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The blast, shortly before 19:30 BST on Saturday, badly damaged the house in George Street, with 11 people inside.
Nearly 30 firefighters worked at scene in what South Wales Fire and Rescue Service called "difficult" conditions.
A Wales and West Utilities expert said the blast was linked to "internal gas pipework and not our network".
Gwent Police said the explosion caused "extensive damage" to the property and adjacent buildings.
People living in surrounding properties have been allowed back into their homes, but people living in three houses either side have not been.
Station commander Mark Watts, of South Wales fire service, said 11 people had been in the house at the time of the explosion and that three people had minor injuries and another had "life-threatening injuries".
A police spokeswoman added: "The incident, which is believed to have been caused by a gas explosion, is being treated as suspicious.
"No other persons are being sought in connection with this incident."
The fire service said nearby properties were evacuated due to safety concerns.
Specialist equipment, including airbags, were brought in to try to keep the property structurally safe while firefighters conducted a search and worked at the scene.
By 21:50 BST, all 11 occupants were accounted for, said a fire service spokeswoman.
The mains gas network and the supply of gas to other properties was not affected by the incident, said Wales and West Utilities. | Four people have been hurt, one of them seriously, in a gas explosion at a house in Newport which police are treating as suspicious. |
The Dow Jones index surged 186.7 points, or 0.9%, to 20636.92, while the S&P 500 increased 20.06 points, or 0.86%, to 2,349.01.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 51.64 points or 0.89% to 5,856.79.
The US has entered earnings season, with a slew of companies due to release quarterly results in coming weeks.
Netflix, which is scheduled to publish its first quarter results on Monday, fell more than 3% in after hours trading after it gained fewer new subscribers than expected.
Stock prices for several retailers, including Under Armour, Kohl's and Macy's, declined after the US Commerce Department published a disappointing report on US retail sales on Friday.
Trading was light as most European markets were closed due to the Easter bank holiday. | (Close) Wall Street ended in decisively positive territory on Monday after investors returned from a three-day weekend in an upbeat mood. |
About 10,000 people have been rescued in worst-hit Uttarakhand state over three days, PM Manmohan Singh said.
Tens of thousands of pilgrims are still stranded in Uttarakhand, where more than 100 people have been killed.
Flood-related deaths have also been reported in Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states and neighbouring Nepal.
At least 22 people have been killed and 18 are missing in landslides and floods triggered by heavy rainfall in remote parts of Nepal, home ministry spokesman Shankar Koirala told the AFP news agency.
He said that more than 100 homes - mostly in western Nepal - had been damaged by the floods and the government had agreed to step up relief efforts at an emergency meeting.
By Shalini JoshiDehradun
The scale of devastation in Uttarakhand is staggering. As rescuers establish contact with more of the affected villages and settlements, they say many have been flattened to the ground.
On Wednesday, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna flew over Kedarnath, Guptkashi, Govindghat and Joshimath areas to assess the damage.
Most of the temple town of Kedarnath - apart from the main Shiva temple - is buried under mud and debris. There are scenes of devastation everywhere. Officials said it would take at least three to four years to get the town back on its feet.
Many of the villages remain cut off with emergency workers unable to reach marooned villages. There are are reported to be groups of people stranded in remote areas without any supplies. Most roads are still closed and many bridges, homes, schools and hotels have been damaged, hampering the relief operation.
The monsoon season generally lasts from June to September, bringing rain which is critical to the farming output of both countries, but this year the rain in the north of India and parts of Nepal has been heavier than usual.
On Wednesday afternoon, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi flew over Uttarakhand to assess the damage caused by the floods.
Mr Singh later described the situation there as "distressing" and announced a 10bn rupee ($170m; £127m) aid package for the state.
"The maximum devastation has been in [the temple town of] Kedarnath and its vicinity," he said. "The priority is to rescue the stranded and provide urgently needed succour to those most needing it."
Mr Singh said in Uttarakhand, 102 people had died, but he feared that "the loss of lives could eventually be much higher".
Meanwhile, more than 5,500 soldiers and hundreds of paramilitary and disaster management officials are working to rescue and provide emergency supplies to thousands of tourists and pilgrims stranded in towns and temples.
Military officials said five airbases were being used to help speed up rescue operations.
The situation in Uttarakhand was "really very bad", top disaster management official Piyush Rautela was quoted as telling news agency AFP.
The floods have swept away buildings and triggered landslides in some places, blocking roads. More than 20 bridges have collapsed.
Portions of a Hindu temple in Kedarnath were washed away and the shrine was "submerged in mud and slush", Uttarakhand disaster relief minister Jaspal Arya said.
India's Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said more than 62,000 pilgrims were stranded at various places.
Most of the pilgrims - bound for local Himalayan shrines - are stranded in Rudraprayag, Chamoli and Uttarkashi districts after roads caved in and bridges collapsed.
Some of the pilgrims who are stranded in a guest house in Joshimath town spoke to the BBC Hindi's Shalini Joshi about their ordeal.
"We were stuck in the car for 14 hours, we spent the entire night there. The mountains were collapsing above us, while a river in spate was raging below us," Delhi resident Asha Mahajan said.
"There was a huge traffic jam, we could neither go forward, nor move back. Anything could have happened. It was raining heavily and we were afraid that there might be a landslide. Thank God we are all right," she added.
"This is the first time we've come to the mountains. But we're now stuck in Joshimath. We are so close to the holy shrine of Badrinath, but we've been told not to go there. It makes me really said, but what can we do? If I survive, I'll come back here," said Dineshbhai Kishanbhai Patel who is visiting from the western state of Gujarat.
"It's been a harrowing trip for us," said Trilochan Singh from Mumbai city. "We hear the roads are all broken, cars and shops have been swept away. It is frightening. We are very lucky to be alive."
Local officials told the BBC that the number of dead was expected to rise as rescue workers had still not reached many affected areas.
In Himachal Pradesh, where at least 10 people have been killed in landslides, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh was himself stranded in Kinnaur district for nearly 60 hours.
He was evacuated on Tuesday by a helicopter hired by his Congress party, reports said. | Military helicopters and the army are leading rescue operations in India's flood-hit northern states, where 138 people are now known to have died. |
Ian Henderson - with his eighth league goal of the season - and Joe Thompson netted close-range finishes in each half to keep Dale fourth in the table.
Walsall should have led on 14 minutes as clever touches from first Simeon Jackson and then Florent Cuvelier found Amadou Bakayoko free in the box, but he skied a golden chance from 10 yards.
Rochdale made them pay, going ahead on 23 minutes as Walsall keeper Neil Etheridge could only get fingertips on a deep cross and Joe Rafferty's volley was tapped home by Henderson.
Bakayoko almost fashioned an equaliser to make amends for his earlier miss when he robbed a Dale defender to feed Cuvelier, but he was denied by visiting keeper Conrad Logan.
Rochdale were denied a second goal early in the second half as Etheridge parried Callum Camps' 30-yard free-kick and Henderson was booked for putting the ball back in over the line with his hand.
But they sealed the points on 74 minutes as Thompson pounced on static Walsall defending to poke home Harrison McGahey's cross from five yards.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Walsall 0, Rochdale 2.
Second Half ends, Walsall 0, Rochdale 2.
Substitution, Rochdale. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing replaces Oliver Rathbone.
Attempt missed. Jason McCarthy (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Joseph Rafferty.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Jimmy McNulty.
Attempt blocked. Adam Chambers (Walsall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Matthew Lund (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Keith Keane (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall).
Substitution, Rochdale. Steve Davies replaces Joe Thompson.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Jason McCarthy.
Attempt blocked. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Kory Roberts (Walsall).
Joe Thompson (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Franck Moussa (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Scott Laird (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Calvin Andrew (Rochdale).
Goal! Walsall 0, Rochdale 2. Joe Thompson (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Scott Laird (Walsall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Harrison McGahey (Rochdale).
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Jason McCarthy.
Substitution, Walsall. Franck Moussa replaces Kieron Morris.
Substitution, Rochdale. Harrison McGahey replaces Joe Bunney because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Joe Bunney (Rochdale) because of an injury.
Substitution, Walsall. Erhun Oztumer replaces Simeon Jackson.
Attempt missed. Simeon Jackson (Walsall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Jason McCarthy (Walsall).
Ian Henderson (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. James O'Connor (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Keith Keane (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Keith Keane (Rochdale).
Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Florent Cuvelier (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Calvin Andrew (Rochdale).
Foul by Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall).
Ian Henderson (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Ian Henderson (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card for hand ball. | In-form Rochdale eased to a fifth straight victory as they boosted their League One play-off bid with a win at mid-table Walsall. |
David Doig, of skills, standards and workforce body Opito, was from St Andrews and was based in Dubai.
He suffered a heart attack in December and died in hospital on Saturday.
Opito chairman John Taylor said: "David was a respected industry leader, firm advocate of social responsibility, and trusted colleague and friend to many."
He added: "His straight-talking approach, determination and passionate belief that all oil and gas workers regardless of their job role, their employer or their nationality should be able to travel to work and return home safely at the end of the day, helped drive positive change in countless countries around the world and inspired great loyalty among those who knew him.
"His loss is sorely felt by us all. Our thoughts are with David's wife, Gillian, and his family at this difficult time."
Mr Doig had an early background in engineering and worked on major offshore projects in the North Sea for more than 25 years before moving onshore in 1994.
He joined Opito in 1999 and was appointed chief executive in 2005. | Tribute has been paid to the chief executive of an oil and gas industry development organisation after his death at the age of 57. |
Tomkins, 24, joined Salford on a permanent deal from Wigan in 2016 and has become their first-choice hooker.
Johnson, 27, has been at the AJ Bell Stadium since 2014 and scored 10 tries this season in 18 appearances.
"Logan is one of the hardest workers around, he does so much unseen work," head coach Ian Watson said.
"Greg is one of the best wingers in Super League when it comes to getting the team on the front foot. He's an extremely good trainer and that shows on the field," Watson added. | Salford Red Devils hooker Logan Tomkins and winger Greg Johnson have both signed new undisclosed-length contracts with the Super League club. |
A Sinn Féin motion was passed by council last week to boycott Israeli goods.
DUP MLA Gary Middleton, a critic of the motion, said councillors should to give up their iPads if they were "serious about the boycott".
Apple use flash memory components manufactured by Israeli company Anobit.
"It is quite clear that there should have been more information sought before the motion was brought," Mr Middleton said.
"I think we all realise the huge role that the research and development sector within Israel plays.
"The iPhone I'm using, the iPads the council use, they all use components that come out of Israel.
"The motion has raised the serious issue of discrimination, I put the question to the first minister and she herself had been contacted by the Jewish community expressing their concerns," Mr Middleton added.
Sinn Féin councillor Christopher Jackson, who proposed the motion, defended its aims.
"The wording of the motion actually states that council investigate the most practical means of implementing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
"The comments from Gary Middleton are nonsensical and he is just looking to grab headlines.
"The motion itself was symbolic and in my view it has been successful in raising awareness in the council area and elsewhere.
"Any attempts to try and link the BDS campaign with anti-Semitism is absolutely wrong," Mr Jackson said.
On Friday, Gerald Steinberg, chairman of the Belfast Jewish Community Council, told BBC Radio Foyle that the decision to implement BDS was "very regrettable". | Derry City and Strabane District Councillors, who backed a campaign to boycott Israeli goods, have been urged to hand in their council issued iPads. |
Gregor Townsend's men were thunderously good, triumphing by 18 points at the Kingspan Stadium.
They scored three first-half tries through Rob Harley, DTH van der Merwe and Henry Pyrgos, while Finn Russell sealed the win with a fourth.
Andrew Smith crossed for Munster but they were rarely close to the Scottish side.
It was a remarkable day for Glasgow, a coming of age for an indomitable team. And at last, a trophy for a Scottish club in a professional rugby age that has brought little more than misery and embarrassment.
Glasgow captain Al Kellock stepped up and lifted the silverware to the Belfast skies. It was a full stop on his career but really just the beginning of a new chapter for this club. It was hard-earned and thoroughly justified, a day of days.
Glasgow's intensity and quality in establishing a game-winning lead was something to behold. They were a cosmic blend of brutality and subtlety, hard running and soft hands. In an extraordinary first half-hour, Townsend's team were a lethal force.
They struck first after Munster got done for a crooked throw at a lineout. Off the scrum, the marauding presence of the magnificent Leone Nakarawa got his hands on the ball and blasted his way through the cover and fed Rob Harley on his shoulder. A second-row and a blindside flanker and a try once Harley ran over the top of Felix Jones to touch down under the posts.
With Russell's conversion, it was a seven-point game, a beginning to this final that Townsend could hardly have imagined.
Glasgow unleashed their ball-carriers, the likes of Josh Strauss, Dougie Hall and Nakarawa, with a relentlessness that Munster could not live with.
The lead was cut to four points when Ian Keatley put over a penalty early in the second quarter, but that was a mere prelude to Glasgow's second devastating breakthrough.
Again, it was Nakarawa at the heart of it, the giant lock fishing ball out of a breakdown, side-stepping the first Munster defender, taking the hit from two more Munstermen while stretching out his telescopic arm to drop a sumptuous pass into the hands of winger Van der Merwe, who ran in the try.
Russell added the points and Glasgow were ahead 14-3. Their stuff of fantasy carried on a while yet. A third try was scored six minutes later when Glasgow fed off a Munster knock-on in midfield and attacked wide through Stuart Hogg.
The full-back in full flow is a gorgeous sight. He went through a gap and linked with Pyrgos who galloped away to score at the sticks. A third Russell conversion stretched Glasgow's lead to a scarcely believable 18 points.
Munster found themselves at last just before the break, battering the Glasgow defence and finding enough space for Smith to squeeze over. Keatley made it a seven-pointer and the fly-half added another three early in the new half for Paul O'Connell's team.
For a brief moment, it looked ominous - Munster have so often clawed themselves back from the cliff edge.
But this Glasgow team has as much character as it has class. They kept their composure and kept playing. They kept believing.
And kept scoring. Their fourth try was the killer for Munster. When, after incessant pounding, Russell saw the defence ajar, he ghosted in and then lobbed over the conversion.
It was hard not to feel for O'Connell, a great player and a great man playing his last game for Munster. If the endgame was all about a stellar second-row forward, though, it was not about O'Connell, it was about Kellock.
He entered the fray on 67 minutes as a replacement for Nakarawa. His first contribution was a lineout steal, such a fitting way to end a tumultuous career.
Before the end, Duncan Weir landed a penalty, a score that got the blue flags waving once more.
In truth, they never stopped - the fans and the team. This was the Warriors' greatest day. A long time coming, but all the sweeter because of it.
Glasgow Warriors: Hogg, Seymour, Vernon, Horne, Van der Merwe, Russell, Pyrgos, Reid, Hall, De Klerk, Nakarawa, Gray, Harley, Wilson, Strauss.
Replacements: S Lamont for Hogg (62), Matawalu for van der Merwe (70), Weir for Russell (66), Yanuyanutawa for Reid (77), Brown for Hall (62), Welsh for de Klerk (52), Kellock for Nakarawa (66), Fusaro for Harley (60).
Munster: Jones, Earls, Smith, D Hurley, Zebo, Keatley, Williams, Kilcoyne, Guinazu, Botha, B Holland, O'Connell, D Ryan, Butler, Stander.
Replacements: R O'Mahony for Zebo (56), Hanrahan for Keatley (56), Sheridan for Williams (71), J. Cronin for Kilcoyne (62), Casey for Guinazu (62), Archer for Botha (60), O'Donoghue for B. Holland (60), Dougall for Butler (71).
Attendance: 17,057
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales). | Joy and emotion were undiluted as Glasgow Warriors won the Pro12 against Munster in Belfast. |
Both players retired from international duty after helping the Elephants win the Africa Cup of Nations this year.
But they are in the squad to face Angola in Abidjan on Thursday and away to Equatorial Guinea on Sunday.
It means Barry and Toure can say farewell in front of their own fans at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium.
Barry was the star of the penalty shootout victory in last month's Nations Cup final and Toure also had a fine game in central defence.
The pair were given honorary places in a 28-man selection that includes all of the winning from the tournament as Ivory Coast uses the games to celebrate its success.
That means Manchester City pair Yaya Toure and Wilfried Bony and Roma star Gervinho will also travel for the friendlies.
Elsewhere, losing Nations Cup finalists Ghana have set up two tough games for the international window - against Senegal and Mali in France in four days. Those teams have both reacted to poor African Cup campaigns by firing their coaches.
Former national team captain Aliou Cisse is now in charge of Senegal, while Alain Giresse left to return for another spell as Mali coach.
Cisse's biggest decision in his first Senegal squad was to recall former Chelsea striker Demba Ba, who was left out for the African Cup by Giresse.
For Ghana, the games give coach Avram Grant a chance to start planning for 2017 African Cup qualifying - the next mission for the continent's teams - after he had barely a month to prepare for this year's tournament. Qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia then starts in October.
Top-ranked African team Algeria has games against Qatar and Oman in Doha, while Tunisia travels to China and Morocco will face Uruguay at home on Saturday.
Morocco were thrown out of the 2017 and 2019 African Cups after declining to host this year. The Moroccans have said they will appeal against the ruling.
Nigeria have a hastily-arranged game against Uganda on Wednesday after Bolivia pulled out over fears over an attack by Nigeria's Boko Haram extremist group. Nigeria said Bolivia "chickened out'' and the Nigerian Football Federation indicated it will take legal action against Bolivia through Fifa for breach of contract.
Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama has a chance to make his 100th appearance for Nigeria if he plays against the Ugandans or against South Africa on Sunday.
After another disappointing tournament, four-time African champions Cameroon's matches away in Indonesia and Thailand have led to more criticism of the team and the national federation, which is still being controlled by a normalization committee set up nearly two years ago in the absence of proper football elections.
Legendary Cameroon striker Roger Milla said lowly-ranked Indonesia and Thailand were not good enough opposition and the national team would gain more by playing a local Cameroonian club.
"How can a country like Cameroon pick such football nonentities for international friendlies?" Milla said.
In other games, surprise African Cup semi-finalists Congo play Iraq in the United Arab Emirates and 29-year-old Johnny McKinstry, one of the youngest coaches in international football, takes charge of for the first time against 2012 African champion Zambia.
Egypt, still wary of the threat of violence at football games at home after a deadly stampede last month, meet Equatorial Guinea in neutral Morocco on Thursday. | Goalkeeper Boubacar Barry and defender Kolo Toure will mark the end of their Ivory Coast careers in this week's friendly matches. |
The Russian returned from a 15-month doping ban last month and could yet qualify directly or receive a wildcard when they are confirmed on 20 June.
Wimbledon's qualifying event will be ticketed for the first time this year.
All England Club chief Richard Lewis is "absolutely confident" Roehampton could cope with Sharapova's presence.
"We're used to organising events where there's a lot of pressure on our facilities, so it would be nothing unusual for us," he told BBC Sport.
Lewis said Sharapova, the 2004 Wimbledon champion, has not yet requested a wildcard and there have been no discussions, either formal or informal, with her or her team.
Former world number one Sharapova, 30, reached the semi-finals in Stuttgart on her return to action last month.
As a result she is currently ranked 262nd - but she needs to be closer to the top 100 to qualify directly for the main draw at Wimbledon, or the top 200 for the qualifying tournament.
She has wildcards at this month's events in Madrid and Rome, where she can pick up more points before the Wimbledon main draw entry deadline of 22 May and the qualifying deadline of 5 June.
Wimbledon's qualifying tournament takes place from 26 to 29 June at the Bank of England Sports Grounds, and until this year has been an unticketed event with limited media facilities.
This year there will be 1,000 tickets for sale at £5 each, with proceeds going to the Wimbledon Foundation, along with video coverage of one court, inflatable covers on two courts and an improved player lounge.
Asked whether the changes were made with Sharapova's possible presence in mind, Lewis said: "I know it does seem very convenient timing but it is actually unrelated, genuinely unrelated, and we know that qualifying needs to continue to be improved, just like we improve facilities here at the Championships. It's part of an ongoing process."
Sharapova was initially banned by the International Tennis Federation for two years after testing positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open.
It was later reduced to 15 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, who found that she was not an "intentional doper".
The issue of whether the French Open and Wimbledon, as Grand Slam events, should offer wildcards to a player returning from a doping ban has divided opinion.
Andy Murray and Caroline Wozniacki have been among those opposed to her receiving wildcards, while Venus Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova were among the more supportive players.
The French federation will make its decision known on 16 May, while Wimbledon's Tennis Committee meets to discuss who will receive wildcards on 20 June.
The committee will be made up of former British number one Tim Henman, three club members including club chairman Philip Brook, Debbie Jevans and Richard Stoakes, tournament referee Andrew Jarrett and two LTA members, Martin Corrie and Cathy Sabin.
"Wildcards are what they say that they are," Lewis added.
"There's a wide range of criteria that any tournament would consider and from our point of view it could be playing record, it could be whether they are British or not.
"And to pre-empt the next question, who knows what they will consider on the 20 June? That's a matter for the committee and not something we can speculate on at this stage."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent
Improvements to the Roehampton site have been on the All England Club's agenda for a while, but I think it would be fair to say progress was given an extra sense of urgency by the possible appearance of Sharapova and all those her presence would attract.
The 2004 champion could well play herself into the main draw by reaching the semi-finals in either Madrid or Rome, which allowed Richard Lewis to answer questions about wildcards as purely hypothetical for now.
Past Wimbledon form and success in tournaments leading up to the championships, especially those on grass, are factors the committee will consider. Sharapova will score highly in at least one of those categories, and Lewis also told me that views expressed by some other players are not likely to prove relevant.
But he would not be drawn on how much weight Sharapova's anti-doping violation would carry. That is the crux of the matter, and very much down to the seven people who will file into the All England Club on Tuesday, 20 June. | Wimbledon qualifying could cope with the levels of interest should Maria Sharapova take part in the Roehampton tournament, the All England Club says. |
The attack took place on the same day as Egyptian security forces broke up protest camps set up by Brotherhood supporters, leaving hundreds dead.
Egypt has been fiercely criticised for its crackdown on Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
Hundreds of death sentences have been passed but none have been carried out.
The latest sentences are subject to the opinion of Egypt's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti.
A final verdict is due on 24 January, after which defendants may appeal.
More than 140 of the 188 defendants are already in custody, while the rest have been sentenced in absentia.
The sentences were passed for an attack on a police station in the village of Kerdasa on 14 August 2013, in which at least 11 officers were killed.
More than 500 people have been sentenced to death for a separate attack on a police station in Minya on the same day.
Mr Morsi, a senior figure of the Brotherhood, had been forced from office by the military in the previous month, following mass protests against him.
He was succeeded by President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, a former military chief who has been heavily criticised for his crackdown on the Islamists.
On Saturday, another court dropped all charges against former President Hosni Mubarak, who has been in custody since being overthrown in the so-called Arab Spring uprising of 2011.
Critics of the current government accuse it of restoring Mr Mubarak's authoritarian practices. | More than 180 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been sentenced to death in Egypt over a 2013 attack on a police station near Cairo. |
The Paris St-Germain striker has won a record 10th Guldbollen (Golden Ball), the award given to the best male footballer in his home country.
It is the ninth year in a row that Ibrahimovic has lifted the award.
He won it for the first time in 2005, and has won it every year since former Arsenal midfielder Fredrik Ljungberg triumphed in 2006.
No other player has won the award more than twice.
This year Ibrahimovic won a historic French domestic treble, reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League and became PSG's all-time record scorer.
Since his first Guldbollen win, Ibrahimovic has played for Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan and PSG, commanding transfer fees of £150m. | He may not have the Ballon d'Ors of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, but at least Zlatan Ibrahimovic can console himself with being, beyond doubt, the best player in Sweden. |
The attack happened in Gardner Road, in the Kincorth area, at about 07:45 on Saturday morning.
A man in his 30s was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with serious injuries.
Two boys aged 15 and 16 from Aberdeen and Edinburgh - who cannot be named for legal reasons - were charged at Aberdeen Sheriff Court with assault and attempted murder.
They made no plea and were released on bail. | Two teenagers have appeared in court charged with attempted murder in connection with an assault in Aberdeen. |
This is the first time he has explicitly confirmed the bank is making plans for different outcomes that could impact financial stablity.
Mr Carney's comments came ahead of the 18 September independence referendum.
Scottish and UK ministers are in dispute over plans for Scotland to keep the pound under a currency union.
The Scottish government set out the scenario in the event of a "Yes" vote, but the leaders of the main UK parties have said they would not support a deal to share Sterling on a formal basis.
In a speech given in January in Edinburgh, Mr Carney outlined the criteria for a currency union.
He described his own speech as a "technocratic assessment of what makes an effective currency union between independent nations", rather than an assessment of Scotland's future economic options.
During a news conference in London on Wednesday, Mr Carney stressed the decision about whether or not an independent Scotland would form a currency union with the rest of the UK would be made by politicians.
In a carefully neutral comment, Mr Carney said it was the role of the Bank of England to implement whatever decision was made, and to ensure the financial stability of the whole of the UK.
Sources in the financial world have told me that the plans are likely to focus on two issues - currency uncertainty and what is known as "deposit flight".
I asked the Governor directly about both, and specifically fears raised in a recent report by UBS that in the event of a yes vote on independence, customers of financial institutions based north of the border may decide to move their money southwards.
Some leading executives in the financial world are so concerned they had been hoping for a message of reassurance from the Bank.
Mr Carney suggested he was across the issue, which I have been told by senior banking figures is of concern to at least four major financial institutions which are based in Scotland.
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To that end, he said that, as people would expect, the Bank had contingency plans for various possibilities.
"It's never good to talk about contingency plans in public other than to assure that we have contingency plans," he said, adding: "In terms of our responsibilities for financial stability - we have a wide range of tools and plans."
A key part of the role of governor is to provide reassurance both for the UK financial system and for markets. Mr Carney's latest comments were framed in that context.
If Scotland does vote for independence, it would still be the role of the Bank of England to ensure financial stability for the whole of the UK - including Scotland - until an official date for Scottish independence is reached.
The governor therefore repeated assurances that the institution would continue to act to ensure financial responsibility for the whole of the UK, whatever the outcome of the vote.
He said: "I will reiterate that we will implement whatever we're asked to implement and I'll add further, if I may, that we also have responsibilities, as you know, for financial stability in the United Kingdom and we will continue to discharge those responsibilities until they change.
"We will continue to discharge those responsibilities regardless of the outcome of the vote on the 18th September."
Mr Carney's comments strike a different tone to the UK government, which has repeatedly said it was not putting contingency plans in place for the possibility of Scotland voting for independence.
His remarks were welcomed by Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond who described them as "very helpful".
In an interview on the BBC's Reporting Scotland, he said: "It shows that he is seeking to ensure financial stablity and that the Bank of England remains in the charge for that transition period. What a contrast with the views of the Westminster parties.
"Secondly he has corrected once again the idea that he was against a currency union. He's said yet again he'll implement whatever is agreed."
The first minister was asked about a BBC report that four major financial institutions in Scotland are worried that a "Yes" vote could result in customers moving their investments south of the border.
Mr Salmond responded: "The fear of deposit flight is caused by a denomination risk. That is to say, you would use a currency other than sterling.
"What we've been saying is exactly to prevent a fear of deposit flight, helped now by the governor of the Bank of England who makes it clear they would be in charge of financial stability."
But Alistair Darling, the head of the Better Together campaign, said Mr Carney had undermined Mr Salmond's arguments.
Mr Darling added: "The governor has confirmed that a currency union would not work without shared taxation and spending, the very things that Alex Salmond wants to dismantle with a Yes vote.
"Mark Carney also confirmed that he will implement the decisions of the UK parties who have ruled out a currency union.
"The money we would use if we vote for independence isn't an academic matter, it is critical to everyone in Scotland. Alex Salmond has got to come clean and tell us what Plan B is." | Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has said the institution has drawn up currency contingency plans, whatever the outcome of the Scottish referendum. |
It was created after communist South Yemen and traditional North Yemen merged in 1990, following years of strife.
Tensions remain between the north and the south, however. A southern separatist movement was defeated in a short civil war in 1994, and tensions re-emerged in 2009 when government troops and rebels, known as the Houthi, clashed in the north, killing hundreds and displacing more than a quarter of a million people.
A fresh wave of protests in 2011, inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, forced then-President Ali Abdallah Saleh to resign.
Yemen has also become a base for militant groups, like Al-Qaeda and Islamic State, adding to instability in the country. The country spiralled into civil war in 2014 and, despite peace initiatives, fighting continues.
Population 25.6 million
Area 536,869 sq km (207,286 sq miles)
Major language Arabic
Major religion Islam
Life expectancy 65 years (men), 68 years (women)
Currency Yemeni riyal
President: Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi came to power in 2012, after then-President Ali Abdallah Saleh stepped down in a bid to end civil unrest.
He resigned in January 2015 and fled the country after Houthis took over the capital, Sanaa.
He is still supported by Saudi Arabia and loyalist forces willing to fight the Houthi rebels. He has set up a temporary capital in the city of Aden.
Yemen is currently in a state of political limbo. The Houthis claim the parliament has been dissolved and replaced by a transitional revolutionary council, headed by Mohammed Ali al-Houthi. But the UN, US and Gulf Co-operation Council refuse to recognize the Houthis' rule.
The political uncertainty and insecurity is also affecting Yemen media, according to Reporters Without Borders. The media watch dog documented a string of incidents of harassment, threats and assaults by security forces and unidentified groups or individuals in 2014.
The Houthi movement has also targeted the facilities of the national state broadcaster.
TV and radio are vital elements in Yemen's media scene, due in part to widespread illiteracy.
The broadcasting sector has expanded in recent years and many privately-owned outlets have strong political affiliations. Several privately-owned radio stations are on the air, some of them also affiliated with political parties.
Some key dates in Yemen's history:
1839 - Aden, in South Yemen, comes under British rule. When the Suez Canal opens in 1869, it serves as a refuelling port of strategic importance to the British empire.
1918 - North gains independence with the departure of Ottoman forces.
1969 - South Yemen gains independence from Britain. Marxists take power, renaming country People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and reorienting it towards Soviet bloc.
1990 - The two Yemens unite.
1994 - Brief war of secession ends in defeat of southern separatist forces.
2000 - Al-Qaeda gains prominence in Yemen, ushering in a period of terrorist attacks, instability and crack downs against foreign Islamic clerics operating in the country.
2011 - Protests in Tunisia inspire demonstrations; President Saleh agrees to hand over power to his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
2014 - Houthi rebels overrun the capital, plunging country into civil war and prompting a Saudi-led coalition to intervene militarily to stop them from gaining more ground. | Despite its ancient roots as the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, the modern Republic of Yemen is a relatively new state. |
The 14% increase in the year to September 2015 was largely due to a high number of deaths in June when 75 people were killed in one month, the Office for National Statistics found.
There were 574 murders and killings in total, 71 more than the previous year.
Overall reported crime was up by 6% to 4.3 million offences but the ONS said it was due to better recording methods.
While the murder rate in England and Wales has risen, it remains significantly lower than it was a decade ago because of 10 years of previous falls.
The recent increase includes relatively high numbers of killings in June and also in November 2014 when 58 people were killed.
There was also a 19% rise in attempted murders, but the ONS said it was too early to say if this was a growing trend.
6%
increase in crimes recorded by police in England and Wales
4.3 million offences recorded by police
574 homicides, 71 more than previous year
9% rise in offences involving knives or sharp instruments
4% increase in offences involving firearms
Knife crime was up 9% with 27,487 offences, while gun crime was up 4% to 4,994 offences. The latter increase was mostly driven by a rise in gun offences in London, the ONS said.
Overall crime figures have risen but this was put down to "a greater proportion of reports of crime being recorded" following improvements by police forces rather than actual numbers of crimes going up.
But the ONS said rises in knife attacks and gun offences were less likely to explained by changes in recording practices.
By Danny Shaw, BBC home affairs correspondent
Police figures need to be approached with caution: forces have adapted their methods after an inspection found they were not recording one in every five offences reported to them.
With gun crime, for example, it's too early to say if the rise is more than just a blip.
However, there does appear to be a genuine increase in offences involving knives, which may be fuelling the rise in attempted murders.
The problem is particularly marked in London where some young people carry knives in the misguided belief it will help protect them.
As for murders and killings, the increase cannot be explained by police recording practices, but might be connected to an upturn in the economy, which means more people drinking and getting into fights or a reduction in domestic violence prevention work by cash-strapped police.
The increases were mainly in south-east England and Wales. Alternatively, it could be a statistical quirk - with two months showing unusually high rises: we should find out when more detailed data is published next month. | Murders and killings in England and Wales have increased to their highest level for five years, figures show. |
Carl Brookes, 32, Ross Wilkinson, 23, Luke Mansell 23, and Nathan Weston, 22, are accused of taking part in a prison mutiny.
All four men will appear before magistrates on 17 January.
The offences are alleged to have been committed on 16 December, when the privately-run jail was the subject of disorder.
Brookes, who is now being held at HMP Hewell in Worcestershire, is further accused of taking a photograph without authorisation during the disturbances at HMP Birmingham.
More updates on this and other stories in Birmingham and the Black Country
Two other men charged with prison mutiny were remanded in custody by magistrates earlier this month and are due to appear at Birmingham Crown Court on 3 February. | Four prison inmates have been charged with prison mutiny after last month's riots at HMP Birmingham. |
The report, carried out by charity Relate and based on a survey of 20,980 people in relationships from 2013-15, suggested 2.87 million people were in "distressed" relationships.
Dr David Marjoribanks, from Relate, said constant bickering could have a "far-reaching" impact on children.
On average they did worse in school and could even fall into crime, he said.
"It is not just the actual breakdown of the relationship itself, it's specifically the conflict that surrounds that," Dr Marjoribanks said.
"It means that when relationships end, it is not deemed to inevitably harm children, far from it.
"It is the conflict in intact relationships that can be just as damaging, as when relationships end," he added.
"Children who grow up with parents who have highly-conflicted relationships are much more likely to have mental and physical health problems, to not do as well at school and end up in antisocial behaviour and criminality even."
It may have seemed a small thing but Sophie*, 28, knew her marriage was over when she came home from work to have lunch with her out-of-work husband and he expected her to make it.
Things had not been right for some time. There had been arguments about money, jobs and housework shortly after the wedding, often in front of their young son. But soon communication shut down almost entirely as both felt the arguments were always the same and nothing would ever change.
Days would go by with neither of them talking to each other.
They tried counselling but it came at a cost and they found themselves forced to choose between a counselling session or buying food for the week.
In January last year, after three years of marriage, Sophie told her husband, 41, it was over.
"As soon as we separated I immediately felt lighter. I did not have to do all this stuff for someone who did not do anything," she said.
Both are now in new relationships, and Sophie, who lives in West Yorkshire, says she now tries to make time to talk about things as soon as they come up and to be more open about money.
*Not her real name
Researchers looked at data from the Understanding Society survey of 20,980 people which asked people how often they argued, how frequently they considered divorce and regretted the relationship, and the extent of their unhappiness.
They said their findings suggested 2.87 million people, which equates to 18% of married or cohabiting couples, were living in "distressed" relationships, where the strains were deemed to be "clinically significant" by counsellors.
The number of "distressed" relationships reached a high in 2011 and 2012 but have not yet returned to pre-recession levels, the data showed.
"There is a pattern of relationship strain increasing during recession years - where economic strain increases, for example low income, unemployment, a build-up of debt, the strain on the relationship increases," Dr Marjoribanks said.
The research also found:
Dr Marjoribanks said many couples suffered in silence for years and only sought help when it was too late to salvage their relationship.
Jan Artingstall from Therapy Cheshire, who is listed in the Counselling Directory, believes people today spend so much time communicating via text and social media that they have forgotten how to talk.
"People have lost the art of talking about how they feel. It's like we have gone back to being children who don't have the language to communicate feelings," she said.
A common problem among couples was mistrust built around text messages sent between work colleagues and partners spying on each other's online communications, she added.
Her advice is for couples to sit down for 10 minutes to talk about their day and take joint responsibility for the state of the relationship, rather than pointing fingers.
She also said children who saw their parents fall out and make up were learning a useful lesson but daily and embedded conflict was damaging.
"Children are very perceptive to atmosphere. It doesn't have to be a shouting match - they can pick up on stonewalling and tense body language.
"Children won't say 'Are you unhappy Mummy or Daddy?' They just accept and absorb the atmosphere and feel unhappy inside."
There were 114,720 divorces in England and Wales in 2013, down 3% on 2012, the most recent figures available from the Office of National Statistics show. The number of divorces was highest among men and women aged between 40 and 44.
In Scotland, 9,030 divorces were granted in 2014-15, 6% fewer than in the previous 12 months, Scottish government figures show. Northern Ireland saw a slight rise in divorce rates from 2,403 in 2013 to 2,455 in 2014, according to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
Chris Sherwood, chief executive at Relate, said the report's findings were "hugely concerning", adding that "families can't go on like this".
The charity was launching its first national appeal, Breaking Point, calling for donations to help make its services available to everyone, not just those who could afford them, he added. | Almost one in five (18%) couples in the UK argue regularly or consider separating, a study suggests. |
During his time with the Obama administration, the 57-year-old played a critical role in the planning of a May 2011 raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
He has also led the administration's efforts to curb the growth of terror groups in North Africa and the Middle East.
Pending Senate confirmation, he would succeed retired General David Petraeus, who resigned in November after admitting to an extramarital affair with his biographer.
Mr Brennan, 57, is a veteran of the CIA, having spent 25 years at the agency in various posts including station chief in Saudi Arabia and deputy executive director in the administration of former President George W Bush.
But some liberals have raised concerns over his involvement in what the government has called "enhanced interrogation techniques" - considered by some to amount to torture.
In 2008, Mr Brennan was reportedly considered for the top job at the CIA, but he withdrew his name amid criticism, while denying any connection to the interrogation methods.
At the time, Mr Brennan said in a letter to Mr Obama that he had been "a strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration, such as the pre-emptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics, to include waterboarding".
Many analysts say it is unlikely that he will face such criticism this time round.
But, they say, Mr Brennan's nomination is likely to bring renewed focus to the government's drone policy.
In April, Mr Brennan became the first member of Mr Obama's administration to make detailed public comments acknowledging the government's use of unmanned drones to carry out targeted killings.
Speaking to a think tank in Washington, Mr Brennan argued that the overseas attacks were legal, and protected the lives of Americans.
Ahead of its announcement, the White House has said that, over the last four years, Mr Brennan has worked closely with the president and has been involved with "virtually all major national security issues and will be able to hit the ground running at the CIA", according to Politico. | John Brennan, a member of President Barack Obama's inner circle and his top counter-terrorism adviser, is to be officially nominated to direct the Central Intelligence Agency. |
The 24-year-old, racing the distance on the track for only the second time, obliterated the field to finish in 29 minutes 17.45 seconds.
Britain's Jo Pavey was 15th in her fifth Olympics at age 42, setting a season's best time of 31:33.44.
Kenya's Vivian Cheriot, the 2012 bronze medallist, finished second in 29:32.53.
Defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia only managed third but in a personal best time of 29:42.56 - one of 18 personal bests in the race.
"I found it tough out there," said Pavey.
"I'm so honoured to have competed at my fifth Olympics, but in reality I am getting old. It was fairly humid. I would like to have been more competitive, but I gave my best and that is all I could do."
Ayana, the world champion at 5,000m, recorded the fastest 10,000m debut in history at the Ethiopian Olympic trials in June, clocking 30:07.00.
She becomes the first woman to break a 10,000m world record at an Olympic Games.
Britain's Jess Andrews finished one place behind Pavey in a PB of 31:35.92 and Beth Potter was 34th in 33:04.34.
Paula Radcliffe, Marathon world record holder
"I'm not sure that I can understand that. When I saw the world record set in 1993, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. And Ayana has absolutely blitzed that time."
Brendan Foster, Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist and BBC athletics commentator
"You see things pushed along sometimes - you think of Bob Beamon in the long jump - but I'm not sure what to make of that to be honest. I will be interested to hear what Ayana has to say afterwards."
Steve Cram, Olympic 1500m silver medallist
"Unprecedented. Full stop."
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Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana smashed the world record by over 14 seconds to win Olympic gold in the women's 10,000m in Rio. |
Hildebrando Chaviano is an independent journalist and lawyer, and Yuniel Lopez a member of an outlawed political party, the Independent and Democratic Cuba Party.
The two men were standing for places on local councils in Havana.
Their election would have been unprecedented under Cuba's current single-party electoral system.
Both Mr Chaviano and Mr Lopez said they had fallen too far behind in the count for a chance of victory.
After advancing past the first round, they told foreign press agencies they thought the government had been caught off guard by the strength of their support.
Like half of the 27,000 candidates for municipal posts, the two were selected by a show of hands in a local neighbourhood meeting. The final round of the elections is by secret vote - there is no campaigning.
"We have to take advantage of the moment," Mr Chaviano said. "No-one from the government was expecting us to be nominated and even less that we would become candidates."
"Some people say that there is fear in Cuba, and I say that people have lost their fear," said Mr Lopez.
Both men had been running for seats on municipal assemblies that oversee local matters that include water supplies, street repairs and insect fumigation.
Municipal assemblies also nominate candidates for half the representatives on provincial assemblies.
The provincial assemblies then nominate candidates for half the members of the National Assembly, which elects Cuba's ruling Council of State, which in turn elects the president.
The other half of the candidates at municipal and provincial level are selected by a government electoral commission, ensuring continued Communist Party control.
President Raul Castro began introducing gradual but wide-ranging economic reforms in 2010.
He also promised changes to the electoral system, but has yet to provide details. | The first opposition candidates to stand in a Cuban election for decades have conceded defeat. |
The FA Cup winners revealed the three designs they will use during the 2014-15 campaign at the main central London store of kit supplier Puma.
Arsenal's home strip remains in the club's traditional red-and-white colour scheme first adopted in 1933.
The away kit sports a familiar yellow-and-blue design, while a two-tone blue strip will be used for away cup games.
Southampton, West Ham United and Liverpool appear to have embraced the past with their new designs.
The Saints have returned to red-and-white stripes, while the new home shirt of the Hammers is similar to that worn in 1985-6.
Liverpool have gone for a yellow-coloured second away shirt and on Monday released a black and red third strip.
Everton's new home jersey features a retro collar, while promoted Queens Park Rangers have gone for thinner blue and white hoops.
Others to unveil this season's colours so far include Manchester United, Chelsea, Stoke City, Crystal Palace and Aston Villa.
Manchester United are in the final year of their agreement with Nike, who are thought to be one of three companies competing to win the new rights when the current deal expires. | Arsenal have become the latest Premier League club to unveil their new kits for the forthcoming season. |
The Public Administration Select Committee said the arrangement could end up as a "short term experiment" due to levels of opposition in the Commons.
Legislation deemed to affect England, or England and Wales only, is now subject to an extra stage of scrutiny, involving only MPs elected there.
Ministers said it was an "important balance" to devolution elsewhere.
The rules, introduced in response to calls for a stronger voice for English MPs following increased devolution to Scotland, were activated in the House of Commons for the first time last month.
English and Welsh MPs gave their consent to parts of the Housing and Planning Bill that only apply to their constituencies, as part of a new stage in the legislative process for considering bills applying only to their constituents.
In a report on the new system, the cross-party committee of MPs said there was "strong English demand" for measures to address the "constitutional anomalies" that devolution had brought.
But it said the new provisions were "ad hoc", lacked transparency and appeared incompatible with the 40-year old Barnett Formula for distributing funds to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
"The new standing orders do require further consideration and evaluation if they are to be anything more than a short-term experiment in the House's internal procedure," the MPs said.
"That former clerks of the House of Commons - individuals steeped in decades of learning about Parliamentary procedure - should have difficulty in discerning what these standing orders mean should raise serious further doubts about how sustainable they are."
The report said the test for whether legislation applied only to England, which is determined by the Commons Speaker, was not "very simple" and risked putting the Speaker in an "unnecessarily controversial position".
The extent of the opposition to the system, which has united Labour, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Democratic Unionist Party, "underlined their vulnerability", the committee said.
The SNP has said the changes are "driving Scotland out of the door".
"With only the Conservative Party in favour of the new arrangements, these standing orders face a high risk of being overridden as soon as there is a non-Conservative majority in the House of Commons," it said.
"That the standing orders have attracted such hostility and can be removed on the basis of a simple majority must raise doubts as to whether they can ever be more than a temporary expedient, and currently they cannot be considered to be part of a stable constitutional settlement that will endure."
Tory MP Bernard Jenkin, who chairs the committee, said the new system had little cross-party support and urged ministers to come back with "more comprehensible proposals" during a review later this year.
A government spokesman said: "The government is committed to a stronger Union and a fair settlement for the whole of the United Kingdom, and English votes for English laws brings an important balance to the unprecedented powers that have been devolved to other parts of the country.
"We will be reviewing the operation of the standing orders later this year, drawing upon the work of both the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee and the House of Commons Procedure Committee." | The new system of "English Votes for English Laws" is overly complicated and may not last long, MPs have warned. |
Wenger, 66, celebrates 20 years as Arsenal boss next month and is out of contract in the summer of 2017.
According to L'Equipe, PSG tried to recruit him in 2011, 2013 and 2014.
Asked why he had turned PSG down, Wenger said: "I always remained loyal to Arsenal because it's a club that has the qualities I love - and that's why."
Arsenal have won three league titles and six FA Cups during Wenger's reign.
However, they have not won the Premier League since 2003-04 and some fans have called for Wenger to leave.
PSG have been crowned French champions for the past four seasons and have reached the Champions League quarter-finals four times in a row.
Beaten in the last eight by Manchester City earlier this year, they are backed by wealthy owners Qatari Sports Investments, who Wenger says he "knows well".
The Frenchman added: "PSG are a good test for us. They're a team who are, in France, the team above everyone else."
Arsenal are seventh in the Premier League, with seven points from four games. PSG are seventh in Ligue 1, with seven points from four games.
Swiss side Basel entertain Bulgarian outfit Ludogorets in the other Group A contest on Tuesday. | Arsene Wenger says his "love" for Arsenal saw him reject approaches from Paris St-Germain, who host the Gunners in the Champions League on Tuesday. |
The 29-year-old joined Leeds until the end of the season in October 2015 after his release by Gold Coast Titans.
Leeds signed fellow Australian hooker James Segeyaro in June as part of a swap deal with Penrith Panthers that saw Zak Hardaker head the other way.
"Beau has been a great professional since he arrived," chief executive Gary Hetherington said.
"The signing of James Segeyaro was not planned for this season but his availability has resulted in us having to make a decision on Beau." | Leeds Rhinos have terminated the contract of hooker Beau Falloon by mutual consent. |
The 49-year-old from Hebburn, South Tyneside, had jumped before but not in the UK, Durham Police said.
She was found in a cul-de-sac close to the airfield at Shotton Colliery from where her plane had taken off.
The Great North Air Ambulance Service flew the woman to the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.
Det Insp Dave Cuthbert said: "This is a tragic incident. The lady who has died was using her own equipment and was making her first sky-dive in this country, having previously made parachute jumps abroad.
"We will be working with the HSE and the British Parachuting Association to establish why this tragedy happened."
The coroner has been informed and a post-mortem examination is due to be carried out on the woman's body.
It is understood residents carried out CPR on the woman before paramedics arrived at the scene, where she had landed close to a car.
One witness, who did not want to be named, said seeing parachutists was not unusual, but this jump - involving a group of parachutists - had made him look up.
"I could hear a fluttering noise and it sounded unusual," he said.
"I could see it was not the main parachute, because they're massive. It was so close to the ground."
He said it did not look like the woman was moving before she hit the car and he thought she was unconscious.
"She was not screaming," he said. "All I can see is her spinning like a top."
He did not see the impact, but later saw the woman on the ground as people tried to help her, after she appeared to have suffered a serious head injury. | A parachutist has died after her chute failed to open and she crash-landed in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, police say. |
World Cup star Roger Milla was the lynchpin of the victorious 1984 and 1988 sides, while the back-to-back title winners of 2000 and 2002 were led by Samuel Eto'o, a four-time winner of the African footballer of the year award.
But the class of 2017 was shorn of stars - in more ways than one.
Prior to the tournament, Cameroon's most high-profile player was Joel Matip of English Premier League side Liverpool but like some half a dozen others, the defender refused to honour his call-up for the 2017 finals.
The players' excuses ranged from differences with the federation to not wanting to leave their clubs midway through the European season.
Yet their absence galvanised those who did travel to Gabon, where even a mid-tournament row over player bonuses refused to distract this generation of Indomitable Lions, as the team is known.
What was notable about that dispute - which saw the players offered a bonus for reaching the semi-finals that was somehow four times smaller than that offered for the quarter-finals - was the way in which coach Hugo Broos publicly backed his players.
"Even without the money, we are still performing and this is very important - it shows that the players are not here for the money, but for the nation," he told the world's media.
Little loved when he took over despite a trophy-laden CV in his homeland, the Belgian has performed a mightily-impressive job in his first national team coaching role.
Not only has he consistently said the right things at the right times, he also scoured far and wide for players - one member of the squad plays in Angola - and impressed both tactically and with his swift decision-making.
Note the way in which he dropped right-back Ernest Mabouka, who struggled in the opening game, while also being brave enough to change his strikers throughout the group stage as he sought the best format.
The bedrock of Cameroon's success was their defence .
Just 21, goalkeeper Fabrice Ondoa kept the side in the tournament with a stoppage-time block against hosts Gabon in their final group game before saving decisively against Senegal's Sadio Mane in the quarter-final penalty shoot-out.
Ahead of Ondoa, who can't even get a game for Seville's B side in Spain, the central defensive pairing of Adolphe Teikeu and Michael Ngadeu - Cameroon's top scorer - were immense.
A disciplined unit, they were alert to danger thanks to their excellence in the air and impressive reading of the game - despite only having first played together in September.
Guarded against Senegal, Cameroon then threw caution to the wind against Ghana in the semi-final and reaped their reward with a convincing 2-0 win.
In the final itself, this team - whose unity was ever clearer to see - showed yet more courage when coming from behind after Arsenal's Mohamed El Nenny opened the scoring early on.
Egypt had not lost a Nations Cup match since 2004 - a run of 25 games - but after Nicolas Nkoulou equalised, Vincent Aboubakar produced a moment of magic two minutes from time as he lifted the ball over Ali Gabr to fire home a dramatic winner.
Thrown on by Broos at half-time, the substitute was, incredibly, the first Cameroonian striker to score in Gabon.
Special mention must also go to captain Benjamin Moukandjo, man of the match in the final, and Christian Bassogog, the pacey 21-year-old named Player of the Tournament - and who has been a delight to watch.
Two years ago, the winger was playing in the third tier of American football - but after a move to Denmark, where Broos scoured the opinion of some friends, the left winger earned his first cap.
That was just 12 weeks ago.
Having overcome countless challenges en route to winning a first title since 2002, the looks on Cameroonian faces following the final whistle summed up their achievement.
Many of the players simply struggled to believe they had done it - one final twist in a tournament full of surprises - but one which was hugely merited. | Cameroon won their fifth Africa Cup of Nations trophy in Gabon on Sunday and it was arguably their greatest triumph. |
Using information gathered from 2000 to 2014, Greenpeace said Chinese companies had fished in prohibited grounds or under-declared their catches.
Boats either turned off their identification systems or transmitted false location data, it added.
One company's fishing capacity off the coast of Guinea Bissau is said to have exceeded its authorised limit by 61%.
The absence of efficient fisheries management in some West African states allows rogue companies to plunder marine resources, the BBC's Thomas Fessy reports from Dakar in Senegal.
In less than a month, Greenpeace documented an average of one new case of illegal practice by a Chinese-owned boat every two days, but the report's authors say they think that is only the "tip of the iceberg."
Chinese companies were "unlawfully exploiting West Africa's marine environment," said Rashid King, head of Greenpeace East Asia's China Ocean Campaign, in a statement.
"They were taking advantage of weak enforcement from local and Chinese authorities to the detriment of local fisherman and the environment."
Mr Kang said unless the Chinese government controlled rogue fishermen, it would "seriously jeopardise" its mutually beneficial partnership with West Africa.
China came to West Africa's aid during the Ebola outbreak, Mr Kang said, but Chinese companies were "exploiting" West Africa's marine environment.
In the most recent cases, the Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza, which sailed off Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea last autumn, documented 16 illegal fishing activities by 12 Chinese vessels.
Over the last 15 years, Greenpeace has also investigated illegal fishing practices by EU, Korean and Russian fishing vessels in Africa.
From 1985 to 2013, China expanded its Africa fishing operations from 13 to 462 vessels.
The vessels were mostly bottom trawlers, which Greenpeace calls "one of the most destructive fishing vessels in the industry". | More than 70 Chinese vessels have been found fishing illegally off the coast of West Africa, Greenpeace says. |
The boy, said to be Jack Pullen, was pulled from the River Etherow, in Broadbottom, near Hyde, at 17:45 BST on Tuesday.
Police believe he had been playing with friends in the river before the "tragic accident".
Tuesday was the hottest day of 2016 so far, according to the Met Office, with temperatures reaching 31C (87.8F).
Flowers were left at the riverside as Jack's father, Gary Pullen, from nearby Hattersley, spoke with reporters.
Overcome with emotion and accompanied by a woman, he said: "He just wanted to be a teenager and be out with his mates."
Jack had recently left Longendale High School in Hollingsworth, near Glossop.
A card at the scene read: "To Jack always in our hearts and thoughts, lots of love Family xxx"
Another read: "Jack, Heaven has gained a beautiful angel and we're all left wondering why. Such a beautiful kid. Jack we are all gonna miss you so much. Love you always XXX."
Det Insp Andy Sandiford said: "We have launched an investigation into this tragic incident which appears to have begun with a group of friends playing in the river on a hot summer's day.
"We understand the water appeared calm and shallow but there may have been strong undercurrents and hidden hazards beneath the surface.
"A team of detectives are investigating the incident and have concluded that there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the boy's death."
He said the boy's family is being supported by specially trained officers.
A man who lives nearby, who declined to be identified, said: "One of my neighbours was first on the scene.
"They found a distraught 16-year-old wondering where his mate had gone.
"Everybody on the road is upset because we've seen them doing it. It's like a sign of summer seeing kids jump in and having a laugh."
He said he believed the boy had jumped from a rocky area approximately 2ft high.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has issued water safety advice on its website, which includes warnings about the depth of water and hidden dangers such as submerged shopping trolleys, opened tin cans or broken bottles and hidden currents. | A 16-year-old boy whose body was recovered from a river has been named locally. |
Solomon Dacres beat Marin Mindoljevic at York Hall in London after the aggregate score was tied at 5-5.
Lionhearts trailed 3-2 from the first leg in Paris.
Will Cawley won the second-leg opener and victories followed for Calum French and Andras Vadasz before the French fought back to force the decider. | The British Lionhearts won a dramatic tie-breaker to defeat France Fighting Roosters and reach the World Series Boxing semi-finals. |
Mr Varoufakis told the New York Times he could not release the recording due to confidentiality rules.
It follows controversy over his negotiating style at debt talks.
Greece's government says it will not be able to repay €1.5bn (£1.09bn) to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 5 June without a deal within days.
Speaking to the NYT, Mr Varoufakis denied his fellow finance ministers had called him names at a meeting in Riga in April.
"All these reports that I was abused, that I was called names, that I was called a time-waster and all that: Let me say that I deny this with every fiber of my body," he said.
Mr Varoufakis said he had taped the meeting but could not release the tape because of confidentiality rules, the newspaper reported.
In a statement released later, he did not refute the report, simply saying: "My respect for the confidentiality of my conversations with my partners, with my peers, with the institutions, is exemplary and I believe it has been acknowledged and understood by everyone."
The Greek finance minister was replaced as chief negotiator at the debt talks with EU creditors following the meeting amid reports of a row. He denied he had been sidelined.
€320bn
Greece's debt mountain
€240bn
European bailout
€56bn Greece owes Germany
177% country's debt-to-GDP ratio
25% fall in GDP since 2010
26% Greek unemployment rate
Greece has been locked in negotiations with the EU and IMF over economic reforms they say must be implemented before the final €7.2bn tranche of the country's €240bn bailout is released.
Issues over pension reform, taxation, deregulation of the labour market, and the re-hiring of 4,000 former civil servants are yet to be resolved.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is attending the EU Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga, where he wants to discuss a debt deal with other EU leaders.
The government has said it will prioritise the payment of salaries, pensions and the general running costs of the state over the IMF repayment on 5 June.
"Now is the moment of truth," Nikos Filis, spokesman for the ruling Syriza party's lawmakers, told Greek ANT1 television on Wednesday.
"If there is no deal by [5 June]... they won't get any money," he said.
Meanwhile, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he could not rule out a Greek debt default, according to media reports. | Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has caused a fresh furore after telling a newspaper he taped a private meeting of his eurozone counterparts. |
Abi Wardle, 16, from Galashiels, was given The Annie Dow Heroism Award (TADHA) and £2,500 in Edinburgh on Thursday.
She was nominated after both her mother and brother collapsed with breathing problems within days of each other.
Having recently completed a first aid course, the young woman knew exactly how to react.
She performed CPR on her mother, Lisa, until the paramedics arrived. When her brother, Ben, collapsed she put him in the recovery position and unblocked his airways.
Since then they have both been diagnosed with whooping cough.
Abi was nominated by Jo Glover, co-ordinator at Action for Children's Scottish Borders Young Carers service. She said: "On top of her heroic actions, Abi is also a carer for her dad, Peter, who has cancer.
"She is a truly remarkable young woman and I wanted her to know just how much her heroic actions mean to both her family and the local community."
TADHA founder Sophie Dow said: "We believe that the true definition of a hero is someone who can stay calm under pressure, in a crisis or an emergency, knows what to do and does it well without panicking.
"Abi Wardle did just that. Without her heroic actions, her mother and brother simply wouldn't be here today."
Abi said she was "over the moon" to win the award. She added: "I'm so glad that I did that first aid course as it meant that when mum and Ben collapsed, I knew exactly what to do and didn't even need to think about it." | A teenage carer has received an award for heroism, after saving the lives of her mother and younger brother. |
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that missiles had hit a public square in the rebel-held village of al-Janudiya.
Many people had gathered there to go shopping, the group added.
Al-Janudiya is situated in the west of Idlib province, which is now almost completely controlled by rebel forces.
An alliance including al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, the al-Nusra Front, seized control of the provincial capital at the end of March, and the major town of Jisr al-Shughour, near al-Janudiya, a month later.
The rebels are now advancing on the Mediterranean coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad and his Alawite sect.
The Syrian Observatory and the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), an opposition activist network, both said government aircraft had attacked al-Janudiya on Monday.
The LCC put the death toll at 60 and warned that it was likely to rise because some of the dozens of wounded people were in a critical condition.
Syrian government officials have so far not commented on the reports.
The LCC also reported that several people had been killed on Monday in a government air strike in the town of Taftanaz, in eastern Idlib, and that four others had died when government helicopters dropped barrel bombs in the town of Tal Rifaat, in neighbouring Aleppo province.
The UN says more than 220,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Mr Assad began four years ago. Almost 12 million others have been displaced. | At least 49 civilians, including six children, have been killed in air strikes by government forces in north-western Syria, activists say. |
RTL claims Baysilone, normally associated with the oil or rubber industries, was found in a breakdown of the implant, made by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP).
A lawyer acting for PIP strongly denied the report, telling RTL that the product was not industrial but a food product used in lipstick.
The company was shut down in 2010.
RTL had the implant examined by a chemistry and toxicology researcher who alleged that the materials used, which also included Silopren and Rhodorsil, had caused the high rupture rate from the silicone gel implants.
Although the French health safety agency was already aware the defective implants contained industrial rather than medical grade silicone, no mention has been made of additives from the petrol industry.
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The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons said earlier that the silicone was believed to have been made for mattresses but a lawyer acting for French implant-wearers said the composition of the implant varied.
French authorities have advised 30,000 women in France to have the PIP implants removed as a precaution because of an estimated 5% rupture rate.
The French health safety agency says it has registered 1,143 ruptures and 495 inflammatory reactions from the implants.
An estimated 300-400,000 women were given the implants, mainly in Latin America and elsewhere in Europe.
In the UK, 40,000 women have been advised by the government not to have them removed although ministers have ordered a review of data used to assess the risk of the implant leaking.
A surgeon advising the British government, Tim Goodacre, told the BBC on Monday that the failure rate was "quite out of the ordinary" and he said they should be removed on "a staged basis".
No link has been made between ruptured implants and cancer.
PIP's lawyer, Yves Haddad, has insisted the fuel additive allegations are completely unfounded.
"This isn't an industrial product but a food product of the same type that goes, for example, into the making of lipstick," he told RTL.
He also promised that PIP's founder Jean-Claude Mas would emerge later this week to give an explanation. Mr Mas, 72, is believed to be in southern France. | A fuel additive untested in clinical trials was used in breast implants that have since been banned, French radio station RTL reports. |
He said the White House would soon have to decide whether to impose "secondary sanctions" on those nations.
The Trump administration has sought to increase pressure on North Korea over its nuclear and missile activities.
Pyongyang's recent missile tests - which are banned by the UN - have sparked international alarm.
North Korea is believed to be making progress toward developing a ballistic missile capable of reaching the US.
Mr Tillerson's warning came at a hearing at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
He said: "We are in a stage where we are moving into this next effort of 'Are we going to have to, in effect, start taking secondary sanctions because countries we have provided information to have not, or are unwilling, or don't have the ability to do that?'"
Washington has no trade links with North Korea, and has been considering sanctioning companies from third countries who deal with the secretive regime of Kim Jong-un in violation of UN resolutions.
However, Mr Tillerson did not name any countries.
He said the North Korea issue would be discussed with China, Pyongyang's major ally, at a high-level talks next week.
Asked whether China has been fulfilling its pledges to put more pressure on North Korea, Mr Tillerson said: "They have taken steps, visible steps that we can confirm."
At the committee hearing, Mr Tillerson also stated that: | The US is considering sanctions on countries that do illegal business with North Korea, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has warned. |
Back in 1903, scientists decided that the dinosaur that was known as Brontosaurus was too similar - because of it's long neck -to another species called the Apatosaurus.
So the Brontosaurus was declared extinct because they were both thought to be from the same species.
Now a team of experts from Portugal have decided they did show enough differences to be classed as two different species. So Brontosaurus is back!
The problems began at the end of the 1800s.
The general public were really interested in dinosaurs, and so people in America raced against each other to find new fossils and discover new species.
It was known as 'the bone wars', and fossil hunters were desperate to get their names in the record books by naming new dinosaurs.
On one expedition in the US, Othniel Charles Marsh and his team discovered fossils of what they thought were two long-necked dinosaurs.
They called one Apatosaurus, and one Brontosaurus.
But later, a museum in America decided those two fossils were actually the same species. And so Apatosaurus stuck...and Brontosaurus was no more.
Until today.
But even though it wasn't accurate, the Brontosaurus has been one of the most famous dinos on the planet.
It's one of the first names that comes up when people think of ancient creatures.
But why?
Historians think the name just stuck when there was so much public interest in dinosaurs over a hundred years ago. | Despite being one of the most famous dinosaur names on the planet - the name Brontosaurus has not actually been used by experts for over 100 years. |
Rankin, 32, will miss the rest of the season after fracturing his leg.
"The cover is starting to be there and we have other wicket-takers in the squad," said Porterfield.
"That's great to have when the likes of Boyd goes down. It's not potentially as big a blow as it would've been before."
Among Ireland coach John Bracewell's fast bowling options for the ODIs against Pakistan. which take place at Malahide on Thursday and Saturday, is Durham paceman Barry McCarthy.
"Barry made his debut against Sri Lanka in June, bowled fantastically well and carried that form into the matches with Afghanistan in Belfast," added the Irish skipper.
"It's good to have lads like that around the squad and doing very well. It shows the character he has and I think he's got a big future."
Ireland famously defeated Pakistan in the 2007 World Cup and almost repeated the feat when the countries last met on Irish soil.
"We tied in Dublin the last time they were here and it's a game we potentially could have won," observed Porterfield.
"We are still a side that is learning but hopefully we are learning very quickly.
"If it's a bit colder it might suit us a little bit better than Pakistan but they are a professional side and have shown what they can do in having a very good series against England. They will take a lot of confidence into these games."
Ed Joyce starred in the recent drawn series with Afghanistan, scoring two centuries as an opening batsman, and Porterfield expects him to continue in the role.
"There is competition to open the batting but Joycey, I think, is going to stay at the top. The way he's been playing and the form he is in, it would be wrong if he didn't stay there," argued the Irish captain.
Joyce indicated that he had enjoyed watching Pakistan's recent drawn Test series with England and was "expecting two good pitches at Malahide".
He said: "We are the underdogs, they are obviously a good side and go in as favourites. Hopefully the weather will be kind to us."
After the two encounters with Pakistan, Ireland will finish their season with further one-day internationals against South Africa on 25 September and Australia on 27 September - both in Benoni, South Africa. | Ireland captain William Porterfield says his squad has enough strength in depth to cope without injured paceman Boyd Rankin ahead of their two one-day internationals against Pakistan. |
Nottingham's manmade caves have been used as dungeons, bomb shelters, pub cellars and homes, with some dating back to the 9th Century.
Scott Lomax said on average two structures have been found every week following appeals on social media and through hand-delivered letters.
He said some residents assume the caves beneath their homes are already known.
A glut of caves have been found in the past six years due to funded projects like the Nottingham Caves Survey, which mapped and laser-scanned many of them.
However, experts have always believed many more lie waiting to be discovered.
Mr Lomax, who believes there are now 650 recorded caves, said: "Part of my job is about preserving the city's historic environment.
"The database should be accurate and it's important to know where [the caves] are and that they are protected."
Since July he has "gone out looking" for caves by delivering letters to residents in Nottingham's Park Estate where many are believed to be.
"People assumed we already knew about their cave and so hadn't considered them to be significant," he said.
The city council archaeologist said his favourite discovery lies beneath the New Castle pub in Sneinton.
The rubble-filled cave was found after a wall was knocked through in the cellar revealing a sandstone pillar, believed to be about 200 years old.
Mr Lomax said he hoped the inaugural Nottingham Caves Festival, on 17 October, would "inform" and "encourage" people to experience the city's caves. | Twenty-two new unrecorded caves have been found in Nottingham since July, the city's archaeologist has said. |
A Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust report says the number of SIs rose from 161 in 2012-2013 to 228 in 2014-2015.
The report says a significant number of these serious incidents involved unexpected deaths.
The trust said staff felt free to report any possible problems.
SIs can include a wide range of incidents and are reported to help health trusts learn lessons and prevent future incidents.
The report highlighted five deaths within Wellbeing Services, which provides support for people with mental health problems such as depression, between December 2014 and March 2015 and these were being reviewed by the trust.
Michael Scott, the chief executive of the trust, told the BBC: "The board looks closely at all the data, and we look at national benchmarks. We remain a high reporter of incidents, but the majority are 'low harm' incidents.
"Staff do speak up and record incidents when things go wrong."
A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: "Some of this rise may be due to changes in reporting, but an increase of more than 40% in only two years is deeply worrying." | A mental health trust has seen a 41% rise in the number of serious incidents (SIs) - which can include unexpected deaths, injuries or security issues - over three years, new figures show. |
Spurs took an early lead when Christian Eriksen capitalised on a mix-up in the hosts' defence.
But Guillaume Gillet rifled in an equaliser before Anderlecht top scorer Stefano Okaka secured victory late on.
Tottenham striker Harry Kane, a second-half substitute, failed to beat goalkeeper Silvio Proto after being played clean through at 1-1.
Both teams were committed to attack in an entertaining match but Spurs paid for wasting early chances, with Erik Lamela the most guilty.
Anderlecht, third in the Belgian Jupiler League, kept Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris busy throughout and were good value for their first victory in six European games.
The sides meet again at White Hart Lane on 5 November with only four points separating the four teams in the group after Monaco beat Qarabag 1-0 to go top.
Tottenham, who have drawn their previous three games in all competitions, are still to reach full throttle this season.
In a frantic opening, they should have taken advantage of a ragged Anderlecht defence and could have been 3-0 ahead within 10 minutes as Eriksen and Lamela shot straight at Proto before the opening goal.
The home side settled after Gillet found the net superbly, and Okaka twice had efforts saved by Lloris.
Although Tottenham's midfield took charge of the first half, their control slipped in the second period and the introduction of Anderlecht substitute Frank Acheampong turned the game in their favour.
His cross set up Okaka for his seventh goal of the season, and it could have been worse for Spurs had Dennis Praet not fluffed a late opportunity.
With Tottenham suffering from several injuries and Kane picking up a knock in the previous Premier League game against Liverpool, Clinton Njie was handed a full debut up front.
The 22-year-old Cameroon international, who had not scored in seven substitute appearances following his reported £10m arrival from Lyon in August, did not look like opening his Spurs account in Brussels.
Spurs chose to break from midfield rather than use Njie's pace, and he was booked in the 55th minute before being replaced by Kane four minutes later.
The England international at least threatened the Anderlecht goal, but he has now scored only one goal in 13 appearances this season.
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: "I am angry, frustrated, disappointed. I don't know which word to describe me.
"We started the game very well. After 10 minutes we scored, we created two or three chances more.
"We lost our focus and after 10 minutes the game changed completely. This was our problem and we need to learn.
"We are young but if you are the best team on the pitch after 10 minutes and you believe you can win the game you need to win the game. We lost our focus."
Anderlecht boss Besnik Hasi: "It's nice to win against such a team. Especially after the poor start against Monaco and Qarabag - we knew it was our last chance today.
"Tottenham clearly came to win and gave the necessary space away for us to exploit."
Tottenham travel to Bournemouth on Sunday in the Premier League and host Aston Villa on 2 November before facing Anderlecht again three days' later.
Match ends, RSC Anderlecht 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1.
Second Half ends, RSC Anderlecht 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1.
Attempt missed. Ibrahima Conte (RSC Anderlecht) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Steven Defour with a cross.
Substitution, RSC Anderlecht. Ibrahima Conte replaces Dennis Praet.
Foul by Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur).
Guillaume Gillet (RSC Anderlecht) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. Dennis Praet (RSC Anderlecht) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Idrissa Sylla (RSC Anderlecht) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, RSC Anderlecht. Idrissa Sylla replaces Stefano Okaka.
Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Guillaume Gillet (RSC Anderlecht).
Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur).
Frank Acheampong (RSC Anderlecht) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Dennis Praet (RSC Anderlecht) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Steven Defour.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Dele Alli tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Josh Onomah replaces Andros Townsend.
Attempt missed. Leander Dendoncker (RSC Anderlecht) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kara with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, RSC Anderlecht. Conceded by Jan Vertonghen.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Guillaume Gillet.
Goal! RSC Anderlecht 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1. Stefano Okaka (RSC Anderlecht) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Frank Acheampong with a cross.
Andros Townsend (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ivan Obradovic (RSC Anderlecht).
Offside, RSC Anderlecht. Leander Dendoncker tries a through ball, but Frank Acheampong is caught offside.
Hand ball by Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Guillaume Gillet (RSC Anderlecht).
Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur).
Leander Dendoncker (RSC Anderlecht) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ben Davies with a through ball.
Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur).
Kara (RSC Anderlecht) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, RSC Anderlecht. Dennis Praet tries a through ball, but Stefano Okaka is caught offside.
Substitution, RSC Anderlecht. Frank Acheampong replaces Imoh Ezekiel.
Andros Townsend (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ivan Obradovic (RSC Anderlecht).
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Dele Alli replaces Mousa Dembélé. | Tottenham slipped to third in Europa League Group J with their first loss of the campaign at Anderlecht. |
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The group of retired generals and admirals declared the Republican nominee "has the temperament to be commander-in-chief".
Mr Trump, who has highlighted veterans' issues during his campaign, called their support "a great honour".
He has meanwhile been dismissing claims of impropriety over a political donation to a Florida official.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that in 2013 Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi had been considering fraud charges against Trump University.
But she dropped the investigation after a $25,000 (£18,600) contribution to her political campaign from the Donald J Trump Foundation.
Mr Trump was fined because he did not disclose the contribution to the US tax authorities.
The letter released on Tuesday by his campaign was signed by four 4-star generals.
The former top brass stated they believe Mr Trump is "more trusted to be commander-in-chief than (Democratic nominee) Hillary Clinton".
"We believe that such a change can only be made by someone who has not been deeply involved with, and substantially responsible for, the hollowing out of our military and the burgeoning threats facing our country around the world," they added.
Both Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton will take part back-to-back in a national security forum on Wednesday.
The forum, to be hosted by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, will include questions from an audience of military service members.
Also on Tuesday, Mrs Clinton released a campaign ad featuring veterans who are critical of Mr Trump.
Her ad includes a clip of Mr Trump from July 2015 casting doubt on leading Republican John McCain's war hero credentials.
Arizona Senator McCain was tortured for more than five years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese.
Despite making support for the military a signature issue in his campaign, Mr Trump has at various times drawn criticism from military members.
Most notably, he was involved in a recent spat with family members of a Muslim-American soldier killed during the Iraq War.
Mr Trump, who has not served in the military, also created a stir last month when he accepted a veteran's gift of a Purple Heart.
"I always wanted to get the Purple Heart," he said of the medal, which is awarded to soldiers wounded in war.
"This was much easier." | Donald Trump has been endorsed by 88 former military leaders in an open letter, according to his campaign. |
He told MPs that negotiating an exit would be the civil service's most complex and important task for decades.
Allies of Jeremy Corbyn have insisted he will not resign in the wake of the Brexit vote, accusing MPs seeking to depose him of "subverting" democracy.
The Labour leader faces a motion of no confidence in him on Tuesday.
A secret ballot on Mr Corbyn's leadership will be held after nearly 40 of his shadow ministerial team resigned.
The result, however, will not be binding on the Labour leader and allies of Mr Corbyn has insisted he will stand in any subsequent leadership election if an alternative candidate puts themselves forward.
UK financial markets have remained volatile in the wake of the Brexit vote, with sterling plunging to a 31-year low against the dollar, and some share trading temporarily halted.
The UK has also lost its AAA credit rating after it was downgraded by Standard and Poor's. The country was also downgraded from AA+ to AA with a negative outlook by ratings agency Fitch.
EU leaders say they will not hold informal talks with the UK until it officially notifies them of its exit.
Mr Cameron is to stand down as prime minister by October, and has triggered a Conservative leadership contest, while Mr Corbyn is facing a revolt in his shadow cabinet with members questioning his performance in the referendum campaign.
The PM told MPs he did not take back the warnings he made during the campaign about the consequences of leaving the EU, saying it would be "difficult" with "challenging new negotiations" ahead.
While "all of the key decisions" would wait for his successor, he said there was work to be done in the meantime, and a new EU unit had been set up in Whitehall to "bring together expertise".
He defended the decision to call the referendum, saying MPs had backed it by a margin of six to one, and said the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments would be "fully involved" in the negotiations.
He also condemned "despicable" racist attacks that have been reported since the referendum result, saying they must be stamped out.
Mr Corbyn has been accused of lukewarm support for - and his office of actively trying to undermine - Labour's campaign to remain in the EU. He took to the despatch box amid a mass resignation of members of his shadow cabinet.
In a message for the critics in his own party - more than 30 of which have resigned in the past 36 hours - he said: "Our country is divided and the country will thank neither the benches in front of me nor those behind me (where Labour MPs sit) for indulging in internal factional manoeuvring at this time."
Mr Corbyn said the outcome of the referendum showed "many people feel disenfranchised and powerless", saying communities had been "let down, not by the European Union but by the Tory government".
He called for reassurances that levels of EU funding that had been pledged would be protected, and attacked the Leave campaign which he said had "made claims they knew to be false".
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said he would continue fighting for the UK to remain a member of the EU, while the SNP's Angus Robertson said his party had "no intention whatsoever of seeing Scotland taken out of Europe".
Scotland voted overall for Remain, and the Scottish government has suggested a second independence referendum could be needed to retain its status in the EU.
After a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi emphasised the need to process the UK's exit as quickly as possible and focus on the challenges facing the remaining 27 states. | David Cameron has said the government has a "fundamental responsibility to bring our country together" in the aftermath of the EU referendum. |
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Philip Lowry slammed home from close range after 27 minutes and then Michael Carvill fired into the bottom corner from the edge of the area soon after.
Jordan Owens added the third but Arturs Karasausks rifled home a magnificent drive which went in off the crossbar.
Home goalkeeper Brian Jensen, making his debut, made a fine save to deny Marks Kurtiss late in the game.
Sean Ward also made his first competitive appearance for the Irish League side as part of the starting team, with Jamie Glackin making his bow as a second-half substitute.
Crusaders skipper Colin Coates was returning to action after missing the latter end of last season through injury.
The hosts bossed the early stages with Paul Heatley hooking over the bar before Lowry took advantage of Liepaja's failure to clear the danger.
Carvill doubled the lead and then provided the corner which was headed down by Coates into the path of Owens, who provided the finish.
Karasausks' spectacular strike on the hour breathed new life into the Latvian side as they take an away goal into next Thursday's second leg.
Kurtiss grazed the bar with a header and was denied by good goalkeeping from Jensen.
The winners of the tie will take on Shakhtyor Soligorsk of Bulgaria or Suduva of Lithuania in the second qualifying round.
Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter: "I was thrilled with our performance but disappointed slightly with the result given that we conceded the goal.
"Our play was sensational for an hour given that we have only been back for a week but their fitness and class showed in the last 30 minutes. We were out on our feet by the end.
"All the players worked incredibly hard but we face a mammoth task against a good side. They will be buoyed by that late goal for the second leg." | Crusaders will take a 3-1 lead into the second leg of their Europa League first round qualifier against FK Liepaja. |
The drugs, with an estimated street value of A$360m (£212m; $258m), were uncovered after a police investigation over more than two years.
Police said they seized 500kg (1,100lb) of cocaine from a boat in Brooklyn, north of Sydney, on Christmas Day.
It followed the confiscation of 600kg in drugs in Tahiti. Police believe they were destined for Australia.
"The size of that seizure collectively makes it the largest cocaine seizure in Australian law enforcement history," Australian Federal Police acting assistant commissioner Chris Sheehan told reporters.
"The criminal syndicate we have dismantled over the last few days was a robust, resilient and determined syndicate."
The drugs are believed to have originated in South America.
Local media reported one of the accused men was a former National Rugby League player.
In early December, police and border officials began monitoring a vessel that was travelling between Sydney's popular fish markets and the central coast of New South Wales.
On Christmas night, police said a small boat was launched from the vessel and later docked in Brooklyn. Authorities swooped on the boat and arrested three men. Another 12 men have been arrested over the past several days.
The men, aged between 29 and 63, have been charged with conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of border-controlled drugs.
If convicted, they face a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Mr Sheehan claimed the men were "well-connected" and part of a sophisticated crime group.
"We've gone from the top to the bottom, the entire group has been taken out," he said.
New South Wales Police assistant commissioner Mark Jenkins said officers spent thousands of hours on the operation.
"This job started with a thread of information that was given to the New South Wales drugs squad over two-and-a-half years ago," he said.
"I want to thank the community for that information." | Fifteen men have been charged after police said they made the biggest cocaine bust in Australia's history. |
British number one Konta, who reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open this year, served eight aces on the way to knocking out the Swedish qualifier.
The 24-year-old will face Italy's Roberta Vinci in the next round.
In the men's event, Slovenia-born British number two Aljaz Bedene lost 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (10-8) to France's Stephane Robert.
Fellow Briton Heather Watson had already made it through to the second round in Rome with a win over world number 18 Sara Errani on Monday.
Konta is ready to face a vociferous home crowd when she takes on 2015 US Open finalist and home favourite Vinci, with the match likely to be on a stadium court.
"She's a great player, incredibly talented and creative," Konta told BBC Sport.
"I hope to bring a good level to the court and the fans will be able to enjoy it.
"Whoever the fans will be cheering for - and it will most likely be her - it'll be just great to attract a lot of people and the energy they bring. It's definitely a pleasure to play in front of big crowds." | Britain's Johanna Konta reached the Italian Open second round with a 6-1 6-2 win over Sweden's Johanna Larsson. |
But appeal judges said the original judge in the case was right to dismiss their £10.5m compensation claim.
Jacqueline and Andrew MacLeod claimed staff at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness acted negligently when delivering their daughter Rowan in June 1999.
A judge heard their case in 2012 but did not issue his opinion until 2014.
Lord Kinclaven had at one point said he intended to issue his opinion in February 2013 but it was January the following year before the family learned the outcome of the case.
Appeal judges Lord Brodie, Lady Dorrian and Lord Drummond Young said this was not "within a reasonable time".
However, they ruled that Lord Kinclaven acted correctly in dismissing the compensation claim.
The judges also said there was no legal need for the case to be heard again. The Fort William couple's lawyers had argued that the case should be allowed to return to court.
The MacLeod's alleged that Rowan, who has cerebral palsy, was not properly monitored during her birth and suffered brain damage as a consequence of this.
Lawyers acting for NHS Highland said staff had acted correctly. | A family have received an apology over the time it took for a judge to rule on their attempts to sue NHS Highland over the care of their daughter. |
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"Our jobs are hard enough. We are always under pressure to try to win games.
"For us as managers, it would be totally dangerous for us to put five or six players in a squad or on the bench.
"For what? Are they going to play? Are they going to perform? Are they up to the challenge or ready for the battle? That's one thing we look at.
"The most important thing about a club is the first team and it's all about the results. If you bring some young players through, it's a real bonus.
"We want to bring some good young players to the club, but all our efforts just now are to make sure we have a successful first team on the pitch.
"If they are good enough then I'm all for it, but we are not just going to stick young players in a squad for the sake of it."
"I think there should be a quota where you've got to include five good players. I'd settle for that.
"I think limiting it in these sort of ways is difficult. It's like the national team. If there were more Scottish-based players playing at a level where we felt we could include them then we would.
"I've needed a full-back, a centre-half and central midfield players. I've looked in Scotland and I've not been able to get them - not that they're not here, but I've not been able to get them.
"There are players in Scotland I would take, but I've not been able to get those players so I've had to go south and I've had to bring in players from England. I had no choice in that.
"So to limit and say I've got to include five Scottish players would make life very difficult for me. I'd end up having to play some of the youth team lads who maybe aren't quite ready.
"If you put them in before they're ready then of course it is [damaging].
"If they're good enough, I'll put them in. If they're not good enough and I have to put them in then that's going to affect the performance of my team, so I can't afford that.
"I've got to put in players I feel are good enough and, if they're 15 or 14 - we've got a lad here who's 15 that, if I was allowed to play him, he'd be flirting with the team, but I'm not allowed to play him 'till he's 16. I will do it.
"I've done it with others, I did it with Robbie Keane and Emile Heskey. I'm not scared to put in boys that are 16 years old, but they have to be good enough."
"I think there has to be a balance.
"We have had periods in the past where we have had to have a number of young players in the squad. Players were coming in just as a token gesture to fill up that quota.
"Ultimately, the responsibility lies with the owner. The owner sets the tone for the rest of the club.
"If the owner gives the first-team manager confidence and says, 'look, I want you to put young players in' and accepts there will be highs and lows throughout the season and gives you the confidence it's not going to cost you your job then that's where it comes from." | Three of Scotland's top-flight team bosses have been sharing their thoughts on the suggestion made by Charlie Christie, Inverness Caledonian Thistle's head of youth development, that Scottish clubs should have a quota of at least five home-grown players in their match squads. |
Jason Kitcat was re-elected as the leader of the council at a meeting on Thursday.
Prior to this, Warren Morgan, Labour group leader, was contacted in a direct Twitter message by Green councillor Alex Phillips asking for help.
Labour did not support her proposal. Mr Kitcat said it was a "disappointing sequence of events".
The Greens are the ruling party but do not have a majority.
In the Twitter messages, Ms Phillips said: "Would Labour be supportive of an alternative Green Leader to JK?"
Mr Morgan responded: "Surely it is up to the Green group - as the largest on the council - to make that decision?"
Ms Phillips replied: "Yes but we are 2 ppl [sic] shy of ousting him & so require your help."
She then asked his group to nominate the deputy leader and Green councillor Phelim MacCafferty, as to her understanding each group could only nominate one person.
Mr Kitcat said: "Unfortunately one junior councillor was a little unfortunate in seeking to contact the Labour group, who then published it, and that's clearly a rather disappointing sequence of events.
"We [Mr Kitcat and Mr MacCafferty] spoke yesterday after council and he was very clear he had no involvement in this.
"So I'm not sure the statements of one councillor claiming support of 10 are necessarily completely accurate."
However, Mr Morgan said the Green Party was "irrevocably split".
"To ask an opposition group to help oust their party leader and choose a new one is utterly desperate and absurd.
"The Greens cannot now reasonably expect to run the city council."
The BBC has attempted to contact Ms Phillips but has so far been unable to reach her. | The leader of Brighton and Hove City Council has survived a plot to oust him by some of his own councillors. |
The move was prompted by decades-old allegations made by multiple women against actor Bill Cosby.
The change means that from January 2017 there will be no time limit on the prosecution of rape cases.
But it will not work retroactively, or help those who accuse Cosby of crimes committed more than 10 years ago.
Dozens of women have accused the comedian of sexual assaults dating from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Cosby, who starred in the long-running sitcom The Cosby Show, has denied the accusations, saying his sexual encounters were consensual.
He is due to go on trial in June 2017 charged with sexually assaulting a woman in Philadelphia in 2004.
Current California law requires prosecution for rape to begin within 10 years of the alleged offence, with some exceptions.
Under the new legislation, SB813, there will be no time limit. The change will also apply to crimes for which the statute of limitations has not expired as of 1 January 2017.
Senator Connie Leyva, who introduced the bill, said it told victims of sexual assault that they could seek justice "regardless of when they are ready to come forward".
"Rapists should never be able to evade legal consequences simply because an arbitrary time limit has expired."
Statutes of limitations for rape differ across US states. | California Governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation ending the US state's 10-year statute of limitations on rape. |
Gould, who beat Selby on his way to the semi-finals two years ago, came through a tense final frame to win 4-3.
The 35-year-old from Middlesex made a career-high break of 142 in the fourth frame and goes on to face Joe Perry.
Australian Neil Robertson beat Ricky Walden of England 3-2 to set up a last-16 clash with Ronnie O'Sullivan.
O'Sullivan beat Chinese 16-year-old Yan Bingtao on Tuesday.
Watch: 'Ronnie the robot': O'Sullivan's protest interview
China's world number five Ding Junhui saw off Yu De Lu 4-2, while England's Anthony Hamilton, winner of last week's German Open, lost 4-0 to Mark Allen of Northern Ireland.
Gould looked on course for a straightforward victory when he led Selby 3-1, and then 3-2 with a 58-0 lead, but the world champion hit back with a brilliant 64 clearance to force a decider.
In a final frame that required a re-rack, following an early stalemate, Selby surprisingly missed two opportunities before Gould took charge with a 54 that proved decisive. | World champion Mark Selby suffered a shock first-round defeat by world number 18 Martin Gould at the World Grand Prix in Preston. |
She was speaking after the UK voted by a narrow margin to leave the EU., although Northern Ireland voted to remain.
Ms Villiers said the circumstances in which a border poll would be called did not exist.
Nothing indicated that such a poll should be called, she said.
"The Good Friday Agreement is very clear that the circumstances where the secretary of state is required to have a border poll is where there is reason to believe there would be a majority support for a united Ireland," she said,
"There is nothing to indicate that in any of the opinion surveys that have taken place.
"Again and again they demonstrate that a significant majority of people in Northern Ireland are content with the political settlement established under the Belfast Agreement and Northern Ireland's place within the United Kingdom."
Mrs Villiers said she was "delighted" with the Brexit result.
"It is a fundamental question about do we become an independent, self-governing democracy again. I am really delighted that the people of the UK have voted for that outcome. This is a good day for our country," she said.
She was very positive about how the border system between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland would operate.
"With common sense between us, the UK and Ireland can maintain a border which is just as open after a Brexit vote as it has been for many years," Ms Villiers said,
"It's important that it will." | Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has ruled out Sinn Féin's call for a border poll on the reunification of Ireland. |
"The Chadian army does not have the skills to fight a shadowy, guerrilla-style war that is taking place in northern Mali," he said.
Three Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide attack in Mali on Friday.
Soldiers from Chad, France and other African countries have ousted Islamist militants from northern Mali's towns.
By Alex Duval SmithBBC News, Bamako
The Chadian retreat does not signal that the job of routing Islamist militants is complete in Mali. It indicates that President Idriss Deby does not want his 2,000 troops in the country to get drawn into the urban guerrilla war that is expected to be its main feature from now on.
Chad has lost more than 30 soldiers in operations carried out jointly with France in northern Mali.
Chad's presence alongside the French - who have lost five soldiers - has been crucial both militarily and politically.
The timing of Mr Deby's announcement positions him perfectly to negotiate a prominent role for his country's troops in the forthcoming UN peacekeeping force whose mandate is expected to be agreed at the Security Council later this month.
Mr Deby, who came to power in a coup in 1990, also has worries at home. Last month, a rebel coalition called l'Union des Forces de la Resistance (UFR) announced that it was taking up arms again after a two-year truce.
But fighting continues in some remote parts of the Sahara Desert.
Chad's 2,000 troops were seen as playing a crucial role in the fighting because of their experience in desert warfare.
About 30 have been killed - more than any other nationality, reports the Reuters news agency.
Three of them died in a suicide attack in Kidal on Friday.
Mr Deby told French media that Chad's soldiers had "accomplished their mission".
"We have already withdrawn a mechanised battalion," he said.
But he said Chad would contribute to a proposed 11,000-strong UN peacekeeping force in Mali.
France has also started to withdraw some of its 4,000 soldiers and hopes to have just 1,000 in the country by the end of the year.
France led the intervention in January, saying the al-Qaeda-linked militants were threatened to march on the capital, Bamako. | Chad, one of the largest supplier of troops battling Islamists in Mali, has started to pull them out, President Idriss Deby has said. |
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The 26-year-old Jamaican, who has won six Olympic golds, ran 19.66 seconds to land his seventh world title.
"This year I said I wanted to be one of the greats like footballers Pele, Maradona and basketball legend Michael Jordan," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Usain doesn't need to go for fast times unless he really wants to. For him it's about the victories, but perhaps in 2015 we'll see him run world records. He needs a pressure-free season when he can just run for fun.
"He will return to Beijing in 2015 where he started his career and that could be his last World Championships.
"He needs to shake off all his injuries. It's been an intense time for him the last six years so he just needs to relax, enjoy his track and field, and chose what competitions he wants to go to to make an impact."
"If I want to be remembered I have to pile the golds on."
Bolt, who also clinched 100m gold this week, can add an eighth title to draw level with American greats Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson and Allyson Felix, if he helps Jamaica to victory in the 4x100m on Sunday.
His 200m time of 19.66 seconds on Saturday was somewhat slower than the 19.19 world record he set at the 2009 championships. Bolt also holds the 100m record, which stands at 9.58, which was also set four years ago.
Asked whether he had the ability to break more records, Bolt added: "I think the door is getting tighter. Next season I have to try my hardest to stay injury free.
"My goal is to defend my titles at the next Olympics as it hasn't been done before by anyone, and this World Championships is a stepping stone towards that goal."
He stressed that any idea of him participating in the long jump at the 2016 Rio Olympics had been shelved.
"I have to be focused," he added. I can't mess around and get injured during the long jump. It's been decided I'm not going to do it."
100m: 2008, 2012 Olympics; 2009, 2013 World Championships
200m: 2008, 2012 Olympics; 2009, 2011, 2013 World Championships
4x100m: 2008, 2012 Olympics; 2009, 2011 World Championships
The world champion admitted he was tiring as he reached the final 50m of the final.
"I was slightly tired," he added. "I came out to run as fast as possible. I ran 150m good and then my legs started getting tired. My coach said that if that happens then I should back off or I could damage muscles."
Former American sprinter Johnson, who was speaking on BBC Sport, also noticed that Bolt was suffering as he approached the line.
"Bolt ran pretty well on the curve and made a nice transition on the straight and controlled this," said the 1991 and 1995 200m world champion.
"He was running out of steam at the end though - his speed endurance wasn't quite there. He will be very, very relieved that he has been able to hold off these guys this time. He basically had it won after 100m." | Usain Bolt said his ambition to be regarded as one of the "sporting greats" helped drive him to victory in the 200m at the World Championships. |
A study by the UCL Institute of Education compared attitudes of people considering applying to university in England in 2002 and 2015.
During this time tuition fees increased from about £1,100 per year to £9,000.
Researchers found that young people in general had become accustomed to higher fees - but worries about debt levels had risen among low-income families.
Tuition fees have become a battleground in the general election.
Labour has promised to scrap tuition fees in England - while the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats would continue with a system of fees and loans.
Researchers from the Centre for Research on Learning and Life Chances, based at the institute in London, examined the results of two surveys of potential university applicants either side of significant increases in fees.
This election issue includes funding for schools, grammar schools, university tuition fees and childcare.
Young people in the 2015 survey had become more ready to accept student debt, seeing it as a necessary part of getting a degree.
Women, in particular, were ready to believe that borrowing to go to university was a good investment.
But the study says there were different attitudes among low-income families, who were more resistant to debt in 2002 than their wealthier counterparts.
And the study says that these levels of debt aversion among poorer families were even greater in 2015.
Youngsters from the "squeezed" middle class also appeared more concerned about debt, says the study.
Despite the increase in cost, university applications continued to rise across these years - and there are higher numbers of students from all backgrounds, including from poorer families, now getting places.
But one of the researchers, Prof Claire Callender, said there were still significant differences in application levels depending on young people's backgrounds.
Much of the difference has been attributed to exam results in school, with wealthier students more likely to have got the results needed for university entry.
Prof Callender says that this "disguises a more complex picture".
"Working-class young people are far more likely than students from other social classes to avoid applying to university because of debt fears," she said.
She said that even when poorer youngsters had the same exam results, they were less likely to apply to university than wealthier ones.
"Student funding and fear of debt play a role. University enrolments may be increasing overall but policymakers must focus on ways to level the playing field for poorer students," said Prof Callender.
But Universities UK, representing university leaders, defended the value of the fee system and said "those from disadvantaged backgrounds were more likely to enter university than ever before".
"It is important to remember that it is high-earning graduates who benefit the most from a policy of no fees - under tuition fees they would repay their entire student loans.
"Removing fees benefits those who go on to earn the most, while having little or no impact on lower earners," said a Universities UK spokeswoman. | Students from poorer families are more likely to be deterred from university by tuition fee debt, researchers say. |
Universal free supplements for expectant mothers are to be rolled out from 1 April.
The Scottish government said the move was aimed at improving the health of parents and children, and had widespread support from health workers.
Previously vitamins were only available to women and children from families receiving means-tested benefits.
Public health minister Aileen Campbell said: "We are committed to giving every child in Scotland the very best start in life and helping women to enjoy a healthy pregnancy is a key part of this.
"There is strong evidence that taking vitamins during pregnancy improves both the mother and baby's health.
"By offering them to all pregnant women we can contribute towards giving every baby a fair and equal chance - a move that is widely supported by healthcare professionals."
Ms Campbell said a Scotland-wide survey had also begun on maternal and infant nutrition.
She said: "Data will be gathered on nutrition, breastfeeding, formula feeding and weaning practices, and help us strengthen the support we offer to new mothers.
"I would strongly encourage pregnant women and families with young infants who receive a survey pack to complete and return it." | Every pregnant woman in Scotland will receive free vitamins starting this weekend. |
The Lady Glovers are top of WSL 2 ahead of hosting third-placed Everton on Sunday, after rivals Bristol City are at home to Durham on Saturday.
Yeovil are level on points with second-placed City, with two teams to go up.
"This club was built on hard work and determination - we give everything that we've got," Sherwood told BBC Sport.
"We have got three games to go - three big cup finals. We have to be mentally prepared and focused."
Everton and Durham both hand a game in hand on their promotion rivals. | Manager Jamie Sherwood says Yeovil Town Ladies have "three big cup finals" left this season as they bid for promotion to Women's Super League One. |
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The 38-year-old regained the title he first won in 2013 and is the eighth player to win the crown more than once.
Waites, a carpenter from Huddersfield, raced into a 5-0 lead.
Smith, 40, took the sixth set with a 161 checkout to spark hopes of a fightback, but Waites eased to a comfortable victory.
Waites won his first title in 2013 with a 7-1 win over Tony O'Shea inside 74 minutes - and this match seemed destined for a similar outcome from an early stage.
Smith, playing in his first Lakeside final, seemed to be punished for every poor visit he made to the oche, with Waites opening up a 3-0 lead at the first interval.
The fourth set went to a deciding leg and Smith looked well placed to win it, but Waites hit scores of 174 and 180 to set up a routine checkout, which he landed with ease.
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A fifth set followed for ninth seed Waites, again on a deciding leg, before Smith prevented what would have been a sixth whitewash in a BDO World Championship final with a 161 checkout to win the sixth.
But he missed four darts at double to take the seventh set.
Waites then stepped in with a 14-dart leg to restore his five-set lead, ending any danger of an unlikely comeback.
One of his final acts was to land a 156 checkout while his opponent was waiting on 49 to win the eighth set.
Absolutely. Many wondered if Waites, dogged by a shoulder injury during the past couple of years, would ever rediscover the form that saw him to a first world title in 2013.
His two visits to Lakeside following that initial success were ones to forget.
He returned as defending champion in 2014, only to be dumped out 3-0 in the first round by Alan Norris.
Then ran into an inspired Ross Montgomery in round two 12 months later.
Not many were talking up Waites heading into the 2016 event, but a first-round demolition of Willem Mandigers was a warning to the rest of the field that he was back to somewhere near his best.
The comebacks he produced to beat Geert de Vos in the second round and then top seed Glen Durrant in the quarter-finals were unforgettable.
When a player fights back from seemingly hopeless positions to win, a feeling begins to develop that the player's name is already on the trophy.
And so it proved to be.
At the age of 38 and finally playing pain-free after shoulder surgery, this could be the second of many more Lakeside victories for Waites - a crowd favourite with undoubted quality.
2016 BDO world champion Scott Waites: "It seemed a million miles away when I had shoulder surgery. I had six weeks without throwing a dart. That's painful in itself. Now I'm taking the world title back home.
"I'm speechless at the minute. I put my heart and soul into trying to win this. Today, I took my chances before Jeff took his. That was the difference."
Runner-up Jeff Smith: "I found myself trying to make something out of nothing. We must congratulate the champion, Scott was incredible - he dug in and made it to the end.
"I've just tried to adapt to each match. Last year I had a tough run in the semi-finals, and now I've had a tough final this year. But I guarantee I'll be back next year."
Former World Championship finalist Bobby George: "Jeff Smith has played some entertaining darts in the tournament. Even if the final was disappointing, Scott Waites wouldn't have cared.
"When you don't have a lot of chances at a double, you've got to take them. When you try too hard, like Jeff, it doesn't happen."
• Waites is the eighth player to win the BDO title more than once. The others are John Lowe, Eric Bristow, Jocky Wilson, Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld, Ted Hankey and Martin Adams.
• Smith's 161 finish to win the sixth set equalled the highest checkout of the tournament. | England's Scott Waites thrashed unseeded Canadian Jeff Smith 7-1 to win the BDO World Championship at Lakeside for a second time. |
Danni Jordan put the home side up 2-0 at half time after Sian French opened the scoring with a fine strike. Poland replied through Amelia Kateria.
Wales beat Poland 2-0 on Saturday and 3-0 on Friday.
The series is preparation for the group stages of the Euro Hockey Championships being held in Cardiff from 6-12 August.
"It took us some time to get going in the series but we're delighted to continue the momentum that we've been building for a while now and it's nice that we're putting in consistent performances," head coach Kevin Johnson said.
"I'm pleased this weekend that as the games moved on we became more creative and I think we opened Poland up in a number of areas.
"The atmosphere and everything around it will be completely different but I think the belief that we will gain from these results is obviously key.
"We would much rather be in our camp having the momentum of having three wins against Poland but we are acutely aware that one match in August against them is going to be a different scenario to deal with."
Wales beat Poland 2-0 for a second victory thanks to goals from Eloise Laity and Sophie Clayton.
Captain Abi Welsford and vice captain Leah Wilkinson - a scorer in Friday's 3-0 win - each earned their 135th international cap in that match.
That left Welsford and Wilkinson three caps shy of equalling Anne Ellis' record 138 Wales appearances.
Jo Westwood and Sarah Jones joined Wilkinson in scoring the home goals on Friday.
Find out how to get into hockey with our special guide. | Wales wrapped up a series sweep over Poland with a 2-1 victory on Sunday in Cardiff as they prepare for the Euro Hockey Championships. |
The centre-right opposition leader called for any foreign nationals with links to radical Islam to be expelled from France.
More than 80 people died when an attacker ploughed a lorry into people celebrating Bastille Day on Thursday.
Eighty-five people remain in hospital, 18 of them in critical condition.
Many survivors are still waiting for news of their loved ones. Only 35 bodies have so far been officially identified.
Prosecutors say painstaking measures are needed to avoid errors of identification.
Speaking to French television, Mr Sarkozy said "Democracy must not be weak, nor simply commemorate. Democracy must say 'We will win the war'."
He said he supported stronger measures like expulsion of radicalised Muslims, and electronic tagging for those at risk of radicalisation.
France's government has said it is at war with violent jihadists.
But a third major attack in 18 months has led to criticism of the country's leaders.
There is no indication that the Nice attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, was a jidhadist.
Neighbours have described him as a violent loner who liked to drink, lift weights and go salsa dancing.
But France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls has suggested he may have been radicalised too quickly to trigger the authorities' attention.
He was shot dead by police when his vehicle's path along the Promenade des Anglais was eventually halted.
French media reported that he researched the route in the days before the attack.
The reports say Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove through the seafront promenade area of the French city on Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation.
Europe 1 radio said CCTV footage from the days beforehand showed him driving through the area in the lorry, closely observing the scene.
Tunisian security sources have told the BBC he visited Tunisia frequently, most recently eight months ago.
So-called Islamic State said the attacker was acting in response to its calls to target civilians in countries that are part of the anti-IS coalition.
An impressive air of normality in much of tourist-packed Nice is deceptive. As well as grief, bewilderment hangs in the sea air.
There are tears, hugs and silence at the mountain of candles, flowers and cuddly toys on the beach promenade, where joggers stop and parents bring young children to read the messages.
A large white banner says: Why children? And, in a child's handwriting: Why do you want war?
The bloodstains on the tarmac are gradually disappearing. The lampposts the lorry smashed into will be replaced.
But for those who knew or loved the victims, things will never be the same. More armed police and soldiers guarding the streets will serve as a reminder.
Amid the fear and sadness, and the unanswerable questions, defiance acts as a source of comfort.
He will never defeat us, says one message on the promenade. Another reads: Love defeats hate.
Six people are being held in connection with the killings.
The latest arrests, of an Albanian couple who have not been identified, were on Sunday morning, French judicial sources said.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's estranged wife, who was detained on Friday, was released on Sunday. | In the wake of the attack in Nice, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has criticised the government for not doing enough to provide security. |
The win pushes the New York businessman closer to the Republican nomination for president, with 1,041 delegates.
A candidate must reach 1,237 delegates to become the party's nominee in November's general election.
His closest rival Mr Cruz earlier called him a "pathological liar" as the verbal blows reached a new intensity.
The Democratic race is still too close to call, with front-runner Hillary Clinton narrowly trailing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Indiana results as they come in
Mr Cruz and the third Republican in the race, John Kasich, had been hoping that Mr Trump, a New York businessman with no experience of elected office, would fall short.
That would have given them a chance to win at a contested convention in July, in which party delegates - officials and activists - vote for the nominee.
But Mr Trump only needs to win 43% of the remaining delegates to prevent that happening and win the nomination outright.
Turn out the lights, the party's over. Ted Cruz and the #NeverTrump movement threw everything they had at Donald Trump in Indiana, and it wasn't enough. It wasn't even close to enough.
They outspent him by more than a million dollars. Mr Cruz practically took up residence in the state for the past two weeks. He named Carly Fiorina as his running mate. Nothing worked.
If there was a defining moment of the Indiana campaign, it was Mr Cruz's fruitless attempt to reason with a group of pro-Trump supporters on Sunday. Every argument he advanced was rebuffed. Every bit of evidence of Trump malfeasance was denied. Mr Cruz was shouting in the wind.
In the coming days there will be a great reckoning, as the party comes to terms with the prospect of Mr Trump as their standard bearer in the autumn. Some will make peace. Some will despair. Others will say "I'm with her" and reluctantly move to Hillary Clinton's side.
It will be an unprecedented spectacle in modern US political history.
Mr Cruz had been pinning all his hopes on winning in Indiana, a state friendly to his social conservatism, and halting the momentum of Mr Trump.
The Texas senator and Mr Kasich even struck a deal that involved the Ohio Governor giving Mr Cruz a clear path in Indiana, in return for getting a clear path himself in later state contests. | Donald Trump is on course to win Indiana’s Republican presidential primary, dealing a huge blow to Ted Cruz's hopes. |
This is the full statement to the inquests from his mother, Jacqueline Devonside, read by his father, Barry Devonside:
Today I will read this statement of Jacqueline Devonside, and she will say as follows:
Christopher Barry Devonside was born on 1 April 1971. For several years he was the only child in the family, so he received a great deal of attention from the adults around him and was given a lot of their time.
As he grew into a toddler, he was always cheerful and content. With his white-blonde curls, he always looked angelic.
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As a young boy, Chris was comfortable in the company of adults. He developed a strong sense of humour and he loved to make people laugh.
Around the age of four, he delighted us when he began to make his own jokes.
His earliest attempts didn't always make much sense, but he would fall about laughing at himself, which made everybody else laugh.
He also had a great deal to say for himself. Christopher's nan used to look after him when I was out at work, and she complained that he never stopped talking. She didn't really mind, though, because he was the light of her life.
He got on well with his granddad. The two of them used to disappear off on long walks together, like great conspirators.
His granddad believed we were too protective of him, and together they used to do 'boy things', such things like playing conkers and climbing trees. They even made cardboard leg pads for cricket practice.
Chris quickly grew in confidence and was ready to stand up for himself. When he was about five years of age, he was upset when his dad would not let him watch something unsuitable on TV. Chris's response was: "One day, when you're old and I'm 12, I'll be able to watch whatever I like".
Around the same time, he arrived home with a stray cat in tow. He said: "Look, Mum, it likes me. Can I keep it?" He never got to keep the cat, but he got two pet mice instead and he called them Asterix and Obelix after his favourite cartoon characters.
Chris's sense of humour grew along with his quiet sense of mischief. Around the age of seven, he impressed everyone in the supermarket by mimicking perfectly the sound of a knife cutting open a cardboard box.
A little later he got the chance to experiment with a video camera and he took to this like a duck to water. We still have the video taken by Chris at his nan's house.
The whole family was there and his nan was making Sunday lunch. Chris does not appear on the film of course, but we can hear his non-stop commentary as he moves from one family member to the next, revealing their individual foibles and poking gentle but insightful fun.
At primary school Chris was academically able and used to get really good school reports that made us very proud. He responded well to the male teachers who taught sports and he soon showed an aptitude for sports of all kinds.
He was cricket captain for his junior school and he played in both the athletics and football teams. He represented his school and he represented Ellesmere Port Town in all three sports.
We have a letter from Mr Holden, his primary school teacher, who said: "Even after all these years, I still have fond memories of Chris as a model pupil and an all-round sportsman."
"Looking back over my teaching career so far, lasting 35 years, there have been no better all-rounders than Chris and Rob Jones [the same Rob Jones who went on to play for Liverpool and England]. The success in sport achieved while they were in their last year of primary school has never been bettered."
Chris was becoming a very popular, self-effacing young man. His teachers and the parents of his friends all confirm this. Chris was brought up to have respect for himself, to have respect for his family and to have respect for his friends, and he had the strength of character that made him able to go against the crowd.
He had a friend called Gillian, who was a little dot of a girl. On the last day at junior school, Gillian's mother came over to tell us how grateful she was to Chris because her daughter had been bullied at school until Chris had taken her under his wing. He used to look after her and protected her from the bullies. We had no knowledge of this.
Chris was protective towards his sister, Vicki. She was seven years younger than him, and his pet name for her was 'Stig'. It was some years later before we learned he had named her after the book 'Stig of the Dump'. If she was Stig, though, he was Barney, and just like in the book, Stig and Barney had a very special relationship.
Chris enjoyed travel and we had lots of lovely family holidays. Almost always there were new sports to get involved in.
In Sorrento, he never left the swimming pool; in Newquay, he learned how to surf. We bought him a surfboard and he surfed all day long.
At night he slept so well that one night he fell out of bed on the top bunk. We heard the thump on the caravan floor and ran to see what had happened. When we got there, though, he was curled up on the floor still fast asleep.
In Nant Gwynant, he went canoeing and, in Portugal, he played golf at Vilamoura and afterwards went to a barbecue. Chris loved every moment of it.
On another occasion when Chris was playing golf, he hit a really bad shot and threw his club down in disgust (he had seen this happen during the previous year's British Open Championship).
His dad told him off and said that was no way to behave. Chris pulled himself together on the next hole and drove just short of 300 yards from the tee to the green. Unfortunately, he three putted and only ended up with a par.
As a result of dad's promotions, Chris moved from high school in Ellesmere Port to another school in Greasby and then on to Range High School in Formby.
Moving schools in this way can be a hindrance to a young person, but Chris seemed to take it in his stride. He was capable and prepared to work hard, so he always managed to keep up with his school work.
He also always managed to fit in with his new school environments. He never had any difficulty getting on with either the pupils or the teachers. His relaxed attitude and ability to talk to adults made him very popular.
At high school, Chris played any sport he could, including volleyball, basketball, table tennis and badminton. His teacher wanted us to find him a volleyball team to play in because he felt Chris should not drop it, but, unfortunately, there were no teams in our area. Instead, he represented his school in rugby.
Chris was 16 when we moved to Formby. We can still remember him going out with his friends. Chris was always very well groomed, clean and fresh and his friends were just the same. Endearingly, they all seemed to wear the same clothes: light blue denim shirts, light blue denim jeans and white trainers.
Among them were Jason Kenworthy, James Thomas, more commonly and affectionately known as 'Hairy', Billy Hutt, Tim Knowles and Anthony Owens, Gary Church and Simon Bell. There were 10 of them in all and, of the 10, three were killed at Hillsborough.
By the time he was 16, Chris was taller than me. He used to walk past me and pat me on the head and say: "Hello, little mum. I used to think you were big". I loved him too much to tell him off. He loved me too.
When Chris had money, he would buy me presents. He had several summer holiday jobs, washing dishes in a local restaurant and working in a garage.
With his first ever week's wages, he bought me a set of patio furniture so the family could sit out in the garden in the warm weather. The quality of the patio set wasn't great and sadly it rotted away long before we could bear to throw it out.
On occasions, his sense of mischief did get the better of him. One time Chris and his friends went out for a meal at a Chinese restaurant. As they left home, their behaviour was very 'grown up', but to our great remorse, after they finished the meal, they unscrewed the table legs and were summarily evicted from the restaurant.
At Hugh Baird College, Chris studied history, politics and economics at A-level. He was quietly ambitious and wanted to go to university. He was expected to get good results and would have liked to become a journalist.
He was interested in current affairs and was able to argue articulately his views on a range of social issues. He was never afraid to say what he thought, but always in a pleasant way and was never offensive.
Chris was interested in the game of football. He had a season ticket with Liverpool but in no way was he a fanatic. He went to some away games with his dad, including the Arsenal v Liverpool Charity Shield match at Wembley and then, after the match, we went to go to see the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
As Chris got older, he became interested in the wider social and political issues surrounding the game of football. He believed that the condition of those football grounds he had visited was unacceptably poor and argued passionately that the circumstances surrounding the Heysel Stadium disaster warranted greater transparency and honesty on the part of officialdom.
Chris's taste in art was avant garde. He was very taken with graffiti art and we bought him books on the subject, unsure of whether we should be encouraging this particular interest. Fortunately, his curiosity extended only to reading about it and looking at the pictures created by New York artists of the early 80s.
His taste in music was also contemporary: he liked The Police.
Chris passed his driving test in March 1989 and would wait for his dad to come home from work so he could go out in the car. He loved the freedom driving gave him and he also talked about taking a year out before university to go travelling.
He would never have been able to afford it, but that was one of his dreams for the future.
Tim Knowles was a friend of Chris's and he wanted to share the following:
"I remember Chris as a friendly, thoughtful and laid-back lad. Although we were in the same year at school, we didn't share many classes, so most of my recollections of him involve going to the football.
"Liverpool supporters of our generation were a lucky lot, having known little apart from constant success. Inevitably, many fans, particularly the younger ones, were spoilt by this, developing a sense of entitlement.
"The occasional bad results of players were greeted by a disproportionate amount of moaning and scapegoating of the players. I was no exception to this, but Chris was. Walks back to the station after a defeat invariably involved Chris defending the players against his mates' irrational attacks.
"'Whelan's useless', someone would cry. 'No, he's not, stop moaning, we're top of the league"' Chris would reply. Of course, he was right.
"This showed a maturity beyond his years, a realisation that the good times should be savoured as they wouldn't last forever. An understanding not just of football, but of life.
"It also showed strength of character, at that age, to go against the consensus of your friends' opinions, however immature or poorly reasoned.
"Chris was a lad who took things in his stride. I recall a day in the new year of 1988 when Chris, Simon Bell and myself set off for an away game at Derby County.
"Boarding the coach at Anfield, the driver told us that there was heavy rain in the Midlands, the game was in doubt and we would wait for a pitch inspection before setting off. A day we had been looking forward to was about to be nipped in the bud.
"I was frustrated but Chris made light of things and started cracking jokes. His good humour was contagious. We waited for an hour on the coach before the news came that the match had been cancelled because of a waterlogged pitch.
"By now the three of us were laughing - chucking banter about with excitement only the young, for whom a day away from parents was still a novelty, can manage. A postponed match was hardly the end of the world. I think that is my overriding memory of Chris.
"He had a sense of perspective and proportion - an insight - that is very rare in a teenager. I am fortunate to have been Chris's friend and I appreciate this opportunity to pay him a small tribute all these years later."
As a son, Chris never gave us any problems whatsoever. He was full of life, laid back, relaxed and pleasant to be with. He was a wonderful person to be around.
Our son went to a football game on a sunny Saturday in England and never came home. His life was ended abruptly, prematurely and unnecessarily because of the failures of others preventing Chris from fulfilling his dreams of travel and university.
We only have this statement to do justice to the person that Chris was and the life he had enjoyed so very much. | Christopher Devonside was a student from Formby, Merseyside who drove to the match with his father, Barry Devonside, and some friends, who all survived. |
Police said the animals were taken from Parks Farm in Beattock some time between 24 July and 17 August.
The lambs and ewes, which are texel cross with white faces, were taken from two fields.
PC Laura Paton said: "This is a large-scale theft of livestock and obviously a vehicle must have been used.
"We are appealing to anyone who may have seen any suspicious activity around the Beattock area over the past few weeks to get in touch with us." | More than 250 ewes and lambs worth more than £20,000 have been stolen from fields in southern Scotland. |
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Welterweight Scott Fitzgerald, middleweight Anthony Fowler and super-heavyweight Joe Joyce all won their finals at the Hydro arena on Saturday.
Leeds southpaw Qais Ashfaq had to settle for silver after losing to Northern Ireland's Michael Conlan in the bantamweight final.
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But in the women's competition, flyweight Nicola Adams and middleweight Savannah Marshall also triumphed.
Earlier in the day, Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan claimed Northern Ireland's first gold medals of Glasgow 2014, with Scotland golds for Charlie Flynn (lightweight) and Josh Taylor (light-welterweight).
England's tally of five golds, one silver and one bronze - won by light-welterweight Sam Maxwell - means they finish top of the medal table in boxing, although Northern Ireland won nine overall.
Fitzgerald, 22, gave one of the performances of the day in the 69kg final, the all-action Preston boxer flooring India's Mandeep Jangra three times en route to a one-sided unanimous decision victory.
Fitzgerald could now be a major medal hope for Great Britain at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, provided he is not snapped up by a professional promoter first.
In the 75kg final, Fowler was up against India's Vijender Singh, who has won a host of international medals, including a bronze at the 2008 Olympics.
But Fowler showed he is no respecter of reputations, flooring Singh in the first round before hitting him several times while he was on one knee.
Fowler pretty much had the fight wrapped up by the end of the second and coasted to victory in the third, eventually winning via a unanimous decision.
Londoner Joyce, a two-time national champion, had too much physicality for Joe Goodall in his +91kg final, driving the Australian back from the opening bell.
Goodall was given a standing count towards the end of the second round after a sickening body shot by Joyce, who was subsequently awarded a wide points decision.
In the men's light-heavyweight final, Kennedy St Pierre of Mauritius was hunting only his country's second ever Commonwealth Games gold medal.
But 18-year-old New Zealander David Nyika was awarded a unanimous decision, which did not go down well with the Glasgow faithful.
New Zealand missed out on a second gold in the heavyweight category, with David Light losing to Canada's Samir El-Mais via a split decision.
Media playback is not supported on this device | England's boxing team finished with five gold medals at Glasgow 2014. |
Phillip Simelane, from Walsall, stabbed the teenager in a random attack as she made her way to school in March.
He had been released from prison, unsupervised, three months before the attack - despite warning signs over the state of his mental health.
The 23-year-old admitted manslaughter in a hearing at Birmingham Crown Court.
Mrs Justice Thirlwell, sentencing Simelane, said it was "likely to be a life-long order".
The judge added: "It is made for the nature of the offence and necessary to protect the public from serious harm."
She also expressed concern that Simelane had not been receiving treatment at the time of the killing.
Christina had been travelling to Leasowes High School in Halesowen on the number 9 bus, two weeks after her 16th birthday, when she was attacked.
Simelane, who was sitting behind her on the upper deck, stabbed her in the chest as he walked past to get off.
He was arrested a few hours after the attack following an extensive manhunt.
Simelane had previously been in prison for threatening his own mother with a knife. West Midlands Police said they had been called to his mother's address in Walsall about 20 times.
Seven days after completing a 101-day prison term for the threats, he was convicted for interfering with a vehicle and possessing cocaine. He was released from jail on 13 December.
But, according to the police, because the crimes were deemed minor offences there was no policy to monitor Simelane after he left jail.
During his time in prison, concerns were raised about his mental health and notes were put on his police file for suicide and self-harming risk, as well as for violence and weapons use.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust provided psychiatric assessments for Simelane during his prison term.
Girl's killer threatened own mother
It said it was conducting an external review, commissioned by Birmingham Cross City Clinical Commissioning Group, on behalf of all agencies involved in treating him.
In a statement, the trust promised a "thorough investigation", adding "we will seek to learn from and fully implement these findings across the healthcare providers involved".
Supt Richard Baker, who led the initial police investigation, said police and prison services were also carrying out reviews to determine what, if anything, could have been done to prevent Christina's death.
He said: "It was immediately apparent that Simelane suffered from mental health issues, and to this day we have not been able to interview him about what happened that day."
In court, Simelane entered his plea in front of more than 30 of Christina's friends and family, many wearing purple ribbons - Christina's favourite colour.
Speaking afterwards, Christina's great uncle Chris Melia said: "We have no sense of vengeance or revenge. We just want him out of the way and [to] remember Christina.
"The authorities didn't help him, [they] just let him out of the prison door and let him go, just abandoned him.
"If there had been some help and authority he wouldn't have been on the bus."
Prosecutor Peter Grieves-Smith said CCTV captured Simelane carrying a white plastic bag containing what prosecutors said was a knife, 10in to 12in in length.
He said within seconds of Christina boarding the bus "the defendant got up and moved forwards three seats and pulled out the knife, which he then hid".
Simelane then walked towards where Christina was sitting, "leant closer to her", stabbed her and started to walk off, the court heard.
"Such was the nature of the attack, nobody else on the upper deck realised what had happened until Christina reacted," Mr Grieves-Smith said.
Other passengers on the bus tried to treat and comfort Christina before paramedics arrived within minutes.
She was stabbed at about 07:30 and was confirmed dead about 30 minutes later.
Following her death, friends gathered by Hagley Road in Birmingham to lay flowers in Christina's memory, while many more were left outside her school's gates.
A memorial garden dedicated to Christina is due to be opened at her former school on Thursday.
Speaking on behalf of the family, the great uncle said Christina was a "bright, beautiful girl" who was looking forward to her school prom and loved sports.
He added: "Her headmaster said, 'if a school could choose its pupils it would be full of Christinas'.
"Now the family asks the question - when this man was discharged from prison on 13 December 2012, why was the recommendation, made a few weeks earlier by mental health experts, that he be supervised after release whilst adjusting to life back in the community, not followed up?" | A man who killed 16-year-old Christina Edkins on a rush-hour bus in Birmingham has been detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. |
The four tech firms plan to create a database that contains "digital fingerprints" of the content.
The database will be used to screen uploads in order to spot violent or extremist material before it is shared.
Eventually, the database will be made available to other firms keen to police this content.
"There is no place for content that promotes terrorism on our hosted consumer services," said a spokesman for Twitter in a statement.
He said the initiative was aimed at the "most extreme and egregious" images and videos.
The database would be populated with digital snapshots of images and videos known as "hashes", which were an industry standard way of uniquely indentifying a file, he added.
The hashes of content recognised as extremist or violent will be shared among the four firms, who can use them to scrub the same images from their respective sites and services.
Anyone who believed content they had posted had been incorrectly flagged as promoting terror groups would be able to appeal against its removal, said the statement.
Twitter's spokesman said the joint project would make the firms more efficient at removing content that violated their policies governing what could be posted and shared.
The tie-up between the four firms comes as the European Commission calls on US tech firms to act faster when tackling hate speech.
The EU's justice commissioner, Vera Jourova, said firms had fallen short of a commitment given six months ago in which they pledged to act within 24 hours of being told about hateful and racist content.
She said Brussels would introduce laws mandating swift action if tech firms did not start to respond more quickly. | Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are collaborating to stop violent, extremist images and video being spread via their sites. |
Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, saw himself akin to Harry Potter and the hero Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, Southwark Crown Court heard.
The woman alleges she was was born into the collective and held for decades.
Mr Balakrishnan, denies 16 charges, including rape, indecent assault, false imprisonment and mistreating a child.
The woman, who cannot be identified, told the jury Mr Balakrishnan saw himself as immortal, all powerful and destined to take over the world.
He allowed her to read the Harry Potter books and Lord of the Rings trilogy, she said, because he identified himself in some of the characters.
Via video link she said: "He thought Harry Potter is like him, Harry is like Ara. It's magic and things. Harry Potter was a way to introduce his ideas to the children.
"He said that when he takes over the world it will be like Aragorn in Lord Of The Rings coming to Middle Earth, destroying Sauron.
"I suppose in his mind Sauron was like America and the West. He would get rid of them, there would be a war and he would destroy them."
She said she was told: "Bala [Mr Balakrishnan] is the natural centre and basically he is god and he knows everything. He will never die."
The woman's existence was revealed in 2013 when she made a call from a Brixton flat to a charity saying Mr Balakrishnan and his followers had kept her captive for decades.
She said instead of a family she had grown up in a communist collective and taught to worship its leader who would beat her with a ruler or a stick when he was angry.
She was also subjected to "withering" criticisms and denouncements, along with other members of the commune.
The court learned the woman's mother was also in the collective and loyal to Mr Balakrishnan.
Her daughter told the court she was told to call her mother "comrade" but there was no affection between them as she "would be extra unkind... getting me into more trouble".
"I really didn't like her. She scared me like hell," the court heard.
"[She] was trying to prove she was not kind to me. The idea was all the people in the collective were encouraged to break away from their family," she added.
On Wednesday the court heard, she was told her father had died, but later found out that was a lie.
In 1997, her mother Sian died in an unexplained fall from an upstairs window in one of the many houses the collective occupied.
The trial continues. | The daughter of a man accused of running a "brutal communist cult" told a court how she was held captive by her father who claimed he had magic powers. |
The worshippers were attending a gathering by Nigerian TV evangelist TB Joshua when a building collapsed in Lagos 10 days ago.
Meanwhile, 25 survivors have returned to South Africa, where they will receive further medical care.
Mr Joshua, one of Nigeria's best-known evangelists, is popular across Africa.
At least seven of the dead are Nigerian, rescue workers there have said.
The nationalities of the other victims is not clear, except for an official with Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, whose death was announced last week.
The latest figures were provided by South Africa's minister in the presidency Jeff Radebe.
They have not been confirmed by Nigerian officials.
Sixteen of the wounded were in critical condition, with some having had limbs amputated and one developed gangrene in the toes, he said.
A 19-member medical team including specialised doctors, nurses and military paramedics who had been sent to Nigeria took care of the injured on board a military aircraft.
Mr Joshua on Sunday announced plans to travel to South Africa to visit the families of the deceased.
"I will be travelling to South Africa to meet people from South Africa and other nations who find South Africa easier to visit, in memory of martyrs of faith," he told his congregation.
In his sermon, he referred to reports surrounding the incident as "persecution" and "propaganda".
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Rescue workers have said the building may have collapsed as a result of the construction of additional storeys without reinforcing the foundations.
Mr Joshua has blamed the incident on a small plane which had been circling over the building before it came crashing down on Friday 12 September, and suggested it was an attempt on his life.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visited the church on Saturday and promised to investigate the cause of the tragedy.
He said he would hold talks with stakeholders in the construction industry on how to prevent a repeat of the tragedy, adding that he had expressed his sympathies to Mr Joshua and his church, as well as South African President Jacob Zuma and the families of the deceased.
Mr Joshua is known by his followers across the world as "The Prophet" or "The Man of God".
He claims to work miracles, including raising people from the dead and healing the sick. | The number of deaths in Nigeria's church hostel collapse has risen to 115, including 84 South Africans, a South African minister has said. |
The government is appealing against a High Court ruling that MPs must get a vote on triggering Article 50.
The Supreme Court confirmed that Wales and Scotland's senior law officers will be allowed to take part in the appeal.
UK PM Theresa May said on Friday that work was "on track" to begin the formal process of Brexit by April 2017.
At a joint press briefing with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, following a meeting with EU leaders in Berlin, Mrs May said: "We stand ready to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017 and I want to see this as a smooth process, an orderly process, working towards a solution that's in the interests of both the UK and also in the interests of our European partners."
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She was speaking after the Supreme Court confirmed that Scotland's senior law officer, the Lord Advocate, had been invited to address the court on the relevance of points of Scots law. The Counsel General for Wales will make arguments about the importance of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law.
The Supreme Court hearing is expected to start on 5 December and last four days, with the decision expected in the new year.
Analysis
Tom Bateman, BBC political correspondent
The government has been clear in its belief that the referendum result gives it the authority to use its executive powers to trigger the EU exit process.
But the Scottish government believes this is unlawful, claiming that invoking Article 50 would involve a "fundamental alteration" in the UK's constitutional arrangements and the rights of Scottish people - who voted to remain in the EU - about which the Hollyrood parliament should be consulted.
It is far from clear how much legal weight these arguments will carry in this complex constitutional case in front of 11 Supreme Court judges.
But the politics are easier to predict: If the government's appeal fails, Parliament is likely to become the next battleground over the timing and - potentially - the terms of Brexit.
It is a fight Downing Street is desperate to avoid - amid the increasingly toxic atmosphere between those tussling for control of Britain's departure from the EU.
A government spokesman said it was "a matter for the Supreme Court which applications to intervene are accepted".
"The UK government's position remains the same, and we will be taking strong legal arguments to court next month," he said.
Scotland's Brexit minister Michael Russell welcomed the decision, but added: "We continue to call on the UK government to drop the appeal and to accept that Parliament has the right to determine the triggering of Article 50.
"We recognise the decision of people in England and Wales to support Brexit, but the views of people in Scotland cannot simply be brushed aside."
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, which describes itself as "fighting for the rights and welfare of some of the most vulnerable and under-represented workers in the UK", has also been given permission to make submissions to the Supreme Court.
The Attorney General for Northern Ireland has made a reference to the court on devolution issues and did not need permission to intervene. Separately another Brexit case brought by victims' campaigner Raymond McCord in Belfast has also been referred to the Supreme Court.
Earlier this month three High Court judges ruled that the prime minister did not have the power to use the royal prerogative to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to start the two-year process of negotiating Brexit, without the prior authority of Parliament.
Mrs May and her ministers are now asking the Supreme Court to overturn that unanimous decision.
Labour has said it will not attempt to delay or scupper this process if a vote goes ahead.
But Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has said his party will vote against triggering Article 50, unless they are promised a second referendum on the UK's Brexit deal with EU leaders. Some Labour MPs have said they are also willing to oppose it.
Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, believes that the consent of the Scottish Parliament and the UK's other devolved parliaments and assemblies should also be sought before Article 50 is triggered.
Mick Antoniw AM, Counsel General for Wales, said previously: "This case raises issues of profound importance not only in relation to the concept of parliamentary sovereignty, but also in relation to the wider constitutional arrangements of the United Kingdom and the legal framework for devolution."
The legal challenge over Brexit was brought by investment fund manager and philanthropist Gina Miller, along with London-based Spanish hairdresser Deir Dos Santos and the People's Challenge group, set up by Grahame Pigney and backed by a crowd-funding campaign.
After Lord Toulson's retirement this summer, the appeal will be heard by all 11 remaining Supreme Court justices, led by their President Lord Neuberger. | The Scottish and Welsh governments are to be allowed to have a say in the Supreme Court battle over how Brexit should be triggered. |
Now in his 80s, Akbar Etemad remembers all too clearly the pressure the Americans tried to apply to him when he was head of Iran's nuclear programme between 1974 and 1978.
Mr Etemad was the president of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation and it was under him that the country's nuclear project began and flourished.
The Shah of Iran had announced that he wanted to build nuclear power plants in the country, a plan supported by the United States. The goal was for Iran to produce 23,000 megawatts of electrical power. But Mr Etemad says the US soon tried to impose conditions.
The Americans, he recalls, were initially supportive "because they thought they were going to be a partner of Iran in the application of nuclear technology.
"I had the impression that the Americans wanted to impose their views on Iran and I refused to deal with them. We were discussing for four years the terms of the bilateral agreement and we never came to a conclusion.''
He says that the Americans told him then that ''Iran is not a problem for us but the conditions we impose on Iran are those that we want to impose on other countries'' such as Yugoslavia and the Philippines.
Between 1974 and 1978 Mr Etemad says there was regular contact with the US, and Iranian students went to study nuclear research there.
And he reveals that the Shah wanted to leave all options on the table in terms of developing a nuclear bomb.
"The Shah had the idea at the time that he's strong enough in the region and he can defend our interests in the region [and] he didn't want nuclear weapons. But he told me that if this changes 'we have to go for nuclear'. He had that in mind.''
''My mission was to go for all the technologies imaginable in the field of nuclear technology,'' Mr Etemad explains.
After the 1979 Iranian revolution the nuclear programme was stopped for a time.
''At the beginning the revolutionaries thought that nuclear technology [was] one of the tactics of the US to put [a] hand on Iran. Later on they realised it was a successful programme and they had to continue it.''
Iran's new rulers asked Mr Etemad, who had left the country, to return but he refused. At the time he was not sure what they wanted to do. At first, he explains, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini was suspicious of everything but then accepted the nuclear programme.
Mr Etemad has been back to Iran since but has not got involved in the nuclear programme. ''It's too late for me to get back into that,'' he says.
For years there have been rounds of talks trying to resolve Iran's nuclear question. Most recently negotiations have been held between Iran and the so-called P5+1 powers - the US, the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.
These countries want Iran to grant the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) far more access to its nuclear sites than it currently does and for Iran to answer questions and concerns the IAEA has about any possible military dimension to its nuclear programme
They are also calling for Iran to stop 20% uranium enrichment and to limit its enrichment to below 5%. The most recent round of talks ended without a resolution.
Commenting on the current deadlock, Mr Etemad says "there's no way out. I think Iran has the right to do the research that they are doing and I don't see why the Western countries impose sanctions against Iran.
"They pressure Iran. Why didn't they do it with India, Pakistan with Israel?" he asks. Mr Etemad currently sees no solution but thinks that ''Iran should not give in".
As for those who talk about striking Iran's nuclear facilities, he believes that "neither Israel or the US are in a position to attack Iran".
After the revolution, Mr Etemad established an office in Paris as a consultant in the field of nuclear energy. At the time the former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, whose country was at war with Iran, tried to persuade him to work in Iraq.
He refused to go, telling Saddam Hussein that ''as long as you are fighting my people I wouldn't come to Iraq. You are my enemy."
He says he refused offers from many countries to work on their nuclear programmes, preferring to remain in exile in Paris.
Zubeida Malik's report was originally broadcast on the Today programme. | In a rare interview, the man dubbed "the father of Iran's nuclear programme" tells how the project began under the Shah, who wanted to leave the option for a bomb open. |
Batsmen Alex Hales, Gary Ballance and James Vince made a combined 498 runs in the Test series against Pakistan, which ended 2-2 after defeat at The Oval.
Bayliss said players had been given a "decent run" to prove themselves.
"We've got around a month before we get together and discuss the next series so there will be tough decisions to make."
Ballance, recalled by England against Pakistan after Nick Compton took a break from cricket, had the highest series average of the trio at 27.85 with the 26-year-old's high score a 70 at Edgbaston.
Opener Hales, 27, averaged just 18 and, to add to an indifferent series, was fined 15% of his match fee for going into the match referee's office after being dismissed to a catch he felt had not been taken cleanly by Pakistan's Yasir Shah.
Vince, 25, was caught driving on day three of the 10-wicket defeat at The Oval to just his third delivery, as the hosts fought to set a target.
It prompted former England batsman and BBC pundit Geoffrey Boycott to call it the "stupidest shot you can imagine", and add: "For me it's the end of his Test career."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan said he had been "frustrated" by England's performance, which came just a few days after a 141-run win at Edgbaston had given them a 2-1 series lead and the possibility of topping the Test rankings.
"Vince I don't think will make it, which is sad because I do think he's a good player, but it's a mental thing," Vaughan said on Test Match Special.
"Hales goes on the plane, but what I want to see from him is more aggression on the pitches in Bangladesh and India."
England's Australian coach Bayliss did not offer much encouragement, however, to rivals from the County Championship.
"There doesn't seem to be anyone crying out to be selected above anyone else," he said.
"I think I heard [captain Alastair Cook] say the two or three guys we've got in the team have been very good players over the last two or three years, experienced players at county level, and they have found it tough to jump up to this level.
"They have shown bits and pieces, but I think it just proves that the jump between first-class cricket and Test cricket is a big one."
England next play five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 against Pakistan, starting at Southampton on 24 August. | England face some "tough" selection decisions for their winter tours to Bangladesh and India, coach Trevor Bayliss says. |
Sion Bedwyr Evans, 41, of Llanrug, and Garry Vaughan Roberts, 43, Caernarfon, face 50 charges between them.
Magistrates in Caernarfon heard the offences took place at Canolfan Brynffynnon in Felinheli between September 2006 and March 2014.
No pleas were entered and both men were bailed to appear before Caernarfon Crown Court on 12 October. | Two members of staff at a Gwynedd education referral unit have appeared in court charged with child cruelty. |
Dutchman Frank de Boer, 47, has been named as Allardyce's successor as manager, signing a three-year contract.
The Eagles finished 14th in the Premier League last season after Allardyce joined in December and bought in four new players the following month.
"We can't do that every year, we need to be smarter than that," said Parish.
Palace were 17th in the Premier League after a run of one win in 11 games when Allardyce was appointed.
They signed defenders Patrick van Aanholt and Mamadou Sakho, midfielder Luka Milivojevic and the versatile Jeffrey Schlupp in the January transfer window.
Parish told BBC Radio 5 live: "We need to get to a comfortable place in this division. That will take hard work, planning, thinking.
"We bought our way out of it last season by bringing Sam in and the money we spent in January."
De Boer had been out of work since he was sacked by Italian side Inter Milan in November after only 85 days in charge.
At his first news conference as Palace manager, he said he had learned "a lot" from his time at the San Siro.
"Frank had prepared a long presentation about himself and he researched about the club and where we were," said Parish.
"He took a lot of time and trouble to articulate what his philosophy, thinking and feelings were about the club and what he could achieve.
"We spoke about Inter and what went wrong and what lessons he learnt there."
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De Boer managed Ajax from 2010 to 2016, winning the Eredivisie in four successive seasons from 2011 to 2015.
Parish said: "We are hoping not to just improve the first team but to look at the whole set-up of the club and use his knowledge, experience and probably the blueprint of a club that does things the right way in Ajax.
"It's about improving players and buying the right talent at the right age."
Parish said he would like to take Palace to a position where they are "five, six, or seven points away from any kind of consideration of danger".
'It's not about whether they're British or foreign'
De Boer is Palace's first foreign permanent manager.
"It's not about whether they're British or foreign, it's knowledge and belief," said Parish.
"For example, when I look at a manager from abroad in the middle of the season, they don't know a lot of our squad. They have to come over, find a house, get their family settled. By then, two, three or four games have gone by.
"We now have six or seven weeks of full pre-season and someone who speaks very good English and good knowledge of the world game."
'Money where money needs to be spent'
De Boer has said he is excited to join a club that "spend a lot of money," but Parish said their outlay will be controlled.
"We need to spend money where money needs to be spent and then be astute when there's no need to spend," he said.
"We always look to the market to improve the squad but Frank first of all needs to understand what he can achieve, his best formation, and the pegs he needs to put in the holes to improve." | Crystal Palace "bought" their way out of trouble last season by appointing Sam Allardyce and spending in January, says chairman Steve Parish. |
Mark Bradstock's 2015 winner returned from over a year out with a leg injury at Haydock in November, and impressed as runner-up to Cue Card.
But the nine-year-old missed the King George VI Chase on Boxing Day following an unsatisfactory workout.
"He's good and we're hoping he'll be ready to run in the Gold Cup," Bradstock's wife Sara said.
"He's fine, but he's jarred himself a little bit. It's not a serious injury, but as we all know, while he is a miracle horse, he is fragile.
"You never really know with him, but I'm hopeful he'll make the Gold Cup. We'll walk him now for a month until he's super-well and then we'll see where we are.
"He'll be fine by the time the Gold Cup comes around, the question is whether we'll have him ready."
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
It's striking how often a horse wins the Gold Cup in great style and is rated jumping's new shining light who might win a few big races. But things don't always work out like that.
OK, that didn't apply in the golden era of Kauto Star and Denman, or when Best Mate completed a hat-trick, but plenty of others didn't progress as anticipated - Imperial Call, the 1996 winner, is a classic example - and with Coneygree being still a novice when he was successful, hopes were sky high.
Good luck to the Bradstocks, but it all goes to prove how hard it is to keep champions at the top. | Coneygree will not run before the Cheltenham Gold Cup and faces a battle to be ready for the 17 March race. |
The owners said their planned £80m development at the site in Bewdley, Worcestershire, would create between 300 and 500 jobs.
Wyre Forest District Council granted planning permission for the water park, including seven slides. The park said it hoped this would open by 2017.
The hotel was given outline planning permission.
Some people living in Bewdley have raised concerns about traffic congestion and the impact on the environment.
Managing director Ivan Knezovich said: "If we see the safari park as a destination, the whole idea of creating a destination is for people to say 'well let's go to Bewdley, let's go to the safari park and we'll have a two or three days stay'.
"(That) means it'll encourage people to travel out into the Wyre Forest, to the River Severn."
Stephen Williams, who chairs the planning committee on the council, said the positives outweighed the negatives.
He said: "This is a very, very major development and it will bring a great deal of employment." | Proposals for an indoor water park and a hotel at West Midland Safari Park have been approved by councillors. |
But the reality in Europe's poorest country is more complicated than that.
It is a political crisis.
The anti-government camp is demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Pavel Filip's government and early parliamentary elections.
They include two pro-Moscow groups and one pro-European group - the Dignity and Truth movement, led by Andrei Nastase.
They have put their differences aside, at least temporarily, and have given the government until Thursday to come up with a schedule for elections. Otherwise, they threaten to begin a campaign of civil disobedience.
At the heart of their demands, however, is a desire for sweeping change: to replace a political establishment, which they say is rotten with corruption and whose members are controlled by oligarchs.
The government's pro-European stance, they claim, is just a smokescreen to conceal this graft.
Last year, Moldova was rocked by what was for the country the mother of all scandals: more than €1bn (£710m) disappeared from three banks.
It was suspected that the money was embezzled. The loss also put a heavy strain on the financial system, since the €1bn represented about 14% of the country's GDP. Moldova's currency, the lei, was sharply devalued.
In the wake of the scandal, heads rolled:
But this unleashed another wave of outrage.
Pavel Filip's election was highly unorthodox, and may have violated protocol.
Deputies were suddenly called to vote within a couple of hours. Then Mr Filip was sworn in at midnight, seemingly in secret, since no media were invited.
Protesters stormed parliament, and more than 20,000 gathered on Sunday to demand that he resign immediately.
There is also some dispute about Pavel Filip's background.
Critics say he is closely connected to the country's richest man, Vladimir Plahotniuc, who they maintain is the main power broker behind the scenes, and in their eyes the man most responsible for official corruption.
"Moldova is a 'captured state' and Mr Plahotniuc is the symbol of this evil," said Oazu Nantoi, programme director at Chisinau's Institute of Public Policy.
"A 'captured state' is when key state structures don't act on the basis of law and constitution, but are under the control of one person."
Mr Plahotniuc denies he is a political puppet master.
For his part, Prime Minister Filip told the BBC he vehemently rejected any suggestion he was not a fully independent politician.
Members of the government say it is the protesters who are destabilising the country and pursuing their own political agendas. Mr Filip said new elections could plunge the country into an even deeper economic crisis.
Some observers see the hand of Moscow behind the protests.
Whatever the true nature of the country's politicians and the opposition, there is no denying that anger and discontent are rising among the population.
"We want an honest government, for decent pensions, where people aren't deceived and their money stolen," said Lyubov Suvorova, as she stood near Chisinau's main train station, trying to sell a few household goods to earn a few dollars.
"We want changes - we just don't believe that the protests are going to change anything," she added.
The great Moldovan bank robbery
Moldova country profile
Moldova's economy is based chiefly on agriculture and the country has struggled to develop a more varied economic base ever since the industrialised Dniester region unilaterally declared independence in 1990.
The region to the east of the river Dniester - also known as Trans-Dniester - is inhabited mainly by Russian-speaking Slavs who were alarmed at the prospect of Moldova forging closer ties with Romania. The unresolved conflict over the region also damaged Moldova's economic ties with other former Soviet republics.
Wine used to be one of the country's main exports and was for a long time its main source of hard currency.
But in 2005 Russia banned the import of Moldovan wines, saying that this was because of their poor quality. However, many Moldovans believe that the real reason was to punish the country for straying from the Kremlin's orbit.
The Moldovan economy still exports very little and is heavily dependent on remittances from Moldovans working abroad, especially from Russia, and so has been badly affected by Russia's recent economic difficulties.
Analysis provided by BBC Monitoring. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Some people say the street protests in Moldova are by pro-Russian protesters trying to unseat a European-friendly government in a former Soviet republic. |
The collisions, involving two cars and a caravan, happened north of Felin Fach at about 12:05 BST on Saturday.
A Mid and West Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said a woman was trapped but she has been freed and taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea, via air ambulance.
Part of the road was closed but has since reopened. | A woman has been airlifted to hospital after a crash on the A470 in Powys. |
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Craig Jones had given Westfields, who play in the ninth tier of English football, a dream start when he fired a ninth-minute penalty low and hard into the net to put his side in front.
Curzon, the Greater Manchester side from National League North, enjoyed the majority of possession but the home side always looked dangerous on the counter and deserved their lead going into the interval.
Marshalled by the superb James Febery, the Westfields defence stood firm and the home side almost doubled their advantage when Jones met Richard Greaves' pass on the hour mark.
But the linesman's flag came to Westfields' rescue when Kane Kahaki turned the ball into his own net with 20 minutes to go.
And with less than 10 minutes remaining, Westfields' hearts were broken as Morgan was quickest to react when a Luke Clarke corner created panic in the goalmouth.
Ashton continued to press in the closing stages but Westfields goalkeeper Kieron Blackburn claimed a number of dangerous crosses to ensure the game finished level and set up a replay for his side.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Westfields 1, Curzon Ashton 1.
Second Half ends, Westfields 1, Curzon Ashton 1.
Attempt missed. Chris Ham (Westfields) right footed shot from long range on the left is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Sam Archer-Plane.
Attempt missed. Connor Hampson (Curzon Ashton) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Rory Gorman with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Kane Kahaki.
Attempt blocked. James Baillie (Curzon Ashton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rory Gorman.
Joe Guest (Curzon Ashton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Ham (Westfields).
Substitution, Westfields. Jamie Saunston replaces James Febery.
Offside, Curzon Ashton. Paul Ennis tries a through ball, but Adam Morgan is caught offside.
Foul by Paul Ennis (Curzon Ashton).
Kane Kahaki (Westfields) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Kane Kahaki.
Substitution, Curzon Ashton. Paul Ennis replaces Niall Cummins.
Attempt missed. Jamie Stott (Curzon Ashton) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Luke Clark with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Kane Kahaki.
Rory Gorman (Curzon Ashton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Gwynne (Westfields).
Goal! Westfields 1, Curzon Ashton 1. Adam Morgan (Curzon Ashton) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal following a corner.
Connor Hampson (Curzon Ashton) hits the right post with a header from very close range. Assisted by Rory Gorman with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Sam Gwynne.
Attempt blocked. Luke Clark (Curzon Ashton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Rory Gorman (Curzon Ashton) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Niall Cummins.
Alex Brown (Curzon Ashton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Ham (Westfields).
Attempt saved. Niall Cummins (Curzon Ashton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Adam Morgan with a cross.
Attempt saved. Luke Clark (Curzon Ashton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by James Baillie.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Sam Archer-Plane.
Attempt saved. Craig Jones (Westfields) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Richard Greaves.
Substitution, Westfields. Sam Gwynne replaces Aidan Thomas.
Substitution, Curzon Ashton. Adam Morgan replaces Iain Howard.
Offside, Curzon Ashton. Connor Hampson tries a through ball, but Niall Cummins is caught offside.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Keiron Blackburn.
Attempt saved. Niall Cummins (Curzon Ashton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Joe Guest.
Substitution, Curzon Ashton. Rory Gorman replaces Ryan Hall.
Attempt missed. Jamie Stott (Curzon Ashton) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Luke Clark.
Attempt blocked. James Baillie (Curzon Ashton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Guest.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Aidan Thomas (Westfields) because of an injury.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Chris Ham. | Adam Morgan's late equaliser earned Curzon Ashton a draw and forced the lowest side still in the FA Cup, Westfields, into a first-round replay. |
Deputy First Minister John Swinney and UK Treasury minister Greg Hands are meeting in Edinburgh.
Scottish ministers want a fiscal framework deal agreed this week so it can be scrutinised by Holyrood.
A source close to John Swinney said a massive gap remained between the two sides, but the UK government said it was optimistic a deal could be reached.
The breakthrough needed on the fiscal framework will underpin new powers for Holyrood.
Mr Swinney has repeatedly said he would not sign a deal which he believes is bad for Scotland.
It has been claimed the block grant ministers in Edinburgh get from the Treasury could be cut by £7bn if certain calculations are used.
But the UK government believes a good deal is on the table.
On Sunday, Mr Swinney pledged that key documents used to agree any new funding deal for Scotland would be published for scrutiny.
He said he was working "flat out" to get a deal, adding: "With time running out, we need to make substantial progress."
A source close to the deputy first minister said the Scottish government would use whatever time was possible to agree a deal.
That leaves open the possibility the deadline could be extended if the Scottish Parliament still has time to look at the framework before it breaks up for the May election.
Scottish Secretary David Mundell said there had been significant movement from the UK government to address Scottish government concerns over population growth.
He added the framework would be reviewed after "a few years" to make sure it was fair for Scotland and the rest of the UK.
The UK government has said it would not walk away from the talks.
Scottish Labour has, meanwhile, called for both sides to set out the principles behind their positions on the framework.
MP Ian Murray has written to Mr Hands and Mr Swinney saying the "negotiations are too important to be happening behind closed doors".
Both sides have said they would not provide a running commentary on the talks. | Crunch talks on the financial arrangements to accompany the Scotland Bill will resume later. |
Chances are it wouldn't be a glove. But car workers in Germany are now using smart gloves that not only save time but prevent accidents as well.
It is an example of how tech-enhanced humans are fighting back against the seemingly unstoppable rise of the robots.
At BMW's spare parts plant in Dingolfing, for example, which employs around 17,500 people, hand-held barcode readers have been replaced by gloves that scan objects when you put your thumb and forefinger together. The data is sent wirelessly to a central computer.
The hi-tech gloves allow workers to keep hold of items with both hands while scanning more quickly. While this may only save a few seconds each time, BMW reckons it adds up to 4,000 work minutes, or 66 hours, a day.
Formally launched in November, ProGlove's "plug and play" Mark glove is fitted with an integrated scanner and battery with enough charge to last an eight-hour shift. It costs €1,300 (£1,095; 1,350).
Other companies using the glove include rival car makers Audi and Skoda, and precision engineering firm Festo.
"The access point is connected to a company's existing system via USB or a normal serial connector, meaning the glove can be deployed with no integration expense," says ProGlove chief executive Thomas Kirchner.
In the US, sick leave costs employers $226bn (£182bn) a year, while in the UK over the last 12 months firms lost more than £4bn on leave related to minor ailments.
Lifting-related injuries alone cost US businesses more than $70bn last year. After flu, back pain is the main cause of absenteeism.
New York-based tech company Kinetic is trying to address this issue with a belt-mounted device that senses workers' posture when lifting and gives them feedback when the position could be improved - by bending the knees more, for example.
Managers can see all the collected data on a dedicated web page, helping them to spot areas for improvement. The Kinetic system also gives advice on how workplaces could be redesigned to reduce potentially dangerous practices.
The system has recently been piloted at Crane Worldwide Logistics' distribution facility in Texas, where it helped reduce the number of potentially damaging lifts performed by workers each day by 84%, the company says.
Such wearables are helping humans give robots a run for their money.
For example, aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been piloting a version of Google Glass, the search giant's augmented reality eyewear, to help technicians wire up its planes.
These highly complex webs of wires - known as harnesses - have to be connected up according to a road map that technicians refer to on a laptop or tablet.
But now they can read the instructions on the head-mounted display, thanks to a specially developed app called APX Skylight, leaving their hands free to carry on snipping the wires to length and connecting them up.
Boeing says the pilot saw assembly times reduced by 25%, and crucially, the number of errors fell, too.
And in the mining industry - one of the most dangerous in the world - technology is helping to keep miners safe and improve production.
For example, Canadian company Maestro Mine Ventilation has developed an award-winning digital gas sensor that is more accurate than traditional sensors.
By constantly monitoring the quality of the air, the build-up of dangerous gases can be spotted earlier and fresh air pumped to those areas. This can also save on electricity as the fans can be operated only when needed rather than all the time.
It's not just physical injury that can lead to absenteeism - stress and illness are prime culprits in the workplace.
IT giant Oracle claims its absenteeism costs have plunged by $1m as a result of wellbeing interventions such as stress workshops.
US health insurer Humana believes its Goal Guru health and wellbeing app can increase productivity by improving employees' overall fitness.
The "digital coach" app gathers data from multiple fitness trackers and mobile health apps and sets challenges that staff can take part in individually or collectively - from push-ups to mountain treks.
Competition between teams - and even heckling - is actively encouraged.
"Goal Guru is not just about the number of steps you have done or what you have eaten," vice president of wellness Kristine Mullen tells the BBC.
"It includes tasks designed to reduce financial stress and improve emotional wellbeing as well as physical condition, all while creating a spirit of competition and fun within the employee community."
The app, which is currently only available to US companies but should soon be worldwide, costs from $1 to $1.50 per employee per month for a business with 100 employees, she says.
"Our research indicates that employers are now happy to spend twice as much as that because they understand the effect a cohesive employee community has on their bottom line," Ms Mullen says.
So whether it's smart gloves, clever belts or motivational software, technology is helping to make us healthier and more productive at work.
And with robots stalking our jobs, that's probably just as well.
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The Gloucester-born youngster, who has been tied to Albion's academy since he was seven, has signed a two-and-a-half-year deal.
The highly-rated Roberts was invited to train with Chris Coleman's Wales' senior squad last summer.
He qualifies to represent Wales through his grandparents.
Roberts has twice been named on the Albion bench as an unused substitute, for last season's final-day defeat at Arsenal and again for the New Year's holiday home match against Stoke City.
"Being on the bench a couple of times was a great experience," he said. "But this feels wonderful. It's something I've been working towards since I was seven. To have finally got here is an immense feeling.
"We have some great coaches at academy level. They have told me to use this as a stepping stone, to not settle for this but push myself on and become a regular in the first-team squad.
Tyler Roberts was first spotted by scouts playing in a tournament in Gloucester, for junior side Tredworth Tigers.
After joining Albion, he made weekly journeys up and down the M5 to train at Albion's academy, in the shadow of the M6 junction at Great Barr.
But, when he reached secondary school age, his mother chose to move north to Birmingham, finding a new job to allow her son to switch schools to Sandwell Academy and follow his footballing dream.
He captained Wales Under-16s to victory in last season's Victory Shield, setting up two goals against Scotland before scoring in the final against Northern Ireland. | West Brom have signed highly-rated teenage Welsh striker Tyler Roberts on his first professional contract, just two days after his 17th birthday. |
This will include setting up a new regulator to oversee the industry.
It will also include improving collaboration between the government and the energy industry.
Sir Ian said the changes would add "at least" £200bn to the economy over the next 20 years.
"I see this as a watershed opportunity," he added. "We need to maximise the recovery of our hydrocarbon reserves and attract more investment."
In his report, Sir Ian recommends a series of improvements, including:
The UK government said the changes would produce an extra three to four billion more barrels of oil.
"The UK government can afford to support the industry and make it profitable to extract the increasingly hard-to-reach oil and gas in the North Sea," said Prime Minister David Cameron.
The UK's tax revenues from oil and gas in 2012-13 were £4.7bn lower than the year before, amounting to a 40% fall.
The report comes as the UK and Scottish cabinets prepare to hold separate meetings in the Aberdeen area, as they address the future of the North Sea oil industry.
The Scottish government said it supported the plans to implement Sir Ian's recommendations in full.
"The North Sea has suffered from poor stewardship from the UK government to date, and the time has come to address that," said finance secretary John Swinney.
Mr Swinney added that if Scotland were to gain independence after the 18 September vote, a Scottish Energy Fund should be established which would receive a proportion of oil and gas tax receipts.
However, Tom Greatrex, Labour's shadow energy minister, warned Scottish independence would jeopardise the success of the Wood review.
"Fragmentation of fiscal and regulatory regimes through separate arrangements in Scotland from the rest of the UK would increase risk, reduce efficiency," he said.
It is the first such review for more than 20 years.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey commissioned the report from Sir Ian, the former head of oil services supplier Wood Group, last June.
When he ordered the report, Mr Davey said the sector faced "unprecedented challenges that require new thinking".
This included declining drilling and production rates, as well as ageing equipment.
And he said the UK had to grasp the "huge opportunity" of exploiting the remaining deposits.
Sir Ian was chairman of Wood Group from 1982 until 2012. He also served as its chief executive from 1967 to 2006. | The UK government will fast-track the implementation of retired businessman Sir Ian Wood's recommendations for maximising the UK's remaining offshore oil and gas resources. |
James Hallett, 25, was found unconscious in the street with severe head injuries early on Monday morning.
Mr Hallett, from Blackwood, Caerphilly county, was flown to University Hospital Son Espases in Majorca.
His girlfriend, Jessica Jones, 23, said: "We are all naturally worried sick - it is early days and we don't know which way it will go."
Ms Jones said the couple had watched Germany play Ukraine in a bar on Sunday, 12 June, before Mr Hallett got separated from the group.
"There was a group of them but only one attacked James," she added.
"We are staying at James's bedside and waiting to hear what the doctors have to tell us."
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: "We are supporting the family of a British national who was taken to hospital in Palma on June 13. We will remain in contact with the hospital and local authorities." | A man has been left in a critical condition in hospital after being attacked while on holiday in Ibiza. |
Family and friends delivered tributes to the former Cardiff West AM and MP, reflecting his political and personal life, and his passion for sport.
Humanist celebrant Lorraine Barrett, who conducted the ceremony, said he was the "people's first minister".
The Senedd was at capacity, with crowds standing and sitting on steps outside.
Mr Morgan, who died earlier in May aged 77, served as the Welsh Assembly's first minister from 2000 to 2009.
He was credited with bringing stability to the fledgling assembly during his years in charge.
It is understood Mr Morgan had been out cycling near his home when he died.
About 500 people attended, with 360 inside the building.
Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock and former acting Labour leader Harriet Harman were among Mr Morgan's party colleagues attending, with Conservative Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns among those from other parties.
Ms Barrett is herself a former AM, having served between 1999 and 2011.
"He was the people's first minister and this is a people's ceremony," she said.
"He wouldn't want a police escort but sorry Rhodri, needs must.
"He wouldn't want any heavy mourning. This is a celebration of his life through words, poetry and music."
Tributes from family members included a rendition of Calon Lan by Mr Morgan's grandson Efan.
The former first minister's elder brother, Prys, recalled being unimpressed as a child when he first saw the family's new baby.
The university academic said: "When Rhodri came home from hospital, my response was chuck him over the garden wall. He can't speak.
"My father said it is your job to teach him to speak. I think you would all agree, he was my first and my most brilliant pupil."
Mr Morgan's daughter Mari said: "Maybe he was the father of devolution or the nation, I don't know, but what I do know is that he was our father and their grandfather and we are going to miss him hugely.
She described "an incredible childhood" with her "sport-obsessed" father.
"We couldn't have a sensible conversation with him during the Olympics, his mind was elsewhere," she said.
Kevin Brennan, a former special adviser to Mr Morgan who succeeded him as Labour MP for Cardiff West, said the London "establishment" never took to his "very Celtic way of communication".
"They seemed to think he was joking when he was serious and that he was serious when he was joking," he said.
Carwyn Jones, who succeeded Mr Morgan as first minister, paid tribute to a man described as the "father of our nation" with Dylan Thomas's poem about the death of his father.
"Do not go gentle into that good night... rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Paul Murphy, who was elected as a Labour MP the same year as Mr Morgan, in 1987, said Mr Morgan would talk to a head of state in the same way that he would talk to the humblest of constituents.
The former Welsh and Northern Ireland Secretary called Mr Morgan an "intellectual giant" and a "renaissance man".
Sports journalist Carolyn Hitt said: "To say Rhodri liked sport is like saying Picasso liked picking up a paintbrush.
"It was a passion backed up by encyclopaedic knowledge," she said, describing him as "Google in human form".
Vale of Glamorgan AM Jane Hutt said Mr Morgan looked out to the wider world, with the Wales for Africa programme a "shining example of that".
She said Mr Morgan was a "formidable" leader and first minister, calling his impact on devolution "profound".
Musical tributes included folk songs by The Hennessys and Cor Cochion Caerdydd (Cardiff Reds Choir) singing Nkosi Sikelele, the anthem of the South African anti-apartheid movement which Mr Morgan had supported.
The ceremony ended with a rendition of the Welsh national anthem. The crowd applauded as Mr Morgan's coffin left the Senedd, followed by his family.
A service of committal will be held at the Wenallt chapel, Thornhill crematorium, Cardiff, on Thursday at 14:00. | Hundreds of people have paid their respects to former first minister Rhodri Morgan in a funeral at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay. |
Kenneth Hugill, of Mill House Farm, Wilberfoss, near York, denies inflicting grievous bodily harm on Richard Stables.
Hull Crown Court heard he shot Mr Stables, 44, on 13 November 2015 with a double-barrel shotgun.
Mr Stables, a convicted burglar, said he had stumbled on to the farm and denied plans to steal diesel.
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Mr Hugill said he had gone to bed with his wife at around 21:00 GMT, but was woken by a light at the window at around 02:00.
"The next thing was a slight silhouette of a vehicle going past the farmyard entrance," he said.
"The vehicle did not have its lights on. I thought it was up to no good."
He said he got dressed and took out his gun along with two cartridges and went into the yard.
"I walked across what I thought was the front of a vehicle,
"It revved up loudly and drove towards me. It petrified me. I did not see any people. I heard nothing at all.
"I fired a shot down the side of the vehicle, near to the floor in to the ground to stop it coming at me.
"I did not want to hit anybody. I just wanted to frighten them away."
Prosecuting, Chris Dunn told Mr Hugill: "The prosecution does not suggest you intended to cause serious harm.
"We say you were at least reckless when you discharged the gun?"
Mr Hugill said he did not agree as he had so little time.
The court had already heard that Mr Stables, from Bradford, was out lamping with a dog and a friend.
He said he was trying to put the dog back in the vehicle when he was shot in the foot without warning.
Mr Stables' driver Adrian Barron, who also has convictions for burglary, also denied planning to steal diesel.
The trial continues. | An 83-year-old farmer shot a man because he was "petrified" he was about to be run over by a car, a court heard. |
Police called to Bramble Road in Witham, Essex, on Friday found a man had been burned on the face and hands.
A spokesman said they could not say which of two suspected attackers was in custody for "investigative reasons".
Last week police said they wanted to question two men about the attack and on Sunday released an e-fit.
Police said the 56-year-old victim had gone down to collect his post from the communal entrance to the block of flats when he encountered two men banging on the door.
A spokeswoman said it was now thought he was in "the wrong place at the wrong time" and "was not the intended target of this attack".
The victim is receiving treatment at the specialist burns unit at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
"The two suspects are described as a white man and a black man and if anyone saw them either in the area prior to this attack or afterwards we would urgently like to speak to them," a spokeswoman said. | A 19-year-old man has been arrested after a man suffered "potentially life-changing" injuries when a harmful chemical was thrown over him. |
He has long since exceeded those aims. He is now potentially 13 days away from becoming the world number one for the first time.
After winning his second Wimbledon title earlier this year, the 29-year-old admitted that he would "love to get to number one".
"It's definitely a goal. It's something I spoke to my team about.
"I think before I was motivated genuinely solely really by the Slams. Whereas now I feel a lot more motivated throughout the whole year and at all of the events."
So, what does he have to do to complete his assault on the top of the men's game?
With 2,415 points - more than are on offer for winning a Grand Slam - still separating him from top dog Novak Djokovic on the current rankings, it seems improbable that Murray will be top of the pops come 7 November.
But it is possible. This is how:
That is the shortest route from two to one. But not the most realistic.
"I'd have to win pretty much every match between now and the end of the year. And Novak would have to win hardly any," said Murray on his way to the Shanghai Masters title last week.
"I want to try and get there, but I don't think doing that by the end of this year is that realistic."
Djokovic does revel in the late-season indoor action in Europe.
He has won the Paris Masters in each of his last three attempts and the World Tour Finals for the last four years.
Instead Murray believes a strong finish to this season would give him a chance of toppling Djokovic in the first half of next season.
He has zeroed in on April 2017 as the point where Djokovic is most vulnerable.
Leading up to the start of that month are the Masters events at Indian Wells and Miami.
This year, Djokovic won them both, earning a maximum of 1,000 points from each.
By contrast Murray underperformed, exiting in the third round at the hands of Federico Delbonis and Grigor Dimitrov and picking up a relatively paltry total of 90 points.
That chunk of the calendar is where the biggest and easiest gains can be made by Murray.
Djokovic's hopes of staying at the top of the tree may depend more on psychology than mathematics and probability.
The Serb's strengths are many, but behind his razor-sharp returning, elastic limbs and eye-popping shot-making is a primal, insatiable will to win.
That edge to his play seems to have blunted for the past few months as he has struggled to fight his way out of the sticky situations that would usually prompt his finest performances.
He said that private, off-court issues hampered him in his third-round defeat to Sam Querrey at Wimbledon and, after he departed early and emotionally from the Rio 2016 singles draw, it seems the way he sees tennis has changed.
"A must-win type of mindset is not working for me anymore," he admitted in Shanghai.
"I'm still playing because I enjoy it, but that's my main priority.
"I try to look at things from different perspectives, from more human perspectives rather than from the perspective of a professional tennis player.
"I'm not in a need, you know, to achieve anything. You know, I feel like I have overcome that step."
Andy Murray would become the first British singles world number one, certainly as we understand it.
Fred Perry - who Murray followed as the next British winner of the Wimbledon men's title after a gap of 77 years - was ranked as the best player in the world on several occasions during the 1930s.
But, without an elite-level tour circuit and the game divided between amateur and professional, those lists were put together based on journalists' opinions rather than objective points tallies.
Since computerised rankings came in in 1973, it has been an essential part of all modern greats tennis CVs.
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Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Murray's coach Ivan Lendl, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Roger Federer have all claimed top spot, along with less-celebrated names such as Chilean Marcelo Rios and Austria's Thomas Muster.
Murray would not be the first world number one in his family though.
Brother Jamie made the top of the doubles rankings in April. | As a teenager, Andy Murray said that just making the world's top 10 was what he aimed to achieve from his career. |
Truro have lost their past three games, conceding 11 goals and scoring none, and they are 18th in the table.
They have not won in successive games since November, when they won four of their five matches in all competitions.
"I'm very concerned about it, but that's the way the team have been the whole season," Hodges said.
"They've been very Jekyll and Hyde, and the 4-0 [loss at Bath on Saturday] was very harsh on us.
"You've got to take your chances when you get them and at the moment we don't seem to be doing that. That's the disappointing thing." | Truro City boss Lee Hodges has admitted he is "frustrated" with his side's "Jekyll and Hyde" form in National League South. |
The 26-year-old Scot converted his fourth championship point to beat top seed Novak Djokovic 6-4 7-5 6-4 in what Murray described as a brutal match.
"Winning Wimbledon, I can't get my head around that. I still can't believe it's happened," said the British number one.
"I think that last game will be the toughest I'll play in my career."
Murray squandered three championship points from 40-0 and saw off three Djokovic break points before the world number one netted a backhand to end a gruelling contest lasting three hours and 10 minutes.
"Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis, the last game almost increased that feeling," added Murray, who has won Olympic gold, the US Open and now his second Grand Slam title since losing last year's Wimbledon final.
"That last game pretty much took everything out of me. I worked so hard in that last game. They will be the hardest few points I have to play in my life. Some of the shots he came up with were unbelievable.
"I didn't know what was going on [during that last game]. There were a lot of different emotions at that time."
Murray, Scotland's first Wimbledon singles champion since Harold Mahony in 1896, thanked his coach Ivan Lendl for believing in him.
Lendl, an eight-time major winner but never a Wimbledon champion despite reaching two finals, started coaching the Scot last year.
"He stuck by me through some tough losses and he's been very patient with me, I'm just happy for him," said the world number two, whose Wimbledon victory earned him a first prize of £1.6m to take his 2013 earnings so far to over £3.3m.
"He's always been very honest with me and told me exactly what he thought and in tennis that's not easy to do in a player/coach relationship.
"He's got my mentality slightly different going into matches."
"The Wimbledon title has been the lost ark of British sport, the holy grail thought gone for good. For it to be reclaimed in straight sets, just as it had last been won by the great Fred Perry, was the final bewildering twist in a tournament where so much made such little sense."
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On Britain's hottest day of the year, the court-side thermometer on Centre Court read 40C and the temperature, added to the fearsome exchanges between the two finalists, contributed to what the second seed described as an "incredibly demanding match".
"It was so tough, it was so hot as well. I hadn't played any matches in the heat of the day," said Murray.
"Since the clay-court season, since I missed the French Open with my back, it had been cool. I hadn't played at all in those sort of conditions.
"The first few games were brutal as well. It was 30 minutes for the first four games."
Murray, convincingly beaten in the first four Grand Slam finals he competed in, said perseverance has been the story of his career.
He also admitted that being the standard-bearer for the sport in Britain was "really hard".
"For the last four or five years it's been very tough, very stressful, a lot of pressure," he said.
"The last two days were not easy because it's just everywhere you go.
"It's so hard to avoid everything because of how big this event is but also because of the history and no Brit having won [for so long]. It's been very, very difficult." | Andy Murray said winning Wimbledon and ending Britain's 77-year wait for a men's champion was the "pinnacle of tennis". |
The current focus is on reducing emissions from transport and energy.
But an international team of scientists argues that if farm-related emissions aren't tackled then the Paris climate targets will be breached.
An estimated one-third of our greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture.
The report by researchers from the universities of Vermont and Sheffield and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change examines non-CO2 emissions, such as methane and nitrous oxide.
Cattle produce methane as part of their digestion and emit it mostly through belching. The addition of natural or synthetic fertilisers to soils releases large amounts of nitrous oxide.
The researchers have calculated for the first time that these emissions must be reduced by one gigatonne per year in 2030.
They estimate that the mitigation plans currently in place would only cut emissions by 21-40%.
Co-author Lini Wollenberg from the University of Vermont said: "This research is a reality check. Countries want to take action on agriculture, but the options currently on offer won't make the dent in emissions needed to meet the global targets agreed to in Paris.
"We need a much bigger menu of technical and policy solutions, with major investment to bring them to scale."
However, the authors warn that efforts to cut emissions levels must be balanced with the need to produce food.
"We need to help farmers play their part in reaching global climate goals while still feeding the world," says Prof Pete Smith from the University of Aberdeen and co-author of the paper.
"Reducing emissions in agriculture without compromising food security is something we know how to do. A lot can already be done with existing best management practices in agriculture."
"The tough part is how to reduce emissions by a further two to five times and support large numbers of farmers to change their practices in the next 10 to 20 years."
The scientists say that "more transformative technical and policy options" will be needed.
They highlight methane inhibitors that reduce dairy cow emissions by 30% without affecting milk yields. Also, breeds of cattle that produce lower methane, and varieties of cereal crops that release less nitrous oxide.
At the Paris climate summit, 119 nations pledged to reduce agricultural emissions. However, there was no indication how they would do this.
The scientists looked at current agricultural methods that could help, such as ensuring the efficient use of water to irrigate crops, improving the use of fertilisers such as nitrogen and manure and by managing livestock in a more efficient and sustainable way.
However they argue that merely improving current systems would "require massive investment, information sharing and technical support to enable a global-scale transition."
Commenting on the report, Professor Duncan Cameron, chair of plant and soil biology at Sheffield University, said: "This study is really important because it highlights the huge contribution of agriculture makes to the amounts of greenhouse gasses released as a result of human activity every year and that much of this comes from the production of and use of nitrogen fertiliser."
"Reducing emissions by gigatonne, which is roughly equivalent to the weight of all of the major skyscrapers in the world combined, sounds like a tall order, but if we act now and take onboard the combination of approaches suggested in this study, it is potentially achievable while maintaining the security of the world's food supply."
Follow Claire on Twitter. | A new report says that global agricultural emissions must be slashed to prevent the planet warming by more than 2C over the next century. |
Maria Adams drove up and down the car park of Tesco in Roker, Sunderland, as her friend held on to a towel hanging out of the boot of her Nissan Juke.
Newcastle Crown Court heard her friend did not require a wheelchair but had jumped in one owned by the store to take part in the prank.
Judge Penny Moreland said the driving was a "piece of stupidity".
Adams, 20, from Whitburn, South Tyneside, admitted dangerous driving.
The court heard shoppers watched as the man in the wheelchair let go of the towel and was sent "whizzing along with the momentum".
She was disqualified from driving for two years, ordered to pay £1,369 prosecution costs and a £60 victim surcharge.
She was also given a four-month curfew and a 12-month community order. | A woman who was caught on CCTV dragging a man in a wheelchair behind her car has been handed a two-year driving ban. |
Karl Wainwright, 26, of The Black Watch and 22-year old Ben Peters of the Royal Dragoon Guards had been out celebrating the end of a training course.
The men had previously admitted throwing the sandbags into Merchant Street at 03:00 on 21 January 2016.
Sentence had been deferred for background reports.
Sheriff Kenneth Maciver, at the city's sheriff court, told the men: "Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon occurrence. In fact, too many people throw things over this bridge.
"A few years ago a young woman was seriously injured. It is a highly dangerous activity. It is absolutely obvious you could not predict where the sandbags would land."
Wainwright's solicitor, Mark Hutchison, told Sheriff Maciver there had been four men on a night out after completing a training course and too much drink had been taken. "It was an isolated incident of extreme stupidity," he said.
Charles Morrison, appearing for Peters, also described his client's actions as "extremely stupid and dangerous". Both men, it was said, were regretful for their actions.
CCTV footage showed Wainwright and Peters taking a cursory glance over the bridge, collecting the sandbags from the road and hurling them over without looking to see if there was anyone there.
Sentencing the men, Sheriff Maciver said: "It is extremely disappointing to see two members of our Armed Forces here in court, facing a custodial sentence, for what I describe as stupid and dangerous behaviour in the city centre of Edinburgh when you were both extremely drunk.
"It simply does not bear thinking about what that could do to someone if it had landed on their heads."
He added that, in different circumstances, he would have imposed a custodial sentence.
But, as neither man had any previous convictions and had good reports from their regiments, he would not and allow their regiments to deal with the matter. | Two serving soldiers who threw sandbags from George IV Bridge in Edinburgh onto a street below have each been fined £2,400. |
Great Britain's Chris Froome is still leading - and wearing the famous yellow jersey. He's looking to take his fourth Tour title.
It's all still to play for in the final stages - but here are our highlights so far...
France's most famous race started in Germany, of course!
It kicked off in Dusseldorf, with Britain's Geraint Thomas winning the first stage.
The Tour regularly starts in other countries to drum up excitement for international fans, but always finishes in Paris, France.
This year's Tour has visited four countries in total - Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg, before heading into France.
Deciding the stage seven winner was a very tricky task - with cyclists Marcel Kittel and Edvald Boasson Hagen crossing the line at what seemed like exactly the same time.
The race jury had to look at special slow-mo pictures and decided that Kittel had won - but only by six millimetres.
Perhaps surprisingly, there isn't a women's Tour de France. Instead, the women have to make do with a shorter, two stage race called 'La Course'.
Dutch cyclist Annemiek Van Vleuten won the first stage of La Course on Thursday. It's a great victory for her, particularly as suffered broken bones in a crash in the Rio Olympics.
But there was good news for Britain too, as Lizzie Deignan came second.
Sprinter Mark Cavendish crashed out of the Tour in stage four, after he came off his bike while sprinting for the finish line.
Fellow cyclist Peter Sagan was disqualified for "seriously endangering" other competitors with his cycling, which caused the crash.
Cavendish was out of the Tour, with a broken shoulder.
Cyclist Pawel Poljanski sent the internet into meltdown when he he posted this picture of his incredibly vein-y legs.
He shared the snap after completing the 16th stage of the race, saying "After sixteen stages I think my legs look little tired."
Don't worry though - it all because there is so much muscle in his legs, compared with the amount of fat. | The Tour de France finishes on Sunday and it's been a wild ride so far for cycling fans. |
The BBC's Panorama programme accused Salazar of practising doping techniques with other athletes, which he denies.
There is no suggestion that Farah, 32, has been involved in doping.
UK Athletics added there was no reason to question Farah's training regime at Salazar's Oregon Project base.
American Salazar has worked as a consultant for British Athletics since 2013.
In a statement, UK Athletics said it was announcing the initial findings of "the first and most vital objective of the review", but that a full report would be made public some time after next month's World Championships in Beijing.
It said none of the "extensive information" supplied to the review panel contained "any evidence of impropriety" by Farah or gave them reason to "question the appropriateness of the input" into his preparation given by Salazar's team.
The governing body also said that, because of a subsequent launch of a formal investigation by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and UK Anti-Doping (UKAD), the findings from their review would be shared with UKAD "prior to any wider circulation".
"UK Athletics continues to take the issue of doping violations in sport extremely seriously and will assist UKAD and other relevant authorities in their important work whenever required," UK Athletics added in its statement.
Farah is currently preparing to stage a defence of his 5,000m and 10,000m world titles in Beijing.
Should he succeed, it would make him the first man to complete the long-distance double at two World Championships. | A UK Athletics review into doping claims against Mo Farah's coach Alberto Salazar has found no evidence of wrongdoing by Britain's double Olympic champion. |
Services due to start in 2018 will run across London, extending as far west as Reading and as far east as Shenfield in Essex.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said the rolling stock "showcase the best of British design and engineering".
They are built by Bombardier in Derby.
Each train will provide space for 1,500 customers in nine carriages. At over 656ft (200m), they are just under one and a half times the length of the longest Tube train.
Each carriage will have three wide doorways to enable people to get on and off quickly, air-conditioning, free Wi-Fi, and will provide customers with real-time travel information.
There will be four dedicated wheelchair spaces on each train, and all platforms and trains across the Crossrail network will have step-free access.
Tunnelling for the route began in 2012 and finished in June this year, with eight boring machines cutting their way through earth to create 26 miles (42km) of tunnels.
Crossrail's tunnels are made up of more than 200,000 concrete tunnel segments, with each weighing 3.4 tonnes. | Transport for London has released details of the trains which will carry passengers on the £14.8bn Crossrail route, saying they will be "fully accessible" with free Wi-Fi access. |
The strikes occurred in Guernsey during a severe thunderstorm on Tuesday, which saw 9mm of rain fall in a few hours.
Owner Horace Camp said two strikes hit the lawn the tractor had been parked on creating an electrical field that had charged his farm vehicle.
He said the tractor was "happily" running by itself and the current must have "given her a good old go".
Mr Camp was inside during Tuesday's storm and only later noticed the Massey Ferguson 35 tractor running.
"After the storm was over I happened to hear the tractor was running, and I couldn't understand why my son would want to do that after there had been such an enormous downfall."
"The tractor was just there alone by itself happily going. It wasn't in gear, so it wasn't moving, but it was happily going," he said.
Mr Camp then tracked down his son, who uses the tractor, to ask him why he was running it in wet weather.
It transpired his son had also been out during the thunderstorm to turn the ignition off.
"It actually started twice during the storm by itself," Mr Camp said.
It is thought the tractor started when an electric charge from a lightning strike hit the lawn the farm vehicle was parked on.
"The tractor had its metal link box touching the lawn so the electricity comes up through that and created a field which connected the starter motor," Mr Camp said.
The lightning did not strike the tractor, he added, "but has struck the earth somewhere near and has created a negative electric field on my lawn".
In 1985 a US magazine also reported a farm tractor being started twice by lightning.
Dr Vidyadhar Peesapati from the University of Manchester's High Voltage Laboratory said lightning was known to create an electro-magnetic pulse which has a strong interference, and "maybe could have somehow aided in starting the tractor".
Dr Peesapati said he would need more information, however, to assess the credibility of the claim, and suggested the tractor be taken to the University's specialist lab for inspection. | A 1950s tractor described as "a devil" to run was twice started by lightning strikes, according to its owner. |
People in Scotland pay the price of a local phone call when calling the advice service from a landline, with calls from a mobile often costing more.
The demand for a free service, by Tory health speaker Jackson Carlaw, comes as Westminster moves to introduce a free, one-stop number in England and Wales.
The Scottish government said it was also considering adopting the new, free-to-use 111 number.
NHS Direct - the equivalent service to NHS 24 in England - is gradually being replaced by the 111 service.
It is already operating in many areas south of the border, and is due to be rolled out across England and Wales this year.
When a patient calls 111, an operator - who is trained in the same way as a 999 operator - can send out an ambulance, put someone straight through to a nurse, book an out-of-hours GP appointment, or direct the caller to a pharmacist or dentist.
Operators answering calls to the existing NHS Direct service do not have the capacity to request ambulances or book appointments - and patients also receive a separate call back if they need to speak to a nurse or doctor.
Mr Carlaw said: "The SNP has ignored this issue for more than three years now, while the plans for an improved service have gone full steam ahead down south.
"This will be yet another area in health where patients in Scotland will be literally worse off than people elsewhere in the UK seeking vital health advice.
"Not only would this open up access to medical advice to those who may not have used it before, it could bring a number of other benefits.
"In some areas of England they have innovated very successfully, such as some GP practices allowing the 111 service to book emergency appointments with them."
A petition has also been lodged at the Scottish Parliament asking MSPs to urge the government to make calls for NHS 24 free from mobile phones.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "Consideration for the adoption of the 111 number, for access to non-emergency healthcare services in Scotland is currently under way, and we expect to make a positive announcement soon.
"Should it be adopted, this number would replace the existing number for NHS 24 - the two key benefits for patients would be that the number is memorable and would be free to call from both a mobile phone and a landline." | Calls to NHS 24 should be free of charge, the Scottish Tories have said. |
One soldier died immediately from the explosion on Tuesday while the others died later from their wounds.
A convoy of vehicles had been heading north from Gao to Tessalit when the mine exploded under the lead vehicle.
France has had troops in Mali since 2013 when it led an operation to oust jihadists who had seized the north.
On Tuesday, President Francois Hollande expressed his condolences on news of the first death, paying "deep respect for the sacrifice of this young soldier in the service of our country".
A further statement from the Elysee Palace says (in French) says he learnt of the death of the other two soldiers with great sadness.
All three, he said, had been part of Operation Barkhane that "aims to bring stability in the Sahel and the fight against terrorism".
It is a French-led operation against militant groups that began in 2014 and involves some 3,500 French soldiers deployed to five countries in the Sahel, a semi-arid region just south of the Sahara Desert.
Northern Mali was overrun in 2012 by groups linked to al-Qaeda who then threatened to march on the capital, Bamako.
France's intervention in 2013 successfully drove them from northern towns but the militants retreated to their desert hide-outs, regrouped and over the last year have launched high-profile attacks, targeting hotels in Mali and neighbouring Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.
The UN is also trying to restore peace to northern Mali and currently has more than 11,700 UN peacekeepers in the country. | A landmine in Mali has killed three French soldiers on an operation in the north of the country, the French presidency says. |
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Villa, who drew 1-1 against Wolves on Saturday in Bruce's first game in charge, have taken the lead seven times in 12 Championship games this season - but have only gone on to win once.
"I wouldn't like to say anything against another manager," said Bruce.
"But it's fair to say that some of them could be in better condition."
Bruce, who took over on 12 October following the sacking of Roberto di Matteo, told BBC WM: "I can now understand why they've been conceding late - but that's an easy one to sort.
"To play in the Championship, you have to have intensity. But we can work on that.
"There's a lot to be done and we can only get better. This is a wonderful football club with wonderful support. They're not used to seeing their team play at this level and there's a lot of expectation - and it's my job to try to put smiles on faces."
Bruce said that, in retrospect, he might have left out Mile Jedinak after he was hampered by calf injuries to captain Tommy Elphick and fellow defender Micah Richards, ruling them out of Tuesday's trip to Reading.
"Jedinak only got back from Australia on Friday morning," said Bruce, after withdrawing the Australia midfielder early in the game. "Maybe I should have left him alone, but I wanted his experience. That was a mistake by me."
An incident involving Villa's Jack Grealish sparked a confrontation between both sets of players and bookings for his team-mate Ross McCormack and Wolves midfielder Conor Coady.
Speaking about the incident, visiting boss Walter Zenga said: "You see these things after. You cannot always be sure in the moment.
"He is a player I like so much but he did make a kick at Conor Coady."
But Bruce said: "Maybe in Italy he might have got sent off. But I think the ref got it spot on to handle it the way he did." | Lack of fitness appears to be one of the biggest factors behind Aston Villa's poor start to the campaign, according to new manager Steve Bruce. |
Kent Police said traffic was back at normal levels, after drivers had queued for up to 14 hours because of extra French security checks at the port.
The Port of Dover said there were no longer queues at the port but advised allowing plenty of time for travel.
Motorists have been told to check with travel operators before making trips and to bring extra food and water.
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Motorists queue for up to 14 hours in Dover traffic chaos
Police said the weekend's disruption was caused by the large volume of holiday traffic and increased checks at the border following recent terror attacks in France.
The Port of Dover authority said the French border control booths in Dover were "seriously understaffed" on Friday night, when problems began.
Kent County Council said at one stage only one French officer was available to check passengers on hundreds of coaches, resulting in each coach taking 40 minutes to process.
The delays persisted into Sunday as more travellers continued to head for Dover while the port was still dealing with Saturday's backlog.
UK officials were sent to help at French border posts overnight on Saturday, in response to what the Home Office said was "extraordinary disruption". While they were not able to conduct passport checks, they were able to help French officials searching vehicles.
The UK officials remain on standby to help.
The London-bound carriageway of the A20 was closed for hours to enable Kent Police, coastguards and volunteers to distribute water to those stuck in the Dover-bound queues, and to allow stranded motorists access toilet facilities. It has since been fully re-opened.
But Kent Police said large volumes of holiday traffic and extra border checks by French authorities meant there could be delays for weeks.
With vehicles backed up on roads for a second day, many were forced to spend the night in their cars. Families have been running short on food and water - but with a surplus of boredom and frustration.
Haider told the BBC he had been on the road for nearly 24 hours with his wife and three children.
"We left Birmingham at 9am yesterday morning. My little one has just thrown up, he's been feeling car sick for the last couple of hours and he's just thrown up."
Ollie Burridge, who is travelling with his family to Barcelona from South Wales, described a more jolly atmosphere.
"There were some people playing football on the other side of the carriageway that had been closed," he said.
"We got some bats and balls and played a spot of tennis over the central reservation. We made the best of it."
Meanwhile, Twitter user Hannah Brisley posted a video, saying that she had thrown food down to people stuck on the motorway, and had been rewarded with them singing a song.
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France has been under a state of emergency since last November, when terror attacks in Paris left 130 people dead, and has tightened its border checks accordingly.
The port said it had raised concerns over French staffing levels with the UK government earlier this week, which were then brought up with its French counterparts.
The Conservative MP for Dover and Deal, Charlie Elphicke, has called on the government to apologise to people who queued for hours in the summer heat, describing the situation as "completely unacceptable".
Pete Williams, from the RAC, said the authorities needed to put better contingency plans in place. | Delays for motorists going to Dover have eased but some disruption could last for weeks, police have warned. |
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