is where we need the public's help to call in suspicious movements of animals, or animals appearing in fields unexpectedly." | Around 100 sheep have been stolen from moorland near Ingleton on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales national park. |
34,738,408 | From the air, the flat, small island of Tongatapu doesn't look much like land at all, with the astonishingly blue Pacific Ocean dominating the view.
But it is home to Tonga's capital, Nuku'alofa, and to the majority of the country's population - 70,000 or so out of around 90,000.
And for Tongans - who have lived here since the 9th Century, when the first settlers arrived by boat, the issue of rising sea levels and climate change is not just one for discussion at an abstract level - it proves a threat to their very existence.
Tonga's economy is weak - based to a large extent on remittances from expatriates, and on foreign aid.
Agriculture is mainly at subsistence level, and fishing - which is done by traditional spear - has lost some popularity over the previous decades, as cheap imported off-cuts of meats have replaced much of the traditional diet.
Highly religious, and well educated, Tongans' attachment to their fragile land is something evident in their pride and discussion of traditions and culture.
Tourism is barely visible on Tongatapu, where most land is owned by the King and the nobility (33 families).
Foreign investment is not much in evidence either; though what is evident is that many people from Tonga's 150 outer islands, which scatter over hundreds of miles of sea, are relocating to the main island as their own fragile habitats face an uncertain future.
These are often in informal settlements, which can suffer from a lack of infrastructure, and some of which are in tsunami "red zones".
Yet at Fafa Island Resort, a tiny, picture-perfect island merely 20 minutes by boat from Nuku'alofa, tourists enjoy the luxury of sleeping in a traditional Polynesian hut - right by the beach. Or they do - for now.
Vincent Morrish, who manages the hotel with his wife, points out the erosion that will mean the huts will eventually have to be moved back into the centre of the island.
"We're already having to move the restaurant and bar area back," he says, pointing out at what was once the beach, but is now between 5-10m (16-32ft) out to sea.
"We're fighting the inevitable," he adds, as he walks around the makeshift defences the resort has put in place to hold back the increasingly fierce tides.
When asked if in 100 years the island will still exist, he replies: "Absolutely not". And the tourists? It's a question not answered.
Mr Morrish says the kitchen was rebuilt further back from the water a year ago, and they'll be shutting in February to relocate the restaurant and the decking - otherwise, their guests will be dining in the water before too long.
Living by the sea is a proud part of Tongan culture and identity, with 80% of Tongans living right on the coast.
Yet rising tides and increasingly unpredictable weather is making life difficult.
Siali Lola Heeya the executive director of the Civil Society Forum of Tonga, a local non-government organisation, visits a road near the capital, where a coastal community with little infrastructure exists.
"This road was washed away by the rising tides," says Ms Heeya. We rebuilt it but it's going again."
The road is a thin strip of land separating a small swamp where mangroves have been washed away - leaving the land unprotected from winter cyclones - and a lagoon leading to the vast Pacific.
It is a stunning spot. A short distance from the road is a tiny speck of an island - just one tree remains.
Ms Heeya looks troubled as she points it out: "People used to fish from there - they used it as a base. It was a [proper] island not long ago."
The families dotted along this coast have few sources of income - and many still fish for their food - with spears - as they have done for millennia.
Do they fear the rising seas? Not necessarily, says Ms Heeya.
"Many people just accept changes here - nature changes - it is just part of life and they don't really have much choice.
"There are cyclones, there is a rising sea - but for many of us, getting on with life as normal is a way of not accepting the problem - and just coping."
But a problem it is.
Sione Fulavai is Tonga's senior climate finance analyst. He is in no doubt that the problem of small island economies vulnerable to changes in climate is urgent, and that the rest of the world is duty-bound to pay attention.
He is in Paris - along with many other pacific island states - at this week's UN climate change talks, where a legally binding agreement on carbon emissions is sought. What will he be asking?
"A lot of countries and governments are in Paris negotiating their economies - we're just asking for survival," he says.
"We don't want to become another extinct culture."
Does Mr Fulavai feel dwarfed by the size and might of other global economies on this issue?
"We're fighting against the dollar, against the pound… we are tiny - we haven't got the size or the money - but we are suffering the most."
What about relocation? Something often talked about with small island communities. Relocation has already taken place within Tonga across its string of small islands.
Mr Fulavai is firm - relocating Tonga is unthinkable, and besides, where would the whole population of over 90,000 relocate to?
The nearest land is Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand. He says none of these are viable options.
"Where would we go? We are tied to our land - to our culture," he says. "Without our lands who are we?" | The vulnerability of the Kingdom of Tonga to any rise in sea level is starkly evident from the moment your plane begins its descent. |
39,256,494 | The 29-year-old, who plays his club football in England for Newcastle, appeared 36 times for the Teranga Lions and played at the 2012 Olympics.
He said: "I believe that there are now 23 Senegalese players in better shape.
"After much thought and consideration I feel that now is the appropriate time to focus fully on my club career."
Diame has been mainly used as a substitute by Senegal since Aliou Cisse took charge of the team in March 2015. | Mohamed Diame has retired from international football, saying he believes he is no longer among the best Senegalese players. |
37,034,102 | But what if lessons in management came from the sports pages of the newspaper?
We asked professors at some of Europe's leading business schools what techniques could be picked up from the 20 Premier League managers.
Here is part one of their tips, looking at the managers of the first 10 clubs, alphabetically. You can read part two here.
Two months into the new season Arsene Wenger will celebrate 20 years as the boss of Arsenal.
But has the longest-serving manager in the Premier League outstayed his welcome? Critics point to a lack of titles in the last 10 years, and are frustrated with the lack of big spending to keep up with rivals.
But Wenger has consistently delivered Champions League football during his two decades at the club, and Daniela Lup, professor of employment relations and organisational behaviour at the London School of Economics, sees the key ingredients that are the hallmark of a long and successful career for any manager.
"It is essential for a business leader to have an identity and reputation that others recognise in you, whether for good or for bad.
"Wenger is about consistency, building a team, and sound fiscal management. He is clear that his team will not win all the time, and if this is the only measure of performance he would fall short. But his approach is always in line with his identity, he nurtures talent and plays to people's strengths.
"A great manager helps his team to find their best role, and Wenger did this with Thierry Henry and countless others. This generates great loyalty from his players, and delivers a top four finish every season."
As the youngest manager in the Premier League, Eddie Howe has already received plaudits for his composure and attention to detail, ensuring that Bournemouth's first ever season in the top flight would not be their last.
His determination to manage every aspect of the club extends to the motivational environment that he creates for his players. From the gym to the canteen, the walls are covered with inspiring quotes from sporting legends, including one from Muhammad Ali that reads, "What you are thinking is what you are becoming."
For Sonal Minocha, pro vice-chancellor at Bournemouth University, Howe is not your "stereotypical" football manager.
"He reminds me of Mahendra Singh Dhoni - the captain of India's cricket team - cool yet competitive," she says.
"Eddie for me therefore represents the sometimes underappreciated, but equally successful, approach to leadership that could be applicable in business or frankly in any walk of life.
"Business leaders are often stereotypically 'aggressive' - the larger than life character who dominates and dictates to achieve success. Eddie brings back the quietly confident leader to the fore and it is this intrinsic quality that has driven AFCB to the top."
Sean Dyche's first experience in the Premier League two years ago saw the club being immediately relegated due to a lack of goals. Dyche was disappointed but not defeated.
Using his experience and the observations of other successful clubs he began planning a return to the top flight with renewed ambitions.
For Dr Ricardo Zozimo, lecturer in entrepreneurship at Lancaster University Management School, failure occurs often and plays a significant role in any entrepreneur's life.
"The trick to successfully overcome failure begins with being able to distinguish what one thinks from what one feels."
And he adds that entrepreneurs who bounce back from failure often do so by adopting a "learning mindset".
"Failure is not a state, it is information, rich information about issues that can and should be developed.
"Burnley's Sean Dyche is a very good example of this learning mindset. No revolutions in the squad, better training conditions, advanced planning of every moment of the season and strong focus of what could be developed.
"They are now back in the Premier League after an impressive run of 22 unbeaten matches. The learning mindset pays off."
Italy may be the land of ice cream, but Chelsea players won't find it on the menu under new coach Antonio Conte.
The obsessional perfectionist now in charge at Stamford Bridge believes that diet can make the difference between victory and defeat, and prescribes rhodiola rosea and goji berries as part of a balanced regime to keep energy levels high. And Conte bans fizzy drinks from planes when his team is travelling to an away game.
But what will the highly paid stars at Chelsea make of a return to such a disciplinarian management style?
For Prof Andrea Sianesi of the school of business at the Politecnico di Milano, Conte matches his passion for detail and tactical fanaticism with a communication style that is confrontational but also highly motivational.
"The way in which he gets his message across is the key to his success. He uses simple words, his self-belief commands attention, and he is not afraid to say it the way he sees it. And the message gets through.
"Players know that what he says is spot on, and they buy into his methods. By tapping in to their desire to win he achieves great results."
The Premier League, more than any of the other top divisions in European football, is awash with foreign recruits. The idea that English clubs source their players from a national pool is as outdated as companies doing the same in big business.
Despite being accused of xenophobia by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger in the past, Pardew has successfully created an environment where players from Latin America, Africa, Asia and continental Europe worked well together to deliver a place in the FA Cup final last season.
Prof Simon Mercado, director of ESCP Europe's London campus, draws the parallel with the business world where more and more companies are coming to understand the benefits of a truly diverse workforce.
"Diversity not only reflects the balance of genders but also new ideas and new approaches that come from embracing other nationalities and cultures.
"The secret, whether the leader is operating in sport or the wider commercial arena seems to be to recognise difference and get the best out of it, while still ensuring that everyone involved is signed up to a clear and transparent set of core aims and values."
It's very fashionable at the moment in the business world for leaders to take a collegiate approach, to focus their efforts on building teams where everyone feels valued and able to contribute to the best of their abilities.
But what counts in the Premier League is success. And if you can't deliver that you won't be in the top job for long, no matter how happy and engaged your people are.
Ronald Koeman seems to understand both sides in very clear terms. As a child he was so dedicated to becoming proficient in his chosen sport that his mother got into the habit of throwing food to him while he endlessly practised.
Fellow Dutchman Dirk van Dierendonck, a professor of human resource management at the Rotterdam School of Management, sees Koeman's role within a whole system.
"Players need a leader who they respect, much like a general of an army where they trust his tactics. But Koeman recognises that he is part of a bigger picture in a club, with talent scouts and support staff that all play their part. Collectively they can get more out of their people."
As we approach the new season, Hull City presents a significant management analysis challenge because, following the resignation of Steve Bruce, the club doesn't currently have a full-time manager. Mike Phelan is acting as caretaker manager.
So can a club, or for that matter a company, carry on without someone in the top job?
In the business world the idea of the "heroic leader", the big personality leading the charge from the front is very much out of fashion. Yet that still doesn't stop many large organisations treating their chief executives as if they were demi-gods and paying them accordingly.
Perhaps it's time to question just how important it is to have someone "in control" and to ask whether many well-constructed organisational machines might actually run as well, or better, if left alone.
It might seem outlandish to suggest that a football club could operate well without a manager to steer the ship - but perhaps there are lessons to be learned from the likes of DPR Construction, which operates without one single CEO, despite being one of the world's leading construction companies.
With its model of shared leadership the firm has risen to be seen as one of the industry's most innovative and desirable companies to work for.
The story of Leicester's unexpected success last year captured the hearts and minds of the football world. With a squad that cost a fraction of its big-spending rivals', Claudio Ranieri confounded conventional wisdom with an approach based on trust, a relaxed dressing room, and free pizza.
For fellow Italian Andrea Masini, dean of the MBA Programme at HEC Paris, Ranieri's approach can be summarised in two words: focus and care.
"It's his personal engagement and application of procedural justice models... that really makes his approach effective.
"Tough decisions, such as excluding a player before an important match, are easier to accept if they are taken fairly and are properly motivated.
"With his hands-on approach, players are more likely to push their limits during intensive training sessions if the manager leads by example and shares their pain. This approach reminds me of Napoleon sharing meals with his troops, and resonates with cohesion and the desire to achieve a common purpose. It's a great lesson for any manager.
"When Leicester were at the top of the Premiership halfway through the season he kept the pressure off and told players to take one game at a time. With a complex project you need to develop a road map, so that the team just has to concentrate on the next step.
"Once they realised that avoiding relegation was within reach Ranieri released the pressure and told his players to have fun. Look how that turned out. You can only perform at your best if you truly enjoy what you do."
A lot has been written about Jurgen Klopp's management style and his abilities as a man-manager and master motivator. But for Urs Mueller at ESMT Berlin, one of the key themes is his ability to create a "one for all, all for one" mentality.
"Klopp wants Liverpool to feel like one big family - an organisational culture he successfully fostered at Borussia Dortmund where he won two league titles and the league and cup double.
"In business there are parallels with individuals like Richard Branson of Virgin, who has always run his companies with a similar approach, trying to generate a communal organisation culture where people work together because they have not only a common objective but also because they like each other."
One key to being able to pull this off, according to Mueller, is the leader's ability to project a self-image and vision that are so powerful that others are naturally drawn to them.
"Charismatic leaders are frequently acting as 'transformational leaders' as they have the ability to fundamentally change an organisation to fit their own vision. Often they are brought in to improve the performance of a struggling organisation. In this respect Klopp fits the bill perfectly as Liverpool have been in a period of under-achievement over recent years."
But, says Mueller, this leadership style risks both the leader and the organisation developing "tunnel vision", making them unable to deviate from an existing path, even if it's not working. And if an organisation is over-reliant on a leader, it will have a tough job replacing him when he moves on.
Considered one of the greatest managers in football, Pep Guardiola arrives at Manchester City with a proven track record after filling the trophy cabinets at both Barcelona and Bayern Munich. In a game where the players are usually more famous than the coach, it is safe to say that expectations at the Etihad are high.
For Prof Josep Franch, dean of Esade Business School, business leaders can learn from his ability to define a clear and simple vision for his team and then execute that vision.
"Guardiola is very close to his players, and is a great role model who knows how to get the best out of everyone, from Lionel Messi to an inexperienced teenager.
"His transparency and communication style set clear expectations for each individual as part of a team, and he expects everyone to follow that collective idea.
"He observes and listens closely, but there comes a time when, as a leader, you have to stop listening and put your plan into action. That can mean making unpopular decisions, such as selling Ronaldinho when he was at Barcelona.
"But Guardiola has developed the confidence that comes with success, and by sticking with the message he earns the trust of those that play for him."
This is part of the BBC's regular series, Business Brain. You can read more here. | Students heading to business school this year face a summer of required reading to get them up to speed on the five forces that shape every industry, or The Art of War and what 5th Century Chinese military strategy can teach you about leadership. |
38,520,706 | Wainfleet Surgery, near Skegness, closed in November after an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
Lincolnshire East Clinical Commissioning Group said alternative care would be provided in the town.
Boston and Skegness MP Matt Warman said keeping some form of local service was "a victory for local people".
About 2,200 patients are affected by the closure of the town's only surgery.
The commissioning group's chief nurse, Tracy Pilcher, said they were looking for nearby GP services to take over the provision of health care in Wainfleet but could not confirm what form it would take.
However, she added it was likely to be on a part-time basis.
Commenting on the decision, Boston and Skegness MP Matt Warman said: "What I want to see is a functioning NHS service provided for the people of Wainfleet, and that is what the commissioners say they want as well."
"This is a victory for local campaigners who were concerned they would have to travel to Skegness, or further," he added.
Patients of the surgery previously mounted a campaign in a bid to prevent its permanent closure.
The news comes as four other surgeries in the county, operated by West Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group, are set to close, with 11,000 patients told to register with other practices.
Burton Road and Arboretum practices in Lincoln, Pottergate in Gainsborough and Metheringham will all close on Saturday. | A Lincolnshire town's only GP surgery which had its licence suspended over patient safety concerns will not reopen, health bosses have said. |
35,378,876 | The only leader who declined to sign, Western Australia's Colin Barnett, said he was supportive of a republic but believed now was not the right time.
Australians voted against becoming a republic in a 1999 referendum.
Current Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was leader of the republican movement at that time.
But since coming to power, Mr Turnbull has said no change should occur until the reign of Queen Elizabeth II ends.
The state premiers of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, and the chief ministers of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, signed the document in favour of replacing the Queen as head of state.
The move comes the day before Australia Day, the anniversary of the arrival in Australia of the first British colonists.
Is Australia ready for change? Jon Donnison, BBC News, Sydney
At least among Australia's politicians, the republican cause seems to be gathering momentum.
Diehard monarchist and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott is no longer in office and his replacement is not just any old republican but a one time leader of the Australian Republican Movement. He now knows all the leaders of Australia's states and territories, as well as the leader of the opposition, share his view.
For now though, Mr Turnbull says another referendum on the issue is not a priority for him. That could change if he wins re-election later this year. But he won't want to have a second referendum and lose.
And while politicians seem to be shifting away from the monarchy, the public are not necessarily on the same page.
One poll in 2014 showed support for a republic to be at a 20-year low, with just 39% of Australians favouring replacing the Queen as head of state. A potential game-changer might be if Prince Charles were to become their king.
He might not share his mother's apparent popularity with either politicians or the public.
Australian Republican Movement chairman Peter FitzSimons said all Australian leaders, including Mr Turnbull and opposition leader Bill Shorten, supported severing ties with the monarchy.
"Never before have the stars of the Southern Cross been so aligned in pointing to the dawn of a new republican age for Australia," Mr FitzSimons told ABC News.
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill said it was "well past time for Australia to become a sovereign nation".
"Any self-respecting independent country would aspire to select one of its own citizens as head of state," Mr Weatherill said.
But the national convener of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy, Prof David Flint, told the Herald Sun that republicans had not yet settled on a model to replace the current system.
"They can get all the support they want from celebrities and politicians, but they still haven't put forward what model they want, and told us how it will improve the governance of Australia," Prof Flint said. | Almost all of Australia's state and territory leaders have signed a document in support of the country becoming a republic. |
32,887,657 | Two fire crews were sent to the Asda store in Llangefni, where the vehicle was "well alight".
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the alarm was raised at about 12:00 BST and it took almost an hour to bring the blaze under control.
The fire was contained to the lorry and Asda said the store reopened at 13:25. | Staff and customers were forced to evacuate an Anglesey supermarket on Tuesday after a lorry caught fire while making deliveries. |
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Fly-half Gareth Anscombe scored 20 points including a try while Aled Summerhill and Tomos Williams also crossed.
But Zebre's second-half scores came from Maxime Mbanda, Andries van Schalkwyk and a penalty try.
Their late effort came despite having replacement Dario Chistolini sent off.
The Blues' two first-half tries came in quick succession midway through the first 40 minutes, with Anscombe making the most of an overlap and Summerhill scorching in from half-way.
Anscombe's boot made it 23-3 at the break, reminding the Wales management of his challenge for a summer tour recall.
The Italians came out strongly after the break and a series of scrum-fives saw Taufa'ao Filise yellow-carded and a penalty try converted by Carlo Canna.
Tomos Williams grabbed the home side's third try on 57 minutes following his own charge-down.
Moments later the scrum-half saw a spectacular solo effort ruled out for an earlier knock-on - but that was as close as the home side got to a bonus point.
Zebre hit back as Mbanda drove over from close range, before replacement prop Chistolini was shown the red card with 15 minutes remaining for a senseless punch.
Sion Bennett's yellow evened the numbers for a while with Zebre attacking strongly.
Van Schalkwyk scrambled over in the 79th minute and Guglielmo Palazzani's angled conversion earning them a consolation point.
With the clock past 80 minutes, Zebre burst back upfield through Kurt Baker and Cardiff Blues were relieved to get the ball off the field at the end of a shaky second period.
Danny Wilson's side complete the regular Pro12 season against Newport Gwent Dragons at Caerphilly on 6 May before a European Champions Cup play-off semi-final away to English or French opposition.
Cardiff Blues: Rhun Williams; Alex Cuthbert, Rey Lee-Lo, Willis Halaholo, Aled Summerhill; Gareth Anscombe, Tomos Williams; Rhys Gill, Kristian Dacey, Taufa'ao Filise, Jarrad Hoeata, Macauley Cook, Josh Navidi, Ellis Jenkins (capt), Nick Williams.
Replacements: Kirby Myhill, Corey Domachowski, Scott Andrews, James Down, Sion Bennett, Lloyd Williams, Steve Shingler, Matthew Morgan.
Zebre: Edoardo Padovani; Kayle Van Zyl, Giulio Bisegni, Tommaso Castello (capt), Mattia Bellini, Carlo Canna; Marcello Violi; Andrea Lovotti, Oliviero Fabiani, Pietro Ceccarelli, Gideon Koegelenberg, Federico Ruzza, Maxime Mbanda, Jacopo Sarto, Derick Minnie.
Replacements: Tommaso D'Apice, Guillermo Roan, Dario Chistolini, Joshua Furno, Andries Van Schalkwyk, Guglielmo Palazzani, Kurt Baker, Matteo Pratichetti.
Referee: Frank Murphy (Ireland).
Assistant referees: Nigel Correll (Ireland), Ben Whitehouse (Wales).
TMO: Kevin Beggs (Ireland). | Cardiff Blues laboured to an unconvincing Pro12 home win over Zebre despite leading by 20 points at the break. |
24,367,050 | More than 1,600 people have also been injured by stings in Shaanxi province, according to China News Agency.
It says 206 people are still being treated in hospital, with 37 patients remaining in a critical condition.
Local officials have been quoted as saying that drier and warmer weather this year may have contributed to a rise in hornet numbers in the area.
Environmental activists have also blamed rapid urbanisation for worsening the problem as more rural land is swallowed up for urban development, intruding into habitats where hornets hunt and build their nests.
The cities of Angkang, Hanzhong and Shangluo have been worst affected by the spate of attacks over the past three months.
The provincial government has dispatched pest control experts to help deal with the situation.
China News Agency says local police and fire-fighters have been given equipment and protective clothes to help remove and destroy hornet nests.
Hornet attacks are a recurring problem in Shaanxi province in particular, but the authorities have released no casualty figures for previous years.
Zhao Fang, a city government official in Ankong, told the China Daily newspaper that hornet attacks had increased in recent years as the "local ecological environment improved".
Winters have been getting milder and summers hotter and more humid in Shaanxi, which may have helped caused hornet numbers there to rise.
The Chinese term for hornets is "hu feng" - those behind the deadly attacks this summer appear to be the Asian giant hornet, or Vespa mandarinia.
They can grow up to 5cm long with a 6mm sting.
The area is also home to the smaller Asian hornet, Vespa velutina nigrithorax. | Attacks by hornets in northern China have killed 41 people since July, state-run media report. |
38,694,145 | David Peach-Miles, of Newent, stole the money from St John the Baptist Church in Ruardean in the Forest of Dean between April 2015 and February 2016.
Peach-Miles was jailed for 16 months in November at Gloucester Crown Court.
The judge ordered the 37-year-old to forfeit £1 as he has no assets but said he would be liable to confiscation if he acquired money in the future.
Prosecutor Phillip Warren said the £1 nominal sum and any future money confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act, would be paid as compensation to the Ruardean Parochial Church Council.
Peach-Miles had taken over as treasurer in March 2016 and had full access to the online accounts.
Within weeks of being in the job, he began to steal money for the next 10 months.
His theft was only discovered when a number of payments failed to clear. | A treasurer who stole £32,000 from his church to fund his gambling habit has been ordered to pay back £1. |
35,279,330 | Police were called to Llanrumney Avenue, Llanrumney, at 04:30 GMT on Sunday.
The man's death is being treated as suspicious and a woman, 27, is in police custody.
The man has not yet been formally identified and an investigation is on going. | A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a man was found following a house fire in Cardiff. |
35,059,149 | Judith and Fergus Wilson began building their property portfolio in Maidstone and Ashford in the early 1990s.
At its height, they would purchase several homes a day.
Mr Wilson, 67, said he had intended to get out of the housing market seven years ago but was prevented by the global credit crunch.
He said: "Now it's changed, I thought I'd better get out at some point.
"When you build houses now they're meant to last for 300 years so everybody's getting on the upward spiral at some point, and you've got to get off at some point," he said.
Mr Wilson told BBC Radio Kent that "never in my wildest dreams" had he imagined that his portfolio would get so big.
"We just drifted into it."
In January 2014, the landlord sparked a national outcry when he issued eviction notices to every one of his 200 tenants who received housing benefit.
He said he would rather have eastern European migrants as tenants than people on benefits.
Mr Wilson expects the sale of his portfolio - which he has described as "a hobby that simply got out of control" - to be completed by the end of next June.
He said existing tenants would not be affected and would just receive "a piece of paper called a Section 48 which notifies them of a change of landlord".
"Other than that it won't mean a thing to them, and they won't lose their homes or anything and they're all protected."
Mr Wilson said he was now considering standing as the next Police and Crime Commissioner for Kent, for which elections are being held next May. | A couple who amassed nearly 1,000 buy-to-let properties in Kent have sold their empire to a foreign consortium for £250m. |
40,517,036 | But it is not just members of the LGBT community flying the rainbow flag, as more businesses than ever are supporting the fight for equality.
With almost 50 official partners, ranging from airlines to mobile networks, and a list of over 60 supporters, companies are signing up to try to stamp out prejudice.
But why are firms joining the fight for inclusion? And does the event risk becoming too commercial?
Polly Shute, director of development and partnerships for Pride in London, said it will be a record-breaking year for the event, with more than 26,500 people expected to take part.
And the number of corporate backers has mirrored the marchers' rise.
But what does Polly think is the attraction for companies to get involved?
"From their point of view, it is a message both internally and externally," she said.
"[Some] don't have a product to sell, but they support us because they want to promote inclusion in the workplace.
"Of course, it also shows external customers that a business supports the cause, but a number of these companies are already involved in charities promoting inclusion and equality, so it is a natural step."
Polly believes it also reflects a wider push for diversity in the workplace.
"It is part of a growing movement about people being able to be who they are at work, which improves things for the business and for the communities," she said.
"A lot of people who are members of the LGBT community have also risen up the ranks and they have gone through periods where they have not felt able to come out - so they want to fight this cause for their workforce."
Barclays is the headline sponsor of Pride in London for the fourth year running and believes the event is an important part of connecting with staff and customers.
Michael Roemer, Barclays' global LGBT lead and group chief compliance officer, said: "We want our colleagues, customers and clients to feel free to express who they are at all times.
"We've made great strides internally in creating an inclusive global workplace, but we want to go further.
"By supporting Pride in London, we're saying 'this is who we are' and we want to encourage everyone else to be able to say who they are, without fear."
Tesco is another sponsor keen to support the people that work there.
John Dickinson, Out at Tesco chairman, said: "Pride in London is such a fun and vibrant event and that's why we're proud to be an official sponsor again this year.
"Over 300 of our colleagues are expected to take part in the parade and 13 stores along the route will enter into the Pride spirit with special Pride-themed signs, bunting and carrier bags."
And Transport for London (TfL) is getting in the mood by decorating its Tube stations, bus stops and bikes for the event.
However, it is also a chance to promote diversity for the city it represents.
Ben Lyon, chairman of OUTbound - TfL's LGBT staff network - said: "The capital is one of the most diverse cities in the world and we are extremely proud to be part of the message to the world that, whatever your sexual orientation, London is open and welcomes you."
But what about the LGBT community? Does it welcome this corporate edge?
Jade Knight, from Nottingham, believes "commercial and mainstream is where Pride needs to be".
The 44-year-old, who has attended Pride events around the country for the past five years, said: "We want to get to the point where LGBT identities are no longer a subculture, but as acceptable on the mainstream as being cisgender and heterosexual.
"The first Prides were riots, then political protests, then a celebration of mainly gay male subculture. Pride has evolved. It's not enough for it just to be LGBT people by themselves."
But she believes the companies need to put money where their mouths are.
"Pride is just the promise," added Jade.
"They need to show up for their LGBT staff and customers all the other days of the year as well, or it means nothing."
Scott Williams, 40, from Bromley, London, has been going to the Pride event in London since 1997 and is more concerned about the direction.
"It is a good thing and a bad thing," he said.
"It allows Pride to happen as these companies contribute to the cost of running the parade and the event. Also, it's good to see companies supporting their LGBT staff.
"But the last two marches I have been to, instead of it being what the original spirit of Pride was - a protest for equal rights and standing up to show visibility - it feels like a big advertisement targeting the LGBT community."
Tilly Williams has been going to Pride in London for eight years and thinks a balance is needed.
The 26-year-old from Camberwell, London, said: "I believe lots of brands are just using it for good publicity, rather than out of any sense of social justice, which isn't ideal.
"But I think anything that increases wider society's acceptance of LGBT issues is inherently good.
"I would like to make sure those brands are supportive of LGBT rights outside of just the Pride festival though, making sure they are tough on discrimination within their company and visibly opposing anti-gay policies."
Pride in London's Polly Shute said: "I understand the concerns, but we are one of the few free Pride events.
"We want to stay that way to be as inclusive as possible, but somebody has to pay for it.
"These companies represent so many people - it is important that they support those communities at work.
"And whilst the corporate sponsors may be more visible, over 60% of those marching are not-for-profit charities or community groups.
"By bringing corporates in, we keep a free Pride and it means those groups can campaign or celebrate."
Natasha Scott, who will be marching with the gay and lesbian association of doctors and dentists on Saturday, agrees.
The 36-year-old from, Finsbury Park, London, said: "Pride, for me, is about acceptance and inclusivity - one day in the year where you genuinely don't have to worry about being yourself.
"Unfortunately to organise such a huge event in London these days costs money, and corporate sponsorship becomes necessary.
"Is it ideal? No. But if it allows Pride to continue reaching out and celebrating then I think it's worth it." | The streets of the capital will be turned into a big party this weekend when Pride in London ends with its annual march. |
28,477,138 | Officers said they were "treating this kind of behaviour extremely seriously".
"Two males have had to be reported for indecent exposure as they thought it was a good idea to take all their clothes off to go for a swim - not a good idea," an officer wrote on the PSNI Holywood Facebook page.
"There are young children in these areas too."
They added: "You could end up with a criminal record and placed on the sex offenders register.
"Please enjoy the weather but be sensible."
Police in the North Down town also warned that they were on the lookout for people bringing alcohol to the beach, with officers patrolling the platform at Helen's Bay railway station. | Police in County Down have warned skinny dippers that they could be placed on the sex offenders register. |
33,228,912 | Palmira Silva, 82, was in her garden when she was attacked by Nicholas Salvador who stabbed and beheaded her, prosecutors said.
The court heard he was armed with a wooden pole and machete and was arrested following a violent struggle in which he was tasered six times.
The 25-year-old from Enfield denies murder by reason of insanity.
Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC told the jury the killing happened three days after Mr Salvador had lost his job, and there was no dispute he killed her.
He said at the time of the killing, on the afternoon of 4 September last year, the defendant was living three doors away from Mrs Silva in Nightingale Road.
On the day of the attack the defendant armed himself and beheaded two of his hosts' cats, because he thought they were "demons", the court heard.
He then made his way through a few back gardens, smashed his way into a house and then attacked a car containing two members of the family he was living with.
Mr Salvador then leapt over a wall into Mrs Silva's garden where she was repeatedly stabbed before being beheaded, the court heard.
It was said Mr Salvador believed he was killing a supernatural entity in the guise of Hitler back from the dead, or a demon who had taken the form of a little old lady, Mr Rees said.
The prosecutor told the jury the defendant ran off and was arrested in the front room of another house following a "violent and chaotic struggle" with police in which he was tasered multiple times and kicked and punched, but to little effect. He had shown signs of mental illness, repeating phrases such as "red is the colour" and "I am the king."
One eyewitness had described how, before the attack, he looked like a headless chicken and appeared to be searching for more cats to kill, the court heard.
In the weeks before the attack, Mr Salvador had shown signs of "odd behaviour" and developed an interest in "shapeshifters" - supernatural entities that can transform into another being or form.
After being charged the 25-year-old was remanded in custody at Belmarsh prison before being moved to high-security Broadmoor Hospital due to his mental illness.
Mr Rees said that psychiatrists would give evidence that he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
Mrs Silva came to Britain from Italy in 1953 and ran a cafe with her husband. She had two children, six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Mr Salvador also denies a charge of assault by actual bodily harm by reason of insanity and assaulting a police officer after Pc Bernard Hamilton, received a leg injury which needed hospital treatment.
The case continues. | An elderly woman was beheaded by a man who went on a rampage in north London, the Old Bailey has heard. |
36,874,618 | The union said it had no other option after the failure of talks at the conciliation service Acas.
The RMT is campaigning against the increased use of trains without guards, with the driver opening and closing the doors at stations.
ScotRail has said such operations are already common on the network, particularly on suburban services.
The operator has also promised to ensure a second member of staff was onboard every train to assist the driver in emergencies.
Phil Verster, managing director of Scotrail Alliance, said: "This industrial action by the RMT is not about safety, it's not about a second person on a train and it's not about jobs or pay and conditions.
"It is about modernisation of the railway and preparing us for a railway that Scotland can be proud of for the next 40 or 50 years."
But the union claims the absence of a dedicated guard would make trains less safe.
The strike is the latest of several held during the dispute. Another one-day strike is due be held next Sunday, 31 July.
Scottish Labour has called on Transport Minister Humza Yousaf to intervene to try to reach a negotiated settlement.
Mr Yousaf, however, tweeted that he had already discussed the dispute with ScotRail and the RMT, and would continue to do so.
He also called for the suspension of strike action while dialogue took place.
Transport Scotland said it had been assured by ScotRail that over 80% of services would run as normal this weekend.
Passengers are advised to check the ScotRail strike information web page before they travel. | Members of the RMT union at ScotRail have begun another one-day strike in their dispute over driver-only trains. |
38,528,144 | The 29-year-old Nigerian has played 372 times for Chelsea since joining in 2006 but has not featured this season.
He said it had been "an honour" to play for the Stamford Bridge club but it was time to "seek a new challenge".
Mikel has won two Premier League titles, four FA Cups and the 2012 Champions League during his time at Stamford Bridge.
"I haven't featured as much this season as I would have liked and I still have many years in the game ahead of me," Mikel wrote on Twitter in a message to Chelsea fans.
"With this in mind, I feel now is the time to seek a new challenge.
"I'm delighted to be joining Tianjin TEDA FC at a time that the Chinese Super League is really taking off, and I look forward to helping Tianjin TEDA FC continue to grow.
"To play in the Premier League is every professional player's ambition.
"But to play for Chelsea, to become part of the Chelsea family to work with some of the best managers and players in the world, has truly been an honour.
Mikel is the second Chelsea player to move to the Chinese Super League in recent weeks following Oscar's transfer to Shanghai SIPG. | Midfielder John Mikel Obi has left Chelsea to join Chinese Super League side Tianjin TEDA. |
39,909,410 | About 800 passengers are due to take two trips on the iconic steam locomotive, which will depart Edinburgh Waverley on Sunday at about 11:00.
The engine will travel over the Forth Bridge before taking a tour of the Fife coastline and returning to Edinburgh.
A second trip across the Forth is also planned for later in the day, when the engine will also visit Forth Valley.
Police and transport officials have warned that drone use is not permitted within 50m of the line and that onlookers should stay well away from the tracks.
The Flying Scotsman, which is based at the National Railway Museum in York, made its first post-restoration visit to Scotland a year ago.
Hundreds of enthusiasts lined the route and were later praised for their responsible behaviour.
However, the engine's inaugural run in northern England in February 2016 was marred when some fans put themselves in danger by encroaching on to the track.
Additional staff will be deployed at key stations and along the engine's route for the locomotive's latest visit to Scotland and the Network Rail helicopter will be scanning for trespassers.
Claire Newton, from the tour operators Steam Dreams, said it was difficult to give precise details of the engine's route, but said it would travel over the Forth Bridge three times on Sunday.
She said: "For many people this is the trip of a lifetime and some have been on waiting lists for this trip since February 2016.
"We will be going over the Forth Bridge and travelling along the Fife coastline and then in the evening we will hopefully go past Stirling Castle before returning to Edinburgh."
The engine is on a three-night trip across Scotland until Monday.
The Flying Scotsman was the first steam engine officially authenticated at travelling at 100mph in November 1934 though it had been claimed that another engine, City of Truro, travelled at 102mph in 1904. There was no second timekeeper on the earlier run and the record has long been disputed. | The Flying Scotsman is due to embark on its second visit to Scotland since its restoration in February last year. |
37,329,917 | Dimitri Payet set up Michail Antonio's second goal with a rabona after Manuel Lanzini had tried to score with the same skill.
Odion Ighalo, Deeney, Etienne Capoue and Jose Holebas gave Watford victory.
"As a player I though they were trying to mug us off a little bit," Deeney told BBC Radio 5 live.
"You can appreciate good skill and that was great skill for the second goal but as a professional you cannot allow someone to do that to you.
"You see that in the playground with six and seven year olds and we are grown men.
"There were some harsh words said to each other and everyone had that fire in their belly again."
Payet set up Antonio for his second goal with a brilliantly improvised cross as he wrapped his right foot around the back of his left leg to chip the ball to the back post.
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Watford fought back before the break thanks to Ighalo's deflected shot and a brilliant finish from Deeney after dreadful defending from the hosts.
Capoue scored his third goal of the season when a deep ball came to him at the back post and Holebas grabbed his first goal in English football with a shot from the edge of the area.
Deeney added: "We all dug in and started to lay a bit of a hand on them and before you know it we were getting more chances and we got two goals before half-time.
"I thought we were the only team who were going to win it in the second half." | Watford captain Troy Deeney said his team were motivated to fight back from 2-0 down at West Ham because they felt their opponents were embarrassing them. |
35,119,186 | A fresh row broke out at the council on Tuesday night after unionist councillors said there was a "considerable financial shortfall" in the proposal.
Sinn Féin councillors accused unionist politicians of "blocking the project".
The new project would cost £2.8m.
The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) said it was committed to funding £2.5m towards the project.
The remaining money needed to deliver the project totalled £339,000 and that had been approved by the regulator of the Landfill Community Fund but required council agreement.
Ulster Unionist councillor Daryll Wilson told BBC Radio Foyle that his party supported the project but would not agree to providing the "shortfall" unless it came from DCAL minister Carál Ní Chuilín.
Sinn Féin councillor Sean McGlinchey said unionist councillors had made a "sectarian decision".
The Sinn Féin minister Ms Ní Chuilín said she was "extremely disappointed".
A public meeting was held in Dungiven on Wednesday night. Ms Ní Chuilín did not attend.
Members of the public, sport enthusiasts and politicians voiced their anger.
Ryan O'Connor, a double amputee from Dungiven and keen sportsman, said: "I'm very angry.
"I thought everything was getting the all clear. I was ready to get involved with the new facilities.
"There's no hope at the moment. Councillors are supposed to be helping the people. It's ridiculous."
Paul McCloskey, a former British and European boxing champion, said: "It's an unbelievable shock.
"There's no real answers that make any sense as to why it's not going ahead at this stage. It's a disgrace."
One woman who lives in Dungiven said: "I'm very angry.
"Some of the councillors don't seem to care about Dungiven or what we get.
"They need to give our children what they deserve."
Sinn Fein MLA Cathal O hOisin said: "Councillors have a duty for the provision of sports services and facilities.
"If they are not fulfilling that duty then that needs to be addressed. In that case it needs addressed legally.
"We may have to look a judicial review. We will see in the coming weeks." | Sinn Féin has said it may take legal action following a decision by some councillors at Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council not to proceed with plans for a sports and leisure project in Dungiven, County Londonderry. |
32,119,657 | Raised levels of the bacteria were found at Staines fire station during a routine inspection but were within "safe parameters".
The building has been in use during the day. Night-time crews have returned after being based at Sunbury.
The fire service said it was "difficult to completely eradicate".
Showers were removed and portable toilets brought in to allow work to be carried out on pipe work, and chemical treatments used to try to eliminate the bacteria.
A "spike" in levels of the waterborne legionella bacteria had been detected six weeks ago, but were "within safe parameters", the fire service said.
Bob Weldon-Gamble, from Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, said: "We have done absolutely everything we could - that's not been working as well as we hoped."
A Surrey County Council spokesman said: "It's not unusual for legionella to be found in large buildings with no effect on human health in most cases."
Chemical treatments will continue, and filters on tap and showers will remain in place. | A Surrey fire station has fully reopened despite traces of legionella bacteria still being found in the building following a six-week outbreak. |
34,613,998 | Lib Dem peers have tabled a so-called "fatal motion" which, if passed, would mean the changes could not proceed.
Chief Whip Lord Newby defended the rare move, saying ministers were pushing through the policy "without debate".
But former cabinet secretary Lord Butler has warned the Lords "not to get too big for its boots".
David Cameron has warned the House of Lords, in which the government does not have a majority, against blocking the changes and questioned their authority to do so.
Opponents say three million working families on low incomes face losing an average of £1,000 when the changes come into effect in April although ministers argue that with increases to the personal tax allowance, the national living wage and an extension of subsidised childcare, the majority will ultimately be better off.
Two separate motions have been tabled in the Lords by critics of the tax credit cuts. Of these, the Lib Dem motion under the name of Baroness Manzoor "declining to approve" the changes is the one that would kill them off outright.
What are tax credits and what are the changes?
Tax credits are a series of benefits introduced by the last Labour government to help low-paid families. There are two types: Working Tax Credit (WTC) for those in work, and Child Tax Credit (CTC) for those with children.
Under government proposals, the income threshold for Working Tax Credits - £6,420 - will be cut to £3,850 a year. In other words, as soon as someone earns £3,850, they will see their payments reduced. The income threshold for those only claiming CTCs will be cut from £16,105 to £12,125.
The rate at which those payments are cut is also going to get faster. Currently, for every £1 claimants earn above the threshold, they lose 41p. This is known as the taper rate. But from April, the taper rate will accelerate to 48p. So for every pound earned above the threshold, claimants will lose 48p.
There will be similar reductions for those who claim work allowances under the new Universal Credit.
Read more about the changes
A separate Labour motion, under the name of Baroness Hollis, would ensure a pause while the government takes into account an independent impact analysis and would postpone the changes until transitional measures were put in place to protect affected claimants.
Crossbench peer Baroness Meecher, who had previously tabled her own motion urging a delay, has now agreed to incorporate hers into the Labour one, the opposition said.
Lord Newby said that, in view of the "rapidly growing opposition" to the cuts, the government should think again from scratch.
The fact the government was introducing the changes via statutory instrument rather than primary legislation was an "unprecedented step to push something through without debate", he told Radio 4's Today programme.
David Cameron, he suggested, was behaving "like a schoolboy bully" with his warnings to the Lords of what might happen if it did block the measure.
The prime minister has urged the Lords to focus on its role as a revising chamber, saying it does not have the constitutional authority to reject finance measures.
There have been reports that, if they lose the tax credit vote, the Conservatives could "flood" the Upper House with new peers in order to establish a working majority for its legislative programme.
Lord Butler, a former head of the civil service who is now a crossbench peer, told Today it would be "quite wrong" for the Lords to overturn or obstruct a measure which had already been passed by the Commons.
He said the cuts to tax credits were a central plank of the cuts to welfare on which the government was elected and if the Lords did block it would be "getting too big for its non elected boots."
The government is seeking to introduce the cuts not though the traditional route of a Finance Bill, which the Lords do not historically have the power to oppose, but via so-called secondary legislation - which peers say they are entitled to challenge.
However, the BBC's deputy political editor James Landale said the records showed that there have only been five occasions since World War Two that peers have blocked secondary legislation.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the elected House's supremacy over tax and spending matters dated back to the 15th Century and the largely appointed Lords would face repercussions if it defied that.
"I think the prime minister would be entitled to ask the Queen to appoint a large number of peers if the Lords blocks something which belongs to the privilege of the House of Commons," he told the Daily Politics.
"The privilege that all matters of taxation and expenditure are reserved to the Commons, even secondary legislation, is of the greatest antiquity....The House of Commons have exclusive competence over taxation and expenditure regardless of the form it is presented to the Lords."
The government would need to appoint 150 or more peers to achieve a Lords majority. Mr Rees-Mogg said he would back such a move but it would "bring the House of Lords into disrepute" and trigger reform.
A Downing Street spokesman said there was "no plan" to engage in Lords reform but the PM's view was that the Lords should take note of votes in the Commons, which has twice backed the changes in the past six weeks. | Opponents of tax credits cuts will "probably" win a vote in the House of Lords killing off the changes, a leading Liberal Democrat peer has said. |
34,451,265 | The species, which has been named Hyorhinomys stuempkei - hog-nosed rat - has "distinct and unique features uncommon to other rats", they said.
Five of the rodents were discovered on Sulawesi island earlier in January by researchers from Australia, Indonesia and the US.
Museum Victoria's mammal curator Kevin Rowe said the species was "previously undocumented".
"We were on a mission to survey remote mountains in the area and to put evolution in Asia and Australia into context," Mr Rowe said.
"Nothing is currently known about these rats and how widely they were distributed throughout the forests."
Mr Rowe, who specialises in rodent evolution, spent six weeks in Indonesia with other scientists and a group of locals trying to reach the remote forest area.
He also shared with the BBC the "exciting moment" of finding a hog-nosed rat.
"We had been setting up overnight traps for a few days - that was when I stumbled upon a completely new rat," he said.
"I hollered immediately for my colleagues as I knew it was a new species."
The rats appeared "healthy, with full stomachs", weighing at an estimated 250g.
Mr Rowe also added that there were rats on Sulawesi island similar to the newly discovered mammal, but they "weren't the same".
"Last year we discovered amphibious and toothless rats on the island too. There is a remarkable morphological evolution going on there."
He said the rat's uniqueness had "far exceeded expectations".
"Obviously its nostrils which resemble a hog's, are very unique. But it also has a long face and larger ears for a rat of its size and lower teeth which are more in common with shrew rats," he said.
"It also has pubic hairs that are very long and extended which we see in other Australian mammals."
The rats have since been preserved and are lodged in a museum in Indonesia. | A team of scientists have discovered a new species of rat in Indonesia. |
14,198,280 | Baidu signed an agreement with a joint venture owned by Universal Music, Warner Music and Sony Music to distribute music through its mp3 search service.
Baidu, China's biggest search engine, will pay the owners of the music rights on a per-play and per-download basis.
China is the world's biggest internet market with close to 470 million users.
Baidu has been involved in legal tussle with the music labels. It has been accused of steering consumers to third-party websites where pirated material is hosted.
However, the company said that all outstanding litigation between the parties involved had ended as part of the deal.
Baidu has a near-75% share of China's search engine market.
Analysts said the deal was likely to help the company strengthen its position even further, as the Chinese internet market grew and more users were added,
"It [the deal] will be very positive for Baidu in terms of user experience and it also fits in with Baidu's box computing strategy, which is to make a lot of information available on the Baidu site," said Dick Wei of JP Morgan.
While the deal sees the end of a long legal tussle for Baidu, it also opens up extra revenue streams for music companies who have often complained of seeing their profits hit by piracy.
"Baidu, the Chinese music fans, recording artists and the record companies will all benefit from this win-win partnership," said Jennifer Li, chief financial officer of Baidu.
However, some analysts warned that although the deal was a step in the right direction, it may increase Baidu's cost of operations in the short term.
"I think there will be a higher cost involved and I am not very sure they can generate the revenue," said Wallace Cheung of Credit Suisse.
Baidu said it was in the process of uploading the music catalogues onto its servers. | Chinese search engine Baidu has struck a deal with leading music labels ending years of legal wrangling over rights. |
38,905,902 | Craig Williams questioned the £3m S4C has agreed to pay University of Wales Trinity St David in upfront rent, equivalent to £150,000 a year.
He said there is a disparity with £26,000 paid in annual rent by Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol to the university.
S4C and the university said it was not possible to compare the two deals.
The Welsh-language TV channel plans to relocate to the Yr Egin project next year, moving 55 staff members from Cardiff to Carmarthen.
Figures released following a freedom on information request show that Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol pays the university £26,000 in rent annually.
It has 20 members of staff in an older building adjacent to the Yr Egin development.
The Welsh Government will decide this month if it will contribute up to £6m to the project.
Speaking to BBC Wales' Newyddion 9, Cardiff North MP Craig Williams said: "It is a question of transparency, there is a bit of a fog around this development.
"We have seen it regarding the application to the Welsh Government for a grant, at the same time an assurance to S4C that they don't need the grant to be able to go ahead.
"We have seen it with the way rent is being paid with a single upfront payment of £3m."
He said the "most objective person" looking at the payment "would see this as questionable".
"You've also got the disparity between the rent for the college next door which admittedly is half the size [than S4C] but certainly not half the payment", he said.
Both S4C and the university said it wasn't possible to make the comparison with Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, with the university stating both buildings differ in nature and age.
In a statement S4C said: "The sum the coleg are paying for their 12-year-old offices is for the present period.
"What S4C are intending to pay is for the future 20 years and for high quality offices that will give certainty and be risk-free for S4C.
"S4C have a 20 year business plan, which is cost neutral, but also gives the option of extending to a 25 year lease at no further cost.
"There will not be any rent reviews over the period under this arrangement. The prices agreed were in line with the District Valuer's opinion on market rental values in Carmarthen." | There are "transparency" questions and a "fog" around the relationship between S4C and the university providing its new home, a Tory MP has said. |
34,322,053 | An army spokesman said they were taken by gunmen late on Monday from the Holiday Oceanview resort on Samal Island, near Davao City on Mindanao.
The attackers, who have not been identified by police, left by boat, Capt Alberto Caber told reporters.
He said it appeared the four were targeted rather than taken at random.
Since the 1990s the southern Philippines has seen sporadic incidents of kidnapping by Muslim militant groups, who hold hostages for ransom.
Philippine authorities have named the Canadian abductees as John Ridsel and Robert Hall.
The Norwegian, Kjartan Sekkingstad, was said to be the manager of the resort.
The Filipino woman has not been identified, but she is said to be the partner of one of the kidnapped Canadians.
Authorities also said two Japanese tourists had tried to intervene to prevent the kidnapping, which took place shortly before midnight.
The Associated Press quoted Capt Caber as saying a naval blockade was being set up around the island to stop kidnappers from reaching another island in the southwest known to house militant strongholds.
Philippine authorities signed a peace agreement with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in 2014, but continue to battle smaller groups in the south.
The region where Samal is located has been largely peaceful in recent years. The last related incident on Samal took place in 2001 when Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf attempted to kidnap tourists at another resort.
The group is holding a number of foreign hostages in various remote camps. | Two Canadians, a Norwegian and a local woman have been kidnapped from a tourist resort in the southern Philippines, the military has said. |
39,767,423 | A statement by its regional force said air and ground forces were involved. It did not identify the militant group.
A French soldier was killed in the area earlier this month.
Mali suffers frequent attacks by Islamist militants despite a French military operation in 2013 to drive jihadists from northern cities.
A French military spokesman said the militants had been targeted in the Foulsare forest, in the south-west of Gao province.
On Saturday, Mali's National Assembly voted to extend a state of emergency by six months in a bid to quell an upsurge in attacks.
Violence has also intensified in neighbouring Burkina Faso.
In December, 12 soldiers were killed in an attack by militants near Burkina Faso's border with Mali.
In January last year, 29 people, many of them foreigners, died in a attack on a hotel in the capital Ouagadougou.
France, the former colonial power in Mali, has deployed about 4,000 soldiers in the region to fight extremists. | France says its forces in West Africa have killed or captured more than 20 militants in a forest near Mali's border with Burkina Faso. |
35,359,072 | Four suspected attackers also died in a battle that lasted nearly three hours at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda.
One Pakistani Taliban commander said the group had carried out the assault, but its main spokesman denied this.
The group killed 130 students at a school in the city of Peshawar, 50km (30 miles) from Charsadda, in 2014.
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in a statement: "We are determined and resolved in our commitment to wipe out the menace of terrorism from our homeland."
The attackers struck at about 09:30 local time (04:30 GMT), apparently climbing over a back wall under cover of the thick winter fog.
Intense gunfire and explosions were heard as security guards fought the attackers.
Students and staff ran to find cover in toilets and examination halls.
One student told television reporters he was in class when he heard gunshots: "We saw three terrorists shouting, 'God is great!' and rushing towards the stairs of our department.
"One student jumped out of the classroom through the window. We never saw him get up."
Reports say a chemistry lecturer, named by media as Syed Hamid Husain, shot back at the gunmen to allow his students to flee, before he was killed.
Geology student Zahoor Ahmed said the teacher had warned him not to leave the building after the first shots were fired.
"He was holding a pistol in his hand," he was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.
"Then I saw a bullet hit him. I saw two militants were firing. I ran inside and then managed to flee by jumping over the back wall."
The victims - mostly male students - were shot in the head or chest. Seventeen people were injured. At least one security guard also died.
There have been conflicting claims about who could be involved in the attack, a sign of the kaleidoscopic mix of militant networks evolving along the Pakistan-Afghan border region in the north.
The attack comes amid a sudden spike in militant violence in Pakistan, after a year of relative peace and quiet largely attributed to a 2014 military operation against militant sanctuaries in Waziristan. Questions are now being raised over whether that operation really destroyed the ability of militants to regroup and strike at will.
The attack is reminiscent of the December 2014 attack on a school in Peshawar in which more than 150 people, mostly schoolboys, were killed. But damage to life and property this time has been much less, mainly due to swift action by the local police, but also because of the fact that the university had its own team of more than 50 trained security guards on duty who first confronted the attackers.
A dense fog that reduced visibility to less than 10m may also have been a factor, as one police officer explained, because it put the attackers at a disadvantage against the university guards who knew the premises better.
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Images from inside the university show a pool of blood on the floor of a dormitory and the bodies of two alleged militants lying on a staircase.
A senior Taliban commander, Umar Mansoor, told the media the attack was in response to a military offensive against militant strongholds. He said four suicide attackers had carried out the attack.
However, the group's main spokesman, Mohammad Khurasani, later told the BBC the Taliban had not been involved. He condemned the attack as "un-Islamic".
About 3,000 students are enrolled at Bacha Khan, but hundreds of visitors were also expected on Wednesday for a poetry event.
There is a symbolic value attached to Bacha Khan University as it is named after a Pashtun nationalist leader who believed in non-violent struggle, says BBC Urdu's Asad Ali Chaudry.
The title of Wednesday's poetry programme in his honour was "peace", he adds.
Just days ago, some schools in Peshawar were closed by the authorities amid reports that militants were planning an attack. | Security forces have ended a gun and bomb attack on a university in north-west Pakistan in which 19 people were killed and 17 injured. |
34,227,497 | A prosecutor told Chester Crown Court if jurors thought Gayle Newland, 25, deceived the woman into thinking she was a man, she was guilty of sexual assault.
She denies five sexual assaults when pretending to be a man.
It is claimed she used a prosthetic penis while carrying out the assaults.
In his closing speech to jurors, Matthew Corbett-Jones said if they were satisfied Newland had deceived her alleged victim into believing she was a man, then she was guilty of the assaults.
The alleged incidents are said to have occurred between February and June 2013.
Newland, of Willaston, Cheshire, claims they were engaging in role play and fantasy as they struggled to accept their sexuality.
She admitted creating a fake Facebook profile in the name Kye but said the complainant knew from the "get-go" that she was female.
Mr Corbett-Jones said: "The issue really comes down to whether or not [the complainant] is telling the truth about her belief that Kye was real and he was the one having sexual intimacy with her."
He said that looking at the evidence overall, it was clear that she believed she was communicating with a real man.
The sad truth, he added, was that she had fallen in love with Kye. "Her own experience in life had not been kind," he added. "She feels she had no experience of real love in her life."
He questioned why she would put herself through the "excruciating embarrassment" of proceedings to have her personal life subject to scrutiny and judgment that it would inevitably bring with it.
"She went to police because she was devastated by what has happened," Mr Corbett-Jones added. "She has no axe to grind."
But Nigel Power QC, defending, said the complainant was not naive.
He said: "The deception as described is incredible, incapable of belief. It is impossible to believe."
Mr Power told the jury that it was being asked to believe that a bright young woman spent more than 100 hours in her company but never suspected it was her friend.
He said the complainant was calm and confident and "always in control". Gayle Newland, he added, was the opposite: "She was open, she was nervous, she was anxious, brittle and exposed."
Mr Power added: "We suggest that gut instinct, human experience, common sense and careful analysis all lead to the same conclusion - of course she knew."
He claimed the "apparent distress" of the complainant was fake.
The trial continues on Monday when the judge will sum up the case. | A naive woman was deliberately duped into sex while blindfolded with a person she thought was a man, a court heard. |
39,516,354 | The piece, entitled Space Cadet, is the creation of Belfast artist David Turner and is part of a series on political figures in their formative years.
Other portraits include Nelson Mandela and Mao Zedong.
It is part of a series on politicians, revolutionaries, dictators, prime ministers and presidents.
"I am looking at them in their youth, when they are all around 14 to 17 years," Mr Turner told BBC News NI.
"They are captured about the time they would have been playing with Lego, I know I played with Lego when I was younger.
"The whole idea was to capture them before their destiny and when there was more a sense of innocence about them.
"The Donald Trump piece, which is 30ins by 30ins, is going to be displayed at a major art fair."
Mr Turner said the pictures of Nelson Mandela and Mao Zedong had been made with Hama beads due to the cost of using Lego.
He explained why he had labelled the Trump artwork as Space Cadet.
"Donald Trump is a controversial character, he gets a battering in the media," Mr Turner said.
"It is a play on his depiction in the media, rather than my personal opinion, a jab at how he is being portrayed now."
The 48-year-old said he had only started developing his art seriously when he attended the Ulster University as a mature student in 2001.
In recent years, he has moved away from painting as a medium and said his work included replicas of weapons using Lego.
"When I was at university, I was working on memory, reproducing newspaper images from the Troubles," he added.
"Then three to four years ago, I started to use Lego, Hama beads, jigsaw pieces and Plasticine for sculptures.
"I started to make replica firearms using Lego.
"That came from being in nursery school in Belfast during the Troubles - the policy was no guns in nursery - but as soon as you went to the Lego box you made a gun.
"It is autobiographical and thinking about growing up at that time in Belfast." | Donald Trump's face is one of the most recognisable in the world, but a Lego artwork of the US President's teenage self still requires a double take. |
35,741,942 | Shinji Okazaki's spectacular overhead kick earned the Foxes a win which, with just eight games left, moved them closer to their first league title.
An improved Newcastle went close through Ayoze Perez and Moussa Sissoko.
But ultimately Leicester's pressing foiled them and the defeat leaves the Magpies second from bottom.
Before the match, Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri refused to accept his team were favourites to win the title, insisting that qualifying for the Europa League was the target.
But as Ranieri gesticulated on the sidelines in the closing minutes, urging the home fans to increase the volume, his actions suggested that he and his team are chasing more than a chance to compete in Europe's second-tier competition.
With every passing week, the prospect of the Foxes achieving what their former striker Gary Lineker describes as possibly the most "unlikely triumph in the history of team sport" becomes more likely.
A team which at the start of the season were among the bookies' favourites to be relegated are on the home straight, unbeaten in four matches and closing in on history.
Ranieri's men are 12 points clear of Manchester City and 11 ahead of Arsenal, leaving many to believe the title is a two-way fight between the leaders and second-placed Tottenham.
This match perhaps came too soon for Benitez to whip Newcastle into shape, having only taken over from the sacked Steve McClaren on Friday.
The Magpies started like a team buoyed by the Spaniard's appointment, engineering two chances early on - an iffy Wes Morgan nearly put Sissoko through, while Perez went close moments later.
Newcastle's deep defensive line initially caused the hosts problems, but once Okazaki struck, the Foxes took control, attacking with pace and defending in packs.
There were hints that Benitez can revive a team which has struggled all season, but the former Liverpool boss - who nine weeks ago was in charge of Real Madrid, coaching Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale - has just nine games to save Newcastle from relegation.
Had Sissoko possessed the poise to find a team-mate when the visitors had a three-on-two advantage they could have equalised, while the Frenchman also sweetly struck a volley only to be denied late on by Morgan's block.
Benitez had said he had "done the maths" and that he was positive of survival, but for that optimism to remain, the Magpies - who have now lost 17 of their 29 league matches - must beat fellow strugglers Sunderland on Sunday.
For Newcastle, the next two games are central to their survival hopes. They will host Sunderland in what should be a tasty derby as the Magpies are a point adrift of the Black Cats, who are clear of the relegation zone on goal difference only.
On 2 April, Benitez's men will then travel to Norwich, another team who are a point ahead of them in the league, albeit having played a game more.
Leicester travel to Crystal Palace to face a side who have not won in the league in 2016 but have progressed to the semi-finals of the FA Cup.
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri: "It wasn't the best performance from us but we showed fantastic spirit. We defended very well. It wasn't nervy in the second half, the team was so close and compact.
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"I feel now that I am just concentrating on the next game against Crystal Palace. We are so strong, we think only one game at a time. Step by step, that is our philosophy.
"Their players showed Rafa their attitude and the Newcastle players are very good. I am sure that they will be safe."
Newcastle boss Rafael Benitez: "I wasn't happy with the goal because there were too many balls bouncing in the box. I would like to think about the positives. We reacted well and were pushing well.
"I thought that we could get a result and I was convinced we could do it. But they worked really hard and are pushing and their tempo is not easy for any team.
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"We know our next game against Sunderland is a derby and it will be important for everyone but I have a feeling the fans are really good and they are the number 12 for the next game. We have plenty of things to do and they need to rest and work hard."
Match ends, Leicester City 1, Newcastle United 0.
Second Half ends, Leicester City 1, Newcastle United 0.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Jack Colback.
Attempt missed. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Moussa Sissoko.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Andros Townsend.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Vardy with a headed pass.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Seydou Doumbia replaces Jonjo Shelvey.
Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Siem de Jong (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Foul by Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United).
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andros Townsend with a cross.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Robert Huth.
Attempt blocked. Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Substitution, Leicester City. Leonardo Ulloa replaces Marc Albrighton.
Foul by Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United).
Danny Simpson (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Siem de Jong replaces Ayoze Pérez.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Daryl Janmaat.
Attempt blocked. Jeffrey Schlupp (Leicester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.
Substitution, Leicester City. Jeffrey Schlupp replaces Shinji Okazaki.
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United).
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by N'Golo Kanté.
Attempt blocked. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Marc Albrighton.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Andros Townsend replaces Vurnon Anita.
Attempt saved. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Daryl Janmaat.
Attempt blocked. Christian Fuchs (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel Drinkwater.
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daryl Janmaat (Newcastle United).
Attempt blocked. Wes Morgan (Leicester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Fuchs.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Jack Colback. | Leicester extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to five points as Rafael Benitez's first match in charge of Newcastle ended in defeat. |
38,581,167 | Police said the incident followed an altercation between him and another man at about 00:45 in the city's Jamaica Street and involved a Volkswagen Golf.
The man was taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he remains.
Police are treating the incident as attempted murder.
Det Insp David MacGregor said the man had been walking with three male friends when he became involved in the altercation with the other man.
He said the attacker jumped into a dark-coloured Golf before deliberately hitting him with the car on Jamica Street, near its junction with Midland Street.
Det Insp David MacGregor said: "That man got into the VW Golf and drove the wrong way up Jamaica St and hit him.
"The driver then made off north on Jamaica Street, turned west under the Heilnman's Umbrella, Argyle Street, and then possibly into Oswald St - against the flow of traffic - onto the southside.
"None of the man's friends were injured but he sustained multiple injuries and is in a very serious condition in hospital."
Officers remain at the scene and have begun reviewing street, commercial and private CCTV.
Det Insp MacGregor added: "There were a number of people in Jamaica St at the time of the incident, a number of whom have already come forward and indeed who tried to assist the injured man until the ambulance arrived.
"However, we are keen to speak to anyone who was in the area and who has not been spoken to by police and would encourage them to come forward.
"The VW Golf made off at speed from the scene and I am sure that people would have seen it make off or driving through the streets, especially as it was going the wrong way down Jamaica Street and possibly Oswald Street."
The incident resulted in the closure of Jamaica Street and nearby Howard Street during morning rush hour. The route was later reopened at about 13:00. | A 32-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after a car was deliberately driven at him in Glasgow city centre. |
21,267,655 | The Italy striker is having a medical before a to the seven-time European champions for an initial fee of 22m euros (£19m).
"I'd wanted to play for Milan for such a long time," said the 22-year-old.
"Obviously I played for other teams and couldn't come. But when there was the chance, I ran."
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City signed Balotelli from Inter Milan for £24m in 2010 and he scored 30 goals in 80 appearances for the club.
He helped City to the Premier League title last season, but has managed only three strikes in 20 matches this time round.
"I didn't have a good start to the season with City and I hope to do well here at Milan," said the Palermo-born forward.
Balotelli flew to Milan by private jet on Wednesday afternoon with the Italian club's vice-president Adriano Galliani.
Galliani said: "With his arrival, we have reinforced our team a lot. He's a dream come true, wanted by the [AC Milan president Silvio] Berlusconi and the club.
"Mario has been in our hearts for many years and finally we've managed to get him."
Milan reached an agreement with City on Tuesday and Balotelli will sign a four-and-a-half-year contract, subject to passing his medical.
Balotelli's departure follows a on 3 January - the latest in a series of controversies in his time at City. | Mario Balotelli says he had no hesitation in deciding to move from Manchester City to AC Milan because it had been a long-term ambition. |
11,794,615 | Barry Manilow, Elvis Costello and Jamiroquai will perform at the Oslo event on 11 December - one day after the prize-giving ceremony.
AR Rahman, Florence and the Machine and Herbie Hancock are also on the bill.
This year's concert will honour jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 prize.
The 54-year-old received an 11-year sentence last year for "inciting subversion" after drafting a charter calling for multi-party democracy and respect for human rights in China.
It is doubtful whether the prize will be handed out this year as China may not allow Mr Liu's family to attend the ceremony.
According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, its prestigious award can only be collected by the laureate in person or by close family members.
Swedish chart-topper Robyn, US singer Colbie Caillat and soul star India.Arie will also perform at the concert, an annual event since 1994.
Will Smith, Tom Cruise and Sir Michael Caine are among those who have hosted the concert in previous years. | Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway will co-host this year's Nobel peace prize concert in Norway with Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington. |
34,857,454 | Data lost in such attacks could be recovered or wiped, suggests a new report from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
It says lost sales and fixing hacking damage have cost US firms tens of billions of dollars, with trade secrets being given to Chinese companies.
The commission is typically very critical of the Chinese government.
The report, which is due to be released on Wednesday, describes the American response to hacking attacks on domestic firms as "inadequate" and says the US is "ill-prepared" to defend itself from cyber-espionage.
"The Chinese government appears to believe that it has more to gain than to lose from its cyber-espionage and attack campaign," says the report.
"So far, it has acquired valuable technology, trade secrets, and intelligence.
"The costs imposed have been minimal compared to the perceived benefit.
"The campaign is likely to continue and may well escalate."
China has frequently denied involvement in hacking attacks such as the data breach that affected the government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Information on more than 22 million federal employees was affected and the White House is reported to be preparing a retaliation against China.
Sean Sullivan, security adviser at information security firm F-Secure, said: "This report about investigating the ability to hack back I think is less about Congress wanting the ability to hack back and more about clarifying, 'These are the rules, this is the line - you cross this line, this is the retaliation you will get.'"
Mr Sullivan told the BBC, however, that there might be problems with such an approach.
For one thing, data may not just be breached in the future, but covertly manipulated. Such alterations might not be noticed for many weeks or months after the incident.
And when manipulations or breaches are detected, it might be very hard to attribute the attack to a specific Chinese competitor or state actor, Mr Sullivan added.
"We can point towards Chinese IP addresses but we don't have a good idea as to which party within China was motivated and did the hacking," he said.
Still, "normalising" the practice of back-and-forth cyber-attacks might clarify the situation and "give people a firmer handle on international norms and what they should expect", according to Mr Sullivan. | The United States should think about allowing US companies to "hack back" if data is stolen by Chinese hackers. |
39,507,659 | Politics has long been a part of Marcus Brigstocke's comedy routine.
He's used to people not always agreeing with what he says, but this year it's been different.
The subject was Brexit and the reaction in some places was unlike anything he'd experienced before.
We met in Llandudno at the Craft of Comedy Festival. It's been described as the party conference of comedy - an annual get together to discuss the life and business of people making a living from making other people laugh.
I spoke to him at the end of a session on politics and comedy.
He explains that, as a result of his jokes, "a lot of the people I think of as 'my audience' post-Brexit will not be back... they were that angry."
Brigstocke is furious about the decision to leave the EU. The topic touches him more deeply than almost any other but he has doubts about this political passion.
"Anger's not great for comedy, it's been good for me but you still have to have nuance. You have to find the line and I've struggled with that."
"People are more upset about this than anything else I have experienced."
Gareth Gwynn is one of Britain's most prolific topical gag writers. He's worked on Have I Got News For You, the Now Show and the News Quiz on BBC Radio 4.
He has a different concern about Brexit.
"Since June 2016 almost every time you walk in to that writers' room and it's tail it's Trump, heads it's Brexit," he says.
"It's so big we can't avoid it and the problem is trying to come up with new angles. It's both potentially trying for both the writers and the audience."
The passions aroused by Brexit are, it appears, challenging for satire. Britain is deeply divided and that poses problems.
Josh Buckingham is a commissioner for Channel 4. It is legally obliged to be politically impartial and while it can delight in taking pot shots at politicians it can't do it from just one perspective.
He feels some viewers who spend a lot of time watching online content may not be so open to this.
"Audiences expect you to have a view and when they encounter you being even handed they might say, 'pick a side', he explains.
Of course many comics have picked a side. The divide? Marcus Brigstocke could only think of two or three comics who might admit to being pro-Brexit - Lee Hurst and Geoff Norcott are notable examples.
In a room of more than a hundred writers, producers and performers - we asked if any would come forward and admit to being pro-Brexit.
Only one person put their hand up. One or two others approached me quietly afterwards but didn't want to be interviewed.
The one person that agreed to speak was James Cary, a writer of sitcoms. He's also an evangelical Christian and used to being in a minority in the comedy world. He's happy to be contrary.
"I think it's because Brexit is associated with conservatism and patriotism and nationalism and these are things comedians like to play against," he says.
"I think it's led to a really interesting discussion. I think you've got to be very careful about impugning anyone's motives... England and London are very different places"
He adds: "We have to be wary of describing one as a metropolitan elite and likewise seeing people in England backward, nationalistic and patriotic and racist."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Comedy and current affairs have always had a close relationship - but Brexit and Donald Trump's presidency have posed new challenges for comics. |
34,782,735 | Jeamie Deacon, Mairead Coyne and Aine Donnelly are the backs debutants in a game which will be Ireland women's first-ever autumn international.
Hooker Cliodhna Moloney will earn her first cap with Elaine Anthony and Ciara Cooney named in the second row.
The replacements include uncapped Ulster player Claire McLaughlin.
Tierney said the team's first autumn international would be "another step in the development in women's rugby".
"We have an opportunity to have a look at some new players and combinations building towards the Six Nations," he added.
Ireland will be defending the women's Six Nations title next spring.
Ireland: Niamh Briggs (Munster), capt; Jeamie Deacon (Leinster), Aine Donnelly (Leinster), Jackie Shiels (Richmond), Mairead Coyne (Connacht); Sene Naoupu (Connacht), Larissa Muldoon (Skewen); Ruth O'Reilly (Connacht), Cliodhna Moloney (Leinster), Ailis Egan (Leinster); Elaine Anthony (Munster), Ciara Cooney (Connacht); Sophie Spence (Leinster), Paula Fitzpatrick (Toulouse), Heather O'Brien (Toulouse).
Replacements: Zoe Grattage (Munster), Fiona Reidy (Munster), Fiona O'Brien (Leinster), Katie Norris (Leinster), Lindsay Peat (Leinster), Mary Healy (Connacht), Nora Stapleton (Leinster), Claire McLaughlin (Ulster) | Ireland coach Tom Tierney has named six new caps in his starting side for Saturday's game against England at Twickenham Stoop (15:00 GMT kick-off). |
35,562,698 | Speaking in Hamburg, the PM said changes he was seeking to UK membership would make Europe "more outward-looking, competitive and dynamic".
In an upbeat speech, he said if he got what he wanted he would campaign "unequivocally" for the UK to stay in.
Campaigners for EU exit have said the PM's renegotiation is a sham.
The prime minister is hoping for a deal at next week's summit of EU leaders in Brussels to allow him to put the new terms of membership to the British public in a referendum in June.
But Donald Tusk, the European Council president who is brokering the talks on the UK's renegotiation process, has warned the political process remains "very fragile", with some leaders still harbouring reservations about the plan, particularly over limits on welfare payments to new EU migrants.
In his final major speech before next week's crunch meeting, Mr Cameron told business, political civic leaders in the German city of Hamburg that he made no apology for Britain being "argumentative and rather strong-minded" when it came to the subject of Europe.
"We have the character of an island nation - independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty - and of institutions that have served us well for many hundreds of years," he said.
"And the need to protect our sovereignty has always been paramount for us."
But he told his audience at the Matthiae-Mahlzeit dinner - which included German Chancellor Angela Merkel - that Britain was an "open nation" and the values it shared with Germany underpinned their co-operation on trade, enterprise and security, co-operation which he hoped would continue.
Downing Street said the prime minister and Mrs Merkel also held a meeting - agreeing that EU countries and institutions needed to continue to work together to reach a deal on the UK's renegotiation.
Other topics discussed included migration and implementing the £6.8bn in pledges made by countries at last week's London conference to help Syrians affected by the five-year conflict, a Number 10 spokesman said.
David Cameron has been denounced by some of his own MPs for negotiating a "threadbare" deal, and more than 100 of his councillors are urging him to campaign to leave the EU.
The tone of his speech in Hamburg suggests he will do no such thing - he pledged to campaign "unequivocally" for British membership on new terms, though included in his speech was his usual disclaimer that he "rules nothing out" until a deal is done.
We also got another glimpse of how the referendum will be fought - with a strong plea for Europe to "stand together" in an uncertain world.
But there was a recognition that he won't get everything he wants, when he said: "Even when we have secured the changes I am arguing for, the job will not be done."
He portrayed Germany as an ally in arguing for further change but his opponents will pounce on this as evidence of the paucity of his demands.
In his speech, Mr Cameron argued it was in the two countries' interests for the EU to become more competitive and for rules to be put in place to ensure that both countries inside the eurozone and those outside could be mutually successful.
"When Britain says we need to have a Europe that respects nation states and that we should be able to run our own welfare systems, those are calls which I believe resonate around Europe," he said.
"So if by working together we can achieve these changes, then I will unequivocally recommend that Britain stays in a reformed European Union on these new terms. Of course, if we can't then I rule nothing out.
"But I believe we can - and if we do, I believe we can win that referendum and that will be good for Britain, good for Germany and good for the whole of Europe."
Negotiations on the final wording of the deal - which includes an "emergency brake" on benefit payments to EU migrants and a UK opt-out from "ever closer union" - look set to carry on right up to the start of the summit on February 18.
Speaking on Friday, French finance minister Michael Sapin warned that nothing in the deal could stand in the way of further eurozone integration or confer special status on a particular industry, such as financial services.
The UK is seeking legal protection for the City of London from new regulations that would apply across the whole of the EU, including non-eurozone countries. But Mr Sapin said no country could have a veto on further economic union or exemptions from the provisions of the single market.
A senior Tory backbencher has said that up to 100 Conservative MPs could end up supporting the Out campaign in a future referendum, including a number of current Cabinet ministers.
More than 130 Conservative councillors have warned the prime minister risks splitting the party unless he accepts his renegotiation has failed and he campaigns for Britain to leave the EU.
Guide: All you need to know about the referendum
EU renegotiation: Did Cameron get what he wanted?
Referendum timeline: What will happen when?
The view from Europe: What's in it for the others?
More: BBC News EU referendum special | David Cameron has said Britain will never "retreat from the world" and it is in Europe's interests for the UK to stay in a reformed European Union. |
38,441,169 | More than 10,000 people flocked to Coogee beach on Christmas day, leaving bottles, cigarette boxes and general waste behind.
The ban has been enforced by Randwick City Council, which called the event "disgraceful".
The summer season in Australia usually takes place from December to February.
"The poor and inappropriate behaviour of a few on Christmas Day have forced [the] Council to introduce a total alcohol ban for the area," said Mayor of Randwick Noel D'Souza in a statement on Facebook.
"It is disappointing we have to take such a strong stance but we need to reassure the community that they can feel safe when visiting."
While some argued against the ban, the majority of those on social media seemed to agree with the council's actions.
"Normally I would not want this ban but there is no choice," said George Jessup on Facebook. " I am willing to forgo a glass of wine for the sake of reclaiming our parks and the beach."
"I agree with this. I don't want to take my kids down there as we don't feel safe. About time," another man, Tony Goh, commented.
The ban will become effective from 29 December until the end of summer in Australia. | Alcohol will be banned at a popular Sydney beach all summer after a Christmas party resulted in a build-up of 15 tonnes (15,000kg) of rubbish. |
30,847,327 | The announcement came a day after Chad said it would "actively support" its neighbour against the militants.
No detail was given about how many troops would be sent, or when.
On Tuesday, Cameroon said it had killed 143 Boko Haram militants who attacked one of its army bases at Kolofata near the Nigerian border.
It said one soldier had died during the assault, which led to a gun battle lasting five hours.
It was the first major attack on Cameroon since Boko Haram threatened the country's leader in a video posted online earlier this month.
The militant Islamist group has seized control of towns and villages in north-east Nigeria in a six-year insurgency.
A French-led initiative has called for Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad to contribute 700 troops each to a multinational force against Boko Haram, but no country has taken steps to implement the plan.
Chad previously had some troops based in Baga, a Nigerian town seized by Boko Haram earlier this month, but they had been withdrawn before the attack.
Niger and Cameroon have both criticised Nigeria for failing to do more to confront Boko Haram.
Cameroon under pressure from Boko Haram
Analysis: By Bashir Sa'ad Abdullahi, BBC Africa, Abuja
The decision by Chad to send troops is a sign of progress in a region where there has been little cooperation in the battle against Boko Haram.
Under French pressure, the countries immediately threatened by the militants agreed last year to strengthen the multinational force in Baga.
But just months later Chad and Niger instead withdrew their troops entirely.
It appears that Nigeria's neighbours are suspicious of its inability to defeat Boko Haram.
Some believe that Chad is only now waking up to the reality that unless it takes action, Boko Haram may consume it too.
Correspondents say Nigerian politicians appear more focused on campaigning for elections next month than on security issues, and senior figures rarely comment on the insurgency in the north-east.
On Thursday, President Goodluck Jonathan made an unannounced visit to the area, his first for nearly two years.
He told displaced people in the biggest city of Borno state, Maiduguri, that he was "working very hard" to help them return to their homes.
Mr Jonathan's visit came as the human rights group Amnesty International released satellite images of towns attacked by Boko Haram, suggesting widespread destruction and a high death toll.
The pictures showed about 3,700 structures damaged or destroyed in Baga and neighbouring Doron Baga last week, the rights group said.
Amnesty's before-and-after satellite images were taken on 2 and 7 January.
Nigeria's government has disputed reports that as many as 2,000 people were killed in and around Baga, putting the number of dead at no more than 150.
Who are Boko Haram?
Why Nigeria has not defeated Boko Haram | Cameroon says Chad will send a large contingent of troops to help it fight incursions from the Nigeria-based militant Islamist group, Boko Haram. |
37,212,497 | Oliver Dearlove collapsed on Tranquil Vale, Blackheath at 00:45 BST on Sunday after he was hit while waiting for a pre-booked taxi with friends.
The 30-year-old from Eltham was taken to an east London hospital where he died at 22:30 that evening.
The Met said it had made "significant progress". No arrests have been made.
The force said it had spoken to the four women who were speaking to Mr Dearlove and "witness accounts indicate that a man approached the group and then struck Oliver".
Det Ch Insp Lee Watling has appealed for any witnesses who were in Blackheath to come forward.
"Oliver's family, his girlfriend and friends have been left devastated by his death and deserve to know what happened to him," he said.
Comedian Rob Beckett tweeted that Mr Dearlove was his best friend growing up and urged anyone with information to contact police.
A post-mortem examination gave a provisional cause of death as intracranial haemorrhage (bleeding within the skull), the Met said. | A man who died during a night out with friends in south-east London was attacked by a man as the group spoke to a number of women, police believe. |
35,726,721 | The 35-year-old midfielder has made 484 appearances for the club since joining them from Exeter City in June 2004.
His new deal will see him remain at the Keepmoat Stadium until the end of next season.
Darren Ferguson's side, who face Shrewsbury on Saturday, are currently two points above the League One relegation zone. | Doncaster Rovers' record appearance maker James Coppinger has signed a one-year contract extension. |
36,016,451 | Allen, who joined Liverpool from Swansea City for £15m in August 2012, has 14 months left before his current deal expires.
The 26-year-old has previously said he is playing for his long-term Anfield future.
Liverpool rejected an enquiry from Swansea about re-signing their former player on loan in January.
Allen has only started four Premier League games this season including Sunday's 4-1 win over Stoke City.
He received a standing from Liverpool supporters after being substituted and was praised by manager Jurgen Klopp.
"He was brilliant. There is no other word for this. We only took him off because we need him," Klopp said.
"Joe is not 100 percent fit, but it is not possible because he couldn't train often enough. He was always on the bench because we have needed him.
"Hopefully he stays healthy forever and now he's a really good option."
Allen has been given his chance after captain Jordan Henderson suffered a knee injury in the Europa League quarter final first leg win over Borussia Dortmund.
He is likely to retain his place in midfield for Thursday's second leg tie against Klopp's former team at Anfield. | Liverpool have not discussed a new contract with Wales midfielder Joe Allen, BBC Wales Sport understands. |
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Not everyone agrees with the new rules that have been introduced in England and Wales.
So, Newsround spoke to kids to get their views.
With the new law that bans smoking in vehicles carrying children coming into force in England and Wales, we went to see what children think of the issue.
Take a look at their thoughts here. | Kids have been having their say on a new law that bans adults from smoking in cars that are carrying young people. |
28,060,836 | The GMB said council and school workers voted by three to one to walk out on 10 July over a pay offer worth 1% to most.
The date is significant because it has been earmarked as a general day of protest over government policy on cutting public sector costs and jobs.
Members of public service union Unison have already voted to strike over pay on the same day.
The National Union of Teachers has also voted to strike on 10 July, raising the prospect of disruption in schools across England and Wales.
The government is now facing a walkout by more than a million public sector workers next month, including council staff, school support workers, teachers and civil servants.
GMB national officer Brian Strutton said its members - in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - had "spoken loud and clear".
"We have tried sensible discussions, we've sought to negotiate reasonably, we've said we are willing to accept Acas arbitration rather than go on strike - but to everything we've tried, the employers have said no. So we have no choice," he said.
"GMB members serving school meals, cleaning streets, emptying bins, looking after the elderly, helping children in classrooms and in all the other vital roles serving our communities are fed-up with being ignored and undervalued."
He added: "Their pay has gone up only 1% since 2010 and in October even the national minimum wage will overtake local authority pay scales.
"Their case is reasonable, the employers won't listen and don't care. No wonder they have turned to strike action as the only way of making their voices heard.
"With other unions involved too, 10 July looks like being the second biggest dispute ever, with up to two million workers on strike."
There were 26,281 votes in favour of strike action and 9,799 against, on a turnout of 23%.
The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents more than 400 councils in England and Wales, said it was "disappointing" the GMB was going ahead with strike action on the back of a low turnout.
An LGA spokesman said: "Local government staff have worked wonders while councils have been tackling the biggest funding cuts in living memory and we have no doubt that many will still be at work on the day of strike action.
"The pay offer we have made would increase the pay of most employees by 1%, while the lowest paid would receive an increase of more than 4%. This is the fairest possible deal for our employees given the limits of what we can afford.
"This strike will not change the pay offer we have made, but it will mean those who take part lose a day's pay." | Members of the GMB union will join a day of action that could see more than one million workers on strike in total. |
39,490,402 | 5 April 2017 Last updated at 07:06 BST
Bought by TV stations in scores of countries including Canada, Scandinavian nations and Australia as well as by Netflix, Hinterland has become a poster-child for EU funding with grants covering 15% of the cost of making it.
Richard Harrington, who plays DCI Tom Mathias, said: "It fits really well here and there are faces here you can't replicate anywhere else because of the weather systems."
But as the third series is screened actress Mali Harries, who plays DI Mared Rhys, explores just what it is about the mid Wales countryside which has helped Hinterland appeal to 100 countries. | The isolated settings in mid Wales of TV drama Hinterland have been partly credited with the detective noir's success. |
38,668,892 | The 21-year-old has made two senior first-team appearances so far for QPR.
He has also previously had loan spells at Accrington and Morecambe.
"With Kelle Roos having been recalled by Derby and Steve Mildenhall still injured, it was important we recruited a keeper to provide competition and cover," said manager Darrell Clarke.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | League One club Bristol Rovers have signed goalkeeper Joe Lumley on loan from Championship side Queens Park Rangers for the rest of the season. |
36,613,679 | Radja Nainggolan put Belgium ahead in Lille with a thunderous 25-yard strike but Wales captain Ashley Williams headed in from a corner to equalise in a breathless first half littered with chances at both ends.
Welsh celebrations reached stratospheric levels when Hal Robson-Kanu, a striker without a club, gave them the lead with a divine turn and finish.
After withstanding late Belgium pressure, Wales sealed victory through a header from substitute Sam Vokes that set up a semi-final against Portugal and a mouth-watering duel between Real Madrid team-mates Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Wales manager Chris Coleman had described the last-eight tie as Wales' biggest match since their 1958 World Cup quarter-final defeat by Brazil, their only previous appearance in the knockout stages of a major tournament.
His players rose to the occasion wonderfully, recovering from a difficult start to claim what must rank as the greatest win in Welsh football history.
Absent from major tournaments for 58 years, Wales have not only ended a barren half a century but propelled Welsh football into unchartered territory.
Previous Welsh sides have claimed iconic results, such as a 2-1 win over Hungary at the 1958 World Cup, a 1991 victory against then world champions Germany and a qualifying triumph against Italy in 2002.
However, those were in isolation and failed to propel Wales on to greater achievements.
Former Wales striker Dean Saunders said: "Heart, desire, determination, organisation - there is a plan that has been put in place and it shows what you can achieve - you start thinking - is our name on it?"
Bale has been a key figure in Wales' success at Euro 2016, scoring three times in the group stages, but this victory highlighted the team spirit that Coleman and his side have spoken of throughout their time together in France.
The Real Madrid forward worked industriously throughout, but his efforts were eclipsed by others such as Williams, who scored despite a shoulder injury which made him a doubt for the game.
Aaron Ramsey was Wales' creative heart - setting up two of the three goals - and it is a crushing blow that both the Arsenal midfielder and Ben Davies will miss the semi-final after picking up a second tournament booking.
And then there was the display from Robson-Kanu, a player who has been inspired by Wales' historic run in this tournament.
Belgium would have seen Bale as the obvious threat going into this game, but it was a free agent released by Reading who gave his side a foothold on 55 minutes.
Coleman's men had to weather several periods of heavy Belgian pressure, but they took the lead in spectacular fashion against a side ranked second in the world, playing only 10 miles from the Belgian border.
A neat move saw Ramsey pass to Robson-Kanu, who bamboozled the defenders surrounding him with a graceful turn which allowed him the space to calmly finish.
There was a symbolism to the goal as Robson-Kanu - released by a Championship side - swept his shot past Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
Former Wales forward John Hartson said: "If I was a chairman of a Premier League club I would be making Hal Robson-Kanu my next signing. What a goal. He sent Thomas Meunier for a cup of tea and a piece of toast with that turn."
This was a goal which embodied Wales' odds-defying run at Euro 2016, after languishing as low as 117th in the world rankings in 2011.
Coleman stressed before the match that Wales were not content with reaching the quarter-finals, convinced there was more to come from this team.
He has his wish, a semi-final against a Portugal side who have yet to win a game in 90 minutes at Euro 2016.
The match in Lyon on Wednesday pits Bale against Ronaldo, talismen for their country and team-mates for Real Madrid whose occasionally fractious relationship has been the subject of much attention in Spain.
For Wales, however, they will have to play for a place in the final without Arsenal midfielder Ramsey and Tottenham defender Davies, whose bookings against Belgium mean they will be suspended.
Saunders added: "Everything Chris Coleman is doing at the moment is working, we've got every chance of going through and winning it."
Wales manager Chris Coleman: "I said before we kicked the ball today, we are not here to enjoy it, we are here to compete.
"We defended like soldiers. All I can do is reiterate to the players never to forget what it took to get here. I know my team are good enough to perform against anybody."
On Ramsey and Davies missing the semi-final, he added: "I'm gutted for Aaron. He's been one of the best players of the tournament."
Belgium boss Marc Wilmots on his future: "I said I'd make my decision after the European Championship. I won't make one straight after the game. There's a lot of adrenaline going. We'll have to see."
Match ends, Wales 3, Belgium 1.
Second Half ends, Wales 3, Belgium 1.
Thomas Meunier (Belgium) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Neil Taylor (Wales).
Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Belgium) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Thomas Meunier.
Eden Hazard (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Allen (Wales).
Substitution, Wales. James Collins replaces Aaron Ramsey.
Hand ball by Aaron Ramsey (Wales).
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Neil Taylor.
Attempt blocked. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dries Mertens.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Sam Vokes.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by James Chester.
Goal! Wales 3, Belgium 1. Sam Vokes (Wales) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Chris Gunter with a cross.
Toby Alderweireld (Belgium) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Toby Alderweireld (Belgium).
Aaron Ramsey (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Ben Davies.
Substitution, Belgium. Michy Batshuayi replaces Romelu Lukaku.
Substitution, Wales. Sam Vokes replaces Hal Robson-Kanu.
Attempt missed. Axel Witsel (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Substitution, Wales. Andy King replaces Joe Ledley.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Ben Davies.
Substitution, Belgium. Dries Mertens replaces Jordan Lukaku.
Aaron Ramsey (Wales) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Aaron Ramsey (Wales).
Attempt missed. Marouane Fellaini (Belgium) header from very close range is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld with a cross.
Eden Hazard (Belgium) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Ledley (Wales).
Neil Taylor (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Belgium).
Gareth Bale (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Belgium).
Attempt missed. Ashley Williams (Wales) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Joe Allen (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Axel Witsel.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Marouane Fellaini.
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Ashley Williams (Wales).
Radja Nainggolan (Belgium) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Wales recorded the greatest night in their football history as they came from a goal down to beat Belgium at Euro 2016 and reach the semi-finals of a major tournament for the first time. |
35,502,394 | The National Association of Head Teachers says with a fifth of children having a mental health problem before age 11, it is a key concern.
A snapshot survey of 1,455 English heads suggests two-thirds of primary schools cannot deal with such issues.
The government says it has ring-fenced £1.4bn for children's mental health.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the heads' union, NAHT, says: "We know the government is determined to improve children's mental health but there's still a danger that some children will take untreated mental problems into adulthood."
Mr Hobby said three-quarters of school leaders had reported that they lacked the resources needed to provide the kind of mental health care that children need.
"Although increasingly common inside secondary schools, almost two-thirds of primary school leaders say that it is difficult to access local mental health professionals," he said.
"Schools play a vital role in supporting children's mental health and building their resilience - but rising demand, growing complexity and tight budgets can get in the way of helping the children who need it most."
The chief executive of the mental health charity Place2Be, Catherine Roche, said children faced all sorts of challenges, such as coping with parental separation, the illness or death of a loved one, and dealing with substance abuse and domestic violence.
The vast majority of schools were already working hard to support children, she said, adding: "Teachers are not counsellors, and sometimes schools need professional support to make sure that problems in childhood do not spiral into bigger mental health problems later in life."
Place2Be and NAHT believe all schools need access to, or should host, professional mental health services, and the government says it wants all schools to make counselling services available to their pupils in time.
But the union's survey revealed that 64% of schools do not have access to a counsellor on site, and three-quarters of these said the most common barrier was financial.
"Although increasingly common in secondary schools, almost two-thirds of primary school leaders say that it is difficult to access local mental health professionals," Mr Hobby said.
"While we have a better acknowledgement of the extent of mental illness amongst children and young people than ever before, the services that schools, families and children rely on are under great pressure."
One head teacher who responded to the survey said: "We used to have a counselling service in school which was amazing, but due to budgetary pressures we had to stop this service. Now there is virtually no accessible provision in our area."
Another NAHT head said: "There is a big gap in provision in this area for primary age children. When we feel we need more specialist intervention or advice than we are able to provide, there is not much else to access."
The Department for Education said: "We're at a turning point in how we tackle children's mental health issues and are determined to get it right.
"That's why we're investing £1.4bn over this Parliament to transform mental health support for children and young people, and have also given £1.5m over the last three years to projects involving Place2Be." | Children's untreated mental health issues could spiral into psychiatric problems later in life unless more is done in schools, say head teachers. |
33,572,263 | "For the first time ever, the film will open on the same night at cinemas across the UK and Ireland," said distributor Sony Pictures.
Spectre, directed by Skyfall's Sam Mendes, is out in the US on 6 November.
Daniel Craig is playing 007 for the fourth time in the film, which also stars Christoph Waltz and Lea Seydoux.
Other cast members include Sherlock star Andrew Scott, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci and Ralph Fiennes.
Spectre was shot at Pinewood Studios and filmed on location in London, Mexico City, Rome and Tangier and Erfoud, in Morocco.
The plot involves "a cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation".
Spectre's UK release was originally set for 23 October, with the date then being put back to 6 November.
The last Bond film Skyfall, released in 2012, grossed £700m ( $1.1 billion) worldwide. | Spectre, the next James Bond film, will be released in the UK on 26 October - with its world premiere in London on the same night. |
22,527,246 | Their 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station was twice the length of a normal stay - but how has time in space affected their bodies?
Space wreaks havoc on almost every part of the human body because there is less gravity to create the conditions we experience living on Earth.
"Astronauts lose a lot of calcium essential to their bones - it's a bit like osteoporosis here on Earth," says space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock from University College London.
Osteoporosis is a disease where bones become more brittle, which sometimes affects older people and women. It can mean you're more likely to break your bones.
It's thought that this happens in space because astronauts don't do load-bearing exercise - like walking and running, or lifting things - pulling against the Earth's gravity.
To try to avoid this, while they're in space astronauts have a special diet and have to do up to two hours of exercise per day.
2 - the number of hours per day astronauts exercise while in space
40 - the percentage of your muscles you will lose after five months in space
365 - the number of days it takes your bones to recover
460 - kilometres distance between Earth and the International Space Station
After five months in orbit above the Earth, an astronaut would typically lose as much as 40% of muscle and 12% of bone mass, says Jeremy Curtis from the UK Space Agency.
"The muscle loss is the equivalent of a 20-year-old turning into a 60-year-old over a period of three months," he says.
Astronauts returning to Earth will experience problems standing up and balancing - and some won't be able to drive a car to begin with.
They have to undergo a special rehabilitation programme a year after returning to earth to rebuild muscles and bones - and may never regain their previous bone mass.
The exposure to higher levels of radiation in space also means astronauts may be more likely to suffer from cancer later on in life.
But on the plus side, scientists say studying the effects of space flight on the human body can help with developing new treatments for diseases like osteoporosis and cancer here on Earth. | US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have returned to Earth after spending almost a year in space on board the International Space Station. |
37,871,871 | Michael Dreyfus died in a crash near the Great Rift Valley in neighbouring Kenya, on his birthday in 1978, an area where volcano research is taking place.
The £102,000 PhD place has been partly funded by Mr Dreyfus's friends and Bristol University.
Tesfaye Temtime Tessema, 35, will study volcanology in Bristol for three years.
Bristol University and Addis Ababa University want to develop a long-range volcanic eruption forecast for the Ethiopian Rift, as it is largely unknown but heavily populated with wildlife and people.
Mr Tessema, who recently completed his Masters in Addis Ababa, will focus his research on studying the landscape using specialised techniques as part of the on-going five-year £3.7m RiftVolc study, which both universities are involved with.
This work focus on the tectonic plate activity that leads to earthquakes as well as volcanoes, as both are possible in the Great Rift Valley.
"People are used to living with the risk of earthquakes in Ethiopia but it isn't a top priority for the government, so research like this is really important for improving people's understanding and assessing the threat they pose," Mr Tessema said.
The fund was partly donated by Mr Dreyfus's friends, George Elliston, and Skip and Cathy McMullan.
George Elliston, said: "Mike was a quick-witted and charismatic man, whom we all loved.
"He died close to the Rift Valley, and here we are in another part of the Rift, looking to the future.
"So, it's a nice way of keeping his memory alive in our hearts, and establishing some continuity between successive Bristol generations."
The overall aim of the Michael Dreyfus Scholarship Fund is to develop a network of trained Ethiopian scientists who can research volcanology and advise and shape government policy. | A Bristol university graduate who died in Africa has had a scholarship set up in his name that aims to aid understanding of volcanoes in Ethiopia. |
35,603,022 | Prosecutors think inmates and visitors to La Modelo prison may have been killed, their bodies dismembered and thrown into the jail's sewers.
The prison houses left-wing rebels, right-wing paramilitaries and drug dealers.
Parts were controlled by inmates at the time of the disappearances.
In 2000, the dismembered body of an inmate who had disappeared eight days earlier was found stuffed inside a plastic bag in a drain in the jail.
A day after the discovery, 17 inmates disappeared during a deadly prison fight between rival factions. They were never found.
Since then, rumours that they and other inmates and visitors who disappeared from La Modelo may have been disposed of in the same way as the prisoner whose body was found in the drain have been rife.
On Wednesday, prosecutor Caterina Heyck said her office was "committed to shining light on the horrors which happened in La Modelo in 2000".
The reports of forced disappearances and arms trafficking inside the jail were first investigated by Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya in 2000.
Ms Bedoya was kidnapped as she was waiting to enter La Modelo on 25 May 2000 to meet with paramilitary leader Mario Jaimes, known as Panadero (The Baker), who had promised her information.
She was forced into a car, drugged and driven by three men to the countryside. There, she was tortured and raped.
Ten hours after they first seized her, they left her tied up in a rubbish pile up by the side of a road three hours' drive from Bogota.
Prosecutor Caterina Heyck said on Wednesday that the new investigation was triggered by Ms Bedoya's work and what happened to the journalist 16 years ago.
Ms Heyck also announced that she had requested that Mario "The Baker" Jaimes, who earlier this month confessed to ordering Ms Bedoya's kidnapping, and Alejandro "JJ" Cardenas, who has admitted being one of the three men who abducted, raped and tortured her, not benefit from the Justice and Peace law.
The law was introduced in 2005 to encourage paramilitaries to demobilize by offering them reduced sentences if they laid down their arms and confessed to their crimes.
But Ms Heyck said that Jaimes and Cardenas, who are both in prison, had kept silent for almost 16 years and should be treated as common criminals.
Investigators suspect Jaimes may also be behind some of the other disappearances at La Modelo prison as he ran one of the prison yards from which a number of inmates are reported to have gone missing.
Left-wing rebels and right-wing paramilitaries divided up the jail between them and patrolled their areas, hooded and armed with grenades and automatic weapons. | Prosecutors in Colombia are investigating more than 100 reported cases of disappearances from a jail in Bogota between 1999 and 2001. |
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Ryan Mayse got the opener for the Mallards with a well-struck shot in the 39th minute.
Tiernan McNicholl quickly levelled and then put Carrick into the lead with a fine lob on 63 minutes.
The visitors made sure of the three points when Martin Murray netted a penalty after a foul on TJ Murray.
The win means 11th-placed Carrick are now just three points behind Ballinamallard who are 10th.
Ballinamallard had been the better team in the early exchanges, with Shane McGinty and Johnny Lafferty wasting good opportunities.
The lively Mayse was set up by the equally impressive Adam Lecky to rifle in from the edge of the six-yard area for the first goal.
But almost immediately, as the ball was played back up the park, a swift pass found McNicholl unmarked and he did the rest.
In the second half, it was again the Mallards who started more brightly, Johnny Lafferty forcing a fine save from Brian Neeson, who got down well to push the ball away.
From a speculative ball forward, McNicholl ran on to calmly lob over keeper James McGrath.
That goal gave Carrick the confidence to finish it off and in the 72th minute they were awarded a penalty after Jason McCartney foul on Murray.
The spot-kick was converted by Martin Murray to make sure of the away victory.
"It could have gone either way - they really gave us a match," said winning boss Callaghan.
"They took the lead but we responded quickly and I felt we were the better team in the second half."
It was only Carrick's second league victory this season, their other coming away to Glentoran on 13 August.
"It wasn't good enough. You have to do the basics right and we didn't," said Ballinamallard boss Gavin Dykes.
"We scored a goal but for the next five minutes we could not defend." | Aaron Callaghan celebrated his first victory as Carrick Rangers manager as his side pulled off a rare win over Ballinamallard United at Ferney Park. |
29,987,139 | 10 November 2014 Last updated at 15:23 GMT
The instruments are designed and created by Customuse and have recently been used by indie rock band Klaxons on their latest tour.
Co-founder Mahdi Hosseini came up with the idea after realising his dream of a personalised guitar was financially out of his reach, unless he could get one printed. | Graduates from the University of Sheffield have set up a business making bespoke electric guitars using 3D printer technology. |
35,803,183 | Ed Winter will leave this week following three profit warnings in the last 12 months.
Fastjet appointed a headhunter in January to find a replacement, but said Mr Winter would stay for 12 months as an advisor.
He will now leave on 18 March.
Last month, in a letter to Fastjet chairman Colin Child, Sir Stelios said he had "lost faith in the management and current board", adding that "unless the board does some serious cost cutting the company will soon run out of cash."
In its most recent profit warning earlier this month, Fastjet admitted that it may need to raise more funds.
Sir Stelios, the founder of low cost airline Easyjet, holds a 12% stake in Fastjet.
He had also called for Krista Bates, Fastjet's general counsel, to leave. The company announced on Monday that she will step down immediately.
Mr Child will become executive chairman until a replacement for Mr Winter, who was chief executive for four years, is found.
Shares in Fastjet fell 1.1% to 36 pence. | The boss of Fastjet is stepping down two weeks after the African budget airline's major shareholder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou called for his immediate dismissal. |
32,995,250 | The book's dual narrative focuses on the lives of a grieving teenage girl in the present day and a 15th Century Renaissance artist.
It comes in two editions - one begins with the artist's story and the other with the girl's. Readers are free to choose which they want to read first.
Smith spoke to the BBC immediately after her win about the idea behind the book, the feedback from readers, and plans for her next novel.
It's unbelievable, it's glorious and it feels like an astonishing fluke. It was such a strong, versatile shortlist, and I can't believe this has happened.
It's lovely, but once you've finished your book it goes its own way and has its own life. The stuff that happens to the writer is outside of the book.
This stuff happens on the surface, and the surface isn't what it's about really - but how lovely the surface is tonight!
My editor already cuts me quite a lot of slack. I said I wanted to produce a book where you the reader won't know which half they are going to get first.
I got an email back after a couple of days saying 'we can do that' - technology makes it simple to switch the file halfway through the print run. So we did it.
When it went to the printers we had people who sorted the books as they came off the machine so each bookshop would get a random mix of books.
I get an incredible warmth that comes from people who speak to be about this book. It's partly to do with the book asking questions about time and structure.
We [appear to] live our lives in sequence, but we don't really - as human beings we have all our younger selves at all our ages. There's something about that which speaks to people.
A fresco is a work built into a wall - so much so that if you take it off the wall you have taken a part of the wall off.
When the famous frescoes in Florence were damaged by flooding in the 1960s, the restorers found underneath the originals designs that were sometimes different.
It struck me as extraordinary that we can be looking at a surface and think we can see everything but actually there's something below it - and we can't see it.
It's a really primal, private thing. If I was to talk about it, it would probably not be there when I tried to write it. It's not fully formed yet.
The inspiration came about 20 years ago. It was in my mind when I began to be a writer. It's part of a sequence of books I want to do over the next few years.
Ali Smith's How to be Both is out now in Penguin paperback | Ali Smith has won the £30,000 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel How to be Both. |
35,773,113 | Sylvan Parry, 46, from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, denies attempting to murder Fiona Parry on 3 September.
Mr Parry's barrister told the jury at Mold Crown Court that he had "lost it" in a "moment of madness" but did not intend to kill her.
It comes as the jury have been sent to consider their verdict.
Mother-of-six Mrs Parry suffered life-changing injuries in the attack.
In his summing up for the defence, Dafydd Roberts said: "If he had been hell bent on killing his wife, he had every opportunity to do it and we would not be here today."
But the prosecution, in its closing speech, said witnesses had seen him kick her "like a footballer taking a penalty" and he was only stopped from stamping on her head when firefighters intervened.
Prosecutor Sion ap Mihangel told the jury Mr Parry might have "regretted" his actions but it was his intention that morning to kill her.
The court had heard the couple, who had been together for 16 years, had argued earlier that morning because she wanted amphetamine and they continued arguing on the school run.
Taking to the witness stand on Wednesday, Mr Parry said they had "a Bonnie and Clyde" relationship.
He said he had been on drugs at the time of the assault, agreed he had lost his temper but said he had not intended to kill her.
He said he felt so ashamed that he had tried to kill himself.
A Home Office pathologist had told the court that without the "fortuitous" intervention of the firefighters and the first aid they delivered, the outcome could have been much more serious.
The case continues. | A man who attacked his wife in the street while walking their three children to school was "deeply ashamed" of what he had done, a jury has heard. |
37,067,672 | The two-goal home hero opened his season's account in the 19th minute direct from a free-kick wide on the right, deftly curling the ball through the visiting defence and into the far corner.
Carey doubled the home advantage six minutes later as he waltzed through the middle of the Stags' defence before clipping the ball past goakeeper Brian Jensen.
It was Jensen who prevented Carey opening his account in the sixth minute with a fingertip save, diving low to his right to keep out the midfielder's measured 15-yard shot.
Mansfield did their best to respond, with Mitchell Rose firing over when well placed on the edge of the box in the 42nd minute after being teed up by Matt Green.
Stags midfielder Chris Clements fired just over as Town made a better start to the second half while Carey sent an effort wide as he sought his hat-trick in the final minute.
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Match ends, Plymouth Argyle 2, Mansfield Town 0.
Second Half ends, Plymouth Argyle 2, Mansfield Town 0.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Jordan Slew.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Oscar Threlkeld.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Gary Sawyer.
Attempt blocked. Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Ben Purrington replaces Connor Smith.
Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle).
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Jordan Slew replaces James Spencer.
Foul by Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle).
Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sonny Bradley (Plymouth Argyle).
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Sonny Bradley.
Foul by James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle).
Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. George Taft replaces Mitch Rose.
Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town).
Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mitch Rose (Mansfield Town).
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. David Goodwillie replaces Jake Jervis.
Attempt missed. Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Adam Chapman (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Darius Henderson (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town).
Foul by James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle).
Kyle Howkins (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town).
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Ryan Donaldson.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Sonny Bradley.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. CJ Hamilton replaces Kevan Hurst.
Attempt missed. Chris Clements (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lee Collins (Mansfield Town).
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Nauris Bulvitis. | Midfielder Graham Carey was back to his imperious, goal-scoring best with a brace as Plymouth Argyle beat Mansfield Town in League Two at Home Park. |
38,809,253 | The 27-year-old former England youth international, who left Sunderland at the end of last season, has previously had spells with Chelsea and Everton.
"Brooke is a really exciting addition," Royals boss Kelly Chambers said.
"She is a goal scoring player who definitely adds to my attacking options and fits well into our style of play." | Women's Super League One side Reading have signed former Sunderland midfielder Brooke Chaplen on an 18-month deal. |
36,373,440 | With less than a month to go to the referendum, the two entrepreneurs discuss whether being in the EU is good for business.
Manchester-based cloud computing provider UKFast started life 17 years ago and now employs 280 staff, many from across the EU.
The company provides 24-hour website hosting for organisations including the NHS and Chester Zoo. While it does little business directly in the European Union, many of its clients rely heavily on trade within the trading bloc.
Chief Executive Officer Lawrence Jones believes EU membership is good for business in Britain:
"We want stability - at least we know where we are at [by staying in the EU].
"The government has negotiated a better position for us within the European Union and the economy is beginning to boom.
"Among our employees quite a few are nationals of other EU states. I'm a big fan of the EU and the opportunities it provides for trade and free movement of workers across the continent."
When it was suggested by Mr Furness that the UK should seek to trade more with China and India, Mr Jones said he was sceptical.
"Look at China and look at steel - they're imposing levies so we can't compete," he said. "Whereas the EU has got dozens of member states all trading seamlessly.
"For small businesses the natural progression is to expand across Europe. Why would we want our hands tied behind our backs?
"When we're exporting back into Europe they'll just impose those levies back on to us… we'll have our hands tied."
"I can't remember life without Europe."
Rapierstar, the UK's largest supplier of screws and fittings, was established more than 23 years ago in Macclesfield.
Its products are designed in the UK, manufactured in the Far East and then sold chiefly in the European Union.
Managing director David Furness believes European red tape and "stealth taxes" are preventing UK companies from competing in the world market:
"Rapierstar now has a multi-million pound turnover and has expanded into commercial property, but our core business is screws and fittings and we have more than a billion at our storage centre.
"I am prepared to have a little bit of volatility which is a risk with leaving the European Union. I am not anti-Europe but we should be looking globally. We should do more trade with China and with India.
"I would question whether the EU operates seamlessly and there is constant internal wrangling.
"I am more than sceptical about what the "European project" is and I am convinced the UK will be more prosperous if it's released from its shackles.
"The EU has put unnecessary barriers and regulation in place without raising standards.
"We should be trading more with successful, global economies whereas the EU is failing economically." | While Lawrence Jones and David Furness have much in common - they have each grown successful companies in the North West - their views on the UK's place in the European Union could not be further apart. |
37,654,391 | Officers said a man got on the 19:55 Helensburgh Central to Edinburgh service on Sunday 2 October and started to use his phone.
He went on to make comments about a nearby passenger which other people on the train perceived to be racist.
There was then an exchange of words between another male passenger and the man, who left the service at Carntyne station at 20:52.
The man, who boarded the train in Helensburgh, was white, aged between 55 and 65, with receding grey hair. He was wearing a green jacket, blue jeans and a grey checked shirt.
British Transport Police (BTP) officers are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.
PC Mark Harrington said: "We would like to find out a bit more about what happened on the service as we know there was some kind of altercation between passengers following a phone call made by this man.
"We know other passengers were watching the incident and so may have crucial information." | An incident of racist abuse on a train is being investigated by police. |
37,083,035 | Another 19 people were injured in the attack in Abs, in Hajjah province, believed to have been carried out by the Saudi-led coalition which is backing Yemen's government in its fight against Houthi rebels.
The coalition has not yet commented.
Local people said the hit follows days of air raids in the area.
The first rescue workers to arrive at the scene had to move cautiously, fearing that the circling planes might attack again.
The blast immediately killed nine people, including an MSF staff member, MSF Yemen tweeted.
Two more patients died while they were being transferred to another hospital, it added.
The conflict in Yemen that began in 2015 has left more than 6,400 people dead, half of them civilians, and displaced 2.5 million others, according to the UN.
MSF said more than 4,600 patients had been treated at the Abs hospital since MSF began supporting it in July 2015.
A spokesman for the United Nations said the organisation was aware of the latest reports from Yemen and was trying to gather some details.
Last year, one person was killed in coalition air strikes on an MSF-supported health centre in the neighbouring province of Saada and a mobile clinic in the southern province of Taiz were hit in air strikes, according to the charity.
A hospital in Saada was hit by a projectile this January, killing six people.
The attack in Abs comes less than 48 hours after MSF said a coalition air strike on a Koranic school in Saada's Haydan district had killed 10 children.
The home of a school headmaster in Razih district was also hit that day, killing his wife and four of their children, witnesses told the New York Times. A second air strike killed four of their relatives as people tried to rescue them, they said.
The coalition denied targeting a school in Haydan, instead saying that it had bombed a camp at which the Houthis were training child soldiers.
The Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes in Yemen since March 2015 in support of the internationally recognised government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
The strikes began after the Houthi rebels, backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, took over parts of the country, including the capital Sanaa, forcing the government into exile.
The government and its allies have since retaken the southern city of Aden. Saudi Arabia says the Houthis are supported by its regional rival Iran - something Tehran denies. | An air strike has hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in northern Yemen, killing at least 11 people, the medical charity says. |
40,849,525 | Millarworld, founded by Mark Millar from Coatbridge, includes his portfolio of characters and stories such as Kick-Ass, Kingsman, and Old Man Logan.
Mr Millar said he was still "blinking" over the news.
He said it was only the third time a comic book purchase on this scale had ever happened, with Warner Bros buying DC Comics in 1968, and Disney buying Marvel in 2009.
Mr Millar, who lives in Glasgow, started Millarworld as a creator-owned comic-book company nearly 15 years ago.
He runs the company with his wife Lucy Millar.
It is the first ever company acquisition in Netflix's history. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Mr Millar said: "I'm so in love with what Netflix is doing and excited by their plans.
"Netflix is the future and Millarworld couldn't have a better home."
Netflix said the acquisition was a natural progression in the company's effort to work directly with prolific and skilled creators and to acquire intellectual property and ownership of stories.
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said Mr Millar was "as close as you can get to a modern day Stan Lee" - the co-creator of Spider-Man and other Marvel characters.
He said: "Mark has created a next-generation comics universe, full of indelible characters living in situations people around the world can identify easily with.
"We look forward to creating new Netflix Originals from several existing franchises as well as new super-hero, anti-hero, fantasy, sci-fi and horror stories Mark and his team will continue to create and publish."
Netflix and Mr Millar will bring Millarworld's portfolio to life through films, series and kids' shows available exclusively to Netflix members globally.
Millarworld is to continue to create and publish new stories and character franchises under the Netflix label.
Mr Millar previously worked at Marvel for eight years where he developed the comic books and story arcs that inspired the first Avengers movie, Captain America: Civil War, and Logan (Wolverine).
In a statement on his website he said: "Over the years, Millarworld has amassed 20 different franchises working with the world's greatest artists and now Millarworld has been bought by the hottest, most exciting entertainment company on the planet.
"To say this is the best thing that ever happened in our professional lives would be an understatement."
Netflix is the world's leading Internet entertainment platform with 104 million members in more than 190 countries. | A Scottish comic book company has been bought by streaming giant Netflix. |
34,571,420 | The Grade-II listed tower, known as the Belvedere, in Sketty, is believed to have sold for around £130,000.
Built between 1820 and 1830, the folly is all that remains of Sketty Park House, the former home of copper and tin magnates the Morris family.
It was sold by Swansea council as the local authority looks to save more than £80m over the next three years.
The folly, which is in need of renovation, had been owned by the local authority since the 1930s, although the rest of the mansion was demolished in the 1970s.
Local historian Gary Gregor explained: "Sketty Park House was designed by William Jernegan, the architect of Regency Swansea, whose local designs include Stouthall, Kilvrough Manor, Mumbles lighthouse and the Assembly Rooms.
"After varied usage by the Swansea Corporation, including as the Civil Defence Service headquarters, it was demolished in 1975 so that the Sketty Park housing estate could be erected.
"The part which still remains is a ruined gothic belvedere, after a design of Margam Park's Chapter House, on a tree-covered mound in Saunders Way. It was built by Sir John's reclusive grandson Sir John Armine Morris."
The dynasty began in the 1720s when Shropshire entrepreneur Robert Morris started the first mass smelting at the Llangyfelach Copper Works.
However, it was his son Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet of Clasemont, who made the most lasting impact.
In the 1760s, Sir John hired architect William Edwards to create Morris Town - now Morriston - one of Europe's first purpose-built villages, to house his workers.
At its heart was Morris Castle, containing 24 workers' apartments which were palatial by the standards of the day.
While Morriston was good enough for his workers, Mr Gregor explained that it was not entirely to Sir John's own liking, so he moved.
"Built around 1775, Sir John had a Palladian-style mansion called Clasemont at Pengwern, near the present-day DVLA building. Lord Nelson and the Hamiltons dined there in 1802.
"But the spread of fumes from the copper smelting works in the lower Swansea valley rendered it unsuitable, so Clasemont was dismantled in 1805 and much of the materials were transported west of Swansea to construct the new mansion, Sketty Park House."
Sir John never saw the fruits of these labours as he died aged 74 in 1819, a year before work started on Sketty Park House.
But Mr Gregor said he left an "enduring memorial" in the form of Morriston, where you can still see "the workers village laid out in a gridiron pattern, with every cottage having sufficient garden to grow vegetables". | A 19th Century folly once owned by one of Swansea's founding industrial families has been sold at auction. |
37,440,760 | Liverpool City Council confirmed it is holding discussions with two parties to manage St Luke's Church, which was severely damaged in a 1941 air raid.
It is understood the organisations behind the proposals are based in the city, following speculation that a company in Manchester was involved.
The council, which will retain freehold of the site, said it "wanted to achieve the best possible outcome".
"Once these discussions have concluded and an agreement has been reached, a recommendation will go to the Cabinet for a decision to be made," a spokesman said.
The Grade II* listed building, on the corner of Leece Street and Berry Street, has remained roofless since it was damaged in an air raid.
A survey found St Luke's Church needed to be made safe following damage caused by winter storms in 2015.
Full restoration work valued at £500,000 includes work to the tower, masonry, low-level stonework, a roof to be put on to the church tower and decorative stonework. | Two proposals have been shortlisted to run Liverpool's bombed out church. |
10,443,994 | Of 1,000 parents questioned by Drinkaware, more than half said they would provide five or more bottles of wine or spirits for a week.
The charity is tackling alcohol misuse in the Cornish resort of Newquay this summer with local council and police.
Two students died in the town last year after falling from cliffs.
As part of the Newquay Safe initiative, teenagers arriving in the town are being met with police and sniffer-dogs.
Any alcohol found on under-18s will be confiscated.
The 'Got Your Back' campaign encourages friends to look out for each other and think about the short-term risks of excessive alcohol consumption.
In the survey, 36% of parents said they would prefer their child to get alcohol from them rather than an unknown source, while 22% admitted they buy their teenager alcohol to keep track of the amount they drink.
Chris Sorek, chief executive of Drinkaware, said buying alcohol could inadvertently be putting their children at risk.
"Lots of 16 and 17-year-olds will want to mark the end of exams by celebrating with friends on a trip away," he said.
"Parents might think they're doing the right thing by ensuring alcohol comes from them instead of somewhere else, but when young people drink to excess it can compromise their personal safety."
Mr Sorek said it could also increase the chances of teenagers having unprotected sex or being involved in an accident.
He added: "To help their children stay safe, parents should avoid giving them alcohol for unsupervised holidays and talk to them about possible risks."
With thousands of teenagers set to arrive in Newquay after their exams finish, Drinkaware is taking over a cafe on Fistral Beach to create an alcohol-free venue where friends can meet and eat specially discounted food while having access to facts and information about alcohol.
On Monday, Cornwall Coroner Emma Carlyon recorded an open verdict at the inquest of Paddy Higgins.
The 16-year-old, from Winnersh, Berkshire, fell from cliffs in Newquay on 6 July last year.
The inquest in Truro was told tests showed the teenager was three times over the legal drink-drive limit.
Mr Sorek said: "We want to remind young people that you don't need alcohol to celebrate and that drinking too much can be risky." | Nearly 40% of parents would to give their 16 and 17-year-olds alcohol to go on holiday with friends to celebrae the end of exams, a survey has revealed. |
38,468,883 | The Teranga Lions could be spearheaded in attack by Liverpool's Sadio Mane and Mame Biram Diouf of Stoke.
And their midfield could be filled by three more from England in the shape of Cheikhou Kouyate of West Ham, Newcastle's Mohamed Diame and Everton's Idrissa Gana Gueye.
Senegal begin their campaign in Gabon on 15 January against Tunisia.
They will also face Algeria and Zimbabwe in Group B at the tournament, which is being held between 14 January and 5 February.
Senegal squad:
Goalkeepers: Khadim N'Diaye (Horoya AC, Guinea), Abdoulaye Diallo (Çaykur Rizespor, Turkey), Pape Seydou N'Diaye (ASC Niarry Tally)
Defenders: Lamine Gassama (Alanyaspor, Turkey), Cheikh M'Bengue (Saint-Etienne, France), Kara Mbodj (Anderlecht, Belgium), Zargo Toure (Lorient, France), Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli, Italy), Saliou Ciss (Valenciennes, France)
Midfielders: Idrissa Gana Gueye (Everton, England), Cheikhou Kouyate (West Ham, England), Cheikh N'Doye (Angers, France), Papakouli Diop (Espanyol, Spain), Henri Saivet (Saint Etienne, France), Papa Alioune Ndiaye (Osmanlıspor, Turkey), Mohamed Diame (Newcastle, England)
Forwards: Sadio Mane (Liverpool England), Keita Balde Diao (Lazio, Italy), Moussa Konate (FC Sion, Switzerland), Famara Diedhiou (Angers, France), Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke, England), Ismaila Sarr (Metz, France), Moussa Sow (Fenerbahce, Turkey) | Senegal have included five England-based players in the 23-man squad for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. |
37,902,613 | "Unless the election is extraordinarily close, it is unlikely that an attack will result in the wrong candidate getting elected," suggest Matt Bernhard and Professor J Alex Halderman, security experts from the University of Michigan.
But they say the risk the election process could be disrupted by hackers should be taken extremely seriously.
In the run-up to the big day, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been carrying out "cyber hygiene" tests on voting systems across the country. Officials are confident in the technology, but there are weaknesses that have security professionals standing by on election day ready to step in if irregularities are spotted.
The task facing any hacker isn’t insignificant. In the US, voting is done via electronic booths, the vast majority of which are not connected to the internet.
Furthermore, different states, and areas within those states, use different systems - a logistical headache but something of a security godsend, as a fractured system is much harder to attack en masse.
But any would-be election hacker wouldn’t need to target the whole country, or even an entire state. Instead, finding methods to implant minute differences, in areas which promise to be a close-run battle, could both affect the national picture and be difficult to detect.
And so just as candidates target swing states that could go either way, so too could hackers be looking at "hack states" to target.
"Two out of the last four presidential elections were so close that a change of a few counties in one state would have changed the result of the national presidential election," said Andrew Appel, professor of computer science at Princeton University, in an interview with BBC News.
"It’s not necessary to cheat in 9,000 different jurisdictions. If the election is close in just one state, changing several tens of thousands of votes might be enough."
Prof Appel is part of a team of cybersecurity experts that will be working together on Tuesday to advise election officials on cybersecurity-related matters - helping to identify genuine attacks from, say, just your bog-standard computer glitch, of which there may be plenty.
"There may be questions about some piece of machinery that is showing some symptom," he explained.
"Does that look like a hack or is that normal? That kind of question."
Any security audit, whether it’s to protect a company or a property, focuses on the points of weakness. And in this election, the points of weakness are the electronic voting booths.
The greatest concern of the group, which is mostly a mixture of academics and security professionals, is that the security in place on voting machines in some crucial areas just isn't up to scratch.
For starters, 10 states use touchscreen-only voting machines, an immediate concern.
"You touch the screen and indicate the candidate you want,” explained Prof Appel.
"There’s no paper involved, and at the end of the day it indicates how many votes the candidate got. There would be no way to tell if it was done fraudulently."
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Several security experts have demonstrated how this process can be tampered with, by installing malicious software capable of changing a switching a person's vote once it is in the machine, or by spoofing the smart cards used to identify a voter.
Other states use what’s known as optical scan voting. That’s when a voter fills in a little oval on a page to cast their ballot. It’s logged by the computer, to make counting much quicker, but also stored as a hard copy. If the computer says the vote goes a certain way and there’s suspicion of shenanigans, it can be crossed checked against the paper copy.
So where are the “hack states”?
Verified Voting is an organisation that tracks the use of voting machines, and their security, across the US. It’s a painstakingly put together dataset which gives you an idea of the complexity of the US voting system.
By using this resource, and combining it with polling data, Mr Bernhard and Prof Halderman were able to isolate key states with both poor voting booth security and a tight race.
They named the states most at risk as Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Colorado.
"As jurisdictions with close races are most vulnerable to having their results perturbed or cast into doubt, these are the ones to be concerned about,” the researchers wrote.
Most experts are in agreement that the voting machines provide the biggest risk - the key under the mat for anyone looking for a way in.
But hackers may look to other means to agitate the process.
"A well resourced adversary, for instance a foreign government, could do plenty of other things to disrupt the election,” wrote Mr Bernhard and Prof Halderman.
"Cutting the power to a few key precincts could throw the entire election into chaos."
Furthermore, Prof Appel pointed to previous incidents in which voter registration databases were breached. In September, the FBI urged districts to work with the DHS to ensure their database systems were secure.
"The thing that could go wrong is that a voter could show up at the polling place and be told they’re not listed when in fact they should be listed,” Prof Appel explained.
In concluding their data analysis on the at-risk states, Mr Bernhard and Prof Halderman offered a summary.
“The 2016 election is less secure than it should be.
"While we think it’s unlikely that hackers will be able to silently change who wins, attacks that attempt to disrupt or discredit the electoral process in critical states are a distinct possibility."
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook | The concern that the 2016 US presidential election may be hacked, by Russia or some other bad actor, could hold the same place in history as the Millennium Bug: a whole load of worry over nothing. |
40,594,048 | In the Name of Peace - John Hume in America was screened at the 29th Galway Film Fleadh on Thursday.
The documentary features interviews with former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
It is directed by Maurice Fitzpatrick and narrated by Liam Neeson.
The film charts the relationships that the former SDLP leader cultivated at the White House and in the US Congress.
In the documentary, his former SDLP deputy, Seamus Mallon, argues Hume should be regarded alongside Irish leaders Charles Stewart Parnell and Daniel O'Connell.
It features contributions from former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and John Major, as well as interviews with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, U2 singer Bono and journalist Eamonn McCann.
In the 1990s, Mr Hume was diagnosed with dementia and has struggled with the disease.
The premiere was followed by a panel discussion on John Hume's role in building peace with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and SDLP South Belfast MLA Claire Hanna. | A film charting how former SDLP leader and Nobel prize winner John Hume created a framework for peace in Northern Ireland has premiered in the Republic of Ireland. |
32,742,105 | The Archbishop of Canterbury said the Crown Nominations Commission had "been unable to discern the candidate whom God is calling at this stage".
The See of Oxford vacancy will be not be re-considered until early next year.
The Right Rev Colin Fletcher will continue to serve as Acting Bishop after Bishop John Pritchard retired in October.
The diocese, which covers Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxford, said interviews took place on 11 and 12 May.
But under the Church Of England election rules, no candidate received the required number of votes for nomination.
Bishop Fletcher said: "While it is clearly disappointing that the vacancy is being extended until later next year, it is of course vitally important that the right appointment is made."
The Most Rev Justin Welby said: "I will continue to keep the diocese in my prayers over the next months."
The Oxford Crown Nominations Commission will reconvene on 4 February, 2016. | No one has been appointed to become the new Bishop of Oxford, the diocese has announced. |
33,427,306 | The ring, found by a metal detectorist in South Creake, Norfolk, dates from between 1350 and 1430.
Dr Jonathan Good, author of The Cult of St George, said the ring "attests to the popularity of St George" and may be linked to a guild devoted to the saint.
The ring was ruled to be treasure at an inquest in Norwich this week.
It is set to be acquired by Norwich Castle Museum.
Dr Good, who is associate professor of history at Reinhardt University, in Georgia in the US, said the ring "could have have owned by a guild member. It could have been a way of them showing their dedication".
Medieval guilds were formed by groups of people coming together and paying a weekly subscription to celebrate a particular saint, say prayers for dead guild members and provide sickness benefit.
The one with the longest life in Norwich - operating between 1385 and 1548 - was the guild of St George, with each member subscribing a farthing a week and services being held on St George's feast day on 23 April.
"It is in these pre-reformation times that St George came into his own in England," said Dr Good.
Dr Kathleen Kennedy, an expert in medieval rings and associate professor at Penn State-Brandywine University in the US, said it was "a wonderful find for Norwich".
She said the ring was "originally enamelled, so like so much of the medieval statuary remaining to us today, what we see as one colour would have originally been brightly variegated".
Dr Adrian Marsden, a coin expert based at Norwich Castle Museum, said: "The ring has on it St George spearing a dragon. That is unusual and interesting because St George was a very popular saint in Norwich."
Under the Treasure Act of 1996 any object containing more than 10% silver and gold and more than 300 years old must be reported to the coroner who decides if it is classed as treasure.
If museums later acquire the object, the finder is normally rewarded the full market value, determined by experts at the British Museum. | A 600-year-old gold ring engraved with St George and the Dragon sheds new light on the saint's medieval followers in Norwich, an expert has told the BBC. |
34,036,737 | Ahmad Zeidan from Reading was sentenced to nine years after he was arrested when cocaine worth about £3 was found in the car he was travelling in.
The 22-year-old says he was forced to sign a confession after being tortured for more than a week.
He has twice appealed for government intervention but to no avail.
Zeidan was studying at the Emirates Aviation College in Dubai when he was arrested in December 2013 along with several other young men when 0.04g of cocaine, with a street value of about £3, was found in a car he was a travelling in.
He maintains the drugs were not his.
The student was sentenced last summer, despite all of his co-defendants either being pardoned or acquitted.
Both he and his family have twice unsuccessfully requested the government formally petition for him to be released under UAE state prisoner pardons.
Zeidan insists he was coerced into signing a confession in Arabic - which he does not understand - after he was beaten and threatened.
He has now pleaded with ministers to support his request to be freed in a pardon scheduled for next month.
In a direct plea to the British government, he said: "I'm the only British national serving time in Sharjah, and after an unfair trial.
"I'm the only person who hasn't been pardoned now. It's been almost two years now. Get me out of what I'm going through."
He claims to have suffered seizures and experienced flashbacks during his two years in jail following his arrest.
"I'm not coping," he said. "I feel like I am going to self-implode. I'm just holding on to a thin line of something and I feel it's going to run out very soon.
"I try to create my own bubble to escape. The only thing I have are these 15-minute phone calls that I have to interact with the normal world."
Campaigners at legal charity Reprieve have taken up Zeidan's cause.
Maya Foa, from the organisation, said he had suffered a "staggering miscarriage of justice" and was undergoing a "nightmarish ordeal".
"His brutal torture and the use of a bogus 'confession' are more than enough reason for the British government to request his release," she said.
"It is deeply disappointing that ministers have not yet done this."
The Foreign Office said any comment on a continuing legal process would be "inappropriate" but confirmed it had been in regular contact with Zeidan and his family since his arrest to "provide assistance".
Police in the UAE have previously denied claims of torture. | A British man jailed in the United Arab Emirates after allegedly being tortured into admitting drugs charges has made a fresh plea for government help. |
33,530,765 | Ministers had to amend their plans after criticism from opposition MPs, including over the time for scrutiny.
A final set of proposals will now be drafted, with a delayed vote to be held in September.
During the seven-hour debate, Conservative MPs backed the government's approach but there was opposition from Labour and the SNP.
The government wants to change Commons rules known as standing orders to give MPs from English constituencies a "decisive say" on bills that apply exclusively to England.
It has proposed an additional "parliamentary stage" to allow English MPs to scrutinise legislation without the involvement of Scottish MPs, saying it is a matter of fairness.
England's MPs would be asked to accept or veto legislation only affecting England before it passed to a vote of all UK MPs at its third and final reading in the Commons.
This means England's MPs could block any unwanted policies from being introduced in England - but could not force proposals through unless the whole House agreed.
A similar process would be used where matters covered only England and Wales - with Welsh MPs included.
The proposals will, ministers say, address the long-standing anomaly - known as the West Lothian Question - by which Scottish MPs can vote on issues such as health and education affecting England, but the House of Commons has no say on similar matters relating to Scotland, where such policies are devolved.
During the Commons debate, Commons Leader Chris Grayling told MPs all laws that affected government spending throughout Britain would be voted on by all MPs.
He said the government's plans had been republished to make this "crystal clear".
Defending his plans, he added: "We intend to provide more powers to Scotland, more powers to Wales, we intend to devolve to Northern Ireland the powers in areas like corporation tax, but ultimately we need to be fair to the English and that is what this is about."
Former SNP leader Alex Salmond did not accept that Scottish MPs would not be locked out of decisions affecting their grants.
He gave the example of a Commons vote on tuition fees in England, which he said could have an impact on the amount of funding Scotland receives.
Shadow Commons leader Angela Eagle said she was pleased that the government "has at least seen a bit of sense in retreating from its original intention to make us vote today on these complex and controversial proposals".
A vote on the government's proposal had been due to take place this week. But ministers were forced to rethink their plans after they came under sustained attack from SNP and Labour MPs unhappy at the government's handling of the matter.
A redraft of the proposals was published on Tuesday. The changes in them proved minor and sought only to clarify the position concerning Budget measures.
The debate came after a row over plans to change fox hunting laws in England and Wales, with a vote being axed after the SNP said it would oppose the move.
The SNP had previously said it would not vote on issues affecting England and Wales only.
But it said its change of heart was partly due to the government trying to make Scottish MPs "second-class citizens" in the Commons through its "English votes for English laws" plans.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the SNP's position was "entirely opportunistic". | The House of Commons has debated revised government proposals to give England's MPs a veto over English laws. |
38,186,644 | Artists Anthea Hamilton, Michael Dean, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde are all in the running for the honour.
The prestigious prize is awarded to a British artist, under the age of 50, considered to have put on the best exhibition of the last 12 months.
Its stated aim is to "promote public debate around new developments in contemporary art".
The awards ceremony will take place at Tate Britain, and will be broadcast live on the BBC.
Hamilton has been included for her work that focuses on fetishism, while sculptor Dean was chosen for pieces made from salvaged materials.
Painter and sculptor Marten's art is described as "slippery and elusive" and Pryde's work shows a fascination between art and photography.
Marten won the first Hepworth Prize for Sculpture recently, and pledged to share the £30,000 award with her fellow nominees.
The jury is chaired by Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain.
Last year's prize was won by design collective Assemble for a regeneration scheme for derelict houses in Liverpool.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on the BBC News Channel from 21:30 and BBC World and will be available online later.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | The winner of the £25,000 Turner Prize is to be announced at a ceremony in London later. |
37,575,153 | Payments received by victims this financial year will rise to match the support available in England.
The UK government has already made an extra £125m available for victims in England affected by the late 1970s and early '80s "tainted blood scandal".
Thousands developed hepatitis C and HIV after being given infected blood.
In the longer term, the Welsh Government has announced it will seek the views of victims and groups representing them on how best to deliver financial support in Wales.
The charity Haemophilia Wales has previously called for a Wales-specific consultation on how victims and families would be supported.
Extra support for victims in Scotland was announced in March after a similar move in England in January.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said he wanted to end any uncertainty in Wales about the level of financial support.
New annual payments for 2016/17 which were brought in for England include:
Mr Gething said the payments were an interim measure "as a first step to reforming the scheme in Wales". | Extra financial support for patients living in Wales who have received contaminated blood has been announced by the Welsh Government. |
29,020,150 | Donnelly, 26, has agreed a two-year contract after scored 13 goals in 86 appearances for Dale.
Brezovan, 34, spent the beginning of this season with Portsmouth on a short-term deal but has now signed for a season with Rovers.
Meanwhile, defender Matt Hill has also earned a one-year deal, having played five games on non-contract terms.
"George is a fast, powerful striker who will run behind defences and cause them a lot of problems," manager Rob Edwards told the Rovers club website.
"He gives us an option we haven't currently got in the squad.
Edwards added: "I'm delighted to bring Peter to the club. He's an experienced keeper who has played at Championship and League One level and it gives us good competition for places." | Tranmere have signed Rochdale striker George Donnelly for an undisclosed fee along with goalkeeper Peter Brezovan. |
36,775,036 | In an answer to a religious website in 2002, Rabbi Colonel Eyal Karim implied that such an act was permissible.
He clarified in 2012 that his words had been taken out of context and that rape was forbidden "in any situation".
But his appointment, which requires the defence minister's approval, was condemned by a top female politician.
Zehava Galon, leader of the Meretz party, described Rabbi Karim as "not suitable to represent Jewish morality in any way whatsoever".
"His appalling, racist and violent statement makes women fair game," she added.
The head of the Israeli parliament's Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, Aida Touma-Sliman of the Joint Arab List, said: "Col Karim's ruling on permitting raping non-Jewish women is similar to the fatwa of a murderous organisation that's not so far from Israel's borders."
The Israeli military, in which thousands of women serve, issued a statement on Tuesday saying it wanted to clarify that the rabbi's remarks 14 years ago came in answer to a theoretical question and did not relate to "practical Jewish law".
"Rabbi Karim has never written, said or even thought that an Israeli soldier is permitted to sexually assault a woman in war, and anyone who interprets his words otherwise is completely mistaken," it added.
The statement also stressed that Rabbi Karim was not opposed to women being recruited by the military, despite him having previously said that it should be "completely forbidden", according to Israeli media. | Israel's military has nominated a new chief rabbi criticised for remarks he made in the past that seemed to condone the rape of non-Jewish women in war. |
19,634,900 | The £155,000 Dumfries Bike2Go project was launched by Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson in September 2010.
Figures to the end of June this year show the bikes had been rented 1,529 times by scheme members.
That translates to a cost of more than £100 per hire since the project got under way in the town.
The scheme, the first of its kind in Scotland, was set up to encourage people to get "out of their cars and onto their bicycles".
It provides bikes free of charge to subscribers at a number of locations across the town.
It is based on similar schemes in Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm and one in London which clocked up one million journeys in its first 10 weeks.
However, the Dumfries usage figures have not picked up from early levels.
After 10 weeks rental levels averaged about 20-a-week, with winter weather being blamed for the low uptake.
The council promised a marketing campaign to encourage increased use of the bikes.
A detailed report shows that figures have failed to pick up noticeably from those early levels.
Once again the "very poor weather" this summer has been cited as a reason for the low level of rentals being seen.
By February this year the total number of subscribers had reached 148, an increase of just over 100 since the end of October 2010.
The most popular sites for rentals remain two town centre locations - the Dock Park and the DG One leisure complex which account for more than 40% of usage.
The majority of the rentals last for less than 30 minutes.
A one-off membership fee costs £10 and bike usage is charged at a rate of £1 per hour with the first half-hour free.
Day and half-day tickets are also available at a cost of £10 or £6 respectively. | Figures for Scotland's first bike hire scheme show it has averaged less than 20 rentals a week since it was started two years ago. |
31,982,791 | Women's Super League side Bristol face the three-time European champions at Ashton Gate on Saturday in the first leg of the tie.
The Vixens then travel to Germany for the return leg on Sunday, 29 March.
"Without a doubt it is the biggest game we have ever had," defender McCatty, 25, told BBC Sport.
Bristol overcame Barcelona 2-1 on aggregate in the last round and are the only English club remaining in the competition.
"I remember the days when we were bottom of the league and now we are competing at the highest level," McCatty added.
"It's amazing to do that and for the club that I love makes it an even more massive game.
"The fact that I will lead the club out as captain will make it more special."
Glasgow City are also through to the quarter-finals and face Paris St-Germain at Aidrie's Excelsior stadium on Sunday.
"It's brilliant for the whole club to be at this stage," said City head coach Eddie Wolecki Black.
"We're going to have to play very well, no doubt about that. We're going to have to be well organised, our game plan will have to be bang on.
Meanwhile Bristol endured a difficult WSL campaign last season, finishing seventh with five wins from 14 games.
Although they prospered in Europe, boss Dave Edmondson has had to rebuild his squad following the departure of several senior players - including former club captain Corinne Yorston and Spain internationals Laura del Rio and Natalia Pablos Sanchon.
But McCatty says the Vixens will be ready to compete with Frankfurt, who have won the women's Bundesliga seven times.
"We are definitely confident, with the work we have put in, that we will be the best prepared we could be for this game," she added.
"We are looking to take something from the home leg - at least a draw - so that sets us up when we go to Frankfurt." | Captain Grace McCatty says Bristol Academy's Champions League quarter-final with Frankfurt will be the biggest game in the club's history. |
39,408,455 | The visitors got off to the perfect start with a goal after just two minutes through Dennis, who ran on to a through-ball before slotting past Scott Loach.
Amari Morgan-Smith saw an effort bundled wide as York went in search of an equaliser, but Loach was called on in the 25th minute to save Blair Turgott's 25-yard free-kick.
Alex Whittle forced a good low save from Ross Flitney early in the second half, but Bromley doubled their lead in the 57th minute when Sho-Silva headed home a free-kick and they held on to clinch all three points.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, York City 0, Bromley 2.
Second Half ends, York City 0, Bromley 2.
Substitution, York City. Scott Fenwick replaces Asa Hall.
Substitution, Bromley. Shabazz Omofe replaces Tobi Sho-Silva.
Substitution, York City. Sam Muggleton replaces Adriano Moke.
Substitution, York City. Danny Holmes replaces Alex Whittle.
Goal! York City 0, Bromley 2. Tobi Sho-Silva (Bromley).
Substitution, Bromley. Jordan Wynter replaces Alan Dunne.
Second Half begins York City 0, Bromley 1.
First Half ends, York City 0, Bromley 1.
Substitution, Bromley. Shane McLoughlin replaces Louis Dennis.
Goal! York City 0, Bromley 1. Louis Dennis (Bromley).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Louis Dennis and Tobi Sho-Silva were both on target as Bromley secured a 2-0 victory over York at Bootham Crescent. |
32,055,226 | South of Scotland MSP Jim Hume launched the members' bill in December.
The government said it was "very supportive" of the principles of the bill, but changes could be needed to make it "workable".
Motorists could potentially be fined £100 for breaching the rule if it becomes law.
Mr Hume lodged draft proposals for a bill last May calling for a ban in Scotland on smoking in private vehicles when children under 18 were present.
He said he was "over the moon" at the news the Scottish government would endorse the Smoking Prohibition (Children in Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Bill.
He said: "With cross-party support and the support of many third sector organisations, there is every chance that this could be in place in the next year.
"Eighty-four per cent of the 160 responses to my consultation were positive and people from across Scotland have expressed their support for the move.
"The bill is about guaranteeing that children in Scotland can have the freedom to go on and lead healthy lives if they choose to.
"I look forward to working with MSPs from all parties as the bill progresses."
Public Health Minister Maureen Watt said the Scottish government had considered including the measure in its Public Health Bill, but instead decided to support Mr Hume's proposals.
She said: "As with any bill, as it goes through the scrutiny process, there may be amendments and improvements to strengthen the legislation and ensure it is fit for purpose.
"But we believe that the underpinning principles are strong, and that is why I am pleased to support it."
Scottish Labour and a wide range of health organisations have backed his proposals.
But the Scottish Conservatives have reservations about how the bill would work in practice.
The party's health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said: "While Scottish Conservatives support any moves which would protect young people from hazardous second hand smoke we have concerns as to how this would be enforced.
"It would be a better use of resources to conduct a public awareness campaign similar to that which is being proposed by the government in Wales.
"We will be watching this campaign in order to ascertain what lessons may be learned and what approaches may be adopted in Scotland."
Anti-smoking campaigners welcomed the Scottish government's backing for Mr Hume's bill.
ASH Scotland's chief executive Sheila Duffy said: "It is another public health initiative that can help Scotland move forward with its ambition to achieve a tobacco-free generation in 20 years' time.
"It is popular with the public and will bring Scotland into line with upcoming legislation in England and Wales.
"We believe it can be effectively enforced and that having the legislation focus on cars with children bypasses concerns over interference in people's private lives.
"Jim Hume must be congratulated for taking the initiative on this proposal and for all the hard work he and his team have done to bring this important measure forward."
But Simon Clark, director of the smokers' group Forest, said the bill was "legislation for legislation's sake".
He said: "Smoking in cars carrying children is inconsiderate. The overwhelming majority of smokers know that and don't do it.
"The very small number that do will carry on regardless because the law will be difficult, if not impossible, to enforce.
"Education has to be better than legislation but the government prefers gesture politics and the big stick." | The Liberal Democrat MSP behind a bill to ban smoking in cars when children are present has welcomed the support of the Scottish government. |
41,023,640 | Pujara has retured with Notts on the cusp of promotion from Division Two.
The 29-year-old played four matches for Notts earlier this season and made 223 runs in five innings, including a century against Gloucestershire.
"The great thing is he has already been in the squad this season and fitted in so well on and off the field," said Notts head coach Peter Moores.
"We are getting a guy who is coming back in form and for the team spirit, him coming back in is a huge boost for everybody."
Notts have a 35-point lead over second-placed Worcestershire, with Northants 50 points adrift in third having played a game fewer. | Nottinghamshire have re-signed India batsman Cheteshwar Pujara for their last four Championship matches of 2017. |
32,551,680 | Adam Szurgocinski, 26, died in hospital after being attacked at a property in Jubilee Road on 14 September 2014.
Mateusz Halabura, 25, Pawel Wegorzewski, 20, Rafal Palinski, 29, Jaroslaw Owczarczyk, 32 and Sebastian Gurski, 30, from the Doncaster area, pleaded guilty to manslaughter midway through a trial at Leeds Crown Court.
They were charged with murder before.
Police said Mr Szurgocinski suffered a brain haemorrhage after being subjected to "a sustained physical attack".
Det Insp Sean Bird, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "Questions about what happened to Adam that day have not been answered, as none of those accused have offered any explanation prior to admitting their guilt."
The force arrested 16 people on suspicion of murder in the months that followed Mr Szurgocinski's death.
A sixth man, Dariusz Bogusz, 32, pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in February.
All six men will appear at Sheffield Crown Court for sentence on 6 May. | Five men have admitted killing a man in a "sustained physical attack" in Doncaster. |
35,658,532 | Canada and the US have strongly criticised the re-convictions of British-Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman and Indonesian teacher Ferdinant Tjiong.
The pair were jailed in April for abusing three children but their convictions were overturned in August.
Both men strongly deny the charges.
Their supporters argue the case against them is riddled with legal errors.
Police told AP news agency that while Tjiong was back in custody, Bantleman's whereabouts were unknown. He is banned from leaving the country.
The Canadian embassy in Jakarta has described the Supreme Court ruling as "unjust". It argues the case is full of "grave irregularities" and has not been handled transparently.
Neither man has had sufficient opportunity to prove his innocence, it says.
"The outcome of this case has serious implications for Indonesia's reputation as a safe place for Canadians to work, travel and invest as well as for Canada's long history of co-operation with Indonesia," it said in an online statement.
The US ambassador to Indonesia, Robert Blake, said in a statement that the case raised doubts about the rule of law in Indonesia and it remained unclear what evidence the Supreme Court used to overturn the High Court's decision.
Both men were arrested in July 2014 following allegations from parents at the prestigious Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS) that pupils - one as young as six - had been sexually abused.
The school is attended by children of foreign diplomats, expatriates and wealthy Indonesians.
A Supreme Court spokesperson told the BBC that the panel of judges had found that the district court had been right to sentence the pair to 10 years in jail.
According to Indonesian law, the teachers can appeal against the latest ruling.
The BBC's Rebecca Henschke in Jakarta says the case has brought intense scrutiny of Indonesia's judicial system.
The trials, which began in December, were closed to the public and the court ordered participants not to speak publicly about proceedings.
Defence lawyers say that they have been denied due process and that some aspects of the case have not met international standards. | Indonesia's Supreme Court has overturned the acquittals of two men accused of sexually abusing children, ruling their initial 10-year sentences should be extended by another year. |
33,269,868 | Microsoft technical expert Patrick Barker said he had found Samsung software downloading and running a file called Disable_Windowsupdate.exe, while helping a user with a computer problem.
He said "a few Samsung-manufactured computer systems" were affected.
Samsung said it was just giving customers the choice about running Windows software.
"It is not true that we are blocking a Windows 8.1 operating system update on our computers," Samsung said in a statement.
"As part of our commitment to consumer satisfaction, we are providing our users with the option to choose if and when they want to update the Windows software on their products."
According to Samsung, the SW update allows users "to download the newest drives, updates and software for your Windows PC".
But the response baffled Mr Barker.
"I never implied it specifically blocked a Windows 8.1 OS system update, just that their SW Update software is preventing Windows Update from automatically installing updates, and forcing the user to have it set to 'let me choose whether to download and install,'" he wrote in his blog.
"It's disabling Windows Update from working as the user intends it to," he added.
Mr Barker said if the Windows Update was turned on manually, it was disabled by the Samsung update when the machine was rebooted.
The software did not come pre-installed on computers but downloaded in the background, he said.
"It doesn't appear to uninstall properly," he added.
Parts of the software remained, including the folder that contained the command to disable Windows Update, he wrote in his blog.
Microsoft said: "Windows Update remains a critical component of our security commitment to our customers."
"We do not recommend disabling or modifying Windows Update in any way as this could expose a customer to increased security risks.
"We are in contact with Samsung to address this issue."
Security consultant Graham Cluley said that turning off Windows Update was a "risky move" for any company.
"As there are many instances of malware trying to deliberately disable Windows Update in order to get on with their dirty work, I personally wouldn't feel entirely comfortable if Samsung was going around doing the job for them," he wrote in his blog.
The news did not go down well on Twitter either, with some comparing what Samsung was doing with an earlier Lenovo case.
In February, the Chinese computer maker was forced to remove hidden adware from its laptops and PCs.
The adware - dubbed Superfish - was potentially compromising security, experts said. | Samsung has been accused of disabling Microsoft's software in preference for its own, leaving computers insecure. |
40,004,559 | On an emotional night following the attack which killed 22 people at Ariana Grande's concert at the Manchester Arena on Monday, United's fans were allowed a measure of celebration as Jose Mourinho's side won in comfort.
Paul Pogba's deflected shot put them ahead in the 18th minute and Henrikh Mkhitaryan's sixth Europa League goal of the campaign, flicked in from Chris Smalling's header at a corner, confirmed they would add to the EFL Cup won against Southampton earlier this season.
Wayne Rooney made a brief appearance as a substitute with a minute left and the game won, being handed the captain's armband by Antonio Valencia on what could well be his farewell appearance for United.
And as the final whistle sounded and United's celebrations began, chants of "Manchester" rang around the Friends Arena in tribute to those who died and were injured in the attack which cast a shadow over this showpiece occasion.
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It means United are now the fifth team to claim the full quota of European trophies, joining an illustrious list with Ajax, Chelsea, Juventus and Bayern Munich.
Mourinho has had his moments of frustration this season - especially with 15 Premier League draws that led to an unsatisfactory sixth-place finish.
It left United's Champions League hopes resting on this game but the win and subsequent qualification for the group stages of Europe's elite tournament means that Mourinho can regard this season as a real success.
Some may question the quality of United's performances and this undoubtedly remains a work in progress but two trophies and that place back in the Champions League is an impressive outcome, irrespective of the style in which it was achieved.
It was also a European final won without key defender Eric Bailly, who was suspended, and 28-goal leading scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who sustained a serious knee injury in the quarter-final win against Anderlecht at Old Trafford.
Tottenham's Mauricio Pochettino and Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp have received much praise for their work this season and getting into next season's Champions League - Mourinho has done that and added the actual tangible reward of two pieces of silverware on top.
Mourinho's mood has often been dark this season but he still has that habit of dealing in his favourite currency, namely trophies - and he was visibly delighted at the final whistle.
He charged onto the pitch at the final whistle and was hugged by his son, collapsing on to the turf in celebration.
And the result means United can, finally, regard their season as a successful one as a night which started with a mixture of silence then applause for those who died in Monday's attack and ended with Wayne Rooney lifting the Europa League trophy on what is very likely to be his final appearance for the club.
Pogba has struggled to justify the world-record transfer fee of £89m paid to Juventus last summer but this was a stage on which he showed flashes of the qualities that persuaded Mourinho to make him such a high-priority signing.
Like this United side, there is still much to do before he can be regarded as the finished article but the manner in which he made sure early midfield dominance was secured was impressive and he added a goal for good measure.
It may end up being classed as an own goal but Pogba will happily accept it, trying his luck from 20 yards after being afforded just a little too much space by Ajax captain Davy Klaassen and helped by a huge deflection off Davinson Sanchez. And perhaps he was due that touch of good fortune after being thwarted by the woodwork so often this season.
And it was another profitable night for another big-money Mourinho buy, Mkhitaryan. The Armenian struggled in the first half but showed what a priceless poacher's instinct he has, swooping from close range for another Europa League goal.
Ajax coach Peter Bosz said it would be understandable for his young side to feel nervous - and his fears were confirmed as they were never able to show off the full extent of their glittering promise.
Six of the starting line-up were 21 or under in the youngest 11 to start a major European final, with an average age of 22 years and 280 days. In defender Matthijs de Ligt, they had the youngest player to feature in one at 17 years and 285 days.
"It was a boring game. There were no chances from both sides," Bosz said after the final whistle.
"I'm disappointed because you play finals to win them. We didn't. I haven't seen the Ajax that I'm used to."
This was a night of disappointment for this great, historic old club but they are staying true to their finest traditions by producing outstanding young talent and showing a commitment to attacking football.
Ajax have established the foundations for more success.
"For all the players, this is the first final," he added.
"They will learn a lot from it and we will become stronger, and if we can keep this squad together we will be stronger next season, for sure."
Match ends, Ajax 0, Manchester United 2.
Second Half ends, Ajax 0, Manchester United 2.
Foul by David Neres (Ajax).
Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. David Neres (Ajax) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Hakim Ziyech.
Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Davinson Sánchez.
Substitution, Manchester United. Wayne Rooney replaces Juan Mata.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Joël Veltman.
Foul by Joël Veltman (Ajax).
Ander Herrera (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Joël Veltman (Ajax) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Attempt saved. Donny van de Beek (Ajax) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Bertrand Traoré.
Donny van de Beek (Ajax) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Dangerous play by Davy Klaassen (Ajax).
Chris Smalling (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Manchester United. Anthony Martial replaces Marcus Rashford.
Attempt missed. Davinson Sánchez (Ajax) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Frenkie de Jong.
Substitution, Ajax. Frenkie de Jong replaces Jairo Riedewald.
Attempt missed. Matthijs de Ligt (Ajax) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Joël Veltman.
Attempt blocked. Donny van de Beek (Ajax) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Ajax. Conceded by Matteo Darmian.
Jairo Riedewald (Ajax) is shown the yellow card.
Juan Mata (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matthijs de Ligt (Ajax) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Juan Mata (Manchester United).
Substitution, Manchester United. Jesse Lingard replaces Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Foul by Bertrand Traoré (Ajax).
Daley Blind (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Hand ball by Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United).
Substitution, Ajax. Donny van de Beek replaces Lasse Schöne.
Foul by David Neres (Ajax).
Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Bertrand Traoré (Ajax) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daley Blind (Manchester United).
Corner, Ajax. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
Attempt missed. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by David Neres.
Attempt blocked. Bertrand Traoré (Ajax) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Davy Klaassen. | Manchester United claimed their second major trophy of the season and secured Champions League football as they overcame Ajax to win the Europa League final in Stockholm. |
34,186,919 | It will be the first Pro12 final held outside Ireland and the second time at a pre-determined venue, following the 2015 climax at the Kingspan Stadium.
Edinburgh saw off bids from the 11 other Pro12 clubs and their regions in order to stage the event.
Pro12 chief executive John Feehan said: "Edinburgh is well known as an inspiring host city for sports, arts and cultural events."
He added: "The tender was outstanding and was unanimously agreed as the chosen venue."
Speaking at the announcement from Edinburgh Castle, Scottish Rugby's Dominic McKay said: "We are extremely pleased that our bid was successful and we have the privilege of hosting such a prestigious final.
"We want to celebrate the climax to the season by welcoming fans from all Pro12 clubs to the final, to what promises to be a fantastic sporting event."
Tickets will go on public sale on Tuesday, 15 September. | Murrayfield will host the 2016 Guinness Pro12 final on 28 May. |
35,666,988 | The price paid has not been disclosed, but the airport's value has been put at about £2bn.
City Airport, which is near Canary Wharf in London's Docklands, is popular with bankers and City professionals because of its proximity and its small size.
Last year, a record 4.3 million passengers used the airport.
The deal involves Alberta Investment Management Corporation, and investment funds the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Wren House, part of the Kuwait Investment Authority.
They already own a string of airports, including Belfast International Airport, Birmingham Airport, Bristol Airport, Brussels Airport and Copenhagen Airport.
They described London City as "a highly attractive infrastructure investment in the UK".
"The airport represents a unique opportunity to invest in an integral part of the London airport system and offers a service proposition based around location, convenience, speed and customer service".
It promised to increase the number of routes flown from the airport and said it would have a "positive economic impact for all of London and the local community, in particular".
London City was last bought in 2006 by Global Infrastructure Partners, when it carried two million passengers a year. | London City Airport has been bought by a consortium led by a major Canadian pension fund. |
24,455,490 | Four Palestinians are using a horse and a winch to bring up buckets of dirt as they try to dig a new passage deep under the border with Egypt.
Nearby, Abu Ahmed, and his workers are struggling to make repairs to their tunnel. Until recently they were part of a profitable trade, bringing in Egyptian construction materials.
Now their business has literally collapsed.
"Ninety-five per cent of the tunnels are not functioning. It's almost total destruction," Abu Ahmed tells me. "The Egyptians demolished my tunnel and filled it with water."
Recently Egypt's military has brought in bulldozers to clear a house and olive grove concealing tunnel entrances on its side of the border. Passages have been flooded or filled with sewage and blocked off.
A network of hundreds of tunnels was constructed after the Islamist group Hamas overran Gaza in 2007, a year after winning parliamentary elections.
Israel - which considers Hamas a terrorist organisation - and Egypt tightened a blockade on the Palestinian territory.
Smuggling was a way of bypassing the restrictions. It was an important lifeline for the 1.7m Palestinians living in Gaza who relied on the imports of everyday goods and cheap Egyptian fuel.
However, the underground passages have also been used to transfer weapons, and by armed militants to cross the border unseen. The Egyptian authorities see them as a serious threat to security.
Attacks by Islamist militants in the Sinai region, which neighbours Gaza, have increased dramatically in the past three months, since the ousting of Egypt's Islamist President, Mohammed Morsi.
The new Cairo government accuses Hamas, which has ideological links to Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement, of supporting the extremists. It denies doing so.
Yet local media reports suggest that the Egyptian army has even threatened a military intervention in the Gaza Strip if attacks on its troops in the Sinai Peninsula are not stopped.
As tensions have risen, numbers of Palestinians being allowed to cross through the Rafah border crossing have been restricted. Thousands have got stuck trying to leave Gaza.
Yousef Helou had to wait for two weeks to exit so he could take up his research scholarship at Oxford University. "You can see the misery on the faces of people here who are trying to leave. We are denied our own right to freedom of movement," he says.
"We are ordinary people, we live in Gaza, we are not responsible for the mistakes of Hamas or any other party, so why are we being punished collectively?"
Last month, Israel further eased its import restrictions on Gaza, allowing construction materials to enter for the private sector.
It said this was in response to a request from the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a political rival of Hamas, whose Palestinian Authority governs parts of the West Bank.
Mr Abbas recently returned to peace talks with Israel that the Gaza government rejects.
His achievements only add to the sense that Hamas has found itself on the wrong side of recent events in the Middle East.
Nathan Thrall, a senior analyst from International Crisis Group, says the Islamist organisation originally had high hopes of the Arab uprisings.
"Hamas saw that the entire region was moving in their favour. They saw Islamist movements and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated movements rising and they saw that their position was going to be dramatically reversed," he says.
"They had been isolated not just by the West but by the Arab world and they felt that this was the dawn of a new era in which they would be legitimised and in which they potentially take over the entire Palestinian national movement. Now it looks quite the opposite."
The deputy foreign minister in Gaza, Ghazi Hamed admits that Hamas is currently "suffering" but says it has overcome many challenges since its election win seven years ago.
"All the time we are passing different hard stages. We started with the political isolation, with economic boycotts, incursions, wars against Gaza, but we succeeded to pass this," he says.
"The situation now in Egypt is not easy for us. We feel now there are some people who tried to squeeze us in the corner. But I think sooner or later we will get out of this crisis."
It is clear that funding is a major issue for Hamas which has to pay the salaries of 40,000 government workers. Previously it raised large sums from tunnel taxes.
One strategy appears to be to try to mend ties with Iran, which was the main financial and military benefactor of the group. Relations were damaged and funding was cut back when Hamas backed Sunni Muslim rebels fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a strategic ally of Tehran.
In the meantime, the military wing of Hamas, its al-Qassam Brigades, has given its own response to the current pressures.
There have been recent parades by masked militants carrying rocket-propelled grenades and guns that are clearly intended as a show of force; a dramatic reminder that for now Hamas retains a firm grip on Gaza. | The large white tents constructed in a row along the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt are ragged and abandoned; most of the thousands of smugglers who usually work in them are absent. |
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The two sides have until the end of May to pay 1.5m euros owed to the rest of the Pro12 clubs or face immediate expulsion.
Alfredo Gavazzi, president of the Italian Rugby Federation, threatened to pull both teams out in 2014.
London Welsh and London Scottish have held talks about joining the Pro12.
Treviso, Zebre and London Welsh have declined to comment.
Discussions remain at a preliminary stage, though Scottish have said they are interested in a move from the English Championship.
Chairman Sir David Reid said last year his club was "open-minded".
London Welsh have been relegated from the English Premiership and will join their fellow exiles in the Championship next season.
Italian clubs were introduced to the Celtic competition in 2010, with Treviso and Aironi the first representatives.
Zebre replaced Aironi for the 2012-13 season and both teams have finished bottom of the table in every campaign.
Treviso have been more competitive, finishing the 2012-13 season in seventh place. They are 11th in the this season's table, 12 points adrift of 10th placed Cardiff Blues. | Italian clubs Treviso and Zebre could be expelled from the Pro12, with London Welsh and London Scottish potentially taking their places. |
36,232,787 | The ministers were announced on Friday afternoon, 70 days after voters went to the polls to elect a new government.
Charlie Flanagan, who has been heavily involved in peace talks in Northern Ireland, has been re-appointed as minister of foreign affairs.
The Cabinet also includes a number of independent elected representatives.
The support of independents was necessary to allow Mr Kenny's Fine Gael party to lead a minority government, after the general election of 26 February produced a hung parliament.
Among the new independent ministers is Katherine Zappone, a high-profile campaigner for same-sex marriage who was born in the US but moved to the Republic of Ireland 28 years ago.
In May 2015, she famously proposed to her wife on live state television after Irish voters approved the introduction of same-sex marriage in a referendum.
Ms Zappone, who became the first openly lesbian member of the Irish parliament earlier this year, has been appointed as minister for children and youth affairs.
Other independent ministers include former business journalist and senator Shane Ross and Denis Naughten, who resigned from Fine Gael in 2011 in protest at cuts to hospital services.
The new Cabinet consists of:
Independent member Finian McGrath will also attend Cabinet and have special responsibility for disability.
Frances Fitzgerald, who has been re-appointed for a second term as minister for justice, has also been named as tánaiste (deputy prime minister). | Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny has appointed a new Cabinet just hours after he was re-elected to govern for a second term. |
26,993,271 | British stars Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter were joined outside the building by hundreds of extras playing protesters in the forthcoming movie.
Scenes have also been shot in the central lobby and a committee room.
Permission for filming was granted after MPs agreed it was a good way to cover the cost of running Parliament.
With MPs away on their Easter break, ministerial cars were replaced by vintage vehicles and rioting women fighting for the vote.
The filming comes just over 100 years since a series of real demonstrations by members of the Suffragette movement in the Palace of Westminster.
The director of Suffragette, Sarah Gavron, said: "Our film is inspired by the true stories of the foot soldiers of the Suffragette movement, women who were willing to sacrifice everything in their fight for the right to vote.
"We are honoured to be allowed to recreate a crucial moment in that long journey towards equality by filming where the Suffragettes actually brought their protest over 100 years ago."
The film also features Meryl Streep as fearsome campaigner Emmeline Pankhurst.
But Oscar-winning Streep - who in 2011 attended Prime Minister's Questions in preparation for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady - has already filmed her scenes and was not expected to be on set.
Sir Alan Haselhurst MP, chair of the House of Commons administration committee, said: "As a British film which clearly relates to Parliament's history and heritage, this is an ideal pilot for the House of Commons to identify the opportunities for location filming and income generation.
"We hope the film will engage the public with Parliament's history and heritage, and will offer a new way to bring our iconic buildings to a wider audience."
Adrian Wootton, chief executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: "Opening up such an iconic location as the House of Commons for filming is fantastic news.
"This unique location promises to attract more production to the capital, and by working with the industry and our partners, we will help ensure it can get the most out of filming, while protecting the integrity of this very special building.
"And I look forward to seeing it on screen in the star-studded Suffragette, which will be a fantastic showcase of British talent, behind and in front of the camera, and this very special new location."
Suffragette is a fictional story, set against the background of the struggle for women's rights.
Emmeline Pankhurst was imprisoned for the first time in February 1908 when she attempted to enter the House of Commons.
Later that year, she was jailed again after being found guilty of inciting a rush on the House of Commons. | The Houses of Parliament are for the first time being used as a set for a commercial film, as shooting for Suffragette takes place. |
33,928,045 | He was handed over to Swedish police after a medical check at Arlanda airport. His health is said to be good.
The hold of the Ethiopian Airlines jet would have got very cold during the long flight. There was a stopover in Rome, but he is believed to have come all the way from Addis Ababa.
Such cases are rare, officials say.
According to Radio Sweden, the man is an Ethiopian, born in 1991, and intends to seek asylum in Sweden. The plane landed at 06:53 local time (04:53 GMT).
"When the staff were going to unload the baggage, they found the man. He was in good shape, but we made him see a nurse," said Henrik Klefve, spokesman for airport operator Swedavia.
Swedish police officer Anders Faerdigs said "he says he works at the airport in Addis Ababa and he had a badge with him.
"That's how he had been able to move freely around the airport, reach the plane and get in the cargo hold."
Police say he may have been in a section of the cargo hold that is warmer, and where animals are transported.
Swedavia said only authorised personnel would normally get access to the hold. | An Ethiopian man hoping to get asylum in Sweden has been found in the hold of an airliner after a flight from Addis Ababa to Stockholm. |
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