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However, the fact I have never seen it happen before in all of the cricket I have played and watched since 1976 does demonstrate how hard the professional game works for it not to happen.
Club cricketers might have a slightly harder attitude to it, but England skipper Alastair Cook also admitted he had never seen it happen before.
To summarise what happened, Buttler was run out at the non-striker's end after straying out of his crease.
Senanayake says he had already warned Buttler at least once - there does seem to be some discrepancy about the number of warnings he had been given - and following the match, Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews says his team also issued the player with a warning in the previous match at Lord's.
However, it served to create controversy and there was a hostility between the two teams when they shook hands at the end of an entertaining and hard-fought series.
I don't think I've ever seen Alastair Cook so angry. He was careful with what he said - and rightly so because legally Buttler was out - but with a two-Test series coming up, memories tend to be long.
To avoid any more incidents like this, I would rather see such decisions taken out of the hands of the bowler - and I think that's something the International Cricket Council should look at.
A bowler should be allowed to point out to an umpire that a batsman is backing up, leaving the officials to watch what is going on. If, in the umpire's opinion, a batsman is trying to steal an extra run - and I strongly believe Tuesday's incident was not an example of a batsman trying to steal a run - then he gets a clear and obvious warning, like a bowler would for running down the pitch.
'Mankading' - named in honour of Mulvantrai Mankad - is when a bowler runs out a batsman who is backing up out of his crease.
A right-handed opening batsman and orthodox slow left-arm bowler, "Vinoo" Mankad played 44 Tests for India between 1946 and 1959, but none were more controversial than in Sydney in 1947 when he ran out Aussie opener Bill Brown at the non-striker's end, having previously warned him for backing up too far. The tactic became known as a 'Mankad'.
If the batsman did it again, I would apply a five-run penalty. That would take the heat out of it all straight away.
There is a down side to this suggestion because, with all these television replays about a fielding side might point something out and ask for five penalty runs to be applied, but I think it's better than this current situation.
What was slightly telling for me was that Senanayake was the only Sri Lankan player or member of the team management not to come down and shake the hands of the England players after the game. He stayed in the dressing room until England had returned to theirs, and only then did he come out and celebrate a 3-2 series win with his team-mates. Read into that what you like.
What I will say in balance is that Joe Root stood his ground when he knew full well he had been caught behind by Kumar Sangakkara off a huge glove.
He decided to stand there and hope he got away with it, eventually being given out following a successful Sri Lanka review. It's difficult to take the moral high-ground on a spirit of the game issue when your team has done that just a couple of hours earlier.
The Sri Lankans might have been justifiably miffed to see Root stand there for that, and these things can carry on during the rest of the game. That might have happened with the run out.
I hope that any ill-feeling between the two teams is quickly resolved because we have a fascinating two-Test series ahead of us, with England naming their squad on Thursday.
It's one of the most exciting and unpredictable squad selections for a long time, and I'm looking forward to it.
Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Marc Higginson | When Sri Lanka bowler Sachithra Senanayake ran out England's Jos Buttler by 'Mankading' him in Tuesday's decisive one-day international at Edgbaston, it was another example of a 'Spirit of the Game' issue which is terribly hard to define. |
The trend is particularly marked in emerging economies, where people see themselves as outward looking and internationally minded.
However, in Germany fewer people say they feel like global citizens now, compared with 2001.
Pollsters GlobeScan questioned more than 20,000 people in 18 countries.
More than half of those asked (56%) in emerging economies saw themselves first and foremost as global citizens rather than national citizens.
In Nigeria (73%), China (71%), Peru (70%) and India (67%) the data is particularly marked.
By contrast, the trend in the industrialised nations seems to be heading in the opposite direction.
In these richer nations, the concept of global citizenship appears to have taken a serious hit after the financial crash of 2008. In Germany, for example, only 30% of respondents see themselves as global citizens.
According to Lionel Bellier from GlobeScan, this is the lowest proportion seen in Germany since the poll began 15 years ago.
"It has to be seen in the context of a very charged environment, politically and emotionally, following Angela Merkel's policy to open the doors to a million refugees last year."
The poll suggests a degree of soul-searching in Germany about how open its doors should be in the future.
It says 54% of German respondents approved of welcoming Syrians to their country. In the UK, where the government has resolutely capped the number of Syrian refugees, the figure was much higher at 72%.
A significant proportion of Germans also sat on the fence when they were asked about issues to do with immigration and society.
On the question of whether intermarriage was a welcome development, for example, 46% of German respondents were not sure how to respond or they tried to qualify their answers by saying it depended what the circumstances were.
This is in stark contrast to other European countries, such as France, where people were much more emphatically in favour of marriages between people from different racial or religious backgrounds.
These grey areas on the bar charts could suggest Germany is still grappling with whether it wants to welcome newcomers or not.
"There is a lot of uncertainty there," says Mr Bellier.
"German respondents are showing a high level of indecisiveness when they are asked if they approve or disapprove of these developments and whether they accept the fact that their country is taking a lead on refugees."
According to the data, there are some clear divides in attitudes within continents.
In Europe, it is Russia which has the strongest resistance to intermarriage, with 43% of Russians actively disapproving of marriages between different races and ethnic groups.
Compare that with Spain, where only 5% would be opposed to such matches. Spain also noticeably has the most respondents who see themselves as global citizens
Russia appears to have the strongest overall opposition to immigration. Only 11% of the Russians polled would approve of accepting refugees from Syria, for example.
On the other hand, Spain would be the most welcoming of all the countries polled when it comes to receiving refugees from the Syrian conflict. There, an eye-catching majority - 84% - believe they should take in more of those fleeing the five-year civil war.
The figures suggest there is also an interesting divide emerging in North American attitudes to refugees. Of those Canadians asked, 77% said they would approve of accepting Syrians fleeing their home country. But in the United States that figure drops to 55%.
Indonesia has the weakest sense of national citizenship (4%). Instead, it seems Indonesians have a much stronger sense of localism, with over half of respondents seeing their immediate communities as the most important way of defining themselves.
In general, religion plays a much smaller part how people define themselves compared to nationality. The big exception to that rule is Pakistan, with 43% of Pakistanis appearing to identify themselves first and foremost by their religion - considerably higher than any other country.
The polling on religion also reminds us of one of the defining differences between old-world Europe and the United States. In the US, 15% of those asked would who define themselves first and foremost by religion. In European countries that figure is only 5%.
One problem with polling attitudes on identity is that "global citizenship" is a difficult concept to define and the poll left it open to those taking part to interpret.
For some, it might be about the projection of economic clout across the world. To others, it might mean an altruistic impulse to tackle the world's problems in a spirit of togetherness - whether that is climate change or inequality in the developing world.
Global citizenship might also be about ease of communication in an interconnected age and being able to have a voice on social media.
And for many, it will be about migration and mobility. We are, after all, witnessing the biggest movements of people since the World War Two.
This is not just driven by war and conflict. It is also because the world as a whole is becoming more prosperous and air travel is becoming more affordable to the rising middle classes.
As people become increasingly connected and more mobile, the BBC is exploring how identities are changing.
Listen to and download programmes from the World Service's Identity season.
Learn more about the BBC's Identity season or join the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #BBCIdentity. | People are increasingly identifying themselves as global rather than national citizens, according to a BBC World Service poll. |
The Northern Ireland Office said this week it would not be setting up a panel to examine a parade dispute in north Belfast.
A panel was announced in October.
It was to look at ways of resolving deadlock over a contentious Orange Order march along part of the Crumlin Road.
An Orange Order spokesperson said that "Grand Lodge is extremely concerned and will be meeting with unionist political representatives at the earliest opportunity after the Christmas holidays to discuss the seriousness of the situation, created by a weak Secretary of State".
In its statement, the Northern Ireland Office said it remained "fully committed" to seeking a resolution to the situation in north Belfast.
"When we announced the terms of reference for a panel on parading in north Belfast, we stated that a key principle was that it must command cross community support," it said.
"The aim of the panel was mediation and dialogue, but effective mediation cannot take place without meaningful engagement from both sides.
"It has become apparent that there is insufficient support for the proposed panel among some of those most closely involved in the dispute. This is reflected, to varying degrees, on both sides of the community. We have therefore decided, on balance, not to go ahead with setting up the panel." | The Orange Order has accused the Secretary of State Theresa Villiers of showing contempt towards it and unionist parties over a parading issue. |
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Pirelli blamed the failure on Friday on a cut, saying it could find no problem with the structure of any tyres.
But Rosberg said: "The problem is that we don't really understand it. There are theories, but no real evidence.
"That's a bit worrying. We're keeping a close eye on it and have taken measures to ensure it doesn't happen again."
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Rosberg suffered the failure in second practice at 190mph as he approached the flat-out Blanchimont corner, on one of the fastest sections of the demanding Spa track.
The incident led several leading drivers to raise their concerns about the safety of Pirelli's tyres with Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting, in the course of the drivers' briefing on Friday afternoon.
Multiple world champions Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel were all involved in the discussion.
Hamilton starts Sunday's race - live on BBC One from 12:10 BST - from pole position for the 10th time in 11 races this season after a stunning time nearly half a second quicker than Rosberg.
Asked whether he had any concerns about tyre safety, Hamilton said on Saturday: "Not really. It is not something I can put much energy to. We have seen an incident yesterday. I don't think the tyres have looked perfect for everybody. I'm hoping tomorrow is a clean day for everyone and hopefully that isn't going to be an issue."
Rosberg added: "It's definitely still a worry for everybody. We'll just have to keep a close eye on the TV (in the race) and make sure it doesn't happen again.
"That doesn't sound very reassuring, does it?"
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said: "We have spent an awful lot of time together with Pirelli analysing what happened and really trying to tick all boxes in terms of safety and we couldn't find the problem.
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"So I'm pretty comfortable that it comes down to something getting into the tyre, some kind of bizarre situation but not something we could understand.
"So from that point of view we took all measure in order to avoid. we had a couple of limits that were set by Pirelli in terms of the tyre working mechanically and we are well within those limits and have made a step even further today."
World champion Hamilton is 21 points ahead of Rosberg in the title race going into the grand prix and their closest rival, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel who won the last race in Hungary, starts ninth.
All the drivers face their first race under new rules governing start procedures, after governing body the FIA reduced the amount of help teams can give drivers.
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The clutch bite point cannot be changed once the car has left the garage ahead of the race and the drivers have to make all their settings adjustments to the clutch without any advice from the team.
Hamilton, who has lost the lead at the start in the last three races, said: "The team have prepared me as well as possible to get good starts. I am hoping we are able to maximise tomorrow. Everyone is in the same boat."
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Belgian GP coverage details | Nico Rosberg says his Mercedes team do not fully understand the causes of the high-speed tyre failure he suffered in practice at the Belgian Grand Prix. |
Uncertainty about Washington's role has emboldened both Tehran and Riyadh to pursue more assertive regional policies. But assertiveness is not the same as exercising good judgement and the heightened hostility between Iran and Saudi Arabia threatens to widen many of the Middle East's existing fault lines.
It was the Saudi decision to execute the prominent Shia dissident Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday that precipitated this current crisis, underscoring a belief that the Saudi regime is intent on rejecting any conciliatory policy towards Tehran.
The Saudis see Iran as a growing regional threat, committed to stirring up Shia populations in the Gulf states and elsewhere, and to exporting its brand of "revolutionary" Islam.
The Saudis - a little like the Israeli right - regard almost every problem in the region as emanating from Tehran.
For the Iranians, the Saudis are perceived as clamping down on dissident Shia elements both at home and elsewhere in the Gulf, seeking to overthrow Iran's ally in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad, and more generally seeking to deny what they see as Iran's rightful role as a regional power.
Saudi Arabia's refusal to cut oil output, thus keeping world prices low, is a further irritant in relations.
At the third point in this triangle is Washington. President Barack Obama is eager above all to maintain regional stability insofar as it exists at all.
His administration is struggling to influence the Saudis while treading cautiously in its dealings with Iran, for fear of prejudicing the nuclear agreement now entering the initial and delicate implementation phase.
Of course Washington's behaviour influences the other two protagonists, but not in ways that it would like.
The Saudis' current regional paranoia - although Riyadh may arguably have genuine concerns - is to a large extent stoked by the track of US foreign policy over recent years.
It's a tale which begins with the US-led invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, a step many in the Gulf see as "handing" Iraq to Iran on a plate.
Washington's willingness to abandon President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in the wake of the Arab Spring compounded concerns in Riyadh that the US might be an undependable ally.
The nuclear deal with Iran and the potential for a rapprochement between Washington and Tehran has only made matters worse.
The chances of such a rapprochement - the stuff of Saudi nightmares - are almost certainly grossly exaggerated.
The nuclear deal is still in its infancy and beset by criticism from hardliners in both the US and Iran. The same dissonant voices are likely to ensure that prospects for any broader regional understanding between Iran and the US remain an aspiration rather than a reality.
But just how far might Iran be emboldened by the strains between Washington and Riyadh?
The Obama administration's inability to present a clear policy in the region, or to set out its vital interests - not easy, certainly, amidst all the turmoil - leaves room for misunderstanding by regional players.
This is especially problematic given the US relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Given Riyadh's human rights record and its export of an austere version of Islam that has often blended into support for Sunni extremism, the Saudis are not so much "allies" of Washington as "partners", veteran US diplomat Dennis Ross notes (allies, he adds, "share values and not just interests".)
The immediate goals for US policy are:
Achieving this amid the wider chaos in the region with so many factors out of Washington's control will not be easy. Indeed it may be even more difficult in a US presidential election year when rhetoric outweighs reason.
In his last year in office, Mr Obama and his diplomatic team look set to have their hands full. | The deepening crisis in relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia is a reflection of a deeply fractured Middle East in which the US wields significantly less influence than in the past. |
22 March 2017 Last updated at 12:33 GMT
Around 70,000 people deaf people in the UK have British Sign Language as their first language.
One school in London is teaching it as part of their regular lessons.
We caught up with Ashley Kendall who is a presenter and ambassador for the British Deaf Association charity and his interpreter Adrian Bailey.
He told us what he thinks about about the idea of all children learning sign language, and his own experiences growing up at school. | Learning British sign language is not compulsory in schools, but should it be? |
The benchmark FTSE 100 index dipped by 0.62%, or 38.05 points to 6,117.76.
Shares in the pub chain Wetherspoons slipped by 0.56%, giving up early gains, after it posted record sales for the year to July.
However, pre-tax profit fell by 25% to £58.7m in the same period due to higher costs.
Biggest loser on the 100-share index was supermarket chain Morrisons, which slid 3.34% after two days of negative headlines prompted by its decisions to sell off its convenience store chain and close 11 other outlets.
Telecom shares Vodafone and BT both fell, by 1.39% and 2.19% respectively, after the European Commission blocked a merger between two Scandinavian telecom operators.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.11% against the dollar at $1.5427 and was 0.55% down against the euro at €1.3622. | (Close): London's leading shares drifted lower on Friday, with investors cautious ahead of next week's US rate decision. |
The youth-focused clothes firm, hit by years of losses, will continue trading while it negotiates a potential sale of assets to Canada's Gildan Activewear.
Gildan said it had offered $66m (£53m) for the rights to the AA brand and stock, but did not want the stores.
AA, known for racy advertising and legal battles with founder Dov Charney, emerged from bankruptcy in February.
The company said last week that it was winding down its operations in the UK.
American Apparel has been looking for a buyer and has had talks with brand licensing firms Sequential Brands and Authentic Brands, as well as a financial company, B. Riley Financial.
It is the latest in a growing list of clothing brands that have gone under recently, including Aeropostale, Quiksilver, Wet Seal and Pacific Sunwear. Chains are struggling as consumers shun stores in favour of online shopping.
American Apparel filed its first bankruptcy in October 2015, following a steep drop in sales and a drawn-out legal battle with Mr Charney, who was ousted in 2014.
The retailer emerged from bankruptcy this year under the ownership of a group of former bondholders led by hedge fund Monarch Alternative Capital.
But it continued to face falling sales, exacerbated by its costly manufacturing plant in Los Angeles. Under mounting pressure, American Apparel hired investment bank Houlihan Lokey earlier this year to explore a sale.
The company has insisted that any sale must involve keeping its manufacturing plant in the US. | US retailer American Apparel (AA) has filed for its second bankruptcy protection in just over a year. |
The Waterford runner was due to compete in the first of tonight's semi-finals in London but he is unable to take his place because of a vomiting bug.
He narrowly qualified for the semi-finals after Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands was disqualified from his heat on Sunday.
Barr, 25, was hoping to improve on his fourth place finish at Rio 2016.
"I'm gutted to have to withdraw from today's semi final," Barr said.
"I wasn't feeling great yesterday evening and later in the night I was hit with a bad bout of gastroenteritis."
"My whole year has been focused on the World Championships. The support yesterday was just brilliant and to not be able to go out and compete today for Ireland is beyond disappointing." | Thomas Barr has withdrawn from the semi-finals of the 400m hurdles at the World Championships because of illness. |
Cox, 23, who can also play second-row, came through the youth system at Rovers and made his debut in 2011.
Cox, who played nine Super League games in 2015, has also had stints out on loan at Huddersfield and Halifax.
"Warrington are always near the top, always there or thereabouts, pushing for silverware and challenging for top spot," said Cox. | Warrington Wolves have signed Hull KR prop Jordan Cox on a one-year deal for the 2016 Super League season. |
Switzerland's 18-time major winner, 35, beat his 33-year-old German opponent, the defending champion and world number 134, 6-3 6-4.
World number five Federer will face Russian 21-year-old Karen Khachanov, the world number 38, in the next round.
The other semi-final will be between Richard Gasquet and Roberto Bautista Agut or Alexander Zverev.
After losing to 39-year-old Tommy Haas in his first match in two months at the Stuttgart Open earlier in June, Federer is yet to drop a set at Halle, where he is bidding for a ninth title.
The seven-time Wimbledon champion has won three titles so far this season, including the Australian Open - his first Grand Slam success in five years.
Federer also won the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells in March and, two weeks later, the Miami Open.
In May, he announced he would be missing the French Open and the rest of the clay-court season to concentrate on the grass and hard-court seasons. | Roger Federer beat Florian Mayer to reach the semi-finals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany. |
Shares in the business supplies firm climbed 1.6% after it reported a 6% rise in half-year profits to £155.6m.
Bunzl said it was "difficult to give a firm view" on the impact of the Brexit vote, but added it did not expect a significant impact on its business.
By midday, the FTSE 100 index was 2.01 points higher at 6,840.06.
Primark owner Associated British Foods was one of the biggest risers on the index, up 2.3%, after analysts at RBC increased its rating on the stock to "outperform" from "sector perform".
Mining firms weighed on the market as the price of copper dropped to a 10-week low. Antofagasta shares fell 5.2% while Rio Tinto slid 3.8%.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.1% against the dollar to $1.3089, and was flat against the euro at €1.1718. | (Noon): The London market was flat as trading resumed after the bank holiday weekend, but shares in Bunzl rose after it reported higher profits. |
11 January 2016 Last updated at 14:05 GMT
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Music by David Bowie - Space Oddity, Oh You Pretty Things, Changes, Starman, Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel, Young Americans, Fame, Sound and Vision, Heroes, Fashion, Let's Dance, China Girl, Blue Jean, Absolute Beginners, Life on Mars.
Photofilm by Paul Kerley. | Ziggy Stardust and beyond - remembering David Bowie's many guises and 16 of his greatest songs. |
About 40 firefighters were called to Bishop's Stortford College on Maze Green Road at 03:00 BST.
A school spokeswoman confirmed the roof of Robert Pearce House had been destroyed in the blaze.
All pupils and staff got out of the building within a few minutes and no-one was injured, the school spokeswoman added.
Former pupil Stephanie Howard-Smith, who lives nearby, said: "I'm absolutely stunned. I could see the flames getting higher, and suddenly you could hear the roof falling in and cracking sounds. It's still smouldering now."
A fire service spokeswoman said six engines were still at the scene and an aerial ladder was being used to deal with a collapsed roof. The cause of the fire is not yet known.
The spokeswoman for Bishop's Stortford College, which offers day and boarding schools for four to 18-year-olds, said the fire appeared to have started in the roof.
The prep school and senior school had been closed as a result of the fire, but the school hoped to be operating "as near normally as possible" on Wednesday, she said. | Sixty-four pupils and staff had to be evacuated from a boarding house during a fire at Hertfordshire school. |
The 23-year-old made 14 league appearances for the Royals last season after moving to the Madejski Stadium from Watford.
Bond has been capped by England at Under-20 and Under-21 level, having previously represented Wales at youth international level.
He becomes Gillingham's 11th signing of the summer transfer window.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League One side Gillingham have signed Reading goalkeeper Jonathan Bond on loan until 7 January 2017. |
The visitors added 28 to their overnight total as they were bowled out for 264 in their first innings.
Somerset got to 46-0 in reply before veteran spinner Batty ripped through their batting order as the hosts collapsed to 102 all out.
However, Jack Leach (3-37) helped reduce Surrey to 94-6 at the close.
Having decided against enforcing the follow-on, Surrey crumbled to 51-6 before Zafar Ansari (26 not out) guided them through to a lead of 256 runs at the close.
Marcus Trescothick and Tom Abell gave Somerset a solid foundation to their first innings, but the home side's batting line-up fell apart once the pair had departed in successive overs.
Batty, ably supported by pace bowler Stuart Meaker (3-39), took all 10 wickets between them for just 56 runs.
But slow-left-armer Leach, who took 4-34 in Surrey's first innings, kept Somerset in with a chance of forcing a victory with three more wickets when Surrey batted for a second time. | Surrey captain Gareth Batty took 7-32 before Somerset responded strongly as 18 wickets fell on day two of their Division One fixture at Taunton. |
Out of nearly 12,000 fans, 52% were in favour and 48% against a game which would raise funds for the Ladies' team and a final decision will now be made.
The match would be the final public game at Upton Park but some fans want the Premier League win over Manchester United to be the last at the stadium.
The Hammers are moving to the Olympic Stadium after 112 years at Upton Park.
West Ham beat United 3-2 and then held a 45-minute celebration after full-time, involving fireworks and former players.
Eastenders actor Danny-Boy Hatchard, who plays Lee Carter in the BBC One soap opera, is one of those backing the Ladies' game. | A West Ham Ladies' charity match at Upton Park on 5 June narrowly won a vote over whether it should take place. |
Gwent Police and fire crews were called to the B4269 between Llanellen and Llanfoist at about 22:50 GMT on Tuesday.
The males, all 17, were treated at the scene, known locally as Gypsy Lane, and the road was shut while the rescue took place.
Anyone with information is asked to call 101. | Four teenagers have been cut free from a car after it crashed into a tree in Monmouthshire. |
The collection has been allocated to the National Portrait Gallery, which hosted a record-breaking Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition in 2012.
Some of the items, never published or exhibited before, are expected to go on display there next summer.
The sketchbooks span his career from the mid 1940s until his death in 2011.
"This rare collection of Lucian Freud drawings and letters provides a fascinating glimpse into the work of one of our most pioneering artists," said Culture Minister Ed Vaizey.
"Bringing these never seen before treasures into public collections means that everyone can enjoy and see the early beginnings that shaped his most celebrated work."
The archive includes studies for many of the artist's major works as well as a collection of 162 childhood drawings depicting family life. They were made while Freud was living in Germany, before his family fled to England in 1933 as Hitler came to power, and saved and dated by his mother.
The National Portrait Gallery said the archive would "give added context" to the two works housed in the gallery's collection - a self-portrait in oils and a charcoal drawing of Lord Goodman from 1985.
Several drawings in the sketchbooks show the beginnings of portraits, including Lord Goodman's, starting with the nose and eyes and developing outwards.
Also included are Freud's early designs of book covers including one for his daughter, Esther Freud's 1992 novel Hideous Kinky and Nigel Dennis's Cards of Identity from 1955.
Dr Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, said the archive material was a "very important, extensive and generous gift to the nation" that would be "a vital source of reference".
The 47 sketchbooks together with drawings and letters settle a bill of £2,940,000 of inheritance tax from the Lucian Freud Estate, under the inheritance in lieu scheme.
Sir Peter Bazalgette, chair of Arts Council England, added the collection offered "a real insight into the life of one of Britain's most compelling and influential artists". | An archive of sketchbooks, drawings and letters belonging to artist Lucian Freud has been acquired by the nation through the acceptance in lieu scheme. |
Abbott Laboratories encouraged its sales teams to market Depakote for uses that were not approved by regulators, the US justice department said.
The drug should be used in epilepsy and bipolar disorder cases.
However, it was sold to treat conditions such as dementia and autism.
According to a US justice department statement, Abbott maintained a specialised sales force to market the drug in nursing homes.
It said the drug could be used for the control of agitation in elderly dementia patients, despite the absence of any credible scientific evidence that Depakote was safe and effective for that use.
The illegal conduct was not the product of "some rogue sales representatives," US Attorney Timothy Heaphy said. The company engaged in the strategy from 1998 to at least 2006, he said.
Reuben Guttman, a lawyer who represented some of the company whistle-blowers, said that Abbott had preyed on two vulnerable categories of patient - the elderly and children.
The company "violated basic norms of health care and ethics", he said.
The company also marketed Depakote to treat schizophrenia, but clinical trials failed to demonstrate that the drug was any more effective than anti-psychotic drugs in treating the condition, according to court papers.
Abbott Laboratories will now pay $800m to federal and state governments, $700m in criminal penalties and a further $100m to resolve consumer protection issues.
The company has also agreed to a five-year probationary period to ensure that there is no repeat of the misconduct. | A US drug company has agreed to pay out $1.6bn (£1bn) after improperly marketing a mood-stabilising drug in a settlement thought to be the largest of its kind involving a single drug. |
But even though these might show huge amounts of detail about exams, they will not reveal much about the levels of happiness among pupils.
Sir Anthony Seldon, a university head, former head teacher and mental health campaigner, says school league tables should include measures of well-being.
He says this could help to tackle an "epidemic of mental health" problems.
"As long as the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well-being as seriously as they should," said Sir Anthony, vice chancellor of the University of Buckingham.
He says that the Office for National Statistics regularly measures well-being - and that it would be possible to make school-level comparisons.
This could include comparing the resources put into pastoral care, such as staffing and support services, and surveying a sample of pupils to see their views on school life.
Sir Anthony, speaking on World Mental Health Day, has campaigned for well-being to be taken more seriously in schools.
But he says that despite warnings about rising numbers of young people with mental health problems, schools still are not being encouraged enough to prevent "avoidable suffering".
Exam league tables in England are due to be overhauled again to show how much academic progress is made by pupils.
But Sir Anthony says parents want to know more about a school than its exam results.
"It is perfectly clear to me, as a head of schools for 20 years, that parents will pay more heed to the well-being tables than to the exam league tables.
"They know, even if the government doesn't, that schools that prioritise well-being, which includes challenging and stretching students, also build character and help them to perform better than those schools which are just exam factories."
He says that pupils need help while they are still at school.
"By the time students arrive at 18, the damage has been done."
Figures published last month by the Office for National Statistics, showed the highest number of suicides by 15 to 19 year olds since 1998.
And a succession of reports have highlighted concerns about unhappiness, anxiety and depression among young people.
A report from the Higher Education Policy Institute warned that universities were struggling to cope with rising demand for mental health services.
A study published by the Department for Education showed that teenage girls now were more likely to show signs of "psychological distress" than a decade ago.
This blamed pressures from social media and the fact that young people felt less control over their lives.
A report from the Children's Society showed higher levels of anxiety and unhappiness among teenage girls, compared with five years ago.
An online tool kit to help schools identify and monitor mental health problems has been launched by Public Health England and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
The intention is to make staff better informed and better able to evaluate pupils' problems.
"Growing up in today's world can be tough. From negative comments on social media to pressures to look a certain way, the well-being of young people is at risk," said the minister for vulnerable children and families, Edward Timpson
"That's why we want teachers to be able to spot the signs that their pupils are having difficult thoughts or feelings and feel confident about supporting them."
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The Scottish government's quarterly national accounts show that the amount received in tax receipts between January and March was £168m.
This was down from £742m oil revenues in the final three months of 2014.
Finance Minister John Swinney said oil was a bonus - not the basis of the economy.
The industry has suffered from the collapse of global oil prices, which have tumbled sharply since June last year.
The Scottish Conservatives said the figures for Scotland's geographical share of oil revenues, which they claimed were "buried" in a table in a report, showed "how wildly wrong" the SNP's pre-referendum calculations had been.
The Tories said the figures also further demonstrated the case against full fiscal autonomy for Scotland - an SNP policy.
In its oil and gas bulletin published in May 2014, the Scottish government estimated that oil revenues would be between £15.8bn and £38.7bn between 2014/15 and 2018/19.
It latest bulletin, published in June this year, said revenues could be as low as £2.4bn for 2016/17 to 2019/20, with it highest estimate at £10.8bn, based on a best-case scenario of the oil price returning to 100 US dollars per barrel.
Scottish Conservative finance spokesman Murdo Fraser said: "The plunge in oil revenues for the first three months of this year is incredible.
"Whichever way you look at it, and with the best will in the world, there is just no way an independent Scotland could survive on this.
"We knew the price of oil was volatile and that this would be a risk. But to see such a radical drop is alarming."
Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: "Our oil and gas bulletin, published in June, confirmed that Scotland remains, by some margin, the biggest oil producer in the entire European Union.
"Recent provisional figures from DECC suggest that May saw the most oil and gas produced in the North Sea since March 2012. If this trend is sustained production could increase this year for the first time in 15 years.
"Oil, however, is a bonus, not the basis of Scotland's economy. Even without it, Scotland's output per head ranks third of the 12 countries and regions of the UK, behind only London and the South East." | North Sea oil revenues in the first three months of 2015 were down 75% on the previous quarter, the Scottish Conservatives have said. |
Six months ago Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in front of the local government offices in the provincial Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid.
Unjustly harassed and slapped across the face by a state official for trying to sell food from his market stall, so the story went, Mr Bouazizi had raged on social networking sites about the injustices of a corrupt regime and the lack of opportunities for Tunisian youth.
Weeks later, the young man died from his terrible burns and the rest is history.
But, just like the imperfections and flaws in Tunisia's subsequent "Jasmine" revolution, Mohamed Bouazizi's story is not quite the perfect metaphor that many have since written and talked about.
It seems that for some Tunisians, the 26-year-old martyr is no longer a political hero but a media creation, manufactured for the convenience of those - outsiders - who wax lyrical about the birth of the Arab Spring.
The official who "taunted" and "slapped" Mohamed is, arguably, almost as much a victim of Tunisia's former regime.
Fedia Hamdi was arrested and thrown into jail, days after Bouazizi's self-immolation, on the orders of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali - a 74-year-old dictator who saw his authority unravelling before his eyes but was powerless to prevent it.
Many more would pay with their lives, before Ben Ali finally resigned and fled into exile in Saudi Arabia in mid-January, allegedly with more than a tonne of gold from the Tunisian Central Bank.
Ms Hamdi has since been released from jail and has been completely exonerated.
While acknowledging there was indeed an argument between her and the young man she vehemently denies hitting him.
After four months in jail, the 46-year-old municipal inspector said she was only trying to move him along from trading in front of the municipal buildings, in contravention of local by-laws.
Ms Hamdi admits the incident sent Mr Bouazizi into a rage, but she has no idea why he then set himself on fire, or if he even intended to die in the act.
There is no doubt the subsequent popular uprisings in towns across the country were, in part, promulgated and promoted via social networking sites by driven, savvy young people.
Tunisia defends tourist advertsMemories of a Tunisian martyr
But, again, our Mohamed Bouazizi was not the linked-in, internet whizz, you may have read about, who wrote online about his intentions and frustrations.
As it happens it was another college student, with the same name, who posted his poetry and revolutionary song lyrics on the web. It was arguably these posts and the way they spread like wildfire in Tunisia and beyond - which the regime could do nothing to stop - that helped fuel the uprising.
A recent investigation by the France 24 news channel found the other Mr Bouazizi alive and well.
There has also been a perhaps undeserved backlash against the family of the "original" Mohamed Bouazizi.
It has emerged his mother and stepfather accepted several thousand dollars in "compensation" from President Ben Ali, as he struggled to hang on to power.
The family has since moved from their modest home in Sidi Bouzid to a much bigger house in the upmarket Tunis suburb of La Marsa. Frustrated, even jealous, detractors accuse them of cashing in.
Lastly, while many towns and municipalities outside Tunisia, especially in France, have renamed streets and town squares after the martyr, Mohamed Bouazizi, where that has happened in Tunisia itself, the new signs are often defaced or torn-down, even in his native town of Sidi Bouzid.
With an interim administration and constitutional elections scheduled for later this year, some worried Tunisians are already complaining that their revolution may be stolen from them.
Many in this, by Arab standards, liberal country fear the old elites and former members of the RCD ruling party will never fully relinquish power. Others warn that Islamist politicians, returning from exile, will take advantage of newfound political freedoms and try to impose conservative changes to what is a generally inclusive and tolerant constitution.
Many observers, myself included, believe that Tunisia is one country where the Arab revolution has a strong chance of succeeding.
Well-educated, European-influenced and ambitious citizens have already overcome huge obstacles to remove the vestiges of the past. For them there can be no going back.
Tunisia was an ideal place for the Arab Spring to begin.
Whether or not Mohamed Bouaziz's role in inspiring these revolutions has been exaggerated is a moot point, but history should not, perhaps, judge him too harshly.
We need our heroes, flawed or otherwise.
Across the Arab world, other reformists who took heart from events of the last six months and related to the frustrations of a young man from Sidi Bouzid will be looking to Tunisia for guidance and inspiration in the difficult months ahead. | He was the perfect symbol for a perfect revolution. |
Celine Dion, who performed with Gibb and his brothers Barry and Maurice on her 1998 track Immortality, said she was "very sad" to hear of his passing.
The Who's Roger Daltrey said Gibb was "a lovely, lovely guy", while Labour leader Ed Miliband said he would be "remembered for his incredible gifts".
Flowers were left on the Bee Gees' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in LA.
Floral tributes were also placed by fans outside his home in Thame, Oxfordshire.
Daltrey praised the sensitivity of Gibb's vocals. "I hear everyone talking about the success of their career but I haven't heard many talk about him as a singer and I used to think he was one of the best," he said.
"To me, singing is about moving people and Robin's voice had something about it that could move me and, I'm sure, millions of others. It was almost like his heart was on the outside."
John Travolta, whose film Saturday Night Fever was given a memorable soundtrack by The Bee Gees, said: "I thought Robin was one of the most wonderful people - gifted, generous and a real friend to everyone he knew. And we'll miss him."
Gibb has also been remembered by charities he worked with, such as the Stoke-on-Trent based Cauldwell Children, which helps terminally ill youngsters and their families.
Charity chief executive Trudi Beswick said: "Over the last 18 months we have had the pleasure of working with Robin on several occasions. He was an extremely caring and compassionate person who dedicated much of his time to helping others."
Sir Miles Walker, from Hospice Isle of Man, said: "Robin had a quiet and shy way about him, and everyone enjoyed having him as one of the locals."
Funeral arrangements are expected to be announced later this week. A spokesman for Gibb told Reuters the funeral would be held in private and a memorial was being planned.
Gibb died at the London Clinic following a long fight with cancer. His second wife Dwina, sons Spencer and Robin-John and daughter Melissa were at his bedside. | Tributes continue to be paid to Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb following his death on Sunday at the age of 62. |
In the lead-up to Saturday's El Clasico at 15:15 GMT, more than 50,000 BBC Sport users selected who they thought should start in a combined Barcelona and Real Madrid XI .
Six Barca players made the team and, as you would expect, there is stardust all over the pitch - plus the combined experience of 33 La Liga titles and 25 Champions League triumphs.
Barcelona forward Lionel Messi was selected in 94% of teams, making him the most popular player, with Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo featuring in 88% of teams.
Real's Gareth Bale featured in 58% of teams and was the second most popular behind Andres Iniesta in terms of midfield positions.
It was a close call for the goalkeeper spot, with 45% of users selecting Barca's Marc-Andre ter Stegen and 42% opting for Real's Keylor Navas.
In an interview with the BBC in November 2015, Ronaldo labelled himself the best footballer in the world and comparable with the game's all-time greats.
Yet the Portuguese trailed Messi in terms of most selected player.
Despite winning two La Liga titles and one Champions League in Spain, Barca forward Neymar did not fair too well.
He was the eighth most popular player picked overall, but was fourth most popular among the forwards, fifth in midfield and unable to hold down any single position.
Barcelona's players also came out on top in midfield and defence in terms of most popular votes.
Gerard Pique was the most selected centre-back, with Real's Sergio Ramos second most popular.
There was close competition for the left-back spot too - Jordi Alba gained 43% of user's votes, with Marcelo gaining 38%.
In midfield, Barca's Iniesta was the most dominant pick in the centre of the engine room, with Luka Modric of Real just behind.
Toni Kroos and Neymar were next in line to be picked in the midfield.
Trying to pick a combined XI of both sets of players gave plenty of people a headache.
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Imagine you could pick from the combined squads of Barcelona and Real Madrid - tasty but testing. Who would you choose? | There was no room for Neymar or Karim Benzema - and Sergio Busquets and Javier Mascherano did not make the cut either. |
The extended three-year deal keeps the Grand Slam free to air and includes live online and radio coverage.
BBC director general Tony Hall said Wimbledon "unites the nation" and that he was "delighted" with the deal.
He added: "In what are difficult financial times, the deal represents the BBC's commitment to sport in what is an incredibly competitive market."
Novak Djokovic won his third men's singles title at Wimbledon this year, while Serena Williams won her sixth women's crown.
In what is the longest partnership in sports broadcasting history, the tournament will continue to be played out across BBC One, BBC Two, the BBC Red Button and the BBC Sport website, with live radio coverage on Radio 5 live.
The BBC first broadcast from Wimbledon in 1937.
"Our long partnership with the BBC has brought the excitement and drama of the championships to viewers and listeners for over 80 years and we are delighted to be extending our successful association for a further three years until 2020," said All England Club chief executive Richard Lewis.
"The BBC consistently delivers large national audiences for Wimbledon and they deliver those audiences with high-quality production values, live across multiple platforms and always with a strong narrative.
"Importantly, as host broadcaster for the championships, the BBC also ensures that we can provide a comprehensive and premium service to our global media partners."
Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, added: "Wimbledon has a special place in the hearts of the nation and our new agreement ensures the world's greatest tennis championships can be enjoyed free to air by the widest possible audience.
"Through unparalleled coverage across TV, radio and online, Wimbledon on the BBC will continue to unite the nation through must-see sporting moments, captivating audiences of all ages." | The BBC has signed a new rights deal with the All England Club to continue broadcasting Wimbledon until 2020. |
Ruslan Stoyanov, a member of Kasperksy's investigations team, was arrested in December but news of his apprehension has only just surfaced.
He was arrested as part of an investigation into payments he allegedly received from foreign firms.
At Kaspersky, Mr Stoyanov helped look into hack attacks and breaches at Russian companies.
In a statement, Kaspkersy Lab said the arrest had nothing to do with his work for the security firm.
"Ruslan Stoyanov is under investigation for a period predating his employment at Kaspersky Lab," said the company in a statement. Mr Stoyanov joined Kaspersky in 2012.
It added: "We do not possess details of the investigation."
Prior to working for Kaspersky, Mr Stoyanov was employed at other security firms. From 2000 to 2006 he was a major in the Russian Ministry of Interior's Moscow cybercrime unit.
Information about the reasons for the arrest are scant, but one Russian newspaper linked it to a probe into Sergei Mikhailov - a senior official at Russia's FSB intelligence service.
Forbes reported that Mr Stoyanov has been arrested under Article 275 of Russia's criminal code which lets prosecutors charge people for treason for "providing financial, technical, advisory, or other assistance" to other countries or non-Russian organisations seen as hostile. | A cybersecurity researcher working for anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab in Russia has been arrested. |
The estimated £250,000 bill run up by the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) campaign will be reimbursed after a UK Supreme Court ruling.
The campaign called the decision a "total and utter vindication" of its legal challenge.
The Scottish government has said it remains "absolutely committed" to its plan.
NO2NP spokesman Simon Calvert said: "The Scottish government argued we should pay our own costs but the judges disagreed, awarding us our costs, further proving that we have been right all along.
"Had the judges agreed with the government spin that they basically won the case and just had to make a few tweaks to the named person law, the court would not have awarded us our costs."
The scheme, which would assign a named person to everyone under the age of 18 in Scotland, is expected to be rolled out by August 2017.
The Scottish government has insisted that the Supreme Court ruling did not represent a clear defeat for its proposal.
A spokesman said: "The policy aim of providing a Named Person service has been judged by the Supreme Court to be entirely legitimate.
"The Supreme Court's ruling requires changes to be made specifically to the information sharing provisions of the 2014 Act.
"The nature of the ruling means that it is likely that Scottish Ministers may incur costs at a level yet to be determined."
He added: "Ministers remain absolutely committed to the named person service." | The Scottish government has been told to pay the legal costs of those who opposed its named-person scheme. |
A 27-year-old man has been taken to hospital with a head injury and is in a serious condition.
The incident happened at Margaret Street in the Waterside area of the city.
Two men, aged 37 and 31, were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and are assisting police with their enquiries. | Two men have been arrested following an assault in Londonderry on Monday morning. |
Mohammad Asif Qaderyan, father of Fatemah Qaderyan, 14, died from injuries sustained in Tuesday's attack.
Fatemah was captain of the all-girl team that made headlines by taking part in the international event last month.
The six team members were initially denied visas to travel to the US.
However, they were eventually allowed in after the reported intervention of President Donald Trump.
"We are all devastated," Fatemah's older brother, Mohammad Reza, told AFP news agency.
"Fatemah hasn't eaten or spoken since the incident and is in a state of shock. Today, after she fainted several times, doctors started IV fluid therapy."
The six girls are all from Herat in western Afghanistan, close to the Iranian border.
Fatemah made an emotional appeal after the team's visa applications to attend the robotics competition in Washington were rejected.
"We want to take the message of peace to America and convey that Afghanistan is not only the country of war, and there are girls who chase their dreams in robots and education," she told AFP at the time.
Officials would not give their reasons for initially refusing the visas. A US travel ban is in place for six Muslim-majority countries but does not include Afghanistan.
However, President Trump persuaded authorities to rethink their decision, AP news agency reported.
The girls went on to win a silver medal for courageous achievement in Washington.
More than 30 people were killed and scores more wounded when a suicide bomber and a gunman stormed the Shia Muslim Jawadia mosque in Herat during evening prayers.
Islamic State militants (IS) said they carried out the attack.
Areas dominated by Shia Muslims in Afghanistan have been repeatedly hit by attacks in the past year, by both IS and the Taliban. | The father of an Afghan schoolgirl who took part in a recent robotics competition in the US was among those killed in an attack on a mosque in the city of Herat, her family has said. |
Senior officers, including a former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, have warned that anticipated budget cuts put at risk the ability of police to respond with the speed and the scale that would be required in such circumstances.
So, what has been happening to policing numbers and budgets in recent years?
For much of the 1990s and the first decade of this century, both main political parties were engaged in something of a charm offensive with the police service. Law and order was high on the political agenda, with the consequence that keeping the police onside was expedient.
The election of a Conservative-led coalition government in 2010 changed the landscape and the period since has seen a much less comfortable relationship between the government and the police service.
The home secretary for the whole of the period since 2010, Theresa May, has been vocal in her criticism of many aspects of policing - including historic cases like the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and the abuses of undercover policing, to the day-to-day problems stemming from the misuse of stop-and-search powers.
Arguably, however, it has been the imposition of drastic budget cuts, with more promised, that has exercised senior officers the most.
During the five years of the coalition government, the central government contribution to police expenditure was cut by one quarter in real terms. Although this was slightly offset by local increases in council tax, it still resulted in an overall 18% reduction in police budgets in real terms.
To cope with budget cuts, police forces have started to make a wide variety of changes to the ways in which they work. There is now greater collaboration between forces and greater use of shared services while many forces have reduced costs by closing police stations, reducing procurement costs and reorganising the workforce.
Most significant of all though are the reductions to the workforce. But how significant has that actually been?
In the five years from March 2010, police officer numbers declined by close to 12% - a loss of almost 17,000. The decline in the workforce was even greater, with a loss of 15,877 support staff and 4,587 police community support officers (PCSOs).
These are undeniably very significant cuts, but they do need to be placed in longer-term perspective. The very significant increases in both police budgets and numbers that took place under the previous Labour administrations mean that both officer and overall workforce numbers are now back roughly at the levels they were between 2001 and 2003.
How are forces coping? The home secretary's view is that this is a success story, with crime continuing to decline from its high point in the mid-1990s despite the budget cuts and workforce reductions.
But there are signs of strain. Although a recent inspection by the National Audit Office found fairly limited evidence of what it calls "workplace stress" - meaning most forces appear currently to be coping reasonably well - they did note signs that some forces were likely to find it difficult to manage in the medium term without major changes in the way they operate.
The chancellor's spending review, to be announced on Wednesday, is expected to confirm further huge reductions in the central government contribution to police expenditure - rumoured by some to be as high as 20%.
Again, some of this may be offset by increases in council tax, but the search will be on for how best to reduce expenditure. More collaboration, further use of the private sector and sales of police property will all be in the frame.
There will also be further very significant reductions to the workforce. One large metropolitan force, the West Midlands, has already announced plans to slash the number of PCSOs, and it is likely that many others will follow suit. Further substantial falls in both officer numbers and in civilian staff are inevitable.
Some of this may also make the police and others reflect with increased seriousness on the breadth of the police mandate. Is it necessary for the police to do everything they currently do? If not, who else might do these things and with what consequence?
Royal Commissions are unpopular, but this might be a time to take a step back and give such questions the serious thought they deserve.
Whatever else may change, the responsibility for dealing with the threat posed by international terrorism is and will remain a central part of the policing task. To what extent do budget cuts undermine this capability?
British police officers remain unusual in not being routinely armed. Firearms remain the domain of specialist officers but, as much else, this too has been an area of decline in recent years, the total having fallen by 15% between 2009-2014.
The Metropolitan Police - the force most likely to bear the brunt of any major terrorist threat - has a Specialist Firearms Command (SC&O19), with a carefully protected budget, but in the wake of the Paris attacks the Commissioner announced that the number of armed response vehicles had already been increased. And while the capital's armed capability had been reduced by one-fifth since 2008-09, he was looking for ways to reverse this trend.
But it is not just the armed police response that is crucial. As is true of all policing - counter-terrorism is no different - successful operations rely upon information flows from the public and intelligence gathering.
Here again, budget restrictions will almost certainly reduce, perhaps radically, the numbers of PCSOs on the streets - part of the public face of the service - and are likely to pose significant challenges to neighbourhood policing.
As things stand it is hard to assess the extent to which austerity has affected the police service's ability to meet the demands that seem likely to confront them. What is more certain is that this will likely be a source of political contention for some time to come.
Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He also writes for The Conversation website.
The Spending Review is a five-year projection of government spending. In effect, it decides how £4 trillion of taxpayers' money will be spent by setting caps on government departments. Deep spending cuts are expected as Chancellor George Osborne seeks to balance the books.
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More: BBC News Spending Review special report | The terrorist attacks in Paris have focused attention on the preparedness of British police and security services to deal with similar threats. |
The Australian couple had set up their company, Shoes of Prey, in Sydney in 2009, three years after they had married in their early 20s.
Together with co-founder and old college friend Mike Knapp, they launched their e-commerce website that allows women to design their own shoes. The company then makes them at its factory in China, before mailing them out to anywhere in the world.
While the business is continuing to grow strongly, and so far more than six million shoes have been designed on its website, the Foxes' marriage broke down under the strain of working together, and they divorced in 2012.
Yet despite the end of their marriage, neither of them walked away from Shoes of Prey.
Instead both continue to lead the business, which last year moved its headquarters to Los Angeles, as they aim to crack the giant US retail market. Jodie is the chief creative officer, while Michael is the chief executive.
Jodie, 34, says: "Working with my husband was amazing because so few people are lucky enough to be able to see their partner in action, doing well in meetings, seeing how they work with others.
"But it was also difficult because switching off is near impossible."
She adds: "At the end of a work day... it was hard to simply give unconditional support for blowing off steam, rather than get into a conversation about what each of us saw in that event."
When the couple eventually split, Jodie says it was "very amicable", which made it easier for them to switch to being just business partners and friends. She says they also worked hard to put emotion to one side.
"We've worked on communicating very clearly and frequently to ensure that tensions are resolved quickly," she says.
"And we operate with utmost respect and assumption of best intentions as first port of call for any emotionally triggered responses."
Jodie, Michael and Mike met while studying law in Brisbane.
Jodie, then 25, and working in marketing in Sydney, had taken to designing her own shoes, a form of creative expression that had attracted the attention of her female friends.
"I liked shoes," she says. "But I could never really find exactly what I wanted.
"My girlfriends saw my [self-designed] shoes and asked where they came from. So I started to make shoes for them too."
While hitting around business ideas on a beach on Queensland's Gold Coast in 2009, the three co-founders decided to expand on Jodie's hobby and develop a business that would let women design their own shoes via a website.
Customers can choose from 12 shoe shapes, and more than 170 fabrics and colours.
They chose the name Shoes of Prey because Jodie likens shopping to the thrill of the hunt.
Within two months the company broke even, and within two years it was enjoying multi-million dollar revenues, with prices starting from about US$129 (£89) per pair of shoes.
Moving its headquarters from Australia to the US last year, it has now secured more than US$24m of private investment funding.
In addition to the end of her marriage, Jodie says she has suffered from depression and "imposter syndrome" - a fear she didn't deserve to lead a successful company, and would be found out.
"Both of these things are incredibly normal in the entrepreneurship landscape," she says. "Those feelings of not being capable or deserving, or smart enough, are extremely common."
Jodie, who now lives and works in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica, says that as a result of the difficulties she has faced she is passionate about communicating the often difficult realities of entrepreneurship to others.
"Failing is a pretty frequent experience in the life of an entrepreneur," she says. "I fail a lot every day. There are far more failures that I can talk about than successes, for sure."
To help her share her experiences - both good and bad - she has her own YouTube channel, where she posts videos with titles such as "Business tips for shy people" and "Work v Life - is there work life balance?" as well as lighter lifestyle videos.
These help Jodie - who is the face of the brand - connect with consumers.
Analyst James Stewart, head of retail practice at Australian consultancy Ferrier Hodgson, says this personal approach makes sense for a company that relies on interaction with its customers.
"Consumers used to buy a product based on a brand because that brand was special, and they can show it off to their friends and family," he says.
"Luxury brands are now accessible everywhere. So in order for consumers to have a shopping experience and product that is genuinely different, there's been a global push along the lines of personalisation and collaboration of products."
Until recently Jodie says the firm did not consider opening any brick-and-mortar stores, as this seemed counterintuitive to a business based around an online design platform.
However, she says that she and Michael and Mike - who both worked for Google in Australia before starting Shoes of Prey with her - realised they needed a physical presence when customers started turning up at their offices in Sydney.
"They would just walk into the middle of all the desks and be like, 'Hi, we just want to try some shoes on,'" says Jodie. "It was insane."
And so in 2013 Shoes of Prey opened its first physical shop in Sydney's David Jones department store. Customers can use iPads to design their own shoes, and pick fabrics from samples placed around the shop.
Shoes of Prey now also has five stores in the US, located within branches of the Nordstrom fashion chain, and has big plans for further expansion. It currently has 220 employees.
Jodie admits that working with her ex-husband can still be challenging at times, "but that's called being human".
"I think you've got to accept that you're not going to like each other the whole time, but that you're aiming towards the same thing." | Jodie Fox says that when she started a successful business with her then husband Michael, it was both "amazing and equally difficult". |
The country has also been subject to economic sanctions by the West over its involvement in the crisis in Ukraine.
Russia will spend most of the cash on federal loans, pensions and recapitalising its banks.
The country will also make public spending cuts.
Over the next three years most spending, apart military and social programmes, will be hit.
Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund forecast that Russia's economy will contract by 3% this year and 1% in 2016.
Russia's government will spend about one trillion roubles to recapitalise banks through the issue of government bonds.
The plan includes a separate scheme to help recapitalise some banks with 250bn roubles, while 300bn roubles will be provided to Vnesheconombank, the state development bank.
There will be an extra 200bn roubles in state guarantees to finance investment projects, and regional governments will get 160bn roubles in federal loans.
Meanwhile, the government has proposed public spending cuts of 10% this year and 5% over the next two years.
The cuts have yet to be approved by the Russian parliament. | The Russian government is to spend at least 2.34 trillion roubles ($35bn, £23bn) to try to stave off an economic crisis, following a collapse in oil prices and the value of the rouble. |
The Dash Button can be attached to appliances around the home, and when pushed, processes a delivery request.
The service will only be available to users of Amazon's premium subscription service, Prime.
The tech giant has recently focused on speeding up its ordering processes.
Prime Now, which guarantees one-hour delivery on essential daily items, is available in four US cities, and the company has also been trialling deliveries by drone.
On Monday, the firm launched Amazon Home Services, which allows customers to order professional services such as a handyman or computer technician.
The timing of Dash's launch led some to initially believe it might be an April Fool's joke. Even after it was confirmed as real, some were uncertain what to make of it.
"I'm not sure whether this is genius, or the stupidest thing Amazon has tried yet," commented John Gruber on the Daring Fireball blog.
But one expert was impressed.
"This is absolutely not a gimmick," Aidan Bocci, chief executive of the Commercial Advantage consultancy, told the BBC.
"It may have to go through iterations before it really works, but this is a way to disrupt the linkage that exists between consumption and purchase.
"People typically write a shopping list and then go to the supermarket, but this gives Amazon a way to break in before any of that happens. And it's exactly what the firm should be doing if it wants to have a different approach in the grocery sector." | In an attempt to attract more household goods shoppers, retail giant Amazon has unveiled a device that can place orders to replenish items such as washing powder and razors. |
Gordon McKay, 37, is accused of killing five-month old Hayley Davidson.
It is claimed on various occasions between the day Hayley was born on 9 September 2015 and 14 February 2016 Mr McKay assaulted her in Buckhaven. She died in hospital on 17 February 2016.
Mr McKay denies the accusations. The judge at the High Court in Glasgow set a trial date for next February. | A man is to stand trial next year charged with the murder of a baby girl in Fife. |
The 21-year-old singer said the track was called Someday Maybe but said she wasn't sure about if or when it would be released.
Speaking to Nick Grimshaw on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, she said: "Yes, I wrote a song with Harry.
"It was unbelievable he's a very, very talented songwriter I was very impressed."
Harry Styles also recently worked with Kodaline on the band's fourth album, while One Direction bandmates Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne were pictured in the studio with US rock band Good Charlotte during a writing session.
In March last year, Niall Horan tweeted about a writing session with Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Tom Fletcher from McBusted.
Meghan Trainor is up for record of the year with All About That Bass at this year's Grammy Awards.
She said: "It was a little bit of a surprise but All About That Bass is so out of control and has a world of its own, so I guess I understand.
"But it was a dream come true, it's the last dream I had on my list."
All About That Bass spent four weeks at number one in the UK and was the first track to top the Official Singles Chart on streams alone.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Meghan Trainor has confirmed rumours that she is writing a song with One Direction's Harry Styles. |
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Phillips was involved in a crash before a collision with another rider pushed him off the track in the first of a three-race heat at the Rio Games.
The 2013 world champion, 27, was competing at his second Olympics.
British Cycling tweeted: "Sad to confirm that Liam Phillips has been forced to withdraw from #CyclingBMX at #Rio2016 after that crash."
Fellow Briton Kyle Evans, 22, also went out at the quarter-final stage after finishing fifth and seventh twice in his three races.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Great Britain's Liam Phillips has had to withdraw from the quarter-finals of the Olympic BMX after a heavy fall. |
In a BBC Scotland interview, Lord Hardie pledged his investigation would be tough and effective.
The Scottish government said last month the inquiry was to be given the power to compel witnesses to participate.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon took the decision after Lord Hardie reported he had encountered a lack of co-operation.
In his first broadcast interview since the start of the inquiry, Lord Hardie said: "Our preliminary investigations, contacting people who we thought might be of assistance, threw up the problem.
"Some people refused point blank to co-operate, others just didn't answer letters.
"It became clear to me that if that persisted then the whole process could be frustrated and certainly take a period of time that was unacceptable to me."
Delivery of the trams project from proposals to completion
Procurement and contract preparation
Governance, project management and delivery structures
Reasons for delays, increased costs and failure to deliver full line
Consequences of project's failure
How to avoid similar problems in future
Asked if he was confident that all relevant paperwork had been retained, Lord Hardie said his team would be able to identify if key documents or emails were missing.
He said: "One of the functions of the system that we are procuring is that it will sort out the documents into various orders and it will be able to identify gaps, for instance in an email trail.
"We will learn from that if there are indeed gaps."
Work on the inquiry is already well under way but it is not yet known when the first public hearings will take place or who Lord Hardie will call to appear before him.
The inquiry team is based in Edinburgh's Waverley Gate building, the capital's former General Post Office.
Details of proceedings will be made available via the inquiry website.
Lord Hardie expects there will be strong public interest in the inquiry and has urged members of the public to play their part in helping to identify what went wrong.
He said: "There were consequences that I am aware of for householders, for shopkeepers, for developers not only along the route of the tram but along the diverted routes of traffic.
"I would put out a plea to them now to think about what they are going to say, to get together with like-minded people to present a joint submission to the inquiry at the appropriate time, which will be when we call for evidence.
"If lessons are learned, then the benefit of this inquiry will be that future public procurement contracts will be delivered on time, on budget and as promised."
Edinburgh's tram service began running in May, but only after six years of disruption and a bitter dispute between the city council and its contractor.
The previous Labour-led Scottish government originally earmarked £375m to pay for the tram network, which ended up costing £776m and began running years late. | The man leading the public inquiry into the Edinburgh trams fiasco has told how key figures refused "point blank" to co-operate. |
The Indomitable Lions move from 12th to third in Africa behind top-ranked side Egypt, who they beat 2-1 in Sunday's Nations Cup final.
Egypt occupy the summit for the first time in over six years, and now sit 25th in the world - up from 37th.
Nations Cup quarter-finalists Senegal, the top African side last month, are second in Africa and 31st overall.
Africa's top 10 in Fifa's rankings for February (last month's ranking sin brackets)
1 (3) Egypt
2 (1) Senegal
3 (12) Cameroon
4 (4) Tunisia
5 (6) DR Congo
6 (8) Burkina Faso
7 (7) Nigeria
8 (9) Ghana
9 (2) Ivory Coast
10 (10) Morocco | Africa Cup of Nations winners Cameroon have risen 29 places to sit 33rd in the latest Fifa world rankings. |
The court in Novorossiysk gave two of the dancers 10 days in jail each, a third 15 days and two others received fines on charges of petty hooliganism.
Prosecutors had said their "erotic and sexual twerk dance" was disrespectful to historic memory and unacceptable.
Earlier this month, Russian officials closed a dance school after a similar dance video emerged on the internet.
The latest incident involves six dancers - one of them a minor who was not convicted - who had posted a video on YouTube.
"This incident of disrespect for the memory of war history is unacceptable and any attempts to desecrate sites of military glory will be stopped immediately," prosecutors said.
The sentences come as Russia prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of the World War Two victory.
They also follow the incident early in April when a video clip from the Orenburg dance school on YouTube was viewed millions of times.
The video clip, entitled Winnie the Pooh and the Bees, showed a group of teenage girls dancing on stage in striped leotards, long socks and mini-skirts,
They perform hip-thrusting moves characteristic of twerking.
A committee is investigating whether the performance amounts to negligence or even "debauched action", which is punishable by a range of sanctions from community service to three years behind bars. | A Russian court has jailed three women for performing a twerking dance in front of a World War Two memorial. |
The Work and Pensions Select Committee found there was little evidence that lower payments would motivate disabled people to find work.
The allowance is set to be reduced from £102 to £73 per week from April.
Ministers have argued that savings would be invested in a new support package for the most vulnerable.
The committee said evidence supporting the idea that introducing a lower rate of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) would enhance incentives to work was "ambiguous at best".
It welcomed a decision to make some severely disabled claimants exempt from repeated reassessment for ESA but said it had deep concerns about assessments proposed in the recent work and health green paper.
The committee said ministers should consider using incentives such as reductions in National Insurance contributions to encourage employers to employ people with disabilities.
Committee chairman Frank Field said: "We expect the government to respond to this report before the proposed new lower rate of ESA is due in April.
"If they intend to proceed with these cuts, we expect an explanation of how this will not be detrimental to its target of halving the disability employment gap, by making finding and keeping a job even more difficult for disabled people than it already is."
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: "The number of disabled people in work has increased by almost 600,000 in the last three years, but we're determined to go even further.
"Our Work and Health Green Paper marks the next stage of our action to confront the attitudes, prejudices and misunderstandings that have become ingrained within the minds of employers and across wider society.
"Our welfare reforms are increasing the support and incentives for people to move into work, while keeping an important safety net in place for those who need it.
"In addition to ESA, we also offer support through Personal Independence Payments, to help with the extra costs associated with being disabled." | Cuts in disability benefits should be delayed until the government clarifies how it will support those in need of extra money, a group of MPs has said. |
The 26-year-old from Cornwall won the PTVI title in Austria to add to her bronze from the Rio Olympics last year.
"This year's about trying new things to see where we can improve, to try and stay on top of the podium," she said.
"I'd say I plateaued quite a bit over the past couple of years, but I've been lucky enough to stay on the podium."
Reid added to BBC Radio Cornwall: "Coming into the new season I had a really long break after Rio, and so I wasn't expecting too much of a performance for the first couple of races this year."
She hopes she has done enough to secure a place at the World Championships in Rotterdam in September, but may have to compete in Canada at the end of July to be sure of her spot.
"I had quite a long time of keeping my bike locked away and not playing on it at all, so this year is building up back to the same amount of hours as I was doing before Rio," Reid said. | Melissa Reid says she is looking at ways of becoming faster after taking gold at the European Para-triathlon Championships earlier this month. |
A 36-year-old man has been charged with causing a dangerous article to be on a road.
Another man, 46, has been charged with riotous behaviour. Both are due to appear before Belfast Magistrates Court 28 July.
A crossbow was among items seized after the PSNI dispersed what they described as "a large crowd of men".
A police spokesperson said: "Reports suggested some of the males were masked and may have been armed with weapons such as hammers.
"Officers attended and dispersed the crowd seizing a number of items including a crossbow."
Pictures from the Castlemara estate show a burning bonfire and police officers removing tyres and pallets from the road.
At least one fire appliance was in attendance.
The DUP MLA for the area, Gordon Lyons, said: "People in Carrickfergus are very disappointed at the disturbances that look place last night.
"It's not what we want to see in 2016." | Two men have been charged following disturbances in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, on Friday night. |
The 36-year-old right-back has made more than 150 appearances for the Seagulls and his new deal keeps him at the Amex Stadium until June 2018.
"Bruno has been really consistent throughout my time here and has been one of our key players," manager Chris Hughton told the club website.
"He has been a model professional and has been a great player to work with."
Hughton added: "He works hard to keep himself in great shape and looks after himself very well."
The Barcelona-born defender is in his fifth season with Brighton, having joined from Valencia in 2012. | Brighton club captain Bruno has agreed a one-year contract extension with the Championship side. |
Margaride Rufino, 38, and Anthony Roberts, 37, were found dead at an address in Cross Road, Idle, on Sunday.
A post-mortem examination found Ms Rufino, known as Guida, died from multiple stab wounds. Mr Roberts died from a leg wound.
Detectives said they were treating the incident as a murder-suicide and were not looking for anyone else.
Officers were called to the property after receiving reports of a domestic incident.
The couple were both pronounced dead at the scene and two knives were recovered from the property.
West Yorkshire Police has appealed for witnesses to any suspicious activity in the area from 18:00 GMT on Sunday. | A couple whose bodies were found at a house in Bradford both died from stab wounds, it has emerged. |
However, Mahmud Nacua said it would be at least another year before Libya was in a position to release whatever information it holds.
The move comes on the 24th anniversary of the of bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland, which killed 270 people.
Bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi died this year after being released in 2009.
Megrahi, a Libyan agent, was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds, suffering from terminal prostate cancer.
He remains the only person ever convicted of the bombing, but Scottish police hope to pursue other suspects in Libya following the country's revolution and downfall of Colonel Gaddafi in 2011.
Scotland's top prosecutor recently wrote to the new Libyan prime minister for help and the UK government has said it was pressing Tripoli "for swift progress and co-operation" on the Lockerbie case.
Mr Nacua told the BBC no formal agreement had yet been reached, but that Libya would open the files it holds on the case.
He said that would only come when his government had fully established security and stability - a process he believes will take at least a year.
In April of this year, Scotland's Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland travelled to Tripoli with the director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, requesting co-operation after the fall of Gaddafi.
This was followed in May by a meeting with Libya's interim prime minister in London to discuss further inquires into the bombing.
At the time, a Crown Office spokesman said: "The prime minister asked for clarification on a number of issues relating to the conduct of the proposed investigation in Libya and the lord advocate has undertaken to provide this.
"The prime minister made it clear that he recognised the seriousness of this crime and following the clarification he would take this forward as a priority." | The new Libyan government in Tripoli is prepared to open all files relating to the Lockerbie bombing, the country's ambassador to the UK has confirmed. |
The first areas will be Blackpool, Derby, Norwich, Oldham, Scarborough and West Somerset.
Prime Minister Theresa May earlier defended her plans for more grammars.
She said poorer pupils did better in grammars - and the ban on expanding selection by ability was "wrong".
But Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the plans for grammars showed the Conservatives were "backward looking" and "obsessing about old-fashioned, discredited policies".
The education secretary, speaking to the Conservative party conference, said Labour's opposition to the plans for more grammars was "rank hypocrisy".
Ms Greening told the conference "we should support parental choice, not ignore it" and suggested that the expansion of selection would depend on local demand.
"Local areas who want more grammar places should be able to have them and similarly, local areas who want to stick with the existing schools that they're happy with will be able to do that too."
Ms Greening said her plans to tackle social mobility "cold spots" would give pupils "the best start in life, no matter what their background".
"I want to see businesses spotting and polishing up the talent of a new generation - the rough diamonds - to make sure we unlock the talent of everyone in our country."
After the initial six opportunity areas, there will be a further four to be announced at a later stage, with the 10 areas sharing funding of £60m.
"Ensuring all children can access high-quality education at every stage is critical. This is about giving children in these areas the right knowledge and skills, advice at the right time, and great experiences," said Ms Greening.
Education services and businesses in the opportunity areas would work to "create the opportunities outside school that will raise sights and broaden horizons for young people".
There have been repeated warnings about the lack of support for careers services in schools - particularly in providing young people with individual advice.
The plans announced by the education secretary will mean a greater focus on links with industry and better careers guidance.
Schools in the "opportunity areas" will be partnered with successful schools and head teachers in other parts of the country.
The push for social mobility is also part of the government's controversial proposals to create new grammar schools.
Speaking earlier, the prime minister said she wanted to open up places in grammar schools which are "overwhelmingly good or outstanding".
"If you look at the attainment within grammar schools, poorer children do better in grammar schools than they do in other schools," said Mrs May.
The prime minister said "selection by house price" already existed for school places - and that there was no reason to block the wider use of selection by ability.
"At the moment we have a law that says if you're setting up a new school, you cannot select pupils by academic ability. I think that's wrong," said Mrs May.
But she said there would not be a return of a "binary system" of grammars and secondary moderns and that the changes were part of a package of reform, including greater involvement of universities and independent schools in the state system and the opening of more faith schools.
"We want to see grammar schools working with other schools, so that the overall quality of education in their area is high. So it's not about what school you go to, it's about making sure you get the education that is right for every child."
Head teachers' leader Malcolm Trobe said he supported the commitment to social mobility.
But he warned that the education secretary needed to address "as a matter of priority" more immediate questions, such as the "severe teacher shortages and significant real-terms cuts in funding".
Labour's Angela Rayner said: "Any new investment into disadvantaged communities is welcome, but the truth is that grammar schools fail the vast majority of children.
"The Tories cannot provide any evidence that new grammar schools will aid social mobility for children from the most disadvantaged communities." | Education Secretary Justine Greening has announced six "opportunity areas" in England in a £60m scheme to promote social mobility, supporting schools and links with employers. |
An unidentified object was spotted on Monday within Finnish territorial waters. It was detected again early on Tuesday, the navy said.
The incident comes amid growing concern in the region over Russia's military exercises.
In October, Sweden launched a hunt for a foreign submarine suspected to have entered waters near Stockholm.
Navy operations chief Commodore Olavi Jantunen told Helsingin Sanomat newspaper that the depth charges, dropped at 03:00 on Tuesday (midnight GMT), were meant only as a warning.
"The bombs are not intended to damage the target, the purpose is to let the target know that it has been noticed."
Defence Minister Carl Haglund said the object seen in the Baltic Sea this week could have been a submarine.
"We strongly suspect that there has been underwater activity that does not belong there. Of course it is always serious if our territorial waters have been violated," he told Finnish news agency STT.
Commodore Jantunen was more cautious, telling Finnish public broadcaster YLE only that the sightings involved a "possible underwater object".
Finland has become increasingly worried about the military exercises of neighbouring Russia. The two countries share a 1,300km (800 mile) border.
But the defence minister did not say whether he thought Russia was involved.
Finnish Border Guard ship Turva patrolled the waters off Helsinki on Tuesday
Finnish media reported that although the target was believed to have left the area, the investigation into the incident would continue.
Finland had a close eye on its waters and it had gathered useful information about the target for further investigation, Commodore Jantunen said.
Finland is not part of Nato but it has strengthened its ties with the Western military alliance since the Ukraine crisis.
Earlier in April, Finland also agreed to increase defence co-operation with other Nordic countries in response to Russia's activity in Ukraine.
Last October, Sweden launched a week-long search for a suspected submarine in its waters.
Naval vessels and planes scoured the Stockholm archipelago, amid suspicions that a Russian submarine was in trouble there.
Russia's defence ministry denied any involvement. | Finland's navy has dropped depth charges in waters near Helsinki as a warning to a suspected submarine. |
The 33-year-old, who led England to the semi-finals of the World Cup, is joined on a 10-person shortlist by Colin Bell (Frankfurt), Laura Harvey (Seattle Reign) and John Herdman (Canada).
Portsmouth-born USA coach Jill Ellis is also a contender.
USA trio Hope Solo, Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe are among those shortlisted for player of the year.
Goalkeeper Solo, midfielder Lloyd and forward Rapinoe helped their team win the World Cup in July.
Lloyd's six goals meant she finished as joint top-scorer along with Germany's Celia Sasic, who is also shortlisted along with team-mate Nadine Angerer.
Japan captain Aya Miyama is also a contender, along with Ramona Bachmann (Switzerland), Kadeisha Buchanan (Canada) and France pair Amandine Henry and Eugenie Le Sommer.
The managerial shortlist is completed by Calle Barrling (Sweden Under-19s), Farid Benstiti (Paris St Germain), Gerard Precheur (Lyon), Norio Sasaki (Japan) and Thomas Worle (Bayern Munich).
"England fans may question why no Lionesses were nominated for this year's Ballon d'Or award after Sampson's team claimed bronze at this summer's World Cup.
"Manchester City defender Lucy Bronze in particular is a notable absentee. The right-back was rewarded for her two goals in Canada by being shortlisted for the Golden Ball - the award given to the best player at the tournament.
"Bronze, fellow defender and captain Steph Houghton, and goalkeeper Karen Bardsley were also named all in the World Cup All-Stars squad.
"Another name missing from the list is Scotland international Kim Little. The midfielder finished another prolific season with Seattle Reign in the USA as joint-second top scorer, as she continues to shine in the NWSL." | England boss Mark Sampson is one of four Britons in contention to be Fifa women's world coach of the year. |
On Thursday, double Olympic sailing gold medallist Sarah Ayton will face the "fear" of riding a horse in front of 25,000 people at the Glorious Goodwood festival.
Ayton, one of Britain's 'three blondes in a boat' at the 2004 Games, spoke to BBC Sport's Louise Gwilliam about swapping sailing for the saddle and raising two children in between.
With London 2012 on the horizon, she had the opportunity to become the first British woman to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals, and to achieve this on home soil.
But the Surrey-born athlete desperately wanted to start a family. With her then husband Nick Dempsey also striving to achieve his own windsurfing gold medal, "something had to give".
In 2010, after the birth of their first child Thomas, Ayton decided to put her sailing ambitions on hold.
"If I was hungry enough to want gold in London, I would have made it happen," said the 37-year-old.
"But at the time I'd already won two gold medals and I wanted to start a family. For me, that was what was important.
"I decided I wasn't prepared to run my sailing campaign at 70% and I also wasn't prepared to sacrifice bringing up my son Thomas.
"We got to the point in our relationship where one of us had to make a sacrifice. I felt it was time for me to sit back and give Nick the freedom to achieve his dream."
Dempsey is Britain's most successful windsurfer with three Olympic medals, but at the time he was battling with the disappointment of a fourth-place finish in Beijing.
The 36-year-old desperately wanted to better his bronze from Athens at London and while Sarah gave birth to their second child Oscar in early 2012, Nick continued to pursue his Olympic goal.
He went on to take silver in London, but the couple's marriage broke down and they divorced shortly after the Games.
"There's no getting away from it, 2012 was a shocking time," she said.
"But you realise a lot about yourself and how strong you are. I focused on building another team around me with my parents and friends and realised I could get through some really tough times.
"Things break down and I've learnt not to be bitter and twisted but to move forward and focus on being mentally strong.
"Seeing people win medals at London 2012 was hard, but I don't have any regret.
"I now know how to deal with that feeling of guilt which many people suffer with when making compromises to fulfil their dreams and bring up kids. And it's taught me that I will continue to go on and achieve."
As a woman who "loves a challenge", it wasn't long before Sarah's competitive instinct returned and she was once again at the pinnacle of her sport.
In 2014 she went back out on the water, to compete in what is described as the 'Formula 1 of sailing' - the Extreme Sailing Series - and was the only female to take part.
Her crew contested 11 races a day, over four days of competition, and competed in eight events a year - something she admits was "a lot of travelling for a mother of two".
And the following year she won the Female Sailor of the year 2015 - the highest award a sailor can receive.
"It was a massive challenge going back into sailing after having both of my boys.
"The Extreme Series is basically a stepping stone into the America's Cup. It's very male dominated so that brings with it everything you think it would.
"But I learnt my lesson from the tough times in 2010 and 2011 and I built a good team around me - my parents allowed me to do that.
"It highlighted the point that I have to keep remaining positive. You make your own opportunities and if an opportunity comes along you just have to grab it."
Which is why she finds herself just days away from racing in front of 25,000 people at Goodwood.
With her two boys, now aged seven and five, at school, Sarah has "more freedom" and has embarked upon a new challenge - horse racing.
Despite only taking up the sport in December, and "never really riding before", she will start in the Magnolia Cup on Ladies' Day at Goodwood on Thursday.
"I am taking this as seriously as I did the Olympic Games. But it's the first time in my life I've been scared through sport.
"I tried horse riding when I was a child and I just remember being absolutely petrified and I was almost thrown off. I didn't connect at all and I never went back."
After 13 hours of instruction, and watching "a bit of a documentary", Sarah was paired up with her horse, Archangel Raphael at Amanda Perrett's racing yard.
The first time she got on, Archangel was out of control but the former Olympic athlete managed to stop him dead, and they were declared "a suitable pairing".
"You have to have a presence when you're sat on a horse like you do on a boat. You have to be in control and take charge otherwise you'll have a rough ride.
"I've had one bad fall where I landed awkwardly and got whiplash. Then I got kicked and thought I'd broken my foot but actually both turned out to be fine. I'm confident on him now."
Sarah will line up alongside 11 other amateur female jockeys on the start line for the Magnolia Cup - now in its seventh year.
But having come through two Olympic Games, and "extremely tough times", she says she isn't feeling the pressure.
"Stood on the podium in Beijing, my feeling was of relief, relief that I hadn't messed up.
"You get a bit lost sometimes in Olympic sports and you start to expect, but this has been really genuine. I just want to do it for everyone that has helped me.
"Physically, I am in the best shape I've been in since the Beijing Games. It comes down to a 55-second ride after eight months of training. And it's all about the start."
Juggling the tacking up, riding and mucking out of Archangel with school pick-ups and drop-offs of her boys Oscar and Thomas has "been stressful" admits Sarah.
The mother of two says even staying awake for bath and bed time every night has been a challenge.
But she won't take too much time off. When her Magnolia Cup journey comes to an end, Sarah says she will "be looking for something else", and at 38 years old, her days of competing at the highest level are far from over.
"I went to Wimbledon this year and saw Venus Williams smashing it around at the age of 37 and I thought 'that's where women are great'.
"I am still a full-time mother and it's hard. But it gets easier as they get older and I have time now to think what might be possible.
"After being in the mix of it all with children, it takes a bit to reconnect with who you really are. But I'm already trying to think of the next challenge.
"I have no idea how good I am at horse racing compared to a professional but I'd be pulled that way for sure. I could see myself forming a relationship with a professional partner in the future."
And Tokyo 2020....? "You never know." | At the age of 28, Sarah Ayton had just won back-to-back Olympic gold medals and was on the verge of history. |
It was Murray's 600th victory and he is on a career best 20-match winning streak, with Australia's Bernard Tomic his next opponent on Friday.
Briton Johanna Konta lost 6-7 (1-7) 6-4 6-0 to fifth seed Agnieszka Radwanska.
Rafael Nadal suffered a surprise 6-1 6-3 loss to Borna Coric, and the Spaniard admitted he is struggling physically.
He arrived in Cincinnati on Monday, on the same private jet from Rio as Andy Murray, having won the doubles and reached the singles semi-finals at the Olympic Games.
"Too tired," said the 14-time Grand Slam champion, who returned to action in Rio for the first time since pulling out of the French Open in May.
"Elbow, shoulder. Two and a half months without competing and especially without practising, and to do what I did in the Olympics and come here - too much."
Tomic caused an upset against another Olympian, Japan's Kei Nishikori - the man who beat Nadal to bronze in Rio - with the Australian coming through 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (7-5).
Second seed Stan Wawrinka also went out, as Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov saw off the Swiss player 6-4 6-4.
Murray, 29, looks increasingly able to challenge Novak Djokovic - absent from Cincinnati with a wrist injury - for the world number one ranking over the remainder of the year.
"It's cool that it happened in Cincinnati," the Scot said of claiming his 600th Tour win. "I got a wild card here when I was 18. I also won my first Masters 1000 here, so it's a place that means a lot to me."
In the women's draw, Germany's Angelique Kerber reached the last eight with a 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 victory over Barbora Strycova and will next play Carla Suarez Navarro.
Kerber will replace Serena Williams as world number one if she wins the Cincinnati title - the American missed the tournament with a shoulder injury, | Olympic champion Andy Murray beat South Africa's Kevin Anderson 6-3 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Masters. |
Extra water was available this year and organisers have said air quality was fresher after high pollution on Friday.
Organisers said 9,426 people started this year's race.
Kenyan Duncan Maiyo, 24, won the men's race, setting a new personal best time of two hours 34 minutes and 25 seconds, while compatriot Pennina Wanjiru, 30, won the women's race in 2:34:25.
Spokesman Michael Butcher said the event had gone very well and the atmosphere was "fantastic".
The runners had a slightly chilly start and conditions were windy, but the weather was beautiful, he added.
"Thousands of people are out there now. I went to the finish line and had to walk along the course because it was impossible to get on to the pavements," he said.
Race director Tom Naylor said people travelled from across the world to take part, including 14 who had come from Australia.
"Once you've done one marathon, maybe New York or Berlin, then the running tourist wants more events," he added.
He said: "It's a fantastic tourist destination. The course is great - nice and flat and fast. It takes in the best parts of the city, and who wouldn't want to come and do Brighton Marathon?"
Two years ago, a runner collapsed and died while taking part in the race, partly from dehydration.
Mr Naylor said this year water was provided at 21 stations, one at nearly every mile of the course.
"It means runners can drink more often which means they can drink less at each water station, which is much better for the body and much better for their performance," he said. | Thousands of people have taken part in the Brighton marathon with top athletes competing alongside first-timers. |
BBC Sport has learned the team refused to stay at the Zifa Village training facility, saying it is sub-standard, and have been booked at a Harare hotel by Footballers Union of Zimbabwe.
The team were also unable to use the national sports stadium for training because a $60 fee had not been paid.
They had to use a high school instead.
It is unclear why the fee was not paid, given a mobile network provider announced a $250,000 sponsorship for the Warriors two weeks ago to cover all of the team's needs for their Nations Cup campaign.
Zimbabwe's first match of the 14 January to 5 February tournament is against Algeria on 15 January. They will also face Tunisia and Senegal in Group B. | Zimbabwe's preparations ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon have been thrown into chaos by a row over accommodation and financial issues. |
Alex Jones struck his fourth goal of the season from the penalty spot to haul the Valiants level at the ABAX Stadium after Posh had defender Andrew Hughes dismissed for deliberate handball by referee Graham Horwood.
Jones had earlier opened the scoring in the sixth minute, firing home on the half-volley after Remie Streete nodded Ben Purkiss' right-wing delivery into his path.
Posh's response was impressive and almost immediate as Marcus Maddison picked out George Moncur to fire his first Posh goal just eight minutes into his full debut after arriving on loan from Championship side Barnsley.
The hosts squandered a stack of glorious chances in the second half before Moncur looked like being the matchwinner as he slotted them ahead with six minutes to go after a cross from the left from substitute Paul Taylor broke into his path.
But Posh were denied victory amid the late drama as Hughes saw red and Birmingham loanee Jones kept his cool to convert from the spot and earn Vale their second away point of the season.
Reports supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Peterborough United 2, Port Vale 2.
Second Half ends, Peterborough United 2, Port Vale 2.
Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Peterborough United 2, Port Vale 2. Alex Jones (Port Vale) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Andrew Hughes (Peterborough United) is shown the red card.
Penalty conceded by Andrew Hughes (Peterborough United) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Foul by Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United).
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hayden White (Peterborough United).
Jerome Thomas (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Anthony Grant (Port Vale).
Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Quentin Pereira (Port Vale).
Attempt saved. Jerome Thomas (Port Vale) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Port Vale. Sebastien Amoros replaces Paulo Tavares.
Goal! Peterborough United 2, Port Vale 1. George Moncur (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Tom Nichols (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paulo Tavares (Port Vale).
Substitution, Port Vale. Quentin Pereira replaces Sam Foley.
Hayden White (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jerome Thomas (Port Vale).
Attempt blocked. Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Anthony Grant (Port Vale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Jack Baldwin.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Hayden White.
Foul by Hayden White (Peterborough United).
Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Chris Forrester (Peterborough United).
Ben Purkiss (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United).
Sam Foley (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Tom Nichols (Peterborough United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Jack Baldwin (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Jones (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Tom Nichols (Peterborough United) header from very close range is just a bit too high.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Remie Streete.
Substitution, Port Vale. Rigino Cicilia replaces Martin Paterson. | Port Vale snatched a dramatic stoppage-time equaliser as they drew with 10-man Peterborough. |
Police officers discovered the man's body about 08:00 BST on Saturday in the Bro Silyn area of Talysarn, Gwynedd.
North Wales Police said there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the "tragic event".
The coroner has been informed. | The body of a 23-year-old man has been found trapped down a manhole. |
A council report calls for "a very significant reduction in the level of long-term care commissioned from independent sector providers".
Figures project a reduction of care home residents from 1,450 to 955 by 2020.
The authority would move services in house and encourage independent living.
An extra 39 workers would be hired to implement the changes.
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The report discusses changing the culture of adult social care in the city from "doing things for people and creating dependence" to "a focus on enabling people to do things for themselves, promoting independence".
Figures show that in 2015 Hull had higher than average number of people in the social care system than other local authorities, with 57% compared with an average of 44%. The report adds that the figures indicate that Hull "requires a more robust triaging at the front door".
It also calls for an "active recovery" policy to try and reduce the number of people needing support.
The report will be discussed by the council's cabinet committee next week and, if approved, the changes could be implement by early next year. | The number of people living in care homes in Hull could be cut by a third under plans to save £18m from adult social services by 2020. |
The main risk factors for the disease are a lack of exercise, smoking, depression and poor education, it says.
Previous research from 2011 put the estimate at one in two cases, but this new study takes into account overlapping risk factors.
Alzheimer's Research UK said age was still the biggest risk factor.
Writing in The Lancet Neurology, the Cambridge team analysed population-based data to work out the main seven risk factors for Alzheimer's disease.
These are:
They worked out that a third of Alzheimer's cases could be linked to lifestyle factors that could be modified, such as lack of exercise and smoking.
The researchers then looked at how reducing these factors could affect the number of future Alzheimer's cases.
They found that by reducing each risk factor by 10%, nearly nine million cases of the disease could be prevented by 2050.
In the UK, a 10% reduction in risk factors would reduce cases by 8.8%, or 200,000, by 2050, they calculated.
Current estimates suggest that more than 106 million people worldwide will be living with Alzheimer's by 2050 - more than three times the number affected in 2010.
Prof Carol Brayne, from the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge, said: "Although there is no single way to treat dementia, we may be able to take steps to reduce our risk of developing dementia at older ages.
"We know what many of these factors are, and that they are often linked.
"Simply tackling physical inactivity, for example, will reduce levels of obesity, hypertension and diabetes, and prevent some people from developing dementia.
"As well as being healthier in old age in general, it's a win-win situation."
Dr Simon Ridley, head of research at charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said there was still much to discover about the disease.
"While age is the biggest risk factor for most cases of Alzheimer's, there are a number of lifestyle and general health factors that could increase or decrease a person's chances of developing the disease.
"However, we still do not fully understand the mechanisms behind how these factors are related to the onset of Alzheimer's."
Dr Ridley said there were more than 820,000 people in the UK living with dementia, and an ageing population would lead to spiralling numbers being affected.
"As there is still no certain way to prevent Alzheimer's, research must continue to build the strongest evidence around health and environmental factors to help individuals reduce their risk."
He added: "This new study also highlights that many cases are not due to modifiable risk factors which underlines the need to drive investment into new treatment research."
Of the seven risk factors, the largest proportion of cases of Alzheimer's in the US, UK and the rest of Europe can be attributed to physical inactivity.
The study says about a third of the adult population in these countries are physically inactive.
Physical inactivity is also linked to increased risks of other health problems, such as cancers and cardiovascular diseases. | One in three cases of Alzheimer's disease worldwide is preventable, according to research from the University of Cambridge. |
The government and the United Nations report that some 100,000 people are facing starvation, with a million more on the brink of famine.
A combination of civil war and an economic collapse have been blamed.
There have been warnings of famine in Yemen, Somalia and north-eastern Nigeria, but South Sudan is the first to declare one.
The famine is currently affecting parts of the Unity state in South Sudan, but humanitarian groups have warned that the crisis could spread if urgent help is not received.
Aid agencies, including the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the children's fund Unicef, said that 4.9 million people - more than 40% of South Sudan's population - are in urgent need of food.
Food shortages can lead to large numbers of people lacking nutrition, but only rarely do they amount to famine, according to UN humanitarian criteria.
Long periods of drought and other problems reducing the supply of food do not necessarily result in a famine.
A famine is declared only when certain measures of mortality, malnutrition and hunger are met. They are:
The declaration of a famine carries no binding obligations on the UN or member states, but serves to focus global attention on the problem.
Source: UN
The report on Monday said that an increase in humanitarian assistance was needed in order to prevent the famine from spreading to other vulnerable areas.
"If sustained and adequate assistance is delivered urgently, the hunger situation can be improved in the coming months and further suffering mitigated," the report said.
Head of the WFP in South Sudan, Joyce Luma, said that the famine was "man-made" after three years of conflict across the country stifled crop production and hit farmers and rural livelihoods.
The impact of the conflict, combined with high food prices, economic disruption and low agricultural production has resulted in the area becoming "food insecure", the report added.
South Sudan also experienced a famine in 1998, during the war for independence from Sudan.
Last week, the WFP warned that more than 20 million people may face starvation in a series of famines over the next six months.
The WFP's chief economist, Arif Husain, said a combination of wars and drought meant that for the first time in recent years, aid workers were now talking about four simultaneous famines in separate parts of the world.
He added that despite record levels of international humanitarian aid distribution, there was not enough to look after all the people in need. | A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced in any part of the world in six years. |
The FBI has a court order demanding Apple helps unlock an iPhone used by the gunman behind the San Bernardino terror attack, Syed Rizwan Farook.
Farook and his wife killed 14 people in the California city last December before police fatally shot them.
Family members of some victims have backed the FBI's order.
Two groups of tech giants have now filed an amicus brief, which allows parties not directly involved in a court case, but who feel they are affected by it, to give their view.
Apple has appealed against the court order, arguing that it should not be forced to weaken the security of its own products.
Since a software update released in September 2014, data on Apple devices - such as text messages and photographs - has been encrypted by default.
This prevents anyone without the owner's four-digit passcode from accessing the handset's data. If 10 incorrect attempts at the code are made, the device will automatically erase all of its data.
No-one, not even Apple, is able to access the data. But the FBI has asked the tech company to help it circumvent the security by altering Farook's iPhone.
The agency wants it to do two things: first change the settings so unlimited attempts can be made at the passcode without erasing the data; and second help implement a way to rapidly try different combinations to save tapping in each one manually.
Apple has argued that the move would jeopardise the trust it has with its customers and create a backdoor for government agencies to access customer data.
Twitter, AirBnB, Ebay, LinkedIn and Reddit are among a group of 17 major online companies to have formally backed Apple in its court dispute with the FBI.
Another group have filed a separate joint amicus brief. These include Amazon, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Pinterest, Snapchat, WhatsApp and Yahoo.
Intel and AT&T have also filed separate briefs.
Salihin Kondoker, whose wife survived being shot three times in December's terror attack, has also filed a brief supporting Apple.
But family members of some other victims will jointly back the FBI's order, Reuters reported.
Apple isn't known for making it easy for journalists. A colleague once joked that staff in Apple's press office must have to replace the keys needed to spell out "no comment" on a very regular basis.
And that's because Apple didn't need to bother - its products would be talked about and reported on regardless.
But with this case, that dynamic has changed. If you're studying public relations, grab a pen.
Now, a daily email from the press team arrives in reporters' inboxes, pointing out developments, offering thoughts and bigging up coverage Apple thinks is "useful".
Today, on Apple's website, it is compiling a list of all those who support the company - quicker than we can get it from the court.
Every time I refresh there's more: 32 law professors, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union.
But on the flip side, what must not be forgotten is the very powerful backing for the FBI which we expect to hear from many victims' families. | More of the biggest names in tech - including eBay, Google and Amazon have joined Twitter and AirBnB in backing Apple in its court battle with the FBI. |
Winger Mkhitaryan scored in United's 1-0 Europa League last 32 second-leg win over Saint Etienne, but limped off with a hamstring problem after 25 minutes.
Carrick was also substituted just past the hour mark after hurting his calf.
"Honestly, I don't think Mkhitaryan is fit for the final. I think him and Michael are both out," said Mourinho.
"You can be injured leaving your house, you can be injured in the garden. You never know when and why.
"Obviously they are important players for us and not to have them both for the final is complicated but I think Marouane (Fellaini) and Bastian (Schweinsteiger) - two players who are normally not playing too much - is a good answer.
"I don't say they will definitely miss out, I just say what I feel. It's three days before the final. Even if it's a minor injury I think three days is no time."
United beat Saint Etienne 4-0 on aggregate to move into the last 16 of the Europa League and are also in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
Mourinho's side beat Leicester to win the Community Shield in August, but Sunday's EFL Cup final at Wembley is the 54-year-old's first chance for a major trophy with United. | Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho expects midfielders Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Michael Carrick to miss Sunday's EFL Cup final against Southampton. |
"McGuinness: IRA leader who forged path to peace" the Irish News states.
"Journey's End" and "Back to the Bogside", the Belfast Telegraph and Daily Mirror report with each headline accompanied with images of a coffin draped in an Irish tricolour.
Wednesday's front pages are, unsurprisingly, dedicated to the death of former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness.
The newspapers themselves feature comprehensive coverage on a man whose legacy will be debated and unpicked for decades to come.
Among those to feature prominently in the Belfast Telegraph is former first minister Peter Robinson who goes into detail on their "unique relationship".
He describes it as "certainly closer, more complicated and formidable" than many friendships.
It was a relationship with disagreements. "There were never any tantrums," he writes. "Yelling and screaming were not part of Martin's temperament."
He adds: "I am absolutely certain he had reached a place in his life where he wanted to ensure there would be no reversion to the days of violence and I am equally persuaded that he was genuinely seeking reconciliation and progress in our community.
"In my view no other republican could have performed the role he did during this transition."
He adds: "Martin's authority and influence in reaching agreement and selling it to the republican faithful will be greatly missed."
In its editorial, the Belfast Telegraph said Mr McGuinness was a "divisive but key figure, someone who was "willing to shift boundaries to cement the peace process".
Another prominent unionist figure - Baroness Paisley - features in the News Letter, where she reveals that she texted Mr McGuinness just a day before his death.
"I was thinking about him particularly yesterday (Monday) morning," she tells the paper. "I just sent a message to say that we're still remembering him and his wife and family in our prayers."
The newspaper's editorial is more critical on Mr McGuinness past, and says that the pain of victims must be acute amid the "warm tributes" to a man who "felt he had the authority to end other people's lives".
It adds that it's a source of regret that Mr McGuinness did not live long enough to take his journey as far as his critics, including the News Letter, wanted.
The newspaper's political editor, Sam McBride, looks at the political situation and writes that unionists may come to miss Martin McGuinness' influence at Stormont.
"Yesterday the depth of unionist recognition of Mr McGuinness' latter role in attempting to make Northern Ireland work was striking," he writes, noting that unionists would prefer to face Mr McGuinness instead of the current leadership of Sinn Féin, whose political strategy is now "unknown".
The Irish News, meanwhile, said that Martin McGuinness "epitomised two key aspects of republicanism, from the campaign of violence to the drive for reconciliation, and along the way he managed to become a unique catalyst for progress".
It notes that while his legacy will be "discussed in detail", he will be considered "central to the major advances for the people of Ireland".
It's a theme picked up by the paper's political correspondent John Manley, who writes that Martin McGuinness "broke down barriers".
"Had Mr McGuinness latterly not concentrated his efforts on outreach, the coverage of his death would have been decidedly more modest, focusing solely on his role as leading IRA activist rather than a peacemaker".
Meanwhile, the newspaper reports that former first minister Arlene Foster is undecided about whether she would attend the funeral.
In the Daily Mirror, an eight-page pullout focuses on the life of the former deputy first minister and his journey from a "man of war" to a a "man of peace".
Inside the newspaper, it focuses on the return of Mr McGuinness' body to his home ahead of his funeral on Thursday.
It reports the words of a neighbour.
"Ian Paisley's wife Eileen said, 'there but for the grace of God', and she's right. We can only live our own lives and Martin lived his for us - for his people, his family and for generations to follow him." | "From IRA terrorist to Stormont statesman" says the News Letter. |
A Sunday Mail article alleged that a syndicate, including a top police officer, was behind the recent use of cyanide to kill elephants for tusks.
The story was untrue and tarnished the force's image, the police said.
Some culprits involved had already been arrested, the spokesperson said.
The article undermined the police's investigation into poaching, police spokeswoman Charity Charamba told journalists in the capital, Harare.
Meanwhile, two travellers from Zimbabwe have been arrested at Hong Kong International Airport with 36kg (80lb) of suspected ivory, worth an estimated $46,500 (£30,000), in their hand luggage, the South China Morning Post reports.
Some of the items were found in a tailor-made vest, the paper quoted Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department as saying.
The Sunday Mail's editor Mabasa Sasa, investigations editor Brian Chitemba and reporter Tinashe Farawo were detained on Monday night.
They had "dented and tarnished the image of the organisation for no apparent reason", Ms Charamba said.
"The editor and reporters of the Sunday Mail cannot be allowed to hide behind the privilege of journalism to peddle these falsehoods," she said.
Journalists in future should work with the security forces to identify suspected poachers, she added.
The BBC's Brian Hungwe in the Harare says more than 60 elephants were killed with cyanide in or near Hwange National Park in south-western Zimbabwe last month.
Some of the carcasses were found without tusks and a sophisticated poaching syndicate involving locals and foreigners is believed to be behind the poisonings, he says.
The journalists are expected to be formally charged in court on Wednesday.
Loughty Dube, the director of the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ), said the arrests were "barbaric and unconstitutional".
"The police should simply have asked for a retraction, issued a statement with the correct position or registered their complaint through VMCZ," he told the AFP news agency. | Three journalists from a state-owned paper in Zimbabwe have been arrested and will be charged with publishing falsehoods over a report about the poisoning of elephants, the police say. |
It's clearly not the results. Beat Scotland at Twickenham on Saturday and they will have matched New Zealand's all-time tier one record for consecutive victories. It's not the way they finish games; under coach Eddie Jones, they have scored a cumulative 102 more points in the final quarter of matches than their opponents.
It's what's been happening at the other end of the games that is raising eyebrows among critics and hopes among their opponents.
Scoreless at home against Italy after 20 minutes, struggling to kick from hand, giving away set-piece penalties; 9-3 down to France, with a man in the sin bin; 10-0 down to Australia last autumn after 17 minutes, their opponents with 97% of the territory and 87% of the possession.
It goes further back. Down against South Africa earlier in the autumn, six penalties conceded in the first 21 minutes. Two tries conceded in the first 20 minutes in the third of the summer Tests against the Wallabies, 10-0 down after 15 minutes of the first.
You might say it doesn't matter. All those games were won. Against Wales in Cardiff England led 8-3 after the first quarter, with 74% of the possession. How could anyone complain when England have won their past 10 Six Nations matches, and are about to take on a team who haven't won in south-west London in 34 years?
Jones, all those years of international coaching with four different nations whirring away in his brain, thinks otherwise.
Part of that is about standards. This is a team he wants to win the next World Cup in 2019. Give the All Blacks a head-start and you are unlikely to catch them. Part of it is much more short-term: Scotland's revival in Vern Cotter's last year in charge is genuine. They are outsiders once again this weekend, but seldom in those 34 barren years have they travelled in such form.
"Mate, if I knew I'd fix it," Jones said when asked this week if he had worked out what was going wrong in those opening exchanges. "And I haven't been able to fix it, so I don't know."
"It's something we have been mentioning over the last few weeks," winger Jack Nowell told BBC Sport. "We've got ourselves out of jail a few times now - it is about a fast start, and putting our game on them first."
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England's replacements - the finishers, as Jones likes to call them - have done that jail-breaking to perfection. According to Opta, the men off the bench have created more tries than those of any other nation (three scored, two assisted), made more carries, conceded the fewest turnovers and shipped only one penalty (Scotland's replacements have conceded six, France's seven).
It's a wonderful asset for the coach to have. With a bench on Saturday that includes both Vunipola brothers, Jamie George, the returning Anthony Watson and the thundering Ben Te'o, it could be decisive once again this week.
It does not mean the starters cannot be expected to match those same standards. Dig a hole often enough, and one day you might not be able to climb out of it.
"It becomes a case of, are you riding your luck?" says Paul Grayson, the former England fly-half who is part of BBC Radio 5 live's commentary team at Twickenham this weekend.
"The Italy game was as bad an opening quarter as we've seen from an England team under Jones - and that was nothing to do with 'ruckgate' (when Italy's tactic of not committing to rucks befuddled England). They were just nowhere near it mentally.
"Maybe that's a timely wake-up call, because when winning becomes supposedly routine, even if you get away with a couple, you've still got to find a way to motivate yourself. If England are not quite there mentally, they look ordinary, and at some point soon they will lose."
"England need to start fast," former British and Irish Lions winger Ugo Monye told 5 live's Rugby Union Weekly podcast this week. "They need to get the crowd on their side - three points, six, nine, score a try, shut out Scotland, and put a seed of doubt into their minds.
"Scotland come down here with their fanfare and the bagpipes and their confidence, and everyone is aware of their threat, and if it's a close game you might just have the Twickenham crowd turning on their players a little bit."
Jones has been in ornery form this week, irascible in his media conferences, hard-nosed with his players on the Pennyhill Park training pitches.
"We're preparing to start well," he said irritably when announcing his selection. "We're not preparing not to start well.
"It's an 80-minute game. We've got to be ahead at the 80-minute mark, and that's what we're aiming to be against Scotland.
"It's like starting a 100m race. You can be ahead at the 10m mark, but you've got to be ahead at the 100m mark."
Jones, a self-confessed cricket nut, might enjoy another analogy: a pair of opening batsmen playing and missing on the first morning of a Test match, the opposition fast bowler fired up and the new ball seaming and bouncing past the outside edge.
What does it matter if they are 80-3 at lunch if by the close they have put on 300 for the loss of only one more wicket?
"Ian McGeechan, when he was coaching Northampton and telling us how he wanted us to play, brought up the example of Wigan's very successful rugby league team," remembers Grayson.
"Every team that played Wigan wanted to beat them. They would be totally up for it, and they would go toe-to-toe with them. They got to half-time, and it would be 10-8, or 6-6, or they would only be four points down.
"Then they would get into the second half, and as that effort left them tired and weakened, they would roll over and Wigan would score 40 points.
"I used to think, what does a game look like after 20 minutes? If I can get some points on the board, great; if they've thrown a few shots and we've had to defend for a while and they haven't got much out of it, no problem, we'll see you in the last 10 minutes of the first half and the last 15 minutes of the contest.
"The opposition are always going to be at their most obstinate and most up for it in that period. Yet, barring the Wales game, England haven't had too much flow in attack in the early part of their games. It's always difficult, but if you're the best side in the world, you do it. The All Blacks always manage to come out of the blocks."
Such has been the impact of England's replacements that the impression is that Jones has enviable strength in depth. He does - at prop and hooker, at scrum-half, on the wings.
With first-choice lock George Kruis out injured and his preferred partner Maro Itoje shifted to six, stand-in second rows Joe Launchbury and Courtney Lawes have arguably been England's most effective players.
But it is not true throughout the team. England's Test cricket team often find themselves early wickets down because they have struggled to replace Andrew Strauss alongside Alastair Cook. They can struggle on turning pitches because no-one who has come into the team has been able to match the impact of world-class spinner Graeme Swann.
"Nathan Hughes looks like the Billy Vunipola of three years ago," says Grayson. "Likely to last 50 minutes or do 30 minutes off the bench, do two or three good things but also disappear for a while.
"And that makes a massive difference. Take Lawrence Dallaglio out of England's World Cup-winning team and put in another number eight, and what do they look like? They're just not quite as big or powerful or dominant or vocal.
"When Dallaglio wasn't playing, England weren't quite the same. And I think that Vunipola is at that point. He's an 80-minute player heading to world class. And they just haven't got that otherwise.
"Billy has been out and with Chris Robshaw being out, that's two-thirds of your first-choice back row. That's a huge loss to England, because they don't have that many great back-row players." | It might sound a curiously mealy-mouthed thing to say about a team that have won their past 17 matches and sit atop the Six Nations table with consecutive Grand Slams a genuine possibility, but England's rugby team might have a problem. |
The Barry-born fighter, 30, dropped his opponent in round one of the non-title bout and always looked in control.
Selby showed graceful feet in contrast to Gago's block-like movement - and a flurry of punches in round nine saw referee Bob Williams stop the contest.
The victory improves Selby's record to 24 wins from 25 fights.
His win keeps alive hope of a 2017 meeting with Leo Santa Cruz or Carl Frampton.
Such stellar names are high on Selby's agenda and at Friday's weigh in, Selby mouthed "easy work" to fans chanting Frampton's name.
His hopes of fighting either man will much depend on whether Northern Ireland's Frampton and the WBA champion opt to conclude a trilogy of fights.
Fighting three hours before a main event with the O2 Arena barely half full seems a long way from the bright lights of Las Vegas, where Selby suffered the frustration of seeing a bout postponed at 24 hours notice in January.
But he visibly sought to put on an eye-catching show, ducking and weaving, slipping rare attacks with ease and showing variety in the angles of his punches as he worked the body and head consistently.
After this bout, he will no longer fight under promoters Matchroom Sport as he seeks a new direction and in truth, Gago - who has now lost three times in a 21-fight career - was never going to derail any well-thought out plans.
He was brave but there were signs Selby was breaking down the travelling fighter's defences in the sixth, when a straight right rattled through his guard.
A left-hook to the body followed by a snappy straight-right in eight saw Gago pushed to the ropes and a round later it was all over.
Selby landed a left hook to the temple which staggered his opponent and after a left to the body and another hook to the head, the contest was ended.
This was far from the test of 11 months ago, where Selby got up from the first knockdown of his career to defend his title against Eric Hunter.
In truth, he got enough rounds to justify a good workout and his talent is obvious but all eyes will now be on his next move as he bids to inject much-needed momentum into his career. | IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby put almost 11 months of inactivity behind him by stopping Spain's Andoni Gago at London's O2 Arena. |
The man's legs were seen protruding beneath piles of catalogues at the Airport service station on the A20 at Sellindge, Ashford, in October.
The man described as Afro-Caribbean, and possibly in his 30s, died in a "tragic accident".
Maidstone's Archbishop's Palace recorded a verdict of accidental death.
A post-mortem examination found the cause of death was traumatic compressive asphyxia.
Det Sgt Simon Johnson, of Kent Police, told the inquest lorry driver Lorinc Guyla reported the body inside his Hungarian-registered soft-sided curtain trailer at the service station cafe.
Mr Guyla had earlier reported to the French authorities at Calais that a number of people had entered his trailer after its roof had been slashed.
About 10 stowaways from Eritrea were then removed.
Mr Johnson said it was "impossible to tell" when the unidentified man entered the trailer because the vehicle was left insecure after the initial search.
"There is a hypothesis that he was there when the others were, or he could have entered in the port area," he said.
He added there was no-one else involved in the death and no suspicious circumstances, agreeing it was a "tragic accident".
The victim was carrying Hepatitis B. DNA samples have so far failed to confirm his identity and no identity documents were found.
Recording his verdict, assistant coroner Christopher Morris said: "I'm unable to record a name for the deceased gentleman - a poignant tragedy given he was probably somebody's brother, son and friend." | An unidentified stowaway was found dead in a lorry hours after French authorities found 10 other illegal migrants in the back, an inquest heard. |
The animal absconded while being loaded at Fremantle Harbour, jumped into the water and swam to shore.
Several eyewitnesses spotted the animal roaming coastal parks and, apparently, enjoying a beachside sunset.
The cow was eventually caught on the railway 7km (four miles) away in the western suburbs of Perth on Monday.
Josh Gammon-Carson, from Fremantle Sea Rescue, was called out after the cow was spotted in the water.
"We used our jet ski to safely try and assist it and guide it back to the nearest beach, where it could actually get out of the water safely, which it did," he told the BBC.
"Unfortunately the area wasn't properly contained and the cow escaped from there and ran off into land."
Despite a number of sightings on Sunday afternoon, the cow managed to elude council rangers.
One woman claimed on social media that she spotted the animal running around the coastal park, while another woman photographed the beast at the beach as the sun set.
The local council confirmed that the animal was captured on a railway line in the Perth's western suburbs.
"The freight line operator has stopped the trains," a city spokeswoman said in a statement.
"Owners the Wellard Group, vets and rangers are on the site."
Ten News reporter Beau Pearson who was at the scene told Radio 6PR it took a significant effort before the cow was loaded back on to a truck.
"It was a bit of a standoff for a few hours here in the sun," he said.
"It took about five blokes to rugby tackle him down on the railway track."
Australia's annual live-cattle exports - sent to countries including Indonesia, Vietnam and China - are valued at A$1.4 billion (£850m, $1bn). | A cow on the loose for more than 24 hours since escaping from a cattle ship at Western Australia's busiest cargo port has been recaptured by rangers. |
Police said staff at Uddingston's Thorniewood Road branch were left "extremely shaken" after being threatened during the raid at 14:40 on Friday.
They said the man fled with a four-figure sum.
He escaped in a waiting silver Vauxhall Vectra, which was later found burnt-out 5.6km (3.5 miles) away.
Officers discovered the car in Commonhead Road, near Easterhouse.
Det Cons Iain Hughes from Wishaw CID said: "No-one was injured during this incident, but the bank staff are extremely shaken by the robbery.
"The man responsible is described as white, around 5ft 10ins in height and of slim build with short fair hair."
Mr Hughes said officers were following a positive line of inquiry but have appealed for anyone with information about the robbery to come forward. | A man armed with a knife has robbed a branch of Royal Bank of Scotland in South Lanarkshire. |
The pair had to settle for second behind American duo Anne Haeger and Briana Provancha after being penalised.
"It's been a challenging week," said the 27-year old from Dinas Powys.
"We had to turn on and off in concentration... and I think we've proven we're really good at that and we can take that forward to next year."
Mills and Clark's won silver at London 2012, and their performances have ensured Britain will have a boat in the 470 class at the Rio Olympics.
In June, they won the 470-class at the World Cup regatta in Portland.
However, the final crews will not be confirmed until next year.
The British pair were leading going in to Sunday's race, but made a mistake at the start and impeded another boat.
They then compounded the error when completing the wrong number of penalty turns and had to serve another penalty, something Mills admitted was "a mess".
She added: "We made some massive errors off the start line, infringed somebody so had to do turns and then didn't do the right amount of turns so had to do another penalty.
"We were so far behind at that point and a very strong left hand track it would seem that there was no way back into the race unfortunately.
"We're just very disappointed with our execution and are very frustrated.
"It's particularly disappointing as we had an otherwise really great week in Rio.
"It's a really tricky place to sail and we dealt with it as best we could to be ahead going into the medal race.
"We've said a lot that ultimately it is going to come down to the medal race next year so that's something we need to look at.
"It's kind of like a 100m final - you can win the semis and it doesn't matter much if you don't perform in the final." | Hannah Mills says she and 470-class partner Saskia Clarke are in good shape for 2016 in spite of losing out in the Olympic Test event in Rio. |
The 29-year-old, whose previous deal was due to run out this summer, joined the Toffees in 2012 and has scored 39 goals in 171 appearances.
Everton made the announcement before their final home Premier League game of the season against Watford on Friday.
"I want to win a trophy here - this is the best club for me," the Belgium international said. "We are heading in the right direction."
Mirallas has scored four times in 33 league appearances this season and has made more than 30 appearances in each of his five seasons at Goodison Park.
"We have an amazing manager, an amazing team and amazing fans," he added.
"This is an exciting time for the club. I hope we sign some top players to fight for the Champions League places next season." | Everton forward Kevin Mirallas has signed a new three-year contract. |
Guidolin, 60, was appointed in January on a six-month contract after Alan Curtis' temporary spell in charge, with the club in the relegation zone.
The Italian has led them to 11th place - 12 points clear of the bottom three, and they could finish in the top half.
"Francesco fully deserves the chance to continue his good work into the new campaign," chairman Huw Jenkins said.
"He was prepared to come into the club at such a difficult time and put himself in a pressure situation with the club fighting for survival.
"It's going to be another challenge for everyone, but we are looking forward to seeing how far he can take this squad of players over a full season.
"There has obviously been a lot of speculation over recent weeks about a possible change of manager, but the board has been impressed with the way he has quietly gone about the job of improving performances and results since January."
The Italian members of Guidolin's backroom staff, Gabriele Ambrosetti and Diego Bortoluzzi, have also been offered new contracts.
Swansea - who host Manchester City in their final game on Sunday - won seven matches and drew three of Guidolin's 15 games in charge.
The former Udinese and Monaco head coach had previously said he wanted to continue in the role but would only discuss his future once Swansea had ensured safety.
Swansea had hovered above the Premier League relegation zone for long periods of the campaign, but the 3-1 win against Liverpool on 1 May ensured a sixth season in the top flight.
In March Guidolin was taken to hospital hours before Swansea's 2-1 win at Arsenal and also missed the 1-0 win over Norwich after receiving treatment for a chest infection.
Former Swansea boss Brendan Rodgers, ex-Chile manager Marcelo Bielsa and former Derby County manager Paul Clement had all been linked with the job.
Rodgers - who left to manage Liverpool in 2012 - disclosed in January that he had been approached by Swansea to succeed Garry Monk, who was sacked in December.
But the Northern Irishman said that he wanted to take a break from football until the summer.
Americans Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien are in talks about taking a "controlling interest" in the club but chairman Jenkins had said a deal would not affect Swansea's managerial plans. | Swansea City have confirmed Francesco Guidolin will remain as head coach after agreeing a two-year contract. |
The crash happened just before 10:00 BST close to junction 13 for Stroud.
Five adults and one child were injured, a South West Ambulance Service spokesman said. All of them were said to have minor injuries.
Police said seatbelts on the coach may have helped reduce the number of casualties.
The injured child was taken to Bristol Children's Hospital, the adults to Southmead Hospital.
The coach driver had a suspected back injury.
The Confederation of Passenger Transport said it had been told three of the six people taken to hospital had been discharged.
The M5 fully reopened at about 15.30 BST, five and a half hours after the coach overturned.
Ch Insp Yan Georgiou from Gloucestershire Police said collision experts were investigating the circumstances.
"What's remarkable is the number of casualties and a really important safety message is starting to emerge.
"The passengers were wearing seat belts, without them this could have been a very different picture," he said.
The coach was operated by Stourbridge-based Prospect Coaches and was taking the group to Weston-super-Mare.
The Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT), which represents operators of UK buses, said it understood it was one of four coaches making the same journey.
Passengers were collected from a children's centre in West Bromwich at 08:30 BST.
A spokesperson from the charity Action for Children, which chartered the coach, said: "I can confirm that a road accident involving children and staff from an Action for Children service in Sandwell has taken place in Stroud.
"Until the full facts are known I cannot comment further."
No other vehicles were involved in the crash. | A coach carrying 53 adults and children from the West Midlands on a day-trip to the seaside overturned in a ditch off the M5 in Gloucestershire. |
Voters should have the option to remain in the EU if they are unhappy with the result of Brexit talks, she said.
The party is also discussing electoral pacts with fellow parties in a "number" of constituencies, she added.
Ms Lucas is the Greens' only MP and the Liberal Democrats have agreed not to contest her Brighton Pavilion seat.
She wants to maximise the number of MPs who will support moves for electoral reform and try to win or defend seats against the Conservative Party.
"Discussions are going on in a number of constituencies. Whether that will deliver any results, I can't tell you - watch this space," she said at an election event in Hackney, London.
The Lib Dems have previously said a "limited number" of local parties are considering similar deals ahead of the June 8 election.
Bristol West and the Isle of Wight are among the Green Party's target seats, as it pushes for a second MP.
Outlining the party's policy on Brexit, Ms Lucas said leaks and reports during the weekend about Brexit talks between Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker "confirmed our worst fears really - that Theresa May is going into these negotiations utterly unprepared, completely arrogant and not understanding how the EU works".
"In the days following the EU referendum, the Green Party called for the British people to have a further say on the details of any Brexit deal and we stand by that position," she said.
The Green Party accepted that the 2016 referendum result was an instruction to the government to begin Brexit talks, she said.
But it should be the "start, not the end" of the process, with people having a say on the final deal - including an option to remain within the European Union, she said.
The Lib Dems have also promised a second referendum on the Brexit deal.
Theresa May says that the Conservatives would make "a success" of Brexit and has promised to give MPs a vote on any deal that is agreed between the UK and the EU. Jeremy Corbyn says Labour would not hold a referendum on the final deal, but wants MPs to have a decisive say on it. | A second referendum on the details of any Brexit deal should be offered to voters, Green Party of England and Wales MP Caroline Lucas has said. |
They said it would be "prudent to await additional evidence... that a recent slowdown in the pace of economic activity had been transitory".
Markets have been expecting a rate rise at the Federal Reserve's June meeting.
The dollar dipped following the release of the minutes.
It was down by nearly 0.2% against the Dollar Index, a basket of foreign currencies.
Most officials on the Federal Open Market Committee of rate setters still expect to raise interest rates "soon".
Gus Faucher, economist at Pennsylvania-based PNC Financial Services, said he was surprised to see the dollar fall.
He thinks new economic reports since the meeting, including jobs, bolster the case for a rate rise. He's calling for a June increase and a second one by the end of the year.
"I think the data we've gotten since the meeting have indicated that those factors were indeed transitory, so given all of that, I would expect to see a rate increase," Mr Faucher said. "This is in line with expectations."
Some members of the Federal Reserve committee believe the global outlook has brightened, according to the minutes.
But "significant uncertainty" remains about the policies the government is likely to adopt under President Donald Trump, they said.
Amid the housing and financial crisis, the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates to boost the economy. They remain at record lows, with the committee raising rates just three times since the crisis, most recently in March.
The officials are also divided about what action they should take in the future.
Some members said there might be need for a more gradual approach to raising interest rates, noting that inflation has failed to accelerate as expected.
Others said more rapid action would be appropriate if, for example, wages started to rise or there were large changes to other US policies.
The minutes also signalled the Federal Reserve remains on track to trim its nearly $4.5 trillion portfolio, much of it in US treasuries and mortgage-backed securities, starting this year.
The holdings are a legacy of actions taken after the financial crisis, when the bank bought up securities to boost the economy, a move known as quantitative easing.
The bank's holdings have been steady in recent years.
Members said they would maintain current policies but expected to discuss in more detail how to start winding down the portfolio at their next meeting in June. | US central bank policymakers want to see proof the country's economic slowdown is temporary before they raise interest rates, according to minutes of their latest meeting. |
Inquiry chairman Sir Robert Owen said he would grant Dmitry Kovtun "core participant" status at this late stage if he met a number of conditions.
These include providing a witness statement and any relevant evidence.
Mr Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi are the prime suspects in the 2006 killing in London. Both deny involvement.
It was during a meeting with Mr Kovtun and Mr Lugovoi at a London hotel in November 2006 that Mr Litvinenko drank tea containing a fatal dose of the radioactive substance polonium-210.
The 43-year-old had been an officer with the Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - but fled to Britain where he became a UK citizen and fierce critic of the Kremlin.
Both suspects had initially refused to take part in the inquiry, which opened in January.
However earlier this month, Mr Kovtun offered to co-operate with the inquiry and give his version of events via video-link from Moscow.
Sir Robert said he would allow the suspect to give evidence to the inquiry on 27 July, provided he submitted all relevant material by 22 May.
He said Mr Kovtun would not be granted access to restricted confidential material despite his core participant status, putting him in the same position as Mr Litvinenko's widow Marina and the Metropolitan Police.
He stressed Mr Kovtun would only be allowed to put questions to the inquiry through a recognised legal representative and any witnesses who had already given evidence would not be recalled.
Sir Robert said: "This application could and should have been made months ago. He will be expected to co-operate fully with the inquiry in relation to the proceedings."
Meanwhile, the inquiry heard on Monday that Mr Litvinenko tipped off authorities about an alleged Russian-backed plan to launch a terror attack in Italy
Italian journalist and politician Paolo Guzzanti said Mr Litvinenko had passed on information to the Mitrokhin Commission, which was investigating the KGB's links in Italy.
Mr Guzzanti, who was president of the Mitrokhin Commission, told the public inquiry at London's Royal Courts of Justice that Mr Litvinenko had told security consultant Mario Scaramella that weapons were being transported from Ukraine to Naples.
He said: "Litvinenko was aware of a traffic of weapons - unknown weapons, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons or just pistol guns, nobody knew - coming from Ukraine to Naples.
"[It was] probably intended to be used for a terrorist attack. These words were from Scaramella, coming from Litvinenko."
He continued: "These arms were supposed to [be] travelling to an ex-KGB or current KGB agent, a refugee, illegally living in Naples.
Mr Guzzanti said the information could have been a motive for his murder, adding: "It was very destabilising information".
The inquiry was adjourned until the next provisional hearing on 27 July. | One of the key suspects in the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko will be allowed to give evidence at the inquiry into his death. |
HSBC shares climbed 4.2%, making it the biggest riser on the FTSE 100, after Morgan Stanley raised its rating on the bank to "overweight".
The FTSE 100 index though shed its earlier gains to end down 37.48 at 7,350.32 points.
Mining companies were higher with shares boosted by rising metals prices.
Glencore and Rio Tinto and Antofagasta were both up by more than 2%.
Shares in Sky also performed well despite a probable referral to competition authorities of Murdoch giant Fox's plan to take it over fully.
It closed up more than 3%.
In the FTSE 250, shares in packaging firm DS Smith rose 8% after it said it had entered the US market by buying an 80% stake in US firm Interstate Resources for $920m (£709m).
However, shares in sportswear chain JD Sports fell 8% after if said it was facing pressure on profit margins and added that recent trading had been affected by the timing of the Islamic festival of Eid.
On the currency markets, the pound continued to strengthen. Against the dollar it was up 0.4% at $1.2984, although it was flat against the euro at 1.1365 euros.
On Wednesday, the pound had jumped by nearly 1% after the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, suggested that interest rates could rise if business investment grows. | HSBC helped to lift the UK stock market for most of the day after the bank's shares were upgraded by analysts at Morgan Stanley. |
Charnley, 24, has helped Wigan win a Super League Grand Final and two Challenge Cups since joining in 2010.
"Josh is a great signing. Everyone I have spoken to rates him very highly," said director of rugby Steve Diamond.
Meanwhile, Wigan centre Dan Sarginson, 22, will join NRL side Gold Coast Titans next season.
Charnley, who has played seven times for England, scored a hat-trick in his most recent appearance for Warriors - Monday's 30-16 win over Hull KR.
He has scored 148 tries and kicked 94 goals in 152 games for last season's Super League grand finalists.
Diamond added: "He has explosive pace and can play either full-back or on the wing. The last big signing we made from Wigan, back in 2000, was Jason Robinson and what an impact he had."
Wigan tried to keep both Charnley and Sarginson by offering them new deals, Warriors chairman Ian Lenagan said.
"We offered Josh a new long-term contract that would put him up there with the biggest earners at the club," he added.
"But having won so much at Wigan, he feels that the time is right to take on a new challenge."
Wigan coach Shaun Wane said he will have "a heavy heart" seeing Charnley leave, adding he was "sad" at Sarginson's impending departure.
Australia-born Sarginson, who has also played at full-back this season, joined Wigan from London Broncos in 2014.
"Dan has been open and clear that he wanted to see out his contract at Wigan before then taking on another challenge in the NRL or in rugby union," said Lenagan. | Josh Charnley will join Premiership rugby union club Sale Sharks from rugby league side Wigan Warriors at the end of the Super League season. |
Ban Ki-moon said it was "high time" for a female head, after more than 70 years of the UN and eight male leaders.
Of the 11 candidates in the running to take up the post, five are women.
The secretary-general must be recommended by the 15 countries that make up the UN Security Council and elected by the 193 countries in the General Assembly.
A new secretary-general is expected to be announced in the autumn.
By tradition the role rotates between regions of the world.
Eastern Europe and Russia, which have never had a representative hold the post, say it should be the turn of someone from that region of the world.
Candidates for 2016 come from Latin America, Western Europe and Australasia as well as Eastern Europe.
Mr Ban did not single out one particular candidate, but he told the AP news agency that there were "many distinguished, motivated women leaders who can really change this world, who can actively engage with the other leaders of the world".
Mr Ban said whoever takes the role should have " a clear vision for the world of the future" and commitment to peace, development and human rights.
He or she should champion the rights of vulnerable groups including women and girls, people with disabilities and people with minority sexualities, Mr Ban said.
"If not the United Nations, who will take care of those people?"
In polls, Antonio Guterres of Portugal, a former prime minister and former head of the UN's refugee agency, has been the favourite to take on the role. The highest-performing women have been Irina Bokova of Bulgaria and Susana Malcorra of Argentina, who have both reached third place in the rankings.
The candidates are, in alphabetical order: | The secretary-general of the United Nations has said he would like a woman to take over from him. |
The Belfast Health Trust is investigating how it happened and if it had any impact on patient care.
A fault in the NIE transmission network cut power for a short time to 27,000 customers in south and west Belfast.
About 10,000 customers were also affected in the Londonderry area due to a power cut.
NIE Networks said this was the result of "contractor damage to underground electricity cables".
It said electricity supplies had now been restored. | There was a 10-minute delay in one of the back-up generators starting up at the Royal Victoria Hospital during power cuts in Belfast on Monday. |
It says it received a report in September saying that the man now confirmed by police as Omar El-Hussein, 22, was at risk of being radicalised while serving time for a stabbing.
However, PET said there had been no indication he was planning an attack.
The gunman was shot dead by police after two attacks in the capital.
Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, thought to have been the main target of Saturday's initial shooting at a debate on free speech, has said Danish police failed to step up security after January's attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
But Danish intelligence officials insist they had no cause to suspect El-Hussein was plotting attacks after his release from jail.
Confirming his identity late on Tuesday, police said the gunman had unsuccessfully tried to gain access to several of the entrances of the cultural centre that was hosting the free speech debate.
They say that he encountered his first victim outside the centre and shot him with a weapon subsequently found on a football field at Mjoelnerparken, the housing estate where he was raised.
Two weapons used in the synagogue attack were both found on El-Hussein when he was shot dead.
Danish opposition politicians have called for an investigation into whether police and the intelligence services could have done more to prevent the attacks.
Intelligence chief Jens Madsen acknowledged that El-Hussein had been "on the radar" of his services. He said investigators were working on the theory that he could have been inspired by the shootings in Paris last month.
Lars Vilks told AFP news agency that police "did not step up security on Saturday. It was the same as we had previously", confirming that he had since gone into hiding.
The cartoonist stoked controversy in 2007 by drawing pictures of the Prophet Muhammad dressed as a dog and has been under police protection since 2010.
Omar El-Hussein: homegrown radical
On Monday, tens of thousands gathered in towns and cities across Denmark to commemorate the victims of the attacks.
Two men were charged on Monday with providing and disposing of the weapon used in the attacks and helping the gunman to hide.
However, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said the attacker did not appear to be part of a wider terror cell.
Omar El-Hussein was released from prison two weeks before the attacks after serving a sentence for grievous bodily harm.
Finn Noergaard, 55, was struck in the chest by a bullet at the free speech debate. The documentary film-maker had a keen interest in the problems faced by the offspring of migrant communities.
His friend Malene Trock told Berlinske daily he was "open-minded" and "cosmopolitan". Producer Torben Larsen is quoted by the AP news agency as saying Mr Noergaard was "a very generous and warm person".
Dan Uzan, 37, was shot dead while standing guard at a Copenhagen synagogue.
He had studied at the city's university and was a keen basketball player, active in a local team. Denmark's chief rabbi, Jair Melchior, said Mr Uzan was an "amazing guy - irreplaceable".
Why Denmark was steeled for attack
French PM urges Jews to stay after graves desecration | Denmark's domestic intelligence agency (PET) says it was warned by prison officials about the man who killed two people in a shootout in Copenhagen. |
Dr Tom Frieden, head of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), was testifying before politicians in Washington.
He said that data from the cases of two infants in Brazil who died soon after birth indicated the virus had passed from mother to child.
However, he said the suspected link was still not definite.
There are thought to have been more than 4,000 cases in Brazil alone of babies born with microcephaly - abnormally small brains - and where the transmission of Zika virus from mother to child is suspected of being the cause.
Dr Frieden said intensive research was under way to find out much more about the mosquito-borne virus and to develop a vaccine for it, although he warned that that could still be years away.
"We will likely see significant numbers of [Zika] cases in Puerto Rico and other US territories," Dr Frieden warned.
He said the CDC would issue grants to US states at risk of Zika to better control mosquitoes.
Also on Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO), which has called the outbreak a "global public health emergency", issued guidance for women on how to protect themselves.
It said that until more is known on whether sexual contact can transmit Zika, "all men and women living in or returning from an area where Zika is present - especially pregnant women and their partners - should be counselled on the potential risks of sexual transmission and ensure safe sexual practices".
"These include the correct and consistent use of condoms, one of the most effective methods of protection against all sexually transmitted infections," the WHO said.
The use of contraception is a controversial issue in the region because of the Catholic Church's stance against it.
However, the Church has rejected calls from liberal Catholics for a softening of its position on the issue in light of the outbreak.
"Microcephaly has been occurring in Brazil for years. They are taking advantage of this moment to reintroduce the abortion topic," Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, secretary general of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference, told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.
The WHO said it was not advocating travel restrictions to the area but advised pregnant women, or those trying to become pregnant, to seek medical advice before travelling to areas where Zika is present.
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Abortion dilemma Laws and practices in Catholic Latin America | One of the US's most senior public health officials has revealed the "strongest evidence to date" of the effect on babies of the Zika virus. |
Following complaints the operating system breached France's Data Protection Act, the National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) found "many failures".
The CNIL has now given Microsoft three months to comply with the act.
A Microsoft executive said the company would "work closely" with the CNIL.
By default, Windows 10 collects various data on how it is used - this includes what apps are installed and how much time is spent within them, for example.
"[Microsoft] is collecting excessive data, as these data are not necessary for the operation of the service," said the CNIL.
The authority also criticised the fact that an advertising ID is activated by default, which allows apps to monitor user browsing and then offer targeted ads.
In the CNIL's view, this has been done "without consent".
Plus, data was being transferred outside the EU despite a Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decision, in October last year, to prohibit this.
"We built strong privacy protections into Windows 10, and we welcome feedback as we continually work to enhance those protections," said David Heiner, Microsoft vice-president and deputy general counsel.
"We will work closely with the CNIL over the next few months to understand the agency's concerns fully and to work toward solutions that it will find acceptable."
Mr Heiner added that a new privacy statement would be issued by the company next month and that it planned to adopt the Privacy Shield - a recently approved US-EU pact to allow data flow across the Atlantic.
"It is high time that companies are called to account about the amount of data they collect about us without our consent," said Harmit Kambo, campaigns director at Privacy International.
"Why do they need so much data about us, and why are they not open with us about it?"
Mr Kambo added that he hoped other companies would also consider the implications of the CNIL's decision.
"CNIL's public notice to Microsoft Corporation should be a wake up call to all companies, that it's unacceptable to hoover up their customers' data without their consent," he said. | Windows 10 gathers an "excessive" amount of personal data on users, the French data authority has said in a formal notice. |
In a statement, it said the proposal would help "find an immediate outcome to this destructive conflict".
The company also offered "a renewed guarantee that there will be no relocation" of jobs.
Pilots have been on strike for 10 days and have grounded about half of the airline's flights.
They are unhappy at the lower rates of pay offered by the expanding budget operation compared with core Air France services, threatening to strike indefinitely unless the European expansion is scrapped.
The strike has been costing the airline up to 15m euros (£11.8m) a day.
Air France said it would instead develop its Transavia France project.
"Our Transavia project is a 100% pro-France project. It is about developing Transavia to encourage growth in France and quickly create more than 1,000 jobs in France (including 250 pilot jobs)," said the chief executives of Air France-KLM, Alexandre de Juniac, and Air France, Frederic Gagey in a joint statement.
"With the withdrawal of the Transavia Europe project, there is now no reason to strike because there are no longer any concerns about relocation.
"We therefore call on the striking pilots to return to work immediately," they said.
The union has yet to respond to the offer.
Earlier on Wednesday, Air France had said it expected to operate just 47% of its flights on Thursday as a result of the strike, in which over half of its pilots are involved.
The budget airline Transavia, owned by Air France KLM, currently operates a fleet of 30 planes and carried 6.5 million passengers in 2013.
Air France had been planning to expand the brand, and move some Air France jobs to the revamped airline.
Earlier this month, Air France announced its intention to more than double the number of passengers carried on Transavia by 2017, and expand its operations outside France.
On Monday, Air France offered to freeze plans to expand the budget airline, but the pilots' union SNPL rejected the offer, describing the move as a "smokescreen".
Air France's chief executive Alexandre de Juniac has said the strike is "disastrous" for the airline.
His warning was echoed by France's transport secretary Alain Vidalies, who said on Sunday that the fate of Air France was "at stake" in the dispute. The government has a 16% stake in the airline. | Air France has offered to scrap plans to expand its Transavia low-cost airline in Europe, in return for pilots returning to work immediately. |
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Rory McIlroy fired a two-over-par 73 to lie level par, 12 behind leader Henrik Stenson, with Phil Mickelson 11 under.
The world number four's round included four bogeys, including three on the front nine, and just two birdies.
Darren Clarke also carded a 73 and is three over while Graeme McDowell's 72 left him back on five over.
McDowell picked up shots at the first and 16th holes but his round was marred by a triple bogey at the par-three eighth.
Clarke, the 2011 champion, dropped shots at three of the last four holes.
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McIlroy, the victor two years ago, rued the poor start to his round which denied him any momentum in his challenge to re-gain the title.
"The first seven holes are where you need to make your score and make birdies but I made early bogeys and picked up just a couple of shots," said McIlroy.
"I had chances for birdies at the seventh, eighth and ninth holes but wasn't able to convert. The speed and the wind were factors in me missing those putts.
"I was never really comfortable over them because of the wind and it was tough to commit to something - that's why I missed a few short ones."
Twice former champion Padraig Harrington birdied the last to salvage a 73 and lie two over ahead of Sunday's final round. | Northern Ireland's leading golfers remain out of contention for winning the Claret Jug after the third round of The Open Championship at Royal Troon. |
David Cameron said ministers had been asked to draw up plans to curb claims, including by restricting "no win, no fee" arrangements.
Lawyers said no-one was above the law, and many abuse cases had been proven.
About 280 UK veterans are currently being investigated by the Iraq Historic Allegations Team over alleged abuse.
IHAT, as it is known, was set up to investigate allegations of murder, abuse and torture of Iraqi civilians by UK military personnel between 2003 and 2009.
It has considered at least 1,514 possible victims - of whom 280 are alleged to have been unlawfully killed - and completed fewer than 60 investigations. Lawyers are continuing to refer cases.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has criticised what he called "ambulance-chasing British law firms" and argued there is "a strong case" for suspending the European human rights law when sending forces into action overseas.
In a statement issued on Friday, Mr Cameron said there was now "an industry trying to profit from spurious claims" against UK military personnel.
"Our armed forces are rightly held to the highest standards - but I want our troops to know that when they get home from action overseas this government will protect them from being hounded by lawyers over claims that are totally without foundation."
The National Security Council - a cabinet committee set up by David Cameron which meets weekly to discuss security and defence strategy - has been ordered to produce "a comprehensive plan to stamp out this industry", he said.
Plans to be considered by the National Security Council include:
A spokesman for law firm Leigh Day said Mr Cameron should not challenge the principle that "no-one is above the law, not us, not the British army and not the government".
Many cases of abuse had come to light and been accepted by the government, with payouts for over 300 cases relating to abuse and unlawful detention of Iraqis, he said.
He added: "The vast majority of serving army soldiers do a first-class job in protecting this country but the evidence shows that this is by no means the case for all."
Lord Dannatt, former chief of the general staff, said Mr Cameron was right "to draw a line in the sand" and protect the military's "freedom" to operate.
Lawyers "absolutely enjoy" contested cases, because it meant their fees became "excruciatingly high", he said.
"That is the sort of thing the prime minister is trying to bear down on. No-one is saying the military is above the law."
But Nicholas Mercer, the Army's chief legal adviser in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, said it was wrong "simply to polarise it as money-grabbing lawyers".
"There are plenty of us who have raised our concerns without any financial motive at all, if indeed the other lawyers have got a financial motive," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"The government have paid out £20m for 326 cases to date. Anyone who has fought the MoD knows that they don't pay out for nothing."
The Legal Aid Agency - the Ministry of Justice department which provides legal aid and advice in England and Wales - has also been asked to consider whether legal aid arrangements should be temporarily restricted for any firm being investigated for misconduct.
Leigh Day has been referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over allegations it failed to disclose a key document during the £31m Al-Sweady inquiry, which found that allegations that UK troops had murdered and mutilated Iraqi detainees were "deliberate lies".
The firm has strongly denied allegations of wrongdoing and said it would "vigorously" defend itself.
In 2011, another inquiry into claims of abuse highlighted the death of hotel worker Baha Mousa with 93 injuries in British military custody, and blamed "corporate failure" at the Ministry of Defence for the use of banned interrogation methods in Iraq. | The prime minister has said he wants to "stamp out" what he called "spurious" legal claims against British troops returning from war. |
Alibaba has been accused by its smaller rival JD.com of "forcing retailers" to promote their sales exclusively with its own outlet, Tmall.
JD.com has lodged a complaint with the Chinese industry and commerce watchdog but Alibaba denies the allegation.
The retail giant claims its rival is "panicking because they're losing".
"They simply can't match our customer and merchant experience and logistical scale because Alibaba wins with customers and merchants as we provide a superior experience for users on our platforms," said Jim Wilkinson, Alibaba's senior vice president of international corporate affairs.
The Wall Street Journal reported that a shoe retailer called Mulinsen had declined to promote JD's Singles Day event.
Singles Day began in the early 1990s as a day for people not in relationships to treat themselves, in the spirit of Valentines Day.
The Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) has accepted the complaint and warned retailers "not to use malicious marketing methods to engage in competition" ahead of the event, according to the Xinhua news agency.
A recent change in legislation bans online retailers limiting promotional activity by their merchants on other platforms.
Last year, Alibaba recorded $9.3bn (£5.9bn) sales during the annual event, which it adopted in 2009. | China's two largest internet retailers have clashed in the run-up to Singles Day, the world's biggest online sales day, on 11 November. |
South Africa started brightly, with Bryan Habana crossing for his 66th Test try to give the visitors an early lead.
However, Elton Jantjies' spilt restart led the Springboks to concede both the lead and the momentum, with Israel Dagg crossing from the resultant scrum.
Last year's champions Australia beat Argentina 36-20 in the later fixture to move into second in the table.
New Zealand have made a habit of starting slowly before impressing in the second half throughout the tournament.
Saturday was no different, with Habana picking an excellent line to penetrate the New Zealand defence after 20 minutes.
However, when fly-half Jantjies fumbled Beauden Barrett's restart, the All Blacks seized the initiative.
Within 10 minutes they had a clear lead after Julian Savea scored from a fine offload by hooker Dane Coles - and they went into the break 15-10 up.
New Zealand ended any thoughts of a South Africa fightback early in the second half when Ben Smith finished a slick move that featured two impressive Ardie Savea breaks.
Savea ran over from close range soon afterwards following sterling work from scrum-half Ben Smith, then lock Sam Whitelock crossed on the wing after more impressive play from Coles, before TJ Perenara rounded off the scoring.
Australia started strongly against Argentina, scoring three tries in the first 12 minutes before surviving a second-half fightback.
Each team has two remaining matches, with South Africa hosting Australia next on 1 October, before New Zealand travel to Argentina. | New Zealand won the Rugby Championship with two matches to spare after beating South Africa 41-13 in Christchurch. |
David Drumm moved to the US in 2009, the same year that Anglo Irish Bank collapsed and had to be bailed out by Irish taxpayers.
He filed for bankruptcy in the US.
A day after the bankruptcy bid failed, Irish state broadcaster RTÉ reported that extradition proceedings have now begun.
On Tuesday, a Boston court rejected Mr Drumm's request for protection from his creditors and ruled that he can be held liable for debts of 10.5m euros (£8.34m).
It was alleged during the case that the 48-year-old former bank boss secretly transferred money and assets to his wife, so they could not be seized during bankruptcy proceedings.
In a scathing ruling, the judge accused Mr Drumm of telling "outright lies" during the court hearings.
He said the ex-banker was "not remotely credible" and that his conduct during seven months of bankruptcy deliberations was "both knowing and fraudulent".
On Wednesday, RTÉ said the Irish Director of Public Prosecutions has directed that Mr Drumm be charged with up to 30 offences.
The broadcaster said it had learned that an extradition file, outlining the charges, has been sent to the US authorities.
The office of the Irish Director of Public Prosecutions and the Irish Department of Justice both declined to comment on the case when contacted by the BBC.
Anglo Irish Bank's collapse and rescue cost taxpayers more than 30bn euros (£23.5bn) and was a focus of widespread public anger in the Republic of Ireland.
The anger increased in 2013 as a result of the Anglo tapes controversy, during which Mr Drumm's conduct made international headlines
Transcripts of phone calls made by bank staff during the period immediately before Anglo's collapse were leaked to the press and published by the Irish Independent newspaper.
In the tapes, Mr Drumm was recorded joking about the haemorrhaging of funds from the failing bank, saying to a colleague "another day, another billion".
He could also be heard instructing Anglo Irish bank bosses to go to the Irish Central Bank with their "arms swinging" to secure cash for their sinking bank. He told them to say: "We need the moolah."
Mr Drumm later issued a statement of apology, saying he was "shocked and embarrassed" by the content of the tapes.
Last year, two other former Anglo Irish Bank bosses were convicted by an Irish court of making loans to illegally prop up the bank's share price before the bailout.
Pat Whelan, Anglo's former head of lending in Ireland and Willie McAteer, the bank's former finance director were found guilty after a high-profile trial.
They avoided jail however, and were given community services sentences after a Dublin judge said they believed they had acted lawfully. | The Republic of Ireland is reportedly seeking the extradition of a former Anglo Irish Bank boss in order to prosecute him in a Irish court. |
The as-yet-untitled book will appear in 2013, the 60th anniversary of the super-spy's first literary outing, in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale.
Boyd has revealed that his story will mark a return to "classic Bond" and will be set in the late 1960s.
He is the third author in recent years to be invited by the Ian Fleming estate to write an official Bond novel.
Before him came American thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, who penned Carte Blanche in 2011; and Sebastian Faulks, whose Devil May Care was published to mark Ian Fleming's centenary in 2008.
Deaver's book, released in May last year, is set in the present day and portrayed Bond as a Royal Naval Reserve veteran whose service included a tour of Afghanistan. It has sold over 160,000 copies to date and is out in paperback next month.
Sales of Carte Blanche
in its opening week were about a third of those achieved by Faulks' book in the same period.
Other writers to take on Fleming's hero include John Gardner and Charlie Higson, author of the Young Bond
books.
Boyd said he had "accepted at once" when invited by the Ian Fleming estate to write the new Bond novel.
"For me the prospect appeared incredibly exciting and stimulating - a once-in-a-lifetime challenge," he said.
"In fact my father introduced me to the James Bond novels in the 1960s and I read them all then - From Russia with Love being my favourite."
Boyd's novels include A Good Man in Africa (1981), which won the Whitbread First Novel Award; An Ice-Cream War (1982), shortlisted for Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach (1990); Any Human Heart and Restless (2006).
Boyd's "fascination" with Ian Fleming was previously seen in Any Human Heart (2002). He wrote Fleming into the narrative, making him responsible for recruiting the protagonist, Logan Mountstuart, to the Naval Intelligence Division in World War II.
Boyd also points out that three of his screenplays have starred big-screen Bond actors: Sean Connery in A Good Man in Africa, Pierce Brosnan in Mr Johnson and Daniel Craig in The Trench.
"The idea that these somewhat random connections with Fleming and Bond should culminate in my writing a new James Bond novel is irresistibly appealing," Boyd said.
"The only thing I'm prepared to say at this stage about the novel that I will write is that it will be set in 1969."
His most recent novel, Waiting for Sunrise, was published in the UK in February and comes out in the US later this month.
"William Boyd is a contemporary English writer whose classic novels combine literary elements with a broad appeal," said Corinne Turner, managing Director of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.
"His thrillers occupy the niche that Ian Fleming would fill were he writing today and with similar style and flair. This, alongside his fascination with Fleming himself, makes him the perfect choice to take Bond back to his 1960s world."
The new Bond novel will be published in the UK and Commonwealth in autumn 2013 by Jonathan Cape - Ian Fleming's original publisher - and simultaneously by HarperCollins Publishers in USA and Canada.
Cape was also the publisher of the first ever official Bond novel following Fleming's death in 1964, when Kingsley Amis wrote Colonel Sun as Robert Markham in 1968.
Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953. Since then, the Bond books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.
The 14 books, including two short story collections, will be relaunched this summer.
Sales are likely to be boosted by the release, in October, of Daniel Craig's third 007 film Skyfall, which comes 50 years after the original Bond film, Dr No. | Booker-nominated author William Boyd is taking on the mission to write a new James Bond novel. |
John Mann said the government was denying people a traditional Christmas by not allowing a blue cheese made in his constituency to bear the name.
The Bassetlaw MP was referring to Stichelton, which transgresses rules as it is made with unpasteurised milk.
Mr Mann also tabled an early day motion warning the government to avoid a repeat of the Cheese Wars of the 1760s.
Farming minister George Eustice said a consensus was needed from Stilton producers before recipe changes are accepted.
Speaking in the Commons, Labour's John Mann told the minister: "The English Christmas could not exist without Stilton cheese and yet you are refusing to allow the name Stilton to be given to the only English cheese made in the traditional way, because of bureaucracy from Defra and you."
He asked the minister: "Will you accept a full Stilton to give to the cabinet, perhaps provide the biscuits to go with it, in order that they can understand the price being paid by denying England its true traditional English cheese, and thereby rethink?"
Mr Eustice replied: "I think the company you're referring to is one called Stichelton, which... produces a cheese using raw milk that actually commands a premium over Stilton.
"When it comes to changing the protected food name status for Stilton, the reality is every single Stilton producer opposed such change and we do believe... there should be an idea of consensus before you impose changes to recipes on producers."
Under current EU law Stilton can only be produced in Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, and not in Stilton, Cambridgeshire, where there has been a long-running battle over the use of the name and the origins of the cheese. | An MP is calling on the government to rethink its stance on cheeses that can be officially called Stilton. |
Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Tidal and Amazon Prime Music are among nine services that will offer the band's tracks worldwide.
The group split up in April 1970. However, their songs - including Hey Jude and Yesterday - remain hugely popular and influential.
One expert suggested that the move would help their legacy endure.
"In terms of digital the Beatles have always been quite late to the party - they came to iTunes in 2010, which was a good five years after the iTunes Music Store started gaining momentum," said Chris Cooke, co-founder of the music industry news site CMU.
"We had expected they would probably do an exclusive deal to stream their music with one service, but it looks like instead they are going to be pretty much everywhere from day one.
"So, I suppose that is them accepting that streaming is now a very serious, significant part of the record industry."
Other services that have secured the band's catalogue include Deezer, Microsoft Groove, Napster and Slacker Radio.
The deal involves rights to stream 224 songs from the original 13 studio albums released in the UK as well as "essential" collections including Past Masters.
The tracks will be made available from 24 December.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr clocked up 17 number one singles in the British charts as the Beatles.
But long after the band broke up they continued to issue songs and compilations, the most recent of which was an expanded edition of Beatles 1 put on sale last month.
"There's a really simply reason why the Beatles catalogue took so long to join streaming services - their publishers didn't want to do anything to damage potential sales of reissues and retrospectives - it's a very lucrative catalogue," said Mark Mulligan from the media research firm Midia.
"But they've waited until the market has got some scale and they could get the best deal.
"It's a big PR catch as it helps communicate that the platforms are 'all the music in the world' - which is the value proposition of streaming services."
Analysis - Mark Savage, BBC Music reporter
It's a White (Album) Christmas. Some of the most enduring hits in pop are coming to a streaming service near you.
The Beatles as a corporate entity have been notoriously slow in adapting to new technology. They waited five years to issue their albums on CD, and didn't talk about the download Revolution until 2010 - seven years after the iTunes store launched.
Their arrival on streaming services comes as consumption on those platforms starts to overtake digital downloads as a source of income for the music industry. The number of songs streamed in the UK looks set to top 25 billion this year, up from 13.7 billion in 2014, according to the Official Charts Company.
It will be interesting to see how the band's music competes against the likes of Justin Bieber - whose latest singles are being streamed almost six million times a week, exerting a firm grip on the top of the charts.
When The Beatles became available to buy on iTunes, the band scored 10 entries into the Top 100 - but the top-selling song (Hey Jude) only reached number 40.
The Beatles announcement comes as a number of high-profile artists - including Neil Young, Prince and Radiohead's Thom Yorke - have questioned the value of streaming services.
The most prominent example is Adele.
Her new album, 25, has sold more than seven million copies without appearing on any streaming platform, although she has made her single Hello available.
"I believe music should be an event," she told Time magazine earlier this week.
"I don't use streaming. I buy my music. I download it, and I buy a physical [copy] just to make up for the fact that someone else somewhere isn't.
"It's a bit disposable, streaming." | The Beatles' music is being made available on a wide range of streaming music services. |
Det Sgt Craig Warren told a jury at the High Court in Glasgow he was sent to the Glasgow home of Scottish Sun journalist Russell Findlay.
He saw a jar on the floor of the hallway and splash marks on a dado rail and wall mirror.
William Burns, 56, and Alexander Porter, 48, deny throwing acid in the face of Mr Findlay on 23 December 2015.
They also deny a charge of attempted murder in connection with the shooting of a man near an East Dunbartonshire primary school.
Det Sgt Warren said he arrived at Mr Findlay's home about an hour after the alleged attack.
One of the accused, William Burns, had already been detained and taken away from the scene.
The substance he found in the hallway, he told the court, was found to be sulphuric acid.
He also described items he found in the driveway of Mr Findlay's home.
They were "what appeared to be two layers of false teeth, a beanie hat, a snood and a knife".
The knife was found near the threshold of the front door.
Mr Warren said that his focus then turned to how Mr Burns might have got to the scene, and how he might have got away.
He confirmed to the Advocate Depute Richard Goddard that officers searched CCTV footage from the day of the alleged attack, and also preceding days, to try to establish if the accused had carried out a reconnaissance of the area.
Footage from cameras in Crow Rd, and next to Jordanhill school on Chamberlain Rd was shown to the jury.
On three separate dates, Mr Warren said a Volvo was seen near Mr Findlay's home - including driving away from the crime scene on the day of the alleged attack, two minutes after Mr Burns had been detained.
The detective described it in court as "yellow or gold".
The jury had already heard that Alexander Porter had a gold-coloured Volvo S40 in 2015.
On the 28th January Police Scotland executed a search warrant at the home of Alexander Porter, and detained him. During subsequent questioning, the accused replied "no comment" to all questions put to him.
Under cross-examination by Susan Duff, defence counsel for Mr Porter, Mr Warren said that 16.5 hours of CCTV footage was examined. But neither the registration number or actual colour of the Volvo was identifiable, nor was the number of occupants in the car.
Susan Duff also queried the officer's assertion that he knew the Jordanhill area of the city well, pointing out he had called Woodend Drive "Woodend Road".
During the search of Mr Porter's flat, Mr Warren said 16 items were retrieved from kitchen drawers - none of which was a knife.
The case continues. | A court has heard traces of sulphuric acid were found at the scene of an alleged attack on a journalist. |
Benteke, 25, was signed by former Reds boss Brendan Rodgers for £32.5m, but started just eight league games after German Klopp was appointed in October.
"I still have a contract at Liverpool and I'd like to stay there, if I remain in the coach's plans," he said.
"If that's not the case, it will become difficult to stay."
The Belgium striker, who is currently preparing for Euro 2016 in France, added: "When Klopp arrived I saw that I wasn't in his plans. That was frustrating because I knew that during my first season at Aston Villa he wanted me.
"But we had several discussions together - I respect and I understand his decisions. I'll think about if after the Euros." | Liverpool striker Christian Benteke says he will have to consider leaving the club if manager Jurgen Klopp continues to leave him out next season. |
The Wales international, 29, collapsed after being replaced during the League 1 game at London Skolars on Sunday.
The married father of five-month-old twins was treated at the ground before being taken to the Royal Free Hospital.
"He was the life and soul in the dressing room, a natural leader, a true professional and irreplaceable," read a Keighley Cougars statement.
Jones, from Halifax, was injured in the fourth minute of the game at the New River Stadium and was treated by the match doctor and paramedics at the ground.
London Ambulance Service said they were called "to a patient in cardiac arrest" at the ground at 15:10 BST and "extensive efforts were made to resuscitate him."
The contest was abandoned in the 16th minute with Keighley 12-6 ahead.
"It is always devastating when someone so young dies in these circumstances," said Rugby Football League chief operating officer Ralph Rimmer.
"Danny was a popular and talented player, having played at the highest level with Wales and for more than 12 seasons for Keighley Cougars and Halifax."
Jones scored in excess of 1000 points in 150 appearances for Keighley and won 12 caps for Wales, making his debut against Italy in Wrexham in 2010.
His final international appearance was in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, against Cook Islands in Neath.
Rimmer added: "The rugby league community will mourn his loss and I wish to extend our deepest sympathies to Danny's family and friends at this incredibly sad time.
"The family, friends and team mates of Danny are currently, and will continue to be, supported by the RFL Benevolent Fund and Sporting Chance.
"We would ask that the privacy of the Jones family, players and Keighley Cougars staff be respected."
BBC Super League Show presenter Tanya Arnold said: "Such sad news about Danny Jones, thoughts with all those close to him at such a difficult time."
England international Chris Hill also paid tribute to Jones on Twitter. "Such sad news about Danny Jones," he said. "Played against him a few times always a top competitor; thoughts go to all his friends and family."
Wales Rugby League chairman Brian Juliff said: "Everyone at Wales Rugby League is very shocked to hear of Danny's sudden passing. Our condolences go out to his family, friends and colleagues at this sad time."
The sport's players' association, League 13, said in a statement: "Our deepest sympathy and condolences go to the family of Danny Jones tonight." | Keighley Cougars rugby league player Danny Jones has died after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during a game. |
He was in his hotel room in London, where he is due to perform at the Lyric Theatre, when officers barged in.
Tweeting about his predicament he said hotel staff mistook him for a guest who had threatened staff with a knife.
He was handcuffed and led from the room shouting "but I'm in my kegs". Met Police said he was mistakenly detained.
Geordie comic Ramsey is touring the country with his show All Growed Up and provided a running commentary on Twitter of Sunday night's events.
"Well... The police have definitely just kicked my hotel door in and handcuffed me," the first tweet, sent at 00:47, said.
In a string of follow-up tweets he said: "Hotel staff ID'd me as someone who had been in the hotel earlier threatening staff with a knife. So when I checked in just now they called the police and sent them up to my room! I kept asking 'is this a joke?' When he said 'no come with us' police put the handcuffs on me and began to march me out of the room when I shouted 'but I'm in my kegs'.
"I love the idea that someone who was in earlier threatening staff with a knife, would then check in later for a kip!!", he tweeted.
On his way to breakfast he said he was taking precautions by wearing an anonymous black cap and black T-shirt, lest he be mistaken for "a murderer or something".
Ramsey - who is a panel show regular and has also starred in BBC sitcom Hebburn - tweeted that his ordeal might be discussed during his stand-up routine later.
A Met Police spokesman confirmed officers had initially been called to deal with a man who was threatening hotel staff with a knife in a racially aggravated attack.
Officers returned to the hotel after midnight when they mistakenly arrested and subsequently released Ramsey, the spokesman said. | Comedian Chris Ramsey was arrested at midnight in his underpants - but has since said he sees the funny side of the case of mistaken identity. |
Henman has chosen not to travel to the final, with security alerts in Belgium following the Paris attacks.
Britain will attempt to win the team title for the first time since 1936 against Belgium in Ghent from Friday.
Henman said it was not "worth the hassle" to go, but organisers are "confident" the event will go ahead.
The British team have delayed their journey by 24 hours and plan to set off on Monday as Belgian capital Brussels - 35 miles from Ghent - enters a third day under the highest level of terror alert, amid the threat of Paris-style attacks.
Henman had been planning to take his family to watch, but told The Times he would no longer be taking his three daughters to the event and would instead be watching at home.
"It is unsettling," Henman told BBC Sport. "I was on the way to play in the Davis Cup in Ecuador on 11 September [the day of the 9/11 attacks in 2001]. I was flying to Miami but diverted to Bermuda and had to fly back to London.
"That was an unsettling time. It wasn't much fun being on an airplane then, but we had the security measures in place so we could carry on and concentrate on the job in hand.
"Hopefully they'll be able to do that in Ghent this weekend.
"They are going to be consulting a lot of people outside the LTA - obviously the ITF, the embassy, the British and Belgian governments - to understand what security measures are going to be put in place.
"Fingers crossed, they're going to be able to continue because it would be very disappointing for everyone if the Davis Cup final wasn't able to be played this weekend."
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Murray heads to Ghent after two defeats at the ATP World Tour Finals in London last week.
"I think Britain will win 3-1 but it won't be easy," said Henman, who believes the hosts will come up against a rejuvenated Murray.
"I think it was evident in Andy's performance at the O2 that he was a bit distracted, and that's perfectly acceptable when you've got a Davis Cup final around the corner.
"Given the atmosphere and the environment for the match in Belgium - 90% of the support is going to be locals - I think that really will focus his mind. I'm sure he'll continue as he has done all year and carry the team and do the job out there."
Murray has won all six singles and both doubles matches he has played in the Davis Cup this year while putting Britain within sight of a first title in 79 years.
"I didn't think it was possible," said Henman.
"The theory is that one-man teams don't win the Davis Cup, and there have been other players who have played their part - Jamie Murray, James Ward and Leon Smith, the captain - but when you look at what Andy's done, it's been phenomenal."
Henman, who won 29 singles matches in his Davis Cup career, also defended Murray against recent claims by ex-captain David Lloyd that he has not put enough back into British tennis.
"I'd probably disagree with that, considering he's carried the team to the Davis Cup final," said the six-time Grand Slam semi-finalist.
"He's won Wimbledon, the US Open, Olympic gold. That's the most important thing for him to do, to concentrate on his preparation and performance on the court.
"There are others that need to be responsible for taking advantage of the interest he creates in the game. But if you ask me, I think Andy is doing all right." | Andy Murray will find his form and help Great Britain win the Davis Cup final - if it goes ahead, says former GB number one Tim Henman. |
Both country's militaries have been on alert after a brief exchange of fire at the border last Thursday.
The North had threatened to use force to stop propaganda broadcasts by the South, started after two of its soldiers were injured by a landmine.
High-level negotiators have been meeting since Saturday to agree a deal.
Yonhap reported that the deal, to be announced later on Monday, would see North Korea express "regret" over the landmine incident earlier this month.
In return, it said South Korea would stop the loudspeaker broadcasts that were resumed after an 11-year hiatus, in apparent retaliation for the landmine attack. | South and North Korea have agreed a deal to defuse tensions after a series of recent border confrontations, South Korea's Yonhap news agency says. |
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Parklands High School in Speke will shut in August following consultations with parents, staff and students, Liverpool City Council said.
It was placed in special measures following an inspection by Ofsted in December.
Students will transfer to other schools and the council said it would look at alternative employment for staff.
Exam results are lower than other Liverpool schools with 32% of pupils getting five GCSEs including English and maths, compared to 58% across the rest of the city, the council said.
Parklands High School opened in 2002 as a replacement for Speke Comprehensive.
There are currently 198 pupils at the school, which has capacity for more than 900, and only 34 children applied for places in September.
Councillor Jane Corbett, cabinet member for education, said: "We are now at the stage where the numbers are so low that it is not able to offer a full curriculum and this is simply not in the best interests of the pupils."
Pupils will transfer to others schools in the area including ESLA (Enterprise South Liverpool Academy), St Julies and Gateacre.
Councillors will give final approval of the school's closure at a cabinet meeting on 21 March. | A Liverpool school branded "among the lowest of all schools in England" by the education watchdog is to close. |
In her speech at the Charity Commission, the prime minister announced a number of pledges including training at every secondary school, training for employers and organisations, and the appointment of a mental health campaigner.
Here, people have been sharing their experiences of mental health services.
For the last three years, I have been saying exactly what the prime minister has announced today.
I lost my daughter Chloe Rose to suicide two and a half years ago - she was 19.
She was under the care of Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs) but discharged at 16.
There is a gap in care from the age of 16 to 18. After 16, you're put into the adult mental health category.
But a young person in a dark place may miss an important appointment - who follows them up to see if they're OK?
I've carried out talks to police recruits and college students, and have done many charity events.
I ran a 100km [62-mile] ultramarathon in memory of my daughter - it was for the charity Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide, which is a great charity I use who support people going through suicide grief.
I'm currently serving in the Army as a sergeant, and I'm going through a transfer to become an Army welfare worker.
Also, I will soon be getting qualified as a adult and young persons' mental-health first-aid instructor and also a trainer in applied suicide-intervention skills training.
Being in the military, I'm well aware of the stigma and lack of resources that are not available to us and the community.
I run a social media page, Miles for Mental Health, to raise awareness of organisations as well as funds to help pay for people to do mental health first-aid courses.
I'm pushing for the courses to be brought into the curriculum in both primary and secondary schools, as well as in companies, communities, and the military.
I'm a firm believer that experience, education, research, intervention and preparation can potentially save a life.
Mental health services have been in crisis for the last five years.
[In my job as a community psychiatric nurse,] we have no beds or resources.
My team has over 90 people on its caseload.
We struggle to cope with 45.
The system is broken.
We take people on to avoid admission, but we have no beds to admit to.
This year, [after 40 years,] I have had enough, it's time for me to go, I cannot cope with the strain and pressure anymore.
The government do nothing, they lie and manipulate all the time.
Trust managers know what is happening but are unable to act.
I've had experience of both NHS and private mental health facilities recently, and the NHS is far worse at dealing with mental health issues.
I had quite a bad experience with a GP who was very dismissive of these issues, so I opted to go through a Live Well facility in my local area.
This was better for me, but still has a very light touch and [is] generic, without any effort or in my view ability to deal with mental health issues.
I'm in a position where I can afford private healthcare, however many are not, so I can only imagine how widespread this issue is.
I'm glad that there will, hopefully, now be a far greater focus on mental health, but there needs to be both words and action to tackle the problem.
My daughter had anorexia last year.
She suffers from self-esteem issues and the feeling of needing to be perfect.
She was diagnosed [at] the beginning of April, but the nearest appointment to see a Camhs worker was the middle of June, which I feared would have been too late for my daughter.
I took her to the GP again due to her deteriorating health, but he told me that I had to wait for the Camhs appointment.
At this point her weight was in the danger zone, down to five stone.
In the meantime, I tried manage it all myself, using all kinds of approaches to help my daughter.
When she was eventually seen by Camhs, she was so ill she was admitted to hospital.
She had to stay in a general hospital for two weeks before there was a bed available in a specialist hospital.
But the nearest bed was over 120 miles from home in Middlesbrough, as there is no provision in the whole of Cumbria.
She stayed in Middlesbrough for seven weeks - it affected her mental health further by being so far away from home, but in the end it was the best place for her.
When she was discharged, she needed to see a dietician, but the only one in Cumbria was off sick.
My daughter didn't see a dietician for six weeks.
My main issue is that GPs didn't understand the seriousness of this mental health disorder - the system is woefully inadequate.
By Andree Massiah, UGC & Social News team | Theresa May has unveiled plans to do more to help those, particularly young people, with mental health conditions. |
Dalian Atkinson, who played for clubs including Aston Villa and Ipswich Town, died aged 48 in August following the incident in Telford, Shropshire.
His funeral will be held on Saturday.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating and two West Mercia police officers are under criminal investigation.
Mr Atkinson's siblings said they want the funeral to be a celebration of his life but expressed frustration at not knowing "why such force was used" by police.
In their joint statement, Mr Atkinson's family said he had struggled to come to terms with a serious illness affecting his kidneys during the last six months of his life.
His sister Elaine said: "The way that he died while he was so vulnerable casts such a dark shadow over everything.
"Every day is filled with agony and frustration because we still do not know what happened nor understand why such force was used on him."
His siblings described him as "a kind, caring and protective brother" who "always brought life and energy to family gatherings".
They said it was "heart-breaking" to see his health deteriorate with pneumonia, "leaving his light and energy significantly reduced".
His family said he had spoken to his sister Otis on the evening before he died.
They said Mr Atkinson told her: "All I ever wanted was to make people happy.
"I played football the way that I did because I wanted to entertain.
"I wanted everyone to go home with smiles on their faces."
The Taser was used on the former Sheffield Wednesday player outside his father's house on 15 August.
He went into cardiac arrest on his way to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. | The family of a former footballer who died after being shot with a Taser by police said his death has caused "agony and frustration". |
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