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Ramsey, 26, limped off with 20 minutes of the game remaining at the Emirates Stadium and was replaced by Danny Welbeck.
Arsenal host Everton in their final league game of the season on Sunday and face Chelsea in the FA Cup final on 27 May.
Wales face Serbia in a crucial World Cup qualifier in Belgrade on 11 June.
Chris Coleman's side will be without suspended Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale for the game in Belgrade.
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The chancellor is expected to pledge almost £7bn to make housebuilding a priority.
The news boosted all firms in the sector, with shares in Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon and Barratt Developments all up by more than 5%.
By late morning, the FTSE 100 was up 59.42 points at 6,336.65.
"Shares in housebuilders have burst out of the starting blocks in early trading this morning, following the news that George Osborne is set to unveil a huge housebuilding programme," said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"These companies stand to be prime beneficiaries of the government's plans to address the housing crisis."
Mining giant Anglo American was the biggest faller on the index, dropping 7.4% after HSBC cut its rating on the shares to "reduce" from "hold".
Shares in Shire slipped 3% following a report that the drugmaker is planning to make a new bid for US biotech firm Baxalta.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Thomas Cook jumped nearly 9% after the travel company reported its first annual pre-tax profit for five years.
The company also said bookings in the new financial year had got "off to a good start" with "encouraging trading" for both winter 2015-16 and summer 2016.
On the currency markets, the pound slipped 0.1% against the dollar to $1.5067, but rose 0.35% against the euro to €1.4222.
Skinny jeans, long hair and bags of self confidence.
Like most front men, Arijit Datta knows how to work the crowd and charm them with his sweeping vocals.
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He sings about relationships, life and love, and is part of a new wave of alternative musicians in India's growing "indie" scene.
A decade ago, bands playing Pink Floyd and Beatles covers were the staple of Western rock in India but today's musicians are shunning that, says Mr Datta.
"Today, there is immense pride in doing your own thing. The youth is more about having our own say than to adopt something Western."
"Ten or 15 years back, bands in India were pretty ashamed of doing original stuff. People used to get booed off stage and were very apologetic."
Mr Datta's band, Airport, are aged between 23 and 33, and sing their compositions in the Indian languages of Hindi and Bengali.
"I'm in love with my language and I love expressing myself in Hindi. Before, that wasn't a wise thing to do," says Mr Datta.
Music has often been a way for young people to make themselves heard at a time of change, be it rock and roll, punk or Brit pop.
Mr Datta says the drive for original music in India stems from a desire for young people to articulate their own distinct identity in a changing India.
"Today we have started believing in ourselves and our abilities and capabilities, that is not only in music but all over," he says. "The youth of today is really going for it in India."
The sheer force of India's young becomes apparent when you consider that more than two-thirds of the country is under the age of 35, and that nearly one in 10 of the world's population is an Indian under the age of 25.
The sense of resulting confidence is something which is felt across a wide spectrum of India's young, from the super rich to the slum dweller.
Jishan Shah lives in Mumbai's Dharavi slum with his family. He is proud of his roots, but believes he can pursue a different career path to that of his parents, who make a modest living working in Dharavi.
Every week he gets together with a group of his friends to perform songs, through workshops organised by a local music venue and an NGO.
The lyrics of one of their compositions talk of having "one dream, to sing and to dance".
Plastic rods with tape wound around the end serve as makeshift drumsticks, while the drums themselves are old plastic chairs, paint cans and containers.
Their dream might seem lofty as the group beats out a rhythm amongst knee high piles of rubbish on a bridge overlooking the slum, but Mr Shah absolutely believes he can do something different.
"It is tough to be successful, but if you work hard there is more chance of making it today," he says.
While his parents do not approve of his "alternative" career aspirations he is undeterred.
"There is a lot of development here in India and that's bringing us more opportunities," Mr Shah says.
There is a greater sense of identity in India's young which comes from belonging to a country that is on the rise, says Uday Benegal, the lead singer of Indian rock band Indus Creed.
With three ear piercings, and a career history as a musician, Mr Benegal might not represent the traditional forty-something Indian, but his band are well placed to comment on the change, having played to India's young for more than three decades.
The availability of good musical instruments in the country is just one example, he says, of how the opening up of the economy in 1991 has contributed to the change in the music scene.
"Something as basic as getting a good guitar made it hard to get a good sound. It was also difficult to find decent venues to play in and getting to play our own music was hard."
Mr Benegal fought against the odds to become a professional musician, and when he started out in the 1980s was one of just a few Indian rockers.
"Fifteen or twenty years ago the Indian audiences were enamoured with the West. It didn't matter if you were a good band or not, the audience would rather see a white singer on stage."
"That's changed now, today they want to listen to good music, wherever it is from. They don't consider themselves members of a third world country anymore. They see themselves as part of a greater global scene."
India has one of the world's largest populations of young people.
Just how its young grow up will set the tone for how India is viewed on the world stage.
A draft bill was sent to Irish Minister for Transport Shane Ross last year and the RSA hopes to see it made law within the next 12 months.
Currently it is being done on a "piecemeal basis".
The RSA said it is currently reviewing whether it will include disqualified drivers from Northern Ireland.
In a statement it added: "On the basis that we have the Mutual Recognition of Disqualified Drivers between Ireland and Northern Ireland and UK reinstated in the new 2016 Road Traffic Bill, we would be proceeding on the same basis.
That means if someone with a UK licence is disqualified in an Irish court, their name will appear."
There was a 15% increase in the number of people who lost their lives on Irish roads last year compared to in 2015.
Chief Executive of the RSA Moyagh Murdock said the rise was "very disappointing".
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, she said that there has been progress in many areas of road safety but drink-driving remained a big problem in Ireland.
She added that people do not surrender their licences after disqualification and many persist in driving after they are disqualified.
A spokesperson for Stormont's Department for Infrastructure said: "The mutual recognition of driving disqualifications between the two jurisdictions is expected to recommence early in 2017."
A Kensington Palace statement said they were prompted to take action after the man was spotted near the 14-month-old and his nanny in a central London park.
The couple are not taking legal action at this stage, but may consider it in the future, the statement said.
Lawyers for the photographer, Niraj Tanna, said he had done nothing wrong and would continue with his work.
The statement from the palace said there was "reason to suspect that the individual may have been placing Prince George under surveillance and monitoring his daily routines for a period of time."
BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said palace officials believed the photographer's actions amounted to "stalking" and that lawyers were seeking an assurance he would desist.
"If they do not receive these assurances that this behaviour will stop, they will then consider options of legal action," he said.
Our correspondent added that the man had been warned off last week by royal protection officers and that he had also been spoken to "over a number of years" about his behaviour.
Not for the first time, this is Prince William attempting to define what constitutes his family's private life as he struggles - in the face of intense global media interest - to carve out as near as normal an existence as he can for his toddler son, who will one day be king.
In doing so, he's picked a very public fight with a photographer, Niraj Tanna, who is keen and determined to stand his ground.
Mr Tanna's defence is that he's entitled to take pictures in a public park and he hasn't followed, harassed or intimidated either George or his nanny.
William's next step could be court action.
In recent years, royals and court cases have proved to be uncomfortable bedfellows.
You can read more from Peter Hunt on his BBC royal and diplomatic correspondent page.
However, lawyers for the photographer Niraj Tanna have issued a seven-page letter contesting the claims.
The letter says Mr Tanna strongly objects to what he calls "the groundless allegations".
It says it is "wholly without foundation" to accuse him of following or spying on them.
It goes on to say that press photographers are "fully entitled" to take images in public places such as parks, and that any legal action will be "vigorously contested".
It adds: "He will continue to undertake his work with the concerns of the Prince's parents very much in mind."
Since his birth in July 2013, the royal couple have posed for a number of official photographs with Prince George.
He has also been pictured accompanying his parents on state visits and with the palace's consent at other events.
The statement from the Kensington Palace said: "The duke and duchess understand the particular public role that Prince George will one day inherit but while he is young, he must be permitted to lead as ordinary a life as possible."
It added: "No parent would tolerate the suspicion of someone pursuing and harassing their child and carer."
Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo was named as the prince's nanny in March when the palace appealed for her privacy to be respected.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) editors' code of practice states that young children "must not be interviewed or photographed on issues involving their own or another child's welfare unless a custodial parent or similarly responsible adult consents".
IPSO replaced the defunct Press Complaints Commission last month.
Before the royal couple married, the Middleton family raised privacy concerns about alleged harassment by press agency photographers.
And in 2012, lawyers for the pair also took action against French gossip magazine Closer for publishing topless photos of the duchess.
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It's one of those things you never think will happen to you, especially when you're a competitive athlete. Yet, when faced with adversity, you allow it to take you down - or you adapt, survive and become stronger.
I'll be honest, I'd never really heard about stomas or colostomy bags.
I didn't really understand what it meant or how they worked. I didn't know anyone who had one and never in a million years did I imagine I'd end up having one of my very own.
But life has a funny habit of throwing a curveball when we least expect it.
Back in 2010 - aged 37 - I was training for an Ironman triathlon (a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and a marathon - 26.2-mile - run), in peak fitness (so I thought) and suddenly, from out of the blue, I suffered a life-threatening perforated bowel, peritonitis and emergency surgery.
Three years of misery followed, with various complications and a total of five major abdominal operations. Unable to eat solid food as my bowel was unable to function properly, I survived on liquid meal replacements and boiled sweets for months.
I'd hit rock bottom and at one stage wondered if I'd ever be able to eat normally again, let alone go running.
But a successful operation in 2012 got me back on my feet with a working ileostomy, and I was able to make a slow and gradual return to eating - it still took two years before I could eat a banana - and, most importantly, get back to training.
Running, training and exercise has always been my life. It's my job and my passion. And I wasn't about to let a little thing like a colostomy bag get in the way.
No-one can see it, it doesn't smell and when it's working well, you can eat anything you like. The scientist in me actually finds it really interesting. It's an amazing medical development, and thanks to modern advancements in bags and products, it isn't the horror story it once was.
It's not always a bed of roses though, and there are hidden challenges to cope with.
Sometimes the bag leaks - which is never a good thing - and always at really inopportune moments.
I've had a leak whilst cycling to a conference and another literally 10 minutes before the start of a race. But when faced with a belly covered in 'output', all you can do is sort it out and dig deep into your sense of humour - and always carry a spare set of clothes.
The biggest - and possibly most surprising - issue for anyone with an ileostomy is actually dehydration. A bout of flu earlier this year had me in hospital on an IV drip and it's the reason I choose not to drink alcohol - the tiniest sip gives me a raging hangover.
But despite all of that there are a million other medical conditions that could be so much worse, and for the most part - so long as I'm not dehydrated - there is nothing I can't do because of it.
I go downhill mountain biking with my kids in the Alps. I hike mountains, I run, I go coasteering, I wear normal clothes and I sometimes actually forget I've got a bag at all.
Seven weeks after one of my surgeries I climbed The Old Man of Coniston in the Lake District with my family; eight weeks after another I ran a 50-minute 10km race.
Nine months after my final surgery I took part in the Jungfrau Mountain Marathon in Switzerland and, in 2014, I became the first person with an ileostomy bag to run the 'Himalayan 100' - a 100-mile stage race over five days at altitude in the Indian Himalaya.
When I came home from that race I felt invincible - if I can do that and survive, then I can do anything.
I'm not saying this to boast. I simply want to share my story and show that having a bag doesn't have to limit your life in any way, if you don't let it.
I'm not alone in my adventures. There are many other athletes with stomas doing amazing things, including Rob Hill - a British climber who scaled Mount Everest - and Spyros Barres, an American marathon runner.
I also belong to a Facebook group called "Ostomy Lifestyle Athletes', where the talk is always about our sporting achievements, races or advice on running - rarely do we dwell on our medical issues or complain.
It's supportive and encouraging and helps others in the same boat realise that nothing is impossible. Having a bag doesn't hold us back in any way. It's incredibly inspiring.
Has it changed me? In some ways, I've just picked up where I left off before - although I never did get to do that Ironman and I run a lot slower now. But in other ways, it's changed me for the better; I have more perspective and I'm grateful for my experience, and what it's taught me.
The simple pleasures in life - such as going for a run, or hiking a mountain with my family - are treasured, not taken for granted.
Before, I might have grumbled about a training run. Now I appreciate every step I take.
For me, my colostomy bag is simply a challenge to overcome - much like a marathon or any other race. It's not a barrier, nor is it a disability - and I'm not about to let it stop me doing anything. After all, it's just a bag.
Desmond D'Sa's efforts resulted in the closure of a chemicals dump in a residential area of Durban, winning him a Goldman Environmental Prize.
The awards are described as "the Nobel Prize for grassroots environmentalism".
Mr D'Sa and five other winners will receive their awards on Monday at a presentation ceremony in San Francisco.
As a co-founder of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA), he campaigned to raise awareness of the plight of communities living alongside the waste facility.
Among the schemes he oversaw were the "bucket brigade" and the "smell chart". The bucket brigade consisted of local residents collecting samples of air in their communities, which where then sent off to the US where they were analysed.
"When we got the results back, we developed a flow chart of all the different smells and odours so then people could be better educated about the chemical odours and the impact they would have on health," Mr D'Sa recalled.
With the data, Mr D'Sa and his team lobbied the government, which resulted in several health studies being done.
One of the studies showed that more than half of the 300,000-strong population had chronic asthma, he observed.
He added that the study also quantified cancer risk as 25-in-100,000 people, compared with the norm of 1-in-100,000.
"This was a conservative conclusion because the data was conservative yet it showed that the risk was very high and more needed to be done," Mr D'Sa told BBC News.
Paying the price
In 2009, the facility's operators applied to expand the site licence until 2021, but Mr D'Sa led a campaign to lobby officials, stating that the human cost was too high.
In 2011, the operators withdrew their application and the dump was closed.
"As a result, the trucks that carried all of the highly toxic waste through the communities are no longer there," he said proudly.
Other winners of the Goldman Prize, which honours and recognises grass-root activists, this year include:
Ramesh Agrawal, India - Using a small internet cafe, Ramesh Agrawal organised villagers to demand their right to information about industrial development projects and succeeded in shutting down one of the largest proposed coal mines in Chhattisgarh.
Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, Peru - Overcoming a history of traumatic violence, Ruth BuendÃa united the Asháninka people in a powerful campaign against large-scale dams that would have once again uprooted indigenous communities still recovering from Peru's civil war.
Suren Gazaryan, Russia - Bat expert and zoologist Suren Gazaryan led campaigns highlighting illegal use of federally protected forestland along Russia's Black Sea coast near the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Rudi Putra, Indonesia - Biologist Rudi Putra is dismantling illegal palm oil plantations that are causing massive deforestation in northern Sumatra, protecting the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino.
Helen Holden Slottje, USA - Using a clause in the state constitution that gives municipalities the right to make local land use decisions, Helen Slottje helped towns across across New York state pass local bans on fracking.
Workers moved the four-metre tall sculpture of Heydar Aliyev in the dead of night from a park on the city's main avenue that Azerbaijan paid to have renovated.
Oil-rich Azerbaijan has threatened to cut investments in Mexico in response.
Human rights activists had objected to the statue and pointed to the repressive nature of Mr Aliyev's rule.
Mexico City officials said that "dialogue would continue with the aim of finding a permanent location for the sculpture".
They said city authorities would look after the statue in the meantime, unless the Azeri Embassy requested its return.
'Closer ties'
When the previous mayor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, unveiled the Azerbaijan-Mexico Park last year, he said it was a "testament to the will of the two peoples to grow closer".
Mr Ebrard also noted that - in 16 years - none of the 180 diplomatic missions or 45 international organisations based in Mexico City had given as much money for public spaces in the capital as Azerbaijan.
Azeri investments in Mexico amount to $4bn (£2.5bn), according to the Azeri embassy in Mexico.
A plaque accompanying the statue describes Aliyev as "a great politician and statesman".
In Azerbaijan there is a growing personality cult surrounding the former leader, who is regarded as a father of the nation, which became independent after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the BBC's Damien McGuinness reports from neighbouring Georgia.
His face can be seen on huge billboards all over the country, our correspondent adds.
Mr Aliyev's son Ilham has ruled the country since 2003 - but with presidential elections in October, and growing concerns in the West about the government's human rights record, Azerbaijan is keen to promote his father's image abroad, he says.
Joyce Mitchell admitted on Tuesday to giving tools to the men, who broke out through tunnels under the prison.
Mitchell, 51, faces two to seven years in prison under a plea agreement.
Inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat were on the run for almost three weeks in June, setting off a massive manhunt involving hundreds of police officers.
Police shot and killed Matt near the Canadian border on 26 June. Sweat was later caught in the same area and sent back to prison.
Mitchell was a tailor shop instructor at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. She was arrested soon after Matt and Sweat escaped on 5 June.
She told prosecutors that she hid the tools - including hacksaw blades, chisels and a screwdriver - inside frozen hamburger meat. The inmates were housed in a part of the prison where they were allowed to cook their own food.
Mitchell had also offered to drive the getaway car but backed out on the day of the escape, leaving the inmates to flee on foot.
The pair escaped through the prison sewer system after using the tools to break out of their cell. The escape set off a massive manhunt across northern New York and Vermont.
Although another prison worker has been charged in the case, authorities do not believe other plot extended beyond Mitchell and the inmates.
Matt was serving time for kidnapping and dismembering his former boss, while Sweat was imprisoned for killing a sheriff's deputy.
As well as the knockoff Great Sphinx of Giza, the Lanzhou Silk Road Cultural Relics Park has built replicas of the Greek Parthenon and other world wonders.
Lanzhou, in northwest China, is hoping the famous fakes will draw tourists, as well as the film and gaming industries, reported China Daily.
The town was once a major trading hub on the Silk Road, which China is trying to revive.
It is just the latest of many copies of world famous monuments, and sometimes entire towns, to appear in the country.
This sphinx may not be the largest but, made partly of corn, it blended well with its natural surroundings at an exhibition in Shouguang, Shandong province, in April.
The head of this sphinx - almost the size of the Giza original - here separated from its body, on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, Hebei province.
It was recently dismantled by local authorities after Egypt complained to Unesco that its use as a film and TV filming location violated international conventions, the People's Daily reported.
This one possibly looks a little past its best, but can you guess where it is? (Answer below).
This full-size replica in Chuzhou, Anhui province, is, like the latest one, part of a "heritage park", although this version has been livened up considerably with some paint.
Corn, stone, plaster... ice? The creators of China's monumental fakes are certainly inventive with building materials, as this giant frozen sculpture at the Ice and Snow Festival in northeast Harbin demonstrates.
Perhaps hoping to recapture some of the ancient wisdom represented by Giza's iconic structures, a library in Wuhan, central China, is shaped like a pyramid, with a somewhat creative replica of the Great Sphinx standing outside.
But the fondness for foreign replication does not end with ancient Egypt.
Replicas of famous Washington buildings are common in China, but this is surely the only one that combines the Capitol with a Chinese temple design.
The same park, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, also contains replicas of the pyramid at France's Louvre, some Chinese ancient buildings and, of course, Giza's Sphinx.
France is a not just popular with Chinese tourists leaving the country. Copycat Eiffel Towers can be found all over, with this one in a luxury real estate development in Hangzhou, eastern China, standing at an impressive 108m (350ft).
The builders of this housing development in Hefei, eastern China, were doubtless grateful they had slightly more modern tools to hand than did the creators of the original Stonehenge in the UK.
Less common than some of the iconic Western sights, Moscow's Kremlin nonetheless gets its own mini-me in Beijing's World Park.
And that one we were not sure about? Here it is from another angle. Yes, it is the Egyptian original. No, not convincing at all.
Marlon Small, 31, was found stabbed on Merrion Street in the early hours of 1 November. He died later in hospital.
Marcus Clarke, 21, of Gathorne Terrace and Kieran Hunt, 27, of Roundhay Road in Leeds, appeared at Leeds Crown Court charged with assisting an offender.
Damien Dhers, 33, of Hessle Road in Leeds, appeared in court in November charged with Mr Small's murder.
He was also charged with possessing an offensive weapon.
All three men were remanded in custody and are due to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 13 February.
Plumes of smoke could be seen across the area after the blaze started at the site in Kelvin Road, Wallasey, shortly after 16:30 GMT.
The fire started in a garage and was believed to have spread to a second unit, firefighters said.
People living in nearby Birkenhead Road were urged to stay in their homes.
Motorists were also advised to avoid the area, and road closures were in place along part of Birkenhead Road, New Street, Alfred Road and Kelvin Road up to Wheatland Lane.
There were no reports of any injuries, and a spokesman for Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said the cause of the fire was not yet clear.
He was MacAnthony's seventh manager in a nine-and-a-half year reign and left with the club 14th in League One.
"It's probably the most important choice I'll have to make, one I'll have to take my time with," said MacAnthony.
"Next season is critical, it's my 10th year, we'd like it to be the best year yet. We need success."
Former Stevenage boss Westley was dismissed following Saturday's 2-0 home defeat by Scunthorpe, their fourth loss in five league games.
The 48-year-old guided the club into the play-off places in January, having replaced Dave Robertson last September.
But the sale of top scorer Conor Washington, as well as injuries to key players including Jermaine Anderson and Callum Elder, had an effect on results, with Posh losing six of their next seven league matches following their FA Cup fourth-round replay exit to West Brom.
Posh made a number of signings in January, but Adil Nabi, making his second start, was the only one on the pitch at kick-off on Saturday.
MacAnthony admitted that the transfer window was one the club "collectively got wrong", but was even more critical of their home form.
"We've got a terrible home record, we've lost 10 home games this season and it's cost us the play-offs. That in turn lost us probably 30% of our gate," MacAnthony told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"There's a lot of disappointment in the area. Financially it's had an effect, your gates are you lifeblood and season tickets even more so, and there was no arresting the slide.
"Yes, we've been trying a few younger players, but you still expect us to get results against the likes of Scunthorpe.
"Scunthorpe were doing great, they're two points outside the play-offs, but let's look at what we did against them at Christmas (won 4-0)."
MacAnthony said he hoped to have a new manager in place before their pre-season trip to Portugal in late June, and said Grant McCann, in charge for the final two matches of the season, is in contention for the permanent role.
"Grant will be in consideration should he put his hat in the ring. We'll let him take the next couple of weeks and see how he gets on and in the meantime I'll draw up a list and think about other potential managers," he added.
"I'm very open-minded to all potential candidates. The emails and the phone calls started on Saturday night. People don't mind jumping in people's graves in football when a job becomes available.
"If it's not going to be Grant, I'd like it to be someone who has won or got out of this league before."
After more than a decade of violent crime and knife use falling, the papers show that the use of weapons in west central Scotland is also up.
Police Scotland said violent crime was down over the past five years.
They said much violent crime was "common assaults" and many were domestic assaults which had been under-reported in the past.
Police said crime overall was down to a 40-year low.
The BBC obtained the documents under the Freedom of Information Act from the police's own Violence Reduction Board, a new body set up a year ago.
Analysis shows that in the past nine months murders were up 31% compared with the same period in the previous year, which had seen the lowest number of recorded homicide cases for a single 12-month period since 1976.
In the year to the end of March 2016, 57 victims of homicide (murders and culpable homicides) had been recorded - down five on the previous 12 months.
However, the new figures also showed serious assaults were up 6% and robbery 7%. Attempted murders were down 27%.
Glasgow's former reputation as the violence capital of western Europe has been transformed, with a major focus on crime prevention and initiatives such as No Knives, Better Lives and the work of the Violence Reduction Unit.
Politicians and police have been keen to highlight the change, so the revelation that it is creeping back up is likely to be unwelcome.
Further analysis of figures shows that in the past nine months domestic abuse was up 2.5%, culpable homicide rose 22%, and handling a bladed weapon was up 4.4%.
The documents show that the police's own Violence Strategic Assessment "shows analysis indicating there is an increase in the use of weapons in violent crimes in West Central Scotland".
And Police Scotland correspondence notes: "Increases have been noted in murder, serious assault, robbery, common assault... compared with 2015/16."
The papers highlight concerns about why such increases might be taking place.
The Violence Reduction Board minutes raise concerns about whether it could be related to the police cutting their use of stop-search tactics but finds no positive correlation.
The papers talk of commissioning research and using particular divisions as test grounds to try to find out why violence is again on the up.
Ch Supt Barry McEwan said: "Violent crime is down more than 4.8% on the five-year average, indicating that violent crime continues to show a downward trend in the longer term.
"The vast majority of violent crime comprises of common assaults."
He added: "In addition, nearly one quarter of all violent crimes are linked to domestic incidents.
"We know this is an area of under-reporting and we have been encouraging people to come forward about domestic assaults."
The detective added: "While acknowledging the rise in certain areas during this period, the previous year had the lowest murder rate ever recorded. Also in this period, there was a notable fall of 27% - 63 fewer offences of attempted murder."
He said Police Scotland would continue to enhance its intelligence-led approach to help identify the root causes of anti-social behaviour and hotspots to improve local operations.
Ch Supt McEwan said: "This is a complex picture, with alcohol being a significant contributory factor in violence.
"To help us understand this complex issue we have established a National Violence Prevention Board with our key partners to ensure there is a joint continued focus in this area and have launched Policing 2026 to meet the projected needs over the next decade."
The pair, who are in their 70s and from Cheshire, became stuck while out walking on sands at Humphrey Head, near Grange-over-Sands, at about 12:10 BST.
Rescuers, equipped with a hovercraft and heavy lifting gear, raced against an incoming tide to free the pair.
Both were taken to hospital suffering from mild hypothermia.
Teams from the RNLI, HM Coastguard and Bay Search & Rescue were involved in what was described as a "challenging operation".
Coastguard spokesman Joel Harding said: "The couple were spotted by an off-duty fire officer, whose wife called us immediately.
"The fire officer stayed with the couple for over an hour until we could get the resources we needed on the scene.
"It had the potential to develop into a very serious incident.
"Considering they were in the sand up to their waists for over an hour, they came out of it quite well and only appeared to be suffering from mild hypothermia.
"They did the right thing by spreading their weight out to stop themselves sinking too much further until we could extract them and pass them on to the ambulance."
The area is signposted, but Mr Harding said quicksand could "move rapidly" by as much as 10 metres a day.
Paul Calland, deputy station officer for Bay Search and Rescue, said: "This was a very challenging rescue as we faced an incoming tide.
"We have a hovercraft and tracked vehicles which we used to take the man to the shoreline where he was then stretchered onto an ambulance.
"We got the woman out relatively quickly, but the man was well and truly stuck and was in danger of sinking up to his neck."
Rodgers said in the build-up to Celtic's 4-1 win over Hearts that he had "real empathy" for sacked Hearts head coach Ian Cathro.
And the Northern Irishman questioned how the club recruited.
"I'm extremely disappointed," said Daly. "The fact that he's commenting on the structure of our football club, when he knows nothing about it."
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On Friday, Rodgers praised Cathro, who worked under director of football Craig Levein, as a "very good coach" who "wanted to bring in his own ideas".
The Celtic boss added that while watching Hearts "it always looked a little bit confused in terms of what he wanted and maybe what other people wanted.
"You know, you're trying to play football and you're bringing in players who play a direct game. So, it makes me ask about where the players are coming from? And if they're his?"
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Following Saturday's defeat at Celtic Park, Daly told BBC Scotland: "I can understand the comments made about a manager losing his job because I'd be the very same. It's never nice to see someone lose their job but to comment on the recruitment of the players, to say that they don't fit the system, it's poor for me.
"You look at the players we've brought in - Michael Smith, he's a wing-back; Ash Smith-Brown, wing-back; [Rafal] Grzelak, wing-back; [Kyle] Lafferty, striker; [Isma] Goncalves, last year to play on the left-hand side of a front three; [Christophe] Berra to play in a back three. For him to come out and make a comment like that, it's just farcical, to be honest.
"I've followed Brendan's career for a long, long time. I've got a lot of admiration for him and I've never heard him make a comment like that when he was at Liverpool, commenting on Man United's structure or Chelsea's structure or Man City's structure.
"He's obviously come up to Scotland and think he's the biggest fish in the biggest pond, with the best squad, with the best budget and he thinks he can comment on other people's teams, other people's structures or clubs and it's unacceptable.
"He wouldn't have done it in the Premiership [in England] so I don't see why now he all of a sudden thinks he can start doing it."
In his post-match interview, Rodgers said: "I was purely asked a question in relation to the operation there. It's no problem. I thought Jon organised the team well today. They were good and compact.
"My feeling was for support for young Ian Cathro, who I felt was dealt harshly with. But I've got no issue, there's no problem. I hope Jon goes on and gets the job.
"I'll always be open and say what I feel. That doesn't change. I say and believe in what I say 150%."
Asked if there was perhaps a an unwritten rule that managers do not discuss other managers or clubs, Rodgers replied: "Yeah, well, he hasn't become a manager yet so wait until he becomes a manager and then he'll know the rules of the game then."
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The company had been ordered to help the FBI circumvent security software on Farook's iPhone, which the FBI said contained crucial information.
In a statement, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said: "We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand."
The BBC's Technology reporter Chris Foxx explains what the FBI wants Apple to help them with.
James Douglas had last been seen leaving his home in Stobshaw Place, Tweedbank, at about 04:00 and had not returned.
However, he was eventually traced near to the bowling club in the town's industrial estate.
Police thanked the public for their assistance after an appeal for information to help find Mr Douglas.
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After Trevor Bayliss transformed the national cricket side from slow and stodgy and beaten by the West Indies into Ashes winners within four Tests of taking charge, his compatriot Eddie Jones has now pulled off an Antipodean resuscitation perhaps even more remarkable.
Six months ago England were heading out of their own World Cup at the group stage, capable of beating only Fiji and Uruguay. They were tactically flawed, confused in selection and apparently unhappy in each other's company.
In five matches, Jones has not only ended a 13-year wait for a Grand Slam - with the 31-21 win over France - but done so with a team that should have its best days ahead, and in a place where victories will always be that little bit sweeter.
England supporters can't afford to be fussy about where a Slam is won, not after the preceding two decades have brought just one. Not when Wales have won three, France two and Ireland another since their last.
Listen: the moment England clinched the Grand Slam
But triumphing in Paris has always had something special about it - for once the outsiders rather than the big brothers, a hard-core of the dedicated rather than quiet corporate, a long day that can turn into a longer night and oh, whoops, it's morning.
There were celebrations in the white clusters around St Denis and there will be celebrations back in Blighty, not only for the substance of the Grand Slam but the often anxious way it was achieved. Because France were much better than their recent dreary history indicated they would be, liberated at times as they were of old and motivated as much as anything by a desire to stamp all over an English party.
To a list that includes Tony Stanger, Scott Gibbs and Duncan Hodge was nearly added Maxime Machenaud, the scrum-half's seven perfect penalties from seven keeping his side always within tantalising reach and threatening to snatch away a Slam when it was within English fingers.
In a team that made remarkable 508m with ball in hand, wrecking-ball winger Virimi Vakatawa made an even more astonishing quarter of them.
As throughout the championship, this was another incomplete performance from England. They conceded 14 penalties, lost control for a significant period of the second half and looked increasingly anxious as Machenaud narrowed the lead at one late stage to just two points.
They could be forgiven those nerves, because that is exactly what defining contests on unforgiving foreign soil do to players, and they could be forgiven that slump because they got through it.
Few Grand Slams are won with perfection. They are achieved as much as anything by a refusal to yield when reasons to yield are all around, by a cussedness as much as a cavalier spirit, by an ability to wriggle out of tight spots and to secure the tight, tense wins.
And deserve to win England did. They scored three tries to none, had 55% of the possession and had 60% of the territory.
And they did it as a team. Thirteen tackles from George Kruis, which you might expect, and 15 from James Haskell, which some might not, but 13 too from Owen Farrell.
Tries from Danny Care, with a classic dart and dash from the Danny Care playbook, and a third in three Tests from Anthony Watson, but also with one from prop Dan Cole, when his first 60 Tests had seen him score just one other.
Turnovers from the back row, where they usually originate, but turnovers too - and more of them - from the second row, in Maro Itoje, and two more apiece from Farrell at inside centre and Mike Brown at full-back.
Stuart Lancaster has been the fall guy in much of this - characterised as the coach who oversaw the worst ever finish by a World Cup host, the nice guy whose replacement by the grizzled, nastier Jones has brought instant dividends.
It's both unfair and an oversimplification. Four years ago, at the end of his own first season in charge, Lancaster was also in charge of a famous win at the Stade de France, having reinvigorated a side tainted by World Cup failure. He also gave international debuts and then experience to much of this side - Kruis, Watson, George Ford, Jack Nowell.
What Jones has done is less open surgery than simple remedy.
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Chris Robshaw not working at openside? Swap him over to blindside, where his natural game finds a natural fit. No alternative who fits the bill as a modern-day jackalling seven? Spread the load equally around the team, and ask all to target the breakdown rather than making it the responsibility of just one.
Need a front row in the old-fashioned hard-bitten English image, and a line-out that holds under extreme pressure? Bring back Dylan Hartley, and trust him with the captaincy to keep his darker deeds in check.
No bash-it-up centre fit enough to start? Move Farrell out from his usual 10, let his natural aggression give you something in defence and his place kicking give you a reliability that Ford cannot quite always match.
Jones has had a little luck. A player like Itoje comes along very few times in a coach's career. None of his other principal men have struggled with injury the way some of Ireland's key men have. His first season opened with away games against the weakest two teams and continued with its toughest two opponents at home, both Wales and Ireland also finding their way into an amended style.
But luck alone does not win Grand Slams, and this was not a night for caveats.
The last England side to win a Slam did so after three years of near misses, with a team that had been together in its key combinations for four years, with players at the peak of their rugby prowess.
Jones's team has an average age of 24. His locks have less than 20 caps between them but have played like men with 50 apiece. He has a fly-half still fresh to the international game, a number eight that takes a tank-trap to bring down and, in Manu Tuilagi and Henry Slade, returning centres who in their contrasting way could add even more to a backline that scored tries in every match.
This was the end of a long wait, all right. It could also be the start of something rather special.
Michelle Carter, now 20, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for her messages to 18-year-old Conrad Roy urging him to kill himself.
He took his own life on 13 July 2014 by running a generator in his vehicle in a car park in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
Carter, who could face up to 20 years in prison, sobbed in court.
She encouraged her boyfriend to take his own life so she could seek attention as the "grieving girlfriend", the trial heard.
The case appears to set a legal precedent, as there is no Massachusetts law that criminalises telling a person to commit suicide.
Judge Lawrence Moniz said Ms Carter was guilty of "wanton and reckless conduct" by sending Mr Roy a message instructing him to get back in the truck, which he had exited as it filled with fumes.
"She called no one and finally she did not issue a simple additional instruction - get out of the truck," he said.
The accused broke down in tears as the judge delivered his verdict.
The victim's father, also called Conrad Roy, said in a press conference the family was "thankful" for the verdict.
"This has been a very tough time for our family, and we would like to process this verdict that we are happy with," he said outside court.
Carter has been allowed by the judge to remain free on bail, pending sentencing, but is banned from sending text messages or using any social media network.
The criminal charge against Carter meant that prosecutors had to prove that she had a "direct" role in Mr Roy's death.
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Judge Moniz, who handed down the ruling because Carter chose not to have a jury trial, said the fact that Mr Roy had previously attempted to take his own life, or that he might have done so again, was not relevant.
Assistant District Attorney Katie Rayburn told the court in her closing arguments that the directness required by the involuntary manslaughter statute required updating for the modern age.
"Back years ago in order to have a relationship you had to actually see somebody - or at a minimum talk on the phone. That is no longer required. People fall in love via the internet and via text. People bully via text and the internet. You can encourage someone to die via text, and you can commit a crime via text," she said.
The case drew national attention after the texts sent between the two teenagers were revealed by investigators.
"Hang yourself, jump off a building, stab yourself I don't know there's a lot of ways," she said in several messages sent in the two weeks before his death, as he was on holiday with his family.
In the moments before his suicide, she wrote: "You need to do it, Conrad" and "All you have to do is turn the generator on and you will be free and happy."
In another message, she wrote: "You're finally going to be happy in heaven. No more pain. It's okay to be scared and it's normal. I mean, you're about to die."
Prosecutors argued that Carter had manipulated Mr Roy, who had a history of depression and suicide attempts, into taking his own life, advising him that it would be "painless".
But Carter's defence team argued that Mr Roy had planned his own suicide, and had gone so far as to secure the equipment that he used to take his own life.
They also said anti-depression medication that Carter was taking had affected her judgment.
As Mr Conrad's truck filled with poisonous carbon monoxide, he left his vehicle to speak on the phone, with Carter, who was nearly 30 miles (48km) away at the time.
Investigators did not have a recording of that call, but in a text to a friend, Carter described what was said.
"Sam, [the victim's] death is my fault like honestly I could have stopped him I was on the phone with him and he got out of the [truck] because it was working and he got scared and I [expletive] told him to get back in Sam because I knew he would do it all over again the next day and I couldnt have him live the way he was living anymore I couldnt do it I wouldnt let him," she wrote after his death.
Another message to her friend stated: "I was on the phone talking to him when he killed himself. I heard him dying."
She also contacted a friend when she learned that investigators were looking through Mr Roy's phone.
"They read my text messages to him I'm done", the accused wrote, adding, "his family will hate me and I could go to jail".
She will be sentenced on 3 August 2017.
Figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws showed 5,992 crashes were recorded between 2012 and 2014.
During that period, Birmingham student Xuanwei Zhang died after being hit by an unmarked police car in Birmingham in April 2012.
Also in 2012, two men had to dive out the way after a fire engine smashed into a phone shop in Birmingham.
Owner, Jamil Mahmood, said: "There was a fire engine doing a three-point turn and it crashed into the shop, narrowly missing one of my customers and a family member.
"It missed them by inches, they had to jump out the way."
West Midlands police, fire and ambulance services recorded 2,728, 281 and 81 crashes respectively, the figures show.
Police figures showed 64 of the force's vehicles were written off in crashes.
More than 350 people suffered injuries ranging from broken ribs, whiplash and a ripped spleen, it also confirmed, but the figures did not include the death of Mr Zhang.
In one crash in Dudley last year, two police officers were injured when a man drove into the side of a police car.
An inquiry is also taking place into the death of Harry James Kirkham. Mr Kirkham was hit by a police car in Birmingham in March this year, although this is outside the timeframe for this data.
West Midlands Fire Service said most accidents involved vehicles travelling at "slow speed".
"We continue to implement measures and awareness campaigns to reduce these," it said in a statement.
The ambulance service said crews are highly trained but rely on the help of other road users.
"The majority of collisions are down to drivers either panicking when they hear a siren or see a blue light, or not being aware of blue-light vehicles using the road," a spokesman said.
A police spokesman said it was not clear why Mr Zhang's death had not been included in its figures.
Staffordshire Police recorded 912 while Staffordshire Fire service recorded 120.
Staffordshire Police Supt Mick Boyle said they constantly monitored the driving standards of employees. The county's fire service has declined to comment.
In Warwickshire, there were 546 crashes involving police vehicles and 102 involving fire vehicles.
West Mercia Police recorded 1,143 crashes while Shropshire Fire and Rescue recorded 68.
A spokesman for both police forces said officers are sent for retraining on a regular basis if required, and future driving performance is monitored to ensure no further incidents are recorded.
The spokesman added that due to the nature of the role of the police, damage was inevitable. He added that in the future, the fleet would be fitted with a telematics system which will mean accidents and incidents can be monitored in greater depth.
The song, which features pop star Marina and the Diamonds, was first played at the 2015 Coachella Festival.
Ever since, fans have begged the band to release the track - with some of their messages "bordering on abuse".
"We got such creative abuse," they told the BBC. "Very inventive and new swearing terms".
Cellist Grace Chatto explained that the song had been through several permutations before they got it right.
"Everything takes so long because we obsess [over it]," she said, "especially because we make our own music videos.
"Each single project takes us about half a year. And everything else gets put to the side."
The band released the song on Friday afternoon, and Marina joined the band on stage to perform it during Clean Bandit's Glastonbury set on the John Peel stage.
The band, who formed at Cambridge University, have become one of the UK's most successful acts, blending dance beats and chamber orchestra strings.
Last year's single Rockabye, which talked about the "daily struggle" of single mothers, topped the charts for nine weeks. The follow-up, Symphony, also reached number one, only dropping out of the top 10 last week - three months after its release.
The group - completed by brothers Luke and Jack Patterson - spoke to the BBC about their success, and plans for a new album, backstage at the Glastonbury Festival.
What's your best Glastonbury experience been?
Grace: I saw No Doubt play when I was 16 and had come to Glastonbury for the first time. I crowd-surfed to the front, and was so close to Gwen Stefani. She sang Don't Speak with a single tear running down her face. It was very emotional.
You're basically squatters in the top 10 these days - is that a blessing or a curse? Presumably you'd like to get more music out there.
Jack Patterson: It does slow things down a little bit - but we've actually got a bit of a surprise today. We may have some new music out today.
Can you spill the beans?
Jack: It's a brand new song called Disconnect. Well, it's actually not that new. We started writing it two and a half years ago with Marina (And The Diamonds).
Fans have been clamouring for that song for years. What was the delay?
We tried loads of different versions before we got it right. And also, everything takes so long because we obsess - Rockabye took months to make, especially because we make our own music videos, as well. Each single project takes us about half a year. And everything else gets put to the side.
After we released Symphony, we were able to focus on loads of other songs we'd started a couple of years ago. And that one, we're so happy to finish. Because really, everyone who heard it online, from the Coachella performance, hounded us in almost abusive ways.
Marina has a very passionate and devoted fanbase, doesn't she?
Grace: Yeah, some of them get quite cross. So they'll be really happy today.
Jack: We get such creative abuse from her fans. Very creative and new swearing terms.
Speaking of which, where is your new album? It's been three years since New Eyes.
Jack: It's on the way!
But you told me that last year.
Jack: Really? When did we say?
You reckoned it'd be out in the autumn.
Grace: Well, any autumn soon it'll be ready.
With the way streaming works now, have you ever thought of abandoning albums and just releasing a string of single?
Jack: I think it [the album] still really matters. I think we'll try and do both - releasing singles and playing live - but the album is slowly getting there,.
Grace: The first album, New Eyes, took years, And when we put all the songs together they didn't necessarily all fit. Whereas this one, we've been thinking much more in terms of The Album That Will Be.
Rockabye was Christmas number one last year. Are you going to try to get three in a row, like The Spice Girls?
Jack: Yeah, definitely. I hadn't thought of that before, but I think we should.
Grace: We should make an actual Christmas song, not just any old single.
Just take your best song and put sleigh bells on it
Jack: We've got a sleigh bells version of Rockabye but we weren't allowed to put it out. Sean Paul's management vetoed it. It maybe was a step too far.
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Det Con Michael Stokes and ex-colleague Det Sgt Stephen Phillips deny taking cash found in a Swansea safe in 2011.
Det Con Stokes told Cardiff Crown Court he was "wind-up merchant".
Earlier on Monday, the jury was directed to find a third officer, Det Con Christopher Evans, 38, from Llangennech, not guilty of theft.
The trial has previously heard from a colleague who told the court Det Con Stokes admitted taking cash from a drug dealer.
But taking to the witness stand for the first time on Monday, Det Con Stokes said the admission was "not serious".
"I'd been branded a thief. My reputation had gone. My name had gone and I didn't understand why anyone was taking it seriously," he said.
He told the jury: "I'm extremely childish and I'm a wind-up merchant."
The court heard his pranks included persuading a colleague to eat pot pourri, tricking another officer into thinking he was sending messages to a long-standing crush, and giving another a fake £20,000 lottery scratchcard.
Earlier the jury heard his co-defendant Mr Phillips was dismissed from the force after pleading guilty to a £250 theft.
The court was told he was caught after an "integrity test", in which a staged raid was carried out.
He was seen taking £240 from a coat and £10 from a bedside cabinet.
The trial continues.
BBC One will show a special programme, Strictly Len Goodman, on Friday.
The National Grid said the show would drive the biggest festive "TV pickup" - a sudden surge in electricity demand.
The spike is largely down to viewers turning on lights and boiling their kettles straight after the programme.
There is also a surge in the number of people going to the bathroom, which leads to a spike in the use of water companies' pumps, which draw electricity.
The Great British Bake Off, the Strictly Christmas special and Call the Midwife are also expected to create high demand over the Christmas period.
But TV surges create less demand now than they did 20 years ago because more people use catch-up services to watch TV and do not all see a programme live.
Jeremy Caplin, forecasting manager at the National Grid, told The Guardian that predicting electricity surges was determined simply by "picking up the Radio Times and seeing what people are interested in".
He added: "It is definitely art rather than science. Every morning somebody will go through the previous day and fill in the database to see what programme had a pickup. We can use that history to predict what will happen going forward."
The biggest Christmas Day TV pick-up of all time occurred in 1996, after a festive special of Only Fools and Horses.
However, the biggest surge in electricity demand on Christmas Day comes not from watching TV, but cooking. The National Grid said the biggest demand is in the early afternoon as turkeys are roasted.
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The watchdog imposed fines of £1.14m for nuisance calls and texts compared with £330,000 of penalties in 2014.
It comes after a change to the law in April made it easier to penalise firms.
The biggest fines were for companies selling pharmaceuticals, call blocking services and payment protection insurance (PPI) compensation.
From April, the ICO only had to demonstrate calls and messages were a "nuisance" rather than the cause of "serious damage and distress".
An ICO spokesman told the BBC the lower threshold helped "enormously" in bringing more fines.
The regulator received 170,000 complaints this year and has made unsolicited calls one of its top priorities.
Andy Currey of the ICO said the regulator had another 90 investigations in the pipeline with fines likely to total £1m.
Mr Currey said: "The law is clear around what is allowed, and we've been clear that we will fine companies who don't follow the law. That will continue in 2016."
Help Direct UK, a Swansea-based call centre, was fined £200,000 after sending thousands of spam texts for PPI claims, bank refunds and loans, prompting almost 7,000 complaints in one month.
Two firms selling call blocking services, Cold Call Eliminations and Point One Marketing, were fined £75,000 and £50,000 respectively.
Other penalties included £200,000 for a solar panels company that made six million nuisance calls, and £130,000 for Pharmacy 2U for selling customer details to marketing companies.
Last month, the ICO sent over 1,000 letters to companies involved in buying and selling personal data to check they were acting lawfully.
Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer watchdog Which? said: "Millions of people are still being plagued with nuisance calls so it's good to see more firms being fined for flouting the rules.
"However we also need to see further action including much tougher penalties for senior executives of companies making unlawful calls including board directors being held personally accountable."
Heather Ilott, of Ware, Hertfordshire, went to court after her mother Melita Jackson left her £486,000 estate to animal charities when she died in 2004.
The Court of Appeal has ruled she should receive a third of the estate.
The ruling could significantly weaken people's right to leave money to those they want to inherit it, it is thought.
The court heard Mrs Ilott, 54, had eloped at the age of 17 with her boyfriend and, as a result, her mother had never forgiven her and did not want her to receive a penny of her estate. It was left to the RSPCA, RSPB and Blue Cross charities.
Mrs Ilott later married her partner. They have five children and the court heard Mrs Ilott planned to use the inheritance to buy their housing association home.
by Clive Coleman, legal affairs correspondent
When Melita Jackson died in 2004 she made it crystal clear she didn't want her estranged daughter Heather Ilott to benefit, and so left her estate to animal charities with which she had little connection.
The relationship between mother and daughter soured when, aged 17, Heather eloped with her future husband.
Yesterday she was awarded a third of the estate because her mother hadn't left "reasonable provision" for her in the will.
She'll now be able to buy her housing association property and won't lose her state benefits.
Experts say the ruling means you can still disinherit your children but you'll have to explain why and what connects you to those you do leave money to.
That'll make it easier for adult "disinherited" children to challenge wills and claim greater sums by way of reasonable provision.
Mrs Jackson made her last will in 2002 with a letter to explain why she had disinherited her only daughter, referring to the fact she had walked out of her home in 1978 to live with her boyfriend.
Mrs Ilott, who was an only child born two months after her father died in an accident, had in 2007 won the right to an inheritance of £50,000 after a district judge concluded she had been "unreasonably" excluded by Mrs Jackson. That ruling was reversed, before Appeal Court judges ruled she was entitled to a share of the money.
Case timeline
2002: Melita Jackson makes her last will with a letter to explain why she had disinherited her only daughter, referring to the fact that she had walked out of her home in 1978 to live with her boyfriend.
2004: Mrs Jackson dies aged 70.
2007: Heather Ilott, her daughter, challenges the will under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act and is awarded £50,000 on the basis she had been "unreasonably" excluded by her mother. But when she applies for a larger share of the money, a High Court judge reverses the decision to award it to her in the first place.
2011: The Court of Appeal rules Mrs Ilott is entitled to a share of the money after all.
2014: Mrs Ilott loses a battle to get a larger share of the money at the High Court - a decision which has now been successfully challenged at the Court of Appeal.
When Mrs Ilott appealed to get the amount increased, Mrs Justice Parker dismissed this at the High Court in London, ruling in March 2014 that the previous decision that £50,000 was appropriate could not "be said to be wrong".
However, in the latest hearing Lady Justice Arden said Mrs Ilott's mother had been "unreasonable, capricious and harsh" and ruled she should receive a greater proportion of the estate.
In a joint statement, the three charities said they were "surprised and disappointed" by the judgement.
The solicitor representing them, James Aspden from Wilsons LLP, said it was a "worrying decision for anyone who values having the freedom to choose who will receive their property when they die".
David Mitson from Gisby Harrison Solicitors, who made Mrs Jackson's will, said he could not comment on the latest development because of client confidentiality.
A battle of wills
The Owls drew with Brighton in the second leg of the Championship play-off to book their spot in the May 28 final.
"I used to see the games on a black and white TV and it used to be the final of the cup in England," the Portuguese, 50, told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"I never thought I would go to Wembley one day and now this is something that we have achieved."
It is the first time in 23 years that Wednesday have reached Wembley and they now have a chance to end their 16-year exile from the top flight.
The Owls were 19th in the Championship table at one point but Carvalhal, who took over in June 2015, has led them steadily up the league.
"I played football for a long time and the things that I remember is not the money, but the good moments when we played important games and when we reached cup finals," he continued.
"These things are more than money, they make us stay in the history of the club. We are making history. It is something important and the players deserve it absolutely."
Wednesday had only finished twice in the top half of the Championship before this season after being relegated from the Premier League in 2000.
They ended the season 15 points behind play-off opponents Brighton, but Ross Wallace's strike cancelled out Lewis Dunk's early goal on Monday to send Wednesday through 3-1 on aggregate.
"I said to the coach of Brighton that you don't deserve all of this because they had a fantastic season, but also we deserve what we are leaving with," Carvalhal added.
"It is something that we achieved together, as players and fans, and I am very happy and proud." | Shares in housebuilders drove the FTSE 100 higher on the news that the government is to announce new money to build more homes.
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We have some great role models now and we are going to take advantage of the upturn in participation
He said that view was "narrow-minded", adding: "There are over 40,000 people who play curling in Scotland."
Britain won four medals in Sochi.
Lizzy Yarnold took gold in the skeleton, the men's and women's curlers claimed silver and bronze respectively, while snowboard slopestyler Jenny Jones pocketed a bronze.
"We have some great role models now and we are going to take advantage of the upturn in participation," said Hay.
He also highlighted the ease of access to curling facilities in Scotland, but conceded that is not matched in other parts of the United Kingdom.
"There are 30 ice rinks in Scotland - 15 of them dedicated to curling and the rest being multi-sport - but we have a problem in England," Hay told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We have the ice rinks but we do need the facility there in terms of the stones and the ice-making equipment."
Jones, who became GB's first ever medal-winner on snow, insisted her sport was "more accessible than a lot of people think".
"There are a lot of folks up in Scotland that can go and ride up in the mountains and there are loads of indoor and dry slopes I would encourage people to go to," said Jones, who learnt to ski on a dry slope near Bristol and funded her early career by working as a chalet maid.
Chef de Mission Jon Doig, speaking 12 months before the Games get under way, said the 2006 Melbourne Games would act as the "benchmark".
Scotland won 29 medals in Melbourne and Doig hopes to eclipse that number.
"We're looking for that best-ever overseas performance," Doig told BBC Radio Scotland.
Doig says the Scots involved will relish the prospect of competing at the Gold Coast Games.
"There's been a bit of a change for the programme from Glasgow (2014) which makes it a bit more challenging for us with Judo being out," he added.
"We've got some great sports like beach volleyball and basketball in there. There are also some other changes, we've now got equality in the middle programme between male and female. And, of course, we've got the para sports as well.
"We're really looking forward to it; things are on track and the selection period is open for us. We've got some great performances already starting to happen.
"We're looking for that best-ever overseas performance. Melbourne is a really good benchmark for us because it was nearly the same programme and the same time of year, and challenges and preparation.
"So, that's our first benchmark and, once we get past that particular point, then we'll be looking for other performances to come in and then go past that point."
Lynne Beattie, who captained the British volleyball team at the London Olympics, is hoping to qualify for the Gold Coast with partner Melissa Coutts after making the switch to beach volleyball, which will be played for first time at a Commonwealth Games.
"I represented Team GB at London 2012, so now to have the opportunity to represent Team Scotland in the Gold Coast is an absolutely massive opportunity not just for us as a team but our sport as well," she said.
The pair have just returned from competing in their first world tour event in Sydney, where they finished ninth.
"There are a couple of routes to quality for the Games and one of those is a top-four world ranking by September and the other is a one-off continental tournament in September," Beattie added.
"The winner of that would then go in and we are trying to keep our options open.
"We are really optimistic and our training is going really well."
Paul Bowers, 47, died when several tonnes of metal fell on him in January 2013 while working at the warehouse of CAV Cambridge at Cambridge Airport.
The Old Bailey trial heard the components were stacked too high.
Parent company CAV Aerospace, from County Durham, has pleaded not guilty to corporate manslaughter.
Mr Bowers, of Peverel Close, Cambridge, died of severe multiple injuries on 26 January 2013, an inquest heard.
Cambridgeshire Police charged the aerospace firm following evidence from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Consett-based CAV Aerospace, which owns five sites in the UK and four abroad, was responsible for ordering stock and maintaining health and safety at the warehouse run by a subsidiary company.
Opening the trial, prosecutor Duncan Atkinson told the court Cav Aerospace had been warned that piles of components were "dangerously high".
Mr Bowers died when an unstable stack of metal components toppled on to him as he made his way down a "designated safe walkway", trapping him up to his chest and crushing him.
The components had not been stacked safely and there was too much stock in the hangar, Mr Atkinson said.
"Only the senior management team of CAV Aerospace Ltd... had the power to resolve this problem before such an accident occurred.
"Despite the repeated and explicit warnings they received, they failed to do so by 26 January 2013."
He alleged CAV Aerospace Ltd was "guilty of negligent acts and omissions" and breached its duty of care to workers in the hangar.
The trial continues.
February footfall saw a 2.3% drop compared to 12 months earlier; Scotland and Northern Ireland saw an increase of 1.2% and 1.3% respectively. The UK average saw a 0.8% drop.
Greater London and Wales saw the biggest decline.
Sara Jones from the Welsh Retail Consortium said the figures will be of "continued concern for retailers".
Despite a twelfth successive month of falling shoppers, there was some recovery from the January slump.
Diane Wehrle, of Springboard, which compiled the data, said the Welsh figures "must be put into the context of a much greater drop of 8.8% in February last year and 4.6% fall in January".
Ms Jones said the WRC will work with partners, including the Welsh government, to look at how regeneration strategies can help boost shopper numbers.
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, fell from a fire escape after Friday evening's performance at the Imperial Theatre, said representative Marc Thibodeau.
Last month, Mr Jean-Baptiste made history performing the role of ex-convict Jean Valjean in the musical.
A statement described him as a remarkable young talent.
The notice placed on Facebook said: "The entire Les Miserables family is shocked and devastated by the sudden and tragic loss of Kyle."
It described him as a "tremendous person who made magic and history in his Broadway debut".
In May, Mr Jean-Baptiste announced on Twitter he would be joining Cameron Mackintosh's production of Les Miserables as Courfeyrac and understudying Jean Valjean. He first went on stage in that role on 23 July.
He told Playbill magazine: "This was my dream since I was a little boy."
His last performance in the role was on Thursday.
The circumstances of Mr Jean-Baptiste's death are unclear. Some reports have said he was at his mother's home at the time.
Fellow actors took to social media to pay tribute to the star.
"Shocked and saddened to have lost one of Broadway's youngest treasures,'' tweeted Tony Award-nominee Joshua Henry.
Teal Wicks, starring in Finding Neverland, said she was "devastated" and he was "a new friend and a shining star".
Ansel Elgort said: "I played opposite Kyle Jean-Baptiste in Hairspray in high school at Laguardia. What I remember most above his talent was his warmth."
Ukrainian electricity company Ukrenergo said a pylon had come down and it was investigating the cause.
Russian forces annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, but the peninsula remains largely dependent on Ukraine for electricity.
The current disruption is not thought to be as serious as November's outage.
Crimea's two million people were severely affected when four pylons on the Kakhovsky-Titan power line were intentionally damaged on 22 November. It took more than a fortnight for supplies to be restored.
Until recently Ukraine provided Crimea with 70% of its power, but Russia is now trying to boost electricity supplies to the peninsula.
Moscow officials says two power lines through the Kerch Strait began providing 400 megawatts of electricity to Ukraine this month and further supplies will begin in May 2016.
The issue of energy supplies between Russia and Ukraine has become intensely politicised since Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was deposed in February 2014.
A contract between Ukrenergo and Crimea was set to come to an end on Thursday and there was no indication that it was being renewed in time for the new year.
A free trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU, due to come into force on 1 January, has also added tensions in the region.
No power at all was flowing from Ukraine to Crimea on Thursday, and officials on the annexed peninsula were planning to phase in rotating power cuts ahead of the Russian New Year holiday.
"I am asking people of Crimea not to worry. The Crimean authorities have the situation completely under control," Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov wrote on his Facebook page.
"We have not been relying on Ukrainian electricity and we are not relying on it now."
Ukrenergo spokesman Zynoviy Butsyo told Ukrainian TV that a pylon had come down some 20km (12 miles) from Kakhovka, to the north of Crimea, and officials were trying to work out how long repairs would take.
Crimean Tatar activist Lenur Islyamov suggested that strong winds might have brought down the pylon and denied that Tatar activists had been behind the latest power cut.
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The FTSE 100 ended the day down 27.06 points or 0.42% at 6,417.02.
WPP shares dropped 2.2%, despite the company saying it was on track to hit its full-year targets.
Like-for-like net sales grew by 3.3% in the third quarter, up from 2.3% in the first half of the year. Its full-year target is growth above 3%.
However, analysts said the results were slightly disappointing.
In the FTSE 250, shares in TalkTalk fell a further 12% as investors continued to shun the telecoms company in the wake of last week's cyber-attack.
At the weekend, TalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding said the attack was "smaller" than originally thought, but customers' bank account and sort code details may have been accessed.
Shares in Aberdeen Asset Management rose 2.9% following a report in the Financial Times that the company could be up for sale.
The FT said that Aberdeen's chief executive, Martin Gilbert, had begun to seek possible buyers of the business.
However, in a statement issued to the Reuters news agency, the company denied the reports.
"In his 32 years running Aberdeen, Martin Gilbert has never approached anyone, formally or informally, about buying the business," the statement said.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.3% against the dollar to $1.5361 and was barely moved against the euro at €1.3905.
The eastbound exit at junction 4 of the M54 at Shifnal, Shropshire, remains closed while forensic teams continue to search for clues to the man's identity.
Police said the bones were human and were believed to be from the same skeleton as the skull found by maintenance workers on 20 August.
Tests determined the remains had been at the scene for at least two years.
A post-mortem examination proved inconclusive as to how the man died.
The latest discoveries were unearthed close to the surface and near where the previous remains were found, a spokeswoman for West Mercia Police said.
It will not be known if all findings represent a complete skeleton until the pathologists have completed their inquiries, she added.
Searches are expected to come to an end on Thursday evening and the M54 slip road will remain closed for unrelated road works, she said.
Ruth Appleby, from North Yorkshire, was told her daughter had died hours after being born apparently healthy in 1992.
She later learned that thousands of Spanish babies were taken and given up for adoption.
Mrs Appleby has pursued her case through the Spanish legal system without success.
"The last appeal that we did was to the constitutional tribunal," she said.
"When that was rejected that was considered there was no where else we could go, so it opened the door for us to the European Court of Human Rights."
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Mrs Appleby, from Catterick Garrison, gave birth at a hospital in La Coruna in northern Spain where she was living at the time.
The following day she was told her child had died.
When she returned to the UK in 2010 she had her daughter's remains exhumed for cremation but said the skeleton she saw in the coffin appeared to be that of a much older infant.
The following year she learned of the scandal of stolen babies in Spain and went on to report the matter to police in 2012.
In May, she travelled to Madrid with a number of MEPs from the European Parliament who were investigating the claims of child abduction.
Labour MEP for the North East, Jude Kirton-Darling, who has campaigned alongside Mrs Appleby, said: "The... decision to hear Ruth's case is a great step forward for both finding the truth about her child, and the countless other mothers who have had their children taken from them.
"One of the human rights which is defended in Strasbourg is the right to fair justice, a fair hearing in court.
"The second right that Ruth is really challenging on is her right to a family life. Her child has been gone for so long and that's a child that's missing from her family.
"It could be a massive precedent which will really blow open this whole scandal and allow people to finally get the justice they have been calling for."
Spain's 'Niños robados' (stolen children)
The suspect walked into the Wineflair store on the Upper Lisburn Road in Finaghy at 08:10 GMT on Saturday.
Police said a small amount of money was handed over.
The man was described as being in his 20s, about 5ft 5", of heavy build and wearing a red hat and red-hooded top.
PSNI Det Sgt Michael Hawthorne said: "I would appeal to anyone who saw a male matching this description in the Finaghy area this morning or who has any information which could assist us with our enquiries to contact detectives at Musgrave on 101 quoting reference number 300 26/11/16 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."
In December 2011 the regions - Cardiff Blues, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets - imposed a salary cap of £3.5m a year when all four were posting losses.
The rise reflects improved finances, with extra money from Europe and a new deal with the Welsh Rugby Union.
Pro Rugby Wales declined to comment, but it is understood the decision was mutually agreed after a review.
It is hoped the extra cash will help the regions retain star players and potentially bring more "Welsh exiles" home.
Leigh Halfpenny, Jonathan Davies, George North and Luke Charteris are thought to be considering returning to Wales next season.
The Ospreys are hoping Dan Biggar and Alun Wyn Jones will agree to extend their current National Dual Contracts.
However, the regions - represented by Pro Rugby Wales - are expected to make building squad depth a priority, and not necessarily spend big figures on marquee signings.
The new ceiling - which is self-imposed - is still some way below that of England's Aviva Premiership.
Premiership Rugby Limited - the umbrella body that governs England's Premiership clubs - announced in October they would be raising their cap next season from £5.1m to £6.5m, and to £7m the season after that.
These figures exclude the salaries of two so-called "marquee signings" that remain outside the cap.
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Chris lives in Australia and his dogs perform tricks, jumping on his shoulders and back, as he rides the waves.
But he also travels around the country with them to help teach owners and rescue shelter staff how to look after their dogs better.
He teaches that exercise and discipline are really important for the wellbeing of dogs.
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Mr Petro, a leading leftist seen as a potential presidential candidate in the 2018 elections, was banned from holding office for 15 years.
The mayor had violated the principles of the free market and endangered people's health, the prosecution said.
Thousands of people gathered in Bogota's central square to protest.
In 2012, rubbish was not collected for days after waste management changes.
Mr Petro, a former member of the revolutionary armed group M-19, called the decision a "coup" and urged the people to protest peacefully.
Shortly after the decision was announced by Inspector-General Alejandro Ordonez, protesters started gathering at Bogota's central Bolivar Square.
"I'm asking the world for solidarity. We're facing a coup against the progressive government of the city of Bogota," Mr Petro wrote on Twitter.
On his Facebook page, Mr Petro wrote that he had been condemned for having "de-privatised a public service".
The Colombian Constitution gives the Inspector General's Office the power to check the performance of those holding public office.
But the decision by Mr Ordonez sparked criticism from Justice Minister, Alfonso Gomez Mendez.
"We have to revise the constitutional norm that allows the destitution of an official chosen by popular vote," Mr Gomez told reporters.
Mr Petro's term started in 2012 and was supposed to end in 2016.
He is allowed to appeal against the decision to the Inspector General's Office or to the Council of State, a Supreme Court panel dedicated to public administration cases.
Inspector-General Ordonez had already sparked controversy by openly opposing gay marriage and the current peace talks with the Farc rebels.
Kevin Brown excelled on his Wire debut, scoring a try in the second minute.
Ryan Atkins and Matty Russell helped the hosts into a 20-0 lead and Tom Lineham also crossed before half-time.
Declan Patton added 11 points with the boot, while Corey Oates, James Roberts and David Mead replied for Brisbane.
Leeds' World Club Challenge win over Manly five years earlier had been the last time a northern hemisphere side had beaten one of their NRL counterparts, and Super League clubs had lost all six matches since the expanded World Club Series began in 2015.
Super League champions Wigan Warriors host NRL Grand Final winners Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the World Club Challenge on Sunday (15:00 GMT).
Brisbane, coached by England boss Wayne Bennett, do not begin their league season until 2 March and a lack of match practice appeared to contribute to their slow start, for which they were clinically punished.
Warrington made the perfect start when Joe Westerman raced 60 metres after charging down a kick and Brown, a winter signing from local rivals Widnes, darted over after Westerman had been hauled down short of the line.
Last season's beaten Super League finalists were 20-0 up after 19 minutes as Atkins powered over and Russell showed neat footwork to evade three Brisbane defenders.
Oates went over acrobatically in the corner for the Broncos but winger Lineham's score for Warrington, given after consultation with the video referee, helped the Wire to an 18-point lead at half-time.
Brisbane improved after the break and Roberts' 80-metre dash for a try gave the Australian side some heart, but Patton's drop goal and a fifth successful kick from the tee established a three-score advantage which was rarely threatened.
Warrington prop Ashton Sims told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra:
"We wanted to get Super League off to a good start. Not too many people gave us a chance but we know the belief in our squad and it was good to put a good performance out.
"I felt like our ball control was good, especially in that first 20 minutes, and our kicking game was great. That's a great way to kick-start our year.
"We wish Wigan and Cronulla all the best for Sunday. I had 11 or 12 great seasons in the NRL and I love that competition. May the best team win, but hopefully people will look a little bit differently at Super League after that result."
Warrington: Gidley; Russell, Evans, Atkins, Lineham; Brown, Patton; Cooper, Clark, Sims, Hughes, Savelio, Westerman.
Replacements: Westwood, Livett, Philbin, Dwyer.
Brisbane: Boyd; Oates, Roberts, Kahu, Mead; Milford, Hunt; McGuire, Gillett, Thaiday, Ofahengaue, Ese'ese, McCullough.
Replacements: Glenn, Pangai Jnr, Arrow, Fai.
Referee: Phil Bentham
The latest cases on Tycoch campus at Gower College follow another five across Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire.
Those cases are not related to the college outbreak.
But Public Health Wales is advising people who are not protected to speak to their GP to arrange a vaccination.
Students at Gower College are to be offered catch-up MMR jabs on Thursday.
Dr Jorg Hoffmann, consultant in communicable disease control for Public Health Wales, called the new cluster a concern.
"We now once again have evidence of community spread in the Neath and Swansea areas, resulting in two confirmed outbreaks and a significant number of cases which could not be linked to either of them," he said.
At the end of December there were 44 cases linked to four schools in the Neath and Swansea area.
The current outbreak follows the largest spread of measles in Wales since the introduction of the MMR vaccination.
There were more than 1,200 suspected cases in the same area between November 2012 and July 2013, resulting in one death and 88 people having to go to hospital.
Since then more than 70,000 catch-up doses of MMR have been given in Wales, but around 30,000 young people remain unprotected, Public Health Wales said.
People queued with their children outside special clinics for vaccinations set up during the height of last year's outbreak.
Measles' symptoms include a fever, tiredness, a runny nose, conjunctivitis and a distinctive red rash.
It is very contagious and can cause serious complications, and in rare cases, death.
Anyone who thinks they or their child has symptoms should can their GP or NHS Direct Wales on 0845 46 47.
Liam McMeechan, 23, left Tahir Ahmed with a fractured skull following the raid at A&A newsagents in South Trinity Road on 12 August 2016.
Mr Ahmed, who feared he was going to die, had tried to fight off McMeechan.
Earlier, McMeechan pleaded guilty to assaulting the shopkeeper to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement.
Accomplice David Allan, 50, admitted to a charge of attempted robbery and was jailed for 32 months at the High Court in Glasgow.
Lord Boyd jailed McMeechan for seven years - but he must first serve 414 days from a previous sentence.
The judge said McMeechan, who has a string of robbery convictions, was a "considerable menace".
McMeechan will also be supervised for two years on his release.
Mr Ahmed needed 14 staples for serious head wounds and has been left scarred for life.
The colourful sculptures have attracted people from across the world since they were installed eight weeks ago.
The free trail is run by children's hospital charity the Grand Appeal - much of the money is raised when the Shauns are auctioned in October.
While official figures are not yet ready, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have taken part.
More than 200,000 maps have been given away and the trail app has been downloaded about 80,000 times - including in the US, Japan and Australia.
The sculptures of the popular Aardman character are individually painted by artists and some celebrities among others.
Before the Bristol trail began in July, another 50 Shauns were on display across London.
Fork lift trucks will move in from 17:00 BST on Monday to remove the steel-reinforced fibreglass figures, which, along with their concrete bases, can weigh three quarters of a tonne.
They will then be cleaned up before an exhibition of all the sculptures from Bristol and London at the Mall shopping centre in Cribbs Causeway, near Bristol from 12 September.
They will return to London for a second exhibition in Covent Garden, before the final auction in Bristol on 8 October.
John Hirst, chief executive of Destination Bristol, said the trail had given Bristol a boost, which was continuing thanks to Banksy's surprise Dismaland exhibition in Weston-super-Mare.
Daisy Mae Burrill died at Manchester Children's Hospital on 14 March, three days after being found at a property in Warren Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire.
A post-mortem examination revealed she died from a head injury, Lancashire Police said.
John Burrill, 30, from Gordon Road, Fleetwood, appeared for a brief hearing at Blackpool Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody.
He is due to appear at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday.
A 29-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of causing or allowing the death of a child has been released without charge.
The baby was found at 06:30 GMT on 11 March and taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital having suffered a suspected cardiac arrest.
She was transferred to Manchester Children's Hospital.
The two-vehicle crash involving a Range Rover and Toyota happened at about 07:30 GMT on Thursday on the A48.
A woman, 21, is being treated for serious injuries with officers supporting her family and a man who was driving the other car also being treated.
Gwent Police has appealed for witnesses.
It identifies gaps in future plans and spending commitments around flood risk, management of natural resources and the impact on public health.
Policies "do not exist at present" to adapt homes or other buildings to deal with projected higher temperatures.
The Welsh Government has welcomed the report and said it was taking action.
The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Evidence Report took over three years to write and involved hundreds of leading scientists.
It sets out the most urgent risks and opportunities arising from climate change, with a summary for each devolved nation including Wales.
The 2,000-page study is by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), an independent body set up by the UK government.
It included looking at areas such as future flood risk, the effect on natural resources, people, buildings, business, farming and wildlife, as well as looking at security issues and extreme climate change scenarios.
The report says the impacts of climate change are already being felt in the UK. Globally, 14 of the 15 hottest years on record having occurred since 2000.
Prof Lord John Krebs, chairman of the CCC's Adaptation Sub-Committee, told BBC Wales the risks the country faced were similar to those across the UK but that "poor quality infrastructure" was an issue.
"Wales is one part of the country with a lot of poor housing stock and we need to look at how we make those homes more resilient."
But Prof Krebs, once a zoology lecturer at Bangor University, said Wales was getting off to "a very good start" when it came to confronting the challenges posed by climate change.
He described the Welsh Government's Wellbeing of Future Generations Act as "a very good framework for working on this".
The Act obliges public bodies in Wales, such as local councils and the NHS, to consider the long-term impact of every decision they make on efforts to tackle climate change among other things.
The CCC reviewed current evidence and commissioned new research for this report.
Ministers in Westminster now have to formally respond with plans to tackle the issues raised, while the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish governments will also use the information to strengthen and develop their own laws.
The UK government has to compile risk assessments on climate change every five years and this will be presented to Parliament next year.
Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, said infrastructure in Wales must be "fit-for-purpose" and take account of future changes, including heat and severe weather events.
"More than 60% of people in Wales live and work near the coast, including in all our major cities and many important towns," she said.
"Already 222,000 homes are at risk of flooding and that figure is likely to increase together with the £200m estimated cost of putting it right.
"Flooding and coastal change must be seen as a priority with agencies working together to protect communities."
A Welsh Government spokesperson welcomed the report, saying it would will take time to consider its findings.
"We are aware of the importance of building resilience in our homes and communities, which is why we are taking measures to better protect these from the affects of climate change in the future.
"For example, we are investing almost £55m in flood defences this year alone.
"We have also strengthened legislation through our Environment (Wales) Act and Well-being of Future Generations Act to reduce the impacts of climate change and ensure the long-term risk from climate change are considered in decisions made by public bodies."
Nadia Eweida, a British Airways check-in clerk who had been suspended by the company for insisting on wearing a small silver cross, had been vindicated.
The court had accepted that the UK government and courts had failed to protect her right to express her Christian faith, and she had even been awarded 6,000 euros in compensation and lost pay.
The judgement confirmed that wearing a cross was a legitimate way for Christians to express their religious beliefs.
It will make it that much harder for companies to introduce unreasonable restrictions on the wearing of Christian and other symbols of faith at work.
But that is more or less all traditionalist Christians can find to applaud in the judgement from Strasbourg.
For a start Ms Eweida's was something of a special case.
The court pointed out that her cross had been too "discreet" to stand any chance of damaging British Airways' corporate image, and the company had changed its uniform policy to allow such symbols shortly after the row anyway.
It turned down the appeal of Shirley Chaplin, a nurse from Exeter, whose employer had said the cross she wore was unhygienic.
The court said it was not in a position to judge the risk to health, but its finding suggests that if a company could reasonably demonstrate a risk to health and safety it would be able to prevent staff from wearing religious symbols.
The court's decisions in the cases of the remaining two Christians also seem to hand considerable discretion to employers to decide policies for providing services and to require their staff to abide by them whatever their religious beliefs.
Lillian Ladele was a registrar for Islington Council in London, but lost her job after she refused to preside over civil partnerships.
She was able to manage for some time by swapping tasks with colleagues who were happy to officiate at the same-sex ceremonies.
But after a complaint was made to the council, Ms Ladele was told she had to perform civil partnerships.
Gary McFarlane was sacked by Relate after he refused to counsel gay couples about their sexual relationships.
He had been advising homosexual people about their relationships for some time.
Both Ms Ladele and Mr McFarlane had argued in Strasbourg for "reasonable accommodation" - a compromise in which an employer would find alternative staff without conflicting religious convictions to perform the task.
They stressed that no gay person had been denied either a civil partnership or counselling as a result of their refusal to provide them.
But, dismissing both cases, the court said employers could oblige all their staff to comply with a reasonable policy.
Secularists had insisted that to do otherwise in either Ms Ladele's or Mr McFarlane's case would be demeaning to gay people, and "retrogressive".
The judgement does not mean a company can ignore the religious views of employees but it can override them in order to achieve "a higher priority" - in this case making sure gay people get equal treatment in the provision of services.
Companies will be able to ask applicants for jobs what their position is on issues such as civil partnerships or sexual counselling for gay couples, and refuse them the post if their religious beliefs would prevent them from doing the work.
None of this means that the right of Christians, traditionalist or otherwise, to hold religious beliefs has been undermined by the judgement.
British courts have distinguished between the right to hold a religious belief - which is protected under the law - and the right to manifest or express it, where the protection is much more qualified.
Traditionalist Christians claim their rights to freedom of religious conscience have been steadily subordinated to the rights - especially of homosexual people - to equality.
The European Court of Human Rights allows generous latitude to Council of Europe states to make their own decisions about such developments as civil partnerships.
The UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission suggested that British courts had interpreted the law on manifestation of religion and religious discrimination too narrowly in the past.
Myriad cases have come before the courts concerning not just counselling or civil partnerships but such issues as the placing of children for adoption by same-sex parents and the turning away of gay couples from guesthouses.
The European Court of Human Rights' judgement set a legal seal on the numerous hearings in which Christians have tried, and failed, to defend their values against secular ones in British courts.
Occasionally judges have seemed scathing about the claims made by Christians.
Dismissing an earlier appeal by Mr McFarlane, Mr Justice Laws said legislation that protected views, simply because they were religious, would be irrational, divisive and arbitrary.
He added that religion was a "matter of opinion" that could not be proved and should not, therefore, be used as the basis for making law.
Rights are a matter of balance - the exercise of one person's rights can undermine those of another.
That balance has shifted during recent decades, and the influence of Christian teaching on British culture and law has steadily waned.
The European Court of Human Rights has left a milestone on the road to a secular society.
The protest followed clashes after an eight-year-old girl said she had been harassed on her way to school.
Some ultra-Orthodox in Beit Shemesh are seeking to segregate men and women.
President Shimon Peres has backed the protest, saying the "entire nation must be recruited in order to save the majority from the hands of a small minority".
He said the demonstration was a defence of the "character" of the state of Israel "against a minority which breaks our national solidarity".
'Afraid to go to school'
By Jon DonnisonBBC News, Beit Shemesh
By early evening thousands of demonstrators had gathered in Beit Shemesh, waving banners saying "Free Israel". People are angry at the growing influence of Israel's conservative ultra-Orthodox Jews and in particular their treatment of women.
It is a tiny minority of ultra-Orthodox who carry out such attacks. But many Israelis believe the country's character is at stake. They resent the fact that most ultra-Orthodox men don't work or serve in the army. Instead, the government gives them subsidies to carry out religious studies. One man here told me Jewish religious extremism posed a bigger threat to the country than Iran.
The Israeli government, so often critical of religious extremism in Islamic countries, has ordered a crackdown on intolerance at home. In this country there is often a debate about co-existence between Jews and Arabs. In Beit Shemesh, people were asking whether the varying strands of Judaism could co-exist.
Thousands of protesters gathered in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, on Tuesday evening.
They held signs "reading "Free Israel from religious coercion" and "Stop Israel from becoming Iran" - a reference to the Islamist republic's stringent restrictions on women's freedoms.
"This thing is really big and we're fighting for something really serious," one protester, Kinneret Havern told Reuters news agency.
The rally was addressed by opposition leader Tzipi Livni, who said the protesters were "fighting for the image of the state of Israel".
"It's not just Beit Shemesh and not just gender segregation, it's all the extremist elements that are rearing their heads and are trying to impose their worldview on us," she said.
In his statement, Mr Peres said: "No person has the right to threaten a girl, a woman or any person in any way."
Tensions have been growing in recent years between Israel's secular Jews and members of the ultra-orthodox Jews who seek an strict interpretation of religious laws.
In Beit Shemesh, where the communities live in close proximity, there have been regular protests by ultra-Orthodox men outside a religious girls school against what they say is the immodest dress of the children.
Anger spilled over after a documentary was broadcast on national TV in which one of the girls, eight-year-Naama Margolese, said she was afraid to walk to school in the town because ultra-Orthodox men shouted at her.
In October, her mother told the BBC the children were facing daily abuse which was giving them nightmares.
"Whenever she hears a noise she asks, 'are they there, are they out there?'," said Hadassah Margoleese.
Other women have reported similar incidents in the town of 100,000, some 18 miles (30km) south-west of Jerusalem.
Sarit Ramon described the situation in the town, where religiously observant immigrants live alongside Israelis embracing a more modern lifestyle, as having been "catastrophic for years".
Beit Shemesh resident Alisa Coleman told the BBC that she had been called a prostitute when dressed in a short-sleeved T-shirt and a skirt.
Though underlining that this behaviour was carried out by only a tiny proportion of the community, she said what was happening in Beit Shemesh was "a microcosm of what's happening in the whole country".
On Monday, one police officer was slightly hurt and a number of Orthodox Jews were detained after a group of some 300 ultra-Orthodox residents pelted police with stones and eggs in an incident reportedly triggered after police tried to remove a sign ordering segregation.
After the clashes, ultra-Orthodox activists from Beit Shemesh issued a statement condemning the violence, but also accusing the media of initiating "deliberate provocations in order to make the peaceful, quiet and tolerant residents, who live their lives according to their beliefs, look bad".
Such clashes have become more frequent in Israel in recent years as the authorities have challenged efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jews to segregate women in public places.
The BBC's Jon Donnison in Beit Shemesh says the events have highlighted what is a growing religious divide in Israel.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up 10% of the population in Israel. The community has a high birth rate and is growing rapidly.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has concerns over the impact on nature sites and species ranging from water voles to bats under the plans as they stand.
Conservation groups have called it a significant blow to the £1bn project.
The objection comes as part of consultation into the "black route," aimed at cutting traffic congestion.
For the motorway to go ahead the Welsh Government would have to apply to NRW for various licences and permissions covering protected species, flooding and land designated for conservation.
But NRW stated it would object to the plans in their current form.
The concerns are centred around the impact of the proposed motorway around Newport on protected species including otter and dormice and Sites of Special Scientific Interest on the Gwent Levels.
The plans - first put forward 25 years ago - are for a 15-mile (24km) motorway and six-lane bridge over the River Usk to ease problems from the bottleneck at the Brynglas tunnels.
The consultation period for objections to the preferred "black route" option ended earlier this month.
NRW also assesses that the scheme's current draft orders and environmental statement "do not fully demonstrate that the consequences of tidal flooding can be acceptably managed".
The document from NRW's head of operations for south east Wales John Hogg said that the organisation could change its stance if its concerns are taken into account and additional information provided.
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Further consultation documents from environmental groups, seen by BBC Wales, have accused the Welsh Government of undermining the credibility of its own laws, designed to promote sustainable development.
One of the most strongly worded responses comes from climate change scientists Dr Steven Glynn of the Sustainable Change Co-operative and Professor Kevin Anderson of Manchester's Tyndall Centre for Climate Research.
They write that "the M4 scheme is emblematic of a failure to acknowledge the challenges enshrined in the Paris Agreement" to limit global warming.
"If it proceeds it will illustrate the Welsh Government's disregard for its climate change commitments and the impact of unchecked emissions on future generations of Welsh citizens," they wrote.
The Welsh Government has argued that the relief road is justified and vital for Wales' economic future.
Speaking on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, First Minister Carwyn Jones said that the process of developing the "black route" was continuing and would go to a public inquiry.
"We will continue to look at this but there doesn't seem to be an alternative," he said.
"It has to be dealt with as it is the biggest traffic problem we have in Wales."
He dismissed the alternative "blue route" option as being too close to people's homes.
There are hopes work on the new motorway could start in 2018.
The Met Office issued five yellow "be aware" warnings for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
It has forecast southerly gales and also heavy rain for parts of southern, western and northern Scotland.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued over 50 flood warnings where flooding is expected.
Deep standing water on the M9 motorway near Stirling closed the southbound carriageway for several hours.
Because of flooding at Kirkconnel, the railway line between Kilmarnock and Dumfries was closed.
There was further disruption to rail services in Ayrshire because of flooding on the line between Kilwinning and Saltcoats.
The East Kilbride line was also closed briefly because of flooding near Busby.
The M8 motorway was closed westbound at Hillington in Glasgow after portable cabins were blown off a lorry onto the carriageway shortly after 10:30.
And the A1 was closed in both directions at Dunbar in East Lothian after two lorries blew over at about 08:25.
In Dumfries, firefighters were asked to carry out a safety inspection of the police station roof, while the Whitesands area was flooded.
Pupils at Aberfoyle Primary School in Stirling had to be rescued by boat after the building was cut off by flooding.
The B829 Aberfoyle to Kinlochard road was flooded with almost a metre of water after the River Forth burst its banks.
Police and members of Trossachs Search and Rescue team are also at the scene.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service have said they rescued a total of 22 people from serious flooding in the area
Appliances from Bathgate, Aberfoyle and Balfron fire stations, and water rescue teams from Bathgate and Stirling fire stations, used a boat and rescue sleds.
Incident Commander Martyn Brandrick said: "This incident required specialist technical processes to ensure safe systems of work were implemented."
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District Judge Kristine Baker's order came hours after Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson dismissed calls for an in-depth review.
Kenneth Williams, the fourth prisoner executed in eight days, convulsed and groaned, witnesses said.
His lawyers described his death on Thursday as "horrifying".
In addition to the examination, Judge Baker also ordered the preservation of blood and tissue samples from Williams's body.
Her decision came after Jason McGhee, a death-row inmate who had also been scheduled to die on Thursday, filed an emergency order.
He and three others who had been scheduled to die before the state's supply of sedative - part of the lethal injection used to execute prisoners - runs out have all won reprieves.
Earlier, Governor Hutchinson had rejected calls for anything more than a "routine" check into the execution, while Senator Trent Garner - who witnessed the execution - said Williams did not "seem in pain".
But Shawn Nolan, who represented Williams, filed a motion which argued that if "the [drug] midazolam fails to keep the prisoner under anaesthesia, the prisoner would be awake and aware but unable to move or speak or even open his eyes, so he would then look completely serene despite being in agony".
Williams was initially spared the death penalty when he was sentenced to life in prison for the 1998 murder of 19-year-old cheerleader Dominique Hurd.
After a month in the penitentiary, he escaped in October 1999 by hiding in a barrel used to carry kitchen refuse.
Not far from the prison, he encountered Cecil Boren, 57, on his farm.
He killed Mr Boren, shooting him multiple times, and stole his Ford F-150 pick-up truck.
Williams drove north to Missouri, where he led police on a chase that caused the high-speed death of 24-year-old delivery driver Michael Greenwood.
After being jailed, Williams became an ordained Protestant minister, and wrote his autobiography as well as a book warning against gang life.
The SNP benches have been packed as its 50 new MPs pour into the House of Commons for each maiden speech.
Mr Bercow praised the practice after Edinburgh East MP Tommy Sheppard's first remarks to the Commons.
He had previously told the MPs to "show some respect" after they broke Commons tradition by clapping their Westminster leader Angus Robertson.
The Speaker said: "I know I'll be joined by a great many colleagues in admiring the spirit of solidarity which motivates large numbers of members of one party to turn up at the same time.
"I say that in a spirit of genuine respect and so thank you for what you have said."
The SNP won a record 56 of Scotland's 59 seats at the general election.
During the first day of the Queen's Speech debate on Wednesday, Mr Bercow scolded the SNP group for clapping Mr Robertson.
He urged the delegation to respect the long-held ban on clapping in the Commons chamber - despite the rule sometimes being ignored.
In his maiden speech, Mr Sheppard offered an explanation for the incident.
He said: "Mr Speaker, you gave us a gentle rebuke yesterday for the applause we gave in this chamber.
"We take that with good grace. We know, of course, it is not traditional practice in the chamber but we didn't know just how unacceptable it might be found. We will refrain from doing that again.
"It will take us time to learn the processes that work here, it will take us time to get our feet under the table and it will take you time to get used to us. But I hope we will be able to do that in the weeks and months ahead."
The SNP group has begun calling "hear hear", as is traditional in the Commons.
Local Orange Order lodges marched past the Ardoyne shops in north Belfast early on Saturday morning.
Loyalists are now due to dismantle their protest camp at Twaddell Avenue. It was set up in July 2013 after the Parades Commission ruled Orangemen could not walk along the route .
600 police officers were involved in the security operation.
The Orange Order were allowed to march along the route after an agreement between Orangemen and the nationalist residents' association the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association (Cara).
Several dozen protesters from the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (Garc), who reject that deal, gathered at the Ardoyne shops as the parade got underway.
They chanted "walk of shame" but dispersed peacefully after the march passed.
A protest against the parade passed off peacefully on Friday evening. Over 200 people took part.
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"What I find depressing about the current debate at present is that everyone seems to think it is absolutely obvious what the answer is - the only thing is half of them seem to think we should stay in and the other half think we should leave," said Lord King.
People want to be given the arguments and the facts so they can make up their own minds, he explained, adding that this was not possible, if the campaign takes the form of slogans and PR.
Lord King said he had not made up his own mind over the referendum.
Watch the full interview on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel on Tuesday 8 March 2016 or on BBC iPlayer (UK only)
Actor Celyn Jones, who played Thomas in the film Set Fire To Our Stars, will read the poem after a university professor found it by chance.
A Dream of Winter was forgotten after it was published by a magazine in 1942, before Thomas found fame.
Dylan, who died in 1953, became one of Britain's most-loved writers with works such as Under Milk Wood.
Welsh actor Jones said the discovery of A Dream Of Winter was "incredible".
"When I got the call asking if I would do the honour and read it aloud, there was no way I could say no," he said.
"It's the literary equivalent of a lost Beatles track. It's a beautiful poem and is full of the classic Dylan traits."
The reading of the poem will take place in London on Friday at an exclusive event with an invited audience.
A painting, inspired by the poem, by artist Dan Llywelyn Hall - known for his 2013 portrait of the Queen - will also be unveiled.
The poem features eight verses of three lines and focuses on imagery of a birdless wood, snow and "singing statures".
It was published in the British periodical Lilliput, which went out of print just before WW2.
The magazine's archive was later acquired by the late porn baron Paul Raymond, who had no idea about the Thomas poem.
The poem was discovered when, last year, Swansea University Professor John Goodby was contacted by a teacher at his old school.
Allan Wilcox had found the poem on a ripped magazine page amongst the pages of a book on Dylan belonging to the professor's recently deceased English teacher.
The book was a Dylan Thomas collection, compiled by Professor Goodby and dedicated to his late teacher.
The professor said he didn't know anything about the poem and clipping.
"I had never come across the poem before - though there were fleeting references to it in some of Dylan's letters," he said.
"When I finally saw it I couldn't believe it."
Professor Goodby traced the clipping back to Lilliput before finding an untouched copy of the magazine.
"It is completely fortunate the way this poem was found again," he said.
"It is amazing it went undiscovered for so long, but at the time it was published the poem would not been as significant as it is now."
Swansea-born Thomas's other famous works include the poems Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and And Death Shall Have No Dominion.
Although achieving a level of fame early in his career, it was through radio recordings, most notably for the BBC during the late 1940s, that brought him to the public's attention.
He went to the US in the 1950s, where his fame was growing, but the poet, known also for his erratic behaviour and drinking, died prematurely in New York at the age of 39.
Local elections in eastern Germany on Sunday gave the AfD 12.2% in Brandenburg and 10.6% in Thuringia.
The party entered a regional parliament for the first time two weeks ago in Saxony - another eastern German state.
The AfD is mounting a growing challenge to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats. It wants to scrap the euro and sees law and order as a priority.
The party is attracting right-wing supporters, while avoiding links with nationalist extremists.
The Social Democrats (SPD) won in Brandenburg with 32% and are set to remain in power in coalition with the socialist Die Linke who polled 18.9%.
The Christian Democrats (CDU), polled 33.5% in Thuringia, only a few points ahead of Die Linke, who won 28% of the vote.
Until now, the CDU has been in coalition with the SPD in Thuringia but could lose the state to Die Linke if the Social Democrats switch allegiances.
The staunchly pro-euro CDU refuses to form any coalition with the AfD.
The AfD was among many Eurosceptic parties which made large gains in the European elections in May.
The AfD, founded just over a year ago, has seven seats now in the European Parliament. Its MEPs sit in the same grouping as the UK Conservatives, demanding fundamental reform of the EU.
The party campaigns against bailouts for southern European countries, angry that taxpayers' money has been used to save the euro.
"We are the force that's renewing the political landscape," said AfD leader Bernd Lucke, 52, an economics professor.
"One can't deny it anymore: the citizens are thirsting for political change," he said.
The Republican presidential nominee told the forum the Russian president "has been a leader far more than our president [Obama] has been".
It came on the same day the chief of the Pentagon accused Russia of sowing the seeds of global instability.
Mrs Clinton, meanwhile, defended her judgment despite her email scandal.
The White House candidates appeared back to back on stage in half-hour segments at the Intrepid Air and Sea Museum in New York on Wednesday night.
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Quizzed by NBC host Matt Lauer on his previous complimentary remarks about Mr Putin, Mr Trump responded: "He does have an 82% approval rating."
"I think when he calls me brilliant I'll take the compliment, ok?" added the businessman.
He said Mr Putin had "great control over his country".
Mr Trump also predicted that if elected in November, "I think that I'll be able to get along with him."
The property magnate recently drew sharp criticism when he urged Russia to dig up the emails that Mrs Clinton deleted from her email server.
Gabriel Debenedetti writes on the Politico website that neither candidate did much to advance their cause, with Hillary Clinton spending "a third of the time fending off questions about her emails" while "Donald Trump struggled to explain his secret plan to defeat the Islamic State."
Time agreed, citing "plenty of unilluminating blather spewed by both candidates". It said: "The most dispiriting thing was the grim view of the world the candidates gave Americans, with their relentless focus on fighting and terror... There was scant optimism."
One focus was on the performance of NBC moderator Matt Lauer. The New York Times pronounced that the "consensus afterwards was not kind". "Mr Lauer found himself besieged... by critics of all political stripes, who accused the anchor of unfairness, sloppiness and even sexism in his handling of the event."
Lauer's main miss, it seemed, was not to press Donald Trump when he said he had not supported the war in Iraq. Vox was among those pointing to a 2002 Trump interview with radio host Howard Stern that contradicts this.
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It is not the first time Mr Trump has made admiring comments about the Russian leader.
Last December he said it was "a great honour" when Mr Putin called him "a talented person".
Mr Trump's latest remarks came hours after US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said Russia "has clear ambition to erode the principled international order".
In a speech at Oxford University, Mr Carter also appeared to allude to suspected Russian involvement in hacking of Democratic National Committee computers in the US.
On Wednesday night, Mr Trump also courted controversy over sex abuse in the military.
He stood by a comment he made three years ago when he appeared to blame such assaults on the decision to allow women in the forces.
"It is a correct tweet," Mr Trump said of the 2013 Twitter post in which he remarked: "What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?"
The 30 minutes allotted to each candidate made the proceedings feel like the political equivalent of speed-dating.
And like speed-dating gone wrong, there was plenty of time for the participants to bury themselves with their words.
Mrs Clinton once again tripped up when discussing her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Mr Trump found new and interesting ways to show his tenuous command of policy details and shower questionable praise on a US rival.
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Mrs Clinton, who appeared first on stage by virtue of a coin toss, found herself once again on the defensive over her private email server.
A US naval flight officer told the former secretary of state he would have been jailed if he had handled classified information as she had done.
The Democratic nominee replied: "I did exactly what I should have done and I take it very seriously. Always have, always will."
The former secretary of state vowed to defeat the Islamic State group, though she emphasised: "We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again."
Mrs Clinton also said her 2002 Senate vote in favour of the Iraq War was "a mistake".
But she said it meant she was in "the best possible position" to ensure it never happened again.
Mrs Clinton also pointed out that Mr Trump had once supported the invasion.
However, in his comments Donald Trump said: "I was totally against the war in Iraq."
NBC moderator Matt Lauer came in for intense criticism after the debate for not pressing Mr Trump on the statement.
Unusually for a US presidential candidate, Mr Trump made unflattering remarks about America's military leaders.
He said the generals had been "reduced to rubble" during President Barack Obama's administration.
Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton's forum offered a preview of the questions they will face in their three forthcoming presidential debates.
The first will be at Hofstra University near New York on 26 September.
Root hit 254 in the second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford, then 71 not out as the hosts won by 330 runs.
It followed some soft dismissals which the 25-year-old says had led Ramprakash to question if he was "mentally in the right place to play Test cricket".
"That sort of hurt me. It was a good motivator," said Root.
The Yorkshire player's first-innings score helped England to level the series with Pakistan following a defeat at Lord's in the first Test, when two poor shots saw him out for 48 and nine.
"I knew I needed to put a really big performance in at Old Trafford so I worked really hard in practice and spoke to Mark Ramprakash," Root added.
"All he said was, 'It must be your mental approach to things because your game looks in good order'.
"It's actually exactly what I needed to hear and that's why he is such a good batting coach."
Meanwhile, fellow batsman Nick Compton, dropped for the Pakistan series, says the likes of Ramprakash are helping to establish an England team that will "ride away for a number of years".
The Middlesex batsman told BBC Test Match Special: "They've got a strong squad in all forms. It's a good team, they've really got the balance right - it's relaxed but its professional.
"I think [head coach] Trevor Bayliss clearly brought that to the squad, but of course there's a lot of professional people in there, like Mark Ramprakash and [assistant coach] Paul Farbrace, who does a lot of hard work behind the scenes."
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There were times in the middle period, on the economy and EU aid, when it felt that Nigel Farage was dictating the terms of the debate.
The first minister regained some ground in the question and answer sessions but his punchy quick-fire style, followed up by a question, gave plenty of airtime to the UKIP leader who was more than happy to use it as a platform to launch yet another attack on the EU.
Did we learn anything new? Well if we didn't know already, we learnt how difficult it is for an opponent to land a blow on the UKIP leader in a debate like this.
There were potential opportunities for the First Minister over concerns expressed by firms like Airbus, and there was a moment when he appeared to have Mr Farage in trouble early on by repeatedly asking him to back up his claim that more than 70% of British laws are made in the EU.
Was this the moment the former barrister would have the former financier on the ropes?
Well not exactly as the blows were not landed fully. Instead Nigel Farage was beginning to dish it out himself as he rubbished claims that farming would be decimated by a withdrawal, and that Airbus would pull out, sarcastically claiming that planes need wings to fly (this is the reference to the wing-making factory in Flintshire.)
It was breathless stuff at times. The two men, who were clearly pumped up, got into full flow remarkably quickly.
They had very different styles. Carwyn Jones had an unflashy bread and butter approach in which he relied on his experience in his job speaking to potential inward investors and big business in Wales, who all told him that they want the UK to remain in the EU.
The basis of his argument was risk. The fear-card was played repeatedly as he questioned why anyone would risk jobs and aid with a withdrawal.
And he also questioned why there needed to be the choice of an in or out in the first place, as he tried to convey a sense of ease at being Welsh and being part of the UK and the EU.
Nigel Farage's argument revolved around the familiar theme of sovereignty and being prepared to "take back our birthright."
One of the livelier exchanges was about the steel industry. Mr Farage claimed that if the UK was set free from the EU it wouldn't allow dumping by the Chinese steel producers, making it more likely that Tata would be investing in Port Talbot, rather than a sister plant in Holland.
And on agriculture, he effectively dealt with concerns about the loss of EU subsidies, saying that farming existed well before the setting up of the EU in the 1970s, and a British system of support would easily be devised.
It was all engaging stuff, and largely good natured. If the rest of the EU campaign is anything like this it'll be a lively affair.
The money is part of a £4.3m handout from the Big Lottery Fund to help people improve their communities in Yorkshire and the Humber.
More than 80 organisations benefited, including a loneliness support group in Rotherham and a project to improve ex-offenders' job prospects in Leeds.
A sports group in Halifax also received £7,450 for young people's workshops.
The Rotherham loneliness support group, which received £484,780, is run from the Chislett Centre at Kimberworth Park Community Partnership in a deprived area of the town.
Manager Dawn Heald said the lottery money helped local groups "go from strength to strength".
"We are starting three different projects here - one for children and families, one for young people, and one for older people," she said.
"People develop relationships which they may not have done before."
St Giles Trust in Leeds was given £499,693 to expand its work in improving employability skills of ex-offenders and vulnerable people in West Yorkshire.
Halifax Hammers FC received £7,450 to deliver dance, music and healthy mind and body workshops for young people, to raise their self-esteem and awareness about sexual exploitation and the consequences of drug use.
Another 80 organisations in the region also received handouts.
The Big Lottery Fund gives out 40% of the money raised by the National Lottery to health, education, environmental and charity projects, which equates to more than £650m a year.
Lyn Cole of the Big Lottery Fund said: "The valuable work of these leading charities and community groups is helping make a difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our society."
Leicester spent everything on and off the pitch to write one more chapter in the remarkable story of their past 12 months - but the dream died at the hands of a mix of excellence and experience that is La Liga powerhouse Atletico.
The King Power Stadium dripped with atmosphere and reverberated to a wall of sound before kick-off amid scenes more reminiscent of a rock concert than a Champions League quarter-final second leg.
Dry ice dropped from the rafters of all four stands, a giant banner displaying the face of a fox rolled down behind the goal and a spectacular display of pyrotechnics and fireworks lit up the night sky at one end of the stadium.
And as more dry ice greeted the name of every Leicester City player as they were announced, Simeone stood unmoved and unimpressed in his technical area - a brooding presence, a mixture of menace and authority in his trademark black overcoat, suit and shoes.
His team followed suit by swiftly illustrating that this was to be a step too far for a Leicester City team who not only defied odds to win the Premier League last season but continued to laugh in the face of logic by becoming England's last representatives in the Champions League.
It was noisy. It was brave. It was occasionally chaotic. And in the end it was not quite enough.
So this Leicester journey comes to a close - but not without the pride, passion and sheer bloody-mindedness that has been a characteristic of their Champions League campaign.
Reality dictates that it may be a long time before the King Power plays host to Champions League football again. If it is, this was a match and occasion that contained so many of the attributes that has made Leicester's run to the last eight so memorable and so creditable.
Leicester were almost regarded as gatecrashers at Europe's elite football party following their remarkable title win, but they have made themselves right at home and have never looked out of place among such illustrious company.
When others spoke of group stage respectability, Leicester - initially under the guidance of title-winning manager Claudio Ranieri - made a nonsense of their domestic struggles to breeze through Group G, with memorable moments such as the 3-0 win away to Club Brugge.
The 5-0 loss away to FC Porto in their final group game was an aberration as they topped their section. They then set up the drama and sub-plots that surrounded their last-16 tie with European specialists Sevilla, Europa League winners for the past three seasons and riding high in La Liga.
Ranieri was sacked, brutally in the eyes of some, after Sevilla's 2-1 win in the first leg on 22 February - then, on a night of drama, his replacement Craig Shakespeare masterminded a 2-0 win in the second leg.
Atletico, genuine Champions League A-listers, carried just too much over two legs, but even then they required a dubious first leg penalty from Antoine Griezmann, who was fouled outside the area by Marc Albrighton, to secure the lead they protected here and added to with Saul Niguez's header.
Leicester City could have been forgiven for accepting the game was up as they needed three goals, but this is not a team or an arena built to go quietly, and how it rocked when Jamie Vardy's equaliser on the night offered brief hope that another sporting miracle might descend on the King Power.
Atletico are drilled in the sort of backs-to-the-wall defiance they required for the last 20 minutes, and it is a tribute to Leicester that they tested a team of such steel and discipline, a mirror image of the streetfighter and super-talented coach who leads them, to such an extent.
Leicester ran until the final seconds of four minutes of stoppage time. A crowd fed on fantasy for the past 12 months roared in anticipation at every attack until the dying moments as if they fully expected their players to set reality aside once more and do the seemingly impossible again.
This time there was no fairytale. Reality did kick in and hit home when Italian referee Gianluca Rocchi sounded the final whistle to signal the end of Leicester City's European adventure.
Leicester's players slumped to the ground in despair before rising to hear the sound of a standing ovation from all corners of the King Power, appreciation not just for this night but for the others they have given their supporters on this journey into the unknown.
Shakespeare spoke of wanting more of this, hoping his players have got the taste for more as they go back to league business at Arsenal next Wednesday night.
Leicester were damned with faint praise when they reached the Champions League. The knockout phase would supposedly be glorious success - that goal was achieved and more as they were edged out of a place in the last four after the Premier League's other contenders fell by the wayside.
The dream is over but the ride was full of the twists and turns that have played out on all the pages of this unlikely Leicester City story.
The Foxes ended as Champions League losers - but they can leave Europe's top table with reputation enhanced and heads held high.
More than 5,100 jobs have been created or safeguarded over two years but Plaid Cymru has complained that the public has a "right to know more".
The Information Commissioner is dealing with a complaint that ministers have refused to release statistics.
A Welsh government spokesman has said it was "aware" of the investigation.
The complaint was made by Plaid who want details of how many jobs have been created in each of Wales' seven enterprise zones.
Ministers launched the first enterprise zones in 2011 in an effort to make the Welsh economy more competitive.
The zones bring together particular types of industry and offer businesses moving into them certain incentives and opportunities.
The seven zones are:
Government figures show the enterprise zones created and safeguarded a total of 5,142 jobs between April 2012 and March 2014.
These included 2,159 new jobs across 188 businesses.
Last October, First Minister Carwyn Jones said a further 6,500 jobs are in the pipeline.
But there is no breakdown for individual zones despite Plaid submitting a Freedom of Information request for those details earlier this year.
Plaid's shadow minister for the economy and enterprise Rhun ap Iorwerth said: "It appears the Welsh government displays openness when it suits them but when they are questioned about something which may be difficult they shut up shop and refuse to disclose information, preventing scrutiny.
"Plaid Cymru supports the development of enterprise zones and wants them to a success in creating jobs across Wales.
"But after more than two years people have a right to know more about the success of a scheme which involves spending public money."
Anglesey AM Mr ap Iorwerth said there may be issues around the pace of development in the different enterprise zones but all the Welsh government needed to do was ensure the information included a "clear caveat" detailing the differences between each of them.
A spokesperson from the Information Commissioner's Office said: "We have received a freedom of information complaint relating to this matter.
"We are currently looking into the details before deciding what further action, if any, is required."
The spokesperson for Welsh government said it was aware of the investigation and will "respond to the Information Commissioner's inquiries".
Transport bosses want to build an alternative Metrolink route called the Second City Crossing (2CC) by 2016.
As consultation gets under way, companies have been warned they could face years of "major disruption".
Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce is urging small businesses to find out how the proposals will affect them.
Richard Critchley, the chamber's policy manager for transport, agreed congestion was a major problem for struggling businesses.
But he said the construction of a second city crossing was "vital for the future expansion of Metrolink".
"There will be a huge disruption during the construction phase - that's inevitable with any major project like this," he said.
"There will be a number of permanent road closures and they will impact on businesses in the long term so people need to look at these plans now."
If approved, construction of the 2CC scheme would begin in 2013 with the extension up and running by late 2016.
The proposed tram link would take passengers on a new line from St Peter's Square to Victoria Station via Princess Street and Cross Street.
The existing tram stop in St Peter's Square would be moved and a new stop would be created at Exchange Square.
But a section of Princess Street would be closed to all traffic except buses and taxis, effectively cutting the city in two and blocking off an east-west through route via Bridge Street and John Dalton Street.
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) acknowledged the difficulties facing small businesses but said its strategy was to support a "strong and prosperous economy".
However, it said that with passenger numbers set to to treble by 2021, an alternative city centre route was "essential" to cope with increased demand created by expansion of the Metrolink network.
A new line to MediaCityUK has recently opened and Metrolink extensions to Chorlton, Droylsden, Oldham and Rochdale will open during 2011 and 2012.
In addition, Metrolink extensions are under way from Chorlton to East Didsbury, from Droylsden to Ashton-under-Lyne town centre, through Oldham and Rochdale town centres and to Manchester Airport.
TfGM is also working with Manchester City Council to accommodate the new tram link with plans to pedestrianise St Peter's Square and relocate the Cenotaph to a position close to the Town Hall.
Public consultation on the crossing and Cenotaph plans will continue until 9 September, details of which can be found on the TfGM website.
A presidential run-off is going ahead in Niger even though the opposition candidate is in a French hospital.
Congo-Brazzaville has cut all telecommunications for two days to prevent "illegal publication of results" of its presidential election.
Elections are also being held in Benin, Cape Verde and Zanzibar.
Congolese Interior Minister Raymond Mboulou has ordered telephone operators to cut all communications - telephone, text messages and the internet.
Only a few official numbers have been excluded from the ban.
The government also outlawed the use of motor vehicles nationwide during the vote, except for those with special permits, reports the Reuters news agency.
The opposition has condemned the communications blackout, saying it will prevent election monitors from doing their job, and warned of rigging.
General Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko is seen as the strongest challenger to President Denis Sassou Nguesso.
Mr Sassou Nguesso has been in power since 1979, except for a five-year period after losing elections in 1992.
The constitution was changed after an October referendum to remove term and age limits which would have prevented the 72-year-old from standing again.
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The opposition in Niger has called for a boycott, alleging fraud, and the BBC's Ishaq Khalid says he has not seen many voters in the capital, Niamey.
President Muhamadou Issoufou is expected to win a second term in the vote against former prime minister and parliamentary speaker Hama Amadou.
Mr Amadou was jailed in November on baby-trafficking charges, which he denies. He was flown to Paris last week for medical treatment.
His medical condition is unclear, but his health reportedly deteriorated in prison.
One of the world's poorest countries, Niger faces a growing jihadist threat and was attacked by militants from al-Qaeda and Boko Haram on Thursday.
In February's first round, Mr Issoufou got 48% of the vote while Mr Amadou came second with 17%.
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Security is tight in Zanzibar after violent protests over recent elections.
The BBC's Tulanana Bohela reports that there are not many voters in the polling stations she has visited.
The opposition Civic United Front (CUF) has urged its supporters to boycott the poll.
October's election was cancelled after CUF candidate Seif Sharif Hamad declared himself the winner before results were officially announced.
CUF says the annulment was because it had won, while the electoral commission said there had been widespread fraud.
With the CUF boycotting, President Ali Mohamed Shein of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi, which is in power across Tanzania, looks set to be re-elected.
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The new constitution being voted on in Senegal would cut presidential mandates from seven to five years and would not allow a president to run for more than two consecutive terms in office.
The BBC's Maud Jullien in Dakar says it is an unusual move on a continent where many leaders are trying to extend their time in office as much as possible.
It may serve to boost Senegal's image abroad as a strong democracy, but, locally, the referendum has prompted some criticism, she says.
President Macky Sall's critics say he had promised to reduce his current term but is not doing so and the new constitution, if passed, would only affect future presidential terms.
Our reporter says the referendum has become a popularity test for the president rather than a debate on the issues at stake.
The new constitution proposes 14 other changes, including:
Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou, a former investment banker, faces Patrice Talon, the "king of cotton" in a presidential run-off.
President Thomas Boni Yayi is standing down after serving two terms in office.
A tight race is expected after Mr Zinsou gained 28% in the first round, just ahead of Mr Talon's 25%.
Mr Talon used to be a close ally of President Boni Yayi but was accused of masterminding a plot to poison him in 2012.
He fled to France but returned last year after receiving a presidential pardon.
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The African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV) and the Movement for Democracy (MFD) have dominated politics since independence from Portugal in 1975.
President Jorge Carlos Fonseca is from the MFD, while Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves is from PAICV.
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Oracle, like other software companies, has focused on expanding its remote data storage services in the face of changing corporate needs.
NetSuite, founded in 1998, is one of the first companies dedicated to providing services over the internet.
Oracle said the two firms' cloud applications were "complementary".
"We intend to invest heavily in both products - engineering and distribution," said Oracle chief executive Mark Hurd.
The deal is expected to be completed before the end of this year.
This is not Oracle's first move to expand its cloud services. The software company has bought Textura and Opower in the past few years.
NetSuite chief executive Zach Nelson said: "NetSuite will benefit from Oracle's global scale and reach to accelerate the availability of our cloud solutions in more industries and more countries.
"We are excited to join Oracle and accelerate our pace of innovation."
As the deal was announced, NetSuite also reported a 30% increase in its second-quarter revenues to $231m.
However, a panel has recommended to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) that he is suitable for a move to open conditions.
It is up to the MoJ whether or not to accept the recommendation.
Being moved to an open prison is the first stage of the process that usually leads to release. Noye, 68, is entitled to another hearing within two years.
Noye was jailed for life for the road rage murder of 21-year-old Stephen Cameron in 1996 during a fight on an M25 slip road at Swanley in Kent.
He went on the run after the killing but was captured in Spain in 1998 and jailed in 2000.
His minimum term was set at 16 years in 2002 by the then Home Secretary David Blunkett.
Mr Cameron's father Ken said he and his wife Toni were devastated by the recommendation to move Noye to an open prison.
"We wanted him to stay behind bars to pay the price for what he has done," he said.
"If he goes to open conditions we both believe that he will be gone and I don't think they will ever find him a second time.
"He has never shown any remorse for murdering Stephen.
"He left him dying in the gutter and fled to Spain. He has no regard for human life whatsoever."
The parole board met earlier this month to consider a request from Noye to be released from Wayland Prison in Norfolk.
He became one of Britain's most notorious criminals through his involvement in the £26m Brink's-Mat raid in 1983 - one of the UK's biggest robberies.
Six armed men posed as security guards and stole 6,800 gold bars from a warehouse at Heathrow Airport.
During the police investigation, undercover officer Det Con John Fordham was stabbed to death in the grounds of Noye's mansion in West Kingsdown, Kent in 1985.
Noye was cleared of murder on the grounds of self defence, but jailed for 14 years for handling stolen bullion.
The Parole Board said the Secretary of State was under no obligation to follow its recommendation for the move to an open prison.
It said that in considering its recommendation, the board assessed the risks and benefits of such a move, with the emphasis on risk to the public.
A swirling wind on the Lancashire coast made life tricky for both sides in the opening 45 minutes but the Shakers adapted better to the conditions and piled pressure on their play-off chasing hosts.
Towering forward Tom Pope was their most potent threat, his back-post header in stoppage time the closest either side went to breaking the deadlock before the break.
Fleetwood boss Uwe Rosler made two half-time changes and Ash Hunter nearly made an immediate impact after being set up on the edge of the box but his shot sliced across the face and wide.
Bury remained a danger and Pope almost dealt a blow to Fleetwood on the hour but took a heavy touch with the goal at his mercy.
George Miller then forced a fingertip save from Alex Cairns and Fleetwood launched a fast break from the loose ball which ended with Chris Long blazing over.
The hosts ended the stronger and Victor Nirennold forced a save late on from Hunter's cross but his header lacked the power to test Rob Lainton.
Lainton was beaten soon after when George Glendon lifted a free-kick over the wall but the woodwork denied the midfielder what would have been a winner.
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Match ends, Fleetwood Town 0, Bury 0.
Second Half ends, Fleetwood Town 0, Bury 0.
Jacob Bedeau (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacob Bedeau (Bury).
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Amari'i Bell.
George Glendon (Fleetwood Town) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
David Ball (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacob Bedeau (Bury).
Attempt saved. George Miller (Bury) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hallam Hope (Bury).
Nathan Pond (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Pope (Bury).
Attempt blocked. Victor Nirennold (Fleetwood Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Greg Leigh.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Tom Soares.
Attempt missed. Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Callum Styles.
Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kelvin Etuhu (Bury).
Attempt missed. Devante Cole (Fleetwood Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
David Ball (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Callum Styles (Bury).
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Devante Cole replaces Chris Long.
Attempt blocked. Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Scott Burgess (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Chris Long (Fleetwood Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. George Miller (Bury) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Chris Long.
Scott Burgess (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Glendon (Fleetwood Town).
Attempt missed. Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Antony Kay (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Antony Kay (Bury).
Chris Long (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Hallam Hope (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Victor Nirennold (Fleetwood Town).
Attempt missed. Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
On Tuesday Democrat Jon Ossoff came close to beating Republican Karen Handel in a Georgia congressional district that has been historically conservative but trending left. In the words of the immortal Ricky Bobby of Talladega Nights, however, "If you're not first, you're last".
There have been four congressional special elections this year where Democrats and Republicans have gone head-to-head, and the Democrats have been "not first" in all of them. That prompted Donald Trump to take a Twitter victory lap on Tuesday night.
"Well, the Special Elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN are 5 and O!" he wrote. "All the Fake News, all the money spent = 0".
The president's math is a bit off, of course. He's probably counting the Georgia primary, in which Mr Ossoff finished first, as a "win" and ignoring a California congressional election where no Republicans made it to the final round of balloting.
Nevertheless Georgia's result has to be considered a demoralising blow to Democrats nationwide, who may be wondering if they'll ever be able to break through against a president whose low approval ratings, in their view, should make him, and his entire party, toxic.
Here's a closer look at what it all means - and where both parties go from here.
Republicans win key Georgia election
The battle of Gettysburg was important not because the tiny Pennsylvania town had any strategic significance. It was the turning point of the US Civil War because that's where the two armies decided to fight.
A similar dynamic was at play in Georgia over the past few months. Democrats and Republicans made the Atlanta-area congressional district a pivotal battleground because both sides committed unprecedented resources to the effort. Mr Ossoff raised tens of millions from donors across the US, and the Democratic Party added hundreds of thousands of dollars from its campaign coffers.
Republican outside political groups and deep-pocketed donors, like casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, also poured money into the race.
Even though the Georgia seat is just one of 435 that will be up for grabs again next November the race became pivotal because both sides acted like it was.
Strategic concerns. Cue the circular firing squad. Already Democrats are questioning whether Mr Ossoff ran too cautious a race. Although he was the darling of the Democratic base - drawing on the same passionate small-money donors as populist Bernie Sanders in his presidential bid last year - he ran as a moderate, emphasising fiscal responsibility, "humility" and modest reforms of the current healthcare system, rather than the more sweeping liberal policies advocated by many on the left. The loss here is already starting to rekindle some of the Clinton v Sanders acrimony from last year's Democratic primary.
Pelosi questioned. The long knives are also starting to come out for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who some Democrats view as an ill-suited leader for the party. Republicans repeatedly hit Mr Ossoff for his supposed ties to the San Francisco liberal who has become a bogeywoman for conservatives, and on Wednesday one Democratic congressional hopeful announced his candidacy with the promise to support someone other than Ms Pelosi if he's elected.
Dollars at risk. Mr Ossoff's disappointing finish despite his record fundraising haul could also discourage future Democratic donors, left wondering whether their contributions have been well-spent. The Democrats' $23m war chest would have gone a long way to help candidates across the nation in next November's mid-term elections. They better hope there's more where that came from.
Warm bodies in demand. One of the keys to a successful mid-term election is putting as many seats in play as possible by recruiting capable, compelling candidates. Congressman Ossoff would have been a perfect poster boy to encourage other Democrats to take the plunge next year. If a 30-year-old former filmmaker can come from nowhere to win, why can't they? Now, however, it may be harder to get quality candidates to commit to the meatgrinder that is a modern US campaign.
Non-toxic Trump. According to a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll, Mr Trump's approval rating in Georgia's sixth congressional district stood at 35%. Despite the president's low popularity, Republicans turned out for their party's candidate in record numbers for a special election. While they may not love the president, they either continue to dislike Democrats more or see their cause as bigger than one man, even if that man is the supposed face of the party.
Agenda back on track. If Ms Handel had lost on Tuesday Republicans would be running for their political lives. Members of Congress staring at close elections would likely bail on any legislation that could cost them votes, including efforts to enact relatively unpopular conservative healthcare reforms, which are entering their critical final stages, and the upcoming contentious fight over tax reform.
Retirement parties delayed. One tell-tale sign that a party sees an electoral rout on the horizon is when its senior politicians start heading for the exits. The prospect of a cushy lobbying job or a life of honorary board memberships can seem preferable to defeat at the ballot box or the frustrations of minority-party status. If Mr Ossoff had prevailed, a lot of Republicans would have been facing some hard choices. Instead, there may be reason to stick it out. Although the closeness of the race means the Republican House majority is still at risk, the Georgia seat is one that would likely fall in a wave midterm election.
A pleasant distraction. Mr Trump and the Republicans had been on the ropes of late, with a seemingly never-ending stream of stories about White House palace intrigue and unpleasant revelations from the ongoing investigations into possible Russian ties to the Trump campaign. Tuesday's win gives the party the opportunity to change the conversation, at least temporarily, and may give the media cause to reconsider whether all the eye-popping headlines and blockbuster scoops are really resonating outside the environs of the nation's capital.
Those on the left will note that the Georgia race, decided by just under 4%, marked a significant tightening over past few races, where incumbent Republican Tom Price often doubled his opponent's vote total. The Democrats there, it appears, are trending in the right direction
If the party faithful want some real encouragement, however, they should look to the congressional race in neighbouring South Carolina, which also took place on Tuesday.
The South Carolina seat, previously occupied by current White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, largely flew under the national radar, but the Republican margin of victory there turned out to be narrower than in Georgia.
In a midterm wave election that cuts against the incumbent party - which is what Democrats are hoping for next year - the challengers tend to benefit from motivated voters on their side and the apathy of their opponents. The bright spotlight and vast resources spent on Georgia prevented that from happening on Tuesday, but next November - when all 435 seats in the House are up for grabs - the races might end up looking a lot more like South Carolina's low-turnout affair.
If that's the case, there are plenty of places where political balance is a lot closer than South Carolina's, perhaps suggesting the seats could tip to the Democrats.
Two moral victories on Tuesday instead of one probably isn't much of a comfort to Democrats right now, but it's a place to start.
It's going to be a long summer for Democrats, as the next chance for their party to post some - any - electoral wins won't come until November. At that point, the terrain becomes friendlier, as the big prizes will be governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey.
With higher expectations comes greater pressure, however. A loss in either of those races will turn Democratic discouragement into outright despair.
The overcrowded boat was carrying about 500 migrants when it suddenly listed, sending about 200 people into the water, a spokesman said.
It triggered a frantic operation to search for survivors.
The central Mediterranean route for illegal migration to Europe is currently the busiest.
More than 50,000 migrants have reached Italy this year.
The route is also the most deadly, accounting for the vast majority of the 1,364 people who the UN estimates have drowned in the Mediterranean this year.
The waiting game: Aboard the Mediterranean's migrant rescue boats
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One report suggested a private humanitarian group, Moas, had begun lifting people from the crowded wooden boat about 30 nautical miles off Libya, when many fell into the water.
It is thought they may have been knocked off balance by a wave.
Chris Catrambone of Moas tweeted pictures from the scene and said bodies were still in the water - including those of toddlers.
The Italian coastguard directed other boats to the scene - including Italian, British and Spanish navy vessels - while a helicopter and military aircraft dropped lifeboats, said AFP.
Meanwhile, the Italian coastguard said operations in the area had rescued a total of 1,800 people from 10 separate vessels on Wednesday.
Leaders of the world's wealthiest nations, the G7, are meeting on the Italian island of Sicily on Friday and the deputy executive director of the UN's children's organisation Unicef urged them to address the continuing tragedy in the seas around them.
"The tragedy of children dying in the Mediterranean is a wake-up call to leaders meeting in Sicily," said Justin Forsyth.
"These extremely vulnerable children need action now."
Good weather conditions off Libya have prompted an increase in the number of migrants leaving for Italy.
The waters in the area are busy with boats from the Italian and Libyan coastguards, humanitarian vessels and even scavenger boats hoping to recover abandoned equipment.
German NGO Jugend Rettet said on its Facebook page that on Tuesday a Libyan coastguard vessel had fired gunshots as it conducted a rescue.
It said the boat was already carrying migrants, presumably picked up from other vessels, who had panicked and thrown themselves overboard only to be shot at themselves.
"We can not say whether and how many dead there were in the shooting," the 25-year-old captain, named only Jonas, was quoted as saying.
"We had to be careful not to get a bullet ourselves. We are speechless against this crude violence."
It said two boats had then been towed illegally back to Libya where captured migrants can be housed in camps notorious for human right abuses.
Earlier this year, human rights groups voiced concern after EU leaders agreed a deal with Libya's UN-backed government to reinforce its coastguard and curb more attempted migrant crossings.
Libya is a gateway to Europe for migrants from across sub-Saharan Africa and also from the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, Syria and Bangladesh. Many are fleeing war, poverty or persecution.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
Poppy Widdison, from Grimsby, died from a cardiac arrest in June 2013.
Michala Pyke, 37, of Ladysmith Road, and her ex-partner, John Rytting of Frederick Street, deny child cruelty.
Giving evidence on the first day of his defence, Hull Crown Court heard Mr Rytting used heroin from the age of 15.
The jury heard he continued using the drug until May 2014 and that he also stored diazepam and temazepam, which he bought online, at his flat in the town.
Ms Pyke would regularly visit his flat on a weekly basis with her daughter Poppy, the court was told.
Defence barrister Tim Roberts said to the 40-year-old: "You pleaded guilty to the wilful neglect of Poppy because of the condition of your flat."
He replied: "My flat was no place for a four-year-old. It was disgusting.
"Looking back I should never have let her [Poppy] through the door."
Mr Roberts asked Mr Rytting: "Did you ever see anyone giving her little blue tablets?"
He replied: 'I didn't. If I had I would told the police… my lifestyle at the time was that chaotic."
In cross-examination, Michala Pyke's defence lawyer Katherine Goddard asked Mr Rytting, 40, "what did you do to discourage Michaela Pyke from bringing her daughter Poppy to your flat?".
He replied: "Nothing."
The prosecution claims he deliberately encouraged the administration of drugs to Poppy.
In his response, Mr Rytting said: "Never, never, no. I couldn't do that."
Poppy was found with traces of a number of drugs in her system, the jury heard.
The court was told the couple "fed" drugs to Poppy to sedate her because she got in the way of their relationship.
The trial continues.
An inquiry was launched last month when the PSNI became aware that a legal firm had unlawfully been given confidential documents from the office.
A 69-year-old man who formerly worked as an investigator for the ombudsman was arrested in England.
He was later released on bail.
The PSNI has confirmed that an independent police service is to be appointed to take over the investigation.
"Steps have been taken to ensure independent advice has been available to the PSNI investigation since it commenced," Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin told the BBC.
"Furthermore, we are now actively seeking to appoint another police service to independently lead the investigation."
The new investigation team is expected to be appointed within a matter of weeks.
The decision was taken because of concerns about a conflict of interest as the ombudsman is responsible for investigating allegations of wrong doing by PSNI officers and former members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
At least eight former RUC officers are known to have been named in the documents given to the legal firm, which are believed to be part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of police misconduct.
The PSNI and security service MI5 believe the material could potentially endanger lives.
The police refused to comment on whether the investigation is confined to documents relating to one case being investigated by the ombudsman's office or has been widened to include other cases.
"The PSNI is conducting a criminal investigation into the matter and therefore it would be inappropriate to comment further," ACC Martin said.
The PSNI has suspended the release of sensitive material linked to dozens of cases currently being investigated by the ombudsman's office until a review of security protocols is carried out.
In addition to the police investigation, the Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire has referred the alleged theft and unlawful disclosure of documents to the information commissioner.
The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure has also been asked to carry out a health check in respect of information handling processes within his office.
In a statement, a spokesman for the Police Ombudsman said: ""It would appear the theft at the centre of this investigation was something which happened around 10 years ago.
"Even so, we are now looking to bring in the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure to carryout out a review, which hopefully will give an independent assurance that our present day systems for handling material are robust."
The global drug firm is offering nearly $30bn (£20bn; €28bn) for Ireland-based Perrigo, which makes medications including nasal sprays.
Mylan said the businesses would complement each other, and the deal would produce a company with critical mass in speciality brands.
Perrigo confirmed the approach.
"This combination would result in meaningful immediate and long-term value creation, and our proposal is designed to deliver that value to shareholders and other stakeholders of both companies," said Mylan's executive chairman Robert J. Coury.
Mylan says it wants to buy Perrigo for $205 a share, or $28.86bn.
This potential mega deal could create a company with a stock market value of nearly $60bn.
Both companies have already been on the acquisition trail.
Last year, Mylan bought part of Abbott Laboratories' generic drugs business for $5.3bn, and Perrigo spent $4.5bn buying Omega Pharma.
News of the potential deal pushed Perrigo's shares up nearly 20% in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, while Mylan's share price leapt 14%.
The arrests in the Paris and Lyon areas are not linked to the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, Mr Cazeneuve told local media.
France remains on alert after 17 people were killed in attacks on the satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket.
Under French law, the suspects can be held for up to 96 hours without charge.
Speaking at a press conference, Mr Cazeneuve said the eight men had actively participated in a network recruiting French youths for jihad in Syria.
"The battle against terrorism is also a race against time," he said. "Our determination is total."
The French government estimates that around 400 French citizens have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside militants, and that there are approximately 900 more at home with links to recruitment cells.
Mr Cazeneuve said 161 terror-related legal proceedings were in progress, with 547 individuals suspected of involvement in terror networks.
The arrests on Tuesday follow a similar raid a week ago in southern France, when five men were detained in the small town of Lunel on suspicion of belonging to a jihadist cell.
A raft of new security measures were introduced in the wake of the Paris attacks.
More than 10,000 troops were deployed across France to protect public spaces, schools, synagogues and mosques.
Similar measures were introduced in Belgium in January after a major anti-terror raid in the city of Verviers in which two suspected Islamist militants were killed.
Belgian officials said the suspects had returned from Syria and were planning imminent attacks on police targets.
It is understood the women, aged 58 and 22, were from the same family.
They were fatally injured when their car was in collision with another car about three miles from Fermoy on the Ballyduff Road.
The driver of the other car was not seriously injured. The collision happened shortly before 11:40 local time on Tuesday.
It is believed the car was leaving a junction when it was struck from the side and went into a ditch and then into a stream.
Holyrood's Justice Committee will start taking evidence on the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) in the autumn.
It will examine how efficient the organisation is, and whether it has the resources it needs.
It will also look at how it supports witnesses and crime victims.
The probe comes after members of the Scottish Parliament's previous justice committee raised concerns over pressures facing COPFS, including a rise in complex cases.
Convener Margaret Mitchell said: "The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service is absolutely fundamental to the operation of an effective justice system in Scotland.
"This is why this committee has chosen to make it the focus of its first major inquiry.
"MSPs on the previous justice committee raised several concerns about the additional pressures that the organisation faced in recent times - including an increase in complex historic sex abuse and domestic abuse cases, and new requirements required by legislation.
"The COPFS's responsibilities towards victims and witnesses have also been increasing - and rightly. This has all taken place against a backdrop of tight budgetary settlements in recent years.
"It is likely these significant pressures will continue, so fundamental to this inquiry will be to determine if the COPFS has the resources it needs to bring offenders to justice and is 'future-proofed' to deal with new challenges."
The closing date for submissions is Wednesday 19 October.
Lee, 25, is three shots ahead of Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand.
England's Charley Hull, playing on her home course, is tied 11th on three under par while Scotland's Catriona Matthew is two under.
New Zealand's world number one Lydia Ko is two over, alongside England's four-time major winner Dame Laura Davies.
Lee, whose 62 also equalled the record for the lowest round at a Women's British Open, said: "Today was great, but it is only the first round."
Lee led this month's US Women's Open by three shots after the opening round, before fading to finish in a tie for 11th.
Hull told BBC Sport: "I was happy with my round. I was a bit nervous on the first tee obviously because it's my home golf course and it's a pretty easy shot so I'd have looked pretty silly if I'd screwed it up."
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The Electoral Commission confirmed it has now received two invoices for the monument, which listed the party's election pledges, totalling £7,830.
They include £1,575 haulage costs, and £270 for a stone mason to erect it.
Labour blamed an "admin error" for failing to submit the invoices before data of 2015 election spending by all the parties was revealed this week.
Much of the subsequent reporting of the various parties' election campaign spending highlighted that the "Ed Stone costs" had not been revealed. Labour said there had been an "administrative error" and that it would be quickly rectified.
The Electoral Commission has said it will investigate the late submission.
The maximum sanction the Electoral Commission is able to impose for a breach of the rules is £20,000.
Ed Miliband unveiled the 8ft stone carving on the final weekend of the 2015 General Election campaign, saying that it would be installed in the garden of Downing Street to remind the party of its duty to honour its six main election promises.
The move was met with near universal derision and what happened to what became known as the "Ed Stone" has been unclear. Various unconfirmed reports have suggested it is in a warehouse in London or has been destroyed.
The Electoral Commission told the BBC that it would be looking into the issue of the receipts being submitted late "in line with its policy".
It was unable to confirm how long the investigation might take, saying sometimes it has to go back and ask for more information, and each incident is dealt with on a case by case basis.
Spending on the stone was not included in the Electoral Commission data released on Wednesday.
Labour said at the time: "Due to an administrative error these invoices were not included with other items of campaign spend. We have informed the Electoral Commission and will seek to rectify this error as soon as possible."
Labour spent £12m on the campaign, the watchdog's figures show, compared with £15.5m spent by the Conservatives.
In total, £39m was spent by the UK's six largest parties on the campaign, an increase on the £34.4m spent in 2010 but lower than the record £42m spent in 2005.
Although comfortably outspending Labour over the regulated period - between 23 May 2014 and 7 May 2015 - the Conservatives spent less than in 2010, when their budget was £16.6m. In contrast, Labour spent more than in 2010, when their total outlay was £8m.
A breakdown of the figures show the Conservatives spent 27.7% of their budget on "unsolicited material", such as flyers, and 23.2% on advertising while Labour spent 61% of their budget on "unsolicited material" and 7.6% on advertising.
Unsolicited material: £15.04m
Market research and canvassing: £7.61m
Advertising: £6.86m
Rallies and other events: £2.49m
Overheads and general admin: £2.02m
Transport: £1.67m
Campaign broadcasts: £866,000
Media: £329,713
Manifestos: £318,880
Source: Electoral Commission
Spending on rallies accounted for 13% of Labour's total expenditure compared with the Conservatives' 5% while the Conservatives spent 30.1% of their budget on market research and canvassing, against Labour's 7.7% outlay.
The Conservatives spent £1.2m on advertising on Facebook in the year before the poll while Labour spent just over £16,000.
The figures do not cover some administrative spending, for instance on staff, while spending by individual candidates is reported separately.
The SNP reported the biggest rise in spending compared with 2010, when their expenditure totalled £316,000. In contrast, the Lib Dems' spending fell from £4.7m in 2010 to £3.5m last year.
The UK Independence Party spent £2.8m while the Greens spent £1.1m. UKIP spent the least per vote gained while the SNP spent least per MP won.
The first ever Crimean Tatar to perform at the contest, she will appear in Thursday's second semi-final in Stockholm.
And her song, about Stalin, Crimea and claims of ethnic cleansing, is a far cry from the typical Eurovision song.
I watched Jamala, 32, perform to a sell-out crowd of trendy twenty- and thirty-somethings at Kiev's Atlas Club, a side of Ukraine normally drowned-out by headlines about corruption and war.
She was recently included in a series of UK government videos profiling Ukraine's Next Generation, a group of vibrant, talented people who apparently want to shed the country's bureaucracy-ridden, nepotistic tradition of governance.
When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you and say 'we're not guilty'
Her Eurovision entry, 1944, is about the mass deportation during World War Two of the entire ethnic Tatar population from Crimea by Soviet troops under the orders of Stalin.
It is also "very personal". Jamala's great-grandmother and her five children were among a quarter of a million Tatars who were packed on trains "like animals".
Many, including her great-grandmother's young daughter, died on the journey or in the inhospitable outer reaches of the Soviet Union, where they were relocated.
For Jamala, singing about the deportations is a duty to highlight what, she says, was akin to ethnic cleansing.
"I had to release their souls. Because they never came back to Ukraine," she says.
However historical and personal the song purports to be, anything linked to Crimea is an emotive topic in Ukraine today.
The eastern peninsula is now firmly under Russian control, since the territory was annexed by President Vladimir Putin in March 2014.
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The West condemns the annexation as illegal. Ukraine still considers Crimea to be part of its territory.
At a Crimean Tatar restaurant in Kiev, Jamala laughed off claims that her song was political.
"You can see it in the lyrics," she told me.
And Eurovision has backed her, by allowing her entry to stand.
The contest's rules state that no "lyrics, speeches, gestures of a political or similar nature shall be permitted".
However, one young woman at the Jamala concert in Kiev said the song's popularity was partly down to Russia's "occupation" of Crimea.
Another concert-goer believed that the "sad situation facing Crimean Tatars" added meaning to Ukraine's Eurovision entry.
Kiev-based Tatar group Crimea SOS has made allegations of "systematic" prosecutions against Tatar people in Crimea since the Russian annexation.
Spokeswoman Tamila Tasheva says 13 Tatar people have gone missing and seven have been killed without anyone being brought to justice.
Ms Tasheva sees a connection between the situation for Crimean Tatars today and Jamala's Eurovision song about Stalin's forced deportations.
"What's happening is not a violent deportation, but Crimean Tatars are being forced to leave the territory of Crimea."
Russia's ombudsman for human rights, Tatiana Moskalkova, has said she will look into complaints of brutality and insensitivity against Tatar people on the part of law enforcement agencies in Crimea.
But she said a "majority" of Crimean Tatars had been positively integrated into the Russian system.
And Crimea prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya has dismissed talk of discrimination as "speculation, deception and misrepresentation".
Eurovision appeared to try to limit the political overtones of Jamala's song, by banning her supporters from waving the Crimean Tatar flag during her performance.
The contest organisers then relaxed its guidelines on the waving of flags.
However, in the first semi-final on Tuesday night, Armenian singer Iveta Mukuchyan was criticised for waving the flag of Nagorno-Karabakh, a separatist enclave that is officially part of Azerbaijan but currently under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces.
In reality, any event involving Ukraine and Russia these days has an added dimension.
Russia's entry sailed through to Saturday's final. If Ukraine also makes it through, expect a poignant affair.
The second Eurovision semi-final is broadcast live in the UK on 12 May on BBC Four at 20:00 BST
Britain is now third on the medals table, behind China and the US, with a total of 28 medals, including 13 gold.
Wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft (nicknamed Hurricane Hannah) has now won more medals than any other senior British athlete in the history of the World Championships.
Hannah races in a category for athletes who have a condition called cerebral palsy and use a wheelchair.
Meanwhile, runner Georgie Hermitage set a new world record with victory in the T37 400m.
And wheelchair racer Richard Chiassaro won a bronze in the 400m - his first ever medal in a major championship.
Chiassaro said that he wanted to win the medal for his 6 year old son.
Workers on Virgin Trains East Coast and Arriva's Northern service plan to strike on 28 April in a row about the role of on-board staff.
The Virgin stoppage will continue on 29 April but the firm said it planned a "near-normal" timetable.
The RMT wanted "explicit clarification" on the future role of guards, it said.
The union is also in a long-running dispute with Southern and Merseyrail over staffing and the same issue of who opens and closes train doors.
Staff at those companies are not striking on the same days.
Virgin, which runs trains on the east coast route between London, north-east England and Scotland, said there would be no driver-only trains and changes to staff roles would have a "zero impact on safety".
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The train manager now carries out duties previously undertaken by guards as well as supervising on-board catering staff, the company said.
But the RMT accused Virgin of implementing changes without a formal agreement.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said it was "simply appalling" Virgin had "refused to give basic assurances on the safety-critical role of the guard".
A union statement said the company had only repeated "the vague and non-committal mantra of 'within our discussions we have confirmed that the safety-critical duties of the guard will remain on the train'".
"This mealy-mouthed form of words gives no reassurance to RMT members," it said.
Northern's deputy managing director Richard Allan said it was "very disappointed".
"There is a lot to discuss and we urge RMT to get back round the table with an open mind as soon as possible," he said.
"In addition to protecting jobs and current pay, we are also willing to offer future, annual pay reviews for existing conductors if we can agree a deal with RMT."
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Virgin Trains East Coast managing director David Horne said the strike was "pointless" as the company had guaranteed "no compulsory redundancies, no impact on safety and a near normal timetable in place during the walk-outs".
"Last week - the first full week since the changes - saw us achieve our second highest customer satisfaction score since taking over the franchise, so we are confident the changes are benefitting customers," he said.
The passenger group Transport Focus said it was "extremely disappointing" the strikes were spreading.
Director David Sidebottom said: "It is particularly uncaring to organise strikes on the May Bank Holiday weekend when many people make special journeys for holidays or to see friends and family."
Lillian Seenoi said she came to Northern Ireland in 2010 following threats to her and her son's life.
She was speaking on Monday during a vigil at Guildhall Square calling for the UK to do more to support migrants.
The prime minister has said that the UK will accept up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years.
Ms Seenoi said she fled from her home in Kenya along with her autistic son because their lives were "at risk."
"I was running away from my own people who were supporting the negative tradition of the Masai people, circumcision for girls," she said.
"Both our lives were at a lot of risk. Men coming to your house with knives and spears saying that they will kill you.
"It just became too much. It was too traumatising and I just had to flee."
Lillian said she had sympathy for those refugees now making their way from Syria into Europe.
"I know what they are going through. If you can imagine where you cannot sleep because you don't have any protection," she said.
"Your children have nothing and you're living in a shadow of darkness without any hope, because everybody who is supposed to help you is against you.
"I wish one of these leaders could go and be there and stay out in the night with those Syrian refugees, walk in their shoes.
"It is so sad that we can just sit and watch when we have the power to change what is going on."
The move follows the bloc's decision to label goods from Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "ordered suspension of diplomatic contacts with the institutions of the European Union on this issue", a foreign ministry statement said.
The EU says the settlements are illegal, but Israel disputes this.
Mr Netanyahu, who is also the foreign minister, told the ministry to carry out "a reassessment of the involvement of EU bodies in everything that is connected to the diplomatic process with the Palestinians", the statement said.
Just over two weeks ago the European Commission issued new guidelines for the labelling of some products made in Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian and Syrian land.
The guidelines stipulate that agricultural produce and cosmetics sold in EU member states must have clear labels showing their place of origin.
The EU considers settlements built on territories occupied by Israel in 1967 to be illegal under international law, but Israel disputes this position.
The EU says settlements constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict impossible.
The Northern Ireland Affairs committee said the "one-sided, secretive scheme of letters" sent to over 180 Irish republicans should never have existed.
It came to light when one letter caused the Hyde Park bomb trial to collapse.
The On The Runs (OTRs) were republicans suspected of involvement in terrorist crimes but who had never been charged.
The scheme involved the provision of so-called "comfort letters" by the government designed to give them assurances that they were not being sought by police.
One of those who held a letter was John Downey who had been accused of the murders of four soldiers in the IRA Hyde Park bomb in 1982.
The report published on Tuesday said the people of Northern Ireland had been "kept in the dark to the greatest possible extent".
It said the lawfulness of such letters was questionable.
Anyone already convicted of paramilitary crimes became eligible for early release under the terms of the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement of 1998.
The agreement did not cover:
• Anyone suspected of, but not charged with, paramilitary offences committed before the Good Friday Agreement.
• Those who had been charged with offences but who had escaped.
• Those who had been convicted of offences but who escaped.
Committee chairman Laurence Robertson, MP, said the scheme had caused "further hurt to people who have suffered far too much already".
He said victims of the Troubles and their relatives had been "let down" by the government.
"If any scheme had been put in place at all, which is questionable, it should have been properly introduced and correctly administered," he said.
"It also should have been open and transparent. This scheme was none of those things."
Mr Robertson said the government must ensure that no letter provided "a shield from prosecution ever again".
"That is the least people can expect and is the minimum our committee requires," he said.
The government letters were addressed to republican paramilitary suspects, informing them that they were not being sought by the police for questioning about Troubles-related offences.
The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee launched its inquiry after one of the letters resulted in the collapse of the trial of a man charged with four murders.
John Downey was one of more than 180 republicans who were given letters telling them they were not wanted by the police. But he was wanted by the Metropolitan police
Even though his letter was sent by mistake, a judge ruled that it would be an abuse of process for him to stand trial for the murders of Squadron Quartermaster Corporal Roy Bright, Lieutenant Anthony Daly, Trooper Simon Tipper and Lance Corporal Jeffrey Young on 20 July 1982 in the Hyde Park attack.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was blamed for what was described as a catastrophic mistake.
Unionists reacted with outrage. First Minister Peter Robinson said the letters were get out of jail free cards. He said they were unlawful and should be rescinded.
During its public evidence sessions held in the House of Commons, the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee questioned a number of serving and retired senior politicians.
They included former prime minister Tony Blair, who rejected claims that the letters were unlawful and said the scheme was essential for the success of the peace process.
In its report, the committee said it was questionable whether the OTR scheme was lawful, but said its existence had distorted the legal process.
The report's authors said the integrity of both the criminal justice system and parts of the government had been damaged by the stay on the Downey case.
The committee said no letters should have been sent out by the Northern Ireland Office.
It recommended that all steps should be taken to ensure that OTR letters have no legal effect.
The report said the public had been "deceived" and that transparency was key to public confidence in the fairness of the criminal justice system.
"It is clear the intention was that the people of Northern Ireland and other political parties were kept in the dark about the scheme to the greatest possible extent," it said.
The report said that during the peace process, Sinn Féin had pushed for OTR letters at the highest level and promises had been made by the prime minister.
It said Mr Blair put much effort into ensuring those promises were kept, but did so without telling other Northern Ireland party leaders about the exact nature of the scheme.
The report also accused the Irish government of "trying to persuade HM government to introduce an amnesty for republican terrorist suspects".
It said that if the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) had known about the entire scheme and had been involved in checking letters sent to OTRs, then "it is almost certain that the Downey judgment could have been prevented".
It also stated that the availability of the scheme to one section of the community "at the whim of one political party" raised questions about equality rules in Northern Ireland.
The report said the PSNI believes 95 of those who hold OTR letters could be linked to nearly 300 members and that the Metropolitan Police wished to speak to some of them.
It called on the government to provide the resources to enable police to reassess those cases quickly.
PSNI chief constable George Hamilton welcomed the report's acknowledgement that "speeding up the scheme in 2007 made it more difficult for thorough and competent reviews to be carried out and that the PSNI knew nothing about the content of letters sent to suspects until December 2011."
Speaking to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee last September, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers said the government was no longer standing by the On the Runs letters.
She said those who received letters should no longer rely on them as a defence.
Last July, a separate review into the scheme by Lady Justice Hallet found that it was flawed but not an amnesty for those who received letters.
The judge found the administrative scheme was kept 'below the radar' due to its political sensitivity, but said it would be wrong to characterise the scheme as "secret".
He was responding to concerns that UK students might find it more difficult to study at European universities after the referendum vote.
Mr Renzi said he wanted to find a way for UK students to gain passports while they studied for degree courses.
The UK universities minister has sought to reassure EU students in the UK.
Jo Johnson has told EU students already at UK universities and those starting in the autumn that their funding would be honoured for the duration of their courses.
The proposals from the Italian prime minister, in comments to the BBC's Nick Beake in Brussels, suggested there could be plans to lessen any disruption for UK students who wanted to study at European universities.
Mr Renzi said he would propose an initiative to allow UK students to have passports from EU countries.
"In other words, if a British student decides to spend two, three, four years in a university in Europe, we study now if it's possible to give him a European passport - Italian, French or German.
"But for now, nothing is sure," said Mr Renzi.
Many European student exchanges and opportunities to study abroad are run through the Erasmus programmes.
But it remains unclear whether UK students and UK universities will be able to participate after the EU referendum vote.
The Erasmus programme itself says it has been getting many questions about the impact, but it does not yet know what will happen and that "definitive answers" may take some time.
It remains unclear whether the UK government would buy back into the scheme, when it ceased to be a member of the EU.
UK universities, with many international staff and students, have been trying to work out the implications of the decision to end EU membership.
In an attempt to offer some stability, Goldsmiths, University of London, has promised to fix fees for EU students up to and including courses beginning in 2018-2019.
This is intended to reassure potential applicants that their status, in terms of fees, would not change while they were studying.
Students from the EU are currently treated on the same terms as UK students - and so pay fees of up to £9,000. But if EU students were to become "international" students, they would be liable for much higher fees.
UK universities have also sought clarity over research funding.
Analysis by the Royal Society suggests that between 2007 and 2013, the UK received 8.8bn euros (£7.3bn) in direct EU research funding and had contributed 5.4bn euros (£4.5bn).
Even after leaving the EU, it could be possible for the UK to pay to rejoin the EU's research programmes as an "associate" member, although it would lose control over how such research was directed.
Willett's group will tee off at 09:25 BST on Thursday, while 2014 champion Rory McIlroy is in the group behind with Hideki Matsuyama and Bubba Watson.
Jordan Spieth plays with Justin Rose and Shane Lowry at 09:03 while US Open winner Dustin Johnson is off at 14:04.
Colin Montgomerie will hit the first shot at Royal Troon at 06:35.
The Scot, who is grouped with England's Luke Donald and Australian Marc Leishman, was invited to hit the opening tee shot at his home course, and where his father James was club secretary for more than 20 years.
"It is a great honour. I hit my first shot of golf when I was six years old on the children's course, which is now the TV compound, I believe," said Montgomerie.
"This is where I started playing and this is home. There's not many pros here that have the opportunity to play an Open on their own course where they're members of."
Reigning champion Zach Johnson is grouped with Adam Scott and Henrik Stenson at 14:15 while another star-studded three-ball on Thursday afternoon is the 13:26 group containing Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood and Ernie Els.
The three previous Troon champions - Americans Todd Hamilton, Justin Leonard and Mark Calcavecchia - will go off together at 12:31.
(all times BST, Thursday time first)
06:35 / 11:36 Colin Montgomerie (Sco), Marc Leishman (Aus), Luke Donald (Eng)
09:03 / 14:04 Jordan Spieth (US), Justin Rose (Eng), Shane Lowry (Ire)
09:25 / 14:26 Danny Willett (Eng), Rickie Fowler (US), Jason Day (Aus)
09:36 / 14:37 Rory McIlroy (NI), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Bubba Watson (US)
13:26 / 08:25 Phil Mickelson (US), Lee Westwood (Eng), Ernie Els (SA)
14:04 / 09:03 Dustin Johnson (US), Martin Kaymer (Ger), Russell Knox (Sco)
14:04 / 09:03 Dustin Johnson (US), Martin Kaymer (Ger), Russell Knox (Sco)
14:48 / 09:47 Anirban Lahiri (Ind), Sergio Garcia (Spa), Keegan Bradley (US)
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London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed up nearly 1.77%, while the main markets in France and Germany rose 1.97% and 1.94%.
Confidence was boosted when the head of Europe's central bank promised action to steady the eurozone if necessary.
It offset fears about the falling oil price and worries about global growth.
In the US, shares also recovered from losses the previous day, with traders saying that some investors believed the market was over-sold.
About half-way through Wall Street's trading session, the Dow Jones was up 1.54% and the S&P 500 was 1.46% ahead.
Much earlier, Japan's main share index closed down by more than 2%.
On Wednesday, global stock markets suffered hefty losses and London's FTSE 100 ended the day down 3.5%.
By doing so it entered a "bear market", having fallen 20% from its record high in April last year.
Comments by European Central Bank president Mario Draghi helped to steady investors' nerves.
He hinted that the ECB could do more to stimulate the eurozone economy, saying there were "no limits" to action if necessary.
The oil price also recovered, although it remains at around 12-year lows.
Brent crude rose 5.9% to $29.52 a barrel. In the US, West Texas Intermediate Crude rose 5.3% briefly breaking back above $30 a barrel before settling at $29.79.
Oil prices have been falling since mid 2014, but oil-producing countries have maintained output despite the decline, contributing to the excess supplies on the market.
Earlier in the week, the International Energy Agency warned that oil markets could "drown in oversupply" in 2016.
Patrick Thomson from JP Morgan Asset Management told the BBC that investors should not panic.
"If you look at the US economy particularly, that is actually in pretty good shape," he said.
"You look at all of the data coming out recently, clearly growth is a little muted and corporate earnings are somewhat lower than expected due to energy prices and the strong dollar, but underlying fundamentals, particularly the US consumer, is in very good shape."
That message was echoed by analysts Capital Economics, which said: "Despite the prevailing gloom about the world economy, we think global growth will pick up from around 2.5% last year to 3% in both 2016 and 2017, using our own estimates for China." | Europe's stock markets bounced back on Thursday, a day after billions were wiped off the value of shares amid global market turmoil. | 35,369,638 | 514 | 31 | false |
Energy supplier Ecotricity has confirmed it is exploring an option to develop land at junction 13 near its headquarters in nearby Stroud.
According to the Stroud News and Journal, Dale Vince - who runs the firm and owns the football club - wants a new site to meet his club ambitions.
Mr Vince has been the chairman of the conference side since 2010.
He founded Ecotricity fifteen years prior to that and has grown it into a company with almost 150,000 customers.
An Australian radio telescope in operation for more than 50 years will be one of the primary instruments used in a new $100m (A$137m; £64m) search for life elsewhere in space.
The 10-year project - known as the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) - was announced this week by Prof Stephen Hawking in London, and is being funded by Russian billionaire and venture capitalist Yuri Milner.
One of the two main radio telescopes being used in the search is a 64-metre-wide parabolic dish known as the Parkes telescope.
The facility, 380km (236 miles) west of Sydney, belongs to Australia's national science organisation, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
A multi-million dollar agreement has been worked out that will give project scientists access to 25% of the telescope's time over the next five years, says Lewis Ball, chief of CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Science unit.
Mr Ball says its location will allow the project to survey the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, which passes almost directly overhead in the southern sky.
"That's the region of our galaxy that has the highest concentration of stars, and therefore planets… that may support life," he says.
"It's the richest area of our galaxy to search for extraterrestrial intelligence and it's right on our doorstep."
Operating since 1961, the Parkes telescope played an important role in televising the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Its main purpose, however, is astronomy, and numerous upgrades over the past five decades have kept it at the cutting-edge.
"The Parkes telescope is one of the largest, fully steerable telescopes in the world," says Prof Matthew Bailes, an astronomer at Swinburne University of Technology, and the leader of the Australian team taking part in the project.
It has been particularly good at detecting very faint radio signals from small, rapidly spinning stars in our far-flung galaxy known as pulsars, identifying more than half of the 2,500 known, he says.
This track record makes it an ideal instrument for SETI as the "signal processing required to find a pulsar is very similar to what you have to do for aliens," he says.
Radio telescopes are designed to receive radio waves from sources in outer space such as pulsars, or possibly, alien civilisations.
The curved dish, or antenna, redirects the signal to a central receiver. The radio waves are then converted into a digital signal and passed to a computer network for analysis - either in real-time, or down the track.
The new project will survey the one million closest stars to Earth and will scan five times more of the radio spectrum than the next best SETI programme.
But characterising an alien signal is a daunting challenge, says Prof Bailes.
"Unfortunately there's no manual for how to find aliens."
When you know what you're looking for "it's very easy to know the exact pattern recognition algorithms you need to run", he says.
"It's much harder to find something when you're not even sure what it is. There's going to have to be several hypotheses, and it might be quite easy to get them wrong, and to just let these radio waves from aliens wash past us."
The other major challenges are processing the enormous amounts of data the search will yield - close to 30 gigabytes, or a Blu-ray DVD, every second - and dealing with radio frequency interference, which becomes more problematic as you try to detect signals across a broader range of the spectrum.
"Our [potential] alien transmissions are going to be competing with your mobile handset for our attention, and it would be a tragedy if all we end up listening to are people's Facebook transmissions," says Prof Bailes.
To get around this problem, he and other project scientists at the CSIRO and the University of California, Berkeley in the US, are planning on developing new technologies to capture and process the data, and to hopefully eliminate human-generated interference.
He anticipates that the team will also build new processors that are able to make one-million-billion calculations per second - handling what is known as a petaflop of data.
Currently, their most advanced processors can handle a quarter of that, says Prof Bailes.
"These will be very pioneering, and will have applications beyond alien hunting," he says.
And while the chances of making contact are "tiny", he says if it happens it will be "incredibly significant".
"It's a high-risk, high-reward endeavour but I'm old enough to have some fun," he says.
Myles Gough is a science writer based in Sydney.
They reached their fifth final as Ireland failed to find the form that helped them beat holders New Zealand.
Canada, who beat hosts France 18-16 in the other semi-final, drew 13-13 with England in the group stage.
"We tensed up last time out against Canada. We felt the pressure," Street told BBC Radio 5 live.
"This is my second World Cup final as coach. We need to get better again."
In Wednesday's semi-final against Ireland, tries from prop Rochelle Clark and wing Kat Merchant helped England open up a 18-7 half-time lead.
Kay Wilson's effort and two more from Wasps flanker Marlie Packer gave the scoreline a convincing look, while Lichfield centre Emily Scarratt kicked three penalties and a conversion.
"There is no big surprise. We knew we had a big performance in us," added Street.
"It's my wedding anniversary today so it's a good day all round."
England captain Katy McLean, a 28-year-old schoolteacher, told BBC Radio 5 live: "That game wasn't easy.
"Ireland have a fantastic defence but today it was about England being clinical.
"Today we had to turn up. The players absorbed it, dealt with it and performed. I'm so proud of those girls out there.
"We have an amazing feeling around the squad."
The memo suggested Ms Sturgeon had told the French ambassador she would prefer David Cameron's Conservatives to win the 2015 general election.
Ms Sturgeon denied the claim, and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards was asked to investigate.
The commissioner has now said it falls outside her remit.
This was because Mr Carmichael had been made aware of the memo through official Scottish Office channels, and not due to his role as an MP.
The commissioner, Kathryn Hudson, said: "I have established that the conduct which led to my inquiry falls outside my remit. I do not, therefore, make any criticism, or indeed any other comment, on Mr Carmichael's conduct in this affair."
Responding to the commissioner's report, Mr Carmichael said: "I am pleased that this is now resolved and will continue to focus on getting on with my job as MP for Orkney and Shetland."
Ms Hudson said she did not have sufficient information from the Cabinet Office to be able to answer questions about Mr Carmichael's role in the matter at the beginning of her inquiry.
She added: "On the same day that I initiated my inquiry, I wrote to the Cabinet Secretary to ask if he might release to me a full copy of the report of the leak inquiry carried out by Cabinet Office officials.
"On June 16 2015, the Cabinet Secretary told me that he did not think it would be appropriate to release a copy of the investigative report."
The commissioner also used her report into the matter to suggest that a review of the code of conduct for MPs should look at whether members seeking re-election should continue not to be covered by its rules during the period of a general election campaign.
Both Ms Sturgeon and the French ambassador insisted she had not made the comments contained in the Scotland Office memo, which was obtained by the Daily Telegraph newspaper ahead of last year's general election.
The memo had contained a disclaimer that parts of the conversation between the Scottish first minister and the ambassador may have been "lost in translation".
Mr Carmichael claimed in a Channel 4 TV interview at the time that the first he had heard of the leak was when he received a phone call from a journalist.
He had in fact authorised his special advisor to leak the memo, an action he admitted days after being elected as the MP for Orkney and Shetland.
Four of his constituents launched a legal action aimed at having his election overturned, claiming he misled voters over the memo.
But judges ruled in December that it had not been proven beyond reasonable doubt Mr Carmichael had committed an "illegal practice".
However, judge Lady Paton said in the ruling that Mr Carmichael had told a "blatant lie" in the Channel 4 interview.
Mr Londoño, who is known as Timochenko, is expected to leave hospital on Tuesday and make a full recovery, doctors who are treating him said.
The 58-year-old was admitted to hospital in the city of Villavicencio on Sunday morning.
His health is "in a stable and satisfactory condition," doctors said in a press conference.
The Farc initially denied reports that he was ill.
But one of its leaders, Felix Antonio Muñoz Lascarro, known as Pastor Alape, later spoke to journalists at the hospital in Villavicencio.
Timochenko will not be transferred to another hospital, he said, adding: "This clinic provides the necessary conditions to treat him."
Timochenko suffered a heart attack two years ago when he was in Cuba negotiating a peace deal with Colombian officials.
The left-wing rebels signed a historic peace accord in November after four years of negotiations.
They agreed to hand over their weapons after more than five decades and are now allowed to set up a political party.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to put an end to the conflict.
The Farc concluded its disarmament process last month, handing over its 7,000 registered weapons to the United Nations mission in Colombia.
Timochenko became commander of the left-wing rebel group in 2011, when its then leader, known as Alfonso Cano, was killed by the Colombian armed forces.
In an interview with El Espectador newspaper published on Sunday, he said he was "not nostalgic" of his days as a guerrilla in the jungle.
"I honestly feel a great relief for having concluded this stage and preparing for the next phase," he said.
"For me, as revolutionary, the weapons were simply a tool that were with us for many years.
"But at the Farc we are not in love with guns. We love our cause and our ideals. And if we can carry on with our ideals without the guns, so much the better," he told El Espectador.
Hayley Murdoch, 29, and Sheila Dixon, 71, both from Carlisle, died on Tuesday following the collision at Newby Cross.
The women were in a Kia Picanto which collided with a Ford Transit van at about 15:30 GMT.
Ms Murdoch was the mother of a three-year-old boy also in car. He is being treated in hospital in Newcastle along with the driver, a 74-year-old man.
They were all part of the same family.
A family statement said: "Hayley was fiercely loyal to her boy as well as her family. The boy and me meant the world to her, she was beautiful inside and out.
"Sheila was a wonderful, generous, loving and very kind person - someone who was so loved and cherished within the family that the loss will be felt forever.
"Her memory will never be forgotten and she will always be missed by all that knew her."
The van driver, a 51-year-old man from Aspatria, was taken to hospital in Carlisle with minor injuries.
Under the proposals, tenants would be asked to sign an agreement not to light up inside their home.
President of the Faculty of Public Health, Prof John Middleton, says some councils and housing associations are already exploring the smoke-free housing idea.
According to the professor, the agreement would be voluntary rather than mandatory, although it would be part of the tenancy contract for new family housing.
He says there would be tenants who would prefer to live in a non-smoking block, particularly if they have children.
Second-hand smoke harms children's lungs and has been linked to an increased risk of cot death in babies.
"We are not saying people can't smoke or that they have to give up smoking. The voluntary agreement would be that they have to smoke outside."
It would be up to social landlords and housing associations to set the rules. Anyone living in the smoke-free building who signed up would then need to abide by the arrangements.
The US has decided to go a step further and insist all public housing agencies provide smoke-free environments for their residents by the end of July 2018
It will means no-one can smoke inside or within 25 feet of the homes.
Policymakers think so, although it can be difficult to measure the full impact.
A ban on smoking in public places, including restaurants and bars, was introduced in England in 2007.
The government then commissioned a review of the evidence on the impact of the law in England. This was carried out by Prof Linda Bauld from the University of Stirling and the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies.
Prof Bauld's report, published in 2011, concluded there had been "benefits for health" as well as changes in attitudes and behaviour, with more people looking to cut down on or quit smoking.
According to the charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the majority of people who live in social housing in the UK do not smoke and many of those who do already act responsibly and take their smoke outside.
A spokeswoman said: "Blanket bans are unlikely to be the answer but it would be great to see social landlords thinking strategically about how they can support healthier environments around smoking.
"Looking at new housing and setting some aside for smoke-free tenancies seems like a sensible suggestion and it would be great to see landlords adopt this as part of a wider approach."
Simon Clark, director of the smokers' group Forest, said banning smoking in social housing would set a very dangerous precedent.
"Not only would it be a gross invasion of privacy, it would penalise unfairly those who can't afford to buy their own homes.
"How would the policy be enforced? It could create a snooper's charter allowing people to snitch on neighbours, especially those they don't get on with. Children might inadvertently give their parents away, resulting in possible eviction.
"It's not second-hand smoke that's making people's lives a misery. It's puritanical bodies like the Faculty of Public Health who, having campaigned to ban smoking in every pub and club in the country, are now trying to dictate how people behave in their own private space as well."
Tony McMahon's curling free-kick beat keeper Daniel Bentley to give Bradford the lead after an aggressive start.
Wes Thomas came close to a second as he cut inside to pick up Josh Cullen's pass but chipped his shot over the bar.
Stephen McLaughlin shot over the bar for Southend after the break, but James Hanson's header deflected in off Bentley to secure victory for Bradford.
Findings from an international effort to assess the status of dozens of fish stocks are published in the journal Current Biology.
The research found that many stocks in the northeast Atlantic were being fished sustainably and, given time, should recover.
But one researcher said that any talk of a recovery would be "premature".
Paul Fernandes and Robin Cook examined the status of 57 stocks monitored over 60 years in the northeast Atlantic.
They used data collected largely by government research institutes, including large programs at hundreds of fish markets and at sea on hundreds of fishing and research vessels operating every day of the year.
They found that over the last decade there had been substantial reductions in the exploitation of these populations, and this coincided with improvements in their status.
The European Union's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has come in for sustained criticism for failing to protect fish stocks. The authors, though, say their results provide no support for a view that the CFP has failed.
They were surprised by the number of stocks that have improved since fishing pressure was reduced at the turn of the century. In 2011, for the first time, they say, the majority of fish stocks were being fished sustainably - the result of reforms put in place in 2002.
"Contrary to common perception, the status of our fish stocks is improving," said co-author Dr Paul Fernandes from the University of Aberdeen, UK.
"Many of our stocks are not overfished; nature now needs to take its course for these fish to rebuild their populations."
However, the status of some stocks - particularly cod - remains precarious.
Dr Callum Roberts, a fisheries expert who was not involved with the study, told BBC News: "Reports of recovery are premature."
Dr Roberts, from the University of York, UK, added: "There is an improvement in some of the indicators, and that is good news. But what is monitored is only a small fraction of what is exploited - albeit it is among the more commercially [relevant] species that are being monitored."
At the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, politicians committed to re-build fish stocks to maximum sustainable yield (MSY) levels by 2015. The MSY describes the largest catch that can be taken from a fish stock over an indefinite period without harming it.
"As time went on, it became more and more apparent that there was no way they could re-build stocks to those levels by that target year," said Dr Roberts, "So a less ambitious target was adopted, which is that fishing mortality rates need to be brought down by 2015 to a point where fish stocks can be re-built to MSY levels by some future date.
"That is the main essence of this paper - for a lot of stocks we have reduced fishing mortality rates to a level that will deliver MSY levels eventually. But there's no set timescale over which you have to do it... Some of the fishing mortality rates are not going to deliver recovery of the fish stocks any time soon."
Co-author Dr Robin Cook told BBC News: "Many of the stocks are above what is regarded as the minimum safe level of biomass.
"There are some stocks where you would have some concerns. Some of the cod stocks have not recovered particularly strongly.
"In the last few decades there has been some success at reducing fleet size and the number of days that vessels fish for. But that has to stay that way - if you don't do that things will just deteriorate to where they were in the past.
"Having got to where we are, we don't want to just take the brakes off and expand again."
This year has seen marathon negotiations to reform the Common Fisheries Policy, including an agreement to phase out "discards" - the controversial practice of dumping unwanted fish.
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Williams knocked the Londoner down with a huge right hand as Corcoran suffered the first loss of his five-year career.
The 24-year-old's first defence of both belts, the first time he had been past eight rounds, was a grudge match.
Williams' trainer Gary Lockett said: "That is one of his worst performances. He lets his emotions get to him."
And Williams admitted: "I was one of my worst performances and I knocked him out. I wasn't even tired."
Both boxers suffered cuts above the right eye but Williams' class ensured he extended his unbeaten professional record to 17 fights as the fighter from the Rhondda Valley hopes for a world title shot.
And his promoter Frank Warren acknowledged: "This young man has a big future ahead of him."
The middleweight, 23, was told last Thursday he had failed a test due to an "adverse analytical" finding.
He was suspended, and will not now contest that decision.
In a statement handed to Irish broadcaster RTE, O'Reilly said he unintentionally took a supplement that may have contained a banned substance.
It added he was given it "by someone unrelated to his team or association".
Olympic chiefs announced on Thursday an Irish boxer had failed a test, but would not confirm which member of the team it was.
The middleweight was tested before Brazil, and said he disclosed at the time that he had taken the substance.
The statement also said O'Reilly apologised to his fellow boxers, team-mates, the Irish Athletic Boxing Association, Sport Ireland, the Olympic Council of Ireland and "all those who have supported" him.
It comes in the same week Irish boxer Paddy Barnes, who won bronze medals in London and Beijing, suffered a shock defeat by Spain's Samuel Carmona.
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The activists entered a restricted area next to the ancient ground markings depicting a hummingbird and laid down letters advocating renewable energy.
Peru is currently hosting the UN climate summit in its capital, Lima.
A Greenpeace spokeswoman said the group was investigating but its activists had been "absolutely careful".
Luis Jaime Castillo, a Peruvian deputy culture minister, said Peru would file charges of "attacking archaeological monuments" against the activists from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Italy and Spain.
He said the Nazca Lines, which are an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 years old, were "absolutely fragile".
"You walk there and the footprint is going to last hundreds or thousands of years," he said.
The lines, depicting animals, stylised plants and imaginary figures were declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1994.
"They haven't touched the hummingbird figure but now we have an additional figure created by the footsteps of these people," Mr Castillo told local radio.
Greenpeace spokeswoman Tina Loeffelbein said the activists had been "absolutely careful to protect the Nazca Lines" when they laid out yellow letters in cloth reading "Time for Change; The Future is Renewable" on the desert ground on Monday.
Mr Castillo said the Peruvian government had nothing against the message "but the end doesn't justify the means".
Lee Waters, director of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, said people were reluctant to put themselves forward as it was "a bloody miserable experience".
Former Plaid Cymru AM Helen Mary Jones said poor quality AMs had "nowhere to hide" in the assembly as it was much smaller than the House of Commons.
And Baroness Morgan of Ely said more people should consider standing.
The comments came during a debate at the UK's Changing Union conference looking at future devolution.
Mr Waters, who was once an aide to the former Welsh Secretary Ron Davies, said the poor quality of political candidates was the "dirty secret" that "we all know is true".
He asked: "It's a bloody miserable experience - what rational person would put himself through this?
"But unless we do it ... it's never going to get any better. It's rubbish at Westminster too."
Former Plaid Cymru AM Helen Mary Jones claimed that poor quality politicians were less exposed in the House of Commons, which has 650 MPs compared to 60 members of the Welsh assembly.
"When I have spent time at Westminster, when you have seen the quality of the backbench MPs who are certainly there because they were appointed by their party... some of them are not the sharpest knives in the cutlery drawer," she said.
"The problem for our institution [the Welsh assembly] is that it's so small that if we have people who are not as able as some others... there's nowhere to hide in the assembly.
"Everyone has got a fairly prominent role."
Baroness Morgan of Ely - the former Labour Euro-MP Eluned Morgan - said: "I don't think it's any secret that political parties are in a state of crisis in terms of members."
Addressing the audience, she said they were "all engaged but nobody's putting themselves forward" to stand for election.
Former BBC Wales controller Geraint Talfan Davies, who was in the audience, called on political parties to be much more open with people about their low level of membership.
"All the parties in Wales strike me as being shell organisations - if you scratch beneath the surface there is very little there," he said.
"You see it in the way candidates are nominated and selected both for the assembly and indeed for Westminster."
Samuel Slater, 25, died after he crashed with a van in Victoria Avenue in Jersey in August 2014.
Acting Insp Jez Payne told the inquest on Thursday that the van driver should have checked for traffic when he crossed the avenue.
Deputy viscount Mark Harris said he would recommend a review of the junction to the States.
The driver of the van, Antonio Rodriguez, had previously told police he crossed the avenue because he thought the traffic lights were green.
However, those traffic lights were intended for the next junction.
The inquest, held at Morier House in St Helier, found that Mr Slater died from head, neck and chest injuries.
Mr Harris said he would send his report seeking a review of the "layout and flow of traffic" to the Department for Infrastructure, "which may have the power to take action in order to prevent recurrence of similar fatalities".
Police have also recommended changes to the layout of the junction to the department.
Currently there is no traffic light signal for cars turning right into Kensington Place, which involves crossing the eastbound traffic lane in Victoria Avenue.
Mr Rodriguez has left the island, but faces a charge of driving without due care and attention if he returns, the inquest was told.
He said only the two biggest parties, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin, were involved in the talks.
He expressed concern a two-party deal would be financed by more borrowing.
But on Tuesday, DUP leader Peter Robinson said Mr Nesbitt "hasn't a clue what he's talking about, nor has he ever, when he's talking about numbers".
In response, the UUP leader told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme he was not going to get involved in a "slagging match" with Mr Robinson.
However, he said his own party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Alliance were being left out of talks.
"Anybody who thinks that this is still a negotiation between five parties and two governments at Stormont House is misinformed. It's now between the DUP and Sinn Féin who are in a lock-down in Stormont Castle," Mr Nesbitt said.
"People will have to decide, when the document is finally published, whether it is a legitimate concern of mine to say that the borrowing is at a level that we're mortgaging our children's future."
On Tuesday, Mr Nesbitt expressed concern the two-party deal could involve £0.5bn of extra borrowing powers for Stormont, which has been in crisis mode for months over its budget shortfall and welfare reform.
But the UUP leader admitted to Wednesday's programme that his concerns were based on "speculation" as he did not know the content of the latest negotiations between the DUP and Sinn Féin.
He said he was getting information via statements the Irish prime minister made to the media.
Alliance Party minister Stephen Farry said he did not think Mr Nesbitt had "any firm foundation" on which to base his comments about borrowing and was "making things up in that regard".
Mr Farry said Alliance was "involved in the process" but was waiting for papers from either the two governments or the two largest parties.
"Virtually every talks process comes down to, in essence, a major deal being done between the two largest parties, that's been the case even if you go back to the Good Friday Agreement," he added.
The DUP, Sinn Féin and the Irish government have all said they are "hopeful" that a deal to resolve Stormont's problems could be reached this week.
The DH8 was 150m (500ft) over the school near Birmingham Airport last September when the pilot saw the drone about 500m (1,640ft) away.
Despite the near miss, the flight was able to go on to land, the UK Airprox Board (UKAB) said.
West Midlands Police were unable to locate the drone or its operator.
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The UKAB report into the incident on at 0904 BST on 7 September concluded: "Members agreed that the drone operator, by operating at that position and altitude on the approach path to Birmingham airport, had flown the drone into conflict and had endangered the DH8 and its passengers."
But it added that "on this occasion the drone had passed sufficiently clear such that there was no risk of collision".
The school was contacted as officials said they had not been advised of the drone operation in advance.
There have been 60 "near misses" between aircraft and drones in past 12 months, UKAB figures show.
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) rules state drones must not be flown above 400ft or near airports or airfields.
It launched a new website to publish its revised code of conduct for drones, labelled the dronecode, in November.
The government wants a new body to oversee all of Scotland's enterprise and skills agencies.
On Wednesday, MSPs voted for a motion demanding that HIE retain its own board.
During First Minister's Questions at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon said the vote would be "fully taken into account".
She said HIE's headquarters and chief executive would remain in Inverness.
The government is in a second phase of determining the future shape of enterprise and skills services provision in Scotland.
Liberal Democrat MSP Tavish Scott had asked the first minister to confirm the board of HIE would be kept after Wednesday's vote.
Another 180 people are injured with 56 in critical condition.
BBC Hindi's Zubair Ahmed spoke to some survivors of the train accident of their experiences:
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Mr Kumar lost five members of his family, including his mother, sister, uncle and grandmother, in the crash. He only found out that his family members had died a day after the accident.
"My cousin and I were sleeping in a different coach to the rest of my family. This decision saved our lives.
"We woke up because the train suddenly stopped and we all fell to the floor. When I got out, I saw the coach that my family was in, had broken into three pieces."
Mr Vishwakarma lost his mother and two other family members in the accident.
"There was a loud sound that woke me up. I don't remember how I escaped, but within seconds I was out of my coach. I was looking for my family when I saw that my brother was trapped under the debris. I tried to pull him out, when I realised that my right arm was broken.
Mr Vishwakumar said he had lost consciousness at that point and woke up in a hospital room.
"I visited the hospital morgue and saw my brother's body lying there," he said.
Ms Devi, who has suffered multiple fractures and was not speaking to anyone except the nurses taking care of her.
She was with 20 people who were returning from a religious pilgrimage. She is one of only four survivors in the entire group.
"Her son and daughter-in-law are among the dead," a hospital staff member told the BBC.
"She has not been informed about the death of her family members. Relatives fear she will be go into shock if she is told. She keeps telling people who are visiting her to help her find her son and his wife."
A four-year-old boy and an 18-month-old girl were also found - lying unconscious outside two train carriages.
Doctors said the children were grievously injured and dehydrated when they were brought to the hospital.
"They have now recovered," a doctor said.
The children are unable to give authorities the names of their parents or any other information that could help identify who they are.
Hospital authorities have been circulating pictures of the children on WhatsApp, in the hope that their parents or relatives will come forward.
It was commissioned after Mr Scott appeared before a Stormont committee earlier this year.
He claimed emergency exiting arrangements in a design for the new Casement Park GAA stadium in Belfast were inadequate.
The report said DCAL officials denied the bullying claims.
The BBC understands that the official who compiled the report recognised Mr Scott's concerns over public safety regarding the emergency exiting.
The official said he "notes the whistleblower's frustration over what the whistleblower perceives as the failure of officials to address the Safety Technical Group's concerns back in 2013".
He says he "also notes the whistleblower's view that that alleged failure prompted the alleged bullying behaviour".
The report author added that DCAL officials had advised him that they had taken the concerns seriously "but they believed these concerns could be addressed during the design and build phase of the project" and that they "vigorously denied" the bullying claims.
The report author described the evidence Mr Scott supplied as "limited and largely general" and "not independently corroborated by witnesses, with the sole exception of a colleague in Sport NI".
In a statement released by his solicitor on Thursday, Mr Scott confirmed that he stood by his address and the documentary evidence submitted to Stormont's Culture Arts and Leisure Committee on 30 April, "which prompted the investigation by DCAL into its own officers".
"Mr Scott has been informed of the outcome of the investigation but has not seen the actual report," the statement added.
"He is therefore unable to comment further in relation to its findings."
In April, Mr Scott told a Stormont committee he was put under "undue pressure" to approve plans for the new ground by officials from the sports minister's department.
He also said he had made a complaint of bullying against them.
Sports Minister Carál Nà ChuilÃn later asked for a full review of the new Casement Park Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ground redevelopment plan.
Broccoli said she was "honoured" to accept the role.
"I am passionate about Bafta's role in educating, inspiring and celebrating generations of British film-makers," she added.
Broccoli and her half-brother, Michael G Wilson, have produced the last eight Bond films together, including Spectre.
She will join Greg Dyke - who was recently appointed the charity's vice president for television - in co-chairing Bafta's Council.
Broccoli's main role will be as an ambassador for the organisation.
Previous vice presidents for film include Lord Puttnam and Broccoli's predecessor, Duncan Kenworthy.
Dyke, who used to be the BBC's director general and was previously chairman of the British Film Institute (BFI), is currently chairman of the Football Association but is leaving the sports organisation in June.
Chair of Bafta, Anne Morrison, said: "I am delighted that Barbara Broccoli, one of the most illustrious and respected people in the contemporary film industry, will be joining Bafta as our vice president for film.
"With her connections on both sides of the Atlantic, Barbara is well placed to be a brilliant ambassador for Bafta and I know we'll benefit hugely from her experience and wisdom over the next few years."
She added: "With Greg Dyke announced recently as our television vice president, we are in good hands for the future."
Broccoli already has many philanthropic interests - she is a trustee of Into Film, a film education charity working with young people, and she is also patron of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund.
She also sits on the board of governors for Bafta Los Angeles.
The producer is also an honorary fellow of the National Film and Television School and an honorary member of Women in Film and Television UK.
HRH Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge, has been president of Bafta since February 2010.
The £40 annual charge is proposed by the Labour-led city council, and the protest was organised by the Conservative group.
The Conservatives described the charge as "a tax grab".
But the deputy leader of the council said the charge was necessary because of unfair cuts imposed by the Government.
Councillor Ranjit Banwait said: "Public services in Derby are on their knees at the moment and we are fighting for our very survival."
Mr Banwait said charging for garden waste collections would save the authority £1.6m a year, which would help it protect services such as children's centres and care homes.
Members of the Axe The Derby Bin Tax campaign were by the Ram statue on East Street, asking people to sign their petition.
Mr Banwait was by the statue with members of the Fair Deal For Derby campaign, which argues that the city has been unfairly affected by Government cuts.
This campaign collects signature petitions each Saturday.
The Conservative group of the council was not available for comment but a statement on its website said: "We want to stop Labour's cynical Brown Bin Tax being forced upon the people of Derby and need your support."
Mr Banwait said it was wrong to call the charge a tax because people could choose whether to pay it or not.
He said the current garden waste collections were unfair to people with small gardens or no gardens, because their council tax subsidised wealthy people with large gardens.
"A third of local authorities across the country already charge for their collection of garden waste," he said. "We have to prioritise."
Consultation over the proposed charges ends in January.
The plans, which have yet to be officially unveiled, follow similar plans to make company boards liable if staff facilitate tax evasion.
Prime Minister Theresa May has vowed to end "boardroom excess" and make tackling corporate crime a key focus.
Downing Street said the government would announce its bill in due course.
A new criminal finance bill will extend legislation and make employers responsible for preventing money-laundering, false accounting and fraud, The Times newspaper reports.
It comes after a recent speech by the attorney general Jeremy Wright QC who suggested the government would consult on extending the planned law on tax evasion, announced earlier this year.
Speaking at a symposium in Cambridge, he is reported as saying: "When considering the question 'where does the buck stop?' and who is responsible for economic crime, it is clear the answer is to be found at every level, from the boardroom down."
He said companies facing prosecution would be more likely to "take the actions necessary to discourage such offending in the first place".
It follows claims that while individuals were convicted over the Libor rigging scandal, UK authorities lacked the powers to act against institutions.
David Green, director of the Serious Fraud Office, said while banker Tom Hayes was the first person to be convicted for Libor fixing his employers were only held to account for his actions in a US court, where the law makes a prosecution easier.
Six former City money brokers who were cleared of helping to rig the lending rate claimed they had been made scapegoats for the scandal and any questions about the affair should have been put to senior bosses.
The former Birmingham City duo, who joined Notts in 2016, are part of Mark Sampson's latest England Women's squad.
Notts manager Rick Passmoor told the club website: "Jade and Jo are both exceptional players. We're delighted.
"I'm confident we will see even more from both players."
Passmoor's side finished sixth in the English top flight last season.
A Southwark Crown Court jury convicted him by a majority verdict of 10-2.
He was found not guilty of indecently assaulting a woman while he was appearing in a production of Aladdin in 1990.
Travis, who left the court with his wife Marianne after being granted bail, will be sentenced on Friday.
He was cleared of a further charge of sexually assaulting a journalist after the jury failed to reach a verdict.
Travis was cleared of the two charges he was being retried for after a jury was unable to reach verdicts at an earlier trial.
He had been cleared of 12 other indecent assault allegations at that trial.
The prosecution introduced a further charge ahead of the retrial and, on Tuesday, the court found him guilty of this offence.
The 69-year-old, who was tried under his real name David Griffin, appeared on BBC Radio 1 for more than 25 years until 1993 and was a regular host of Top of the Pops.
Prosecutors described him as an "opportunist" and said his "charming and cuddly" persona was no defence for his actions.
Sophie Wood, defending, told the judge she would "seek to persuade" him that Travis should be given a non-custodial community order sentence.
But Judge Anthony Leonard QC told Travis: "You must understand that all my options remain open in relation to sentencing."
Travis replied: "I understand. Thank you, your honour."
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Danny Shaw, BBC News
Dave Lee Travis had to wait a long time to learn his fate.
Almost two years since his arrest, eight months since the first trial and four days since this jury began their deliberations.
The strain was etched on his face as he entered the dock at 14:15 BST this afternoon.
He stood as the jury forewoman delivered the verdicts.
Not guilty on the first count. Guilty on the second. Unable to agree on the third.
But it was only the second count that really mattered.
The man with the soothing voice, patter and quick wit seemed lost for words and walked out of the courtroom alone, stunned.
His wife Marianne, who'd been sitting grim-faced in the public gallery behind him, put an arm round his waist.
But it was little consolation.
The jury of six men and six women found him guilty of indecently assaulting a woman on 17 January 1995, while she was working on the BBC's comedy chat programme the Mrs Merton Show.
She had told the court she was left "shaking" after the incident.
Giving evidence, the woman - now a television personality - said she was 22 when Travis approached her as she was smoking a cigarette in a corridor of the BBC studios in Manchester.
Travis, a guest on the programme, told her she "shouldn't be smoking" and gave her a "squeezing grope", she said.
"He started touching the bottom of my rib cage. Without saying anything else he just slid his hands up to and over my breasts and then kind of left them there and started squeezing," she added.
She told the court: "I absolutely knew he had some weird sexual thrill from this. I felt like I'd been punched, that feeling of being violated."
In court, Travis, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, accused the woman of lying.
Jurors were read a transcript of his police interview when the allegation was put to him.
''I remember the days people used to touch people and you would kick them in the balls," he had told the officers. 'You didn't take them to bloody court.''
But the woman's account of having raised the assault incident at the time was backed up by comedian Dave Gorman, a scriptwriter on the show, and the producer Peter Kessler, who told the jury they remembered her claims clearly.
Travis was found not guilty of putting his hands inside the trousers of a woman who was working on the pantomime Aladdin in 1990.
And the jury failed to reach a verdict on an allegation that he groped a journalist's chest when she interviewed him at his home in 2008.
Jenny Hopkins, deputy chief crown prosecutor for the CPS in London, said in a statement: "David Griffin, also known as Dave Lee Travis, indecently assaulted a young woman by touching her in a way that was not only deeply invasive but also against the law.
"We thank the jury for their careful consideration in this case and we respect all the verdicts of the court today.
"The prosecution of sexual offences is often difficult and complex, perhaps even more so when the allegations are from some years ago.
"We will continue to consider cases and, wherever there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest, we will work with police to build strong cases which can be put before the court."
Travis was arrested in November 2012 as part of Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree, which was set up after abuse allegations against the late BBC DJ and entertainer Jimmy Savile.
Entertainer Rolf Harris and publicist Max Clifford, who were also arrested as part of Operation Yewtree, are both serving sentences for a number of indecent assaults.
The last documented asylum seeker boat arrival to Australia was in 2014.
The number of asylum seekers arriving by sea plunged after the government introduced tough new policies, including the towing back of boats.
Australia also sends all intercepted asylum seekers to offshore locations such as Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
The boat arrived within the Cocos Islands on Monday morning.
It came within 500m of Home Island before it was intercepted by Australian authorities.
Australia's immigration department would not comment on the incident.
The Cocos Islands are a remote chain of islands and atolls located between Sri Lanka and the west coast of the Australian mainland.
Australia's government says the journey asylum seekers make is dangerous and controlled by criminal gangs, and they have a duty to stop it.
However, critics say opposition to asylum is racially motivated and is damaging Australia's reputation.
Two asylum seekers on Nauru have set themselves on fire in the past fortnight, including a 23-year-old Iranian man who died of his injuries.
In contrast, they were pleased that Jeremy Corbyn had shown his face. For him, that decision seems to have been a tactical win. If elections really are a game, he took the points today.
But whether his performance will have the same impact on a wider audience, particularly undecided voters, is a different matter.
In the spin room tonight where the press were watching and senior politicians were trying to claim victory for their competitor, it didn't feel like a wake or a celebration for any party in particular.
None of the participants achieved a big breakthrough moment.
But nor, crucially, did any of them have a cringing disaster.
By polling day, tonight's event may be remembered more for the day that Mrs May didn't show, than anything that was actually said on the platform.
The actor plays a fictional celebrity who is accused of historical sex crimes in Channel 4 drama National Treasure, which begins later this month.
Referring to real-life revelations, he said: "Every day another story [comes out], and I think it appals all of us."
He said he believed appearing in the series was "an important thing to do".
"The power of drama is you can deal with these things in a way that the judiciary, the police and Parliament can't, or seem unable to."
The actor said he had avoided meeting Jimmy Savile, who was found to be a serial abuser who had preyed on children and adults over several decades.
"I never wanted to meet him. I always thought he was creepy," Coltrane said.
"The big question is, what kind of culture was going on that he got away with it for as long as he did?"
At least 72 people were sexually abused by Savile in connection with his work at the BBC, and the corporation missed opportunities to stop his abuse because of a "culture of fear", the Dame Janet Smith review concluded earlier this year.
Coltrane said he hoped advances in communication and technology meant similar abuse would be less likely to occur now.
"With the way electronics and social media [are], hopefully it won't happen again, that you could not get away with it these days. That's what you'd hope," he said.
Asked whether it was a difficult decision to appear in the show, Coltrane said: "Not once I read the script."
The four-part drama's screenplay was written by Jack Thorne, who also wrote Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, which is currently playing in London's West End.
Co-star Julie Walters agreed that National Treasure "was wonderfully written, and written in a complicated, multifaceted way".
The actress plays the wife of Coltrane's character, one of many people around him whose lives are torn apart by the allegations.
"You look at these cases and for me it's the wife you want to know about," Walters said.
"Women like that are fascinating. The reasons she stands by him were fascinating to go into."
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Adrian Lynch, 20, was last seen in Jersey in the early hours of 5 December after his work Christmas party.
Jersey Police issued details of four men they want to speak to who may have more information.
Emergency services have been searching near where Mr Lynch was last seen in St Lawrence, St Mary and St John.
Police said they wanted to speak with a man about 40 years old with white hair seen hitch-hiking nearby at about 03:00 GMT on 5 December.
Two other men between 20 and 30 years old, described as "noisy", were also hitch-hiking in the area. Another man, described as thin with dark hair and wearing a brown suit, was seen at about 01:30 GMT.
Anglesey-based Halen Mon, which exports salt all over the world, told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme the EU gives the company access to "one of the largest economies in the world".
The UK government has committed to holding an in-out referendum on the EU.
Halen's Mon's produce has the EU's Protected Designation of Origin status.
The company said its exports a third of its salt, of which three quarters is sold to other EU countries.
Asked if she thought the UK should stay in the EU, Eluned Davies from Halen Mon, said: "Absolutely. We have access to a market of 500 million people in Europe.
"Europe is one of the largest economies in the world, we can work with that economy to strike trade deals with other nations such as China and the USA."
However, Ken Beswick, owner of the Cwmbran-based printing company Promocorp Ltd, told the same programme a UK exit from the EU would not be "the nightmare some people think it will be".
Mr Beswick, who stood as the UKIP candidate for Torfaen at the general election, said: "Trade will continue and British manufacturers will simply adjust to the new situation as they've always done."
Sunday Politics Wales can be seen on BBC One Wales at 12:00 BST on Sunday.
Gleb Grozovsky was handed over to the Russian prison service and Interpol officers for the flight to Moscow, Russian prosecutors say.
He denies corrupting two girls aged nine and 12 at a Russian Orthodox summer camp in Greece in June 2013.
Prosecutors accuse him of similar attacks in Russia itself in 2011.
Russia first asked for the priest's extradition in November 2013, when he was in Israel on Church business.
He had applied for Israeli citizenship but was turned down and was asked to leave the country. This April, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked signed the order for his extradition.
The extradition process was delayed when his lawyers appealed to the Israeli supreme court, on grounds that his life would be in danger back in Russia, but the appeal was rejected last month, Russian media report.
After arriving in Moscow, the priest will be transferred to the north Russian city of St Petersburg, near where he formerly served as a priest.
Mr Grozovsky was suspended from his priestly duties by the Russian Orthodox Church after the charges against him were announced.
Russian media report he was accused of abusing the two girls while on a summer camp on the Greek island of Kos in 2013. A gynaecologist reportedly later found injuries on the body of one of the girls.
He is also accused of molesting girls at a summer camp on the island of Konevets, in Lake Ladoga near St Petersburg, in June 2011.
Insisting on his innocence, Mr Grozovsky has said the case against him is fabricated.
Since succeeding Steve Davis on 8 January, Artell's side have suffered two defeats to extend their overall winless run to nine games.
His only signing has been Leyton Orient striker Jordan Bowery on loan.
"We're chasing our tails a bit. I'd have liked a bit more time. This process should have started six to eight weeks ago," said Artell, 36.
He told BBC Radio Stoke: "I'd like to have started in November, doing all the due diligence.
"Then you can be sure you get someone that would benefit us, rather than make a rash decision. We have to make sure we get the right person. When you're coming to it on 9 January with only three weeks, the consequences could be dire.
"I spoke to one person who was out bowling with his daughter. He said he'd call me back and he never has. That told me enough. That's the kind of thing we're up against, but we're still working extremely hard.
"I've been on the phone all day and I'll be working right up to the last minute on Tuesday. I still want to get some people out and in."
Crewe are five points clear of the drop zone in League Two, in danger of relegation for a second successive season and losing their place in the Football League for the first time since 1921.
They host 22nd-placed Cheltenham Town on Saturday.
Artell is also keen to resolve the issue affecting the former manager's son, 25-year-old defender Harry Davis, who has not figured for the Alex in the two games since his father was sacked and is now looking to move on.
"The ball's not in my court. That's the bottom line," said Artell.
"We've had conversations. I've told him my feelings, he's told me his. From what he's told me, he needs to do something about it."
Al Bangura, 27, who played in the Premier League for Watford, was 14 when his parents told him to become the leader of the secret society his late father had headed in Sierra Leone. He refused.
"I said I didn't think this was something I wanted to get involved with. I want to play football and I'm going to school so I don't want to do that," he says.
So he travelled to neighbouring Guinea where he met a French man, who pretended to be his friend and promised to help him fulfil his dream.
"I didn't know he had another different intention - to get me into the sex trade," Bangura explains.
The pair travelled to France and on to the UK. Once there, the man left him alone in a building.
"All of a sudden I saw two or three guys come around me, trying to rape me and make me do stuff," he says.
"Because I was young and I was small, I just started screaming. They probably thought I knew what I was there for - obviously I know what I came over here for, I was here to play football.
"I was just crying and proper screaming and I tried to make my way out - I was cold, I was crying, I was shaking, I didn't know what to do, I was all over the place.
"I made my way outside. I didn't know where to start, I thought it was the end of my life."
He requested help from a Nigerian man, who told him to go to the Home Office and claim asylum. Because he was 16, he was later given a two-year right to stay.
"It was so emotional, because after a few months I'd kind of forgotten about what what I'd been through, it had been sad but I ended up coming to a good thing.
"I started meeting people, started playing football and I got the opportunity to join Watford when I was 16 and things just started building up for me," he explains.
"It's quite emotional to talk about it now, I'm happy I've got over it, but it's sad for me."
It is estimated that 15,000 teenage footballers are moved out of 10 West African countries every year - many of them under-age.
The figures come from non-governmental organisation Foot Solidaire, which helps send boys back to Africa after they have been tricked by unscrupulous agents into leaving the continent.
The National Crime Agency says its most recent figures from 2014 show a total of 2,340 potential victims of trafficking were referred from 96 countries - of these 29% were minors.
But Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland said he believed more children were trafficked to the UK than the official figures suggest.
Sports journalist Ed Hawkins has just spent two years investigating the football trade for a book called the Lost Boys.
"It's difficult to put a number on it, but it's probably in the thousands each year. People aren't aware of the scams, how the culture of greed permeates from top to bottom (in football) and encourages the slave trade," he says.
A Fifa rule called Article 19 says clubs cannot sign people aged under 18, but it has caveats.
"It's not worth the paper it's written on, it's just for window dressing by Fifa, they have given get out clause for clubs to do what they like," he says.
"There should be a blanket ban on the signing of minors - it shouldn't be allowed at all, Uefa says this should be in place, with no caveats at all. That would help reduce the numbers."
Bangura, who also now works with charities to publicise the issue, said: "I think there's loads of vulnerable kids in Africa who want to achieve what I've achieved in my life.
"There's loads of kids who might not even tell their parents, or their parents might use their last money to make sure they come over here to play football and they end up doing something else.
"It's important for me, having been through what I've been through in my life, for me to say I've been through that, I've survived, but what about the young kids coming up, will they survive, are they going to be able to cope with that, so we really need to find a way to stop all of that."
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Scientists say a pill called Vemurafenib appears to give patients a greater chance of surviving longer than chemotherapy.
It was tested on a group of 675 patients with advanced melanoma.
Another drug, taken intravenously, called Ipilimumab, is said to give patients extra years of life.
The results were presented at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
During a trial, 84% of patients who took Vemurafenib pills twice a day were still alive six months later. This compares with 64% of those on standard chemotherapy.
The drug works by acting on a faulty gene, BRAF, found in half of terminally ill patients whose cancer has spread to other organs.
The results were so impressive that the British experts running the trial stopped it early so they could switch all patients in the group over to Vemurafenib.
And trials showed the drug reduced the risk of the disease worsening by 74%, compared with chemotherapy.
Meanwhile, trial results from another study show that a one-course infusion treatment of Ipilimumab may extend the survival of patients with advanced melanoma.
Several patients have lived for years when they might otherwise have died in weeks or months, say investigators. At least one is still alive five years after receiving the treatment.
Research is now being conducted to find out whether Vemurafenib could be used for other cancers, including ovarian, thyroid and bowel cancer.
Both treatments are now being assessed by European licensing bodies and could become available to UK patients within months, subject to approval.
Although it is unclear if the NHS would be able to afford to use these relatively expensive drugs that cost tens of thousands of pounds.
Professor Richard Marais, whose work at the Institute of Cancer Research demonstrated the importance of BRAF in melanoma, said: "This is the biggest breakthrough in melanoma treatment in more than 30 years.
"The results demonstrate for the first time that a targeted therapy can work in melanoma and will change our approach to treating this disease. It is an enormous advance in the field."
Professor Peter Johnson, Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, said: "For the first time, we have effective treatments becoming available for melanoma.
"Both show how the research we have been doing is feeding through into help for patients.
"It is a first step but a vitally important one, and it encourages us to redouble our efforts for people with this most dangerous type of skin cancer."
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The law in England and Wales was reformed by the Defamation Act, 2013.
It introduced a new threshold meaning claimants have to show they have suffered "serious harm" before suing.
The changes were not extended to Northern Ireland.
It also gives more protection from libel for those running websites if they can show they are not the authors of defamatory posts.
Policy development
The report by legal academic Dr Andrew Scott says that "in the main...it is recommended that reforms directly equivalent to those set out in the 2013 Act should be legislated by the Northern Ireland Assembly".
Stormont Finance Minister MáirtÃn Ó Muilleoir welcomed the report which, he said, will be considered carefully.
"This will help to inform the policy development process as we seek to ensure that a fair balance is maintained between the right to free speech and the right of the ordinary man and woman in the street, to protect their reputation," the minister said.
George Chertofilis, the president of the Kos Solidarity Group, said a win would "give meaning to the work we do".
Kos Solidarity is one of 16 volunteer groups from the Aegean Islands nominated on Sunday for the award.
They were nominated by more than 230 academics from universities including Oxford, Harvard, and Princeton.
In a private letter to the Nobel committee, shared with the BBC, the academics praised the islanders for responding to the crisis "with overwhelming empathy and self-sacrifice".
"They fundraised; opened their homes; dove into treacherous waters to save lives; took care of the sick and the injured; shared a meal or their garments with new arrivals," the letter reads.
It adds: "Despite persistent constraints and the continuous institutional inability to respond to this challenge in a respectful and efficient way, the nominees provide an example of possibility for action in the darkest of times and with the most limited of means."
Mr Chertofilis, a physics teacher on Kos, said the prize would be "a nice thing for individuals of course, but more importantly for the ideal of peace and solidarity".
"Ultimately we are not doing this for a prize, we are doing it because we are human beings and we must do everything we can to help each other," he said.
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According to the nomination letter, the prize money in the event of a win would be used to fund healthcare on the islands. Three unnamed volunteers have been chosen who would travel to Norway to collect the award.
In order to make the volunteer groups eligible for the prize, which states that only individuals or organisations can be nominated, they were joined in an umbrella network called the Aegean Solidarity Movement.
The network was pieced together by Avaaz, a grassroots campaign group that coordinated the nomination. More than 630,000 people have signed a petition on the Avaaz website to show their support.
Sam Barratt, a spokesman for Avaaz, said the campaign group worked closely with the Nobel committee to ensure that the network complied with the prize rules. He was keen to stress that the 16 groups included in the nomination represent many smaller groups and individuals who have given up their time to offer support to refugees and migrants.
Among the signatories of the nomination are Nobel Laureate Economist Sir Christopher Pisaridis, Professor Margaret MacMillan from Oxford University, and Professor Anthony Giddens from the London School of Economics.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has also lent his name to the cause. He said: "Just imagine 900,000 visitors in desperate need arriving at the door of your reasonably modest establishment. Hungry, exhausted and in a state of acute emotional distress.
"They don't speak the same language as you or ascribe to the same cultural or religious beliefs. What do you do? You open the door. Incredible!"
More than 800,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Greece last year via the Aegean Sea - over 80% of all those who arrived in Europe by sea - but authorities on the small Greek islands where many landed were not equipped to help.
Volunteers have stepped in to fill the gap, pulling stricken families from the sea, clothing, feeding and in some cases opening their homes to those in need.
Mr Chertofilis continues to volunteer several days a week, patrolling the beaches at night in shifts, armed with warm clothes, shoes, and snacks.
"The prize would be a nice thing for the people of these islands, many of whom have helped," he said. "But we are doing this because we don't like to see people suffer."
Defenders Brad Barry, Jamie Sendles-White and Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill plus forward Jordan Stewart will all leave.
Iandolo, 19, netted once in 15 appearances in all competitions this season for the Robins.
Swindon were relegated to League Two on 22 April with one game remaining, before finishing 22nd in the table.
A long-range shot from Alberto Moreno put the Reds ahead before Bojan escaped his marker to nod in Stoke's equaliser.
Daniel Sturridge put away Sheyi Ojo's cross to regain the lead and Origi then headed in, before his attempted cross drifted in after the break.
Stoke rarely threatened apart from a late run from Mame Biram Diouf.
Relive Liverpool's comfortable win
By making seven changes to his starting line-up, including first Premier League starts for Ojo and Kevin Stewart, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp revealed his priorities for the season's run-in.
The lure of European silverware - and the resulting Champions League place - means their Europa League quarter-final second leg against Borussia Dortmund on Thursday now takes precedent over their vanishingly slim chances of gate-crashing the Premier League top four.
Klopp opted to play Origi as a lone striker in the first-leg draw in Germany and Sturridge looked lively in the first half as he attempted to win back his place for the return against Dortmund.
After Moreno's opener, the England international rattled the advertising hoardings with a powerful low shot and showed excellent instincts to get on the end of Ojo's cross to score.
But Origi also took his chance to shine, adding muscular movement to the Liverpool attack after coming on at the break. The Belgian might have had a hat-trick had he managed to keep a header on target from a Moreno cross.
The two worked well in tandem as Sturridge completed 90 minutes for the first time since 28 February, but surely it is a case of either or against Dortmund on Thursday.
Stoke have now won just three times in 61 league meetings at Liverpool.
Before the match, Potters' manager Mark Hughes had noted, rather hopefully, that that win - like this match - was on Grand National weekend,
But his side were relegated to rank outsiders as soon as Liverpool moved two goals clear early in the second half.
Hughes instead will have to take the long-term view. His side are in the same ninth place that they managed in in his previous two seasons at the club, seven points off last season's total of 54 with five games remaining.
Record signing Giannelli Imbula showed he can provide a platform for Stoke's attack to shine, but his good work went to waste as the likes of Ibrahim Afellay and Xherdan Shaqiri faded from the game.
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Klopp's fourth home league win since taking charge in October took the Reds to within nine points of fourth-placed Manchester City, but perhaps more valuable were the lessons he will have learned about some of his fringe players.
Joe Allen, who is likely to step up from understudy to first-team regular after Jordan Henderson's injury, used the ball intelligently while Ojo showed electric pace to beat Shaqiri and set up Sturridge's goal.
Klopp also got several reminders of his side's weak points though as Ryan Shawcross and Philipp Wollscheid won headers in dangerous areas just as 5ft 7in Bojan did to score his goal.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "Today, I'm really proud. We made changes and it was a completely new formation. I'm sure the players have never played together before in this line-up.
"Stoke played 70 to 80% long balls to Peter Crouch, and you have to be tuned into that. It was a smart performance.
"Divock is still a young lad. We have to be patient. He can play together with Daniel.
"There's absolutely no doubt about that. We hope it stays like this that we have two strikers available like this because we have a big number of games to go."
Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "Once goals go in, it becomes difficult. It could have become embarrassing for us. It was damage limitation in the end.
"I was reasonably happy with the first-half performance, even though we were behind. But we kept on letting ourselves down by not switching on when the ball went dead.
"It was a difficult day, where we didn't acquit ourselves well enough.
"Today's result has hurt us obviously. We allowed Liverpool to go above us and teams around us are picking up points. But when we have a setback, we almost always bounce back, and we need to do that."
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Liverpool meet Borussia Dortmund at home in the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final on Thursday before travelling to Bournemouth on Sunday in the Premier League. Stoke have an eight-day break before playing Tottenham at home next Monday.
Match ends, Liverpool 4, Stoke City 1.
Second Half ends, Liverpool 4, Stoke City 1.
Attempt blocked. Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Kolo Touré.
Attempt blocked. Peter Crouch (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mame Biram Diouf.
Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ibrahim Afellay (Stoke City).
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Ryan Shawcross.
Attempt blocked. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Stewart.
Substitution, Stoke City. Marc Muniesa replaces Erik Pieters.
Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Liverpool. Lucas Leiva replaces Joe Allen.
Kevin Stewart (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City).
Foul by James Milner (Liverpool).
Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
James Milner (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Peter Crouch (Stoke City).
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Peter Crouch (Stoke City).
Joe Allen (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Geoff Cameron (Stoke City).
Substitution, Stoke City. Joselu replaces Bojan.
Substitution, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Kevin Stewart (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Peter Crouch (Stoke City).
Foul by Adam Lallana (Liverpool).
Erik Pieters (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Bojan with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Kevin Stewart (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Goal! Liverpool 4, Stoke City 1. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Alberto Moreno.
Substitution, Liverpool. Adam Lallana replaces Roberto Firmino.
Attempt missed. Divock Origi (Liverpool) header from very close range is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Alberto Moreno with a cross.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Attempt missed. Kevin Stewart (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by James Milner with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Jakob Haugaard.
Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne.
Philipp Wollscheid (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Allen (Liverpool).
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Simon Mignolet.
The oil giant said its profits had fallen by 51% to $5.9bn (£4.1bn), compared with $12.1bn in 2014 following a dramatic slide in oil prices.
BP was the biggest faller on the FTSE 100, falling 35.9p to 331p after announcing its biggest loss for more than two decades.
Oil prices fell sharply on Tuesday, with Brent crude down 5.3% to $32.42.
BP's underlying fourth-quarter profits sank to $196m, compared with $2.2bn for the same period in 2014 and far worse than analysts had expected.
A further 3,000 job cuts were also announced by BP on Tuesday.
Last year, it said 4,000 jobs would go in its upstream division as part of a $2.5bn restructuring programme.
BP said its upstream business, which covers exploration and production, slumped to a $728m loss in the final quarter.
The latest reduction of up to 3,000 jobs by the end of 2017 affects staff and contractors in its downstream segment.
This refers to its refined oil products, such as fuel, lubricants and petrochemicals, that are used to make products such as paint and plastic bottles.
Bob Dudley, BP chief executive, said the company was making good progress in managing and lowering costs and capital spending.
"We are continuing to move rapidly to adapt and rebalance BP for the changing environment," he added.
Oil prices have been hit by the slowing global economy, the strong US dollar and oversupply.
BP's dividend will remain unchanged at 10 cents a share for the quarter.
Sanjiv Shah, chief investment officer at Sun Global Investments, said: "The short term looks difficult but shareholders should be encouraged by the fact that a pick-up in prices is expected soon and that BP management are committed to continue paying out current dividend levels."
Analysis: Kamal Ahmed, economics editor
In the final three months of 2014, the cost of a barrel of Brent crude was $77. In the final three months of 2015, it was $44.
Today it is $34. That is the background to today's results from BP.
Bob Dudley, BP's chief executive, told me two weeks ago that he expected the oil price to rise as high as$50-60 a barrel by the end of the year, as the oil majors desperately cut production and demand grows from China and the US.
Global supply and demand, at least from his company's point of view, will be in better balance, he argued.
It is clear from the strain the low oil price is putting on BP that another year of falling prices will mean yet more job losses in both the upstream (oil exploration and production, including the North Sea) and downstream (refining and sale of fuel) businesses.
Both of the main engines of the business are now spluttering and puffing out uncomfortable-looking black smoke.
That will put fresh pressure on BP's dividend, vital to our savings and pension funds. For the moment, BP says it is wholly committed to maintaining the payments.
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Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, said BP faced hard choices: "With average oil prices still trading at multi-year lows so far this year, the question now needs to be asked, how long can BP sustain the dividend at current levels without an imminent pick-up in oil prices?
"How many more jobs will BP need to cut from its already reduced 80,000 workforce in the coming months in order to sustain its payout against a backdrop of a possible ratings downgrade, and lower energy prices for longer?"
BP's results are the latest in a round of weak fourth-quarter results in the sector.
Last week, Chevron announced its first quarterly loss in more than 13 years.
Shell, which reports its fourth-quarter and full-year results on Thursday, has warned in a trading statement that its underlying profits could be halved.
BP's shares ended trading 8.7% lower at 335.1p.
Marium Mukhtiar was on a routine training mission when her plane met an "in-flight emergency" over Mianwali district, the air force said.
She and her co-pilot ejected. She later died from her injuries in hospital.
Flying Officer Mukhtiar was one of a small number of women to work as fighter pilots in Pakistan, and the first to die on operational service.
She told BBC News last year of her journey into a traditionally male-dominated world and desire to "do something different".
Marium Mukhtiar was among about 20 female fighter pilots in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), which only began inducting women in combat roles in 2006.
It was not immediately clear why her aircraft crashed. The male pilot was not badly injured and is recovering in hospital.
"Both the pilots handled the serious emergency with professionalism and courage and tried to save the ill-fated aircraft till the very last minute," a PAF statement said.
Pakistan's military has suffered a series of air disasters in recent months.
In September a trainer jet crashed near Mastung in Balochistan province. The pilot ejected to safety.
A military helicopter crash in May killed seven people, including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines. Another military helicopter crashed near Mansehra district in August, killing 12 people.
The hoax claim was first published late on Tuesday afternoon by the Bloomberg website, according to Vinci.
The false statement said the company would revise its 2015 and 2016 accounts after supposed accounting errors.
"This is false, totally false. We deny it," said a Vinci spokesman.
Shares in Vinci, which has businesses in more than 100 countries, are traded on the French stock market.
After the denial was issued the company's share price swiftly recovered to end the day down just 4% at ???58.8.
"Vinci denies formally all the information contained in this fake press release and is investigating all legal actions in furtherance thereof," said the firm.
The hoax said the company had uncovered irregularities which had been hiding losses amounting to 3.5bn euros.
France's AMF financial market regulator said it would look at the situation and might stage a full investigation.
The England international, 24, has been the subject of big money interest from rival Premiership clubs despite being sidelined for more than 13 months.
"He is starting to get back to full training," Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill told 5 live.
"We hope to see him on the field soon. It will be around Christmas time, early New Year."
Samoa-born Tuilagi, who has won 25 caps for England since 2011, is out of contract at Welford Road in the summer.
He has been offered a new deal by the Tigers, but is yet to confirm where his future lies.
Meanwhile, Cockerill is confident England scrum-half Ben Youngs will remain with the club beyond this season following the arrival of head coach Aaron Mauger and addition of versatile Australia international Matt Toomua for the 2016-17 season.
"We want Ben to stay - he wants to stay. We are working hard to making that work," Cockerill said.
"He wanted to see how it worked with Aaron. Clearly we have set our intent with guys like Toomua coming in and hopefully there will be one or two others in that backline who will improve that backline even more. Ben wants to be part of that."
The phone and broadband provider has said that some of its customers' credit card details may have been accessed.
However, it added that the details would have been incomplete because some of the digits are replaced with the letter "x" in its records.
Unfortunately, many attackers target the vulnerable in the wake of a big cyber-attack, trying to trick them into handing over more of their personal information.
So what can you do to try to protect yourself from danger?
Be wary if you receive any telephone calls claiming to be from TalkTalk, especially if the caller asks you for private information.
TalkTalk says it never asks customers to give their full passwords or Pin codes over the telephone.
"If you're talking to somebody, think whether what you are saying is exactly the kind of information which would open up your bank account," Daniel Dresner from the University of Manchester told BBC Breakfast.
"These companies don't ask for that kind of information."
If you are not sure whether a call from TalkTalk is genuine, ask for a reference number and call the company back yourself on 0203 441 5550. It is a good idea to wait at least five minutes before returning the call - or use phone another line.
Attackers can send very convincing emails that look like they are from TalkTalk but are actually trying to gather your personal information.
They may even refer to the cyber-attack in an attempt to appear genuine.
Be suspicious if an email asks you to reply with personal information or click on a link. Criminals can set up official-looking websites to harvest your account details.
"I would caution against clicking links in emails you are unsure of - it's always better to type the website address manually, to avoid the risk of being redirected to a phishing site," said David Emm from security firm Kaspersky Lab.
If you suspect an email is not genuine, call the company's customer service line and ask whether they have sent one.
Although it can be a nuisance for victims of a cyber-attack to monitor their bank accounts, it can help spot problems quickly.
Look through your recent transactions for any payments you do not recognise, even if they are very small.
"People will try and take a small amount first. TalkTalk has four million customers. If they do four million £1 transactions, that's not a bad haul," said Mr Dresner.
If you spot any unusual activity you should contact your bank and Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040.
TalkTalk is advising customers to change their account password as soon as its website is back up and running.
It is especially important to change your password on other websites, if you have used the same one across many accounts.
Attackers may have harvested usernames, email addresses and passwords from TalkTalk which could let them unlock other services such as your email.
"It's a growing concern that many use the same password and personal details across multiple online accounts, meaning if their details have been compromised by one attack they could find other accounts suffer too," said Mr Emm.
Security experts recommend using a different password for each account.
TalkTalk has reported three cyber-attacks over the past 12 months, so some customers may feel it's time to move elsewhere.
However, such a step could be costly.
The firm has said it would only waive its termination fees for customers who have had money stolen from them as a consequence of the latest incident.
Others face a penalty of up to £23.31 for each month that remains on their contract.
Unsurprisingly, the firm's share price recovered some of its recent losses after it made clear this stipulation.
"John Terry, Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole, Petr Cech and Frank Lampard can now say they have won everything.
"There's not a better moment - it doesn't sink in for ages but eventually you realise you played in the best team in the whole of Europe.
"You have to give massive credit to Roberto di Matteo, the way he's managed them, because he doesn't know what's happening to him tomorrow.
"He's got them all together, playing for each other and they've all raised their game.
"He's got the more experienced players back in the team and, boy, has that made a difference.
"As Di Matteo slowly took over, the formation and the shape of the team has changed.
"Tactically he's got everything spot on.
"Bayern Munich were the better team but it doesn't matter as far as Chelsea are concerned.
"Chelsea have won this competition away from home.
"In many ways, the performances in Lisbon and the Nou Camp in Barcelona have really set them up for this night.
"And Drogba's equaliser, and the time that it was scored, made a massive difference to the outcome of this game."
"Bayern Munich, over 90 minutes, were the better side but for Chelsea to show the courage they did, to come back and beat them on penalties after missing the first one, is quite a remarkable achievement.
"What is also remarkable is that [while] they've been to six semi-finals over the last decade, they've finally [now] produced and you have to take your hats off to them.
"Didier Drogba, Peter Cech, John Terry, Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard have been fantastic servants to Chelsea over the years.
"I'm genuinely pleased for them for the way they've turned their season around.
"Roman Abramovich can change the coaches and managers but the one thing he's had over the last few years is that he has been able to rely on those players.
"They have been the rock and that has created a spirit at Chelsea.
"You have to have a little bit of luck to win the cup - Arjen Robben missing a penalty in the final and Lionel Messi missing a couple of weeks to send them through.
"But Drogba has been the best centre forward of his type, certainly in the Premier League, for the past eight years.
"It could be his last appearance but I sincerely hope it isn't because he's still got something to offer. Big player, big occasion - remarkable that he's got the two [crucial] goals.
"If they're going to replace him, how are they going to replace him?
"He has been quite fantastic, year in and year out.
"It's quite fitting that he got the equaliser and it's quite fitting that he got the [winning] penalty if he is going to bow out."
The 28-year-old Russian, returning from a leg problem, led Czech Barbora Strycova 7-6 (7-1) 6-7 (4-7) 2-1.
It was Sharapova's first match since she lost to Serena Williams in the Wimbledon semi-finals in July.
"I got pain in my left forearm. It just got worse and worse as I continued," said Sharapova.
"I just don't think it's smart to continue trying to run around the court and trying to hit forehands from the backhand side and compensate other things.
"I haven't played a match in many months. I guess this is the consequence of that. I just have to work on getting it better."
The five-time Grand Slam champion was returning from the leg injury which forced her to miss the American hard-court season and the US Open.
She is scheduled to play in Beijing next week, but has made next month's WTA Finals in Singapore and Russia's Fed Cup final against the Czech Republic in November her major targets for the rest of the year.
"Singapore and the Fed Cup is a big priority," she said. "I'll do everything in order to be healthy for that.
"I don't know how long it will take for this to recover so I can't really give a definite answer about next week."
Robert Fleming, 21, was found dead at his home on Lammermuir Road in the East Ayrshire town on Sunday, February 7.
Police said he had earlier been involved in an altercation outside Bakers nightclub.
Scott Morrison appeared at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court charged with culpable homicide. He made no plea or declaration and the case was continued.
The huge fish was estimated to be about 7.5m (25ft) long and is thought to have weighed about 680kg (1,500 lbs).
Englishman Ben Bond made the catch off Loop Head on Thursday, and struggled single-handed for about an hour and a half to bring the shark to the surface.
After an exhausting battle, the sixgill was eventually unhooked and released.
Speaking to BBC News NI, Mr Bond said that at one point, he looked directly into the shark's jaws which were "absolutely massive".
Sixgills are a deep water shark which mainly feed on fish, including other sharks, but they are also thought to prey on seals.
Mr Bond said feeling the shark take the bait was a thrilling experience, and he admitted no fear as he reeled the mammoth creature in.
"I wasn't scared. I was excited, it was what I came to do," he said.
The 26-year-old builder has had some big catches before, including blue sharks, but had never hooked anything as large as the sixgill.
The shark was released a few minutes after it was brought up alongside the boat and Mr Bond said it was always his intention to put it back into the water.
"Watching it swim away was probably the best part, I wouldn't want to kill such an impressive creature," Mr Bond said.
Its measurements were estimated by the skipper of the boat, Luke Aston, an experienced angler who has been catching sharks in the area for nine years.
The Republic of Ireland's main fishing authority, Inland Fisheries Ireland, agreed with the skipper's estimation and hailed the sixgill as a "true monster of the deep".
Its spokeswoman told BBC News NI: "As the shark was caught and released, it was not weighed on shore so the exact weight cannot be verified for certain.
"However, it does look like this shark is one of the biggest fish ever caught on rod on line in Europe."
She added: "This type of fishing is legal - the angler practised 'catch and release' fishing which means that the fish was not killed and was released back into the water."
Mr Aston runs an angling centre in County Clare and captains recreational fishing trips.
He said they had been specifically targeting sixgills on that trip, and while it was not unusual to see them around Loop Head, catching a shark of this size was very rare.
Two days earlier, his boat had won Fishing in Ireland's "Catch of the Week" title for a 410kg (900 lbs) sixgill in the same area.
That prize-winning fish was landed last Tuesday by Mr Bond's friend, Ben Carter.
Mr Aston referred to the friends as "Big Ben and Little Ben" and said the fish that got away from Mr Bond was much larger.
The skipper said most of his clients practice 'catch and release' but some sharks are brought ashore.
He said the carcasses attract much interest from scientists who weigh and examine the sharks.
Mr Aston added that flesh of most of their catches eventually ends up on dinner table.
Mr Ahern was a member of Fianna Fáil from the late 1960s until 2012.
He left the party shortly before it was due to hold a meeting to consider expelling him over the findings of the Mahon Tribunal into planning matters.
However, at a meeting on Tuesday night, a motion was passed inviting Mr Ahern to become a member again.
The 65-year-old Dubliner was the most successful Irish politician of his generation, having been elected taoiseach three times in successive general elections from 1997 to 2008.
In 2012, the Mahon Tribunal found that he had failed to truthfully account for lodgements of 165,000 Irish punts into accounts associated with him, but the report stopped short of accusing him of corruption.
Fianna Fáil is no longer in government and is now the Republic of Ireland's largest opposition party.
The vote to invite Mr Ahern to become a member again was taken at a meeting in his former Dublin Central constituency branch.
Fianna Fáil's national executive is now expected to write to Mr Ahern informing him of Tuesday night's motion.
The former taoiseach, who has raised his profile in recent months, was unavailable for comment on whether he intended to rejoin his former party.
The 20-year-old captained the Swansea Under-23s side who won the Premier League 2 title last season and reached the EFL Trophy quarter-finals before losing to eventual winners Coventry.
He is the second new defender brought in by Glovers boss Darren Way, who has made seven summer signings in total.
"I'm excited to have the opportunity to work with Keston," said Way.
"He's the latest in a long line of players to be entrusted to us from Swansea. I'd like to thank (Swansea chairman) Huw Jenkins and everyone else at the club for their help in completing the move."
Defenders: Stephane Zubar (Weymouth, free transfer)
Midfield: Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle, free transfer), Jake Gray (Luton Town, undisclosed fee), James Bailey (Carlisle United, free transfer)
Winger:Rhys Browne (Grimsby Town, undisclosed fee)
Striker: Olufela Olemola (Southampton, loan)
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The company's troubles came to light earlier this week when it discovered suspected fraud by senior employees in a Singapore-based subsidiary.
OW Bunker is Denmark's third-largest company and supplies 7% of the world's bunker fuel, used in shipping.
Shipping lines were trying to find alternative suppliers in the wake of the news late on Friday.
The company owes 13 banks $750m (£472m) and says it cannot survive without new credit.
OW Bunker's chairman, Niels Henrik Jensen, said in a statement: "It is now clear that such facilities will not be made available. Nor is a sale as a going concern a realistic option."
The bankruptcy filing was lodged in the probate court in Aalborg in northern Denmark.
The company said on Thursday it had discovered fraud by senior employees in its Singapore-based subsidiary, Dynamic Oil Trading.
The statement also said: "As a result of the internal investigation it has been decided to report two key employees in the Singapore-based subsidiary Dynamic Oil Trading (DOT) to the police... and to relieve them of duty immediately."
OW Bunker only became a public company this year when it joined Copenhagen's Nasdaq in March. Its float was a market highlight, the second biggest initial public offering of shares since 2010.
In October it published figures estimating a trading loss of $24.5m, but has now increased that to $150m.
The alleged fraud at DOT is potentially one of the biggest financial market scandals to hit Singapore in 10 years.
The Portadown drive took victory in race two from Ash Sutton and team-mate Rob Collard.
Turkington came home second in race one, after struggling to get past the Subaru of Ash Sutton.
Carrying maximum ballast for race three, Turkington held ninth early on before problems for cars ahead saw the 35-year-old collect sixth place.
Sutton won the opening race and took victory in the third race.
Turkington charged past Sutton on the run to the first corner in race two, holding the lead to the end of the race.
The Team BMW driver is now third in the standings, 12 points behind Honda's Gordon Shedden despite being 36 behind at the start of the weekend.
It was a weekend of frustration for Carrick driver Smiley, starting at the back of the grid after qualifying despite showing top-10 pace in practice.
In race one, Smiley made good progress in race one, moving from 27th up to 20th place.
He continued to make progress in race two, running as high as 16th but he was forced off the track by Jack Goff which resigned the 25-year-old to another 20th place finish.
However, Smiley claimed his best BTCC finish to date by crossing the line in 13th place in the final race with a fantastic drive from 19th on the grid.
Daniel Harper had a muted weekend in the Ginetta Junior class, collecting a trio of finishes in ninth, sixth and eighth.
James Turkington, younger brother of Colin, was close to making it a double podium success for the family but he could only finish fourth in the MINI Challenge race at Silverstone after sliding wide on the final lap.
He finished 5th in race two with youngster Reece Barr collecting eighth and sixth place finishes.
Fellow Portadown driver Adam Carroll had a quiet weekend in Formula E's double header in Berlin with 16th and 17th place finishes.
The third-largest city in the US had been battling for the site against San Francisco, California.
The selection of the Mid-west city was a surprise given Lucas' close ties with the state of California.
His home and visual effects company LucasFilm is based there. The museum is currently scheduled to open in 2018.
The news was confirmed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office on Tuesday, though no further details were offered.
Lucas has referred to Chicago as his "second home" in the past. His wife, Mellody Hobson, is from the city and they celebrated their wedding there.
The city has reportedly offered a patch of real estate along Lake Michigan near other popular attractions including the Field Museum of Natural History and the Shedd Aquarium.
San Francisco is said to have rejected Lucas' first choice of sites near the Golden Gate Bridge.
A vote by the museum's board to accept the decision is expected on Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The board is also expected to change the museum's name from the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Among the items said to be in the museum's collection are Norman Rockwell paintings and a scale model of the Millennium Falcon, the spacecraft helmed by Han Solo in the original film series.
The Border Search and Rescue Unit was called out to help the pair - both in their 50s - on Saturday afternoon.
They were part of a group of 10 but navigational errors meant they were stuck near Windy Gyle on the Scotland-England border for longer than planned.
BSARU was able to rescue the women who were suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion.
The party had set out from Langleeford to complete their charity walk but ended up staying out longer than anticipated.
With just one map between them, they split up after a disagreement with two descending on the Scottish side of the border and five returning to their start point on the English side.
The two casualties and a friend were left "hunkering down" on the ridge.
BSARU said they were found easily and returned to their hotel where they were checked over by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
After rest and rehydration they were able to return home.
"It was a pretty straight-forward job for us," said BSARU team-leader Stuart Fuller Shapcott.
"The excellent ground conditions meant that we were able to get a vehicle very close to where it was needed, allowing a very simple evacuation."
However, he said it showed the importance of carrying a map when heading into the hills and also underlined that conditions could be just as dangerous in summer as in winter.
"Heat-injury is a much underestimated hazard, and can be just as lethal as hypothermia," he said.
"The onset can be sudden and symptoms can develop faster.
"When heading into the hills in the summer it is essential that you carry enough water, loose light clothing, a sun-hat and sunblock."
He advised checking weather forecasts in advance and in fine weather to "travel light" but carry a lightweight waterproof and extra layer in case temperatures drop.
"As always, the importance of a map and the necessary navigational skills cannot be overstated," he added.
But it has been a rocky road for a part of Wales which regards itself as heart and soul 'rugby country'.
The Scarlets looked poised to be one of the dominant forces of the new-style Celtic League when they won the inaugural title in 2004.
They beat Ulster 23-16 at the old Stradey Park on a balmy May evening to become the first Welsh side to win a cross-border competition and looked ready to become one of the major powers in the newly-created tournament, which expanded and has now become the Pro12.
Coach Gareth Jenkins appeared to have blended together the perfect mix of international players, seasoned professionals and exciting youngsters.
The Scarlets' future looked secure, but soon retirements and departures would leave them adrift of the league's big guns and they have spent a large part of the last decade staring into the abyss.
They would be runners-up in the now defunct Celtic Cup in 2005 and the Anglo-Welsh Cup in 2006 and Phil Davies, now in charge of the Cardiff Blues, would be the last Scarlets coach to guide the team to a Heineken Cup semi-final in 2007.
To make matters worse, the Scarlets have also had to watch their arch-rivals the Ospreys become the most successful side in the tournament, winning four league titles and an Anglo-Welsh Cup in 2007.
SCARLETS LEAGUE FINISHES
2003/04 - Champions
2004/05 - 5th
2005/06 - 6th
2006/07 - 4th
2007/08 - 6th
2008/09 - 5th
2009/10 - 9th
2010/11 - 5th
2011/12 - 5th
They have even had to watch the Cardiff Blues win an Anglo-Welsh Cup in 2009 and become the first Welsh side to win an European trophy when they lifted the Amlin Challenge Cup in 2010.
For the Welsh region which fought so hard to stand alone at the advent of regional rugby, the Celtic League title of 2004 became their only major success.
In the meantime, the Scarlets became embroiled in one issue after another, including funding, financial, crowd and planning issues around the move from Stradey to their new £23m Parc y Scarlets stadium and, very recently, the sale of Wales wing George North to Northampton Saints at the end of the season.
But now coach Simon Easterby, who was part of the side to lift the trophy back in 2004, and his side have a chance to get people talking about the Scarlets' re-emergence, where it really matters, on the field.
The Scarlets have a chance to take a major step to re-establish themselves as a genuine force in Pro12 rugby with a victory over Italian outfit Benetton Treviso on Friday night.
The Scarlets class of 2013 have some way to come close to the class of 2004, when you think the latter included Easterby, Scott Quinnell, Stephen Jones and a young Mike Phillips at half-back, Mark Taylor, Robin McBryde, Chris Wyatt and Salesi Finau.
Nobody would claim they are favourites to win this season's Pro12, but the fact they could finally finish in the top four and are on course to secure a semi-final play-off place for the first time is a sign of real progress for them.
There is now a chink of light and a chance to build on the Scarlets legacy.
It would also be the first tangible reward for the change of emphasis at the Scarlets in the last few seasons and the return to their roots and their efforts to reinvent themselves and rediscover the values that made them more than a rugby side and more a cause, like Munster, for those who follow them.
North is not the first big name to leave the Scarlets - Ieuan Evans, Scott Quinnell, Stephen Jones and Dwayne Peel have all left for pastures new. The loss of all of those Wales and Lions stars was billed as a disaster but, of course, it was not.
While North's departure may have caused much gnashing of teeth, the reality is that his sale is a glowing endorsement of the conveyor belt in place at Parc y Scarlets and the quality of the talent now being produced by the region.
The Scarlets' job is to find the next North and the next one and the next one because it's when that conveyor belt of talent or the their ability to discover and hone it stops, that they have a real problem.
North will be hoping to emulate fly-half Jones, who left the Scarlets to join Clermont Auvergne in France on a high by leading them, thanks to 18 points from his boot, to the inaugural Celtic League title.
It would be fitting for North if he signed off by securing the Scarlets' first piece of silverware since then.
The small train came off the tracks at Pembrey Country Park at about 12:30 BST on Thursday.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said an adult and three children were taken to Glangwili General Hospital with injuries, which are not believed to be serious.
Four adults and nine children were treated at the park for minor injuries.
Dyfed-Powys Police said the Health and Safety Executive was due to carry out an investigation.
Carmarthenshire council's deputy leader, David Jenkins, said: "The local authority is extremely concerned to hear about an incident regarding the miniature railway at Pembrey Country Park.
"Our main focus at the moment is on assisting the emergency services; we are not able to comment further on this incident at this stage.
"Whilst the park remains open to the public, we would ask visitors to be sensitive to the situation and allow emergency services to do their job."
Mr Sands, who has been under pressure over the bank's slumping share price, says Mr Winters, who takes over in June, is "a great choice".
The bank's chairman, Sir John Peace, is to step down in 2016 and three non-executive directors are also leaving.
Shares in the troubled bank rose 3% in early morning trading.
The Asia-focused bank has been facing tough market conditions and issued three profit warnings last year.
It is due to close up to 100 bank branches this year in Asia, Africa and the Middle East in an attempt to improve its profitability.
The vehicle was targeted between 21:30 BST on Monday and 04:45 on Tuesday in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
Insp John Simpson said while some "might find this funny" the vehicle would "be off the road whilst it is repaired at a cost".
He added: "It is a specialist vehicle used to access the more rural areas of Calderdale and as such is an essential vehicle for the local communities."
The force said it did not have a dedicated car park for police vehicles in the town, adding that the Land Rover had been parked in the location at other times without incident.
In 2014-15, 2,868 fixed penalty notices were issued in England and Wales - down from 3,521 in the previous 12 months.
According to the figures there were 73,824 complaints about dog mess in 2014-15 - but 103 councils did not issue any fixed penalties.
The government said it was working with councils to find "local solutions".
Fixed penalty notices can be issued by people, including council officers, to anyone who fails to clean up dog mess on certain land where the public have access.
The cost of the penalty varies in different local authorities but it is usually about £75.
The BBC asked the 348 local authorities in England and Wales which deal with dog fouling about fixed penalty notices. The figures come from the 302 authorities which responded.
Of those, 103 did not issue any fixed penalty notices in 2014-15, and 48 had not issued any in the last five years.
These included Bexley, Swindon, Bournemouth, East Hertfordshire and Merton councils, which between them received almost 8,000 public complaints about fouling from 2010-15.
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council issued the most fixed penalties last year - 187 - and Liverpool City Council issued the most over five years - 972.
Sheffield City Council, which did not issue any fixed penalties for dog fouling in 2014-15 and only handed out seven in the previous four years, said: "We do appreciate that dog mess is an issue in Sheffield, as it is in every city.
"However, we need evidence if we are going to issue fines.
"In these times of austerity we simply do not have staff available to patrol Sheffield's parks around the clock, waiting for an offence to be committed.
"If a person is alleged to have allowed their dog to foul and not cleaned up, we will contact that person and give advice."
The council said it was running a "social experiment" on how to reduce dog fouling, and successful schemes were being implemented across the city.
In Daventry, Northamptonshire, the council is consulting residents on a new system under which any dog walker found without a bag to collect waste could be fined £100.
The Department for Communities and Local Government said environmental crime, including dog fouling, "blights communities and poses a risk to human health".
"That's why in the last government we organised the huge Community Clear Up Day across the country, and why this government will continue to work with councils and partner organisations to help find local solutions to littering," it said.
Refusal to pay a fixed penalty notice for dog fouling in England and Wales can lead to an appearance at a magistrates' court and a fine of up to £1,000.
The BBC Radio 5 live figures only cover England and Wales, but similar rules on dog fouling exist in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Alan Curtis, 57, from Bushey in Hertfordshire, suffered a "severe head injury" in the crash on The Drive, Rickmansworth, in 2009.
He sued Hertfordshire County Council for failing to fix the pothole, which he said was a "real source of danger".
The council said it was "disappointed" the High Court had ruled in Mr Curtis's favour.
Mr Curtis, a charity fundraising director, was cycling with two friends when a "defect" in the road surface caused him to lose control, fall from his bike and hit his head.
Kevin O'Sullivan, from Levenes solicitors, said Mr Curtis had experienced "pain, suffering and loss of amenity".
"Potholes tend to cause [cyclists] more serious injuries than accidents involving motor vehicles and this is a classic example," he said.
The claim stated the pothole could be seen on a Google Street View image from October 2008, but the council failed to note it and order its repair during a scheduled inspection the following March.
Mr Curtis fractured his skull and damaged his brainstem, which led to "significant deafness", the claim stated.
His left arm was also broken.
Mr Chambers, who had been wearing a safety helmet, was given emergency treatment at Watford General Hospital.
A report from neuropsychologist Dr Yvonne McCulloch said "cognitive impairments" caused by the brain injury had hampered Mr Curtis in the workplace since the accident.
He has since switched to a similar, but less stressful, job which has meant a loss of earnings.
Mr Trump sparked anger by attacking the military record of Senator McCain, a former prisoner of war, saying: "I like people who weren't captured."
The Republican presidential candidate said his remarks were misrepresented and Mr McCain is a "very brave man".
Rival Republican contenders have hit out at Mr Trump over the comments.
He made them while addressing a gathering of conservatives in Iowa on Saturday when the moderator referred to the Arizona Republican as a war hero.
Mr McCain was held for more than five years after his plane was shot down in Vietnam. Mr Trump avoided military service through student and medical deferments.
"He's not a war hero," Mr Trump said to gasps from the audience. "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
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Mr McCain played down the attack on Monday, telling the MSNBC TV news network: "I think he may owe an apology to the families of those who have sacrificed in conflict and those who have undergone the prison experience in serving our country."
Mr Trump, who has portrayed himself as an outspoken, outsider Republican candidate, has since tried to reframe his attack on Mr McCain.
Writing in the USA Today newspaper on Monday, he accused the Mr McCain of abandoning the nation's veterans, making the US less safe, and sending "our brave soldiers into wrong-headed foreign adventures".
He also lashed out at his Republican rivals, calling them "failed politicians" and saying he did not need "to be lectured by any of them".
Jeb Bush, the current Republican frontrunner, led the criticism of Mr Trump's remarks, tweeting: "Enough with the slanderous attacks".
"It's not just absurd," Florida Senator Marco Rubio said. "It's offensive. It's ridiculous. And I do think it is a disqualifier as commander-in-chief."
Rick Perry, another Republican candidate, said: "We're seeing an individual who's more interested in throwing invectives and this hyperbolic rhetoric out there, rather than laying out solutions."
There are currently 15 people running to be the Republican presidential candidate.
Mr Trump has led in some early polls, although analysts have predicted his appeal is likely to wane as the contest develops.
Former senior investigating officer David Swindle said the passers-by who tackled the attackers stopped them "causing harm" to hundreds of people.
Kafeel Ahmed and Bilal Abdulla crashed a Jeep into the doors of the airport's departure hall on 30 June 2007.
A concrete pillar and the actions of the public averted a tragedy.
Mr Swindle told BBC Scotland: "This was a Jeep loaded up with gas canisters and Molotov cocktails that was driven right into the airport.
"A concrete stanchion stopped it.
"If that vehicle had got through we will never know what the horrors would have been."
The Glasgow attack came the day after a failed attempt by the same pair to detonate two car bombs in London.
Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor who has been working in Paisley, and Ahmed, an Indian engineer who had grown up in Saudi Arabia, knew the police were on their trail and were determined to carry out a deadly suicide attack.
As their burning vehicle sat lodged in the airport doors and thousands of holidaymakers ran for their lives, the attackers got out of the vehicle and started to throw petrol bombs. Ahmed set himself on fire.
Mr Swindle praised the "heroism" of the public in tackling Abdulla and Ahmed.
These included Alex McIlveen, a taxi driver who had just dropped off a fare, and Stephen Clarkson, who had taken his brother's family to the airport.
The detective also pointed to the actions of off-duty policeman Stewart Ferguson, who used a fire extinguisher to try to douse the flames and then used it on one of the bombers to stop him attacking colleagues.
Mr Swindle said: "The attackers were individuals who had already tried to commit terrorist attacks in London. They were determined to do something. They were determined to complete an act.
"These were people who were determined to harm members of the public going on their holidays. This was the first day of the school holidays."
"The intervention of the various people who were there, I would say, stopped Ahmed doing harm to the public."
Airport baggage handler John Smeaton rose to fame after the attack with a TV interview in which he said: "Glasgow doesn't accept this. This is Glasgow; we'll set about ye."
Kafeel Ahmed suffered 90% burns in the attack and died a month later.
Bilal Abdulla was later found guilty of conspiracy to murder by planning car bomb attacks and sentenced to at least 32 years in jail.
Mr Swindle, the former detective, said he thinks the Glasgow attack was the first time in the UK a vehicle had been used to cause terror in this way.
"Sadly since then we have seen so many acts like this," he said.
After the release of better-than-expected deficit data for 2014, Finance Minister Michel Sapin said there were reasons to be confident about growth.
Official data showed the 2014 deficit was 4% instead of the 4.4% forecast, and will fall to about 3.8% this year, Mr Sapin predicted.
The eurozone's second biggest economy has held back the euro bloc's growth.
Following the improved data, Mr Sapin said economic growth could beat the government's 1% forecast. "A lower-than-expected deficit brings confidence," he said. "We will do better than 1% (economic) growth in 2015."
Public spending has fallen, and last year's expected shortfall in revenues was not a bad as initially thought. "Things are falling into place to back the scenario of growth accelerating in 2015," said Credit Agricole economist Axelle Lacan.
The eurozone's second-largest economy grew by 0.4% in 2014, the data confirmed on Thursday, the same pace as in 2013.
France, which has repeatedly missed its fiscal targets, is confident it will finally bring the deficit below an EU cap of 3% of GDP in 2017.
President Francois Hollande, during his 2012 election campaign, had pledged to bring the deficit down to the EU limit by end-2013 but his government has since pushed the target back several times.
This month, European Union finance ministers gave France two more years to cut the deficit to the 3% limit, extending the deadline for the third time since 2009.
Recent economic data has showed that although unemployment is still rising, business confidence has improved.
They want Athletics Kenya (AK) officials to step down over corruption allegations linked to a deal with Nike, the BBC's Anne Soy reports.
AK Vice-President David Okeyo has denied the allegations.
The athletes also blame the administrators for failing to deal with doping in the sport.
Kenya is one of the world's top athletics nations and topped the medals table at August's athletics world championships in Beijing.
Dick Pound, the man looking into doping for world athletics governing body, the IAAF, said that Kenyan athletics had a "real problem" with athletes taking performing-enhancing drugs.
The protesters say they want former runners to manage AK.
"We are looking forward to being led by athletes. Those who understand the pain of running," said protest organiser Julius Ndegwa from the Professional Athletes Association of Kenya.
AK President Isaiah Kiplagat told the BBC that "serious athletes are training, they have no time for demonstrations".
Mr Kiplagat added that the protest had led them to cancel a meeting that was supposed to address the issues that the protesters are complaining about.
It is also the one-year anniversary of his plumbing business.
England prop Hill, one of the most destructive forwards in rugby league, combines his skipper duties at Wire with running Premier Plumbing Ltd.
"It was just something I've always been interested in stemming back from school," the 28-year-old told BBC Sport.
"It is something for after rugby as well and hopefully it is running itself by then and I can sit back and relax. If not, I can get on the tools and work through it."
Hill approached player welfare manager Karl Fitzpatrick about the possibility of learning the trade and he started on a three-year course around his training and game commitments.
He runs the company with partner Christian Froggat, who he met while on his training. Froggat does the manual labour, Hill runs the administration side and they both go out doing quotes on free evenings.
"Christian takes the mick sometimes as he says my tools have still got the wrapper on," Hill joked.
With training only taking up a minority of the day, Hill generally has afternoons and evenings to himself.
Asked what Warrington coach Tony Smith thinks of his job, Hill added: "He thinks it is a good idea as it can take your mind off rugby league as well, which tends to make you a better player.
"I couldn't recommend it highly enough as it lets you concentrate on something else. And as funny as it sounds, it lets you concentrate on rugby as well."
Asked if it makes him look forward to playing even more, Hill said: "Definitely. It gives you life skills as well in dealing with all kinds of people."
When Hill moved to Warrington from Leigh for the start of the 2012 season, he could not have envisaged a more perfect campaign.
Wolves won the Challenge Cup for the third time in four years and he was crowned the club's player of the season, the players' player of the season award and also won the Vice President's award in a clean sweep at Warrington's awards night.
It has not been quite as rewarding since, as that trophy is the last that Warrington have won, but Hill is focused on making this visit to Wembley a winning one.
"I banned the Wembley word last week," he told BBC Radio Merseyside. "All we found out about was what my wife is going to wear down there.
"My eldest will be walking out with me aged seven so he's buzzing. Everyone in my house has been sorting their travel arrangements, but I just keep out of it."
Southend went ahead through Stephen McLaughlin's scruffy effort but the Gills hit back when Billy Knott's cross found Cody McDonald to power home.
Substitute Jay Emmanuel-Thomas then fired the visitors ahead, before netting again two minutes from time.
The visitors beat Southend 3-1 in their first game of the League One season.
Match ends, Southend United 1, Gillingham 3.
Second Half ends, Southend United 1, Gillingham 3.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Jakub Sokolik.
Emmanuel Osadebe (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jermaine McGlashan (Southend United).
(Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Simon Cox (Southend United).
Foul by Josh Wright (Gillingham).
Jack Bridge (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Southend United 1, Gillingham 3. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Southend United. Jason Williams replaces Adam King.
Attempt missed. Ryan Leonard (Southend United) header from the right side of the six yard box is too high.
Attempt missed. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Southend United. Jack Bridge replaces David Mooney.
Substitution, Southend United. Jermaine McGlashan replaces Stephen McLaughlin.
Goal! Southend United 1, Gillingham 2. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Billy Knott.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Ryan Leonard.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Ben Coker.
Paul Konchesky (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adam King (Southend United).
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Stephen McLaughlin.
Substitution, Gillingham. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas replaces Joe Quigley.
Foul by Josh Pask (Gillingham).
David Mooney (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. John White (Southend United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Josh Pask.
Attempt blocked. Simon Cox (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Paul Konchesky (Gillingham).
Luke O'Neill (Southend United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adedeji Oshilaja (Gillingham).
Simon Cox (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Southend United 1, Gillingham 1. Cody McDonald (Gillingham) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Billy Knott.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by John White.
Hand ball by David Mooney (Southend United).
Adam King (Southend United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Josh Wright (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam King (Southend United).
Attempt missed. Simon Cox (Southend United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Cody McDonald (Gillingham) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Ben Coker.
Wales' largest mass participation race takes place around the capital's streets on Sunday, 1 October.
A spokesman for organiser Run4Wales said the number of entrants breaks last year's record of 22,000 runners.
Since its inception in 2003, it has become the UK's second largest event of its kind and last year participants raised £2.5m for charity.
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After almost a decade without winning a major trophy, the Scarlets are looking for a chance to recapture former glories by bidding to make the Pro12 play-off semi-finals when they take on Treviso at Parc y Scarlets on Friday.
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Fifteen-year-old Pranav Dhanawade broke the previous record of 628 set by Arthur Collins in 1899 on Monday.
But he continued his innings in the HT Bhandari Cup inter-school tournament and reached 1,009 runs.
He smashed 59 sixes and 127 fours in 395 minutes before his KC Gandhi School declared the innings at 1,465 against Arya Gurukul School on Tuesday.
In pictures: Indian schoolboy's 1,009 not out
Mumbai school cricket is highly competitive and has produced cricketers like legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar and current Indian opener Rohit Sharma.
"I was not thinking of a record," Dhanawade told BBC Hindi."it was not in my mind at all but as soon as I got close to the feat it was clear to me that I could achieve it."
Dhanawade said his father, an auto-rickshaw driver, had pushed him to play and was partly responsible for his success. He said he was ready for international cricket, but intended to first play in the under-19 state team.
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Outbound coach Luis Enrique watched his Barca run Celta ragged with great interplay in attack and high pressing.
Messi made it 1-0 when he ran 45 yards and slotted in, before Neymar scored with a superb dinked finish.
Barca increased their lead with strikes from Ivan Rakitic and Samuel Umtiti before another solo effort from Messi.
Relive the Barcelona's brilliant display at the Nou Camp
It was a performance which Barca are renowned for but one that has been rarely seen this season. If they produce a similar display against Paris St-Germain on Wednesday then they have a great chance of overturning what seems an insurmountable 4-0 deficit.
Messi sent Barcelona on their way in the 24th minute.
The Argentine's turn as he set off for goal was reminiscent of countryman Diego Maradona's when he scored that dazzling solo goal against England at World Cup '86. Messi had fewer defenders to navigate past, with Gustavo Cabral and Sergi Gomez failing to dislodge the ball from the diminutive forward before he fired past Sergio Alvarez.
Neymar then produced the best finish of the night when he converted Messi's through-ball with the deftest of touches.
Rakitic slotted in the third in the 57th minute when Rafinha's heavy touch in the area fell into his path before defender Umtiti grabbed his first in Barcelona colours with a poked finish from Messi's square ball.
The Barcelona magician then capped of a great night for both himself and his team when he cut inside from the right and sold a dummy before firing in through the legs of Facundo Roncaglia.
Enrique's side lead by a point from Real Madrid, who defeated Eibar 4-1 earlier on Saturday. Real also have a game in hand on their bitter rivals.
Match ends, Barcelona 5, Celta de Vigo 0.
Second Half ends, Barcelona 5, Celta de Vigo 0.
Corner, Celta de Vigo. Conceded by Javier Mascherano.
Attempt saved. Iago Aspas (Celta de Vigo) left footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jozabed.
Attempt missed. Iago Aspas (Celta de Vigo) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sergi Gómez following a fast break.
Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nemanja Radoja (Celta de Vigo).
Attempt saved. Denis Suárez (Barcelona) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lionel Messi.
Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nemanja Radoja (Celta de Vigo).
Rafinha (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonny (Celta de Vigo).
Attempt missed. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Rafinha with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Iago Aspas (Celta de Vigo) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nemanja Radoja.
Attempt missed. Iago Aspas (Celta de Vigo) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Gerard Piqué (Barcelona).
Iago Aspas (Celta de Vigo) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Barcelona. Lionel Messi tries a through ball, but Luis Suárez is caught offside.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Sergio Álvarez.
Offside, Barcelona. Lionel Messi tries a through ball, but Luis Suárez is caught offside.
Substitution, Barcelona. Denis Suárez replaces Neymar.
Substitution, Celta de Vigo. Marcelo Díaz replaces Daniel Wass.
Rafinha (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Facundo Roncaglia (Celta de Vigo).
Substitution, Barcelona. Andrés Iniesta replaces Sergi Roberto.
Attempt missed. Daniel Wass (Celta de Vigo) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Iago Aspas following a fast break.
Goal! Barcelona 5, Celta de Vigo 0. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Celta de Vigo. Jozabed replaces John Guidetti.
Goal! Barcelona 4, Celta de Vigo 0. Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lionel Messi following a corner.
Substitution, Barcelona. Javier Mascherano replaces Sergio Busquets.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Jonny.
Goal! Barcelona 3, Celta de Vigo 0. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rafinha.
Offside, Barcelona. Sergio Busquets tries a through ball, but Neymar is caught offside.
Substitution, Celta de Vigo. Pione Sisto replaces Theo Bongonda.
Attempt missed. Neymar (Barcelona) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Rafinha following a corner.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Sergi Gómez.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Sergio Álvarez.
Attempt saved. Sergi Roberto (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Sergi Gómez (Celta de Vigo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ahmet Yasar, the businessman who posted the image, told the BBC it was taken within the last four weeks by a friend who works as an airline captain.
Mr Yasar said the falcons were flying to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia for what is thought to be a hunting trip.
"The picture was taken on board an Airbus flying from an unknown origin to Saudi Arabia," Mr Yasar told the BBC.
"It is quite common for airlines in the Middle East to transport birds for hunting purposes. In this case each falcon is estimated to be worth about $8,000 (£6,435)," the Turkey-based businessman said.
"The picture I posted has gone viral attracting interest from all over the world," he said. "It is thought the birds were to be used to hunt geese."
Mr Yasar said the airline captain who took the picture did not want to be named.
The popularity of hunting in the Middle East was clearly seen in December 2015, when gunmen kidnapped at least 27 Qatari hunters - including members of the ruling family - in a desert area of Iraq near the Saudi border.
Iraq - like Saudi Arabia - is one of several countries frequented by wealthy practitioners of the ancient sport of falconry as they search for prey that either does not exist in their own countries or which has been almost hunted to extinction there.
Their favoured prey is the Asian houbara bustard, akin to a small turkey, and to find it and other similar species, Gulf hunters often travel to Morocco, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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They take with them their prized falcons, typically peregrines, sakers and lanners, which are expertly trained to home in on their quarry at high speed.
Falconry was an important skill for Bedouin hunters in the harsh deserts of Arabia and Syria and has been around for thousands of years.
It is the latest stage of reforms begun when President Raul Castro took over from his brother, Fidel in 2008.
Raul Castro has been trying to stimulate Cuba's stagnant economy but has faced resistance from Cuban Communist Party hardliners.
With the restoration of relations with the US last year, Cuba is also opening up to foreign investment.
The government currently allows self-employment in several hundred job categories from restaurant owners to hairdressers.
The Cuban economy has been stimulated by many of these becoming small businesses and employing other workers.
The latest reforms were published in a 32-page document detailing the party's plan for economic development, and approved by Congress.
It did not specify what the new status for "private businesses of medium, small and micro size" would entail.
Neither did it mention if businesses would be given additional rights such as the ability to import supplies or export products.
But analysts say the new status is a sign of the government's recognition that private enterprises will have a significant role in the future, although the main means of production could remain in the hands of the state.
The man, who is yet to be formally identified, was found at a house on Weelsby Street, Grimsby, shortly before 05:00 GMT on Sunday.
The 50-year-old was taken to hospital but later died from his injuries.
The three men, aged 53, 42 and 24, were released on bail pending further inquiries.
Humberside Police said its investigation was continuing and the force expects to release the identity of the dead man later in the week once his family, who live overseas, have arrived back in the country.
Operating profit rose from £1.3bn to £1.5bn while sales increased by £1.3bn to £17.9bn.
Sales were helped by the delivery of Typhoon fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.
The company's chief executive, Ian King, said the group was well placed to continue to generate attractive returns for shareholders as "defence budgets recover".
In recent years, the company has seen a squeeze on defence spending.
BAE is also expanding into provision of cyber security for major corporations, including banks and telecoms.
BAE's cyber and intelligence division consists of the US-based Intelligence & Security and Applied Intelligence in the UK. Overall the division's sales increased by 3% to £1.8bn.
Applied Intelligence saw sales rise by 31%, 13% of which was as a result of the acquisition of cyber security company SilverSky, with the rest coming mainly from commercial customers in the UK.
BAE predicts sales will continue to go up as cyber security becomes increasingly important for both governments and commercial organisations.
In its statement BAE said it had delivered another year of "solid performance" and "resilience in markets constrained by wider economic pressures".
It highlighted, in particular, the increased Typhoon deliveries to Saudi Arabia, plus sales from the trading of equipment on the European Typhoon programme, as well as more naval business.
In the UK, BAE said government commitments to "protect defence and security spend, in a still tightly constrained UK economic environment, were helpful".
As part of its Strategic Defence and Security Review in November 2015, the government said it would continue to invest in expanding the capabilities of BAE's Typhoon fighter jets and extend the aircraft's service life until at least 2040.
And in the US, the government announced plans to increase spending on defence in both 2016 and 2017 and BAE says it expects to benefit from that.
"Defence markets have been tough for years, but may now see some improvement as austerity eases, says Steve Clayton, head of equity research at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"Defence companies will never be redundant, we fear, but we may be at an inflection point, where their traditional weapon platforms, tanks, jets, subs and missiles, are less important than data processing and surveillance capabilities.
"Cyber security, both national and commercial is an area BAE is keen to grow, but it is not yet big enough in the business to drive the overall group forward on its own," he adds.
Earlier this week, BAE announced the appointment of Charles Woodburn to the newly created role of chief operating officer, with the expectation that he would take over as chief executive in about 18 months.
Shares in BAE closed up 1.14% on Thursday.
Southampton Itchen candidate Kim Rose said he had used the passage from the Nazi leader's autobiography in reference to an "undemocratic" EU.
Mr Rose was previously questioned by police for providing sausage rolls at a campaign event.
He said he saw Europe "turning into exactly what Hitler wanted in 1942" under the EU.
Mr Rose used a quote while speaking during the election event, held at Southampton's Asda superstore.
It read: "The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions.
"In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."
Mr Rose said his party is pushing for an EU referendum.
"I gave my quotation of Adolf Hitler to prove my point: that the EU is undemocratic," he said.
"We can't vote for a new lot of people in there if we're not happy with the way they're running it."
Mr Rose was recently called in for police questioning over allegations he tried to influence voters by giving away sausage rolls at a party event featuring snooker star Jimmy White, though no further action was taken against him.
Electoral Commission rules state food and entertainment cannot be provided by candidates to "corruptly influence" votes.
The candidates for the constituency are:
Russia's Sports Ministry says it is investigating the fights. Mr Kadyrov features them on his Instagram page.
The mixed martial arts contest in Grozny resembled professional boxing, the boys gesturing to an excited crowd.
Mr Kadyrov's boy fighters are Akhmad, aged 10, Eli, nine, and Adam, eight.
"We will find out about this situation, and request information on it," said Russian Deputy Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov.
Mr Kadyrov is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has ruled Chechnya since his forces, helped by massive Russian firepower, defeated separatist rebels in 1999-2009.
His much-feared militia, called the "Kadyrovtsy", have been accused of kidnapping, torture and other human rights abuses.
Mr Kadyrov watched the martial arts bouts sitting next to Alexander Zaldostanov, another political ally of Mr Putin. Nicknamed "The Surgeon," Mr Zaldostanov heads a nationalist biker gang called the Night Wolves, fiercely loyal to the Kremlin.
The boy fighters in Grozny did not wear helmets or other protective gear. Their fights included blows to the head.
The head of the Russian Mixed Martial Arts Union, Fyodor Yemelianenko, condemned the competition, saying it was "unacceptable and cannot be justified".
Mr Kadyrov posted boastful comments along with the Instagram video clips, such as: "Little Adam showed that he's a real Lion!... The opponents had strong fighting spirit and will, but Adam won a confident victory and won the champion's belt. Congratulations, Adam!"
In Russia's parliamentary and regional elections last month Mr Kadyrov won in Chechnya with 98% support.
Cardiff led at half-time thanks to Peter Whittingham's exquisite free-kick.
Daniel Pudil's low strike brought the visitors level but they were thwarted by a stubborn defensive effort.
Wednesday are now sixth in the table, while Cardiff are up to 22th but still in the relegation zone.
Carlos Carvalhal's side had their eyes on the play-off places following Sunday's Yorkshire derby win at Huddersfield, while Cardiff had started Warnock's reign with a stirring derby victory of their own against Bristol City on Friday.
Whittingham had given Cardiff the lead with a casually taken penalty on that occasion, and he was similarly insouciant as he curled a delicate free-kick over the wall to put them ahead against Wednesday.
The visitors enjoyed as much as 78% possession in the first half but they were shackled by their industrious opponents, who could have scored a second goal moments before half-time when Sean Morrison's header was cleared off the line.
Wednesday were sharper after the break and the introduction of Fernando Forestieri - who scored the winner at Huddersfield - brought pace and invention to their attacks.
Carvalhal's side struck after 55 minutes, Gary Hooper's fizzing cross finding its way to Pudil, whose low shot hit Cardiff goalkeeper Ben Amos on its way into the net.
They continued to dominate possession but found it difficult to create clear scoring opportunities against a resolute Bluebirds defence which dropped deeper to frustrate their opponents.
Match ends, Cardiff City 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Second Half ends, Cardiff City 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Attempt missed. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Joe Ralls with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Gary Hooper.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Offside, Cardiff City. Sean Morrison tries a through ball, but Junior Hoilett is caught offside.
Foul by Daniel Pudil (Sheffield Wednesday).
Marouane Chamakh (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City).
Substitution, Cardiff City. Stuart O'Keefe replaces Peter Whittingham.
Foul by Gary Hooper (Sheffield Wednesday).
Ben Amos (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Sean Morrison.
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Gary Hooper.
Attempt blocked. Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Ralls.
Foul by Gary Hooper (Sheffield Wednesday).
Sol Bamba (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. William Buckley replaces Ross Wallace because of an injury.
Delay in match Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) because of an injury.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Sam Hutchinson.
Attempt missed. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Gary Hooper.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Marouane Chamakh replaces Rickie Lambert.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Anthony Pilkington replaces Craig Noone.
Attempt missed. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Fernando Forestieri.
Attempt missed. Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Goal! Cardiff City 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Daniel Pudil (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gary Hooper.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Tom Lees (Sheffield Wednesday) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rickie Lambert with a headed pass.
Offside, Sheffield Wednesday. Ross Wallace tries a through ball, but Daniel Pudil is caught offside.
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City).
Second Half begins Cardiff City 1, Sheffield Wednesday 0.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Fernando Forestieri replaces Almen Abdi.
First Half ends, Cardiff City 1, Sheffield Wednesday 0.
Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City).
Offside, Cardiff City. Peter Whittingham tries a through ball, but Junior Hoilett is caught offside.
The 36-year-old made a half century to help beat Hamsphire by six wickets in his last scheduled county game of 2016.
The West Indies batsman scored 177 runs in five outings, after making 328 runs in three Somerset appearances in 2015.
"The mind is willing but the body says 'you've got to take a break'. There is too much stiffness on this body at this time," Gayle told BBC Radio Bristol.
"But we'll see how well I can actually manage that, how long I can actually last and go on to entertain the fans around the world.
"I'm looking forward to heading back home now. It's been a wonderful hospitality and atmosphere.
"Apart from the first game which was very, very cold - that was the only game I didn't really get a score. The weather played its part but we have no control over that."
After scoring just five runs in his first T20 Blast appearance of this summer, Gayle had said he "needed to get acclimatised" as quickly as possible.
He did not rule out a return later this season if Somerset - who now lie fifth in the South Group, two points behind leaders Glamorgan - reach the final.
"It's a possibility, we're looking forward to it and we'll see what happens, so you never know," he added.
"Hopefully the guys make it to the final and we can actually get a change to get a trophy.
"Somerset (will) always have a place in my heart.
"I like all the fans interacting, even when the ball just trickles to me and I pick it up, they cheer for that. It's fantastic when you have that sort of impact on people."
They could be inside or outside the grounds of existing jails, according to the prisons inspectorate (HMIPS).
Figures from SPS show the number of prisoners over the age of 60 in Scottish jails has risen by a fifth in the past year.
It is spending £1m a year on social care packages for elderly inmates.
The HMIPS report "Who Cares? The Lived Experience Of Older Prisoners In Scotland's Prisons" said the number of inmates over the age of 60 had risen significantly in recent years and would continue to do so.
It said there was a pressing need for a clear strategic approach to tackle the challenges of responding to increasingly complex health and social care needs of older people in prison.
"This may require the development of non-traditional units for at least some older prisoner whether within, or outside the grounds of existing establishments," the report concluded.
In 2016 there were 280 prisoners in Scottish jails aged 60 or over. In July 2017 there were more than 340, with two-thirds serving four years or more, including life terms.
The oldest male in a Scottish prisoner is 85, the oldest woman is 73. The majority of elderly prisoners have been convicted in historical sex abuse cases.
The report said this group of prisoners had distinct needs for suitable accommodation, social contact and activities, but too many were not having their needs met in a satisfactory way.
One said: "I'm 72 and on the top bunk. I'm a lot fitter than my co-pilot, that's why I'm up there. I am a bit worried that I could fall and hurt myself when I'm trying to get in and out of my bed."
A staff member, quoted in the report said: "You've got no idea how difficult it can be trying to place some of the elderly prisoners.
"At times when we are trying to figure out where to put somebody we are literally having to make an assessment as to who can and who cannot make it up and down to the top bunk. Surely it's not right to put a 72-year-old in the top bunk?"
The Chief Inspector of Prisons in Scotland, David Strang, said the report highlighted the challenges of responding to the increasingly complex health and social care needs of older people in prison and emphasised their distinct needs for suitable accommodation, social contact and activities.
He said: "Many expressed their fears of growing old in prison and the possibility of dying alone. There is a clear need for such basics of life as suitable activities and social contact.
"I hope that this report will lead to effective change in the treatment of older prisoners in Scotland."
Former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has advocated the creation of "secure old-folks' homes" to deal with the problem.
The HMIPS report makes no recommendation for change, but said the issues caused by the increase in the elderly prisoner population cannot be addressed by the SPS alone.
It said: "There is a pressing need for a clear strategic approach to a subject which has grown incrementally in importance, but without any specific strategy."
Mr Strang said: "Most older prisoners didn't want to be separated on the grounds of age from younger inmates. But in many cases they need extra support which can't easily be delivered within the mainstream prison system.
"There is a need to deliver care which is more in keeping with the reality of prisoners' situations than their own perceptions, but we are not advocating how that can be achieved.
"We are saying innovative and different solutions should be found, and this is a challenge for the Scottish government and SPS."
The SPS already provides specialist facilities and training for staff who manage distinct prisoner populations such as sex offenders, young people in custody, female offenders with babies and dementia awareness.
The report said creating separate provision for older prisoners in particular locations would enable SPS to make suitable adaptations to the environment and create teams of staff who were dedicated and trained to work with the elderly.
Tom Fox, SPS head of communications, said neither prison staff nor the health care staff who work in prisons were trained to provide social care.
"At present we are spending just under £1m buying in social care for those in our care. It's a significant cost," he said.
"What we have to do is develop a coherent strategy across the entirety of the estate to ensure the people in our care receive the support and services that they need."
Responding to the HMIPS report, Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "This report highlights the challenges of providing effective care and a constructive regime for an increasingly elderly and frail prison population. It is a challenge which the Scottish Prison Service cannot meet on its own.
"Prison staff should not be expected to do the jobs of nurses and care providers. A comprehensive strategy is needed to ensure health, social care and criminal justice agencies work together to meet the needs of the increasing numbers of people growing old behind bars."
The NHS is planning to cut services at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton, claiming they are unsustainable.
Last month the health secretary rejected calls for an independent review of the plans, saying a public consultation was appropriate.
The consultation is expected to start at the end of July or early August.
The preferred option of NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is to replace overnight children's care at the Friarage with a day care assessment unit, and to have midwife-led maternity services instead of consultant-led.
It would mean pregnant women at risk of complications travelling to hospital in Middlesbrough, 22 miles (35km) away, to give birth.
Dr Vicky Pleydell, the CCG's chief clinical officer, said: "The case for change is clear, and it would not be safe for the service to remain as it is currently.
"The number of sick children requiring inpatient care and number of high-risk births are too small to support the size and experience required of medical teams to ensure a safe and high-quality service.
"Our preferred option would mean that the vast majority of children's and maternity services at the Friarage would be retained and women would still be able to choose the Friarage for low-risk births.
"We aim to start the consultation as soon as we have a project team in place."
Dorset Police took a call from the coastguard after the unidentified object was found on Highcliffe Beach at around 13:30 GMT.
Photographs of the object have been sent to bomb disposal experts for guidance.
Police say there is no risk to the public at this stage and are awaiting further information about the object.
The former Spice Girl has taken up her new role for the organisation's Aids campaign.
She said she'd been inspired by a trip to South Africa.
"This is the beginning of an important journey for me. As a woman and a mother I have a responsibility to support other women."
She missed the opening of her first clothing store in London to attend the news conference in New York.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly's press conference, she said: "Why has it taken for me to get to 40 years old to realise, I need to stand up?
"I need to use what I have to make a difference.
"Every woman out there has the right to health and the right to give her children a healthy future.
"Children, babies, should not be born with HIV, and we can stop that. We are very, very close to stopping that which is why I'm sitting here now. We can't give up, we have to keep going, we are so close."
She joins a list of high-profile celebrity goodwill ambassadors that has included Angelina Jolie and Emma Watson.
Victoria Beckham's involvement with charitable organisations is nothing new considering the work husband David has done with Unicef, Comic Relief and the Red Cross.
However, this is the first time she's taking the front seat with a charity and, judging by the smile on UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe, the UN is glad to have her on board.
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Born to a Zimbabwean mother and a Scottish father, he was much-loved by his many aunts, uncles and cousins on both sides.
His death in the Tavistock Square bus explosion on 7 July 2005 was a huge loss to his many friends and large family, none more so than his parents.
"To his mother, he was simply the best son in the world," the inquest into his death heard.
To his father, Jamie was a best friend, the statement from his parents read.
Born on 19 December 1974 in south London to Pairose Bond and Glaswegian David Gordon, Jamie moved to Harare with his mother and sister when he was four.
His father visited several times as Jamie threw himself into school, scouting, horseriding and BMX.
More than a decade later, he returned to Britain to finish his education at Eaglesfield secondary school in Shooters Hill, south London.
Out of school, he joined the scouts and formed a band with friends, playing guitar and singing at several gigs.
At the inquest, his parents told of Jamie's changing face.
He went from "the exuberant child who seemed to fear nothing, to the long-haired, rock star teenager, all hair, nail varnish, black mascara and guitars, to the mature, but still quirky young man", they said.
In the words of his father, Jamie "wanted to be a rock star, but fell into financial administration".
But it was only after some fun in Ibiza that, in 1997, he put on a suit and moved into the City. That same year, Jamie's older half-brother, David, died of a brain haemorrhage.
For several years Jamie worked in finance in Old Street, east London.
It was a job that he normally reached by taking an overground train from Enfield in north London, where he lived with his fiancee Yvonne Nash, to Liverpool Street, before walking the final three-quarters of a mile to his office.
But on the night before the London attacks, Mr Gordon, 30, had stayed at a friend's house after a leaving party. His route to work the next morning led him to take the number 30 bus that exploded in Tavistock Square.
At his side for seven years was his devoted girlfriend, who had, six months before his death, become his fiancee.
"It sounds very cliched, but he was my soulmate, my best friend," Ms Nash said in the wake of the attacks.
"We complemented each other. I took a back seat and was the organiser, while he was just happy to entertain everyone."
At the inquest, his parents said: "Jamie was a funny, tolerant and charming young man who could be irritatingly late, but rarely ever shortchanged any of us.
"His loyalty and humour saw him through many tight spots and his continual growth made it easier for us to accept the changing world we lived in.
"The essence of Jamie left an indelible mark on all who met him and, to this day, on the important dates, both friends and family gather to remember him."
The film star and his lawyer wife Amal want to erect the cameras on poles up to 5m (16ft) high in the grounds of their manor house in Sonning Eye, on the Oxfordshire-Berkshire border.
Eye and Dunsden Parish Council initially raised concerns over privacy and the CCTV system's visual impact.
But the planned height of the poles was reduced and the complaint was dropped.
South Oxfordshire District Council says planning permission has now been granted as the CCTV system will not be detrimental to the special architectural and historical interest of the listed building.
It is located on an island in the River Thames on the county border between Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
The Hollywood star bought the property in late 2014.
Most of them had hidden the migrants in their own cars, prosecutors say.
Car and van drivers, instead of lorry drivers, are increasingly being recruited by smuggling gangs.
The deputy prosecutor for the Calais region's main court said she saw between five and 10 smugglers from the UK every month.
Julie Colaert told the BBC's File on 4 programme that people from the UK now made up a quarter of those brought before the court - second only to smugglers from Eastern Europe.
"In the last two years we have seen more and more English smugglers," she said.
"Trafficking gangs are employing them to take people across in their own cars.
"The migrants pay a lot of money because it's sold as guaranteed passage to the UK."
She estimated that up to 100 people from the UK had been convicted by the court in the past 12 months.
She gave an estimated figure because, she said, in France it is illegal to record statistics by nationality.
In the most recent case, Basir Haji, from Preston in Lancashire, was sentenced to 12 months in prison.
He was caught at the Calais ferry terminal with two Iraqi men hiding in the boot of his car.
He admitted agreeing to smuggle them to the UK for £500 (698 euros).
The Iraqi men told the police that their families had each paid £4,500 for them to be transported to the UK.
Haji was convicted of trying to facilitate the entrance of foreign citizens in circumstances incompatible with human dignity.
Haji spoke to the BBC before he was taken to a prison south of Calais.
"I'm in debt. That's why I did it. I've been playing a lot of money in the casino," he said.
The judges suspected Haji may have successfully smuggled migrants into the UK on a previous day trip to Calais, in April.
Haji told the court there were three men above him in the smuggling network.
And he told the BBC he believed the head of the gang was based in England.
Julie Colaert said that the number of Britons charged with smuggling migrants across the Channel had increased significantly in the last two years.
In the past criminal gangs had hidden migrants in lorries, but now the use of private cars and vans was more common, as people believed they were less likely to be stopped or searched.
Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, has confirmed that organised criminal gangs and opportunistic individuals based in the UK are involved in smuggling illegal immigrants into the country.
The French lawyer who represented Basir Haji at his trial said the recruitment of people smugglers had evolved in recent years.
Emmanuelle Osmont said that mafia organisations were now targeting students with financial difficulties, and bar owners and shopkeepers whose businesses were struggling.
The criminals start by presenting people-smuggling as a means of making extra money.
"The first approach might be in a café," said Ms Osmont.
"They make friends... and bit by bit they become interested in them, asking them about their personal and professional situation.
"It can take weeks, but when they have formed enough of a bond, they present the human trafficking as a way of helping friends or family fleeing war or persecution."
The drivers recruited by the gangs earn between about £2,100 and £2,800 per trip.
Many may make one trip without being caught, but are stopped on a second or third attempt.
The sentences they receive range from six months to two years in prison.
According to Ms Osmont, the recruits know that their behaviour is illegal but are told that the risk of being caught is minimal.
But working with these mafia gangs, who are armed and dangerous, is risky in itself.
"They threaten people and their children. Once you start working with them, they'll never let you go," Ms Osmont warned.
File on 4: Ticket to Hide is on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 BST on Tuesday, 23 June and available later via BBCiPlayer.
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Adam Szurgocinski, 26, died in hospital after being attacked at a property in Jubilee Road on 14 September 2014.
Mateusz Halabura, 25, Pawel Wegorzewski, 20, Rafal Palinski, 29, Jaroslaw Owczarczyk, 32 and Sebastian Gurski, 30, from the Doncaster area, pleaded guilty to manslaughter midway through a trial at Leeds Crown Court.
They were charged with murder before.
Police said Mr Szurgocinski suffered a brain haemorrhage after being subjected to "a sustained physical attack".
Det Insp Sean Bird, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "Questions about what happened to Adam that day have not been answered, as none of those accused have offered any explanation prior to admitting their guilt."
The force arrested 16 people on suspicion of murder in the months that followed Mr Szurgocinski's death.
A sixth man, Dariusz Bogusz, 32, pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in February.
All six men will appear at Sheffield Crown Court for sentence on 6 May.
Heavy summer rains have caused rivers to swell across a vast area.
In Paraguay, the most affected country, President Horacio Cartes declared a state of emergency, freeing up $3.5m (£2.3m) in relief funds.
The Paraguay river in the capital, Asuncion, is just 30cm (12in) away from overtopping its banks.
That could lead to widespread flooding in the Asuncion area.
And it could affect thousands of other people who live by the Paraguay - the country's main river - the authorities said.
Nearly 200 electricity pylons have been damaged or destroyed by strong winds.
Four people were killed in the country by fallen trees.
In northern Argentina, some 20,000 people have been evacuated.
At least two people have died in the floods, which have mostly affected the provinces of Entre Rios, Corrientes and Chaco.
In the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, nearly 1,800 families in dozens of towns had been forced to leave their homes.
Heavy rain began to fall in the region on 18 December, swelling the Uruguay and Quarai rivers.
South of the Brazilian border, in Uruguay, thousands of people have been made homeless in the past few days.
But most of them have now returned home.
Dry weather is forecast for the Brazilian-Uruguayan border region in the next few days, but in Paraguay and Argentina water levels are still expected to rise.
Kevin Wilson, who was previously mayor of Tiverton, admitted illegally obtaining benefits totalling almost £4,000.
The 55-year-old was given a 10-week suspended jail sentence at Exeter Crown Court.
Councillors are only disqualified from serving if they receive a three-month sentence or longer.
Wilson's lawyer said it was an "issue for his constituents" whether he remained as a councillor.
The former Liberal Democrat councillor - who is now an independent - admitted two charges of making false representations to obtain £3,866.81 in housing and council tax benefits.
Wilson, of Besley Close, Tiverton, had told the court he ran into serious financial problems after he split up from his wife.
He received a 10-week sentence, suspended for two years, and was ordered to pay £260 costs and carry out 200 hours of unpaid community work.
Sentencing Wilson, the judge told him the offences were "significantly aggravated" because he had held a public role as a councillor and was a former employee of Devon County Council.
Financial pressure was "absolutely no excuse for dishonesty", the judge said.
Prosecutor Martin Meeke said that, under the Local Government Act, Wilson could only be forced out of office if he received a sentence of more than three months.
Lee Bremridge, defending, said Wilson's £398 monthly allowance as a councillor was his only income other than benefits.
Mr Bremridge said: "He maintains his position as a councillor by reason of his constituents and is due for re-election in 2015."
The council confirmed that Wilson could remain a councillor for now and said it was "his prerogative to remain on the council unless he chooses to resign".
A spokesman said: "It is up to the electorate to decide if they want to vote for him again."
Lord Heseltine has torn into Boris Johnson, saying his behaviour and comments in the EU referendum campaign show he is "losing his judgement", "feeling the strain of the campaign" and sinking his own chances of ever becoming Conservative leader.
He told me: "I think that every time he makes one of these extraordinary utterances, people in the Conservative Party will question whether he now has the judgement for that position."
As Boris Johnson might say: "Cripes!" But that doesn't quite begin to cover it. This criticism will sting because even though Boris Johnson insists it is not the case, many of his Tory colleagues believe his calculation to join the Out campaign was entirely because he wants to be the next leader of his party.
For Lord Heseltine, who of course had similar ambitions but was thwarted in the end, to suggest his decision and subsequent behaviour will in fact kill his chances will really hurt.
The decision before all of us is far bigger than any individual Conservative politician's career.
But the level of bitterness inside the Tory party is hard to ignore. There are only five weeks until we'll all make our choice.
For the country and the Tory party the real disruption might only begin on 24 June.
18 May 2016 Last updated at 14:41 BST
Magnetism is the big idea behind superfast maglev trains, hovering boards for the skate-park of the future, and the Hyperloop, which in the next few years may let you travel the distance between London to Edinburgh - in less than an hour!
Leah explains how magnets are changing the future of travel...
The Crime Survey for England and Wales indicates overall crime has fallen in recent years, but the Wales-only figures show there has been a rise.
The survey reported 469,000 incidents in Wales, up from 401,000 in 2011.
Most of the increase in Wales happened in the past year and has been driven by a hike in the number of violent crimes.
The Crime Survey for England and Wales is a survey of households conducted by the Office for National Statistics, which asks people if they have been a victim of crime.
This picks up many crimes that are not reported to the police.
The figures fluctuate from year to year but in recent years more people in Wales, according to the crime survey, have been a victim of crime.
Despite the increase, the recent level of crime is half that experienced 20 years ago, when in 1995 there were 903,000 incidents.
Last month, the latest data for England and Wales combined showed a 16% fall in crime compared with the previous year's survey, representing the lowest estimate since the survey began in 1981.
The other main source of official crime statistics is the data collected by police forces on the number of recorded crimes.
According to this measure, the number of crimes reported to the police in Wales was 175,888 in the year to June 2014 - up 1.3% from 173,614 a year earlier.
The reliability of police recorded crime figures were questioned in a parliamentary inquiry earlier this year.
In response to the figures, a Home Office spokesman said the survey sample was not designed for regional level analysis.
"The change in the year ending March 2014 Crime Survey figure for Wales (compared with a year earlier) is not statistically significant," he said.
"Because of the small sample size at a regional level, changes in regional figures derived from the survey can be volatile from one year to the next meaning it is difficult to interpret trends."
Street's wife says he died on 27 February at a hospital in Las Vegas after a short illness.
He sang with Temptations members Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin in the 1950s but didn't join the group until 1971.
As part of the group, Street had number of hits including the Grammy award-winning song, Papa Was a Rollin' Stone.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, he was the first member of the band to be born in the city with which they became synonymous.
His death comes only 10 days after his band mate, Otis 'Damon' Harris, who died on 18 February aged 62, after a 14 year battle with prostate cancer.
Cindy Street, told CNN: "They're dancing up there in heaven, him and Damon."
He performed with the band until 1993 when he left due to alleged personal tensions with Williams.
Street went to hospital five days before he died, suffering from back pain and breathing difficulties. Doctors found he had a clot in a lung.
He is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.
The Rugby Football Union said Marler - who immediately deleted the remark - was "extremely apologetic".
Dwyer had claimed England were scrummaged illegally during the win over the Wallabies on Saturday.
Marler asked to miss the tour to Australia to "recharge his batteries" after a difficult season.
In April, the Harlequins prop was fined £20,000 and given a two-week ban for calling Wales prop Samson Lee "Gypsy boy" during the Six Nations.
He was suspended for a further two weeks for kicking Grenoble hooker Arnaud Heguy in his first game back.
The RFU said the warning would remain on Marler's disciplinary record for five years and could be used in any future proceedings.
Eddie Jones' side will seal England's first series win in Australia if they win the second Test in Melbourne on Saturday.
Undergraduate maths, for example, contains few topics imagined after 1950.
That John Nash made ground-breaking contributions in mathematical areas as diverse as games, geometry and topology, and partial differential equations therefore establishes his place in history.
Much more striking, though, is the continuing resonance of his ideas.
Just last week, as Nash was in Oslo collecting the prestigious Abel Prize, colleagues of mine began applying his famous concept of equilibrium to help address one of society's much more contemporary problems - that of supplying electricity cheaply, reliably and cleanly.
Great new mathematical ideas have a balance to strike - they must be precise enough to allow detailed conclusions to be drawn, and yet sufficiently loose that they can be useful in a wide range of problems.
Nash equilibrium is just such an idea, and was a fundamental contribution to the nascent mathematical theory of non-cooperative games - situations where one player's fortunes depend on the actions of others, and everybody tries to do as well for themselves as possible.
Nash's definition of equilibrium was definitely loose enough: "A configuration of strategies, such that no player acting on his own can change his strategy to achieve a better outcome for himself."
Indeed it had so much slack that John von Neumann, the originator of game theory, reportedly told Nash in person that his work on the concept was "trivial".
Crucially, though, the Nash equilibrium offered something truly new - the ability to analyse situations of conflict and co-operation and produce predictions about how people will behave.
In addition to its obvious range of applications in politics and economics, the depth of the idea is illustrated by the traction it gained at the Rand corporation, the top secret US Cold War think tank.
While Rand had already identified game theory as a promising secret weapon against the Soviet Union, before Nash their analysis was "zero sum".
In other words their existing version of the theory was one of pure conflict in which the two sides shared no common interests.
There was a growing appreciation at Rand that this assumption was not realistic.
Since Nash's equilibrium concept is wide enough to allow the analysis of non-zero sum situations in which some goals are shared, he was immediately hired by Rand on completing his PhD in 1950.
Nash's other mathematical contributions should not be underestimated.
Indeed he always considered himself to be a pure mathematician, in contrast with the applied nature of game theory.
In the 1950s, Einstein's theories on the relationships between time and space led to a growing interest among mathematicians in high dimensional geometry.
In this context Nash's Embedding Theorem resolved a long-standing open problem among pure mathematicians, and the manner in which he proved it caused no little incredulity and controversy among his contemporaries.
His major contribution to the theory of differential equations may have led to the award of the prestigious Fields Medal, had his contemporary Ennio de Giorgi of Pisa not proved the same result just months earlier by different methods.
Nash's famous equilibrium, though, has grown to be perhaps the most important idea in economic analysis and has found application in fields as diverse as computing, evolutionary biology and artificial intelligence. More recently it has been used in studies of corruption and also name-checked amidst the Greek financial crisis.
It has of course been criticised, questioned and varied. Perhaps fittingly for an equilibrium, though, it is the balance between precision and generality which has made this beautiful and natural concept endure.
Prosecutor John Lloyd QC said Jill Goldsmith's wounds proved she was murdered at their home next to Northamptonshire Police HQ in March.
Adrian Goldsmith, 49, admits causing fatal injuries but denies murder.
He has told Stafford Crown Court his actions were in self defence.
The jury has heard he came home to find his wife waiting for him, and that she came at him with a knife.
He claimed he hit her with a variety of objects because she was attacking him, and had attacked him on previous occasions.
Mrs Goldsmith, also 49, was found with multiple head wounds in a pool of blood.
In closing arguments, Mr Lloyd QC asked the jury to reject any claims of self defence.
The jury heard a letter written by Mr Goldsmith, in which he said his wife compared him to Jekyll and Hyde.
Mr Lloyd said he agreed with the statement, and Mr Goldsmith was a "commended, hardworking officer and, we say, murderer all wrapped up in one".
The trial continues.
The 2013 champion finished alongside his team-mates on the final stage, behind a sprint won by Andre Greipel.
Mark Cavendish, seeking a fifth win on the Champs-Elysees, finished sixth after the 109.5km race from Sevres.
The win for Froome means a Briton, and Team Sky, have now won three of the last four of cycling's showpiece races.
Froome, 30, beat Colombia's Nairo Quintana to the yellow jersey by 72 seconds with Spain's Alejandro Valverde third.
The final stage ended with 10 laps of a 7km course around Paris but the times for the general classification were taken the first time they crossed the finish line because heavy rain in the French capital had made the roads treacherous.
That meant Froome could not lose time if he was held up by a crash or mechanical problem but he still had to complete the stage.
Inside the last 10km he had to stop to remove a paper bag that had got caught up in his gears, while moments later he rode over a discarded water bottle. If either had caused him to crash and not cross the finish line his title would have been cruelly taken away.
However, he stayed upright and rode over the line arm-in-arm with his Team Sky team-mates several seconds behind the main bunch.
There were a record 10 Britons at this year's Tour, with Geraint Thomas (15th, Team Sky) the highest ranked after Froome. The Welshman rode through the pain barrier, and at one point a telegraph pole, in the name of helping his team-mate Froome and was up in fourth until the latter stages of week three.
Froome was also supported by Ian Stannard (128th), on his second Tour, and Luke Rowe (136th) who was making his Tour debut, while Team Sky lost Peter Kennaugh to illness on stage 16.
Sprint specialist Mark Cavendish (Etixx-Quickstep, 142nd) had a mixed Tour, having been accused of giving up in a sprint on stage two, something which he reacted angrily to. The Manxman took his record tally of Tour stage wins to 26 by winning on stage seven, but lacked team-mates to succeed on the Champs-Elysees.
Twin brothers Adam Yates (50th) and Simon Yates (89th) not only made it to Paris on their Tour debuts, but often put their Orica-GreenEdge team in front of the cameras with regular breakaways.
A stage win for Stephen Cummings (86th) for his MTN-Qhubeka team on Mandela Day would have made the man from the Wirral a popular man in his camp.
And Movistar's Alex Dowsett, who Bradley Wiggins took the hour record off earlier this year, had to withdraw on stage 12 after a crash earlier in the Tour.
Froome had led the general classification since stage seven.
In fact, he had never dropped out of the top two positions since the third stage and up until Thursday held a lead of three minutes 10 seconds over the field.
In the end it turned out to be the narrowest winning margin since Carlos Sastre beat Cadel Evans by 58 seconds in 2008.
But it will be seen as vindication for Froome, whose composed and gritty riding was at risk of being overshadowed by persistent questions over the legitimacy of his performances and three isolated incidents of abuse from spectators.
Froome's Tour victory was predominantly established by an excellent first week, followed by a phenomenal burst on the climb to La Pierre-Saint-Martin on stage 10 that put him almost three minutes clear.
It was that climb which caused some to question whether Froome's performances were being enhanced by doping, with a French TV channel using images of Lance Armstrong to draw parallels between the shamed drugs cheat and the Team Sky rider.
A French physiologist also presented data that he described as "abnormal".
But Team Sky produced their own numbers to counter that claim and Froome has repeatedly said that he is clean.
That has not stopped Froome being subjected to abuse from spectators, as he claimed he had urine thrown at him on stage 14 and appeared to have twice been spat at in the last two stages before Paris.
Team-mate Richie Porte has said he was punched during stage 10.
There is also a sense that Kenya-born Froome has never fully secured the support of the British public, particularly in comparison to Sir Bradley Wiggins, who was the first Briton to win the Tour in 2012.
It remains to be seen whether his victory this year, which came among a field of Grand Tour winners including Quintana, Vincenzo Nibali, Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde, will persuade doubters of his ability.
Much was made of the big four of Froome, Nibali, Contador and Quintana all racing against each other.
Quintana said he ultimately lost the race on stage two when he finished 88 seconds behind Froome. He gained time in the Alps but had to be content with second, replicating his result behind Froome in 2013.
Defending champion Nibali finished alongside Quintana on stage two and lost further time on stages eight and nine before fading further as Froome dominated stage 10. Although the Italian did win stage 19.
Contador came into the race hoping to become the first man since 1998 to win the Tour and Giro d'Italia in the same year. He would also have held all three Grand Tour titles, having won last year's Vuelta a Espana.
However, the Spaniard never looked at his best in the mountains and had to be content for fifth overall.
Green: The points jersey which rewards consistently high finishes on each stage. Slovakia's Peter Sagan dominated the classification without winning a stage. He did, however, finish in the top five on 10 stages. He amassed 432 points, 66 more than second-placed Greipel
Polka: The King of the Mountains. Froome became the first rider since the legendary Eddy Merckx in 1970 to win both the overall race and mountain classification in the same year.
White: Best young rider. Quintana won it for a second time in three years by finishing second overall. The 25-year-old will be too old to contest it in 2016.
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Team award: For the team whose top-three riders have the lowest cumulative time. Won by Movistar, who beat Sky by 57 minutes 23 seconds.
Stage 21 result:
1. Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto) 2hrs 49mins 41secs
2. Bryan Coquard (Fra/Europcar) Same time
3. Alexander Kristoff (Nor/Katusha)
4. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor/Team MTN Qhubeka)
5. Arnaud Demare (Fra/FDJ)
6. Mark Cavendish (GB/Etixx - Quick-Step)
7. Peter Sagan (Svk/Tinkoff - Saxo)
8. John Degenkolb (Ger/Giant)
9. Michael Matthews (Aus/Orica)
10. Ramunas Navardauskas (Lit/Cannondale)
General classification after stage 21:
1. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) 84hrs 46mins 14secs
2. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) +1min 12secs
3. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +5mins 25secs
4. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Astana) +8mins 36secs
5. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff-Saxo) +9mins 48secs
Spokesman Paul McGuire said the studio wants to ensure it is sensitive to people affected by the tragedy.
Some 5,500 people died in Saturday's 7.8-magnitude quake, and tens of thousands have been left homeless.
San Andreas, which stars The Rock, is set in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in California.
The trailer features scenes of Los Angeles skyscrapers collapsing and a massive tsunami bearing down on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
Warner Bros will stick to the original release date of 29 May, but will revise its publicity material.
Promotional materials will now include information about ways in which people can participate in relief efforts.
A planned public service campaign, giving tips on how to prepare for natural disasters, will also be accelerated - with additional information on how to support relief efforts in Nepal.
Warner Bros' parent company, Time Warner, will also match any donations its employees make to disaster relief.
Trailers and poster art for San Andreas, however, will not be changed, according to trade paper Variety.
Warner Bros is not the only studio to reassess its plans following the disaster.
Universal Pictures is releasing Everest, a non-fiction account of a tragic 1996 expedition, in September.
With 19 people killed on Mount Everest in Saturday's seismic event, the studio is also considering changes to its promotion.
The man was believed to have a back or spinal injury. He was airlifted to Dorchester Hospital.
Coastguards were called in to help on Friday afternoon as the tide was rising and the air ambulance was unable to land on the beach.
The Swanage RNLI lifeboat provided cover while the coastguard helicopter winched the injured man to safety.
His current condition is unknown.
The American star said her "heart, prayers and deepest condolences" were with the victims of the Manchester attack.
"I don't want to go the rest of the year without being able to see and hold and uplift my fans," the singer added.
Twenty-two people were killed in the explosion at the Manchester Arena.
The singer tweeted: "There is nothing I or anyone can do to take away the pain you are feeling or to make this better.
"However I extend my hand and heart and everything I possibly can give to you and yours, should you want or need help in any way."
The star said: "I'll be returning to the incredibly brave city of Manchester to spend time with my fans and to have a benefit concert in honour and raise money for the victims and their families."
She continued: "Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before."
The singer said she wanted the current tour to be "a safe space" for her fans to "express themselves".
"This will not change that," she added.
"We will continue in honour of the ones we lost, their loved ones, my fans and all affected by this tragedy.
"They will be on my mind and in my heart everyday and I will think of them with everything I do for the rest of my life."
The star said she would reveal further details once the gig had been confirmed.
Meanwhile, one of the singer's hits from 2015 has re-entered the singles chart at number 11.
The song One Last Time had been performed at Monday's concert,
Fans of the singer campaigned to get Grande's single back into the charts as a tribute to the 22 people who had died in Manchester.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service was called to Crockherbtown Lane just after 12:30 BST on Monday.
Nearby buildings were evacuated amid fears the fire, which had spread to an electrical substation, could spread to neighbouring properties.
Greyfriars Road has been closed, diversions are in place and the public has been asked to stay away.
The fire was extinguished just after 15:20 but firefighters remain at the scene to damp down and check that the blaze has not spread.
The fire involved industrial bins and oil and a three-storey adjacent building was "heavily smoked", the fire service said.
Cardiff Bus has diverted all buses via Boulevard De Nantes and Stagecoach Wales said its 124 service for Maerdy would now start at the Hilton Hotel and the X16 service would terminate and depart from Dumfries Place until further notice.
Fire investigators are on the scene working with police to determine the cause of the fire.
Lewis Daynes, from Grays, Essex, was jailed for life for stabbing Breck Bednar from Surrey in February 2014.
In 2011, Daynes had been arrested over the suspected rape of another boy.
An investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found no issue with the way Essex Police handled the rape inquiry.
Following an investigation, the force decided to take no further action against Daynes for the 2011 allegation.
Detectives were found to have "actively pursued all lines of enquiry based on the information available" and the actions taken were "justified and proportionate in the circumstances", the IPCC said.
On Monday, the IPCC found a call from Breck's mother, Lorin LaFave, reporting a change in her son's behaviour should have alerted officers to the possibility he was being groomed.
Daynes, of Rosebery Road, Grays, was 19 when he was jailed in January this year.
He is currently serving a minimum term of 25 years for the murder, which Chelmsford Crown Court heard had a sexual motive.
Sarah McCann found the photo of Arthur Brown a couple of years ago as she worked in the Belfast city centre shop.
She told BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday News programme that the photo gave her chills, and that she simply had to find out more about the Belfast soldier.
"The first thing I saw was his face, he was so young. I was hooked," she said.
The back of the photograph had some clues to help her, as it revealed his name and his length of service.
Arthur Brown had sent the photograph to a woman named Ellie Dugan, who had written on it: "Arthur Brown aged 18, died of wounds.
"He had 13 months of service, gone but not forgotten by his good friend, Ellie Dugan."
"You could tell they really had a connection, he meant quite a lot to this woman", Sarah said.
"We've all really cared for someone in our life and to see this photo just sitting there in a charity bookshop, that meant so much to someone at some point, I just couldn't leave it there."
On the back of the photo the words "Irish guards" were also written in pencil, and through some detective work and good luck, Sarah discovered the names of Arthur's parents, Ellen and David Brown.
The War Graves Commission was able to give Sarah copies of Arthur's death records, and revealed his final resting place, where Sarah is planning to visit later this month.
The records show Arthur was a soldier in the 3rd Battalion of the Irish Guards, and that he died on 5 March, 1945, just two months before the end of the war.
He is buried in the Mook War Cemetery in Molenhoek in the Netherlands.
Sarah said, "I'm going there on 13 April, it will definitely be emotional.
"To have found a photo of someone you don't know, and to have learnt all these things from one photo - it means a lot to me to go and pay respect to him."
Sarah has set up a blog for anyone with information to contact her so she can solve the mystery and reunite any living relatives of Arthur Brown with the image.
"I'm looking after the photo really well.
"I hope I can give it to his family, I want to give it to them so they can tell future generations about it.
"He sacrificed his life so he should be remembered."
Asked if she considered herself a detective, Sarah laughed and replied: "I love uncovering history, I love personal stories and I just couldn't let this one rest."
He died at home in Miami at 07:20 local time (11:20 GMT) on Thursday.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, as Cecil Bustamante Campbell, he became a legend of the burgeoning ska music genre in 1960s Jamaica under the stage name Prince Buster.
He was an influence on groups including Madness and The Specials in the British ska revival of the late 1970s.
His decision to use a syncopated beat on tracks such as Little Honey, They Got to Go and Thirty Pieces of Silver is credited as pivotal in ska music's development and he gave himself the moniker "King of Ska".
A keen boxer in his youth, Prince Buster converted to Islam after meeting Muhammad Ali.
Prince Buster is survived by his wife Mola Ali and his children.
5 December 2016 Last updated at 01:04 GMT
There has been little improvement in the maternal mortality rate over the past few decades and according to Unicef, 732 mothers die for every 100,000 live births.
In one hospital in the capital, Mogadishu, a group of young female surgeons are fighting to save one mother at a time.
The hospital lacks basic resources and staff have not received salaries since April but they are still determined to do what they can to save Somalia's mothers.
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Dermot Desmond made the move, by way of a loan, as part of a refinancing exercise in February.
Mr Desmond ultimately owns the Titanic Quarter project, in partnership with the developer, Pat Doherty.
In 2016, the Titanic Quarter group of companies made a pre-tax loss of just under £1m on turnover of £10.5m.
Nick Reid, a former chief executive of the William Ewart property business, has been appointed executive chairman of Titanic Island, the top company in the group.
He said the refinancing, which also included new borrowing from Danske Bank, had been important for the future of the group.
"The group and its shareholders are committed to progressing further development in Titanic Quarter in the near term," he said.
"Once complete, these developments will further contribute to the positive impact of Titanic Quarter on the local economy and on the infrastructure of Northern Ireland."
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Harry Thrush, 92, travelled the region to pay his respects to soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, most of whom he did not know.
His family had invited all military personnel to attend his own funeral.
Daughter Janet Smith said: "It would mean the world to him to have that same representation at his funeral."
She said her father, a World War Two veteran from Leeds who died on Christmas Eve, wanted to "pay respects to the young soldiers and comrades" who had been repatriated back home from both wars.
"I think it did mean a lot to those families," she said.
"After I lost my mum he spent more time at remembrance parades and pursuing interests with the likes of the British Legion, so that had become a big part of his life in the last few years."
Ms Smith said she had hoped the same gesture would be returned to him from "some of the families whose lives he had touched".
"It's just the send off he would want and it's just an absolute fitting tribute to my dad."
Mourners joined a procession from the veteran's home in Robin Hood to St Mary's Parish Church in Beeston, where the funeral service took place.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim had said he thought as many as 14,000 teachers were associated with terror activities.
Turkey, alongside Western countries, regards the PKK as terrorists.
Tens of thousands of school workers and private teachers were purged separately after a failed coup in July.
Tens of thousands of people have died in a decades-long insurgency by the PKK, who want more self-rule for Kurdish people.
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Turkey's education ministry said 11,285 teachers had been suspended and were on paid leave pending an investigation.
The state-run Anadolu news agency said they were suspected of activities "in support of the separatist terrorist organisation and its affiliates".
It also said the number was meant to grow to 14,000 after an investigation carried out alongside local governors' offices.
It is not clear what part of the country the suspended teachers are mainly from, but Turkey's Kurdish population is concentrated in the south-east, near the borders with Syria, Iraq and Iran.
There are 850,000 teachers in Turkey, meaning the suspensions only affect less than 2% of teachers.
However earlier this year, 15,200 education ministry officials lost their jobs and 21,000 private school teachers had their licences revoked, amid a crackdown on followers of cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed for the failed 15 July coup.
Amy Smith, 17, six-month-old daughter Ruby-Grace Gaunt and friend Edward Green, also 17, died in the blaze at Langley Mill in Derbyshire last June.
Peter Eyre and his sons Simon, 24, and Anthony Eyre, 22, are alleged to have deliberately started the fire in an act of revenge.
All three deny three counts of murder.
Jurors previously heard Ruby-Grace's father, 18-year-old Shaun Gaunt, and another teenager who survived the fire were also inside the flat, but had escaped with the help of neighbours.
Nottingham Crown Court heard that prior to the fire, Mr Gaunt and a group of friends visited another of Peter Eyre's sons - Aaron Henshaw - after a friend told him he had stolen his Piaggio Zip moped, which went missing "in March or April".
Giving evidence, Mr Gaunt told the court he heard Peter Eyre on the phone to Mr Gaunt's friend during the row outside the defendants' home in Sandiacre, Derbyshire, when he said: "You need to sort this... out before I body bag the lot of you."
It is alleged Peter Eyre, 44, made the comments.
"I believe it was aimed at everyone," Mr Gaunt said.
A jury was told Mr Gaunt drank between 15 and 17 bottles of the tequila-flavoured beer Desperados, with Mr Gaunt saying he had been drinking "most of the day" before the fire.
Mr Gaunt and his friends continued to "drive around" in Mr Green's Peugeot 106 before going back to the defendants' house just before 01:30 GMT, because a friend was "adamant" Mr Gaunt's moped was there.
It is claimed by Mr Gaunt that after his friend demanded to know where the moped was, Peter Eyre came outside with a large lump hammer and said: "I'll show you".
Mr Gaunt said he responded by smashing a bottle of Desperados he was carrying "for protection".
Mr Gaunt then told the court as the group were driving off, he saw someone get into a black Skoda parked outside the Sandiacre house and begin to follow them.
The teenager said the car was driving just "a few feet" behind them, with the Peugeot itself travelling at "about 80mph" at the same time.
Shaun Smith QC, defending Peter Eyre, cross examined Mr Gaunt, and said any comment about body bags had not been made until Mr Gaunt and his friends had left the house.
The defence also disputed there was a car chase following the confrontation.
The trial continues.
Ms McCall, who has been at EasyJet for seven years, will take over the running of the commercial broadcaster early next year. ITV's previous chief executive, Adam Crozier, left in June.
She will be paid an annual salary of £900,000, plus pension and possible bonus and incentives.
Before running EasyJet, Ms McCall was chief executive at the Guardian.
She also is a non-executive director at fashion company Burberry, sits on the board of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and is a trustee at the Royal Academy.
Ms McCall said the decision to leave EasyJet had been "really difficult", but after seven years at the company the time was right for a move: "The opportunity from ITV felt like the right one to take. It is a fantastic company in a dynamic and stimulating sector."
Straight talking, no-nonsense, charming, effective. Those are some of the descriptions I've heard of Dame Carolyn McCall who this morning confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in British business that she will become the new CEO of ITV.
For the customers and shareholders of EasyJet, her track record is impressive. Since taking over in 2010, passenger numbers have grown 56% and the share price has tripled.
But it's perhaps her impact on the industry as a whole that will prove most lasting. Michael O'Leary freely admitted that EasyJet had "wiped the floor" with Ryanair - forcing his company into a rethink on its approach to customer relations.
EasyJet doesn't like the terms "budget" or "no frills" - preferring the word "value". EasyJet played a big part in redefining what that word meant to customers and in doing so ruffled the feathers of the big birds of aviation like BA, Lufthansa and KLM.
ITV's outgoing CEO Adam Crozier was considered a great success and will be a tough act to follow at ITV but tough is another word you could chuck in to describe Carolyn McCall.
ITV chairman Peter Bazalgette said: "In a very impressive field of high calibre candidates, Carolyn stood out for her track record in media, experience of an international operation, clear strategic acumen and strong record of delivering value to shareholders. I'm delighted we'll be working together at ITV."
John Barton, EasyJet chairman, said: "I speak for absolutely everyone at EasyJet in saying we will be sorry to see Carolyn leave and that we wish her well in her exciting new role."
Her bonus plan on joining ITV will be up to a maximum of 180% of salary, and there will be a long-term incentive plan up to 265% of salary.
ITV described it as "broadly the same remuneration opportunity" to Mr Crozier's.
The broadcaster's shares were the top riser on the FTSE 100 in early trading, jumping almost 3% to 180p.
Analysts at Liberum said it was a positive appointment, noting that she had been credited with transforming EasyJet's fortunes over the past seven years.
"She is seen as being very good with people, at building a strong management team around her and at the ability to 'work the room'," Liberum said.
"She also has very good links on the government side, which should be very helpful in areas such as retransmission revenues for ITV."
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Rogers required 14 stitches in a facial gash following a challenge by Tyrone's Tiernan McCann seconds after the opening throw-in at Armagh.
Slaughtneil man Rogers had the stitches inserted on Sunday and will almost certainly be out for a number of weeks.
Lynn suffered a suspected broken ankle late in the game after a fine display.
Greenlough club-man Lynn's injury appeared to come after an innocuous challenge but the ailment will almost certainly rule him out for several months and end his hopes of featuring in the Football League which starts this weekend.
Rogers, meanwhile, also looks certain to miss a number of Derry's Division 2 matches which start with Sunday's opener against Fermanagh at Owenbeg.
Slaughtneil player Rogers was named at midfield for Saturday's contest and the match video suggests that he may have been caught by McCann's right elbow immediately after challenging for the initial throw-in.
After the ball was thrown in, McCann comes in from the side and the footage shows the Tyrone man clattering into Rogers although the Red Hand county player appears to be focusing on the ball rather than the Derry midfielder when the contact is made.
Rogers' misfortune is also a blow to Queen's as he would have been in line to play for the Belfast university in the Sigerson Cup opener at Maynooth on Tuesday.
Despite requiring the 14 stitches, Rogers attempted to make light of the incident in a tweet on Sunday.
McCann was the involved in controversy last summer when he theatrically collapsed to the turf after having his hair ruffled by Monaghan's Darren Hughes in the All-Ireland quarter-final at Croke Park.
The Tyrone player's reaction to Hughes' action led to the Monaghan man being sent off.
After the outcry following the incident, McCann was handed an eight-week suspension by the GAA's Central Competitions Control Committee but the ban was later ruled out of order following the Tyrone player's appeal.
In terms of the McKenna Cup decider, the Ulster Council may feel the need to peruse several incidents in the match video, including the second-half fracas which led to two dismissals and Derry manager Damian Barton being ordered to the stand.
That particular incident flared up after a dangerous sliding challenge by Derry forward Daniel McKinless on Tyrone defender Ronan McNamee.
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That particular incident flared up after a dangerous sliding challenge by Derry forward McKinless on Tyrone defender Ronan McNamee.
The Tyrone man reacted by pushing over McKinless, and appearing to make contact with the Derry man's throat in the process.
As other players and Barton joined the fray, Tyrone goalkeeper Niall Morgan attempted to pull up McKinless up off the ground and the Derry boss then pushed the Red Hand keeper before, in turn, being jostled by Cathal McCarron.
After order was restored by Cavan referee Noel Mooney, McKinless and McNamee were both handed yellow cards which resulted in the Tyrone man being sent off as he had been cautioned earlier.
Derry boss Barton was also ordered to the stand while Cathal McCarron received a straight red card for his part in the melee.
McKinless was sent off late in normal time after picking up a second yellow card although he was able to rejoin the fray during extra-time, which is regarded as a new game under GAA rules.
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Stephen Hunt has lodged a formal complaint with the FA after months of argument over funding and facilities.
"West Ham need to be fined until they start to act like a 21st century club," he told BBC Sport.
In response, West Ham claim Hunt has "threatened the club" and "refused to align" with their principles.
The Hammers also say they are dedicated to equality in sport but the current arrangement with Hunt has not worked and they plan to take over the running of the women's team in due course.
Hunt has listed a number of issues he has with West Ham.
He claims they have stopped his team from finding their own sponsors and says they are short on funds because they had to buy their own kit.
He alleges West Ham promised a cheque to cover the costs but the money has not come through and the club have stopped answering their emails.
Hunt also claims his team, who play in the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division, the third tier of women's football, have to train by the side of a road as West Ham will not let them use the gym.
He adds that they also cannot afford a physio or a bus to take them to matches and are playing in last season's home kit, with the names of last season's players crossed out on the back.
"I think West Ham have breached the underlying objectives of the FA to promote equality and grassroots football at all levels," he said.
"Initially, what I thought was a lack of interest I now understand is a positive intent by senior people at West Ham to block the growth of West Ham Ladies.
"It's beyond negligence, it is trying to starve us of any sort of funding."
West Ham issued a statement insisting that "supporting, nurturing and facilitating the women's game is very important" to them and claim they are "a club with strong community principles and a dedication to equality in sport".
The statement also explains the club's version of events.
"The day-to-day management of West Ham United Ladies FC was transferred to a third party some time ago and unfortunately it is an arrangement that has simply not worked," it read.
"Mr Hunt has refused to align with West Ham's principles throughout his tenure as chairman and has, on a number of occasions, threatened the club.
"The club have been working for some time on plans to take West Ham United Ladies FC 'in house' and, in light of Mr Hunt's most recent deeply concerning comments, we will now be seeking to do so at the earliest opportunity.
"We will, of course, seek to maintain the current West Ham United Ladies FC squad personnel where possible, and provide them with the best possible support and management moving forward.
"As a result of this, women's football at West Ham United will become bigger, better and stronger, as we continue our commitment to the growth and development of the women's game, both on and off the pitch."
In response, Hunt denies he has threatened the club and says he would be happy to hand the women's team over to the club if he got guarantees and assurances that the ladies are protected.
Lord Warner was named by the government 12 months ago after years of the department being rated inadequate.
In 2013, it was branded a "national disgrace", but last year the council pledged £9.2m to improve practices.
Lord Warner said there had been "significant improvements", but more was needed.
Since 2006 there have been 24 serious case reviews in the area.
"I think they're safer than they were 12 months ago and certainly Birmingham City Council has put a lot more money into those services, not before time I might add, but they're not as safe as they could be," he said.
"The issue is around have they got enough social workers, particularly enough experienced social workers, and is the social work practice good enough? And the answer to both those questions is it's not good enough yet.
"They've made children's services the top priority for the council and at a time of great financial hardship they've committed to big increases in the funding for children's services all the way up to 2017 and 18."
He said changes meant the council, the local NHS and police were all working much better together and there were about a third more children being referred than a year ago.
Despite offering increased salaries, the council said earlier this month it was still struggling to appoint enough experienced staff.
"What's happened since last year, when I arrived, is certainly Birmingham has improved the front door - the people who receive the referrals and the contacts of which children are at risk," Lord Warner said.
In August, Bernadette McNally was appointed to take over running children's services in Birmingham, but in October she said she was no longer interested in the role.
An interim boss was found and in February Alastair Gibbons took over as executive director, the fourth since 2009.
Despite the "hiccup" surrounding Ms McNally's appointment, Lord Warner said improvements had also been made in management.
However, he said changing the culture would "take time".
The peer is due to finish his time as commissioner to Birmingham's children's services at the end of May.
Only about 20% of loans come directly from banks in America, with the rest being supplied by investors who buy debt that is parcelled into bonds and sold to them.
In Europe, by contrast, 80% of loans come from banks.
So when the West's banks were hobbled in 2008 by the crisis, this was much more devastating to the supply of credit and the functioning of economies on this side of the Atlantic than on the other.
The flow of funds to companies and individuals recovered much faster in America than in Europe, because - spurred by unprecedented money creation by the US Federal Reserve - the credit tap was kept open by investors in the way it wasn't to the same extent by banks.
That is why quite a lot of the thrust of government policy here is not only to strengthen banks, so that they can supply precious loans needed by businesses and households, but also to encourage the establishment of other sources of credit, to reduce the potentially disastrous dependence of our economy on banks.
But here is the thing (as I am apparently wont to say).
The Treasury's proposed pension reforms could significantly reduce the supply of credit to companies and to the government from a source other than our banks - it could shrink what little competition there is to the banks in the UK in the business of credit creation.
Here's why.
Under the current rules, those who retire and have been saving in defined contribution pension schemes buy around £11bn of annuities every year.
Now of this £11bn, the vast majority is invested in bonds, and something like £7bn flows to companies through purchases of corporate bonds.
So if sales of annuities were to collapse after the government abolishes the requirement on retirees to invest in them, there would be a fall in the supply of credit from this source to companies - and a reduction in credit provided to the government, to infrastructure projects, to social housing and property.
That would be what economists would call the static effect. And, many would say, it would not be benign.
However there are many who believe that the flow of funds into defined contribution pension schemes could actually increase, as and when savers know they have more freedom over what they can do in retirement with their accumulated pot.
So the dynamic impact of the changes could be to increase the size of pension schemes, and some of this additional saving could be directed into credit for businesses and households.
That said, the dynamic and positive impact would be rather less certain than the static and negative impact.
And there's another thing.
There would be a much more serious and graver shrinkage in the supply of credit from pension funds - especially credit supplied to the government - if savers in final salary schemes were to convert their pension pots into defined contribution schemes, to take advantage of this new freedom to take the money and run on retirement.
For example, of the £1.1 trillion pounds of assets held by private-sector final salary schemes, some £290bn is held in government bonds and £200bn in corporate bonds. These holdings represent something like a quarter and a half respectively of the entire market for these bonds.
So as the government points out in a consultation paper, even relatively small numbers of savers saying they want out of final-salary pension schemes could could make huge waves in the market, if those funds were forced to cut their holdings of government and corporate bonds: the cost for the government and for companies of borrowing could rise pretty sharply, and could stay elevated, if pension funds' appetite and capacity to lend to them were permanently reduced.
Which is why in giving additional freedom to those in defined contribution schemes to do what they like with their money, the Chancellor is minded to give rather less freedom to those in defined benefit schemes - he has signalled he will probably ban members of final salary schemes from switching to defined contribution funds.
Shirley McCay scored the opener in the 35th minute when she reacted quickest to a bobbling rebounded ball from Zoe Wilson's initial sweep.
Anna O'Flanagan dragged a good chance wide before Seul Ki Cheon netted with a superb drag flick.
Katie Mullan ensured victory over the world ranked number nine team with a goal on the reverse.
Ireland defeated Olympic bronze medallists Germany 2-1 in their opening match on Thursday but lost 5-2 to China in their second fixture on Friday.
Speaking after the victory over Korea, Ireland head coach Graham Shaw said "We controlled the phases a lot better today than we did against China.
"It's very pleasing to see the areas we discussed being implemented and we're very happy with the performance and result.
"This 4 Nations has been invaluable for us in our preparation for World League in Johannesburg and we'd like to thank German Hockey for the invitation."
Ireland were using the tournament to prepare for World League 3 in July and the Eurohockey Championships in August.
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He drove a measured race, controlling the gap to his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg throughout as the team left the rest of the field behind.
Ferrari's improved form was confirmed as new signing Sebastian Vettel took third, beating Williams's Felipe Massa.
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Jenson Button achieved his aim of finishing in the slow and unreliable McLaren-Honda but was 11th and last.
The season started in dramatic style as the field lost three cars cars even before the start, in front of a capacity crowd in Albert Park under blue Melbourne skies, the warm sunshine tempered by a cool, strong and blustery wind.
Williams's Valtteri Bottas was ordered not to race by the official doctor after suffering an injured disc in his back in qualifying and spending the night in hospital.
McLaren-Honda's poor reliability struck Kevin Magnussen as he headed around to take his place on the grid, the Dane stopping in a cloud of blue smoke between Turns Five and Six.
Red Bull also lost a car before the start, Daniil Kvyat stopping shortly afterwards, just failing to make it around to the pits after hitting gearbox trouble.
With the absence of the Manor Marussia team, who did not run at all throughout the weekend, that meant just 15 cars took the start.
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And another was lost within a few hundred metres, as Lotus's Pastor Maldonado was tagged by Felipe Nasr's Sauber at the first corner and spun into the barriers, bringing out the safety car.
When the race finally started, the excitement ebbed away as Hamilton quickly built a lead and then controlled his pace until the first stops, holding it at about two seconds.
It was the same story after their pit stops, Hamilton allowing an initial 4.6-second lead to reduce to the region of two seconds and holding it there.
Movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger presented the trophies and did the podium interviews, Hamilton telling him: "My team did an amazing job today and it's an incredible feeling to win and also to be here with you, man. I thought you were taller!"
Rosberg said: "I was trying every lap to my maximum and I will do all year. I will give him a big run for his money and hopefully beat him."
Mercedes were in a race of their own at the front and behind them Ferrari managed to get Vettel into third ahead of Massa with clever strategy.
Massa was caught behind Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo on his first lap after his pit stop and Vettel was ahead when he emerged from his own tyre change two laps later.
The second Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen, the only leading driver to make two pit stops, dropped back after a slow first stop caused by a problem fitting his left rear.
Raikkonen was planning to challenge Massa after his second stop but after another problem with the same wheel he was sent on his way without it being properly fitted and was forced to pull off just four corners after rejoining.
There will be a post mortem at Ferrari after Raikkonen suffered similar problems at both stops and the team face punishment from the FIA for an unsafe release.
The Finn's retirement promoted Sauber's Felipe Nasr to an impressive fifth place on his debut, to give the struggling Swiss team their first points for more than a year.
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The Brazilian held off Ricciardo on a poor weekend for Red Bull, who were only slightly faster than their junior team Toro Rosso.
Novice Carlos Sainz was running strongly in seventh early in the race, just behind Ricciardo, but dropped to the back after a slow pit stop.
Sainz fought back to run eighth in the closing laps, behind Force India's Nico Hulkenberg, but was passed by Sauber's Marcus Ericsson with two laps to go.
Force India's Sergio Perez took the final point, despite a spin when fighting with Button early in the race.
Button languished more than 20 seconds behind the Mexican, lapping more than two seconds off the pace of the next slowest car, but just managed to nurse the car to the flag despite a gearbox problem.
The second Toro Rosso of Max Verstappen, the youngest driver in F1 history, had been promoted to sixth when he retired shortly after half distance.
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Judge Emmanuel Amadi said they were all guilty of treason but had leave to appeal within 30 days.
A correspondent in court told the BBC that relatives broke down in tears as the judgement was read out.
It is not the first time army officers have been accused of plotting against President Yahya Jammeh.
Mr Jammeh seized power in 1994 as a young army lieutenant and has won three widely criticised multiparty elections since then.
The men were accused of procuring arms, ammunitions, equipment and mercenaries from Guinea to stage a coup.
"After going through the evidence of the prosecution and the defence, I find all the persons guilty and accordingly sentence them to death on all three counts," Judge Emmanuel Amadi is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
Fabakary Ceesay from Gambia's Foroyaa newspaper told the BBC the alleged plotters were in court for sentencing.
They included former army chief Langtombong Tamba, former intelligence chief Lamin Bo Badjie and former deputy chief of police Modou Gaye.
Mr Ceesay says the men tried to comfort their relatives who began wailing as the verdict was announced.
According to AFP, the last time someone was executed in The Gambia was in 2007.
Several people were sentenced to long prison terms over the 2006 coup attempt.
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In Indonesia, prices for red chillis have tripled this year, which has caused problems for consumers.
The BBC's Kiki Siregar in Jakarta looks at what can be done about it.
The US Agency for International Development said it had reached a deal with the company that employed Alan Gross at the time of his arrest.
His release triggered an announcement from the US that it was seeking to restore Cuba relations after 50 years.
Mr Gross was trying to set up internet access for the island's small Jewish community under a USAID programme.
He was arrested, accused of subversion and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
USAID said it had reached agreement with Development Alternatives Inc of Bethesda, Maryland, in an attempt to head off further claims.
A spokesman later said the sum was $3.2m.
Mr Gross, 65, and his wife filed a suit against the US government for negligence, saying he had been sent into a situation known to be dangerous.
But in November a federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of that suit, saying the government was immune from any claim arising in a foreign country.
Relations between the US and Cuba have remained frozen since the early 1960s, when the US broke off diplomatic relations and imposed a trade embargo after Cuba's revolution led to communism.
But President Barack Obama said the US was looking to open an embassy in Havana in the coming months, as part of the wider effort to bring Cuba out of isolation.
Mr Gross's release was part of a deal that included the return from the US of three Cubans convicted of spying.
An unnamed spy imprisoned in Cuba went the other way, back to the US.
Made On Our Land features material from the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.
The films include one made by an Aberdeenshire mother and daughter that documents farm life around Aboyne and another shows 1960s holidays to Islay.
There are also World War Two propaganda films and a post-war film made to dissuade Highlanders from leaving their home area to live and work in cities.
Using a mobile cinema and starting in Arran on 22 July, the tour will also visit Aboyne, Benbecula, Castle Douglas and Peebles.
Made on Our Land curator and tour producer, Shona Thomson, said: "I love the strong tradition of rural cinema-going that started with the Highlands and Islands Film Guild 70 years ago and continues today.
"It's an honour to be celebrating that tradition by showing films from the 1930s to the 1980s that have a relevance to the modern rural audiences now served by the Screen Machine and Film Mobile network."
The 58-year-old tumbled from Striding Edge towards Nethermost Cove, on Helvellyn, at 13:30 BST on Wednesday.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was taken to the summit by The Great North Air Ambulance to help the casualty, who was then flown to hospital.
The "difficult" five-hour rescue involved 18 rescue team members.
With a 950m (3,117ft) summit, Helvellyn is England's third highest peak.
The East Belfast MLA is acting leader following David Ford's resignation last week after 15 years in the job.
Nominations remain open until 17:00 BST on Wednesday. She will be the first woman to lead the party.
Seconding her nomination, ex-Alliance minister Stephen Farry said she was the best communicator in Northern Ireland politics.
Only assembly members are entitled to stand as candidates for the leadership post.
Ms Long said if she was elected, she would to take the opportunity to "refresh, renew and re-energise the party".
"If elected, I will not only be the first woman to lead the party, but it will also mark a generational change, as I will also be the first leader younger than Alliance itself," she said.
"As such, I am conscious that, while the core values of the Alliance Party are still as relevant as ever, we need to be willing to renew our message, refresh our vision and re-energise not just our current members but a public growing increasingly weary of what often passes for politics here.
"I believe Alliance is ready to step up to that challenge."
The contest will be decided at a special party council on 26 October.
In May 2010, Mrs Long became the first Alliance Party MP when she was elected for East Belfast, defeating DUP leader Peter Robinson.
However, she lost the seat in 2015 to the DUP's Gavin Robinson.
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Clarke, 48, will be eligible for the lucrative Champions Tour in the US when he turns 50 in August 2018 and he hopes to "hit the ground running".
"I'm 48 now so it's not too long until the Seniors Tour," Clarke told the BBC.
"When I do get there, I want to be competitive. So until then I'll be playing on the European Tour."
By dint of his 2011 Open win, Clarke will be assured of number of starts on the Champions Tour and he is likely to operate in a similar fashion to Miguel Angel Jimenez by combining senior events in the US with regular European Tour outings.
With his focus almost exclusively on preparations for the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine, Clarke competed in only 11 European Tour events this year, with his best performance a share of 30th at the Open Championship.
Earnings of just over 85,000 Euro left Clarke down in 169th spot in the Race to Dubai standings although his European Tour card remains secure thanks to his emotional win at Royal St George's five years ago.
With his Ryder Cup commitments now over, Clarke is determined to at least attempt to regain some of the form which has helped him accumulate 15 career wins, including World Golf Championship triumphs in 2000 and 2003.
"I want to get back to playing again. The last couple of years have been taken up with the Ryder Cup.
"The golf swing is alien to me at the moment and the timing is not there.
"But you get sharper playing in tournaments and I need to get myself back into that. I still have a burning desire to compete."
The Northern Irishman will begin his 2017 campaign at the South African Open in the second week of January before competing in two legs of the middle east swing in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
A globe-trotting start to the season continues with the Maybank Championship in Malaysia in early February before he returns to South Africa for a two-week stint at the Joburg Open and Tshwane Open.
Clarke was speaking at Royal Portrush after surveying some of the course changes being made for the Open's return to the Northern Ireland venue in 2019.
The 2011 champion believes the course alterations being made by the R&A in conjunction with course architect Martin Ebert are "sensational".
"It already was an unbelievable golf course and they have just made it better," added Clarke.
"It has probably made the golf course maybe one and a half to two shots shots more difficult than it was before."
Thomas struck an unstoppable 25-yard curling effort past goalkeeper Artur Krysiak having earlier drawn the visitors level after Matt Butcher had given the Glovers the lead.
Yeovil were booed off at full time following a fifth straight league defeat that leaves them in the League Two relegation zone.
Having dominated possession, Yeovil took a deserved lead after 56 minutes when Butcher found time and space in the box to turn and shoot past Trevor Carson from Matt Dolan's corner.
Pools responded and equalised 11 minutes later when Carson launched a long kick upfield that somehow evaded the Glovers defence and left Thomas through on goal and with an easy finish.
The game looked as though it was petering out into a draw entering time added on, but Thomas had the final say as he decided the match with a superb strike.
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Match ends, Yeovil Town 1, Hartlepool United 2.
Second Half ends, Yeovil Town 1, Hartlepool United 2.
Nicky Featherstone (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt saved. Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Yeovil Town 1, Hartlepool United 2. Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nicky Featherstone.
Foul by Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town).
Carl Magnay (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nicky Deverdics (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nicky Deverdics (Hartlepool United).
Foul by Tahvon Campbell (Yeovil Town).
Carl Magnay (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Nicky Deverdics replaces Lewis Hawkins.
Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tahvon Campbell (Yeovil Town).
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Nathan Smith.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Ben Whitfield replaces Alex Lawless.
Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alex Lawless (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United).
Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United).
Foul by Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town).
Nicky Featherstone (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town).
Liam Donnelly (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Bradley Fewster replaces Padraig Amond.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Tahvon Campbell replaces Otis Khan.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Izale McLeod replaces Tom Eaves.
Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town).
Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from very close range is just a bit too high.
Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aristote Nsiala (Hartlepool United).
Goal! Yeovil Town 1, Hartlepool United 1. Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Trevor Carson.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Scott Harrison.
Attempt missed. Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Aristote Nsiala.
Foul by Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town).
The women had mesh or tape implants - devices used to treat organ prolapse and urinary incontinence.
These conditions can be common after childbirth.
Some women now have difficulty walking or sitting, others had to give up work and looking after their children.
BBC News NI can reveal that a number of clinicians in Northern Ireland were sufficiently alarmed by reports of complications in other jurisdictions that they are conducting an evaluation of patients who have had the operation in Northern Ireland.
In a statement, the Department of Health said it is "essential that clinicians that conduct these operations carry out audits to ensure they are performing to the highest possible standards".
Dr Sohier Elneil, a consultant urogynaecologist in Harley Street has seen or been in contact with more than 10 women from Northern Ireland.
"I was astonished because these are young women, in their late 30s or 40s or early 50s," she said.
"The shock for me was... they are unable to function as a mum, a wife or as a member of society and I think that really hit home."
Dr Elneil said she was surprised that the women had to travel to seek help.
"I think it was a bit of a shock for a lot of us in the field just how bad the situation was and, as Northern Ireland is part of the UK, I am not surprised that the problems exist there.
"It was just people hadn't realised it was as big a problem as it is currently.
"I would have expected that they would have had access to the care they needed as I know there are many great and capable doctors there."
Dr Robin Ashe, a retired gynaecologist, is chairing the audit into mid-urethral tapes in Northern Ireland.
He described the situation regarding the operation as "evolving".
"It's come to light in the past number of years and, for us, the UK and the Scottish experience has been telling," he said.
"So, a group of clinicians came together and thought - let us look at Northern Ireland and see are we in the same boat, we need to find out where we stand.
"I will say this though, that the vast majority of patients undergoing the operation have a straightforward progress and do not experience problems."
The audit is studying a group of women in Northern Ireland who had mesh implants in 2013.
It is examining their preparation for the operation, consent issues, and any complications during and immediately afterwards.
The audit would also like to look at longer-term implications but has not yet received permission to do so.
Dr Ashe said the evidence shows that the mesh itself is safe to use.
One woman who paid privately to have her mesh removed said her life has been transformed. She does not want to be identified because she works for the police.
"I no longer feel like a 90-year-old woman - the stiffness, the pain in my pelvic area, hips and my groin and my lower back has reduced massively.
"In fact the back pain has gone, my psoriasis has gone from nails and head, I don't use steroids any more," she said.
"I feel more positive and feel that over the next few months that I will improve. I would hope I will get into doing some form of exercise since I haven't been able to do that for years."
For Dr Elneil, it is important that the women's voices are now heard
"I would like to see a concerted effort by us as a professional group, by the regulatory authorities, to work with us and with the patients.
"Because one of the issues the patients face is not the anger about the device directly, but the fury they cannot get help when the problems arise," she said.
"So if we had a very well stipulated pathway of care put in place when things go wrong, that would go a long way to making patients feel they are being listened to and they are getting the right access to care they need."
The driver, an 18-year-old man, lost control of a blue Citroen C2 on the A4095 Curbridge Road at Witney at about 08:15 BST, police said.
The car then hit a man, in his 40s and three 14-year-old girls.
One of the girls died, another was seriously injured and the other escaped injury. The man sustained pelvic and leg injuries. The driver was arrested.
He has been released on bail until 10 August.
The road has been closed both ways, between Church View Road and A415 Ducklington Lane.
Insp Paul Winks said officers were yet to determine how the driver had lost control of the car.
"At the moment we're trying to gather forensic evidence from the scene, evidence from eye witnesses and any CCTV in the area," he added.
In a statement, Wendy Hemmingsley, head teacher at The Henry Box School in Witney, said it was with "deep regret" she had to report the death of a Year 9 pupil.
"The school community is deeply saddened by this news and our thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time," she said.
She added support was being offered to students and staff. St Mary's Church in the town has also been opened for "prayer and peace".
The family, named locally as Peter and Tracey Wilkinson and their son, Pierce, were found with knife wounds in Stourbridge at about 08:00 BST.
A Land Rover taken from the house was intercepted by West Midlands Police about 30 minutes later in Norton Road.
A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder and wounding.
The family were found after emergency crews were called to Greyhound Lane, Norton.
Police said they understood the suspect was known to the victims and may have been living at the address, although he was not a family relative.
The 13-year-old boy and his mother were found in the house with critical stab wounds.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, while the teenager was later pronounced dead in hospital.
Mr Wilkinson, believed to be a company director for local firm Hill & Smith Ltd, was found in the garden of the house.
He remains in hospital with stab wounds to his chest and back.
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Peter Wilson, BBC Midlands Today special correspondent, said he understood the couple also have an older daughter who is attending university.
Redhill School in Stourbridge confirmed the boy was a Year 8 pupil.
In a statement, the school said pupils and staff were being supported and added: "Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been affected by this."
Police said that as the Land Rover was intercepted, it was in collision with a police car.
The force said two officers were taken to Russells Hall Hospital, in Dudley, with minor injuries. They have since been released.
Supt Lee Kendrick, of Dudley Police, said: "What has unfolded here this morning is horrific and heart-breaking.
"Police and ambulance were confronted with an awful scene: a man, woman and boy all with very serious stab injuries.
"The woman and boy were found in the house and the man in the garden."
He added that "tragically" there was "nothing that could be done" to save the woman, understood to be in her 50s.
Supt Kendrick said they "don't think this was a burglary or a robbery".
The man in his 20s would be questioned on suspicion of murder and wounding, the force said.
Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.
The last words spoken were "Good night Malaysian three seven zero" - and not "all right, good night" as reported.
The transport ministry said forensic investigations would determine whether the pilot or co-pilot spoke the words.
The plane, carrying 239 people, was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared on 8 March.
The plane's last contact took place at 01:19 Malaysian time. Malaysian authorities say that based on satellite data they have concluded that it crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.
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The search for flight MH370
The BBC's transport correspondent Richard Westcott says the new version of the last words is more formal and more in keeping with the way a pilot might usually speak to air traffic control than the wording previously reported.
It is not clear why it has changed or why it has taken the authorities this long to determine this, he says.
Aircraft and ships are scouring seas west of the Australian city of Perth looking for any trace of the flight.
On Tuesday, 10 planes and nine ships were expected to take part in a search covering an area of about 120,000 square kilometres.
Weather in the search area was expected to be poor, with areas of low visibility, the Australian Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre (JACC) said.
The JACC, led by a former top Australian military official, was formed on Monday to oversee the search and co-ordinate with the relevant international agencies.
Evidence from satellite "pings" received from the plane after its last contact with air traffic control and radar has been used to delineate a search area.
While floating objects have been spotted by search teams, none has been identified as coming from the Boeing 777.
The search teams are deploying a device known as a "towed pinger locator" (TPL) to listen for ultrasonic signals from the plane's "black box" flight-data recorders. The signals from the flight recorders last about 30 days.
On Monday, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said rescue crews had put no time limit on the hunt for the missing jet.
Dozens of relatives of some of the 153 missing Chinese passengers have travelled to Kuala Lumpur in their search for answers.
They have become increasingly angry with what they perceive as a lack of information from the Malaysian authorities.
Malaysian Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said on Monday that the government would soon hold a briefing for those families to update them on the search, which would include international experts to explain the research, data and methodology used in the operation.
The briefing would also be broadcast live to other families in Beijing, he said.
Mr Hussein said Malaysia would never give up until it knew what had happened to MH370.
The United Nations and the government in the country have said that around 100,000 people are facing starvation.
The famine is affecting a northern part of the country called the Unity state but aid groups say the famine could spread if urgent help is not given to the people there.
They say more than 40% of South Sudan's population are in urgent need of food.
There have been warnings of famine in Yemen, Somalia and north-eastern Nigeria, but South Sudan is the first country to declare one, in any part of the world in six years.
But what does the term 'famine' mean?
The word famine is used to describe a hunger crisis at its worse.
Famine is the most serious of five phases that are used by the UN and most aid agencies.
Certain requirements have to be met for a situation to be called a famine. These include:
The declaration of a famine doesn't force governments and charities to act or do anything. But it's hoped it works as a wake-up call.
The word is used carefully though. "It is a very strong word, with a strong impact," according to Brendan Paddy of the Disasters Emergency Committee, an organisation that launches big appeals for aid overseas. "We have to be precise about how we use it."
"We have to raise the alarm before it's too late but we also don't want to be accused of crying wolf."
This morning on RMC when broadcaster Jean-Jacques Bourdin took calls about Penelopegate, the mood was angry.
Caller after caller pointed up the vast difference in their own salary, and the money - up to €10,000 ($10,800; £8,540) a month - which Penelope Fillon took as her husband's parliamentary assistant. "And I actually work!" said one.
It is becoming obvious that - whether or not Francois Fillon makes a successful legal case to fend off charges of corruption - the real issue is elsewhere.
It lies in the vast gulf that the affair appears to expose yet again between a cosseted political class - for whom the acquisition of material comfort seems part of the natural order - and the rest.
As the centrist political leader Francois Bayrou put it: "It seems that on one side there are privileges and on the other side there are sacrifices. And as the sacrifices get bigger, so do the privileges."
So what started last week as a page three article in Le Canard Enchaine (it was not even on the front) now has a serious chance of bringing down the man seen as favourite to be the next French head of state.
Events are accelerating. On Tuesday, financial police searched offices in the National Assembly, looking for Penelope Fillon's work contracts - that may or may not have existed.
BFMTV reported that she told investigators she had no memory of signing them.
Next, Francois Fillon's replacement as MP Marc Joulaud - who kept Penelope on as a paid assistant after Mr Fillon entered the government in 2002 - is also being questioned.
In the other arm of their investigation, police have also spoken to the billionaire Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere over the €100,000 that was paid to Penelope Fillon for apparently doing no more than write two short book reviews.
It has also been established that Francois Fillon ended the arrangement with his wife in December 2013 - just a few weeks before new parliamentary rules would have obliged him to make public the names of his assistants.
Mr Fillon continues to counter attack. He insists his wife's employment was above board, and that the charges against him are part of a "institutional coup d'etat from the left".
But in the Republican Party, what was unthinkable a few days ago is now outwardly mooted: that Francois Fillon may need to step down and be replaced.
"There is a growing feeling that the party needs to cut off the gangrene before it spreads," the political columnist at Les Echos newspaper, Cecile Cornudet, told me.
Because the damage is already visible. Today Les Echos has an opinion poll which for the first time shows Francois Fillon failing to make it to round two of the presidential election in April-May.
The political advantage falls to two people: Marine Le Pen for the Front National, of course, for whom the scandal is more grist to the populist mill.
But more importantly perhaps, the main beneficiary is the modernising former minister Emmanuel Macron.
In two different scenarios posited by Les Echos (the presence or absence of another centrist candidate Francois Bayrou) Emmanuel Macron knocks Mr Fillon into third place.
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In other words if Mr Fillon stays in the race, Mr Macron is the likely second-round candidate against Marine Le Pen. Therefore Mr Macron is the likely next president.
Republican party chiefs are urgently processing this. Their options are hard to discern.
A second primary is unlikely because it would be too complicated. So a new method for choosing a replacement candidate would have to be devised. Many eyes are turning to Alain Juppe, the runner-up in November's primary.
Last week Mr Juppe said there was no way he would let himself be considered again as a candidate - but that was then.
"What is striking to me is how little help there is being directed at Fillon from his fellows in the party," says Cecile Cornudet. "It doesn't look good for him."
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy is no doubt watching closely, and other senior Republican figures are also being mentioned, such as Francois Baroin, Laurent Wauquiez and Xavier Bertrand.
Interestingly the domain names Baroin2017.fr, Wauquiez2017.fr and Bertrand2017.fr have all just been registered at a leading French internet host.
The 20-year-old trailed by a set and was 3-0 down in the second to Halep - who would have become world number one with a win - but prevailed 4-6 6-4 6-3.
Ostapenko, ranked 47th, had never won a Tour-level title before and was playing in only her eighth Grand Slam.
She is the first unseeded woman to win at Roland Garros since 1933.
Halep, 25, was playing in her second French Open final, after losing in three sets to Maria Sharapova in 2014.
She had been the tournament favourite this time in the absence of Serena Williams, but again missed out on a first major title.
Ostapenko's carefree attacking tennis ultimately proved too strong for the consistency and experience of Halep, with the favourite helpless by the closing stages.
The difference in approach was clear in the final statistics, Ostapenko ending with 54 winners and 54 errors, to Halep's eight winners and 10 errors.
Halep looked to have ridden out the storm after twice coming back from a break down to take the first set, with Ostapenko giving it up with her 23rd error and swiping her racquet in frustration.
The Romanian had played the percentages, with just one winner and two errors, and she looked set to end her wait for a major title when she moved 3-0 up in the second.
A large contingent of Romanian fans was now chanting her name with confidence, but her run of six games in a row came to an end, and Ostapenko grabbed the momentum.
She tore into the Halep second serve, stepping inside the baseline and attacking off both sides, and her power was simply too much for her opponent's defence.
A forehand down the line brought up Ostapenko's 36th winner, and with it a huge roar from the captivated home crowd, as she drew level at one set all.
Halep took charge again early in the final set, getting the break at 3-1 after taking some pace off the ball and drawing an error, but again Ostapenko came straight back.
A fortunate net cord gave her the crucial break of serve at 3-3, prompting Halep's coach Darren Cahill to look to the sky in disbelief, but the Latvian was on a roll.
She stormed through the last five games in a row, apparently free of nerves, to clinch victory and grab her place among the elite of women's tennis.
"I always had the possibility I could hit the ball really hard. If I have a chance to go for a shot, I'm trying for it," Ostapenko said.
"Nobody taught me. It's just the way I play. And also I think my character is like that. So I want to really hit the ball."
Jelena Ostapenko: "I cannot believe I am champion at 20 years old. I love you guys. It's so amazing to be here.
"I have no words, it is my dream. I'm so happy. I knew Simona was a great player, but I tried to play aggressively and everything turned my way. I fought for every point. I'm glad it finished my way."
Simona Halep: "I'm sad I couldn't win it, but it was a great experience.
"Now I want to congratulate Jelena - it's an amazing thing. Keep it going because you are only a kid.
"I would like to thank my team, my parents. It's a tough day, but let's keep working and let's believe.
"I felt sick in the stomach to play in this final, so maybe I wasn't ready to win it, but maybe next time."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent:
"Ostapenko was a teenager before Thursday and had never previously featured in the second week of a Grand Slam.
"She was playing an opponent who had experienced the 2014 French Open final and was one win away from becoming world number one, and yet the 20-year-old seemed from the start to have the ability to control the match.
"She goes for broke and misses a lot, but when it really mattered - when she was a set and 3-0 down - she had the power and nerve to take the match away from Halep.
"Can she become a serial Grand Slam champion?
"Time will tell, but she certainly has the game and the presence of mind. She kept Halep waiting on the baseline for nearly a minute as she rearranged her towels and her bag at the start of the match."
The 32-year-old Australia-born wicketkeeper/batsman has been at Edgbaston since arriving in 2006 from Sussex, where he was being kept out of the team by Matt Prior.
Ambrose has proved a big hit for the Bears, going on to win an England call himself in 2008.
"Tim thoroughly deserves this honour," said chief executive Colin Povey.
"He's been one of our senior players for some time. He's been almost ever-present for us in all formats of the game over recent seasons and has performed consistently well both behind the stumps and with the bat."
Ambrose, who signed a new two-year deal with the Bears at the end of the 2014 season, is currently in the process of agreeing a one-year extension to tie him to the county until 2017.
"I've thoroughly enjoyed my time at Edgbaston," he said. "Looking down the list of names of those who've had a benefit year in the past makes me realise just how much of a privilege it is to be afforded this honour."
The Bears' two most recent beneficiaries have been Jonathan Trott (2014) and former skipper Ian Westwood (2015).
It comes after the UK government said it had offered help with the recovery effort following Wednesday's quake, which killed at least 250 people.
Amatrice is one of the worst affected areas, along with the towns of Arquata, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto.
The Foreign Office has not confirmed the deaths of the British nationals.
The 6.2-magnitude quake hit at 03:36 (02:36 BST), 100km (65 miles) north-east of Rome in mountainous central Italy.
About 5,000 rescue workers are combing through rubble for survivors using heavy machinery or bare hands.
Italy rescuers search for quake survivors
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said additional staff had been deployed to the region to provide consular support.
He added: "My deepest sympathies are with the Italian people and everyone affected by the terrible earthquake that struck central Italy.
"The British government has offered any assistance that we can to help with the recovery effort and I have spoken with Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni to express my condolences personally."
Hundreds of aftershocks have rocked devastated areas of central Italy, hampering search efforts following the earthquake.
A strong tremor with magnitude 4.3 struck on Thursday afternoon, sending rescuers fleeing from already fragile buildings.
Firefighters and rescue crews using sniffer dogs have been working in teams around the hardest-hit areas of the country.
"We will work relentlessly until the last person is found, and make sure no one is trapped," said Lorenzo Botti, a rescue team spokesman.
The towns are usually sparsely populated but numbers staying there have been swelled by tourists visiting for summer, making it difficult to estimate the precise number missing.
Little is currently known about the nationalities of those caught up in the quake, but Romania's foreign ministry says that five Romanians have died and 11 are missing, while Spain's foreign ministry says at least one Spaniard has died.
The ex-France defender took over from Carlo Ancelotti in June 2013, leading them to two league titles, including last season's domestic treble.
PSG are 24 points clear at the top of Ligue 1, unbeaten domestically this season and face Chelsea in the Champions League last 16.
"I want to thank the club for the faith they put in me," said Blanc.
"There's still one competition that has eluded us - the Champions League - and it's very difficult to win. But one day, Paris St-Germain will win it."
The former chairman of Hanlong Group was sentenced to death in May for "leading mafia-style crime and murder".
Liu's younger brother, Liu Wei and three other associates were also executed, Xinhua said, after China's top court signed off on the move.
Liu is believed to have had links to former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, who is currently being investigated.
The Hanlong Group is a major private conglomerate based in Sichuan province, involved in multiple industries including mining, telecommunications and chemicals.
As head of the company, Liu Han was both rich and very influential.
Xinhua said the company, which had been "harboured and indulged by government officials, had illegally monopolised the gaming business in Guanghan City in Sichuan province, tyrannised local people and seriously harmed the local economic and social order".
In recent months, several top officials from Sichuan province have come under scrutiny.
Sichuan was a power base of Zhou Yongkang, China's former domestic security chief who is now the subject of a corruption probe.
Mr Zhou was the party secretary in Sichuan before becoming head of China's public security ministry in 2003.
He was arrested in December 2014, the latest and by far the most senior figure to be handed over to prosecutors as part of President Xi Jinping's crackdown on corruption.
Official reports do not specifically link Liu's case with Mr Zhou. The South China Morning Post reports Liu was an associate of Zhou Bin, Mr Zhou's son.
The groups, including Women's Aid, say current legislation focuses too much on specific incidents, such as an assault.
They say the law fails to take into account power and control, which are the essence of domestic abuse.
The Home Office said it would carefully consider the idea after a police review of domestic abuse was completed.
Women's Aid, the Sara Charlton Charitable Foundation and stalking advice service Paladin have urged the government to criminalise "coercive control", patterns of abusive behaviour and causing psychological harm, in order to make it easier to prove long-running abuse.
Coercive control, which can include being excessively jealous, stopping someone from seeing family and friends or controlling what a victim wears, was included in the Home Office definition of domestic violence last year, but is not currently a criminal offence.
The groups carried out an online survey of 258 abuse victims between December 2013 and last month and found that 88% of them did not think the criminal justice system took psychological harm into account.
In addition, 94% of the respondents said mental cruelty could be worse than physical violence.
The chief executive of Women's Aid, Polly Neate, said: "These survey results clearly reflect what our member services have been telling us for a long time - that the criminal justice focus on individual incidents of physical violence cannot reflect the ongoing psychological harm caused by coercive control in intimate relationships.
"Currently two women a week die at the hands of a partner or ex-partner; the next step to preventing these deaths is reform to allow the criminal justice system to take account of patterns of controlling and violent behaviour."
Since Ms Harman was elected in a Peckham by-election in 1982, she has worked with seven different Labour leaders and been acting leader twice.
Friday marks the day she surpasses Gwyneth Dunwoody's record, although the late Labour MP served longer overall in two separate periods.
The longest-serving MP is Sir Gerald Kaufman who was first elected in 1970.
Sacked as social security secretary from Tony Blair's first cabinet, Ms Harman returned to the front bench as solicitor general in 2001 and served in various roles including Commons leader and equalities secretary under Gordon Brown.
Ms Harman has served as Labour's deputy leader, under Gordon Brown's premiership, and as acting leader after Mr Brown stepped down following the 2010 general election and in 2015, when his successor Ed Miliband quit.
She has long campaigned for more women MPs and more family-friendly policies and has sometimes been dubbed "Labour's in-house feminist", but she has also criticised the number of men in top jobs in the party.
And it has been a source of embarrassment to Labour that they have never had a female leader - while the Conservatives have had two.
In a speech in Westminster in 2014, Ms Harman admitted she was "surprised" by Mr Brown's decision not to make her deputy prime minister - as deputy leader John Prescott had been under Tony Blair, saying: "If one of the men had won the deputy leadership would that have happened? "Would they have put up with it? I doubt it."
Among those congratulating her on Friday was her Labour colleague in the neighbouring London constituency of Dulwich and West Norwood, Helen Hayes, who tweeted: "Thank you for the huge difference you have made, esp for women." Ms Harman thanked her adding: "Much done but so much to do."
Mrs Dunwoody, who was 77 when she died in 2008, served for more years overall, having been first elected in 1966 as MP for Exeter. She lost the seat in 1970 but was elected as MP for Crewe in 1974 and remained in the Commons until her death. | Hundreds of people have turned out for the funeral of a war veteran who attended memorial services for fallen soldiers across Yorkshire.
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If not, it will be only a matter of time before this weird little fellow is as familiar on your feed as a thumbs-up.
Trash Dove, a Facebook sticker which has bowled over social media in Asia, is the cartoon baby of American artist Syd Weiler.
The Florida-based illustrator drew the bird in September 2016 and subsequently created a set of Facebook stickers in January 2017.
Trash Dove appeared in various guises that people could use as emojis, the most popular one showing the bird vigorously thrashing its head up and down.
It was all ticking along quietly and then wham - or coo coo - the dove appeared on a popular Thai Facebook page in a dance-off with a cartoon cat in early February.
Within a week, it had racked up 4 million views, and an army of fans.
After its popularity was picked up by news channels in Thailand, Weiler posted a thank you video on her Facebook page:
"Hello Thailand, thank you all so so much for your support. I'm really glad that you like the stickers."
However, not everyone is a fan. There is a petition to ban the bird from the internet by those fed up with seeing its purple bobbing head.
But what does it actually mean? Well, who knows? Perhaps its ambiguity is one of the reasons it is so popular.
As Syd Weiler wrote on her Facebook page in October 2016 : "In case you didn't know, I made some fantastically dumb iOS stickers, you can spam your friends and family with them!"
It's just another in a long list of internet memes we've seen so far this year like salt bae and cash me ousside.'
And if you haven't spotted Trash Dove yet, fear not. The purple bird is bobbing its way around the world to a Facebook page near you.
By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News Team
As 19th Century Tory prime minister Benjamin Disraeli once warned: "Keep your eye on Paisley."
Here are 10 reasons Paisley has made its mark on the culture of Scotland, the UK and the world.
After her remarkable victory at the general election, Mhairi Black is indisputably Paisley's most famous daughter at the moment.
The 21-year-old SNP politician became the UK's youngest MP and her first speech in the House of Commons went viral, being watched online more than 10 million times.
In that maiden speech, Mhairi Black referred to the history of her Paisley and Renfrewshire South constituency, pointing to the fact that Scottish national hero William Wallace, who fought against English rule, was born in Elderslie, just outside Paisley and was said to be educated by monks at the town's abbey.
Multi-million selling singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini is the town's most successful current pop star.
In the decade since his first hit single, the 28-year-old has racked up three huge albums and success around the world.
His father runs a fish and chip shop on the town's New Street.
Nutini's talent was spotted when he played an impromptu set at a concert organised for David Sneddon, the Paisley-born winner of the BBC talent show Fame Academy.
Hollywood star Gerard Butler hit the big time with 300, a fictionalised retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae.
The Paisley actor has since starred in numerous big budget blockbusters such as Olympus Has Fallen and the Bounty Hunter, with Jennifer Aniston.
He is also the voice of Stoick the Vast, the great chieftain in the How to Train Your Dragon movies.
The man who scored Scotland's most-lauded goal was a Paisley buddy, starting his career at the town's football club St Mirren.
He played 43 times for Scotland and scored eight goals, including his fantastic solo effort against the Netherlands in the doomed 1978 campaign.
The following year Gemmill's team Nottingham Forest won the European Cup but he was dropped for the final.
Phyllis Logan has played the housekeeper Mrs Hughes in all six seasons of the blockbuster period drama Downton Abbey.
She was born in Paisley and went to school in nearby Johnstone.
In the 80s she starred with Ian McShane in Lovejoy and appeared in the 1996 Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies.
It all began with exotically patterned, delicate woollen shawls which were originally from Kashmir but European manufacturers began to produce cheaper versions to meet demand.
From roughly 1800 to 1850, the weavers of the town of Paisley became the foremost producers of these shawls.
Unique additions to their hand-looms and Jacquard looms allowed them to work in five colours when most weavers were producing paisley using only two.
The design became known as the Paisley pattern.
The shawl went out of fashion in the 1870s, but the pattern that had decorated them is still popular around the world today.
The late singer Gerry Rafferty is best remembered for his classic 1970s hit Baker Street but he also wrote songs about his home town Paisley.
Rafferty grew up on the town's Foxbar estate before bursting on to the folk scene with the Humblebums, whose line-up also included Glaswegian comedian Billy Connolly.
With Stealer's Wheel, Rafferty wrote the huge hit Stuck in the Middle With You before later embarking on a successful solo career.
He also produced numerous hits including The Proclaimers' first single, Letter from America, in 1987.
Rafferty died in 2011 and the town now runs a festival in his honour.
Rafferty was a good friend and contemporary of artist and playwright John Byrne, who grew up in Paisley's Ferguslie Park area.
Byrne wrote the popular BBC TV series Tutti Frutti in 1987, which introduced the world to the talents of Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson and Richard Wilson.
And in the theatre, Byrne is best known for The Slab Boys Trilogy, which was based on his own experience of the "slab room" of a Paisley carpet manufacturer.
Byrne's list of other achievements is wide and varied, from designing a Beatles album cover to creating the sets for National Theatre productions.
Former Doctor Who star David Tennant moved to Paisley as a child, with his Church of Scotland minister father.
He made his professional acting debut while still at Paisley Grammar and appeared with the agitprop 7:84 Theatre Company.
Tennant also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transsexual barmaid called Davina.
After his success as the doctor and his appearance in Harry Potter, Tennant has continued to land big roles in shows such as Broadchurch.
The current Doctor Who showrunner and chief writer Steven Moffat, who is also responsible for TV's Sherlock, is also from Paisley.
Scottish tenor Kenneth McKellar was a mainstay of the BBC's Hogmanay celebration programme and the White Heather Club series in the 1960s.
In 1965, the BBC selected McKellar to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in Luxembourg and he came ninth.
The song A Man Without Love became a hit single and he followed it up with successful albums.
Among his unlikely achievements was writing a sketch for Monty Python. It featured in the Secret Policeman's Ball and saw a blindfolded person trying to identify the star beating them up.
On a more serious note, Paisley has a rich and varied cultural heritage dating back hundreds of years.
It also has some of the finest architecture in the UK.
The Grand Fountain, the centrepiece of Fountain Gardens, was gifted to the people of Paisley by the wealthy mill owner, Thomas Coats of the world famous J&P Coats thread manufacturer.
The claim: The NHS is being given more money than it asked for.
Reality Check verdict: The amount that the NHS in England is being given over this Parliament is at the bottom end of the range that it asked for. It doesn't take into account the knock-on effects of shortfalls in other areas such as social care.
"We gave them more funding then they required."
But NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens denied this on Wednesday.
We are only talking about the NHS in England because health is a devolved power, although increased spending on the NHS in England is reflected in the overall amount of funding allocated to devolved governments.
The government says it has given the NHS in England an extra £10bn over the life of this Parliament, a more generous offer than the £8bn Mr Stevens requested in 2014.
The £10bn is NHS England's extra budget for the period 2014-15 to 2020-21, so it covers six years, not five - it is actually £8.4bn over the five-year Parliament.
And as Mr Stevens pointed out, the document in which he set out how much cash the health service needed was called the Five Year Forward View, not the six-year forward view.
But still, £8bn was what the NHS asked for, so shouldn't that be enough?
Mr Stevens has made clear that when he mentioned the £8bn figure, that was the minimum amount needed just to plug the funding gap.
But this figure is not enough to keep pace with rising demand, improve services or accommodate plans for seven-day services.
Speaking to NHS leaders last June, he said: "Let's not rewrite history.
"In the Forward View, we actually said that the National Health Service would need between £8bn and £21bn by 2020 in order to sustain and improve."
So government has given the NHS funding within the range of what it asked for, but it is at the very bottom of this range.
And we know demand is rising.
Between 2004-05 and 2015-16, attendances at accident and emergency departments went up by almost 30%, while over a similar period, the number of people aged 85 and over increased by 31%.
NHS trusts also finished the last financial year (2015-16) £2.4bn in the red, so some of the extra money is being used just to plug gaps.
On top of this, the government used a different calculation compared with previous years when it came up with the £8.4bn figure, arguably making it look more generous.
In the past when it talked about this funding, figures referred to the whole health budget and now they are referring to only NHS England.
This does not include things such as training, building upkeep or public health, including smoking cessation and some sexual health and obesity management services, which now fall on general local authority budgets.
All of these areas may face cuts that could pass on extra costs to the NHS, meaning the £8.4bn will not go as far.
Also falling to local councils rather than the NHS is the funding of social care.
When there is not enough social care available, this piles pressure on to hospitals.
For example, elderly people who cannot access the right care in the community are more likely to end up in A&E after falling or becoming dehydrated, for example.
Overstretched care services are also part of the reason people end up staying in hospital beds longer than they need to.
Figures published on Thursday showed there were almost 200,000 lost bed days in November 2016 because of delays in discharging people into the community.
So looking at the NHS budget in isolation does not tell the whole story.
The NHS might have more money, but if it has to be spent on keeping people in hospital because social care is unavailable, then it is not going towards treating more people or improving care.
The House of Commons Health Committee have worked out that it is a £4.5bn increase once you factor in the whole health budget in the way that it used to be calculated.
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The 33-year-old England international joined West Brom on loan from Birmingham City in 2011 before making the move permanent a year later.
He has made 161 appearances for the club, keeping 41 clean sheets.
"His form has been there for all to see and he continues to set the standards at the club all the goalkeepers have to aspire to," said manager Tony Pulis.
It is more than triple the number needed to start organizing the process.
Earlier, Mr Maduro dismissed the initiative, saying he would serve out his full mandate until 2019.
Many Venezuelans are furious because of a deep recession, food shortages and a power crisis that has cut supply to four hours a day in most cities.
Under Venezuela's constitution, presidents can be removed from office by means of a referendum once they have served half their term.
At this earliest stage, 1% of those on the electoral roll must sign the petition to start the process.
"It's an extremely high number given that the National Electoral Board only requires a little under 200,000" signatures, said Enrique Marquez, deputy speaker of the opposition-controlled parliament.
He said the signatures would be handed over to electoral officials next week.
Mr Maduro was sworn into office in April 2013 and is halfway through his six-year term.
Thousands of Venezuelans queued to sign the petition in the capital, Caracas.
1. One per cent of voters on the electoral roll have to sign a petition within 30 days to kickstart the process
2, Twenty per cent of voters (almost four million) have to sign a second petition in order to trigger the referendum
3. For the referendum to be successful, an equal or greater number of voters than those who elected Mr Maduro would have to cast their vote in favour of the recall. Mr Maduro won the 2013 election with 7,587,579 votes
Miriam Leal, 54, told Agence France-Presse news agency that she was signing "to end this anarchy".
"We don't have medicine, work, education, and on top of that there is the electricity problem," she explained.
Like Ms Leal, many Venezuelans expressed their despair at the country's economic crisis which has seen inflation rise to the highest level in the world.
The oil-rich country relies almost exclusively on oil exports for its revenues and has been badly hit by the global fall in oil prices.
There are shortages of basic food items and medicines, and long queues form at supermarkets whenever some basic staple foods arrive.
A drought has also caused water levels at the country's main hydroelectric dam to drop dramatically.
Last week, President Maduro announced that power would be cut for four-hour periods daily except for in the capital, Caracas.
And on Tuesday, he said that public sector workers would only work two days a week to save power.
The government has blamed the power crisis on the El Nino weather phenomenon and the shortages on an "economic war" waged against it by the country's elite.
But its critics say years of mismanagement by the socialist government have driven the economy into the ground and that only a change at the top can save the country.
Earlier this year, they announced they would be pursuing three strategies to try to oust Mr Maduro: a recall referendum, a constitutional amendment and popular protests.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court said that a constitutional amendment to shorten the president's term in office while constitutional could not be applied for Mr Maduro's current term.
The opposition is therefore placing its hope for change in the recall referendum.
Opposition politicians are also trying to act swiftly as the timing of the referendum is key for what follows.
If the president is recalled during his first four years in office, new elections are called,
However, if he is recalled in the last two years of his term, the vice-president takes over.
It is in the opposition's interest to have new elections, rather than have socialist Vice-President Aristobulo Isturiz serve out Mr Maduro's term.
It looked as though it would be a comfortable win after Rooney and Peter Pawlett gave them the half-time lead.
David Wotherspoon pulled a goal back for Saints early in the second half before Niall McGinn and Rooney again stretched the visitors' lead.
However, Steven Anderson and Tam Scobbie scored in a late Saints rally.
There was to be no late equaliser as Derek McInnes's side extended their run to 12 league games unbeaten, while Tommy Wright's men have now gone eight matches without a victory.
An injury to Andy Considine in the warm-up led to Mark Reynolds being promoted from the bench prior to kick-off, which meant the Dons started with the same back four that began the midweek win over Celtic.
However, it was the re-jigged Saints defence that was troubled as early as the fifth minute when Cammy Smith's neat pass picked out Shay Logan just inside the box.
The full-back delivered a low cross to the back post, where Rooney pounced to slot home his 11th goal in his past 15 appearances.
St Johnstone almost got a quick equaliser from a well-worked corner that fell to Scobbie at the edge of the area and the defender's left-foot volley bounced back off Scott Brown's left-hand post.
Liam Craig was booked for hauling down Graeme Shinnie as he ran at the Saints defence after breaking up play in the midfield, but that was not the only punishment for the home side.
The resultant free-kick was taken by Pawlett and he struck it from 26 yards with the aid of what looked like a slight deflection into the corner of the net.
Saints came close just before the interval when Graham Cummins was clean through, but his touch took him wide of goal as well as the goalkeeper and, from an acute angle, his effort crept inches wide of the post.
The home side began the second half in positive fashion and only a goal-line clearance from Shinnie prevented Scobbie, with a right-foot lob, pulling a goal back.
A goal did materialise for Saints after fine footwork on the edge of the area by Steven MacLean, whose reverse pass found Wotherspoon for a composed finished that breathed hope into the home side.
Rooney twice went close before McGinn restored the two-goal lead when Simon Church took advantage of poor defending and set up the substitute for is ninth goal of the season.
The home defence were culpable again as Rooney easily shrugged off a couple of challenges to fire his second of the match.
However, Anderson out-jumped everyone at the back post to head home Craig's corner and, one minute from the end, Scobbie's shot sailed through a ruck of players.
Paul Stinton, 45, from Ashford, died from his injuries three weeks after being knocked down in Simone Weil Avenue in Ashford on 4 January 2014.
Linda Ann Jenns, 49, from Richborough Way, Kingsnorth, had denied the charge at Canterbury Crown Court.
She was also disqualified from driving for four years.
Mr Stinton was hit by a Ford Kuga driven by Jenns as tried to cross the road.
When interviewed by Kent Police, Jenns said that she had driven through the traffic lights as they were amber.
Investigating officer PC David Jeeves said: "This tragic collision happened at a busy set of traffic lights.
"The Highway Code states that even amber lights should be stopped at unless you have crossed the stop line or to stop would cause an accident."
A clash of heads between Aldershot's Will Evans and Lincoln's Matt Rhead early on led to a lengthy stoppage before the game stuttered into life.
Aldershot, looking to extend a 10-game unbeaten run, survived early scares when Terry Hawkridge and Luke Waterfall both went close in quick succession.
Bernard Mensah forced a fine save out of Paul Farman at the other end just before the break, but Lincoln - who are three points clear and have a game in hand over their rivals at the top - came closest to breaking the deadlock when Waterfall headed onto a post on the hour mark.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Aldershot Town 0, Lincoln City 0.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Lincoln City 0.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Matt McClure replaces Scott Rendell.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jonny Giles replaces Shamir Fenelon.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Jack Muldoon replaces Jonathon Margetts.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Josh Ginnelly replaces Terry Hawkridge.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Anthony Straker replaces Cheye Alexander.
Nick Arnold (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Billy Knott replaces Alan Power.
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 0, Lincoln City 0.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Lincoln City 0.
Luke Waterfall (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
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The eight-time major champion, playing in his 43rd Masters, had hoped to make the cut but seven bogeys prevented a dream weekend goodbye.
The American, 66, received a standing ovation as he finished his second round with a par at a packed 18th green.
"To finish playing at Augusta with my friends and family watching - that's the way to go out," he said.
"The fans were really very generous with their applause, it was a pleasure."
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He completed his 134th and last round in the Masters with a long snaking putt at the 18th that stopped just inches away from what would have been a fitting final birdie.
He was then embraced by a waiting gallery of family, Augusta Green-Jacketed officials and former golf rivals with hundreds of fans surrounding the green.
"I hope that over the period of my career, I've been able to show the crowd some great golf," he added.
Watson, whose two Masters wins came in 1977 and 1981, said that the only regrets he had over his long career was not winning a few more majors.
"I know I won probably more than my share, but on the other hand, there are a few that got away. I guess it all balances out in the end, just like they say," he said.
Last July, he marked his final appearance at the Open with an emotional walk up the 18th fairway at St Andrews at the end of his second round.
But he said Friday's walk up the 18th at Augusta National was even more special.
"There's more finality in this walk here, because I really have made the decision that the kids hit the ball too far. I can't compete against the kids," he said.
"This course really shows the difference. You've got to hit the ball a long way to play this golf course."
Taylor, 30, has played 27 games for Wigan since joining from Cardiff in 2014 and featured 23 times on loan with Championship side Reading last season.
He began his career at Middlesbrough and had loan spells at Bradford and Watford before moving to Cardiff in 2011, where he played 114 games.
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"We don't have to accept defeat as an inevitable state of affairs for the next five years," Mark Serwotka told the PCS union annual conference.
Mr Serwotka said members should oppose spending cuts and the expected attacks on pensions and public sector pay.
"We need to be prepared to fight like never before," he added.
Trade Unions coordinated industrial action in 2011 over public sector pensions.
But Mr Serwotka said that unity didn't last long enough.
He urged other unions "to step up to the plate".
"We need this time to not just call for united coordinated action across the trade union movement but it needs to be united in every sense" he said. "Common demands, common negotiations and common industrial action strategies".
The PCS union represents civil servants in Whitehall and around the UK in job centres, tax offices, the courts and immigration.
It is one of the biggest public sector unions with around 225,000 members.
But quoting a newspaper report that suggested government cuts could lead to 100,000 further job losses in the civil service, the PCS leader called on delegates to fight back.
"We need to commit ourselves to opposing the cuts, the closures of the offices, the privatisations and the further attacks we are expecting on pensions and in public sector pay" Mr Serwotka said.
Mr Serwotka said that the message from the election was not that the Conservatives won but that Labour lost by refusing to advocate ant-austerity politics.
And he said that proportional representation would help anti-austerity politics take hold in the UK.
He also criticised government plans to tighten strike ballot rules.
"They don't want to change the balloting laws to have more people voting to make it more democratic' he said. "They want to change the balloting laws to stop us from going on strike".
The PCS union has seen its membership fall in recent years, hit by cuts in Whitehall and across the public sector.
In total, around 90,000 jobs were cut across the civil service during the last parliament.
The PCS has also seen numbers drop due to changes in how it collects subscriptions from members.
Several government departments including the Home Office, HMRC and DWP have ended the so-called "check-off" system which automatically deducted union subscriptions directly from salaries.
That's led to lapsed memberships as the union attempts to re-recruit people to pay by direct debit.
Mr Serwotka admitted that the union was still on course to lose "thousands and thousands" of members. That's hit the union's finances forcing it to save £6m this year.
Htin Kyaw from the National League for Democracy (NLD) takes over from Thein Sein, who introduced wide-ranging reforms during his five years in power.
Although NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi is barred from the presidency, she has said she will rule by proxy.
The handover completes the transition that began after the NLD won a landslide win in elections in November.
Thein Sein's legacy of reform
Htin Kyaw, 69, said he would be "faithful" to the people of Myanmar, as he took the oath of office in a joint session of parliament in the capital Nay Pyi Taw.
Vice-presidents Henry Van Thio and Myint Swe, who lost to Htin Kyaw in the presidential vote earlier this month, were also sworn in, as were new cabinet ministers.
Most of the ministers belong to the NLD. The list includes Ms Suu Kyi who will be in charge of foreign affairs, the president's office, education, and energy and electric power.
But the military is appointing its own nominees for three key ministries - defence, home affairs and border affairs.
In a brief speech, Htin Kyaw noted challenges ahead including the need for a nationwide ceasefire. The government has been engaged in armed conflicts with various ethnic groups for decades.
He also spoke about the constitution complying with modern democratic values, in a nod to the NLD's stated goal during the election campaign of changing the constitution.
Correspondents say this is perhaps the most sensitive issue in the NLD government's relationship with the army, who have 25% of parliamentary seats. It means the army retains the power to veto any changes to the constitution, as that would require more than 75% of votes.
The constitution contains a controversial clause barring anyone with family members who have another nationality from becoming president - widely seen as aimed at preventing Ms Suu Kyi from taking power, as her two sons are British.
Despite the restriction Ms Suu Kyi, who remains hugely popular and prominent in Myanmar, has vowed to act "above the president".
Last year, the NLD won 80% of contested seats in a historic election that was considered mostly free and fair and now dominates parliament.
Outgoing President Thein Sein, who led a quasi-civilian government from 2011 ending decades of military rule, will hand over power to Htin Kyaw, who assumes office on 1 April.
Thein Sein is credited with starting the reform process in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
Five years ago Myanmar was an international pariah, rusting in the sidings. Sanctions were in place, and people were scared to speak their minds. More than 2,000 political prisoners languished in jail.
Now, as Thein Sein hands over the controls to Aung San Suu Kyi and her NLD, Myanmar is a country on the up.
Where once people were jailed for criticising the junta, there is now a vibrant media and open public debate. The economy's growing rapidly and a telecoms revolution is under way.
With a few exceptions, notably the Rohingya minority, life for Burmese people has got better, and much of the credit for that must go to the stewardship of Thein Sein.
It sounds like a Christmas cracker joke, or the start of a Hollywood film pitch.
But the man who knows the answer is Les Carlisle, project manager of the conservation group Rhinos Without Borders.
Under his guidance, 12 white rhinos have just left their native South Africa for a new life in a nearby country, as part of an anti-poaching project.
The beasts spent 15 hours in a truck, plane, and helicopter to get from a game park in KwaZulu Natal, on South Africa's east coast, to their new location [which the BBC won't name for their protection].
"We send them an email with a boarding pass and a seat number, and then we run like hell," Mr Carlisle chuckles.
But in some ways, the truth is stranger still.
"A massive translocation like this involves having the right equipment and the right people in place to be able to manage these very big animals," the project manager says.
"The animals are caught and put into a steel crate that's specially designed to contain them, and designed to fit in the aircraft."
Mr Carlisle says it's not a matter of simply knocking them out.
"You have to immobilise them - make them go to sleep completely, and then blindfold them. And then you put earplugs in their ears.
"And then, you slowly give them a little bit of [sedative] reversal. Enough so they can stand up. They're uncoordinated at that stage - so then you put a rope round their heads and you pull them slowly into the crate.
"They have to walk on their own feet because they're very heavy. You can't move a tonne of sleeping meat!"
The rhinos need to be awake throughout the flight so they can move their legs and regulate their own breathing.
"The problem with a flight that long and an animal this big, is that if it lies for too long that restricts circulation to the leg. And they get pins and needles - and then occasionally the animal could lose the use of that leg," the conservationist says.
Then comes the heavy lifting. With the rhinos safely in their transport crates, a crane lifts them onto the back of a truck bound for the airport.
Next, the crane deposits them on a loading vehicle, which will move them on to a plane.
"In this case we had rollers on the floor," Mr Carlisle says. "We just laid them onto the rollers, and then rolled them into the aircraft.
The process involves a significant team of human helpers.
"The loading - you've normally got between 10 or 12 people per rhino. And we normally do two at a time, so 25 people."
Sadly, the move requires an armed security contingent due to the threat from poachers. Trading in rhino horn has been banned globally for four decades, but the substance - traditionally used in Chinese medicine - has a higher black market value than gold or cocaine.
Mr Carlisle says there are four rhinos airborne at any one time, "in a big military transport plane".
For the 12 re-homed animals, the flight time was about two hours and 40 minutes.
After clearing customs with their endangered species - and some serious paperwork - the team encountered an unexpected glitch.
Water levels at the rhinos' proposed habitat were too high, with floods a real risk.
Cue more flying rhinos.
"We had to heli-sling them to their new home. They've had two flights. It's a hell of an operation!" laughs the project manager.
Most of the world's wild rhino population - between 20,000 and 25,000 individuals - live in South Africa, where poaching is rife.
Rhinos Without Borders ultimately wants to resettle 100 of them.
The cost of shifting just one animal is around $45,000, if you include the expense of monitoring teams and anti-poaching patrols.
But as over 1,000 a year are killed in South Africa, equivalent to one every 7.5 hours - it may be the price of avoiding extinction.
Though Mr Carlisle is a veteran of animal relocation projects, he says this one has been special.
"I've translocated 40,000 [creatures] to about 70 new destinations in my career, and this has probably been one of the most emotive.
"It's absolutely unbelievable to see these animals slowly get up, take a few steps ... It really was emotional - phenomenal!"
Each of the roving rhinos had an ankle tag fitted and an ID chip implanted while under sedation, so monitoring teams can keep tabs on their welfare.
With any luck, they'll be too busy grazing - and breeding - in their new home to even notice.
Khadija Shah, 25, has been held in custody with her daughter, aged four, and her five-year-old son.
She says she had been on holiday in Pakistan with relatives and had no idea what was in the cases.
The BBC's Orla Guerin said if Miss Shah was convicted she could face the death penalty.
Miss Shah, who has not been formally charged, said some men asked her to take the bags to the UK as a favour.
Miss Shah was accused, at the court in Rawalpindi, of trying to smuggle 63 kilos of heroin.
She said if Miss Shah was convicted she could face the death penalty.
Miss Shah, who was six months pregnant, was arrested in Islamabad in May as she tried to board a flight back to Birmingham with her children.
Miss Shah told the BBC: "I had no idea what was in them. I wouldn't do that with two young children".
She told our correspondent conditions in prison were absolutely horrific, with stifling heat and overcrowded cells.
The legal charity Reprieve says Miss Shah's children contracted measles in jail, and claims other pregnant women have died in the prison where she is being held.
Reprieve said Miss Shah could not understand the legal proceedings against her as she did not speak Urdu.
She is due back in court on 29 June, when she is expected to be formally charged.
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Lucy Boucher, from Antrim, had a successful kidney transplant last November. 3D models of her abdomen and the donated kidney, from her father, were used to plan the surgery.
Her parents, Chris and Ciara, were speaking to the Victoria Derbyshire Show.
The incident happened on the B4501, near Cerrigydrudion, at an area known locally as the "Evo Triangle".
It happened on Saturday shortly before 14:00 BST. The biker was pronounced dead at the scene.
North Wales Police is appealing for two other motorists who stopped to give assistance to get in touch as investigations continue.
The driver of the Daihatsu car, which was involved in the collision, was taken to hospital for treatment for injuries believed to be minor.
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McIlroy, 25, from Northern Ireland, was eligible to play for Great Britain or Ireland and his choice has been the subject of ongoing speculation.
At one stage, McIlroy said he might not participate to avoid offending anyone.
"I have been thinking about the decision a lot and remembered all the times I represented Ireland as an amateur," he said on Wednesday.
"I've played for Ireland my whole life and there's no reason to change that now - it's just a continuation of what I've done.
"It's a decision I feel comfortable with and I'll be proud to represent Ireland in 2016.
"I'm 100% sure it's the right decision for me and I hope people respect my decision."
McIlroy revealed his decision on the eve of the Irish Open, which is being played at Fota Island in County Cork.
"Just because now that I'm playing golf for money and I'm a professional, I'm supposed to have this choice or this decision to make, where if you look at the rugby players, you look at cricketers or hockey players, they view Ireland as one, the same as we do in golf.
"I don't think there's any point to change that or go against that just because it's a different event or it's the Olympics."
The golfer, from Holywood in County Down, has twice played in the World Cup for Ireland - both times alongside fellow Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell.
He is one of the biggest stars in the game and won the US Open in 2011 and the US PGA Championship a year later.
"Just looking at the reaction on Twitter, it seems to have gone down very well. I think people understand it was a difficult decision for him and, from what I've seen, there's been little hostility. Had he decided to represent Team GB, perhaps there would have been more hostility.
"Golf breathes a huge sigh of relief because what golf didn't want was one of its biggest stars standing aside from the Olympics, so they'll be very pleased that he's made the decision and put out this signal of intent."
McIlroy hit the headlines earlier this year when he broke off his engagement to Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki.
Just days later he won the lucrative BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, the flagship tournament of the European Tour.
"I think it's great that he's put it to bed at last," said McIlroy's compatriot McDowell.
"I think it was a contentious, complicated, complex issue that I suppose could have been settled very quickly with a straight answer. I'm glad that he's committed and I'm hoping to be there alongside him.
"There's no doubt he'll be there. I just have to keep my game ticking over and hopefully I'll be there, as well.
"We are in a very unique scenario in Northern Ireland. We could easily declare for Great Britain or we could easily declare for Ireland. We have all-Ireland teams and we have sports which are split; obviously soccer is two teams and rugby is one team.
"To me, golf is always an all-Ireland sport. I grew up wanting to wear the green blazer with a shamrock on it and have a green golf bag with the Ireland logo on it. So it makes sense that the best players in Ireland, whether it be north or south of the border, should want to represent Ireland in the Olympic Games."
Golf is being played at the Olympics for the first time since 1904, having been voted in along with rugby sevens by the International Olympic Committee in 2009.
While his output is prolific, so too is the praise for his work.
His reputation is confirmed by the popularity of his shows and the prices his paintings command.
And while his elegant works often tease and provoke, the artist's opinions on the art world are also barbed.
A new exhibition that opens at the Martin Tinney gallery in Cardiff this week includes new work with prices reaching almost £10,000.
If he was a football manager he would be one of the special ones, and he knows it.
"An awful lot of people now believe that they are an artist," he remarks as we sit in his Cardiff studio.
"There is an awful lot of promotion of the idea that in everybody there is an artist. Well, there bloody well isn't."
As he opens his show in Cardiff, Mr Holland's works also hang in galleries in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Athens, Brussels and Marbella.
He is best known for painting female nudes, taking inspiration from history's idealist artists.
"I'm a great fan of 19th Century painting, which was the great era of the idealised human form," he said.
"In the 20th Century artists like William Bouguereau made absolutely wonderful depictions of the human figure, and put them in compositions which I think are glorious. There's a phrase they used to use in the pop industry - I 'pay homage' to that spirit!"
Born in Glasgow in 1941, he has lived in Cardiff since the 1970s and would hardly want to live anywhere else.
"I think Cardiff is wonderful," he said.
"It doesn't treat its artists particularly well, but it is a great place to be an artist. Brutally, because it's much cheaper than a lot of other places, and there are areas close to Cardiff which are even cheaper. And there is an artistic community which is very supportive.
"There are the usual politics, of course, and there are the usual vituperations. But generally speaking artists in Cardiff support one another, and help when they can."
Mr Holland is a commercial artist, and takes pride in never having relied on grants or public funds to sustain his career. In fact, he is quite scathing of the government and the art establishment for implementing policies that he feels have been detrimental to Welsh artists.
"The emphasis of the museums on 'bums on seats' to get the crowds in is so wrong-headed," he said.
"People should be allowed to be interested - or not - in art. The emphasis on the numbers of people has driven a dumbing down, and a lack of the need to make judgements of quality on behalf of the audience."
The issue of quality clearly concerns him, as does his perception that international artists and contemporary art installations are favoured by curators but not by the general public.
He tells me how he feels that a lack of critical voices in planning how to spend public money on art means nobody challenges "boring" art.
"They are frightened witless of making value judgements themselves, and of saying, 'This thing is better than that thing.' Because there would be a political storm if they said 'sorry, we don't like this sort of art, it's crap. Boring video art, forget it.' If someone said that, there would be a fuss.
"The system has become one in which curatorship is more important than the arts, and one in which careers are made in relation to what international artists you can show rather than what local artists you can discover."
The public galleries and art institutions who he has in mind would doubtless argue that contemporary art, and challenging pieces, deserve a place alongside treasured works from Welsh painters which also hang on their walls.
But if there is something Mr Holland is determined to encourage, it is a more open culture of criticism that would lead to an honest discussion about the quality of art that is produced and promoted in Wales.
"People are desperate not to say that one thing is better than another, when it patently is.
"I'm not claiming this for myself particularly, but there are some people who, by their dedication to whatever skills they need, and their ability to observe the world and their desire to say something about those observations, have something special to say. And those people should be sought out. But they're not."
While Mr Holland has just opened his new show in Cardiff, he reminds me that the paintings that are freshly hung on the gallery walls were completed months ago.
He may be 75 but age does not seem to limit his productivity or his passion, and he is already sketching the paintings that will eventually hang in a gallery in Wales or abroad in his next exhibition.
An application was made under the victims' right to review scheme, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The singer, 75, was never arrested or charged over the assault allegations made by four men dating between 1958 and 1983 - which he strongly denies.
The case was dropped in June on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
The right to review process allows an alleged victim to ask the CPS to look again at a case file, providing their application is lodged within three months of a decision not to charge or to end proceedings.
A spokesman for the CPS confirmed they had received an application earlier this month and the review was "ongoing".
Sir Cliff was the subject of a long-running South Yorkshire Police investigation which began in 2014.
Two years later the CPS said he would face no further action saying there was "insufficient evidence to prosecute".
Sir Cliff said he felt "tarnished" by the allegations. "Insufficient suggests that maybe there's something there and I know there wasn't," he said.
He said his naming by the media, despite not being charged, meant he had been "hung out like live bait".
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After an even first half, Southend almost scored with the first shot on target when Anthony Wordsworth's effort was cleared off the line.
The game looked to be heading towards a replay before Lions defender Romeo stabbed in the dramatic winner.
Southend nearly equalised but Marc-Antoine Fortune's shot was saved.
Millwall, mid-table in League One, go into Monday's second-round draw and will be hoping for a good cup run.
They reached the final of the competition 12 years ago, when they were beaten by Manchester United.
Millwall manager Neil Harris:
"I said to the boys at half-time there would be one moment of quality in the game and when it comes to make sure whoever it was grasped it. That's cup football. Mahlon certainly did that."
Southend boss Phil Brown:
"There was a division apart between the teams. We were the best side on the park and should be walking away in the draw."
Match ends, Millwall 1, Southend United 0.
Second Half ends, Millwall 1, Southend United 0.
Ryan Leonard (Southend United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lee Gregory (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Leonard (Southend United).
Attempt saved. Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Shaun Williams (Millwall) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Simon Cox (Southend United).
Goal! Millwall 1, Southend United 0. Mahlon Romeo (Millwall) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by David Worrall.
Attempt saved. Ryan Leonard (Southend United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Hand ball by Lee Gregory (Millwall).
Simon Cox (Southend United) is shown the yellow card.
Byron Webster (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Simon Cox (Southend United).
Attempt missed. Shaun Hutchinson (Millwall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Ryan Leonard.
Substitution, Southend United. Jakub Sokolik replaces Ryan Inniss because of an injury.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Ben Coker.
Attempt saved. David Worrall (Millwall) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Millwall. David Worrall replaces Shane Ferguson.
Substitution, Southend United. Jermaine McGlashan replaces Stephen McLaughlin.
Foul by Fred Onyedinma (Millwall).
Ben Coker (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Shaun Hutchinson.
Attempt missed. Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Stephen McLaughlin (Southend United) is shown the yellow card.
Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Lee Gregory (Millwall).
Jason Demetriou (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ryan Leonard (Southend United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Lee Gregory (Millwall) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Jason Demetriou.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Shaun Hutchinson.
Foul by Byron Webster (Millwall).
Stephen McLaughlin (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Ryan Leonard (Southend United) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is too high.
Foul by Byron Webster (Millwall).
Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The 19-year-old suspect was detained by armed police on Friday afternoon in Holloway Road, north London. A Taser was discharged during the arrest.
A controlled explosion was carried out on the suspicious item at North Greenwich station on Thursday morning.
The suspect was taken to a London police station and is still in custody.
Scotland Yard said the device was due to be forensically examined.
Passengers have been told to expect to see more officers, including armed police, in and around transport hubs, while patrols by British Transport Police are in place on the Underground and at railway stations.
A witness to the teenager's arrest described him as white, bearded and wearing a hoodie.
Ali, aged 30, who did not give his full name, said the man had been walking along the street "normally" when police descended.
"The armed police, I think five of them, ran behind him and put him on the floor," he said.
"They were shouting 'armed police, don't struggle'. Everything happened so quick."
The suspicious object was discovered on an eastbound Jubilee Line train at the south-east London station at about 11:00 BST.
A source told the BBC the device was found by a member of the public and handed to a Tube driver.
The driver treated it as a suspicious and said it contained "wires and possibly a clock".
The station was evacuated and members of the Met's bomb squad carried out the explosion, after the item was described as looking "real enough".
The Met said officers were keeping an open mind regarding any possible motive but said they were not looking for anyone else in relation to their investigation at this stage.
The current threat level for international terrorism in the UK is severe - meaning an attack is deemed to be "highly likely".
The victim, in her late 20s, got into a car in Church Street on Saturday afternoon.
She was later found by police at a hotel in Ilford, east London, before being taken to hospital to be treated for cuts and bruises.
Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses to the incident, which involved a Black Vauxhall Astra with a number plate which began FP09.
Det Con Alex Turnbull said: "We are appealing to anyone who may have seen a man approaching a woman on Church Street and then the pair getting into a car matching the description to contact police."
Mr Turnbull said the suspect and the victim were known to each other.
The 23-year-old man from London has been arrested on suspicion of kidnap, false imprisonment, assault, disqualified driving and driving without insurance.
He has been bailed until 12 February.
Remus Hamza, from Cardiff, is accused of assaulting the woman, 20, in the early hours of 20 September during freshers' week.
Mr Hamza denied one count of rape during the hearing at Newport Crown Court.
The defendant was remanded in custody and the case was adjourned until 15 February.
The attack happened in the predominantly Shia town of Khan Bani Saad, north of the capital Baghdad.
Children were among those dead in the explosion, which came as people celebrated the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The Islamic State (IS) group, which control swathes of the country, has said it was behind the attack.
A statement from the group said one of its members drove three tonnes of explosives into a crowd.
Correspondents say that it was one of the deadliest single attacks in Iraq over the last 10 years and completely destroyed several buildings.
Police major Ahmed al-Tamimi told Reuters the damage was "devastating".
"Some people were using vegetable boxes to collect children's body parts," he said.
Diyala resident Sayif Ali told the AP news that Khan Beni Saad has become a disaster area as its residents continued to search for bodies.
Meanwhile Iraqi parliament speaker Salim al-Jabouri said on Saturday that the attack has revealed an "ugly sectarian chord" and that the government was doing all it could to stop IS from further destabilising Diyala.
The Diyala provincial authorities have declared three days of mourning and cancelled festivities for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan.
IS militants are battling government forces in the north and west of the country.
The group captured parts of Diyala last year. Although IS was later driven out, it still has a presence there.
All the team's matches in France are heavily oversubscribed.
More than 50,000 tickets have been applied for, but Northern Ireland's allocation is only 25,000 tickets for their three group games.
The deadline for applications from Northern Ireland fans was 11:00 GMT on Monday.
Northern Ireland play in Nice, Lyon and Paris and the ticket allocation is linked to the size of the stadium.
The number of tickets Northern Ireland will receive is:
Applicants will be notified of the results of their application in the next few weeks, no later than 29 February according to UEFA.
The tickets will be allocated based on a priority system which takes into account the previous buying behaviour of Northern Ireland fans throughout qualifying.
Further tickets for the games will go on general sale later this year but only a relatively small amount.
About 800,000 tickets went on sale last month for fans of the 24 competing teams.
The tournament takes place in June.
The firm says it will open 60 hotels over the next three years, including one in central London.
In 2012, the chain was bought by two US hedge funds after its debts nearly dragged the company under.
Operating profits for 2016 are up £5m to £110m.
"This year just gone, we've overtaken [revenue from] leisure customers with business customers for the first time... since our restructuring," said Travelodge chief executive Peter Gowers.
"Historically, our mix tended to be about 55% leisure, 45% business. Since the investment in quality, we've had a lot more success at winning over not just small businesses, which you might expect, but also around half the FTSE 100 use Travelodge in some way, shape or form."
Travelodge has started work on a new hotel in the City of London, near the landmark office building known colloquially as "the Gherkin". It is expected to open in 2018.
Mr Gowers said he believed there was room for further expansion, because while in the UK, about one in five hotels is a branded budget hotel, whereas in the US, the figure is one in three and in France, it is one in four.
Goldman Sachs, Avenue Capital and GoldenTree Asset Management, the firms that took control of Travelodge in 2012, were not expected to hold on to the company long-term after its restructuring.
Mr Gowers, who became chief executive in 2013, said that the firm's "current shareholders are not natural long-term holders of a hotel business". But he gave no indication that any change of ownership was currently under consideration.
Travelodge operates more than 500 hotels in the UK, Ireland and Spain.
Surjit Takhar, 37, was reported missing from his home in Oldbury, West Midlands, in October 2008.
His skull and other bone fragments were discovered in Telford, Shropshire, in 2015 by maintenance workers. Police are treating the death as murder.
Mr Takhar's former wife Lavina Sohl said she suspected he had been killed accidentally.
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"What's happened is something's gone wrong somewhere," she said.
"I don't think they've meant to have done it. It was an accident.
"I honestly think there is going to be a result at the end of this. Somebody will be caught for what they've done."
Detectives said Mr Takhar's life had become chaotic. He was a divorced alcoholic. He had also run up some debts through his lifestyle at the time of his disappearance.
Det Insp Jim Munro from West Midlands Police made a fresh appeal for information with BBC Crimewatch earlier.
"On 25 January last year we had a call to the incident room from someone with specific information regarding this case - an anonymous male caller - who unfortunately was cut off before they were put through to the investigation team.
"I'm urging that person to come forward again."
Officers also want to speak to anyone who may have information regarding the issues Mr Takhar had at the time of his death and have urged people to come forward so they can "bring some peace" to his family.
The cause of death remains unexplained but police said Mr Takhar had suffered head and rib injuries.
In a statement on his Facebook page, Mr Robinson called on the parties to take care the positions they are adopting do not close off sensible options.
He advised the politicians to "step back, take a breath".
He said they should ensure there is space for an agreement "in the calmer times that follow the hustings".
Mr Robinson wrote that he had been determined not to provide a running commentary on political events since he stepped down.
However, he said his concern for the existence of the Stormont institutions has overridden his desire for a quiet retirement.
The former DUP leader acknowledged that mistakes were made over the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
But he argued that the executive's proper role should have been to put in place cost control measures and initiate a thorough inquiry.
Mr Robinson said the argument that it was "time for the people to have their say" was bogus.
He added that he could not help feeling that if Martin McGuinness had been in good health, the breakdown would have been avoided.
Instead, he argued, "more belligerent elements" in Sinn Féin had "seized their opportunity".
The former first minister said he believes a major negotiation of the kind Sinn Féin is seeking cannot be completed in the time legally available before a fresh election should be triggered.
"Almost inevitably, the assembly will be suspended and Northern Ireland will be back to direct rule," he said.
Mr Robinson said the election had "constitutional importance" and he called for a high unionist turnout.
Assistant Chief Constable Wayne Mawson made the announcement to a Holyrood committee.
He also announced a pilot scheme in Fife in which the parents of all children subject to stop and search would be given a letter explaining why.
There were 640,000 stop searches last year, with 25,000 involving children.
The age of criminal responsibility in Scotland is currently eight - one of the lowest in Europe.
Mr Mawson's comments to the Scottish parliament committee appeared to indicate that the change to stop search procedures would cover those under eight.
Police Scotland later clarified that these searches would end for all children under 12.
Mr Mawson, who has responsibility for local policing in the west of Scotland, told the Scottish Parliament's justice sub-committee that ending the practice was "about doing the right thing".
Last month a Freedom of Information request revealed children under 16 had committed more than 40,000 offences in Scotland in the past two years.
Data obtained by BBC Scotland showed officers carried out 2,912 searches on children aged eight to 12 between April and December 2013.
The Scottish Police Authority was asked to review stop and search on children following concerns about increasing use of the power.
Mr Mawson said he "thoroughly" believed that stop search was effective in reducing particular crimes but said the force had agreed it needed to change its language and approach.
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokeswoman Alison McInnes welcomed the decision.
"I am delighted that after months of pressing the authorities for change to protect children, Police Scotland have finally conceded that the position was indefensible," she said.
"This is a victory for children and their rights. We've argued all along for them to be protected.
"This acceptance of the problems of voluntary stop and search demonstrates change is required. That change cannot stop here."
Under the new Fife pilot the details of every person stopped and searched, and the reason why, will be recorded.
In England and Wales children are held responsible for crimes at age 10. In Germany, Italy and Russia it is 14.
Scottish ministers have increased the age of criminal prosecution to 12, meaning children aged between eight and 12 would be referred to the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration but not to the procurator fiscal.
The former Led Zeppelin frontman agreed to let Y Storm perform after hearing of their success at one of Europe's biggest youth festivals, the Urdd Eisteddfod, in May.
The band members are pupils at Ysgol OM Edwards in Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd.
Plant's band will headline Forest Live in front of 10,000 people.
The father of two of Y Storm's band members is Liam Tyson, guitarist with the The Sensational Space Shifters which tour with Plant.
One of Tyson's sons, Osian, is a guitarist, while the other, Guto, plays the drums.
Tyson said the gig at Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, was a natural progression for Y Storm after all their hard work and Urdd Eisteddfod success.
He said he asked Plant for a "favour" to see if the children could play at one of their gigs and he replied "of course" straight away.
"He knows they've been in a band, he's seen the progression over the years. He knows they've won the eisteddfod, and he champions all things Welsh, so it was the next step to do," Tyson said.
Despite his links with Plant, Tyson said the band had earned the Forest Live gig on merit.
"For their age they'd give anybody a run," he said.
"They're on the gig because they've done well over the years and they've progressed and progressed and they've kept progressing."
Y Storm write their own material and will be performing in English and Welsh at the concert.
However, IAG, which owns BA and Iberia will have to give up five daily slots at Gatwick to increase competition.
The Commission said the takeover is "conditional upon commitments offered by the parties".
It had expressed concerns that the takeover would lead to insufficient competition.
The Commission said that as it stood, the deal would have stopped "Aer Lingus from continuing to provide traffic to the long-haul flights of competing airlines on several routes".
IAG has also entered into agreements with competing airlines that operate long-haul flights out of the UK, the Netherlands and Ireland committing Aer Lingus to providing them with connecting passengers.
The approval comes after Ireland's low-cost carrier Ryanair on Friday accepted the bid by IAG for a near 30% stake in Aer Lingus.
IAG's plans include building a new transatlantic hub at Dublin airport.
Ryanair had attempted to buy Aer Lingus three times, the first time in 2006, just after Aer Lingus was floated on the stock market by the Irish government.
The Irish government, which sold its 25% stake in Aer Lingus to IAG in May, recommended that Ryanair accept IAG's offer.
The deal values Aer Lingus shares at around €2.50 (£1.87) per share.
Aer Lingus is Heathrow Airport's fourth busiest operator, behind BA, Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic.
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Rory McIlroy and world number one Jason Day are among the top players to pull out over the threat of the mosquito-borne disease.
Irish boxer Taylor said: "it's not even something I'm worried about".
"I'm not thinking about it, I'm focused on the competition itself and trying to come home a two-time Olympic champion."
The Zika virus has been linked to defects in newborn babies but Taylor has been critical of the golfers' withdrawals.
Last week she tweeted "I wonder what excuse they would have made if there was no virus," after Jason Day became the latest to opt out.
At the Team Ireland Olympic kit launch in Dublin on Wednesday, Taylor said: "we have been given a lot of advice on it and it's not really something that we should be too worried about".
Taylor has suffered a couple of surprising defeats this year.
She lost her world lightweight title after a semi-final defeat to Estelle Mossely of France in May, having already lost to Azerbaijan's Yana Alekseevna at the semi-finals of the European Olympic qualifiers.
However she is confident she can retain her Olympic title won in London four years ago.
"It would mean absolutely everything to me really.
"After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.
"To stand on top of the podium in front of every other nation would be a privilege and an honour."
Tollitt joined Rovers on loan in September, and has made 10 National League appearances for the club.
The 22-year-old former Everton trainee signed for Pompey from non-league side Skelmersdale in March 2015, and played in 18 games for the League Two club.
"This is a great signing to be able to add a young, local emerging talent," Rovers manager Micky Mellon said.
"Ben is a lad of great promise and if he continues to work hard, he will be able to fulfil that potential."
Dippy the diplodocus, a 70ft long (21.3m) plaster-cast sauropod replica made up of 292 bones, is set to leave the Natural History Museum in Kensington later this year.
A six-person team will start a three-and-a-half week task of dismantling of Dippy on Thursday.
He is being moved as the museum is having a front-of-house makeover.
Dippy's spot is being taken by the skeleton of an 83ft (25.2m) female blue whale, weighing 4.5 tonnes.
She will take up position in a diving pose as she is suspended from the ceiling of the hall.
The whale is also more than 100 years old but - unlike Dippy - she is not a cast.
On Thursday, construction will also begin on a tunnel to protect visitors during the dismantling of Dippy.
This tunnel will take three to four days to build and will almost totally obscure Dippy from view.
Parts of Dippy will be cleaned and repaired ahead of the two-year tour.
The tour will start in 2018, with Dorset County Museum set to be the first stop from February to May.
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It was a frustrating night for Nice, who were unable to break down Bordeaux and had Mario Balotelli and Younes Belhanda sent off in injury time.
Radamel Falcao scored again for Monaco as they beat Caen 2-1 to narrow the gap at the top to two points.
PSG hammered Lorient 5-0 and are now five points behind the leaders.
The reigning champions took the lead through Thomas Meunier's lob from inside the box before Zargo Toure deflected Edinson Cavani's cross into his own net to put Unai Emery's side firmly in control.
Thiago Silva headed home Lucas's corner to put the result beyond doubt while Cavani rubbed salt into Lorient's wounds by converting a penalty shortly after the hour for his 18th league goal of the season.
Lucas added a fifth with a lob 20 minutes from the end.
Falcao scored his 13th goal of the season as Monaco put last weekend's home defeat to Olympique Lyonnais behind them with victory at the Stade Louis II.
The Colombian opened the scoring from the spot after being brought down in the box before Tiemoue Bakayoko doubled the tally 14 minutes from full-time with a long-range strike.
Herve Bazile pulled one back in stoppage time for Caen, who had been reduced to 10 men when Damien Da Silva was dismissed in the 51st minute.
At the Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Nice allowed their frustration to get the better of them as Balotelli was shown red late on for kicking out at Igor Lewczuk after the Polish defender had grappled with him for the ball.
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The figures released by the National Police Chiefs Council under a Freedom of Information request show 2,003 under 18s were put on the Channel initiative.
The rise came as a duty was put on schools in Britain to report concerns.
About two-thirds of the referrals - 2,629 - were for Islamist extremism.
There were 525 referrals for far-right extremism but the nature of the remaining 728 cases was not specified in the response.
Channel is an "early intervention" scheme, designed to work with individuals of any age who are at risk of being exploited by extremist or terrorist ideologues.
The programme was set up after the 7 July London bombings and is a way for the police and other agencies to work with people, some of whom have been radicalised online.
But participation in the programme is voluntary and, in the case of children, parental consent is needed.
Under laws brought in last summer, schools, prisons, the NHS, and local authorities in England, Wales and Scotland have a legal obligation to spot individuals who might be vulnerable to extremism and radicalisation.
It followed a number of high profile cases in which young people have left the UK to join militant groups in Syria and Iraq.
The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) says it dealt with 3,872 Channel referrals last year, up from 1,701 in 2014.
The number of children subject to referrals increased from 663 in 2014.
The NPCC said it was unable to disclose the youngest age of a child referred to Channel last year because of rules governing security and personal information.
It had previously revealed that a four-year-old was referred in 2014, along with other members of their family.
Last month, a separate FOI request by the BBC found 415 children aged 10 and under, and 1,424 children aged 11-15 were referred to Channel between January 2012 and December 2015.
The NPCC said Channel "provides an appropriate support package tailored to an individual's needs".
"Channel works in a similar way to other initiatives that have sought to support individuals at risk from involvement in gangs, drugs and other social issues," it said.
The government has said the Channel programme had shown it could change lives and pull people away from extremism.
Philip Hammond's vow came despite the rising potential cost to the government of the electricity it will produce, according to the National Audit Office.
He said Hinkley was vital to a strong economy and still worth the cost.
The new power station was initially supposed to cost just £6bn, but has more recently been estimated at £18bn.
As part of the 35-year deal signed with France's EDF in 2013 to build the plant in Somerset, the government agreed to pay £92.50 for each megawatt hour of electricity.
Wholesale energy prices have fallen since that price was agreed, which meant the government must now make up the difference.
The NAO estimated that future top-up payments would rise from £6.1bn to £29.7bn over the length of the contract.
The spending watchdog's report came less than a week after an Infrastructure and Projects Authority assessment published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change put the potential cost of Hinkley at £37bn.
A Department for Energy spokesperson said that the revised estimate would not mean higher bills for consumers.
"Hinkley will generate enough low carbon electricity to power six million homes and around £10 from consumer bills will pay for it once it is up and running," she said.
How can the cost of Hinkley on our electricity bills remain at about £10 when the huge subsidy is soaring? It's because we will pay for the plant in two ways: the wholesale cost of electricity, and the cost of the subsidy.
When the wholesale cost rises, that subsidy will fall. If it falls, as the NAO report suggests, the subsidy will rise.
But the overall cost to consumers' bills will remain at around £10, says the government, as it is based on the £92.50 per megawatt hour "strike price" that the UK has agreed to pay EDF for power from Hinkley Point C.
The Government says that the system protects consumers from fluctuating wholesale prices. But it is likely to face mounting criticism in future years if projections of lower wholesale energy prices prove to be true.
The NAO said: "Supporting early new nuclear projects could lead to higher costs in the short term than continuing to support wind and solar. The cost competitiveness of nuclear power is weakening as wind and solar become more established.
"The decision to proceed with support for nuclear power therefore relies more on strategic than financial grounds: nuclear power is needed in the supply mix to complement the intermittent nature of wind and solar."
Richard Howard, head of energy and environment at the think-tank Policy Exchange, said: "The subsidy model used for Hinkley Point C ... involves a significant risk transfer from power generators to government, with consumers ultimately picking up the tab."
EDF, which is controlled by the French government, is yet to fully commit to building Hinkley Point as the final cost continued to rise. Neither has it outlined how it would fund the project.
Emmanuel Macron, the French economy minister, said in April that France was "completely committed" to building the power plant.
EDF's finance chief resigned over the cost in March and French energy minister Segolene Royale has also said it should be delayed.
They are examining Manfred Seel's links with the murders of five women and a teenage boy. Organs had been taken from all of the victims' bodies.
The five women were all working as prostitutes when they died.
Investigators say it is possible the killer had an accomplice and that there may have been other victims.
The man has been identified as a landscape architect from the town of Schwalbach near Frankfurt who was 67 when he died.
Suspicions were raised after the pensioner's death, when his daughter found a woman's remains inside a barrel in a garage he had rented.
They belonged to Britta Simone Diallo, who had been living in Frankfurt and working as a prostitute.
Investigators say there is no doubt that he killed her.
Seel is suspected of carrying out the murders of Gudrun Ebel and Hatice Eruelkeroglu in 1971, Gisela Singh in 1991, Dominique Monrose in 1993 and Tristan Bruebach in 1998.
Investigators suggested that the 20-year gap may have been a time when he was busy, for example with raising a family.
The victims' wounds matched injuries depicted in violent pornography found on Seel's computer.
He also had more than 32,000 images involving cannibalism and glorifying violence.
The only male victim Manfred Seel is suspected of murdering is Tristan Bruebach, a 13-year-old boy whose throat was cut while he was walking home from school in 1998. The teenager's mutilated body was found in a tunnel in Frankfurt.
The six murders all happened in and around Frankfurt. But detectives from the Hessen State Office of Criminal Investigations (LKA) say they are now examining hundreds of cold cases.
Police are looking for clues that might link Seel to further killings. They are also looking for people he knew and came into contact with
Heartbreak Publishing, set up seven years ago by the Fife-born artist, sold prints, posters and postcards of his work and of other artists.
Mr Vettriano, the company's majority shareholder, said it was a business decision to place the company in voluntary liquidation.
His prints will still be available from his own website.
Mr Vettriano said: "This is purely a business decision and involves a return of the company's assets to the shareholders.
"Signed, limited edition prints, open edition posters, cards, and books will still be available from early this year through my official website; www.jackvettriano.com."
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said home-movers in the capital took out just 32,400 loans in 2016.
That was 10% fewer than in 2015 and the lowest number since the recession of 1991.
The number of first-time buyers needing a loan also fell. They took out 43,300 mortgages, a drop of 5% on 2015.
The total number of home buyers in London in 2016 was the lowest for four years, the CML said.
"Persisting supply and affordability issues appear to be exerting an ongoing restraint on growth, meaning there is some uncertainty around how the market will perform going into 2017," said the CML's director general, Paul Smee.
However, not everyone agrees that a shortage of homes is the issue.
"It is not supply. There are currently tens of thousands of homes for sale in London on Rightmove," said property expert Henry Pryor.
He said that it was the cost of moving that was deterring people from buying them.
"The problem is the 'transaction friction' - predominantly the higher rates of stamp duty at the upper end."
The average home mover in London borrowed £335,000 in 2016, which represented just under four times annual household income.
The average house price in the capital is now £484,000, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The figures do not include the number of people who paid cash for their new home.
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The Pontiff said they carried within themselves "a history, a culture, precious values" and urged them not to give up hope.
The migrants - including many asylum seekers - waved their nations' flags during the address.
Europe is struggling to cope with an influx of migrants.
The Pope has repeatedly called on European states to welcome people fleeing war and poverty.
Later he became only the third pope to visit Rome's main synagogue.
Hundreds of armed police and security personnel were deployed for the occasion.
Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, has said the visit is considered as a sign of 50 years of improving Jewish-Catholic relations.
In December, the Vatican said that the Roman Catholic Church did not support efforts to convert Jews to Christianity.
IS militants mounted a co-ordinated assault on several locations near the northern city of Mosul on Wednesday.
About 180 IS fighters were killed in the strikes that continued until Thursday morning, the US officials said.
Mosul has been under the control of IS since last year.
Militants began attacking Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga positions late on Wednesday afternoon, using machine guns, car bombs, rockets and armoured bulldozers, Kurdish and US officials said.
"This was the hardest punch Isil [IS] had thrown since this summer, and the Peshmerga defeated them," said Col Steve Warren, a US military spokesman, according to the Washington Post.
Brig Gen Mark Odom, the senior US officer in Iraq, said the assault may have been a "spoiling attack", the New York Times reported, suggesting it may have been an attempt to disrupt plans to retake Mosul.
Among the sites targeted by IS was Bashiqa, where Turkish forces have recently been training Iraqi Kurds, sparking a row with the Iraqi government.
Meanwhile at the UN the 15-member Security Council adopted a resolution aimed at starving IS of funds.
It urges countries to "move vigorously and decisively to cut the flow of funds" to IS, such as by preventing its smuggling of oil and antiquities.
City of London financial sources have told BBC Sport that American investors, with links to Major League Soccer side Sporting Kansas City, are exploring purchasing the Premier League club.
An asking price of £225m is believed to have been set by Everton's owners although it is unknown if the US consortium are prepared to match that.
The possible deal has also been reported in Kansas City.
SKC representative Mike Illig has publicly stated he is an Everton fan, posting pictures of a visit to Goodison Park on his Twitter account on Thursday.
Illig attended former Everton striker Duncan Ferguson's testimonial against Villarreal at Goodison Park in August. His picture of the stadium was retweeted by Robb Heineman, Sporting Kansas City's CEO, increasing speculation that a deal is under discussion.
Cliff Illig, Mike's father, is the principal investor in the group of Kansas City entrepreneurs that purchased Kansas City Wizards from the Hunt Sports Group in 2006. He is also co-founder of the Cerner Corporation health care information technology group.
Everton chairman Bill Kenwright has openly admitted the club is for sale and has been seeking investment but failed to attract a buyer.
The theatre impresario, who bought the club from former owner Peter Johnson for £20m on Boxing Day 1999, said as far back as November 2007: "If the right person stands in front of me and wants to take this club forward then I will sell."
Everton did not comment when contacted about suggestions that a takeover deal is under discussion.
Samantha Henderson, 25, from Corfe Castle, Dorset was reported missing just before 08:45 GMT on Thursday.
A 27-year-old man from the village, who is known to Ms Henderson, has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.
A statement released by her family said her disappearance was "completely out of character" and appealed for information.
"She is hard-working, always presentable. She would never walk out and leave her children," it said.
"If anyone knows where she is or what has happened, please contact the police."
They also made a direct appeal to Ms Henderson, saying: "No one is upset or thinks anything badly of you Sam.
"We just want you to come home as everyone wants to help and support you."
Ms Henderson had last been seen leaving her home at 16:30 on Wednesday.
Extensive police investigations are continuing, including a forensic examination of her house and the surrounding area.
The police helicopter has also been used in the search.
Det Insp Neil Devoto said police had "grave concerns" for her and appealed for information from anyone who may have seen her or had contact with her on social media.
"While we are hoping for the best, sadly we believe she may have come to some harm," he said.
"She has never gone missing before and, from what we understand, it is almost unfathomable that she would have left her four young children."
Friends of Ms Henderson have been distributing posters appealing for information about the missing woman.
She is described as white, 1.60 metres (5ft 3 inches), of a very slim build and with blonde hair.
She was seen wearing a grey jumper, blue jeans and slippers.
Homes for sale with indoor swimming pools and cinemas were also popular with browsers, according to property website Rightmove.
Despite a general drop in house prices in central London, some properties remain on sale for eye-watering sums.
A separate study by the Halifax claimed Winchester was the most desirable spot.
People taking a virtual peek through the keyhole at multi-million pound properties pushed them to the top of Rightmove's chart.
Top, and the most expensive property listed, was a £55m, seven-bedroom terrace in Eaton Square in London's Belgravia - a street that is often recorded as having the highest-priced properties in the UK.
Features include a winter garden with retractable glass ceiling.
A mansion in Alderley Edge in Cheshire was second on the list. It has a leisure suite with pool, jacuzzi, sauna and gym, as well as a salon and a cinema room.
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Third on Rightmove's list is a fort on its own island half a mile off the Pembrokeshire coast. Constructed from local stone between 1852 and 1854, the fort on Thorne Island was an outer defence to the naval base of Milford Haven.
"The idea of owning an island and fortress has brought out the Enid Blyton in us all," said Anthony Clay, partner at Knight Frank, which is selling the property.
"The fortress needs a fair bit of investment and this is not the sort of property you would buy on a whim."
Other properties in the top 10 most-viewed during the year are a mix of quirky and luxurious.
At the weekend, a study by mortgage lender, the Halifax, concluded that Winchester is the best place to live in the UK in terms of quality of life.
Scotland's Orkney Islands took second place, while Wychavon in Worcestershire came third. The study looked at a range of factors including life expectancy, health and employment rates.
Kim Davis, an elected official, has said that her Christian faith should exempt her from signing the licences.
If she interferes with her deputies, federal Judge David Bunning said she could be jailed for defying the court.
The US Supreme Court declared gay marriage legal in June.
After she was released on Tuesday, Ms Davis greeted a large crowd of supporters as the song Eye of the Tiger blared on a nearby speaker system.
"I just want to give God the glory. His people have rallied, and you are a strong people," she said with her lawyer, Mat Staver, and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee by her side.
Mr Staver said on Tuesday she would return to work this week.
He would not say whether Ms Davis would interfere with her deputies but said "she would not violate her conscience".
Two federal courts and the US Supreme Court have ruled against Ms Davis after she repeatedly refused to issue marriage licences since June.
Ms Davis, a Democrat who serves Rowan County, a rural area in eastern Kentucky, was found in contempt of court on Thursday and jailed.
"God's moral law conflicts with my job duties," Ms Davis said on Thursday. "You can't be separated from something that's in your heart and in your soul."
The following day, several of her deputies began issuing marriage licences to couples.
It is unclear whether the Judge Bunning's latest order will resolve the dispute.
On Thursday, Judge Bunning offered a compromise where Ms Davis could avoid jail if she agreed not to interfere with her deputies, but she refused.
Because Ms Davis is an elected official, she cannot be fired. She could be impeached by the Kentucky legislature, but the body is not in session.
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An army spokesman said they were taken by gunmen late on Monday from the Holiday Oceanview resort on Samal Island, near Davao City on Mindanao.
The attackers, who have not been identified by police, left by boat, Capt Alberto Caber told reporters.
He said it appeared the four were targeted rather than taken at random.
Since the 1990s the southern Philippines has seen sporadic incidents of kidnapping by Muslim militant groups, who hold hostages for ransom.
Philippine authorities have named the Canadian abductees as John Ridsel and Robert Hall.
The Norwegian, Kjartan Sekkingstad, was said to be the manager of the resort.
The Filipino woman has not been identified, but she is said to be the partner of one of the kidnapped Canadians.
Authorities also said two Japanese tourists had tried to intervene to prevent the kidnapping, which took place shortly before midnight.
The Associated Press quoted Capt Caber as saying a naval blockade was being set up around the island to stop kidnappers from reaching another island in the southwest known to house militant strongholds.
Philippine authorities signed a peace agreement with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in 2014, but continue to battle smaller groups in the south.
The region where Samal is located has been largely peaceful in recent years. The last related incident on Samal took place in 2001 when Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf attempted to kidnap tourists at another resort.
The group is holding a number of foreign hostages in various remote camps.
Danny Johnson went close for the hosts by hitting a post with a speculative strike from 20 yards early on, before Eastleigh - who beat League One side Swindon 3-1 in midweek to reach the second round of the FA Cup - took control.
Scott Wilson got the Spitfires up and running by rising highest to head home a corner after 25 minutes, before Mikael Mandron gave them breathing room from the spot in first-half stoppage time.
Sam Jones gave Gateshead hope with his seventh goal in as many games with 19 minutes to go and Johnson equalised from the spot in the 79th minute to earn a point for the hosts.
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Match ends, Gateshead 2, Eastleigh 2.
Second Half ends, Gateshead 2, Eastleigh 2.
Joe Partington (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Eastleigh. James Constable replaces Mikael Mandron.
Reda Johnson (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Gateshead 2, Eastleigh 2. Danny Johnson (Gateshead) converts the penalty with a.
Goal! Gateshead 1, Eastleigh 2. Sam Jones (Gateshead).
Substitution, Gateshead. Wes York replaces James Bolton.
Scott Wilson (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Ross Stearn replaces Andy Drury.
Second Half begins Gateshead 0, Eastleigh 2.
First Half ends, Gateshead 0, Eastleigh 2.
Goal! Gateshead 0, Eastleigh 2. Mikael Mandron (Eastleigh) converts the penalty with a.
Russell Penn (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Gateshead. George Smith replaces Manny Smith.
Mikael Mandron (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Gateshead 0, Eastleigh 1. Scott Wilson (Eastleigh).
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Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The work and pensions secretary said leaving would be a "stride into the light", enabling the UK to trade freely and control migration.
He accused In campaigners of belittling Britain's strength, as if the UK was "too inconsequential" to cope outside.
David Cameron has said an EU exit would cause uncertainty and economic pain.
Labour said the Conservatives were "split down the middle" over the issue while the opposition was "united" in its backing for continued EU membership.
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The prime minister has challenged Mr Duncan Smith and other Conservative cabinet ministers campaigning for the UK to leave the EU to spell out their alternative vision.
And Chancellor George Osborne has said so-called Brexit would cause a "profound economic shock" - an argument echoed by other G20 finance ministers on Saturday.
But Mr Duncan Smith dismissed these claims as scare stories, saying Britain was the "greatest country on earth", more than capable of prospering outside the EU, which he said was more of a "political project" than a "defined economic entity".
He told the Andrew Marr Show: "I am positive about leaving the EU because I believe rather than saying it is a leap in the dark, I think it is a stride into the light. It is about hope versus pessimism and people will vote for that."
Mr Duncan Smith said the UK had "faced bigger trials than this".
"It has stood alone in war but it has also defined trade around the world...Britain is a phenomenal country. It has stood alone and fought for freedom. It has been a global trader, it can again be a global trader.
"Why would we have such a low opinion of the British people that we going about talking about a leap in the dark and profound shocks?"
Asked whether he believed the PM's argument lacked patriotism, he replied: "It is not about personalities but the In Campaign's whole strategy has been about saying 'basically we are too small, too little, inconsequential, we can't do what we want. I don't know why anyone would want to run a country like this."
While the EU was an important trading partner, he said the level of two-way trade had been exaggerated. If the UK voted to leave the EU, he said, it would be able to negotiate a simpler trade-based relationship enabling it to have "access to the world and to the EU".
"We do a deal with the EU. That is a trade deal, it is about access to our markets and access to theirs. Part of our red lines would be about us being able to control our borders as we want???That deal is very doable."
The former Conservative leader also rejected suggestions that an Out vote could trigger the break up of the UK, saying the idea that it could provoke another independence referendum in Scotland was "absurd".
Mr Duncan Smith's intervention was welcomed by the Vote Leave campaign group, which tweeted: "All the government has is project fear - we will be explaining to people project hope, how Britain and EU will be better after we take control."
But pro-EU campaign group, Britain Stronger in Europe, said Mr Duncan Smith had failed to explain how the UK could retain access to the European single market while not upholding principles of freedom of movement.
And small business minister Anna Soubry, who is campaigning to stay in the EU, said leaving would be "chaotic" and stall a much-needed process of economic reform.
"If people vote to stay in, we will remain within a reformed EU with a wind of change I believe is blowing right across it," she told Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics.
"Colleagues from other countries are really talking about the need to advance the programme of deregulation, fewer directives, that we have led."
Labour's Angela Eagle accused eurosceptics of wanting to turn the clock back to the 1970s and focusing trade strategy on the rest of the Commonwealth.
"Their attention is elsewhere so we have to have to make the best of where we are," she told Marr.
"I believe that we should be confident about our values and we can project our values if we work through international organisations and the EU is one such organisation."
She claimed it "would be Labour votes" which keeps the UK in the EU and the party was "absolutely united in our determination that we get the right decision".
Sandman Hotel Group said it would open a hotel in Aberdeen after buying a city centre site from Robert Gordon University (RGU).
Sandman plans to invest nearly £20m to transform RGU's St Andrews Street building into a four-star hotel complex with 220 rooms.
It will be the group's third base in the UK.
The company has already established hotels at Newcastle and London Gatwick.
Sandman has estimated that nearly 80 new jobs will be created during the construction phase, followed by more than 150 posts in its hotel and restaurant operations.
The group said it would involve a phased opening, with first rooms available within the next two years.
The multi-million pound deal will allow the university to continue with the development of its Garthdee campus.
RGU principal Prof Ferdinand von Prondzynski said: "The sale of St Andrews Street to Sandman Hotel Group will provide major benefits to the city as well as RGU.
"The capital received will allow us to continue with the development of our teaching and learning facilities, providing our students with an outstanding educational environment.
"In addition, the city will benefit from a new four-star hotel and a development which will help drive forward the regeneration of Aberdeen's city centre."
Welcoming the announcement, First Minister Alex Salmond said it was "excellent news" for Aberdeen's tourism industry.
He added: "While this new hotel will undoubtedly benefit business tourism in the Aberdeen area, visitor numbers from overseas markets continue to grow.
"The Sandman Hotel Group has seen the golden opportunity Scotland presents and I'm delighted to see them investing upward of £20m in their new Aberdeen city centre hotel."
The scene shows a fireman slipping on papers and, as they fly up, a page with Arabic script appears to be among them.
Ofcom received 170 complaints but said on Monday it could not confirm the page was from the Koran.
The episode was pulled from Channel 5's streaming service but was first broadcast on TV in October 2014.
"We studied a recording of the programme in the highest possible resolution," an Ofcom spokesperson said.
"We found that the page did appear to contain Arabic text, but its contents could not have been deciphered, nor recognised as being from a given text."
Mattel, which produced the show, previously apologised and said it did not believe it was done "maliciously".
The company, which produces brands including Bob The Builder, Pingu and Thomas The Tank Engine, blamed the animation studio for the mistake.
"It's just an unfortunate incident where someone from the production company thought they were just putting in random text," a Mattel spokesperson said.
"We have no reason to believe it was done maliciously."
In a statement, at the time the complaints were made, Mattel said: "The page was intended to show illegible text and we deeply regret this error.
"We sincerely apologise for any distress or offence it may have caused."
It said it would "no longer be working with the animation studio responsible", and would take "immediate action to remove this episode from circulation".
"We are reviewing our content production procedures to ensure this never happens again," it added.
Fireman Sam began in the 1980s, and was broadcast in Welsh on S4C and in English on the BBC.
It aired on the BBC until 2008, when a new version of the show - which uses computer-generated imagery (CGI) rather than stop-motion animation - began on Channel 5.
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We are in the green room at London's Festival Hall where, just a few minutes earlier, Alderman was announced as this year's winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her sci-fi novel The Power.
Her gripping book - described by the judges as a "brilliantly imagined dystopia" - explores a future in which women have the ability to give electric shocks at will - often with deadly results - and men live in fear.
When I suggest that it all that sounds a bit like a plotline from Doctor Who, Alderman nods enthusiastically.
She did, after all, write a Doctor Who spin off novel starring Matt Smith's incarnation of the Time Lord in 2011.
"I would love to write for Doctor Who on the telly - and you can put that in this piece!" says Alderman. "That has been an ambition of mine for decades."
She recalls how her first ever rejection letter was from Doctor Who magazine when she was 14. "I still have it proudly. I was very thrilled because a rejection letter is what proper writers get."
But back to our interview about The Power.
One of the ideas of the novel is that women - if we could be in a position to physically hurt people - would be all lovely all the time. I think that in itself is something of a patronising idea.
Given that women can be CEOs how did we ever end up in a position when we thought they couldn't? The answer seemed to be to be very much tied up with violence.
On average men are taller and have more muscle strength in their upper bodies. On average more men could hurl a women across the room than vice versa.
There are many wonderful men in the world, but it only takes one man in a thousand to be exercising that [power] for every woman to end up afraid. At the point you are afraid your options are gone.
That's my theory about what's going on.
A wrote a full draft of 200,000 words and then threw it away and started again. I started with just one narrator, and then re-wrote a draft with four main characters.
The first draft was written talking to her as I went along. We had long conversations about what the world might be like if this had happened. When I reached the point of the second draft I realise I had got to write this next draft without showing it to her, I think that was the right decision.
I'm in the process of writing the pilot right now. Its been a joyful process of thinking about what else might enter into that world as there's much more space in a long-running TV show.
The time scale is a bit finger in the wind. I'd hope I'd have a draft of the script written in the next few months.
Women get very, very excited by this book. They understand what I'm talking about, Men look at me with tremendous fear.
I think the reason is that it's very different to know that violence happens to women in the world, than it is to consider what it would be like if you had to be afraid of that violence yourself.
It's very different to see someone with a gun pointed at their head than when the barrels are pointed at your own head.
I'm quite pleased that I've given men that experience to see this would be really terrifying - and they wouldn't be able to live their life in as free a way as they do.
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Delroy Facey, 34, of Woodhouse Hill, Huddersfield, pleaded not guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery.
He is alleged to have committed the offence by offering financial advantage to others, including professional footballers, in November 2013.
Mr Facey was bailed to appear for trial at the same court in April.
The former striker played began as a trainee at Huddersfield town before joining Bolton Wanderers in 2002.
Over the next decade he featured for a host of clubs including: Bradford, Burnley, Gillingham, Hereford United, Hull City, Lincoln City, Notts County, Oldham Athletic, Rotherham United, Tranmere Rovers and Wycombe Wanderers.
Officers from the National Crime Agency charged Mr Facey in September as part of what they described as an ongoing match-fixing investigation.
The 20-year-old had a two-shot lead going into the final round and carded a six-under 66 to finish on 23 under par.
Northern Ireland's Stephanie Meadow began the day tied in third but hit an even-par 72 and finished tied for 10th.
Jutanugarn's 23 under equalled the course record at Priddis Greens Golf and Country Club in Alberta, Canada.
Scotland's Catriona Matthew finished tied for 37th on six under, with England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff two shots further back in a tie for 48th.
The semi-professional side from Gibraltar stunned the Scottish champions last week thanks to a second-half goal from striker Lee Casciaro.
"We're living the dream," the defender told BBC Scotland.
"There was no pressure on us before the first leg, so there is probably even less pressure this time."
Brendan Rodgers' side remain strong favourites to progress but Chipolina and many of his team-mates have experience of playing in front of big crowds and they are revelling in the attention after making the headlines.
Enfield-born Chipolina, 33, is also the Gibraltar captain and played against Scotland, Germany, Poland and Republic of Ireland in the qualifying group for Euro 2016.
"It's a big ask because you can't begin to compare the teams," added Chipolina.
"But at the end of the day it's 11 v 11 and we'll go out there and give it our best shot.
"All the media attention has been unbelievable. It's all new to us but the lads are enjoying it.
"There was no expectation to look beyond the preliminary round but we've made it to the second round for the second year running."
Despite only having five full-time players, the Red Imps will have a full squad to choose from in Glasgow.
"If we do go through, we might struggle," added Chipolina, who works as a customs officer.
"I've used up all my special leave and now I'm into my annual leave."
The winners of the tie play Zalgiris Vilnius or Astana in the next round, with a play-off round to follow to reach the group stage of the Champions League.
Lithuanian side Zalgiris and Astana are tied at 0-0 ahead of the deciding leg in Kazakhstan.
Astana made it to the group stage last season, drawing at home with Benfica, Galatasaray and eventual runners-up Atletico Madrid.
The Moscow restaurants were initially told to close on 21 August after criticism from the Russian state food safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor.
McDonald's had been hoping to re-open its branches as soon as possible.
The company said it will appeal against the rulings and is examining the judgements given by the court.
"We do not agree with the court's resolution and will appeal against this resolution in accordance with the procedure established by law," McDonalds said in a statement.
The company said it would do its best to continue its operations in Russia.
The Moscow restaurants affected are on Pushkin Square, Manezh Square, Prospect Mira and Varshavskoye Shosse.
Two regional McDonald's outlets in Stavropol and Ekaterinburg also remain closed, following the allegations last week that the company had breached "numerous" sanitary laws.
"We will continue taking care of our employees and will do our best to continue the success of McDonald's business in Russia," the company said.
The court ruling comes amid a tense stand-off between Russia and the West over the situation in Ukraine.
The EU and US have imposed sanctions against Russia over its role in the conflict. Moscow has responded with a trade embargo against food imports from the West.
The safety watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, has so far ordered the temporary closure of a total of six McDonald's restaurants in Russia and has introduced unscheduled spot checks in the fast food company's outlets across the country.
The food safety watchdog has denied that its actions are politically motivated.
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said he was "very afraid" for the Baltics, as well as the Syrian city of Aleppo.
Nowhere is the troubled transition of Donald Trump being watched more carefully than in the Baltic states.
Lithuania believes its dark view of Russian intentions is justified by its geography and its history.
Once part of the Soviet Union, it is now a member of both Nato and the European Union. It has a land border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea.
In the capital, Vilnius, there is a mural showing Mr Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin locked in a passionate embrace.
The government naturally expresses its views in less lurid terms but it shares the basic concern of the artist that Mr Trump and Mr Putin are too close for comfort.
The fear here is that the United States is keen to see Russia as a potential partner and reluctant to share the view in Eastern Europe that Moscow presents a potent and immediate military threat.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told the BBC simply: "Russia is not a superpower, it's a super problem."
Russia insists it is not a threat, arguing that Nato is responsible for stoking regional tensions by expanding eastwards and moving its military hardware towards Russian borders
The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad represents an important military outpost between Poland and Lithuania with its coastline on the Baltic Sea.
The accumulation of radars and air defence systems, as well as coastal anti-shipping missiles, all form part of Moscow's developing "anti-access and area denial strategy", which in essence seeks to push Nato forces away from Russia and to make it very difficult to reinforce Nato members in the Baltic region in the event of a crisis.
Mr Linkevicius said there was a danger that Mr Putin would see the period between now and the inauguration of Donald Trump in January as an opportunity to test the military preparedness and diplomatic determination of the Western alliance.
"The new administration doesn't come in until the second part of January," he said. "I'm very afraid and concerned about this period not just because of the regions which are close to here but let's hope that Aleppo is not smashed from the ground by then."
Lithuania has noted with alarm that Moscow has been reinforcing and re-equipping its powerful military bases in Kaliningrad.
It is only 25 years since an order was given from Moscow to send in the tanks to crush peaceful protests for independence in Vilnius.
The Russian Federation and Lithuania were both republics within the Soviet Union back then but opposition politician Gabrielius Landsbergis says that is not really relevant.
The events of 1991 were still essentially about Russia throwing its weight around in a neighbouring country.
"The best countries to understand Russia are always those who are closest to it," he told the BBC.
"As a child I still remember the sound of the tanks rolling through the streets of Vilnius so even my generation - and I'm 34 - still remembers when the Russians were here as a Soviet army. But they were Russian troops and they were invading us, so the last thing we are on this subject is naive."
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It might seem hard to understand in far-off Washington, where diplomats have spoken of their desire to "reset" relations with Russia, but Lithuania treats the possibility of invasion very seriously.
Officials will tell you that the country is well on course to increase its defence spending to the Nato-recommended target of 2% of its annual budget. Lithuania is determined to show the United States it is a reliable partner in the Western alliance.
It has also reintroduced military conscription and produced an extraordinary pamphlet which advises its civilian population on what to do in the event of a Russian invasion.
It includes instructions on how to identify different Russian armoured vehicles and how to provide information to Lithuania's armed forces in time of war.
When I put it to Lithuanian military officer Major Linas Idzelis that it created a rather alarmist impression that the Russians were coming, his answer was emphatic.
"It's an alarm, yes," he said. "It's an alarm that says not that they are coming but that the threat is growing and is growing every day."
Elsewhere in Europe there has been talk of the need to "teach" Donald Trump about the continent. Lithuanian leaders have been much more tactful than that.
But they have also made it clear that they hope Mr Trump will settle into office quickly and come to share their view of Russia as more of a threat than a potential partner.
The belief runs very deep here that their future security depends on it.
The Adonia sailed from the port of Miami carrying some 700 passengers.
Cuba and the US restored diplomatic relations last year. But several Cold War-era restrictions on travelling and trading are yet to be lifted.
The cruise trip only went ahead after Cuba scrapped a ban on its citizens entering or leaving the island by sea.
Cubans waved as the ship arrived and hundreds of passengers stood at the railings taking pictures.
Under a perfect blue sky, the white vessel docked at Havana's colonial-era old town.
The US company operating the cruise, Carnival, had been given permission by both governments to sail ships between Florida and Cuba.
A Cuban government rule stipulated, however, that Cubans could only enter or leave by plane.
The restriction meant it could not take bookings from Americans of Cuban origin.
After protests by Cuban-Americans and threats of legal action, Carnival said it would have to postpone its cruises unless the entry policy was changed.
The Cuban authorities lifted the ban just over a week ago.
Before the Cuban Revolution brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959, cruise ships and ferries were a common way to cross the Florida Straits.
Since Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced in December 2014 that they had agreed to mend relations, tourism in Cuba has reached record numbers.
The cruise ships are expected to bring thousands more visitors to the communist-run island in the coming months, says the BBC's Will Grant.
The Adonia will sail every other week from Miami to Cuba, said Carnival.
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Such targets must be "immediately destroyed", he told defence officials in televised comments.
Mr Putin did not elaborate on specific threats but Turkey and Russia are currently locked in a dispute over the downing of a Russian jet by Ankara.
Turkey said the bomber had entered its airspace, something denied by Russia.
A Russian pilot was killed in the downing of the Su-24 bomber, as was a marine sent on a rescue mission, badly damaging the normally close ties between Ankara and Moscow.
Mr Putin warned against "further provocations" without naming Turkey directly.
Russia began air strikes in Syria in September, at the request of its ally President Bashar al-Assad.
In an update on Russian operations, Mr Putin said the military was now supporting Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces - which are fighting President Assad and have been bombed by Russia.
However, a Kremlin spokesman later appeared to contradict this, saying Russia was supplying weapons to "the legitimate authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic".
The FSA has not responded to Mr Putin's comments.
And a US official close to the US-led coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS) told the BBC: "We've seen no evidence that the Russians and the Free Syrian Army are working together. I think it's just propaganda."
The Kremlin has denied accusations by the US-led coalition operating in Syria it often targets moderate Syrian opposition, rather than IS militants.
Mr Putin also said it was important to develop co-operation "with all states who have a real interest in destroying the terrorists".
That includes "contacts to ensure flight safety with the Israeli air force HQ and the US-led coalition forces," he said.
In a separate development in Syria, at least 22 people are reported to have died in a triple truck bomb attack in a Kurdish-controlled town in northern Syria.
Syrian opposition politicians meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh have also agreed a statement to guide peace talks with the government.
Ilyas Ashar, 84, who repeatedly raped the girl at his Salford home, had his sentence extended from 13 years to 15 years by the Court of Appeal.
His wife, Tallat Ashar, 69, had her sentence increased from five years to six years.
The couple were originally sentenced at Manchester Crown Court in October 2013.
Ilyas Ashar was found guilty of 13 counts of rape as well as benefit fraud and trafficking.
Tallat Ashar was convicted of benefit fraud and trafficking.
The Court of Appeal increased the sentences on an application by Solicitor General Oliver Heald QC, who argued that they were unduly lenient.
Greater Manchester Police said the pair claimed thousands of pounds of benefits in the girl's name, while she was made to clean and cook at several houses belonging to the family.
The girl, now in her 20s, was found in the "sparse, cold and damp" cellar in 2009 by trading standards staff investigating allegations of illegal activity.
A proposal of pre-application notice (Pan) has been submitted to Scottish Borders Council on behalf of the owners of the March Street Mill site, Morebrook Textiles.
It could see the buildings put to a range of uses including residential, retirement and commercial.
A planning application could be submitted in 12 weeks' time.
Public exhibitions have also been proposed.
On Facebook, he described himself as "infinitely sad" and congratulated Alexander Van der Bellen, former head of the Greens, on his victory.
Mr Van der Bellen, 72, won with about 53% of the votes - a projection, as postal ballots are still being counted.
Although the post is ceremonial in Austria, the poll had been seen as a sign of how well populist candidates might do elsewhere in Europe.
Mr Van der Bellen called the result a vote for a "pro-European" Austria based on "freedom, equality and solidarity".
Referring to the Austrian flag, he said a "red-white-red signal of hope and change, a red-white-red signal today goes from Austria to all the capitals of the European Union.
"Finally, you know, I will try to be an open-minded, a liberal-minded and first of all a pro-European federal president of the Republic of Austria."
Sunday's vote was a rerun of May's election, which Mr Van der Bellen narrowly won, but it was marred by postal vote irregularities.
His margin in May - 30,000 votes - had now increased tenfold.
But Mr Hofer's nationalist Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) remains a formidable force in Austrian politics. His 46.7% was the best national result to date for the FPOe.
The party's leader Heinz-Christian Strache, said: "Yesterday we wrote history!" and "Our time is coming!"
Austria's next general election is set for 2018, though it might be brought forward.
EU leaders welcomed Mr Van der Bellen's victory, which comes amid a populist challenge to established parties in much of Europe.
European Council President Donald Tusk conveyed "wholehearted congratulations" while Germany's Social Democrat Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, called the result "a clear victory for reason against right-wing populism".
French President Francois Hollande thanked Austria for "choosing Europe and openness".
France, the Netherlands and Germany all face elections next year in which anti-mainstream and anti-immigration parties are gaining ground.
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The sigh of relief at the outcome of Austria's presidential election was very loud indeed in Brussels with most European leaders delighted that the EU and establishment-friendly, internationalist-minded Mr Van der Bellen will become president.
But voters in Austria - as across much of Europe and in the US - were divided. There weren't many percentage points between the presidential candidates. So there will be disappointment tonight, too, amongst those who support a more nationalist-minded, anti-globalisation, immigration-limiting point of view.
If we've learnt one thing from Brexit and the US elections, it's that voters are in an unpredictable mood. Anti-establishment sentiment is on the rise, but election victories for Europe's so-called populists are far from inevitable.
Opinion polls before Sunday's vote had suggested a tighter margin between the two rivals.
The election campaign was bitter - the candidates traded insults and some election posters were defaced.
Mr Hofer conceded within minutes of the first projections in this rerun.
He thanked supporters and described himself as "infinitely sad that it hasn't worked out". He called on all Austrians to work together, "regardless of how we cast our ballots".
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Papers in Austria concentrate on the domestic fall-out of Alexander Van der Bellen's election.
The Kronen-Zeitung says voters rejected a "massive change of the political system", but it advises Mr Van der Bellen to seek "honest reconciliation".
Writing in Die Presse, Oliver Pink says "everything will stay the same" and that "Europe's interest in Austria will wane quickly".
But in Germany and France there is wider comment on what the result means for Europe.
Nikolas Busse argues in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that Mr Van der Bellen's victory seems to rebut the "new domino theory" that one Western country after another will fall into the hands of right-wing populists.
Myriam Detruy, writing in Le Figaro, calls Mr Van der Bellen a "pro-European" whose election has made the possibility of an Austrian exit from the EU much more distant.
Mr Hofer had campaigned on an anti-immigration platform, amid anxiety in Austria following last year's huge influx of refugees.
He had also suggested Austria could follow Britain's vote to leave the EU with a referendum of its own, but later appeared to backtrack, suggesting instead changing the bloc into a purely economic association.
The leader of France's anti-immigration National Front (FN), Marine Le Pen, congratulated the Freedom Party on its campaign and looked forward to victory in Austria's parliamentary poll.
Nearly 6.5 million Austrians were eligible to vote.
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Joey Meek, 21, who hosted shooting suspect Dylann Roof at his home in the weeks before the murders, was arrested on Thursday.
He has been charged with lying to authorities and concealing information about the crime.
Mr Roof faces federal hate crime charges and nine counts of murder.
Appearing before a federal magistrate in Columbia, South Carolina on Friday, Mr Meek pleaded not guilty.
He faces up to eight years in prison if convicted on both counts. The magistrate set his bond at $100,000 (£64,000)
Mr Roof is accused of killing nine black church members during a bible study group in June.
Soon after the tragedy, Mr Meek told the Associated Press (AP) that Dylann Roof had complained that "blacks were taking over the world".
Before the shootings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr Roof occasionally stayed with his school friend at his mobile home in Red Bank, about 20 miles from Columbia, the state capital.
Unnamed law enforcement officials told the Washington Post and AP that Mr Meek was told a month ago he was being investigated for failing to report a crime and lying to police.
The killings shocked the nation and President Barack Obama delivered a eulogy at the funeral of one of the victims, Pastor Clementa Pinckney.
Organisers of the run made the announcement on Twitter, but said all 2016 finishers will receive an email this week with more details.
The course, beginning in George Square and ending at Glasgow Green, was 149.7m short of the full 13.1 miles.
It was measured on Sunday following concern the route was too short.
This finding invalidated the record set by winner Callum Hawkins and the personal best times recorded by a number of runners on the day.
The Great Scottish Run said the discount would also apply to 2016 finishers who had already entered the 2017 event.
About 9,500 competitors took part in the Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run half-marathon on Sunday 2 October last year.
The Newcastle-based Great Run Company has apologised to all runners and winner Callum Hawkins.
Robert Kerr, 38, is accused of killing 39-year-old Xin Xin Liu at the family home in Newton Mearns on 26 April.
Prosecutors allege that he repeatedly stabbed the mother-of-two at the house in Beech Avenue.
During a private appearance at Paisley Sheriff Court, Mr Kerr was fully committed for trial and remanded in custody.
England's final autumn international was on 3 December, a week later than those of the other European nations.
And Eddie Jones' men immediately returned to their clubs to prepare for this weekend's Champions Cup action.
"You're asking players to play in the Champions Cup the weekend after they've played Australia. It's not fair on the Premiership clubs," said McCall.
"For me it's ludicrous that the fourth international shouldn't be at the start of the window rather than the end. I don't think it's right that you continuously have to ask them to back up.
"Ireland, Scotland and Wales were able to rest players and you've maybe seen that in some of the other results this weekend - the wins by Munster and Leinster."
Munster thumped Leicester 38-0, while Leinster came away from Northampton with a 37-10 victory.
Saracens beat Sale 50-3, with England internationals George Kruis, Mako Vunipola, Jamie George and Owen Farrell all involved.
They were mistakenly painted on the Bregagh Road near Armoy by a contractor who had been doing work in the area.
The iconic tunnel of trees, known as the Dark Hedges, features as the Kingsroad in the smash-hit HBO television series.
Conservationists and fans had expressed their annoyance at the error.
The Department for Regional Development (DRD) said work began on Wednesday morning to remove the white lines and was completed by lunchtime.
It is the second setback for the Dark Hedges in just over a week.
At the end of January, Storm Gertrude ripped up two of the 200-year-old beeches that overhang the road and damaged a third.
Amateur photographer Bob McCallion, who lives in the area, welcomed the removal of the lines.
"I actually called the lines sacrilege because they just shouldn't be there and I'm glad to see them gone," he said.
"It's a step forward, but there's a lot of issues here.
"The road has actually been made wider recently which is not on.
"The verges need to be restored and the road brought back to its original width.
"It affects the overall visual impact of the place doing things like this and you've got to be very careful that you look at the whole area more or less like a conservation area and try to look after it."
A consultation has been launched by Millthorpe secondary school over its plans to combine with Knavesmire and Scarcroft primary schools to form an academy trust.
The school said opting out of local authority control would give the school more freedom.
Bob Scrase, who opposes academy status, said more discussion was needed.
Academies are independent, state-funded schools, which receive their funding directly from central government, rather than through a local authority.
Mr Scrase, who stood for Labour in the recent local elections, said more than 500 parents had sent postcards to the council calling for a ballot on the proposals.
"We think this is one way of raising the debate, said Mr Scrase.
"Getting more discussion going and getting a more widespread view of what parents think."
He added: "If we look at the risks and rewards, the risks of doing this [becoming an academy] seem to me to be much greater than the rewards that are being presented to us."
In its proposal document, Millthorpe School claimed opting out of local authority control "would allow us greater freedom to build the curriculum around the needs of our children."
The school also said it could not ignore that academy status might "provide opportunity for additional funding".
A consultation with parents will take place over the summer, after which the schools' governors will vote on the proposal.
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T53 wheelchair racer Kinghorn, 21, added the 100m title to her 200m gold and 400m bronze.
The Scot can claim a fourth medal in the 800m later on Sunday.
There were also British silver medals for Polly Maton in the T47 long jump, Jordan Howe in the T35 100m and Mickey Bushell in the T53 100m.
The hosts have now collected 39 medals, eight more than their total in Doha two years ago.
Kinghorn, who is paralysed from the waist down after an accident at her home in 2010, has announced herself in London as the top T53 sprinter in the world and clinched 100m gold in a time of 16.65 seconds ahead of Australia's Angela Ballard.
After missing out on medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, she is now a two-time world champion and will be among the favourites for the 800m at 18:51 BST.
"I literally had no idea where I finished. I was staring straight across the line. I heard the roar so I thought I must have medalled but had no idea where. I can't believe it," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I felt like halfway down I panicked a bit and I have some scrapes on my arm from slipping slightly.
"You don't know where you'll come in the 800m because it's tactical, so I'll get myself in a good position and hope for a sprint finish."
Heard will give half to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to prevent violence against women, and half to the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
The actress said she hoped to "help those less able to defend themselves".
She earlier accused Depp of striking her and throwing a mobile phone during a fight. He denied the allegations.
Depp's lawyer claimed she had made the accusations in order to obtain a more favourable settlement.
Announcing their divorce settlement on Tuesday, the pair said their relationship was "intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love".
In a statement, Heard said: "Money played no role for me personally and never has, except to the extent that I could donate it to charity and, in doing so, hopefully help those less able to defend themselves.
"As reported in the media, the amount received in the divorce was $7m and $7m is being donated. This is over and above any funds that I have given away in the past and will continue to give away in the future."
The 30-year-old said the money donated to the ACLU would have a "particular focus to stop violence against women".
She added: "I know these organisations will put the funds to good use and look forward to continuing to support them in the future. Hopefully, this experience results in a positive change in the lives of people who need it the most."
Heard married the Hollywood star in February 2015 and they announced their split this May.
She then took out a temporary restraining order against the 53-year-old obliging him not to get in contact and stay 100 yards away from her.
Their settlement came a day before a court hearing into the restraining order was due to take place. The order was then withdrawn.
A joint statement released on Tuesday said: "Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm."
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Celebrations carried on after dark in Gaza City on Tuesday, as people poured into the battered streets, clapping and singing, after the truce was announced.
On Wednesday, fishing boats ventured out to sea as restrictions were eased.
The ceasefire brokered by Egypt brings to an end 50 days of fierce fighting in which more than 2,200 people have been killed, most of them Palestinians.
Hamas, the militant Islamist movement that dominates Gaza, said the agreement with Israel represented a "victory for the resistance".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also claimed victory.
In a televised news conference, he said Hamas has been "hit hard" and threatened an even tougher response should there be so much as a "sprinkle" of rocket fire from Gaza.
Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz told the BBC's Hard Talk programme that the reoccupation of Gaza had been "seriously considered" during the conflict.
It would be the "only alternative" if Hamas were to resume rocket fire into Israel, he said.
Life in Gaza was returning to normal on Wednesday, as thousands of people began returning to their homes.
Engineers meanwhile struggled to repair infrastructure damaged by Israeli air strikes and shellfire.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly says while the streets were packed with celebrations during the earlier hours of the ceasefire, questions are now being raised by the price that was paid for it.
The beach here in Gaza is almost unrecognisable. It is busy again. There are children playing in the surf; fishermen are out tending to their nets. It is something we have not seen for a very long time.
It is more than 12 hours since the ceasefire was declared. Overnight, we did not hear any shelling from Israel or any rockets being fired from Gaza.
The big question is whether this ceasefire will hold. The previous eight did not, lasting for anything from a few hours to a number of days.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the ceasefire is "an opportunity, not a certainty". It does not promise peace. It allows normal life to resume in Gaza. A lot of work needs to be done to ensure this is a lasting truce.
In Israel, sirens warning of incoming rocket fire were silent and the military said there had been no violations of the ceasefire since it took effect.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the end of hostilities, but warned that a brighter future for civilians who have been affected depends on a sustainable truce.
"After 50 days of profound human suffering and devastating physical destruction, any violations of the ceasefire would be utterly irresponsible," he said.
The ceasefire deal calls for the relaxing of Israeli and Egyptian border controls to allow humanitarian supplies and construction materials into Gaza, and the widening of the territory's fishing zone.
5,226
air strikes on Gaza
4,591
rockets and mortars fired at Israel
2,104 people killed in Gaza - UN estimates 69% of deaths are civilians
6 civilians killed in Israel (including one Thai national)
67 Israeli soldiers killed
Both sides have agreed to address more contentious issues - including Palestinian demands for a seaport in Gaza and the release of Hamas prisoners in the West Bank, and Israel's demand for Gaza's militants to be disarmed - at indirect talks that should begin in Cairo within a month.
Israeli media reported that Mr Netanyahu had chosen not to put Egypt's ceasefire proposal to a vote in his security cabinet because of opposition from ministers who wanted to continue the offensive on Gaza.
Israel launched Operation Protective Edge on 8 July with the stated aim of ending rocket fire.
At least 2,140 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Another 11,000 people have been injured.
The Israeli authorities say 64 Israeli soldiers have been killed, along with six Israeli civilians and a Thai national.
The UN says more than 17,000 buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or severely damaged, and that there are at least 475,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), more than a quarter of the territory's population.
Google published details of the yet-to-be-fixed bug on Monday after giving Microsoft a week to react.
Google said the issue was "particularly serious because we know it is being actively exploited".
But Microsoft said the alert could do more harm than good at this point because it needs more time to develop a patch.
"We believe in co-ordinated vulnerability disclosure, and today's disclosure by Google puts customers at potential risk," a Microsoft spokesperson told the VentureBeat news site.
The flaw involves a file called Win32k.sys, which the operating system requires to display graphics. It should not be deleted or otherwise altered by users because doing so can cause system errors that result in the so-called "blue screen of death".
However, Google outlines a way hackers can exploit the file to cause a "security sandbox escape", meaning that once it is compromised they can access and alter other unrelated computer functions to cause problems.
Since 2013, Google has operated a policy of giving developers 60 days to fix a flaw it has identified if it does not believe anyone else is making use of it, but only seven days if it thinks it is being actively abused.
It acknowledged at the time that this was "an aggressive timeline" that might be too short to create a fix but added that it should be enough time to publish advice about "possible mitigations".
"By holding ourselves to the same standard, we hope to improve both the state of web security and the co-ordination of vulnerability management," it added.
The search firm suggests one way users could limit their exposure would be to use its Chrome web browser, which it says is not exposed to the vulnerability.
For its part, Microsoft says that so long as Flash users have installed the latest version of the media plug-in, they should be safe.
"We disagree with Google's characterisation of a local elevation of privilege as 'critical' and 'particularly serious' since the attack scenario they describe is fully mitigated by the deployment of the Adobe Flash update released last week," a Microsoft spokeswoman told the BBC.
"Additionally, our analysis indicates that this specific attack was never effective in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update due to security enhancements previously implemented."
One cybersecurity expert said it was hard to say which tech giant was in the wrong without knowing more.
"What Google has done is understandable, bearing in mind it says the bug is already being exploited," commented Dr Steven Murdoch from University College London.
"But whether or not it was right to have made the flaw public is a matter of debate - there are reasonable arguments on both sides, and we still don't know who are the attackers and who are the targets."
Sally Adey, 57, of Caynton, Shropshire, was one of more than 20 people killed at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis on 18 March.
The mother-of-two was on an excursion from a cruise ship with her husband Robert, 52, who survived the attack.
The inquest was opened in Shrewsbury and adjourned until 2 July.
John Ellery, senior coroner for Shropshire, was told at the short hearing at The Shirehall, Mrs Adey's husband identified her body at the Charles Nicolle Hospital in Tunis, the day after the attack.
The couple were on a holiday cruise aboard the MSC Splendida, which had docked at the port in Tunis on the day of the shootings. Mrs Adey was one of 17 cruise ship tourists who were killed.
Coroner's officer Julie Hartridge said: "It is reported the museum came under fire from gunmen and she received fatal gunshot wounds."
Ms Hartridge said a post-mortem examination carried out in the UK by a Home Office pathologist, on 25 March, had established provisional cause of death as "consistent with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and pelvis".
Islamic State militants have said they were behind the attack, which also left the two gunmen dead.
On Sunday, the Tunisian government said another leading suspect implicated in the shootings had been killed near the Algerian border.
Christopher Langley, from Pontypridd, teamed up with publican James Lovegrove to put the paintings together.
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) said two pubs close every week in Wales.
Mr Langley has painted 13 so far, and hopes to complete another 20 over the coming months - saying there is "so much history that could be lost".
Pubs featured so far include The Vulcan - recently saved by St Fagan's Museum - as well as the York Hotel, the Pantmawr Inn and the Glendower.
"It has broadened my awareness," Mr Langley said.
"I was never brought up around pubs, but meeting James and talking to him about the pubs of Cardiff has really opened my eyes to that culture.
"There is so much history there that could be lost. This is a way of preserving and sharing that history."
The paintings are done from drawings or photographs if the buildings no longer exist.
"I had never appreciated the architecture of pubs before.
"But when you stand there and paint them you see just how much effort has gone into creating these places."
Shane Smith of Stainforth Close, Newton Aycliffe, was driving north at 20:45 GMT on the Close House Road near Bishop Auckland on Saturday when he crashed.
The 25-year-old suffered head injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said another man, 25, who was also in the car was uninjured. The road was closed for about three hours.
It comes as part of a criminal investigation into her possible use of the server for classified emails.
Mrs Clinton denies doing anything wrong, in a case that has dogged her US Democratic presidential campaign.
Thousands of emails have been released except for those deemed "top secret".
In January, the Department of State said about 2,000 emails contained classified information, including 22 classified as "top secret", its highest level. Hillary Clinton, who served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, has since apologised for using a personal email account for official business during that time.
But she has continued to deny that she had broken any government rules or laws, saying none of the material sent via email had been marked classified at the time.
According to the Washington Post, quoting a senior law enforcement official, the FBI is working with Bryan Pagliano, a former 2008 presidential campaign aide who helped set up the server in 2009, in the criminal case.
Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton, said he was "pleased" Mr Pagliano was cooperating with prosecutors.
The email saga has at times overshadowed Mrs Clinton's 2016 run for the White House. However, she is leading the Democratic race for presidential nominations, after sweeping up seven more states in primary and caucus voting on Super Tuesday this week.
The former UKIP leader is one of 11 contenders named by the US publication, which cites his role in helping bring about Brexit.
Others on its list include US President-elect Donald Trump and his defeated opponent Hillary Clinton.
Time announces the winner of the accolade next Wednesday.
Revealing the shortlist, which is chosen by Time editors, the magazine said: "As head of the UK Independence Party, Farage was a face of the successful campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, positioning the referendum as the start of a global populist wave against the political establishment."
The other contenders are:
Last year's Time person of the year winner was German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Banners have been posted every few kilometres, emblazoned with the faces of the leadership of Marxist guerrilla group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - both past and present.
They say: "52 years seeking peace," citing the length of Colombia's arduous civil war, one of the longest armed conflicts in the world.
One of the bloodiest too: as many as 220,000 lives are thought to have been lost during those years of fighting, which only now look like drawing to a close as a peace deal with the government moves ever closer.
We spend a couple of hot and muggy days in one of the riverside villages poking out among the banana and tropical cedar trees, killing time by drinking weak coffee and playing cards until our contact appears.
Part of the rebel army's civilian support network, he ushers us back on to a boat and takes us deeper into the jungle.
A day later, a group of guerrillas are waiting for us at the bottom of a rocky brook, M-16's slung over their shoulders.
They guide us in a trek up along steep mountain paths and across streams until the camp of the 30th Front of the Farc's Occidental Bloc emerges beneath the thick canopy.
The camp commander, a wiry moustached man called Roque, welcomes us with the hospitality Colombians are famous for.
While the Farc's shameful history of kidnapping - including journalists - shouldn't be overlooked, it is also immediately clear that we are in no danger and that this isn't the ill-advised trip that it might have been a number of years ago.
The Naya River marks the dividing line between two of Colombia's Pacific departments, Cauca and Valle de Cauca, and Roque explains the area has been calm for months.
As someone who has spent the past 33 years at war, the quiet still makes him twitchy.
Despite the historic agreement being reached in Havana, the local commander feels like the group is "effectively already in a bilateral ceasefire [with the military]", he says over a meal of white rice and a meat-less sancocho, a Colombian stew.
"There's such a great sensation of tranquillity that it almost makes you nervous," he says.
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The Farc in the 21st Century is a strange beast.
Gone is the bipolar vision of the Cold War, and gone too are most of its original intellectual architects, many killed in combat.
Today, somewhat anchorless, the rebels continue to go through motions of an armed insurgency - but they know a new future is beckoning.
They remain primed for war; machine guns by their beds, handguns under their pillows, all night lookouts keeping watch for an enemy that no longer seems to be searching for them.
Every day begins before dawn, with the first troop inspection at 05:00.
After coffee and breakfast in the dark, daylight begins to break and the morning's activities begin.
Whereas once they might have carried out stealth missions to set bombs around military checkpoints or ambush an army patrol as it makes its way through the forest, now they hold "capacitation workshops" to discuss the latest developments in the peace process.
The guerrilla army - of which this camp contains only a handful of combatants - is still largely made up of young men and women from poor rural backgrounds.
At 27 years old, all Camilo has known his entire adult life is the jungle and the Farc.
He admits that it shows up in some unlikely ways: he has never had a hot shower, for example, as he and his comrades bathe in the icy waters of a spring.
Softly spoken and with a disarming smile, Camilo hopes to put his guerrilla skills to good use once the peace is declared.
But what would a Farc explosives expert do outside the jungles of Colombia? "Maybe a civil engineer," he suggests.
"In terms of carrying our arms, we're still ready for war. But psychologically, we're already at peace," Camilo adds with an erudite turn of phrase that will serve him well in a future Farc political party.
Like Camilo, Tania joined the organisation while still a teenager.
She chose her nom de guerre after Tamara Bunke, Tania the Guerrilla, the East German revolutionary killed fighting alongside Che Guevara in Bolivia.
She used to admire the Farc women who came through her village dressed in green fatigues "carrying their backpacks through the rain, all of them so good-looking".
They spoke to her about joining up when she was still a girl, and she doesn't regret her decision to enlist but admits they left out the hardest detail: she would have to kill other Colombians.
"It's definitely not easy," she says. "After all, we're all brothers, all children of the same country. But that is just the way of the world."
Tania talks to us on the sidelines of an inter-camp football match, held in a jungle clearing the Farc has turned into a makeshift pitch.
The women's matches are as fiercely contested as the men's, and Tania says she loathes the traditional gender roles of wider Colombian society.
But the Farc bans women from having children in their ranks, and about 150 cases of allegedly forced abortions within the group are currently under investigation by the attorney general's office.
"As a woman, I hope to have my own family one day, but not while we live in these conditions," Tania says, referring to both life in the jungle and her uncertain future in a post-conflict Colombia.
Most guerrillas say their main fear is retribution from the country's paramilitary groups and argue that the state must guarantee their security.
After a deal is reached, many combatants will live in "concentration zones" or "encampments", the exact details of which still aren't clear.
But given that the Farc is largely financed through drug trafficking, some doubt whether the rank and file will be able to quietly step away from the lucrative cocaine trade without another glance over their shoulders.
Comandante Walter Mendoza, of the Occidental Bloc, insists his troops will comply with the order to disarm when he gives it.
"They know what they must do," he says. "We receive our orders from our superiors at the talks in Havana. We know we're about to take a very important step."
Still, he clarifies that they will not hand their guns in to the state in a televised event.
"That media show they want - of us suppliantly giving over our weapons - that show will not happen," he says.
As we leave the camp, we again speed past the Farc's propaganda on the riverbanks.
Over and over the words flash by: "52 years seeking peace."
Many Colombians reject such a one-sided description of the violent civil war.
But, if its slogan is to be believed, the Farc is now tantalisingly close to finding it.
Polls have now closed and votes are being counted, with a result expected later.
Most voters, some 6.4 million, were eligible to vote, but around 37,000 Rwandans living overseas were able to vote on Thursday.
The change would allow Mr Kagame to potentially remain in power until 2034.
Rwandans are expected to vote overwhelmingly in favour of changing the constitution.
As President Kagame cast his ballot at a polling station in the capital Kigali, the BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga asked him why it was necessary to change the constitution:
"I did not apply for this, you go and ask Rwandans why they got involved in this," he said.
The New York based Human Rights Watch has warned of Rwandans censoring themselves out of fear of the government.
"No suspense in Rwanda referendum when so many dissidents silenced, civil society stifled" HRW executive director Kenneth Roth tweeted earlier.
People have been steadily streaming in to Rugunga polling station close to State House in Kigali. It is a streamlined and efficient process. Several classrooms in the school here are being used for the ballot, so waiting times do not seem long. The only excitement is the music playing on the speakers put up.
There has been no campaigning in this referendum - the law does not allow it. Public rallies have been carried out around the country to give people information about the ballot. The government views this as a national non-partisan exercise. Blue, yellow and green colours of the Rwandan flag can be seen everywhere including around the polling booths.
Mr Kagame is praised at home and abroad for bringing about development and economic growth, but his critics accuse him of heavy-handed rule and human rights abuses. The president himself has said he will wait for the outcome of the referendum before making his decision on whether to run in 2017.
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One 22-year-old voter in neighbouring Uganda's capital Kampala told AFP: "I came to vote... because we want our president to continue leading us".
But another said voting was a waste of time "because we know the results already".
"Kagame wants to stay in power... he can have what he wants," he said.
1) Presidential term limits:
2) Senators' term limits: To be extended from one eight-year term to two five-year terms
3) Gacaca courts: References to the community courts set up to deal with those accused of involvement in the 1994 genocide are to be removed as they have finished trying nearly two million people
If more than 50% of voters agree to the amendments, Mr Kagame could leave power after 34 years as president - he was first elected to the position by MPs in 2000.
Mr Kagame's Rwanda Patriotic Front, an ethnic Tutsi rebel force, ended the 1994 genocide perpetrated by Hutu extremists and has been in power ever since.
Some 800,000 people - Tutsis and moderate Hutus - are estimated to have been killed.
Donor countries, which support the Rwandan government, have been very critical of the move to change the constitution.
The US urged Mr Kagame to step down in 2017, saying he had "an opportunity to set an example for a region in which leaders seem too tempted to view themselves as indispensable to their own countries' trajectories".
The president has hit back at "other nations" for interfering in Rwanda's internal affairs.
The issue of African presidents seeking a third term in office has caused unrest elsewhere on the continent this year, including in Burundi and Congo-Brazzaville.
The former Milton Keynes Dons and Crystal Palace player, 36, triggered an appearance clause in his previous deal.
Wilbraham has featured in every one of the Championship club's matches this season, making 41 appearances in all competitions and scoring seven goals.
"I'm absolutely delighted. It's gone really well and I'm feeling fit still," Wilbraham told BBC Radio Bristol.
"At the start of this season, there was a discussion that I would not be involved as much as the season before.
"As it's turned out, I've played a lot more than people expected."
Bristol City are 19th in the table, six points clear of the relegation zone with eight matches remaining.
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Thousands of Liverpool fans walked out of the game against Sunderland at Anfield on Saturday in protest at a £77 ticket in the new Main Stand next term.
It comes after the Premier League sold television rights in 2015 to its games for £5.14bn, kicking in from 2016-17.
"I do not think any fan in the country - at all - should be asked to pay more for tickets next season," said Shearer.
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Speaking in his role as a pundit on BBC Match of the Day, he added: "With the TV deal that starts next season, if anything, fans should be rewarded for their loyalty.
"They should be getting them for £10 or £20 - fill the stadium up. Why not?"
Liverpool led 2-0 at the time of the walk-out after 77 minutes but ended up drawing the game 2-2.
Reds chief executive Ian Ayre highlighted the freeze or decrease in 64% of season ticket prices and 45% of match-day tickets.
"Liverpool didn't lose points because the fans left the stadium after 77 minutes," said Shearer. "Liverpool lost the points because they're very poor defensively.
"Having said all that, the club say that some tickets are cheaper next season."
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger believes extra television revenue will be used to buy players rather than cut ticket prices to meet the rising cost of transfer fees and player wages.
"I believe the pressure on spending the money will become bigger and you cannot necessarily distribute the money to other people," he said.
Writing in the Independent, Rona Fairhead said the BBC's future must be "driven by evidence and fact, not by prejudice and not by vested interest".
She also complains of MPs attempting to interfere in the broadcaster's affairs.
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has said a debate was needed over whether the BBC should become more "precise".
The corporation's Royal Charter is up for renewal next year.
Ms Fairhead, who became the head of the BBC's governing body last October, said there is "good evidence" that audiences "very much" wanted the corporation to continue to be "part of their lives".
She added that people "believe that a significant public benefit arises from the existence of a strong, independent BBC that provides a universal service".
Ms Fairhead said the public wanted independent scrutiny and regulation of the BBC, but that they wanted this done by a separate body representing licence fee payers, not by politicians.
"That independence has needed defending over decades, not just from governments but also from parliament, with a growing tendency in recent years for select committees to question BBC executives about detailed editorial decisions," she said.
"We believe that this charter review gives us a chance to codify the relationship between the BBC and the state, and the BBC and its public, so that the terms of engagement are clear, the processes transparent, and the BBC can be seen to be both accountable and independent."
She also said that the corporation "cannot sit still" when it came to creating and offering new technology.
"It has a strong history of initiating highly valued technological change - the iPlayer being only the most recent example.
"But the iPlayer is now more than seven years old - which makes it venerable in digital time-scales.
"Everyone wonders where the next great innovation in delivery will come from, so the BBC must have the technical and research capacity, if not to invent new technologies, at least to adapt and exploit them."
She goes on to say that the broadcaster is dealing with "ever-tighter funding constraints" along with "arguably the greatest external challenges in its lifetime".
While accepting that "the status quo is not an option", she says changes "should happen through a proper debate where the public's voice is heard loud and clear".
She added: "The BBC's future is simply too important to be settled behind closed doors."
Mr Whittingdale has launched a Green Paper on the corporation's future, saying he wanted the corporation to "thrive".
But the corporation has said the review suggested "a much diminished, less popular, BBC".
It has already agreed to take on the cost of free TV licences for the over-75s, in return for some concessions, including linking the licence fee to inflation.
The Green Paper also said responsibility for regulation of the broadcaster could be transferred away from the BBC Trust, after incidents where the corporation had "fallen well short of the standards we expect".
Mr Whittingdale has cited "editorial failures" in the light of the Jimmy Savile revelations and the level of severance payments as sources of "disquiet".
The BBC has previously responded by saying public consultation should be a key part of charter review.
The FBI alleges Hikmatullah Shadman gave at least two US soldiers bundles of $100 notes to win inflated deals to supply transport and heavy equipment.
Prosecutors say this took place when the the men were deployed to Afghanistan in 2009.
There has been no comment from Mr Shadman. His whereabouts are unclear.
Justice Department officials had earlier frozen more than $63m (£42.5m) in bank accounts controlled by Mr Shadman, a logistics and construction company owner, thought to be one of the first asset freezes of its kind involving an Afghan contractor.
This case was filed on 23 December in a federal court in North Carolina.
Both Robert Green, then a staff sergeant who managed supply requests at Kandahar air base, and his superior David Kline, have already been convicted of their part in the alleged fraud, after pleading guilty.
The complaint against Mr Shadman says Green received several payments of between $30,000 (£20,000) and $50,000, at his request, while Kline received about $50,000.
Green was sentenced to 10 months in prison and a year of supervised release in September, while Kline is due to be sentenced next month.
The amount lost to fraud alone could pay for nearly 250,000 new nurses, a report seen by Panorama suggests.
The NHS must "get on with tackling the problem", said Jim Gee, co-author of the Portsmouth University study and ex-director of NHS Counter Fraud Services.
The Department of Health said it "did not recognise" the figures.
The amount estimated by Mr Gee, who led the NHS anti-fraud section for eight years until 2006, is 20 times that recorded in the government's annual fraud indicator report.
It is based on worldwide figures, which suggest average losses to fraud and error of just under 7% of healthcare budgets.
"If the NHS is in line with the rest of the world it is losing £7bn," Mr Gee, who is currently Director of Counter Fraud Services at BDO LLP, told BBC Breakfast.
He said the UK-wide figures had to be extrapolated because "the NHS in recent years has stopped measuring its own losses" - only looking at those for dental and pharmaceutical services.
Key types of fraud include the non-payment of prescription charges by patients, medical professionals claiming for work they have not done and overcharging by contractors, said Mr Gee.
"We need to not be embarrassed, or in denial, about the possibility of fraud taking place in the NHS," he told Panorama.
"We need to get on with tackling the problem, minimising its cost, maximising resources available for proper patient care."
'Absolute sense'
The £2bn cost of errors relate to when the NHS makes overpayments by mistake to suppliers or staff.
By Nick TriggleHealth correspondent
By its very nature, it is difficult to say just how much the NHS loses to fraud. Last year NHS Protect with its local investigators oversaw nearly 150 successful criminal cases. There were also 435 civil or internal disciplinary actions. But this is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.
Just like the Crown Prosecution Service, NHS Protect only proceeds with the cases it has a reasonable chance of winning - and cuts to its budget has made it even more difficult to gather evidence than it used to be.
It does not publish details of the amount of fraud that is brought to its attention nor the amount it suspects is happening. That is why the estimates by its previous director, Jim Gee, are very interesting.
The opportunity for fraud in a service as complex as the NHS where there are one million patient contacts every 36 hours is endless. There have been cases of dentists making claims for non-existent patients, GPs falsifying records to claim extra payments and consultants putting in for bogus overtime. Fraudsters outside the NHS have also targeted the service.
But if the £5bn figure is right, it suggests the problem is greater than anyone probably ever thought.
Although the NHS has a budget of about £100bn, it is having to make significant savings and should prioritise fighting fraud, said Mr Gee.
"I think fraud is one of the last great unreduced healthcare costs. And to me, putting money into it makes absolute sense," he said.
"It's one of the least painful ways of cutting costs. It makes absolute sense to cut the cost of fraud before you cut the quality, or extent of patient services."
The Department of Health declined to be interviewed but in a statement said "it did not recognise" the figure or "speculate on levels of losses".
Panorama also found that NHS Protect, the national body that investigates fraud in England for the Department of Health, has had its budget cut by around 30% since 2006.
The operating budget for NHS Protect in 2013-14 is £11.38m, the equivalent budget in 2006-07 was £16.29 million.
NHS Protect has replaced NHS Counter Fraud Services in England.
A Freedom of Information request by the BBC shows that NHS Protect employs 27 counter-fraud specialists, with a further 294 investigators working at a local level.
By contrast, the Department for Work and Pensions employs six times the number of investigators - but if Mr Gee's figures are accurate, they face less than half the amount of fraud.
The Department of Health said NHS Protect had a "significant budget" and "protects and safeguards frontline NHS services".
NHS anti-fraud teams investigate cases ranging from hundreds to millions of pounds.
Among their cases was that of dentist Joyce Trail, from Birmingham, who was one of the most prolific fraudsters in NHS history.
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Trail charged the NHS for work she had never actually carried out.
She visited care homes offering to check residents' teeth and then used their personal details to claim payment from the NHS.
Trail even claimed payment for the false teeth for patients who had died.
She was jailed in 2012 for £1.4m worth of fraud.
Other fraudsters investigators have prosecuted include NHS employees selling stolen products on eBay and dentists charging the NHS for gold crowns while fitting patients with cheaper ones.
One investigator, Barry Hards, said the lack of money for investigators means that now is a good time to be a fraudster in the NHS.
"How can you have confidence that there's a likelihood you'll be found out, when there's very few people looking at you?" he said.
"I think it's a genuinely held concern that some people in senior positions have just taken their eye off the ball on this."
The event sees revellers chase a wheel of Double Gloucester down a steep hill and has seen some participants injured.
Diana Smart, who makes the 7lb (3kg) cheese for the event at her Churcham farm, said police warned her about her responsibilities as organiser.
She said: "It made me feel pretty angry... there's not a lot we can do,"
Mrs Smart, 86, who has made cheese for the event for 25 years, said police had warned her she could be regarded as responsible if anybody was injured.
The cheese-rolling at Cooper's Hill dates back to at least the early 19th Century and this year's event is set to take place on Monday.
Some 15,000 people turned up for the last official cheese-rolling event in 2009 but the hill, near Brockworth, is only suitable to host about 5,000 spectators.
Unofficial races organised by local enthusiasts have been held during the late spring bank holiday each year since.
A Gloucestershire Police spokesman said: "Advice has been given to all those who have participated in any planning of an unofficial cheese rolling event this coming bank holiday.
"This included the individuals who provide the cheese.
"We feel it is important that those who, by law, could be constituted as organisers of the event that they are aware of the responsibilities that come with it so that they can make an informed decision about their participation."
Police said they had visited Mrs Smart to advise her that, in the absence of a recognised organiser, anyone who facilitates the event could be deemed to be an organiser by default.
"In this case that person could then attract the legal liability issues that come with hosting the cheese-rolling," a spokesman said.
The Dow Jones finished up 269,48 points, or 1.6%, at 17,409.72.
The S&P 500 rose 35.55 points to 2,036.09, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed 97.42 to 4,691.87.
The rises followed a rebound on European stock markets, with investors hunting for bargains after two sessions of heavy falls.
Shares in JP Morgan Chase were up 3.3%. Bank stocks have been hit particularly hard since the UK's referendum result was announced last week.
Energy shares climbed as oil prices recovered. Chesapeake Energy shares rose 5.4%, while Marathon Oil was 8.2% higher.
Exxon Mobil climbed 2.3%.
Airline stocks also saw a rebound. Delta Airlines was up 3.9%, and American Airlines climbed 5.9%.
On Tuesday, the Commerce Department revised up its estimate of how fast the US economy expanded in the first quarter of 2016.
The agency said gross domestic product increased 1.1% in the quarter, up from an earlier estimate of 0.8%.
The plans will now be put out for public consultation.
The proposals could see "large shops" in Belfast having their trading hours extended on up to 18 Sundays from March to September each year.
The step is possible by designating the city as a holiday resort under legislation from 1997.
A council paper states there is "a strong lobby" to review Sunday trading, currently permitted from 13:00-18:00.
It adds the move would boost the economy, benefit tourism and support the regeneration of the city centre.
Alliance councillor Kate Nicholl is backing the proposal.
She said: "I walked through Victoria Square one Sunday morning and came across a group of confused tourists who were keen to spend their money in our shops but were unable to.
"It is a scene that is repeated across the city every week."
Councillors have been told the move is permitted within the Shops (Sunday Trading) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.
Some other Northern Ireland towns have already used it to extend Sunday trading, such as Portrush, Newry, Kilkeel and Ballycastle.
An order gives police and council officials powers to disperse anyone causing a nuisance, rough sleeping, consuming alcohol or taking drugs.
People in breach of the public space protection order (PSPO) will be issued with a £100 fixed penalty fine.
Councillor Hugh Jones, who is helping to lead the project, said it "aims to reduce inappropriate behaviour".
But North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones raised concerns that the order may move problems elsewhere and not solve them.
A council report in June said there had been more than 300 incidents in the last 12 months involving drink and drugs, fights and harassment.
It said vulnerable people would be given welfare help and warnings before any action was taken.
She was thrown out in March after allegations a member of her staff tried to arrange a false receipt for a meal.
The South East MEP was also replaced as the general election candidate for Folkestone and Hythe after the claims were published in The Sun newspaper.
A spokesman for Ms Atkinson confirmed she lodged an appeal over the weekend.
Ms Atkinson and her assistant, Christine Hewitt, who was also expelled from the party following a disciplinary hearing, were given 14 days to appeal.
In March, The Sun published a secret recording appearing to show Ms Hewitt asking the manager of a restaurant in Margate, Kent, for an invoice for a much higher sum than the bill she had received.
The BBC has not been able to contact Ms Hewitt for a comment.
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Killie trailed to Louis Longridge's powerful low strike, which had put Accies ahead at the interval.
But, with the home side looking comfortable, Kris Boyd pulled Kilmarnock level with a bullet header.
And Souleymane Coulibaly came off the bench to curl in a winner for Lee Clark's side.
The result preserves their unbeaten record at New Douglas Park, which dates back to 2010.
It also gives them their first points of the campaign, in the week they lost Josh Magennis to Charlton Athletic.
They fell behind - after Boyd had missed a glorious early opportunity - when Longridge swept the ball past Jamie MacDonald from a narrow angle.
The chance looked to have gone as Alex D'Acol's effort was blocked but Greg Docherty showed good composure on the edge of the box to pick out Longridge, who fizzed the ball in at the near post.
Accies looked comfortable after making the breakthrough and if Ali Crawford had not been denied by MacDonald with a volleyed effort, the points might have been safe.
As it was, Kilmarnock took full advantage and pulled themselves level when Jordan Jones picked out Boyd with a pinpoint cross and the striker headed emphatically past Remi Matthews.
And, just a few minutes later, the visitors turned the game around completely when substitute Coulibaly turned his marker inside the box and curled a beautiful shot past the diving Matthews.
Accies may feel they were worthy of a point and should have equalised when substitute Richard Roy raced on to a long Georgios Sarris pass, but his shot was well saved by MacDonald.
And there was further misery for the home side as Crawford curled a free-kick past the keeper, but agonisingly for him, the ball ricocheted away off the post.
Hamilton player-manager Martin Canning: "I thought we were the better team from start to finish. I thought we played good football, created lots of opportunities but we didn't take them and we conceded sloppy goals and it's a bad mix.
"But it's hard to be critical of the players because for large parts of the game we were totally comfortable and very much on top. If we'd taken one of our opportunities and got the second goal I think the game would have been done.
"(Richard Roy) is through on goal and he should score and then Ali Crawford bends in the free kick but it comes back off the post. You've just got to put it down to one of those days.
"I also thought there was a potential second yellow for William Boyle. I thought there was a foul on Greg Docherty in the corner but those things maybe go against you on days like this as well."
Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark: "I think the substitutions and change of formation helped us once again and obviously it's food for thought now because that's two games in a row when we've gone with two strikers and it's been a lot more positive for us.
"Jordan Jones was outstanding. He's showed that in flashes during the course of the League Cup campaign but we need more consistency and today he's been very productive.
"Second game in, we've got three points on the board - we've won one, we've lost one - and I think our performance was probably better last week than it was today.
"But I think we're starting to improve without the ball. I felt we were quite poor at that and that's why we got hit with a couple of results like we did."
Match ends, Hamilton Academical 1, Kilmarnock 2.
Second Half ends, Hamilton Academical 1, Kilmarnock 2.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Mark Waddington replaces Jordan Jones.
Attempt missed. Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock).
Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Georgios Sarris.
Corner, Hamilton Academical.
Attempt saved. Georgios Sarris (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Richard Roy replaces Dougie Imrie.
Foul by Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical).
Jordan Jones (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Steven Smith (Kilmarnock).
Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Hamilton Academical 1, Kilmarnock 2. Souleymane Coulibaly (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Jordan Jones (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Darren Lyon (Hamilton Academical).
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Eamonn Brophy replaces Alejandro D'Acol.
Goal! Hamilton Academical 1, Kilmarnock 1. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Callum McFadzean replaces Martin Smith because of an injury.
Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Martin Smith (Kilmarnock).
Attempt saved. Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from long range on the right is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Michael Devlin.
Martin Smith (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical).
Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by William Boyle (Kilmarnock).
Attempt saved. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Gary Dicker.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Souleymane Coulibaly replaces George Green.
William Boyle (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
George Green (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical).
Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Louis Longridge (Hamilton Academical).
Greg Taylor (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Lesley Collins told the two girls and two boys "I'm your nana" before dishing out the "hash cakes" from a knitted bag, The Grimsby Telegraph reported.
The 61-year-old, from Cleethorpes, admitted at Grimsby Crown Court on 24 March to supplying cannabis.
She was handed a six-month suspended jail term and 10 days' rehabilitation when she was sentenced on Monday.
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The youngsters, three aged 13 and a 12-year-old, had gone inside the Corporation Arms pub on Freeman Street, Grimsby, to use the toilet last October when Collins offered them the "treats".
One of the girls felt dizzy and sick and was later taken to hospital after eating half a biscuit, the court heard.
The other girl said the biscuit "tasted sweet and disgusting at the same time" as she wolfed it down.
Prosecutor Jeremy Evans said Collins, of Bentley Street, was behaving strangely when the children bumped into her.
He said: "She kept telling the group that she was a dinner lady and a grandmother."
Collins, an artist who had taught people in prison, told police: "It's despicable. I didn't know I had done it. I was drunk."
The court heard that she was known as "the Cookie Lady" because she kept a regular stash of homemade cannabis biscuits.
Police seized a small amount of cannabis from her home and bags of biscuits were found in a wheelie bin.
Mitigating, Nick Worsley, said Collins had acted "utterly out of character" and had no previous convictions.
Passing sentence, Judge David Tremberg told the artist: "You were drunkenly oblivious to the risk you posed to them.
"This was seriously irresponsible and abnormal behaviour.
"If you had not been so intoxicated, you would not have dreamed of doing this."
He added that none of the teenagers were "seriously harmed".
A dour opening half came to life just before the break when the visitors scored twice in two minutes.
First, Henrikh Mkhitaryan latched onto Chris Smalling's flick-on and raced through on goal before beating Kasper Schmeichel with a clinical finish.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic then took advantage of terrible Leicester marking to side-foot home his 15th Premier League goal of the season.
Juan Mata ensured there was no way back for the hosts when he finished off a one-two with Mkhitaryan early in the second half.
Leicester never looked like scoring, with their only shot on target a tame Wilfred Ndidi strike just before half-time.
Manchester United remain in the hunt for a top-four finish. They are sixth, one point behind Liverpool and two behind fourth-placed Arsenal.
Jose Mourinho was in charge of Chelsea the last time he visited the King Power Stadium. That was in December 2015 and he was sacked the day after a defeat that strengthened Leicester's title charge.
This time it is Foxes boss Claudio Ranieri who is under pressure. Far from defending their title, they are very much in a relegation dogfight and went into Sunday's game looking to record their first league win since New Year's Eve.
A pacy attack of Ahmed Musa and Jamie Vardy promised much but ultimately offered little, the latter in particular a shadow of the striker who scored in 11 consecutive Premier League games last season.
The Foxes have now failed to score a league goal in five games this year, but of equal concern for Ranieri will have been his side's defending. Ibrahimovic was left unmarked to poke home Manchester United's second and then Wes Morgan played two players onside for the third.
Leicester have not won away all season in the league, so it is their home form that has kept them out of the drop zone so far - 18 of their 21 points have been collected at the King Power Stadium.
This defeat, though, was their third in six home games and Ranieri will need to get things back on track quickly if the Foxes are to avoid being the first reigning top-flight champions to be relegated since Manchester City in 1938.
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Manchester United have been far too reliant on Ibrahimovic this season. The evergreen Swedish striker is the club's leading scorer with 10 more league goals than any other Manchester United player.
In an effort to relieve the Swede's burden, Mourinho started Marcus Rashford alongside him in a 4-4-2 formation.
It quickly became evident that Ibrahimovic was far more effective in a central role and after 20 minutes Mourinho reverted to 4-2-3-1 with Rashford, Mkhitaryan and Mata behind the former Paris St-Germain striker.
The change immediately improved the visitors' attacking strength as the pace of Mkhitaryan and Rashford, coupled with Mata's creativity, stretched Leicester's defence and left gaps for Manchester United to exploit, which they did to full effect.
In the end Leicester could not cope and although United will arguably face tougher defences this season, three different goalscorers and a convincing win will give Mourinho confidence his side can challenge for the top four, particularly with Liverpool and Arsenal's own challenge faltering.
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Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri: "When we conceded the first goal we got down. I don't understand why. It's important to be strong until the end and never give up. But the confidence is not so high.
"Last season was terrific but we are Leicester and every time we have to fight.
"We are together. I am fully confident in my players and the players are confident in me."
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho: "It was really important for us. We lost two points in the last match at home and had three consecutive draws so we needed the points.
"I am happy. We don't have a league defeat since October and if we tried to transform the unlucky draws to victories, we would be in an amazing position."
After an FA Cup fourth-round replay against Derby at the King Power Stadium on Wednesday, Leicester have a potentially massive game in the Premier League on Sunday [kick-off 16:00 GMT]. They travel to Swansea, who are one place below the Foxes in 18th.
Manchester United, meanwhile, host Watford on Saturday [15:00] knowing three points could lift them into the top four.
Match ends, Leicester City 0, Manchester United 3.
Second Half ends, Leicester City 0, Manchester United 3.
Attempt blocked. Demarai Gray (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.
Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ashley Young.
David de Gea (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card.
David de Gea (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Demarai Gray (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Ander Herrera.
Substitution, Manchester United. Ashley Young replaces Marcus Rashford.
Attempt missed. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Antonio Valencia.
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ander Herrera.
Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).
Substitution, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini replaces Juan Mata.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Eric Bailly.
Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross.
Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Leicester City. Kasper Schmeichel tries a through ball, but Wes Morgan is caught offside.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Paul Pogba.
Offside, Manchester United. Juan Mata tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Demarai Gray.
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Marcus Rashford (Manchester United).
Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Attempt missed. Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Demarai Gray following a corner.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Ander Herrera.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
The third suspension in two years lasted for a few hours, affecting some 100 million users.
But Supreme Court judge Ricardo Lewandowski later lifted the nationwide blockage, calling it disproportionate.
WhatsApp said they did not have access to the details requested.
"The suspension of service apparently violates the fundamental precept of freedom of expression and communication," the Supreme Court said in its ruling.
Mr Lewandowski pointed out that the lower court judge's decision seemed "not very reasonable and not very proportional".
WhatsApp - owned by social media giant Facebook since February 2015 - gradually resumed normal service after the court's ruling, correspondents say.
Earlier in the day, lower court Judge Daniela Barbosa ordered the suspension of WhatsApp, accusing its parent company Facebook of failing "to provide information that will be critical to the success of an investigation and later to bolster the criminal case".
It is not clear which investigation she is referring to, but she said the firm had been repeatedly asked to provide messages to police investigators in the city of Caxias, north of Rio.
Taking to Facebook, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum said it was "shocking that less than two months after Brazilian people and lawmakers loudly rejected blocks of services like WhatsApp, history is repeating itself".
He was referring to its suspension for 72 hours in May, which forced users to turn to alternative services - a huge proportion of the internet-using population in a country with some of the world's highest mobile phone charges.
Twitter users responded with frustration - and, in many cases, with humour:
WhatsApp also argues that it cannot share information, because its encrypted communications mean "only you and the person you're communicating with can read what is sent".
Technology commentators suggest regular interruptions to service could dent WhatsApp's popularity.
Wareham Surgery said its "revised system" comes after one GP went off on long-term sickness with a broken hip and another resigned in March.
It said a lack of response to a GP vacancy meant it could only offer on-the-day appointments, which can only be booked during certain hours.
Speaking in the Bournemouth Echo, one patient described it as a "crisis".
The surgery, which is currently using locum GP cover, has asked patients to call to book between 08:30 and 10:30 for a morning appointment, or between 14:00 and 16:00 for an afternoon appointment.
"Depending on demand" it said it may not be able to provide an appointment, which would mean patients calling back the following day.
Healthwatch Dorset said the situation was "simply unacceptable".
"We understand the difficulties they're facing at the Wareham practice, but that doesn't alter the fact that their new appointment system means that patients can't book an appointment with their GP in advance," it added.
An NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) spokesman said it was in talks with the surgery and it was hoped the situation would change at the end of the month.
He said the CCG had set up the Primary Care Workforce Centre with Bournemouth University and Health Education Wessex in April last year in a bid to find "innovative ways to address the recruitment challenge with not only our trainees and future workforce supply, but also our current workforce".
The Sunday night programme was watched by an average of six million viewers in 2015, with one episode in November reaching 7.8 million.
Countryfile beat The X Factor's Sunday results show in the ratings on two occasions last month.
The new five-part daytime series, named Countryfile Diaries, will start in the spring on BBC One.
Running across a week, the spin-off will feature country life through the changing of the seasons and will coincide with Countryfile's seasonal specials.
BBC daytime controller Dan McGolpin said the new programme would allow viewers "to further enjoy the full splendour and sheer variety of life in the British countryside during key moments of the year".
Countryfile's presenters include Matt Baker and Anita Rani and the show achieved its highest audiences in the autumn when it was scheduled before Strictly Come Dancing.
More than 7.2 million households tuned in on average between 8 November and 13 December.
Countryfile executive producer Bill Lyons said the "huge audience" had made the programme the most popular weekly factual series on TV - which he put down to "the enduring love-affair between the British people and their countryside".
The locations and presenters for Countryfile Diaries have not yet been announced.
Hovertravel said it would operate a "one craft service" between Southsea and Ryde until the end of February.
Managing director Neil Chapman said resolving operational issues had "taken considerably longer than we had planned".
The Solent Flyer and Island Flyer, costing £10m, were launched in the summer.
When the vessels were named by sailing champion Sir Ben Ainslie, the company said the investment would "improve passenger comfort through speedier and easier boarding, a quieter ride and better visibility".
However, "bedding in" problems led to cancellations and refunds offered to customers in October and November.
Mr Chapman said: "It's clear to us all the implementation of the two new craft has had several operational issues, and whilst these are resolvable it's taking considerably longer than we had planned.
"In addition, we are managing the continued use of the existing craft."
Its current Island Express craft is also being repaired, leaving only Freedom 90 to operate the reduced timetable.
Hovertravel has been running ferries between Southsea and Ryde since 1965.
Eddie Raymond Tipton was the security director for the Multi-State Lottery Association when he was arrested in January by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations.
Prosecutors said he had been caught on CCTV buying the winning ticket. The $14.3m (£9.5m) prize was never claimed.
Mr Tipton denies the charges.
Citing court papers filed by prosecutors in the case, the Des Moines Register said the 51-year-old "may have inserted a thumb drive into a highly locked-down computer that's supposed to generate the random numbers used to determine lottery winners".
The offline computer is housed in a glass room and in theory can only be accessed by two people at the same time. It is also constantly monitored by a video camera.
It is alleged Mr Tipton used his position as security director to change the video camera settings and record only one second in every minute. This would have given him enough time to enter the room and plug a thumb drive into the computer.
On that drive, according to the prosecution, was a rootkit: a stealthy computer program designed to do a specific task and, in this case, then erase itself.
That task was to predetermine the winning lottery numbers for the draw that Mr Tipton was to later buy the winning ticket for.
Mike McLaughlin, senior analyst at computer security company First Base, said the allegation might sound farfetched but was plausible.
He told the BBC: "It is entirely possible to code a rootkit on a USB drive which could interfere with software on a computer then delete itself.
"It would only take a second to run once plugged in.
"However, this can leave traces on the infected machine if you know where to look."
As a member of staff, Mr Tipton was not allowed to win the lottery himself.
The court filings suggest there was an attempt to claim the prize just hours before it was scheduled to expire by a company incorporated in Belize.
If found guilty of the two charges of fraud, Mr Tipton faces up to five years in jail and a fine of up to $7,500. | Sammi Kinghorn won her second gold at the World Para-athletics Championships as Britain collected four medals on the final morning.
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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir made the remarks as talks among international foreign ministers on the crisis get under way in Vienna.
Iran is for the first time taking part in such talks, which will also include Russia and Turkey.
Russia and Iran both support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
They have both recently stepped up their military role in the conflict.
The US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations have long insisted Mr Assad cannot play any long-term role in Syria's future.
Mr Jubeir told the BBC that there was "no doubt" Mr Assad had to go. "He will go either through a political process or he will be removed by force," he said.
Earlier American Secretary of State John Kerry said the US was intensifying diplomatic efforts to end the "hell" of Syria's civil war even as it increases support for moderate rebels.
Foreign ministers from the UK, France, Germany, Egypt, Lebanon and the EU have also confirmed they will attend the meeting, and other Middle Eastern powers are also expected.
Iran's Quds newspaper sees Iran's invitation to the talks as US "acknowledgement of Iran's influential position in resolving the Syrian crisis".
Saudi Arabia's Al-Jazirah warns of "more Iranian political and military expansion" should Mr Assad remain in power, leading to Tehran "[reshaping] everything for its own benefits".
Lebanese daily Al-Nahar speculates that the US's "sudden decision" to invite Iran to the talks "reflects changes that occurred because of the Russian military intervention".
Jordan's Al-Ra'i notes that Iran's inclusion "would be in support of Russian diplomacy", which was "standing alone" at previous talks.
In a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think-tank in Washington, ahead of the talks, Mr Kerry said:
"At the end of the day, nothing would do more to bolster the fight against Daesh [the Islamic State militant group] than a political transition that sidelines Assad so that we can unite more of the country against extremism."
But in his speech, Mr Kerry stressed that the US and Russia also shared "common ground", arguing that both want "a united, secular Syria".
Four years into Syria's civil war, and with Russia now conducting its own bombing campaign there separate from that of the US-led coalition, the conflict looks more dangerous than ever.
But it has also created a new urgency to try to find a way out of the fighting.
Some of the impetus comes from Russia, keen to be seen as a major player and anxious, apparently, to keep its air strikes limited.
It is also due to a new readiness by the United States and Saudi Arabia to hear what Iran has to say - especially about the main point of disagreement: what role Syria's President Assad should be allowed to play in any transition.
The Saudis and most Western powers see him as an obstacle. The Russians and Iranians argue he is a vital partner.
The test of this Vienna meeting is whether there is any movement towards a compromise.
But even without tangible progress, the very fact such a high-profile gathering is happening could mark an important step in the search for a way out of Syria's nightmare.
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Iran is believed to have spent billions of dollars over the past four years propping up Mr Assad's government, providing military advisers and subsidising weapons.
However, Syria's political opposition has warned that Iran's involvement will only complicate the meeting in Vienna.
Iran has long acknowledged sending military advisers to Syria, but has denied the presence of any ground forces. Despite that, unconfirmed reports earlier this month said that hundreds of Iranian troops had arrived in Syria.
They were reported to be joining government forces and fighters from the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement, Hezbollah, in assaults on rebel positions in northern and central Syria.
Russia began its military intervention in Syria at the end of last month, launching air strikes in support of Mr Assad.
Washington has accused Moscow of concentrating its air campaign in Syria on moderate opposition groups rather than on the Islamic State militant group.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, Islamic State, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
Who is fighting whom?
Government forces concentrated in Damascus and the centre and west of Syria are fighting the jihadists of Islamic State and al-Nusra Front, as well as less numerous so-called "moderate" rebel groups, who are strongest in the north and east. These groups are also battling each other.
What's the human cost?
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and a million injured. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
How has the world reacted?
Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes.
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Rachel Bowen, 49, appeared before magistrates in Bradford charged with murdering Linda Goswell, 52, from Halifax, on 2 August last year.
She was remanded in custody to appear at Bradford Crown Court on 26 May.
Cygnet Hospital in Bierley Lane offers care and treatment for patients with mental health conditions.
The airport reported that traffic fell year-on-year by 8.1% to just over 300,000 in May.
Helicopter numbers were down by 13.1% and fixed wing traffic by 7.2%.
Airport managing director Carol Benzie said passenger traffic fell across all three sectors - helicopters, international and domestic.
She added that the drop was due to "the impact of the cost efficiencies currently being driven throughout the oil and gas sector".
The figures contrasted with strong numbers reported by both Edinburgh and Glasgow airports.
Glasgow Airport recorded its busiest May in seven years after 785,063 passengers travelled through its doors - an increase of 13.3% on the same period last year.
International traffic grew by 17%, while domestic traffic increased by 9.1%.
Glasgow Airport managing director Amanda McMillan said: "May has been a show-stopping month with the launch of 10 new services, including a number of firsts for Glasgow, Scotland and the UK.
"Following our busiest April on record, we've also been recognised as one of the fastest growing airports in Europe this year by ACI Europe.
"Our growth in 2015 has been truly unprecedented, reflected in the fact we've enjoyed consistent double-digit increases in our passenger numbers every month since November."
Edinburgh recorded more than one million passengers last month, making it the airport's busiest May on record.
The airport said growth had largely been driven by new routes launched within the last year.
Judith D'Souza, 40, was working for the Aga Khan Foundation when she was abducted at gunpoint near her home in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on 9 June.
No details have been given about the rescue operation and officials have not said who the hostage takers were.
"Judith D'Souza is with us - safe and in good spirits," Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Twitter.
Ms D'Souza is travelling back to India with her country's ambassador to Afghanistan and is due to reach Delhi on Saturday evening, Ms Swaraj added.
Jerome D'Souza, a family member, tweeted that the "family's joy knows no bounds".
Kidnapping is a significant problem in Afghanistan. Most of those abducted have been Afghans but foreign aid workers have increasingly become targets.
After Ms D'Souza's abduction, police in Kabul told foreigners living outside secure compounds to travel with guards.
The aid worker was the latest of several Indians to be taken. In June 2014, Father Alexis Prem Kumar, a Roman Catholic priest from India, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in the city of Herat. He was freed in February 2015, but details of his release were not disclosed.
At least four Indians have been released from captivity in the past 13 years in Afghanistan. They include two construction workers who were kidnapped and released in December 2003.
England international Downing, 30, has rejoined hometown club Middlesbrough on a four-year deal.
"I didn't want him to go, he's a quality English player and I know how hard it is to get the quality ones," said Bilic.
"Of course I rate him, I tried to persuade him to stay with us."
Middlesbrough-born Downing spent two seasons at Upton Park, making 74 appearances and scoring seven goals for the Hammers.
Capped 35 times by England, Downing left the Riverside for Aston Villa in July 2009, before moving to Liverpool.
He joined West Ham for £5m in August 2013, his last England appearance against Scotland in a friendly last November.
"I know him from the national team when we played England, and he was brilliant in the first half of last season," added former Croatia manager Bilic.
"I was counting on him big time, but he told me that he wanted to go home.
"He said 'I like you and everything, but I want to go home. If it was any other club, I would stay here'.
"Maybe I could have stopped him, and all that, however it is not what we wanted to do, but he wanted to leave."
Meanwhile, Bilic said he was relieved after James Tomkins scored a 90th-minute winner against Birkirkara in the Europa League second qualifying round first leg at Upton Park on Thursday.
The Hammers travel to Malta for the return leg on 23 July with a narrow 1-0 advantage.
"We are well organised and are working hard for each other, but in the last third of the pitch, well, there you need some extra quality," he said.
"It is not job done, of course.
"They will probably play the same way in Malta, and will wait again for some long ball, some mistake or counter-attack, but we are quietly confident."
Abror Azimov, who is reported to be from Kyrgyzstan, said he simply "followed" instructions, and "did not realise" what he was doing.
It came shortly after his lawyer told Russian media he had "fully confessed" to being behind the blasts.
A total of nine people have been detained over the 3 April attack.
Suicide bomber Akbarzhon Jalilov detonated a bomb between two metro stations.
More than 50 people were injured by the blast.
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Russian security services previously said they believed Abror Azimov had trained Jalilov, a Kyrgyz-born Russian, ahead of the bombing.
However, speaking in a Moscow court in on Tuesday, Mr Azimov said he "was involved, but not directly".
He denied ever having confessed to organising the attack.
"I did not understand that I was taking part in terrorist activity," he said.
"I was given orders, and I only followed them."
He told the court he was married, with one child, Vesti TV news reported.
He will be remanded in custody until 3 June, while investigations continue.
Police had found Mr Azimov by examining Jalilov's phone contacts, Russian newspaper Kommersant said, citing sources.
Mr Azimov bought two new mobile phones and Sim cards on Monday, but gave away his location to security forces when he activated one of the cards, Kommersant added.
According to Russian media, Mr Azimov was born in Kyrgzstan in 1990, and moved to Russia in 2008. He reportedly became a Russian citizen in 2013.
The other eight people detained in connection with the attack - six in St Petersburg and two in Moscow - are also from Central Asia.
The visitors, without injured trio Alassane Plea, Wylan Cyprien and captain Paul Baysse, went behind to Emiliano Sala's 22nd-minute opener.
Jean Michael Seri equalised six minutes later with a wonderful strike from the edge of the box.
Nice stay third on 64 points, one behind Paris St-Germain and four adrift of leaders Monaco.
PSG and Monaco, who now have a game in hand on Nice, play Lyon and Caen respectively on Sunday.
Match ends, Nantes 1, Nice 1.
Second Half ends, Nantes 1, Nice 1.
Substitution, Nice. Vincent Koziello replaces Mounir Obbadi.
Attempt missed. Diego Carlos (Nantes) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alexander Kacaniklic following a corner.
Attempt missed. Guillaume Gillet (Nantes) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.
Prejuce Nakoulma (Nantes) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Nantes. Conceded by Valentin Eysseric.
Substitution, Nantes. Mariusz Stepinski replaces Emiliano Sala.
Foul by Arnaud Souquet (Nice).
Alexander Kacaniklic (Nantes) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Nice. Conceded by Diego Carlos.
Attempt missed. Valentin Rongier (Nantes) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Amine Harit.
Substitution, Nice. Mickael Le Bihan replaces Mario Balotelli.
Mario Balotelli (Nice) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Koffi Djidji (Nantes).
Hand ball by Léo Dubois (Nantes).
Attempt missed. Diego Carlos (Nantes) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Léo Dubois with a cross following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Nantes. Amine Harit replaces Adrien Thomasson.
Foul by Arnaud Souquet (Nice).
Alexander Kacaniklic (Nantes) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Emiliano Sala (Nantes) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Prejuce Nakoulma.
Corner, Nice. Conceded by Lucas Lima.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Nice).
Foul by Dante (Nice).
Prejuce Nakoulma (Nantes) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Diego Carlos (Nantes) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Nantes. Conceded by Dante.
Attempt blocked. Prejuce Nakoulma (Nantes) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Prejuce Nakoulma (Nantes) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Léo Dubois with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Guillaume Gillet (Nantes) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Léo Dubois.
Foul by Arnaud Souquet (Nice).
Lucas Lima (Nantes) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Diego Carlos (Nantes) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mario Balotelli (Nice) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Diego Carlos (Nantes).
Arnaud Souquet (Nice) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Prejuce Nakoulma (Nantes).
Hand ball by Adrien Thomasson (Nantes).
Substitution, Nantes. Alexander Kacaniklic replaces Jules Iloki.
George Osborne told me that he would not give the go-ahead until the markets had calmed, saying that "now is not the right time".
He said he still supported encouraging wider share ownership in Britain.
So this looks like a significant delay rather than a cancellation.
The sale of the final part of the government's stake in Lloyds was a general election pledge made by David Cameron.
It was expected to raise £2bn, making it one of the largest privatisations since the 1980s when BT and British Gas were sold, raising £3.9bn and £5.6bn respectively.
Mr Osborne announced the details of the Lloyds sale to hundreds of thousands of small investors last October.
It was thought the sale would take place in the spring.
But since then Lloyds' share price has fallen and the trading environment for banks has become tougher.
Low interest rates also make profits harder to come by across the sector.
In October, Lloyds share price was 78p, above the 74p considered to be the "in price" the government paid to rescue the bank during the financial crisis - when it used billions of pounds of tax-payers money to shore up the financial system.
That share price is now down at 64p, so the government would be selling the shares to the public at a considerable loss.
Yesterday, the Royal Bank of Scotland announced billions of pounds of new provisions to pay for fines and legal actions connected to the financial crisis.
Its share price has also fallen.
The government owns 73% of RBS and just under 10% of Lloyds. It doesn't look like it will be selling either stake any time soon.
It is the second day of planned 48-hour action by Unite union members after rejecting Cardiff Bus's latest offer in a pay dispute.
Bosses apologised, saying a limited bus service will be in operation.
Travel arrangements for fans driving and catching the train have been improved after complaints.
Arriva Trains Wales spokeswoman Lynne Milligan said "a couple of key issues" were addressed before Thursday's match between Wales and Fiji.
Changes were made to the queuing system, the train timetable was altered to bring more trains in and earlier and Cardiff Central station was made more accessible for disabled people and those with families.
Ms Milligan said things ran more smoothly following the Wales v Fiji match,
There are four more Rugby World Cup games at the Millennium Stadium, including Friday night's match between Georgia and New Zealand.
Following England's run to the World Twenty20 final in India, ticket sales for this year's tournament are up by a third on 2015.
And, with an array of big-hitting international stars including Chris Gayle, Darren Sammy, Brendon McCullum and Shahid Afridi returning, it is easy to see why interest has been so high.
Couple that with all the homegrown talent on show - Ben Stokes, James Vince, Jason Roy and Alex Hales to name just a few - and the 2016 competition has the potential to be the best in its 13-year history.
Excitement over Gayle's second stint with Somerset has seen their home games against Essex, Surrey, Hampshire and Gloucestershire sell out.
'Boom Boom' Afridi will join Sammy at last year's semi-finalists Hampshire, while Australia's Aaron Finch will feature in July and August for Surrey.
And Glamorgan have confirmed the signing of Dale Steyn for the first half of their T20 Blast campaign after the South Africa fast bowler fuelled speculation that he could be joining the Welsh county by asking his Twitter followers if there were any good fishing spots nearby.
"You learn a lot from the international players, whether you play with them or against them," said England and Yorkshire batsman Joe Root, who helped launch the 2016 competition.
"You look at the young lads who are getting to share a dressing room and speak to international stars and learn how they approach T20 cricket.
"I am sure in a couple of years' time England will reap the rewards with young lads coming into the team having learned from the valuable information passed on to them."
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Lancashire are the defending T20 Blast champions, winning the title for the first time after beating Northants in last year's final at Edgbaston.
And BBC Radio Lancashire's Scott Read believes Ashley Giles' side could be the team to beat again in 2016.
"Even though Lancashire have only won the competition once, they've consistently progressed to the knockout stages and are looking to reach a third successive finals day," he said.
"Steven Croft seems to have grown and developed as a captain and he leads the side superbly in this format. And, when margins are tight, a captain with good instincts for bowling, fielding and batting changes can sometimes hold the key.
"Lancashire have actually won more T20 games than any other county since the first tournament in 2003. That alone would suggest they have a formula that works.
"I think it also shows just how hard it is to win the competition and how slim the margins are for success in T20 cricket. Games are frequently won or lost in just a handful of deliveries. Lancashire's previous success of winning the competition and success in consistently getting out the of group stages will help in their attempts to retain the title, but it's going to be tough.
"However, they do boast arguably the best spin attack in the competition with Stephen Parry, Arron Lilley and Steven Croft. Throw into the mix Jos Buttler and Martin Guptill and they look a formidable side once again."
In 2008, the Indian Premier League became the first franchise-based domestic Twenty20 competition to be played by international stars and since then countries across the world have followed suit.
With the brand value of the IPL estimated to be $3.2 billion (£2.2 billion) in 2014 and the 2015 Australia competition, the Big Bash, drawing a record crowd of 80,833 for the Melbourne derby at the MCG, can the T20 Blast really match that success?
Somerset and Essex have sold 94% and 79% of their tickets respectively, while the first Roses game at Old Trafford on 3 June is on the brink of selling out.
However, England remains the only country to resist the temptation of a franchise format and instead stay with the 18 county sides split into two North and South groups.
With no free-to-air coverage available, the competition running over three months and having to compete against the Euros and Olympics, it seems unlikely that the Blast will be able to replicate the same success that is enjoyed abroad.
England's successful World Twenty20 campaign, which saw them come up just short in the final against West Indies, showed the first signs of the national side benefitting from picking specialist T20 players.
"It's one of the reasons why we did so well [in the World T20], because those players forced their way into the team through good performances in the competition," said Root.
Six of the top-10 batsmen with the most runs in the 2015 Blast were English, with James Vince topping the list.
Reece Topley's 16 wickets led the Essex Eagles to the quarter-finals and earned him an England call-up.
"There are a lot of players who, throughout the summer, spend a lot of time playing in the T20 Blast," continued 25-year-old Root.
"If you're consistently banging out runs and taking wickets in the domestic tournaments you should be given recognition and potentially a go if there are spots available."
Bradley Fewster's seventh goal of the season gave the Minstermen the lead when he swept in Luke Summerfield's cross from three yards.
Boyle received his second yellow card for simulation in the Orient penalty box as York were reduced to 10 men.
Lloyd James fired in from 15 yards to equalise as Orient took advantage of the depleted home side to earn a point.
Orient remained eighth in the table, just one point outside the play-off places, with York still next to bottom and now nine points from safety.
York City manager Jackie McNamara told BBC Radio York:
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"Throughout the match there were so many errors from him (the referee), pure and simply because of his fitness.
"Keeping up with play, you could see he wasn't fit enough to get around in certain areas and the decisions that went against us today weren't acceptable..
"We were one man down, up against it, but the players should take great pride, specially the way we went about it in the first half."
Leyton Orient player-boss Kevin Nolan told BBC Radio London:
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"On another day we could have come away with a comfortable victory, but when you start like that and give teams a 1-0, it's so much more difficult.
"I thought we showed a lot of character, so I'm delighted with that, but we've got to start showing it for 90 minutes because I don't think we have over the last three to four games.
"In the second half, certainly, we dominated them from start to finish."
Streets are deserted with markets, schools and hospitals shut in the densely populated city, reports say.
The army said the lockdown was ordered to protect lives and property.
Troops and vigilantes fought off the militants on Tuesday evening as they tried to enter Maiduguri, residents told the BBC.
This was their most serious attempt to enter the city since the military declared in March that it had recaptured all urban areas from Boko Haram, says BBC Nigeria analyst Aliyu Tanko.
Boko Haram is linked to Islamic State, which is fighting for a global caliphate.
Maiduguri, a city of about two million people, is Boko Haram's former headquarters.
Pro-military vigilante leader Yusuf Sani told AFP news agency that six of his men were killed and 12 others were wounded when three female suicide bombers detonated their devices.
"The terrorists suffered serious casualties," he added.
An army statement said the curfew would remain in force for 24 hours and the "situation is firmly under control".
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The attack happened in Kenilworth Rise, Livingston, at about 23:00 following a disturbance involving a number of men.
The victim was taken to St Johns Hospital in the town with serious facial injuries.
The attacker was described as being white, of stocky build and was wearing dark clothing and a black balaclava.
Det Sgt Adrian Wallis, of Police Scotland said: "We are still trying to establish the full circumstances surrounding this assault and at this time we do not know how many individuals were involved, nor do we have any further descriptions.
"As such, we are keen to hear from anyone who was in Kenilworth Rise on Friday evening and remembers seeing anything suspicious.
"In particular, we would like to trace a group of youths who were in the street at the time of the assault and may have witnessed the incident.
"Similarly, anyone with any further information relevant to this investigation is also asked to contacted police immediately."
Joanne Christian, who was last seen at a Cannock Chase District Council meeting in January, accrued £2,900 allowances this year, the council said.
George Adamson, leader of the Labour-controlled council, said it was council policy to be removed for not attending meetings for six months.
The BBC tried to contact Ms Christian, a Tory councillor for Hednesford South.
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Mr Adamson believed it was "rare" to lose your seat over non-attendance.
"I have not heard of this for a long time. If people can't attend meetings they would usually resign rather than it become an embarrassing situation," he said.
He said in exceptional circumstances, such as illness, an extension can be granted, but the council had not heard from her.
Ms Christian, whose roles included being on the economic development and standards committees, has also missed five full council meetings.
She was entitled to a basic allowance of £5,339 a year and £400 annually for communications, such as phone use, which she would have received about half of, the council said.
A council spokeswoman added the basic allowance was "intended to recognise the time commitment of all councillors, including such inevitable calls on their time as well as meetings with officers and constituents and attendance at political group meetings".
"We don't know one way or the other what constituency or other work she may or may not have undertaken in that period," she added.
The Radio Amateurs' Emergency Network (RAYNET) provided communications over 2,000 square miles in North Yorkshire.
Radios were operated by 42 volunteers. The money has been donated by North Yorkshire County Council.
The volunteers will also provide communications on the Tour de Yorkshire cycling event in May.
The Tour de France generated £102m in revenue on the two stages across Yorkshire, watched by 2.5m spectators.
During the race the radio network linked control rooms in Skipton, Richmond, Harrogate, York and Wakefield.
Brian Dooks, a member of RAYNET, said: "We are grateful for the donation, which will be used to purchase and replace equipment.
"Some members slept in their cars to be ready to operate from 4am each day. It was not easy, but nobody who worked on the Tour will forget being involved in something very special."
Colin Scott, 23, died in June in an illegal attempt to soak, or "hot pot", in the US park's thermal pools.
The accident was recorded by the victim's sister on her mobile phone, the incident report says.
The grisly details came to light following a freedom-of-information request by local television news.
Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is located mostly in the state of Wyoming but extends into parts of Montana and Idaho too.
According to the incident report, Mr Scott and his sister, Sable Scott, left the defined boardwalk area in Norris Basin on 7 June.
"The whole area is geothermally active," Yellowstone's deputy chief ranger Lorant Veress told KULR 8, which broke the story.
"There's a closure in place to protect people from doing that for their own safety. It's a very unforgiving environment."
He said the pair had been specifically looking for an area to soak in the thermal springs, despite the potential danger and warning signs.
Ms Scott was recording a video of her brother on the phone as he reached down to test the water, before he slipped and fell in.
Authorities did not share the video, or a description of its contents, out of sensitivity to the family, the report says.
Rescue teams later found his body in the pool but abandoned attempts to retrieve it due to the decreasing light available, the danger to themselves and an approaching lightning storm.
The following day, workers were unable to find any significant remains in the boiling water.
"In a very short order, there was a significant amount of dissolving," Mr Veress said.
The area of the park where the accident took place is on the edge of the famous Yellowstone caldera, a "supervolcano" or "hotspot".
The caldera's activity fuels the thermal pools in the area and it also has the potential for a "cataclysmic" eruption which would change global climate for decades.
However, experts at the US Geological Survey, which carefully monitors the area, say "the chances of this sort of eruption at Yellowstone are exceedingly small in the next few thousands of years."
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Golfers Laura Davies, Renee Powell, Belle Robertson MBE, Lally Segard, Annika Sorenstam and Louise Suggs also accepted honorary member invitations.
George Macgregor OBE, captain of the club said it was a "historic" day.
In September 2014, the Royal and Ancient voted in favour of allowing women members for the first time in its 260-year history.
More than three quarters of the club's 2,400 members voted with an 85% majority.
"It is an honour and a privilege for the Royal and Ancient Golf Club to welcome these remarkable women as honorary members," said Macgregor.
"The Princess Royal enjoys a strong bond with Scotland and has shown great energy and commitment to developing sport through her work in the Olympic movement.
"They are extremely worthy additions to our roll of honorary members and will become ambassadors for the club as they have been for the sport of golf throughout their careers."
Analysis - BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter:
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club have identified many of the great and the good of women's golf with this list of new honorary members. By selecting the likes of Dame Laura Davies and Annika Sorenstam, it is clear they want to showcase the fact that it is now a mixed club. This is vital for its role as a governing body, although it does remain one of the most exclusive of golfing establishments.
The Royal and Ancient has been the guardian of the rules of the game since 1754, although in 2004 it devolved responsibility for the administration of the game and the Open to the newly-formed R&A.
Royal and Ancient's members play on the St Andrews links course in Scotland regarded as the "home of golf".
Before the vote to allow female members, women could play on the course, on Scotland's east coast, but they were not allowed in the clubhouse.
They also had no significant part in the sport's rulemaking arm of the R&A.
A statement from the R&A added: "In addition to the honorary members, a number of women have been admitted as members of the club with more set to follow in the coming months."
Age UK and the Alzheimer's Society criticised both the quality of care and the way it was rationed as they published fresh evidence on the state of the care sector.
It includes figures that suggest the number of older people not getting help has risen by nearly 50% since 2010.
But ministers insisted plans were in place to support the market.
Care is funded by either councils or individuals themselves - although growing numbers are also relying on family and friends to support them.
The two charities published reports on the same day that the BBC released an analysis of how councils had handled requests for help.
The three pieces of research showed:
Caroline Abrahams, of Age UK, said she was "extremely worried" about the "shameful" state of the care system.
"The sad irony is that it would be far more effective as well as infinitely more humane to give older people the care and support they need," she said.
You stay in your own home while getting help with everyday tasks such as washing, dressing and eating.
average amount of care provided per week, by your council
average paid per hour by your council, 2014-15
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You live in a care home that provides round-the-clock support with everyday tasks.
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You live in a care home which provides round-the-clock support for everyday tasks and nursing care. Depending on your medical needs, the NHS may contribute to your costs.
TBC pay for their own care
Savings, investments and income are assessed, along with the value of your home - unless you or a close relative live there.
Meanwhile, Alzheimer's Society chief executive Jeremy Hughes said: "From the scandals we have exposed, it is clear home care workers are not fairly or adequately equipped with the skills they need to support vulnerable people. There simply is not enough money invested in the social care."
The warnings comes just a month after the official inspection body, the Care Quality Commission, warned the sector was at "tipping point" - with the lack of care having an impact on hospitals through rising accident and emergency attendances as vulnerable people sought help.
Lorna Wheatley, from North Yorkshire, has been trying to secure a nursing home place for her 82-year-old mother Celia.
"My mum can barely walk or look after herself, and the council says she only qualifies to live in sheltered housing," Lorna says.
"I'm terrified that without constant support, she could die."
"Even my mother's GP has written a letter to North Yorkshire Council to say she needs full time residential care.
"What makes me angry is that it's a postcode lottery.
"My mum has paid her taxes all her life and I've been told that if my mum lived in South Yorkshire she'd get funding to live in a nursing home, and for me that is unfair".
A Department of Health spokeswoman said steps were being taken to improve care.
A £5bn pot of money has been set aside to encourage joint work between the NHS and care sector, with an additional £1.5bn being added to that by 2019, and councils have been allowed to increase council tax by 2% a year to invest in care services.
"We are determined to make sure that older people throughout the country can get affordable and dignified care," she added.
But councils said that investment was not enough - and called for the government to have another look at funding in next week's Autumn Statement on its spending plans.
Councillor Izzi Seccombe, of the Local Government Association, said: "Unless social care is properly funded, there remains a growing risk to the quality and safety of care, and the ability of services caring for our elderly and vulnerable to meet basic needs such as ensuring people are washed and dressed or helped out of bed."
The driver reversed into the woman and her male colleague after the vehicle was spotted in Neachells Lane, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton.
The female officer, who has serious leg injuries, had responded to a break-in at Lyndale Drive at about 04:00 GMT.
A man, 19, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and another man, 21, is being held on suspicion of wounding.
The female police officer, in her 40s, was one of several officers responding to the burglary, where keys to a Ford Fiesta were taken before the car was driven off.
It was spotted 10 minutes later in Neachells Lane, but when the two officers closed in, the driver reversed into the pair, police said.
The female officer, who has served with Wolverhampton Police for seven years, suffered muscle damage and bruising and was taken to hospital. Her colleague was treated for shock and minor injuries.
Insp Peter Haywood, said: "Several members of the public, including a lorry driver and two people commuting to work, came to the aid of the officers. I'd like to thank them for their fantastic support."
Niall Currie's men missed a chance to secure their Premiership return on Thursday night as they fell to a 2-0 defeat away to Knockbreda.
Early goals by Andrew Ferguson and Kyle Owens clinched the home victory on the Upper Braniel Road.
Ards remain three points ahead of second-placed H&W Welders.
Defeat for Ards at home to Loughgall on Saturday would give the Welders the chance to snatch the title on goal difference by beating Bangor.
The Welders do not have a Premiership licence, however, and would not go up to the top flight.
That would mean there would be no automatic relegation from the Premiership this season, and the club finishing bottom would go into a play-off with Ards.
Just 20% of people in England and Wales hit the recommended levels for blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, figures from Diabetes UK suggest.
It wants more people to get the recommended annual checks and action taken against parts of the NHS with the worst record.
The Department of Health said it wants to improve diabetes services.
The charity obtained the figures by analysing data from the National Diabetes Audit.
It showed that for type 1 diabetes, just 11% of people meet the targets which help prevent the risk of complications.
High blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar suggest the patient's diabetes is not well controlled and can lead to complications such as kidney failure and stroke.
The charity also said it goes a long way to explaining why 24,000 people with diabetes die early every year in England and Wales.
Currently only 54% of people with diabetes in England get the nine annual checks recommended nationally to prevent future problems.
As well as calling for more patients to receive this annual review, Diabetes UK said it wanted the government to hold poor performing areas to account because in some places fewer than 20% of people with the condition were getting the checks.
Care needs to improve to cope with the increasing numbers of people living with diabetes, the charity said.
It is estimated that the NHS spends about £10bn a year on diabetes - 10% of its entire budget - and about 80% of this goes on treating complications that could often have been prevented.
There are currently around three million people diagnosed with the disease.
Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: "Given that diabetes is serious and can lead to early death if not supported to manage their condition, it is extremely worrying that so few people have it under control.
"The high rate of preventable complications is the inevitable consequence of a healthcare system that has all too often not been good enough and this highlights the need for local services to put in place self-management support programmes to help people manage their diabetes well.
"At the moment there is virtually no access to the ongoing education and support to help people manage their diabetes and so help avoid complications reduce their chance of early death."
A spokesperson from the Department of Health said: "We are determined to improve NHS services across the country for people with diabetes and end the unacceptable variation in care that still exists.
"We have set clear objectives for the NHS to improve the care and management of people with diabetes and we will be monitoring NHS England to make sure this is delivered."
The 20-year-old opener made his debut for the Red Rose in August and hit his maiden century later that month at Old Trafford against Middlesex.
"It's a dream come true for me to play for Lancashire and I couldn't be happier," he said.
Jones will spend this winter in Australia playing grade cricket for South Perth.
He had previously been on a scholarship deal with Lancashire alongside 21-year-old bowler Danny Lamb, who has also agreed his first contract.
The England flanker lasted 35 seconds on his return from a six-month injury on Sunday in Wasps' win over Leicester.
But lock Joe Launchbury is fit to play this weekend, having initially been ruled out of England's Six Nations opener with France on 4 February.
The Wasps captain has recovered from a calf injury sustained in December.
Haskell's interrupted return from injury is the latest blow for England, although Launchbury's quicker than expected reappearance will delight head coach Eddie Jones.
Haskell's fellow flanker, former captain Chris Robshaw, is set to see a specialist about a shoulder injury and will miss the Six Nations.
Both Vunipola brothers - number eight Billy Vunipola and prop Mako - have knee injuries while Joe Marler, who was expected to replace Mako as the starting loose-head, is set to miss the start of the tournament with a fractured leg.
George Kruis is out of action with a fractured cheekbone but is expected to be fit for the Twickenham opener with the French.
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young said: "The most important thing is for James Haskell to feel no pressure to make the game.
"James is fine within himself, but he took a significant bang to the head and we don't feel it right to push him to meet the tight deadline for a six-day turnaround.
"This is the first time he has suffered concussion and we have told him to take extra time, with the aim of being fit for Zebre in the final pool round."
Welsh Labour is launching its council election campaign in Newport on Monday.
Mr Jones said Labour set the bar "exceptionally high" in the 2012 elections - when it gained 231 seats - but he claimed it was beginning the campaign from a "position of strength".
His party is defending 580 seats in Wales.
The launch comes after the Welsh Labour leader said it would be "tough" for the party to avoid losses.
It had celebrated its best local election results in 16 years in 2012. Labour is defending overall control of 10 authorities.
Mr Jones said: "The elections in May will see a record number of Welsh Labour candidates standing across Wales.
"Our results in 2012 set the bar exceptionally high but we begin this campaign from a position of strength."
Mr Jones said Labour councils had "built new council homes... helped to deliver the best GCSE and A Level results ever, supported small business and led ambitious regeneration programmes in towns and cities all over the country".
As Flybe prepares to go head to head with Loganair from the beginning of September, some flights from Stornoway to Glasgow are on sale for just £50.
The airlines have jointly operated routes across the Highlands and islands under a franchise agreement since 2008.
But last year Flybe announced that it was terminating its contract with the Scottish airline from 31 August.
It has formed an alliance with Eastern Airways to operate busy routes between the Northern and Western Isles and the mainland.
Loganair has said it will operate in "its own right" in direct competition with its former partner.
Speaking to BBC Radio Scotland, economist Tony Mackay predicted that one of the airlines would be a casualty of the price war.
"I think that one of them will stop because they'll be losing money," he said.
"I don't see there being enough people to justify competition on these routes for more than a few months."
Passengers will be the real winners of the price war, according to the travel editor of The Independent, Simon Calder.
"I think it's going to be very good in the short term but I think, by Christmas, given the sparse community on the islands and the fact that people generally don't like being tourists in that part of Scotland in the winter, it could get quite nasty," he said.
"But it really is too early to call at this stage."
Loganair said it was up for the fight.
Its managing director Jonathan Hinkles said the airline had operated in Shetland for 45 years and it had a "long future" ahead of it.
He claimed Flybe's chief executive had said they were committed to the area "for a year".
"Well I have got news for her," he said. "We are committed to this for the next 45 years as well."
But it was Flybe who was responsible for driving down prices on the island routes, according to its chief revenue officer Vincent Hodder.
"Instead of roughly £300 round trips, we are now talking about £50 one-way fares," he said.
"The massive reduction of the price is a direct result of Flybe entering the market. I do believe that there is room for two operators on the route."
He added: "We firmly believe that by offering lower fares, we can stimulate business links, we can stimulate leisure links."
No, the cash wasn't splashed in the multi-millions (even the most optimistic or deluded fan would now concede that those days have long gone) but deals were done and money changed hands. For Scottish football, that is progress.
After testing the water with initial offers a few weeks back, Rangers took the plunge and spent in the region of £500,000 to take forward Michael O'Halloran from St Johnstone.
Having already missed out on Brentford midfielder Toumani Diagouraga earlier in the month, eyebrows would have been raised if the Ibrox club had failed to get this one over the line.
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The bruising left and lessons learned by past financial mismanagement, as well as their position at the top of the Scottish Championship, meant that the club were always unlikely to spend big. A signal of intent it was not - fans will be hoping that comes in the summer.
The tea and biscuits in the Celtic Park media room were laid out twice in the space of a few hours as the Premiership champions paraded their January purchases.
Reporters were left counting the crumbs on the floor as the Manchester City youngster Patrick Roberts told the tale of being bought a Celtic strip as a young boy.
The 18-year-old winger, who has signed an 18-month loan deal, said all the right things and exuded all the confidence and composure of a man well aware of his recent £12m price tag.
If he is to be the new fans' favourite, the new media favourite may well be his new team-mate and second signing of the day, Colin Kazim-Richards. The heavily tattooed Turkey international striker bounded into the press room like a man who couldn't quite believe his luck.
Ten clubs in 10 years suggests something of a footballing nomad but he says he's determined to settle down.
The prize for best business of the day may well go to Hearts. Striker Osman Sow was out of contract in the summer but he's heading to China in a deal worth about £1.5m.
And so with money burning the pockets, head coach Robbie Nielson secured the services of long-term target John Souttar from Dundee United.
The hole left by Sow was filled by Nigerian forward Abiola Dauda, who arrived on loan from Vittesse Arnhem, while former Scotland midfielder Don Cowie moved to Tynecastle as a free agent.
Aberdeen tussled with Inverness Caledonian Thistle over Greg Tansey but despite a bid and a move looking likely at one stage, it came to nothing.
Dons manager Derek McInness had said previously he was unlikely to add to his squad but, as David Goodwillie headed out on loan to Ross County, Welsh striker Simon Church arrived on loan from MK Dons.
As the day wore on, the phone kept flashing and the deals kept coming - even managerless Kilmarnock were at it.
In years gone by the Rugby Park club were usually among the first to let you know that no business was expected. This year, Gary Dicker and Lee Hodson were the men keeping chairman Jim Mann up past his bed time.
Motherwell and Partick Thistle weren't to be left out - they concluded deals of their own. Mark McGhee took Morgaro Gomis from Hearts until the end of the season and over in Maryhill, Thistle were signing an Englishman called German - Antonio German that is.
In a frantic 24 hours a total of 15 players were brought in by Scottish Premiership clubs - in the English Premier League the tally was eight.
The sums involved tear strips off the statistic but it's a small sign that in Scotland there may be some life in deadline day after all.
The hugely contentious area of abortion is one of them.
The previous justice minister, David Ford, tried and failed to change the law.
When asked on Wednesday how she would deal with the issue, Ms Sugden said her approach would be "subtle".
But subtle is not a word many would use to describe the debate on proposed changes to the law during the past year.
The new minister was assured she has and will have the "full confidence" and "full support" of the first and deputy first ministers.
That is something that Mr Ford never enjoyed.
With the DUP and Sinn Féin diametrically opposed on the proposed changes to abortion law, that declaration of support will be strongly tested.
On another contentious issue - same sex marriage - Sugden has said she plans to talk to executive ministers behind closed doors in attempt to change the approach to the issue.
Of course, prisons are also highly contentious.
As the daughter of a former prison officer, Ms Sugden will be more aware than most of the complexities and dangers involved.
Two prison officers, David Black and Adrian Ismay, were killed during Mr Ford's time as minister, and the threat remains high.
She will also be aware that her family background means every decision she makes about prisons, and the staff who work in them, will be subjected to intense scrutiny.
A major reform programme has been under way for a number of years and a huge amount of work remains to be done.
It was only seven months ago that a team of inspectors described Northern Ireland's high security prison at Maghaberry near Lisburn as one of the most dangerous in Europe.
A follow up report in February said the situation had stabilised and improved, but it was far from a clean bill of health.
Getting the funding needed to implement comprehensive reform, and improve the fabric of the prison estate, will be a huge challenge.
It will also be another test of the promised support of Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness.
Policing is another area of intense public and political scrutiny.
The chief constable is operationally independent, but it is up to the justice minister to set high level policy objectives and, most importantly, to determine the PSNI's annual budget.
George Hamilton has said several times since his appointment that budget cuts have had a huge impact on the ability of his officers to do their jobs.
So the new minister probably will not have to wait long for a chunky business case to land on her desk setting out why the PSNI needs more resources.
Ms Sugden faces a huge task.
Mr Ford has said publicly that he could only do the job of justice minister with the assistance of a very able Special Advisor (SPAD), and the support of his fellow MLAs and the Alliance party apparatus at Stormont.
His successor does not have a party to turn to for advice or support.
It is herself alone.
Djodjo Nsaka collapsed outside his halls of residence in north-west London after being attacked on 20 January.
Donald Davies and Mukeh Kawa, both 21 from Colindale, were found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey and jailed for life with a minimum of 26 years.
Ali Tas, 21, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison.
Tas, also from Colindale, was cleared of murder.
Mr Nsaka had returned home with two friends after a night out when they were set upon by Kawa, Davies and Tas.
The jury heard the students were attacked after they had earlier asked a female friend of Kawa's why he had given them a "screw-face" expression when they saw him at Middlesex University on 18 January.
After one of them told her that Kawa should "be humble", she said she would pass on the message - and the defendants later went in search of the three students.
"It had gone from pulling a face to 'I am going to kill him, bring him outside', within the course of a day," prosecutor William Boyce QC told the court.
Mr Nsaka's friends were able to flee when the group were attacked but the father of one was stabbed in the heart and died in the street.
In an impact statement, Mr Nsaka's father said the 19-year-old's death had "left an enormous void in our lives".
"Every day I get up with a heavy heart and look into the faces of my wife and children and watch as they struggle to get through life without their beloved Djodjo," Tuna Nsaka said.
While the pro-government Yeni Safak hailed a "glorious victory"; the opposition-leaning Cumhuriyet called it a "victory of fear". That shows the polarisation at the heart of Turkish society - and it is widely blamed on one man: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He gambled with a re-run election - and won. But not completely. Mr Erdogan had urged a "super majority" of MPs for the party he founded, the AKP, to change the constitution and enhance his powers.
He needed 330 for a referendum on the move or 367 to force it through. In the end he managed 316.
It is still a healthy majority - but unless he convinces a mass defection from the far-right MHP Party, which haemorrhaged votes, the executive presidency he wanted will be shelved.
So where does that leave Turkey's great political survivor? He is still the country's first democratically-elected president, adored by his conservative supporters for bringing them economic empowerment and political representation.
When he left the post of prime minister in 2014, his replacement, Ahmet Davutoglu, was chosen for his pliancy. The two do not see completely eye to eye.
But the bookish Mr Davutoglu owes his position to Mr Erdogan and Turkey's president still calls the shots from his controversially opulent palace - at 1,000 rooms, four times the size of Versailles.
He will feel emboldened. And that, opponents fear, could deepen his authoritarianism, pushing on with a drive to muzzle opposition media and clamp down on critics. Dozens have already been charged with "insulting the president" since he was elected to office.
Two editors of Nokta, a magazine critical of Mr Erdogan, were detained on Monday and a media company was raided and taken over before the election.
The European Union has an "Erdogan dilemma": It is concerned by the decline in the rule of law here and crackdown on free speech.
But it is acutely aware of how crucial the alliance with Ankara is. It relies on Turkey to be the pillar of stability in a volatile Middle East.
Moreover, this is the main transit country for migrants and refugees heading to Europe. Any hope of solving crises in both regions depends on Turkey. Western governments may not like Mr Erdogan, but they need him.
The immediate challenge for the president and the new AKP government is to follow through on its election promise: to restore security after an upsurge in clashes with PKK Kurdish guerrillas.
A return to peace talks would involve both sides - and the president says it can only happen if the PKK disarms.
But there is significant anger among Kurds at the electoral re-run and the AKP's tactics of trying to paint the pro-Kurdish party, the HDP, as terrorists, scaring supporters to switch sides.
If that anger translates into continued violence, Mr Erdogan's message of "vote for us or get chaos" will sound increasingly hollow.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a formidable political operator.
After June's result, many were starting to write him off, to talk of a "post-Erdogan era", to spot the reformist wing within the party that could challenge his dominance.
It does exist and there is dissatisfaction among insiders - notably from the more conciliatory former President Abdullah Gul, who was widely tipped to attempt a return if the AKP failed to win a majority.
But Recep Tayyip Erdogan has bounced back and taken his support base with him. And Turkey's political bruiser is not going anywhere.
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The Project Pilgrim team says Gloucester Cathedral will become the oldest church building in England to have this technology installed.
Project Pilgrim manager Anne Cranston said: "It's more than a 100 panels but less than 200 depending on the size of the panels used."
The panels will be non-reflective, black and not visible from the ground.
It will cost about £100,000 to pay for the panels and most of this has been raised via a public appeal which has so far reached 90% of the goal.
Preparation work will need to be done ahead of the installation on the Nave of the Cathedral roof which is about 50 years old.
"We need to slightly change the shape of the ridge, repair some of the lead work, and we need to do some repairs of the guttering.
"Then we need to make sure that the frame [on the roof] can pin the panels down properly so they don't blow away in wind and then there's getting the cabling down into the main cathedral," added Ms Cranston.
Once the solar panels are installed, the project team has said they will reduce energy costs by 25% a year by producing between 28 and 30 MWh a year.
The Pilgrim Project is expected to take 10 years to complete.
The first residents moved into Great Western Park, Didcot in 2011, but a planned shop is lying empty and a bus shelter is yet to be built.
A new primary school, due to open in 2015, has also been delayed by a year.
The developers said it hoped a shop and post box would be provided shortly as the number of residents increase.
John Ord, a Didcot town councillor who was one of the first residents to move in, said: "Lots of things have been promised but very little delivered. We're cut off.
"There's no pub, no school, no shop, no community centre... no postbox, this isn't good enough.
"People like the houses, what we don't like... is the lack of facilities, we lead a dormitory existence."
Outline permission for the development, which will see 3,300 homes built by 2026, was granted in 2008.
South Oxfordshire District Council has stepped in to fund a new community centre despite no obligation to deliver the facilities promised by the developers.
A council spokesperson added: "We have also created a role within the council to work directly with the community and the developers to speed up the delivery of community facilities."
A spokesperson for the consortium of developers said: "The small retail unit has been marked for some time now, however, the market feedback has been that there are not yet quite enough residents... to make a viable business.
"Royal Mail similarly advise that until a sufficient number of people live on a development, that they wouldn't consider providing a post box, however, we are hopeful that this trigger may occur around the time that the district centre area is opened up in the next nine to 12 months."
Irfon Williams, 44, from Bangor, Gwynedd, was told last year he had two years to live because of bowel cancer.
He needed the drug Cetuximab but Betsi Cadwaladr health board refused to fund it, so he moved across the border.
After being told this week his tumours have now shrunk, Carwyn Jones has agreed to meet and called his recovery "highly unusual".
Mr Williams was told in June tumours in his liver had shrunk enough for doctors to be able to operate and he could be free of the disease by September.
Leader of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT Davies said it was a "national disgrace" patients must go to England to receive some cancer drugs.
Betsi Cadwaladr said at the time decisions of that kind were "highly sensitive", and the Welsh government said all patients had access to "proven" treatments.
Edinburgh-based Payne, who won silver at the 2008 Beijing Games, required a top-nine result in Portugal.
China's Xin Xin took victory, finishing the 10km race in one hour 55.12 seconds, with Payne 0.8 seconds behind.
Stirling-based Danielle Huskisson was ninth but misses out with only one athlete qualifying from each nation.
Payne, who was fourth at London 2012, told BBC Sport: "It totally was emotional and hasn't really sunk in, but I'm definitely going to cry later - tears of happiness.
"I mean I have put so much into this last four years and I'm so happy that it's all paid off in the end.
"Coming fourth at a home Olympics was the worst place to come and I took a year out after that, but I just decided at one point I needed to fully commit to it. Getting back into training was hard, but I have loved the journey - even today when I was elbowed in the face!
"Everything I've done is to get prepared to stand on the podium in Rio. I'll be doing everything that I can to make that happen."
The men's event will take place over the same course in Setubal on Sunday at 15:30 BST.
British Swimming already has Jack Burnell as a consideration for nomination to Team GB after he finished fifth in the 10km event at last year's World Championships.
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The 9-4 shot, ridden by Ryan Moore, fought past runner-up Decorated Knight, with Ulysses in third.
Highland Reel prevailed by one and a quarter lengths for the sixth Group One victory of his career and the 300th top-level triumph for his trainer.
Coming 19 days after his Coronation Cup win at Epsom, it was O'Brien's first success of the 2017 Royal meeting.
There were two French victories earlier in the day with Qemah winning the Duke of Cambridge Stakes after Le Brivido took the Jersey Stakes.
Highland Reel showed his toughness once again as he secured a victory which took his career prize money to just short of the £6m mark.
The five-year-old sat on the heels of early leader Scottish but was briefly passed by Ulysses and Decorated Knight before battling back.
"He's an incredible horse. He has pace, courage, tactical speed," said O'Brien.
Highland Reel won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot last year and later in 2016 landed the Breeders' Cup Turf in the United States.
Moore said: "This lad has been everywhere but he keeps coming back. He's so tough, he's got a marvellous attitude."
Jack Hobbs, the 2-1 favourite, looked to be in contention but faded to finish last.
BBC racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
I won't be the only person kicking myself for not having a few quid on Highland Reel.
Not only were there doubts over the good to firm going and the mile and a quarter distance for Jack Hobbs, but Highland Reel is almost always simply magnificent.
Whatever the continent (he's won in the US and Hong Kong too) and whatever the drama (he arrived at Epsom with just minutes to spare before taking the Coronation Cup), this horse can be relied upon practically always to perform.
That's nearly £6m in prize money, thus making him Aidan O'Brien's biggest earner.
The Queen travelled from the State Opening of Parliament to Ascot and witnessed an afternoon sprinkled with international victories.
Qemah ran out a second French winner of the day when landing the Duke of Cambridge Stakes following the earlier success of Le Brivido.
The 5-2 favourite, ridden by Gregory Benoist for Jean-Claude Rouget, held off the fast-finishing outsider Aljazzi by three quarters of a length.
It was a second Royal Ascot win for the four-year-old Qemah, owned by Al Shaqab Racing, after victory in the Coronation Stakes last year.
Compatriot Usherette, successful in 2016, struggled for room before closing to finish another neck away.
Le Brivido was well backed for the Jersey Stakes and justified the confidence.
The 2-1 favourite, trained by Andre Fabre, held on under Pierre-Charles Boudot to deny O'Brien's 66-1 outsider Spirit Of Valor.
Happy Like A Fool, the odds-on favourite trained in the United States by Wesley Ward, had to settle for second as Heartache (5-1) won the Queen Mary Stakes.
Winning trainer Clive Cox once again showed his aptitude for handling sprinters, with jockey Adam Kirby making use of his mount's high draw.
"She's got a big future, she's very special," said Cox.
There were jubilant scenes in the winner's enclosure for owners the Hot To Trot Syndicate, which boasts 75 members.
Jockey Martin Dwyer guided Zhui Feng to a front-running victory in the Royal Hunt Cup.
The four-year-old colt gave trainer Amanda Perrett her first Royal Ascot victory for 17 years.
American trainer Ward, successful with Lad Aurelia on Tuesday, celebrated a second win of the 2017 Royal Ascot meeting as Con Te Partiro caused an upset in the Sandringham Handicap.
The 20-1 chance, given a typically patient ride by Irish jockey Jamie Spencer, came home ahead of the Ryan Moore-ridden Rain Goddess.
Josephine Gordon was 15th on favourite Gymnaste having earlier finished fifth in the Jersey Stakes aboard Dream Castle.
She was bidding to become only the second female jockey to ride a winner at Royal Ascot - 30 years on from Gay Kelleway.
Thursday is Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot with a crowd of about 65,000 expected at the Berkshire course.
The Gold Cup (16:20 BST) is the feature race where last year's winner Order Of St George will bid to follow up for trainer Aidan O'Brien.
O'Brien is seeking his eighth win in 12 years in the two-and-a-half mile contest.
Opposition includes dual Goodwood Cup winner Big Orange, trained by Michael Bell, and Ralph Beckett's 2015 St Leger winner Simple Verse.
The legendary racehorse Frankel could have his first Royal Ascot winner as a stallion on Thursday.
Mori, a daughter of Frankel and the brilliant mare Midday, runs for Sir Michael Stoute in the Ribblesdale Stakes (15:40).
The day begins with sprinters in the five-furlong Norfolk Stakes, including Ward's runner Mcerin.
14:30: Norfolk Stakes (Group 2) 5f
15:05: Hampton Court Stakes (Group 3) 1 1/4m
15:40: Ribblesdale Stakes (Group 2) 1½m
16:20: Gold Cup (Group 1) 2 1/2m
17:00: Britannia Stakes (Heritage Handicap) 1m
17:35: King George V Stakes 1½m
Tim Oakley was the leader of a four-man, 22-dog team that reached the town of Eagle on Monday.
The group endured temperatures of -50C on the 29-day trip.
Mr Oakley told the BBC he lost about 25lb (11kg) and suffered mild frostbite, but felt he still had another big expedition in him.
The team - which was supported by the Royal Geographical Society - set off from Herschel Island on 28 February.
Unlike Amundsen, it had GPS systems, satellite phones and food drops from the air.
But the Norwegian explorer followed a trading route with trails and guesthouses - most of which are now gone.
As Mr Oakley's team set off in -30C temperatures, with an additional -15C windchill, they hit "pretty nasty" running water on a channel between Herschel Island and the mainland.
"This freezes onto the rails of the sled and onto the dogs' legs, so each time we run through it we have to stop, hack the ice off the sled with an axe [and] try to get the dogs as free from the ice as possible," explained Mr Oakley on his blog.
He said that by 1 March they were "cold, wet and very miserable", with no fire.
On 4 March the team reached a ranger's hut, where they were able to light portable stoves and dry out wet gear.
"The boots took a whole night to unfreeze," Mr Oakley said.
Three days later, after crossing a vast frozen lake that "creaked and groaned" as they went over it, they crossed the border into Alaska.
The going was easier as they headed southwards despite a snowstorm that left them huddled in tents for a day.
By last week the weather was warmer and the dogs had to stop periodically because the -7C temperatures left them overheated.
The team made it to Eagle (population 86) with "only mild frostbite on various fingers and toes" and the dogs in good condition.
"What amazing dogs these have been!" said Mr Oakley. "What a feat of endurance to have pulled a heavy sledge 700 miles in bitter temperatures over extreme terrain and still be wagging their tails every morning."
Born in Norway in 1872, Amundsen was the first explorer to reach the South Pole and to circumnavigate the Arctic. He was also the first person to sail through the Northwest Passage - sledging south from Herschel to Eagle where he sent a telegram announcing the feat.
In the 1920s he began making trips towards the North Pole with varying success. He flew across the Arctic in 1925 and again later in an airship.
Amundsen disappeared in 1928 after he flew to the rescue of a ship lost in the Arctic.
Mr Oakley said he was looking forward to enjoying a "glass of wine and a decent meal" with his family in Fulham.
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Emma-Lee Wray, from Carnlough, an A-level student at Ballymena Academy, has been a cadet for five years.
She will be walking by the Queen's side on Thursday at the official birthday party in Windsor Castle.
Emma-Lee is representing Northern Ireland and will be joined by cadets from other UK regions.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Emma-Lee said she had been selected after participating in a Duke of Edinburgh residential.
"There were cadets from England, Scotland and Wales, and we did some adventure training.
"The officials said they saw me excel, but it was so close to April Fool's Day that I thought they were joking!
"I'm still in shock."
Emma-Lee has not yet been given a full list of details about her role during the celebrations, but she believes it will be a "wonderful day".
A special ceremonial style uniform has been custom-made for Emma-Lee to wear during the event.
Debbie-Lee Wray, Emma-Lee's mum, said she is "extremely proud" of her daughter's achievements.
The unprecedented and explosive outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease is causing fear in the affected regions.
While the effects are generally mild, the greatest concern is about a strongly suspected link with brain defects in babies.
There have been no travel bans, but what advice is there for people visiting the regions?
The Pan American Health Organization is publishing updates on the affected countries.
But the virus is expected to spread throughout North, Central and South America, except Canada and Chile, and people should check for the latest advice before travelling.
Only pregnant women have been advised to reconsider their plans to visit countries affected by Zika.
It is thought that within the female body the virus can travel across the placenta and affect the health of an unborn baby.
There has been a surge in microcephaly - in which the baby's brain does not develop properly - in Brazil.
The UK's National Travel Health Network and Centre says pregnant women should reconsider their travel plans, and that any traveller should seek advice from a health professional before departing.
And it adds that pregnant women who have to travel should take "scrupulous" measures to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes.
The US Centers for Disease Control says women trying to get pregnant should "talk to your doctor about your plans to become pregnant and the risk of Zika virus infection [and] strictly follow steps to prevent mosquito bites during your trip."
Zika outbreak: What you need to know
The CDC says Zika lingers in the blood for approximately a week.
And: "The virus will not cause infections in a baby that is conceived after the virus is cleared from the blood.
"There is currently no evidence that Zika virus infection poses a risk of birth defects in future pregnancies."
Zika is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is most active during the day.
People are advised to:
Zika outbreak: The mosquito menace
It is thought the virus can persist in semen for two weeks after a man recovers from an infection.
Public Health England is taking a safety-first approach after two suspected cases of sexual transmission.
The organisation says the risk of spreading the virus through sex is "very low".
But it recommends using condoms if you have a pregnant partner or one who might become pregnant.
This should be done for 28 days after coming home if you have no symptoms, and for six months if Zika symptoms do develop.
The US Centers of Disease Control advises either giving up sex or using condoms for the duration of a pregnancy.
Most infections do not result in symptoms, but they may include:
If you have symptoms such as fever, a rash, joint pain or red eyes, which develop either on holiday or when you return, then you should speak to a doctor.
The US Centers for Disease Control says:
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Twelve firms, including Cuadrilla and Ineos, have been given the exclusive right to explore for oil and gas, including fracking.
The exploration sites include areas in the Midlands and the North East.
However, whether exploration can actually go ahead is subject to local planning consent.
The announcement comes after Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said last week that planning decisions on fracking would be speeded up.
The blocks of land, which are typically 100 sq-km, include areas near Lincoln, Nottingham, Sheffield and Preston.
A second group of 132 further blocks could be granted following a consultation.
UK Energy Minister Lord Bourne said: "Keeping the lights on and powering the economy is not negotiable, and these industries will play a key part in providing secure and reliable energy to UK homes and businesses for decades to come."
But Greenpeace campaigner Daisy Sands said that the award of the licences was "the starting gun to the fight for the future of our countryside".
"Hundreds of battles will spring up to defend our rural landscapes from the pollution, noise and drilling rigs that come with fracking."
In an interview with BBC business editor Kamal Ahmed, Cuadrilla chief executive Francis Egan said public fears about fracking were "understandable", but unfounded.
"People have not actually seen much happen on the ground, so what they are reacting to is a lot of stories, and understandable fears... There is always uncertainty when you are hearing about something but you can't actually see it," he said.
Last week, the government announced plans to fast-track fracking applications, saying it could take over the power to decide if councils repeatedly take longer than the 16-week statutory timeframe.
Environmentalists argue this undermines the government's pledge to give the power to decide on fracking to local people.
The announcement came after Lancashire County Council refused permission for Cuadrilla to frack at two sites. The company is appealing against the decision.
The process of fracking - where water, chemicals and sand are blasted at shale rocks to release the gas trapped within - has proved deeply unpopular among many members of the public. They are concerned about earth tremors, water contamination and disruption to rural communities.
The industry insists that many of these fears are overblown, and that fracking can be carried out safely under the right regulations.
Environmentalists also argue that gas is a fossil fuel that emits CO2 and contributes to global warming. Investment, they say, should instead be made in renewable, cleaner energies such as wind and solar.
However, the government is keen to press ahead with fracking to reduce reliance on imported energy. It looks to the example of the US, where abundant shale gas has seen gas prices fall dramatically.
But questions remain whether fracking in the UK, with a very different geology and property rights, and where there has been relatively little investment in research and development, will be possible on a commercial scale.
Major Peake became the first British astronaut to live on the ISS, when he spent six months on-board carrying out experiments last year.
Speaking at London's Science Museum on Thursday morning, he announced he will be taking on a second European Space Agency (ESA) mission in the future.
The timing is yet to be decided, but his second space mission would likely happen in the period 2019-2024.
Major Peake was at the Science Museum for the opening of the display of the space capsule that carried him to and from the International Space Station last year.
He said the Russian capsule is an important part of UK space history and hopes it will inspire future astronauts.
The Soyuz TMA-19M has been repaired since its landing, but is still slightly scorched from re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
Late on Friday, it used one of its refurbished Falcon 9 vehicles to put up a Bulgarian satellite from Florida.
Then on Sunday, SpaceX lofted another 10 spacecraft for telecommunications company Iridium. This time, the rocket flew out of California.
Both missions saw the Falcon first-stages come back to Earth under control to drone ships that had been positioned out on the ocean.
It means SpaceX has now had 13 landing successes for those missions it has sought to recover the booster. That said, Friday's first-stage had a particularly hard landing, and looked bent over on the live video feed.
"Rocket is extra toasty and hit the deck hard (used almost all of the emergency crush core), but otherwise good," quipped SpaceX chief executive, Elon Musk, on Twitter.
His firm does not expect to recover every booster, because the flight profile required on many satellite launches will lead to re-entry speeds that are simply too fast to curtail with the available propellant.
Friday's mission was launched from the US East Coast, from the Kennedy Space Center's famous Apollo and shuttle pad, 39A.
The "second-hand" Falcon 9 lifted off at 15:10 local time (1910 GMT).
Its passenger, BulgariaSat-1, was dropped off in orbit, some 30 minutes later.
The spacecraft will be used to beam TV into homes in Bulgaria and Serbia.
The Falcon booster was last flown in January, to launch 10 satellites for the Iridium sat-phone and data-relay company. And it was another Iridium launch that topped out the weekend's activities.
This second mission, on a brand new Falcon, occurred on the West Coast, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Iridium is in the midst of replacing its global network of satellites. Another 10 went up on this latest flight.
SpaceX has another six launches on the books for Iridium, whose existing network of more than 60 spacecraft is now well past its design life.
Sunday's lift-off occurred at 13:25 local time (20:25 GMT). The returning booster on this occasion sported new titanium grid fins to help steer the vehicle back to its waiting drone ship.
The titanium ought to be more robust than the previous aluminium type, said Mr Musk, removing the requirement for repair or replacement. This should speed the turnaround of future boosters for re-use.
"New titanium grid fins worked even better than expected. Should be capable of an indefinite number of flights with no service," the CEO tweeted.
Iridium's business is mobile communications, providing connections to anyone who is not near a fixed line. These customers include the military, oil and gas platforms, ships and broadcasters.
Increasingly, it also includes remote machinery reporting in its status to a central server. This machine-to-machine service has a big future, especially as more and more devices are linked together in the coming, so-called "internet of things".
The new Iridium satellites also host payloads for two tracking companies. One of is Aireon, which aims to offer a service that reports the positions of aircraft by sensing their ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) transmissions. This would be useful in following planes that are beyond radar coverage, but could also help airlines plan more efficient routing.
The other hosted payload is for exactEarth, which does something very similar with ships. Large vessels transmit an Automatic Identification System message that can be sensed from orbit.
Again, shipping companies can use the tracking service to keep tabs on vessels and to plot the best available course to a port.
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The Highland Hospice was gifted half a million shares - a 19% holding worth hundreds of thousands of pounds - by an anonymous donor earlier this year.
The hospice does not want to be involved in the running of the team.
It needs to raise funds for a £7.5m redevelopment of its Inverness centre.
The donation made the Highland Hospice the second biggest shareholder in ICTFC.
It is the latest action from the local authority to tackle the problem.
The council has also produced a video with Hawick High School, run a poster campaign and appointed two enforcement officers on a 12-month trial basis.
Councillor David Paterson said the message would be spray-painted at known dog fouling blackspots.
"The stencils use chalk-based paint which means they are temporary," he said.
"We are taking the issue of dog fouling seriously, as can be seen with this and our various other educational activities related to the responsible dog ownership strategy.
"For those not willing to listen, there is now the real threat of an £80 fine through the appointment of enforcement officers as part of the year-long pilot."
He said he had met the officers who were "highly trained and committed to working with the council".
"They will only issue fixed penalty notices to those who do not observe the law," he added.
The spacecraft, which uses radar to estimate the thickness of marine floes, has observed a deep reduction in the volume of ice during autumn months.
For the years 2010-2012, this is down a third compared with data for 2003-2008.
For winter months, the fall in volume is not so great - down 9% over the same period.
A lot of thicker ice appears to have been lost from a region to the north of Greenland, the Canadian archipelago, and to a lesser extent the northeast of Svalbard.
Watch the dramatic retreat of some of the world's largest glaciers
We have become accustomed to the big retreats in sea-ice area that occur in summer. Last year saw the smallest extent yet measured in the satellite era.
But the latest Cryosat report gives an indication of the status of the floes during the months when the seasonal re-freeze occurs with the advance of colder temperatures.
"We've only been in orbit with Cryosat for two complete winters, and so it is not possible at the moment to discern any long term trends," explained mission scientist Dr Katharine Giles, from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at University College London, UK.
"But as the mission moves forward we will get more and more information and that will help us describe better the patterns that are emerging."
Cryosat was launched by the European Space Agency (Esa) in early 2010.
It is what is known as an altimetry mission, using advanced radar to measure the difference in height between the top of the marine ice and the top of the water in the cracks, or leads, that separate the floes.
From this number, scientists can, with a relatively simple calculation, work out the thickness of the ice.
Multiplying by the area gives an overall volume, and it is the volume that is likely to provide the most reliable assessment of the changes now underway in the Arctic.
The data gathered so far by Cryosat were compared with information compiled by the US space agency's (Nasa) Icesat spacecraft in the mid-2000s.
For autumn (October/November), the analysis found the Icesat years from 2003 to 2008 to have recorded an average volume of 11,900 cubic km.
But from 2010 to 2012, this average had dropped to 7,600 cu km - a decline of 4,300 cu km - as observed by Cryosat.
For winter (February/March), the 2003 to 2008 period saw an average of 16,300 cu km, dropping to 14,800 cu km between 2010 and 2012 - a difference of 1,500 cu km.
The smaller relative decline in winter volume highlights an interesting "negative feedback".
"Thin ice grows more quickly than thick ice in the winter. Ice acts as an insulator - the thinner the ice, the more heat can be lost to the atmosphere and the faster the water beneath the ice can freeze," Dr Giles told BBC News.
"But even with an increased ice growth during the winter, we can see from the Cryosat data that it's still not fully compensating for the deep summer melt."
Cryosat's altimetry observations agree well with independent measures of sea-ice thickness derived from aircraft surveys and under-ice moorings.
They also look very similar to the simulations coming out of Piomas (Pan-Arctic Ice-Ocean Modelling and Assimilation System), an influential computer model that has been used to estimate Arctic sea-ice volume and which has been the basis for several predictions about when summer sea ice might disappear completely.
"The decline predicted by Piomas is slightly less in the autumn and slightly more in winter, but broadly speaking there's good agreement," said Dr Giles.
A paper describing the latest Cryosat results has been published online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Its lead author was UCL's Seymour Laxon, the renowned polar scientist who tragically died following an accident on New Year's Day.
Prof Laxon solved the problem of separating ice from water in the satellite altimeter signal.
This has allowed scientists to retrieve information about the Arctic Ocean region's gravity field, its surface circulation, and the thickness of its sea-ice cover.
More recently, his techniques have begun to reveal how the changing ice cover might affect the interaction between the Arctic Ocean and the atmosphere.
"Seymour's work provided evidence with which to propose and eventually launch the Cryosat mission, which is now - as his last paper describes - providing the first observations of the annual cycle of sea-ice growth and decay throughout the Arctic Ocean," Dr Giles said.
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Britain's world number two beat top-ranked Novak Djokovic in Sunday's Italian Open final, having lost to the Serb in last week's Madrid Open final.
Maclagan said: "This (Italian Open) was his first win over Novak on clay, so he has a deep reservoir of confidence.
"The other players will look at him as a challenger and that counts as well."
The French Open begins on 22 May and Murray reached the semi-finals last year, when the Scot was beaten by Djokovic over five sets.
Maclagan was speaking to BBC Radio 5 live.
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The long-standing hopes that Pyongyang might eventually be induced to give up its nuclear weapons programme have proved illusory.
South Korea is accordingly reassessing its security needs and it is clear that an expanded missile defence system is going to be a key part of its response to the North's more aggressive behaviour.
Even before the latest threats from Kim Jong-un, the US and South Koreans had begun urgent consultations to explore the feasibility of deploying a system known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) to the Korean Peninsula at the earliest possible date.
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Missile defences in the region
It is not yet clear if the missiles would be sold to the South Koreans. It is possible an interim arrangement might see some US batteries deployed to give an initial capability.
South Korea already operates a variant of the US Patriot anti-missile system and further Patriot batteries are deployed in South Korea by US forces based there. But these are intended to hit incoming missiles at relatively low altitudes.
Thaad is a much more capable and longer-range system. It destroys incoming missiles at a much higher altitude, beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
This makes it especially useful in countering missiles that might carry a nuclear warhead. (It should be noted in passing that there is no evidence yet to suggest that North Korea has sufficiently miniaturised a nuclear weapon to enable it to be mounted on a ballistic missile).
The Thaad interceptor is produced by the US company Lockheed Martin. It is an extremely fast missile with a maximum speed of 2,800 metres per second (10,080km/h). It is capable of making interceptions at an altitude of 150km i.e. beyond the atmosphere.
The Thaad system is made up of six truck-mounted launchers carrying some 50 interceptor missiles, and a fire control and communications unit, all linked to a powerful X-band radar system - manufactured by Raytheon - capable of detecting targets at very long range.
1. The enemy launches a missile
2. The Thaad radar system detects the launch, which is relayed to command and control
3. Thaad command and control instructs the launch of an interceptor missile
4. The interceptor missile is fired at the enemy projectile
5. The enemy projectile is destroyed in the terminal phase of flight
The launcher trucks can hold up to eight interceptor missiles.
Any significant enhancement of South Korea's missile defences is going to be controversial. Inevitably it will inflame tensions with the North. But the plans have already fallen foul of the main regional security actor - China.
Beijing is concerned by the spread of sophisticated anti-missile defences, worrying - in the same way as Moscow - that as these systems become more commonplace they will inevitably affect the capabilities of its own nuclear deterrent.
It also has concerns about the X-band radar system, which has sufficient range to penetrate into China itself.
The debate is a little like that between Russia and Nato regarding missile defences in Europe.
Nato says these are to defend against a very specific threat - that from a potential Iranian long-range missile. Similarly Thaad is, as its name implies, an area defence system - in other words if it were based in South Korea it would only be capable of shooting down Chinese missiles if they were targeting South Korea.
But this does not cut much ice in either Moscow or Beijing. The Chinese in particular may see the deployment of US Thaad missiles to South Korea as the start of a regional defence system intended to contain China.
There are echoes of the Cold War here where anti-missile systems were largely banned by international treaty in an effort to avoid their potentially destabilising effects. That agreement - the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - was abandoned by the Americans who saw it as a constraint on the sorts of limited defence systems required to counter the proliferation of missile technology.
But the upshot of the spread of missile defences, like any other battle between offence and defence, is that China may ultimately look to upgrade its nuclear capabilities to counter any potential defensive systems.
That could have an impact for India too, who may be concerned about its deterrent capabilities. The ripples from North Korea's threats against the South could spread very widely.
A blowout at the well on Tuesday morning forced the evacuation of 44 workers from the platform.
US Coast Guard and federal safety officials are still trying to assess the potential hazards.
The area was hit by the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in 2010, leaking millions of gallons of oil.
Eleven oil rig workers were killed in what was the worst US offshore disaster.
The latest blowout was not of that magnitude, officials told the Associated Press news agency.
On Wednesday morning the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said the fire was damaging the rig structure.
"As the rig fire continues, the beams supporting the derrick and rig floor have folded and have collapsed over the rig structure," the agency said in a statement.
But after an aerial tour of the rig, no gas sheen was visible on the water surface.
One Coast Guard cutter, Pompano, is near the scene and another, Cypress, is travelling to the area.
In addition, "a third vessel equipped with fire-fighting capability and improved monitoring system is enroute," the BSEE added.
The portable drilling rig - which operates in shallow waters of 154ft (47m) - is owned by Hercules, a contractor for the exploration and production company Walter Oil & Gas Corporation.
The BSEE said the fire broke out while workers were completing construction of a "sidetrack well". The purpose of the sidetrack well was not immediately clear, but industry analysts say they are sometimes used if there is a problem with the main well.
The BSEE said it was investigating the cause of the fire, along with the Coast Guard.
Industry experts are at the scene to try to work out how to bring the well fire under control.
The diaries, made available online from the National Archives on Friday, cover the period when evidence emerged of the treachery within the British establishment in the form of the men - who would become known as the Cambridge Spies - who had spied for the Soviet Union.
Liddell provides a day-by-day account of the unfolding drama, while the diaries' matter-of-fact writing style barely conceals how personal the betrayal was for the MI5 man who was close friends with some of the key protagonists and who struggled to believe what they had done.
"It was an age of treachery," explains Stephen Twigge of the National Archives. "His whole world was falling apart around him and it is all there in the diaries."
In early 1951, Liddell notes that evidence has come in suggesting Foreign Office man Donald Maclean may be a Communist spy.
The investigation begins with "watchers" put onto him.
On 18 May there is reference to a meeting planning his interrogation. But just as the net is closing in - he vanishes.
The watchers failed to pick up Maclean since his departure for the country on Friday and we now learn from the Foreign Office that he was given a day's leave on Saturday. He has not apparently been seen since...
(NAME REDACTED) telephoned me at about 11am asking whether I had heard about Guy Burgess. I said that I knew he had been sent home by the Foreign Office on account of three motoring offences for speeding, which had caused the embassy embarrassment.
(NAME REDACTED) then said that he was not referring to that but to Guy Burgess' mysterious disappearance. He had not been since Friday...
The two had gone to Moscow together, although MI5 has no idea as a frantic search is detailed.
The departure of Burgess comes out of the blue and is a shock, particularly for Liddell.
The Foreign Office man had been a friend of Liddell's for many years and the two had regularly visited the musical hall together, according to Andrew Lownie, author of Stalin's Englishman - an upcoming biography of Burgess.
"That is one of the tragedies of this story," Mr Lownie told the BBC.
"Liddell was a very devoted public servant. He must have felt a great sense of personal betrayal."
The diaries show Liddell dealing with the fallout from Burgess' various debauched adventures in previous years, but he struggled to comprehend that his friend could be allied to Maclean and that the two might have voluntarily gone to Russia.
The question emerges - how did the two learn about the investigation into Maclean?
Perhaps the man in whose house Burgess was living in Washington might have an idea? It might be worth talking to that man - Kim Philby, MI6 station chief in Washington - Liddell notes in the diary.
Dick had a long interview with Kim Philby who had arrived from Washington at 2.30 today.
Personally I think it not unlikely that the papers relating to Maclean might have been on Kim's desk and that Burgess strolled into the room while Kim was not there.
The truth was much worse.
Soon other pieces of the jigsaw are put together and the possibility that Philby is another Communist spy takes hold within MI5.
On 4 August, there is a scare when they learn he is going yachting and fear he will flee.
The Americans are also convinced he has gone bad and say they do not want him back in Washington - concern over what the Americans think is a recurring theme.
The problem is a lack of evidence. By December, the prime minister is making clear he wants Philby interrogated.
The diaries include feedback from Philby's first interrogation in which the interviewer comes away convinced of his guilt but unable to prove anything.
But it was not just Philby.
One of the first people Liddell contacts on the day he learns of Burgess and Maclean's disappearance is his friend, the former MI5 officer Anthony Blunt.
The diaries are full of accounts of "lunch with Anthony" or "dinner with Anthony".
Blunt is called on for advice, since he knew Burgess and Maclean at Cambridge.
What Liddell does not know is that the young student, Burgess, had recruited the older Blunt into the spy ring.
"I feel certain that Anthony was never a conscious collaborator with Burgess in any activities that he may have conducted," Liddell writes in the diary.
Blunt has now become the King's surveyor of pictures. At one point the diary recounts the King's private secretary, Tommy Lascelles, coming to see Liddell about Blunt for reassurance.
I told Lascelles that I had known Anthony Blunt for about ten years... I was convinced that he had never been a Communist in the full political sense, even during his days at Cambridge.
Tommy said that he was very glad to hear this, since it was quite possible that the story might get round to the Royal Family; he would then be able to say that he had already heard it and looked into it and was satisfied that there was nothing in in it.
He told me that Blunt had on one occasion intimated to the Queen that he was an atheist - Tommy thinks he may well have said an agnostic - and that the Queen had been a little shaken by his remarks.
He was certain that if he now went up and told her that Anthony was a communist, her immediate reaction would be "I always told you so".
The diaries also show that MI5 was on to John Cairncross as the fifth man of the Cambridge Spy ring by 1952.
"He was extremely perturbed when confronted with the document in his own handwriting which had been found among the papers of Burgess," Liddell writes.
MI5 watchers see him throwing away a recent copy of the Communist Review into a park paper bin.
The diaries show MI5 had successfully identified the spies but lacked the evidence to do much about it.
Philby's name would leak as "the third man" in 1955 but he would deny it until he fled, in 1963, to Moscow.
Blunt confessed to MI5 in 1964 but the public only learnt of what he had done in 1979, around the same time as they learnt of Cairncross.
And what of Liddell himself? The diaries include his account of an interview for the top job at MI5.
He missed out on it. Partly, it is thought, because of suspicions created by his friendships.
The diaries show he was certainly no traitor - just an MI5 man trying to do his best but suffering under the weight of some dangerous friendships in treacherous times.
The town in Alabama is important in American history for several reasons: the university founded by Booker T Washington is there, so was the all-black air force squadron and it was the site of an awful medical experiment on black men.
So we thought it was worth a stop on our holiday through the Deep South.
There, bang in the centre of this town with a 95% black population was a memorial to the Confederate war dead, the men who fought to keep black people as property.
It is the crux of a current debate. What is an affront to some is, for others, a mere matter of pride in their past. Or so they say. The trouble is the past is not neutral territory.
For decades, rows have erupted every once in a while over Confederate symbols.
Most potent is the Confederate flag.
Now, after the Charleston killings, by a man who celebrated that flag and denigrated the Stars and Stripes, it could be a big issue in the 2016 US presidential elections.
To some, the Civil War battle flag of the breakaway Southern states is as tainted as the swastika and allowing it to fly over the State House in South Carolina, where one-third of the population is black, is akin to hoisting the Hakenkreuz in Jerusalem.
As I wrote last autumn, to others, it is as innocent as the St George cross - occasionally waved by racists but not their exclusive property.
This could be the Republican Party's Clause Four moment - a deliberate rejection of the past - akin to the UK's Labour Party, in 1995, dropping its commitment to the state ownership of industry.
The shunning of the Confederate battle flag might be as potent a symbol as the flag itself.
The Republican Governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley - whose parents, incidentally, are originally from India - has changed her mind and now says it should go, as a "deeply offensive symbol of a brutally offensive past".
Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate in 2012, tweeted last weekend: "Take down the #ConfederateFlag at the SC Capitol. To many, it is a symbol of racial hatred. Remove it now to honor #Charleston victims."
He ignited a debate.
The Republican frontrunner for 2016, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, said: "In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged."
Rick Perry has tweeted removing the flag would be an act of "healing and unity".
But fellow Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker, who is thought likely to run, have suggested it is up to South Carolina.
This is really important because it plays into the Republican Party's big, long-term, political problem.
Despite recent successes, its vote is predominantly white, rural, and elderly.
The growing force in US politics is the Hispanic vote - that minority has become the largest single ethnic group in California and soon will be in Texas too.
Some Republicans worry the harsh tone of their debate over illegal immigration from Central and South America has poisoned their image with people whose family come from that part of the world.
I have long thought it would be a pivotal moment when - or if - a Republican candidate found the right language - and politics - to challenge this perception.
But the fury about the Confederate flag provides them with another opportunity to, as Americans put it, "reach out" beyond their core vote.
Only 6% of black Americans voted Republican in 2012.
You could just assume it is not surprising that a conservative party does not appeal to a group statistically less well off than other Americans.
But that is very far from the truth, and alien to the party's origins.
The US parties have only recently moulded themselves into the left-right divide familiar to the UK.
The Republican party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, the victor of the Civil War, the Grand Old Party, was the party that campaigned against slavery, and fought a war that liberated black Americans.
Their decision to shed that heritage was strategic and deliberate.
American politics underwent a stunning convulsion, an earthquake in the wake of the tsunami of civil rights.
The Democrats under Lyndon Johnson in the mid-1960s abandoned their traditional and uncomfortable split between northern liberals and trade unionists on the one hand and highly conservative Southern racial supremacists on the other.
The Dixiecrats had ruled the South like a one-party state, and with about as much toleration of black dissent as any dictatorship.
The Republicans deliberately pursued what was known as "the Southern strategy" to pick up disgruntled white voters in the South with a harder racial politics.
Morally questionable, it was strategically stunningly successful.
The South is now overwhelmingly Republican - but this now feels like winning a race by speeding down a cul-de-sac.
This is, of course, is not only about one party's fortunes but also a deep wound that still divides a nation.
The trouble is many white Americans believe that the scars are fading, while many black Americans feel the injury is turning septic.
The problem is a different view of history.
To some, slavery was a very long time ago, civil rights battles were won a generation ago and equality is the law and the norm.
As I've heard people put it: "They should get over it."
This complacent view ignores what actually happened after the Civil War.
Reconstruction, as the period is known, saw hundreds of black politicians elected and black Americans appointed as lawmen, and the growth of black businesses.
These modest baby steps towards equality were smashed.
The Ku Klux Klan was set up deliberately to destroy this progress.
It is no accident that "uppity" is the adjective attached to the familiar insulting description of black people - the violent politics of the time was about keeping a people down, destroying aspirations, keeping them from rising to the economic and political levels of even the poorest whites.
And the Confederate flag was their flag.
It was made part of Mississippi's state flag only in 1894 - some 30 years after the Civil War, but a couple of years after Congress made it easier to disenfranchise black people.
Georgia got rid of the Confederate flag from its state flag in 2001. But it was not there as some deep historical hangover - it was put there only in 1956, as the arguments about civil rights raged.
The Confederate flag can be seen as a symbol of the tattered dignity of a proud people who lost a war.
But undeniably it has also been the rallying banner of an active and successful resistance to racial equality, a celebration of the renaissance of white power, a symbol that the struggle did not end in 1865.
The most subtle observer of the South, novelist William Faulkner, wrote: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
But it might be less present if Republicans adopt a new strategy for a New South.
I'm pretty pleased with my sixth-place finish in Whistler last week at the opening World Cup event. It's a difficult track that hasn't been on circuit that much over the last few years and it can always catch you out if you start to get a little complacent with things.
I was most happy that I put down two consistent runs - as I mentioned last time, consistency is one of the hardest elements of skeleton so to put down two runs within six hundredths of a second of each other was really positive.
A couple of days ago, the decision was made by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) to move the World Championships away from Sochi, Russia.
At this point it's still undecided where they are going to be moved to and that puts things up in the air a little bit for this time in the season, because normally by this point you know exactly where you're going and what the track is going to be so you can start planning for it.
I'm hoping now that regardless of where the World Championships is that it's going to be a really good competition.
Although I love sliding, I can't wait to get back home for Christmas. We fly back the day after the race on Sunday and we will have been away for five weeks.
We get in on the 19th and we leave again before New Year for the second half of the season. I don't get long at home but I'm really looking forward to it. Christmas is a really important time to chill out and stop being a skeleton athlete (around training of course!) and try and see friends and family.
Because I live and train in Bath at our national training centre, I'm not close to where most of my family live so it's good to get round and see everyone.
I always love coming to North America to slide. The people here are really friendly and the venues are great, and I particularly love the fact that Lake Placid has got so much Olympic history, having hosted two Winter Olympic Games in 1932 and 1980.
I'd love to win a medal here because I feel like I connect with the track.
This course is very different from Whistler. It's older, twistier with lots of unique features, and although the top speed isn't as high, the corners come at you very quickly so you really have to be on top of things to get a good track time here.
The weather is set to get very cold over the next couple of days, with lows of around -25C. When it's that cold, it's debatable whether going outside for your 'warm up' is really worth it!
One of the most unique things about Lake Placid is the fact that the current ice track and the old, disused one sit side-by-side on the hill.
The old track has legendary status as one of the toughest tracks ever, and just by looking at the dramatic profiles of the corners you can see why.
The coaches talk about sliding it in terms of survival rather than enjoyment which just about says it all. I love the fact that the two tracks side-by-side really show the evolution of the sport. Whenever the going gets tough here, I always say to myself that at least I'm not sliding the old track!
Rebeka Nazmin, 31, and Mohammed Miah, 37, of Poplar, east London, deny murdering their 13-week-old son Rifat.
He was taken to hospital on 4 July 2016 with 47 broken bones and a fatal brain injury.
Ms Nazmin told the child to shake the baby or put water on him to rouse him and if that failed, to call an ambulance, Old Bailey jurors were told.
Rifat had been in the corner of his parents' bedroom, when the child noticed the baby was "red and hot".
Initially Rifat had been "doing something, then he lies there doing nothing. He didn't even wake up," the child told police.
Under cross-examination the child admitted shaking Rifat the day before his death but said Mr Miah was to blame for the fatality.
Mr Miah hit Rifat and the child with a mobile phone lead, the young witness said.
Both parents have blamed the child for Rifat's injuries.
The child, who has autism and a history of hitting other children, had become "charming" and "delightful" at primary school since receiving specialist educational help, the court heard.
The child cuddled and sometimes carried Rifat when he cried and was "good and caring" towards Rifat because Ms Nazmin had asked the child to be careful when looking after her son, the child said.
Ms Nazmin allegedly told police that her husband had a problem with Rifat's deformed hand and had abused him because of it.
Both parents have been charged with causing or allowing Rifat to suffer serious physical harm between 31 March and 6 July 2016.
Mr Miah is also accused of cruelty towards two other children, who cannot be identified, on 4 July 2016.
The trial continues.
Mae ffigyrau diweddar gan Lywodraeth Cymru yn dangos toriadau yn lefel staffio ysgolion awdurdodau lleol.
Mae canlyniadau cyfrifiad ysgolion 2016 yn dangos bod 446 yn llai o staff cefnogol yn ysgolion Cymru i gymharu gyda'r flwyddyn flaenorol gyda 275 yn llai o athrawon.
Mae staff cefnogol yn cynnwys, cymorthyddion dosbarth sydd yn amlwg iawn yn nosbarthiadau plant iau sydd yn astudio cyfnod sylfaen Llywodraeth Cymru.
"Yn dilyn blwyddyn o doriadau, does gan brif athrawon ddim lle i edrych dim ond ar lefel y staffio sydd ganddyn nhw," meddai swyddog polisi undeb yr NUT yng Nghymru, Owen Hathway wrth raglen Newyddion 9.
"Mae rhaid osgoi hyn oherwydd mae colli cymorthyddion dosbarth yn rhoi mwy o bwysau ar yr athrawon sydd yn parhau i fod yno. Tydi hynny ddim yn deg ar y plant pan rydym yn ceisio sicrhau eu bod nhw'n derbyn yr addysg orau bosib yng Nghymru," meddai.
Rhybuddiodd swyddog maes undeb UCAC, Ywain Myfyr y byddai'r toriadau yn "effeithio pwysau gwaith yr athrawon. Mae hynny yn ein pryderu'n fawr, mi fydd hi'n anodd recriwtio yn y dyfodol," meddai.
Mae undeb Unsain yn cynrychioli staff cefnogol yn yr ysgolion a dywedodd ei harweinydd yng Nghymru Jess Turner: "Mae ysgolion angen mwy na dim ond athrawon i weithredu'n gywir.
"Pob amser mae glanhawr, gofalwr neu weithiwr gweinyddol yn colli ei swyddi, mae'n golygu mwy o bwysau ar staff yr ystafell ddosbarth.
"Mae'r rheiny sydd yn parhau yn ei swyddi yn gwneud ei gorau i gadw'r safon yn yr ysgolion. Ond gyda llai o staff mae diogelwch yn y fantol," meddai.
Dywedodd Llefarydd ar ran Llywodraeth Cymru:
"Mae Ysgolion yn ganolog i'r ymgyrch genedlaethol i wella safonau addysg yng Nghymru ac i ehangu'r cyfleoedd ar gyfer pobl ifanc.
"Rydym yn ymwybodol o'r heriau ariannol sydd yn wynebu ein hysgolion ac rydym wedi blaenoriaethu cyllid ar gyfer ysgolion o fewn y setliad rydym yn ei roi i'r awdurdodau lleol.
"Yn y flwyddyn ariannol ddiwethaf roedd £35m yn y setliad llywodraeth leol ar gyfer gwasanaethau ysgolion ac rydym wedi gosod cyllid a setliad llywodraeth leol ar gyfer sefydlogrwydd yn 2017-18 gyda mwy o arian yn gyffredinol ar lefel cenedlaethol.
"Mae newid i'r gweithlu nid pob amser o ganlyniad i newid mewn cyllid. Pob blwyddyn, mae newidiadau i'r gweithlu am resymau dilys megis newid yn niferoedd disgyblion, a blaenoriaethau ar lefel leol, ranbarthol a chenedlaethol.
"Dros y pum mlynedd hyd at 2016 mae yna ostyngiad wedi bod yn niferoedd athrawon ond mae nifer pob disgybl i phob athro wedi aros yn sefydlog (18.4-18.6)."
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru hefyd yn pwysleisio, er bod gostyngiad o 446 wedi bod yn niferoedd staff cynorthwyol yn 2016 mae yna dal 1,700 yn fwy na phum mlynedd yn ôl.
Two people approached the then-eight-month pregnant woman after she parked her VW Golf in a Birmingham car park in December 2016.
She tried to run away but was dragged to the floor before the attackers stole her keys and smashed her phone.
The charged boy, 15, is accused of robbery and possession of CS spray.
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He was arrested at his Small Heath home on Thursday, police said, and was due to appear at Birmingham Youth Court on Friday.
Two firearms and suspected stolen property were seized by police during a search.
The woman was treated for minor injuries in hospital following her ordeal near Yew Tree car park, opposite Frogmoor Lane, Yardley, on 11 December 2016.
Police said then she and her unborn child were "doing well".
The Conference North side's Meadow Park ground was destroyed by flood water in the summer of 2007.
They have been based in Cheltenham since 2010, having previously shared with Forest Green and Cirencester.
Gloucester City have not played a competitive game at their own home since 28 April 2007, when they beat Clevedon Town 3-1 at Meadow Park.
The Tigers are in the process of submitting a planning application to Gloucester City Council to rebuild their stadium on its original site.
"I am delighted to have agreed an extension for a further season," said Cheltenham chairman Paul Baker.
"It makes very good business sense for the club to maximise its assets in this way and despite the additional wear and tear the extra revenue generated is very welcome indeed.
"The relationship between the two clubs has never been better and I am pleased that we have been able to work together for our mutual benefit."
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South Korea needed a win so the onus was on them to attack and they were helped when Steven Defour was sent off for a reckless tackle on Kim Shin-wook.
A Son Heung-Min cross struck the face of the Belgium crossbar but the Asian side struggled to create chances.
And Jan Vertonghen scored the Red Devils' winner when he slotted in after a Divock Origi shot was parried.
Belgium have been criticised for a lack of flair so far in the tournament, but there is little question about their resilience as they have let in just one goal in three games and are unbeaten in their last 13 competitive matches.
Their victory - the first time the Red Devils have won three group games at a World Cup - eliminated a South Korea side who lacked a cutting edge to go with their endeavour.
South Korea boss Hong Myung-Bo apologised to his country's fans after a 4-2 defeat by Algeria in their previous match and his side began with the greater urgency in Sao Paulo.
However, Hong's side might have conceded a spot-kick when Kim Young-gwon cynically blocked Anthony Vanen Borre in an offence which began outside the box and continued inside the penalty area.
And despite all South Korea's early effort they should have gone behind when a Kevin Mirallas shot broke for Dries Mertens, only for the Belgium midfielder to sidefoot high from eight yards with just the keeper to beat.
Hong's side tried to respond, with Ki Sung-yeung's 25-yard shot being turned around the post by keeper Thibaut Courtois.
And from the resulting corner a header back across goal came off Belgium defender Nicolas Lombaerts before being hacked off the line by Defour.
That was almost the last action of the match for Defour as he was soon sent off for a dangerous studs-up tackle which caught Kim on his shin.
With South Korea having the numerical advantage Hong brought on forward Lee Keunho for midfielder Han Kook-young at half-time.
And the substitute striker almost had an immediate impact as he had a shot blocked before heading a cross over, while a Son cross struck the face of the crossbar.
South Korea's need to attack left them exposed at the back and Belgium took advantage.
Origi had looked lively for Belgium after coming on as a substitute and, after his 22-yard strike being parried by keeper Kim Seung-gyu, Vertonghen reacted quickest to slot in the winner.
Claire Roberts and Adam Strain died months apart while they were being treated at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in 1995 and 1996.
Their deaths are being investigated by the inquiry into hyponatraemia-related deaths in Banbridge, County Down.
The issue of hospital fluids management is central to the public inquiry.
Hyponatraemia is the term for a low level of sodium in the bloodstream, which causes the brain cells to swell with too much water.
Four-year-old Adam Strain died shortly after undergoing a kidney transplant at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in 1995.
Claire Roberts was nine when she died at the same hospital the following year.
She had been admitted following vomiting and drowsiness and doctors prescribed intravenous fluids.
However, Claire was given a fatal overdose of fluids and drugs.
In the 17 years since her death, Belfast Health Trust had denied that fluid management played any role and wrongly attributed Claire's death to a brain virus.
The trust maintained its stance during the child's inquest in 2006.
However, at the public inquiry on Thursday, the trust's lawyer said his client now accepted it was liable for Claire Roberts' death and made "a full and frank admission of liability on behalf of the Belfast Trust".
He said it also wanted to offer "a sincere apology for the shortcomings in the management of Claire's treatment" and acknowledged that it had failed to treat the child to an appropriate standard.
During the hearing, the Belfast Health Trust also admitted publicly for the first time liability in the earlier case of Adam Strain.
It had previously settled this case with Adam's family but a confidentiality clause prevented any detail of that settlement from emerging.
The public inquiry is also investigating specific issues around the treatment of 15-year-old Conor Mitchell who was admitted to Craigavon Area Hospital on 8 May 2003.
The following day, the teenager was transferred the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, where he died on 12 May.
At Thursday's hearing, the Southern Health Trust admitted that guidelines had not been followed when the teenager was treated in Craigavon Area Hospital and it apologised to his family.
However, the Southern Health Trust has not accepted liability for Conor's death.
The inquiry chairman, Justice John O'Hara QC, welcomed the admissions and acknowledged that it was "never easy to admit when mistakes had been made".
Mr O'Hara said the families had made it clear that their pursuit of the truth was "in memory of their children" and that he hoped that today "they feel there is some added justification for what they have done".
Speaking to BBC Northern Ireland after the hearing, Claire Roberts' parents welcomed the trust's apology and admission of liability as a small step forward but said there were still many questions over their child's death that had not been answered.
The inquiry into hyponatraemia-related deaths is investigating fluid management issues after the deaths of five children in Northern Ireland hospitals.
It is looking into the deaths of three of the children, the events following the death of another and a number of issues arising from the death of a fifth.
The deaths all took place between 1995 and 2003, and in each case, the way in which fluids were given to the children following surgery is implicated in their deaths.
On August 30, the Western Health and Social Care Trust admitted liability over the death of nine-year-old Raychel Ferguson.
Raychel died in June 2001, a day after an appendix operation at Altnagelvin Hospital, Londonderry.
She was administered a lethal dose of intravenous fluid after her appendix was removed.
Michael Salmon, 81, from Salisbury, was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court of 14 indecent assaults at Stoke Mandeville and Royal Buckinghamshire hospitals in the 1970s and 1980s.
Salmon, who was sentenced to 18 years in 2015 for similar offences, was cleared of 11 assaults and one rape
He had denied all the charges.
The court was told the former consultant paediatrician used his position to take advantage of young patients between 1975 and 1989.
Complaints were made by 18 women and one man who are now grown up.
Other girls said they were separated from their parents before he asked them to take their clothes off and touched them inappropriately.
The court heard some of the girls did not realise they had been abused.
The jury was also told Mr Salmon, who will be sentenced next Monday, admitted three charges of indecent assault in 1991.
Savile was believed to have assaulted more than 60 people at Stoke Mandeville Hospital between 1968 and 1992.
His youngest victim was aged eight.
It is not believed any of Salmon's and Savile's offending was linked.
It is only the second time a Briton has won the event since its 2004 rebrand, after Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2013.
Dimension Data rider Cummings finished in the main bunch as Australian Caleb Ewan won the sprint at Piccadilly Circus to end the 16-lap 100km course.
Australia's Rohan Dennis was second overall, 26 seconds behind, with Dutchman Tom Dumoulin third.
Cummings, 35, was runner-up in 2008 and 2011. He took the overall lead in this year's race by finishing eighth on stage six of the eight-day race and held on to it despite losing time on the penultimate day.
Victory builds on an impressive year in which he claimed stage wins in Tirreno-Adriatico, the Tour of the Basque Country, the Criterium du Dauphine and the Tour de France.
"I'm delighted. Finally I can smile and enjoy it. It's been a tough week. It was so close that it wasn't done until I crossed the line," he said.
"I'd to thank all my team-mates for keeping me out of trouble, and the British public for supporting every day like they have. It's been a great week."
The Netherlands' Jasper Bovenhuis won the sprint classification, Xandro Meurisse of Belgium was the best climber and Bovenhuis' compatriot Dylan Groenewegen - second behind Ewan on Sunday - won the points classification.
Team Sky, for whom British rider Ben Swift was eighth overall, won the prize for best team.
1. Steve Cummings (GB/Dimension Data) 29hrs 21mins 21secs
2. Rohan Dennis (Aus/BMC) +26secs
3. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Giant-Alpecin) +38secs
4. Tony Gallopin (Fra/Lotto Soudal) +1min 02secs
5. Dylan van Baarle (Ned/Cannondale Drapac Team) +1min 21secs
6. Nicolas Roche (Ire/Sky) +1min 26secs
7. Xandro Meurisse (Bel/Wanty-Groupe Gobert) 1min 48secs
8. Ben Swift (GB/Sky) +1min 52secs
9. Julien Vermote (Bel/Etixx Quick-Step) +2mins 12secs
10. Jacopo Mosca (Ita/Trek-Segafredo) +2mins 32secs
1 Caleb Ewan (Aus/Orica-BikeExchange) 2hrs 09mins 24secs
2. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/Team LottoNl-Jumbo) same time
3. Jens Debusschere (Bel/Lotto Soudal)
4. Boy Van Poppel (Ned/Trek-Segafredo)
5 Elia Viviani (Ita/Sky)
6. Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto Soudal)
7. Daniel McLay (GB/Fortuneo - Vital Concept)
8. Steele von Hoff (Aus/ONE Pro Cycling)
9. Nicola Ruffoni (Ita/Bardiani CSF)
10. Paolo Simion (Ita/Bardiani CSF)
Natural Resources Wales has issued three flood warnings and eight flood alerts for Friday, with adverse weather hitting rail and ferry services.
There are also a number of road closures and drivers have been warned to allow extra time for their journeys.
Network Rail has tweeted that the Macynlleth lines affected by flooding are now open.
A replacement bus service is being put in place.
The disruption, affecting Arriva Trains Wales journeys between Pwllheli, Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury, is likely to last until 14:00 GMT, the company said.
The Dyfi valley has also been hit by flooding.
Rail passengers are advised to check services before the travel.
The flood warnings have been issued for River Severn at Pool Quay and Trewern, River Severn at Aberbechan, and River Severn at Abermule and Fron.
The A490 in Powys is closed in both directions between A489 at Church Stoke and B4386 at Chirbury due to flooding.
Ferry company Stena Line has said sailings from Holyhead on Anglesey have been delayed and travellers should check departures.
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Unions representing Tube workers will have to meet minimum thresholds of turnout and support in order to strike.
The change was welcomed by Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith, who said it would avert "spurious" action.
Labour candidate Sadiq Khan claimed the move had been timed to "destabilise" negotiations over the Night Tube.
A series of Tube walkouts had been planned for dates in January and February, but Aslef, the Transport Salaried Staff Association and Unite have all agreed to suspend the action.
Rail, Maritime and Transport union reps will make a decision on Monday.
Ballots currently require a simple majority to back action.
But under the Trade Union Bill currently before Parliament, ballots in core services would need to attract a turnout of 50% or more - with at least 40% voting in favour - in order to be deemed lawful.
The government has now signalled its intention to include Underground, bus and tram drivers, conductors, guards and safety staff under those rules.
However, the strikes which took place in the capital last year would have met those conditions.
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash accused the government of "trying to ban strikes by the back door".
But Employment Minister Nick Boles described the thresholds as "fairly balanced" with the right to strike.
Mr Goldsmith hailed the Tube service as "essential" and said the new criteria for industrial action would help avoid "strikes on spurious grounds with little real support".
Firefighters, doctors, nurses, border control staff and teachers at state schools will also be considered "important services" under the government's scheme.
A lawsuit has been filed which alleges that the firm has used discriminatory recruitment procedures since 2010.
The US Department of Labor is seeking compensation for those affected, including lost wages and promotions.
Palantir Technologies said it "firmly denied" the allegations.
"We are disappointed that the Department of Labor chose to proceed with an administrative action and firmly deny the allegations," the company said in a statement shared by the Wall Street Journal (subscription website).
"Despite repeated efforts to highlight the results of our hiring practices, the Department of Labor relies on a narrow and flawed statistical analysis relating to three job descriptions from 2010 to 2011."
On its website it says it "celebrate(s) difference and diversity - of background, approach and identity".
The government identified three staff roles for which it alleges there was biased recruiting:
It said the likelihood of the software engineer position having been filled that way by chance was "approximately one in 3.4 million".
"From at least January 1, 2010 and going forward to the present, Palantir utilised a four-phase hiring process in which Asian applicants were routinely eliminated during the resume, screen and telephone interview phase despite being as qualified as white applicants with respect to the QA Engineer, Software Engineer and QA Engineer Intern positions," the lawsuit paperwork reads.
"In addition the majority of Palantir's hires into these positions came from an employee referral system that disproportionately excluded Asians."
The firm, which specialises in data mining, is credited with helping the US government find Osama Bin Laden.
Last year, Reuters reported that it was valued at $20bn (£15bn).
Ministers said they needed to cut subsidies to force bills as low as possible.
But the Energy and Climate Change Committee says the government's sudden policy shifts on energy have hit investors' confidence.
It warns lenders may respond by putting a risk premium on future investments in clean energy.
This in turn may lead, perversely, to bills increasing not decreasing in the long run.
Angus MacNeil, committee chair, said: "Billions of pounds are needed to replace ageing energy infrastructure, maintain secure energy supplies and meet climate change targets. "The government made a number of sudden and unexpected changes to policy. This has spooked investors.
"In the same way that someone with a poor credit rating will have to pay higher interest rates when they take out a bank loan, so an energy project that is perceived to be higher risk will have to pay a higher risk premium.
"Any increase in the cost of capital will ultimately get passed on to consumers through higher bills."
Schroders Investment Management told the MPs: "In the light of recent changes to support mechanisms, we perceive that there is now increased policy risk and therefore require a higher premium to compensate for this risk."
The committee urged the government to produce a long-term plan to replace the previous subsidy regime, which many experts thought was too complex.
Ministers promised new policies by the end of last year, but these have now been postponed until the end of 2016, leaving many investors confused and wary.
The committee points out that ministers have cut support for solar and onshore wind, ended the "Green Deal" energy efficiency programme and cancelled a project for carbon capture and storage (CCS) - a technology the Prime Minister previously referred to as "crucial".
Siemens pointed in evidence to what they say are contradictory statements from government:
The committee said other factors affecting investor confidence include a lack of transparency in decision-making, and a lack of understanding of the industry's needs by the Treasury.
The MPs say this is all threatening the UK's ability to meet its objectives on energy security and climate change.
Mr MacNeil said: "Two months ago, a historic new global climate agreement was signed in Paris. But investors have begun questioning how committed the government really is to tackling climate change."
Sources close to the Chancellor say he is focused on energy prices and security, rather than climate change.
Some observers note that he was backed into a political corner by Ed Milliband's pre-election pledge that Labour would freeze energy bills if they were elected. His subsidy cuts are estimated by Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to save the average household 67p a week.
Nick Molho, executive director of the Aldersgate Group, which represents green business, said: "We have to recognise that the government has faced cost pressures leading to some of its recent policy decisions.
"But the committee is right to highlight the recent dip in investor confidence. What has been particularly damaging is the lack of an alternative plan, rather than the changes themselves."
Former CBI chief Lord Turner said: "It's fairly obvious that investors look to politicians for a clear and stable policy framework, especially when they are making investments in large projects that can take years to pay off.
"It's so obvious that one wonders why a select committee has to point this out to the Treasury - but apparently it is necessary, given the continued sense that UK energy policy is drifting aimlessly."
The MPs want Mr Osborne's National Infrastructure Commission to be tasked with investigating the need for new energy infrastructure. They point out that no energy infrastructure is being built in the UK without some sort of government subsidy.
Former Shell UK chairman James Smith told BBC News the government should appoint an "energy tsar" to take the politics out of long-term investment decisions.
A DECC spokesman said: "Our priority is crystal clear - to ensure our families and businesses have access to secure, affordable and clean energy supplies.
"We have been clear that low-carbon energy sources such as nuclear, offshore wind and shale gas will play a key role in our energy future. At the same time we are taking action to keep bills as low as possible to protect consumers."
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A bronze statue of Roma Jones and her sister Emma, with their sons Kyan Ishann Jones and Shaye-Jones Amin, will be put up in Centenary Square.
It is part of a three-year project by Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing and the Ikon gallery to find out what it means to be a family.
A campaign to raise £100,000 to build the statue has started.
The family said: "We feel truly amazed and honoured to be chosen to represent what it means to be a family in Birmingham.
"We feel it highlights that family is an indestructible bond between people that is universal and it doesn't matter how it is made up or what it looks like."
They were chosen from a shortlist of four families by a panel of nine judges.
Stuart Tulloch from the Ikon gallery said it was a "unanimous decision" to select them.
"Their story is compelling and says much about contemporary Birmingham: two mixed-race sisters, both single-parents with happy, lively young boys, who identify themselves strongly with the city of their birth.
"The bronze sculpture will take its place in Centenary Square near statues of kings and industrial pioneers.
"In-so-doing, we draw attention to the everyday and the unsung, a lasting memorial to the people of Birmingham who are the life-blood of our city."
But if this happened, would it enable migrants in Calais to come to the UK?
"If you leave the European Union, you don't have any relationship with France - you must separate and take your border back," Hasan Amin says from the Calais "Jungle", with tents on the rocky, sandy ground behind him.
He is one of approximately 5,000 refugees and migrants living in the makeshift camp, all of whom hope to make their way across the Channel and enter the UK. Most are from war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea.
They have few possessions and depend on food handouts from charities to survive, but some - like Hasan - have still been able to follow the UK's referendum and the fallout that has followed.
He is aware, in particular, of claims from some French politicians that UK border police - who work to prevent migrants from illegally travelling to the UK - should no longer operate in Calais.
"It would be a good thing, because we will [be able to travel to] the UK - we will go to London, Leeds, Birmingham easily," Hasan says.
Others in the camp agree with Hasan - although they are very used to changes in immigration rules, so with hope comes scepticism.
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Whether these changes should - or will - be implemented is the subject of heated debate among French politicians.
It centres on the 2003 Touquet treaty between the UK and France, which allows UK immigration checks to be used on passengers before they embark on cross-Channel services.
It has effectively moved Britain's border to northern France and has led - in part - to the establishment of the Jungle.
The treaty is not actually linked to the UK's EU membership, but since the referendum result there have been calls from some French politicians to reject the deal.
If either nation did wish to end the agreement, they could do so at any time simply by informing the other party in writing - with a two-year delay before the change could come into effect.
Hasan hopes that, were this to happen, he would be able to successfully apply for asylum in the UK.
His story is different to most in the Jungle - he fled Afghanistan to escape his father, who wanted to kill him because he had a Christian girlfriend. The scars down the left side of his torso are evidence of previous beatings.
Following the UK's decision to leave the EU, however, David Cameron has told Parliament that the UK government "supports continuing the treaty... and we'll do everything we can to persuade the French to keep to their side of the bargain and continue as we are".
In the short term, France is unlikely to end the agreement as the governing Socialist Party wishes to maintain it.
Its interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, has said scrapping the deal would act as a magnet to people smugglers and migrants, whose numbers he predicts would swell "to 20,000".
Future French governments, however, may have a different viewpoint - with the next presidential election set to take place in the spring of 2017. The front runner, Alain Juppe, has said he would be in favour of ending the treaty.
Xavier Bertrand, president of the Hauts-de-France region where Calais is located, first warned the UK about changes to the treaty before the referendum. He says there is support "across the centre and right" of the political spectrum to end the agreement.
It is not just politicians, however, that think the border should return to Dover.
Clare Moseley started her own charity in the Jungle, and has been there a year. She believes that ending the treaty would be one way of ensuring the UK takes in more migrants - something she favours.
"Over half of them [living in the Jungle] have family connections to the UK. Other people have other reasons [for coming to the UK] - like the soldiers who worked in Afghanistan for the British Army.
"There are millions of refugees in Europe and lots of other countries have taken lots of them in. I don't see any reason why we shouldn't."
The government has consistently rejected claims it is not doing enough to take in migrants. In September 2015, it said the UK would accept up to 20,000 refugees from Syria over the next five years.
Ms Moseley does worry, however, that if the treaty were to end, migrants could lose their lives trying to cross the Channel.
Mr Bertrand has said that, in the event of the treaty being ended, he does not envisage boats being laid on to take migrants to the UK.
Asked if this would risk the deaths of migrants trying to cross the Channel, he replies: "Let's be serious, they have journeyed thousands of miles, crossed the Mediterranean - the Channel is 20 kilometres."
This is a discussion point for the future. But the fact that the end of the treaty is being talked about so seriously may be a matter of concern to some Leave voters who hoped to see a fall in immigration.
The Indomitable Lions are aiming for a fifth title when they play seven-time winners Egypt on Sunday in Libreville.
Oyongo says the squad is united without the absentees from Gabon.
"If the guys were here, we wouldn't be how we are now," the Montreal Impact player told BBC Sport.
If the guys were here, we wouldn't be how we are now
"We have made an effort in every game. If they were here, I don't think they would put in the same effort so it's good for us to forget the other players so we focus on the team [that is here]."
Liverpool defender Joel Matip was among the players to stay away and Oyongo believes their absence will come into sharper focus when World Cup qualifying resumes later this year.
"For the next competition and the next international game, the coach will have to take the decision about them," added the 25-year-old.
Cameroon coach Hugo Broos has previously said the missing players will have to prove themselves if they want to be recalled in the future.
Former Cameroon international Patrick Mboma, meanwhile, is impressed with the way the 2017 squad has coped without the absentees, who he thinks should now be kept out of the side.
"I'm very proud because they have brought a good atmosphere and a good energy," he told BBC Sport.
"That means that players are happy to be here playing for one another. They have no tension on or off the pitch and are just fighting for the flag - that is very, very important."
"Some players, who are healthy, want to think about themselves. That can be understood but I think that choice should be their choice forever."
"I don't know if (their absence) has had a positive impact, but we have to focus on the 23 who accepted to play."
It is a group of 23 friends and I never saw this in a football team
The Cameroon coach, former Belgian international Hugo Broos, is impressed with the team spirit in his squad and thinks those missing are now having second thoughts.
"There were some players who didn't come - I think maybe now they regret that they are not here with us.
They still have a future, but the decision is now with them.
"I will not phone them and ask them if they will come. They have to phone me to say "I'm ready to play for Cameroon". And not only one game. Because when they come, they stay. It's not today I come and the next they go. So it's all they come or they are definitely not coming.
"I have been a coach for 29 years and I have never had a group of players like this.
"It is a group of 23 friends and I never saw this in a football team - there are normally arguments.
"Here they are 23 friends who like to play football and do everything to win the game. So for me it's very easy as a coach."
The hosts opened the scoring through Liam Enver-Marum's strike in the 20th minute but were pegged back six minutes later when Omari Sterling slammed home a powerful half-volley.
Moors took the lead when Asante got his first from the penalty spot and shortly after netted his second to double the visitors' lead, but Dan Sweeney managed to pull one back for Solihull before the break.
But Asante latched on to a through-ball by Ryan Beswick to seal the league's first hat-trick of the season and all three points.
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Match ends, Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 4.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 4.
Bobby-Joe Taylor (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Jamie Coyle (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Jack Paxman (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Darryl Knights replaces Omari Sterling-James.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Akwasi Asante.
Yemi Odubade (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jay May replaces Ben Greenhalgh.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Nathan Mavila replaces Jack Evans.
Dan Sweeney (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 4. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors).
Second Half begins Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 3.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jack Paxman replaces James Rogers.
First Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 3.
Goal! Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 3. Dan Sweeney (Maidstone United).
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Solihull Moors 3. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors).
James Rogers (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Solihull Moors 2. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors) converts the penalty with a.
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Solihull Moors 1. Omari Sterling-James (Solihull Moors).
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Solihull Moors 0. Liam Enver-Marum (Maidstone United).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
BBC Worldwide said "a small number" of fans had been sent pre-ordered DVDs three weeks early.
It asked those with the DVD not to reveal plot details which would ruin the "viewing pleasure" of others.
It promised footage of current Doctor Matt Smith with predecessor David Tennant "if everyone keeps the secret".
"A small number of US Doctor Who fans have received their series seven part two DVD three weeks early," BBC Worldwide said in a statement.
"We are asking fans who may have the discs not to divulge plot details so that fellow fans who have yet to see the episodes do not have their viewing pleasure ruined."
It said BBC Worldwide was "currently investigating how this has happened".
It added executive producer and lead writer Steven Moffat had promised the special video featuring Smith and Tennant if the secret was kept.
Saturday's episode of the BBC One show, The Name of the Doctor - written by Moffat - comes ahead of a 50th anniversary 3D special, due to air on 23 November.
Tennant and Billie Piper, who played his on-screen companion Rose Tyler, are among those who will guest star.
Tennant starred in Doctor Who from 2005 to 2010, while Piper first appeared in 2005 opposite Christopher Eccleston, who played the ninth Doctor.
In May 2011, Moffat criticised those "who call themselves fans" who revealed crucial plot lines ahead of transmission.
"You can imagine how much I hate them," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I wish they could go and be fans of something else."
He said it was "heartbreaking" when a fan, who had been invited to a press screening but asked not to give away spoilers, had posted the entire plot of two episodes on an internet forum "because you're trying to tell stories and stories depend on surprise".
"So to have some twit who came to a press launch, write up a story in the worst, most ham-fisted English you can imagine, and put it on the internet [is heartbreaking]."
The 50th anniversary of Doctor Who was marked at Sunday night's TV Baftas with a video montage while Jenna-Louise Coleman, who plays current assistant Clara Oswald, presented an award.
Sherborne Community Arts Centre Trust hopes to create the venue on a site behind the town's Paddock Gardens on Newland.
The plans also include three gallery spaces, a coffee shop and a sensory or memory garden.
The town council wants a public consultation to be held over the plans.
An anonymous benefactor has agreed to fund the project which is expected to cost more than £4m, the trust said.
The group wants the main entrance to the venue to be created through Paddock Gardens, which is currently owned by the town council, and would involve removing one of its stone walls.
Up to five small "pod" galleries have also been proposed for the gardens.
The trust estimates the gallery could attract between 50,000 and 80,000 visitors a year.
The town council will discuss the plans at a meeting later in a bid to set up a public consultation at Digby Hall on Hound Street.
The town's current tourist information centre is based on Digby Road.
Bloomfield owed a debt to Ross Etheridge for both goals after a pair of mistakes from the Doncaster goalkeeper.
Etheridge dropped a cross under pressure which allowed Bloomfield to hook home an over-head kick and give Wycombe a 19th-minute lead.
Doncaster responded well and were level 10 minutes later. James Coppinger - who missed an open goal from two yards before Wycombe's opener - was played in on the right and curled a wonderful low cross which Tommy Rowe met to score.
The home side were in the ascendancy and took a deserved lead on 40 minutes through John Marquis, who weaved his way into the box and confidently finished.
But Doncaster became increasingly sloppy after the break and an equaliser looked inevitable. It came on 78 minutes as Paris Cowan-Hall drilled a low shot from 20 yards which Etheridge fumbled, allowing Bloomfield to tap home the equaliser.
Wycombe almost snatched an injury-time winner but the unmarked Cowan-Hall could only flick a header narrowly wide.
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Match ends, Doncaster Rovers 2, Wycombe Wanderers 2.
Second Half ends, Doncaster Rovers 2, Wycombe Wanderers 2.
Attempt missed. Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Garry Thompson replaces Matt Bloomfield.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Will De Havilland.
Foul by Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers).
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Sam Wood replaces Luke O'Nien.
Attempt saved. Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers).
Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Goal! Doncaster Rovers 2, Wycombe Wanderers 2. Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Will De Havilland (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Will De Havilland (Wycombe Wanderers).
Foul by Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers).
Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers).
Jordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Luke O'Nien (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers).
Attempt saved. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by James Coppinger (Doncaster Rovers).
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Aaron Pierre.
Alfie Beestin (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Andy Butler.
Attempt blocked. Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
The Dons are seven points behind Rangers in second, with a game in hand, after a 2-1 defeat at Ross County.
McInnes has led Aberdeen to runners-up finishes behind Celtic - who they trail by 18 points - for the last two years.
"There is always pressure at Pittodrie and the pressure is on Derek to finish second, absolutely," said Miller.
"When I was Aberdeen manager it wasn't good enough to be second.
"But Derek has put himself in a position and only has himself to blame because he has done very well since going there and has already finished second.
"Now the pressure will go on and you will get fans grumbling about it. It is how you react to that, take it on board and start turning things around.
"You have got to win games, it is about results now and the pressure will be on him a bit. It is how he handles that."
Saturday's defeat in Dingwall was Aberdeen's fourth defeat in their last eight league games, while Rangers have won eight and drawn two of their last 11 Premiership matches to move clear in second.
Miller, who played more than 550 games for the club in a trophy-laden 18-year career before a three-year spell as manager from 1992 to 1995, believes the Dons have suffered from inconsistent selection this season.
But he believes they still have a squad capable of overhauling Rangers and delivering a third straight runners-up spot.
"I thought [at the outset] that Aberdeen would have finished second this season, if you look at the strength in depth they have," he told BBC Scotland's Sunday Sportsound.
"That brings its own issues and can put it in the manager's mind that he might want to change his personnel, and Aberdeen haven't had a consistent selection this season.
"Although they are still playing well, losing at Ibrox - where they played well but were beaten - has had an adverse effect. That puts pressure on the players and the manager and how do they handle that pressure?
"They had an opportunity in midweek [against Motherwell] to close the gap but the floodlights went out.
"Then they go to Ross County - never an easy place to go - but when they lose like that after they have played well, when County are down to 10 men, it is a huge blow to confidence.
"It is going to take a big effort from everyone at Pittodrie to get back on track again. But I still think the squad they have got is capable of finishing second."
Tube services were halted on Wednesday evening after a walkout by Underground staff over pay and conditions. They will not resume until Friday morning.
The Tube dispute centres on night services, set to begin in September.
A walkout by First Great Western staff has halved high-speed services between London, the west of England and Wales.
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An extra 200 buses are being laid on, as well as additional river services, to help cope with demand in the capital, TfL said.
London Overground, DLR, TfL Rail and tram services are unaffected by the industrial action.
Those able to travel outside peak times are being urged to do so.
On Thursday morning Mike Brown, managing director of London Underground, said: "I am very sorry your journey has been disrupted. This strike is unnecessary."
The strike began at 18:30 BST on Wednesday when members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and Unite walked out in a 24-hour action.
At 21:30, members of the train drivers' union Aslef began their own 24-hour stoppage.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "The strike action on London Underground is rock solid across all lines.
"That means an end to the attempt to bulldoze through new working patterns."
This Tube strike is as much about personalities as it is about the deal they are trying to hammer out.
The team negotiating for London Underground is new to this. The chief operating officer Steve Griffiths joined from Virgin Atlantic earlier this year, and my understanding is that no-one on the management side of the table has experience with rail deals.
Not that long ago, bosses on both sides would have got together, informally, away from the negotiating table - maybe over a beer - to see if they could smooth the path for an agreement.
That has not happened this time.
So we have got a group of frustrated unions, led it seems by Aslef, who feel they are being pushed around, a frustrated London Underground who say the unions refuse to talk about the main issues and four million tube passengers in the middle.
London mayor Boris Johnson has refused to rule out a delay to the opening of night Tube services, which are at the centre of the dispute between unions and London Underground.
Asked whether he expected the 24-hour service to launch on 12 September as planned, Mr Johnson said: "We will get it done this autumn."
The Tube strike coincides with a separate, 48-hour walkout by First Great Western staff, which began at 18:30 on Wednesday, causing disruption to rail services between London, the west of England and Wales.
Wimbledon spectator attendance is lower than last year and officials have not ruled out whether the travel disruption is a contributing factor.
A Wimbledon spokesman said: "There will be a reduction in the queue today because tickets are not available to buy for the show courts.
"We can't tell if it is down to the Tube strike."
Just over 37,000 spectators were at the All England Club on Wednesday, compared with a record attendance of 40,477 in 2014.
TfL warned that rush hour was likely to start earlier on Thursday as people made alternative arrangements to get home. It said buses, Overground services, river and Emirates Air Line services, as well as the cycle hire scheme were all likely to be in high demand when people headed home.
LU chief operating officer Steve Griffiths thanked Londoners for their patience and said: "We are, as we always have been, ready to talk at any time to sort out this dispute."
On Monday, members of all four unions rejected a "final" pay offer from LU which included a 2% rise this year and £2,000 for drivers on the weekend night Tube service.
The typical salary for a Tube driver is £50,000 a year, the RMT said, but the unions maintain the new plans would be disruptive to their members' lives.
They claim some employees are concerned they will have to work more overnight shifts and may have to work on their own at some stations.
The disputed weekend night services are set to begin on 12 September on sections of the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the strike was of benefit to no-one.
"We stand shoulder to shoulder with workers, families and commuters who want to go about their lives without disruption. I urge the strikers to accept the good offer that employers have made and get back to work," he said.
Aslef organiser Finn Brennan said the responsibility of the strikes "rests squarely with London Underground management" who "squandered the window of opportunity" to resolve it.
About 20,000 Tube workers are expected to walk out during the course of the strike.
Talks are set to resume on Friday.
Broady had two chances to win the first set but lost 7-6 (8-6) 6-3 in Auckland.
The world number 122 led 6-5 in the opener, but fifth seed Stephens held her serve to force a tie-break and saved a set point before taking it 8-6.
Broady, who won a controversial match to reach the last eight, broke to lead 2-1 in the next set, but Stephens won five of the next six games to progress.
"It was a tough one, Naomi's a great player," said Stephens. "She has had such a great week here."
His defence QC, Donald Findlay, told jurors at the High Court in Glasgow that the businessman had been made to look like a "pantomime villain".
He made the comments during his closing speech at the trial of Mr Whyte, who is accused of acquiring Rangers football club by fraud.
Mr Whyte denies the charge and another under the Companies Act.
The defence QC said 46-year-old Craig Whyte was "manifestly" not guilty of a crime in his May 2011 Ibrox takeover.
The advocate added: "The Crown are asking you to be selective in the most selective way imaginable - that is just wrong."
Jurors were previously told how Mr Whyte struck a £1 deal to purchase Sir David Murray's controlling stake at Ibrox.
Prosecutors claim Mr Whyte pretended to Sir David and others that funds were immediately available to meet all stipulated payments.
These obligations included an £18m bank debt for the club and a further £5m to go towards funds for the playing squad.
It is claimed Mr Whyte helped fund the takeover of Rangers through an agreement with the ticketing firm Ticketus against three years of season ticket receipts from the club.
Mr Findlay said: "You have seen witness after witness come into court not wanting to take responsibility and sought to absolve themselves for anything that happened.
"It is the playground mentality - it wasn't me. That is the attitude of so many witnesses in this case."
The QC claimed it appeared that both Sir David and Mr Whyte had been "ill served" by their advisers at the time.
Mr Findlay said it was clear that Mr Whyte had bought the shares to takeover Rangers.
However, he added: "Was there a crime? The defence say that manifestly there was not."
The advocate then criticised the prosecution's case.
Mr Findlay said: "A recurrent theme of what I will say to you is that the Crown approach is wrong, unfair, unjustified and unjustifiable.
"They are asking you to take 10 words from the indictment and that, if you look at those words, Mr Whyte is guilty.
"The Crown are asking you to be selective in the most selective way imaginable.
"That is just wrong, that is just unfair."
Mr Findlay claimed there had been "buck passing, back protecting and blind eye turning" seen during the trial.
He added: "What we have to do is sweep all that away and look at it in its context and in the real world."
Jurors were told Mr Whyte had come along with a "business plan" prior to his takeover.
Referring to Mr Whyte, the QC said: "There have been attempts to portray Craig Whyte as a pantomime villain...that everything was fine until he came along.
"But, that is far from the truth. He is being made to be the fall guy.
"Before you do that, you have to look at the whole evidence in this case."
During his closing argument, Mr Findlay also referred to Rangers' early Champions League exit against Swedish side Malmo after Mr Whyte took the helm at Ibrox in 2011.
He told the court: "If Rangers had made the league section of the Champions League, do we actually think we would be here today?
"The probability is no."
The court heard claims that the defeat cost the club up to £20m in lost income.
The QC also pointed out that there had been "no loss" to Sir David Murray in the buyout.
Mr Findlay spoke of the share purchase agreement, signed as part of the takeover.
The document makes reference to "third party resources".
The QC went on: "What did Murray's advisers do about it? Absolutely nothing. Why not? It is because what mattered was getting the deal over the finishing line."
The trial has previously heard claims "nothing" was spent on "due diligence" into Mr Whyte's background before the buyout.
Mr Findlay said it seemed the Murray team had been "more focused" on securing a sale.
The QC later pointed to an email from Michael McGill which included reference to Whyte's "other investors".
Mr Findlay added: "What is the only question if you are really concerned about the source of the money?
"It is "who are they...what other investors?'."
But, Mr Findlay said the Murray side did "absolutely nothing" in that regard.
He told jurors: "Only one conclusion can be drawn from that - it did not matter that there were other investors. It was the deal that mattered."
The court further heard the Murray team "ought to have known" about any role Ticketus had.
Mr Findlay claimed a "massive organisation" like the Murray Group could have made enquiries to "explain what this is all about".
The advocate is due to complete his speech on Monday before Judge Lady Stacey gives her legal directions to the jury.
The trial continues.
Lynne Owens will replace the NCA's first director general, Keith Bristow, who leaves the post in January.
The NCA took over from the Serious Organised Crime Agency in 2013.
Home Secretary Theresa May said Ms Owens was the best candidate to continue its work to tackle the full range of serious and organised crime.
Ms Owens, who was previously the Met Police assistant commissioner in charge of public order, moved to Surrey in 2012.
She said the NCA would need to continue to build its capabilities in the face of changing threats to the UK.
"Whether it be stemming the availability of illegal firearms, the fight against organised immigration crime, the threat presented by those who abuse children or the growth in cyber and economic crime, the work required is significant," she said.
She said it had been an "absolute privilege" to be chief constable of Surrey.
Mrs May said under Mr Bristow's leadership the NCA had re-shaped the UK's response to serious and organised crime.
"He has been at the forefront of the law enforcement community, leading and co-ordinating the UK's effort to tackle the most dangerous individuals and criminal groups," she said.
Jameel Muhktar had to be placed in an induced coma after he and his cousin, Resham Khan, suffered severe burns in the attack on 21 June in east London.
Mr Muhktar, 37, who has since moved from London to Greater Manchester said his "confidence is rock bottom".
"It's like a split second changed everything... It's ruined me", he said.
The cousins had been celebrating Ms Khan's 21st birthday before the attack in which a corrosive substance was thrown on to them through their car windows while they were at traffic lights in Beckton.
Mr Muhktar had burns across his body arms, legs, back, neck and the right side of his face as well as damage to his right eye and ear.
Ms Khan, a student at Manchester Metropolitan University, had damage to her left eye and required two skin grafts.
Mr Muhktar said he is now "stuck" in his bedsit "24/7".
"Since this has happened, I'm cautious about everything.
"Even my bedroom door - I'll think three or four times before I open it because that pain that I suffered that day was disgusting.
"Imagine, your skin's dropping off, you can't see, and you're burning - it was like a horror movie", he said.
"I can't sleep, I can't really eat. My confidence is rock bottom.
"I was a proper outdoor person and now I feel like a bit of a recluse. I don't want to see anybody", he said.
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Describing the moment of the attack, Mr Muhktar said: "This guy just walked over to my car... and then I just felt a load of water come in the car and that was it, just started burning.
"I managed to put the window up but I couldn't see anything because of the burning".
He said he then tried to drive away but crashed the car into a railing before taking his cousin out of the car.
"But our clothes started melting... I started kicking on people's doors who started bringing water out.
"I was using all the water on her face. I was letting myself burn - I was bad, I was dying. And then when I came round two days later, I was on a life-support machine".
"I'm deaf in one ear. The acid has gone through and made a hole in my eardrum", he said.
There has been a sharp rise in attacks involving corrosive fluids in London in the past four years.
In 2016-2017, there were 398 victims of crimes involving "noxious or corrosive" substances in the capital city.
China's National Health and Family Planning Commission said the man was from Ganxian county in the eastern province of Jiangxi, Xinhua said.
The virus is carried by mosquitoes and has been linked to birth defects.
But Chinese authorities have downplayed the risk of it spreading there, because of the winter cold.
The man had travelled through Hong Kong and Shenzhen on his way back from Venezuela, where he originally displayed symptoms, including a fever and dizziness.
He is now being quarantined at a hospital in his hometown and is recovering normally, the report said.
An international health emergency has been declared by the World Health Organization over the virus, which has spread rapidly in South and Central America, as well as the Caribbean.
Brazil has been particularly badly affected, prompting concern about its hosting of this summer's Olympics.
Zika has been linked to a condition called microcephaly, in which babies are born with underdeveloped brains.
While the disease is a concern for women who are, or may become, pregnant, most other sufferers experience only mild symptoms, such as fevers and skin rashes.
The Scottish government said that by the end of this school year, 21 out of 32 councils would have taught P1 pupils an additional language to English.
By 2020, it hoped every pupil would learn an additional language in P1, a second by P5, with the policy continuing until the end of S3.
All councils are expected to achieve the government's 1+2 languages policy.
On a visit to Edinbarnet Primary School in West Dunbartonshire, Minister for Learning, Dr Alasdair Allan, said: "In today's global, multi-cultural world it is more important than ever that young people have the opportunity to learn languages from an early age, to equip them with skills and competencies for the globalised economy.
"We want to ensure the enthusiasm for languages starts at an early stage in a child's education.
"Here at Edinbarnet, it's great to see that happening in P1, at a time when a majority of councils are now meeting the commitment."
Last year, the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey (SSA) showed 89% of people in Scotland believed learning an additional language from the age of five was important.
4 June 2016 Last updated at 16:18 BST
Thousands of spectators lined the route through Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to view the locomotive on its way to York.
Earlier this year, spectators went on to the tracks at Biggleswade causing more than eight hours of delays on the East Coast mainline.
British Transport Police said this time they dealt with 10 to 20 incidents. Officers said the message to fans of the locomotive was to stay off the tracks and "stay safe".
The home of Swiss club FC Basel will become the second smallest venue to host the competition's final when Liverpool face Sevilla there on 18 May.
The executive committee of European football's governing body made its decision in September 2014.
"Of course, it is impossible to predict in advance which clubs will reach the final," Uefa said on its website.
"Europe's largest stadiums are usually selected to host the Champions League final, and Uefa tends to select slightly smaller, top-quality venues for the Europa League final.
"This means Uefa can give more of its national associations an opportunity to host a club final, and gives fans across Europe the chance to experience a major final in their home nation."
Liverpool have been allocated 10,236 tickets for the final, with Sevilla given a similar amount.
An additional 8,000 went on general sale, with the remainder taken by the local organising committee, national associations, commercial partners, broadcasters and the corporate hospitality programme.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, whose side overturned a first-leg deficit to beat Villarreal in the semi-finals, said he could find "30 million people who want to see the game".
"It is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to play this final but we cannot change the stadium so we cannot think about this," he said.
"I have been to Basel one or two times, it is a wonderful stadium and a wonderful city.
"It is even worth going there without having a ticket for the game to be around the stadium and enjoy yourself and enjoy life as a Liverpool supporter."
However, the club has urged supporters who do not have a ticket not to travel to the Swiss city for the final.
He went on to express his support for Mr Trump's America-first policy, saying "America for Americans" and "Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans".
It is unusual for the veteran head of state to publicly back any US president.
The US imposed sanctions such as travel bans and an assets freeze on Mr Mugabe and his allies in 2001.
The sanctions were imposed over allegations of human rights abuses and election rigging.
Zimbabwe's government says they caused the country's economic collapse.
Most experts however blame Mr Mugabe's seizure of white-owned farms, which used to be Zimbabwe's economic backbone.
With Mr Trump's reputation for being unconventional, Mr Mugabe is hoping his administration might decide to lift the sanctions.
"Give him time," Zimbabwe's leader said of Mr Trump in an interview aired ahead of his 93rd birthday on Tuesday.
"Mr Trump might even re-look [at] the sanctions on Zimbabwe."
President Trump has caused global uproar over his policies, including his ban on people from seven mainly Muslim countries entering the US, although this has been overturned by the courts, and his pledge to rebuild the US economy on "America-first" principles.
Mr Mugabe is unfazed by such policies as he seems to identify with Mr Trump's brand of nationalism.
"When it comes to Donald Trump... talking of American nationalism, well America for America, America for Americans - on that we agree. Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans," Mr Mugabe said.
As far as the nonagenarian president is concerned, there is more hope with Mr Trump in the White House than if it had been Hilary Clinton.
"I was surprised by his election, but I did not like Madam Clinton to win either," he said.
"I knew she could slap sanctions on us as a legacy."
President Mugabe, Africa's oldest head of state, also repeated that he is not ready to step down from power.
"The majority of the people feel that there is no replacement, successor who to them is acceptable, as acceptable as I am," he told state media.
His Zanu-PF party has endorsed Mr Mugabe as its candidate in elections due next year.
Last week, first lady Grace Mugabe said if the party were to field his corpse, he would still win.
The Craig Bellamy Foundation was set up in 2008 but closed in September 2016.
No accounts have been filed since March 2015.
Bellamy himself has appointed a legal team to examine any financial irregularities and his solicitor said the 37-year-old was "devastated".
A statement issued by Bellamy's legal representative, Robert Price of Bowden Jones solicitors, said: "These investigations are ongoing and we therefore cannot comment further at this stage on any specific allegation.
Mr Price said his legal team would "assist all government agencies in their investigations".
The Charity Commission said it was assessing the situation but has not yet opened a formal investigation.
"As part of our engagement, we are reminding trustees of their duty to file their outstanding financial accounts," a commission spokesman added.
"Trustees must account to the public and donors for their income and expenditure, and the failure to do so may give rise to concerns about the governance and administration of a charity."
The Charity Commission website states that no accounts for the foundation have been filed since 31 March 2015.
Bellamy was moved to start the charity after visiting Sierra Leone while a Liverpool player.
The academy offered five-year scholarships to children aged 11 to 13 in the West African country and created a youth football league, which at one point took in about 2,400 youngsters - boys and girls - in some 70 clubs.
The academy stayed open while the country was hit by the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
In a prestigious football career, Bellamy earned 78 caps for Wales and also played for the likes of West Ham, Manchester City and Newcastle.
He finished his playing career at his hometown club Cardiff City and is currently a coach in the Bluebirds' Academy.
13 November 2015 Last updated at 20:53 GMT
OFCOM, the telecommunications regulator, says phone companies should deliver call coverage to 90% of the country by 2017.
But people in rural parts of Wales are calling for government intervention, as they are concerned that their areas might get left behind.
Representatives of the big four mobile phone operators have been in Newtown, to hear the concerns of people from across mid Wales.
Roger Pinney reports.
The 23-year-old took to the microphone in front of thousands of fans outside the club's Emirates Stadium, mocking Premier League rivals Tottenham.
Wilshere sang two anti-Spurs songs on a balcony alongside his team-mates.
He launched a similar attack during last year's victory celebrations. The club is yet to comment.
The appearance marked the end of the club's victory parade.
Supporters at the ground braved the rain for hours to celebrate the team's record-breaking 12 FA Cup win.
Players had travelled to a civic reception at Islington Town Hall in an open top bus at 11:00 BST.
Wilshere came on as a second-half substitute during Saturday's final, which saw the Gunners thrash Aston Villa 4-0.
The win makes Arsenal the most successful club in FA Cup history.
The BBC understands the PM was warned she faced a leadership challenge unless she sacked Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.
Labour said the pair had "taken the fall" for the prime minister.
Mrs May has announced that the new Downing Street chief of staff is ex-Conservative MP and former housing minister Gavin Barwell.
Mr Timothy said he took responsibility for his role in the "disappointing" result and the widely-criticised manifesto package on social care.
The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said the pair's departure bought the PM some "breathing space" following 24 hours of recriminations after the Conservatives lost their overall majority.
He said the two were so close to the PM that critical MPs believed that, unless they made way, she would not be able to change her leadership style to adopt a more "outgoing, inclusive, responsive, empathetic approach".
Mrs May has said she intends to stay as prime minister and on Saturday evening it was announced her party's chief whip had agreed an outline deal "in principle" with the DUP of Northern Ireland, which would see the unionist party support the Tories on key votes.
Mr Timothy and Ms Hill both stepped down amid mounting pressure on Mrs May to overhaul the way No 10 worked and broaden her circle of advisers.
Announcing his resignation on the Conservative Home website, Mr Timothy urged Tory MPs to "get behind" Mrs May but said nothing should be allowed to get in the way of the process of forming a government and beginning Brexit talks.
He said the Conservatives' failure to win was not due to a lack of support for Theresa May and the Conservatives but due to an "unexpected surge" of support for Labour.
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She was forced to resign as Mrs May's special adviser in a 2014 dispute with Michael Gove over who was to blame for briefing newspapers about an increase in extremism in schools. But she was brought back into the fold when Mrs May became PM.
Nick Timothy: The bearded Brummie is the son of a steelworker, who went to grammar school and joined the Conservative Party at the age of 17. He is credited with influencing the PM's views on social mobility and the need to put the Conservatives "at the service of working people".
His ambition to be a Conservative MP was reportedly thwarted by David Cameron, following a row over special advisers being asked to canvass in a by-election.
He conceded his party had failed to communicate a sufficiently "positive" message to voters and address their concerns over years of austerity and inter-generational divisions, including over Brexit.
"We were not talking to the people who decided to vote for Labour," he said.
He defended the party's "honest and strong" manifesto, saying controversial proposals to use the value of peoples' homes to fund domiciliary care costs had been discussed in government for months and were not his own personal "pet project".
But he added he took "responsibility for my part in this election campaign, which was the oversight of our policy programme" and "I regret the decision not to include in the manifesto a ceiling as well as a floor in our proposal to help meet the increasing cost of social care".
Ms Hill said it had been a pleasure to serve in government and she believed Mrs May would continue as prime minister.
Norman Smith said he understood that senior Conservatives had warned the PM they would instigate a leadership contest at a meeting of backbenchers early next week if the pair did not leave, and were confident they could get the required 48 signatures to trigger a contest.
One former minister, Anna Soubry, welcomed the clearout, saying it was the "right thing to do" and saying the PM must "build a consensus" on Brexit and other issues.
But Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said the PM's advisers had "taken the fall" for her but tweeted the PM was "responsible for her own defeat".
Mr Barwell lost his Croydon Central seat on Thursday - which he won in 2015 with a majority of just 165 votes - to Labour's Sarah Jones, polling 24,221 votes to Ms Jones's 29,873.
He has written a book entitled How to Win a Marginal Seat: My Year Fighting For My Political Life.
He was appointed Minister for Housing and Minister for London in July 2016.
Earlier, Mrs May's director of communications until the election was announced, Katie Perrior, called the campaign "pretty dysfunctional", telling the BBC she "needed to have a few grey hairs in there who been around a bit and could say 'don't do that'".
As the Conservative leadership begins formal negotiations with the DUP, disquiet is being expressed in some quarters about the move.
Charles Tannock, a Conservative member of the European Parliament, said the DUP - which is opposed to same-sex marriage - was a "hardline, populist, protectionist" party and a "poor fit" as a partner.
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, has said there are "huge disagreements" between the two parties on gay and women's rights but she does not believe this will stand in the way of Theresa May being able to govern.
Ms Davidson, who is gay and plans to marry her partner in the near future, said she had received "categoric assurance" from Mrs May about the sanctity of LGBTI rights in Scotland where - unlike Northern Ireland - equal marriage is legal in the event of any deal with the DUP.
"What is important is that we try and help, where possible, to advance these rights in Northern Ireland while making sure there is absolutely no idea of any kind of roll back here. Those are the sort of assurances I sought and received".
Speaking on Friday, the prime minister said her party had a "strong relationship" with the DUP and that she intended to form a government which could "provide certainty and lead Britain forward at this critical time for our country".
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The clock is ticking for Theresa May. She needs to conclude a deal with the DUP in the next week or so ahead of the Queen's Speech, which will set out the new government's agenda.
That takes place on Monday 19 June - the same day Brexit negotiations are due to start.
The DUP and its 10 MPs are in a very strong position. It's all their Christmases rolled into one and they will make sure they leverage as much as they can from their advantage.
Money for Northern Ireland will undoubtedly be part of their demands, and Mrs May will expect that. But trickier will be any demands they have about the implementation of Brexit in Northern Ireland - in particular the DUP's determination to maintain a soft border with the south.
Another potential problem is the planned restart of negotiations for power-sharing in the province.
Typically the British government tries to act as an honest broker between Republicans and Unionists. But if Mrs May is doing a deal with the DUP, that could make it harder to reach an agreement with Sinn Fein.
DUP leader Arlene Foster confirmed she had spoken to Mrs May and that they would speak further to "explore how it may be possible to bring stability to this nation at this time of great challenge".
Mrs May is expected to continue assembling her top team later after she decided to keep key figures - including Chancellor Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary Boris and Home Secretary Amber Rudd - in their current roles.
David Davis will also stay on as Brexit secretary and Sir Michael Fallon will keep his role as defence secretary.
There could be limited changes elsewhere in the cabinet while nine middle-ranking and junior ministers, including Ben Gummer and Jane Ellison, lost their seats at the general election and will need to be replaced.
Jeremy Corbyn has said Mrs May should "make way" for a government that would be "truly representative of the people of this country".
The Labour leader, who is expected to announce his shadow cabinet on Sunday, said his party was ready to form a minority government of its own, but stressed he would not enter into any "pacts or deals" with other parties.
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The original landmark, built in 1935, was demolished in January with an initial date of August given for the completion of the replacement.
But contractors have blamed problems with bad weather, high tides and difficulties with underground cables for the delay.
It is now expected to be completed by the end of October.
Mohammed Ali Ahmed and Zakaria Boufassil allegedly met Mohamed Abrini - known as the "man in the hat" - in Small Heath Park in Birmingham in July last year and handed over £3,000.
They appeared at the Old Bailey with Soumaya Boufassil, who denied collecting cash for terrorist purposes.
The trio, all from Birmingham, will stand trial in November.
They all deny the preparation of terrorist acts between June 1 2014 and April 16 2016.
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Mr Ahmed, 27, is accused of participating in physical training, while 30-year-old Soumaya Boufassil is said to have researched and discussed life as a member of the so-called Islamic State.
Along with Ahmed, she allegedly researched and planned "secure methods by which to travel undetected overseas".
They also accrued cash funds to finance their travel, according to the charge.
Mr Ahmed and Zakaria Boufassil also allegedly "supplied a quantity of sterling currency to Abrini contrary to Section 51 of the Terrorism Act 2006".
Mr Abrini, a 31-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin, is in custody in Belgium and is being held in connection with an attack in Brussels in March. He is also wanted in connection with the November attacks in Paris.
The two male defendants appeared in court via video-link from Wandsworth Prison and Ms Boufassil appeared in custody from Bronzefield jail.
Natasha Jackson, now 23, has been awarded £7m after errors at Sharoe Green Hospital, Preston, resulted in her developing cerebral palsy.
It follows a £6m payout for her brother Patrick, 22, who also has the condition, awarded in 2010.
The NHS Litigation Authority said the compensation would fund their care.
Legal action was brought against the now-defunct North West Strategic Health Authority, which was responsible for Sharoe Green at the time.
Both Natasha and Patrick were left severely disabled after errors during their deliveries at the hospital, which closed in 2004.
Their mother, Paula McKay, fought lengthy legal battles to secure compensation for her children, who both require specialised accommodation and equipment.
Ms McKay, from Leyland, Lancashire, said it had been "devastating" to learn her daughter had cerebral palsy shortly after she was born.
It "ripped her heart out", she said, when Natasha's younger brother was also diagnosed with the condition at 18 months old.
"The first time was bad enough but we were absolutely devastated for it to happen a second time," she said.
Lawyer Olivia Scates, who represented the Jacksons, said it was "unprecedented" for two children from the same family to suffer brain damage as a result of clinical negligence.
Ms McKay said the settlements had reassured her both children would be taken care of after she died.
"I was desperate not to see them end up reliant on social services care in a home that was not appropriate for them," she said.
Ms McKay said the payout "wasn't like winning the lottery" as it has to last both of her children for the rest of their lives.
"The money is all budgeted into different pots - transport, staff, training, accommodation and holidays for Natasha and Patrick," she said.
The NHS Litigation Authority said: "Compensation has been agreed with the family, which will assist in meeting the claimant's current and future care needs for life."
The prince and the Duchess of Cornwall have spent six days in Australia, ending their visit in the capital Canberra before heading to New Zealand.
They also attended a reception at Sydney Opera House on Friday, hosted by the governor of New South Wales.
The royals are on a two-week Diamond Jubilee tour of Commonwealth countries.
Ms Gillard has returned to Australia after co-chairing a democracy forum in Bali, Indonesia.
She said: "I've been overseas myself so I've been watching from on far, but it seems to have gone delightfully well."
She welcomed the prince and duchess when they arrived at a crowd-lined thoroughfare in Canberra, where the royal couple renamed a section of road Queen Elizabeth Terrace.
Speaking at the renaming event, Ms Gillard said: "This place will be a lasting tribute to Her Majesty the Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee, inscribed forever in the architecture of our capital.
"It will remind future generations that for more than half our journey as a united nation Elizabeth II has been our monarch.
"No-one in the history of our federation has shared more consistently in the affairs of our Commonwealth or followed them with deeper interest and goodwill.
"As Canberra prepares for its centenary it is fitting that the Queen's life of duty is given recognition here in our nation's heart, and her wisdom and dignity are honoured among the people she has so faithfully served."
The royal couple then went on a brief walkabout in the newly-named terrace.
The prince and duchess later held a private meeting with the Queen's representative in Australia, Governor General Quentin Bryce and her husband Michael.
Prince Charles then held a series of talks in Government House, with Ms Gillard and then the leader of the opposition, Tony Abbott.
A Diamond Jubilee buffet lunch was held in the building's grounds, and during a short speech the prince praised the volunteering efforts of many Australians.
Charles, who said he and his wife would leave Australia with "great sadness", said: "These are the people of course who provide a glue to such a, I think, diverse and energetic and determined society.
"And from that point of view it has been a real joy for my wife and I to help celebrate that wonderful aspect of society in Australia.
"To pay a tribute, for what it's worth, to all these marvellous people, and to just thank them for all they do to make Australia such a very special place."
Before they left for New Zealand, the royal couple paid their respects to Australia's war dead at the national memorial on the eve of Remembrance Sunday.
The prince laid a floral tribute at the monument, honouring more than 100,000 service personnel who have died serving Australia - a Commonwealth country - since World War I.
The pair also listened to the Last Post played by a bugler inside the Hall of memories and observed a minute's silence - held after the prince placed a large wreath at the tomb of a World War I serviceman.
So far on their trip, the royals have visited a village in Papua New Guinea, travelled to the Australian Outback and had a day at the races, visiting the Melbourne Cup, among other engagements.
It is the first time the duchess has visited Australia, but the prince lived there in the 1960s, studying at Timbertop school in Melbourne, Victoria.
The BMW mounted the pavement and broke through the store front of Hackney Pirates charity in Dalston's Kingsland High Street.
The charity's education centre and shop was open at the time but no injuries have been reported.
Witnesses said the crash, at about 12:40 GMT on Sunday, sparked "mayhem" in the area.
"It was a busy day in the run-up to Christmas" when the car hit, Catriona Maclay from the charity said.
"We're extremely grateful everyone is OK."
A Met Police spokesman said the driver of the car was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and road closures remained in place into the afternoon.
Hackney Pirates runs educational activities to "develop the literacy confidence and perseverance of young people in Hackney".
The building in Dalston includes meeting spaces, coffee facilities and a book shop.
Ms Maclay said the damage would take days to fix, but the store was hoping to re-open before Christmas.
"The front of the shop doesn't look like the front of a shop any more" she said.
"We won't leave it shipwrecked because the windows are broken and we need to make sure it's safe for kids."
Twitter user @PaulieTandoori said the crash had led to "traffic mayhem" in Dalston.
It rounds a left-hand bend, negotiates a tight right corner, and gracefully dips out of view, a petrol-fuelled gazelle.
This is a collectible automobile that has seen its value soar in recent years. Proud owner Ed Hughes is a very happy man.
Yet the 45-year-old's set of wheels isn't what most people would imagine when they think of a classic car. It isn't a vintage Ferrari, Lamborghini or Jaguar, for example.
Instead, it's a 1994 Lada Riva, the boxy, four-door Russian runabout that regularly features in "worst cars of all time" lists.
Mr Hughes' example has a 1.5 litre engine, 80,000 miles on the clock, and a top speed of 95mph (153 km/h). And he loves Ladas so much that he owns five of them.
While some might scoff at the suggestion that a Lada Riva is a classic car, it does in fact meet the generally agreed criteria - it is an old car that is no longer in production, and there is enough interest in the vehicle for it now to be collectable rather than scrapped.
And like any classic car worth its salt, there is money to be made, although not Ferrari-style tens of millions. Mr Hughes bought his red Riva 14 years ago for £50. It's now worth £2,000.
As the global classic car industry continues to grow strongly, an increasing number of previously unheralded cars are now being avidly collected. But why the Lada Riva?
Mr Hughes, who gave up a career in teaching to write full-time for Practical Classics magazine, admits that Ladas were "deeply unfashionable" for years. But as his father had owned a few of the Soviet cars when he was growing up, Mr Hughes says "he'd always liked them".
So in the late 1990s he started buying Ladas, including the Riva, which was available in the UK from 1983 to 1997.
"As happens with old cars, people were throwing them away as their value decreased, and I started rescuing some of the nicer models," says Mr Hughes.
"What they lack in fit and finish they make up for in being quite well built mechanically."
Mr Hughes says there are two main reasons for the big rise in the value of Ladas in the UK in recent years.
"Firstly, a new generation of people in their 20s and 30s like the car's shape - there is nothing like it on the road. They've now become a fashion statement."
Secondly, they are being snapped up to be exported back to Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
Mr Hughes explains: "There's a small but avid market for Ladas in Eastern Europe, specifically for nice right-hand drive models made for export to Britain.
"Hungarians go berserk for them [in particular] because they think it's utterly amazing they were built for sale to the 'capitalist West' as it were."
In addition to his five Ladas, Mr Hughes' collection of "Eastern European motoring delicacies" includes three Wartburgs and a Trabant from former East Germany; a Moskvich from Russia; and a Zaporozhets and a Tavria from Ukraine. He also has "a half-share" in a Izh Oda, also from Russia.
Mr Hughes says he wouldn't swap his collection for a Ferrari, because he argues that anyone with a "big enough chequebook" can pick up an old example of the Italian sports car, while it "requires a bit more skill, care, and so on, to own a fleet of motoring's less-loved specimens".
Motoring journalist Dave Richards says that the big increase in the number of formerly "prosaic" or ordinary cars now considered to be classics certainly isn't limited to former Soviet vehicles.
Instead, he says that cars such as old Ford Cortinas and Capris, the original Mini, and even the Austin Maxi, are in big demand. Plus the Citroen 2CV and the original VW Beatle.
"Many of these cars are practically extinct now, you hardly ever them on the road, but there is a real demand for those that are still out there... this limited supply means that prices are being driven ever upwards," says Mr Richards, who is also co-owner of car restoration business Project Shop, based near the Oxfordshire town of Bicester.
The company makes a good living restoring classic cars to their former glory.
At the UK branch of US car giant Ford, it celebrates its old cars in a quiet corner of its factory in Dagenham, east London.
Its Ford Heritage Collection is an Aladdin's Cave of more than 100 Ford cars from the past 80-plus years.
The jewel in the crown is a Ford Escort 1850GT, which won the first London-to-Mexico rally in 1970.
Ivan Bartholomeusz, who helps to look after the collection, estimates that this car is worth at least £500,000.
Yet the museum of cars is also home to Ford Fiestas from the 1990s.
Mr Bartholomeusz says that the best Ford Cortinas made in the first half of the 1970s can now sell for £18,000, but back in the 1980s were worth as little as £100.
However, Mr Richards cautions that there is still some risk to buying a classic car, be it a Lada, Ford or Ferrari.
"Don't trust your own judgement," he says. "Instead, ellicit the help of a car club who might know the vehicle in question, or take someone from that club with you to look at that car.
"This is better than saddling yourself with a car that could cost you a packet."
Of course, owning a classic car isn't just about money; some people do it for the sheer fun.
Bronwyn Burrell was 25 when she took part in the same 1970 London-to-Mexico rally as the feted Escort, co-piloting an Austin Maxi.
After a 47-year hiatus she's now taking the very same Maxi racing again, and is due to take part in the London-to-Lisbon classic car rally later this month.
Ms Burrell says: "It's such good fun, a really exhilarating drive. It's just like I'm 25 again, reliving my youth.
"I wouldn't sell the Maxi unless I had to. As far as I'm concerned she's priceless."
The UNP doubled its number of seats in parliament to 106, while Mr Rajapaksa's United People Freedom Alliance took 95.
The result gives the UNP enough seats to form a coalition with its allies.
Turnout in Monday's polls was high, in what was widely seen as a referendum on Mr Rajapaksa.
Prime Minister and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said: "The majority of this country have voted to consolidate the gains of the 8 January revolution."
"Now it is no longer necessary to be divided as winners and losers. We need to unite as one family to create a new political culture in this country."
Mr Rajapaksa won his seat as MP - but the results mean he will be staying on the opposition benches.
Mr Rajapaksa lost the presidency in January to his former Health Minister, Maithripala Sirisena.
He ran as a parliamentary candidate for the UPFA in Monday's elections - hoping to secure enough support to force President Sirisena to name him as prime minister.
Although Mr Rajapaksa and Mr Sirisena both belong to the UPFA, the two men are rivals and lead opposing factions in the UPFA.
Mr Sirisena's allies are expected to join the UNP in a national unity government, giving the UNP enough seats for a majority.
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"The club will make no further comment on the matter at this stage," added the Gillingham statement.
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The Donegall Square East camera caught out commuters illegally using the bus lane 17,972 times in the past 15 months, the Belfast Telegraph reported after a Freedom of Information request.
In all, figures from the Department for Infrastructure indicate more than 50,000 penalties have been issued.
More than £2.7m in fines was raised from 22 June 2015 to 31 August 2016.
Castle Street, Belfast is a close second in terms of penalty notices.
Figures suggested 14,184 fines were issued, worth an estimated £706,366.
Other bus lane hot spots include East Bridge Street and College Square East.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Infrastructure could offer no comment on the figures.
Bus lanes were introduced as part of the On the Move traffic plan.
Last year, Ciaran de Burca from the DRD's transport projects division told Stormont MLAs that the scheme was not about making revenue.
More than £500,000 was raised from fines between 22 June and 16 September 2015.
He said he and his staff did not believe that they would raise this level of fines.
Extra signs had been put up in efforts to reduce the number of drivers being caught out, he added.
The victim was assaulted in a wooded area after chasing him from Hammond Street in Netherthorpe, Sheffield, where he had taken her handbag.
South Yorkshire Police said the man, described as black and aged in his 20s, carried out the attack at about 19:30 BST on Friday.
The victim was left "extremely traumatised", said a police spokesman.
Her attacker was of medium build, about 6ft (1.8m) tall, and with short, dark hair.
He was wearing a royal blue hooded jacket and dark trousers or jeans.
Anyone with information about the assault is being asked to contact police.
After exchanging early scores, the hosts ran riot and landed five unanswered tries to take a 34-6 lead.
Patrick Ah Van went over twice, along with Rhys Hanbury, Stefan Marsh, Kevin Brown and Jack Owens, who also kicked seven conversions.
Oliver Holmes and Michael Shenton responded for Cas, but Cameron Phelps and Hanbury's second gave Widnes their biggest league win over the Tigers.
The Vikings had slipped to 11th after defeats by Catalan Dragons and Hull, while Castleford had claimed four wins in five matches.
Bu the hosts tore the Tigers apart to move up to ninth, in sight of the pivotal top eight places.
Ah Van opened Widnes' account by strolling over after five minutes, only for the Tigers to level through Ben Roberts, who sidestepped over and Liam Finn converted.
Widnes began to take hold and regained the lead thanks to Hanbury, who went over from Brown's pass, and Owens landed another touchline conversion.
Hanbury then turned provider when his long pass sent Owens racing over in the corner and he duly converted.
A fourth try from Marsh followed, and although Owens missed with the kick, Widnes made it 28-6 at the break with Ah Van breaking through an open Cas defence.
The Tigers' misery continued after the break when Widnes captain Brown exploited the gaps at the back to touchdown.
But they finally stopped the rot when an electrifying break by Adam Milner led to the ball being fed to Holmes, who twisted over from close range.
An exhilarating Hanbury run and precision kick set up a try for Phelps and took Widnes to the 40-point mark.
Cas responded through Shenton, who burst on to a Roberts pass, but it proved to be a mere consolation as Hanbury went over for the Vikings' eighth and final try.
Widnes coach Denis Betts:
"I was a bit apprehensive before the game because we've had a tough couple of weeks and Castleford had been going well.
"We had not been defending badly, we just needed to sharpen up and we did that.
"Joe Mellor pulled out before the kick-off after being sick all night but Tom Gilmore came in and did a fantastic job.
"Rhys Hanbury had been playing well this year but his confidence, like our team's, had been affected because he wasn't doing quite the things everyone expected.
Castleford coach Daryl Powell:
"I am really disappointed because we came up against a team who wanted to win more than us.
"They had more energy, application and desire and we were second best all round.
"Kevin Brown was superb for Widnes but we lacked composure and intensity.
"It wasn't what you normally see from Castleford Tigers and we didn't perform."
Widnes: Hanbury, Owens, Marsh, Phelps, Ah Van, Brown, Gilmore, O'Carroll, White, Dudson, Dean, Galea, Leuluai.
Replacements: Heremaia, Manuokafoa, Gerrard, Isa.
Castleford: Tansey, Clare, Shenton, Channing, Gibson, Roberts, Finn, Lynch, S. Moore, Wheeldon, O. Holmes, Millington, Massey.
Replacements: Milner, Jewitt, Boyle, Crossley.
Referee: James Child (RFL)
The World Cup qualifying stalemate will be remembered for the foul on Everton defender Coleman that led to Neil Taylor receiving a straight red card.
"First and foremost, the most important thing is Seamus Coleman. We are told that it is not so good which we are sorry for," the Wales boss said.
"Seamus is the most important thing."
Coleman defended Aston Villa defender Taylor on a costly night for Wales where a booking for Gareth Bale ruled him out of Wales' next qualifier, in Serbia on 11 June.
"Neil Taylor is not really that type of player but it's a tough one for Seamus," Coleman said.
"Neil is in the dressing room, he's despondent. If he's got it wrong, he is not that type of player, he's had a serious injury himself."
Coleman felt his side were in the ascendency before being reduced to 10 men. The point leaves Wales four points behind the Republic of Ireland and Serbia as Group D reaches the halfway stage, having drawn four of their five matches.
"With 11 v 11 I thought we controlled the game really and looked like we were going to create something and score," Coleman told Sky Sports.
"The red card changes everything, of course. We were up against it for 25 minutes and I am proud of the players that they battled and rolled their sleeves up.
"We dug in, we had to show a different side of our game. We went to a defensive block, we had to close the game out and we did that.
"The Republic are very strong here at the Aviva Stadium and we expected what we got."
Coleman says Wales can still qualify for the 2018 tournament in Russia, even without Bale for their next qualifier, after he picked up a booking that means he is suspended.
"There are still five games to play and we are still unbeaten. A couple of draws out of the four and it changes your life, but I can't be too hard on the players," he said.
"They have given all they have got, we just need a bit more luck and a bit more quality in the final third.
"Losing Gareth in Serbia is a blow, but that is international football. We've had players out for all the qualifiers so far, until this one.
"At our best, we know we are a team that can play against anyone and win. Take someone like Gareth Bale out of any team and you will miss that.
"We need to find another way, and we will. We still feel we can go to Serbia and bring something back. It will be a good test for us, it is a game we look forward to."
Real Madrid forward Bale felt Wales were in control before the red card for Taylor.
"They made it very difficult, they are a very physical team and in the first half we didn't really create too much, obviously they made it difficult for us," he explained.
"But in the second half we were a lot better and had a lot of chances, we controlled the game really well, I thought.
"Obviously the sending off then changed the game.
"But the boys fought very hard, I suppose if you play the last 20 with 10 men a point is not too bad.
"We were disappointed not to get a goal and we are disappointed not to get the win."
Rangers v Celtic (or Celtic v Rangers as one incensed character on Twitter demanded it be called, among other things) is a show, no doubt about it.
At times, it can be a production that you end up watching between the cracks in your fingers - painful to witness but compelling all the same.
It's not necessarily the football that draws people in - too often the stuff that happens on the pitch is a 100mph demolition derby. It's the whole bizarre scene that lends this affair its appeal.
Look one way and you could be at Wembley in 1966 with all the Union flags waving. Look the other, with all the Tricolours, and you could be at Croke Park on All-Ireland hurling final day.
One thing you will struggle to see is a flag of the nation from which these teams hail. So many symbols of identity and yet barely a Saltire to be seen.
The hope for Sunday is for unpolluted airwaves, untroubled streets - and on-field drama. The last time these sides met, the occasion fell in a heap.
It got the big build-up back then as well - the League Cup semi-final of last February - but it was a non-event. Rangers were still a basket case, a wounded and almost pitiful animal.
The people who ran the club could not have been any more unpopular with the fans had they gone about Glasgow in Celtic strips while singing Paddy McGinty's Goat.
They had a caretaker manager, Kenny McDowall, who took to the role like a rabbit takes to oncoming traffic. They had a team whose collective heart could have been comfortably placed inside a peapod.
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Before they played Celtic, they had already lost to Hibernian (twice), Hearts (twice), Alloa Athletic and Queen of the South on a cumulative score of 16-4.
Immediately after their 2-0 defeat by Celtic, they won just one of their next six games in a doomed Championship campaign that was brought to an ignominious end when they got hammered 6-1 on aggregate in the play-off final against Motherwell.
That was then, but it's different now. Rangers' landscape is no longer blurred.
They have a new team, a new manager, a new board and an infinitely brighter outlook on life. They're champions of their league and now they have a shot at the reigning champions of the Premiership.
The only pressure on Rangers is to be competitive, to rattle Celtic's cage and give them a scare. If that brings them a victory then that's a seismic day out, but there's not a great burden of expectation on Mark Warburton's team.
They had one task to perform this season - getting out of the Championship - and they've done it well. Anything else is a cherry on top.
Rangers have an in-built rationale for defeat, if it comes. Everybody at Ibrox knows that the team that won the Championship is not going to be the same team that compete next season for the Premiership. They need to strengthen. Warburton has made no secret of it.
In Hearts' story, we can see the proof that a landslide winning of the Championship doesn't equip you for life in the top tier. Robbie Nielson took a scalpel to his title-winning team of 2014-15.
He has signed nearly a dozen players since lifting the trophy. He has let players who performed admirably for him last season leave the club because he knew he needed better. That's the road Warburton is surely going to go down now.
If Rangers lose, you can already hear Warburton's reaction: "We weren't ready today, but we will be come August."
It's different for Celtic. Everybody expects them to win. Manager Ronny Deila's job might well depend on it.
There is no parachute, no safety net. That's pressure. And pressure is something that has troubled them at Hampden in the recent past.
In their last two visits there - the Scottish Cup semi-final last season and the League Cup semi-final this campaign - they have lost an early lead, lost a man to a red card and lost the match, against Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County.
Celtic's mindset can be frail. Not always, but on certain days. Perhaps the losing of leads and the dropping of points in European games against Ajax and Fenerbahce is understandable, but doing the same against Kilmarnock, Aberdeen, Motherwell, Hearts and Hamilton Accies raises doubts.
When you add in their inability to deal with Inverness and Ross County then there is a vulnerability that could be exploited if the stars are aligned for Rangers.
Rangers have not come up against a striker of Leigh Griffiths' quality this season. Not even close.
Griffiths has scored against every opponent in the Premiership and ended his three-match 'drought' with the two goals that beat the country's form team, Motherwell, last weekend. That brought his total for the season to 37.
In Martyn Waghorn's likely absence, Kenny Miller is Rangers' top scorer with 17, but 13 of those came against sides outside of the top-four in the Championship.
That's the unknown with Rangers. They have, in Andy Halliday, Jason Holt, James Tavernier and Lee Wallace, players who have scored a combined 40 goals this season, but what value would you put on those goals in the context of this semi-final?
Most were against substandard Championship teams. Can they do it against the best in Scotland?
James Keatings was Hearts' second-top scorer in the Championship last season and they let him go. Billy King, now at Rangers on loan, scored eight from midfield and was allowed to exit in the short-term.
Genero Zeefuik was the size of a house, but he still scored 12 times in 13 starts in Hearts' Championship-winning campaign. Scoring freely in the second tier is one thing. Doing similar against the top of the top tier is an altogether different proposition.
Griffiths is one of the keys to this match because he operates in the precise area where Rangers are at their weakest.
Rangers are available at odd of almost 3-1 with the bookmakers for a reason. They have already conceded 27 goals in the Championship this season and they still have four games to play.
Hearts conceded a total of 26 in that division last season. In the Premiership, Celtic have conceded 25.
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Hibs (twice), Falkirk (twice), Queen of the South and Raith Rovers have all scored two or more in league games against Rangers. Rovers scored three in one match, Queen of the South have scored five in four games against Warburton's side, Falkirk have got six in four.
Bring Hearts back into the debate. Only 26 goals conceded in the entire Championship last season, but they strengthened at the back in the summer none the less.
Blazej Augustyn and Igor Rossi - solid defenders both - were signed and yet still Celtic have scored seven times in four games against Hearts this season.
Danny Wilson and Rob Kiernan lack pace and could be easy prey for Griffiths. Tavernier scores goals from full-back, but he lacks discipline as a defender.
Patrick Roberts, a terrific young player with incredibly quick feet, plays on the right wing for Celtic, but it wouldn't be a surprise to see him pop up on the left at times in an attempt to expose Tavernier's defensive shortcomings.
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The question is: can Rangers hold Celtic out? Do they have the concentration and discipline to defend properly against Griffiths and Roberts, in particular?
Do they have the steel in the middle of the park to contend with Scott Brown and Nir Bitton?
They might argue that there is an encouraging form-line. In three recent cup ties with Premiership opposition - Kilmarnock (twice) and Dundee - Rangers only conceded one goal while scoring six.
Kilmarnock are, currently, the 11th best team in the Premiership and Dundee are the seventh. Celtic are clearly first, but Rangers people will point out that Dundee held Celtic scoreless twice in recent months and Killie denied them for 90 minutes until Tom Rogic rescued his team with a thumping hit from a mile out.
It can be done, no question. Celtic are going to win the Premiership title, but they have put in a string of poor performances along the way.
Griffiths has been like a human sticking plaster at times, holding the whole thing together. If Rangers bring defensive stability, fire in the midfield and ruthlessness up front then they can scare Celtic, but that's a lot to ask.
Their job would be made easier, of course, if Deila's team press the self-destruct button again at Hampden. Celtic deserve to be warm favourites - and, in quality terms, should win by a couple of goals - but given the recent evidence, you cannot discount another mental implosion.
It depends which version of themselves they bring to Hampden on Sunday. They hold most of the aces, but they carry all of the pressure too.
The Harris hawk's predicament began when its tether became tangled in the branches of a tree in Uxbridge Road, Rickmansworth.
Firefighters from the town were called by the RSPCA. They used a ladder to bring the bird down safely at about 11:20 BST. The rescue took an hour.
The hawk, called Leon, had been trapped about 15m (50ft) up the tree.
RSPCA officer Grace Mead said Leon had initially escaped from its aviary while it was being cleaned out, and had flown into the tree where he became tangled and trapped.
"The fire service were fantastic. It was a very difficult rescue but it went very smoothly," she said.
"They climbed up the tree with a ladder and had to cut some branches to reach Leon.
"Fortunately, he was not hurt. His owner was so pleased and relieved to have him back, he absolutely adores him."
Seven years ago the prince helped set up a charity to support vulnerable children affected by HIV/Aids, working with the brother of Lesotho's king.
Prince Harry will visit two local projects on Wednesday.
He will first go to a centre for the deaf near the capital Maseru then to a school for visually impaired children.
He will be accompanied by Prince Seeiso, the younger brother of King Letsie of Lesotho, who first helped to foster Prince Harry's interest in Lesotho.
The BBC's Peter Biles, in Lesotho, said Harry had become a welcome visitor to Africa's mountain kingdom.
The prince is familiar with the hardship that many young people in Lesotho have to face.
The country has one of the world's highest rates of HIV/Aids and there is also widespread poverty and unemployment.
More than half the country depends on food assistance to survive.
Prince Harry's charity Sentebale, Âwhich means "forget me not", works with local communities at grassroots level.
The prince will carry out a day of public engagements including a gala dinner for his charity, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He set up the Sentebale charity to support orphans and vulnerable children in Lesotho.
Harry last visited Lesotho in 2010 when he took his brother, the Duke of Cambridge, to see Sentebale's work.
His current trip began with two days of private visits to Sentebale programmes around Lesotho.
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"Maicon was a member of Inter's treble-winning side in 2010. He has struggled with injury in recent seasons and there's a suspicion that his best days are behind him but when fit he remains one of the top right-backs in the world."
City boss Roberto Mancini managed the 31-year-old for two seasons between 2006 and 2008 when in charge of Inter.
The Brazilian began his career at Cruziero and had a spell at Monaco, before moving to Inter and making 235 appearances for the Serie A side.
Maicon will join up with his City team-mates after the forthcoming international break.
A right-back renowned for his attacking instincts, he scored 20 goals for Inter and has nearly 70 caps for Brazil.
The new arrival at the Etihad will join winger and goalkeeper Richard Wright, while deals for are expected before the end of the day.
Up to 30,000 pilgrims traditionally climb the County Mayo peak on the last Sunday in July, known as "Reek Sunday".
It is a custom that dates back 1,500 years. Some complete the climb barefoot and in the dark, commemorating St Patrick's ascent to the summit.
But this year, the event was cancelled due to heavy rain and strong winds.
Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ, reported that police agreed conditions on the mountain were unsafe.
It said the winds had damaged medical stations set up in advance of the event and also smashed glass panels in a small chapel on the summit.
Mayo County Council, Civil Defence, the Order of Malta charity and Mayo Mountain Rescue were consulted before a decision was made to cancel the climb.
A police officer said the weather was "extremely treacherous" with the possibility of high winds and rain.
Despite the safety warnings, hundreds of people have decided to proceed with the climb. Seasoned climbers said the weather had never been as bad as this year.
The tradition of climbing the 764m high mountain on the last Sunday in July stretches back to 441 AD.
It was then that Saint Patrick reputedly fasted on the summit for 40 days and 40 nights, following the example of Jesus Christ and Moses.
More than 100,000 people visit the mountain every year.
The ancient custom for the most devout climbers has been to make the pilgrimage up the 45-degree slope of loose shale and stones of the mountain "barefoot and blind" - at night-time and not wearing footwear.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said registrations rose year-on-year by more than 8.6% to just over 50,000 units.
That compared with an increase of just under 8.4% for the rest of the UK.
March is typically a strong month for car registrations, as it is when new number plates are released.
Business sales north of the border leapt by more than 50% last month, while fleet registrations were up about 13% on March last year.
However, private buyer registrations fell year-on-year by about 2.2%.
SMMT said sales were in part boosted by planned changes to Vehicle Excise Duty (VED).
New VED rates came into force on 1 April, making all new cars - apart for those with zero emissions - subject to an annual flat rate charge.
According to RAC research, most drivers buying new cars will pay significantly more following the changes.
Source: Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders
Scottish Motor Trade Association (SMTA) chief executive Sandy Burgess said: "There is no doubting the new Vehicle Excise Duties coming in on 1 April would have been a major contributor to the registrations growth, which is most welcome.
"However, we should not lose sight of the fact that the private market has actually dropped within a retail marketing period that should have been stronger, as buyers would be seeking to save the additional costs associated with their new vehicles purchased post 31 March."
March's top seller in Scotland was the Vauxhall Corsa, followed by Ford's Fiesta and Focus models.
Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Highlands and Lothian all recorded a fall in registrations, while the rest of Scotland recorded growth.
The largest growth was recorded in Strathclyde, where sales rose by 16.3% to 3,820 units.
The Bluebirds climbed three places to sixth as goals from Richie Bennett and Jordan Williams sentenced poor Chester to a fifth straight home defeat.
Bennett latched onto a defence-splitting through ball to put the visitors ahead after just three minutes. And, but for two good saves by home keeper Alex Lynch, it could have been more.
Chester responded towards the end of the first half, as top scorer James Alabi and captain Tom Shaw both had shots blocked.
But, fresh from Saturday's 4-2 win at Solihull, Barrow continued to look the greater threat after the break. And they clinched all three points 14 minutes from time when Williams cut in from the left to fire a low shot which Lynch allowed to slip under his body.
Shaw pulled a goal back in the 88th minute but it was too little, too late.
Chester remain only eight points clear of danger ahead of Saturday's trip to 20th-placed Torquay, while Barrow next face a third successive away game at another struggling side Maidstone.
Match ends, Chester FC 1, Barrow 2.
Second Half ends, Chester FC 1, Barrow 2.
Substitution, Chester FC. Wade Joyce replaces Theo Vassell.
Jordan Williams (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Chester FC 1, Barrow 2. Tom Shaw (Chester FC).
Substitution, Barrow. Shaun Tuton replaces Richard Bennett.
Goal! Chester FC 0, Barrow 2. Jordan Williams (Barrow).
Substitution, Chester FC. Lucas Dawson replaces Evan Horwood.
Substitution, Barrow. Ross Hannah replaces Lindon Meikle.
Lindon Meikle (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Barrow. Akil Wright replaces Alex-Ray Harvey.
Second Half begins Chester FC 0, Barrow 1.
First Half ends, Chester FC 0, Barrow 1.
Matthew Platt (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Chester FC 0, Barrow 1. Richard Bennett (Barrow).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick, after missing two penalties, with David Silva and Nolito also scoring.
City host the Romanian champions next Wednesday at Etihad Stadium in the second leg of the tie.
"We are very pleased about the way we played. The quality of our players is fantastic," Guardiola said.
The Spaniard, who replaced Manuel Pellegrini in the summer, has won two Champions League titles with Barcelona, but did not lift the trophy in three years with Bayern Munich.
City, who have never won the tournament, entered at the final qualifying phase this season after finishing fourth in the Premier League last term.
"I thank Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to train these amazing players," Guardiola said.
"I enjoy every day in Manchester. I am confident we can make a step forward to make people proud of us."
Aguero has now missed four of his past five penalties for City in European competition, but Guardiola is not planning to take him off spot-kicks.
"I am confident if he's confident," he said. "It's not important how many times you fall down, it's how many times you stand up and try again."
England winger Raheem Sterling, 21, has impressed so far under Guardiola after a difficult first season at City.
He won a penalty - which Aguero converted - in the opening-day 2-1 win against Sunderland. In Bucharest, he was fouled for the first penalty Aguero missed and set up goals for Silva and the Argentine.
"Now he is playing really good," Guardiola told BT Sport. "But he's young and has to learn a lot.
"He has a lot of quality, he's fast, has a good work ethic, can play right or left, go out to the line or go in the middle.
"That's why Manchester City were so clever to buy him last season."
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Just 84 of the 277 academies rated as inadequate between 2010 and 2015, had been found new academy sponsors, the Commons Education Committee heard.
Ian Mearns MP also said the oversight of failing academies was "not working".
The government says failing academies face swifter action than struggling schools linked to local authorities.
Regional school commissioner for East Midlands and the Humber Janet Bexon Smith told the committee: "Re-brokerage does sometimes take time, and that is about finding the right match.
"We have got to persuade another trust to take on a school that has already been brokered once [converted to academy status].
"And we often find they will look at it, they have to do their due diligence, and say, 'It is too broken, we would not be able to take it on,'" she said.
Another school commissioner, Rebecca Clark, who oversees the academies programme in the South West, told the committee the need to get new potential academy sponsors on board was a "very real priority" for her and her colleagues.
"Five to 10 to 15 years from now, we should have a system where we can catch schools before they go into decline," she said.
But Mr Mearns replied: "The children in the schools we are talking about have not got five, 10, 15 years, they need the school that they are in improved around them now, and they need someone overseeing improvement and doing it very quickly."
And there was an "inherent flaw" in the system - there were not enough academy sponsors available to take over struggling academies.
"We are moving towards a system where all schools are academies, and it is not working now," he added.
But Ms Bexon Smith said re-brokerage was disruptive and the "last resort".
Other interventions could be tried first, such as changing the existing academy leadership and intensive support, she said.
The committee also heard the Department for Education was soon to pilot a scheme that would allow regional school commissioners to halt the expansion of multi-academy trusts that failed pass a set series of checks.
It is due to be rolled out across England in early 2017.
The relatives will reportedly travel as a group to a point near the disaster in the mountainous terrain. Part of the crash site will remain closed off to everyone except the investigators and emergency workers tasked with clearing the area up.
Besides the bewilderment, shock and grief, this group must have a long list of unanswered questions, especially following the announcement from officials that the plane was intentionally brought down by the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz.
Who was he? Why did he do it? How was it allowed to happen?
Getting answers is probably more important than being close to the crash site, says Roderick Orner, a clinical psychologist who specialises in the immediate aftermath of trauma.
"Having good communication is not going to take their distress away, but it makes it less of a burden to carry. The mind is all cluttered with these kind of questions but also what happens in the aftermath is people get into these hyper-aroused states, they are agitated. And you saw that after the Malaysia MH370 incident.
"Those people were left in a suspended, agitated state, and then they just lost it. And in this situation people don't sleep and it just gets worse and worse."
The best thing the relatives can do, Prof Orner says, is be in contact with other people. The relatives in the Alps are in a group, which should help, but this morning's news that their family members were seemingly killed on purpose will make recovery difficult. "Evidence from research tells us that trauma inflicted by other humans with intent is more difficult to come to terms with than, for example, natural disasters."
Sabine Rau, a psychologist working for the city of Dusseldorf to support victims of the crash, told the BBC on Wednesday that she was focused on getting "the maximum amount of information" to relatives to give them certainty.
"People know a plane has crashed, but they don't know what that means for them," Ms Rau said. "What does that mean for my family, for my child, my parents - that is the paramount question. What does it mean to me?"
She described the opportunity for relatives to visit the crash site as "a wonderful option in a terrible, horrible situation", but she said that not everyone will want to take the offer up.
Lufthansa, the owner of Germanwings, is paying for the relatives' trip and has said it will adapt to their needs. Those that have made the trip to Seyne-les-Alpes can either remain there or be flown back to Spain tonight.
Taking relatives of victims to the scene of a disaster can be an effective form of treatment for shock and grief.
Lars Weiseth, a professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, has organised trips for families to the site of an avalanche, the Asian Tsunami and the scene of a plane crash (the Linate Airport disaster in Milan in 2001).
He was also the lead psychiatric advisor following the 2011 massacre in Utoeya, Norway, where Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people and injured 33 others. He arranged for police officers to accompany family members of 55 of Breivik's victims to the sites of their relatives' deaths. Examining the effect of this trip on those relatives, he found a more marked drop in post-traumatic stress responses than in relatives who had chosen to stay at home.
The profound urge to undertake such trips is first and foremost about gaining an understanding of what went on before someone's death, Prof Weiseth says, but there are other motivations too.
"The second factor is the nearness to the dead person," he says. "The site of death is almost like the grave and gives you a very strong sense of physical closeness to the deceased.
"A third factor is the almost duty-like sense you have. A sudden, violent death means there is no time to bid farewell.
"When I talk to people who have done this I really think it's almost a religious sense of duty. You have to overcome a resistance and a fear - it's really an effort - and I feel you do this for the missing family member.
"Then there is also finally an anti-phobic thing, you overcome your fear by doing something with others. There is this cohesion, this sense of mutuality, and on the site you can carry out some symbolic rituals."
Even if relatives of the Germanwings plane disaster choose to remain in Seyne-les-Alpes and not inspect any debris, Prof Weiseth says it may help them. They will have a sense of doing something.
Guillaume Denoix de Saint Marc visited the crash site of his father's plane 17 years after the event. He had been on board UTA flight 772, which was blown up above the Sahara Desert in 1989.
It took years of negotiations to arrange the visit, but when Mr Denoix de Saint Marc, his wife and two other victims' relatives finally saw the wreckage in March 2007, he remembers the group being stunned into silence.
They walked about the debris, not conscious of the hot sun or their thirst. Finally Mr Denoix de Saint Marc was overcome by a sense of rage at the murder of his father. He went on to oversee the construction of a memorial at the site.
"It brings reality to the thing," he says of the trip. "[To begin with] we just had information that the plane was cancelled on the boards but there was no physical link with the plane."
The physicality of the debris was, for him, a vital aspect of his trip to the disaster site. He salvaged a UTA security belt which he still carries with him.
Relatives rarely need to travel to see debris from air crashes or other disasters - they are visible in newspapers, on the internet and on TV. That can be part of the problem, says Mr Denoix de Saint Marc. The day after his father's plane crashed, he was sitting in a burger restaurant watching a man eating a meal while reading a news story about the crash. "And he was eating a burger and there was ketchup falling on the pictures," he says. "For me it was completely insane. I had to leave."
In the long term it will be important for the families of the Germanwings victims to organise themselves into a cohesive group, he says. Not only will this help them support one another, but it will allow them to take the lead on future discussions, for example about a suitable memorial.
But right now, the authorities have a duty to give them as much information as they can - before everyone else.
"It's our story. As victims, it's our story. Psychologically it's very important but also from a moral point of view.
"It's our event, and we should be treated in a way that we have access to more information. But in fact, it's often the opposite because journalists have more information than the victims themselves. That is shocking."
Aaron Urquhart, 40 and formerly of Maryburgh, near Dingwall, subjected the woman to a decade of abuse, Inverness Sheriff Court heard.
He had earlier admitted to assaulting Hannah Gradin on numerous occasions between July 2014 and July 2016.
Urquhart punched, slapped, kicked and head-butted her.
She was also struck with a boot causing her to vomit.
The court Ms Gradin was repeatedly struck on the head with the boot in an assault that lasted half an hour.
Fiscal depute Michelle Molley said Ms Gradin thought she would die.
Urquhart also pleaded guilty to a charge that between 1 August 2015 and 2 August 2016 he was in illegal possession of a stun gun.
He admitted a further charge that he breached his bail condition by contacting his Swedish girlfriend by phone the day after he was granted bail at Inverness Sheriff Court on 1 August last year.
His solicitor advocate Shahid Latif told Sheriff Margaret Neilson that it was accepted a period of imprisonment was inevitable.
But he added: "When my client looks in his rear view mirror of his life, he is shocked and remorseful.
"There cannot be an excuse for his conduct. But there is an explanation. He was working in Sweden as an experienced tree surgeon which placed him under great stress and pressure.
"As a coping mechanism, he was drinking alcohol to excess. When he returned to this country, it all turned on its head as there was insufficient work and he again turned to alcohol.
"While in custody, he has embarked on the road to rehabilitation by participating in various programmes for domestic and alcohol abuse. These are important protective factors."
But Sheriff Neilson told Urquhart: "These are extremely serious charges which make unpleasant reading and give cause for concern."
She backdated the sentence to 12 August last year when Urquhart was first remanded.
The letter to congressional leaders provided formal notice of the administration's intent to move forward with a campaign pledge to reform the 1990s trade deal.
Mr Trump earlier threatened to end the agreement, calling it a job "killer".
Thursday's letter said the deal needs "modernisation".
In 2016, Canada and Mexico were America's second and third-largest trade partners after China.
US trade with the two countries has more than tripled since Nafta went into effect in 1994, with more than $1tn goods and services exchanged each year.
But tension has been mounting under Mr Trump, who made tough-on-trade talk a hallmark of his campaign.
In January, he withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
He has also slapped tariffs on Canadian lumber and took to Twitter to talk about Canadian pricing of dairy products.
And on Thursday, the Commerce Department said it would investigate claims by Boeing that its Canadian aerospace rival Bombardier is unfairly subsidised by taxpayers and has been selling planes below cost in the US.
Reuters reported that, in response, Canada might reconsider its plans to buy 18 Boeing Super Hornets as it looks to upgrade its fleet of ageing fighter jets.
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The Nafta letter from US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, who was sworn in this week, triggers a 90-day period, meaning talks would begin in August at the earliest.
It raised a range of issues, including digital trade and environmental practices, but offered little detail.
In recent months, Canadian federal ministers have been travelling frequently to the US to lobby America lawmakers whose states have strong trade ties with Canada on the importance of the cross-border economic relationship.
Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, Chrystia Freeland, has also been in close contact with her Mexican counterparts on the Nafta file and will be in Mexico next week.
Ms Freeland said in a statement on Thursday that Canada remained "steadfastly committed to free trade in the North American region".
"We are at an important juncture that offers us an opportunity to determine how we can best align Nafta to new realities - and integrate progressive, free and fair approaches to trade and investment," she said.
Mexico also said it expects a "constructive" negotiation.
Mr Trump faces a political crisis in Washington related to an investigation of ties to Russia.
But the trade measures return him to one of his successful campaign themes, which struck a chord among some voters, who have seen US companies turn to cheaper, overseas workers for jobs once done at home.
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US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement that the goal of new Nafta talks was to find a "solution that is both fair and beneficial for all parties".
"Since the signing of Nafta, we have seen our manufacturing industry decimated, factories shuttered, and countless workers left jobless," he said. "President Trump is going to change that."
Mr Trump's protectionist stance breaks with Republican tradition, sounding closer to concerns voiced by labour unions and left-wing politicians such as Bernie Sanders.
But Democrats were quick to slam the letter as short on substance.
"The President's vague Nafta letter is a stark contrast with the aggressive promises he made to hard-working families during the campaign," California Democrat Nancy Pelosi, who leads the party in the House, said in a statement.
"For all his rhetoric, President Trump looks to be sorely disappointing American workers on trade."
The money was retrieved from senior politicians, civil servants and businessmen who agreed to cooperate with the investigation.
The kickback scheme cost Petrobras an estimated $1.8bn, said company boss Pedro Parente.
The scandal has rocked the country and led to mass street protests.
Dozens of politicians and some of Brazil's wealthiest businessmen have been arrested as part of the inquiry, known as Operation Car Wash, over the past two years.
Under new legislation, they were allowed to tell what they knew and return some of the corruption money in exchange for shorter sentences.
Many in Brazil criticised the operation, saying it was politically-motivated and targeted mostly members of the left-wing Workers Party, including former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
But Operation Car Wash top prosecutor, Deltan Dallagnol, urged the public to support the investigation.
"We will be defeated if society is not at our side," said Mr Dallagnol.
The political crisis triggered by the Petrobras investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in September.
Ms Rousseff was not directly implicated in the scandal and was dismissed for allegedly tampering with the budget.
But many politicians close to the governing coalition were arrested and charged for taking bribes from Petrobras.
Prosecutors say they were paid vast amounts in exchange for granting lucrative contracts to private companies that overcharged Petrobras.
The prosecutors had previously returned $150m (£120m) of corruption money to Petrobras.
Sotherton, who won heptathlon bronze in 2004, has been given third for the same event in Beijing 2008 after Tatyana Chernova tested positive for a steroid.
In November, the Briton was moved up to bronze in the 2008 4x400m relay after Belarus and Russia's disqualifications.
"Until now I felt my career could have been better," she told BBC Sport.
"I left Beijing in tears because I thought I had failed. But I am a lot happier now because I feel my career has more meaning to it and I am worthy.
"I would swap all three medals for a gold, obviously, but to win three Olympic medals, regardless of what colour they are, is an achievement and I feel very happy about that."
Sotherton, 40, retired five years ago after failing to recover from a back problem in time to qualify for the heptathlon at London 2012.
She initially finished fifth in the heptathlon in Beijing but climbed to third after the previously announced doping ban of Ukrainian Lyudmila Blonska was followed by that of Russia's Chernova.
After finding out she was to become a three-time Olympic medallist, Sotherton posted an emotional video on social media showing her reaction.
"I am happy but obviously at the same time disappointed to have missed nine years as a three-time Olympic medallist," she said. "You feel all of the emotions in a space of a minute.
"All of my friends and family saw my emotions so they have been emotional when they have messaged me.
"It isn't just about me, it is about the people who support me and were around me at the time. They are happy because they feel like they have won that bronze as well."
More than 100 athletes have had positive results in re-tests conducted by the IOC of samples taken during the London 2012 and Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Sotherton's compatriot, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, belatedly won the 2011 World heptathlon title last year when Chernova was similarly stripped of gold for doping.
The 31-year-old, who retired last year and is due to receive her gold medal from Daegu in a special ceremony at the World Championships in London in August, said: "We have made massive steps to becoming a cleaner sport in the past year but there's a lot that needs to be done.
"It's not something that's going to happen in a short amount of time.
"Hopefully we have a fantastic World Championships and we don't have this case of three, four or five years down the line where people are having medals stripped off them.
"I hope as we continue with our sport over the next few years it just gets better and better."
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Despite getting pelted with boiling rocks and steam thankfully everyone got off the mountain safely with no serious injuries.
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The Dons, 19th in League One, went ahead through Alex Lacey's own goal but the League Two side scored four second-half goals to reach the last 16.
Elsewhere, Matt Jarvis played his first game in seven months for Norwich Under-21s against Swansea Under-21s.
Oliver McBurnie scored the only goal to beat 10-man Canaries 1-0 in a game attended by 785 supporters.
On Monday, Wolves Under-21s were the first side into last 16, beating Sunderland Under-21s 4-3 on penalties.
On Tuesday, Blackpool beat League Two Doncaster Rovers in an 18-penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw in 90 minutes, while Scunthorpe and Oxford also went through on spot-kicks after 1-1 draws with Morecambe and Southend respectively.
Brighton's Under-21s became the third development side into the third round after a 2-1 win at League One side Wimbledon.
Up to five development teams could be in the last 16, as Southampton and Reading play each other on 21 December, while Leicester Under-21s face Cheltenham on 10 January in a match postponed because of the Foxes' Champions League fixtures.
Chesterfield beat League One rivals Rochdale on penalties after both sides were reduced to 10 men, and League Two side Luton came from behind to beat League One Swindon 3-2.
Mansfield are the other side to have secured a spot in the next round, with Danny Rose scoring a late winner in their 3-2 victory at Carlisle.
The suspects include judges, lawyers, academics and student leaders.
The attorney general alleges they formed a "secret society" with links to the Muslim Brotherhood that plotted to overthrow the government.
Human rights groups say the trial is deeply flawed and have called it a "mockery of justice".
Political parties and demonstrations are banned in the UAE, which comprises seven sheikdoms run by ruling families.
Several of its Gulf neighbours - including Bahrain, Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia - have seen pro-democracy protests inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011.
The activists were arrested last year during a campaign against civil society activists suspected of political dissent.
Many are connected to the Islamist group al-Islah, which the authorities say has links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Islah says it favours peaceful reform and denies links to the brotherhood.
They are accused of using the media and social networking sites to try to turn people against the UAE's system of government and ruling families.
"They launched, established and ran an organisation seeking to oppose the basic principles of the UAE system of governance and to seize power," the attorney general said.
Human rights groups say the trial is a sham.
They say the defendants were denied access to lawyers until the last two weeks before trial, and have not been shown documents detailing the charges and evidence against them.
They also say they have been subjected to bright lights, hoods and insults from prison guards while in custody.
"It appears the UAE authorities will drag scores of citizens through a shamelessly unfair judicial process that makes a mockery of justice," the international campaign group Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
It has urged US Secretary of State John Kerry to use his visit to the UAE this week to raise concerns over a fair trial.
The 94 are being tried in the UAE's highest court, which means the decision is final with no right of appeal.
Mr Yee, 18, has been detained in the US since he arrived at Chicago's O'Hare airport in December.
He came into the country on a tourist visa but told immigration officials he was seeking refuge.
Following Friday's ruling, he is expected to be released shortly.
The US Department of Homeland Security opposed Mr Yee's asylum application, but the immigration judge ruled in the teenager's favour.
Judge Samuel Cole released a 13-page decision, which said Mr Yee faced persecution in Singapore for his political opinions.
"Yee has met his burden of showing that he suffered past persecution on account of his political opinion and has a well-founded fear of future persecution in Singapore," Judge Coel ruled.
"Accordingly, this court grants his application for asylum."
Amos Yee is not the only one celebrating his US asylum win - many Singaporeans are pleased as well.
"Finally... hopefully it is the last we have heard of him," a Facebook user wrote in one typical comment online.
But some Singaporeans also sympathise with Amos, who has clearly struggled with the country's restrictions. "It's just his bad luck that he was born in Singapore," said another commenter on Facebook.
The teenage critic is one of Singapore's most controversial figures, where he is viewed with exasperation but also a measure of sympathy. Singapore is known for its strict rules on free speech, especially when it comes to race and religion - rules which the US judge said have been used by the authorities to constrain dissent, but which many in the city-state support.
Following Mr Yee's explosive remarks about the country's deeply-revered late leader Lee Kuan Yew and Christianity, Mr Yee had continued to fall foul of the law by breaching bail conditions and making further critical comments about religion.
Even by leaving Singapore he has committed an offence, as he is avoiding mandatory military conscription. While in US detention he had run into trouble for making remarks about Islam, according to his representatives.
But some Singaporeans also empathise with Amos, who has clearly struggled with the country's restrictions. "Congratulations Amos. He can now lead the free life he wants in the free world. It's just his bad luck that he was born in Singapore," said another commenter on Facebook.
Mr Yee's lawyer, Sandra Grossman, said he could be released as early as Monday.
In statement, Ms Grossman applauded the judge's decision and said, "The right to free speech is sacred, even when such speech is considered offensive."
In September 2016, the teenager was given a six-week prison sentence in Singapore after being found guilty of "wounding religious feelings".
He had posted a video critical of Christianity and Islam.
He was also jailed by a Singapore court for four weeks in 2015, for criticising Christians and for posting a video about the country's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
His video, posted on YouTube days after his death, compared the widely-respected founding father of Singapore to Jesus Christ.
Later, he posted a crude cartoon depicting Lee Kuan Yew and former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was one of his allies.
The posts provoked various police complaints, and Mr Yee was reported to have received violent threats.
He will hold talks with President Nursultan Nazarbayev on trade and plans to use the country as an exit route for UK troops leaving Afghanistan.
But he said he would address claims of torture, the imprisonment of government critics and limits on media freedom.
Mr Cameron is the first serving British prime minister to visit Kazakhstan.
But former PM Tony Blair has been working with the Kazakh government on political, judicial and economic reform since leaving office.
Mr Cameron is in the Kazakhstani city of Atyrau on the third leg of a trip which has already included Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He has been joined by representatives of more than 30 British businesses and said he hoped to sign business deals worth more than £700m while in Kazakhstan.
But while stressing the trip was predominantly about economic matters, he said: "Nothing is off the agenda, including human rights, and Britain always stands up for human rights wherever we are in the world."
Kazakhstan has been governed by Mr Nazarbayev since the Soviet era and has recently seen a big increase in foreign investment due to its vast oil and mineral reserves.
However, the president has been labelled a dictator by critics, and in an open letter to Mr Cameron, campaign group Human Rights Watch UK said the group had been documenting human rights abuses in Kazakhstan for more than 15 years.
"We are very concerned about the serious and deteriorating human rights situation there in recent years, including credible allegations of torture, the imprisonment of government critics, tight controls over the media and freedom of expression and association, limits on religious freedom, and continuing violations of workers' rights," it said.
Amnesty International UK's head of policy and government affairs, Allan Hogarth, also said: "Kazakhstan might be knee-deep in oil and gas wealth, but David Cameron shouldn't let lucrative energy deals prevent him from raising human rights during his trip."
Arriving on Sunday, Mr Cameron said he did not accept the suggestion that he might be putting trade before human rights.
"Kazakhstan is one of the rising economic powers in the world. I think it's very important that British business, British investment and British firms get a proper chance in Kazakhstan - they're doing that, I want to help them to do that.
"Other European leaders have been and I think it's high time a British prime minister went."
Kazakhstan's foreign minister Erlan Idrissov said his country was "very honoured and privileged to have such attention on the part of two prime ministers...Tony Blair and David Cameron".
On the issue of human rights, he said: "We are a young nation so we are making our first steps. We do hear criticisms.
"We do not feel absolutely unhappy about those criticisms. We patiently explain to our partners that we are not today a Jeffersonian democracy and that a Jeffersonian democracy is our ultimate destination."
A spokesman for Mr Blair said he worked with the government of Kazakhstan "on key areas of social, political and economic reform including rule of law".
"This work is entirely in line with the work of other international organisations (for example OECD and the EU) and Western governments and follows the direction which the international community wants Kazakhstan to take."
The spokesman added that a two-year contract "funds a team of high calibre experts in London and Kazakhstan and Tony Blair does not take a personal profit from this".
Earlier in his trip, Mr Cameron promised to "stand together" with Pakistan in the fight against terrorism, after holding talks with the newly re-elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif.
This came after Mr Cameron visited Afghanistan, where he met UK troops at Camp Bastion and held discussions with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Lord Justice Leveson called for a new independent watchdog - which he said should be underpinned by legislation.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller told the BBC "the gauntlet has been thrown down" to newspapers to outline how they would set up tough self-regulation instead.
A campaign has been launched calling on MPs to implement the proposals in full.
Leveson Inquiry witnesses Gerry McCann, the father of missing Madeleine McCann, and Christopher Jeffries, who was wrongly arrested for the murder of Joanna Yeates, launched the petition which is on the campaign group Hacked Off's website.
Lord Justice Leveson's 2,000-page report into press ethics, published on Thursday, found that press behaviour was "outrageous" and "wreaked havoc with the lives of innocent people".
He said the press - having failed to regulate itself in the past - must create a new and tough regulator but it had to be backed by legislation to ensure it was effective.
The report exposed divisions in the coalition government, with Prime Minister David Cameron opposing statutory control, unlike his deputy Nick Clegg, who wants a new law introduced without delay.
Following cross-party talks on Thursday night - which will resume next week - the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will begin the process of drawing up a draft bill implementing the Leveson recommendations.
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It is thought the draft legislation may be ready within a fortnight.
The prime minister believes this process will only serve to highlight how difficult it is to try to legislate in a complex and controversial area while Labour and the Lib Dems think it will demonstrate the opposite.
But the BBC's Norman Smith says Labour sources fear the government will produce draft legislation written in such a way as to discredit the proposals - "like something the Stasi [East German secret police] had written".
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Mrs Miller said: "Our concern is that we simply don't need to have that legislation to achieve the end of objectives and in drafting out this piece of legislation what we are going to be demonstrating is that it wouldn't be a simple two-clause bill."
She said Conservative ministers felt that legislation "would actually give the opportunity in the future to bring into question the ability of Parliament to stay out of the issue of free press and difficult for Parliament to not have a statutory framework on which they could hang further bits of legislation".
She went on: "At this point what we should be focusing in on is the fact that the gauntlet has been thrown down to the industry.
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Government sources say they expect to produce a draft "Leveson" bill within a fortnight.
However they expect the draft bill to underline their argument that any legislation would be much more unwieldy and extensive than envisaged by supporters of Leveson. They believe the draft bill will support their view that legislation would therefore be a threat to the freedom of the press.
Instead, ministers want the newspaper industry to come forward with their own plans for regulation "within months." It's also being made clear that if the industry fails to agree on an acceptable revised package..then "the legislative stick remains an option."
Earlier, Culture Secretary Maria Miller said alongside the issue of legislation, she had "very grave concerns" about some of the other details in the Leveson report -including on the role of Ofcom and rules on data protection.
Labour sources say they fear the government will produce draft legislation that looks like "something the Stasi has written" in an effort to discredit the Leveson proposals
"The press industry need to be coming back with their response to the Leveson report. Their response to how they're going to put in place a self-regulatory body that adheres to the Leveson principles and that is what I want to see moving forward swiftly."
Many of Friday's newspapers have praised Mr Cameron's opposition to law-backed regulation.
But Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger told the BBC "a bit of statute" was a price worth paying for an effective new system of regulation and that he believed the press could "live with most of" the Leveson proposals.
Mr Rusbridger, who revealed that he spoke to other editors on Thursday night, said: "I think about 80% of it is right and can be agreed on.
"It is right that is is open, that it is fair, that it's got sanctions, that it can investigate... that it's not picked from amongst the old cosy club."
But the father of Madeleine McCann - the young girl who went missing in Portugal in 2007 - said he would have liked the report to have gone further.
"Clearly the public want it, there's been a judicial review and I think the recommendations should be implemented.
"There's no good reason why they shouldn't be. That's my view and I think it's the view of all the victims," he said.
Mr McCann, who was the subject of what he called "unbelievably damaging" newspaper reports that suggested he and his wife killed Madeleine, added: "The press has been given enough chances, and in my opinion Lord [Justice] Leveson has given them another chance to put a structure in place which they are happy with."
Labour leader Ed Miliband has joined Mr Clegg in supporting a new press law.
He said many of the victims of sections of the press will be feeling "utterly betrayed" by the prime minister.
"I am going to stand up for people like the McCanns and the Dowlers who have been appallingly treated by sections of the press and who put their faith in David Cameron, put their faith in the Leveson Inquiry, and who are frankly I think astonished by what the prime minister has done," he said.
Mrs Miller is meeting members of the Hacked Off campaign on Friday afternoon and will discuss the position taken by Conservative ministers.
Pakistan beat fierce rivals India by 180 runs on Sunday to win the Champions Trophy for the first time.
The squad was greeted by jubilant fans at the airport after arriving back from London following their triumph.
And supporters then gathered in the street outside the home of Sarfraz, who held aloft the trophy from his balcony.
The incident happened at about 16:10 on Monday on Abercromby Place at its junction with Dundas Street.
A 73-year-old man was attempting to cross the road when he was struck by a silver-coloured saloon car, which then failed to stop.
It was last seen heading east along Abercromby Place. Police are appealing for witnesses.
The man sustained serious injuries and he was transported by ambulance to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where he remains in a stable condition.
Sgt Iain Blain, of Police Scotland, said: "We are pursuing every line of inquiry in relation to this incident and we're eager to trace the driver of this vehicle.
"I urge anyone who can help identify this person to contact police immediately.
"Similarly, if you were in the area of Abercromby Place on Monday afternoon and saw the silver coloured saloon vehicle then please get in touch."
Owner Smurthwaite stepped down as chairman after the club were relegated to League Two last season before rejecting a £1.25m takeover from two local firms.
Fradley told BBC Radio Stoke that he will discuss any potential sale in the next two weeks.
"I will ask the question but the answer needs to come from him," he said.
"Right from day one, I've separated that issue with the owner. His strategy will be his strategy and I'll leave that to him."
Smurthwaite resigned after Vale's four-year tenure in League One ended last May, saying he had "seriously damaged the club."
However, Fradley believes that leaving off-field issues to the owner has allowed the club to stabilise, but cannot give a definitive answer on any offers considered to sell the club.
"I think that has give us some stability to get things going and give the players confidence that they can join the club," he said.
"I haven't seen Norman for a while. I will do shortly but he hasn't mentioned anything to me (about selling). I can't give an answer."
Theresa May promised housing would be offered to those in need by Wednesday.
The Grenfell Response Team says 139 formal offers have now been made.
But North Kensington Law Centre, which represents many victims, said some had been offered homes in other towers, other areas, or without enough rooms.
The fire on 14 June killed at least 80 people, although police say the final toll will not be known for many months.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, the prime minister said 158 families would be "found a home nearby" within three weeks, later saying they would be offered "rehousing" within three weeks.
The Grenfell Response Team said that target had now been met.
It said the remaining 19 families did not want to be contacted, or were out of the country.
However, a spokesman for North Kensington Law Centre - which represents more than 100 Grenfell victims - said many of the offers had been unsuitable.
Some of the firm's clients had been offered homes in other high-rise blocks, while some had gone to view a three-bedroom home only to discover it was a two-bedroom flat.
Many had been offered a year-long tenancy and would need to be permanently rehomed afterwards.
Many victims were "concerned the decision they make now could affect their long-term tenancy", he added.
"Doing that from a hotel room is difficult at the best of times, let alone when you are fairly traumatised."
He added: "These people do have various complex issues.
"We are dealing with very traumatised people, we have a limited housing stock, we are working to a tight schedule and there is also a sense of scepticism among some residents."
Only three of the firm's clients had accepted accommodation offers, he added.
Connie Cullen, from the homelessness charity Shelter, said people had often been unsure whether to take up residency agreements.
"It is often very difficult for people to know what the offer they are being offered means. So how long they might be there, what terms they are on, what rent they are paying.
"We are keen to see people offered like-for-like tenancies, housing and rent, so people retain the same security of tenure that they had before."
Ms Cullen said the demand for social housing following the fire was "unprecedented" but had highlighted a general lack of affordable housing in the area.
One tenant from the 10th floor of Grenfell Tower, who only gave his name as Antonio, is among those who has turned down the offer of temporary accommodation.
"We want to move to permanent accommodation so we can remake it and then we can call it home," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
In other developments:
It comes amid growing pressure for Sir Martin Moore-Bick - the judge leading the inquiry into the fire - to stand down.
Earlier, Labour's Emma Dent Coad, MP for Kensington, said he was "a technocrat" who lacked "credibility" with victims.
She said she had spoken to hundreds of people affected by the fire who were unhappy with Sir Martin's appointment.
On Monday, lawyers representing some of the families also called for him to quit.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn stopped short of demanding his resignation, but said he should "listen to residents", while Mayor of London Sadiq Khan warned he must urgently improve relations with the area.
But one senior minister, Lord Chancellor David Lidington, said he had "complete confidence" in Sir Martin, whom he believed would lead the inquiry "with impartiality and a determination to get to the truth and see justice done".
Former Lord Chief Justice for England and Wales, Lord Judge, also defended claims that Sir Martin was a "technocrat", saying it was his job to look at the evidence "unemotionally".
"He can't come and make an emotional finding. He's got to look at the facts and decide what happened," he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.
"That does not mean he's unaware of the emotional impact on those who were involved in it, but a judge can't make emotional decisions."
On Sunday, Labour MP David Lammy said a "white, upper-middle class man" who had "never" visited a tower block housing estate should not have been appointed.
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Players from the top eight tiers of the English game are banned from betting on the sport under new rules which came into force on Friday.
"We are really proud of the integrity of the game in this country and it is really important people trust... what is happening on the pitch," said Horne.
"We want to keep our message as simple as possible - and it cannot be more simple that as a player you cannot bet at all on football."
Club employees and match officials are also restricted by the new rules, which prevent gambling on any football-related matters, including results, goalscorers, in-game play, player transfers, manager changes or promotions and relegations.
The Football Association will visit all clubs to talk about the fresh regulations and have produced a number of educational videos.
Players and stakeholders from clubs in the Premier League down to the Northern and Southern and Isthmian Leagues are affected.
The rules apply to bets made in person, online, on the telephone or with friends. Participants are also not allowed to instruct any third party to place any bet on their behalf.
Previously, participants were prohibited from betting on a match or competition in which they were involved or could influence.
Tottenham's Andros Townsend, Cameron Jerome - on loan at Crystal Palace from Stoke last season - and Dan Gosling, who has joined Bournemouth this summer, are among those who have breached current betting regulations.
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In America, Ryan Weimer and his wife Lana, have tapped into that market by providing children with the 3D costumes of their imaginations.
Costing between $2,000 and $4,000 each, a team of volunteers spend about 120 hours building the costumes which range from aeroplanes to dragons.
The Weimers, from Oregon, have five children and were inspired by three of their sons who use wheelchairs due to Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - a degenerative disease which causes muscle weakness.
Ryan Weimer says: "My first son, Keaton, was diagnosed at nine months old with SMA and this diagnosis has forever changed our family and how we do things.
"We have to look at life through a different set of lenses than the average man or woman."
Weimer first made a costume for his son in Halloween 2008 when he requested to be a pirate.
He says: "I realised, Keaton has this wheelchair he cruises around in, and every pirate needs a ship, so let's just build one around his chair.
"I drew out some rough plans and had to start over once or twice, but in the end we came out with a pretty awesome pirate ship for Keaton to sail around in."
He says every year he "can't help but cringe" at the thought of what his son might request but "it's always fun, frustrating, discouraging, occasionally painful, and expensive".
Hunter Power took delivery of his Quinjet, inspired by the Agents of Shield vehicle, earlier this year.
His mum, Ginger, says it was "the best Halloween ever for Hunter".
She says: "Not even the pouring rain during the trick-or-treating could dampen his spirit.
"Hunter still couldn't get up to people's doors, but they came to him, completely amazed by his costume. "
As word about the designs spread so did the requests from other families wanting to create something special for their children and in 2015 Magic Wheelchair, a non-profit charity, was created.
The funds to make each costume are raised through donations, but rely on a team of volunteers to give up their time to design and construct them.
Each year children are invited to submit a short video explaining why they deserve one of the bespoke costumes and what it is they would most like to be.
This Halloween designs will be rolled out in 11 States with 18 different teams having helped build 25 costumes including a Batmobile, Cinderella and Fire Engine.
Magic Wheelchair also has teams in Chile and Canada and is hoping to expand globally.
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Hamilton had to pass both Williams after losing the lead off the line and second place at a re-start following an early safety car.
But the Mercedes driver fought back to take the lead at the first pit stops.
Rain made for a chaotic end to the race but Hamilton came through to win from team-mate Nico Rosberg and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.
Felipe Massa took fourth ahead of Williams team-mate Valtteri Bottas, Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat was sixth, Force India's Nico Hulkenberg claimed seventh and the second Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen came eighth.
The world champion's fifth win of the season - extending his championship lead to 17 points - was greeted with roars of delight from the capacity 140,000 fans.
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Hamilton admitted the Mercedes' bad starts had "made the race for the fans" and, as thousands streamed on to the track to salute him on the podium, he said: "Thank you for coming out today and making my whole weekend, I really wanted to do it for you guys. I couldn't have done it without you. I'm so elated. You can't imagine how happy I am. I was tearing up on the last lap."
Hamilton's path to victory was far from smooth, however, as Massa leapt into the lead past both Mercedes from third on the grid.
Hamilton fended off a challenge from Bottas for second on the first lap, at the end of which the safety car was deployed because of a pile-up at the first corner, involving both Lotuses and both McLarens.
Three of the four cars were taken out of the race in one go, with Lotus team-mates Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado appearing to collide and McLaren's Fernando Alonso half-spinning as he took avoiding action and collecting team-mate Jenson Button, whose car also retired.
Alonso was able to continue, but needed to pit for a new front wing, although the late rain shower helped the double champion beat Sauber's Marcus Ericsson to finish 10th and score his first points of a difficult year in the uncompetitive and unreliable McLaren-Honda.
At the restart, Hamilton tried an aggressive move on Massa immediately after the safety car line, which indicates the place from which drivers can begin to race and at Silverstone is on the entry to the final Vale-Club corner complex.
But Hamilton overcooked it, ran briefly off the track, and Bottas took advantage and sneaked through into second.
Bottas was initially told he could not try to pass Massa, only for Williams to relent and allow them to race.
But the Finn could not pass the Brazilian as the two silver Mercedes tracked the two white Williams to the first pit-stop period.
Hamilton was brought in first, on lap 19, and the so-called 'undercut' worked perfectly as he produced what Williams technical chief Pat Symonds called a "stunning" in-lap.
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A quick pit stop and a strong first lap out of the pits meant that when Massa and Rosberg pitted on the next lap Hamilton passed them before they were back out the circuit.
Rosberg came oh-so-close to beating Massa out - the two cars were side by side as they went down the pits, but Massa had the inside line for the corner where the pit lane rejoins the track and held on to second.
Even worse for Rosberg, when Bottas stopped on the next lap, the Finn rejoined ahead of the Mercedes and although Rosberg overtook him into Turn Four, Bottas got straight back in front through the kink at Turn Five.
Rosberg stayed stuck in fourth place until lap 36 of 52 when light rain began to fall.
At first, it hit only the northern part of the track at Luffield, Woodcote and Copse corners but a wobble from Bottas at Copse gave Rosberg the chance he needed and he took third, and then a couple of laps later moved into second past Massa at Turn Three.
The rain, which stopped and then returned with greater intensity over the whole of the track, was bad news for Williams, both of whose cars were passed by Vettel as the teams juggled with tyre choices in the intermittent rain at the end of the race.
It was an unexpected surprise for Ferrari at the end of one of their least competitive races of the season.
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Griffith John spent more than 50 years working in Wuhan province before his death in 1912, aged 80.
The garden was opened in his home city of Swansea and a memorial stone and plaque were unveiled in the grounds of the Griffith John flats.
After learning Chinese, he set up schools and hospitals in China.
John arrived in the country in 1855, establishing training colleges and pioneering the recruitment of Chinese people for missionary work in their own country.
He translated the New Testament into a number of Chinese dialects and became a notable orator.
In later life, John was a leading opponent of the opium trade.
He returned to Britain early in 1912 - only the third time he left China - and died in July that year after 56 years of service.
He is buried in Sketty, Swansea, and a street is named after him in the Dyfatty area of the city.
Last year a delegation from Union Hospital, which John founded and which is now a major medical research centre, visited Swansea.
They brought a bust of John made by Chinese artist Xiang Jinguo, which went on display temporarily at Swansea Museum.
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said the Road Traffic Bill would "save lives on our roads".
The drink-drive limit in Northern Ireland would be reduced by almost 40%.
Under the plans, the permitted blood alcohol limit would be reduced to 50mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood - down from the current UK limit of 80mg.
It would be the first major shake up in Northern Ireland's drink drive laws since the limit was introduced in 1968.
The bill also includes restrictions on new young drivers carrying passengers immediately after they pass their test.
The assembly gave its backing to new drivers up to the age of 24 not being allowed to carry more than one young passenger (aged 14 to 20, except immediate family members) during the six months after they pass their test, between the hours of 10pm and 6am.
The minister, Mr Durkan, said: "This is an important milestone towards reducing deaths on our roads.
"I welcome assembly backing for the lower drink drive limits, for a new graduated driver licensing scheme, and a new requirement for quad drivers to wear a helmet when riding on roads.
"There is also compelling evidence of the heightened risk of collisions when new young drivers carry teenage passengers.
"Young drivers carrying two young passengers are twice as likely to be killed as driving alone, and four times more likely to die if carrying three young passengers.
"The assembly has given its backing for young people not carrying passengers during night-time hours, for the first six months after they pass their test. I would like to see this being for the full 24 hours and feel there is still work to be done to the legislation regarding that."
The bill will now go to further consideration stage.
Being in the EU has drawn investment to the UK, boosted the productivity of workers, and enhanced the ability of our economy to create jobs and new businesses.
In that sense, although the Bank does not use these precise words, EU membership has made the UK richer and more successful.
That will be seized on by supporters of the UK staying in.
Even so, there is ammunition for eurosceptics - namely that our financial openness made the UK more vulnerable to the eurozone's crisis, and that not all EU regulation suits the size and complexity of the City of London.
The Bank is for example an opponent of the EU imposed cap on bonuses, because it sees the cap as weakening the link between what bankers are paid and the risks they take.
More than that, the Bank is concerned that future integration of the euro area, deemed to be essential for the sustainability of the euro, could lead the EU to devise laws and rules that are against the interests of the UK.
So it implicitly supports the attempt of the Chancellor, George Osborne, to obtain guarantees from Brussels that the UK will be protected if euro members gang up to force through legislation that suits them but not us.
Or to put it another way, the Bank of England, which prides itself on its independence, may not be seen to be clinically independent in its assessment of the impact on its ability to fulfil its mandate - of controlling inflation and preventing major financial shocks - by those ideologically opposed to the UK being in the EU.
Because on the one hand the Bank makes it clear that being in the EU has made us richer. And the Bank will be seen as supporting the thrust of much of the government's negotiations to improve the terms of the UK's membership.
So what I said this morning, that the out campaigners would be happier with the thrust of the Bank's review than those who want to stay in, is wrong (I think).
There is no suggestion by the Bank, as I said, that the Bank could not do its job perfectly adequately if the UK were to leave the EU. But there is an unambiguous implication that EU membership makes its job easier.
The world number 547 returned to competition at Eastbourne in June after 17 months out with a wrist injury.
She has played just 10 matches, winning three, since then and last featured at an ITF event in Monterrey a month ago.
"Laura's team decided it was most effective for her to spend her time training for the rest of the year," the 21-year-old's management company said.
Robson received a wildcard entry to Wimbledon after her return but lost 6-4 6-4 to Evgeniya Rodina in the first round.
Her first win in almost two years came at a Challenger event - a level below the WTA tour - in Canada the following month.
She went on to suffer a first-round exit at the US Open last month, losing 3-6 6-3 7-5 to Russian Elena Vesnina.
Robson will be able to use her protected ranking of 58 to enter January's Australian Open.
Protected rankings are given to players suffering long-term injuries - 58 was Robson's position after the 2014 Australian Open.
Dywed undeb y GMB fod 150 o weithwyr yn cael eu cyflogi i wneud y gwaith glanhau, ac fe fyddai cwtogi'r oriau'n fygythiad i'r swyddi hyn.
Dywedodd Cyngor Môn y byddai'r awdurdod yn parhau i gydweithio gydag ysgolion a staff i sicrhau bod safonau glendid yn cael eu cynnal.
Mewn datganiad ddydd Iau, dywedodd undeb y GMB: "Mewn termau syml fe fydd hynny'n golygu y bydd yr oriau glanhau ar gyfer ysgolion Môn yn cael eu hanneru.
"Os bydd hyn yn digwydd, yna fe fydd incwm y gweithlu glanhau ysgolion yn cael ei ddryllio gyda'r tebygrwydd y byddai llawer o'r gweithlu presenol yn gadael - gan adael swyddi na fyddai modd eu hail-lenwi."
Dywedodd trefnydd rhanbarthol yr undeb Mark Jones : "Fe aeth y cyhoeddiad tu hwnt i'n disgwyliadau gwaethaf. Mae'n amhosib gweithredu'r fath doriadau gyda'r tebygrwydd y bydd gostyngiad sylweddol mewn safonnau glendid.
"Fydd hynny'n dderbyniol i ddisgyblion, rhieni a phobl Ynys Môn? - Dwi ddim yn credu."
Mae'r undeb, sy'n cynrychioli tua un o bob pump o'r gweithlu glanhau, yn mynnu ymgynghoriad ac adolygiad "fel ffordd o chwistrellu ychydig o synwyr i'r sefyllfa a hefyd i sicrhau fod y gweithlu'n cael eu trin gyda'r parch y maen nhw'n ei haeddu."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn: "Yn anffodus, mae'r heriau ariannol sy'n wynebu llywodraeth leol yn golygu nad oes yr un gwasanaeth yn gallu dianc rhag arbedion effeithlonrwydd.
"Cafodd Cyllideb Môn ar gyfer 2017/18 ei gymeradwyo yn ddiweddar gan y Cyngor Llawn, gan sicrhau bod arian ar gyfer addysg ein plant a phobl ifanc yn cael ei ddiogelu am flwyddyn arall. Bydd hyn yn rhoi cyfle i benaethiaid ddatblygu cynllun arbedion cynhwysfawr ar gyfer 2018-19 a thu draw i hynny.
"Serch hynny, roedd yn ofynnol gwneud toriadau i gostau oedd ddim yn ymwneud ag addysgu, a hynny'n arwain at benderfyniad i leihau'r gwasanaeth glanhau er mwyn parhau i ddiogelu addysg disgyblion. Roedd y cynnig i dorri cyllideb glanhau ysgol yn rhan o'r broses o Ymgynghori ar y Gyllideb 2017/18, a gynhaliwyd rhwng Tachwedd 11 a Rhagfyr 16 2016."
Ben Butler, 36, told the Old Bailey he "panicked" and just laid on the floor after finding Ellie hurt in their home in Sutton, south west London.
Mr Butler did not call 999 and when his partner came home they spoke about his wrongful conviction for shaking Ellie as a baby and "how it would look".
He denies murder and child cruelty.
Mr Butler told the court he was having a "lazy day" with his daughter and had taken a nap before finding her lying in her room with her eyes wide open.
He told jurors he "dropped to his knees" but "didn't help the way I should have helped".
"I tried to shake her. She didn't respond to what I did. I tried to breathe in her mouth. It just took the wind out of my sails. I still don't know why I didn't do more," he said.
Mr Butler said he then went back downstairs "in shock" and had a lie down on the floor, where it took him "a while to get up".
The defendant then called his partner Jennie Gray, 36, and told her to come home - but did not tell her why.
The court has previously heard the pair did not call an ambulance for two hours after Mr Butler had first contacted Ms Gray.
When defence lawyer Icah Peart QC asked why he did not call an ambulance earlier, Mr Butler replied he was "panicking" and "not thinking straight".
"The one mistake leads to the next thing, to the next thing... Not doing the right thing leads to more problems," he said
He explained to the jury the pair discussed Mr Butler's previous wrongful conviction for shaking Ellie as a baby in 2007 and "how it would look".
"I thought 'oh, here we go again', I'm going to get blamed", he said.
Jennie Gray then called an ambulance and Ellie was rushed to hospital, where she was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
She denies child cruelty but has admitted perverting the course of justice.
Earlier, Mr Butler admitted he had been violent towards his partner.
"Over the years we have had a lot of tension over a lot of things," he said.
Asked if he ever hit his daughter, Butler said he only ever "tapped her bum".
The trial continues.
Konta, showing no sign of the health issues that affected her during the second round, brushed aside the Swiss 24th seed in 52 minutes.
The 25-year-old, ranked 13, reached the fourth round last year and made the Australian Open semi-finals in January.
Fellow Briton Kyle Edmund also reached the last 16 by beating John Isner.
Edmund, one of three British men in the third round, overcame the big-serving American in four sets and will face Novak Djokovic in the last 16.
Konta served with pace and accuracy from the start to keep 19-year-old Bencic on the back foot and a run of seven unanswered games gave her complete control.
She did not give away a single break point, won 19 out of 20 points on her first serve and hit 29 winners to her opponent's nine.
"I feel overwhelmingly happy," said Konta, who faces Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova in the next round.
"I felt I did a good job playing the match at hand and I focused all my energies into this match. I was happy how I dealt with things."
Konta had collapsed on court in her previous match and needed almost 15 minutes of treatment before feeling able to continue.
"I'm still recovering in every way," she added. "I think it was quite a traumatic experience. I'm just still working on getting better."
Sevastova, ranked 48 in the world, beat French Open champion Garbine Muguruza in the second round before overcoming Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko 6-4 6-1 in the third.
If Konta comes through, she will face either Madison Keys or Caroline Wozniacki for a place in the semi-finals.
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Johanna Konta has every shot needed and can definitely challenge for Grand Slam titles. It's not just her ranking, it's who she beats that makes you think that.
She creates good speed on the ball herself but she can cope with power and the ball that comes to her at pace. She has good racquet control, quick feet and good balance, and is keeping the momentum going from last year.
American eighth seed Keys claimed a dramatic 7-5 4-6 7-6 (7-3) win over a tearful Naomi Osaka of Japan.
Leading 5-1 in the final set and on the cusp of the biggest victory of her career, 81st-ranked Osaka crumbled as Keys took the next five games en route to a victory that left her 18-year-old opponent fighting back tears.
"This is the greatest comeback of my career, hands down," said Keys.
Two-time US Open runner-up Wozniacki, now ranked 74, beat Monica Niculescu 6-3 6-1.
It is the first time since January the Dane has won three matches at the same tournament.
Petra Kvitova made the last 16 by beating Elina Svitolina 6-3 6-4 and will face either second seed Angelique Kerber or CiCi Bellis next.
Roberta Vinci, the Italian seventh seed and runner-up to compatriot Flavia Pennetta in 2015, overcame Carina Witthoeft 6-0 5-7 6-3.
The 33-year-old Vinci will meet Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine for a quarter-final place.
Tsurenko, the world 99, made the last 16 at a Grand Slam for the first time by beating 12th seed Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 3-6 6-3 6-4.
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Kock, 26, has won two caps for the Springboks and joins from Super Rugby side Stormers on a two-year deal.
Maitland moves to Allianz Park from relegated London Irish and has agreed a "long-term contract" with Sarries.
The 27-year-old, who can also play at full-back, has featured 21 times for Scotland since his debut in 2013.
"We identified Vincent as a player who could make a significant contribution to the squad at tight-head and he is a player with huge potential," Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall said.
"Sean is a highly experienced and proven international three-quarter, and we believe that he will flourish here.
"Both players are exactly the kind of characters we think will thrive in our environment, and we are confident they will become key players."
It has also suspended one of the bus services that link India and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
Two Indian and two Pakistani soldiers have been killed in the last week near the Line of Control dividing Kashmir.
On Friday, India's defence minister also said ceasefire violations had become a "matter of serious concern".
"This kind of occasional ceasefire violations and firing is a serious concern, because even though violence level in Kashmir has come down compared to the past, infiltration attempts are increasing," AK Antony told the Press Trust of India news agency.
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He said India was "closely monitoring" developments and its troops were "on alert".
Claimed by both countries, Kashmir has been a flashpoint for over 60 years. Exchanges in the disputed area are not uncommon but rarely result in fatalities.
Correspondents say the Pakistani and Indian governments have been trying to strike a balance between appearing firm and de-escalating tensions.
But this recent spate of skirmishes has plunged the uneasy neighbours into what could be the worst crisis in relations since the Mumbai attacks of 2008.
On Friday morning, India's army said there had been a fresh exchange of fire with Pakistani troops but no casualties were reported.
It came a day after Pakistan said one of its soldiers had been killed by "unprovoked" firing by Indian troops in the Battal sector of Kashmir.
Two Indian newspapers have suggested that the Indian army may have provoked the recent clashes.
The reports say Indian commanders breached a ceasefire accord by ordering new observation posts on the Line of Control after a 70-year-old woman crossed it unhindered last year.
After a series of isolated incidents, a Pakistani soldier was killed on 6 January in a border skirmish. Then two Indian soldiers were killed in an alleged Pakistani border attack days later. Indian officials said one of the soldiers was beheaded.
Pakistan denies Indian accounts of what happened, and the Indian army has denied any provocative actions.
India suspended a peace process with Pakistan following attacks by Pakistan-based militants in Mumbai in 2008. Negotiations resumed in February last year.
Thousands of people have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir since an armed revolt against Indian rule erupted in 1989. There has been a ceasefire in Kashmir since late 2003.
Last month, India and Pakistan signed an agreement to ease visa restrictions on travel for some citizens.
The 52-year-old ex-Sheffield United and Leeds defender arrived in May 2013.
He took interim charge after former bosses Sean O'Driscoll and Steve Cotterill both departed, and had been working under current head coach Lee Johnson since February 2016.
Head of scouting Des Taylor has also left, with U23 coach Jamie McAllister promoted to the first-team setup.
Taylor, who only arrived in April 2016, and Pemberton leave with the club in 22nd following one win from 16 league games.
In November, Dean Holden was named as assistant head coach to work alongside Pemberton.
Since then, the Robins endured a new club record run of eight consecutive league losses, prompting owner Steve Lansdown to declare his "full support" for Johnson.
BBC Radio Bristol sports editor Richard Hoskin
"Speculation that John Pemberton was leaving Ashton Gate had been doing the rounds in the city for the past 24 hours, and the general feeling is that fans are sad to see him go.
"He's been at the club since 2013, assisting Steve Cotterill during a hugely successful promotion campaign in 2015. And, when Cotterill left the club, Pemberton won many admirers for the way he steadied the ship while they searched for his replacement.
"This won't help lift the mood of supporters, who have watched their side win only two of their past 21 league matches ahead of the Norwich match.
"Bristol City's Championship status is in severe jeopardy, and 'bad news' stories like this can't help the cause."
The injured teenager was discovered in Water Lane, Watford, at about 14:30 BST on Monday.
An air ambulance was sent to the flats but the boy was pronounced dead on the fifth floor.
Hertfordshire Constabulary said no arrests been made in connection with the death, which is being treated as "suspicious".
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The cause of the boy's death has not been confirmed and a post mortem examination will be carried out, the force added.
A police spokeswoman said she could not comment on the nature of the boy's injuries or whether a murder inquiry had been opened.
"The incident is currently being treated as suspicious and investigations continue to establish the circumstances around what happened," she added.
The East of England Ambulance Service sent two ambulances but despite the efforts of paramedics "the patient went into cardiac arrest" and "was pronounced dead at the scene".
"Our thoughts are with all of those involved at this time," a spokesman added.
The pair are "armed and dangerous" and are thought to have helped Abdeslam travel to Hungary in September.
Investigators say Abdeslam may have driven the suicide bombers at the Stade de France to their target on the night of the Paris attacks.
The assaults on 13 November left 130 people dead and more than 350 wounded.
Abdeslam was stopped at the Hungary-Austria border in September accompanied by two men with fake IDs bearing the names Soufiane Kayal and Samir Bouzid, Belgian police said.
"The Federal Prosecutor's Office and the investigating judge wish to appeal to the public again to look out for two new suspects the investigators are actively searching for," the prosecutor's statement said.
Abdeslam's precise role in the attacks remains unclear. There are suggestions he was meant to carry out a suicide attack on the night but decided against it.
Belgium has also issued an international arrest warrant for another suspect, 29-year-old Mohamed Abrini, who was driving the car in which Abdeslam was a passenger when it stopped at a petrol station in Ressons, on the motorway to Paris.
The name Soufiane Kayal was used to rent a house searched in November after the Paris attacks.
The identity card of Samir Bouzid was used to transfer money to Hasna Aitboulahcen, the cousin of attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, four days after the attacks, police said.
Both Aitboulahcen and Abaaoud were killed in a police raid on the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, along with a third, as-yet unidentified person.
Earlier on Friday, the Paris cafe La Bonne Biere became the first of the venues targeted during the co-ordinated assaults to reopen its doors.
Captain Mitchell passed away at a hospice in West Palm Beach, Florida, one day before the 45th anniversary of his Moon landing, his family said.
As part of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, he spent more than nine hours on the Moon conducting experiments.
He said he had undergone an epiphany in space and in later life revealed a belief that aliens had visited Earth.
Mr Mitchell's mission to the Moon was the fourth in the US Apollo series, and the first to follow the ill-fated Apollo 13 which aborted its attempt to land after an oxygen tank explosion.
Mr Mitchell and his crewmate, another Navy officer, Captain Alan Shepard, made it safely to the lunar surface. Their landing site was the Fra Mauro Highlands, a hilly area that was the target of the failed Apollo 13 mission.
During their 33 hours at the site, the two astronauts collected 45kg (94lb) of Moonrock for examination back on earth and completed the longest moonwalk in history.
Capt Shepard also hit a golf ball he had stowed onboard for the purpose, reporting later that it travelled "miles and miles and miles" in the low lunar gravity. He later estimated it travelled up to 400 yards (365 metres) - still considerably further than his average Earthbound drive.
Mr Mitchell brought home more than just rocks from the Moon, telling reporters in the days after the mission that he said he had experienced an "epiphany" in space and returned with "an overwhelming sense of oneness, of connectedness".
Years later he wrote in his autobiography: "It occurred to me that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft itself were manufactured long ago in the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens about me."
Mr Mitchell left Nasa in 1972 and set up the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which aimed to support "individual and collective transformation through consciousness research".
In 1974, he described his lunar epiphany to the New York Times: "It was a sense of the Earth being in critical condition, a recognition of the massive insanity which had led man into deeper and deeper crises on the planet.
"Above all, I felt the need for a radical change in our culture. I knew we were replete with untapped intuitive and psychic forces which we must utilise if we were to survive, forces that Western society had programmed us to disregard."
Mr Mitchell devoted much of his later life to studying the mind and unexplained phenomena. In 2008, he claimed that aliens had visited Earth and said he believed there was a government cover-up.
"I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real," he said in an interview with Kerrang Radio.
"It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it."
Asked about the astronaut's unorthodox opinions, Nasa said diplomatically: "Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue."
Unlike his post-Nasa life, Mr Mitchell took a very traditional route to becoming an astronaut. He flew fighter jets for the Navy before becoming a test pilot - a profession from which many of the early Apollo crews were drawn.
He joined the astronaut corps in April 1966, five years before he went into space. Apollo 14 was his only spaceflight.
Of the 12 men who have set foot on the Moon, seven are still alive following Mr Mitchell's death, including Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong's crewmate on the first mission in 1969.
The 35-year-old Argentina defender was accused of 12 breaches relating to matches between 22 and 28 January 2016.
Demichelis, who is in France for City's Champions League quarter-final at Paris St-Germain on Wednesday, had until 17:00 BST on Wednesday to respond.
The FA will decide Demichelis' punishment, with potential sanctions ranging from a fine to a ban.
Rules introduced in the 2014-15 season prevent players and coaches from betting on any football activity worldwide.
There is no suggestion the charge related to any City games in which Demichelis has featured this season, nor any match he could have had any influence over.
Mr Rutte was taking on his main rival, the controversial populist Geert Wilders, in a TV debate ahead of Wednesday's election.
Mr Wilders has pledged to take the Netherlands out of the EU, close all mosques and ban the Koran.
Some opinion polls suggest his Freedom Party could win the most seats.
That would hand him the first run at forming a coalition government, but the other parties contesting the election have ruled out working with the Freedom Party, making that an unlikely scenario.
Monday's televised debate was the first head-to-head between the two frontrunners, after Mr Wilders refused to take part in several previous debates.
Armed police swarmed round the university corridors outside the auditorium. Geert Wilders' public appearances are rare and always considered high risk. Students acting up as ushers handed out ice-cream wafers as the audience flipped down their seats.
This was the first chance to see Rutte versus Wilders, live and face-to-face. The firebrand populist looked uncharacteristically anxious to start, as Mark Rutte laid into him with warnings about playing party politics with the country's future.
But Mr Wilders soon found familiar territory accusing the prime minister of caring more about asylum seekers than his own people.
As the audience filed out afterwards, one member, tall and blonde, a quintessential Dutchwoman told us she had been disappointed by the tone. She feared their self-serving barbs would only deeper the divisions which have come to characterise this campaign.
When I ask her what constitutes the oft-cited "Dutch identity" she tells me, "it used to be tolerance, freedom and equality - but these men don't represent those things".
Dutch ambassador barred by Turkey
The two men clashed over a recent diplomatic spat with Turkey, which followed Mr Rutte's decision to ban two Turkish ministers from addressing rallies in the country. In response, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Netherlands of being "Nazi remnants".
Mr Wilders said at the debate that Mr Rutte should have immediately expelled the Turkish ambassador. "Otherwise we accept that we are being insulted and our police are being insulted too," he said.
Mr Rutte's reply - that the remark showed the difference between "tweeting from the sofa and governing the country" - won him a sustained round of applause.
With two days to go until the election, one poll cited by Reuters suggested the Turkey spat, and subsequent riots by ethnic Turks in Rotterdam, had given anti-immigrant parties a boost.
The poll put the Freedom Party in second place behind Mr Rutte's VVD party. General polls suggest a significant number of Dutch voters are yet to make up their minds, meaning the debate could carry weight.
Mr Wilders does not shy away from controversy. He has vowed to ban Muslim immigration, shut mosques, and tax women who wear the Muslim headscarf, and in February he said some Moroccans were "scum".
Two months ago he was convicted of hate speech in a trial over a promise to reduce the number of Moroccans in the country.
Mr Wilders is highly unlikely to be able to form a government and so become leader, but a win for his party would be significant in the first European general election since Mr Trump became president in the US.
It would also foreshadow next month's presidential election in France, where far-right, anti-EU contender Marine Le Pen has widespread support, and September's election in Germany, where another right-wing party, Alternative for Germany, is likely to win seats for the first time.
Ben Butler allegedly became "hostile" and "aggressive" toward officers after six-year-old Ellie Butler died in hospital in October 2013.
He "stared accusingly" at an officer collecting evidence, the jury was told.
The 36-year-old denies murder and a second charge of child cruelty.
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His partner Jennie Gray has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice but denies a charge of child cruelty.
The Old Bailey heard the pair were reluctant to talk to police following the death of their daughter at St George's Hospital in Tooting.
PC Steve Stewart told the court: "I discovered them both to be hostile and unwilling to speak to police until the previous matter was known where they believed there had been a miscarriage of justice."
The court heard Mr Butler was convicted of harming Ellie in 2007 when she was six weeks old, but won an appeal and got his daughter back from foster care 11 months before her death.
He said accusations were made after she suffered a bleed on the brain and everything had got "twisted and turned", which made him "nervous" about talking to authorities.
"I went to court, jail, came out," he told the jury. "They found out it was a medical problem and a miscarriage of justice. I have nothing to hide but that's why I'm nervous."
According to an officer's notes, Mr Butler said on the day of Ellie's death he gave her some food before Ms Gray returned from work.
The next time he saw his daughter was when she was collapsed on the floor of her bedroom in Sutton, south-west London, the defendant claimed.
Following his arrest, Mr Butler was observed to quietly mutter to himself "I have done nothing wrong".
The trial was adjourned until Tuesday.
Fury took his unbeaten record to 24 with a technical knockout of Romania's Christian Hammer, whose corner threw in the towel after round eight.
The 26-year-old, who is the mandatory challenger for Klitschko's WBO world title belt, said: "I'm ready for him.
"I'm a much improved fighter and that's why I'm ready for Klitschko next."
Manchester fighter Fury, who is 6ft 9in and had a seven-inch height advantage, used his jab to great effect, before knocking Hammer over in round five with a thudding right hand to the top of the head.
The challenger was spared further punishment when his corner pulled out their man with him sat on his stool between the eighth and ninth rounds.
Fury added on BoxNation: "I'm here to entertain. I came here to box a very worthy opponent who was very tough.
"He took a lot of punishment and his corner knew they had to pull him out."
The teenager was struck at about 14:00 GMT on Thursday on Lakefield Road, at the junction with March End Road and Wednesfield Road, in Wednesfield.
West Midlands Police said the boy, from Bushbury, Wolverhampton, was taken to hospital but died of his injuries.
The driver of the car involved was taken to hospital and treated for shock. He is continuing to help police with their inquiries.
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Witnesses should contact West Midlands Police.
The mainland's benchmark Shanghai Composite was 1.3% down to 3,751.48 points.
The negative open comes after the index had seen strong volatility since the beginning of the week.
Traders appeared not to pick up on efforts by the central bank to provide more liquidity to stabilise markets.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index was also pulled lower, down 1.1% to 22,905.80 points.
Shares across the rest of Asia also fell on Thursday over worries about China's slowing growth and volatile equities.
The region's largest stock market, Japan's Nikkei 225 index was down 0.4% at 20,142.81 points.
On Wednesday, China's Shanghai Composite fell by 5% at first before recovering to close 1.2% higher.
Sentiment was also muted by the weak lead from Wall Street overnight where oil companies saw sharp declines after another drop in the price of crude.
The minutes from the July meeting of the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, also failed to inspire markets.
The minutes showed policymakers thought conditions for a US rate rise "were approaching", but there remained worries over inflation and the strength of the global economy.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 index dropped 1.1% to 5,318.80.
But there was better news for the country's national carrier, Qantas, which reported a return to full-year profit. Shares in the airline edged up by 0.7%.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index fell 0.5% to 1,930.61 points.
As required by the constitution, Mr Buhari has written to MPs to say he is back in charge, he tweeted.
His absence caused concern and on getting back home he told dignitaries he had never before felt "so sick".
However, he made no disclosure as to the nature of the illness which had kept him away from his office.
The president appeared frail when on Friday he stepped off the plane which had brought him back from London.
He proceeded to deliver a nine-minute statement saying he deliberately came back towards the weekend "so I will continue to rest".
He said further medical checks would be required.
"I have resumed my functions as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with effect from Monday," a statement released by Femi Adesina, Mr Buhari's special adviser, quotes him as saying.
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo had been in charge throughout Mr Buhari's sick leave.
It was the second time in less than a year that Mr Buhari, who won elections in 2015, has sought medical assistance overseas.
Last June, he spent nearly two weeks, again in London, for treatment for an ear infection.
Exclusive authority for determining the case was held to rest with London's Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
Mr Duffy, 48, is challenging the government for allegedly refusing to guarantee his meetings with lawyers were not under covert surveillance.
He is one of three men facing trial on charges of being in an IRA grouping, and attempting to murder PSNI members.
They face further counts of possessing firearms and ammunition, and conspiracy to murder security force members.
The alleged offences are connected to a gun attack on a police convoy in north Belfast.
A PSNI Landrover and two accompanying vehicles came under fire on the Crumlin Road in December 2013.
Mr Duffy, from Lurgan, County Armagh, is charged along with Alex McCrory, 54, from Sliabh Dubh View in Belfast; and Henry Fitzsimons, 47, of no fixed address.
Separate legal proceedings were launched in an effort to gain assurances that the security services were not listening in to Mr Duffy's legal consultations.
He was said to have received satisfactory assurances from the Prison Service, Courts and Tribunal Service and the National Crime Agency.
But no such guarantee was given by the Home Office.
A panel of three senior judges had to first determine if they had authority to deal with the case, or if the issues should go before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal set up to monitor surveillance authorised under the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
The tribunal sits as an independent court to decide on allegations of unlawful intrusion by public bodies and claims under the Human Rights Act.
Delivering judgment, Lord Justice Weatherup held that the proceedings were directed against the secretary of state as representative of the intelligence services.
He confirmed: "We are satisfied that the Divisional Court (of the High Court) does not have jurisdiction to hear this application for judicial review, and that exclusive jurisdiction lies with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal."
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) was passed 17 years ago to prevent terrorism and organised crime.
Stormont's Department for Communities told the Irish News it had used Ripa 591 times since April 2012.
A spokeswoman said the powers were only used "where necessary and within the parameters set down in law".
The law, dubbed the "snoopers' charter", has been used to detect littering and petty crime.
The Irish News obtained the figures though a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.
It reported the department had used the law to investigate fraudulent benefit claims, including exaggerated disabilities and those who apply for job seekers' allowance while in work.
The Irish News also reported that Stormont's Department for Infrastructure requested Ripa powers 132 times in the same period.
Since 2000, Ripa has been used by certain authorities to access the private phone and email records of people who are suspected of involvement in crime and anti-social behaviour.
Critics claimed the controversial law threatened civil liberties, but the government argued the measures were necessary to protect the public.
Confirming the figures, a spokeswoman for the Department for Communities told the BBC: "The powers within the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 are used for the purposes of preventing and detecting crime and the investigation and prosecution of benefit fraud cases.
"The use of any investigatory powers is strictly controlled and applied proportionately, only where necessary and within the parameters set down in law."
A spokesperson for the Department for Infrastructure told the Irish News that the Driver and Vehicle Agency primarily used Ripa to prevent personal injury compensation fraud and offences involving illegal taxis and buses.
It told BBC News NI it had not used any Ripa powers since May 2016.
Ripa has been recently overhauled and incorporated in the wide-ranging Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
The bill was granted Royal Assent in November and, for the first time, it allows the authorities to access internet browsing records.
A five-year plan to increase the budget by £8bn a year by 2020 was only set out last year, but now hospital bosses have warned that is not enough.
Chris Hopson, of NHS Providers, said the settlement needed to be redrawn.
However, the Department of Health said "tough economic decisions" had allowed it "to invest in our NHS".
It comes ahead of the Autumn Statement next Wednesday when ministers will set out their spending plans.
This will be the first time the government under Theresa May's leadership has outlined its priorities.
Mr Hopson criticised the way the current spending plans had been structured.
He pointed out the rise in spending was actually £4.5bn rather than £8bn when cuts to other budgets, including those for training staff and money for public health schemes such as stop smoking services, was taken into account.
He also said the extra demands being placed on hospitals, GPs and council-run care services had been underestimated, while the target to save £22bn in efficiencies by 2020 was "too ambitious".
"For all these reasons, there is now a clear and widening gap between what is being asked of the NHS and the funding available to deliver it," Mr Hopson said.
"We are therefore asking for a new plan for the rest of the parliament to finalise or confirm the NHS budget and honestly and realistically set out what can be delivered.
"If there are no changes to the money available we will need to set out what the NHS stops doing. Right now the service cannot deliver what is being asked of it on the current budget."
He said that could include longer waiting times, rationing of non-emergency care such as knee and hip replacements and fewer doctors and nurses.
Targets are already being missed in A&E and cancer care, while the waiting list for routine operations, such as knee and hip replacements, has hit 3.7m up from 3m two years ago.
But instead of prioritising hospitals, he said any extra money should be invested in GPs and council care services to try to stem the rising demands. He refused to say how much more the health service needed however.
Meanwhile, the campaign group Equality 4 Mental Health, headed by Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb and Conservative Andrew Mitchell, called for more to be done to make sure extra money got through to mental health.
The group - with the backing of nine former health secretaries - has said services are still being squeezed despite promises for care to be prioritised.
The scale of the problems the NHS is facing will also be made clear later on Friday when regulators release the half-year accounts for 2016-17.
Last year, hospitals and other NHS trusts overspent by £2.45bn.
An extra £1.8bn is being ploughed in this year to help them balance the books, but the accounts are expected to show a significant deficit was still accrued from April to September.
Sally Gainsbury, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, agreed there need to be a rethink on finances, saying a "long-term solution" was needed rather than the "sticking plaster" of the current plans.
But the Department of Health defended its record. "The government has taken tough economic decisions that have allowed us to invest in our NHS, which is meeting record patient demand while improving standards of care."
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Victoria Park is close to the George Best Belfast City Airport and planes fly directly overhead.
BBC News NI obtained the data through a freedom of information request to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.
Belfast City Airport has said it has a legal obligation to control the number of greylag geese for safety reasons.
The eggs are destroyed through a process known as egg-pricking.
During this process the shell is pricked and injected with oil. This prevents the embryo from developing into a chick and hatching.
The parent geese continue to sit on the eggs and therefore will not lay any more.
The airport said the method was the most humane way to manage the population of geese, adding that no adult geese had been culled.
If a bird flies into a plane engine, it can damage the mechanics and a few planes have been brought down as a result of such bird strikes.
Green Party councillor Georgina Milne, who represents the Victoria Park area, said people enjoyed bringing their children to the park to learn about the wildlife.
"We need to find a more humane solutions which are also more cost-effective," she said.
Ms Milne acknowledged that egg pricking was one of the more humane methods for managing geese, but said different methods should be used.
"It would be better if we tried to modify the environment," she said.
"Geese like very flat green grass so if you start to plant spiky grass it's not as hospitable for them.
"More experimentally in America, they are starting to use drones to try and scare the geese away.
"It's about balancing the very real health and safety risk with animal welfare and I really think that if we try to prevent the geese from landing here, rather than destroying their eggs, it will be much better.
"It's very important that people who use the park know that this is going on so that they can voice their opinions on it."
Belfast City Airport has held a licence to carry out egg pricking since 2002.
In a freedom of information request the Northern Ireland environment agency revealed that since 2002, 1,775 greylag goose eggs had been oiled and pricked.
The numbers involved vary each year, ranging from fewer than 50 to more than 250.
In recent years, an average of 100 eggs have been pricked.
A spokesman for the airport said: "In order to control the feral geese population in Victoria Park, the oiling and pricking of eggs is undertaken by a biologist under licence from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency and with the permission of Belfast City Council.
"The airport has a legal obligation to reduce the number of hazardous wildlife in the vicinity of the airport and does this through consultation with local authorities and wildlife experts.
"Earlier this year, Belfast City Airport was named Northern Ireland's Responsible Company of the Year by Business in the Community and, like all airports, is committed to managing its operations in an environmentally sensitive manner whilst ensuring air safety."
A spokesperson for the council said: "Public health and safety is paramount to Belfast City Council.
"Due to concerns over the number of greylag geese in Victoria Park, and their potential threat to landing or taking off aircraft at George Best Belfast City Airport, Belfast City Council has an agreement with the airport granting them access to Victoria Park to carryout egg pricking."
A US judge found Japanese bank Nomura made false statements when selling bonds to US agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac between 2005 and 2007.
Of the seven deals, RBS underwrote four valued at a total of $2bn (£1.28bn)..
The ruling opens the door for US authorities to recover $450m.
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are US government backed agencies that buy mortgages from banks and sell them as bonds to investors on the open market.
The value of those bonds plummeted in the wake of the financial crisis.
District Judge Denise Cote ruled in favour of a suit brought by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) saying supporting documents offered by Nomura "did not correctly describe the mortgage loans".
"The magnitude of falsity, conservatively measured, is enormous," she added.
Judge Cote said the securities sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "were supported by loans for which the underwriting process had failed," with deals comprised of 45% to 59% "materially defective" mortgages.
Nomura's lawyers claimed any losses incurred by Fannie and Freddie were not the banks' fault and were due to overall market conditions.
But the judge said the banks "have not quantified the loss that they say is due to macroeconomic factors".
Nor did the banks deny that "there is a link between the securitization frenzy associated with those shoddy practices and the very macroeconomic factors that they say caused the losses to the certificates," she wrote.
The exact amount of damages to be awarded was unclear. Judge Cote ordered the FHFA to submit a proposed judgment with updated damages figures based on her ruling by Friday.
But she said the FHFA was entitled to $624.4m, minus more than $178m in payments already made since the lawsuit began in 2011.
The FHFA welcomed the ruling, despite the amount appearing to be significantly lower than the $1bn it had sought during the trial.
FHFA general counsel Alfred Pollard said: "It is clear the court found that the facts presented by FHFA were convincing."
Nomura said in a statement that it planned to appeal, saying it was "confident that it was consistently candid, transparent and professional in all of its dealings with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac".
RBS declined to comment.
The lawsuit is the only one to so far have gone as far as a trial out of the 18 lawsuits file by the US regulator filed in 2011 regarding $200bn worth of mortgage-bonds sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by numerous banks in the lead up to the financial crisis.
The FHFA has already reached settlements worth a total of $17.9bn with banks including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Deutsche Bank.
The train hit one of three wooden sleepers that fell on the track from a trailer, near Somerleyton in Suffolk.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said the crash happened on 18 June after Network Rail staff removed old sleepers and rails overnight.
Network Rail said safety rules about observation of loads were reissued to staff immediately after the crash.
A maintenance team spent the early hours of the day removing old wooden sleepers from the track between Somerleyton and Oulton Broad North station.
The report said guidelines had been flouted and no-one was given the job of ensuring "nothing fell off" the trailers.
The report said: "The authorised work plan calls for a person to be appointed to monitor the load on each trailer."
The passenger train from Norwich to Lowestoft was travelling at about 35mph (56km/h) when it hit the sleeper, just after 05:08 BST.
The driver stopped the train before getting out to inspect what it had hit.
The RAIB said he was accompanied by a second driver and they found a wooden sleeper "wedged under the front" of the train, as well as two further sleepers nearby, which they removed.
After deciding the train was fit to move, the driver continued his journey to Lowestoft at a reduced speed.
A spokesman for Network Rail said: "The safety of our network is of the utmost importance to us and we will take any steps necessary to prevent a recurrence of this incident.
"We will be studying the recommendations of the report in detail."
The 72-year-old cosmologist said it was "discrimination against the disabled to deny them the right to kill themselves that able bodied people have."
He said safeguards would be needed to ensure the person truly wanted to die.
Lord Falconers's bill proposes allowing doctors to prescribe a lethal dose to terminally ill patients judged to have less than six months to live.
More than 130 peers have put their names down to speak.
The Bill would enable doctors to help patients die by prescribing a lethal dose of drugs.
Two physicians would have to certify that the patient was terminally ill and expected to die within six months.
Prof Hawking said it would be "wrong to despair and commit suicide, unless one is in great pain, but that is a matter of choice.
"We should not take away the freedom of the individual to choose to die."
But he admitted that he had once briefly tried to end his life when he had a tracheostomy - an operation to fit a breathing tube.
"I briefly tried to commit suicide by not breathing. However, the reflex to breathe was too strong."
This interview with Prof Hawking is part of the wider coverage of the differing views on this issue running on BBC News this week in the run-up to the debate.
Gross domestic product (GDP) fell at an annualised 1.6% from July to September, compared with forecasts of a 2.1% rise.
That followed a revised 7.3% contraction in the second quarter, which was the biggest fall since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Economists said the weak economic data could delay a sales tax rise.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is widely expected to call a snap election to seek a mandate to delay an increase in the sales tax to 10%, scheduled for 2015.
The tax increase was legislated by the previous government in 2012 to curb Japan's huge public debt, which is the highest among developed nations.
April saw the first phase of the sales tax increase, from 5% to 8%, which hit growth in the second quarter and still appears to be having an impact on the economy.
The economy shrank 0.4% in the third quarter from the quarter previous.
The data also showed that growth in private consumption, which accounts for about 60% of the economy, was much weaker than expected.
The next tax rise had already been put in question by already weak economic indicators.
"The Japanese economy is in recession and has now contracted in three of the last four quarters," said Glenn Levine, senior economist at Moody's Analytics.
"The most likely course is now a snap election in December in which voters choose, naturally enough, to delay the tax increase."
Speculation had been growing that the Japanese prime minister would call an election next month to gain support just two years after his election.
Local media are now reporting that Mr Abe could announce the next election as early as Tuesday to be held on 14 December.
The Japanese government's chief spokesperson Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that Mr Abe was expected to decide on various steps to take amid the "severe economic situation".
While Mr Abe's popularity has fallen since he took office in 2012, he is expected to win if an election were called, because the opposition remains divided.
In reaction to the negative economic data, the dollar went above 117 Japanese yen before settling back at 115.69.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index, meanwhile, closed down almost 3% to 16,973.80, marking its biggest one-day drop since August.
Where did Abenomics go wrong?
In the spring of 2013, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched an ambitious growth strategy that rapidly became known as Abenomics.
Its aim was to drag Japan's economy out of 20 years of deflation and put it back on the road to growth. Billions of dollars were pumped into the economy through stimulus spending. The Bank of Japan went on an even bigger spree, printing hundreds of billions of dollars of new money and using it to buy government bonds.
This had two effects. First, it pushed down the value of the yen, which made Japanese exports cheaper. Second, it pushed investors out of bonds and in to stocks. The Tokyo stock market soared. By mid-2013 Japan's economy was back in what looked like solid growth.
Then, in early 2014, Mr Abe's government took a calculated gamble. With the economy growing he could risk putting up taxes for the first time in nearly 20 years. Consumption (purchase) tax would rise from 5 to 8%. The tax rise was urgently needed to plug the giant hole in Japan's public finances.
But the gamble has not paid off. Japanese consumers have stopped spending and the economy is back in recession. Why? The fall in the yen gave a huge cash windfall to Japanese exporters. But instead of increasing the wages of their employees, they have sat on the money.
The huge stock market rise only benefited a minority of rich people. 80% of Japanese people do not own any shares. Instead, their incomes are stagnant or falling, and the tax rise has made them feel even poorer. Hence they have stopped spending.
Sixteen people are confirmed dead after the magnitude 6.0 quake, which hit the mountain in Sabah on Friday.
Among the dead were six Singaporean children on a school trip, along with their teacher and guide.
In Singapore, flags are at half-mast and a minute's silence was observed at venues for the Southeast Asian Games, which the city-state is hosting.
At the weekend, Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan linked the earthquake to a group of 10 foreigners who had earlier stripped naked on Mt Kinabalu.
He said the tragedy was a "confirmation" that they had showed "disrespect" to the mountain. "It is a sacred mountain and you cannot take it lightly," he told reporters.
Authorities have identified some of the tourists and ordered border officials to be on high alert if they tried to leave Sabah.
Mount Kinabalu is one of South East Asia's highest peaks and a popular trekking destination.
Nationals on the mountain at the time the quake struck early on Friday were from China, the United States, the Philippines, the UK, Thailand, Turkey and Japan.
One Japanese and one Chinese tourist were reported killed.
The Singaporean dead have been named as six students and their teacher from the Tanjong Katong Primary School (TKPS) and a Singaporean adventure guide.
They were among 30 pupils and staff climbing the mountain in the state of Sabah on Borneo island as part of an educational trip. A teacher and a student are still missing.
"Our hearts go out to their families, and to the TKPS community," Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a statement, praising the children for "striving to stretch their limits and take on new challenges".
More than 130 people were rescued or escaped. Many had to make their own way down with the help of tour guides and park rangers.
The US Geological Survey said the quake happened at around 07:15 local time (23:15 GMT) on Friday, at a depth of 10km (32,800ft). The epicentre was 54km (33 miles) from Mount Kinabalu, which stands at 4,095m (13,435ft).
The tremor was so powerful it also snapped off one of Mount Kinabalu's "Donkey's Ear" rock formations.
It also damaged roads and buildings, including schools and a hospital on Sabah's west coast, but there were no reports of casualties.
The 'conquerable' Mt Kinabalu
David Watters worked at FGS McClure Watters and Lanyon Astor Buller as a compliance oversight official when they were advising on pension transfers.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found it may have been unnecessary for some customers to leave their defined benefit schemes and move into defined contribution schemes, as advised.
It also found that Mr Watters had not properly managed conflicts of interest at the firms.
During the period from February 2006 to April 2009, the firms Mr Watters worked for provided advice to over 700 members of defined benefit schemes about the merits of transferring out.
The FCA found that Mr Watters had left his staff to design their own process around advising customers about transferring from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes.
This was despite one adviser in particular being directly financially incentivised to encourage customers to transfer.
Mark Steward, executive director of enforcement at the FCA, said: "It was Mr Watters' responsibility to take reasonable steps to put in place a compliant advice process.
"His failure to do this placed customers at risk of needlessly losing valuable benefits for their retirement."
Lanyon Aston Bulller has agreed to contact affected customers and where loss has been caused, it will pay appropriate redress.
Mr Watters was at one time the managing partner of his own firm which has since been sold.
In 2015 it emerged that Mr Watters claimed that he had come up with the idea that Nama's Northern Ireland loan book should be sold as single lot and was laying claim to fees related to the eventual deal.
Gareth Lloyd Davies, director of GHA Coaches, admitted some upkeep was neglected to keep services running.
Traffic Commissioner Nick Jones called it "shambolic" and said the directors should be disqualified.
About 320 people were made redundant when the firm collapsed in July.
It operated public and school services in Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham, and into Cheshire and Shropshire.
Mr Lloyd-Davies told a public inquiry inspections took place and the firm had a good MOT record until 18 months ago.
He blamed the departure of the chief engineer and unsatisfactory replacements for the lowering of standards.
The inquiry, sitting in Welshpool, Powys, heard that on 12 January, 2016, a wheel came off a 36-seater coach in Mold, Flintshire, and ran along the road, coming to rest on a roundabout on the A541.
"That appals me," said Mr Jones.
Evidence from Mark Williams, an inspector from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, showed he had asked to examine the wheel and found the wheel nuts had extreme wear.
It had been 14 weeks since there had been any maintenance on the vehicle.
"That's shambolic isn't it?" said the Traffic Commissioner to the company directors.
"You are not carrying out maintenance of your vehicles as required."
Mr Lloyd-Davies, who was also transport manager at the firm, agreed the buck stopped with him.
"I should have taken more control of what was happening in the company," he said.
Over a two year period, 161 buses were checked and 49 were were deemed not worthy to be on the road.
"That's twice the national average, which is bad enough. It doesn't say much for the safety of people travelling on GHA coaches," said Mr Jones.
"Finances came before road safety, didn't they?"
"Possibly," replied Mr Lloyd Davies.
Administrators were appointed after the firm received a winding-up petition over unpaid taxes.
Mr Jones said he would make orders to disqualify the directors - Mr Lloyd Davies and his brother Arwyn - from holding operator licences and will decide the length at a later date.
He said they had put financial issues above road safety and should have closed down long before they did.
"A lot of people have lost their jobs...[the] failures come down to your negligence," he added.
A further inquiry will take place regarding their directorships of two other bus companies, RJ's of Wem and RML 2418.
Neither men would comment at the end of the hearing.
A report by technology news site Gizmodo said staff responsible for what was shown to Facebook's 1.6bn users frequently chose to bury articles they did not agree with.
Responding to the allegations, the network's head of search Tom Stocky wrote that the site "found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true".
The claims come weeks after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg publicly denounced the policies of likely US presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
"I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as 'others.'," the 31-year-old said at his firm's recent developers conference.
However, Facebook insisted Mr Zuckerberg's view did not influence what stories are given added visibility on the network.
The Trending Topics column appears in the top right corner of a typical Facebook page. It is designed to highlight what subjects are being discussed heavily by Facebook users around the world.
Facebook explained in a statement that this list was edited by humans so as to avoid regularly recurring popular topics - such as "lunch".
Facebook's Mr Stocky explained: "Popular topics are first surfaced by an algorithm, then audited by review team members to confirm that the topics are in fact trending news in the real world and not, for example, similar-sounding topics or misnomers."
The Gizmodo story, which quoted a person it said they had been one of the editors, alleged Facebook staff were routinely tampering with Trending Topic stories.
Gizmodo's source added that staff were told to seek out stories published on the BBC, CNN and other mainstream sites ahead of publications with a clearly stated political bias - even if the stories originated on those smaller outlets.
Also, if several mainstream media sites were covering the same story, Facebook would - according to the source - artificially place it in the Trending Topic column, even if it was not being discussed heavily by users.
Breitbart, one of the leading conservative news sources in the US, said the reports confirmed what they had "long suspected", that "Facebook's trending news artificially mutes conservatives and amplifies progressives".
The anonymous source also claimed that stories staff favoured - such as the Black Lives Matter movement - were given artificially greater prominence. Facebook said that this was "untrue".
After a day of growing reports across social media and in conservative-leaning publications, Facebook's Mr Stocky posted a response on his profile.
"We have in place strict guidelines for our trending topic reviewers as they audit topics surfaced algorithmically," he wrote.
"Reviewers are required to accept topics that reflect real world events, and are instructed to disregard junk or duplicate topics, hoaxes, or subjects with insufficient sources.
"Facebook does not allow or advise our reviewers to systematically discriminate against sources of any ideological origin and we've designed our tools to make that technically not feasible.
"At the same time, our reviewers' actions are logged and reviewed, and violating our guidelines is a fireable offense."
On Monday, Gizmodo's story about Facebook's Trending Topics section being biased was featured prominently in Facebook's Trending Topics section.
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Nick Hardwick visited close supervision centres, which hold about 60 men in eight prisons in England and Wales.
He said the system was "basically well run", but also found prisoners could barely see daylight from cells and exercised in yards resembling "cages".
Bosses said improvements would be made.
Mr Hardwick praised staff for their care of the men, which he described as "impressive" considering how difficult the prisoners held in such centres were.
But as part of the inspection focusing on living conditions, it was found that prisoners could see no unobstructed daylight from their cells.
One prisoner described his unit as "like a submarine".
Close supervision centres (CSC) hold the most dangerous inmates in the prison system - many of whom have committed further, very serious offences in prison. They are sometimes referred to as a "prison within a prison".
The system was set up in 1998 and deals with prisoners subject to prison rule 46, which allows them to be detained away from other inmates because of the risk they pose.
Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons describes the system as "extreme custody" whose management raises "complex operational challenges and profound ethical issues".
The centres have capacity for 60 men, and a further 14 in similar but slightly less restrictive conditions, and are by a centralised team within the prison service.
Prisoners are held in designated CSC cells or segregation units within larger prisons, such as Belmarsh and Full Sutton, and are highly supervised.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Prisons
Mr Hardwick said the exercise yards - with grilles overhead - were "grim, dehumanising" and "unacceptably oppressive". Some prisoners were only allowed to talk to visiting relatives through a barred window.
Last November one prisoner attacked another, causing an acute brain injury and a three-month stay in hospital.
But Mr Hardwick said that, overall, violence in close supervision centres was low.
He said staff leadership of the system as a whole was "clear, principled and courageous", but expressed concern about the mental health of the prisoners, because of the tightly-controlled conditions they were kept in.
"Given the restricted nature of the regimes offered and most men's inability to move out of the units, more needed to be done to offset the real potential for psychological deterioration by the more imaginative provision of both in and out of cell activities," the report, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons, urged.
"The reasons why a disproportionate number of black and minority ethnic and Muslim men were held in the system needed to be better understood, and action taken to address any identified issues of unfairness."
Michael Spurr, chief executive of the MoJ's National Offender Management Service, said the inspectorate had concluded the close supervision centres were well-run.
"I echo his praise for the courage and professionalism of staff who work every day with exceptionally dangerous individuals," he said.
"Managing such prisoners humanely and safely whilst providing opportunities for progression is a complex and difficult task. We will use the recommendations in the report to make further improvements in the system but staff can be extremely proud of the work they do."
The Department for Education (DfE) turned down plans for the Phoenix Free School in Oldham, which aimed to "keep kids out of gang culture", last year.
But school director Tom Burkard said that decision was overturned after the proposal was resubmitted.
He said "a breakdown in communication" meant the DfE originally misunderstood the plan, but that had been rectified.
"One of the difficulties we had was that everyone has the impression that because all the teaching staff are ex-forces, this is going to be something like a boot camp," he said.
"Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
"They assumed we would be taking people who had come straight out of the military and had no experience in schools.
"In fact, virtually all the people who have applied to us have qualifications and experience in education."
Plans were first revealed for the secondary school staffed by former servicemen and women in September 2011.
The plan's authors claimed the school would "keep kids out of gang culture".
Government officials said at the time of the initial rejection that they would be working with Phoenix Free School to help it submit another proposal.
The institution is one of five free schools in Greater Manchester and Cheshire approved for opening in 2014.
A school for autistic children aged four to 19 run by the National Autistic Society has also been given the go-ahead.
Free schools are state-funded schools independent of local authority control.
A DfE spokesman described them as: "[Having] the freedom to decide the length of the school day and term, the curriculum, and how they reward their teachers and spend their money."
There are already 81 free schools in the UK, with a further 109 in the pipeline.
A protest immediately followed, with 300 people surrounding the vehicle where he died, local media report.
The allegation that he was suffocated is being investigated by an independent police complaints body.
Police say that he died after swallowing drugs as they were about to arrest him for possession.
Independent Police Investigative Directorate spokesperson Robbie Raburabu told the News24 website that "as soon as he saw the police coming he swallowed the drugs and overdosed and died on the scene".
But Mr Raburabu told the BBC that all the circumstances surrounding the man's death, including the possibility of suffocation, is being looked into by pathologists.
Police used rubber bullets to disperse the crowd of about 300 protesters in the Kempton Park area on Saturday, Eyewitness News reports.
The Nigeria Union in South Africa say that this is not the only incident of a Nigerian being mistreated while being held by South African police.
"We take exception to the continued torture of Nigerians by the South African police," said the union's president, Ikechukwu Anyene, Nigeria's Premium Times newspaper reports.
There have also been demands for the Nigerian community to commission its own post-mortem.
Spanish officials said Graeme McGilvray, 49, died after he was hit by a truck on a busy road between Port D'alcudia and Alcudia on Tuesday.
Mr McGilvray, who was born in Glasgow, had been staying at a hotel in the tourist resort of Puerto Pollensa.
Majorca's year-round sunny climate and spectacular roads make it a popular cycling holiday destination.
It follows an incident on Tuesday in Chewton Common Road, Christchurch, at about 08:35 BST near Highcliffe St Mark Primary School.
The 45-year-old man, from Christchurch, is accused of breaching a restraining order, common assault and possessing a bladed article.
He was due to appear at Bournemouth Magistrates' Court later.
The man was treated in hospital after he sustained injuries to his neck during the incident. No-one else was injured.
Falloon will join the treble winners on a one-year deal after Gold Coast Titans opted to release him.
The 28-year-old was among a group of players involved in a drug-trafficking case earlier this year, but the charges against him were later dropped.
"Leeds has a proud history and it will be special to play for them," he said.
"Being a hooker, Leeds have got a great forward pack who like to go forward and that excites me."
Gold Coast's 2014 player of the year Falloon played 12 games in 2015. taking his NRL tally to 85 and also appeared for the New South Wales City Origin side in 2014.
"We are pleased to have signed a player with the experience that Beau has," Leeds head coach Brian McDermott said.
"He has been playing in the NRL for eight seasons and, having spoken to him, I know he is very excited about the challenge of coming to England and playing with the Rhinos."
Travis Frain was struck on Westminster Bridge as the attack began, suffering multiple fractures to his hand and leg.
Thanking those who helped him, the 19-year-old from Darwen, Lancashire, singled out "Constable Soren Dymond".
The PC was "one of the first on the scene, stayed with me the entire journey, and bought me lunch knowing I had lost all my money", he said.
The Edge Hill University undergraduate had been visiting the Palace of Westminster with 13 other students and a lecturer to watch Prime Minister's Questions.
He will now need an operation on his leg.
Another student, 18-year-old Owen Lambert, needed stitches to a head wound, while two others received treatment for lesser injuries.
University Pro Vice Chancellor Lynda Brady said of the 13, three were back home and nine others were returning.
Writing on Facebook, Mr Frain said many of the reports about his injuries had been wrong.
"I'm not too bad, though things are obviously still in the air this early.
"After X-rays on over 20 different parts of the body, a couple of MRIs, an ultrasound and a CT scan, both my ribs and hip bones are fine.
"However, I have fractured the top part of my left hand, and most of the fingers.
"I've also fractured my leg, around the knee, and as a result, I will need physio over the coming months to be able to walk at the extent I used to."
He said as a result of the CT scan, "the operation I would be having in six weeks' time has been moved forward to six hours".
He added he had suffered deep cuts and minor whiplash, but "at the end of the day, it could have been a hell of a lot worse".
Eight arrests have been made following the attack in London on Wednesday, which saw three people killed and at least 40 injured before the attacker was shot dead.
Foster, one of 138 torchbearers on Friday, won the world championship six times and is the short course 50m freestyle world record holder.
Along the 117-mile route from
Ipswich to Chelmsford,
the flame visited the London 2012 mountain bike venue.
Later in the day there was confusion when a torchbearer was bypassed.
Hannah Aygeman-Prempeh was due to carry the flame in her home town of Basildon, Essex, but the preceding torchbearer ran past her.
Large crowds meant the mistake went unnoticed until he reached the next torchbearer.
A spokesman for London 2012 said the 24-year-old, who was nominated for her charity work, would be able to join the relay on Saturday when the relay travels from
Chelmsford to Cambridge
.
He said: "During the excitement of Torchbearer 111's slot, he sprinted past Torchbearer 112. We have offered Torchbearer 112 a place to carry the flame on tomorrow's relay. We will also take care of her and her family's transport to ensure she still gets her moment to shine."
The day began at 06:37 BST at Christchurch Mansion House, with the flame being carried by promising young athlete Emily Rogers, a member of the West Suffolk Athletics Club who has had success at Suffolk county level and in the English schools competition.
She handed it over to Paralympian Kevin Curtis, who won a sailing gold at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. He also won gold at the World Disabled Sailing Championships in Barcelona.
Franklyn Keith Musto
, a British sailor who won silver in the Flying Dutchman class at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo carried the flame in Colchester.
Just under four hours later Foster, who led Team GB into the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, began his stint with the flame when the relay travelled along Southend seafront.
In the afternoon, mountain biking commentator Dan Jarvis carried the flame by bicycle at the London 2012 Olympic mountain bike course at
Hadleigh Farm
.
He said it was "fantastic" but he experienced "sheer terror keeping a grip on the torch" which he had to carry in one hand while riding with the other.
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Other torchbearers included Paul Mears, the father of British diver Chris Mears.
In 2009, Mr Mears maintained a bedside vigil, together with his wife Katy, when Chris suffered a serious training accident while competing for Team GB at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney.
Chris was placed in intensive care and diagnosed with a ruptured spleen. He has made a full recovery and will compete at the 2012 Games in the 3m Springboard and 3m Synchro with Nick Robinson-Baker.
The last torchbearer of the day was
John Bowman,
from Little Dunmow, who ran in memory of his late wife, Kirste, who was originally selected to take part in the relay.
Mrs Bowman was chosen for her dedication to marathon running and her fundraising for breast cancer research charities, despite suffering from breast cancer herself.
At
Hylands House
site, evening entertainment came from dance troupe Morning Parade and sport and dance act Twist and Pulse.
A total of 8,000 people will carry the flame during its 8,000 mile, 70-day journey to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London on 27 July.
Mark and Megan Short and their children, aged 8, 5 and 2, died of gunshot wounds, police said.
Police called the deaths a "tragic domestic incident."
The family was featured in news reports after Willow Short, then an infant, received a heart transplant in 2014.
Since then, the Shorts had trouble obtaining Willow's medication on time. The drugs that prevented Willow's body from rejecting her new heart are subject to strict rules, which often complicated their delivery.
The hurdles the family faced were detailed in a New York Times article.
Megan Short wrote in a blog that she suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) amid Willow's difficult treatments.
"I don't think PTSD ever truly goes away but, with therapy, medication, and the right support, I have begun to loosen its grip on me," she wrote.
"As I work on my own mental healing, I wanted to share my experience so that other heart parents know they are not alone."
Neighbours told the Reading Eagle that the couple had been heard arguing and Megan Short planned to leave her husband.
Authorities said they found a "murder-suicide" note and one of the adults was found with a handgun.
London Underground workers at the station are taking industrial action for 24 hours until 22:00 BST on Monday.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are protesting against the dismissal of a colleague.
Underground bosses said the employee had demonstrated "unacceptable conduct" and they intended to keep the station open during the strike.
The union said a staff member was sacked and two others were disciplined unfairly following an incident with a face dodger.
The RMT said the staff should have been praised for tackling a violent passenger.
General secretary Mick Cash said: "London Underground's message to thugs is that you can keep on fiddling your fares and lay into staff with impunity, and it will be the frontline Tube workers who get the sack.
"It is outrageous. This is one of the most appalling abuses of the LU disciplinary procedure that RMT has ever come across.
"This was a shocking, violent incident and those that bore the brunt of it should have been supported and commended by the company."
Underground operations director Brian Woodhead described the claim as "simply untrue".
"CCTV footage from a number of different angles clearly shows a staff member displaying unacceptable conduct when dealing with a member of the public.
"The member of staff was dismissed following a full and thorough investigation.
"We have subsequently invited the general secretary of the union to view the footage himself but our invitation has not been accepted."
All RMT Underground workers are now being balloted over further strike action across the Tube network.
Jordan Brennan was assaulted as he left the shop on Hyde Road, Gorton, at about 19:30 BST on Friday.
Emergency services were called to his home the following morning after he was found unconscious in bed and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said a 17-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy handed themselves into a police station and were arrested.
A post-mortem examination later found the cause of his death was a head injury.
Her 10-year-old son Harvey will be among the pupils if the school is given the go-ahead by the government.
"There are other schools for Harvey but they are not the standard we think [the children] need," she said.
The Royal London Society for the Blind (RLSB) said it wished the free school the best of luck.
The charity runs a school in Kent which Harvey currently attends, but it is due to close.
Ms Price, who lives in West Sussex, has been working with her mother Amy and other parents at Harvey's present school on the bid.
Amy Price was among parents who attended a meeting at the Department for Education (DfE) to put their case for government funding. They expect to receive a decision in July.
The parents were advised by human rights lawyers and writer Toby Young, who set up the first free school in Hammersmith, west London, last year.
Ms Price said she believed Harvey needed to be at a special school which could cater for his disabilities.
"I strongly believe that without the support Harvey has had at his school and our help he wouldn't be as forward as he is now," she said.
"You definitely need to stimulate the children in the right way. It is to do with the support - they have speech therapy and they have their music."
She said the proposed school, which would be for children who already have a statement of special educational needs, could have as many as 90 pupils. So far the parents of 45 children have expressed interest.
"Harvey has got so many needs and behaviour problems," said Amy Price. "These are children that no other school can really cater for and offer the education or the therapies they need."
Katie Price said she would not be running the school and did not want to be seen as a figurehead.
"I am a parent," she said. "I haven't used my status at all and I wouldn't because it's not about me, it is about the kids."
But she and her mother said that if the school was approved others could be set up elsewhere in England.
"If this one is successful and we achieve what we want to, we plan to do it around the country, but we have got to start with this one first," said Amy Price.
Tom Pey, chief executive of RLSB, said the charity had looked closely at the free school idea.
"We formed the view, based on a lot of experience and a lot of thought, that going out into the communities and educating young children where they can be with their friends, their families and with their communities is far better," he said.
"That is not to say that we have anything against the free school and we are aware that a free school is being thought about.
"We wish that the very best of luck as well because blind young people need all the help they can get."
Kent County Council said it supported the proposal, providing the new school could deliver the good and outstanding education that this group of children and young people needed and deserved.
A DfE spokeswoman said: "Our free schools programme allows parents, teachers and charities the chance to set up schools to meet the needs of local children.
"A number of free schools for children with special educational needs are already in the pipeline and we welcome applications from other passionate people who want to set up new schools.
"As taxpayers would expect, all applications are carefully assessed and must meet strict criteria."
Mr Hart, 26, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, was attacked when an argument escalated after he was hit with an inflatable doll at the event in Heaton Park on 7 June.
He died four days later in hospital.
Parklife organisers said they were offering the reward to catch who was responsible for "a cowardly act".
"From the start we believed that, out of the 70,000 people at the festival, there must have been one person who knows who was responsible," they said.
Police said the reward was offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man responsible.
Det Insp Richard Eales said they were "carrying out a thorough and significant investigation".
He said: "It is very unlikely that this man went to a festival on his own.
"Someone out there was with this man when the attack happened, or knows something that will help us identify him.
"Please do not shield this man with your silence, he does not deserve the protection."
Greater Manchester Police have issued an e-fit of a man they want to speak to.
He is described as of mixed-race, with a muscular build, in his late 20s, 6ft (1.8m) tall, with short, curly, black hair.
He was wearing shorts and a blue, bomber-style jacket with a white letter A on the front.
Naoto Kan resigned after Fukushima was hit by a tsunami in 2011, causing radiation leaks.
He has since become an anti-nuclear campaigner and came to Wales on Thursday to oppose the new plant.
He told BBC Wales he had believed nuclear power to be safe but Fukushima had "changed all that."
Mr Kan met with campaigners from the People Against Wylfa B group.
Dr John Idris Jones, energy island programme director for Anglesey council, told BBC's Good Morning Wales programme the UK had an independent regulator with the power to shut plants down if they did not comply with safety regulations.
He said there was a push to bring new jobs to the island, but "not jobs at any cost".
It is hoped the nuclear project will boost the island's economy.
Marie Black, 34, of Norwich, was convicted at Norwich Crown Court of 23 charges, including rape and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
Victims were abused at parties and may have been offered in raffles.
"The case is the most harrowing it has been my misfortune to try," said Judge Nicholas Coleman.
"I and the jurors had to listen to the truly gruesome detail of what took place.
"Your conduct towards these children can only be described as utterly depraved - the children were subjected to sexual abuse of the worst kind.
"They were simply passed around like toys," he said.
The charges related to five young children over a 10-year period.
Michael Rogers, 46, from Romford, north east London, was found guilty of 14 counts, including cruelty, rape and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
Jason Adams, 44, from Norwich, was convicted of 13 similar counts.
Both were sentenced to 24 years.
The severity of the sentence means Marie Black has become one of the UK's most notorious paedophiles.
Yet still she cries her innocence. She sobbed quietly and occasionally shook her head as her sentence was read out.
Judge Nicholas Coleman said he had "had enough" of legal argument from her barrister and went at it both barrels.
For Marie Black life inside will be tough. Already she has had to move prisons several times.
The men were also made subject to sexual harm prevention orders, which allows the court to impose restrictions deemed necessary to protect the public.
All three had denied the charges against them, with Black accused of 26 counts and found guilty of 23.
Seven others stood trial, six of whom were cleared of all charges.
Judge Coleman said: "You, Marie Black, were the constant factor in all of these crimes.
"The offences included adults conspiring to rape children at so-called sex parties.
"You used them for your own, and for others', sexual gratification."
Black was told she could only be considered for parole after 12 years.
He said there was evidence the children were taken to other parts of the country where they were raffled for abuse by others.
Black did not give evidence and was described by her barrister Sarah Elliott QC as "clearly a vulnerable, corrupted woman".
"The impetus for abusing the children comes from Adams and Rogers," she said.
"She was vilified throughout the trial and was blamed by everybody to exculpate themselves."
However, barristers representing Adams and Rogers rejected the notion that they had manipulated her.
Isabella Forshall QC, for Adams, said he had no previous convictions for sexual offences and Black was "the common denominator between all the offences."
Ann Cotcher QC said Rogers was a "naive" man who had sought to help Black and was not the instigator of sexual and physical abuse.
Co-defendant Carol Stadler, 59, from Norwich, was found guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm, but cleared of nine other charges including serious sexual assaults.
She is due to be sentenced.
Six others - Anthony Stadler, 63, Nicola Collins, 36, Andrew Collins, 52, Judith Fuller, 31, Denise Barnes, 43, and Kathleen Adams, 85, all from Norwich - stood trial but were cleared of all counts.
Underlying profit for the half-year to 31 December fell by 31% to $5.35bn (£3.46bn), but that was better than industry analysts were expecting.
To compensate for falling prices BHP has made deep cuts in its spending on exploration and other investment.
It spent $6.4bn during the six-month period, down 23% on the previous year.
"We started to prepare for a sustained period of lower prices almost three years ago by increasing our focus on efficiency and lowering our investment," chief executive Andrew Mackenzie said in a statement accompanying the latest results.
"Since then, we have achieved annualised productivity gains approaching $10bn and reduced capital spending by almost 40%," he said.
BHP is planning to move its aluminium, manganese into a separate company, which will also hold nickel and silver mines and some coal mines in Australia and South Africa.
Called South32, BHP hopes to spin-off the new company in the summer following a shareholder vote.
The company has also been hit by falling oil prices.
Last month BHP Billiton announced a 40% reduction in its US shale oil operation.
By the end of June it plans to have reduced the number of shale rigs from 26 to 16.
The firm's Sydney-listed shares were trading higher in early trade on Monday.
The Emirates Air Line, which links the O2 Arena in Greenwich and the ExCel exhibition centre, experienced a technical fault at 11:45 BST.
All passengers were back in the terminal half an hour later and the service was running again by 12:40.
The crossing can carry up to 2,500 people per hour in each direction.
Some passengers tweeted about the ordeal. Alastair Owens, said he was in the air for about 50 minutes in total.
He wrote on his Twitter account: "Emirates cable car turned out to be great school holiday mini adventure - greeted with apologies and water as we landed."
Janet Hutchinson, and her 12-year-old daughter, Freya, from Surrey, were stuck in one of the cable cars.
"We were dangling over the Thames for half an hour, whilst swaying from side-to-side," she said.
"We were extremely hot and worried as we were not given any information. It was a very unsettling experience when it should have been an exciting trip out.
"When we got off we asked for a refund but was told because we paid by Oyster card we would have to approach Transport for London. I did not find the staff at the Thames cable car very helpful."
Danny Price, head of Emirates Air Line, said: "All passengers were safely back in the terminal by 12:18 and water and first aid were made available to them. We would like to apologise to anyone affected."
London Assembly Member John Biggs said: "We need the mayor and TfL to look into what went wrong and confirm that passengers weren't in danger at any point.
"The public need to be confident that this kind of thing won't happen again."
The Dubai-based airline Emirates is sponsoring the cable car for 10 years at a cost of £36m.
Three Mk1 Austin Mini Cooper S cars feature among the most memorable scenes of the movie starring Michael Caine, Benny Hill and Margaret Blye.
Inverness Mini Owners Group organised a group of 13 classic Minis from as far as Keith and Wick for the screening at Inverness' Eden Court on Sunday.
They travelled in convoy through the city before arriving at the venue.
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Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers (12:30)
Blackburn Rovers v Blackpool
Burnley v Bristol City
Chelsea v Brentford
Crystal Palace v Manchester City
Lincoln City v Brighton and Hove Albion
Middlesbrough v Accrington Stanley
Oxford United v Newcastle United
Rochdale v Huddersfield Town
Tottenham Hotspur v Wycombe Wanderers
Southampton v Arsenal (17:30)
Millwall v Watford (12:00)
Fulham v Hull City (12:30)
Sutton United v Leeds United (14:00)
Manchester United v Wigan Athletic (16:00)
Goals and highlights from this weekend's FA Cup fourth-round games will be available on the BBC Sport website from 17:15 GMT on Saturday.
BBC One is showing two live cup ties on Sunday. Millwall host Watford at 12:00, followed at 16:00 by holders Manchester United against Wigan.
Highlights programmes will run on both Saturday and Sunday, with the latter including Sutton's home tie with Leeds.
Football Focus and 5 live sport come live from non-league Lincoln before their match against Championship leaders Brighton.
Final Score and 5 live will keep you across all the goals as they happen for Saturday's 15:00 kick-offs, with goal alerts via the BBC Sport app.
There will be live radio commentary of three games on Saturday: Liverpool v Wolves at 12:30, Lincoln v Brighton at 15:00 and Southampton v Arsenal at 17:30.
Premier League leaders Chelsea's home game with Brentford at 15:00 will be live on 5 live sports extra.
There is also radio coverage of three matches on Sunday, starting with Millwall v Watford at 12:00, followed by Sutton v Leeds at 14:00 and then Manchester United v Wigan.
The BBC Sport website's live text commentary starts at 09:00 and will bring you every goal as it goes in and the best of the action throughout the day.
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The 22-year-old has spent the last two seasons with AFC Wimbledon, scoring 13 goals in 77 appearances.
He was previously with Charlton Athletic, who sent him out on several loan spells including a stint with Dagenham and Redbridge.
Azeez won three caps for England's Under-19 side in 2012.
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Yn ôl Mr Corbyn fe fyddai polisi o'r fath - polisi sy'n cael cefnogaeth rhai o ASau Llafur - yn anodd i'w weithredu.
Gwnaeth ei sylwadau mewn cyfweliad gyda BBC Cymru.
Mae grŵp amlbleidiol o aelodau seneddol yn Nhŷ'r Cyffredin wedi awgrymu y dylai rheolaeth niferoedd mewnfudo gael ei ddatganoli i Lywodraeth Cymru yn sgil Brexit.
Ond dywedodd Mr Corbyn: "Rwy'n meddwl byddai hyn yn anodd ei weithredu, oherwydd pe bai chi yn gosod terfyn Cymreig ar fewnfudo, neu yn dechrau gwneud yr un math o beth ar gyfer rhanbarthau Lloegr, a fyddwch wedyn yn rhwystro hawl y bobol hynny i symud o fewn y DU?"
Fe wnaeth Mr Corbyn hefyd wrthod awgrym gan Brif Weinidog Cymru, Carwyn Jones, fod polisi'r Blaid Lafur yn "rhy Lundeinig" a bod gweddill Prydain yn gweld mewnfudo mewn modd gwahanol i Lundain.
Dywedodd Mr Corbyn y dylai'r pwyslais fod ar sicrhau mynediad i'r farchnad Ewropeaidd yn dilyn Brexit.
"Mae'n rhaid i'r flaenoriaeth fod ar sicrhau fod gan swyddi yn y diwydiannau cynhyrchu ym Mhrydain rhywle i werthu eu nwyddau - pe bai ni'n torri cysylltiadau ag Ewrop rydym yn wynebu problem go iawn gyda diogelu'r diwydiannau cynhyrchu."
Er gwaetha' canlyniad arolwg barn diweddar sy'n awgrymu fod cefnogaeth i'r blaid yng Nghymru ar ei lefel isaf ers saith mlynedd, dywedodd Mr Corbyn fod Llafur mewn "cyflwr da ac yn ysu am frwydr."
Dywedodd y byddai'n ymgyrchu yn galed yng Nghymru cyn etholiadau'r cynghorau lleol ym mis Mai a bod ei blaid mewn "sefyllfa dda" er yr arolwg barn.
The council currently collects waste every fortnight, spending about £2.9m each year to dispose of its rubbish.
A report found more than half could be recycled, with Conwy calling the loss of resources "unacceptable".
On Tuesday, the council voted in favour of three-weekly collections, but it will run a pilot of four-weekly pick-ups in one area of the county.
Clwyd West assembly member Darren Millar had urged the council to scrap the proposals and consider alternative ways to promote recycling instead. Hundreds signed his petition calling for the proposals to be ditched.
He said: "I have been bombarded by emails, letters and comments on social media from residents who are dead set against these proposals."
Conwy currently recycles 59% of its waste - more than the statutory target of 58% for 2015/16 - but like all local authorities in Wales, it will have to achieve 64% by 2020 and 70% by 2025.
It would not meet those targets without considering "a more sustainable approach to the collection and recycling of waste", the authority's report said.
The Schiaparelli lander is seen in greater detail than ever before, lying on the Martian surface.
It is well within its intended landing zone but obviously unable to function.
The images, gathered by Nasa, could provide important new clues about what went wrong.
They show a dark patch around the capsule - a possible hint that a fuel tank exploded - and the indication is that the impact gouged out a crater 50cm deep.
Last week's landing - a joint Esa-Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) endeavour - was billed as a "technology demonstrator" to pave the way for a far bigger venture in 2020 with a sophisticated rover to hunt for clues about life.
The loss raises difficult questions about the risks involved in that follow-on mission and whether Esa's member governments will be too nervous to pledge the funds needed to mount it.
The Schiaparelli spacecraft was meant to touch down last week using a combination of a heat-shield and a parachute to slow its fall and retro-rockets to lower it to the surface.
Instead communications were lost during what should have been the final minute of the descent and it is estimated that the spacecraft hit the ground at about 300kph.
It was quickly established that the parachute and back cover were released earlier than they should have been, according to a pre-programmed sequence of tasks.
It is also known that the retro-rockets, which should have fired for 30 seconds, only operated for three or four seconds, and the lander probably fell from a height of 2-4km.
In the aftermath of the attempt, Esa's Director-General, Jan Woerner, claimed that the mission was a success because the spacecraft transmitted data for five of the six minutes of its descent, providing useful information and proving that key stages of the operation had worked well.
He also highlighted that the lander's mother ship, known as the Trace Gas Orbiter, had been successfully placed in an orbit that would allow it to sniff the Martian atmosphere for hints of methane.
Soon after the mission, Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter gathered pictures of the landing zone which revealed the presence of two new dots in the Martian landscape - a dark one for the spacecraft and a white one for the parachute.
Now the same spacecraft has used its more powerful HiRise camera - with a resolution of 30cm per pixel - to focus on the landing zone and produce the images released today.
In a bitter irony, it was the same US orbiter that managed to spot Europe's earlier attempt at a Mars landing, with the Beagle-2 mission in 2003.
Those images showed how the tiny craft had made it to the surface in one piece but then failed to fully open its solar panels which meant that it could not communicate or survive.
Asante spurned the first real chance of the match when he prodded meekly at visiting goalkeeper Rory Watson while Kyle Wootton fired wide when well placed at the other end.
Dutch striker Asante also missed the target but then made amends shortly afterwards, following up to net the rebound after Jamey Osborne's low drive had been parried into his path.
Solihull were grateful for Daniel Lewis' fine low save to keep out Wootton's drive shortly after half-time while the ever-dangerous Asante's effort came back off the bar.
The hosts survived a few nervy moments before Asante made the result safe, slamming into the roof of the net from the edge of the area before Curtis Bateson was dismissed late on to compound the woes of North Ferriby, who slipped to the foot of the table following the loss.
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Match ends, Solihull Moors 2, North Ferriby United 0.
Second Half ends, Solihull Moors 2, North Ferriby United 0.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Akwasi Asante.
Second yellow card to Curtis Bateson (North Ferriby United) for a bad foul.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Darryl Knights replaces Jamey Osborne.
Shepherd Murombedzi (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Liam Daly (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Levi Sutton (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Solihull Moors 2, North Ferriby United 0. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors).
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Jordan Fagbola replaces Eddie Jones.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Darryn Stamp replaces Ross Armstrong.
Curtis Bateson (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Ryan Kendall replaces Kyle Wootton.
Second Half begins Solihull Moors 1, North Ferriby United 0.
Jamey Osborne (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
First Half ends, Solihull Moors 1, North Ferriby United 0.
Goal! Solihull Moors 1, North Ferriby United 0. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors).
Ben Middleton (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card.
George Carline (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Daniel Dias took gold in the 50m freestyle on Monday in the S5 category.
He raced against and defeated the man who first inspired him to become a Paralympic swimmer.
After winning, he thanked his family for their support and told a TV channel: "We are made of dreams in life. If we stop dreaming, we die."
Mr Dias, 28, has won 20 medals - 12 gold, six silver and two bronze - over the course of his career to date.
He has won over crowds in the stadium, who cheered loudly for him, as well as online.
His father told the BBC he had "no words to describe the joy" of seeing his son take gold in his home country.
Paolo Dias said his son is "very focused and determined" and his success is "the result of dedication and concentration".
The S5 category is for swimmers with a short stature and an additional impairment. Mr Dias was born with no feet or hands.
He finished ahead of Clodoaldo Silva, a veteran Brazilian Paralympic swimmer who first inspired him to swim. He has said that before he saw Mr Silva swim at the 2011 Paralympic Games in Athens, he never knew people with his disabilities could do "any kind of sport".
On being compared to his other idol, the famous US Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Mr Dias said: "I am very happy to be compared to such an amazing athlete, but I am Daniel Dias. I want to do the best for Paralympic sports."
"Medals are consequences of good work," he said. "I never promise medals. I believe it is a consequence of my good work in the water."
The most-decorated Paralympian of all time is Trischa Zorn, a blind swimmer with 55 medals to her name.
The Halifax said that UK property prices rose by 5.8% in September compared with a year ago.
This offers some cheer to first-timers who faced annual rises in house prices of 10% six months ago.
Yet those buying in the priciest parts of the UK were typically seven years older than those in cheaper areas.
The Halifax said that the youngest first-time buyers were in Carlisle in Cumbria and Torfaen in south Wales where they bought at an average age of 27. The oldest were in Slough in Berkshire as well as Barnet and Ealing in London where the average age was 34.
Overall in the UK, the lender said the average first-time buyer was aged 30.
Most are likely to be looking for properties a lot cheaper than a £14m mansion that has just been sold in south London or a typically priced home in the UK which, according to the Halifax, now costs £214,024.
Where can I afford to live?
Property values rose by 0.1% in September compared with August, according to the Halifax figures which are based on its own lending figures.
However, they fell by 0.1% in the three months to the end of September compared with the previous quarter.
Year-on-year, house prices were still rising but at a slower pace, said Martin Ellis, housing economist at the Halifax.
"The housing market has followed a steady downward trend over the past six months with clear evidence of both a softening in activity levels and an easing in house price inflation," he said.
He added that house prices had risen faster than earnings for some time, which had reduced demand among buyers.
However, a shortage of properties in the market meant that prices were still going up.
Ben Madden, managing director of the estate agents Thorgills, said: "The collapse in the market many predicted simply has not materialised and the reason for this is the acute lack of supply, exceptionally low mortgage rates and an economy and consumer that, as yet, appear to be holding up despite the political uncertainty.
"It is nevertheless a peculiar and uncertain market. Generally speaking, buyers feel it is their market, but the longer the economy holds up in the aftermath of Brexit the more the market may begin to favour sellers."
Martin Tett, housing spokesman for the Local Government Association, said: "The shortage of houses in this country is a top concern for people who are finding that buying their first house is increasingly out of reach.
"Councils support measures to boost home ownership. But not everybody is ready to buy, and a renaissance in council housebuilding is needed to ensure there is a mix of homes - to rent and buy - that are affordable for those people that need them and that are crucial for enabling people to save money towards a deposit."
A week ago, the Nationwide Building Society said annual house price inflation has fallen, from 5.6% in August to 5.3% in September.
It said housebuilders should get on and build more houses with the number of homes on the market close to record lows.
He said a conductor had overheard a radio conversation between the Amtrak's driver and another driver, in which both said their trains had been struck.
But Amtrak driver Brandon Bostian said he could not remember what happened.
The train derailed as it hit a curve while travelling at more than twice the speed limit, killing eight people.
More than 200 people on board the Washington-New York train were wounded.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Robert Sumwalt said the assistant conductor had heard Mr Bostian talking by radio with the driver of another train from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (Septa).
The Septa train driver reportedly said his train - which was in the same area - was hit by a rock or some other projectile.
Mr Bostian said the same had happened to the Amtrak train, according to the assistant conductor.
The investigators said they had found an area of glass which might indicate damage from a flying object, and have called in the FBI for technical assistance.
NTSB officials earlier interviewed Mr Bostian, saying he was "extremely co-operative", but could not remember what happened.
The 32-year-old driver had called for stricter rail safety.
On various posts to Trainorders.com, Mr Bostian lamented Amtrak's lack of Positive Train Control, an automatic braking and warning system which was not fully operational on that section of line.
Safety experts have said it could have prevented the crash.
Friends said Mr Bostian talked about trains all the time and always wanted to be a train driver or conductor.
He has worked for Amtrak for nine years and was promoted to train driver in 2010.
On his Facebook page, friends wrote that he is a "great person and a great engineer [driver]".
Investigators said the train sped up from 70mph (113km/h) to over 100mph in the minute before hitting the sharp bend.
Amtrak boss Joseph Boardman said on Thursday that the agency's goal is to "fully understand what happened and how we can prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the future".
The last wrecked coaches were pulled from the scene on Friday and taken away for further examination.
The rail service remains suspended between New York and Philadelphia until at least early next week.
The damage in the graveyard of St Mary's cemetery on Chapel Hill occurred sometime overnight on Saturday.
Ch Insp Bernard O'Connor said officers were working to establish a motive for the attack and appealed for anyone with information to contact police.
The Sinn Féin MP for Newry & Armagh described it as a "despicable act".
"Graveyards are places that should be respected and unfortunately in this case these people came in the dead of night, they hadn't the courage to do it in daylight," he said.
"I would utterly condemn this as something that is reprehensible and ask them to desist absolutely from doing this in any way in the future."
The international survey of 15-year-olds puts Scotland above England, Wales and Northern Ireland for reading and maths.
But for science, Scotland was marked slightly behind England.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) ranks 65 countries. The UK was rated 26th for maths, 23rd for reading and 21st for science.
It is the first time the UK average score has not been ranked in the top 20 in any subject.
Source: OECD
Scotland does not have its own ranking, but the survey compares the performance of countries which are part of larger states.
The research, based on 500,000 pupils around the world, is run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), using a points system.
For maths, Scotland scored 498 points, four higher than England, which was second in the UK.
For reading, the country scored 506 points, six higher than England.
Scotland scored 513 points for science, behind England, which scored 516.
Wales performs worst across the three subjects, the research shows.
The tables are based on data from 510,000 students across the participating countries in 2012.
Source: OECD
China tops the league which is dominated by countries from the Far East.
The UK's average score for maths was 494 and in reading it was 499, broadly the same as the OECD averages for the subjects and putting the country on a par with nations such as the Czech Republic, France, and Norway.
The OECD concluded that across all three subjects the UK's average performance in maths has remained unchanged since the Pisa tests in 2006 and 2009.
The Scottish government said the "attainment gap" between the most advantaged and most disadvantaged pupils had narrowed for the first time.
They also pointed out that the survey was conducted before the new Curriculum for Excellence was fully implemented.
Learning Minister Alasdair Allan said: "Scottish school attainment remains strong, particularly in science and reading.
"We are performing at least as well as a number of significant world economies across all three areas, reinforcing our international standing in education.
"There is also clear evidence that the attainment gap is being addressed with a reduction in the variation in performance between those pupils classed as disadvantaged and those who aren't."
Kenneth Muir, chief executive of the General Teaching Council for Scotland, said Scotland's teachers were performing well in "a challenging environment".
He said: "As the professional body for teaching we know that the quality of teachers working in our schools is high and that the probationer teachers coming into the profession each year are some of the best we have experienced. This is hugely positive for the future of Scottish teaching."
Mr Muir added: "Ultimately, league tables such as these do not show the hard work and skill that goes into teaching children and young people and it is important that the commitment of Scotland's teachers does not go unrecognised."
The British star notched up the largest single sales week for an album since Nielsen began monitoring sales in 1991.
25 - released on 20 November - has also become the first album to sell more than three million copies in a week.
In Britain, 25 similarly broke records for the highest number of albums sold in a single week of the UK charts.
The album shifted more than 800,000 copies in its first week of release in the UK - more copies than the next 86 albums in the charts combined.
In the US, 25 is already the biggest selling album of 2015, surpassing the 1.8 million copies sold of Taylor Swift's 1989.
Adele, who has been out of the limelight since winning an Oscar for the Bond theme tune Skyfall in 2013, recently announced her first tour since 2011, playing in arenas across Europe from next February.
Her last tour ended prematurely due to the discovery of a haemorrhage on her vocal cord, which required surgery.
Meanwhile, the New York Times has been criticised for a "sexist" and "insulting" tweet used to promote an article about Adele.
Friday's tweet read: "A 27-year-old mother who barely uses social media is selling more albums than anyone thought was still possible."
"I don't get what her being a mom and 27 years old has to do with any of this," tweeted Nicole B in response.
"It's amazing she managed to accomplish so much since her tiny little woman brain is consumed with thoughts of bottles and diapers," tweeted Ryanne Ball.
"I'd love to see you describe a male artist as a father. Sexist and irrelevant," wrote White Borpo.
Later tweets plugging the same article dropped the mother references.
No-one was injured when the red vehicle plunged into Llangollen Canal, Froncysyllte, leaving its roof visible above the water line.
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Ben Gerring, 29, was in the water near Mandurah, south of Perth, when the attack occurred.
The attack occurred at around 16:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Tuesday, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Local media reports said Mr Gerring was resuscitated before he was taken to hospital. He has undergone surgery and remains in a critical condition.
"He was right out the back looking to get a big wave, one of the set waves that had been coming through during the day," Brian Williams, president of the Mandurah Boardriders Club and friend of the victim, told ABC.
"He'd sort of paddled out the back, sort of past the pack slightly. And next thing all hell broke loose and they were trying to bring him in.
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Officers were called to Park Road in the town, along with ambulance personnel, on Saturday morning.
They found that the man had died. Police said the death was being treated as "suspicious".
The dead man was said locally to be a bus driver in his 30s who is the father of young children.
A police spokesman said: "At 11:10 on Saturday, the police and emergency services responded to reports of a disturbance on Park Road, Girvan.
"A man, who is yet to be identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
"A post-mortem examination will take place in due course to establish the cause of death.
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More than 2,000 deaths have been linked to the scandal in which haemophiliacs and others were infected with hepatitis C and HIV from imported blood products.
Speaking in the Commons, the Labour MP said victims were "guinea pigs".
Health minister Nicola Blackwood resisted calls for a fresh inquiry.
She said thousands of documents had been released by the Department of Health in relation to the scandal, while two reviews had already been carried out.
In 2015, the then Prime Minster David Cameron apologised to thousands of victims of the contaminated blood scandal.
A parliamentary report had found around 7,500 patients were infected by imported blood products - contracting hepatitis C and HIV - the virus that can develop into Aids.
The UK imported supplies of the clotting agent Factor VIII - some of which turned out to be infected. Much of the plasma used to make Factor VIII came from donors like prison inmates in the US, who sold their blood.
More than 2,000 UK patients have since died as a result.
Now Mr Burnham is calling for a public "Hillsborough-style inquiry" - echoing calls already made by the Haemophilia Society and victims' families.
In what was his final speech in the Commons - having announced he will not stand in the upcoming election - Mr Burnham outlined evidence that he claimed amounted to "deliberate, provable acts of cover-up".
He gave examples of inappropriate treatment given to patients, tests being done on people without their knowledge or consent, and results from such tests being withheld for several years.
He labelled these "criminal acts", and compared campaigning by relatives of infected people to the efforts by families of Liverpool football fans crushed to death in the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989.
He said both cases "resulted in appalling negligence from public bodies" and involved "an orchestrated campaign to prevent the truth from being told".
Mr Burnham told the Commons he will take his claims to the police if a new inquiry is not established before Parliament breaks for its summer recess in July.
Speaking during the adjournment debate, Mr Burnham cited the cases of three victims.
One of those was haemophiliac Ken Bullock, infected with non-A, non-B hepatitis, who died in 1998.
His widow said that in December 1983, her husband's medical notes changed to suggest he was "a clinical alcoholic".
Mr Burnham told MPs this accusation escalated over the next 15 years, with Mr Bullock unaware of the "appalling" claims.
Mr Bullock was possibly refused a liver transplant based on his falsified medical records saying he was an alcoholic, Mr Burnham said.
The MP later mentioned two documents, including a 1975 letter from Stanford University's medical centre warning the source blood is "100% is from skid row derelicts".
Last year, the UK government launched a consultation on the money available to to those affected by the scandal.
As a result, the government announced that victims in England with stage 1 Hepatitis C would receive £3,500 a year, with the provision to appeal for a higher payment close to the £15,000 received by HIV patients who received toxic blood.
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Currently 101 million people require care, but a report from Alzheimer's Disease International warns the figure will rise to to 277 million.
Many needing care have dementia, and the report warns there will be a "global Alzheimer's epidemic".
The report's author said countries like India and China would be hard hit - and must start planning services now.
Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia. Symptoms include loss of memory, mood changes, and problems with communicating and reasoning.
More than 35 million people live with dementia across the world, according to the World Health Organization. More than half are living in low and middle income countries.
The report reveals that as the world population ages, the traditional system of informal care by family, friends and the community will need much greater support.
Just over one in 10 people aged 60 or over needs long-term care, according to the report. This includes daily help with things like washing, eating, dressing and using the toilet.
It can put huge pressure on families. Carers often have to give up work to look after elderly relatives.
Treating and caring for people with dementia currently costs the world more than £376bn per year. That includes the cost of health and social care as well as the loss of earnings.
Prof Martin Prince, from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, the author of the report, said lower and middle income countries including India and China need to urgently start planning services to deal with the "epidemic".
"The social and economic changes happening in those countries are inevitably going to mean that family carers will be less available.
"Things like the decline in fertility rates mean people are going to have fewer children.
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And he said an increase in migration between countries, and from rural to urban areas amongst younger people meant there would be a lot of older people "left behind".
The report makes a range of recommendations including giving paid and unpaid carers "appropriate financial rewards" and monitoring the quality of care both in care homes and in the community.
A spokesperson for the Alzheimer's Society in the UK said: "Dementia is the biggest health crisis facing the world today.
"This report is a wake-up call to governments across the world about the immediate need to put in place more care and support.
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The Serb, a six-time champion in Beijing, last played in the US Open final on 12 September, when he was beaten by Stan Wawrinka.
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"I am extremely disappointed not to be able to compete at the China Open this year," said the Australian and French Open champion.
"I'm still recovering from my elbow injury and have been advised not to play until my condition improves.
"I will continue with my rehabilitation and hope to be able to return to the ATP Tour as soon as possible."
Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Angelique Kerber are among those scheduled to feature in the combined ATP/WTA event in Beijing.
More than 800 people died when HMS Vanguard sank in Scapa Flow.
A series of internal explosions ripped through the battleship at about 23:20 on 9 July 1917.
A memorial service was held in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, on Sunday evening to mark the exact moment of the explosions.
Commemorative events also took place above the wreck site and at the Lyness Naval Cemetery where 41 of the men are buried.
The White Ensign on the wreck of the Vanguard was also changed by a team of Royal Navy Divers.
A book of remembrance compiled for the commemorations was handed over to the people of Orkney at the service.
Built in 1909, Vanguard was the eighth ship to bear the name and was one of the new generation of Dreadnought battleships.
On 9 July 1917, the ship had been conducting exercises in Scapa Flow and had anchored for the evening.
At 23:20 a series of catastrophic explosions, most likely caused by an accidental magazine explosion, resulted in the ship sinking almost immediately.
Of the 845 men aboard, only two survived.
As part of the commemorations, Royal Navy divers from HM Naval Base Clyde's Northern Diving Group (NDG) travelled to Orkney to change the White Ensign on the wreck of Vanguard.
Leading diver James Brown said: "The waters of Scapa have always held a special place in NDG's heart. Whenever an opportunity arises for us to work in Orkney there is a competition within the team to secure a place."
Naval regional commander Scotland and Northern Ireland, Captain Chris Smith said the history of the Royal Navy and Scapa Flow were "tightly entwined".
"The devastating explosion, completely accidental rather than a result of enemy action, was a shock when it happened and the tragic loss of more than 840 lives is still felt through their descendants and those in Orkney who feel passionately that we should mark the centenary in appropriate fashion," he said.
"I am very happy to be joined by the ship's companies of HMS Dasher and HMS Pursuer as well as the Northern Diving Group and personnel from the current HMS Vanguard as we support the welcome efforts of Orcadians in commemorating the loss of this great battleship and all but two of her crew in suitable fashion."
Klopp's side tore City apart with a dazzling first-half performance, which saw them take a 3-0 lead through Eliaquim Mangala's early own goal and cool finishes from Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino.
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Sergio Aguero gave City faint hope when he pulled a goal back on half time but City were undermined by shambolic defending as they failed to cope with the absence of injured captain Vincent Kompany.
Liverpool, however, never looked like conceding their advantage and Martin Skrtel's thunderous late fourth confirmed their superiority as they added this fine away win to their recent victory at champions Chelsea.
The optimism engendered by Klopp's arrival was punctured by Liverpool's home defeat by Crystal Palace, but all the signs of what the former Borussia Dortmund coach wants from his side were on show here.
Liverpool put City under pressure in possession right away and it was not long before City's impatient fans were getting stuck into their team for their inability to get the ball out of their own half.
The visitors were able to cut through City's defence almost at will, with Klopp urging his players not to take a backward step as they went in search of what would be a highly impressive victory.
The contrast between the two managers could not have been starker. Klopp was all action and animation in his technical area while City counterpart Manuel Pellegrini stood motionless for much of the match, hands in his pockets or with arms folded in frustration. The body language reflected the performances of their teams.
Coutinho struggled to hit his previous heights earlier this season but the little Brazilian magician has come to life with the arrival of Klopp.
His equaliser right on half-time time at Chelsea paved the way for victory at Stamford Bridge and has reignited him. He was masterly as Liverpool cut City to shreds in the first 45 minutes, dropping deep into positions where he could not be countered then darting into the area to get a goal and create countless problems.
The same applies to £29m summer signing Firmino. He initially struggled with the pace of the Premier League after arriving from Hoffenheim but has grown in confidence backed by the faith of Klopp, who has started him in an advanced role in preference to Christian Benteke in the wins at Chelsea and now City. It is a ploy that has reaped a rich reward.
Aguero's absence is always a source of anxiety to Manchester City - but on this evidence the damage is even worse when Vincent Kompany is missing.
The injured City captain looked on grim-faced from the stands as Mangala and Martin Demichelis floundered - although they were by no means the only offenders in what was a shocking display from Pellegrini's team.
Without Kompany, City lacked authority and composure at the back and had Liverpool scored more they could have had few complaints.
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "Today we did it all wrong - the performance, the way we defended, the way we went forward. It was a fake night, a fake game. It is difficult to understand.
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"If we meant to do it on purpose we couldn't have done it that badly. We tried to make changes and have some options to score. We tried to fight but continued making so many mistakes with the ball."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "It feels perfect. The game was not perfect but it was very good.
"City couldn't start like they want but that is important for us. We played with big passion and that's the most important thing for us.
"The good news is that we can do better. At half-time I told the boys they were surprised to be winning 3-0, and we must do better in that situation.
"We have quality, we could have more goals but 4-1 is perfect. The boys can believe now that they are stronger than many people think."
Manchester City travel to Juventus in the Champions League on Wednesday. Group leaders City lead the second-placed Italians by a point.
Liverpool are also in Europe, but in the Europa League on Thursday when they face Bordeaux at Anfield. Klopp's side are second in Group B, three points ahead of the French side and two behind leaders FC Sion.
Match ends, Manchester City 1, Liverpool 4.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 1, Liverpool 4.
Bacary Sagna (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordon Ibe (Liverpool).
Attempt blocked. Jordon Ibe (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Leiva.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Kolo Touré.
Foul by Fernando (Manchester City).
Emre Can (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Liverpool. Kolo Touré replaces Adam Lallana.
Attempt missed. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho.
Fernando (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Christian Benteke (Liverpool).
Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christian Benteke (Liverpool).
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Nathaniel Clyne.
Attempt saved. Fabian Delph (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Fernandinho.
Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Raheem Sterling (Manchester City).
Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Manchester City 1, Liverpool 4. Martin Skrtel (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal following a corner.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Joe Hart.
Attempt saved. Christian Benteke (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jordon Ibe with a through ball.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Martin Skrtel.
Martín Demichelis (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christian Benteke (Liverpool).
Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.
Substitution, Liverpool. Christian Benteke replaces Roberto Firmino.
Attempt blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Dejan Lovren.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Roberto Firmino (Liverpool).
Foul by Fernando (Manchester City).
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Martín Demichelis.
Substitution, Liverpool. Jordon Ibe replaces Philippe Coutinho because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) because of an injury.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Dejan Lovren.
Substitution, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho replaces Sergio Agüero.
Mooy, 26, spent last season on loan at Huddersfield and played in their play-off final win over Reading, which secured them a place in the top flight.
It is thought the fee will be made up of an £8m initial payment, plus a further £2m in add-ons.
There are also buy-back and sell-on clauses included in the deal.
Mooy joined City from Australian club Melbourne City 12 months ago on a three-year contract.
He has not made a senior appearance for Pep Guardiola's side.
However, MLAs are holding their Easter break between now and then.
So, Tuesday's proceedings were the last scheduled for the chamber before the politicians set about defending their seats or alternatively settle down to contemplate their retirement.
Proceedings opened with MLAs' thoughts on the past five years at Stormont.
But, if there was a need for a reality check, it came at lunchtime with the confirmation that prison officer Adrian Ismay, injured in a dissident republican attack, had died.
This meant the last item to be discussed on the last day of this Stormont Assembly was Justice Minister David Ford paying tribute to Mr Ismay.
A personal tragedy, and a sobering reminder that the transition envisaged by the architects of the peace process is still far from over.
The speaker, Mitchel McLaughlin, pointed out that more than 30% of the MLAs elected in May 2011 are not standing, so definitely won't be back in May 2016.
He said he's looking forward to a new generation, providing a new form of politics.
Outgoing veteran SDLP MLA, Alban Maginness, described the job he used to do in north Belfast as being like a fireman tasked with putting out political fires.
Looking forward to a different future, the independent unionist Claire Sugden argued that Northern Ireland won't truly move on until the people who were involved in the Troubles are no longer involved in politics.
Predictably, the MLAs gave this extended Stormont term a mixed verdict.
From the DUP and Sinn Féin, we heard talk of 40,000 jobs created, low household rates and no prescription and water charges.
The SDLP reminded voters that the two big parties had handed "welfare cutting powers" back to Westminster.
Alliance acknowledged that November's Fresh Start deal provided stability, but asked "is stability enough?"
Stormont's one-man opposition, Jim Allister, observed drily that "self-praise is a poor recommendation".
When the MLAs return after May, Stormont will have a provision for an "official opposition", provided a party has at least 8% of the assembly, or nine MLAs.
However, Mr Allister's one-man act has illustrated that while there is no official opposition yet, the ability to find the Achilles' Heel of your rivals makes all the difference in opposition politics.
Green Party MLA Steven Agnew expressed the hope that what is known as "the naughty corner" of the assembly chamber will feel emboldened in the future.
The May election will no doubt be a referendum on the achievements and failures of this extended term.
Out in the United States, the First and Deputy First Ministers are selling the planned cut in Corporation Tax.
Back on the doorsteps, their two parties' MLAs will no doubt repeat their message on attracting jobs, alongside achievements like keeping tuition fees here a third lower than in England, stopping the bedroom tax and attracting high profile events like the Giro D'Italia.
By contrast, their rivals will point to the stand offs over welfare reform and IRA activity, the failure to resolve issues related to the legacy of the Troubles, and disagreements over how to handle issues like same-sex marriage or abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.
At the weekend, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood set out some of his red lines for entering government - in particular, an increase in spending on vocational training, university places and apprenticeships.
In his spring conference speech, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt was slightly more vague.
He said only that the next programme for government must be progressive and the other parties must demonstrate a collective will to deliver it.
Both parties will head into the contest proclaiming that Stormont - as things stand - isn't as good as it gets.
After May, we know for sure that instead of the current 12 departments, we will have only nine ministries in the Northern Ireland Executive.
But, whether those departments will be divided between three or five parties is more difficult to forecast.
Prosecutors said the trio made more than $4m by using information they obtained through hacking into some of the top law firms.
They profited by buying stock in firms imminently about to be acquired.
One of the defendants has been arrested while the other two are still at large.
Manhattan Attorney Preet Bharara warned the case should serve as a wake-up call for law firms who now have to worry about cyber fraud in addition to the threat posed by a rogue employee making money out of forthcoming mergers and acquisitions.
The three Chinese men have been charged with conspiracy, insider trading, wire fraud and computer intrusion.
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They are alleged to have made investments based on information obtained from hacking into unnamed law firms working on merger deals, by posing as information technology analysts. The trio are alleged to have targeted the email accounts of individual law firm partners.
One of the suspects, Iat Hong, from Macau, was arrested on Sunday in Hong Kong, police told the BBC. He attended a court hearing on Monday and is reported to be awaiting extradition. The others were named as Bo Zheng of Changsha, and Chin Hung of Macau.
Lawyers for the trio have not so far commented on the allegations against them.
Police in Macau told BBC Chinese said that they had "no record" of the US authorities asking for assistance to find the two missing defendants.
The suspects are accused of targeting at least seven New York law firms in their efforts to obtain information about forthcoming deals, The New York Times reported.
The newspaper said they were "extraordinarily active in pursuing information" and quotes the indictment against them as saying that, between March and September 2015, they "attempted to cause unauthorised access to the networks and servers of the targeted law firms on more than 100,000 occasions".
The indictment says that among the deals the trio are alleged to have profited from was the acquisition of e-commerce company Borderfree by Pitney Bowes Inc and Intel Corp's purchase of circuit manufacturer Altera Corp. Both were completed in 2015.
The triple-lock guarantees that pensions rise by the same as average earnings, the consumer price index, or 2.5%, whichever is the highest.
The Work and Pensions Committee said continuing with it was "unsustainable" and "unfair" on younger families.
The government said it was committed to the triple-lock until 2020 at least.
Historically, pensions were linked to inflation rather than earnings, which reduced pensioner incomes relative to those of the working population.
As a result of triple-lock policy, the state pension has risen by a relatively generous £1,100 since 2010, with an increase of 2.9% in April this year.
However, MPs said that while pensioners had done well out of the triple-lock, young people and working-age families had suffered unfairly.
So-called Millennials, born between 1981 and 2000, face being the first generation in modern times to be financially worse off than their predecessors, they added.
MPs said the rising cost of the state pension - £98bn in the last tax year - was now unsustainable.
Instead of the triple-lock, they say the new state pension and basic state pension could be linked simply to average earnings.
They say a formula should also be included to protect pensioners during periods when earnings lag behind price inflation.
In those periods, pensioners would get an above-earnings increase so that their purchasing power did not decline.
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith defended the introduction of the triple-lock in 2010 because at the time pensioners were "most likely to be in poverty".
But he told BBC Radio 5 live, this year alone the policy would cost £18bn more than was originally estimated so it was right to re-examine it.
Mr Duncan Smith added: "We still want their pension to grow, but it's the question of the rate of growth that is costing so much and that now needs to be reviewed."
The report said there was a "trade-off" between increasing the amount of state pension that people get and setting the age at which people receive it.
Simply increasing the state pension age risked further disadvantaging people who may already be worse off and have lower life expectancies.
Labour MP Frank Field, the chairman of the committee, said that at the same time as tightening their belts, young people were being asked to support a group that has "fared relatively well in recent years".
"They've accepted that unfairness so that we could largely eliminate pensioner poverty," he told the BBC.
"Fairness now means that the pendulum swings back in favour of working families, so they do not continue to have cuts - real cuts - in living standards, while we further advance the interests of pensioners."
A spokesperson for the Department of Work and Pensions said: "We want to ensure economic security for people at every stage of their life, including retirement. We are committed to the triple lock which is protecting the incomes of millions of pensioners."
Dot Gibson, general secretary of the National Pensioners Convention, said pensioners were "being blamed for the problems faced by today's younger generations".
"This phoney conflict is being used as a smokescreen in order to cut back on the welfare state," she said.
"The housing crisis hasn't been caused by pensioners but because in Britain we sold off council houses, we haven't been building enough affordable homes, wages and employment are low and insecure and an economy built on house-price inflation simply cannot be sustained.
"This is what needs to be addressed."
Scrum-half Kessell, 24, arrives on a short-term deal, having agreed to join Northampton Saints in the summer.
He will be immediately loaned back to Cornish Pirates, along with prop Ford-Robinson, but both will be available for Bristol's play-off campaign.
Bristol boss Andy Robinson confirmed the two clubs will come to an agreement over the players' release dates.
"With Luke Baldwin signing for Worcester, we needed cover at nine," Robinson said of Kessell's arrival.
"Once it's guaranteed Cornish Pirates are safe but also not in the play-offs, he'll join us. If things go to plan, we expect to have him in April.
Speaking to BBC Radio Bristol, Robinson added: "Jamal is a very good young prospect. He can play either side but we're looking at him being a tight-head.
"Sometimes there's a shortage of props so he's going to have to stay with the Pirates until they no longer need him. We'll hopefully probably have him for the run-in to the play-offs."
Kessell has spent his entire career with his hometown club and has made 12 starts this term, scoring five tries.
Bristol-born 21-year-old Ford-Robinson started out at Leicester before spells with Cambridge and Cornwall.
He has agreed a deal with Bristol until the end of the 2015-16 season.
The force has launched an investigation after a reply was sent to a tweet alluding to Everton's 6-2 win over Sunderland earlier.
Its message read: "Just confirm there was no actual rape. Sunderland certainly got caught with their pants down."
The tweet has since been deleted and the force has posted an apology.
Merseyside Police had been responding to a tweet sent to its account which said: "Hello. I'd like to report an incident of rape that occurred at Goodison Park, Liverpool, on November 1st at 3:00."
A short time after, another Twitter user contacted the police account and wrote: "I'd like to report an incident that's been going on for ages. Chelsea get raped every week, can you help?"
It responded: "Afraid not, it's not a criminal offence to lose week in, week out."
The tweets were deleted after two hours but screen grabs of the exchanges were retweeted multiple times, provoking an angry reaction from many.
One twitter user, @Chiller, contacted the force saying: "This is exactly what women don't need from their police force."
Another, Kelly O'Donnell wrote: "So @MerseyPolice have deleted their tweets. Unfortunately for them, I have screen shots. Is rape a joke to you?"
In a series of Twitter posts, Merseyside Police offered an apology.
"We would like to apologise for any offence caused by inappropriate tweets from the force account this afternoon," it said.
"They do not reflect the strenuous efforts made by Merseyside Police to investigate serious sexual crimes and protect victims.
A full investigation has been launched into the "inappropriate use" of the official police Twitter account.
When father-of-two Greg Gilbert, 39, from Southampton, was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer, thousands rallied to support him.
So far £132,000 has been raised by family and fans for treatment not available to him on the NHS.
The first of four fundraising gigs was held at The Joiners in Southampton.
Joiners manager Pat Muldowney said Mr Gilbert was "one of the family" at the St Mary's venue and all artists and staff gave their services for nothing to stage the gig on Thursday night, which raised almost £2,000.
It comes after Mr Gilbert's fiancée Stacey Heale set up a crowdfunding appeal shortly before Christmas that reached its target of £100,000 in 48 hours.
GoFundMe said the appeal was one of the "fastest ever" campaigns on its site and it received support from music stars including Craig David and Ellie Goulding.
Miss Heale said the couple "deeply appreciate" the fundraising and although Mr Gilbert was not well enough to attend the gig she said he was "amazed" by the support.
"It was an amazing night. I went along with the rest of the guys from the band and we were overwhelmed by the amount of people who came together," she said.
Delays were formed in Southampton in 2001 by brothers Greg and Aaron Gilbert with Colin Fox and Rowly and became popular on the indie rock scene while performing at venues across the city.
Mr Gilbert is currently receiving chemotherapy and his family are researching potential treatments available abroad, which they hope the money raised will pay for.
Miss Heale added: "We have been blown away by everything people are doing. This is money to save Greg's life, and it's going to be a very hard journey for all of us."
Fans and friends are now organising three other gigs to be held in Hampshire during February as well as a potential auction of rock memorabilia this year.
Model Laura Lacole and Republic of Ireland midfielder Eunan O'Kane tied the knot in a ceremony conducted by Humanists UK celebrant Isabel Russo.
Previously humanist weddings were not recognised by NI law, so couples had to conduct a separate civil ceremony.
A judge ruled this unlawfully denied them equality with religious couples.
Some 200 guests attended Thursday afternoon's wedding at an undisclosed location outside Belfast.
He ordered the granting of temporary authorisation for a British Humanist Association (BHA) celebrant to perform a legally valid and binding wedding ceremony for the bride, 27, and groom, 26.
The personalised ceremony involving bespoke vows, music from a string quartet and hand-fasting, in which the couple's hands were tied together with ribbons as a symbolic gesture of their wedding bond.
Isabel Russo, the celebrant, said: "It was a beautiful ceremony with all the components of a proper humanist marriage, including vows written by the couple themselves and contributions from their family.
"While people in attendance were of all views and backgrounds, the consensus is that it was a profound and moving occasion."
The British Humanist Association congratulated the couple on "a lovely occasion that has been a joy for all in attendance".
"Laura and Eunan's wedding today epitomises what marriages should be all about: beautiful, hand-crafted occasions that match perfectly to the deepest beliefs and values," said Andrew Copson, Humanists UK's chief executive, who was a guest at the wedding.
"We hope it proves to be the first of many such legal humanist ceremonies."
Ms Lacole, and Mr O'Kane both describe themselves as humanists, with a non-religious combination of attitudes, ethics and beliefs centred on human experience and welfare.
Humanists adhere to a scientific view of the world and believe humans steer their own destiny.
The 27-year-old model is also vice-chair of the organisation, Atheist NI.
She had claimed she was being discriminated against under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR)'s protection for freedom of belief.
Ms Lacole welcomed the ruling, which could now be used by others seeking the same status.
Speaking outside court, she said: "It's amazing now that we are being recognised, it's not just a privilege applied to religions.
"I'm just so pleased, what this means for us and to other people in Northern Ireland," she said.
Indebted Ming Jiang was being hounded by creditors when he killed his friend and fellow Chinese national Yang Liu.
He then dumped 36-year-old Mr Liu's dismembered body in a suitcase near a remote Derbyshire lay-by.
Jiang, 43, denied murder but a jury at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court unanimously found him guilty earlier.
He will be sentenced on 2 May.
The trial heard Jiang used Mr Liu's bank and credit cards to withdraw thousands of pounds in the two weeks after the killing, in October 2016.
Records from casinos in Manchester showed he had bought £178,000 worth of gambling chips and had racked up accumulated losses of £273,000.
He also reclaimed watches worth £16,000 from pawnbrokers, and tried to sell Mr Liu's £220,000 dockside apartment at Salford Quays.
Mr Liu was "comfortably off", while his friend Jiang was living in a one-bedroom flat in Beswick and struggling with debt, the court heard.
Jiang murdered Mr Liu probably in the bathroom of his house before cutting his victim's head and limbs off and putting the torso in a Samsonite suitcase, the prosecution said.
The suitcase was then dumped and set alight, before being found by walkers near the A628 Woodhead Pass at Tintwistle on 10 October last year.
A subsequent police search of Jiang's home found evidence of an "extensive clean-up", using paint and cleaning products, police said.
But traces of the victim's blood were found on the ceiling, in the bath and on a settee.
Prosecutor Peter Wright, QC, said Mr Liu's head, lower arms and lower legs have never been found.
Following his arrest, Jiang was said to have used an "elaborate smokescreen" of "slurs" to conceal his guilt, including suggesting Mr Liu was a paid escort for older Chinese men.
Det Ch Insp Terry Crompton described the murder as a "wicked, wicked crime".
"Jiang essentially adopted Mr Liu's identity. He was trying to sell his flat. He had a significant gambling habit and effectively, that was the motive behind this murder."
The detective said CCTV and text messages were crucial in catching Jiang.
Mr Liu's family said: "Our son was warm and full of life. He was also kind. Since birth, he always wore a smile on his face.
"When our son is mentioned, we cry with tears running down our faces. Our physical and mental sufferings can never ever be repaired."
News of the American's failed test emerged last month, but the details of the substance he tested positive for have - until now - not been made public.
The BBC has obtained extracts of a letter sent to Gay by the United States Anti Doping Agency (Usada) which outlines the nature of the substance traced in a sample he gave to drug testers during the US World Championship trials in June.
The letter, dated 23 July, states: "Using the Carbon Isotope Ratio Analysis it reported that the sample had an adverse analytical finding reflecting values that are consistent with the administration of a steroid of exogenous [external] nature."
The letter goes on to say that a positive test for an "anabolic agent" of this kind would - if proven - be a violation of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) code.
Under the Wada code, the standard ban for an athlete found guilty of taking a prohibited steroid is two years - the maximum punishment currently available.
A carbon isotope test, also known as an IRMS test, is normally used by anti-doping authorities to detect the banned steroid testosterone or closely related substances such as DHEA or androstenedione. These are known as precursors of testosterone.
Usada refused to comment on whether Gay had tested positive for a steroid.
But the agency confirmed on 27 July that the 2007 world 100m champion failed at least two tests. It is understood that in addition to the positive sample he gave at the US trials, he failed an out-of-competition test in May.
After being informed of his first failed test, the 30-year-old athlete pulled out of the American team selected for the World Athletics Championships, which were held in Moscow earlier this month.
Gay has since been given a provisional suspension by Usada while the investigation into his case continues. He will face a disciplinary hearing in the coming weeks but has already earned credit from Usada for going public with his failed tests.
The fastest man over 100m in 2013, he had been expected to challenge Usain Bolt for gold in Moscow. After withdrawing from the US squad, Gay blamed a member of his back-up team for the failed tests.
"I don't have a sabotage story," he said last month. "I basically put my trust in someone and was let down. I know exactly what went on, but I can't discuss it right now."
There have been reports in the United States linking Gay to an Atlanta-based anti-ageing doctor called Clayton Gibson. Some anti-ageing specialists are known to use hormones such as testosterone and DHEA. Gibson has confirmed working with Gay, but has been quoted saying his clinic does not give its clients "synthetic" substances.
It is thought Gay, who worked closely with Usada on anti-doping campaigns in the past and volunteered for extra testing, is co-operating with the agency to try to reduce his sentence in return for evidence and information on others who may be involved in a wider doping ring.
Although Usada would not talk about the specifics of Gay's case, chief executive Travis Tygart told the BBC: "We appreciate Mr Gay taking responsibility for his decisions and for voluntarily removing himself from the World Championships."
The politicians he wants held are Brazil's ex-President Jose Sarney, Senate Speaker Renan Calheiros, ex-lower house Speaker Eduardo Cunha and PMDB leader Romero Juca.
The four are suspected of obstructing a massive corruption investigation.
A Supreme Court judge will now have to decide whether to act on the request.
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All except Jose Sarney are currently members of Congress, and as such any judicial action against them has to first be approved by the Supreme Court.
The four deny wrongdoing.
They are alleged to have obstructed Operation Car Wash, the investigation into a massive corruption scandal at state-owned oil company Petrobras.
Jose Sarney: Former Brazilian President (1985-1990), preceded Renan Calheiros as Senate Speaker, PMDB
Renan Calheiros: Senate Speaker, PMDB
Eduardo Cunha: Former lower house speaker, forced out over allegations of obstruction of justice, PMDB, driving force behind Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, was suspended from the post of House Speaker in May over allegations of obstructing justice
Romero Juca: PMDB President, resigned as planning minister two weeks ago over allegations of obstructing Operation Car Wash
The request to have them arrested comes after telephone conversations taped by former Senator Sergio Machado were leaked to the press.
Mr Machado, who used to run a Petrobras-owned logistics company, made the recordings as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
The investigation has led to dozens of politicians and business executives being accused of paying or receiving kickbacks.
In the recordings, Mr Calheiros, Mr Sarney and Mr Juca can be heard allegedly discussing ways to derail Operation Car Wash.
They have said that their remarks were taken out of context and deny obstructing the investigation.
The leaked recordings cost Mr Juca his post as planning minister.
Earlier, Mr Cunha was removed by the Supreme Court from his post as lower house speaker for allegedly obstructing justice.
Prosecutors now want him arrested because they allege that he continued to try to hinder investigations even after his removal from office.
According to Brazilian media, Mr Janot also requested that Mr Calheiros be suspended as Senate Speaker.
The post is a key one as the Senate prepares to conduct an impeachment trial against Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended from the presidency last month over allegations of manipulating government accounts.
If Mr Calheiros were to be suspended, Senator Jorge Viana would take over as Senate Speaker. Mr Viana is a member of the Workers' Party and an ally of Ms Rousseff.
Ms Rousseff argues that the impeachment proceedings are an attempt by top members of the PMDB party to oust her from office.
According to Ms Rousseff, PMDB politicians wanted her gone so they could take over power and stop Operation Car Wash.
After her suspension on 12 May, Vice-President Michel Temer of the PMDB became acting president and appointed a new cabinet.
Within weeks of him assuming office, he had lost two of his cabinet members - anti-corruption minister Fabiano Silveira and Mr Juca - to allegations of obstructing Operation Car Wash.
If Mr Janot's request is granted it would be a heavy blow to interim President Michel Temer.
The ad, on whoistheking.be, asks those who choose Philippe: "Are you sure? He won't be the one to cook your fries."
A spokesman said the use of the king's image must be approved by the royal family, but they had not been asked.
On the website, Philippe is represented by a cartoon.
"We disapprove of this approach," royal spokesman Pierre Emmanuel de Bauw said.
"Since it is for commercial purposes, we would not have given our authorisation."
On the ad website, if a user chooses Burger King no more prompts appear. If they choose Philippe, they get asked twice whether they are sure - and the second time, the only option is "no".
Votes are open until 19 June. The chain will open its first outlet in Belgium at the end of June.
A Burger King representative told the news agency EFE it had not received any communication from the monarchy.
Children's scooters have been added to the basket of goods used to measure the UK's inflation rate.
It has replaced the swing, which was being sold less, particularly during the winter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
The price movements of 700 goods and services are measured in 20,000 UK outlets to calculate inflation.
Also added to the basket were gin, flavoured ciders, non-dairy milk (such as soya or almond), men's fitness tops, and jigsaw puzzles for adults.
Gin comes back into the mix after a 13-year absence from the basket - the result of new craft distilleries popping up and rising popularity.
Bicycle helmets also return to the inflation basket after a 12-year absence.
Disappearing from the basket are alcopops, old mobile phone handsets, menthol cigarettes, and the fee for stopping cheques.
The basket of goods reflects contemporary habits and technology to calculate the changing cost of living, as measured by the inflation rate.
A series of changes have been made, but the replacement of the swing with the scooter is perhaps the clearest signal of how families have changed their habits regarding gifts for children.
Officials at the ONS have decided scooters have moved on from being a fad to become everyday items.
Last year, coffee pods and microwave rice were added to the basket, to reflect a long-term trend towards prepared foods.
Nightclub entry fees and rewriteable DVDs were among the items removed from the calculations.
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The talks in the capital Nay Pyi Taw included the head of the military and ended with an agreement to meet again.
The military-drafted constitution currently does not allow Ms Suu Kyi to run for president.
She has said the talks will only be meaningful if they lead to free and fair elections, due later this year.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner refused to rule out boycotting the elections when addressing reporters on Thursday, saying: "We keep our cards close to our chests until such time as we need to show them."
The talks follow months of pressure and a motion in parliament to ensure they took place.
Six leaders were involved in Friday's meeting. Besides Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi, top military commander Snr Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the speaker and the president of both houses of parliament, and a representative of ethnic minorities, Aye Maung, attended.
A spokesman for Thein Sein said the participants had "agreed on the framework, format and date for future discussions".
The next round is expected to take place in late April or early May.
The BBC's Myanmar correspondent Jonah Fisher says the talks are the last throw of the dice for Ms Suu Kyi in her efforts to change the constitution before November's general election.
The constitution effectively bans her from running for the presidency as it rules out anyone with relatives who are foreign citizens. Ms Suu Kyi's children are British citizens.
Our correspondent says her pleas are almost certain to fall on deaf ears, and her vague threats about a possible election boycott likely to be ignored.
But if her National League for Democracy party wins the elections, most people expect she would then have a mandate to push again for changes to the constitution.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, moved from military to civilian rule in 2010 and is governed by a military-backed civilian administration.
Under Thein Sein, many political prisoners have been freed and media restrictions eased. The pro-democracy party of Ms Suu Kyi, who spent years under house arrest, has rejoined the political fold and holds a small bloc of seats in parliament. She was elected to parliament in 2012.
But concerns have been expressed that the government may be backsliding, and Ms Suu Kyi has said that the reform process has stalled.
The 47-year-old replaces David Moyes, who resigned in May following the Black Cats' relegation to the Championship.
Since taking over at Preston in 2013, Grayson has led them to promotion from League One and two 11th-place finishes in the second tier.
The ex-Huddersfield and Leeds boss has signed a three-year deal on Wearside.
"I am delighted to come to Sunderland, a club with such wonderful history and tradition," said Grayson, who brings Preston assistant Glynn Snodin with him to the Stadium of Light.
"I want a group of players full of desire, team spirit and a never-say-die attitude - that's the very least that we should expect from a Sunderland player."
Sunderland were granted permission to speak to Grayson on Thursday morning, after the club's initial search for a new boss was put on hold earlier in the month while talks over a potential sale of the club were ongoing.
Preston said that, after contact from the Black Cats, Grayson asked to speak to the club, with a statement from North End confirming that a compensation package, believed to be about £750,000, was already guaranteed in his contract.
Sunderland had previously approached Aberdeen to speak to Derek McInnes regarding their managerial vacancy, but he chose to remain with the Scottish Premiership side.
Off the pitch, the Black Cats say owner Ellis Short will "continue his commitment, financially and personally", after talks with a German consortium ended.
A statement on Thursday confirmed they had been in talks with an interested party in the past week, but have now decided the takeover "would not be in the best interests" of the club.
A television production company fronted by Sunderland fans withdrew its bid to take over on 21 June, leaving the German consortium in the running.
But now American Short will continue in charge of the club he has owned since 2009.
"We would like to thank our supporters for their patience during what we know has been a period of uncertainty and frustration for them," said Sunderland's statement.
On 8 August, a 62- year-old man was detained by police in the city of Ruichang, Jiangxi province, for sexually abusing seven girls. The details of the case are horrifying.
The man was working as a school teacher in a remote mountainous region and between September 2012 and May 2013, he molested seven pupils aged eight or nine in a room at the back of the class, saying that he was just checking homework.
The girls were left with sexually transmitted diseases. Their parents were all migrant workers, Chinese media reports say.
The man has admitted the crimes and police are still investigating the case. It emerged just days after another primary school teacher was arrested in Shanxi Province, in central China, on suspicion of molesting several pupils.
Analysts monitoring such cases of abuse say these reports are probably just the tip of an iceberg.
In May this year, no fewer than eight cases of sex abuse in schools were exposed within a span of 20 days, causing alarm among parents, disgust and anger on social media and in many editorials on official media.
"Behind every reported sex abuse case, there might be six hidden cases unreported," says Wang Dawei, a well-known criminologist in the People's Public Security University of China. He believes that many children might not realize that a sex crime has been committed against them and therefore might not even tell their parents.
One such case emerged in May when a teacher was detained in the city of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, for molesting four girls. But this case only surfaced when one of the victims told her father in passing that she had massaged her teacher's back at school.
Analysts have identified some key trends. According to Han Jingjing, director of a Beijing-based legal centre for young people, 60% of the sex abuse cases happen in rural areas and 70% happen at schools; the victims tend to come from single families, families that went through divorces and re-marriages, or where mothers are in prison.
National figures on such crimes are difficult to come by, but according to Ms Wang Xingjuan, founder of The Maple Women's Psychological Counselling Centre in Beijing, Guangdong province alone dealt with more than 1,700 sex abuse cases involving children from 2008 to 2011.
But what has angered many is the involvement of the most responsible carers outside of the home, school teachers, in these cases
In June a primary school principal in Hainan Province was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison for raping six female pupils in a local hotel. Among the cases reported in May was that of a 56-year-old man in Henan province detained for molesting several pupils in his charge and threatening them and in Hunan, another teacher was detained for abusing several girls.
These cases have shocked the nation and Chinese social media is simmering with anger, frustration and questions.
"Are they animals"? "Don't they have daughters?" That's the view of one netizen on Tencent Weibo - the Chinese micro-blogging website.
Mother 0315 posts on Sina Weibo: "I always thought of teaching as a noble vocation, but now I feel a teacher is worse than animals. As a mother, I can feel the pain of the victims and their families."
Zuoxingzhan laments the general moral decline of the nation: "Nowadays, teachers are sex abusers, doctors sell babies, judges fool around with prostitutes…… since when did moral standards slip from these once-respected occupations?"
But there is also another facet to these cases that is less commented on.
School children in rural areas are particularly vulnerable if their parents happen to be migrant workers who spend a long time working away from home. They often don't get to visit regularly and the children are left to be looked after by relatives, such as grandparents.
A recent report by the All China Women's Federation, the official union for Chinese women, suggests that 37% of children in the rural area belong to this category of so-called "left behind children", and sexual abuse is a major threat.
At a July conference held in Beijing in response to the spate of sexual abuse cases reported in the official media, experts point out that the increase in cases can also be blamed on the poor quality of sex education and inadequate guidelines for children on how to respond to such situations.
"Some children are molested when they are about seven or eight, but they don't realise that they have been abused", observes Wang Xingjuan, founder of the Maple Women's Psychological Counselling Centre. "They are not comfortable with the situation; they are afraid and they know there is something wrong, but they put up with it".
"Children should be educated enough to know that in such situations, they can say no, they can cry, they can shout, and they can leave - all these are self-protection methods", says lawyer Liu Liwen.
A recent survey carried out by the Maple centre reveals that many schools don't educate pupils about sexual offences, and even sex education classes made mandatory by the Ministry of Education are not carried out properly, with many schools simply going through the motions and some even asking the students to read the textbooks themselves at home.
But things are no better at home, as traditionally, adults don't talk about sex with their children. The "absent mothers" situation makes this even worse.
How the legal system should protect vulnerable children and punish the culprits is another area for debate. According to the criminal code, people who have committed multiple acts of sexual abuse of underage children should get 10 years or longer in prison.
Recently a school principal accused of sexually abusing four girls had his sentenced increased by six months to three years. The victim's family still thinks it is too lenient and are looking for a sentence of at least five years in prison.
There will be a further hearing later this year. After this latest spate of cases, people will be watching.
The woman opened the front door to her home in Russell Hill Road, Purley, on 11 May at about 07:50 BST when she realised a man was outside.
He used his foot to force the door open and entered the property where he first assaulted her, bruising her face, before raping her.
The Met said it was "doing everything we can to arrest the suspect".
Det Insp Keith Ward said "specially trained detectives" were providing support for the woman.
The man is described as white, about 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall, with short brown hair. He also possibly had a Scottish accent.
"We ask that anyone who recognises the suspect's description contact us as a matter of urgency", police said.
Belfast councillor Jim Rodgers rang the show saying he had been informed by a reliable source of the new revenue stream.
Nolan was happy to play along with the April Fool and said his take of 38 pence a call was an innovative way of getting a pay rise up front.
He claimed it had been a straight negotiation between himself and the BBC Northern Ireland controller.
Mr Rodgers said it was an "absolute and utter disgrace" and the revelation sparked a series of angry calls.
Mervyn from Holywood, County Down, said: "This is absolutely ridiculous if there is any truth in it. How low can you get.
"For goodness sake Stephen, go and catch yourself on - it is a scandal, an absolute and utter rip-off."
Another guest said:"Do you not realise how hard people are getting it? You are scraping more money any way you can. All you are doing is losing the respect of people."
BBC Northern Ireland Talkback presenter William Crawley appeared on the Nolan Show to say he had already received "a lot of texts and emails" about the subject.
"All calls for Talkback will remain free," he said. "I'm not in this for the money, I'm in this for public service broadcasting."
Meanwhile, George from the Shankill Road in Belfast said it was an "absolute outrage" and "everyone would be moving to Talkback".
"Thomas from north Belfast could be paying a tenner a day the number of calls he makes," he added.
"You have to think of the regulars here. "Frank Mitchell's listener's (U105 presenter) are going to go through the roof."
Not everyone was critical of the hoax initiative however, with one woman calling to say of Nolan:"He is saving the world on a daily basis, surely people can afford 75 pence for their world-saving calls."
A statement purporting to be from the BBC was read out on air saying it deeply "regretted the alleged leaking of information" on the show.
It said it was not its policy to comment on private contractual matters, but it wished to point out that contractual negotiations had not concluded.
At the end of the programme, Mr Rodgers, who had threatened to raise the matter with the new Belfast super council, put listeners and some BBC colleagues in the picture about the elaborate hoax.
And Nolan made sure the message was hammered home.
"Can I just assure everyone we are not charging anyone a penny extra for the calls - it is April Fool's Day you buck eejits," he added.
The High Street sports chain, founded by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, plans to open 200 gyms offering membership from £5 a month.
Members will also have to pay a £10 joining fee.
The decision follows its acquisition of 30 sites from gym chain LA Fitness, which it is in the process of rebranding.
The first gym will open in Liverpool's Aintree, with the second in Keighley in West Yorkshire.
The gym in Aintree will be next to a new Sports Direct superstore.
"This will be affordable fitness on an unprecedented scale," said a spokesman for Sports Direct.
"It will revolutionise the market by making private gym membership a realistic lifestyle choice for millions of people," he added.
Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Freddie George said it was "a good move".
"There's a real gap in the market for this and there's some overlap with its sporting goods stores".
The firm's shares were down 2.7% on Tuesday. Mr George said shareholders might be concerned the firm could be diversifying too far.
Sports Direct's move into budget gyms comes after two gym companies - Pure Gym and the Gym Group - ditched plans to merge and create a new low-cost player in the market.
Sports Direct, founded by Mike Ashley in 1982, operates 418 sports stores in the UK.
Dorothy Johnstone wanted a judge to quash the decision by the attorney general not to order a fresh tribunal into the 1988 bombing in Londonderry.
Her father Eugene Dalton, 54, and Shiela Lewis, 68, were killed in the explosion.
Gerard Curran, 57, died months after being pulled from the rubble.
The attack became known as the "Good Samaritan bomb" because the three friends had gone to check on the whereabouts of a neighbour in Derry who had been kidnapped earlier by the IRA.
The IRA later apologised, admitting it planted the booby-trap device in a bid to kill soldiers.
At the High Court on Tuesday, a judge ruled that Attorney General John Larkin was justified in concluding that a new inquest was not advisable.
The judge cited the financial and human costs of a further public hearing and said that it would be unlikely to lead to the prosecution of the perpetrators.
Ms Johnstone's solicitor said the family was "disappointed" with the decision and will appeal.
The case, which challenged the decision-making powers of Northern Ireland's chief legal officer, was the first of its kind.
In July 2013, Police Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire published findings that officers had information about an IRA booby-trap bomb in a house in the Creggan estate, but did nothing to warn residents of the possible danger.
He identified a failure in the police obligation to protect the lives of the public.
Following the report, the attorney general decided a new inquest was not advisable at the time.
However, Ms Johnstone's legal team claimed it could help establish responsibility for police failures.
They argued that investigative obligations under the European Conventions of Human Rights were rekindled by the Ombudsman's findings and that ordering a new inquest could provide fresh hope of identifying and punishing those responsible.
The court also heard that since Mr Larkin had come into office he had directed new inquests into at least 30 cases involving more than 70 deaths - many of them Troubles-related.
However, the judge backed the attorney general's decision.
He said there was no evidence of police collusion in the bombing.
"It is very difficult to see how any practical benefit could now be obtained for the public in going over the procedures then being followed by police officers in Derry at the time, when they say that much of the city was out of bounds to them by terrorist activity."
He added that to ask civilian and retired police witnesses to give evidence in a public inquest "will inevitably be unwelcome and positively distressing" and that "many may have legitimate health grounds for refusing to attend".
"I am very pessimistic that an inquest at this time would succeed in securing any significant accession of information compared to that which the Ombudsman obtained."
In a statement, Ms Johnstone's solicitor said the family of Eugene Dalton was "disappointed with the judgement".
"We welcome the level of scrutiny which the court engaged with examining the process of decision making by the attorney general, whose office has a number of similar applications before it.
"We are, however, disappointed in the extent of the court's focus on perpetrators, and that the same focus was not applied to the to the role of the police when, as in this case, police involvement and knowledge raise grave concerns."
Saudi national Nahid Almanea, 31, was stabbed 16 times as she walked to the University of Essex campus last June.
James Attfield, 33, was found with 102 knife wounds in Castle Park last March.
Essex Police said the boy, from Colchester, was arrested on Tuesday on Salary Brook Trail on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon. He was then arrested over the murders.
The boy was arrested on the same footpath where student Ms Almanea was killed on 17 June, as she walked from her student accommodation in Woodrow Way to the university complex in Wivenhoe.
He is currently in custody at the town's police station.
Police have previously said there could be a link between the two murders, but both killings were so vicious they could not tell if the same weapon was used.
Mr Attfield, who was known as Jim, was found on the Riverside Path in Colchester in the early hours of 29 March with dozens of stab wounds to his body.
Essex Police said "inquiries are continuing", and added that they would "like to hear from anyone who may have any information in relation to the investigation".
The Care Quality Commission immediately moved all 48 residents out of Bentley Care Home in Liverpool.
Inspectors also found a disconnected call bell and dead flies and mouse droppings in the kitchen.
The home, which was run by Prasur Investments Limited, has since closed.
Debbie Westhead, CQC's deputy chief inspector for adult social care, described the home as "appalling".
It was officially rated "inadequate" in all areas, with residents' "lives, health and wellbeing" at significant risk.
She said: "We were left with no other option than to urgently remove their registration and work with Liverpool City Council to immediately relocate residents.
"I have no doubt that if Bentley Care Home stayed open, it would have been a case of when, not if, something awful and unavoidable would have happened."
During the visits in April and May, the CQC found medicines not being safely managed, night staff sleeping on duty and people smoking in the building.
A member of staff told inspectors that a call bell had been deliberately cut off to stop a resident ringing for help as it irritated the staff.
Environmental Health also closed its kitchen because of a serious rodent problem. Inspectors found dead flies in a potato peeler and mouse droppings on the floor.
The official report said: "There were no systems or processes in the home to ensure that the service provided was safe, effective, caring, responsive or well led."
The Bentley Road home had been placed in special measures in 2015 under its previous operator.
But a donation drive at Crumlin Road Gaol has collected the real blood of 200 local TV and film extras.
NI's Blood Transfusion Service says it will struggle to meet its target of 8,000 new donors this year.
It says maintaining a database of 60,000 donors is integral for emergency recipients.
The event was organised to encourage new donors to come forward.
Paul McElkereney, the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service's donor recruitment manager, said recruiting new donors was vital.
"Its becoming harder and harder each year.," he said. "So people coming forward for the first time is absolutely fantastic.
"We need donors from across the board, people don't realise that within three-to-four days of somebody giving blood, somebody else in Northern Ireland will receive it.
"To enrol to give blood is such an easy thing to do. Seeing an advert and thinking 'I must get round to that one day' is no good."
Siobhan Hussey, a nurse who featured as an extra in locally-filmed Line of Duty, received a life-saving blood donation over Christmas 1983, after giving birth to her daughter.
"I was very tired and short of breath," she said. "I couldn't get out of bed because I was very weak and it became very apparent I'd been haemorrhaging through the night.
"I got up and collapsed and the next thing I knew, it was Boxing Night and I'd already been to theatre and received five units of blood.
"Without that I wouldn't be here to talk about it today - I'm very passionate about it.
"I've worked in A&E, so I've been part of a team giving the blood and you can see the incredible difference it can make in life and death situations.
"For a little bit of your time, you can actually give somebody a lifetime."
It follows a £330m deal announced last month involving Liberty House and Simec to take over the Rio Tinto site.
Their plans include creating an aluminium wheel manufacturing facility, and a further 300 jobs directly, with another 300 in the supply chain.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited the site on Monday.
Liberty said it aimed to protect the existing 170 jobs in Lochaber and expand metal manufacturing and downstream engineering there.
The purchase by Liberty and Simec - both members of the GFG Alliance - includes the hydro power plants at Fort William and Kinlochleven and more than 100,000 acres of land hosting the water catchment area, including Ben Nevis' foothills.
The Scottish government is supporting the plans by guaranteeing the power purchases of the aluminium smelter.
Ms Sturgeon said the proposals reinforced the link between the smelter and the hydro station at Fort William.
She described it as a "historic day" for the smelter and said she looked forward to hundreds of new jobs in the area in the coming years.
She added: "Today is the start of an exciting new chapter in Scotland's manufacturing story and the Scottish government and its agencies will keep working with Sanjeev Gupta and the GFG Alliance to help them realise their enterprising vision for Lochaber."
Sanjeev Gupta, executive chairman of Liberty House Group and of the GFG Alliance strategic board, said: "We hope this day will come to be recognised as the start of a bright new future for Highland industry.
"It puts Lochaber right at the heart of our vision for sustainable and integrated local production that can revitalise British manufacturing."
Mr Gupta and Ms Sturgeon were among those who attended the announcement who wore a bindi, a symbol of Mr Gupta's Hindu faith.
Jay Hambro, chief investment officer of the GFG Alliance, and chief executive of Simec energy & mining divisions said: "These hydro-power stations have enough capacity to power around 83,000 homes.
"Today Lochaber provides the power required to produce 47,000 tonnes of aluminium. We have already identified investment programmes to significantly increase power generation from the existing assets and are studying how to create further capacity locally."
The purchase of Lochaber represents a major escalation of the GFG Alliance's investment in Scotland, following Liberty's acquisition of the Dalzell and Clydebridge Steel plants earlier this year.
Dalzell formally restarted in September after being mothballed by its previous owners.
Rouse, 24, has helped Kent win all three of their County Championship games this season, scoring 95 not out in their crushing win over Derbyshire.
However, he says he nearly quit the game two years ago after being released by Hampshire and Gloucestershire.
"I'd be lying if I said I didn't think about other options," he said.
With England international Sam Billings playing for the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League, Rouse has been behind the stumps for all of Kent's Division Two wins this campaign.
It's an opportunity he's grabbed with both hands, with his unbeaten 95 against Derbyshire a career-best first-class score, while his wicketkeeping has helped Kent take the maximum 60 wickets and make a flying start to their campaign.
But it has been far from a straightforward route to the first team for Rouse, who has had to fight for his place every step of the way.
The Zimbabwe-born keeper was let go by Hampshire and Gloucestershire before a temporary spell as cover at Kent turned into a two-year contract following Ryan Davies' move to Somerset in January 2016.
"It's been a bit of a rollercoaster - it's been quite tough to be honest. With the nature of being a keeper you're vying for one or two spots," he told BBC Radio Kent.
"Once I got released [by Gloucestershire] I qualified as a personal trainer, which kind of eased everything. It allowed me to have that sort of plan B, to concentrate on cricket for a bit.
"It was only a late call with Ryan [Davies] going to Somerset, but it's gone pretty well. Me having that personal training qualification and a little bit of something else behind me allows me to relax a bit.
"I've realised I do have a plan B. I can play with a bit more freedom, which is nice."
Members of the EIS Further Education Lecturers' Association want to see more action taken to end differences in pay between colleges.
The first 24-hour strike is planned for next Thursday.
Colleges Scotland, which represents colleges, said the dispute was "unnecessary" and progress was being made to address the union's concerns.
But, the union said if the dispute was not settled by the middle of next month they will strike for three days every week.
The proposed strike dates are:
The dispute is, in effect, a continuation of one which last year led to the first national strike in Scotland's colleges for decades.
A similar programme of escalating action was planned then but a deal was struck after one day of action.
Senior figures within the union are hopeful the dispute will be resolved without the need to escalate action. They believe there could be political pressure to solve the dispute quickly because of both the council elections and the general election campaign.
Colleges have been through a huge shake-up in recent years, merging into so-called regional super-colleges with national pay bargaining reintroduced.
Colleges had previously been free to set their own terms and conditions. But the union has highlighted examples of lecturers doing virtually identical jobs at different colleges, but with pay as much as £10,000 apart.
The military said officers tracked down Sombat Boonngamanong through the internet. He is wanted for violating an order to report to the ruling junta.
Mr Sombat led an online campaign organising rallies against the army's coup, which took place in May.
The military seized power in Thailand after continuing political unrest.
The move followed six months of political deadlock as protesters tried to oust the government of Yingluck Shinawatra.
But the army's removal of her elected government has drawn widespread international criticism.
Mr Sombat was arrested late on Thursday in the eastern Chonburi province.
"We have a team who tracked him through the internet," army spokeswoman Sirichan Ngathong told the AFP news agency.
Officials said soldiers and police were able to locate the IP address used by Mr Sombat to post his comments.
His arrest has been denounced by Amnesty International who described it as part of "a systematic and widening crackdown on key human rights" by the military.
"Sombat Boonngamanong should be released immediately unless he is charged with a recognisable criminal offence and remanded by an independent, civilian court," said human rights group's Asia director, Richard Bennett.
"This is the latest in a disturbing wave of arrests of people purely voicing disquiet about the military regime. The army's course of action is looking increasingly like a purge."
Hundreds were detained after the coup, but most have since been freed, correspondents say.
Meanwhile, corruption investigators have widened their inquiry into former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, investigating her private assets.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission's investigation is connected to a rice-subsidy scheme, in which the government bought rice from farmers at above-market prices to boost rural incomes.
The commission had already indicted Ms Yingluck over charges of dereliction of duty, saying that she failed to heed advice that the scheme was potentially wasteful and prone to corruption.
Ms Yingluck was detained last month at an undisclosed location as leaders of Thursday's military coup tightened their grip on power.
Mr Sombat previously led a pro-democracy group called Red Sunday, reports the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
He was also one of the only prominent red shirt activists to defy the Thai military by taunting them from his Facebook and Twitter accounts, our correspondent adds.
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He told his party devolution had brought "peace and prosperity" and added that he looked back "with pride at all that we together have achieved".
He said after three years of problems at Stormont, the latest 'Fresh Start' deal means "politics can work again".
He is to quit as Northern Ireland first minister and DUP leader within weeks.
Mr Robinson announced his retirement on Thursday, two days after the agreement was struck between the DUP, Sinn Féin and the British and Irish governments.
The Fresh Start document addressed some but not all of the issues that had caused months of political deadlock and placed the future of devolution in doubt.
Mr Robinson told the DUP's annual party conference on Saturday "my work is almost done, and now it is time for the next generation to step forward".
"I wanted to make sure that I was handing over the reins of a political process that was stable and secure for the long term.
"After a seemingly endless process I am delighted that we have finally reached agreement on the way forward. We have resolved all those toxic issues that threatened the continuation of devolution."
"So as I prepare to bow out I do so in the knowledge that the province is on safe ground and this party is in good shape to take Northern Ireland forward."
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Mr Robinson was cheered and given a standing ovation as he took to the podium at the La Mon House hotel, with many of this party colleagues hugging him and shaking his hand.
He told them Northern Ireland's place within the UK is "secure" and congratulated them on maintaining their position as "Northern Ireland's largest party".
"Ulster is no longer at the crossroads - we're on the motorway and on a clear path to a better future," he said.
The DUP leader said the Fresh Start deal had removed "the threat of bankruptcy and collapse" from Stormont.
"The fundamental block on politics these last three years has been the refusal of some to face up to financial realities and accept welfare reform.
"That impasse soured relations; starved key public services of much needed resources, and threatened the executive with financial ruin.
"This deal ends that uncertainty and removes the obstacles to progress."
Outside the conference there was a small protest from same-sex marriage campaigners who criticised the DUP for blocking a recent assembly vote on the issue.
But inside there was nothing but hugs and cheers for the outgoing leader, with some members weeping openly as his last speech drew to its conclusion.
Mr Robinson is one of the founding members of the DUP and his political career has lasted more than 40 years.
He took over as first minister and DUP leader from the late Ian Paisley in 2008.
His formal retirement will not take effect until some time around the end of the year, but he said he intends to remain as a member of the DUP after he steps down.
A new science, technology, engineering and maths centre has been proposed for its current site at the Markeaton Street campus.
The university said the facility, which will include workshop space and a wind tunnel, would help meet growing demand for its engineering courses.
The four-storey building will accommodate up to 400 students, according to the university.
Its law school is also moving from the current Kedleston Road campus to Friar Gate Square at the end of the year.
The university will lease the £20m copper-clad city centre building, which will include two mock courtrooms and a specialist library.
The Labour leader's opponents said his actions had torpedoed talks on having some shadow front bench positions elected by MPs, rather than appointed.
Ms Thornberry said negotiations were continuing and Mr Corbyn should not be criticised for acting decisively.
Parliamentary Labour Party chairman John Cryer said he was not informed.
Mr Cryer said in a letter to MPs that the party leadership had not told him, or sacked chief whip Rosie Winterton, about the changes.
The PLP had held talks with party leaders over possible shadow cabinet elections.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said he was willing to continue the discussions on the idea of the party electing some of the shadow cabinet.
Ms Thornberry told BBC Radio 4's Today programme criticism of Mr Corbyn was unfair.
"On the one hand people criticise Jeremy for being weak and taking too long on his reshuffles and yet when he decides that he needs to do one in order to fill vacancies and reach out, people then criticise him for being too decisive and too strong. You can't play it both ways," she said.
"We stop fighting among ourselves".
"We have a job to do. We were elected to be MPs, represent our constituents and stand up to the government. That's what our priority ought to be and we need to get on with it."
In this week's reshuffle several MPs who quit the shadow cabinet in the summer in protest at Mr Corbyn's leadership returned to the fold.
In other appointments, deputy leader Tom Watson was appointed shadow culture secretary and Jon Ashworth became shadow health secretary. John Healey returned to housing and Diane Abbott became shadow home secretary.
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In his letter to Labour MPs, Mr Cryer said the PLP in early September voted "overwhelmingly" for the return of elections to the shadow cabinet.
"This led to negotiations involving myself and the then chief whip, Rosie Winterton, and people from the leadership team," he wrote.
"As far as Rosie and I were concerned, the talks were held in good faith with the aim of striking an agreement which would allow some places to be filled through elections while the leader would retain the right to appoint others."
Mr Cryer said it then became clear on Wednesday that a reshuffle was under way, which "had not been discussed or mentioned" during the talks.
"It now seems to me that the party's leadership did not engage in the talks in any constructive way," he added. "Obviously, I deeply regret this turn of events."
Ms Winterton was sacked as part of the reshuffle.
But a spokesman for Mr Corbyn, who was re-elected as labour leader in September, said shadow cabinet elections were still to be considered by the party's national executive committee.
Labour's former home secretary, Alan Johnson - a former critic of Mr Corbyn - said he was still not up to the job of being leader of the opposition.
He told the Today programme "me and many of my colleagues" believed Mr Corbyn was not up to the job, adding: "Perhaps he'll prove me wrong."
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said while some of Mr Corbyn's critics had been welcomed back to the front bench, very few of his allies had departed.
The Labour leader's hold on his party's levers of power was firmer than ever, our correspondent added.
Davis Allen Cripe collapsed at a high school in April after drinking a McDonald's latte, a large Mountain Dew soft drink and an energy drink in just under two hours, Gary Watts said.
The 16-year-old died from a "caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a probable arrhythmia".
He had no pre-existing heart condition.
The teenager weighed 90kg (200 lbs) but would not have been considered morbidly obese, Mr Watts said.
"This is not a caffeine overdose," Mr Watts told Reuters news agency.
"We're not saying that it was the total amount of caffeine in the system, it was just the way that it was ingested over that short period of time, and the chugging of the energy drink at the end was what the issue was with the cardiac arrhythmia."
Caffeine would probably not have been seen as a factor in the teenager's death if witnesses had not been able to tell officials what he had been drinking before his death, the Richland County coroner said.
The main witness could not say which brand of energy drink Davis drank but said it was from a container the size of a large soft drink.
"We're not trying to speak out totally against caffeine," Mr Watts said. "We believe people need to pay attention to their caffeine intake and how they do it, just as they do with alcohol or cigarettes."
The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has warned against children and teenagers consuming energy drinks, saying their ingredients have not been tested on children and "no-one can ensure they are safe".
It says they have side-effects including irregular heartbeats and blood pressure changes.
Most energy drinks contain a caffeine equivalent of three cups of coffee and as much as 14 teaspoons of sugar, the AAP says.
Davis may have consumed about 470mg of caffeine in just under two hours, based on statistics from the website caffeineinformer.com.
It says a McDonald's latte has 142mg of caffeine, a 570ml (20oz) Mountain Dew has 90mg, and a 450ml (16oz) energy drink can have as much as 240mg.
In 2015, the European Food Safety Authority said drinking more than 400mg could lead to increased heart rate, higher blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, tremors, nervousness, insomnia and panic attacks.
Caffeine is a stimulant. It acts on the body's central nervous system within minutes, increasing alertness and reducing sleepiness.
But it has other effects too. It can raise your heart rate and make you feel jittery or anxious.
And once you've drunk it, it will take hours to clear it from your system.
Having a few cups of coffee or other caffeinated drinks a day is considered perfectly safe. But drinking too much or lots in a short space of time is risky.
You can overdose on caffeine and it is possible to die if you ingest too much.
Up to 400mg of caffeine a day appears to be safe for most healthy adults. That's roughly the amount of caffeine in four cups of brewed coffee, 10 cans of Coca-Cola or two "energy shot" drinks (although check the caffeine content of the beverage as it can vary).
Adolescents and pregnant women are advised to have less than this, though. Caffeinated drinks are unsuitable for toddlers and young children.
You may want to cut back on caffeine if you experience side effects such as:
Large animals like hippos, rhinos and the straight-tusk elephant all once lived in the UK but have disappeared.
Researchers think bringing back such bigger beasts could help aid recovery.
"Looking at which species are missing can help us understand which natural processes are not functioning," said Dr Chris Sandom from Oxford University.
Dr Sandom, who worked on the study, continued: "We propose the process of rewilding to help restore natural processes, like predation and pollination by insects."
Today in the UK we still have some larger herbivores but few big predators like lions.
Dr Sandom said: "In Britain today we have many medium sized herbivores like the red deer.
"In some places they're seen as a problem because they eat saplings, which prevents the regeneration of woodlands.
"Reintroducing predators like the lynx or wolf might be appropriate in some areas," he said.
It's an idea that has already been tried on a smaller scale - animals like beavers and sea eagles have already been reintroduced in parts of Britain.
But this study doesn't mean we'll have rhino roaming our countryside any time soon.
The scientists studied beetle remains and found there were a lot more dung beetles in Europe 120,000 years ago.
That suggests there were many more large herbivores roaming Europe before humans arrived.
After humans arrived in the UK woodland beetles were much more common, which suggests the big herbivores had gone.
The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The adventure seemed set to continue with a move to join Dutch Eredivisie side Roda JC Kerkrade.
But just four games into the campaign Church suffered a serious hip injury that wrecked his season.
The contrast of fortune could not have been more stark, as Church endured surgery followed by a lengthy rehabilitation.
"It's been a frustrating season for me off the back of last summer," said the 28-year-old.
"I had the opportunity to play in a different country, a different league and then four games in I had to have hip surgery.
"That ruined everything, ruined my plans... it was really, really frustrating.
"It's something [the hip problem] I've had over the years but I've never missed a day of training or a match through it.
"It's been niggling away in the background but I've always managed to get a hold of it to stop it getting in the way.
"But as soon as I went to Roda I didn't realise they played on astroturf and near enough half the teams [in the Dutch Eredivisie] play on astroturf.
"We were training in an artificial pitch every day and I think that was the main reason why, my hip couldn't really handle the impact of it.
"I remember playing against Feyenoord and after taking a shot I was in so much pain I couldn't carry on."
Scans confirmed the severity of the injury and surgery was followed by 10 weeks on crutches.
Roda allowed Church to stay home for three months to convalesce, before he returned to the Dutch club last January to continue his rehabilitation.
But with his one-year contract due to expire and Roda in the midst of a troubled takeover involving financier Aleksei Korotaev, Church left the club two weeks ago.
"It was was my decision to stop it prematurely because I'd worked so hard to get back as soon as I can... and be ready for the new season," Church said.
"I knew there's a lot of things going on at the club as well with the new owner, new manager, new staff and I knew straight away it wasn't something that I was going to be doing next year.
"We agreed to go our separate ways before the end of the season and I've managed to keep my fitness up, working hard and getting myself ready for whatever opportunity comes up next."
Church began his career at Reading, before signing for Charlton Athletic in 2013 and then MK Dons two years later, but was unable to command a regular first-team place.
The striker went on loan at the end of the 2015-16 season to Aberdeen, flourishing in the Scottish Premiership with nearly a goal every other game - the type of form that helped cement his place in the Wales squad for the Euro 2016 finals.
"The back of last season I went to Aberdeen, really had a good time and scored a lot of goals," Church said.
"Then in the summer was just amazing - to play in the semi-finals of the Euros was a dream come true.
"I want more of the same feeling and action from last summer, and I want to get back to playing at the top level."
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Now Church, back to fitness, is eager to recommence his playing career and says there is good interest from clubs for his signature.
"There's a lot of talks going on with clubs... so I'm just keeping tight, keeping focused on staying fit," he added.
"We've had interest from back in England, which is nice, but also ever since I made the move abroad a lot more options have come up all over the place.
"But we need to sit down; I've got a young family so we need to figure out what's going to be the best for them, and what's going to be the best opportunity for me in my career.
"I'm 28 now so I need to get back to what I was doing. The last five years haven't gone as well as I'd planned, so we really need to make sure the next move is the right one.
"The clubs know I'm a free agent now, I'm feeling fit, I know I can play at Championship level. I haven't played in League One since I was 18 or 19 on loan a couple of times.
"I know what I'm capable of, I'm sure clubs know all about me now... and I'm still really hungry."
While a frustrated Church has looked on from the sidelines, Wales have struggled to repeat their success during the current World Cup qualifying campaign.
Chris Coleman's side sit third in Group D, four draws from their five games leaving them four points behind leaders Serbia - who they face in a crunch game on Sunday.
The last time Wales played in Belgrade in 2012 they suffered a 6-1 humiliation in a World Cup qualifier.
Church played every painful minute of that defeat but the 38-cap man does not believe there will be any repeat of that result on Sunday, even with leading scorer Gareth Bale suspended.
"That 6-1 defeat was probably the lowest point in a lot of our Welsh careers, we didn't really know where to go from there," said Church, who made his international debut in 2009.
"Where we are now from where we were then is two different places... we've just got to put that focus in and that comes from the manager, and the players know how to win games now.
"We've got players who can do something out of nothing all over the pitch and we've got great leaders as well.
"Everyone knows the team we are and the quality of our players, but we've had a bit of bad luck and obviously now expectations are so high.
"Expectations are we should win the group and sail through to the finals but it's never as easy as that and that's shown throughout the campaign.
"It was always going to be tough off the back of getting to the semi-final.
"We've got such a good squad but this campaign we've been hit with injuries and suspensions, and looking at the squad it's a chance for players to come in and show what they can do.
"It just shows the level of the squad that we are today, especially compared to the last time we lost against Serbia."
Wales boss Coleman has said this campaign will be his last as Wales manager and the 47-year-old is admired by Premier League clubs including Crystal Palace.
"It doesn't surprise me at all that he's linked with a lot of Premier League teams," Church said.
"He's a fantastic manager and someone who I've loved working with. He's given me the opportunity, he talks to you, tells you what he's thinking.
"He's a great man and the whole squad absolutely loves him and the staff, and it's a real pleasure - an honour - to be part of Wales.
"When you're training with the squad and the manager it's an amazing place to be."
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Somerset are "still interested" in bringing back 36-year-old Gayle, despite his £4,900 fine for asking a reporter on a date during an interview.
The West Indies batsman was disciplined for "inappropriate conduct".
"If Somerset decided he was remorseful and wanted to sign him that would be no problem for me," said Shrubsole.
Somerset said negotiations to bring Gayle back to the club this summer are "ongoing".
He has been described as "box office" by the club's director of cricket Matthew Maynard, with Somerset selling out six of their seven T20 Blast games last year "essentially on the back of him signing".
Gayle, who scored 328 runs in three appearances for Somerset in 2015, is playing for Melbourne Renegades in Australia's Big Bash League.
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He was answering questions from Network Ten's Mel McLaughlin at pitch-side in Hobart on Monday when he made the remark, also telling her, "Don't blush, baby", which was widely condemned as sexist.
Asked whether it would bother her playing for the same club as Gayle, 24-year-old Shrubsole told BBC Somerset: "No, not at all.
"It's Somerset's decision entirely as to whether they want him to come back or not. He was exceptional when he was here in those three T20 games and the amount of runs he scored was unbelievable."
Shrubsole, who will be part of the England women's squad for the tour of South Africa, said she felt his comments were "inappropriate".
She added: "The matter has been dealt with and Melbourne themselves have come out and punished him and I think the matter will be closed."
Described as a "tour de force" by the prize's organisers, the extension saw the gallery win the £100,000 Art Fund prize for museum of the year on 1 July.
The shortlist encompasses housing projects, a school, a university building and a cancer care centre.
This year's winner will be announced in central London on 15 October.
Four of the six shortlisted buildings are located in London, with the final contender in Lanarkshire.
The rebuilt Everyman Theatre in Liverpool won last year's prize, the highest accolade awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Alongside the Whitworth, this year's shortlist encompasses housing projects, a school, a university building and a cancer care centre.
Jane Duncan, president elect of Riba, will chair the Stirling Prize jury.
She said this year's entries were "careful" and "respectful of their communities" but missing the "flamboyance" of previous years, when the likes of the Shard were nominated.
Riba president Stephen Hodder, who won the inaugural Stirling Prize in 1996, said the shortlisted buildings were all "surprising new additions to urban locations".
"In the shortlist we have six model buildings that will immeasurably improve the lives and well-being of all those who encounter them," he continued.
The buildings, he said, were "well-executed... both internally and externally" and "game-changers that other architects, clients and local authorities should aspire to."
The six shortlisted buildings are as follows:
Built for Wandsworth Borough Council at a cost of £40.9m, Burntwood School is one of the final projects to be developed under the Building Schools for the Future scheme that was established by the Labour government in 2004 and axed by the Coalition government six years later.
According to the Stirling prize judging panel, the scheme "may have been based on a wasteful methodology but... did have at its heart a desire to improve the fabric and learning environments of all our schools".
The judges said "the relationship between the new concrete buildings and the older buildings adds a sense of architectural history and depth to the whole site".
"The architectural expression throughout is bold, characterful and adds to a sense of this being more like a university than a school."
Built for the Peabody Trust, this 13-home apartment building is one that "oozes care" according to this year's judges.
The £2.3m building, the judges said, is "a brilliant piece of urban design" with "pale honey" bricks that give the work "so much more character".
The panel singled out the building's stairwell for praise, suggesting residents "must feel a million dollars, like stars on an ocean liner" as they encounter its "graceful curves" and "elegant swooping hand-rail".
Built for the Maggie's cancer charity for £1.8m, the only shortlisted building not in England is described by this year's judges as "a truly memorable addition to a noble tradition of specialist health buildings".
The structure conveys "a sense of dignity and calm" and has a "surrounding perforate wall of hand-made Danish brick" that offers "a degree of separation" from the nearby Monklands Hospital.
The judges suggested the building's largest room might prove particularly suitable for "big groups of... stubborn working-class men who find it hard to talk about or even admit to their problem".
Another centre built in west London by the charity, which offers support to people with cancer as well as their families and friends, won the Riba Stirling Prize in 2009.
Built for £132m, the NEO Bankside development is "a group of exquisite towers" behind the Tate Modern gallery in London that is, according to this year's judges, "a well-mannered example of a structurally expressive architecture".
Praising its "intricate weaving of public and private space", the judges said the un-gated luxury development offers "seductive.... high-quality housing you would be unlikely to see elsewhere in the world".
"Overall the scheme has a scale and a richness that is appropriate... to this important part of London," the panel continued.
Built for the University of Greenwich, the shortlisted building houses the institution's main library as well as its architecture, landscape and arts departments.
The Stirling judges praised the £38.9m development's "frisky gravitas", its "remarkable" acoustics and windows that had been "carefully considered to take advantage of key views, vistas and reflections".
The end result, they concluded, was "a very public university building... that will inspire future generations of architects" as well as "a startling building to put in [a] Unesco World Heritage Site".
The Whitworth, part of the University of Manchester, underwent the largest physical transformation in its 125-year history in 2014 with a project that doubled the gallery's size and connected the building with its surrounding park.
According to the judges, "the new architecture emerges quite seamlessly as an integral yet individualistic part of the whole assembly."
Two weeks ago, the Whitworth was named Museum of the Year, with judges saying the redeveloped institution had "cemented its place at the centre of the cultural national stage".
The six shortlisted designs all adhere to the modernist mantra that form must follow function. There's no room for baroque flamboyance or arts and crafts individualism. From the Burntwood School in south London to the Maggie's Cancer Care centre in Lanarkshire - clean lines, geometric forms, and plate glass are the order of the day. No fuss, no nonsense.
The steel braces that form the external diagonal grids on a group of luxury housing blocks situated near Tate Modern are about as flamboyant as any of the designs get. Restrained elegance abounds. A new university building in Greenwich and a social housing development in east London - clad in stone and brick respectively - both feature sober facades punctuated by recessed windows.
Perhaps the most striking design is the glass and brick extension to the Whitworth gallery in Manchester, which has transformed an institutional-looking building into a modern, bright visitor attraction. It'd get my vote.
It has launched a petition against what it calls a "broadcast blackout", saying it increased its vote share and has the same number of MPs - one - as UKIP.
The BBC based its decision on new rules for how broadcasts should be allocated.
The BBC Trust guidelines highlight an "unexpected discrepancy" between the number of UKIP MPs and its vote share.
Party political broadcasts take place three times a year in England, Scotland and Wales and once a year in Northern Ireland.
The latest allocations were announced on Monday, with UKIP joining the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems in the list of parties being offered broadcasts in England.
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett said she was "astonished" her party was being denied "vital broadcast coverage".
"We've grown as a party by more than three times in the last 12 months," she said.
"I'm starting to wonder what exactly it is that we need to do to convince the BBC to grant us fair representation."
The party said it would request an urgent meeting with the BBC and urged support for a petition on the 38 Degrees website.
The BBC Trust, which carried out a public consultation on the new criteria for inclusion, said the previous guidelines, set in 2012, "did not anticipate the anomaly arising from an unprecedented discrepancy between representation (seats) and share of the vote in the last general election".
It said this was particularly the case with UKIP, which could have missed out despite having a larger vote share at the general election than the Lib Dems.
In light of the promised in-out EU referendum, it added: "The BBC Executive considers that it could be an exacerbating factor if a party which was unambiguously in favour of leaving the EU was unfairly denied" party political broadcasts.
In Wales, Plaid Cymru is also included, and in Scotland the list is made up of the SNP, Labour, the Tories and Lib Dems.
In Northern Ireland broadcasts have been offered to the Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn Fein, the Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP and the Alliance Party.
He said Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire councils would have the amount they pay towards the total £745m cost of the bypass, and A90 upgrade between Balmedie and Tipperty, capped.
It means the Scottish government will pay 81% and the councils 9.5% each.
The 28-mile bypass is expected to be completed in 2018.
The Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) was given the green light by Scottish ministers in 2009 but it has been delayed by legal action. Work is expected to begin in 2014.
Mr Brown made the funding announcement as he unveiled the shortlist of bidders for the contract.
Four consortia will compete: Granite City, North East Roads Partnership, Scotia Roads Group and Connect Roads.
Mr Brown said: "The benefits of the AWPR and Balmedie are clear, with the scheme expected to deliver 14,200 jobs in the north east and boosting the economy to the tune of £6bn over the next 30 years.
"After years of delay, we should not underplay the need to ensure the pace in delivering this vital project continues."
The A90 scheme will see the busy stretch between Balmedie and Tipperty in Aberdeenshire become a dual carriageway.
It will provide continuous dual carriageway between Aberdeen and Ellon, aimed at improved safety and faster journey times.
Al Ahly and Zamalek have both made offers that the Rugby Park side would accept for their leading scorer.
Coulibaly was granted permission to join his agents in Egypt to consider moving from Scotland.
Last week, Killie rejected a £500,000 bid from Zamalek for the 22-year-old former Tottenham trainee from the Ivory Coast.
Arriving as a free agent after a season at Peterborough, Coulibaly signed a three-year deal with the Scottish Premiership club in the summer.
He has scored 11 goals in 26 appearances for Lee Clark's side.
A team of US and Austrian researchers found that urbanisation could increase emissions by up to 25% in some developing nations.
However, industrialised countries could see emissions fall by about 20% as a result of ageing populations.
The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In their paper, they also showed that slowing population growth could deliver up to 30% of the cuts deemed necessary by 2050 to prevent dangerous climate change.
"If global population growth slows down, it is not going to solve the climate problem," said lead author Brian O'Neill, a scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (Ncar).
"But it can make a contribution, especially in the long-term."
According to the UN Population Division, the average annual global growth rate peaked at just over 2.0% between 1965 and 1970.
Since then, it has been steadily falling and currently stands at about 1.1%. By 2050, the UN projects that it will have fallen to an estimated 0.3%.
In contrast, the number of people over the age of 60 is increasing, and the UN predicts that it will almost triple, from 737m in 2009 to in excess of two billion by 2050.
'Not surprising'
Until now, most scenarios contained population projections but none had considered the "demographic influences" on emissions, the scientists wrote in their paper.
Although the scientists highlight what they see as the importance of including demographics in emissions scenarios, Dr O'Neill said it was not surprising that it had not been a key concern.
"When you set out to develop emissions scenarios, what you want to focus on are the factors that you anticipate will make the biggest difference," he told BBC News.
"Therefore, most scenarios have focused on alternative economic growth rates and alternative futures in terms of technological development."
Using UN-derived data, they developed a computer model that took into account population, environmental and technological factors, such as:
"When a population ages faster (as a result of people living longer and reduced fertility rates), emissions turn out to be less than they otherwise would be," explained Dr O'Neill.
"Although it is true that older households - for example - don't travel as much, we find that the dominant effect is that older [people] are less likely to be working.
"This reduced contribution to the labour force means that the overall economy grows more slowly. As a result, the overall use of energy within the economy goes down, and emissions go down."
As for the impact of urbanisation, Dr O'Neill added that urban households were, generally, less energy intensive that rural ones.
"The fuel choice, or electricity availability, is pretty much the same in rural areas as it is in urban areas, but what is different is that people maybe live in smaller houses or an apartment in cities, and if they have a car then perhaps they do not drive it as much."
Glow of the city
However, he added, urbanisation was a major source of greenhouse gases when an indirect effect on productivity was considered.
"Overall, we find that when countries urbanise, the labour supply is more productive, meaning that it contributes more to the growth of GDP.
"People are working in sectors that contribute more to economic growth, which increases energy demand, which increases emissions."
The UK-based Optimum Population Trust, a charity that is concerned about the impact of population growth on the environment, believes the Earth is already being stretched beyond its carrying capacity.
It says that the optimum human population - one that can be sustained in the long-term - is closer to three billion people.
Responding to the paper, chief executive Simon Ross said: "We welcome this analysis of the links between global population dynamics and... climate change.
"We believe this paper supports our assertions that reproductive health is an environmental issue, as well as a humanitarian and developmental one," he told BBC News.
However, he said a lower population growth alone would not be enough to prevent dangerous climate change.
"We need a combination of even lower population growth, reduced per capita consumption and better use of technology," Mr Ross observed.
"Assuming average global per capita consumption will continue to rise over time, [this] will require population to actually decline over time from current levels."
Writing in the paper, the scientists - which included researchers from the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and Austria-based International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - said the findings highlighted the importance of understanding population dynamics.
"Greater attention should be given to the implications of urbanisation and ageing, particularly in key regions of the world, including China, India, the US and the EU," they concluded.
"Better modelling of these trends would improve out understanding of the potential range of future energy demand and emissions."
She said she wanted to consult with other parties to find ways of creating "a parliament with teeth".
The Holyrood election on Thursday saw the Tories become the main opposition party in the Scottish Parliament.
The SNP plans to rule without a formal coalition deal after falling two MSPs short of an absolute majority.
Ms Davidson said a minority administration would provide an opportunity to hold the SNP "in check".
Her suggestions include ensuring the conveners of certain committees come from opposition parties, and for opposition party spokesmen and women to be given greater opportunity to question ministers.
She said: "I said during the election campaign that we would press for a parliament with teeth. Before the new parliament gets under way, we have an opportunity to act on that.
"Too often during the last parliament, bad laws were swept in thanks to the SNP majority. Now they are a minority administration, it puts parliament back in control.
"Some simple reforms now need to be considered - and I want all opposition parties to find common cause in putting those forward.
"We can hold the SNP in check - and ensure better government and a stronger Scotland as a result."
The Conservatives secured 31 MSPs in the vote, overtaking Labour which was left with 24. The number of SNP MSPs fell by six, to 63.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, whose party finished in fifth place behind the Greens, said opposition to the SNP needed to be "far wider than a narrow Tory agenda".
"On issues like tax there is more that unites the Tories with the SNP than divides them," he said.
"And on issues like justice they are more likely to chase cheap headlines than push for reforms which help cut offending and reduce the number of Scots who are imprisoned.
"On education there is no indication that they will press for the urgent investment that is required to make our schools the best again."
A number of senior Labour figures have rallied behind Kezia Dugdale, saying she should stay on as Scottish leader to rebuild support.
Former Labour first minister Lord McConnell praised Ms Dugdale, despite the "terrible" result for his party.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: "When Kezia took over last year as leader, she was a breath of fresh air. She remains a breath of fresh air.
"I think her demeanour during this campaign, her relentless focus on the most important issues for people in Scotland and the ways she's conducted herself during the campaign - and since Thursday night, to be honest - is exactly what I want to see in a leader of the Scottish Labour Party."
Former Labour special advisor Paul Sinclair said Ms Dugdale was the party's "last chance" to save itself from oblivion" - although he was critical of her strategy during the election.
Writing in the Scottish Daily Mail, he said: "Labour needs a new story for Scotland. And it will only be able to craft one if it stops speaking to itself and truly listens to the concerns of Scots."
Glasgow City Council's Labour leader Frank McAveety said Labour needed to provide a coherent message on the constitution and suggested embracing the idea of a "federal Britain".
"That would be home rule for Scotland in a federal Britain," he wrote in the Daily Record. "The other parts of the Union would get equal powers for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
"The House of Commons would be the federal chamber to which the home rule parliaments would send delegates.
"The precise details need working out - but if everything stays the same, we are tobogganing downhill to an independent Scotland and the break-up of the UK."
Currently there are about 500 British troops in the country, providing security in Kabul and training at the Afghan Officer Academy.
The BBC understands the request was made within the last few weeks.
Nato's secretary general Jens Stoltenberg is due to meet Theresa May at Downing Street on Wednesday and is expected to discuss the subject.
The request for more troops comes as the US considers increasing its military presence in the country.
The US military and state department are recommending sending at least 3,000 more US troops to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban, US media report.
There are 13,000 Nato troops currently in the country, 8,400 of them US.
US combat operations against the Taliban officially ended in 2014, but special forces have continued to provide support to Afghan troops.
The UK was involved in the conflict in Afghanistan against the Taliban and al-Qaeda for 13 years, from 2001 to 2014.
The last UK combat troops left Afghanistan in October 2014, but 450 remained in order to train, advise, and assist local Afghan forces.
In July another 50 were sent to aid counter-terrorism efforts and provide leadership training.
By Jonathan Beale, defence correspondent
The timing of the request may not be great for Theresa May ahead of the election. But it won't come as a huge surprise.
The US military have made no secret of their wish for more troops in Afghanistan. Barack Obama resisted the pressure. President Trump appears to be more willing to give his commanders a free reign.
If the US increases its military presence then it expects allies to do the same. It is, after all, a Nato-led mission, at least in name.
The MoD has received a formal request, but no numbers have been mentioned. One defence source expected that any increase would be small - between 10% and 20% of the 500 British troops already there.
Also expect caveats as to what they will do - and where they'll be deployed. No one in the MoD wants a repeat of Helmand.
Last month, the Taliban announced the start of their "spring offensive" a week after killing at least 135 Afghan soldiers in a military compound near the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.
The group said it would use military and political tactics and that its main target would be foreign forces.
On Saturday Taliban militants seized a district just a few kilometres to the west of Kunduz in their continuing attempts to take the northern city. Thousands of families have been forced to leave their homes.
Latest reports suggest the Taliban now also control the main road to the east of the city which links the province to the north-east and is also the main supply route for the capital, Kabul.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "The UK keeps its contribution in Afghanistan under regular review to ensure it remains suited for the needs of the mission."
A Nato official told the BBC US authorities had written to the military alliance to ask about the future of its presence in Afghanistan.
The official added: "Allied leaders will consider future contributions at our meeting in Brussels later this month, and the issue will be examined in further detail by defence ministers in June."
A Nato source said they did not expect the secretary general to mention specific numbers in his meeting with Mrs May on Wednesday.
Yusuf Ahmed, Syria's envoy in Cairo, said the plan "reflected the hysteria of these governments".
The EU on Monday backed the Arab League's "bold" plan but Russia said violence must end before any peacekeepers could be sent.
Meanwhile the UN General Assembly has started a debate on the Syrian crisis.
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, who has been sharply critical of the actions of President Bashar al-Assad's government, is later set to address the assembly in New York.
The Arab League said it was ending all diplomatic co-operation with Syria, and promised to give "political and material support" to the opposition.
The League's moves come a week after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Syria, which would have endorsed a previous Arab League peace initiative.
The EU backed the League's peacekeeping plan on Monday.
Michael Mann, spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said: "We welcome these bold decisions and the strong and clear commitment and leadership that the Arab League is taking to resolve the crisis in Syria.
By Jim MuirBBC News, Beirut
The Arab League decisions to halt all economic and diplomatic co-operation with the Syrian government may intensify the pressure and isolation for Damascus.
But the call on the UN Security Council to pass a resolution to set up a joint UN-Arab League peacekeeping operation is unlikely to bring swift results.
Any such move needs a ceasefire which does not exist, and which Syria would not accept because it would put rebels and government on the same footing.
It would also require a consensus at the Security Council which is not there. But the league's decisions give its members political cover for backing and financing the Syrian opposition. Syria already accuses some Arab states of paying and arming the rebels.
The appearance on the scene of al-Qaeda further complicates the picture as opposition activists strive to appear as peaceful victims of state oppression.
"The EU's first goal is an immediate cessation of killings and therefore we are very supportive of any initiative that can help achieve this objective, including a stronger Arab presence on the ground in co-operation with the UN to achieve a ceasefire and the end of violence."
He added: "We renew our urgent calls on all members of the Security Council to be constructive and act with responsibility at this crucial moment."
Russia said on Monday that it was studying the plan but that it needed "clarification".
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there had to be ceasefire in place before any peacekeepers could be sent.
"But the problem is that the armed groups that are fighting the Syrian regime do not answer to anyone and are not controlled by anyone," he said.
China, meanwhile, said Syria's problems needed to be resolved by diplomatic means.
Foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said: "China hopes all relevant parties can keep dialogue and communication to play a positive and constructive role in politically resolving the Syrian issue and easing the country's tension."
Speaking while on a visit to South Africa, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said: "I don't see the way forward in Syria as being Western boots on the ground, in any form, including in peacekeeping form, but of course if such a concept could be made viable we will be supporting it in all the usual ways."
The BBC's Jeremy Bowen in Cairo says the new Arab League resolution contains its toughest language on Syria so far and makes it much more likely that the issue will return to the Security Council.
Aiding Syria's rebels
Maps and videos of Homs fighting
In pictures: 'Artillery deployment'
The fact that it is considering these moves shows the extent of the Syrian regime's isolation, our correspondent adds.
He says it remains to be seen whether Moscow will continue to lend its support to its old allies and trading partners.
The League's resolution also formally ends the observer mission it sent to Syria in December. It was suspended in January amid criticism that it was ineffective in the face of continuing violence.
The head of that mission, the controversial Sudanese General Mohammed al-Dabi, had submitted his resignation on Sunday.
Earlier, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri backed the Syrian uprising in a video message, telling the opposition not to rely on the West or Arab countries for support.
There have been reports that US officials suspect al-Qaeda involvement in two deadly blasts in the second city of Aleppo last week.
Meanwhile, fresh violence in the Syrian city of Homs was reported on Monday.
"Tank shelling has been non-stop on Baba Amr and the bombardment on al-Waer [district] began overnight," activist Mohammad al-Hassan told Reuters.
Activists say more than 400 people have been killed since security forces launched an assault on opposition-held areas on the city this month.
Human rights groups say more than 7,000 have died throughout Syria since last March. The government says at least 2,000 members of the security forces have been killed combating "armed gangs and terrorists".
Syria restricts access to foreign media and it is not possible to verify casualty figures.
Gorka Marquez needed dental surgery after two of his lower jaw front teeth were badly chipped when he was attacked by a gang of youths in November, a Strictly spokesman said at the time.
Mr Marquez did not make a formal complaint to police about the incident.
Lancashire Police said the force had checked CCTV from the area in Blackpool and found nothing.
A spokesman said the force had "carried out a proportionate investigation which is now closed" and "no arrests" were made.
The programme's makers said it was up to Marquez or his representatives to comment on the closure of the investigation.
Speaking at the time of the alleged assault, a Strictly spokesman said the 26-year-old Spaniard was in the Lancashire resort for a live edition of the show when he was the victim of an "unprovoked incident".
Mr Marquez was reportedly on his way to a nightclub with colleagues after filming the show's annual broadcast from Blackpool Tower Ballroom.
He was said to have been getting out of a car when a "random group of lads" ran past and assaulted him.
Mr Marquez tweeted his fans after the incident saying it was "a bad experience" but he was "feeling better".
The dancer made his Strictly debut in this year's series and had been partnering EastEnders actress Tameka Empson, who plays Kim Fox in the BBC soap.
They were eliminated in the second round but he has continued to appear in the programme as part of the weekly group routines.
Mr Marquez also stepped in to dance with singer Anastacia in week five when her partner Brendan Cole was ill.
He represented Spain at the World Latin Championships in 2010 and has toured internationally with stage show Burn the Floor, according to his biography on the BBC website.
Mr Marquez will appear as part of the group routines on Saturday's grand final show when the winner of the glitter ball trophy will be chosen.
Lindsay Rimer, 13, from Hebden Bridge, disappeared on 7 November 1994.
Two canal workers found her body, weighted down with a stone, in the Rochdale canal five months later. Her killer has never been identified.
Andy Glover, from Mytholmroyd, was checking for debris when he spotted something in the water.
He said: "We thought that it was a sheep.
"As we pulled it towards us, the body rolled in the water. There was no mistaking who it was, we saw the strands of hair on her face and knew we had found Lindsay Rimer."
Ms Rimer left her home in Cambridge Street at about 22:00 GMT and met her mother at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.
The last-known sighting of her was caught on CCTV 20 minutes later as she bought cornflakes on Crown Street.
Her body was recovered a mile upstream from the town centre in April 1995.
"I got home late that day, and my wife was asking where I had been and why I hadn't phoned," Mr Glover said.
"I just said, 'We have found her.'
"I didn't need to say who, she knew instantly I was talking about Lindsay."
"It has stayed with me, it always will," he added.
In April, West Yorkshire Police said a new DNA profile had been identified which it hoped would lead them to identify the killer.
Det Supt Simon Atkinson, from West Yorkshire Police, said: "We are still waiting for that one 'golden nugget' that leads us to Lindsay's killer and hope that the person who knows what happened will come forward to help us solve the case, and bring closure to the Rimer family."
The visitors took the lead after only three minutes as Nicky Ajose chipped the ball into the area and Lauri Dalla Valle fired past keeper Ben Alnwick.
Peterborough equalised in the 66th minute, ending a goal drought of over eight hours, as Conor Washington turned in Marcus Maddison's parried shot.
The Railwaymen are one point above the relegation zone with three games left.
However, Leyton Orient and Notts County, who are a point behind Crewe, both have a game in hand.
Monday 18 June 1984 was the most violent day of the year-long miners' strike.
Thousands of pickets met huge lines of police - who were brought in from all around the country - outside the Orgreave coke works near Rotherham.
The miners wanted to stop lorry loads of coke leaving for the steelworks. They thought that would help them win their strike, and help protect their pits and their jobs. The police were determined to hold them back.
There was violence from both sides.
The debate goes on about who acted first, but police horses were sent to charge the crowd up the field and officers followed to make arrests. Many miners and police officers were injured.
The pictures of miners and police officers fighting shocked TV viewers.
The number of officers was unprecedented. The use of dogs, horses and riot gear in an industrial dispute was almost unheard of. Some of the tactics were learned from the police in Northern Ireland and Hong Kong who had experience dealing with violent disorder.
During the subsequent court case a police manual was uncovered which set out the latest plans to deal with pickets and protests.
Police vans and Range Rovers were fitted with armour so they could withstand the stones being thrown by some in the crowd. The miners suspected the whole operation was being run under government control.
Many believe Orgreave was the first example of what became known as "kettling" - the deliberate containment of protesters by large numbers of police officers. It marked a turning point in policing and in the strike.
It was the moment the police strategy switched from defensive - protecting collieries, coking plants and working miners - to offensive, actively breaking up crowds and making large numbers of arrests. In many mining communities faith in the police was destroyed, a legacy that lasts to this day.
There were questions in court about the reliability of the police evidence. Many of the statements made by officers were virtually identical. At least one had a forged signature.
Eventually the case was thrown out and the arrested miners were cleared.
The miners felt they had been set up.
They believed the intention that day was to beat them and make arrests, a show of force that would convince them they were not going to win.
That left a bitter legacy of hatred and distrust of the police in many mining communities.
The police said they were just doing their job in the face of violence from striking miners. The strike lasted until March 1985.
Hundreds of mines closed afterwards and many miners faced redundancy. Even the Orgreave coke works itself has now gone. Houses and a business park are now gradually taking over the site.
The IPCC's decision will disappoint the campaigners who say they want "justice". But they say this is not the end. They will carry on campaigning for a full public inquiry into the way the police behaved throughout the year-long dispute.
The Sunweb rider, 22, won the sprint ahead of Frenchmen Arnaud Demare and Bryan Coquard on the 175.5km stage from La Tour-de-Salvagny to Macon.
Belgium's Thomas de Gendt retained the overall lead, 27 seconds ahead of Australian Richie Porte.
Britain's Chris Froome of Team Sky, the defending champion, is sixth, still one minute four seconds behind.
Thursday's stage was the last opportunity for the sprinters before the race heads to the mountains for the final three days.
"It feels really good. I'm super happy that everything worked out today," said Bauhaus.
"At the Giro d'Italia, I came close to the podium twice. Now with the support of the team, I take the biggest win of my career so far."
Stage six takes the riders 147.5km from Villars-les-Dombes to La Motte-Servolex.
The Dauphine ends on Sunday and will be the final competitive outing before next month's Tour de France for many of the riders.
Froome is aiming to win the Tour for a fourth time this summer, with each of his previous victories in 2013, 2015 and 2016 preceded by winning the Dauphine.
1. Phil Bauhaus (Ger/Sunweb) 4hrs 4mins 32secs
2. Arnaud Demare (Fra/FDJ) same time
3. Bryan Coquard (Fra/Direct Energie)
4. Adrien Petit (Fra/Direct Energie)
5. Nacer Bouhanni (Fra/Cofidis)
1. Thomas De Gendt (Bel/Lotto) 17hrs 1min 25secs
2. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC) +27secs
3. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +51secs
4. Stef Clement (Ned/LottoNL) +55secs
5. Alberto Contador (Spa/Trek) +1min 2secs
6. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +1min 4secs
14. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +1min 30secs
29. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) +2mins 18secs
A team of researchers speculates that this could have been Homo erectus, which lived in Europe and Asia a million years ago or more.
Meanwhile, the researchers report that they have also obtained the most complete DNA sequence ever from a Neanderthal.
Details of the work appear in Nature journal.
Finds at Denisova cave in Siberia have deepened our understanding of the human groups living in Eurasia before modern humans (Homo sapiens) arrived on the scene.
The Neanderthals were already well known, but DNA analysis of a finger bone and a tooth excavated at the cave revealed evidence of a human type living 40,000 years ago that was distinct both from Neanderthals and modern humans.
When this work was published in 2010, the team behind the discovery dubbed this human species the "Denisovans" after the Siberian site.
The Neanderthal toe bone was found in the same cave in 2010, though in a deeper layer of sediment that is thought to be about 10,000-20,000 years older. The cave also contains modern human artefacts, meaning that at least three groups of people occupied the cave at different times.
A high quality genome sequence was obtained from the small bone using techniques developed by Prof Svante Paabo and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and it reveals some interesting insights about both the Neanderthals and other human types.
For example, the researchers say, the Neanderthal woman was highly inbred and could have been the offspring of half-siblings who shared the same mother.
Other scenarios are possible though, including that her parents were an uncle and niece or aunt and nephew, a grandparent and grandchild, or double first-cousins (the offspring of two siblings who married siblings).
Comparisons of the genetic sequence of multiple human groups - Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans - yielded further insights into their evolutionary relationships.
The results show that Neanderthals and Denisovans were very closely related, and that their common ancestor split off from the ancestors of modern humans about 400,000 years ago. The genome data reveal that Neanderthals and Denisovans diverged about 300,000 years ago.
But it also threw up a surprise result: that the Denisovans interbred with a mysterious fourth group of early humans that were living in Eurasia at the time. Between 2.7 and 5.8% of the Denisovan genome comes from this enigmatic species.
This group split from the others more than a million years ago, and may represent the early human species known as Homo erectus, which fossils show was living in Europe and Asia a million or more years ago.
But Spanish researchers also recognise a species known as Homo antecessor, whose fossils show up about a million years ago at the Atapuerca site, near Burgos in Spain, and this may be another candidate.
Though Denisovans and Neanderthals eventually died out, they left behind bits of their genetic heritage because they occasionally interbred with modern humans. The research team estimates that between 1.5 and 2.1 percent of the genomes of modern non-Africans can be traced to Neanderthals.
Denisovans also left genetic traces in modern humans, though only in some Oceanic and Asian populations.
About 6% of the genomes of Aboriginal Australians, New Guineans and some Pacific Islanders can be traced to Denisovans, studies suggest.
The new analysis finds that the genomes of Han Chinese and other mainland Asian populations, as well as of Native Americans, contain about 0.2% Denisovan genes.
"The paper really shows that the history of humans and hominins during this period was very complicated," said Montgomery Slatkin, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
"There was lots of interbreeding that we know about and probably other interbreeding we haven't yet discovered."
As part of the study, Prof Slatkin's colleague Fernando Racimo was able to identify at least 87 specific genes in modern humans that are significantly different from related genes in Neanderthals and Denisovans.
This, the researchers say, may hold clues to behavioural differences distinguishing us from early human populations that died out.
"There is no gene we can point to and say, 'this accounts for language or some other unique feature of modern humans'," Prof Slatkin explained.
"But from this list of genes, we will learn something about the changes that occurred on the human lineage, though those changes will probably be very subtle."
According to Prof Paabo, the list of genes "is a catalogue of genetic features that sets all modern humans apart from all other organisms, living or extinct".
He added: "I believe that in it hide some of the things that made the enormous expansion of human populations and human culture and technology in the last 100,000 years possible."
The Ulster Bank's monthly Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) tracks indicators such as new orders and employment.
Local firms continued to report rising levels of activity in May, but "a significant slowdown has been in evidence".
It also points to a "marked deterioration in business conditions" for the construction sector.
The bank's chief economist, Richard Ramsey, said a slowdown in the construction market in Great Britain "appears to have hit local firms hard".
Northern Ireland's largest construction firms do the bulk of their work in England and Scotland.
Mr Ramsey said the sector had seen its steepest decline in new orders since November 2012.
He added that the general slowdown across all sectors is likely to continue into the third quarter of the year.
"Much will depend on macro issues, including the performance of the UK economy and the forthcoming referendum on the UK's membership of the EU."
Scotland international Martin, 28, has been on loan at Fulham this season, but in December indicated a desire to return to the Rams.
"I spoke to Chris. The general feeling is he wants to come back," Rowett told BBC Radio Derby.
"He's contracted to the club, he's coming back. He's a player I think the team has missed."
Martin was allowed to leave Derby last summer by then manager Nigel Pearson and has gone on to score 11 goals in 31 appearances for Fulham.
However, after Steve McClaren returned as Rams boss, Martin tried to cut short his loan deal, only for Fulham to refuse - and in a further twist to the saga, he signed a new contract at Pride Park in January.
Speaking on BBC Radio Derby's Sportscene programme, Rowett said: "At this moment in time, Chris Martin is our player and I fully expect him to be here next season."
Rowett, who has taken charge of seven games since succeeding McClaren last month, reassured supporters he had been given free rein by chairman Mel Morris to reshape the team - but warned there would be no lavish spending.
"I've got carte blanche to change whatever I need to change," Rowett said.
"I think we can get one or two in potentially, before we get some out.
"But when you've spent a lot of money on a lot of players and it hasn't quite borne the fruit of promotion then you're going to have to be a little bit more sensible.
"We're going to have to reduce what we're doing a tiny bit but I don't think that's going to affect the type of player that we can bring in."
In a wide-ranging phone-in with supporters, Rowett also spoke of the frustration at being without long-term injury victims Craig Forsyth and George Thorne.
Defender Forsyth ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in August after missing the majority of last season with the same injury, while midfielder Thorne suffered a double leg break last May.
"They are hopefully on the mend and coming back," Rowett, 43, said.
"Craig Forsyth has been involved in training and done really well but George is a little bit further behind.
"They're both really committed to getting back and if we can have both of them fit for the start of next season then straight away the team looks to have a stronger, more powerful and more technical edge to it."
The Dumfries and Galloway authority said this week it was no closer to agreement over the items' future.
A spokeswoman for NMS said it believed it had put forward a "mutually beneficial and positive proposal".
The Scottish Archaeological Finds Allocation Panel (SAFAP) is to meet to discuss the hoard's future on 23 March.
The treasure was discovered by a metal detectorist in Galloway in 2014.
Dumfries and Galloway Council wants to house it in a new art gallery being built in Kirkcudbright.
NMS is also bidding for the artefacts and a spokeswoman said it had been in talks with the local authority since last summer.
"We have proposed a collaborative approach which guarantees the long-term display of a significant and representative portion, and, for specific periods of time, all of the Galloway hoard in Kirkcudbright Art Gallery," she said.
"It is disappointing that the council has not accepted what we believe is a mutually-beneficial and positive proposal."
She said the hoard was of "considerable national and international significance" and they had applied to acquire it "on behalf of the nation".
"As part of our proposals, NMS would take on the significant obligations of ensuring it is conserved, fully researched and appropriately cared for in the long term," she said.
"The hoard would also be shared widely with the public through display in Dumfries and Galloway, across Scotland and the rest of the UK and internationally."
South Scotland MSP Colin Smyth has urged the Scottish government to intervene to allow the hoard to be housed in Kirkcudbright.
"The council are right to be sceptical over any offer from NMS," he said.
"When they closed the Museum of Costume at Shambellie House we were promised all sorts from them in terms of local exhibitions and that hasn't really materialised."
He said it was up to the government to show that NMS was interested in "more than the central belt".
"Having a display of such international importance permanently on display in the region will allow us to market the exhibition properly, which you won't be able to do if it is left up to NMS to decide if and when any part of the hoard is displayed locally," he said.
"Displaying the hoard in Kirkcudbright would also be a huge boost to the local economy by attracting more visitors which you simply wouldn't get if the hoard is on display in Edinburgh, lost among the many other displays".
Gibson won best director for World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge, a sign he has been accepted by the industry a decade after an infamous anti-Semitic rant.
Portman won best actress for Jackie, in which she portrays Jacqueline Kennedy after John F Kennedy's assassination.
The event styles itself as the start of the awards season, but is regarded with scepticism by some industry observers.
Winners were announced in advance with no nominations. Many of the winning films have not yet been released and an anonymous panel chooses the recipients.
But that did not stop an A-list crowd turning up to the ceremony, which was compered by TV host James Corden - although he did joke at one point that they were "fake awards".
The night was also peppered with references to Tuesday's US presidential election.
"Tonight is actually rigged," Corden told the audience at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, referring to Donald Trump's complaints about the election. "Literally, none of this is real."
He also joked that it was "the last awards show before the apocalypse".
Robert De Niro, who won the comedy award for the film The Comedian, compared Mr Trump to the "totally insane" General Jack D Ripper from Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove.
He said: "It's two days until a frightening election. The shadow of politics is hanging over us whether we like it or not.
"It's hard for me to think about anything else so let me lay it out right here. We have the opportunity to prevent a comedy from turning into a tragedy. Vote for Hillary Tuesday."
Tom Hanks won the best actor award for the film Sully, in which he played Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed a passenger plane on New York's Hudson River in 2009.
Nicole Kidman won the supporting actress award for Lion, while Hugh Grant was named best supporting actor for his role in Florence Foster Jenkins.
He was presented with the award by Andie MacDowell, his co-star in the 1994 film Four Weddings And A Funeral.
Addressing her on stage, Grant said: "I'm just depressed at how much better preserved you are than I am after 22 years. Do you use any special creams or anything like that?
"It's amazing. You're still a southern peach and I am, according to Twitter, a scrotum.
"I almost never get a prize and I'm so pleased with this one. It will not be in my loo or used as a doorstep."
British actress Naomie Harris received the breakout actress award for her work in Moonlight, while Lily Collins, the daughter of singer Phil, was given the New Hollywood award for Rules Don't Apply.
Awards season kicks off in earnest when the Golden Globe nominations are announced on 12 December, and will culminate with the Oscars on 27 February.
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You wanted to know how Stoke-on-Trent became a centre for pottery when it was located so far away from clay.
You asked why Shrewsbury was not a city, despite having a cathedral.
And you were curious to find out if Rowley Regis had a royal connection. Here is how we got on with answering your questions.
At the time of the Industrial Revolution, the clay mainly came from the south west, said Angela Lee, manager at the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke-on-Trent.
She says what Stoke-on-Trent did have was previous experience before the Industrial Revolution of making pottery and, crucially, coal seams in the area.
Angela says it takes around 10 times as much coal as clay to make a pot, so it was more cost effective to bring clay to the Potteries.
The simple answer is that having a cathedral doesn't guarantee city status, although the two have been linked in the past.
Blackburn and Guildford both have cathedrals, but are classified as towns, while Bath and Nottingham have city status, but no Anglican cathedral.
The key thing has always been to get Royal approval, and these days that is done through a bidding process - Shrewsbury twice applied for city status early this century, without any success.
Size doesn't matter either. London isn't officially a city, but St Davids in Pembrokeshire, with only 1,600 inhabitants, is one.
It's also worth noting that Lichfield has an Anglican cathedral, but Shrewsbury's cathedral is a Roman Catholic one and while that doesn't matter these days, it might have influenced decision-making in the distant past.
Paul Longhurst asked us: "Why is Rowley Regis so named? I always thought that places containing Regis as part of the name had some royal connection."
Frank Caldwell, Sandwell Council's heritage and museums manager, told us: "It was a royal manor - i.e. land that was held directly by the Crown and as such rented out - rather than given in return for feudal service. So tenure was always contractual rather than feudal.
"The Regis appears first in the records about 1140, to determine it from Rowley Somery, which was held (feudally) by the de Somery family, the Earls of Dudley.
"The Rowley is derived from a pre-Saxon word which suggests Iron Age settlement but no direct evidence has been found.
"It doesn't appear in the Domesday book - but this is the case for most land held directly as Royal estates owned by King Edward the Confessor - post conquest William I took over these royal lands himself."
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Burnley full-back Hendrie has a tight hamstring while Newcastle midfielder Longstaff is suffering with a dead leg.
County's lengthy injury list has grown since their midweek victory over Hamilton Academical.
Midfielders Michael Gardyne and Martin Woods are both struggling to be fit after going off injured against Accies.
Ryan Dow, Andrew Davies, Paul Quinn, Jay McEveley, Chris Burke and Tony Dingwall all remain out, although Ian McShane could make his first appearance since December after recovering from a long-standing groin complaint.
Both Kilmarnock and Ross County ensured their top-flight status after positive post-split results. Killie will leapfrog the Staggies in seventh place with victory, to finish top of the bottom six.
Kilmarnock winger Jordan Jones: "It's been a good year both personally and as a team. We've all done well, especially since (interim manager) Lee McCulloch's been in charge.
"We've come together and the mentality has really changed. We're all looking to get better and better.
"If we could get seventh place by beating Ross County this weekend it would cap off a good season."
Ross County quotes to follow.
Freemont, the owner of Denbigh's former North Wales Hospital, lost a High Court bid in March to overturn the local council's compulsory purchase order of the Victorian asylum.
While Denbighshire council is "one step closer" to owning the building, it does not belong to it yet.
It said it is "fragile and unsafe."
Last week, the Official Charts Company overhauled the way it compiles the Top 40 in an effort to stop A-list artists elbowing newer acts out of the way.
The move was prompted by Ed Sheeran, whose new album ÷ [Divide] proved so popular that it propelled 16 tracks into the top 20 in March.
Appropriately, he seems to be the main victim of the new rules, with several of his songs adversely affected.
Last week, Sheeran had eight songs in the Top 100. This week, he has three.
Four of those former hits dropped out naturally, because their sales declined following a brief, post-Glastonbury peak.
But another song was excluded from the countdown because, under the new system, artists are only allowed a maximum of three songs on the chart at any one time.
Some of Sheeran's other songs tumbled down the charts, apparently the victim of a second rule penalising tracks that are "well past their peak and in steep, prolonged decline".
For those songs, the Official Charts Company is applying a new formula, whereby 300 streams count as one sale (for newer songs, the ratio is 150:1).
The idea is that the longer a song has been in the charts, the faster it will fall out of the top 100.
As a result, Sheeran's former number one Shape Of You, which has been in the Top 40 for 26 weeks, suddenly dropped 12 places after weeks of steady decline.
Similarly Clean Bandit's Symphony, which has been in the chart for 16 weeks, dropped 10 places.
The upshot of these moves, however, is that newer tracks have been bumped into the Top 40; with more new entries this week than any other in 2017.
These include Most Girls, the new single by actress Hailee Steinfeld, which makes its top 40 debut after hovering just outside the main countdown for six weeks.
Finnish singer Alma also saw her single Chasing Highs rocket from 54 to 30, giving the musician her first ever hit in the UK.
Elsewhere, Selena Gomez's Bad Liar jumped nine places to reach a new peak of 25.
At the top end of the charts, the new rules made little difference.
Luis Fonsi's Spanish-language smash Despacito, which features a guest verse from Justin Bieber, remained at number one for an eighth week.
DJ Khaled and Rihanna's Wild Thoughts, meanwhile, held steady at number two.
According to the Official Charts Company, the new rules were designed to "ensure the chart continues to be a showcase for the new hits and talent which are the lifeblood of UK music".
But chart analysts questioned the need for the changes.
"It's a really odd situation," said Fraser McAlpine on the Top 40 podcast Unbreak My Chart. "Part of the fun of the chart has always been that it reflects what people's listening habits are."
"If you've managed to iron out the possibility that everybody in Britain is suddenly really excited by four songs by the same artist, that seems like an odd way of hammering down on enthusiasm."
McAlpine noted that a situation like last April, when six Prince songs entered the Top 100 in the week after his death, would no longer be possible.
"The charts have never been a pure system," added his co-presenter Laura Snapes. "But never before have the rules felt like such a blatant attempt to ensure the relevance of the singles chart at a time when it is less relevant than ever.
"It just seems like desperation and panic".
James Masterton, who has been commentating on the Top 40 for the last 25 years, was more positive on his blog, saying the new rules would "clear out" long-in-the-tooth hits, such as Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop The Feeling which has spent 61 weeks in the Top 100, "and which is now clearly taking up a space that could be better used by a newer hit".
On the album chart, where the system was unchanged, Sheeran remained at number one, closely followed by Calvin Harris's fourth album, Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1.
Rag N Bone Man's Human rose two places to number three, which means it will spend its 21st week in the top five.
The Bee Gees' greatest hits album Timeless jumped to number six, bolstered by Barry Gibb's recent appearance at Glastonbury.
And TLC saw their final, self-titled album enter the chart at number 40 - an impressive placing given that fans who crowd-funded the project two years ago received their copies for free, making them ineligible for the chart.
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Mervyn White, 64, of Orion Way, Grimsby, was sentenced after pleading guilty at York Crown Court in July to his role in the death of Julian Barlow.
Mr Barlow, 49, from Pollington, near Goole, died after being hit by a HGV at a roundabout at Eggborough, North Yorkshire in September 2014.
He was taken by air ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary, where he later died.
Speaking outside the court, acting Sgt Zoe Billings said she thought the sentence was "proportionate".
She said: "I think it shows that the judge has taken into account not only the avoidability of this accident, but also Mr White's insistence that he was innocent and refused to take any responsibility for the collision until literally the day before the trial".
The pair plan to have the exchange, called Gemini, trading later this year, reports the New York Times.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are known to have invested millions in the virtual currency.
Currently the value of each bitcoin is approaching $200 (£133) - far below the $1,200-high it hit in November 2013.
Development work on software underpinning the exchange is being carried out at the Bitcoin start-up founded by the Winklevoss twins. In addition, they have been lobbying New York financial regulators to drum up support for the idea and have signed up banks to handle deposits and transfers.
Work on the exchange began after New York's financial services watchdog last year encouraged virtual currency entrepreneurs operating in the state to apply for formal recognition. This, said the watchdog, was the first step towards full regulation of such exchanges.
The twins won a $65m payout from Mark Zuckerberg after accusing him of stealing their idea for a college-based social network.
Bitcoin is a virtual currency built around a complicated cryptographic protocol and a global network of computers that oversees and verifies which coins have been spent by whom.
Exchanges, through which virtual money can be traded for real cash or to other owners, have been one of the weak points in the whole Bitcoin ecosystem. Some have gone bust leaving traders out of pocket, many have been robbed of all their deposits and now more and more nations are seeking to impose strict controls on how they operate.
The value of each bitcoin has fluctuated widely over the last few years but has been on a steady downward path since late 2013 even though many more online stores and companies accept them in exchange for goods and services.
The 69-year-old is among 12 recipients being recognised for their cultural contributions to the US.
The White House praised the director for "combining the art of storytelling with boundless imagination and cutting-edge techniques".
President Barack Obama will award the medals next Wednesday.
"Mr Lucas has transported us to new worlds and created some of the most beloved and iconic films of all time," the White House added.
Herb Alpert, the co-founder of A&M Records and the Tijuana Brass is among the other recipients.
Honoured for his contribution to music and the fine arts, the Grammy-winner is best-known for his 1979 instrumental hit Rise and worked with the likes of The Carpenters, Sergio Mendes and Janet Jackson.
Playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner, best known for 1993 Al Pacino film Angels in America will also be honoured, as will screenwriter Elaine May, who was Oscar nominated for the films Primary Colors and Heaven Can Wait.
"With groundbreaking wit and a keen understanding of how humour can illuminate our lives, May has evoked untold joy, challenged expectations, and elevated spirits across our nation," her citation said.
Others to receive awards include Lin Arison, co-founder of the National Young Arts Foundation and the New World Symphony; Joan Myers Brown, the founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company; opera singer Renee Fleming; author Ernest Gaines; artist Ellsworth Kelly; landscape architect Laurie Olin and composer Allen Toussaint.
The Washington Performing Arts Society will also be honoured for "bringing world-class performances to our Nation's capital".
The teenager was with a 17-year-old male when she was assaulted on the 12th floor stairwell of the car park in Oswald Street at about 11:00 on 29 July.
Police said a dark-haired woman carrying books entered the landing just before the attack and a man in a dark suit passed by shortly after.
Officers want to speak to both people.
Det Insp Craig Willison, of Police Scotland, said: "We are keen to trace these two witnesses, who potentially could provide us with information which may help with our inquiry.
"I'd like to reassure the public that we are following a positive line of inquiry in this case, and I would like to reiterate that Police Scotland takes any report of any sexual assault very seriously."
What impact do you think the new ratings might have on your line of work?
Films have had ratings for so long, it hasn't necessarily changed film and I don't think it's something that will change my life too much. I think it will be interesting to see what happens.
[In the future] you [might] get it on a brief for a music video - "this can't have any content that's 18 or over", you know. But you're not going to make Olly Murs an 18 video.
Do you think certain directors will set out to make 18 certificate videos?
Music videos used to live on TV in the days of big Michael Jackson videos. It used to be such a big thing to get banned from MTV, you would make a video to get it banned if you wanted [to make] a big thing about it back in the day, and I suspect that will happen again. People will make videos to get banned, like they do already.
Everybody loves breaking the rules. Online things get shared - that's how you get them watched - and being shocking is always going to be part of that. Something has to be funny, shocking, or a couple of other things to make them go viral, so I think people will play to it. But I also think we are still at the beginning of the internet, and I think all content is not necessarily for all ages, so it's a good thing.
Do you think the online age classifications will actually work?
They are obviously a stab at some kind of policing, but ultimately, who can really control what kids are watching in their bedrooms? You can't really. All I know is the biggest win of my life when I was 13 was getting into an 18 film. It makes things hotter property in a way - who's seen it, who hasn't seen it.
It's unavoidable, but then what do you say? Don't police anything? Everyone's trying to work out how to do it and I don't think anyone's got the solution yet.
Do you ever discuss whether a video is too violent or too sexual - or whether to make it more risque to attract attention?
I don't think I've ever had a conversation like that. Everyone has an instinctive level of what's right and what's not. If you are making something shocking it has to be part of what your audience is and what they want. An amazing video was The Shoes video with Jake Gyllenhaal in it [2012's Time to Dance]. That was really violent but that was right for that band and their audience.
Lily Allen's video for Hard Out Here attracted a lot of attention. How much discussion did you have over what would and wouldn't be appropriate?
We did talk about it a bit, but it was about being a pastiche of hip-hop videos, so if it would have sat in a hip-hop video, it was right for us. It was a very different situation. We deliberately made that video to provoke a conversation and it was aping a lot of videos. The idea was to get people to look at all these images they see and go, "why the hell do I just stare at that numbly without even thinking 'it's probably not that cool'?" Lily is the perfect person to do that and that's what she'd written the song about.
The one I did for Lily for Our Time was banned by MTV because of violence and vomiting and a couple of other things. That got that video lots of attention.
What impact do you think it will have on an artist's image or reputation if they have 18 certificate video?
I think someone like Rihanna, that video she just did [BBHMM], I don't think the fact it was branded an 18 would change much. It's actually a really nice and easy shortcut for some people to be branded shocking and I think people like that because shocking stuff sells and goes viral and that's what people want from their music videos.
Christopher Sweeney was speaking to BBC News entertainment reporter Sarah-Jane Griffiths.
I'm still coughing my way around Roland Garros as I get over the effects of my latest bout of sickness - the more I talk, the more I want to cough - but I felt fine during my match on Tuesday and happy to get through to the second round.
I haven't played as many matches, or had as many wins, as I would like in the build-up to the French Open but Grand Slams are long events and hopefully I can play my way into form.
The Slams are what's driving me more than the number one ranking. If you win these events, you give yourself a chance of staying at the top of the rankings. If you don't, you don't deserve to be up there.
Last year I performed well in the Slams with finals in Australia and France, a win at Wimbledon and the quarter-finals at the US Open.
This year the start hasn't been so good, but I can turn things around over the next few weeks both here in Paris and at Wimbledon.
I've been pretty lucky over the past couple of years but shingles, an elbow injury and illness have certainly set me back this year.
When I had the shingles I could still do a bit of training, I just couldn't do anything that was of high intensity at all.
I was able to hit balls, so stay in a bit of rhythm in terms of my timing, but I couldn't do any physical work like interval training - just staying active and avoiding anything too strenuous to make sure my heart rate didn't get up too high.
With the elbow, I could do everything except serve. I could at least train and stay in decent shape, I just couldn't play tournaments or matches or points.
And obviously, that's what we do. As much as you practise and work on stuff, playing points is the most important thing and I couldn't do that.
So it was really positive that I came through four sets on Tuesday and the elbow felt fine. That was probably the most I'd served since the injury, and in fairly slow, heavy conditions, and it feels pretty good.
I feel totally over the illness I had a week ago and although the cough's a bit irritating, I'm certainly not sick any more.
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There were points towards the end of last year when I wasn't number one, but I felt like I was the best player in the world. This year I've been number one and I certainly haven't been the best player out there.
It was a great experience to get there for the first time here in Paris last November, and obviously I've enjoyed keeping hold of it for the past six or seven months.
It's not easy to stay at the top and the past three or four months have not really been good enough to merit that ranking, but it's calculated over the past 12 months, and over that time I've been the best.
So far this year I obviously haven't, and I need to try to turn that around.
The next step will be my second-round match against Martin Klizan - a big hitter with a pretty unorthodox style. He played five sets on Tuesday so hopefully I can make it tough for him again.
The end of his first match was also pretty unorthodox as there was no handshake with Laurent Lokoli. I saw the video, although I didn't see what happened in the match, but the two of them obviously weren't happy with each other.
I'm pretty sure that in every match I've played professionally, there's always been a handshake at the end of it.
Hopefully there will be another one in a couple of days, and I'm the one smiling.
Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery
About 496kg (1,093lb) of cannabis resin was recovered by officers searching the garage in the Springburn area on Friday morning.
The arrested men, aged 41 and 28, have been charged with drug offences.
Det Ch Insp Kenny Gray said it was a "significant seizure of controlled drugs destined for our streets".
The men play Poland in their semi-final on Friday while the quad team meet the United States on Saturday.
Both won all three of their round-robin ties in the tournament this week.
"There's a good atmosphere in the camp," said men's team player Alfie Hewett. "We are focused."
Rio 2016 men's singles silver medallist Hewett is in the men's team alongside Dermot Bailey and the man who beat him to the gold medal last summer, Gordon Reid.
Each game features two singles matches and a doubles match and the trio have so far won 3-0 against China, Italy and Austria at the event in Sardinia.
The quad team features Rio quad singles silver medallist Andy Lapthorne, Antony Cotterill and James Shaw, who have so far enjoyed a 3-0 victory over Korea and 2-1 wins over Canada and Japan.
"I'm really pleased with how the week has gone so far and I'm looking forward to another big match on Saturday," said Lapthorne.
On Friday, Donald Trump said the US military was "locked and loaded" to deal with North Korea,
By mid afternoon, the FTSE 100 was down 71.50 points, or 1%, to 7,318.44, having dropped 1.4% on Thursday.
Other markets in Europe also fell, with Germany's Dax index down 0.1% and France's Cac 40 dropping 1.1%.
US markets held steady in early trade on Friday, with the Dow Jones edging up 0.1%.
On the London stock market, mining shares saw the biggest falls as many metal prices were hit by the geopolitical concerns. Shares in Glencore, Rio Tinto and Anglo American were all down by more than 3%.
"The FTSE has carried on where it left off on Thursday, with yet another day of risk-off sentiment seeing investors shift out of equities," said Joshua Mahony, market analyst at IG.
"The UK headline index has crashed to the lowest level since late June, in a week which has turned from mundane to insane.
"For a week that has been largely devoid of major economic releases, Donald Trump's confrontational stance with North Korea has raised volatility across the board."
Gold - generally regarded as a safer asset in times of uncertainty - hit its highest price for more than two months on Friday, touching $1,288.97 an ounce at one point.
On the currency markets, the pound was unchanged against the dollar at $1.2972 and down 0.3% against the euro at 1.0992 euros.
The visitors took the lead eight minutes into the second half when Brad Potts' 20-yard shot was deflected past goalkeeper Tommy Lee.
Four minutes later the Spireites were level as substitute Jay O'Shea found the top corner from 25 yards.
Blackpool captain David Ferguson was sent off late on, picking up a second yellow for pulling back Gboly Ariyibi.
The Seasiders slipped back into the relegation zone following Shrewsbury's victory, while Chesterfield are only three points above the drop zone.
As I am in Delhi to report on the UK Prime Ministers trade mission to India, I assumed it was an announcement in some way connected to the UK and India's future trade relationship.
It was much much bigger than that. The Indian PM announced the withdrawal of 500 (£6.50) and 1,000 (£13) notes from circulation from midnight tonight. Wow.
The waiters at the restaurant where i was enjoying a Mutton Rogan Josh were open mouthed in astonishment - but totally supportive.
We have too much "black money" in the economy - one told me. According to the chef who emerged from the kitchen to watch the news Mr Modi is doing the right thing - cracking down on an unmanageable, untaxable illegal economy.
"Lots of people who come in here pay in bundles of cash that is unknown to the government. It is good what Mr Modi is doing."
Not a single news agency seemed to know this was coming. The news anchor I am watching as we speak produced a wad of 500s from his own pocket on air wondering whether these were now just pieces of paper - and also wondering if the bars of Delhi would see a sudden surge of business.
It has caught the country completely off guard. There will also be limits on cash point withdrawals over the next couple of weeks.
Financial officials like the economic affairs secretary are taking to the airwaves right now to assure that the authorities are there to help cushion the shock this will cause to a cash based economy.
The news channels are trying hard to interpret the news for viewers who are worried that they will not be able to get a cab, buy milk, or even have their life savings in cash. It feels they are scrambling right now.
Mr Modi has set his stall out as a modernising, anti-corruption crusader. Scrapping notes that are very, very common is his biggest offensive yet. Most transactions in daily life are in cash and 45% of those are in notes in denominations of 500 rupees and over.
There is a cashpoint downstairs and I need a cab in the morning - do I take out enough for my fare - the waiters are divided on whether they will be usable, the news channels don't appear to know and big queues are forming at the petrol station I can see from my window.
There are global financial shocks which ripple through the world economy for years. This is much more immediate and unexpected. Right now I'm not sure how I'm going to get back to the airport.
Authorities in California confirmed that seven others remain in hospital.
The collapse happened during a 21st birthday party shortly before 01:00 local time (08:00 GMT) on Tuesday in the city of Berkeley.
The students are believed to have been living temporarily in the US as part of a work exchange programme.
Around 700 Irish students are currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, said Philip Grant, the Consul General of Ireland to the Western United States.
"We're still in an emergency response mode," he said. "It's a formative experience, and to have this happen ... has left us all frozen in shock and disbelief".
Berkeley City Mayor Tom Bates described the incident as a "shocking set of events".
"We're all sort of awestruck by the incredible tragedy," he said.
The victims
Police began receiving emergency calls about the incident around 00:41 local time. The police chief said it took patrolmen about two minutes to arrive on the scene.
The cause of the collapse is still under investigation, but the city's police chief said there was no indication of any criminal activity at this point.
Photos taken at the scene appear to show a 5ft x 10ft (1.5m x 3m) balcony on the fourth floor of the building fallen on to the balcony on the level below.
Two Irish students who were asleep in the building when the incident occurred described a loud sound when the balcony fell.
"I just heard a bang and a lot of shouting," said Dan Sullivan.
Outside the apartment where the balcony collapsed, flowers and photos and wreaths are stacked, and shocked Berkeley residents have been coming to pay their respects.
The building is cordoned off while forensic workers investigate and scrub the street below the collapsed balcony.
One woman who used to live in the building told the BBC she thought there should be a criminal investigation of the city's Planning Commission.
But the police chief says so far there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
Another student, Mark Neville, said: "I walked out and I saw rubble on the street and a bunch of Irish students crying."
Enda Kenny, the Irish Prime Minister, said that police had told him there were 13 people on the balcony when it collapsed.
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan said that four of the victims died at the scene and another died in hospital.
The Alameda County coroner's office later told the BBC a sixth person had died in hospital.
The foreign minister has said that the families of all of those who died have been contacted.
University College Dublin President Andrew Deeks said late Tuesday that the accident involved students from the university and their friends.
"We cannot comprehend the desperate shock and grief they are feeling and we are heartbroken at their suffering and loss," he said. "We know the local Irish community has been offering assistance and solidarity and we thank them for this."
Berkeley Police spokesman Byron White said first responders described the scene as "quite disturbing".
Many of those hurt have life-threatening injuries, said Jennifer Coats, a Berkeley Police Department spokeswoman.
Police received a complaint about loud noise at the flat about an hour before the balcony collapsed, but did not go to the building to investigate.
The city's police chief said that the noise complaint was treated as a low priority, and noted that police officers were responding to several other emergency calls at the time - including one for shots fired in another part of town.
Irish President Michael Higgins said that he had "heard with the greatest sadness of the terrible loss of life of young Irish people and the critical injury of others in Berkeley, California today".
He said his heart goes out to the families and their loved ones.
The Irish consul general in San Francisco is helping those affected and there is an Irish helpline (+353 1 418 0200).
The apartment building was constructed in 2006, according to the Los Angeles Times.
A Berkeley city official said that building inspectors had visited the building on Tuesday. Three remaining balconies on the building have been closed.
In 2013, a similar accident killed 13 people and injured at least 50 others in Chicago, when a deck holding revellers collapsed.
In that incident, more than 60 people were on the building's porches, according to CBS Chicago.
Max Schrems alleges that the way the social network monitors its members' activity on and off the site puts it in breach of EU laws.
As part of the claim, he also alleges that the company co-operated with Prism, a US surveillance scheme.
Facebook has previously denied knowing about Prism before it was mentioned in leaked US government documents.
The company has, however, acknowledged complying with national security requests from US government agencies.
Facebook has not commented on the wider case being brought against it.
The BBC understands it does not plan to respond until it has been served the relevant papers.
Mr Schrems asked Facebook users based outside the US and Canada who wished to take part in the case to sign up via an app.
The case is targeted against the company's Irish subsidiary, which is responsible for all accounts belonging to users outside of North America. It has been filed with the Commercial Court for Vienna, the 26 year old's home city.
Among the allegations are that Facebook broke EU privacy laws by introducing:
Mr Schrems is demanding 500 euros ($667, £396) in damages for each of the first 25,000 people who signed up to the case.
While the Austrian legal system does not make provision for US-style class actions, Mr Schrems is working round this by getting the other participants to transfer their financial claims to him, which is permitted.
If he wins he intends to share the money after delivering a 20% cut to a German firm that is funding the case.
While the promised payout might have helped him attract support, Mr Schrems says the money is a side-issue.
Instead, he explains, the dispute with Facebook is intended to be a "model case" that sets a precedent addressing the wider problem of tech firm developing products that comply with US laws, but are not adapted for other countries' rules.
"It is not an epic fight with Facebook but more of a general question of where we are going and if we respect our fundamental rights in Europe," he told the BBC.
"Right now I have the feeling that we love to point the finger at the US in Europe, and say they are not respecting our privacy. But the reality is that we don't really do anything about it - we complain, then go home and drink beer."
This is not the first action Mr Schrems has taken against the social network.
In 2011 he forced the firm to reveal all the information it was holding on him.
When he discovered the 1,222 pages of information included details he thought he had deleted or had not consented to being shared, he lodged a complaint with the Irish data protection commissioner.
The case has since been referred to the European Court of Justice, but has already resulted in the firm restricting its use of facial recognition software and making it easier for members to find out more about the data held on them.
One of the UK's leading data protection lawyers, who is not involved in the case, suggested the latest action could deliver a landmark ruling.
"The current climate of data protection enforcement in the EU in the courts and by the data protection regulators, coupled with an increasing awareness by consumers of their rights means that this case could well run its course in the Court in Vienna and achieve a result for Max Schrems and Facebook users," said Robert Bond, a partner at the law firm Speechly Bircham.
"Of course it remains to be seen whether or not Facebook will try to settle as reputational damage may be worse than a financial penalty."
Mr Schrems has limited the number of people involved in the case to 25,000 because each participant's submissions must be vetted.
However, he says other Facebook users wishing to take part can still register their interest in case he later decides to expand the legal action.
The pause was a "precautionary measure", the government said, without giving details.
Moscow's warning came after the US shot down a Syrian military plane.
Russia also said it was halting communications with the US aimed at preventing such incidents.
Australia has deployed about 780 military personnel as part of the US-led coalition fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in both Iraq and Syria.
The halt in operations comes as the coalition and the fighters it is supporting on the ground attempt to oust IS militants from the city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the "caliphate" they proclaimed in 2014.
"Australian Defence Force protection is regularly reviewed in response to a range of potential threats," the defence department said in a statement.
"ADF personnel are closely monitoring the air situation in Syria and a decision on the resumption of ADF air operations in Syria will be made in due course."
Australia joined the US-led coalition in Syria in September 2015, but did not carry out any operations in the country between March and May this year, according to the defence department.
Its activities in Iraq, where it carried out 80 operations in May alone, will continue.
Australia's decision to suspend air operations over Syria in the wake of Russia's warning that it might target coalition aircraft is an indication of the concern among Washington's allies, but is unlikely to have a significant impact upon the air campaign.
Australia has a small but highly capable contingent of six F/A-18 strike aircraft; a tanker; and an E-7A Wedgetail early warning aircraft, all based at Al Minhad in the United Arab Emirates. Most of the Australian strikes have been in Iraq, though its aircraft do also operate over Syria.
Australian commanders will reassess the situation in due course. The more fundamental question is what the Russian threat actually amounts to. Is it just rhetoric or does Moscow want to deny certain areas of Syrian airspace to US-led coalition aircraft?
With the assault on the de facto IS capital Raqqa just getting under way, the last thing the Pentagon needs is a stand-off with Moscow.
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Russia warned on Monday that it would track coalition aircraft with missile systems and military aircraft, but it stopped short of openly saying it would shoot them down.
The move came after the US shot down a Syrian Su-22 which, the Pentagon said, had bombed US-backed fighters battling IS near the town of Tabqa in Raqqa province.
It was believed to be the first air-to-air kill of a manned aircraft by a US military jet since the Kosovo campaign in 1999.
But both Russia and Syria said the warplane was on a mission against IS about 40km (25 miles) south-west of Raqqa when it came under fire.
The Syrian army said the "flagrant attack" would have "dangerous repercussions".
Russia also denied the US had used a communications channel before the Su-22 fighter bomber was shot down, as claimed by the US military.
In response, it said was ending a memorandum of co-operation with the coalition aimed at preventing air incidents and guaranteeing flight safety.
The Rio 400m freestyle silver medallist, 25, finished in eight minutes, 19.7 seconds.
Compatriots James Guy, 20, and Ben Proud, 21, qualified for semi-finals in the men's 100m butterfly and 50m freestyle respectively.
Proud and Guy will compete in the semi-finals in the early hours of Friday - the action starts from 02:03 BST.
American Katie Ledecky set an Olympic record of eight minutes, 12.86 seconds in her women's 800m freestyle heat to beat the record set by Briton Rebecca Adlington at Beijing 2008.
Ledecky, 19, is the defending Olympic champion and is looking to add to her four medals already won in Brazil.
A silver medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay was followed up by gold medals in the women's 200m and 400m freestyle, as well as the 4x200m relay.
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The 26-year-old centre, who also plays as a winger, has scored 13 tries in 44 appearances for the NRL side.
Purtell started his career with Canberra Raiders where he ran in 30 tries in 64 matches.
"I'm at a point where I'm looking for a new challenge and a new experience and this is the biggest challenge I could've taken on," he said.
"I will be 27 by the start of next season and entering the most important years of my career."
We needed longevity in our signings so it's a good deal for both sides
Bulls head coach Mick Potter added: "Adrian has played virtually every game in first grade in the past two years, in every position from lock to the wing.
"He's a big guy with speed and he'll be an asset to our team next season. I'm pleased to get him signed up for a few years.
"He wanted the security and we needed longevity in our signings so it's a good deal for both sides."
The Kenyan port of Mombasa and Tanzania's Dar es Salaam port are the traditional competitors but the Kenyan government is now planning a huge new port at Lamu, while Tanzania is developing Bagamoyo.
Both ports will be larger than any other port in sub-Saharan Africa if completed as planned. They will also be at the centre of much bigger developments, with industrial zones being laid out and intensive farming being proposed.
The Tanzanian authorities hope Bagamoyo will handle 20 million containers a year, that is 25 times larger than the port at Dar es Salaam. Kenya's planned Lamu port is expected to be just as big.
However, these are the proposed, long term figures, which will be achieved over decades rather than years. Construction will take place in phases as and when required.
The scale of the initial phases has not been determined but will be much more modest.
One hurdle that is delaying the development of both projects is the question of compensation. In the case of Bagamoyo, 2,000 people have lost their homes or farmland to the project and associated industrial zone.
The Tanzanian government says that it will pay a total of $20.9m (£14.4m). But the figure would be much higher if there was a plan to enlarge the Dar es Salaam port as it is already surrounded by urban development and has limited room for expansion.
Apart from serving their own domestic markets, the Tanzanian and Kenyan ports will also be competing for a wider prize, the business from the landlocked countries of East Africa.
They could handle containers travelling to and from Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Ethiopia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and parts of Zambia.
Lamu and Bagamoyo have been little used as ports for about a century but at one point they were rivals in East Africa's slave trade.
Indeed, the name Bagamoyo derives from a Swahili phrase meaning lay down your heart, or give up hope, suggesting that slaves taken there had no hope of escape.
But with the revamped ports they could become better known for helping develop the region rather than bleeding it dry of its human resources.
Construction work on Bagamoyo is to begin before the end of this year, once financing is put in place by China Merchant Holding International and the State General Reserve Fund, which is an Omani sovereign wealth fund.
Preliminary work has already begun on Lamu, although funding is still being finalised.
New life is also being injected into the Tanzanian port of Tanga. The government managed to persuade Uganda to route its planned oil export line through Tanzania to Tanga, rather than through Lamu.
In addition, a new railway could run parallel to the pipeline connecting with ferry services on Lake Victoria.
Tanzania won the fight over the pipeline because it was offering the cheaper option and, probably, also because any line to Lamu was seen as being vulnerable to attack from the Somalia-based Islamist al-Shabab group.
A big difference between the two countries approaches is the fact that Kenya has stuck with state ownership.
The Kenya Ports Authority continues to own and manage most of Mombasa, while Dar es Salaam container terminal is operated by Tanzania International Container Terminal Services, an offshoot of Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa.
Similarly, Bagamoyo will be operated by China Merchant Holdings, a sign of how the country has moved away from the principles of African socialism, as espoused by the country's founding father Julius Nyerere.
Lamu is being developed by the China Communications Construction Company but the Kenya Ports Authority will still be in control.
The two countries are also looking at boosting their rail infrastructure.
Mombasa and Dar es Salaam are connected to the rest of the region via long distance railways. A colonial-era line runs from Mombasa to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and on to the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
It was nicknamed the Lunatic Express because of the problems involved in building it across difficult terrain filled with hostile wildlife. A new, more modern railway is now under construction from Mombasa to Nairobi with Chinese funding.
For its part, Dar es Salaam is connected to Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika, also by colonial-period railways.
In addition, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway was built in the 1970s by the Chinese government to help Zambia export its copper through Dar es Salaam. This allowed it to bypass the ports of apartheid South Africa or colonial-era Mozambique.
New railways from Lamu to South Sudan and Ethiopia are planned, while funding is currently being sought for a new line from Rwanda and Burundi to either Dar es Salaam or Bagamoyo.
Bagamoyo lies just 75km (47 miles) north of Dar es Salaam, so it should be relatively easy to connect the new port to the country's main rail lines.
Tanzania appears to be winning projects in the face of Kenyan competition because of lower costs and because, as with the Uganda oil pipeline, any railway or pipeline out of Lamu could be vulnerable to attack by Somali militants.
But the competition is not over and the rivalry could serve to boost the business prospects for the whole region.
The 25-year-old, who scored 19 goals for the Prenton Park outfit last year, got Rovers off to a dream start after nine minutes, firing past Alan Julian from Connor Jennings' pinpoint cross.
Blair Turgott missed a gilt-edged chance to equalise for the hosts from six yards after 40 minutes. Tobi Sho-Silva seemingly did all the hard work, ghosting past Tranmere's backline, but the West Ham youth product hit his effort wide.
Four minutes later Norwood made it 2-0, prodding home Andy Cook's flick from Liam Ridehalgh's cross and that was enough for the Merseysiders to make their 500-mile round trip a fruitful one.
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Match ends, Bromley 0, Tranmere Rovers 2.
Second Half ends, Bromley 0, Tranmere Rovers 2.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jake Kirby replaces James Norwood.
Corner, Tranmere Rovers.
Substitution, Bromley. Rob Swaine replaces Joe Howe.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Adam Mekki replaces Andy Cook.
Substitution, Bromley. George Porter replaces Reece Prestedge.
Connor Jennings (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Bromley.
Michael Ihiekwe (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Bromley. Connor Dymond replaces Max Porter.
Corner, Bromley.
Corner, Tranmere Rovers.
Corner, Bromley.
Corner, Bromley.
Corner, Bromley.
Second Half begins Bromley 0, Tranmere Rovers 2.
First Half ends, Bromley 0, Tranmere Rovers 2.
Goal! Bromley 0, Tranmere Rovers 2. James Norwood (Tranmere Rovers).
Corner, Bromley.
Dave Martin (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Reece Prestedge (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Bromley.
Corner, Bromley.
Corner, Tranmere Rovers.
Goal! Bromley 0, Tranmere Rovers 1. James Norwood (Tranmere Rovers).
Corner, Tranmere Rovers.
Corner, Bromley.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The 26-year-old forward, who arrived at the Dons on Thursday for a club record transfer fee from Bristol City, cancelled out the Lions' early two-goal advantage, with two well-taken goals and left the field as a second-half substitute to a standing ovation.
But it was Neil Harris's side that made their early first-half pressure pay, as they struck twice in quick succession to go two in front - first through Tony Craig on 24 minutes, before David Worrall smashed the visitors into what appeared to be a comfortable lead three minutes later.
But Agard's first reply came just a minute later, as the Lions defence failed to clear their lines and the Dons forward's left-footed strike from the edge of the box found the bottom corner.
And the home fans did not have long to wait to cheer Agard's second, which was a well-taken headed lob over Millwall goalkeeper Jordan Archer in a one-on-one just past the half hour.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, MK Dons 2, Millwall 2.
Second Half ends, MK Dons 2, Millwall 2.
Attempt saved. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Brandon Thomas-Asante (MK Dons) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Joe Walsh.
Substitution, MK Dons. Brandon Thomas-Asante replaces Kieran Agard.
Ben Thompson (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ed Upson (MK Dons).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by George Baldock.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Daniel Powell.
Substitution, Millwall. Fred Onyedinma replaces David Worrall.
Substitution, Millwall. Joe Martin replaces Shane Ferguson because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Darren Potter (MK Dons) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Steve Morison (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Ed Upson (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Steve Morison (Millwall) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Kieran Agard (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Byron Webster (Millwall).
Byron Webster (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Byron Webster.
Substitution, MK Dons. Dean Bowditch replaces George C Williams.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by David Martin.
Attempt saved. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Darren Potter (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by George Baldock.
Attempt missed. Tony Craig (Millwall) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Ed Upson.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Joe Walsh.
Attempt missed. Steve Morison (Millwall) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. George C Williams (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Second Half begins MK Dons 2, Millwall 2.
First Half ends, MK Dons 2, Millwall 2.
Daniel Powell (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun Williams (Millwall).
Attempt saved. George C Williams (MK Dons) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Daniel Powell (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mahlon Romeo (Millwall).
Mahlon Romeo (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
The retailer said the issue related to the use of pay averaging, which spreads workers' pay evenly over the year.
It said employees were paid the correct amount over the course of the year.
However, those on hourly rates had sometimes seen pay dip below the minimum wage when they worked extra hours, technically breaking the rules.
It means that thousands of John Lewis staff who worked on hourly rates could be due a top-up.
As a result John Lewis has revised its annual profit for 2016-17 by £36m to £452.2m.
John Lewis, which is owned by its workers who are known as partners, said it had used pay averaging since 2006 with the consent of staff.
This was to help them with their financial planning.
But in its latest annual report the retailer said it now realised that it had broken the "strict timing requirements" set out under the National Minimum Wage Regulations.
Chairman Sir Charlie Mayfield said: "Although partners will, over the course of a year, usually have received the correct pay, in some months where greater than average hours are worked they will have been paid less than the hourly rate stipulated in the NMW Regulations."
He added: "We are now required to make good those amounts. This is very disappointing, not least because the vast majority of payments ... relate to technical underpayments rather than actual underpayments."
All staff paid by the hour over the past six years could be due compensation, although the firm said the total amount owed was as yet unknown.
It said it had begun contacting those affected and was working with HM Revenue and Customs to ensure its pay practices were within the rules.
The error comes three years after John Lewis was forced to pay employees an extra £40m when it realised it had been miscalculating holiday pay for seven years.
Other firms to have fallen foul of pay rules include Tesco, which said in March said it was compensating 140,000 current and former staff after a payroll error.
Some of its staff were paid less than the National Living Wage after contributing part of their salary to pensions, childcare and cycle to work schemes.
Tesco promised most workers up to £40 each in compensation, although said some could get much more.
In February, Debenhams and Argos also revealed staff were paid less than the living wage due to payroll mistakes.
Butcher's side are without a win in League Two following a 3-2 defeat by leaders Leyton Orient at Rodney Parade.
And with no midweek game, Butcher says they can work on cutting out mistakes.
"The week will give everyone the chance to refocus. And it'll be nice to have a week where we don't have to travel on a Tuesday and play a game," he said.
"After Plymouth [on Saturday] we've got three homes games on the spin. The players love playing at Rodney Parade and the fans like what they see and we want to get the results for them as much as for us."
Match report: Newport County 2-3 Leyton Orient
Newport made an awful start on Saturday, conceding two goals in the opening seven minutes.
They clawed their way back with two goals in as many minutes from Scott Boden and captain Mark Byrne moments before the break.
But Dean Cox scored the winner against the run of play on 59 minutes for Orient to leave Newport still without a win in League Two this season.
"These boys are growing together very well," added Butcher, who took over this summer.
"We're looking at all sorts of ways of stopping goals going in and looking at ways of scoring goals as well.
"It seems we just have to be more ruthless in both penalty areas, it's as simple as that.
"It's another harsh lesson for us to take but I'm determined and the player are determined to get the win.
"Once we get this monkey off our back by getting the first win, who knows what can happen after that?"
Hideto Kijima had boarded with the help of friends on his outbound flight.
But on the return leg from the island of Amami, airline employees told him that for safety reasons, he would not be allowed to board if he could not climb the stairs without assistance.
In response, Mr Kijima left his wheelchair and pulled himself up the stairs with his arms.
Mr Kijima is an experienced traveller, and head of the Japan Accessible Tourist Center, a non-profit organisation which catalogues accessibility issues for tourists to Japan.
He says he has been to more than 200 airports in 158 countries since he was paralysed from the waist down in a school rugby accident in 1990.
In a blog post, he said that wherever facilities were not available for mobility disabled passengers, he has relied on the help of friends or staff members in whatever way possible.
He said that although travel had occasionally been difficult, he had never been told he could not board a plane.
He told Japan's Nippon TV he was "surprised" by the strict rule. "I wondered if the airport employees didn't think that was wrong," he said.
Vanilla Air, a budget airline subsidiary of All Nippon Airways, has apologised for the incident and announced new measures to aid wheelchair users at the airport.
The company's website now says that while it cannot provide a boarding bridge at Amami airport, it will now provide a special chair for the purpose.
"We're sorry that we caused him that hardship," a company spokesman told AFP news agency.
There have been several other incidents this year involving the treatment of passengers by airlines.
In April, a Vietnamese-American doctor was dragged from a United Airlines flight in Chicago by law enforcement officials after he refused to give up his seat voluntarily.
A video of the incident posted online caused a massive backlash against the airline, forcing it to change its policies and pay a settlement to the injured doctor.
Robert Russell, 46, committed much of the sexual abuse while his victims were asleep.
Prosecutor Kath Harper described his conduct as "sexually deviant."
At the High Court in Glasgow, Russell was found guilty of offences which took place in Livingston between 2003 and 2016.
He raped one girl when she was aged between 12 and 14.
The court heard Russell threatened to kill the schoolgirl to stop her telling anyone what had happened to her. He also said that no-one would believe her.
Eventually the girl told school friends what had happened to her, and also opened up to a friend on Facebook.
However, when asked by police in 2011 and 2013 she denied she had been raped.
Ms Harper said: "She was scared because he had threatened to kill her if she told. Imagine the effect that might have on a child.
"It was only in 2016 when, out of the blue, the police came to her that she finally divulged the full extent of what happened."
Judge Lord Clark told Russell: "By the verdict of the jury you have been convicted of 11 charges which includes the repeated rape of a young girl and sexual abuse of her and three others."
Russell was placed on the sex offenders register and will be sentenced next month.
Throughout his trial Russell denied the charges against him and claimed his victims were lying.
It all began on Saturday with a column Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, in which she recounted an impassioned request Mr Biden had received several months ago from his 46-year-old son, Beau Biden, who was dying of brain cancer.
"Beau was losing his nouns and the right side of his face was partially paralysed," she writes. "But he had a mission: He tried to make his father promise to run, arguing that the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with Biden values."
Dowd has the reputation among some on the left of being a bit of a Clinton family antagonist - and armchair psychologist - so her attempt to ramp up speculation of Democratic Party looking for alternatives to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shouldn't come as too a much of a surprise. She also offered Howard Schultz, head of coffee shop empire Starbucks, as another possible Democratic contender.
A follow-up article by Times reporter Amy Chozick, however, added further substance to the reports that Mr Biden's people "through hushed phone calls and quiet lunches" are putting out feelers to possible campaign staffers and supporters.
ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega says one Biden adviser told her the vice-president is "90% in".
In addition, Josh Alcorn - a former senior adviser to Beau Biden - is joining Run Biden Run, an organisation that could lay the groundwork for a presidential campaign.
Official word from the Biden camp is that nothing has been decided yet - but an announcement one way or the other will likely come in early September.
According to reports, the vice-president has taken note of the controversies over Mrs Clinton's private email server while secretary of state and questions about donations to the Clinton Foundation - and the toll these stories have had on her public approval ratings.
One recent survey shows the vice-president performing better than Mrs Clinton in head-to-head matchups against possible Republican candidates.
Historically, the sitting or recently former vice-president has been at the head of the pack for his party's nomination - think Al Gore, George HW Bush, Walter Mondale or Hubert Humphrey. George W Bush's second-in-command, Dick Cheney, was the only recent notable exception.
It seemed for a while that Mr Biden would follow Mr Cheney's lead - he is, after all, 72 years old and would be the oldest person ever elected president if he were to win (Ronald Reagan upon his re-election in 1984 was a few months younger than Mr Biden would be).
This would mark the third time Mr Biden has sought the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1988 he was an early contender before withdrawing from the race following controversy surrounding his academic record and evidence that he plagiarised the campaign speeches of UK Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock.
Mr Biden ran again in 2008, but his candidacy was overshadowed by the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton showdown. His foreign policy knowledge - honed from decades in the US Senate - made enough of an impression on Mr Obama, however, that he was tapped to be the then-Illinois senator's running mate - a position for which he has by all accounts performed loyally, albeit with an occasional ill-thought phrase or photo.
If the vice-president chooses to enter the race, he will undoubtedly have an uphill climb against Mrs Clinton. She's spent nearly a year assembling her campaign team, raising money and lining up support within the Democratic Party, while the vice-president has done little in the way of preparation.
What he does have, however, is high name recognition in the party and a great deal of goodwill among the Democratic rank and file, particularly since his son's death two months ago. Mr Biden has a reputation as a skilled debate and capable campaigner who can connect with working voters. He gave the most-watched speech at either of the 2012 party conventions - ahead of former President Bill Clinton, Republican nominee Mitt Romney and even Mr Obama.
Mr Biden's entry would undoubtedly shake up the race. If he eats into Mrs Clinton's establishment support, for instance, it could be a boon for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' insurgent candidacy. He's already reduced Mrs Clinton's lead to near single digits in New Hampshire, and if his true-believer base stick with him, it isn't too difficult to imagine a scenario where he pulls out a win there.
So far the Clinton campaign has responded to the Biden talk with a soft touch.
"We are not going to have any comment on Biden stories except I love the guy!" Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton's communications director, told Bloomberg News.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Clinton campaign just announced it has a forthcoming $2 million (£1.28 million) television advertising buy in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, featuring two spots touting their candidate's personal story.
It's the largest on-air show of strength from a candidate so far in the race - and an example of just what Mr Biden could be up against if he decides to make one more try for the presidential prize.
Sylvan Parry, 46, from Caernarfon, denies attempting to murder Fiona Parry on 3 September.
Mold Crown Court heard the attack left Mrs Parry with life-changing injuries.
The prosecution said Mr Parry had used "considerable force" and had only stopped when on-duty fire officers who had witnessed the attack intervened.
Prosecuting barrister Sion ap Mihangel said: "This was clearly an attempt by this defendant to kill his wife. It was only because of the intervention of others that he did not succeed in killing her."
The court heard the incident happened on the first day of the new school term.
Mrs Parry had dressed the children for school and taken photographs of them in their school uniforms before leaving the house.
As the couple made the short walk from their house with their baby in a pram and two children, Mr Parry started behaving "aggressively" and issued threats to his wife before attacking her, Mr ap Mihangel told the court.
He added: "He was told to stop what he was doing by one of the officers but he continued to stamp and he was seen to kick his wife twice before walking away."
In a video interview Mrs Parry told police she could not remember anything about what had happened that day because of a brain injury sustained during the attack.
She could not remember getting the children ready for school, leaving her home or the attack.
The trial continues.
When he left the country last month, Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan filled in a questionnaire saying that none of his relatives were sick.
But Liberia's assistant health minister said he had taken a sick relative to a clinic in a wheelbarrow.
Mr Duncan is in a serious condition in a Dallas hospital.
His is the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed on US soil, where as many as 100 people are being checked for exposure to Ebola.
More than 3,330 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in four West African countries.
The BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, says the prosecution announcement was made at the weekly Ebola update news conference, which is attended by numerous government officials and was dominated by the case of Mr Duncan.
"We wish him a speedy recovery; we await his arrival in Liberia" to face prosecution, Binyah Kesselly, the chairman of the board of directors of the Liberia Airport Authority, said.
Deputy Information Minister Isaac Jackson confirmed that Mr Duncan would be prosecuted as he "lied under oath about his Ebola status".
Before the briefing, Mr Kesselly told the BBC that Mr Duncan had answered "no" to all the questions on the Ebola form, which includes one about whether the traveller has any relatives sick with Ebola.
Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah explained at the briefing that he was investigating Mr Duncan's movements before he left Liberia on 19 September.
He said Mr Duncan works as a driver in Liberia for Save-Way Cargo, a subsidiary of the international courier service FedEx, and lives in the Paynesville 72nd Community suburb of Monrovia.
Eric Vaye, a neighbour of Mr Duncan's, was also at the briefing to help with contact tracing, and said that nine people had died of Ebola in the district in recent weeks.
Mr Duncan is alleged to have pushed the wheelbarrow when taking a sick relative to a clinic.
Our reporter says this is banned and people are obliged to phone a hotline number to ensure that patients are collected by health workers so further contact with sick people is avoided.
Mr Nyenswah said it was "less likely" that Mr Duncan had passed on the disease when in Liberia because he was not showing signs before he left.
According to the latest UN figures, there have been 7,178 confirmed Ebola cases, with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea suffering the most.
Leading charity Save the Children has warned that Ebola was spreading at a "terrifying rate", with the number of new recorded cases doubling every few weeks.
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has called for urgent decisive action including more financial aid, doctors and nurses, from the international community at a conference in London.
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A video streamed online shows a confrontation between West Norfolk Foxhounds master and huntsman Charles Carter and campaigner Linda Hoggard.
During the recording, Mr Carter is seen to ask "can I take to you bed, please?"
The leader of Breckland Council in Norfolk confirmed his suspension. An investigation is under way.
Mr Carter made the comments after an approach by activists during a meet of the Middleton Hunt in North Yorkshire.
Ms Hoggard said she had been taking wildlife photos before seeing the hunt and then following it for several hours.
In the video, Ms Hoggard approaches the riders and stops Mr Carter, saying: "Excuse me, did you know fox hunting was banned?"
Mr Carter then removes his phone from his pocket and asks: "What is your name?"
When Ms Hoggard does not respond, he tells her: "I'd quite like to shag you, actually."
The activist reacts by threatening to tell her husband.
Mr Carter then says: "Can I take to you bed, please?" and tells her: "You're very pretty." Ms Hoggard replies: "So are foxes."
Mr Carter finally asks for her number before riding off with the rest of the hunt.
Ms Hoggard told the BBC: "I've always disagreed with fox hunting even being a country person. I'm not an activist - the last hunt I followed was 15 years ago. I'm a housewife with children and they were hunting near me and I thought right I'm going to follow.
"I didn't know he was a councillor. I didn't even know him. I just went out and then confronted him. What he gave me was bang out of order."
The nature of the meeting is not known, however under the 2004 Hunting Act, foxes cannot longer be killed by dogs as part of a hunt.
One or two dogs can be used to "flush out" - remove from cover - a fox, which should then be shot.
Mr Carter has represented Saham Toney ward, on Breckland Council in West Norfolk, since 2011.
In a statement a spokesman confirmed the council was aware of the video "in which one of its councillors made inappropriate and offensive comments".
Council leader William Nunn said: "I was appalled by the conduct of one of my Conservative councillors, who has clearly brought the party and the council into disrepute as a result of his behaviour.
"I immediately took action, and the individual concerned has been suspended from the Conservative Group at Breckland council, pending the outcome of a full investigation by the Mid Norfolk Conservative Association."
The BBC has approached Mr Carter for comment.
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It happened in 1666 and burned for four days, destroying offices, churches and thousands of homes in the City of London.
The design on the coin shows the fire engulfing the London skyline from the view point of a boat sailing on the River Thames.
It has been produced by The Royal Mint, who make all British coins, and will be made available to the public shortly.
The picture was designed by Aaron West and has a portrait of Her Majesty The Queen on the opposite side.
A copy of the coin will also be presented to firefighters at Dowgate Fire Station in London, to celebrate the London Fire Brigade's 150th anniversary.
He was went off early in City's Champions League semi-final second-leg defeat by Real Madrid on Wednesday.
City boss Manuel Pellegrini said the defender would undergo surgery and may be out "for a long time".
Kompany, who has had five injuries this season, playing just 22 matches out of a possible 58, said it was "very sad news" but he would not "give up".
His statement added: "I trust my friends and team-mates to do well and do us proud at the next European Championships in France.
"I am now officially their most fervent supporter and I will be there to support them."
Belgium are grouped with Italy, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland at this summer's tournament.
Chelsea's Eden Hazard is Belgium's vice-captain and has led the side in previous games when Kompany has been unavailable.
Kompany also wrote he would "remain calm and positive" rather than "feeling sorry for myself".
He added: "I could fear for my career, as others may do. I could give up. That is not me. I decide on my future."
Regulators say the Indian government has taken measures to address safety concerns previously flagged up.
In January 2014, the US Federal Aviation Administration had downgraded the rating following tests.
Concerns ranged from a lack of training for industry regulators to a shortage of flight inspectors.
That prevented carriers Jet Airways and state-owned Air India from increasing flights, and having to deal with extra surveillance for existing ones.
The upgrade comes at a time when there is more scrutiny on airline safety in the region.
In March, South Korea, Japan and China stopped Thailand-based airlines from flying charters and new routes after safety concerns were brought up during an international audit.
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Routes to the US are vitally important to Air India and Jet Airways.
It's home to more than 1.5 million Indian Americans - many of who travel regularly.
And as the Modi and Obama governments promote stronger economic ties - that's lots of business class seats getting filled too.
More broadly - with India's domestic market so competitive (both Air India and Jet are loss-making) - international routes are an opportunity to claw back some of those losses.
So having the option to once again look at adding new destinations, and do deals with more US carriers, can only help that.
She took part in The Daily Show as part of her first official visit to the United States.
Ms Sturgeon began by questioning her billing on the show's website as a "comedian".
She told host Jon Stewart: "You billed me on your website as a comedian - so you've raised all these expectations that I'm going to be funny."
The first minister added: "I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny."
Stewart explained to the US audience that the SNP had won an "unprecedented" 56 out of 59 seats in Scotland at the general election.
Nicola Sturgeon joked: "I have ordered an inquiry into why the SNP did not win the other three. It's reporting directly to me."
Stewart said: "What do you think you are, Saddam Hussein? You get 99%? 56 out of 59 is pretty good."
Sturgeon said: "Always aim for more."
Read more from the interview here.
Ms Sturgeon is on the second day of a four-day trip to America where she is undertaking a series of engagements in New York and Washington.
She followed in the footsteps of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown by making an appearance on the late-night chat show, although the former Labour leaders were interviewed after they left office.
Amid laughter from the audience Stewart reassured Ms Sturgeon she would be fine, saying: "You need not worry. They thought I was going to be funny for 17 years."
Other topics touched on during the broadcast included the SNP's success in the general election, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the taste of haggis.
American viewers were generally positive in their reaction to the Scottish first minister's contribution.
US journalist Skylar Baker-Jordan, who covers UK politics, said: "Sturgeon is on top of her game as usual. Insightful, delightful and charming."
Minnesota-based Ashley Follmer tweeted: "I wish America had more delightful politicians such as Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon."
The first minister's engagements for Tuesday include hosting a reception to launch the US fundraising appeal for the Glasgow School of Art.
The Lionesses are currently in the United States for the SheBelieves Cup tournament and then play two Euro 2017 qualifiers next month.
It means the new WSL season, which starts on 23 March, breaks after games on 28 March and resumes on 21 April.
"The challenge is to find the right balance," said Sampson.
"Have we got that yet? I don't think we have, we've still got to keep working on this, and make sure we give the players and clubs the best chance to be successful, but in turn that must allow the international team to have every opportunity to win major tournaments.
"We know that if England win a major tournament the impact that will have on the game is far greater than anything else we could ever do in the women's game."
Sampson is keen to avoid a club-versus-country row but as a former boss of Bristol Academy he knows why WSL head coaches may be unhappy with the scheduling.
England host Belgium on Friday, 8 April in Rotherham before travelling to face Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday, 12 April.
"Any club manager will always want more time with their players, just like I want more time with the players," he added.
"We're in constant communication about doing what's right by the players, and getting the best out of the players and trying to develop a programme that fits international and fits club."
The order came after activists challenged the government decision on grounds of cruelty to animals.
Tuesday's court order means there will be no Jallikattu festival this year.
The Jallikattu festival was scheduled to begin on 15 January across the state. No events were held last year.
At the annual festival held in January, thousands of men chase the bulls to grab prizes tied to their horns.
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The Supreme Court banned the festival in 2014 after objections from animal rights activists.
In its order at the time, the Supreme Court had said that the use of bulls in the sport "severely harmed" the animals and was an offence under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.
Unlike in Spain, however, the bulls are not killed in the contests in Tamil Nadu.
However, last Friday the government issued an order lifting the ban.
Many believe local political parties had lobbied to have the ban lifted with an eye on this year's state elections.
Also, the Thevar community of Tamil Nadu is politically and economically influential in at least five districts where the sport is popular and no political party wants to antagonise them.
Correspondents say Tuesday's order is a setback for the Narendra Modi-led BJP government in Delhi, which had lifted the top court's ban last week using an executive order.
"With this single act of thumbing its nose at the Supreme Court, the BJP - like the Congress before - has sent the unfortunate signal once again that court orders are binding only upon ordinary citizens, and governments are above the law; lifting the ban on Jallikattu by circumventing the order of the apex court has put the executive on a collision course with the judiciary," a commentator wrote in The Wire website last week.
Tuesday's order shows that India's top court has again reasserted the judiciary's position, many observers believe.
On Monday, the Animal Welfare Board of India, animal rights groups and activists had filed six petitions in the court, challenging the "cruel sport".
The petitioners have welcomed the court's order.
The court, however, has made it clear that the order was an "interim measure", pending further hearings which will begin in February.
In Jallikattu, bulls are released from pens, with bullfighters supposed to hold on to the animal's hump for about 15-20 metres or three jumps of the bull to win the prize.
The ban had been criticised by political parties and cultural organisations in Tamil Nadu who had argued that Jallikattu was a part of their cultural tradition.
Jallikattu is more than 2,000 years old and considered to be one of the oldest sports still practised in the modern era.
Over the years, scores of people have been gored or trampled to death in the contests.
Hundreds, including spectators, have been mauled or injured.
The settlement at Little Carlton near Louth was discovered after local metal detectorist Graham Vickers found a silver writing tool.
University of Sheffield archaeologists have since unearthed 300 dress pins and a large number of Sceatta coins.
The island was once home to a Middle Saxon settlement and dates back to the 7th century.
Mr Vickers initially reported a silver stylus to the Portable Antiquities Scheme, which encourages people to record archaeological objects found in England and Wales.
Twenty more styli from the 8th century have since been found, along with butchered animal bones and a small lead tablet engraved with the female Anglo-Saxon name 'Cudberg'.
Dr Hugh Wilmott from the University of Sheffield's archaeology department said the site was "particularly unusual" because of the items found there.
He said trade weights and other objects suggest the settlement was a "high-status trading site and not an ordinary village".
Geophysical and magnetometry surveys along with 3D modelling enabled the landscape to be visualised on a large scale.
The archaeologists also digitally raised the water level to its early medieval height, and found the land rose from its lower surroundings much more so than today.
Sheffield archaeology students have since opened nine evaluation trenches to reveal "a wealth of information about what life would have been like at the settlement", Dr Wilmott said.
They found significant Middle Saxon pottery, some of which was from Germany.
"Far from being very isolated in the early medieval period, Lincolnshire was actually connected in a much wider world network, with trade spanning the whole of the North Sea," he said.
"This little field in Lincolnshire is part of a connected European trading network."
The findings are "tremendously important" to our knowledge of early medieval times since very few Middle Saxon documents exist, Dr Wilmott said.
A similar site at Flixborough in North Lincolnshire was uncovered in the late 1990s.
David Lord, 87, of Croydon Road in Westerham, Kent, lost control of his Audi on the High Street in Westerham at 10:30 GMT on 24 December 2015.
It mounted the footpath and smashed through a window of Costa Coffee, killing 74-year-old Valerie Deakin, from Udimore, East Sussex.
Lord previously denied the charge.
A further two men and two women were seriously hurt and taken to hospital after the crash. Another woman was treated for minor injuries.
The court heard medical evidence from a consultant neurologist which argued Lord suffered a complex partial seizure imminently before the collision.
Driver admits Costa death crash charge
Lord's defence barrister told the court that after regaining consciousness, he suffered confusion and pressed hard on the accelerator when he meant to apply the brakes.
The judge ordered the prosecution be allowed to medically examine Lord to investigate the claim.
Speaking outside the court, Mr Lord said he "blacked out" and had written a letter to apologise for the crash.
The case was adjourned.
The move will affect outlets in Banbridge, Carrickfergus, Enniskillen and Antrim Massereene. From 7 November they will trade from 06:00-00:00.
Nightshift operations will also end at a number of other NI stores and they will restock during the day.
The company said in most cases the trading hours at those stores would be unaffected, or subject to minor change.
Staff affected by the changes will be offered alternative roles, either within the store or within another local store.
A spokesman said: "We're making some changes in a number of our stores to help us run them more simply and deliver the best possible service for customers.
"We understand this may be disruptive for some of our colleagues and where there have been changes to a colleague's role we will be working really hard to ensure they are fully supported."
Across the UK, 30 24-hour stores will have their opening hours reduced.
A further 149 stores will have their "night replenishment operation" moved to "daytime replenishment", Tesco said.
The balloon, which was carrying Chinese and Malaysian tourists, came down in the Guvercinlik Valley in Cappadocia at 08:15 (06:15 GMT) on Wednesday.
The tourist killed was identified by Turkish media as Tang Yi, while a Malaysian was reported to be in a critical condition.
Reports from the country said the cause of the incident was as yet unknown.
The balloon had taken off from Goreme in Nevsehir province in Central Anatolia on Wednesday morning.
Paramedics and security forces were dispatched to the scene of the crash.
In 2009 a balloon crash in the same region killed a British tourist and injured nine other people.
Three Brazilian tourists were killed, and 20 people injured, when two balloons collided in Cappadocia in 2013.
Cappadocia, in central Anatolia, is famed for its "fairy chimney" volcanic cones, subterranean cities carved out of soft stone, and early Christian churches.
Ballooning has become a popular tourist business in the region over the past decade.
The Welsh Chronicles are a collection of texts that both attempt to mark historical events - and according to some - act as propaganda.
It has been suggested that some of the texts even urge the Welsh to rise up against their Saxon oppressors.
Historians have gathered at St John's College, Cambridge, for a two-day conference examining the collections.
The manuscripts are scattered across Wales and England, with some held at the National Library of Wales, others at the British Library, and some of them at places like Exeter Cathedral.
They bear imposing names like 'Epitome Historiae Britanniae' and 'Brut y Tywysogion' - chronicling events from the death of the last king of Britain, Cadwaladr, in AD682, through to the 14th Century medieval Wales.
"Standard histories of early Wales are based heavily on the chronicles, but we as scholars could do so much more to question the circumstances in which they were written, or what they really tell us as a result," argued Anglo-Saxon PhD student Rebecca Thomas.
The Cambridge University scholar is one of those who has helped pull together the conference, along with Bangor University and Harvard in America.
"They are a great resource, but one that we need to understand far more than we currently do," she said.
In Wales, chronicles were being written in various monasteries from no later than AD800, and remained the primary form of record-keeping for centuries.
Written in Latin and Welsh, they often provided a uniquely Welsh perspective on history.
The most famous are the Annales Cambriae (or Annals of Wales), which records key points from the 5th Century onwards.
But researchers have become increasingly aware that rather than just a list of historical events, these documents are a complex collection of different texts grouped under one name, and belong to a much wider group of chronicles overall.
In some cases, little is known about who wrote them, how they were compiled, or how they were influenced by the politics of their age.
In the 9th Century Historia Brittonum (History of the Britons), for instance, the text can be read as a call for the Welsh to move on from their displacement by the Anglo-Saxons in England - or equally - it can be read as a rallying cry to rise up.
"The fact that you can get two views which are so dramatically different shows how enigmatic it still is as a text," added Ms Thomas.
"Understanding the Chronicles better will transform our perception, not only of how the Welsh viewed themselves as a people, but also how they incorporated other groups into their own history."
Crossmaglen's Clarke is named at right full-forward in a team that includes five championship debutants.
Blaine Hughes starts in goals while the other newcomers are Clarke's club-mate Oisin O'Neill, Aaron McKay, Niall Grimley and Andrew Murnin.
O'Neill helped St Mary's College win the Sigerson Cup in February.
While Ciaran McKeever, Ethan Rafferty and Stephen Harold are not named in the starting line-up, the side does include experienced campaigners Charlie Vernon, Brendan Donaghy, Stefan Campbell and Mark Shields.
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Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney will be banned from the dugout on Sunday.
The 2002 All-Ireland winning captain was handed a 12-week ban by GAA disciplinary bosses after an alleged verbal altercation with linesman Joe McQuillan during Armagh's Division Three League game against Antrim in March.
Down manager Eamon Burns has yet to name his side but injury concerns over the Johnston brothers Ryan and Jerome and midfielder Peter Turley appear to have eased.
The Mourne County will be without Brendan McArdle and Ryan McAleenan because of long-term injuries but Down's squad looks stronger than it was for much of the league campaign.
Down struggled for much of the league but a gutsy late rally saw them retaining their Division Two place thanks to a draw against Cork, as Fermanagh and Derry suffered relegation.
Armagh missed out on securing promotion to Division Two after suffering a heartbreaking last-gasp defeat by Tipperary in their final Division Three round-robin match.
Armagh: B Hughes; J Morgan, C Vernon, P Hughes; A McKay, B Donaghy, M Shields; S Sheridan, N Grimley; A Forker, O O'Neill, R Grugan; J Clarke, S Campbell, A Murnin.
Alun Cairns spoke at the last Welsh Questions in the House of Commons before the general election.
Plaid warned of a claw-back of powers.
Mr Cairns said the Great Repeal Bill would not see decisions taken away from the devolved bodies.
He reiterated that the UK government would temporarily hold on to powers for EU laws in areas like agriculture while discussions between the UK and devolved governments continue post-Brexit.
The proposal was set out by the UK government in its Great Repeal Bill, which proposes to transport EU laws to the UK statute book.
Opposition politicians from Labour, Plaid Cymru and the SNP raised concerns that devolution could be undermined by such a move.
The Shadow Welsh Secretary Christina Rees called for extra powers for the Joint Ministerial Council (JMC) to ensure that the Great Repeal Bill does not "in any way re-write or override devolution as set out in the recent Government of Wales Act".
The JMC is a group of senior ministers from the UK and devolved administrations.
The Plaid Cymru MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd Liz Saville Roberts said that the UK government was planning to "claw-back devolution powers".
Mr Cairns said that the Great Repeal Bill proposals would not see any decisions currently taken by the Welsh Government "removed from them."
"We expect that repatriation of powers from the European Union will extend the powers of the WG significantly, but of course there is a process to work through in order to provide the stability and certainty that industry needs," said Mr Cairns.
The Great Repeal Bill has been criticised by First Minister Carwyn Jones and Plaid Cymru after ministers proposed a "holding pattern" for EU laws in areas like agriculture to go to the UK government temporarily first.
A new campaign highlighting the "concerning trend" will be targeted at drivers on Scotland's longest trunk road next month.
Officers are also releasing the latest data on the impact of the A9's average speed cameras.
The information shows that casualty figures have continued to fall.
The network of cameras between Dunblane and Inverness has been operational since October 2014.
It has been credited with helping to reduce the number of fatal and serious casualties on that stretch of the road by almost 43% over the 27 months to January this year .
There have been no fatal casualties between Dunblane and Perth and a reduction of almost 40% in fatal casualties between Perth and Inverness.
Stuart Wilson, chairman of the A9 Safety Group, said: "The other performance data continues to support the positive change in driver behaviour on the route and also highlights evidence to show that the journey time for people travelling between Perth and Inverness has remained consistent."
But he added: "The group's commitment to making the A9 a safer route will also see a specific safety campaign being launched in June which will focus on driver behaviour related to distraction.
"Evidence from Police Scotland's crash investigators highlights a concerning trend of distraction being a significant factor as the cause of accidents on the route and the campaign is designed to raise awareness of this issue."
The 15-year-old, who was awarded the top prize by the judging panel, also won the Margot Fonteyn Audience Award.
The silver medal was won by Lania Atkins from Australia, while the bronze went to her compatriot Makensie Henson.
Held at London's Sadler's Well Theatre, the contest was streamed worldwide for the first time in its history.
The Royal Academy of Dance's Genee competition is named after its first president, RAD's first president, Dame Adeline Genee.
Dancers from 16 countries took part in this year's competition, which was held over three days leading up to the final.
For the first time, nine entrants were given financial assistance to take part, through the Darcey Bussell Genee Bursary, aimed at assisting those who otherwise could not afford to attend.
The Choreographic Award for the best "dancer's own" work went to Jana Baldovino, 15, from New Zealand
Past Genee medallists have gone on to dance for the Royal Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre and the English National Ballet.
Next year's competition will be held at the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
Jenny Hockey, 70, and Freda Brayshaw, 72, were accused of public order offences after a stand-off with police officers and contractors in November.
The pair were part of a group campaigning against the felling of trees in Rustlings Road.
But at a hearing at Sheffield Magistrates' Court earlier the case was discontinued.
Sheffield City Council contractors began cutting down eight trees on the street on 17 November as part of an improvement scheme.
The council said the work needed to be done as part of a £2bn scheme to get rid of diseased, damaging or dangerous trees.
Campaigners said the trees were healthy and should remain.
The council later apologised for the dawn felling tactics and vowed not to repeat them.
Mrs Hockey, a retired sociology professor, and Mrs Brayshaw, a retired teacher, arrived at court but were told that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to proceed with the case.
Speaking outside, Mrs Brayshaw said: "We're obviously very relieved that the case hasn't been taken forward.
"It's been a whole chain of surprises. We couldn't make head nor tail of it and we were prepared for anything this morning.
"But it won't bring back the trees. As the months have gone by, living without the tree that was outside my house, it almost gets worse."
Mrs Hockey said she was originally arrested under trade union legislation but was eventually charged with a public order offence.
Speaking at the time of their arrests, Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg said: "I do not know what planet these people are on.
"Arresting elderly residents? Arresting them when they are just trying to say 'don't chop this tree down'?"
The initiative, set up by Scottish Chambers of Commerce and Women's Enterprise Scotland, will see leading female entrepreneurs act as mentors.
They include Scottish Chambers of Commerce chief Liz Cameron, Carolyn Currie of Women's Enterprise Scotland, Marie Macklin of Macklin Partnerships and Petra Wetzel of West Brewery.
Jeanette Forbes of PCL Group and Poonam Gupta of PG Paper are also on board.
The Women's Business Mentoring initiative aims to tackle challenges faced by women in business.
Those challenges include accessing finance, overcoming gender bias or managing family responsibilities alongside a business.
A dedicated website has been set up to help prospective businesses find a mentor, attend events and access resources.
Women in business can also sign up as mentors.
According to the website, only 20% of Scottish small and medium enterprises are majority-owned by women.
Ms Macklin said: "Young talent is the lifeblood of any business and it's critical that as senior business leaders, we shine a torch on the path ahead and guide this talent to future success.
"It can be a long, hard road to the top.
"We've all had someone who supported us when we needed it most and showed us the way.
"It's only right that we find time to give back and help the leaders of the future fulfil their true potential."
Ms Cameron said: "Our approach is innovative and fresh and is all about tapping into the talents and experience of successful women entrepreneurs and matching them with ambitious, driven and aspiring women in business."
The remains of Saima Ahmed, 36, were found in January at Gogar Mount House, on the edge of Gogarburn Golf Club.
Her family have criticised the police response after they reported Ms Ahmed missing from her London home in August 2015.
Her brother has made a new appeal for information about her last movements.
The family have complained that Ms Ahmed's case was treated as "low risk" after she disappeared from the family home in Wembley and did not gather CCTV footage.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) confirmed that five Metropolitan Police officers had been notified they were under investigation, two for gross misconduct and three for misconduct, over the way they handled information and conducted the investigation.
The IPPC stressed that the notices did not imply guilt.
Ms Ahmed's body was discovered in Edinburgh on 9 January but a post-mortem examination has been unable to determine the cause of death.
Subsequent inquiries by Police Scotland suggest the librarian travelled to Edinburgh by rail, via Birmingham, last August.
Forensic evidence indicates she died shortly after her arrival in Edinburgh.
Last week police handed out leaflets in the hope of gathering new clues.
Now Ms Ahmed's brother Sadat has travelled to Scotland and made a fresh appeal at the location where her body was found.
He said: "I have faith in the police. Hopefully they will get to the answers. Whatever happened, we will find out.
"It's been devastating for everyone, not having any answers to what's happened. You just go round and round in circles trying to think what happened."
Mr Ahmed said it was completely out of character for his sister to disappear. He said the family had no links to Edinburgh and that they had no idea why Ms Ahmed would have travelled to the city.
Det Ch Insp Martin MacLean, who is leading the investigation, told BBC Radio Scotland there were many unanswered questions.
"Unfortunately, due to the passage of time and the effects of the elements and nature, following extensive forensic work and toxicology reports, the cause of death is unascertainable," he said.
"This is obviously very difficult for the family and is the reason for this appeal for information from the public. We want help to ascertain exactly why Saima came to Edinburgh and what happened to her that led up to her death."
There is a possible unconfirmed sighting of Ms Ahmed on Portobello Beach about a year ago.
A man walking his dog told police that he spoke with a woman on the beach, who was walking alone and who closely matched Ms Ahmed's description, at about 10:30 on a Monday last August, possibly 31 August, although the exact date is unknown.
The woman said she had wanted to see the beach and said she had travelled up from London and was going back down later the same day.
The police want to know if she stayed in a guest house there the night before, possibly on Sunday 30 August.
Ms Ahmed's exact movements as she travelled to Scotland remain unconfirmed.
Detectives believe she bought a Birmingham to Edinburgh rail ticket at Birmingham New Street Station at about 17:00 on Sunday 30 August 2015.
Officers said there was a strong possibility she then boarded one of two Edinburgh-bound services - either the 17:15 Virgin service due to arrive at Edinburgh Waverley at 22:22, or the 13:30 Virgin Cross Country Network (via York), which was due to arrive at 22:21.
The film will tell the autobiographical story of the couple's life through four decades of marriage from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.
Broadbent and Blethyn will be joined by Luke Treadaway, Virginia McKenna and June Brown.
It will be shown on the BBC next year.
Ethel and Ernest was one of Briggs' best-selling books, alongside The Snowman and When The Wind Blows.
In response to news of the film adaptation he remarked: "My mother's reaction would no doubt have been: 'Oh, Ernest! We're going to be on the pictures! We might even be at the Odeon in Wimbledon!'"
Broadbent, an Oscar-winner for Iris and Blethyn, an Oscar nominee for Secrets and Lies, will be joined behind the microphone by Luke Treadaway, voicing the part of Briggs.
Treadaway has won plaudits for his performance on stage in The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time.
Broadbent remarked: "It's such a beautiful book by a wonderful artist. It's truly inspiring; a great, honest story of a whole generation. It's lovely and irresistible."
Brenda Blethyn added: "I adore working with Jim Broadbent. We've worked together before and it's great to come back together to play these wonderful characters. They lived through two wars and it's so, so reminiscent of my own parents' life in so many ways. Ethel even looks like my mum!"
The animation will be directed by animator Roger Mainwood, who worked as an animator on TV versions of The Snowman, Peter Rabbit and The Wind In The Willows.
He said: "It's a real privilege to be directing the feature film of Ethel and Ernest, which many consider to be Raymond Brigg's masterpiece. Time will tell if the end result does the book justice, but so far Raymond has loved everything he has seen.
"We are also delighted with the quality of the voice cast. Brenda and Jim are absolutely bang on as the title characters and the other actors bring an enormous amount of charm and character to their roles."
An adaptation of another popular Briggs' book, Fungus the Bogeyman, will be shown on Sky One this Christmas.
The US-based Bristow Group has won a 10-year, £1.6bn contract to run the service from 2015 - ending 70 years of RAF and Royal Naval operations.
For the South West of England, it means operations at Royal Marine Barracks (RMB) Chivenor will relocate to St Athan in Wales, and work at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose in Cornwall will move to Newquay Airport.
Bob Thompson, an Ilfracombe councillor who campaigned to keep 24-hour cover at Chivenor, said: "Losing Chivenor will be losing a major part of the fabric of our society in north Devon.
"We are so used to seeing the big yellow bird flying around the area, that it will be missed, but in terms of saving lives then perhaps helicopters being based in Wales will be better."
While the search and rescue element of Chivenor will go, the base and the rest of its operations will remain.
Nick Harvey, MP for north Devon and former defence minister, said: "I am very sorry to see the Search And Rescue personnel and their families leave.
"I am also sad to see the RAF and the Navy pulling out of this area of work, but I do understand their concern that it was using up their ever-scarcer resources.
"But with 24-hour services operating out of Cardiff and Newquay, I think we must accept that North Devon will be very much safer than the original proposal under the last government to downgrade us to daytime-only cover."
In Cornwall, search and rescue will move 34 miles (55km) down the road from RNAS Culdrose to Newquay Airport where the Cornwall Air Ambulance is already based.
Major Dave Fielder, from RNAS Culdrose, said: "This announcement wasn't a surprise, purely because we knew the Sea King was being withdrawn in 2016 and staff and personnel will be transferred to other roles.
"So it's business as usual but with subtle changes."
Airport managing director Al Titterington hailed the Department of Transport announcement on Tuesday as "very good news for the airport".
"The most important bit is we demonstrate the importance not just to connecting Cornwall for business and leisure, but we're now going to be part of national infrastructure," he said.
Andrew George, MP for West Cornwall, has his concerns and says the move has drawbacks for the forces. Royal Naval staff, he says, will be missing out on the "real life training experience" of operations now the service will be run privately.
But Captain Peter Morgan who has experienced both sides of the divide, having worked at RNAS Culdrose and Bristows, says the move is a "good thing".
"Bristows is a fine helicopter company, no one's better equipped to handle SAR work," he added.
"It's sad perhaps that the SAR outfit is going to move away from Culdrose and be based at Newquay, but sadness doesn't alter the fact that the service to the marine people, that need rescuing, is going to be just as well served."
Under the new contract, 22 helicopters will operate 24-hours a day from 10 locations around the UK which the government says "will be able reach a larger area of the UK search and rescue region within one hour".
In an interview with BBC Newsnight, Kenichi Ohmae called the recent deal at Nissan's plant in Sunderland a "minor decision" involving one company.
"I don't think other companies will follow suit," he added.
Mr Ohmae advised Nissan to set up its main European plant in the UK in the early 1980s.
Last week, Nissan confirmed it will build both the new Qashqai and the X-Trail SUV at its Sunderland plant following government "support and assurances".
Prime Minister Theresa May described the announcement as "fantastic news", adding: "This vote of confidence shows Britain is open for business."
Nissan's decision is the first major development for the car industry since the Brexit vote and secures 7,000 jobs.
But Mr Ohmae questioned whether exports will continue from Sunderland in the same manner as before the EU referendum vote. "That's just a statement by the UK government. We will have to wait and see.
"It is true that Nissan have said they will continue producing the two types of models after Brexit, [but] that's a very, very minor one company decision. I don't think other companies will follow suit."
He said he believes Nissan is "a very special case".
In terms of his advice to companies, Mr Ohmae said: "We don't have enough information to make a prudent judgement. Therefore with the final picture of the UK uncertain, I will advise them to hold until the course is clear and until the conditions of Brexit are worked out - not only by what the UK government says, but what the European Union says."
"Until that final shape of the UK is clear, we will have to hold the investment decisions," he added.
Mr Ohmae said people in Japan were shocked by the UK's vote to leave the referendum. "We don't understand why British people voted for Brexit... [it was] completely a surprise to us - and probably to many in the United Kingdom."
He said he has concerns around the movement of people after the UK leaves the EU - particularly those with expertise and skills - and that those who voted to leave on the grounds that migrants are taking jobs are mistaken.
"The people's sentiment that immigrants have taken our jobs away - we just don't see that in the statistics and on the day employment scene."
"It's a shame that the parliament - which has decision-making ability - did not go back to the referendum. The parliament accepted the referendum which it didn't have to, according to our understanding of the legal constraints."
The full interview with Kenichi Ohmae was broadcast on BBC Newsnight on Tuesday 2 November.
Birmingham-born Turner made only one appearance for the Bluebirds last season, but played in five games on loan for League One side Coventry City.
Details of the length of the 28-year-old's contract have not been disclosed.
"He's a good, experienced centre-half and someone we have admired for a few years," Brewers manager Nigel Clough told the club website.
"He wants to get playing again and competing again after a frustrating time with injuries."
Turner is Burton's first signing since they won promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in the club's history last season.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Shao Jiang, Sonam Choden and Jamphel Lhamo were arrested outside Mansion House in central London, on Wednesday before President Xi's arrival.
Amnesty International called the police's actions "very heavy-handed".
But the Met said the suggestion it was doing anything but regular police work was "wrong".
All three campaigners later had their houses raided by police.
Tsering Passang, of the Tibetan Community in Britain group, said: "The police were extremely over-handed and it shouldn't have been done that way.
"I was totally shocked at what happened, it was so unnecessary."
Allan Hogarth from Amnesty International added: "The video that has emerged looks like a very heavy-handed response to a peaceful demonstration."
After he was released, Dr Shao posted a photo of his bail conditions on Twitter, which appeared to show he was banned from approaching Chequers, Heathrow Airport and the Chinese president himself.
The Met issued two separate statements, the first of which asserted: "To suggest we were doing anything but the regular police work associated with public order and ceremonial events is wrong."
In a second statement, Commander Lucy D'Orsi wrote of her "disappointment" at hearing the view expressed that the Met was "working to the bidding of the Chinese to suppress protest".
She added: "My team and I have worked tirelessly to facilitate peaceful protest throughout the state visit. At all events this fundamental right to freedom of expression, afforded by the Human Rights Act, was available to everyone."
Shao Jiang, a London-based research scholar who was involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, told BBC London earlier this week he was protesting because if the British Government follows the Chinese model, it will "push the issue of human rights away".
Hundreds were injured in the violence, after days of friction over a Jerusalem holy site boiled over.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he was freezing all contacts with Israel amid unrest at the site.
Tensions have soared since two Israeli policemen were killed a week ago.
Three Israeli Arab gunmen shot the officers near the holy site known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount. The gunmen were shot dead after being pursued on to the site.
In a separate incident on Friday, three Israelis were stabbed to death after an assailant entered a home in a West Bank settlement.
Another Israeli was wounded in the attack in Halamish (also known as Neve Tsuf), near Ramallah.
Three Israelis stabbed to death in West Bank attack
Thousands of police were deployed around the Jerusalem compound on Friday morning, and Palestinian men under the age of 50 were barred from entering the Old City - a measure which is sometimes taken to try to prevent violent protests at the holy site.
Police said they fired tear gas to disperse Palestinians who threw stones and tried to break through a police barricade in the street outside.
The Palestinian health ministry said a 17-year-old Palestinian man had been shot dead in a neighbourhood nearby. It did not specify who was behind the shooting in the Ras al-Amud area.
A second man died after being seriously wounded in Friday's clashes in A-Tur in East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian health ministry later said a third man had been killed after being shot in the chest in Abu Dis in the West Bank.
Clashes also erupted in other parts of East Jerusalem, at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, and at the northern entrance of Bethlehem.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said nearly 400 Palestinians had been hurt, with 92 people taken to hospital.
An Israeli police spokesman said four officers had been injured.
In the wake of the killing of the police last Friday, Israel installed metal detectors at entrances to the holy site. The move, however, drew an angry reaction from Palestinian and Islamic leaders who say it is a violation of the status quo.
President Abbas, in a speech, said his suspension of contacts with Israel would last until the security measures were lifted and the metal detectors removed.
Israel says the measure is necessary for security after the weapons used to kill the policemen were smuggled into the hilltop compound.
The area, in East Jerusalem, has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Middle East war.
Israel has repeatedly pledged to maintain the status quo - a delicate set of arrangements in place at the site for the past 50 years. Any changes there are often regarded by Palestinians, who claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a sought-after state, as a violation of these arrangements.
Palestinians had refused to enter the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount - home to the al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock - unless the metal detectors were removed, holding prayers outside instead.
On Friday though, a number of worshippers went into the site to pray.
After a brief respite on Tuesday, the main three US indexes fell more than 1% on Wednesday.
The Dow Jones closed 251.88 points down at 16,906.78, while the S&P 500 slid 26.35 point to 1,990.36.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index fell by 55.67 points to 4,835.77.
A sell-off on Monday, the first day of 2016 trading, was triggered by losses on China's stock markets, where trading was halted early following a 7% fall in its main index.
There was no repeat on Wednesday, with the Shanghai Composite making gains of 2.3%. But US investors' fears were compounded by other events, including North Korea's claim that it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
Among Wall Street's fallers, Apple was down 2%. Telecoms giant Verizon fell 0.86% after it emerged that the firm was looking to sell off its data centre assets and concentrate on its core business.
Oil prices reached an 11-year low with US crude reaching $33.99 a barrel, while Brent crude finished at $34.35 a barrel.
The Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) applies to parts of Bootle and Litherland.
The new power, brought in by Sefton Council, was a response to "high levels" of anti-social behaviour in the area, said a spokesman.
Groups of two or more causing trouble will be separated, it added.
The order covers areas including parts of the Leeds & Liverpool canal and along Merseyrail's Northern line.
The PSPO rules that:
Councillor Trish Hardy, cabinet member for communities and housing, said: "The majority of people who live here are good, law abiding citizens, but unfortunately we have been struggling with some high levels of anti-social behaviour.
"What we are attempting to do is help police tackle people causing problems and the community also gets reassurance that there is an active police presence happening."
She said the "strong and vibrant neighbourhoods" in Bootle and Litherland would find the the PSPO's introduction "positive".
The council will work with Merseyside Police to implement the order.
Police Commissioner Jane Kennedy said she welcomed Sefton's decision to take a "firm stance" by introducing it.
Sefton Council has already introduced a dedicated anti-social behaviour officer.
In a letter posted on his
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, the musician said he has been feeling "ostracised".
The 63-year-old added that he wants a contract that "reflects some dignity and respect toward me as an original member of the band."
In November, the group, led by Ozzy Osbourne, announced they would reunite.
They confirmed they would play the Download Festival in June, before embarking on a world tour.
But last month, guitarist Tony Iommi revealed he was receiving treatment for cancer after being diagnosed with lymphoma.
Ward said that due to Iommi's illness, it had been decided that the band would move production to the UK.
"I've tried to find out what's going on with the UK sessions, I've realised that I've been getting 'the cold shoulder' (and, I might add, not for the first time).
"Feeling somewhat ostracised, my guess is as of today, I will know nothing of what's happening unless I sign 'the unsignable contract'."
The drummer said he had been left feeling "lousy and lonely", but was refusing to sign the current contract because he stands to lose "my rights, dignity and respectability as a rock musician".
Ward acknowledged there was a possibility that he would be replaced over this and he asked fans not to hold him "responsible for the failure of an original Black Sabbath lineup as promoted".
The rest of the band have yet to comment on Ward's claims.
It is not the first time Ward has criticised Black Sabbath's management team.
In 2004, Osbourne's wife Sharon announced that Faith No More's Mike Bordin would replace the drummer on the Ozzfest tour.
However, the two parties eventually came to an agreement before the tour, and Ward did participate.
They say that people of all ages have been targeted and that "cyber-stalking is becoming a prevalent issue in Northern Ireland".
Police have warned people to review their privacy and security settings and ensure updated anti-spyware is installed in devices.
They said education on "the risks of cyber-stalking" was crucial.
Last year, police said they were investigating claims that a number of people in Northern Ireland were being targeted by international crime gangs in the same way as County Tyrone schoolboy Ronan Hughes.
The 17-year-old from Coalisland, was the victim of what police call webcam blackmail and took his own life in June 2015.
Ronan was tricked into sharing intimate images of himself online, and some of them were then sent to his friends when he failed to pay a ransom.
His family said he was being blackmailed by a gang based in Nigeria.
More than 1,500 people were allegedly killed in a wave of extra-judicial executions by security forces in India's insurgency-ridden north-eastern Manipur state between 1979 and 2012. Last year, in a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court asked relatives of the victims and activists to collect information on the killings. The court will rule in July whether to order an official investigation which could lead to convictions. Soutik Biswas travelled to Manipur to find out more.
Neena Ningombam vividly remembers the day her husband disappeared - and ended up a corpse on cable news.
It was a bright, sunny November day in 2008, and 32-year-old Michael was visiting a friend's house in Imphal, the non-descript, mountain-ringed valley capital of Manipur.
At home, Ms Ningombam was doing her chores. Her two boys were fast asleep. At half past three in the afternoon, her mobile phone rang.
Michael was on the line saying that he had been picked up by police commandos on his way home, and that she should quickly pass on the news of his arrest to a senior policeman who was known to the family so that he could help secure his release.
The call disconnected abruptly. Two hours later, a man finally picked up the phone and told Ms Ningombam that her husband was "in the toilet". He said he would inform him that she had called.
Michael never called. When she tried calling again, his phone was switched off.
Tense and confused, Ms Ningombam sat down in front of the TV. Her sister-in-law had gone in search of the police officer known to the family, but he couldn't be found.
So she waited, and waited, for Michael, watching the news on a local channel. At nine in the evening, the screen exploded with breaking news.
They were showing footage of her bloodied husband, wearing blue nylon tracksuit bottoms and a dark green T-shirt, lying dead on a stone floor. A Chinese-made grenade lay next to the body. The news reader breathlessly announced that police commandos had killed another militant.
Ms Ningombam says she looked at the screen and froze. Grief felt so like fear itself.
"I just remember that I cried and cried and cried. Someone came rushing in and yanked off the TV cable wire. My brother-in-law went to the morgue and identified him."
The post-mortem report said Michael Ningombam had died of "shock and haemorrhage as a result of firearm injuries to lungs and liver".
The police said Michael and two friends were riding a motorcycle when they were stopped by half a dozen vehicle-borne commandos in a wooded area on the outskirts of the city. The pillion rider was said to have fired at the vehicle and Michael apparently tried to throw a grenade at the commandos who then shot and killed him in an act of self-defence. The police also said Michael was a militant and extortionist.
"My husband was struggling, doing odd jobs. He was a drug user and he was trying to kick the habit. But he was not a militant," Ms Ningombam , 40, told me. They had met in college, fallen in love, eloped and married.
The neighbourhood had erupted in protests after the killing, demanding an investigation.
Ms Ningombam, who holds a masters degree in history, took up a driving school job to support her sons. She also single-handedly launched an arduous battle for justice, filing official complaints, petitioning the government and the court, collecting papers and coaxing a key potential witness to testify.
Every day, for more than a month, she would drive 15km (9 miles) on her scooter to the wooded city outskirts where an ageing shop-owner had spotted the commandos drive by in a SUV with her husband on the afternoon of the killing. Then he had heard the sound of gunfire in the distance.
"After days of coaxing him and interacting with his family, the old man consented to testify and became a key witness. That is how we sometimes get some justice in Manipur. The state doesn't help you," she said.
Four years later, in July 2012, the district judge, in a report, concluded on the basis of evidence that Michael had been killed by Manipur police commandos and that there had "been no exchange of fire" between the policemen and the victim.
The high court accepted the report, and ordered that 500,000 rupees ($7,759; £6,115) should be paid in compensation to Ms Ningombam.
Michael Ningombam was not alone in meeting such a fate. Rights groups believe as many as 1,528 people were unlawfully executed - also known as fake encounters - in Manipur between 1979 and 2012.
The overwhelming majority of the victims were men, many of them lower income and unemployed. Among those killed were 98 minors and 31 women. The oldest was an 82-year-old woman; the youngest, a 14-year-old girl.
The most well-known victim was Thangjam Manorama Devi, 32, who was allegedly gang raped and murdered by paramilitary soldiers in 2004, provoking a unique nude protest by mothers and grandmothers that stunned the world.
Some of the killings have been investigated by a federal human rights organisation. Judicial inquiries have resulted in compensation for a few hundred victims' families. But what is unsettling is that not a single policeman or soldier has been put on trial in connection with the killings.
"People have been picked up, called insurgents and killed. The climate of impunity means the police often don't register cases. You have to fix accountability. You cannot just suspend the right to live and kill people," says Babloo Loitongbam, a prominent human rights activist.
Eight years ago, the families of the victims joined hands with activists to do something about this "culture of impunity enjoyed by the police, army and paramilitaries". On a July morning in 2009, they gathered in a room in Imphal, shared their stories and starkly christened themselves the Extrajudicial Execution Victim Families Association.
Last July, responding to a petition filed by the families, the Supreme Court, in a landmark judgement, asked the petitioners to collect more information about the alleged murders. Even if the investigations revealed that the victim was an "enemy and an unprovoked aggressor", the judges said, it had to be determined whether "excessive or retaliatory force was used to kill the enemy".
So the newly empowered civilian "investigators" put out adverts and appeals in the local media, and began gathering information - and potential evidence - on the killings.
Some 900 families responded, bringing with them police complaints, post-mortem reports, funeral records and court orders related to killings. Volunteers - students, relatives of victims - spread out to each of the nine districts of the hilly state, collecting information. A local lawyer, working pro bono, helped with the legal work.
A year later, a dozen grey filing cabinets in the office were overflowing with more than 1,500 files, each devoted to a killing. In April, the victims handed over details of 748 killings to the court even as they worked on other cases. Sometime this month, the top court is expected to rule on investigating these cases.
The banal horror of death in Manipur is possibly unequalled in India. "It takes us a long time to raise our children. Then, when they grow up, they are shot. This cannot go on. We no longer want to look for our children in the morgue," a women's rights activist in the state once said.
Men disappeared or were picked up by security forces while going to the market to buy fertiliser for their farms, parts for cars, to rent a DVD or while waiting for a passenger bus. Others were killed on their way to meet girlfriends, while fishing in a lake, or simply having food in a restaurant. A woman was shot while she was feeding her baby girl.
Sometimes, security forces would simply break into homes, drag out suspects in front of their families and kill them.
That is what happened to Ngangban Naoba Singh, a 29-year-old theology student, on a still summer night in May 2009.
Naoba had returned home with his sister from a wedding late in the evening. The two were watching a film on TV, when their mother, Kamalini Ngangban, a retired census worker, joined her children.
"These late-night movies are not meant for elders. Go to sleep," Naoba joked.
Those were his last words.
Around midnight, Ms Ngangban woke up to "violent knocking on the door". Then she heard voices. Some people were trying to enter the house.
She rushed to her son's bedroom and woke him up, and tried to take him out of the back door. Did she think that they had coming looking for her son?
"I knew something was wrong. Naoba was so sleepy, I don't think he realised what was going on.
"The moment we stepped out of the back door, someone stopped us."
She saw silhouettes in the moonlight. She thought she saw 10 of them.
One man shouted at Naoba: "Where are you going?" He said his mother had asked him to come out.
Things quickly spiralled out of control in the dark.
The men "took away" Naoba, his parents were pushed back into the house, their phones were removed and the doors bolted from outside.
There was an exchange of words, some orders were barked out, and then shots rang out in the darkness.
"Stop him! Stop him!" somebody screamed. A vehicle was starting up behind the house.
Ms Ngangban hoped her son had managed to run away. It was pitch dark, and the family was confined inside the house for the rest of the night. When dawn broke, they found out that her son had been killed in their backyard and his body taken away in a vehicle.
"Even today, I don't know why he was murdered. I want to know the truth. If we did something wrong and tried to escape, they could have shot him in the leg," she says.
"You know, he was my favourite son. We used to go to the theatre together. My two other children live and work outside Manipur. Naoba was supposed to be the man of the house."
The police said they had cordoned off the house that night to search for Naoba, who they said was a member of an outlawed rebel group and an extortionist.
Three years later, a judicial inquiry report ruled there was no evidence to show he was either.
The judge ruled the police commandos had fired "indiscriminately without any attempt to arrest Naoba by following the rule of law prevailing in this democratic country". The Supreme Court is now hearing the case, and is to decide on compensating the family.
Staying at home was no guarantee that your life was secure. Oinam Amina Devi, for example, was shot by paramilitary soldiers while she was feeding her one-month-old baby girl in her house in April 1996.
The soldiers had chased a suspected rebel who had run into her tin-roof village home and hidden under the bed. Amina, who was on the veranda, panicked and ran inside with her baby when she saw the soldiers running in. When she tried to shut the door, the soldiers opened fire. A bullet pierced her and exited, then entered her baby.
The bleeding daughter was taken to hospital where surgeons removed the bullet. Her mother died instantly.
There were demonstrations in the area and the family refused to accept Amina's body after the post mortem. Her corpse was taken back to the police station and later cremated. Under pressure, the government announced an inquiry.
The investigation concluded that the firing was "unprovoked, unwarranted and indiscriminate". The government submitted the report to the Supreme Court and the family received a compensation of 50,000 rupees.
Today, the daughter, Oinam Sunita Devi, 20, lives with her father who married again.
"I cannot explain my sadness. I miss my mother and I sometimes wonder how I survived. This is my fate," she says.
The police and security forces have, for the most part, maintained that the encounters are genuine and the victims were militants killed in counter-insurgency or anti-terror operations.
The government told the top court last year that some "5,000 militants were holding some 2.3 million people of Manipur to ransom and keeping people in constant fear". It said 365 police and paramilitaries had been killed by the rebels between 2000 and October 2012.
But things have become murkier after a police commando Herojit Singh admitted to journalists in January last year that he had shot dead an unarmed, suspected rebel inside a bustling Imphal market in 2009. In a chilling interview in July he admitted to killing more than 100 people and that he kept a "tally of his kills" in notebooks.
When I met him last month in a hotel room in the city, the 36-year-old policeman, son of a government worker, said he was battling depression. He said he hadn't slept at all at night for two years. He had also survived a road accident in the city; many feel someone may have tried to kill him as he had made too many enemies.
When I asked him how many people he had killed, he said: "I don't remember the details."
"Was it more than 100 people?" I asked.
"Yes."
He said he felt no remorse for the killings, and he was ready to face any punishment.
"I was simply doing my duty and following the orders of my seniors. I confessed because I thought it was important to tell the truth," he said.
Life has been difficult after his confession. Detectives from the federal Central Bureau of Investigation are investigating the killing of 23-year-old Chungkham Sanjit in the market and questioned the commando more than 10 times. Herojit Singh has been suspended a number of times for "indiscipline and grave misconduct", and then reinstated.
By day, he spends time with his children, helping them with their homework. When his pet chicken fell ill recently, he says he panicked, clasped it to his chest and ran with it to the vet.
Nights are brutal. "I dread nights. I wish I had my own sun, which I could put in the sky and there would never be any darkness," he says.
Yumnam Joykumar Singh, the former chief of Manipur police, and now the deputy chief minister of a newly-elected government ruling the state, says Herojit Singh is exaggerating his role in the killings.
"He's bluffing. He was possibly involved in 10-15 encounters. But he's claiming he has killed so many people. Let the courts ask him how many cases he was present in."
Mr Singh, who earned a reputation for being a firm and unyielding policeman, says rights groups are exaggerating the number of fake encounters.
"There might have been a few cases [of] extra-judicial killings, but I don't think the numbers being quoted are that many. If 1,500 people had been killed illegally, there would have been more protests in the state," he told me.
During his time as the chief of police, Mr Singh beefed up the force - from 20,000 to 34,000 policemen - and made it "the leading force" to fight insurgents. He said militancy and extortion had led to a near-collapse of public order in the state, and he told his policemen: "If you have a weapon, you can fire back."
"That is how we fought the insurgency."
Bringing up the dead is not easy. Memories fade. Potential evidence - post mortem reports, police complaints - yellow and crumble with age. Hope waxes and wanes. Time heals wounds, but also allows for reflection, and gives you renewed purpose.
So, emboldened by the Supreme Court's intervention, the families of victims in Manipur have plunged into an unexpectedly fierce fight for justice, in many cases years after they lost their loved ones. The killings have stopped, but there have been no punishments for the crimes yet.
The families have stirred with a newly-found collective courage, not because they have great hope in an egregious and slow-moving criminal justice system.
Many say they don't want their children and families to be permanently tainted by fake allegations about their fathers, brothers, sons, daughters and wives. They know the crimes and misdemeanours of a family member can easily taint all born within it.
"I kept fighting because of my sons. I don't want people to call them children of a militant. I had to clear my dead husband's name to protect them," says Ms Neena Nongmaithem.
"And, yes, the dead should not be completely forgotten."
But they're not the only record breaking bakers in the world - here's Newsround's pick of the biggest and the best food creations...
In February chefs in Guadalajara, Mexico, broke a world record by making a line of tacos nearly two miles long. A team of 130 cooks were together for six hours to create the masterpiece.
At eight and a half metres tall, this is the largest handmade Easter egg in the world. It was made in April in Argentina, South America, and 8,000kg of chocolate - that's about the same weight as two elephants - was used to make it.
Bakers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, served up a massive 450-metre-long cake to celebrate the city's 450th anniversary in March. The cake was made from around 30,000 eggs, 2,500 bags of flour and lots of butter, and took 10 bakers three days to make it.
The largest gingerbread house was made in Texas, USA and was not something that would fit in your regular baking tin! In fact it was 18.28 m long, 12.8 m wide and 18.28 m tall at its highest point. Money raised from visitors was given to the local hospital.
Sixty French and Italian bakers worked nearly seven hours to bake this record-breaking 122 metre-long bread. They used a specially designed portable oven to bake the dough and had to be very careful that the massive baguette didn't break.
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That's what's happening right now in China, where 61 million children live apart from their mums and dads.
Newsround has this special report on why it happens.
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"I don't believe that any of the people who get sued intentionally set out to do it," said the star, whose own hits include Jolene and Here You Come Again.
"I always worry about it so much when I write. You don't set out to try and steal anything, but it can happen."
However, she added, writers who do infringe copyright "should pay up".
Parton was herself at the centre of a copyright case in 1985. Husband and wife team Neil and Jan Goldberg sued her star for $1 million, saying she had copied their song Money World on the hit single 9 To 5.
The couple claimed they had given the song to Jane Fonda, who played it to her co-star in the movie of the same name.
A jury threw the claim out after just 35 minutes deliberation, deciding unanimously that there was "no similarity" between the two tracks.
There has been a noticeable increase in the number of plagiarism cases since 2013, when Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke were found guilty of copying Marvin Gaye's Got to Give It Up on the single Blurred Lines.
Ed Sheeran is currently fighting two copyright cases, over the songs Photograph and Thinking Out Loud; while Led Zeppelin recently won a case accusing them of using an obscure instrumental track as the basis for Stairway To Heaven.
Separately, Sam Smith gave Tom Petty a credit on his single Stay With Me, after similarities were pointed out between that song and Petty's I Won't Back Down.
Speaking to the BBC, Parton agreed with this practice. "You should at least give them the credit if it is that close," she said.
But she stressed that songwriters can't help but be influenced by the things around them.
"Especially in music, because there's so much of it. If you write all the time, you're going to collect those things and not know it.
"I'm always horrified of that. If something sounds familiar, I think, 'Oh my goodness, what is that?' Then I'll track it down and, in my case, it's usually just one of my own songs!"
The country legend has just released a new album, Pure & Simple, which is accompanied by a recording of her performance at the Glastonbury Festival in 2014.
She said the performance was "one of my greatest memories" and a "highlight of my career".
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The gaming giant said that existing games built for other Nintendo platforms like the Wii U and 3DS will not be transferred.
While the emphasis will be on making new games for mobile handsets, all of Nintendo's intellectual property will be "eligible for development".
This includes popular game characters such as Super Mario, Zelda and Pokemon.
The two firms also announced plans to launch an online membership service in the autumn of 2015 which will give members access to their accounts across multiple platforms, including smartphones and PCs.
"Nintendo's decision to partner with DeNA is a recognition of the importance of the games app audience to the future of its business," said Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at analysts IHS.
"The Nintendo-DeNA alliance is a good fit and offers up a number of important synergies for two companies that are no longer leaders in their respective segments."
Last year, gaming apps were worth $26bn (£18bn) in consumer spend but handheld console games accounted for just $3.3bn, according to IHS figures.
"The main challenge will be knitting together the cultures of both companies and aligning the speed of development and iteration that is needed in the mobile space with Nintendo's more patient and systematic approach to games content production," added Mr Harding-Rolls.
"How the new games are monetised may also provide a challenge considering the general differences in models used in retail for Nintendo and through in-app purchases for DeNA."
The case was sparked by Athlone 3-1's defeat at Longford Town on Saturday.
Now the FAI has announced it is looking at two other Athlone matches.
A Uefa report published by the Irish Times claims "clear evidence" the Longford result "was influenced" for the gain of "corrupt profits".
Data collated by Sportradar, which monitors suspicious betting patterns, was passed to Uefa, European football's governing body, after the game.
The FAI said on Wednesday that it had written to both Athlone Town and Longford Town.
It also said it will interview Athlone's players, coaches and officials from Monday, and had passed information from Uefa's report on to police.
On Friday, it said two other games would be investigated after it received confidential tip-offs.
Uefa's report highlights betting activity in Saturday's match just before half-time and just before full-time as being particularly suspicious.
"Entering the final 15 minutes of the first half at 1-0, betters exhibited a wholly suspicious confidence in at least one further goal being scored prior to half-time," it said.
"Odds were failing to increase against all logical expectations, despite the clear time constraints on this outcome occurring."
Longford increased their lead to 2-0 in the 40th minute, and Athlone scored to make it 2-1 three minutes later.
Odds on a fourth goal being scored also failed to lengthen as full-time approached, before Longford netted in the 93rd-minute, according to the report.
"Such was the overwhelming strength of this entirely one-sided confidence that odds as late as the 89th minute implied it was more likely than not that at least one further goal would be scored," the report added.
"The betting evidence ultimately indicates prior knowledge of Athlone Town suffering a minimum two-goal defeat, in a match which contained at least two first-half goals, and at least four goals in total."
Athlone Town released a statement in which they strongly denied being involved in match-fixing.
It read: "The club absolutely abhors match-fixing and would never knowingly get involved in such unacceptable activity.
"The club will be fully co-operating with those conducting the investigation, and look forward to meeting with FAI officials next week.
"Should any of the allegations be upheld, the club will take action against any wrongdoers."
Uefa says it has a dedicated integrity division which tackles corruption and match-fixing.
"We are completely committed to eradicating match-fixing, a disease that attacks football's very core," it said.
Work began last September to re-model the road near the Posthouse roundabout and the £5.3m overhaul was due to be completed by March.
But the Highways Agency said work would now finish on 10 May, blaming drainage and bridge strengthening problems.
Wrexham MP Ian Lucas said the road works have caused major disruption.
He said: "While it was inevitable that some delays will occur when a large project like this is carried out, I do think that there have been real problems with the way these works have been managed."
Last month, the agency said a 24hour a day operation was under way to complete the road by March.
But it has now admitted the deadline will not be met.
"We are sorry about the delay to the completion of the scheme and we understand the frustrations felt by drivers experiencing delays at the junction," a Highways Agency spokesman said.
"We will continue to work closely with our contractors to minimise the impact on road users in the area."
It depicted the official budget website with "science" typed into its search field, and the response: "A software error has occurred."
On Twitter, people from the country's scientific community also commented more seriously on the absence of the word "science" in Treasurer Joe Hockey's speech. Others noted the lack of any mention of climate change.
While medical research received a large injection of funds, university research funding was cut, as was financial support for co-operative research centres, which bring industry and scientists together to forge solutions to some of the biggest environmental, social and economic challenges facing the country.
The Australian Academy of Science was quick to point out that, although some scientific endeavours were singled out for cash injections, overall investment in science would continue to decline.
"As the mining boom slows, this should be a time of growth in science funding to allow us to better prepare for the knowledge economy we need. Instead our future prosperity is at risk," Academy president Prof Andrew Holmes said.
On the back of deep cuts to the nation's science agency, the CSIRO, in 2014 and consequent staff losses estimated at more than 20%, Australia's scientific community has been reeling from an increasing sense it is being sidelined.
Nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in the field of climate change research, which continues to be questioned even at the most senior levels of government.
On Sunday, Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce expressed his scepticism that the weather was affected by human-induced climate change in a television interview with conservative News Corp blogger and commentator, Andrew Bolt.
"There's an ebb and flow in temperatures all the time," he said, when questioned about climate forecasting from what Mr Bolt described as the "warmist" institutions of the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology.
The chief business advisor to Prime Minister Tony Abbott made headlines across the country last week when he penned a newspaper opinion piece arguing climate change was a ruse co-opted by the UN to take control of the world and end democracy.
Maurice Newman, the chairman of Mr Abbott's Business Advisory Council, was writing in The Australian, News Corp's conservative national broadsheet.
"This is not about facts or logic," he wrote. "It's about a new world order under the control of the UN. It is opposed to capitalism and freedom and has made environmental catastrophism a household topic to achieve its objective."
Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt distanced himself from Mr Newman's comments.
"It's not been something that I've expressed," he said. "It's not something that I would express."
While the Australian government officially accepts that human-induced climate change is occurring, the prime minister has made a number of public statements on the phenomenon in the recent past, including that it is "absolute crap".
When the current administration came to power in 2013, Australia was without a science minister for just the second time in more than 80 years. The portfolio was finally teamed with industry more than a year later.
Leading climate change expert Prof David Karoly said fear of further funding cuts under the Abbott government was such that scientists within the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology were now self-censoring.
"There's considerable nervousness in the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO about making statements about climate change," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report contributor and chapter editor said.
Prof Karoly said Australia had entered an era where only a "selective trust of science" existed.
The nation's chief scientist, Prof Ian Chubb, did not disagree. But he said he would be "appalled" if scientists were censoring their findings.
"I hope that we would never get to that position where scientists fear telling people what they need to know," he told the BBC.
The so-called climate deniers represented "a very small drum beaten loudly", Prof Chubb said. He described Mr Newman's recent opinion piece as drivel.
Speaking to the BBC before this year's budget was handed down, he expressed hope for a bright future for Australian science despite recent funding cuts.
"Of course I was disappointed in last year's funding cuts," he said. "No matter how you portray them they were disappointing."
It was inconceivable to be a prosperous country and responsible global citizen without high-quality science, even if research had to be strategically prioritised should funding continued to be rationed, he said.
The Minister for Industry and Science Ian Macfarlane said much the same - and denied any CSIRO scientists were censoring their findings.
"The Australian government continues to make strategic, targeted and smart new investments in Australia's science and research capacity, including almost $70m in the additional funding in the 2015-16 budget for the nation's leading scientific research organisations to build world-class infrastructure that will create stronger connections between research and industry," a spokesman for the minister said.
The reigning champions are 14th in the Premier League having lost eight of their 15 matches this season.
It has been reported that Mourinho could be sacked if the Blues fail to win their next two games.
"There is no point in sacking one of the best coaches of all time," said Ferguson.
"He has sacked so many coaches in the last 10 years. I am sure he has learned by it.
"He has to trust and have confidence that Jose can turn it round. In every country he has managed in he has won the big trophies.
"It would be foolish to sack him. It would be bad management."
Mourinho returned to Chelsea in the summer of 2013 and won the league and Capital One Cup in his second season, adding to the two league titles, FA Cup and two League Cups he won during his first spell at the club from 2004 to 2007.
Between his stints at Stamford Bridge he won four major trophies with Inter Milan and two at Real Madrid.
"Now is the first time he has been confronted with non-success during his whole career," said Ferguson, speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt London event.
"For the first time in his life he has had to deal with bad publicity and adversity and that is a challenge.
"But there are signs they are getting back to a balance, although they lost on Saturday.
"All good leaders will eventually find a solution. I know the guy and I know the work he has done in football and I can't see it lasting long."
On Monday, 14 December, Chelsea's next league game sees them travel to league leaders Leicester, who are two points clear at the top of the table under manager Claudio Ranieri and 17 ahead of the Blues.
Ferguson said: "This is a big opportunity for them. The way they are playing, they could win the league.
"They have a challenge now of whether they can go the whole way with this current squad. If I was Claudio Ranieri I would want investment in January."
Australian Neville Sharp unofficially broke Essex-based Paul Hunn's record on Tuesday with a 110.6 decibel belch.
But unwilling to surrender his crown, Mr Hunn returned fire with a 117.9 decibel burp just one day later.
Neither record has been verified by Guinness World Records, which still lists Mr Hunn's previous champion burp of 109.9 as the world's loudest.
For comparison, a chainsaw or leaf blower emits approximately 110 decibels, while an ambulance emits around 120 decibels.
Mr Sharp, from the Northern Territory town of Humpty Doo, told the BBC on Friday that Mr Hunn's new record would be "a hard challenge to beat" and likened it to the Ashes of burping.
He said he discovered his gift for producing ear-bursting burps when he was six years of age, and boasted that he once belched so loud that it shook the walls of Western Australia's Karratha Tavern.
"My sister taught me how to gulp the air down and I figured out you could store a bit more in there with a can of soft drink," Mr Sharp said.
"I've made constant improvement, but find a nice cold beer followed with an icy cold glass of water as a chaser helps."
Mr Sharp said he had considered challenging for the world title for many years, but was recently inspired after "dropping a few" at the local Humpty Doo tavern.
Despite the challenge laid down by his rival, Mr Sharp says that he will attempt to reclaim the record in late-April, early May.
Councils in England are already allowed to charge an extra 2% to fund social care, but the figure could be raised.
The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said councils face a £92m "black hole" in social care budgets next year.
It said councils would continue to call for social care to be fully funded centrally by the Welsh Government.
For the first time this year, councils in England have been able to add 2% to council tax bills through an extra charge called the social care precept.
It is understood the UK government could confirm later this week it will grant permission to increase the precept to raise even money.
No such system has been introduced in Wales.
The WLGA said cuts to social care budgets have been lower in Wales than in England, but added that authorities still faced a £92m black hole for in funding for social care in 2017-18.
It said council tax would have to rise by 8% to cover the gap, equivalent to 6% of the entire social care budget of £1.6bn in Wales.
Currently, there is an informal cap of 5% on council tax increases in Wales.
A spokesman for the WLGA said: "The social care funding crisis in England shows what happens when the system becomes chronically underfunded.
"Placing the burden on the council tax payer is not a long-term solution for a problem which requires a more sustainable approach.
"In Wales, social care budgets are forecast to double by 2031 to keep up with demand, according to a recent report by the NHS Foundation.
"In 2017-18 alone, councils in Wales are facing a £92m pressure, half due to the demographics of an ageing population and half due to workforce pressures such as the National Living Wage.
"Councils are having to absorb these pressures next year but we will continue to call for them to be fully funded centrally."
The Welsh Government has said next year's provisional budget gives local authorities a "stable platform", and it expected local authorities to limit the impact on taxpayers when council tax levels are set.
The 22 councils will share £4.1bn of central funding next year, a cash increase of £3.8m on 2016-17 but a real terms cut once inflation is taken into account.
The former Llanelli scrum-half won his only cap for Wales in a 6-0 win over Australia in December 1947, selected in place of the injured Haydn Tanner.
Greville died on Friday evening at Prince Phillip Hospital, Llanelli.
In 2008, aged 87, he was the oldest living captain to attend the final game parade at Stradey Park.
Greville was born in Drefach and played for clubs including Carmarthen Athletic RFC and Swansea RFC before joining Llanelli.
He captained the team in the 1948/49 season and later served as secretary, chairman and president of Llanelli RFC - the only man to hold all three positions.
Scarlets expressed their deepest sympathies following his death and the club said Greville's funeral will be held in his home town.
Access to Honour of Kings is now restricted to one hour a day for children aged under 12 and two hours for children between 12 and 18.
The limits were put in place after the government-owned People's Daily labelled the game "poison" and called for more regulations.
Also translated as Kings of Glory, Honour of Kings is a fantasy role-playing "multiplayer online battle arena" game.
It's very similar to another Tencent game, League of Legends, which is the world's most popular PC game.
There are a few differences. Unlike League of Legends, it's based on Chinese historical characters. It's also specifically designed for play on a mobile platform.
This is a key reason it's so popular in China, where many gamers don't have access to a games console or PC at home.
The app is free to download, but players pay to upgrade their characters or costumes to help them advance to the next level.
Estimates about how much an average player spends vary from about $1.50 to $6 a month.
That doesn't sound like much, but it all adds up in a game with more than 50 million monthly active users.
Parents and teachers worry that children are becoming addicted to the game.
While hand-wringing over gaming is nothing new, Honour of Kings has drawn particular scorn from the government-owned People's Daily newspaper, which called it "poison" and a "drug" that harms teenagers.
It also called for tighter regulatory controls of online games.
Tencent's revenue model depends on getting existing gamers to spend more time on their products.
Its last annual report says its strategy is to turn casual gamers into "midcore" or "hardcore" gamers.
Tencent made $7.2bn in the first quarter of this year, and more than half - about $3.9bn - came from gaming.
Two titles dominate its catalogue. League of Legends is its biggest title globally, but in China Honour of Kings is its highest grossing mobile game.
Chinese gaming industry database CNG estimates the game generated about $810.5m in the first quarter of this year. That would equate to about 11% of its total revenue.
Tencent is a huge company. Besides gaming it's in payment services, social media and messaging apps (notably the phenomenally successful WeChat).
The great majority of Tencent's business is in China, so it's vulnerable to regulatory changes there.
This could add to investor anxiety. After Tencent brought in the time limits, its shares fell 4%, wiping $12bn off its market value. But shares have rebounded slightly since then.
As a whole, the company has grown more than 40% over the past year, and it says the limits won't have much impact on the bottom line, because children under 12 are only a small part of its user base.
Stacey Burrows, 16, and Lucy Pygott, 17, were out training in Aldershot, Hampshire, when they were run over by Michael Casey on 8 November.
He admitted causing their deaths by dangerous driving.
Casey, 24, said he had been distracted because a colleague had been sick in his car earlier that evening.
Winchester Crown Court heard the soldier had been driving his black Ford Focus at 40mph in a 30mph zone near his barracks and had been looking at his colleague's vomit in the moments before hitting the girls.
Casey, of St Paul's Road, Tottenham, London, said he then looked up to see a red traffic light at the crossing and "felt" a collision and saw the two girls in the road.
The court heard that in a police interview Casey admitted drinking three or four pints of lager as well as a two-pint pitcher of a cocktail called Godfather which contained three 25ml shots of Jack Daniels and the same amount of Disaronno Amaretto.
The court heard a friend who was on the crossing in Queen's Avenue with the girls had shouted at them to run when he realised the car was not going to stop.
Lucy, who was from Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, had won a 3,000m bronze medal at the European Youth Championships in July while Stacey, from Farnborough, was the Hampshire under-17 3,000m champion.
In an impact statement read to the court, Lucy's mother, Lisa Pygott, said: "Mr Casey has broken our precious family, we are lost without Lucy.
"The British army trains soldiers to kill - Mr Casey killed with his loaded weapon of a hot-hatch car."
Mrs Pygott described seeing her daughter's bloodied body after the crash and said: "That image traumatises me, it will stay with me until I die. No parent should ever have to see their innocent blameless child pointlessly killed."
Stacey's father, Lee, told the court he had just dropped his daughter off at the athletics club when he heard the crash.
He said: "I heard a loud bang and screams and ran down the steps frantically looking for Stacey only to be stopped by one of the parents who told me, 'it's Stacey'.
"Then I saw Stacey lying in the road with people trying to help her. I felt I died with Stacey that night, I cried with fear and I froze with shock."
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Casey, who pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, was also disqualified from driving for 10 years.
His six-year jail term means he should be released on licence after three years.
As the sentence was announced, Stacey's mother shouted from the public gallery: "I do not get my daughter back in three years, do I?"
Following the hearing, an Army spokesman said: "All those who fall short of the Army's high standards can expect to be dealt with administratively up to and including dismissal from the service."
Graham Ibbeson, who sculpted the Morecambe monument, will design and create a statue of Victoria Wood in Greater Manchester.
Wood's brother Chris Foote Wood set up a crowdfunding appeal for the statue having been inspired by Ibbeson's creation.
Bafta award-winning Wood died from cancer in April last year aged 62.
Mr Wood said: "I am very pleased indeed that we have been able to obtain the services of Graham Ibbeson.
"It was his statue of Eric Morecambe that first inspired me to try to get something similar for my multi-talented and much-loved sister Victoria."
Mr Ibbeson said he was honoured and delighted to be chosen adding: "Her unique humour was a product of 'Northern roots', unpretentious, accessible, and well observed.
"I will try to mirror all these qualities in my sculpture by trying to capture the warmth of her character and personality, and also reflecting the nation's affection [and indeed mine] for her unique talent."
The monument to the Prestwich-born star will be erected in Library Gardens, Bury, on a site provided by Bury Council.
Council leader Rishi Shori, said: "Victoria visited Eric Morecambe's statue several times and admired Graham's work, so it is very fitting for him to be creating this tribute to such a talented star."
The statue of Eric Morecambe on the was unveiled by the Queen in 1999 on the resort's seafront.
A letter from the prime minister has been delivered to the European Council, invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and triggering the UK's exit.
Northern Ireland MEP Diane Dodds, from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), said it was a "good day for democracy".
But Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson said triggering Brexit was a "disaster".
Both parties were on opposite sides of the debate during last year's EU referendum campaign and are currently embroiled in a political crisis at Stormont.
Northern Ireland's devolved government collapsed in January after Sinn Féin pulled out of a power-sharing coalition in protest at the DUP's handling of a botched green energy scheme.
'Absolute fiasco'
The parties' two MEPs clashed over Brexit and its implications for the Irish border, international trade and farm subsidies on the BBC's Talkback programme.
Mrs Dodds said: "This is a good day for democracy; a good day for the principles of free and fair government; a good day for us to restore the sovereignty of our national law-making in Westminster and in the devolved settlements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales."
The DUP MEP added that everyone needed to realise that "Brexit is a reality".
She called on those who campaigned for and against leaving the EU to set aside "divisive rhetoric" and work together to get the best deal for Northern Ireland.
However, her Sinn Féin counterpart said: "This is a disaster, an absolute fiasco."
Ms Anderson added: "What was are dealing with is the potential reinforcement of partition, I think the DUP knew that and that's why they advocated to leave."
She accused the DUP of "arrogance" over the uncertainty facing farmers, who currently receive a "substantive amount of funding" from the EU.
"We have got an absolutely fantastic clean, mean, green farming constituency that's recognised across the world," Ms Anderson said.
"And anyone that's being fooled by the notion that the British government is going to replace the Single Farm Payment... there is not a hope in hell, in my opinion, that a hostile, hawkish British government - a Tory administration - is going to replace that.
"I feel sorry for those farmers who believed the DUP's spin."
But Mrs Dodds said the Westminster government had confirmed that it would "continue to support farming".
She said that, under a commitment made by Chancellor Philip Hammond, "any funding from Europe that already is there - in terms of farming, in terms of direct support - up until 2020 is still there".
"That's as far as we can go in terms of the European Union," Mrs Dodds added.
Earlier this month, Ms Anderson made a controversial speech in the European Parliament during which she told Prime Minister Theresa May to stick the Irish border "where the sun doesn't shine".
Asked if she regretted her choice of phrase, Ms Anderson told Talkback she had been expressing the "mood and the views" of border communities.
"I stand over the language that I used," the Sinn Féin MEP said.
"It may not have been the language that other people would have used, but it was reflective of the deep, genuine feelings and fears that I am meeting on a daily basis."
However, Mrs Dodds said Brexit negotiations could deliver a "seamless border" between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
"There is no reason why we cannot employ technology, why we cannot employ goodwill - and remember it is in the interests of the Republic of Ireland, as much as it is in the interests of the rest of the United Kingdom to make sure that the border is as seamless as we can possibly make it."
The DUP MEP added: "Already, as part of our opt out from the Schengen Agreement - which is the borderless travel area for the rest of Europe - the European Union allows some extra external controls at the outside borders of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
" I don't think it's a step to far to actually make that a reality, post-Brexit."
You can watch a special TV programme on Article 50 on BBC One Northern Ireland on Wednesday 29 March at 19:00 GMT. "Brexit - What Next" is hosted by Andrew Neil and Tara Mills.
Lasers and intense pulsed light (IPL) are used for hair, spot and tattoo removal and skin treatments.
Six of the 19 premises inspected in the last year were asked to voluntarily stop providing treatments until concerns had been addressed.
HIW found issues which it thought could "potentially pose risks" to patients.
Five of the six have decided to stop providing laser treatment.
The majority of treatments are provided within beauty salons, clinics and tattoo parlours, with 73 registered with HIW.
The inspections in 2015-16 included several clinics and beauty parlours in Cardiff, three in Swansea and two on Anglesey.
Although HIW - in an annual summary of its work in this area - said most patients were "very satisfied" with their experiences, it found "a significant number of areas for improvement across the services we inspected".
Despite the clinics and salons getting a month's notice of inspections, shortcomings were still found.
Many were asked to improve areas like guides to patients and procedural and policy issues; some were not properly aware of regulations or were told to update staff training.
Cases highlighted in the report:
Alun Jones, director of inspection, regulation and investigations at HIW said the five which had now de-registered "felt the requirements of the regulations were too much of them so they withdrew their service".
"The six and final service was able to reassure us that it had taken the necessary action to provide safe care."
Dr Kate Chamberlain, chief executive of HIW said: "It was concerning to find that not only did many of the services we inspected lack systems to ensure they are complying with the regulations, most lacked understanding of their responsibilities and how this applied to the services they provided."
Last year, BBC Wales found the number of cosmetic laser clinics being investigated for not being registered had increased significantly.
A total of 14 of these premises have now registered or are in the process of registering and another 11 are still being investigated.
HIW has promised follow-up inspections for those it saw in the last year and urged those in the industry "to learn from the findings in this report".
A hearing ahead of a full inquest into the death of Alexander Perepilichny was told both men gave evidence to prosecutors in Europe before they died.
In each case, their evidence involved alleged links between Russian officials and organised crime.
Mr Perepilichny died after collapsing near his Surrey home in 2012.
Last week, the official inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko concluded he had been poisoned in London in what was probably an operation of the Russian intelligence agency, the FSB - probably approved by President Vladimir Putin.
Richard Galpin, BBC World Affairs reporter said those conclusions had inevitably heightened interest in the Perepilichny case.
The death of Mr Perepilichny, 44, in Weybridge, was originally attributed to natural causes, but traces of a rare poison found in the gelsemium elegans plant were later found in his stomach, the hearing was told.
This has still to be confirmed and the inquest, originally due to take place in September last year, has been postponed again to allow for full tests on the toxic plant and results of tests on Mr Perepilichny's spleen.
Like Mr Litvinenko, Mr Perepilichny had apparently received threats, particularly after handing over sensitive documents to London financial firm Hermitage Capital Management.
This led to the freezing of foreign bank accounts belonging to a group of Russian officials suspected of laundering millions of dollars after a massive tax fraud.
Woking Coroner's Court also heard about other parallels with the Litvinenko inquiry.
Henrietta Hill QC, representing Hermitage, said there were documents the police wanted kept secret, including British intelligence reports directly related to Mr Perepilichny and to an organised criminal group which may be "directly relevant" to his death.
And she said the case was so important it had been discussed by the home secretary and shadow home secretary.
Surrey Police has said it is its duty to suppress certain documents from a public inquest.
The force wants to keep 35 documents secret on security grounds.
Lawyer for Surrey Police, Dijen Basu QC, said people should not speculate about what was in the secret documents because they could be completely wrong and he said the material was not relevant to the inquest.
He said: "It is not a cover up. We are going to show you each of these documents so that you will see them. There is no cover-up here."
Coroner Richard Travers rejected calls to refer the case to the chief coroner so it could be considered for a hearing before a High Court judge.
He said he would fully consider the documents under public interest immunity legislation and make a ruling at a later date.
He also said he would appoint independent counsel to advise him during the inquest, which is expected to start in September.
Legal costs related to the corruption scandal which engulfed the organisation and "ill-considered previous investments" contributed to the losses.
The latest financial results follow a loss of nearly £100m in 2015.
Fifa forecasts a financial recovery in 2018, when Russia hosts the World Cup, and expects to finish the four years since 2014 with an £80m profit.
The governing body, which is still under criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States, paid out nearly £50m to lawyers last year.
Former president Sepp Blatter's investments in a football museum and hotel in Zurich have proved unsuccessful so far, too, and are referred to as "ill-considered".
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Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team went to the man's aid in the incident in Clachaig Gully.
The man, who was flying a parachute-like wing, was injured and had to be airlifted to hospital by a rescue helicopter.
Glencoe MRT said the speed flyer was in a stable condition in hospital and expected to make a full recovery from his injuries.
The incident happened earlier this week.
The 21-year-old Colombia centre-back has agreed a six-year deal subject to receipt of his work permit.
Spurs' previous record was the £30m paid to Newcastle for France midfielder Moussa Sissoko in 2016.
Sanchez becomes the Premier League club's second summer signing after goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga joined from Southampton on Wednesday.
He joined Ajax from Atletico Nacional in June last year on a five-year deal and made 32 appearances for the club.
He also played in last season's Europa League final defeat by Manchester United and was named the Dutch side's player of the year in May.
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Kaitlyn Regehr, 30, was travelling home on the 207 bus towards Acton on 6 October when a man grabbed her.
Ms Regehr wrote on Instagram: "Last week I made a post in order to find a stranger who stood up for me on a bus.
"Last night, I got to meet and thank this Good Samaritan and all-round awesome dude."
On 9 October, she took to social media to try to find the stranger who - when she was "grabbed" by a man - insisted it was "not acceptable".
She wrote: "You said, 'She could be your sister. She is someone's sister', and in doing so you made me a person. You made us a community."
In her latest post, she said: "The experience surrounding last week's post has been a surprising and powerful one.
"I am grateful to all who helped make this meeting happen; as well as to the Metropolitan Police, who have been really supportive. Most of all, I am grateful to the many who shared their own stories."
Magistrates sitting at Swindon granted Wiltshire Police the extension until early on Monday morning.
A 47-year-old man arrested on Thursday has been named locally as taxi driver Christopher Halliwell.
Miss O'Callaghan's body was found in Oxfordshire after her suspected killer guided detectives to the spot.
On Friday police were given an extra 24 hours to question the suspect and a new extension was granted on Saturday morning.
The suspect remains at Gablecross Police Station in Swindon.
Searches for a second body have been taking place in Gloucestershire.
Det Supt Steve Fulcher, of Wiltshire Police, said officers were searching near Eastleach for the body of an adult.
"Wiltshire only has one outstanding missing adult and that's from several years ago," he said.
Miss O'Callaghan, 22, from Swindon, had not been seen since leaving a nightclub in the Wiltshire town in the early hours of last Saturday.
Police arrested the 47-year-old man at an Asda supermarket in Swindon on Thursday.
Later that day Miss O'Callaghan's body was found about 15 miles (24km) away near Uffington in Oxfordshire after the suspect took officers, including Mr Fulcher, to the site.
The man also took officers to the area near Eastleach, Gloucestershire, where searches continue.
Police have been using mechanical diggers to excavate the corner of a field near the Oxfordshire-Gloucestershire border in their hunt for the second body.
Det Ch Insp Sean Memory, who is leading the search at that site, said officers had received "relatively specific" information from a man held in connection with Miss O'Callaghan's death but that no remains had yet been found.
"We were given some indication of where there might be a find. Of course, it isn't as simple as that," he said.
A Wiltshire Police spokeswoman said that floral tributes placed outside the Suju nightclub by Miss O'Callaghan's friends and well-wishers will be moved from the doorway because the club plans to open on Saturday night.
Miss O'Callaghan's family have agreed that the tributes can be moved, she added.
1. Sian last seen leaving Suju nightclub at 0252 GMT on 19 March to walk half a mile home to flat she shared with her boyfriend in Westmorland Rd.
2. Police search Savernake Forest from where signal from her phone was detected - her boyfriend had texted her at 0324 GMT the night she disappeared.
3. Police arrest 47-year-old taxi driver at Asda supermarket in Swindon's Orbital Centre on 24 March. Suspect's house in Ashbury Avenue is also searched.
4: On 24 March, suspect leads police to shallow grave at White Horse Hill, Uffington where Sian O'Callaghan's body is found.
5. The following day, 25 March, police search for second body at Eastleach, Gloucestershire.
The main opposition figures are boycotting after their demands for electoral reform were not met.
There are concerns that the boycott could affect voters turnout.
Mr Deby, who has faced two attempted coups since the last polls, has recently mended relations with Sudan, where rebel fighters were based.
The BBC's former correspondent in Chad, Celeste Hicks, says this has helped to restore security and it is significant that Monday's election is taking place in relative peace.
Chad became an oil-producing nation in 2003, but remains one of Africa's poorest countries.
Mr Deby is facing two challengers: a lawyer, Nadji Madou, and a former agriculture minister, Albert Pahimi Padacke. However, both are relatively unknown.
Many voting stations in the capital, N'Djamena, opened late because of the late arrival of voting materials and staff, the AFP news agency reported, quoting witnesses.
By Celeste HicksBBC News
For many Chadians, Monday's election is a foregone conclusion. With three of the most popular opposition politicians not taking part, it seems unlikely that Idriss Deby will face much of a challenge from the two candidates who are standing. Nadji Madou is a newcomer on the scene, a wealthy lawyer from the south; he may hold some appeal to younger voters, but lacks political experience. Albert Pahimi Padacke has a longer political career, but most of that has been as a minister in Mr Deby's government.
The apathy evident in some voters seems in part to spring from disaffection with February's legislative elections which many feel were badly organised. The rest is frustration with an electoral system that has consistently failed to offer real choice since Chad made the transition to multiparty democracy in the late 1990s.
Although President Deby will feel that he has shown Chadians the benefits of his 20-year tenure, including oil income spent on new hospitals, roads and schools - and perhaps more importantly bringing an end to the disastrous rebellions sponsored by Sudan - Chadians' real feelings will emerge when its known how many of the 4.8 million registered voters actually turn out.
Three of Chad's more prominent opposition figures, Ngarlejy Yorongar, Saleh Kebzabo and Wadal Kamougue, pulled out of the race after a list of demands to improve the electoral process was not met.
Most serious of these was a request to reprint voters cards, after Mr Kebzabo found a number of pre-dated cards on sale in N'Djamena's main market.
Some results from recent legislative elections were also annulled after the country's constitutional court found irregularities.
A coalition of rebel groups has also called on people not to vote, describing Mr Deby as the "Sultan of Chad".
He has been in power for more than 20 years after seizing power in a military coup, and changed the constitution in 2004 to scrap the two-term presidential limit.
Attempts by other African leaders to stay in power for more than two terms have proved unpopular - in neighbouring Niger the president was last year ousted by the army after he tried to extend his rule.
Since Chad's last elections rebels have twice travelled 1,000km (about 600 miles) from the east to the capital to overthrow Mr Deby, angered by his decision to change the constitution.
They were supported by the Sudanese government, which was unhappy with Darfuri rebels taking sanctuary in the east of Chad.
A rapprochement between Chad and Sudan in 2010 has helped bring peace to the region.
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Former triathlon world champion Stanford, 27, finished fourth in the event at this summer's Olympics in Rio, just missing out on a medal.
She wanted to run in the 10,000m at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, but did not compete in Glasgow because of injury.
"We're not sure how doable that is right now," Leeds-based Stanford told BBC Sport.
"They haven't, as far as I know, released the qualifying time or the timetabling to see if it's possible to double up.
"It's a different challenge and something a bit fresher and maybe [I can] look at a few different types of racing."
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Stanford was ruled out of Glasgow 2014 by a stress fracture in her left ankle and hopes to make her Commonwealth Games debut in two years' time in Gold Coast, Australia.
Swansea-born Stanford will be in action at this weekend's ITU World Triathlon Series grand final in Cozumel, Mexico with compatriot Helen Jenkins also on the start line.
She is keen to put her Olympic disappointment behind her, having been beaten to the bronze medal by British team-mate and housemate Vicky Holland.
"It was a tough couple of weeks and I had mixed emotions," Stanford added.
"Vicky was third and I was absolutely delighted she was able to bring a medal home, but at the same time managing your own disappointment.
"For both of us it's been a bit of a rollercoaster but the most important thing to us is that whatever happened at the Games we would still be friends.
"For me, it means there's unfinished business with the Games.
"I'm still only 27 so it's not unrealistic for me to aim for another four years.
"I'm settled into the mindset that I will still be around in four years' time trying to win a medal for GB there."
Bachchan said he was "honoured" to be asked to carry the flame and that it was "a proud moment for me and the country".
The actor was part of a relay team carrying the torch.
The 69-year-old star has acted in more than 180 films and remains India's most popular actor.
"Honoured to be asked to carry the Olympic torch in London at Southwark around 10:30 BST," Bachchan tweeted on Wednesday evening.
The star is not the only Indian celebrity to be associated with the London Olympics.
Oscar-winning music composer AR Rahman has teamed up with Danny Boyle, artistic director of the opening ceremony, to compose a track for the pageant, reports say.
Rahman has written on his Facebook page that he has composed a "track in Punjabi celebrating the Indian influence in the UK".
"It's a part of a medley in the Olympic opening ceremony, according to Danny Boyle's creative wishes", he wrote.
The 25-year-old went missing after attending a party at a caravan site in Ballyhalbert on 28 February 2005.
Police believe she was murdered but have yet to find her body.
Lisa's father and sisters have recorded a video message specifically addressed "to the person who was with Lisa at the moment she died".
In her plea, Joanne Dorrian says: "Think about what happened when Lisa died, how you panicked and made a decision that would change your life and our lives forever."
She also spoke of the recent deaths of her mother and grandmother, and how distressing it was that they both went to their graves without knowing what had happened to Lisa.
Lisa's mother, Pat Dorrian, died in December 2015 and according to her family she "never ever got over losing Lisa" and "couldn't even function on a daily basis".
"The thought of her daughter out there with no grave tortured her, as it must do you," Joanne Dorrian said in her appeal.
She added that their grandmother, who died two weeks ago, spoke of Lisa on her deathbed.
"One of the last things she said to me as she was leaving this earth was that Lisa was at the end of her bed and was waiting with her," Joanne said.
"Our nanny and mum now have the answers we are trying to find. But you can help us find Lisa in this life, not the next."
John Dorrian said: "My daughter Lisa deserves to be found and laid to rest with her mum."
Addressing the person he believes was the last to see Lisa alive, he added: "It's never too late to tell us. A place is all we need.
"Please help yourself by easing your conscience. Tell us where Lisa is."
In their 12-year investigation, the Police Service of Northern Ireland have carried out 275 searches and taken statements from 571 people.
They made eight arrests on suspicion of Lisa's murder, but no-one has ever been charged with the killing.
During the early part of last year, they spent weeks searching land outside Comber, but did not find human remains.
The officer leading the inquiry, Det Ch Insp Justyn Galloway, said the victim's family and friends had suffered "intolerable grief".
"They cannot even begin to move on with their lives until her body is found," he said.
"Sadly Lisa's mother passed away last year without getting the answers she so badly wanted, but the nightmare still goes on for Lisa's father and three sisters"
He added that the murder inquiry "remains a live police investigation" and appealed for information.
The Dorrian family's appeal has been posted on their campaign website and across the PSNI's social media accounts.
Chloe Thomas, 25, originally denied neglecting Finley, who was found with "catastrophic" injuries at their home near Tonypandy in September 2014.
She changed her plea and was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.
Her boyfriend Sean Buckley, 28, was jailed for life after being found guilty of child cruelty and murder.
Buckley had claimed Finley fell down the stairs but he was found to have carried out a "deliberate" attack on him that included hitting him with a garden chair.
The toddler died after suffering a catalogue of injuries that included a fractured skull and broken ribs.
When he was sentenced in June, a judge told Buckley he must serve a minimum 17 years but said he may never be released.
In mitigation, Sally Howes said that while Thomas admitted neglect and allowing cruelty, she did not carry out an assault herself.
The defendant was described as being of "low intellectual capacity" and "a proud mother" before she started a relationship with Buckley.
A post-mortem examination found Finley also had illegal drugs in his system and while Ms Howes said Thomas did not administer these, she admitted exposure to them was "unacceptable by anyone's standards".
She asked for a custodial sentence to be suspended because Thomas was suffering from a "delayed grief reaction".
But, in handing her a 20-month term, Judge Frances Patterson said: "You should have been caring for your son and not closed your eyes to his deteriorating condition."
Head of NSPCC Cymru Des Mannion criticised Thomas for failing to protect her son from the "horrific abuse he suffered at the hands of Sean Buckley".
He said: "Everyone who followed this case would have been deeply affected by hearing the evidence of brutality that blighted Finley's life and it is right that his mother has been jailed for her part."
Mr Mannion said he hoped a detailed review of the case would help provide answers about what had happened.
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The Scottish champions face the Spanish giants in their first group match, but Rodgers insists it is not a "free game" given the low expectations on his side.
"We understand the difficulty," said the Northern Irishman. "We want to enjoy it, but we want to get a result."
He paid special tribute to Barca's Luis Suarez, calling him the "best striker in the world" and "a beautiful man".
Much of Rodgers' pre-match chat was a paean to Spanish football and, in particular, Barcelona and the extraordinary Suarez.
He described the La Liga champions' attack of Suarez, Argentina forward Lionel Messi and Brazil's Neymar as "arguably the best front three of all time" - but he singled out the Uruguay international he worked with for two years when in charge of Liverpool.
"At this moment in time, Luis is the greatest striker in the world," said Rodgers.
"First of all, when you speak about him, you have to speak about the man. Luis Suarez is one of the most beautiful men you could come across. He's a very humble guy who works tirelessly at his profession.
"The biggest compliment you can give him is he came into an already world-class team and he made them better. When I see them play now, Barcelona would not be the same without Luis Suarez in the team.
"To stop him? It's very, very difficult. Like all world-class players, they always find the space.
"You can have all the tactical ideas and systems, you can park two double-decker buses in front of goal, but the world-class players always find the space."
Rodgers recalled coming to Barcelona a decade ago with his son and said he is a "huge admirer of everything the club stands for".
"I took him here for his 13th birthday and he's now 23 and a professional footballer himself," he said. "I have a great love of how the club operates and the values they have here."
The love song to Barca continued - but for all the compliments about a great rival, there was confidence in his own team as well.
"We're not here just to be a passenger," Rodgers added. "If you want that easy-easy life then it's not the level to be playing at.
"When you want to be successful, you always put pressure on yourself.
"Barcelona test you physically, tactically and mentally. Their style of play over the last 30 years tests you - and it's a challenge we're relishing.
"Better teams than us have found it difficult, but we're looking forward to it."
Rodgers played down Barcelona's travails from the weekend, when a team without Messi and Suarez in the starting XI lost at home to Alaves, a shock result that had some local press speculating about internal strife at the Nou Camp.
Luis Enrique, the Barca coach, dismissed that in his own news conference, but there is pressure on the home team not just to win - Celtic are 33-1 to win and 11-1 to draw - but to win well.
"Their loss can be a positive for us, but it can also work the other way," said Rodgers. "You can waken up a team with a result like that."
Firefighters were called to Burnhead Crescent in the south of the city at about 00:50.
They managed to rescue two people from the house, who were then treated by paramedics. But one of them died later.
The fire was extinguished by 03:30. A joint investigation by the police and fire service has been started.
Boss Bob Bradley was seeking an assistant after succeeding Francesco Guidolin in October, and had added Pierre Barrieu to his backroom team.
Williams, 45, was in temporary charge of Nottingham Forest at the end of the 2015-16 season and left in May.
"I am excited to have another guy on the field alongside me and [first team coach] Alan Curtis," American Bradley explained.
"He has done a lot of on-field coaching, and that's what we are looking for."
Williams played in the Premier League as a defender and midfielder for Coventry City and Southampton. He has signed a two-and-a-half year contract at the Liberty Stadium.
He started his playing career at Derby County and also had a spell at Stoke City and was briefly with American outfit Richmond Kickers.
Having moved into coaching he has had experience with Wolves, Aldershot, Southampton, Brentford and England youth teams.
Williams took charge of the England U20s side last year and enjoyed four wins in his five games, against Iran, Nigeria, USA and Germany.
"I am excited about having the chance to work with Paul," said Bradley.
"There have been discussions from the start about adding one more member of staff so that we would have one more coach on the pitch every day.
"The first month here was very busy, but this international break has given us the opportunity to finalise discussions and we are pleased that Paul can join us.
"He gained a lot of Premier League experience in his playing days, while he has also done a lot of good work as a coach.
"For instance, he helped bring through some very good players during his time at Southampton, while everything I have heard about the work he did with England has been positive."
Williams is confident that Swansea can avoid the drop, despite being joint-bottom of the Premier League.
"Without a shadow of a doubt we can do well this season," he said.
"It has not been an ideal start, but it is in situations like this where you find out about players and about the club.
"It's our job now to dig deep and make sure we can an impact in the Premier League.
"The good thing is that there is still a long way to go in the season. We still have a lot of games in front of us so we have the opportunity to turn things around.
"It's an honour to come and be part of the set-up at Swansea City and I cannot wait to get going."
Mr Farage said he had "massive" support from MEPs, donors and party members to continue in the role.
He suggested one unnamed person, whom he did not name, was "agitating for change".
"He hasn't had the courage to break cover but he must make his mind up," he said. "Is his future with UKIP or not?"
The party has been beset by wrangling since Mr Farage agreed to stay on as leader after failing to get elected in Thanet South - despite pledging before the election that he would quit the party if he failed to get elected to Parliament.
The party got nearly four million votes at the general election, but returned only one MP - Douglas Carswell in the Clacton constituency.
Two senior advisers to Mr Farage quit on Thursday, while election campaign chief and MEP Patrick O'Flynn said the UKIP leader had become "snarling and aggressive" during the election campaign - although he has said he should remain in the job.
Speaking on Friday, Mr Farage attempted to flush out his critics in the party, claiming that they were only "two or three people" and that he had the overwhelming support of the party's 47,000 members and leading donors.
"Every single one of our major donors came out in support of me yesterday. The national executive is united. The leader of our group in the House of Lords, the leader of our MEPs, the Scottish committee, the Welsh committee. I have never had support like it."
He added: "It is difficult to get more support than I have got. Even Patrick O'Flynn, who made some personal comments which were not particularly pleasant, said he 100% supports me as leader."
The party's ruling committee rejected Mr Farage's resignation on Tuesday, saying that despite winning only seat in the election that its campaign had been a success.
Addressing the turmoil of recent days, Mr Farage said suggestions that UKIP was in a state of civil war were "ludicrous" and only a handful of people were unhappy about his leadership.
"Two or three people need to make their mind up. Are their futures with UKIP or not? This is really about a Conservative attempt and a Conservative lobby to try and destabilise UKIP and to use one or two people within who are disaffected".
He added: "There is one senior figure in UKIP briefing every single day and he has now moved on to say there must be a leadership election. And that individual must make his mind up whether his future is with UKIP or not."
Party chairman Steve Crowther said there was "100% support" for Mr Farage and he was the most "expert and qualified" man to lead the party in the run-up to a referendum on the UK's future in the EU.
Asked whether Mr Carswell backed Mr Farage, he said it was "something he would have to explain".
Mr Carswell was involved in a dispute with other UKIP figures about whether the party should accept £650,000 in so-called Short money due to opposition parties in the Commons - which UKIP has decided against doing.
He later re-tweeted critical comments about Arron Banks, one of UKIP's leading donors and most vocal supporters of Mr Farage.
Mr Farage's latest comments came less than an hour after one of the party's MEPs, Steven Woolfe, urged the party to "pull together" and draw a line under the "squabbling" of recent days.
The rules encourage "vloggers" to label advertising content and explain when they have been asked to feature products sent to them by companies.
The Committee of Advertising Practice (Cap) has issued its first guidance since a landmark Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling last year.
The ASA said several vlogs praising Oreo biscuits were not clearly marked.
The ruling was originally sparked by a BBC Newsround report into vloggers' lack of clarity on advertising rules.
The Cap guidelines discuss several scenarios in which text clarifying that content is sponsored, or that a product placement arrangement is in place, might be added to videos.
"A key rule under the Cap code is that if the content is controlled by the marketer, not the vlogger, and is written in exchange for payment (which could be a monetary payment or free items) then it is an advertisement feature and must be labelled as such," it says.
Cap also advises brands collaborating directly with vloggers to be equally clear that the resulting content is a form of online marketing.
Similarly, vloggers advertising their own products need to make viewers aware of this before they begin watching, via the title of the video.
In a statement, Shahriar Coupal, director of Cap, said: "Wherever ads appear we should be confident we can trust what an advertiser says; it's simply not fair if we're being advertised to and are not made aware of that fact."
However, the guidelines noted that when free items are sent to vloggers without any editorial or content control over videos exerted by the brand in question, there is no need for them to follow the Cap code.
Those calling for greater clarity on the issue have welcomed the move.
Riyad Barmania, at vlogger talent company ChannelFlip said that ever since the Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA) ruling against vlogs celebrating Oreo biscuits, his company has been working with the authority to check that content meets current guidelines.
"It's been difficult speaking to YouTube creators not to have some official guidelines," he said. "It's great to have that clarity."
He added that vloggers are, generally, quickly becoming more aware of the rules.
"A lot of YouTube creators are much more savvy and aware of branded content rules than they were a few years ago," he explained.
Co-editor of online vlogger magazine TenEightyMagazine.com Alex Brinnand says vloggers will probably benefit from the clarifications.
"I definitely feel there should be a clearer message given to users," he said. "They're not sure where these rules are coming from and who's policing them.
"If YouTubers are doing it wrong it's because they don't know better."
The influence of today's vloggers hasn't gone unnoticed.
They are increasingly viewed as role models by teenagers, according to Your Life, a government-backed campaign encouraging young people to choose maths and physics at A-level.
Nearly a quarter of 11 to 19-year-old girls (24%) view well-known fashion and beauty vlogger Zoella as a role model, according to a recent report published by the group.
"Because YouTube is part video distribution platform and part social network, it allows viewers at home to feel very close to the personalities they watch," said Jonathan Davenport, digital content consultant for Your Life, in a statement.
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It comes a year after the bank reached a $5.6bn settlement with the US government over mortgage loans extended to US homebuyers before 2008.
Profits at its consumer banking division, the bank's largest unit, rose 5% from a year ago to $1.8bn.
Residential mortgage lending rose by 13% to $17bn.
"The key drivers of our business - deposit taking and lending to both our consumer and corporate clients - moved in the right direction... and our trading results on behalf of clients remained fairly stable in challenging capital markets conditions," said Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan.
The bank, which has paid more than $70bn in legal expenses since 2008, said its legal costs fell for the third quarter in a row, dropping to $231m from $6bn a year earlier.
Separately, US bank Wells Fargo reported its first profits rise for three quarters, with the results helped by its acquisition of commercial loans from General Electric earlier this year.
Net income edged up 0.65% from a year ago to $5.44bn in the three months to the end of September. with revenues up 3% to $21.9bn.
However, its mortgage banking revenue fell 2.7% to $1.59bn.
Earlier this year, Wells Fargo bought a portion of GE's commercial real estate loans worth $9bn, which helped to boost profits in the latest quarter.
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She was known for films including 1994's Priest, 1997's Face and 1999's Ravenous, all starring Trainspotting actor Robert Carlyle.
Carlyle, writing on Twitter, said: "Such a sad day today. RIP Antonia Bird. Farewell my beautiful friend."
A statement from her partner said Bird, who had the rare anaplastic thyroid cancer, died peacefully in her sleep.
She had had an operation to remove a large tumour in April, the statement added.
"Despite a determined fight, she had come to terms with the inevitable in the last few weeks and died peacefully in her sleep," it said.
Bird's TV credits included Spooks, Cracker and, more recently, BBC One's The Village, starring John Simm.
She began her career as a theatre director at London's Royal Court before making episodes of TV programmes including EastEnders and Casualty in the mid-1980s.
She won best single drama TV Baftas for 1993's Safe - a story about homeless teenagers written for BBC Two's Screenplay series - and Care, broadcast in 2000, which dealt with sexual abuse in a children's home.
She also won a Bafta children's award for the 2009 BBC documentary Off By Heart, about a national poetry competition for schoolchildren.
Other awards included best film at the Berlin International Film Festival and the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival - both for Priest.
The film, written by Cracker and The Streets creator, Jimmy McGovern, tells the tale of a Catholic priest's crisis of faith. It received a cinematic release ahead of its transmission on TV as part of the BBC's Screen Two series.
Her 1995 Hollywood film Mad Love starred Drew Barrymore and Chris O'Donnell as a teenage couple on the run.
Bird's friend, writer Irvine Welsh, paid tribute on Twitter to "top Bird" who he said made "amazing films".
Her production company 4Way Pictures was formed with Welsh, Carlyle and film-maker Mark Cousins.
In a 1999 interview with the Guardian, Bird said she enjoyed working with British actors because they "arrive on the set and they have an idea of what they want to do in the scene".
"They've thought about it, they come and offer you something as a director," she added.
"And, generally, to get a good performance out of an actor you go with that offer, because that's going to be truthful."
She said that, by contrast, American actors "arrive on set a blank book".
"Now that's fine, that's their tradition, but as a British director it's absolutely terrifying," she said.
John Simm said that 1994's Priest had had a "profound" affect on him as a young actor.
He added: "She was a passionate, attentive and incredibly trusting director.
"Her brilliant work on The Village is a beautiful example of her talent and it's a tragedy that it turned out to be her last.
"Antonia was a unique and wonderful talent and a truly lovely person - she will be greatly missed."
Peter Moffatt, writer of The Village, said he was "completely devastated" by Bird's death.
He said: "Film-making is a collaborative process and it doesn't work if the writer and director don't trust each other. I trusted Antonia completely."
The BBC's drama commissioning controller Ben Stephenson said: "Starting at EastEnders, Antonia worked her way up to become one of the best directors in the country working across television and film, including the remarkable Priest.
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Criminal investigators from Sri Lanka are believed to have visited Hong Kong looking for them, their lawyer said.
The Sri Lankan police have denied the allegations.
Law enforcement authorities from mainland China or other countries have no jurisdiction in Hong Kong.
The lawyer representing the men, Robert Tibbo, said that at least two officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Sri Lanka police visited Hong Kong in December looking for them.
"We have become aware of Sri Lankan police taking active steps to locate my clients," he said, adding: "They identified themselves to members of the Sri Lankan community in Hong Kong. They carried photographs and files."
Sri Lankan police spokesman Priyantha Jayakodi said the allegation was "a complete lie".
"We have not done any investigation in Hong Kong or any other country on any refugee case," he told BBC Sinhala.
However Mr Tibbo said the evidence came from Sri Lankans living in Hong Kong who were approached on the street in late December by people who carried official identification.
His clients fed and housed Mr Snowden for two weeks in June 2013 when he fled the US after leaking thousands of documents belonging to the US National Security Agency (NSA).
The former IT contractor subsequently left Hong Kong for Moscow.
The names of the asylum seekers, Kellapatha Supun Thilina and Debagma Kankanalamage Ajith Pushpa Kumara, were revealed last year by Mr Tibbo, ahead of the September premiere of the film Snowden by the director Oliver Stone.
He said that it would have been difficult to keep their identities secret after the film's release.
Mr Tibbo believes the Sri Lankan government began investigating the asylum seekers shortly afterwards.
The lawyer says Sri Lankan officials may have noted the disappearances of the Causeway Bay booksellers and the Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua - who some fear may have been forcibly taken from Hong Kong to mainland China.
"With the Hong Kong government not holding Beijing accountable, and the lack of transparency, this amounts to an invitation to other governments in the world," Mr Tibbo said.
"That their security forces, their police officers are welcome to come into Hong Kong and investigate and do similar things," he added.
Two local lawmakers, Charles Mok and James To, have called for an investigation.
"I am very concerned about this case," said Mr To, a member of the pro-democracy Democratic Party.
"Nobody can come and enforce the law in Hong Kong except Hong Kong officials. Nobody can come in breach of Hong Kong law."
The asylum seekers have since moved to "safer" locations and have notified Hong Kong's immigration department.
They also plan to file a police report.
Mr Thilina, who arrived in Hong Kong in 2005, said he was frightened by the news.
"I am nervous and scared. I don't have a normal life now," he said.
His compatriot, Mr Kumara, an army deserter who served as an informal bodyguard to Mr Snowden in 2013, was also worried for his safety.
They are concerned about the prospect of being removed from Hong Kong and forcibly returned to Sri Lanka, where they say they could face violence and torture.
Mr Tibbo represents both men, along with Mr Snowden and Vanessa Rodel, an asylum seeker from the Philippines who also gave refuge to the US whistleblower in Hong Kong.
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The 25-year-old centre made his first start since September in Saturday's 48-10 win over London Welsh, following hamstring and shoulder problems.
But he was stretchered off the field after only nine minutes after suffering a serious knee injury.
Trinder must now undergo surgery on the problem and will be sidelined until at least the summer.
Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys told BBC Radio Gloucestershire: "We're so disappointed to lose Henry to another injury.
"More so for him. He's put so much work into this year to get back from two previous injuries. He's owed a little bit of luck."
Humphreys is optimistic Trinder will be fit enough to start the 2015-16 Premiership season, as it begins late in October because of the Rugby World Cup.
"He'll have a long pre-season and hopefully he'll be back into good shape again for the start of the new season," Humphreys continued.
Swindon-born Trinder has played 94 games for Gloucester since his debut in the 2007-08 season.
He was one of three uncapped centres in Stuart Lancaster's England squad for the autumn Tests last year, but was forced to withdraw through injury.
Emergency services were called to the scene, on the B9071 between the villages of Aith and Voe, at about 17:00 on Monday.
The man was taken to Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick for treatment but Police Scotland said he died on Tuesday morning from his injuries.
The road was closed to allow a collision investigation to take place.
Sgt Donald MacKinnon said: "Our thoughts are with this man's family at this very sad time.
"I would appeal to anyone who was in the area around the time in question and saw either vehicle to please get in touch on 101 as we establish the circumstances surrounding this incident.
"The road will remain closed while a collision investigation team carry out enquiries at the scene and I would like to thank the public in advance for their patience."
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Crouch, 30, agreed a four-year deal to complete a busy day for the Potters, who also signed Wilson Palacios from Spurs and Birmingham's Cameron Jerome.
Stoke have paid an initial £10m, but the fee could rise to £12m dependent on the fulfilment of various clauses.
"These fantastic deals are a statement of this football club's intent," said City's chief executive Tony Scholes.
"The club has made incredible strides forward over the past five years and to attract players of this calibre shows our ambitions as we look to continue that progress this season and beyond that."
Manager Tony Pulis added: "There has been a real buzz of excitement around the city about where this club is going since we reached the FA Cup final and then started our Europa League adventure.
"These signings certainly add to that great sense of anticipation.
"Peter has an excellent goalscoring record at the highest level. His goals-per-games ratio for England is remarkable and he scored seven goals in 10 Champions League games for Tottenham last season, which gives you an idea of his pedigree."
The tumour originated in a single dog 11,000 years ago but outlived its host by transferring to another dog - and is still on the march today.
An international team led by Cambridge scientists mapped its progress based on DNA from 449 tumours in 39 countries.
Some of the cancer's more recent travel between continents, they found, aligns with maritime trade routes.
But apart from reflecting the shared migration history of dogs and humans, the tumour's genetic history includes a surprising quantity of DNA pilfered from its hosts.
The findings, reported in the open access journal eLife, are based on mitochondrial DNA - small, circular chains of genetic information parcelled up in mitochondria, the "batteries" of cells.
And the study centres on a rare but recurring event: at least five times during the tumour's poisonous coexistence with millions of dogs through the ages, it appears to have traded mitochondrial DNA with its host.
"Normally the dog is a transient host - and then the tumour gets passed on to more dogs. But what has happened occasionally is that DNA from the dog actually enters the tumour cell," explained Dr Elizabeth Murchison, a Wellcome Trust Investigator at the University of Cambridge and the paper's senior author.
"So rather than carrying the mitochondria of the original dog that lived 11,000 years ago, the tumour is now carrying the host dog's mitochondria. And it's going to pass those on to the next dog."
Those five wholesale transfer events create five major ancestral groups or "clades" for the tumours that exist today. By further analysing the gradual, piecemeal mutations that accumulate during the rest of the cancer's history, Dr Murchison and her colleagues built up a family tree and a clear picture of the disease's journey around the planet.
Known as canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT), the cancer can affect any breed of dog and is usually found in the animal's genitals. From there it is easily transmitted during sex, and is currently found in dogs on six continents.
It is one of just a handful of infectious cancers known to science, including the face tumour threatening Tasmanian devils with extinction.
Because all CTVT cells can be traced back to a single dog some 11 millennia in the past, it is regarded as the oldest and most prolific cancer lineage in nature.
A previous study showed that the tumour was able to steal DNA from its host dogs.
Dr Murchison, working with a large international team, conducted a thorough search for such genetic thievery.
"Every time the DNA from the host dog has been picked up, that acts as a little genetic flag for us," she told the BBC.
One such event, dated to about 500 years ago, spawned cancerous progeny in a tell-tale, transcontinental pattern.
"We were able to estimate the time since the mitochondrial transfer events, by counting the number of mutations. And one of them really seems to just track around maritime trade routes, in the last few hundred years.
"We found it along the coast of West Africa, in the Cape Verde islands, Brazil, South Africa, India, and some parts of southern Europe.
"You can kind of imagine those dogs on boats, which must have taken that tumour around with them."
For the geneticists involved, the highlight of this large study was a cancerous specimen from Nicaragua which showed something never seen before: not only had the tumour pinched some mitochondrial DNA from its canine host, but the two sequences had been spliced together.
This "recombination" is a routine part of how the regular DNA in our chromosomes gets jostled around - but evidence of it happening in mitochondria is rare and controversial. Many researchers "still don't really believe" it is possible, Dr Murchison said.
And it has never been seen in the mitochondria of a cancer cell.
"Mitochondrial DNA recombination could be happening on a much wider scale, including in human cancers, but it may usually be very difficult to detect," said Máire Nà Leathlobhair, co-first author of the study.
"In human cancer, the tumour's mitochondrial DNA is likely to be very similar to the mitochondrial DNA in the patient's normal cells, so the result of recombination would be almost impossible to recognise."
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Hundreds of people gathered around Castletown harbour to watch brave competitors race their customised bathtubs over a 400m course.
Nick Cain was crowned men's world champion for the third time while Erika Cowen claimed her 16th women's title.
The event has raised more than £150,000 for local charities since it began.
Competitors use decorated tin baths like small paddle boats.
Kapil Dogra, aged 34, of High Street, Addlestone, Surrey, has been charged with one count of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a female to engage in sexual activity.
Police said the 18-year-old was allegedly attacked just off London Road, Datchet, shortly after leaving the railway station on 12 April.
Mr Dogra is due to appear at Slough Magistrates Court later.
The winger touched down early and again in the last minute, with Sam Hidalgo-Clyne kicking 13 points to add to a second-half penalty try.
Treviso have lost all their league matches this season but did cross through full-back Luke McLean.
The victory is Edinburgh's third in a row in the league after back-to-back wins over Glasgow Warriors.
Edinburgh thought they had made the perfect start when Hoyland dived over the tryline with only five minutes played, but the wing had lost the ball forward.
They did not have to wait long to open the scoring, with Hidalgo-Clyne knocking over a straightforward penalty after a succession of infringements by the Italians.
The home side were utterly dominant in the opening exchanges and were rewarded with the game's first try.
A rolling maul from the forwards put Treviso on the back foot, and when the ball was spun wide Hidalgo-Clyne floated a pass to Cornell Du Preez, who showed silky hands to pop a pass for Hoyland to dive over.
Hidalgo-Clyne nailed the touchline conversion to give Edinburgh a 10-point lead that their display in the opening quarter deserved, although James Ambrosini responded with a penalty for Treviso to reduce the arrears.
The Australia-born fly-half knocked over another three-pointer shortly after to reduce the gap to four points as Edinburgh surrendered the initiative somewhat.
Hidalgo-Clyne burst back into life on the half-hour with a searing break, and was only denied a superb try by a last-ditch Sam Christie tackle.
Despite losing all 11 of their Pro12 matches this season, Treviso were making life difficult for Edinburgh - just as they had done against Glasgow Warriors at Scotstoun last month - and the score at the break remained 10-6 to the home side.
Much of Edinburgh's spark was coming from Hidalgo-Clyne, and the Scotland scrum-half slotted two penalties in quick succession to re-establish a 10-point lead.
The capital side were generating no shortage of possession or promising attacking positions, and the Italians were testing the patience of referee Gary Conway by conceding a steady stream of penalties to halt the Edinburgh momentum.
They gambled on the referee's leniency one too many times as Conway awarded a penalty try after a dominant Edinburgh scrum was collapsed close to the Treviso line. Hidalgo-Clyne added the extras to give Edinburgh a cushion at 23-6.
Heading towards a 12th straight league defeat this season, the visitors, to their credit, refused to merely roll over and accept their fate. They worked an overlap to send McLean over in the corner, and Ambrosini kicked the touchline conversion to bring Treviso back within 10 points.
The final stages were punctuated by the whistle of referee Conway as the match petered out as a spectacle, but there was one final flourish for the home side.
Hoyland crossed the line as the clock struck 80 minutes to claim Edinburgh's third try. Greig Tonks' conversion came back off the post; frustrating as a successful kick would have taken Edinburgh above Scarlets in the table.
The real frustration though will be the failure to secure a four-try bonus point their superiority perhaps deserved.
Edinburgh: Jack Cuthbert, Dougie Fife, Michael Allen, Matt Scott, Damien Hoyland, Greig Tonks, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne; Rory Sutherland, Neil Cochrane, WP Nel, Anton Bresler, Alex Toolis, Mike Coman (captain), John Hardie, Cornell Du Preez.
Replacements: Stuart McInally, Allan Dell, John Andress, Jamie Ritchie, Magnus Bradbury, Sean Kennedy, Blair Kinghorn, Andries Strauss.
Benetton Treviso: Luke McLean, Andrea Pratichetti, Sam Christie, Alberto Sgarbi, Simone Ragusi, James Ambrosini, Chris Smylie; Matteo Zanusso, Roberto Santamaria, Salesi Manu, Filo Paulo, Jeff Montauriol, Marco Barbini, Alessandro Zanni (captain), Robert Barbieri.
Replacements: Ornel Gega, Cherif Traorè, Alberto De Marchi, Tom Palmer, Francesco Minto, Marco Lazzaroni, Alberto Lucchese, Enrico Bacchin.
The doll was carried by the daughter of Johnathan Thurston, captain of the winning team, North Queensland Cowboys.
Thurston is an indigenous Australian, as was, for the first time in the league's history, his counterpart, Justin Hodges of the Brisbane Broncos.
It has been seen by many as a moment of inclusion and diversity.
Australian sport, in particular Aussie Rules football, has been marred by racism against indigenous players.
The country has also seen heated discussion on whether it should recognise indigenous people in its constitution, and repeal clauses that prevent people of a certain race from voting and allow laws to be made based on race.
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The match was the first time two Queensland teams had faced each other in the final.
Thurston also kicked the winning goal on Sunday which sent North Queensland to their 17-16 victory in extra time.
Australians on social media applauded the images of the emotional captain sitting on the pitch with two-year-old Frankie - wearing a Cowboys jersey - and her doll.
Some drew attention to the racism controversy affecting Aussie Rules.
Adam Goodes, an indigenous Australian who plays for the Swans, decided to take time out of the game after being plagued with booing whilst he was on the pitch.
Critics said the taunts were because Goodes was an unpopular player, but supporters said the 2014 Australian of the Year was being punished for being vocal on indigenous issues.
The booing came to a head after he performed a "war cry" dance during the May Indigenous round of Australian Football League (AFL), which celebrates the contribution of indigenous players.
His distress over the incident led to an outpouring of support for him.
Nova Peris, the first Indigenous Australian to win an Olympic gold medal, and now a senator in the Australian parliament, said at the time that the saga showed Australia "has a problem with the truth of Aboriginal people".
Speaking before the final, Australian Rugby League Indigenous Council chairwoman Linda Burney said having two indigenous captains in the final meant Rugby League was about to experience its "Cathy Freeman moment".
The Australian athletics star became the second indigenous Australian woman to win an Olympic gold, during the Sydney Games in 2000.
"It is a very significant moment in the sport of Rugby League, but in particular the story of Aboriginal participation in Rugby League," Ms Burney told The Australian on Thursday.
NRL welfare manager Dean Widders described it as a "milestone" that demonstrates the league appreciates indigenous players and "can provide a lesson to the wider Australian community".
Two schools were forced to close on Thursday and up to 700 homes were without water after the pipe burst at Cold Ash.
Thames Water said the reservoir was operating normally on Friday morning.
A spokesman said the water could appear cloudy for several hours because of bubbles in the pipework but the trapped air was harmless.
Between 600 and 700 residents in the postcode areas RG14, RG18 and RG20 were without water.
Bottled water was handed out at several locations.
Cold Ash St Marks Primary and Hermitage Primary School were closed, along with Cold Ash pre-school, which operates from Acland Hall.
Priors Court School was been affected but remained open.
Born Teuku Zakaria on 22 March, 1929 in the coastal state of Penang, he is regarded as a prominent icon of Malay entertainment.
P. Ramlee enjoyed fame across South East Asia, even reaching as far as Hong Kong and Japan.
He died from a heart attack, at the age of 44, in a shock to the nation.
"His artistic achievements left a permanent mark on the cultural history of Malaysia," read a statement on Google's website.
An actor, director, producer, singer-songwriter and composer, P. Ramlee wore multiple hats during his career. He contributed to more than 60 films and composed 250 songs.
One of his most famous films was Nujum Pak Belalang. Loosely based on a Malay folk tale, it tells the story of a man and his son who work together to help their village by posing as royal astrologers.
Google said that the doodle, available only on its Malaysia page, highlighted "the Malaysian legend's diverse artistry and shows him as people best remember him" referring to his thin moustache, chequered suit and with his head cocked slightly to the side.
He "was able to reach out to different classes of society, bringing people together with his brand of humour," Andrew Lim, music director of a classical radio station in Singapore told the BBC.
"His comedies use a brand of Malay which brings me back to my childhood. P. Ramlee was so brilliant as a comedic actor because he had perfect timing and was able to deliver his lines in the most natural way," said Mr Lim.
Growing up in Penang, P. Ramlee was said to have been a reluctant student who loved music and football.
However, his studies were interrupted by the Japanese occupation of Malaysia between 1942 to 1945 where he enrolled in a navy school and was taught to sing Japanese songs. After the war ended, he continued his musical studies.
A documentary released in 2010 showed how the entertainer had later been forgotten by the Malaysian entertainment industry and the public who felt his songs and films were no longer relevant or marketable.
"The reason why he became irrelevant was because during that time, there was an influx of other things like Hong Kong and Chinese movies so there was competition," said veteran Malay TV personality Najip Ali.
"He became lost as there were other directors who wanted to establish themselves. But the thing about him was that he was an amazing storyteller and could encapsulate that era."
The documentary also revealed that despite his success, P. Ramlee died penniless.
"While he loved making others laugh, he was someone who had led a very sad life," Mr Lim said.
Today, his contribution are widely honoured. Museums, halls, buildings and even a street in the capital Kuala Lumpur have been named after him.
Recently a musical about the work of P. Ramlee was performed, featuring new singers and composers.
"But after listening to it, you would know that the original songs were far more superior," Mr Ali said.
Sean Ghazi, a Malaysian actor who portrayed P. Ramlee in the musical called him a "Malaysian musical hero."
"He was our renaissance artist, a mixture of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin."
Reporting by the BBC's Heather Chen.
Jennifer Slack, 63, and her husband Graham, 62, were found with their wrists tied together on mud banks at Breydon Water, Norfolk last September.
An inquest in Norwich heard Mrs Slack had been suffering from depression following the death of her father.
Mrs Slack's GP practice was urged by the coroner to ensure urgent letter referrals were sent the same day.
The inquest was told Mrs Slack had been treated for depression and anxiety since the mid-1990s but became worse after her father died in spring.
After telling a nurse at Park Surgery in Great Yarmouth that she had questioned the point of life, Mrs Slack's GP wrote a letter on 27 September requesting an urgent psychiatric referral.
However the inquest was told the letter was not sent until the following day and was not received by mental health services until after her death.
Mr and Mrs Slack's bodies were recovered from Breydon Water on 29 September.
A note found by police in the couple's abandoned car said the pair were taking their own lives adding "My wife has anxiety and we feel there is no help".
The Norfolk coroner, Jacqueline Lake, who recorded a verdict of suicide, said she was satisfied the GP practice had since made the necessary improvements with regard to processing urgent referrals.
Dumfries and Galloway's Library and Archive Service has officially launched the service this week.
It contains images from amateur enthusiasts, local newspapers, aerial photographers, glass negatives and historical collections.
The site also contains video and audio clips and will be expanded in the weeks and months to come.
The View Dumfries and Galloway website hosts images of school classes, local farming life, street scenes and landscapes of the region.
Collection highlights include a postcard of the German air ship the Hindenberg over Drummore, the Lusitania off the coast of Galloway, the Queen Mother at Park Farm in Dumfries, JM Barrie with the cast of the Duke of Christmas Daisies and the Burns Statue inauguration in Dumfries in 1882.
The collection currently includes more than 3,500 images with photographs regularly added.
The library service hopes to encourage users to contact them via the website, with additional details on any of the images.
It said it would also welcome "any donations of photographs, cine or video with local content".
Hospira, which made the Symbiq Infusion System pump, had already discontinued the product for business reasons.
The devices were previously revealed to be hackable by an independent researcher.
The manufacturer told the BBC at the time that it was working with the FDA on a more secure system.
The FDA is urging healthcare facilities to switch to alternative infusion systems "as soon as possible".
Although no known instances of hacking have occurred, Hospira said in June that vulnerabilities discovered by security researcher Billy Rios were being investigated by the firm, in co-operation with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FDA.
Mr Rios recently published a blog post in which he claimed the security flaw had gone unfixed for over a year.
The FDA's statement said that the agency was continuing to investigate the issues but advised hospitals to take action now.
"FDA strongly encourages health care facilities transition to alternative infusion systems, and discontinue use of these pumps," it said.
In a statement, Hospira said it was continuing to work with the DHS and FDA regarding the security issues with their pumps.
In 2007 there were more than 400,000 Hospira pumps in use in hospitals around the world, according to the company's website.
Hospira was acquired by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in February 2015 in a deal worth $17bn (£11bn).
Japan shocked Pool B favourites South Africa on Saturday, winning 34-32 in Brighton with a stoppage-time try.
"It gave us an additional focus because they didn't just compete - they won," said Cotter. "As coaches we didn't get much sleep after the game.
"We expect them to be just as ferocious, just as driven and well-organised against us."
Scotland have won all four of their previous meetings with Japan, the most recent clash ending 42-17 at Murrayfield in November 2013.
But Japan have now leapfrogged the 12th-placed Scots in the official rankings after moving up to 11th.
"The result confirmed a lot of what we thought about them," added Cotter.
"I think everyone was impressed by their commitment. They got the result because they worked hard and with accuracy.
"They identified a number of things and will have prepared for us too, so we know we'll be getting something well thought out. We need to stay focused and concentrate from start to finish."
Grant Gilchrist thinks Pool B is now wide open after top seeds South Africa dropped points.
Selected to play alongside Jonny Gray in the second row, the Edinburgh lock said: "We have always had a lot of respect for Japan. We've been looking at them for a long time and could always see they were a top side.
"They showed that on Saturday and in terms of the group, it's blown it wide open.
"It changes the dynamic of the group. Looking from the outside you'd have expected South Africa to have won their first two games before facing us.
"But even the likes of Samoa, now that they have a win under their belt over the US, will be looking at South Africa and saying, 'We want to beat them as well'.
"We want to qualify and while the Japan result doesn't change what we want to do, it does change the mindsets of the other teams who thought South Africa would roll over all their games."
Scotland open their World Cup campaign against a side getting four days rest after their famous victory but Cotter thinks Japan will be in good shape.
"I think everyone thought their energy levels would drop after an hour against South Africa but they didn't," said the New Zealander. "Assuming anything from this team is just dangerous.
"The key is to stay switched on.
"We are gearing up for a game that will be high in intensity and it will be important to play quickly and think quickly."
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As vice-chairman of the powerful National Defence Commission (NDC) he had sat at the heart of the communist country's leadership.
His family ties - and close relationship with late leader Kim Jong-il - had been thought to have given him considerable influence over North Korea's young leader.
Some observers saw him as the power behind the throne, advising his relatively inexperienced nephew.
Images from the elder Kim's funeral showed Kim Jong-un walking beside a car carrying his father's coffin, Chang just a few steps behind him.
The purge of Mr Chang signals a major shake-up in the North Korean leadership.
Chang Song-thaek, a party veteran and administrator, had overcome a number of setbacks to secure his position at the heart of the leadership.
When the reportedly charismatic young man met Kim Jong-il's younger sister, Kyung-hee, at university, the two began a relationship.
Late President Kim Il-sung was against the union because the two came from different social cliques, and he forced Mr Chang to change universities.
But he gave in after his daughter pleaded with him and the two were allowed to marry. They had one child, a daughter, who is said to have died.
Mr Chang joined the administrative ranks of the Korean Workers Party (KWP) in the early 1970s and climbed steadily. In 1992, he was elected to the party's Central Committee.
A decade later he was firmly ensconced in the upper echelons of power, as a director of a department that oversaw all other government and military departments within the party.
At the time he was seen as one of the most powerful figures in the country. But his fortunes changed and in mid-2004, despite his place in the Kim family, he disappeared from public view.
One report, citing South Korean intelligence, said he was under house arrest in Pyongyang. Others suggested he had been sent for "re-education".
It is not clear what caused his removal from power, although analysts speculated that he had gathered too much influence.
Either way, he did not reappear until January 2006. After that, however, his rehabilitation appears to have been rapid.
In late 2007, Mr Chang became the head of a party department overseeing police and the judiciary.
State media increasingly reported his presence at Kim Jong-il's side on official visits around the country.
Observers also suggested that Mr Chang played a more prominent role when Kim Jong-il was incapacitated after his stroke in 2008.
With his appointment to the NDC in 2009, Chang's key leadership position was formalised. And he was further elevated in 2010 when he was named the top military body's vice-chairman.
At the time, the move was seen as putting key personnel in place to ensure a smooth transition from father to son in the event of Kim Jong-il's death.
When Mr Kim's death came less than two years later, Mr Chang figured prominently in state commemorations for the late leader.
Months later, in another sign of his apparent clout, Mr Chang met then Chinese President Hu Jintao in August 2012.
His visit to Beijing was seen as focusing on economic issues - a sign he may have wanted to reform North Korea's stagnant economy.
Mr Chang had "done a great deal of work to develop neighbourly friendship between China and North Korea", Chinese state media quoted Mr Hu as saying. The two sides later signed a raft of economic deals.
In December 2013 North Korean state media said Mr Chang had been removed from office for "criminal acts".
A meeting of the politburo of the Central Commitee of the ruling Workers' Party found he had "committed such anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts as gnawing at the unity and cohesion of the party".
"Chang pretended to uphold the party and leader but was engrossed in such factional acts as dreaming different dreams and involving himself in double-dealing behind the scenes," official reports said.
It was only a few days after this that Mr Chang appeared before a special military tribunal, which found him guilty of treason.
Describing him as "worse than a dog", the tribunal found he had "formed a faction as the boss of a modern day factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crimes as attempting to overthrow the state," the state news agency, KCNA, reported.
He was executed immediately.
Aside from signalling major changes to North Korea's leadership, his dramatic fall also raises questions over who now has the ear of the young leader Kim Jong-un.
Farmer Phillip Armstrong discovered the shorthorn heifer down the steep drop of a quarry after noticing it was missing from the farm in Sheriff Park, Penrith.
The 300kg cow was saved from plunging to the bottom after getting stuck on a sapling, the fire service said.
The animal was sedated by a vet and winched to safety using slings.
The 11-month-old bovine was left "sore and bruised" but is now back on its feet after Tuesday's fall.
Mr Armstrong's mother Sandra said it was a "happy ending in the end after a very stressful afternoon".
The 28-year-old world number 41 did not drop a shot in his eight-under-par 64 at the PGA West course in La Quinta.
Three Americans - 2013 US PGA champion Jason Dufner, Jerry Kelly and ex-US Ryder Cup player Jeff Overton - also hit 64s, one clear of the field.
Five-time major winner Phil Mickelson had an eagle in a 68 to lie four back.
In his first competitive round since October, Mickelson holed a 96-yard shot for eagle at the par four eighth and chipped in from just off the ninth green to return his lowest score at the La Quinta Country Club for a decade.
"I felt good with my game," said the 45-year-old, who recently began working with new swing coach Andrew Getson.
Lahiri, who last October became the first golfer from India to play at the Presidents Cup, has won twice on the European Tour.
His best PGA Tour finish came at last year's PGA Championship, when he was joint fifth.
Defending champion Bill Haas holed his second shot for an eagle at the par four first and posted a 66 to sit in an 11-way tie for seventh.
But England's former world number one Luke Donald had a level par 72 after mixing four birdies with four dropped shots.
They have issued a plea to the public to drink responsibly so that they don't put someone else's life at risk by diverting resources.
The figure was revealed in an internal staff survey, which suggests that alcohol is contributing to a huge number of weekend call-outs.
But it is a factor in nearly half of all calls during weekday evenings too.
The presence of alcohol is not formally recorded by internal systems, so this is the best indication of how often it plays a part in 999 calls.
Ambulance service managers agree that the figures are probably a fair reflection of the pressure on the service.
"A high percentage of our calls are alcohol related - at least 50%," said paramedic Kirsteen Buchanan. "Younger people with their alcopops and 'dragon soup' and also we've got a number of regulars who are probably into their seventies.
"Quite often we're going for a call to an elderly person, and the doctor's already been to see them so you know it's a genuine reason why they need an ambulance, and you'll be on your way to them and then you'll be diverted to a 'red' call. Then you get there and it's an alcohol related call."
Although this is a particularly busy time for the ambulance service, the survey asked staff about their experiences all year round.
The pressure on the service is even greater at the moment. In the three weeks between 12 December and 1 January last year it dealt with an extra 165 incidents a day.
"As festive parties get into full flow this week we would ask people to drink responsibly and avoid becoming an additional patient for the NHS to treat," said Pauline Howie, Chief Executive, Scottish Ambulance Service. "Alcohol has a significant impact on ambulance operations across all of Scotland. It is no longer a weekend phenomenon as crews have to respond to alcohol related calls every day of the week, taking resources away from those who need us most."
She added: "There is also a wide impact on our operations as precious resources have to be taken off the road to be cleaned after an intoxicated patient has been sick, which takes time and removes an ambulance that could be available to respond to a medical emergency."
Chief Executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, Alison Douglas said: "The impact of alcohol on the Scottish Ambulance Service is completely unacceptable and unsustainable.
"Encouraging individuals to drink less is difficult when we are surrounded by cheap alcohol that is constantly promoted as an everyday product.
"Addressing the affordability of alcohol through minimum unit pricing is an effective way to protect vulnerable citizens, create safer communities and support emergency services."
Last week ambulance chiefs revealed that staff also have to deal with an increase in time-wasters. A man who was fed up waiting for a taxi, someone who'd cut their nail, and a choking dog were all examples of recent calls.
By Eleanor Bradford
On Friday I spent an evening with an ambulance crew. Only one of the four calls we attended between 21:30 and 02:00 was not alcohol or drug related.
The paramedics had to patch up a middle-aged civil servant who'd fallen over after having too much to drink at an office party. They took a fast-food employee to hospital after he was attacked and punched by a drunken customer.
We spent a couple of hours dealing with a 15-year-old who had become aggressive after taking drugs. The police were also involved and accompanied us to the children's hospital. The only unavoidable emergency was an elderly lady with dementia, who had become unwell.
The relatives of those who had inflicted problems upon themselves threatened me with lawyers if their photos were published. The injured restaurant worker, and the family of the elderly lady, were grateful for the medical help and pleased we were highlighting the problem.
This is a response to the accusation that the corporation is "imperial in its ambitions" made by Chancellor George Osborne (along with several newspapers).
Partnerships with cultural bodies, sharing news with local newspapers, opening up the iPlayer to third party content - the mood music is all about co-operation rather than competition.
And with £650m being cut from the BBC's income by shifting the cost of free TV licences for the over-75s on to the corporation, there is little scope for any expansion.
However, one of the first pieces of information to emerge from this review is the plan to increase broadcasting to North Korea, the Middle East and Russian-speaking populations.
The global broadcasting landscape is changing fast. Russia and China have been rapidly expanding their international services.
The corporation has also seen its services jammed and blocked in a number of countries. The BBC says it needs to respond especially in countries without a free press and in places that are in turmoil.
The World Service has a global reputation - but what does that mean to the next generation? The speed of change in technology and competition could quickly erode any broadcaster's audience.
The problem is the BBC is going to have to change and that is going to cost money.
The technological tidal wave of the digital revolution is impossible to predict. Ten years ago as the BBC bid for its current charter, there were no smartphones or tablets, YouTube was only a few months old, Amazon was essentially a bookseller.
Quite what any media organisation needs to do to stay relevant in such a shifting landscape is anyone's guess. As Armando Iannucci said in his recent speech in Edinburgh about media experts: "Their guess is as good as yours, only more expensive."
Apple is challenging Radio One, Amazon has Top Gear's team, Netflix is outbidding the BBC in drama.
In the BBC's "Blue Room" - a store of technology about to be released on to the marketplace - you can play with Amazon's voice-activated media player, Facebook's virtual reality system, Oculus Rift and Apple's carplay radio stations.
The BBC's prediction is that over the next 10 years its income will shrink from 20% of UK TV revenues to 12%.
The plans for bigger and bolder drama and giving people the chance to "binge" watch is a recognition of the new competitive environment.
The BBC's problem is looking after its core audience and responding to a technological transformation. "Having to ride two horses" is the phrase used in Tony Hall's speech.
Take news for example.
Around five million people a night still watch the Six O'Clock News, but for a growing part of the audience the news is a phone-only service.
The future, Tony Hall says, is to move from "rolling" to "streaming" - the question is how long you keep the "rolling" part going when you need to fund new "streaming" services.
Older audiences still want services such as the News Channel and they are heavy consumers of the BBC and a growing part of the population. Younger, digital first consumers expect something different.
Serving two such radically different audiences will take money and the BBC has just taken a £650m cut. Those "tough choices" mentioned in the speech is the theme that has not yet been announced.
"We will inevitably have to either close or reduce some services," said Lord Hall.
This speech was the BBC showing its friendly co-operative forward-facing persona. The question of which services it has to close or change radically is the topic that was left hanging in the air.
The language of the speech about the BBC being a "curator" or a "platform" for British content was aimed at organisations and politicians who see the broadcasting landscape being utterly transformed by largely American technology companies.
This, however, is far from the end of the debate about the future of the BBC. Expect more announcements in the weeks to come.
Today was the good news, trying to make the positive case for the BBC - the consequences of cuts and technological change will come later.
"We must deliberately and carefully extricate ourselves from expensive wars," Mr Chafee said on Wednesday.
Mr Chafee has served as a Republican and an Independent but has never before run for office as a Democrat.
Analysts say he will aggressively attack presumptive front-runner Hillary Clinton on her foreign policy record.
In his announcement speech, he called for the US to move to the metric system and end capital punishment. He also advocated an "open-minded approach" to drug trafficking.
But his priority would be to end all US wars.
"Let's wage peace in this new American century," he said.
Mr Chafee joins Mrs Clinton, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley in the Democratic primary race.
There are candidates who have a challenging road to their party's presidential nomination. There are candidates who have near insurmountable objects blocking their path to the prize - usually money and campaign organisation.
And then there's Lincoln Chafee.
The Rhode Island Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat raised eyebrows in April when he hinted, with little apparent warning or visible preparation, that he was considering a Quixotic bid for the Democratic nomination.
But here he is, announcing that he will be the third candidate to challenge prohibitive favourite Hillary Clinton for the party's presidential nod.
It's difficult to imagine a winning path for the second-generation US senator, whose biggest headline on the day he entered the race was that he had lost the login information for the Facebook page he maintained while running for governor.
Politico's Ben White gave it a try, however, tweeting his suggested campaign slogan: "Chafee 2016: Because all the other candidates might die."
Mr Chafee has so far been the Democrat most willing to directly criticise Ms Clinton, particularly over her Senate vote in favour of the Iraq War.
"I don't think anybody should be president of the United States that made that mistake," Mr Chafee told the Washington Post in April.
Mr Chafee's rivals have already built robust campaign operations with staff across the country, a step he has yet to take.
Before splitting with the Republicans he had consistently been called the party's most liberal lawmaker.
In 2002 he was the only Republican member of the Senate to vote against authorising the invasion of Iraq.
Friends of the Earth Cymru had wanted a judge to examine how ministers reached their decision on the £1bn project.
The group, which is worried nature reserves will be damaged, said it was "disappointed" and would continue making the case against the road.
The Welsh government has insisted the decision had been "carefully considered".
Three firms have already been awarded the contract to start work on the project around Newport.
Friends of the Earth had raised three grounds for concern:
Sitting in the High Court, Mr Justice Hickinbottom rejected the review.
Gareth Clubb, director of Friends of the Earth Cymru, said: "Naturally we're disappointed by the conclusions of this judicial review. But the case against the M4 gets stronger by the day.
"Just yesterday a report was published by the renowned Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research that said 'it is difficult to envisage how the M4 relief road can be justified."
A Welsh government spokeswoman said: "We welcome the judge's ruling. We believe this is the best solution to transport issues around Newport and that it is vitally important to the economic prosperity of Wales."
Analysis by BBC Wales environment correspondent Iolo ap Dafydd
This is a significant decision which now may well lead to the new relief road being built. The fact that the Welsh government on Wednesday announced three contracts for preliminary works underlines the confidence of ministers and civil servants.
Friends of the Earth Cymru argued that conservation sites would be damaged and reasonable alternatives hadn't been fully explored by the Welsh government.
But the judge said their case had "fallen very far short" and it was up to the government to decide on the merits of where to build the road, or if it would sacrifice part of the Gwent Levels.
Environment groups question building a new stretch of the M4, with a projected increase of traffic and greenhouse gas emissions.
They argue this is at odds with the Welsh government's repeated climate change commitment - which is to reduce emissions by 3% per year and 40% by 2020.
Ministers argue a new M4 will reduce congestion and emissions and make Wales "more resilient to the effects of climate change".
Last week, it passed legislation on sustainable development - the Well-being of Future Generations Bill. That requires all public bodies to embed climate change into their decision-making.
So how does the M4 relief road fit in with that thinking? The answer, I guess, would be about taking a broader view.
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Newport, bottom of League Two, parted company with Butcher on Thursday.
Byron Anthony and Michael Flynn will assist Sheridan, 51, for Saturday's home game against Exeter City.
"I am confident that if the players and fans work together we can help the squad climb the table, away from the relegation zone," he said.
Sheridan, who played for Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday and Bolton Wanderers, has managed Oldham, Chesterfield and Plymouth Argyle, who he left in May 2015.
He has been appointed until the end of the season and is expected to confirm his permanent backroom staff in the near future.
County have approached Irish Premiership side Linfield regarding the possibility of appointing their manager Warren Feeney as Sheridan's assistant.
Ex-Northern Ireland striker Feeney spent three years with Cardiff City and had a brief spell on loan with Swansea City in 2007.
Sheridan's appointment comes less than 24 hours after former England captain Butcher, along with assistant Russell Osman and chief scout Steve Marsella, left the club.
Their departures came after Newport County Supporters' Trust raised the required £195,000 to take over the club.
"The trust board are delighted that John has agreed to join us," a statement read.
"He comes with an excellent track record and we would ask fans continue to support the club by coming along to John's first game against Exeter on Saturday, and of course the first game as a supporter owned community based club."
Some users said they were leaving the music service over changes in its terms and conditions.
The new terms included access to pictures, contact phone numbers and sensor data stored on the user's smartphone.
Mr Ek apologised in a blogpost for the "confusion" the changes had created.
He promised an "update" to the new policy in order to clarify it but did not suggest that the terms themselves would be changed.
"We should have done a better job in communicating what these policies mean and how any information you choose to share will - and will not - be used," Mr Ek wrote.
He said Spotify would not access or import people's photos, contacts, sensor or GPS data without their permission.
Minecraft creator Markus Persson, aka Notch, had tweeted to his 2.4 million followers earlier that he was cancelling his account.
Spotify had said in response that the changes to its privacy policy would help it "tailor improved user experience".
Sensor data, such as how fast the user's phone is moving, helped the Swedish firm develop Spotify Running, a new feature that tailors music playlists to physical activity.
"Spotify is constantly innovating and evolving its service to deliver the best possible experience for our users. This means delivering the perfect recommendations for every moment, and helping you to enjoy, discover and share more music than ever before," Spotify said in an earlier statement.
"Throughout, the privacy and security of our customers' data is - and will remain - Spotify's highest priority.
"We will always ask for individual permission or clearly inform you of the ability to opt out from sharing location, photos, voice and contacts."
The firm has 75 million active users and 20 million subscribers in 58 countries, according to its own figures.
The terms and conditions also state that it is up to the user to ensure that people listed in the contacts list on their handset are happy for their phone number to be shared with the music platform.
"Local law may require that you seek the consent of your contacts to provide their personal information to Spotify, which may use that information for the purposes specified in this privacy policy," reads the update.
There had been some angry reaction to the changes.
"Like a jealous ex, Spotify wants to see (and collect) your photos and see who you're talking to," wrote Wired magazine.
"I'm now considering whether the £10 I pay for a premium membership is worth it, given the amount of privacy I'd be giving away by consenting," wrote Forbes reporter Thomas Fox-Brewster.
Markus Persson tweeted the company directly.
"As a consumer, I've always loved your service. You're the reason I stopped pirating music. Please consider not being evil," he wrote.
In a blogpost, Spotify said its new terms were updated in the interests of transparency.
"We want to be as open and transparent as possible when it comes to how we describe our business, how we work with advertisers, what information we collect, and what we do with it," the post said.
"We also want to make sure our terms are up-to-date with all the latest features we are offering."
The proposal for the 6.2 hectare site includes residential, office and education uses, as well as retail, cafes, bars, restaurants and parking.
The former Army base was acquired by the Department for Social Development in 2004.
Mark H Durkan said: "This is great news for Derry and the wider region."
"This is a major regeneration site in the City and the approval now provides certainty on the scale and type of development that will be acceptable," the minister added.
"It also allows work to be completed on the decontamination of the site and ensures that the site is ready for inward investment.
"I believe that this approval will also serve to reinvigorate this part of the city both physically and functionally."
The plans provide for up to 82,274 square metres of floor space and allows for the decontamination and infilling of the site.
In 2011, it was revealed that the Ministry of Defence was spending more than £3m decontaminating Fort George.
It had been polluted with heavy oils and diesels, as well as small amounts of heavy metals and Japanese knotweed.
The contamination of the site and its location within the city's flood plain presented a number of environmental and traffic impact issues.
Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey said he was pleased those issues had been resolved.
"This is a major step towards the further redevelopment of a strategic site which, as the success of the Science Park shows, can host the type of employment that will create real social and economic benefits for the city," he said.
"I am pleased that my Department, in liaison with DoE, has been able to overcome each of these challenges and put in place a blueprint to guide all aspects of the future development of the site."
The Welshman has not fought since his second successful title defence against American Eric Hunter in April 2016.
Argentine Barros is the mandatory challenger after beating Satoshi Hosono of Japan in a split decision in a world title elimination bout.
"Sadly I think it's going to be in America," said Selby, 29.
"I'd love to fight back home in Wales in front of my home fans. Of course home advantage always helps against the mandatory challenger."
Selby hopes fighting in the US, where he previously defeated Mexican Fernando Montiel in his first IBF title defence, will lift his profile.
He signed a three-year deal to work with leading American adviser Al Haymon, who also advises Floyd Mayweather Jr, and says he wants to become a "worldwide star".
"The British boxing fans have seen me and now I'm trying to show that worldwide," Selby told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
Selby was at Barros' recent victory over Hosono in Tokyo and described the 32-year-old as a "dangerous opponent" - but he hopes beating him will set up a "big fight" against Northern Ireland's Carl Frampton.
WBA champion Frampton's trainer Shane McGuigan has said a world featherweight unification fight was possible.
Frampton is set for a rematch against Mexico's Leo Santa Cruz, but Selby would be keen to face the 29-year-old at Cardiff's Principality Stadium and draw "great numbers".
"He's a big draw, a massive draw in the UK," said Selby. "That's the dream for all Welsh fighters - to headline a show at the Principality Stadium."
When Asia had its financial crisis, Australia was fine. When the rest of the world struggled through the the most recent financial meltdown, we were alright.
Australia's unemployment rate and economic growth was the envy of other developed countries. Its Treasurer was named the best in the world, but even then we didn't feel particularly pleased with our lot.
Australians may have a laid back reputation, but we love to complain when it comes to our wallets. And so now the question is, when a run of bad headlines have been dominating the news, do Australians really have something to worry about?
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After riding the mining boom for years, growth is anaemic at just 0.2% for the quarter. The jobless rate is up to more than 6%. China's economic woes mean demand for the commodities being sold are not what they used to be - nor are the prices.
And we've watched other economies heavily dependent on resources - like Brazil and Canada - slip into recession.
The current Treasurer Joe Hockey says there's "no risk" of that happening to us, and he's probably right - at least for now. There's still room to cut interest rates, and the value of the Australian dollar is down. It's hovering around 70 US cents, whereas not too long ago it was playing with parity. The decline is good for exports and should help get the growth rate moving. But there are no guarantees.
And there's also the politics. Political leaders seem more focused on what is being ruled out, like a higher consumption tax, than what is being ruled in. There is no really clear picture of where Australia's future lies after the extraordinary mining boom.
Newspaper headlines tell us we're stuck in the slow lane and going to hell in a hand basket. And yet regular surveys show we are remarkably confident. We are after all, the lucky country.
So while Australians love to whinge about the price of everything from property to petrol, if you ask most people how things are over a cold beer at the end of the day, they'd probably still say "she'll be right mate".
But that voice is likely to carry a hint of uncertainty. Whether it's the correct answer is anyone's guess.
The highest reward is $6m for the group's leader Abu Ubaidah.
He replaced Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed in a US drone strike last year.
Among those being hunted is Mahad Karate, also known as Abdirahman Mohamed Warsame, believed to be a key player in the attack on a Kenyan university which killed 148 people.
The group, part of al-Qaeda, is battling the UN-backed government in Somalia and has also carried out a string of attacks in neighbouring Kenya.
On Wednesday, Kenyan security forces destroyed five suspected al-Shabab hideouts in the Bono forest close to the Somali border, according to Reuters news agency.
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Survivors said the ferry, carrying 110 passengers and 12 crew, had sunk but this has not been officially confirmed.
Authorities on Sulawesi island said the ship had been hit by 3m (10ft) waves on Saturday and it was adrift.
Officials said the last contact from the ship's captain said that water was beginning to enter the vessel.
The ship left Kolaka in south-east Sulawesi province on Saturday morning local time, officials said, and was bound for the port of Siwa across the Gulf of Boni.
Transport ministry spokesman JA Barata said a distress signal was sent out later in the day saying the ship had "had an accident as a result of large waves".
Six rescue vessels were sent from nearby Kendari and Makassar.
Survivors had clung to fishing buoys for hours.
Rescue leader Roki Asikin said the waves meant it took another three hours to evacuate some survivors to shore.
Anxious relatives waited at Siwa port for news of loved ones
Indonesia has more than 17,000 islands linked by ferry services, but correspondents say the industry has a poor safety record.
They say it is unfair under disability discrimination because other patients in the same scandal have more favourable terms.
A new parliamentary report says around 7,500 patients were infected by imported blood products.
The government said it was considering improvements to the support system.
The three men, who are pursuing the case anonymously, claim the support scheme discriminates against them for having the hepatitis C virus, by paying them far less than patients with HIV receive.
Just under 6,000 people have been identified as having contracted hepatitis C and more than 1,500 others the virus which can lead to Aids, according to the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood.
More than 2,000 patients are thought to have died as a result of what has been called "the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS".
The report says thousands of people in the UK - many of them with haemophilia - were infected when they were treated with blood products imported from the US in the 1970s and 80s.
An independent inquiry report six years ago described the events as a "horrific human tragedy".
Lawyer Rosa Curling, from the law firm Leigh Day, is representing the three men.
She told BBC News: "Both HIV and hepatitis C virus are life-threatening, life-long chronic conditions.
"These viruses both sadly have serious implications for those who carry them and, in a proportion of cases, will lead to the death of the patient.
"We believe it is clearly unlawful that one group of sufferers of a serious virus, contracted through the same NHS disaster, are treated differently on account of their disability."
Successive governments have set up five different trusts to make financial support to patients who were treated with the blood products.
Leigh Day says the discrimination goes beyond the lifetime of the victims, because dependents of those who die after contracting hepatitis C also receive lower payments.
The law firm has sent a detailed legal letter, asking the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to take action to correct the anomalies between the schemes.
The "letter before action" asks for a response within 14 days, before the possibility of further legal proceedings in the High Court through judicial review.
Ms Curling added: "Our clients wish to avoid litigation if this is possible.
"We want the chance to sit down with Jeremy Hunt, and obtain a commitment from him urgently to put things right."
The APPG report highlights how most people with hepatitis C receive no ongoing payments, and they feel as though they have to beg for discretionary payments.
It recommends that payments to people infected through contaminated blood are at a level which lifts them out of poverty.
The issue is the subject of a backbench Commons debate today.
Liz Carroll, Chief Executive of the Haemophilia Society, said: "We speak to families affected by this scandal on a daily basis. Many are living in poverty, unable to pay everyday bills.
"Some live in damp conditions due to household repairs waiting to be funded, going back several years.
"Others are unable to prove they were infected by NHS treatment as their medical records are missing.
"NHS treatment devastated many lives. Now is the time to right this wrong and enable them to live with dignity."
The Penrose Inquiry in Scotland is due to report imminently - this will be the first statutory inquiry looking into government culpability for the problem.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "This is a very serious issue and we are looking at possible improvements to the system of providing support to those affected.
"For legal reasons we are unable to comment further on this specific case."
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Celtic's 2-0 win over Hearts ensured the champions finished with 34 wins and four draws from their 38 games.
Having already beaten Aberdeen to win the League Cup, they face the Dons in next Saturday's Scottish Cup final.
"If we bring our A-game, the treble will be the last piece of the puzzle," Griffiths told BBC Scotland.
"We've been talking about the treble quietly, but as professionals, it's the old cliché - we need to take it one game at a time.
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"But as the season went on, we just kept getting stronger and stronger. It was a fitting tribute today in front of the home fans."
The striker, who has scored 18 goals in all competitions this season, says manager Brendan Rodgers has been instrumental in Celtic's prolific success.
"I don't think anybody would've thought we'd have gone the season unbeaten," Griffiths, 26, said. "But it just shows the character and mentality we've got in that dressing room.
"It's all down to the gaffer - he's instilled that from day one, and we can see why he's managed at the top in England.
"I didn't think in my wildest teams it would be possible for a team to go unbeaten a whole season, but we just try to keep pushing on."
Manager Rodgers, in his first season at the club, said it was an "incredible achievement" for his players to remain unbeaten on their way to the title, the first Scottish team to do so across a 38-game league season.
No team had stayed unbeaten for a season in Scotland's top flight since Rangers did so in 1888-89, over an 18-game season.
"The group have worked so hard for all the records they have broken, and they thoroughly deserve it," the former Liverpool boss said. "It's been a great season.
"You come in and plan to win. However, to perform like we've done is truly remarkable. The club is very much together as one.
"It's an incredible achievement. I am a Celtic supporter so I know what it feels like. The fans' enjoyment is the most important thing for me and I think they have a good feeling."
The league finale may prove to be Patrick Roberts' final outing at Celtic Park, with the Manchester City winger's loan spell expiring at the end of the season.
"I'm not going to say anything about my future," Roberts said. "I'm just going to enjoy today, enjoy being invincible, and once we've done that we'll prepare for the (Scottish Cup) final.
"I can't say much because I don't know what's going to happen. This is an unbelievable club, for me it's up there with the greatest, and I have had the pleasure of playing for them. I just want to say thanks to these beautiful fans."
Wayne Ingold, 56, suffered horrific burn injuries outside his home in Witham, Essex, on 8 August 2014.
Aaron Isaac, 19, of Elverson Road, Lewisham, south London, and a 16-year-old boy deny carrying out the attack.
Martin Mulgrew, prosecuting, said Mr Ingold was attacked after he answered the communal door at a block of flats.
"He suffered horrific burn injuries to his face and neck and but for the fact he was wearing spectacles it's likely the fluid would've gone into his eyes," he said.
Giving evidence on the first day of the trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, Mr Ingold told the jury: "[The acid] hit my hands, my face, my neck. I went into my flat and looked in the mirror.
"My face had turned yellow. It looked like melted wax."
The court heard the boy, from Mitcham, south London, who cannot be named for legal reasons, went to hospital after the attack with an acid burn to his eye.
Mr Mulgrew said: "The Crown says he was throwing acid and it splashed back into his left eye."
Both teenagers deny throwing a corrosive liquid with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The trial continues.
Mary Grams, 84, was devastated when she lost the ring while weeding on the family farm in Alberta in 2004.
But she had kept the ring's loss a secret from all but her son for more than a decade.
On Monday, her daughter-in-law discovered the secret - and the ring - when she pulled up a lumpy carrot.
The carrot had grown straight through the ring, enabling it to be plucked out after many years hiding in the soil.
She had decided not to tell her husband when she lost it, out of embarrassment, but she told her son.
She went out and bought a slightly cheaper replacement ring, and carried on as if nothing had happened.
"Maybe I did the wrong thing, but you get so worked up," she said.
No one was the wiser, until this week when her daughter-in-law Colleen Daley decided she wanted some carrots for supper.
Ms Daley, who now lives on the farm where Mrs Grams used to live, went to harvest vegetables in the garden. Lo and behold, she spotted the ring while washing a rather lumpy carrot.
Her son instantly knew who the ring must belong to, and called his mother.
Looking back, Mrs Grams said she wishes she had told her husband, who died five years ago.
He was a joker, she said, and probably would have found this whole situation pretty funny.
Now that she has it back, she said she will be more careful.
"If I am going outside or anything I am going to put it in a safe space. That is what I should have done," she said.
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It was the early 1980s and she had just been married and moved to Bacher village to live with her husband.
The village had no electricity and she found life tough once it got dark in the hills.
One day, she led a group of village women to meet government officials at the district headquarters in Gopeshwar to demand that their village be electrified. But the authorities were unmoved.
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While trekking back to the village, the women came across some electricity poles by the foothills, apparently to be used to provide light for an official programme.
Mrs Rawat persuaded the women to carry the electricity poles and wires to their village, situated at a height of some 500 metres, on their shoulders.
The officials were furious and threatened to lodge a criminal case against the women.
But more and more women came forward, asking the police to send them to jail.
Taken aback, the officials decided to connect the village to the power grid.
That was Mrs Rawat's first victory.
But she did not rest on her laurels and over the past three decades, has taken on the timber mafia in the nearby forests and also campaigned against alcoholism among the men in her village.
"Many men in and around my husband's village were alcoholics and they were being exploited by the timber mafia gangs that operated in the area. One morning, I went into the forest along with the other women to fetch cattle fodder when I saw that all the trees were marked with a chalk to be felled later.
"We felt that something needed to be done to save the trees and the Taantri forest - the only source of sustenance for the hill villages," Mrs Rawat told the BBC.
She mobilised the women and drawing inspiration from the "chipko movement" of the 1970s - the green movement where protesters hugged trees in the hills of Uttarakhand to stop them from being cut - they clung to the trees to prevent them from being felled.
"They first tried to bribe us and when that failed, they threatened us. We also protested before the district authorities, held sit-in demonstrations and finally the officials passed an order not to fell the trees," she says.
Soon, Mrs Rawat formed small groups of village women - known as the Mahila Mangal Dal (Women Welfare Group) - that patrolled the woods on foot to check the movement of the timber mafia. The groups also demolished local illicit breweries.
For preserving the trees and the forest, the women decided to contest elections to the male-dominated local panchayat (the village council).
"But this was not an easy task," says Mrs Rawat.
"We faced stiff resistance from the society as well as the administration. They wanted women to stay indoors and look after household chores. Even my husband opposed me. He asked me one day as to why I was doing all this. I tried to convince him that whatever we were doing was for the benefit of our own people.
"But he was not convinced. We had reached a point when we decided to even part ways," she says.
It was not long before women had a sizeable representation in panchayats and Mrs Rawat's struggle to empower rural women won her the Indian government's Indira Priyadarshini Award in 1986. Over the years, she's won other awards too.
But for her, the biggest reward is the recognition she gets from her fellow villagers.
"Now we take decisions that are accepted by everyone," says Radha Devi, a member of the village council.
"We've managed to get rid of alcoholism and many families have been saved. No one fells the trees now and people living in the forest have access to plenty of produce from the woods like spices and fruits."
For a woman who's had no formal education, Mrs Rawat has become a role model for many women in her village and over the years, she has also won respect from men.
"Today we are benefiting from the forest produce. It has also become a major source of income for many living on the hills," says Gautam Panwar.
"Had it not been for her efforts, the society here would have disintegrated with forests depleted and men falling prey to alcohol," says Vinod Kaparwan. | Kalawati Devi Rawat is known as the woman who brought electricity to her remote village in the hills of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, writes BBC Hindi's Salman Ravi. | 35,802,709 | 1,066 | 43 | false |
Alec Warburton, 59, has not been seen since 31 July.
South Wales Police want to speak to his lodger, David Craig Ellis, who they think may have information about his disappearance.
On Tuesday, Det Supt Paul Hurley made a direct appeal to Mr Ellis to get in touch.
Mr Warburton was reported missing from his home in Vivian Road, Sketty, just after midday on 2 August.
Officers have been searching in and around the home, where Mr Ellis also lived, and a police tent was put up on the street last Thursday.
Police are also trying to locate his green Peugeot 205.
A CCTV image of the car, registration M805 HFJ, has been released by officers in the hope somebody will recall seeing it.
Det Supt Hurley said: "This car was driven to north Wales on Saturday 1st August and we want to hear from anyone who may have seen it or David Ellis at any time between 2pm and midnight that day between Caersws and Betws y Coed.
"The car was returned to Swansea during the following morning. We know it was used in the Swansea area until 4th August and it has not been located since."
In a direct appeal to the tenant, he added: "We want to find out what has happened to Alec Warburton. I believe that you have valuable information which will help us in our inquiries."
The cards carry the greeting: "Where will you be having Christmas dinner? Basic rooms available with Cheshire Constabulary if you′re naughty not nice!"
They will be hand-delivered to 300 of Cheshire′s most persistent criminals.
Officers will deliver the cards during routine checks on their progress.
Assistant Chief Constable Mark Roberts said: "Whilst the card is light-hearted there is a serious message behind it."
Nick Xenophon was detained at Kuala Lumpur airport on Saturday as he arrived for talks with Malaysian officials to discuss elections in June.
Immigration officials said the senator would be deported for taking part in a protest in Kuala Lumpur last year.
Mr Xenophon has been an outspoken critic of human rights in Malaysia.
A regular visitor to the country, he arrived in Kuala Lumpur as part of an Australian parliamentary fact-finding mission to assess whether forthcoming elections would be free and fair.
The delegation was scheduled to hold talks with several Malaysian parties, including opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and officials from the election commission.
The independent senator from South Australia was taken into custody at Kuala Lumpur airport on Saturday morning and detained apparently under Malaysia's national security laws.
Immigration officials were polite but acting under orders "from above", Mr Xenophon said.
"I was told I am a security risk and I can't be allowed into the country. It's bizarre and extraordinary," the senator said.
"I've been here before [and] I've made statements about the state of Malaysian democracy previously. But on this occasion clearly someone high up in the Malaysian government doesn't want me here."
Mr Xenophon told the BBC he has repeatedly voiced fears that the country's forthcoming elections, due to be held in June, could be subject to "widespread election fraud and corruption".
"That clearly has been something that the Malaysian authorities don't like hearing," he said.
Last April, the senator was caught up in anti-government protests and reportedly tear-gassed by riot police at a demonstration in Kuala Lumpur demanding democratic reforms in April last year.
He also observed the trial of Mr Anwar, who was acquitted on sodomy charges.
The Malaysian government confirmed Mr Xenophon would be sent back to Melbourne over his alleged involvement in the 2012 protest.
"Malaysia is a free and democratic country, but no-one is above the law," immigration chief Alias Ahmad said in a statement.
"Authorities will take the appropriate action against any individual deemed to have violated national laws."
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said his government was seeking Mr Xenophon's immediate release and had raised the issue with the Malaysian government.
"Senator Xenophon's detention is a surprising and disappointing act from a country with which Australia routinely maintains strong diplomatic relations," Mr Carr said.
"Our High Commissioner Miles Kupa has now made direct contact with Senator Xenophon at the airport and is seeking his release."
Other members of the Australian delegation have pulled out of the scheduled visit in response to the detention.
It seemed a certainty after a military-appointed assembly banned her from political office for five years, and then a criminal charge was filed against her.
For most of the past two years the telegenic sister of political heavyweight Thaksin Shinawatra has been out of the public eye.
Yet in recent days she has emerged again, apparently campaigning in her party's strongholds on the north and north-east, receiving a rapturous welcome from people who believe her government improved the quality of their lives.
It is not actual campaigning of course.
The military junta has banned all political activity. Parties are not even allowed to hold meetings of their own members. No-one knows when an election will be held again, although the latest in a series of shifting deadlines is the end of next year.
Ms Yingluck has found a way around the strictures of military rule by holding a contest among her five million Facebook followers.
She asked them to name a tourist attraction in their home provinces, and had them cast votes for the top three she should visit.
I accompanied her to the far north-eastern province of Bueng Kan, which lies along a bend in the Mekong River opposite Laos.
I was curious, partly to see Ms Yingluck interacting with her supporters, as I was not in Thailand when she had campaigned for the 2011 election, and partly to see whether she could avoid provoking the military, which is clearly nervous of her popular appeal.
In two months, Thailand will hold a national referendum on a new, military-drafted constitution, which would significantly reduce the number of seats won in the past by Ms Yinguck's party, and weaken the power of any elected government.
Unsurprisingly her party, and others, object to a charter they see as intended to weaken democracy and extend the influence of the armed forces in politics.
However the military has outlawed any attempt to campaign against the constitution, even while it is funding a nationwide effort to inform the public about the 279-article draft, which will inevitably give it a positive gloss.
The people we spoke to in Bueng Kan said they knew very little about the charter, and did not appear to understand the impact it would have on their party.
Yingluck Shinawatra could not say anything about the constitution without risking a 10-year prison sentence. In fact she gave no speeches at all on her one-day whirlwind tour. But perhaps she did not need to.
She has not lost the skills she demonstrated during the 2011 election campaign for working a crowd, conversing and joking easily with everyone she met.
She got a rock star reception at a large high school. She was hugged and garlanded with flowers by people waiting for her at the cliff-top temple, which was the official reason for her visit. She reminded her supporters that she had not gone away, and that she could still bring a bit of political glamour to their remote corner of the country.
Quietly, many of them expressed their frustration over the way the military is running the country.
None of this guarantees that they will vote against the constitution in the August referendum.
When I asked Ms Yingluck's advisors how they would disseminate their objections to the charter, given the ban on campaigning, they said they would have to rely on word-of-mouth, through their extant but largely inactive local networks.
With the junta refusing to say what it will do if the charter is rejected, some of Ms Yingluck's supporters may vote for it just to bring an end to military rule and bring back some kind of election.
And with a court case carrying a possible 10-year sentence already underway against the former prime minister, her own future is unclear.
The first, on Wednesday evening, halted the execution due the following day of Stacey Johnson so he could make fresh DNA claims to prove his innocence.
Moments later, a district judge blocked the use of one of the lethal injection drugs, halting all seven executions.
The pace of executions - originally eight in 11 days - has prompted criticism from rights' groups.
Johnson was convicted of the murder of Carol Heath, who was beaten and had her throat slit in her flat in 1993.
Her two young children were at home at the time.
He was one of two inmates due to be put to death on Thursday, but the Arkansas Supreme Court granted his request for a stay.
Johnson will now have the chance to make his case in a lower court for further DNA testing.
The second ruling, by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Alice Gray, has wider impact because it affects all seven inmates.
She backed a lawsuit by drugs company McKesson, the supplier of the muscle relaxant vecuronium bromide.
The company argued that it had been sold to the prison system on the understanding it would be used solely for medical purposes.
Rights group Repreive lauded the county court's ruling, saying Arkansas obtained the drug through deception.
It said this was the first time in US legal history that a private company had brought direct legal action to prevent the misuse of medicines in executions
In an email to the BBC, the Arkansas attorney general's office said it would appeal against the ruling.
Like many US states, Arkansas has struggled to find the drugs it needs to carry out executions. Its last was in 2005.
Bruce Ward - Strangled teenage shop clerk Rebecca Doss
Don Davis - Condemned for the execution-style killing of Jane Daniel as he burgled her home
Stacey Johnson - Murdered Carol Heath, who was beaten, strangled and had her throat slit
Ledell Lee - Bludgeoned Debra Reese to death with a tyre iron her husband had given her for protection
Jack Jones - Condemned for the rape and murder of accounts clerk Mary Phillips, and the nearly fatal beating of her 11-year-old daughter
Marcel Williams - Raped and murdered Stacey Erickson, after kidnapping her from a convenience store
Kenneth Williams - Murdered farmer Cecil Boren during an escape from prison where Williams had been incarcerated for murdering cheerleader Dominique Hurd
One person was reported to have suffered minor facial burns from falling debris as Mount Shindake erupted on Friday morning.
Most of the 137 residents of Kuchinoerabu island were evacuated by boat.
One spoke of how the sky turned dark as the volcano erupted.
Flows of rock and super-heated gas travelled down the mountain and into the sea, turning the main harbour grey and the sea-water murky.
Shindake erupted last year for the first time since 1980, when a 14-year period of activity ended. Several people died in a 1933 eruption.
"There was a really loud 'dong' sound of an explosion, and then black smoke rose, darkening the sky," Nobuaki Hayashi, a community leader, told national broadcaster NHK. "It smelled of sulphur."
The fire and disaster management agency has raised the alert level for the island to five, its highest level. But officials say there is no threat to human life.
Nevertheless, the eruption was big news, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared on television to pledge that he had mobilised "all functions of government" to ensure the islanders' safety.
Volcano experts have warned that more eruptions on a similar scale could follow.
Japan sits at the junction of several tectonic plates and is one of the world's most seismically active countries.
Some have linked an surge in recent volcanic activity to the devastating earthquake that struck on 11 March 2011, triggering a massive tsunami.
In September last year, Mount Ontake in central Japan erupted unexpectedly, killing dozens of hikers.
The Shia-led Hashd al-Shaabi forces said human remains had been found at the site "with prison uniforms".
So-called Islamic State (IS) is alleged to have killed hundreds of inmates, most of them Shia Muslims, when it seized Mosul in 2014.
Badoush prison was recaptured earlier this week.
A spokesman for the Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitary forces, Karim Nouri, said the bodies had been "lined up in a way that indicates they were shot dead in groups".
On Saturday, Iraqi forces said that a "large mass grave" had been found that contained the remains of hundreds of "civilian prisoners who were executed by (IS) gangs after they controlled the prison during their occupation of Mosul".
The news follows a 2014 report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) which said that hundreds of male inmates were murdered by IS gunmen at the time.
"We are waiting for forensic teams and human rights officials to begin unearthing the grave to uncover the whole story," Mr Nouri said on Sunday.
After Badoush prison was seized in June 2014, some 1,500 inmates were rounded up and transported by lorry to an isolated stretch of desert about 2km (1.2 miles) away, survivors told HRW.
According to the rights group's report, IS gunmen separated the Shia inmates from the Sunnis and Christians and then marched them to a ravine, where they were forced to kneel along its edge.
The Shia inmates were shot in the head or back with assault rifles and automatic weapons, according to the survivors, who escaped by pretending to be dead or because they were shielded by the bodies of victims who fell on top of them.
The Iraqi army's 9th Armoured Division and allied militiamen recaptured Badoush prison, north-west of Mosul, last week.
A statement released by the Iraqi forces did not say whether they found anyone who was being detained by IS.
On Sunday, the Iraqi military said it had retaken two more neighbourhoods in the western district of Mosul from IS. Iraqi security forces said they now control more than a third of west Mosul.
Iraq's government launched an operation to retake Mosul in October, and announced that the city's eastern side had been liberated in January.
Troops are now continuing their push into the more densely-populated west.
The Lincoln Racecourse Regeneration Company has withdrawn its application, three days before the proposals were to be considered by the city council.
The firm said it did not feel the application was going to be properly presented at the meeting and more work was needed.
Opponents of the scheme said they were delighted, adding that they intend to develop their own plans for the area.
The project had faced vocal criticism from some nearby residents who feared it would cause traffic congestion.
Last month the Commons Advisory Committee, a panel of local interest groups, criticised the proposals as being too vague.
Karen Rastall, one of the directors of the Lincoln Racecourse Regeneration Company (LRRC), insisted the scheme was only being deferred.
"We feel the report that was tabled for Monday evening and the options that were actually outlined for the council to consider were not in keeping with the discussions we had been holding with Lincoln City Council for a considerable period of time.
"They did not reflect the behind-the-scenes discussions that had been on the go and the information the council had been asking for."
Chris Dunbar, communications manager at City of Lincoln Council, said: "The meeting is still scheduled to take place as planned.
"The report to be presented to the executive is a fair appraisal of the proposal, taking into account both the information presented by LRRC and the comments of the Commons Advisory Panel."
The 25-year-old made 37 league appearances for the Sandgrounders last season, having joined in July 2015 following his release by Tranmere.
"Josh will be a real leader on the pitch and he is another key piece in my squad building," manager Andy Bishop told the club website.
"I am delighted he has shared our ambitions for next season."
Eckert's report into allegations of corruption was published on Thursday.
A few hours later, Garcia, who spent two years investigating the claims of wrongdoing, publicly criticised it.
Garcia revealed to the BBC that he did not see Eckert's final report before it was released to the media.
Eckert's 42-page document cleared Russia and Qatar of corruption after they were chosen to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups respectively, but it criticised England of flouting bid rules.
But less than four hours after its publication, Garcia, an American lawyer, issued a statement claiming it was "erroneous".
Just what Garcia thinks is wrong in Eckert's report is not yet clear, but Fifa later acknowledged it was aware that he intends to appeal.
Eckert, chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of Fifa's independent ethics committee, told BBC Sport: "I'm surprised, not shocked. I'm a long time in the job here. I don't think anything surprises me."
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He also defended his work.
"A lot of my report was word for word from the Garcia report," he said.
Garcia's criticism prompted a number of key football figures, among them English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke, to call for his original findings, which are contained in a document that runs to several hundred pages, to be published in full.
Those calls were echoed on Friday by Fifa executive committee members Jeffrey Webb and Sunil Gulati.
They claim that the "disagreement" between Eckert and Garcia as well as the need for "complete transparency" means the full report should be made public "as soon as possible".
They added: "Providing the entire independent report for inspection is in the best interest of the game and Fifa."
Despite these pleas, Eckert said he would not take that step.
"I don't think that's possible because I have to respect the rights of confidentiality for continental law," said the German.
"Maybe it's another thing in the US, but in continental law I can't do it, and I can't do it in total even by the Fifa code of ethics. I will not do it."
Following Garcia's statement, Dyke said Fifa's report into World Cup corruption was now pointless and "a joke".
But Eckert disagreed, saying: "It's not a real problem because I have made a statement and no decision.
"But in the statement it's written down he can go further, and make a final report, and I can prove the final report."
Eckert then released a statement on Friday evening saying he had been in touch with Garcia and that they would meet face-to-face to discuss the American's concerns.
Meanwhile, the man who led the technical bid inspections into the 2018 and 2022 World Cups is under investigation by Fifa for allegedly breaching its code of ethics.
Harold Maynes Nicholls, a Chilean national who is considering standing against Sepp Blatter in next year's Fifa presidential election, is under scrutiny for his links with a Qatari sporting academy.
The latest member of the Schwandt family was born on Wednesday morning in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In keeping with family tradition, Jay and Kateri Schwandt chose not to know the baby's sex before the birth.
"I was thinking, 'If this is a girl, I don't know what my reaction is going to be'," said Mr Schwandt, 40, just moments after his son was born.
The ages of their boys extend over more two decades, starting with Tyler, 22, followed by Zach, 19, Drew, 18, Brandon, 16, Tommy, 13, Vinnie, 12, Calvin, 10, Gabe, 8, Wesley, 6, Charlie, 5, Luke, 3, and 21-month-old Tucker.
"There's a lot of commotion, a lot of chaos, but there's also a lot of love," said Ms Schwandt.
The family is now trying to settle on yet another boy's name, and have been seeking a little help from their other sons.
But so far the boys still haven't agreed on a name.
Kateri Schwandt, 40, comes from a family of 14 children.
She was the 13th child born in her family and she says that the significance of the 13th child being born on the 13th day of the month has not been lost on them.
The Schwandt family has been approached by several TV production companies with offers of their own reality show, according to the Grand Rapids Press newspaper.
Mother and son are both doing well and resting in hospital.
But are they likely to add a 14th boy to the family in the future?
"You never say never," said Mr Schwandt.
Does having children of one sex affect chances of having more?
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Back then, at Dortmund, there was a gradual, steady improvement rather than a quick fix.
Eventually, Klopp's Borussia would simply outrun opponents with their Vollgasfussball - a high-intensity, full-throttle playing style.
The Westphalian club finished sixth and fifth in Klopp's first two seasons, before developing their own "ABS" (anti-Bayern Munich system) and winning the Bundesliga title in 2011. They followed it up in 2012 by sealing the only league and cup double in the club's history.
Klopp first came to the widespread attention of the English press during Dortmund's European matches against Arsenal in 2011 and Manchester City the following year. He was in his element in front of the media and looked very much at ease - it was refreshing. Here was a foreign manager - a German no less - dishing up excellent English, a wicked sense of humour and lopsided grins a plenty.
Kloppo, as he is known, is the master of the soundbite and clearly believes in football as an entertainment business. "If the fans want excitement but all you can offer is football chess, then one of you is going to be changing clubs," he once said.
He was like a breath of fresh air during Dortmund's memorable 2013 Champions League campaign, when the plucky underdogs rode the crest of a yellow and black wave all the way to the Wembley final - including two injury-time goals to win a stunning tie against Manuel Pellegrini's Malaga in the quarter-finals.
"Fussball, bloody hell," said Klopp, borrowing Sir Alex Ferguson's quote in the aftermath of Manchester United's extraordinary late turnaround to beat Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final.
Klopp first came to fame in Germany not for his coaching ability but for his charm and repartee as a TV pundit. He knows his way around the media and won awards for his work analysing matches for TV station ZDF.
Certainly prickly at times, nonetheless his general outward persona was professional and easy-going.
He's no saint on the touchline and has picked up domestic and European bans in the past - but he is guaranteed to be quick-witted and good for a quote after the event. "Sometimes I frighten myself when I see my touchline antics on TV," he once admitted.
His enthusiasm for the game is evident, especially after putting one across rivals Bayern. After one particularly exciting encounter, he announced: "If it stinks in here, that's from me sweating. That's how exciting that game was!"
Like any manager, though, Klopp can be sarcastic and acerbic when decisions don't go his way - but wit is never far away. He reacted to Bayern's Dante clearing Mats Hummel's header off the line in the 2014 German Cup final by stating: "I didn't need glasses. If a player plants his right leg on the goal-line and clears the ball with his left, he'd have to belong to Cirque du Soleil for it not to be a goal."
He doesn't suffer fools gladly either, as shown by his response after a heavy defeat in Madrid.
Interviewer: "This tie is over, isn't it?"
JK: "How could I justify picking up my pay cheque if I stand here and say the tie is over? It would be just as stupid as saying we're going to walk all over them [in the second leg]. I can always supply silly answers to silly questions."
Then, sarcastically: "Yes, the tie is over, but we have to play them anyway."
However, do not expect Klopp to play games in the press or criticise his players in public. For example, while he was clearly peeved by key players Mario Gotze and Robert Lewandowski both joining rivals Bayern, he refused to make it personal.
Even the expensive Italian flop Ciro Immobile, signed by Klopp to replace striker Lewandowski, was never publicly vilified. In contrast, Immobile - now on loan at Sevilla - wasted no time in savaging Klopp and BVB after his departure.
Klopp is also keen to back his younger players - and sent out the youngest team in Champions League history, with an average age of 22.9 years, back in 2011.
Like many top coaches - Arsenal's Arsene Wenger and Ferguson among them - Klopp enjoyed a less than distinguished playing career.
"As a player I had fifth division skills and a first division brain. The result was a second division footballer," he joked.
He languished with Mainz 05 in the German second division throughout his career, from 1990-2001, playing in front of an average of 5,000, before being asked to take over as caretaker boss in February 2001. He made a seamless transition.
"From that day on it was always clear how Zeljko Buvan (his assistant) and I wanted to play," he said. Klopp wanted to set up his sides to play like Real Madrid, only with a "clearer defensive concept".
Pressing and Gegenpressing are terms associated with Klopp's teams but he is not a possession Fanatiker like current Bayern boss Pep Guardiola or Wenger. He once likened Arsenal's football to "a silent song" before revealing that he was more of a heavy metal freak.
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He isn't cerebral like Wenger, more a "man of the people" and it would not be a surprise if Liverpool fans quickly identify with him.
Klopp shares similarities with another non-establishment figure: Brian Clough, who also secured titles at "underdog clubs" Derby County and Nottingham Forest, often favoured a brusque manner, but was always ready with a quip.
The German has built his reputation on direct attacking football and stealing the ball as high up the pitch as possible. There are shades of Ferguson in the quick playing style he favours. His team may have lost the 2013 final to Bayern, but they at least had the famous Scot rooting for them.
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"Jurgen Klopp earned my greatest respect as a colleague," said Ferguson. "I always liked his style of play - that pressing, brilliant! That's why I was cheering for Dortmund and not Bayern in the 2013 Champions League final.
"I could definitely see him coaching in England one day. My advice to him: 'If you end up in England, then only at a well-run club with decent leadership'."
It will be interesting to see how Klopp copes with Liverpool's transfer committee. At BVB, Klopp enjoyed a tight relationship with chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke and director of football Michael Zorc — a decision-making trio known as "G3".
But it's hard to imagine Klopp agreeing to a deal anywhere where he does not enjoy the last word.
Klopp must surely take a lot of credit for the Bundesliga's resurgence in popularity and his turn of phrase will enliven the Premier League.
At the peak of their rivalry, following BVB's first defeat in six games to Bayern in the 2013 German Cup, a clearly frustrated Klopp observed: "Bayern operate exactly like the Chinese in industry. They observe what everyone else is doing, copy it then throw more money at it and different personnel before overtaking them."
Bayern have pulled away from Dortmund in recent years. The point margin between the two German heavyweights has become a chasm — 25, 19 and 33 points in the past three seasons. This season, the Bavarians are already seven points clear after a 100% win record from eight games, their most recent of which was a 5-1 trouncing of Borussia Dortmund.
In reality, though, it is testament to Klopp that he was able to consistently ruffle a few Bayern feathers, even if his last season at Dortmund was a big disappointment.
Despite an injury jinx, Dortmund coasted through the Champions League group stages but simply couldn't cope with playing three games a week. Many felt Klopp's style of play had been "decoded" and he couldn't reach his players after so long in charge.
Big-money signing Immobile never filled the scoring boots of Poland international Lewandowski, while basic defensive errors often left Klopp exasperated as his team plummeted to the bottom of the Bundesliga in February.
After being knocked out of the Champions League by Juventus, BVB recovered to finish seventh and also denied Bayern a domestic double with a DFB Cup semi-final penalty shootout victory in Munich.
Despite the problems, Klopp was given full backing - in public at least - by the BVB hierarchy. However, his departure - announced in April - did seem inevitable, with another highly rated ex-Mainz favourite, Thomas Tuchel, waiting in the wings to soften the blow of losing "Mr Motivator".
Klopp's seven-year itch had struck again, just as it did at his previous club Mainz, where he exited after failing to win promotion from the second division in 2008.
It will be intriguing to see if Klopp survives even half that period on Merseyside. But, given time, the German has all the tools to end Liverpool's title drought and ensure it's "Klopp's Kop" rather than "Klopp's Flop".
In Cold War days, nuclear arms control might have topped the agenda of a major summit - but now when leaders meet, they are looking at how to avoid an escalating cyber-arms race.
Tension has grown in recent years and is the sign of a wider struggle over establishing the rules of the road for the internet as the US and other countries battle to define what constitutes acceptable behaviour and how to deter actions that cross those lines.
American officials have been making their views about Chinese state-sponsored cyber-espionage clear in the run up to this week's meetings.
"This isn't a mild irritation, it's an economic and national security concern to the United States," US national security adviser Susan Rice said.
"It puts enormous strain on our bilateral relationship, and it is a critical factor in determining the future trajectory of US-China ties."
President Xi Jinping, meanwhile, denied such activity was taking place and the Chinese media have stressed how "regrettable" it is that the US has taken on antagonistic position, arguing that Washington's criticism reflects an arrogance and "hegemonic mentality", especially when the US spies on the world.
Both sides argue that developing consensus between the country that founded the internet and the one that now contains the most users is vital - but what that consensus looks like is highly contested.
Reports suggest the US and China are negotiating some form of "arms control" for cyberspace - for instance agreeing not to be first to target the other's critical infrastructure in peacetime.
But that is a relatively easy step - more important is the attempt to establish norms of behaviour.
China is keener on norms that facilitate certain forms of state control over the internet, to deal with its concerns about US dominance and the subversive nature of unregulated flows of information.
The US would like to say it is not just certain kinds of destructive attacks that are unacceptable but also economic espionage, as it defines it.
The message from Washington is that governments spying on governments in cyberspace is fine but they should not spy on companies for commercial gain.
However, that is a definition that China and others may see as suiting America's interests and not theirs.
America's annoyance is based on the activities of certain units of China's People's Liberation Army alleged to be stealing intellectual property and business-sensitive information from US companies.
Just over two years ago, President Obama was preparing to confront the Chinese leader at a previous summit in California over this issue: cyber-spying was top of the agenda.
"We were spring-loaded," says one former US intelligence official.
But then something went wrong.
Two days before the summit opened, the first stories emerged based on documents taken from the US National Security Agency by Edward Snowden.
This completely threw Washington's plans and switched the focus onto US - and not Chinese - espionage in cyberspace.
It took Washington a year after the Snowden disclosures to summon the energy for another push.
In May 2014, US Department of Justice issued charges against five Chinese hackers for carrying out cyber-espionage against US companies.
These hackers all worked for the Chinese military, and some were even pictured in their military uniform.
So far though, the signs are that US attempts at deterrence - first by pointing the finger and then by issuing indictments - have not altered Chinese behaviour.
That has led to questions about what to do next.
Chinese officials argue that when it comes to cyber-spying, they are more sinned against than sinning and that it is the US that is the greatest problem because of the way it uses its dominant position to control the internet and facilitate its preferred forms of espionage.
They also chafe at definitions that allow US spying on foreign companies and governments for national economic gain (for instance trade positions) but say other forms of commercial espionage are wrong.
The Chinese elite sees economic growth as a national security issue, given that underpins the survival of the current political order.
The cyber-tensions over espionage have also spilled out into issues for US tech companies trying to operate in China.
They are facing pressure both to prove there are no backdoors secretly placed in their products to aid the NSA, while also, in other cases, being asked to ensure there are backdoors to help the Chinese government get round strong encryption.
This year, cyber-tensions ratcheted up another level as US officials were left reeling by the breach of 22 million records from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
These details were of potentially enormous value for another country's intelligence service either looking for vulnerabilities of employees that could be exploited or trying to identify undercover intelligence operatives (by a process of elimination because their details would not be on this database even though they might pose as regular federal employees).
Top US intelligence officials express sneaking admiration for a great intelligence operation and say that given the chance they would have done the same thing.
This is because by the US's own "norms" of behaviour, this kind of activity is classical espionage and therefore permitted.
As they debate further action against China (including perhaps sanctions against companies), US officials are careful to stress that these would only be in response to commercial espionage and not the kind of state-on-state spying involved in the OPM breach.
China is the main suspect in the OPM breach, although officials say the attribution is not as strong as that that tied North Korea to the attack on Sony Film Studios at the end of 2014.
Attributing the origin of an attack remains one of the key differences between cyberspace and other forms of military activity, including nuclear weapons.
Attribution is sometimes possible but can often take time and is rarely totally conclusive (countries also increasingly use proxies in cyberspace as well to carry out attacks).
The financial benefits of doing business in China usually far outweigh the cost of a research and development team being spied on, or legal papers being read.
China is a massive market for many US companies. For instance, more smartphones are sold there than anywhere else and more than 50% of all the jets Boeing makes are operating in China.
Kicking up a stink about hack attacks and data going astray could jeopardise this cash flow.
Q&A: Does China hack US firms' secrets?
The Sony attack raised major questions for US policymakers.
A film studio would not normally be considered part of the critical infrastructure, and yet an attack on it became an issue at the highest level and even led to the US military cyber-command offering a number of retaliatory options to the president (which, officials say, were not chosen, with more traditional responses preferred).
That attack illustrated the problems of attributing attacks and responding to them in cyberspace as well as working out what parts of the private sector the state itself should be tasked with defending.
How do you respond to different forms of cyber-attack - which range from commercial espionage through traditional espionage and into the realms of sabotage?
And which can be directed at companies rather than the state and by actors that are not always easy to identify conclusively?
These are the kind of questions that national security thinkers in all countries are currently struggling with.
And no-one should hold their breath for them being resolved at this summit.
In October, Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) approved the funding for the work downstream of Northmoor and the M5.
SRA chairman John Osman, said: "It is that little more expensive to do that section but it will be the most beneficial."
The work is expected to take around 12 weeks to complete.
In 2014, some 8km of the rivers Parrett and Tone were dredged at a cost of £6m.
Mr Osman added: "If we have the same amount of water that we had a couple of years ago the dredging we do today will reduce the amount of water on the land by about 80mm.
"It will also reduce the duration of the flooding, so it will take five days off the flooding event if the same amount of water came again."
The SRA is still lobbying the government to allow it to become a precepting authority which would allow it to levy a portion of the council tax to help pay for its work.
For this financial year, the government approved a one-off flood levy for Somerset taxpayers.
"Putting up the council tax for one year was not the best solution and is not a long-term solution," said Mr Osman.
On Thursday, the Sun newspaper claimed the charity was earning £6m a year from recommending energy deals that were not the cheapest available.
The withdrawal, for new and renewing customers, was prompted by "continued speculation regarding the partnership".
Customers on existing Age UK tariffs are unaffected by the move and can continue until their contract ends.
Ian Foy, managing director of Age UK Trading, said: "We always aim to give our customers outstanding value for money. This decision... will give us the opportunity to review the current situation."
Mr Foy told BBC News said that E.On would not offer the deal at the same level as Age UK wanted, and so it was being "temporarily suspended". E.On said the halt was a mutual decision.
The deal was offered by the charity's commercial arm, from which profits go to the charity itself.
The Sun claimed that Age UK recommended a special rate from E.On which would typically cost pensioners £1,049 for the year - £245 more than its cheapest rate in 2015.
It also alleged that Age UK received about £41 from energy supplier E.On for every person signed up.
Age UK said that at the time it was the leading nationally available tariff of its kind, and has said it questions the newspaper's interpretation of the figures, including a comparison between the cost of one-year and two-year fixed deals.
Energy regulator Ofgem and the Charity Commission said on Thursday that they would investigate Age UK's behaviour.
A statement by E.On said: "This decision has been reached on a mutual basis and both organisations retain confidence in the tariff offered to customers.
"However, due to continued speculation regarding the partnership, both organisations feel it is right to pause and reflect on the best way for both parties to achieve their shared goal of helping customers."
Age UK stressed that all versions of its branded energy tariff had no exit fees, so customers could switch at any point without incurring any charge.
The tariff will no longer be available from the end of Tuesday to new and renewing customers.
The utility reported that 99.88% of samples taken in 2012/13 complied with strict quality standards.
It also achieved its best customer satisfaction score on record, exceeding its target by 5%.
Last year, the corporation invested ??487m in water infrastructure projects.
They included major waste water projects in Airdrie and Dunoon, as well as new water treatment works on Unst in Shetland.
Scottish Water recently announced other large investments, including a ??5.7m project to improve the quality of drinking water on the Isle of Mull which is due to begin by early October.
It also plans to invest ??250m in upgrading Glasgow's waste water network.
Scottish Water chief executive Douglas Millican said he was committed to maintaining the pace of improvement in achieving the highest customer service standards across Scotland.
Mr Millican, who took up his role in February, added: "Scottish Water has continued to go from strength to strength in the last year as we deliver the best value water and waste water services in Great Britain.
"Drinking water quality is at its highest ever level, customer service has improved further, and we are delivering efficient investment in Scotland's water and waste water infrastructure - supporting thousands of construction jobs across Scotland in the process."
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scottish Water had shown a strong performance last year, building on the excellent progress that it had made in recent years.
She added: "It illustrates the ability of the public sector to deliver excellence and develop our water resource.
"Scottish Water is providing a high quality service to its customers for an average household charge that is ??54 lower than in England and Wales.
"I am delighted with this performance that reflects the commitment of Scottish Water's management and staff to delivery of these essential services to our communities across Scotland."
Vijay Bundhun, 42, of Tonford Lane, Canterbury, was convicted at Maidstone Crown Court of four counts of rape and nine of sexual assault.
He was working as a mental health nurse when he assaulted a patient while visiting her at home in Sittingbourne.
Bundhun persuaded her to allow him to give her a massage before pinning her to the ground and assaulting her
He sexually assaulted her again while her child was in the room, Kent Police said.
While the sex attacks were being investigated, another woman came forward to report Bundhun had raped her several months previously while she was undergoing treatment and taking strong medication.
The nurse had visited her house several times and again suggested a massage would help her relax, before raping her.
She told police she was so dazed by the medication she was unable to fully understand what was happening.
Bundhun was also found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in Canterbury.
There were six victims in total, Kent Police said.
Det Con Rebecca Taft, said: 'Bundhun took advantage of his victims when they were at their most vulnerable and did not feel as though they could do anything about it."
Bundhun was told he will service a minimum of 11 years in prison.
Gulam Chowdhury, 24, from Barking, was convicted of murdering Mohammed Yasser Afzal at the Old Bailey.
Mr Afzal, from Forest Gate, was killed outside a cab office in Broadway, Stratford, in March 2014.
Police said Chowdhury, of Heenan Close, had plotted to kill Mr Afzal because of a row over a woman they had both been in a relationship with.
The court heard the woman had told Chowdhury that Mr Afzal had compromising pictures of her on a mobile phone.
Police said he was threatening to expose their relationship to her parents, who did not approve.
Mr Afzal was working at E20 Cars when he was stabbed 20 times in the attack on 24 March. He never regained consciousness.
Officers managed to place Chowdhury at the scene of the murder through mobile phone records.
Det Insp Euan McKeeve said: "The level of violence used was shocking and ensured that Mohammed would not survive the attack.
"Whatever Mohammed's motives were for the actions he took in attempting to maintain his relationship with a woman, he did not deserve to be murdered."
Another man - Mohammed Khan, 24, of Lindsey Road, Dagenham - was found not guilty of assisting an offender.
The jury was discharged having failed to reach a verdict over charges against Nargis Riaz, 22, from Barking, who was accused of murder. She denied the charge.
Correction 23 April: The verdict in the case against Mohammed Khan has been amended in light of a clarification from the court.
For many, however, teleportation evokes something much more exotic. Is a world previously confined to science fiction now becoming reality?
Well, sort of. But we are not likely to be beaming ourselves to the office or a beach in the Bahamas anytime soon. Sorry.
Simply put, teleportation is transmitting the state of a thing rather than sending the thing itself.
Some physicists give the example of a fax machine - it sends information about the marks on a piece of paper rather than the paper itself. The receiving fax machine gets the information and applies it to raw material in the form of paper that is already there.
What it is not is teleportation in the Star Trek sense - transferring matter instantly from one location to another - which is how many instinctively see it.
Instead, it relies on a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement.
Indeed. The phenomenon arises when two particles are created at the same time and place and so effectively have the same existence.
This entanglement continues even when the photons are then separated. It means that if one of the photons changes, the other photon in the other location changes too.
Prof Sandu Popescu, from Bristol University, has been working on quantum entanglement since the 1990s.
"Even then people were thinking about Star Trek. But we are talking about sending the state of a single particle, not the billions of billions of billions of particles that form a person," he says.
"If you are thinking about a remote planet, first you would have to exchange billions of entangled pairs of particles and then you have to send other information as well. This is highly non-trivial. One should not get excited by that."
Let's go back to our two entangled particles. If a third particle interacts with the first entangled particle, the change that occurs in the entangled particle is mirrored in its twin.
So the twin contains information about the third particle and effectively takes on its existence.
It has been impossible to create a long-distance link between two entangled particles because an entangled photon can only travel about 150km down a fibre-optic channel before becoming absorbed.
Researchers have long seen the potential of a satellite link because photons can travel more easily through space, but it has been difficult to transmit them through the earth's atmosphere - varying atmospheric conditions can deviate the particles.
They created 4,000 pairs of quantum-entangled photons per second at their laboratory in Tibet and fired one of the photons from each pair in a beam of light towards a satellite called Micius, named after an ancient Chinese philosopher.
Micius has a sensitive photon receiver that can detect the quantum states of single photons fired from the ground. Their report - published online - says it is the first such link for "faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation".
"It is a very nice experiment - I would not have expected everything to have worked so fast and so smoothly," says Professor Anton Zeilinger from the University of Vienna, who taught Chinese lead scientist Pan Jianwei.
The main goal for quantum teleportation at present is the creation of unhackable communications networks.
"The laws of nature offer protection," says Prof Popescu. "If someone was to intercept the information you could detect it because whenever you try to observe a quantum system you disturb it."
The Chinese city of Jinan has already begun trials of a secure network based on quantum technology and a network linking Beijing and Shanghai is under development with so-called "trusted nodes" every 100km where the quantum signal is measured and sent again, Prof Zeilinger says.
"It is the first quantum internet. Data rates are low so it is not useful for the current internet. But it is useful for refreshing the quantum key used to send encrypted information," Prof Zeilinger says.
The quantum network could be used for sensitive financial or electoral information, says Professor Ian Walmsley from Oxford University.
"There are significant barriers still to overcome. But this is how transformative change begins," he says.
The cancellation of Castle after eight seasons follows the departure of one of the main cast members, Stana Katic.
Country music-themed soap Nashville will come to an end later this month after four seasons on ABC.
The network also dropped The Muppets, the series set behind the scenes of Miss Piggy's TV talk show, after only one season due to poor ratings.
Other TV cancellations that have been announced include The Family, The Grinder and Bordertown.
The Marvel-produced series Agent Carter, a spin-off to Captain America has also been dropped after two seasons.
The show, which starred British actress Hayley Atwell in the title role, gathered a devoted fan following but did not achieve ratings success in the US.
ABC also announced that it wouldn't be proceeding with a planned production of Marvel's Most Wanted - a spin-off to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
CBS announced the cancellation of CSI: Cyber, the network's last remaining CSI series.
It's likely further shows will be dropped by networks in the coming days, in an annual clean-up of schedules as networks make way for new shows.
The five major US broadcast channels will pitch pilot episodes for up to 100 new shows to advertisers later this month.
Successful shows will then have full seasons commissioned, which will begin in the autumn.
Castle tells the story of mystery novelist Richard Castle, who begins working with the police after a copycat murder based on one of his novels is committed.
Andrew W Marlowe, the show's creator, said: "To the whole Castle family - our amazing cast, our remarkable crew, our imaginative writers and our wonderful fans, thank you for eight amazing years."
Hayden Panettiere and Connie Britton play two rival country singers in musical drama Nashville, the final episode of which will air in the US later this month.
Creator Callie Khouri tweeted: "With a heavy heart, I thank all our incredible fans for all of your love, huge thanks to the city of Nashville. See you on down the road."
Rob Lowe, who starred in The Grinder, said the show was "unapologetically original, smart, funny and had a murderer's row of talent.
"The great news is, that film is forever. And I'm thrilled to have 22 episodes that were as acclaimed as they were. Time well spent," he added.
Romelu Lukaku put the visitors in front with a penalty after keeper Jack Butland had brought down Tom Cleverley.
Seamus Coleman headed in a Cleverley corner and Aaron Lennon intercepted a pass before slotting in as Everton went 3-0 up at the break.
Lukaku also had a header tipped on to the crossbar by Butland, while a poor Stoke struggled to create chances.
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A lot was made about Everton boss Roberto Martinez's dance moves at a Jason Derulo concert in the week, but it was his team impressing with their performance at the Britannia Stadium.
England manager Roy Hodgson was at the game and he will have liked what he saw from Toffees midfielders Cleverley and Ross Barkley.
The industrious Cleverley burst through before being brought down for Everton's penalty, while his delivery from corners was a constant threat and led to Coleman's goal.
Barkley's attacking instincts also played a part in the win and he could have had an assist when he crossed for Lukaku, whose header from close range was brilliantly saved by Butland.
"I thought we were very strong in every department," said Martinez. "Cleverley had a big influence in the game throughout."
Stoke have endured a month to forget since their last league win against Norwich on 13 January.
Mark Hughes' side have been knocked out the Capital One Cup after a semi-final defeat on penalties by Liverpool, while they were beaten by Crystal Palace in the FA Cup.
The Potters have gained just one point from 12 in the league, dropping from seventh to 11th, and scored just one goal in six games.
The home side gave a debut to record £18.3m signing Gianelli Imbula but, like the rest of his team-mates, the midfielder struggled to make any kind of impact.
"I thought Imbila did OK. I felt sorry for him because as a debut that was a hard one to come into," said Hughes.
Stoke boss Mark Hughes: "We huffed and puffed and didn't really create again and that is a concern for us.
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"A disappointing day. We made mistakes at key times in the game and couldn't recover.
"We have to pick ourselves up and start doing the fundamentals and basics."
Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "We defended really well when we had to but the amount of opportunities we created is pleasing. If anything we should have scored three or four more in the second half.
"We have to make sure we don't drop our standards now."
Stoke's next game is at Bournemouth on 13 February, while Everton host West Brom on the same day with both games kicking off at 15:00 GMT.
Match ends, Stoke City 0, Everton 3.
Second Half ends, Stoke City 0, Everton 3.
Attempt saved. Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Joselu with a cross.
Foul by Peter Odemwingie (Stoke City).
Bryan Oviedo (Everton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Everton. Leon Osman replaces James McCarthy.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Marc Muniesa.
Substitution, Everton. Kevin Mirallas replaces Ross Barkley.
Attempt missed. Stephen Ireland (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Joselu.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Phil Jagielka.
Offside, Stoke City. Joselu tries a through ball, but Glen Johnson is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Tom Cleverley with a cross.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Jack Butland.
Attempt saved. Arouna Koné (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Substitution, Stoke City. Joselu replaces Marko Arnautovic.
Substitution, Everton. Arouna Koné replaces Romelu Lukaku.
Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Ramiro Funes Mori.
Attempt blocked. Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Ireland.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Attempt saved. Glen Johnson (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.
Attempt missed. James McCarthy (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Attempt blocked. Peter Odemwingie (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Offside, Everton. Seamus Coleman tries a through ball, but Aaron Lennon is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gareth Barry with a cross.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Lennon.
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Odemwingie replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Substitution, Stoke City. Stephen Ireland replaces Ibrahim Afellay.
Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Bryan Oviedo (Everton).
Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Aaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley with a cross.
Foul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City).
Seamus Coleman (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Gareth Barry.
Kevin Smith, from Cleethorpes, said it was one of the aircraft that were used against German U-boats in the Atlantic.
He said he was "baffled" as there were no records that one of the planes ever crashed in the North Sea.
The Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre said the find was "intriguing" but a mystery as to why the aircraft was there.
The wreckage was found by the French Navy in 2005, about 27 miles (45 km) off the coast of Mablethorpe.
Mr Smith, who has explored the submerged aircraft three times, had previously thought it was the remains of a Halifax bomber.
However, over the summer he said he examined the wreckage and identified four Bristol Pegasus engines which were consistent with a MK1 Sunderland.
Sunderland flying boats were stationed in the west at RAF Pembroke Dock and used in the Battle of the Atlantic.
He said: "It's got us baffled. But I can't believe they [flying boats] didn't come down the North Sea looking for submarines.
"We might never know."
John Evans, from the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, Pembrokeshire, said: "There were a number of Sunderlands that disappeared [during World War Two] but the location is very interesting.
"It could well be a war grave and if that's the case it's, 'look, don't touch'.
"We're told it definitely hasn't an undercarriage, [it's got] four engines. It's very likely to be a Sunderland."
Mr Evans speculated that the Sunderland could have been returning from an operation in Norway in 1940.
"There was terrific activity [at the time], who knows what was happening?" he said.
He hopes to find a serial number to help identify the aircraft next year.
Legal papers were filed at the High Court in London on Thursday.
They list Sir Cliff as a claimant, and the BBC and chief constable of South Yorkshire Police as defendants.
The star, 75, has always denied the allegations, and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in June it was taking no further action against him.
The decision to sue the BBC and South Yorkshire Police comes after Sir Cliff was the subject of a long-running police investigation based on allegations dating between 1958 and 1983 made by four men.
Sir Cliff was named as the subject of the investigation after police officers searching his apartment in 2014 were filmed by the BBC.
The CPS announced it was taking no further action against Sir Cliff on 16 June on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
That decision was reviewed last month following an application by one of his alleged accusers, but concluded the original decision not to proceed was correct.
After that announcement, Sir Cliff told BBC Radio 2 that "a cloud lifted" when he was informed of the news he would not be prosecuted.
The singer has previously spoken publicly about the investigation and the publicity surrounding it.
In a statement released in June he criticised what he called "vile accusations", adding he was "named before I was even interviewed, and for me that was like being hung out like 'live bait'".
A spokesman for the singer said: "We can confirm that Sir Cliff today issued legal proceedings at the High Court against both South Yorkshire Police and the BBC. It would not be appropriate to comment further."
A BBC spokesman said: "While we haven't received any notification of action, we've said previously we are very sorry that Sir Cliff has suffered distress but we have a duty to report on matters of public interest and we stand by our journalism."
The telecoms giant says it wants to boost its proportion of female staff.
About 10% of its new management hires will be women who have taken a break from work, perhaps to start a family.
Women face challenges when coming back to work including a "pay penalty", according to think tank the Resolution Foundation.
"We do have a gender imbalance which we are working very hard on," Vodafone's chief executive Vittorio Colao told the BBC.
"We need to do it because these are very talented individuals, but also this is an amazing way to get to more equality in the company."
In the 2015-16 financial year, just 24% of senior management at Vodafone were women.
It has committed to make its workforce more balanced, ensuring women hold at least 30% of senior roles.
The company will also give hiring managers "unconscious bias training".
"There are women who think that if they lose their career momentum it cannot be recovered," said Mr Calao. "This is a waste for society. It's unjust for them."
In a pilot of the scheme, Mr Calao said they had found women "who thought there was no opportunity for them because after a two or three year break, maybe after a baby, they would not be sought after because their competencies were obsolete or not right."
Fiona Packman, a partner at the executive headhunters Egon Zehnder, said women who return to work after having a child faced many hurdles.
"They face a lot of challenges. Not all organisations, both public and private sector, have been very adept at how they help those women overcome those challenges."
Recent research from the Resolution Foundation found women who leave work to have children faced a severe "pay penalty" when they returned to work.
It said women born between 1981 and 2000 can expect to be paid 9% less than men when they hit their 30th birthday.
Challenged on this, the Vodafone chief executive said "there shouldn't be a pay deferential for the same job and the same position".
The government-backed Davies review wants 33% of all board seats at Britain's 100 biggest publicly-listed companies to be held by women by 2020.
In June 2016, women held 26% of such boardroom roles, according to the review.
Water levels are receding from most parts of Tamil Nadu state, where at least 280 people are now known to have died in floods since last month.
Garbage and sludge have collected on the streets and sewage has entered homes, damaging properties.
The rains, the heaviest in 100 years, are being blamed on climate change.
BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi in Chennai says people have begun cleaning up their houses, offices, shops and showrooms, all of which had been submerged.
"Floodwaters damaged three TV sets, two refrigerators, washing machine, beds and a sofa in our three-bedroom house," Shobana, a resident, said.
"Worse, we lost all our important papers that were kept in our almirah [cupboard]."
Soldiers and emergency workers are now rushing food, clean drinking water and medical supplies to flood-hit residents, reports say.
Gradel did not start a Premier League game for Bournemouth last season and is now at the French club until the end of the season.
The 29-year-old is relishing playing regularly and a return to France.
"I understand the French league and coming back here was not a difficult decision," Gradel told BBC Sport.
"There was no problems or whatsoever with Bournemouth, but the chance to play regular football was too good an opportunity to turn down,
"Even though it's tough when you are not getting regular football, but I always enjoyed support from everyone connected to the club."
The former Leeds United player joined the Bournemouth from French side St Etienne in 2015 and signed a new four-year contract the following year.
Despite a lack for regular playing time for Bournemouth he was part of the Ivory Coast squad at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.
The winger, who has scored eight goals in 50 appearances for his country, felt his lack of opportunities was going to affect his international career.
"There's personal desire play regularly for club and country this season, considering the World Cup qualifiers throws up a big competition for places," he added.
"So my decision [to go out on loan] is based purely on football and ambition. You have to make a strong case for yourself by playing regularly wherever you are.
"It's what's best for me and my career because I want to help my country qualify for Russia and play in the World Cup."
Gradel played in all three of Ivory Coast's games at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon as the defending champions failed to get past the group stages.
He has played in four African Cup of Nations tournaments with the Ivory Coast and was a member of the 2015 title-winning squad in Equatorial Guinea.
Gradel was also part of the squad for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, featuring against Colombia.
Steven Woodhouse, 30, was stabbed in the chest in Park Lane in Westcliff-on-Sea on Tuesday afternoon and later died.
Bradley Johnson, 47, of Old School Court in Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, was charged on Friday night.
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Thousands of customers currently paying £17 a month for unlimited data and calls have been told they will be moved onto a new £30 tariff if they do not opt out within 30 days.
The company has notified customers by post and said it would also text them.
Three said the more expensive plan was the closest remaining deal offering unlimited calls and data.
It stopped offering the £17 monthly deal to new customers in 2014 and said it was phasing out "legacy" tariffs, but the BBC understands hundreds of thousands of customers still use the tariff and will be affected by the switch.
One mobile industry analyst told the BBC the demise of unlimited data plans was "inevitable".
"Consumer data usage is growing exponentially," said Ben Wood from CCS Insight.
"The networks are seeing huge growth in data consumption as people watch more video content at ever-higher resolutions on their smartphones. At some point certain all-you-can-eat tariffs become uneconomical."
While the network does still offer plans with unlimited data and calls, Three says its average account holder consumes just 4.9 gigabytes of data per month.
The firm had 8.8 million customers in 2015, according to its website.
Some have posted their anger at the tariff change online, ironically tagging their posts #MakeItRight - the hashtag Three uses in its advertising campaign.
"That's how you lose brand loyalty," tweeted software engineer Joseph Longden.
"Stop forcing loyal customers like myself into new plans which are almost double the price," wrote Nathan McLean.
In a statement, Three said: "In March 2014, we introduced new price plans giving customers more options in the size of their data and voice bundles, as well as limits and alerts to prevent bill shock.
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The 25-year-old, who will miss Euro 2016 and the start of the new Premier League season through injury, becomes the first signing for incoming City manager Pep Guardiola.
City have reportedly paid a fee of about £20m for Gundogan.
"When I learned of City's interest, my heart was set on coming," he said. "Things have moved very quickly."
The Premier League club's director of football Txiki Begiristain praised Gundogan's "work ethic and technical ability".
"He is an intelligent and versatile midfielder who can operate in a number of different roles," Begiristain added. "He will be a very important player for us in the coming years."
Gundogan dislocated his kneecap in training at the start of May and was also sidelined for the 2014 World Cup with a back problem that ruled him out for almost the entire 2013-14 season.
"The opportunity to work with a coach like Pep Guardiola is something I am really looking forward to and I am flattered to be the first signing the club has made this summer," he added.
"I will give everything to help us win titles both in England and the Champions League. These are exciting times. I have my best years ahead of me and I think we can achieve great things together."
The midfielder joined Dortmund from Nuremberg in 2011 and helped them reach the 2013 Champions League final, before signing a new contract in 2015 that still had a year to run.
The company has been under pressure from some investors to break itself into a holding unit and an operating company to boost shareholder value.
The South Korean technology giant also announced plans to increase dividends and said it would continue to buy back more shares.
Restructuring pressure had mounted after the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco.
In October, the company was forced to stop production of its flagship smartphone model after failing to resolve battery problems leading to overheating and the devices catching fire.
Samsung said it would bring in "external advisers to conduct a thorough review of the optimal corporate structure."
The firm pointed out that "the review does not indicate the management or the board's intention one way or another."
Samsung also said it would pay out half of its free cash flow to shareholders for 2016 and 2017 and raise the dividend for 2016 by 36% compared to the previous year.
In order to improve governance, the firm said it would nominate at least "one new, international, independent board member" as well as create a separate governance committee.
The company's statement comes after US activist hedge fund Elliott Management called for the firm to split into a holding unit for ownership purposes and a separate operating company.
The fund argued that a split would simplify the company structure making it easier to get a clear valuation of the firm's assets.
Currently, companies within the wider Samsung Group are linked through a complicated web of cross shareholding, linking Samsung Electronics to many other Samsung's firms and affiliates ranging from shipping, to heavy industries to insurance business.
That makes it difficult for investors to get a clear idea of what each individual Samsung company is actually worth.
The benefit of splitting Samsung Electronics into two companies would be that the cross-shareholding would affect only the holding company while the operating unit could be assessed separately - making it a lot easier to arrive at a clean company evaluation.
The proposal has won support from several of Samsung's investors and it is also thought that it would give back more control to the founding Lee family behind the company.
The 25-year-old made the announcement on BBC Breakfast, while appearing with her fellow bandmates.
"I've always wanted to be a part of the show - it looks like so much fun and the costumes are just gorgeous. I can't wait to get started," she said.
The dancing series returns to BBC One in September.
"Like so many little girls, I used to take dance lessons when I was in primary school and I really love dancing but this is going to be so different from anything I have done with The Saturdays," Bridge said.
"I'm used to being more relaxed, but I'm going to have to think about things like fingers and where my head is.
"That's making me really nervous because I think people will assume 'she'll be fine' but I've never done that before."
Her bandmate Rochelle Humes has previously taken part in the show - first in 2010 as part of a Children in Need special and then again last year for the Christmas edition.
Bridge first rose to fame, alongside Humes, in 2001 at the age of 12 as part of pop group S Club Juniors, amassing six top 10 singles in four years.
In 2007, the pair joined The Saturdays and, as part of the five-piece girl group, have scored four top 10 albums and 13 top 10 singles including Up, Ego, Missing You and number one hit What About Us.
Bridge will compete against 14 other celebrities for the coveted Strictly glitterball trophy.
Tess Daly will return as the main host of the show, alongside Claudia Winkleman after Sir Bruce Forsyth stepped down in April.
The 24.78-carat "fancy intense pink" diamond was sold to a well-known British dealer at an auction in Geneva.
Bidding at the Sotheby's auction was said to be fierce, and the sale surpassed expectations.
Last sold by a New York jeweller 60 years ago, the gem has been kept in a private collection ever since.
The diamond had been expected to command at least £625,000 per carat.
The previous record for a jewel at auction was set by a blue 35.56 carat diamond which sold for £15.2m at auction in 2008.
"This is the highest price ever bid for a jewel at auction," said David Bennett, the head of Sotheby's jewellery division, as the auction room in Geneva's luxury Beau Rivage hotel broke into applause.
It was bought by top diamond trader Laurence Graff, who bid by telephone, Sotheby's said.
The auction house said it sold jewels worth a total of £66m - a world record for a single sale.
Five hundred lots were on sale, including jewellery that belonged to Christina Onassis and Cristina Ford - who was married to Henry Ford II, grandson of the founder of the Ford Motor Company.
"I think this tells you a bit about the health of the market," Mr Bennett told reporters afterwards.
He said the pink stone - which is described as having an emerald cut with gently rounded corners - had a "soft sensual feel".
Pink diamonds of such a size are extremely rare.
"There's only one or two other stones I've seen like this in the 35 years I've been doing this job," said Mr Bennett. "I just love it."
BBC Geneva correspondent Imogen Foulkes said it was a "beautiful, rosy pink with an alluring sparkle".
The Popular Mobilisation announced that its fighters had "liberated" the Unesco World Heritage-listed site "after fierce clashes with the enemy".
The full extent of the damage to Hatra was not immediately clear from a grainy photograph published by the force.
IS has bulldozed, blown up and looted pre-Islamic sites it deems idolatrous.
Unesco has said the deliberate destruction of Iraq's cultural heritage constitutes a war crime.
Shia-led Popular Mobilisation militiamen launched the offensive on Hatra at dawn on Tuesday.
By Wednesday afternoon, they had retaken the archaeological site and had advanced to the edge of the adjacent modern town of Hatra, according to an AFP news agency journalist.
Hatra, located 290 km (180 miles) north-west of Baghdad and 110km south-west of Mosul, was one of the best-preserved of Iraq's archaeological sites before it was seized by IS in 2014.
Possibly founded in the 3rd or 2nd Century BC, it was a religious and trading centre of the Parthian Empire and capital of the first Arab Kingdom.
The city's numerous temples, where Hellenistic and Roman architecture were blended with Eastern decorative features, led to it becoming known as the "House of God".
Its high, thick walls, which were built in a circle and fortified by towers, meanwhile helped it withstand invasions by the Romans in AD116 and 198. It eventually fell to the Persian Sasanian dynasty in AD241.
More recently, the site was used in the opening scene of the 1973 horror film, The Exorcist.
In March 2015, Iraqi officials said they had received reports from locals that IS had destroyed Hatra.
The following month, IS itself released a video showing militants using picks, sledgehammers and assault rifles to destroy Hatra's walls and statues.
In November, a month after launching a major operation to drive IS out of Mosul, Iraqi forces recaptured the ancient city of Nimrud. Much of the site was reduced to rubble, with shattered statues and a ziggurat reduced to a fraction of its size.
The trial at 24 doctors' practices found people vaccinated before lunch produced the most defensive antibodies.
The University of Birmingham team suggested immunising people in tune with the body's natural rhythm could be a cheap way to save lives.
Experts said the study may mark the dawn of making use of "the body clock in the clinic".
Our internal clock alters our alertness, mood, physical strength and even the risk of a heart attack in a daily rhythm.
And our immune system also waxes and wanes through the day.
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The trial looked at 276 healthy people, aged over 65, getting the flu jab before the 2011, 2012 and 2013 flu seasons.
They were vaccinated either in a morning session (09:00 to 11:00) or an afternoon appointment (13:00 to 17:00).
One month later, patients vaccinated in the morning had produced significantly more antibodies against two of the three flu strains in the jab.
Similar antibody levels were produced for the third strain, the results in the journal Vaccine showed.
Dr Anna Phillips, one of the researchers from the University of Birmingham, said the results were meaningful and doctors should "definitely" think about performing flu jabs in the morning.
She told the BBC News website: "A lot of surgeries just try and fit in vaccination anyway so it's not going to risk any patient, it's not going to cost anything and even if we're wrong you've nothing to lose by doing this.
"I think it's fantastic, the idea of an intervention this easy to do and free is unheard of in terms of trying to change NHS practice."
It is not clear exactly what the critical difference between the morning and afternoon immune system is.
Levels of immune messengers called cytokines, the stress hormone cortisol and sex hormones - all of which affect the immune system - fluctuate in a daily rhythm.
And individual white blood cells also have their own internal clocks that alter their activity too.
Andrew Loudon and David Ray, a pair of body clock professors at the University of Manchester, told the BBC News website: "This may be the dawn of the body clock in the clinic.
"This is a most interesting study, and is among the first to show how the body clock can be used to make healthcare interventions more effective.
"There have been major advances in understanding how the body clock can regulate immunity in laboratory animals, but very little of that exciting science has led to changes in healthcare.
"This study shows that a simple intervention, giving the same vaccine at a different time of day, can result in a major gain in effectiveness."
However, other vaccines stimulate the immune system in different ways so it is too simple to conclude that all immunisation should take place before lunch.
There have been some suggestions that hepatitis B vaccination may be more effective in the afternoon.
But the concept of timing medicine to the body clock - the field of chronotherapy - is powerful and is also showing promise in treating cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
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It is the only world the two-year-old has known for the last 17 months after being diagnosed with leukaemia.
Now her mum, Mel, is hoping to take her little girl on a trip around the world - in the form of postcards.
She has launched a social media appeal asking for people to send in postcards to decorate Jessie's room.
They will also be used to teach her sister Macy, seven, about the different countries of the world.
The appeal was picked up on the Facebook page of Sheffield Online on Monday and has been shared more than 5,500 times.
Postcards have already come flooding into the children's hospital from Liverpool and York and as far away as the US, New Zealand and Australia.
Mel, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said: "It's already had a massive impact on Jessie.
"Just seeing her with Macy, the two of them sat on the bed next to each other passing out an envelope each and saying 'go', and both trying to get into them.
"They were sat there and Macy was reading them to Jessie. It was amazing seeing the smiles on their faces.
"We've had a couple of animal ones and Jessie loves animals and as soon as she sees them that's it.
"One of them was of a kangaroo and she was over the moon, 'hop hop hop'. She loves them."
Jessie had a bone marrow transplant last year but suffered complications which has meant she has been unable to leave hospital and has to stay in isolation.
Mel says she had the idea for the postcards to decorate Jessie's room which the family have "had to make into our home".
"I thought it would be really nice to brighten the girls' room up and in the process teach Macy about different countries and where they are and teach Jessie there is more than four walls and a view out of the window.
"There's a big world out there we would like to take her to see."
Mel says her daughters have received around 500 postcards and letters in the post since the appeal was launched.
One woman also donated a rucksack containing around 2,000 postcards which she had collected throughout her life.
"I'm so overwhelmed by the response by people out there, that don't know us or what we've been through, taking the time to read and share it and send stuff in," said Mel.
"It's amazing. I didn't think we'd get anywhere near the amount of shares, let alone the amount of post cards.
"I'm just asking people to send a card if they go on holiday or if they have a favourite place they go to - we call our happy place - take a picture and let us see."
Postcards can be sent to Jessie and Macy Stocks at Sheffield Children's Hospital.
English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish representatives held discussions on the topic while attending the Uefa Congress in Helsinki, Finland.
Men's and women's sides competed under the GB banner during the 2012 Olympics.
Plans for the teams to compete at the 2016 Games were scrapped after protests from the Irish, Scottish and Welsh FAs.
Though there is no prospect of a return for a men's side, it is believed there could be a possibility of a women's team competing in 2020.
The associations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have traditionally been against teams playing under a GB flag for fear of losing their status as independent football nations.
Wales boss Chris Coleman has previously said he is not in favour of the idea.
"I cannot accept we should be a Great Britain team. I think that is wrong. Our independence would possibly go away," former Football Association of Wales (FAW) president Trefor Lloyd Hughes told BBC Wales Sport.
British Olympic chiefs have already said they are in favour of fielding GB soccer teams in Tokyo.
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Adnan Akmal scored 74 not out as the hosts made 192, losing 12 wickets on day one of a two-day match as both teams agreed to spend a day batting.
Finn took 4-16 but will battle with Mark Wood for the third seamer's place.
Meanwhile, leg-spinner Adil Rashid, pushing for a Test debut, took 3-53.
Finn, who took eight Australian wickets to win the third Ashes Test in July, and Wood played alongside Stuart Broad in the last two Tests against Australia after James Anderson was injured.
But Finn expects Wood, Broad and the fit-again Anderson to be selected for the first Test, which begins on 13 October in Abu Dhabi, after the other three all played in the opening warm-up game earlier this week.
"I'd say I've staked a claim but I'd still be surprised if I played the first Test," said the Middlesex bowler, who took the new ball with fellow paceman Liam Plunkett.
"I think the guys bowled really well the other day, and it wouldn't surprise me if the team that was picked then is the team for the first Test.
"At the moment, I'm back-up to those guys but nothing is set in stone."
Finn's match-winning Ashes performance at Edgbaston came after he doubted if he would play Test cricket again during his two-year absence from the longest format.
On that occasion, Wood was rested and Finn believes it will be a straight pick between him and the Durham seamer.
"There will be disappointed people, regardless of who gets picked," added Finn. "I don't think the same attack is going to play all the way through the series.
"So if you don't play the first Test, it's not the end of the world - there are two others in very quick succession."
Attention will turn to England's batting on Friday, with Moeen Ali and Alex Hales both auditioning for the role as captain Alastair Cook's opening partner.
He won 61.8% of the vote, a larger margin of victory than last year.
He vowed to bring Labour back together, saying "we have much more in common than divides us", insisting the party could win the next election as the "engine of progress" in the country.
More than half a million party members, trade unionists and registered supporters voted in the contest.
In a result announced on the eve of Labour's party conference in Liverpool, Mr Corbyn won 313,209 votes, compared with Mr Smith's 193,229.
Speaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg after his victory, Mr Corbyn said the debate about who led the party was "now over" and Labour needed to take its message on the economy, education and the NHS to the country.
Asked what steps he would take to reconcile critical MPs, he said some form of elections to the shadow cabinet were "absolutely in the mix" although he declined to rule out the possible deselection of sitting MPs in the run-up to the next election.
"I think you will see a lot of changes over the next few weeks," he said.
"They (MPs) have no need to worry at all because it is all about democracy. We are all democratically accountable to our party and to our constituents. They have no need to worry at all. I am reaching out."
by Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor
Victory will be sweet - not just because it is a confirmation of his remarkable support among thousands upon thousands of members around the country.
It is Mr Corbyn's second defeat of the Labour establishment, who many of his supporters believe have tried to undermine the leader consistently over the last 12 months.
They talk of a "surge in the purge" as the leadership contest progressed - party officials vetting and checking new supporters who had registered to vote.
There are claims that Labour HQ deliberately threw Corbyn supporters off the voting lists to reduce the size of his victory. Corbyn supporters believe many MPs have done nothing in the past year other than try to damage his leadership and today they will be shown to have failed badly in their attempt to oust him.
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In his acceptance speech, Mr Corbyn said he was "honoured" to have been elected in a contest that followed months of tension with many Labour MPs and urged people to "respect the democratic choice that has been made".
Addressing supporters, Mr Corbyn said he and his opponents were part of the "same Labour family" and everyone needed to focus their energy "on exposing and defeating the Tories".
"We have much more in common than divides us," he said. "Let us wipe that slate clean from today and get on with the work that we have to do as a party," he said.
Recognising that the election had been "partisan", he condemned online abuse of Labour MPs and supporters which he said "demeaned and corroded" the party.
Mr Smith, who had previously ruled out returning to the front bench, said he respected the result and the onus was on Mr Corbyn to "heal divisions and unite our movement".
"Jeremy has won the contest," he said. "He now has to win the country and he will have my support in trying to do so."
Mr Corbyn was first elected Labour leader in September 2015, when he beat three other candidates and got 59.5% of the vote.
Turnout was higher this time around, with 77.6% of the 654,006 eligible party members, trade union members and registered supporters - 506,438 in total - confirmed as taking part.
Mr Corbyn won comfortably in each of the three categories - winning the support of 59% of party members, 70% of registered supporters and 60% of affiliated supporters.
Despite winning the leadership in a vote of the wider membership and registered supporters last year Mr Corbyn, who spent three decades as part of a marginalised leftwing group of Labour MPs in Parliament, has never had the support of more than about 20% of Labour's MPs.
And the contest came about after more than 170 MPs supported a motion of no confidence in their leader - that confidence vote came after dozens quit his shadow cabinet and other frontbench roles.
There has been speculation that a number of critical Labour MPs could return in an attempt to heal the divisions over the party's future direction although a number are only prepared to do so if elections to the shadow cabinet - which were scrapped in 2011 in favour of the leader picking his own team - are reinstated.
Sources have told the BBC that there was a brief discussion of the issue at a meeting of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee on Saturday evening but no conclusions were reached and none are likely this week.
Saturday's result was welcomed by leading trade unions while Momentum - the campaign group spawned by Mr Corbyn's victory last year - hailed it as a "fantastic win".
Shadow health secretary Diane Abbott, a key ally of the leader, said opponents of Mr Corbyn had "thrown everything but the kitchen sink" at him.
"It was a hard campaign but the membership came out for Jeremy because they realised he had not been given a chance and had been treated unfairly," she said.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said it was up to Mr Corbyn's critics to decide whether they wanted to serve under him, insisting he wanted "unity and stability" and there was a "way we can accommodate everybody".
Labour MP Chuku Umunna said the "leadership issue was settled" and Mr Corbyn, through his re-election, was the party's "candidate to be prime minister".
Former leader Ed Miliband said it was "time to unite and focus on the country".
But Labour MP Louise Ellman said Mr Corbyn must appeal to more than his "cheering fans" and the public at large weren't "impressed with him and that needs to change".
"It's no good being surrounded by people who already agree with you. That is not enough."
The Conservatives said Mr Corbyn's re-election would not end the "bitter power struggle" within the opposition.
"172 Labour MPs don't think Jeremy Corbyn can lead the Labour Party - so how can he lead the country?" said party chairman Patrick McLoughlin.
The Lib Dems said Mr Corbyn was an "ineffectual leader" who had failed to stand up for the national interest during the EU referendum.
The Green Party was more conciliatory, offering the leader their congratulations.
"We look forward to working with Jeremy to oppose the Conservatives and to bring about a progressive government at the next election," said co-leader Caroline Lucas.
But UKIP leader Diane James tweeted: "The millions of Labour voters who want to see immigration cut and Brexit delivered are welcome in UKIP."
Viviane Reding wrote that she was concerned America's efforts "could have grave adverse consequences for the fundamental rights of EU citizens".
A series of leaks suggest major tech firms have passed information to the National Security Agency, the US government's snooping organisation.
Experts say they could now be sued.
"European data protection laws put restrictions on how data gathered about people, including social networking data, can be used," said Dr Ian Brown, associate director of Oxford University's Cyber Security Centre.
"The firms will now face serious questions from national data commissioners and even potentially from individual users in Europe over whether they followed all the European data protection laws that are supposed to stop things like this happening."
According to leaked documents published by the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers, the NSA can order internet firms to give it access to private emails, online chats, pictures, files, videos and other data uploaded by foreign users.
Google has said that its compliance with the requests did not give the US government "unfettered access to our users' data", but notes that nondisclosure obligations prevented it providing detailed information to the public.
Along with Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter, it has asked to be able to be allowed to publish information about the number and scope of the requests received.
Media reports suggested Yahoo, PalTalk, AOL and Apple have also been involved in Prism.
US intelligence chiefs have said that the data-sweeps save lives by helping thwart terror plots.
In her letter to Eric Holder, Ms Reding asks questions on seven areas of concern about Prism and other US data surveillance programmes:
Ms Reding added that American law enforcers should only be given access to EU citizens' data being held on US companies' servers in "clearly defined, exceptional and judicially reviewable situations".
A spokeswoman for the commissioner confirmed the letter had been sent on Monday evening, and that Ms Reding expected detailed replies to her questions when she meets Mr Holder at a previously scheduled event in Dublin on Friday.
It follows outrage over several recent violent crimes, including the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.
President Joko Widodo said the regulation was "intended to overcome the crisis caused by sexual violence against children".
Previously, the maximum sentence for rape, of either an adult or a child, was 14 years in jail.
People jailed for sexual offences against children may also now be made to wear electronic monitoring devices after their release.
The gang rape of 14-year-old Yuyun on her way home from school and the rape and brutal murder of a 18-year-old factory worker this month have sparked national outrage.
In polls and on social media there is widespread support for tougher punishments including castration and the death penalty for perpetrators, particularly when children are the victims.
But a number of leading rights activists have voiced their dissent.
Mariana Aminudi from the National Commission on Violence Against Women said on Twitter: "The castration law is evidence that the government does not view sexual assaults as act of violence but merely as a matter of controlling sexual urges."
While Sandra Moniaga from the National Commission on Human Rights wrote: "Violence will not be stopped by violent punishments."
Introduced by emergency presidential decree, the new rules are in effect immediately but could be overturned by parliament at a later date.
"An extraordinary crime deserves an exceptional response", Mr Widodo said.
The Steelmen face Premiership rivals Rangers at Ibrox on Saturday with a place in the fifth round at stake.
"I think they seem to have improved. They lost the Old Firm match, but even within that match they played well in large spells," said the Well captain.
"We know we are up against it. But we are capable of competing against anybody in this division on our day."
The Scottish Cup tie at Ibrox is the first of 14 on Saturday, and Lasley is under no illusions as to the challenge they face.
"They [Rangers] have brought in a couple of new faces," Lasley said of his opponents who sit second in the Premiership.
"I think they are starting to gel better than they had done in the early part of the season, and at home they will be a tough proposition.
Lasley feels Rangers are on their way to showing they are the second best side in Scotland this year.
"They are at the moment according to the league, and I believe at the moment they probably are," he said.
"I think recent results have proved that. I expect them to finish there [second] at the end of the season to be honest."
"Of course it is going to be tough. It is probably one of the toughest draws you can get at this stage of the cup - take away Celtic, it's probably the next toughest assignment at the moment."
However, Lasley is confident the Steelmen can hold their own at Ibrox.
"We feel capable on our day in a cup competition especially. Our recent performances against Rangers and against Celtic, against the better teams in this league, give us the belief and confidence that we can compete against anybody."
This will be Motherwell's second visit to Ibrox this season. Back in August they took the lead through Scott McDonald, before goals from Harry Forrester and a 90th-minute winner from Kenny Miller saw Rangers take all three points.
"I think anybody that saw the last meeting at Ibrox would concede that we were very unfortunate to take nothing from that game," said Lasley.
"In fact, at one point in the game well into the second-half we're thinking we would be disappointed not to win this match - never mind take nothing from it.
"We can't control Rangers tomorrow. What we can control is turning up and giving our best and being at our best. If we do then I think we have a good chance of progression."
Sir Bruce began his career in showbusiness when he was aged just 14, becoming a household name for presenting shows such as the Generation Game and The Price is Right.
Most recently, he presented Strictly Come Dancing with Tess Daly from 2004 to 2014.
He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2011, becoming Sir Bruce Forsyth.
Sir Bruce had been unwell for some time and was in hospital earlier this year.
Strictly Come Dancing presenter, Claudia Winkleman tweeted: "He was the King of TV, the Prince of performers and the most generous of people... all toe-tapping twinkle, all kindness, all love...."
Bruce's Strictly co-presenter Tess Daly said: "There are no words to describe how heartbroken I am to be told the saddest news, that my dear friend Sir Bruce Forsyth has passed away. From the moment we met, Bruce and I did nothing but laugh our way through a decade of working together on Strictly Come Dancing and I will never forget his generosity, his brilliant sense of humour and his drive to entertain the audiences he so loved."
Joe Sugg tweeted: "An Inspirational entertainer. You will be sadly missed Sir Bruce Forsyth RIP."
Former Strictly contestant Georgia May Foote tweeted this tribute: "Oh so sad to hear Sir Bruce Forsyth has passed away. An absolute legend. My thoughts are with his family."
CBBC Top Class presenter, Susan Calman, who will be on this year's Strictly wrote: "RIP Sir Bruce Forsyth. I always wanted to be be his favourite. He was mine."
Former Newsround Presenter and Strictly winner Ore Oduba said: "My hero, Sir Bruce Forsyth. Nobody did it better. RIP Brucie."
Shirley Ballas, who is joining the new series of Strictly as a judge, tweeted this tribute: "I was a huge fan of Sir Bruce Forsyth. As a little girl I would watch all his shows. I found him so loveable and funny. It's a sad day."
Strictly judge Bruno Tonioli tweeted: "So sad A new⭐️in heaven goodbye dear friend and national treasure #sirbruceforsyth I will forever treasure the fun time we had together ❤️"
Len Goodman, Strictly's former head judge, has remembered Sir Bruce: "He was so kind and encouraging to me, the other judges and all those involved in the show. I used to pop round to his dressing room and chat about stars he met. The truth is there was no one I mentioned he hadn't met. His work ethic, professionalism and charm will be with me forever. One of his catchphrases was 'you're my favourite'. Well, you were one of mine and the nation's favourites. Bruce, it was nice to see you, to see you, nice."
The warning came as figures showed a rise in children, worried about online abuse and grooming, contacting the charity's Childline service.
Counselling sessions for young people worried about online sexual abuse rose 24% to 3,716 in 2015-16.
The Home Office described it as "a global problem" adding that "the UK is at the forefront of efforts to combat this dreadful crime".
Childline's figures also showed that:
"Most of us talk to people online and it's a great way to stay connected and make new friends," said NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless.
"But it can be a playground for paedophiles, exposing young people to groomers who trawl social networks and online game forums exploiting any vulnerabilities they may find."
Mr Wanless he said that he hoped that by putting the issue into the spotlight, more people would feel able to speak up if they were worried or scared by a situation or relationship.
Childline founder Esther Rantzen said the internet had brought many positive changes but added: "It has also brought dangers and online grooming is a real risk."
The charity's new Listen To Your Selfie campaign aims to help young people recognise the signs of grooming and unhealthy relationships.
It includes two films where selfies come to life and question a situation.
The Game focuses on a same-sex online grooming scenario and The Party highlights peer-to-peer sexual pressure and grooming.
One 16-year-old girl said her boyfriend was older and made her share images with his friends online.
"He gives me money and food when I go online and do things via webcam.
"I have not told anyone else what is happening, I am so scared and drink to forget.
"I just know I am not normal, I am weird and nobody understands. I am disgusting, so rather me than another young girl."
A 15-year-old boy feared he was being groomed by a man he had met online.
"He has asked for pictures and one time I made the mistake of sending a nude selfie.
"He won't show me any pictures of him, which makes me think he is fake. I have not agreed to meet him because I am scared. He has threatened to show my nude selfie to the world.
"I am gay, but nobody knows, so it would ruin me if people found out. I cry myself to sleep every night with worry."
A Home Office spokeswoman said the National Crime Agency was working closely with social media companies and police in the UK and overseas to identify offenders and their victims, with GCHQ helping target the most technologically advanced offenders and specialist funding almost doubled.
"The sexual exploitation of children is a heinous crime and this government will do whatever it takes to tackle offenders and prevent abuse wherever it takes place," said the spokeswoman.
1523-24 - Spanish adventurer Pedro de Alvarado defeats the indigenous Maya and turns Guatemala into a Spanish colony.
1821 - Guatemala becomes independent and joins the Mexican empire the following year.
1823 - Guatemala becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America, which also include Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
1839 - Guatemala becomes fully independent.
1844-65 - Guatemala ruled by conservative dictator Rafael Carrera.
1873-85 - Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernises the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing.
1931 - Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances.
1941 - Guatemala declares war on the Axis powers.
1944 - Juan Jose Arevalo becomes president following the overthrow of Ubico and introduces social-democratic reforms, including setting up a social security system and redistributing land to landless peasants.
His era saw some of the civil war's worst episodes
Rios Montt faces massacre trial
1951 - Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman becomes president, continuing Arevalo's reforms.
1954 - Land reform stops with the accession to power of Colonel Carlos Castillo in a coup backed by the US and prompted by Arbenz's nationalisation of plantations of the United Fruit Company.
1960-1996 - Civil war pitting government against leftist rebels supported mainly by indigenous people.
1963 - Colonel Enrique Peralta becomes president following the assassination of Castillo.
1966 - Civilian rule restored; Cesar Mendez elected president.
1970 - Military-backed Carlos Arena elected president.
1970s - Military rulers embark on a programme to eliminate left-wingers, resulting in at least 50,000 deaths.
1976 - 27,000 people are killed and more than a million rendered homeless by earthquake.
Rigoberta Menchu, a campaigner for Mayan rights, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992
Profile: Activist who publicised plight of indigenous people
1980 January - Spanish embassy fire, a defining event in the civil war, in which 36 people die after police raid the embassy occupied by peasants.
1981 - Around 11,000 people are killed by death squads and soldiers in response to growing anti-government guerrilla activity.
1982 - General Efrain Rios Montt takes power in a military coup. He conducts a campaign of mass murder against indigenous Mayans, accusing them of harbouring insurgents. He faces trial over these crimes in 2013.
1983 - Montt ousted in coup led by General Mejia Victores, who declares an amnesty for guerrillas.
1985 - Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo elected president and the Guatemalan Christian Democratic Party wins legislative elections under a new constitution.
A mourner remembers the fatal raid on the mission occupied by protesters
Guatemala comes to terms with its past
1989 - Attempt to overthrow Cerezo fails; civil war toll since 1980 reaches 100,000 dead and 40,000 missing.
1991 - Jorge Serrano Elias elected president. Diplomatic relations restored with Belize, from whom Guatemala had long-standing territorial claims.
1993 - Serrano forced to resign after his attempt to impose an authoritarian regime ignites a wave of protests; Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected president by the legislature.
1994 - Peace talks between the government and rebels of the Guatemalan Revolutionary National Unity begin; right-wing parties win a majority in legislative elections.
1995 - Rebels declare a ceasefire; UN and US criticise Guatemala for widespread human rights abuses.
1996 - Alvaro Arzu is elected president, conducts a purge of senior military officers and signs a peace agreement with rebels, ending 36 years of civil war.
Maya civilisation prospered in Central America until around 900 AD
BBC History: Fall of the Mayan Civilisation
1998 - Bishop Juan Gerardi, a human rights campaigner, murdered.
1999 - UN-backed commission says security forces were behind 93% of all human rights atrocities committed during the civil war, which claimed 200,000 lives, and that senior officials had overseen 626 massacres in Maya villages.
2000 - Alfonso Portillo sworn in as president after winning elections in 1999.
2001 December - President Portillo pays $1.8m in compensation to the families of 226 men, women and children killed by soldiers and paramilitaries in the northern village of Las Dos Erres in 1982.
2002 September - Guatemala and Belize agree on draft settlement to their long-standing border dispute at talks brokered by Organization of American States (OAS). Both nations will hold referendums on draft settlement.
2003 November - Presidential elections go to second round. Former military leader Efrain Rios Montt, trailing in third place, accepts defeat.
2003 December - Conservative businessman Oscar Berger - a former mayor of Guatemala City - wins the presidential election in the second round.
Guatemala - along with Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras - agrees on a free-trade agreement with the US.
2004 May - Former military leader Efrain Rios Montt is placed under house arrest.
2004 May/June - Major cuts to the army; bases are closed and 10,000 soldiers are retired.
2004 July - $3.5 million in damages paid to victims of civil war. Move follows state's formal admissions of guilt in several well-known human rights crimes.
2004 December - UN mission, set up to monitor post-civil war peace process, winds up, but the UN says Guatemala still suffers from crime, social injustice, human rights violations.
2005 March - Government ratifies Central American free trade deal with US amid street protests in capital.
2005 November - Guatemala's leading anti-drugs investigator is arrested in the US on charges of drug trafficking.
2006 July - A Spanish judge issues a warrant for the arrest of former military leader Efrain Rios Montt and other former officials over atrocities committed during the civil war.
2006 December - The government and the UN agree to create a commission - to be known as the CICIG - to identify and dismantle powerful clandestine armed groups.
2007 May - Guatemala ratifies an international adoption treaty, committing it to ensure that babies are not bought or stolen.
2007 July - Amnesty International urges the government to ratify the CICIG as a first step towards tackling the culture of impunity it says has contributed to Guatemala's soaring murder rate.
2007 August - International election monitors say they are worried about the high murder rate among political candidates and activists in the run-up to the 9 September polls.
2007 November - Alvaro Colom of centre-left National Unity of Hope Party wins presidential elections with nearly 53 percent of the vote.
2008 October - Ex-President Alfonso Portillo is extradited from Mexico to face corruption charges. A court later clears him.
2009 May - President Colom denies involvement in murder of a prominent lawyer who in a video made before to his death claimed Colom and others were out to kill him. A UN probe clears Mr Colom.
2009 September - An ex-paramilitary officer, Felipe Cusanero, becomes the first person to be jailed for the forced disappearance of civilians in Guatemala's civil war.
2009 December - Retired colonel becomes first army officer to be convicted of crimes committed during civil war.
2010 March - Country's police chief and anti-drugs tsar are sacked over the theft of cocaine.
2010 October - US apologises for deliberately infecting hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhoea and syphilis as part of medical tests in the 1940s.
2011 August - Four former soldiers found guilty of a village massacre become the first to be convicted of rights abuses during the civil war.
2011 November - Former army general Otto Perez Molina of the right-wing Patriotic Party wins presidential elections, takes office in January.
2011 December - President Colom apologises to the relatives of the more than 200 victims of the 1982 massacre in the village of Dos Erres during the civil war.
Guatemala is seen as an important area for the transhipment, production and consumption of drugs
President urges debate on drug legalisation
2012 March - President Perez Molina proposes decriminalising drugs as a way of combating the illegal narcotics trade.
2013 May - Ex-military leader Efrain Rios Montt is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, only to have the ruling overturned by the constitutional court on a technicality, forcing a retrial, although no date is set.
2014 March - Ex-President Alfonso Portillo pleads guilty in a US court to charges that he accepted $2.5m (£1.5m) in bribes from Taiwan in return for a promise of continued recognition by Guatemala.
2014 June - The US to give millions of dollars of aid to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to combat gang violence and help citizens repatriated from the US, as part of efforts to cope with growing migration.
2014 August - Armed forces chief Rudy Ortiz dies in a helicopter crash of unknown cause in bad weather near the border with Mexico.
2015 January - The retrial on genocide charges of Guatemala's ex-military ruler General Efrain Rios Montt is suspended, after his lawyers question the impartiality of the lead judge.
2015 August - A court rules that ex-military ruler General Efrain Rios Montt must face a retrial for genocide in January despite suffering from dementia, but he will not be tried in person or be sentenced if found guilty.
President Perez Molina resigns after Congress lifts his immunity in response to allegations by prosecutors of his involvement in a customs bribery ring.
2015 October - Jimmy Morales wins presidential election.
How? By incubating 10 eggs with his own body heat.
He will live inside a glass vivarium until his charges hatch, watched by visitors to the Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris.
Poincheval expects the process to last between 21 and 26 days.
"I will, broadly speaking, become a chicken," he said.
The artist, 44, began the performance - titled "Oeuf" (Egg) - on Wednesday.
Rather than sitting on the eggs directly, he is deploying a chair with a container under its seat.
Poincheval will be wrapped in an insulating blanket designed by Korean artist Seglui Lee, to keep his body temperature high.
He also plans to eat "heating" foods like ginger to generate more body warmth - and will have provisions in easy reach.
Lavatorial matters are not so simple. Poincheval will use a box beneath him when nature calls, and will not be able to get up to relieve himself.
To hatch the eggs successfully, he will only be able to stand and leave them for 30 minutes a day. That time will be used for meals.
The egg enterprise comes less than a month after Poincheval's last effort "Pierre" (Stone), where he lived inside a hollowed-out limestone rock shaped to fit his body.
The Palais de Tokyo said the artist was "trying to escape from human time and experience mineral speed".
Prior to that, he spent a fortnight in April 2014 living inside a hollowed-out bear in Paris's Museum of Hunting and Nature, eating worms and beetles to mirror the animal's diet.
According to Poincheval, the best way to understand objects is not from a distance, but by entering them.
The fate of the unborn chickens should - appropriately - be clear after Easter.
She took first place on the podium after winning the women's SM14 200m individual medley on Saturday night.
Firth, from Seaforde in County Down, broke her own Paralympic record with a time of 2:19.55 to win the race.
Her golden hat trick came after she successfully defended her 100m backstroke title and won the 200m freestyle gold in Rio last week.
She also won a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke final, considered the weakest of her four events.
Firth said that, as the medley was her last event in Rio she wanted to make a splash.
"I wanted to do something special and I'm so happy with my performance."
Her record-breaking win saw her clinch victory ahead of her British teammate Jessica-Jane Applegate.
The British one-two topped off a very successful night in the pool for the ParalympicsGB team.
Oliver Hynd smashed the world record in the 200m individual medley SM8 to retain his Paralympic title.
Firth's teammate Hannah Russell won her second gold medal in the 50m freestyle S12.
"We're such a good team, Great Britain were really pushing each other on," Firth said.
"When we saw Ollie win his gold and Hannah win the gold, it just sort of pushes each other on," she added.
Firth, who is 20, competes in the S14 class for swimmers with an intellectual disability.
Director Zack Snyder said the three-time Oscar nominee has "the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful".
Adams will star alongside Britain's Henry Cavill in the as yet untitled film, set for release in December 2012.
The 36-year-old actress was recently seen in boxing drama The Fighter.
She was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her role but the award went to her co-star Melissa Leo.
In the four Superman films starring Christopher Reeve, Daily Planet reporter Lois was played by Margot Kidder.
Kate Bosworth took over the part when the Man of Steel was revived in 2006 in Superman Returns.
Diane Lane and Kevin Costner have also landed roles in Snyder's film, in which they will play Superman's adoptive father and mother.
Snyder's latest movie Sucker Punch is released in the UK on Friday.
Team Sky's Froome clawed back breaks from Vincenzo Nibali, Alberto Contador and Nairo Quintana on the gruelling 15.8km climb up Plateau de Beille.
The Briton is still two minutes 52 seconds ahead of Tejay van Garderen.
Spaniard Rodriguez overhauled Michal Kwiatkowski in driving rain late on to win the 195km route from Lannemezan.
It was the second stage win of the Tour for the 36-year-old Spaniard after he triumphed up the sharp climb of the Mur de Huy in Belgium on stage three.
Rodriguez understandably punched the air as he crossed the line in torrential conditions at the end of the third and final stage in the Pyrenees.
But further down the road a desperate battle was playing out as Froome's rivals tried to take time out of the Team Sky rider.
It was as though the other teams were working in concert to try to isolate and expose Froome, with Alejandro Valverde as well as Contador, Nibali and, finally, Quintana all sprinting off the front of the ever-diminishing yellow jersey group.
But Team Sky did not panic and Froome was superbly aided by Richie Porte and, after the Australian fell back, the excellent Geraint Thomas.
Froome at one point tried to attack himself but he was quickly caught and briefly isolated while Thomas hauled his way up the road to rejoin his team leader.
"I was hoping maybe one or two guys might switch off mentally with that acceleration," explained Froome.
"But everybody seemed pretty fresh so at that point I just said 'OK, I'm just going to try to get to the line today in the best condition possible and hopefully not lose any time'."
In the end Valverde did sprint clear close to the line but he only managed to take one second off Froome and remains almost four minutes behind.
After a relatively quiet Wednesday, when the leaders appeared content to catch their breath and let Rafal Majka claim a breakaway victory, it was widely expected that Froome's form would be tested on Thursday.
There were attacks from the start of the day and early disappointment for Movistar's British rider Alex Dowsett, who abandoned shortly after slipping off the back of the main group.
Dowsett had sustained a painful elbow injury after crashing on the cobbles earlier in the race and later said: "Was beaten by the Tour this year. Sad to be heading home, stomach problems in the night was the final nail in the coffin. Will be back."
A group of 22 riders eventually got clear and built a steady lead that grew to more than 10 minutes.
That lead remained fairly steady for some time, although the size of the group varied as the breakaway made its way along a stage that comprised two category one climbs and one category two before the brutal finish.
World road race champion Kwiatkowski and Sep Vanmarcke eventually broke clear, with the former going out on his own.
But on the slopes of Plateau de Beille Rodriguez showed superb form and determination to catch Kwiatkowski and finish more than a minute clear of Jakob Fuglsang with Frenchman Romain Bardet third.
The Tour moves on from the Pyrenees on Friday, with a 198.5km transitional stage from Muret to Rodez that could end with a sprint finish.
BBC Sport's Matt Slater: "In much the same way that rain can freshen up the dullest of F1 races, the worst weather at this year's Tour helped produce the best action.
"We had great riders in different groups all along the road to the final fearsome climb up to Plateau de Beille and each of those groups provided their own storylines.
"In the end, the stage victory went to Joaquim Rodriguez, his second of a Tour that has seen him give up his long-held ambitions on general classification in favour of a spectacular triumphs of a more one-off nature.
"Most of those who still harbour hopes of taking the yellow jersey from Team Sky's Chris Froome had a more frustrating day as the British star and his wonderful wingmen Richie Porte and Geraint Thomas deflected everything thrown at them.
"Afterwards, by the team cars, there was a distinct sense that the other big names are now fighting each other for podium places."
Full results and standings.
1. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 5hrs 40mins 14secs
2. Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana +1min 12secs
3. Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale +1min 49secs
4. Gorka Insausti (Spa) Movistar +4mins 34secs
5. Louis Meintjes (SA) MTN-Qhubeka +4mins 38secs
6. Jan Barta (Cze) Bora-Argon +5mins 47secs
7. Romain Sicard (Fra) Team Europcar +6mins 3secs
8. Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale +6mins 28secs
9. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar +6mins 46secs
10. Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky +6mins 47secs
1. Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky 46hrs 50mins 32secs
2. Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing +2mins 52secs
3. Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar +3mins 9secs
4. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar +3mins 58secs
5. Geraint Thomas (GB) Team Sky +4mins 3secs
6. Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo +4mins 4secs
7. Robert Gesink (Ned) LottoNL +5mins 32secs
8. Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto +7mins 32secs
9. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana +7mins 47secs
10. Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek +8mins 2secs
The 18-year-old is in the Great Britain squad for the UCI BMX World Championships later this month.
Compatriot Bethany Shriever also made the final but finished sixth.
Reade, who went on to become a multiple BMX and track world champion, retired from competitive cycling this year.
Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto was also fined some $260,000 (£165,000).
Rabbi Pinto had offered cash in return for classified information on a police probe into one of his charities.
The rabbi, believed to be one of Israel's wealthiest, has a large following among celebrities and business people in the US.
He is a great-grandson of a famous Moroccan mystical rabbi, Israel Abuchatzera, also known as the Baba Sali.
Rabbi Pinto had entered a plea bargain at the Tel Aviv court, agreeing to testify that he had bribed another senior police chief, the former head of Israel's national crimes squad.
Mr Clark has tweeted that he's "thrilled" to be appointed and that he will build on the work of the "brilliant" David Willetts.
He will combine the role with his existing portfolio as cities minister.
One of his first tasks will be to convince the research community that the importance of science has not been downgraded as a result of the merger.
By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent, BBC News
As the youngest member of the Cabinet, Liz Truss will be welcomed by many as marking a distinct change from the divisive Owen Paterson.
Mr Paterson's views on climate change, genetically modified foods and especially the badger cull earned the deep distrust of environmental campaigners while generating support among farmers.
Greens were quick to put the boot into the departing Mr Paterson dubbing him the "worst environment secretary in decades".
"Mr Paterson has wilfully ignored scientific evidence on climate change, championed pesticide firms instead of bees and massively underinvested in flood defences, leaving thousands of households at risk of future flooding," said Andy Atkins from Friends of the Earth.
But Mr Paterson's adoption of new measures to tackle bovine TB including the controversial badger cull won him hearts and minds in the countryside.
His sacking has been described as "disappointing" by National Farmers Union President, Meurig Raymond.
With her background as a strong advocate of the free market and as a former employee of Shell, many greens will be cautious about the new Secretary.
Ms Truss is reported to have concerns about the use of agricultural land for solar plants and the subsidies these operations accumulate.
According to the vote tracking website, the Public Whip, Ms Truss has voted in favour of measures to stop global warming around 48% of the time. Her predecessor, Mr Paterson, has a slightly stronger record of support at 53%.
She has twice voted in favour of the badger cull in 2013.
As an MP from South West Norfolk, she has been active in supporting farmers on issues including reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and in ensuring that farmland stays in production for food.
She is a strong advocate of improvements to rural infrastructure - according to her website she is "determined to find new ways and funding to bring good roads, faster broadband and reliable energy supplies" to country areas.
One issue that she has been associated with is the way that the Environment Agency values agricultural land when assessing flood schemes. She has lobbied Defra on this issue. Now as Environment Secretary she will have the chance to do something about it.
Owen Paterson was removed from his post as Environment Secretary in the reshuffle. The 38-year-old Liz Truss will take over the brief from him.
Mr Clark is an economist and a former treasury minister. He has a reputation for being a deep thinker and in the same analytical mould as his predecessor David "two brains" Willetts.
Many in the scientific community hope that Mr Clark's links with the Chancellor, George Osborne, will stand them in good stead.
He will however have to answer questions about his decision to support a Parliamentary motion supporting the availability of homeopathic medicines on the NHS in 2007.
It is thought he did so because he has a homeopathic hospital in his Tunbridge Wells constituency. Mr Clark will no doubt be asked whether he believes homeopathic remedies are effective and if he would advocate their use to treat serious illnesses.
The science minister's primary role is to oversee research spending and the running of universities. In science, his chief aim will be to hold together the research base which has been creaking under the weight of having to shoulder year on year real terms cuts.
It has been reported that the science brief will be split with the appointment of George Freeman as life sciences minister. But the role has existed before and is likely to have been recreated because of the strategic importance placed on the sector.
Mr Willetts will be a tough act to follow - he has received warm tributes from the scientific community following his departure.
His critics say he oversaw a real terms cut in science spending. His fans, who are in the vast majority, argue that he saved science from the axe and used his considerable guile to win over the support of Mr Osborne.
Mr Willetts' achievements include nurturing the vibrant UK space sector and he was due to take a salute from the community for announcing plans to have a UK launch site for space planes at the Farnborough Air show today. He is also said to have played a big part in the selection of British astronaut Tim Peake for a mission to the International Space Station next year.
Prof Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, said Mr Willetts had been an "outstanding" science minister and Dr Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, said Mr Willetts would be "sadly missed".
The former Astronomer Royal, Prof Lord Rees, described him as a really "really admirable politician".
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They were among five girls who began to struggle in the water, close to Ross Rowing Club on Rope Walk, Ross-on-Wye at about 19:30 BST on Tuesday, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.
Members of the rowing club helped rescue the girls, aged 15 and 17, who were checked by crews.
The 17-year-old girl was was taken to hospital as a precaution.
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Ambulance service spokesman Murray MacGregor said: "Two members of Ross Rowing Club went into the water, while others used a rowing boat to get to the youngsters.
"In the meantime, one of the club's rescue launches was also launched.
"Three of the girls were able to get out of the water themselves. A 17-year-old girl was rescued from the side by the launch and a 15-year-old was rescued from the water by the rowing boat."
Phelan had been in temporary charge since Steve Bruce's departure in the summer, with the club currently 15th in the Premier League table.
A good start saw the 54-year-old named manager of the month for August.
In September, Phelan revealed he was offered the job on a full-time basis but there had since been no contact amid the club's search for a new owner.
"I'm very relieved," Phelan said on the club website. "It's been a while in coming."
Phelan added he was "looking forward" to the first full-time management role of his career, saying: "It's exciting to step over that threshold."
The newly-promoted Tigers surprised many by winning their first two games of the season despite a summer of turmoil and stretched playing resources.
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Since then, however, they have gone five games in the league without a further win, picking up just one point. They have reached the fourth round of the EFL Cup, and travel to Bristol City next.
Former Manchester United assistant manager Phelan first arrived at Hull City in February 2015 when named assistant to Bruce, who this week was appointed manager at Championship side Aston Villa.
Hull, who have beaten champions Leicester and Swansea this season, visit Bournemouth on Saturday.
The club also confirmed on Thursday that Stephen Clemence had left the club to join Aston Villa as first-team coach under Bruce.
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Jess Ratty is a woman with a mission. She wants us all to get better at promoting ourselves professionally online - and creating our own career opportunities along the way.
Given that changing jobs can be one of the hardest things we do, many of us might welcome anything that makes switching jobs easier.
According to a survey by Hired, eight in 10 of us say we find changing jobs stressful - and more stressful than moving house, planning a wedding or even having root canal work.
When it comes to job-hunting, Jess says the key is not to let your stress stop you from taking action: "Don't fret about things so much, or worry about how you might come across."
It's something she has put into practice in her own career.
Now a senior executive at Crowdfunder, the UK's biggest crowd-funding platform which raises funds from small investors, Jess says she's come a long way since dropping out of school.
She started work at the Eden Project in Cornwall as a waitress, and says it was her colleagues who helped her realise she "could maybe start achieving great things myself."
So she set about creating an online professional profile as a shop window for herself - and says having an active online presence has been crucial for her career.
"Crowdfunder found me through LinkedIn and went on to offer me a job."
Crowdfunder's Dawn Bebe, who recruited Jess, says what's important for her when recruiting someone "is getting a sense of what they are like and what they are passionate about".
Jess's experience is increasingly common, says Darain Faraz of LinkedIn.
"A lot of the time, most people aren't looking for work, they are what we call passive candidates. But LinkedIn can help jobs look for you."
Yet this only works if you have a complete profile, and sadly us Brits are not very good at self-promotion.
We're more likely to share food pictures on our social media channels than our work successes or announcements of a new job.
"People do make judgements based on our online profiles," says Darain.
And be assured, recruiters will also check your Twitter activity and Facebook profile as well: "Make sure that how you position yourself online is how you want to be seen," he adds.
"You don't want your Saturday night becoming your Monday morning."
The mistake many of us make is to only use professional networking sites when we're looking for a new role, says Darain.
But what recruiters want to see is a track record, so that they can judge whether or not we are right for a job.
"One of the first things we do is check [online] for potential candidates in the right geographical area who have the skills and interests that we think would work for us," says Crowdfunder's Dawn Bebe.
The jobs recruitment sector has changed markedly in the past few years, with a vast amount of job searching and head-hunting now done online with sites such as Monster, Reed, Viadeo and Xing.
LinkedIn has about 400 million members worldwide (in the UK it has 20 million members - some 60% of Britain's working population and students) and last year Microsoft paid over $26bn (£18bn) for LinkedIn.
Now Facebook, with more than a billion monthly active users, has launched Workplace; it's a platform designed to help workers talk to each other, in-house.
While it is currently for use within firms, given Facebook's size it has the potential to be a serious rival to LinkedIn.
Jess has her own tip for young professionals.
"You need to be creative and inventive with your online profile if you want to stand out," she says.
"You need to be consistent if you are using it to develop your career."
Jess says she always wanted to make her career in her home county - Cornwall.
Besides working for Crowdfunder, she and her partner have now set up the Cornwall Camper Company, hiring out restored VW campervans to holidaymakers.
She points out that thanks to online networking sites, "you can make a big impact wherever you are".
But she also has this important piece of advice. Merely being online is no substitute for professional knowledge and commitment, she cautions: "You've got to know your stuff."
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England pace bowler Steven Finn pressed his claims for a place in next week's first Test against Pakistan after taking four wickets in their final warm-up against Pakistan A in Sharjah.
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Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as Labour leader, comfortably defeating his challenger Owen Smith.
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Indonesia has toughened its punishments for child rapists to include the death penalty and chemical castration.
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Motherwell need to beat the second best team in the country to progress in the Scottish Cup, says Keith Lasley.
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One of television's biggest stars, Sir Bruce Forsyth, has died at the age of 89.
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French artist Abraham Poincheval - who has already spent two weeks living inside a stuffed bear - plans to commune with the humble chicken for his latest performance stunt.
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Northern Ireland swimmer Bethany Firth is celebrating her third gold medal at the Paralympics in Brazil.
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Blaine Ridge-Davis became the first Briton to be crowned European junior women's BMX champion since Shanaze Reade in 2006 after riding to victory in Bordeaux, France.
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One of Israel's best-known rabbis has been sentenced to a year in jail for attempting to bribe the head of the national fraud squad.
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Hull City have appointed caretaker manager Mike Phelan as their new head coach.
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The party has also pledged to spend £6bn on new roads and public transport and to increase spending on childcare by more than £500m.
On welfare, it says £500m will be set aside to help those most in need.
The measures are set out in the party's 10-point plan for government.
Many of them have already been agreed by the Northern Ireland Executive.
Sinn Féin - the last of the five main parties to publish its manifesto - is standing 39 candidates across the 18 constituencies. It is hoping to add to its 29 assembly seats.
The party's top two pledges - 50,000 new jobs and an extra £1bn for health - are exactly the same as those set out by the DUP in its five-point plan for government.
Launching the manifesto in Londonderry on Wednesday, Martin McGuinness said: "We have had five years of political instability as a result of Tory austerity and also negativity and blatant opportunism by some political parties.
"My priority is to bring forward and implement a Programme for Government that grows the economy, provides proper public services and promotes equality and inclusion"
Other priorities listed in the manifesto include ring-fencing funding for frontline policing, ending regional inequalities in job creation and extending fast speed broadband to rural communities.
The party also reaffirms its commitment to delivering "an affordable and harmonised corporation tax by 2018".
On health, Sinn Féin is proposing changing the way health services are commissioned, removing what it calls the "internal market" and increasing first year training intake for GP specialism.
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The Cameroonian, who has been in power since 1988, faces Madagascar FA head Ahmad in the vote in Addis Ababa.
Manuel Nascimento is one of just two men to publicly back Hayatou, with the Comoros FA also offering its support.
If Hayatou loses, I will quit football
"If Hayatou loses, I will quit football," Nascimento said.
Last year, Nascimento oversaw one of the most remarkable qualifications in Africa Cup of Nations history as rank outsiders Guinea-Bissau qualified for the tournament for the first time.
They had never come close to qualification prior to that but duly recorded both their first point and first goals at the tournament in Gabon.
So why is a president, in the midst of such a high, so prepared to put himself on the line?
"Because I can guarantee there will only be a daily jumble in the institution (if Ahmad wins)," he told BBC Sport.
"There is no one among us who can lead Caf better than Hayatou right now. You cannot compare the value that exists in this man as a leader with any other person in (African) football.
"You cannot have a gentleman with the character, dignity and value of Hayatou and just say one day that you are going to humiliate him - that he is not entitled to rule Caf any more."
"I do not agree with that. We should not be ungrateful."
Nascimento, who also works in politics in his homeland, says he is among several African football leaders who convinced Hayatou not to step down this year.
The 70-year-old had previously said that this would be his last term in office, only to later have a change of heart.
"We have to protect our leader so that after this election, President Hayatou will say 'look, it's time for me to get rest - I did something good.' Many times he tried to do it, but we said - 'No, Caf will die if you quit,'" added Nascimento.
Tunde Adelakun, who worked on a biography of Hayatou in recent years, says the son of a local ruler had once been looking forward to stepping away from Caf.
"When I was writing his biography, we always thought that 2017 was going to be his final hurrah," the Nigerian told BBC Sport.
"He told me he wanted to retire, return home to northern Cameroon, to Garoua, and do what his father bequeathed to him - the rulership of his town. He really was passionate about it and felt he hadn't had enough time over the last 20 years to do enough of that. It's the only place he can be totally relaxed.
"People around him (appear to) have made the decision for him to stand - so whether they are looking after his interests or their own, since their livelihoods depend on him, becomes an issue."
Hayatou hails from a political family, with his brother having once served as Prime Minister of Cameroon.
His father was also a local ruler - known locally as a 'lamido' - with the hope being that Issa would one day follow the family business.
Instead, the former athlete has established a political legacy of his own in African football administration - becoming the longest-serving ruler in Caf's history.
On Thursday, he has the chance to extend his 29-year reign into a fourth decade.
Whoever wins the vote will serve a four-year term.
The move follows last week's attack in Nice in which 84 people were killed and scores injured when a lorry was driven into crowds.
The state of emergency was brought in after terror attacks in Paris in November that left 130 people dead.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said France must expect more deadly attacks despite precautions taken by his government.
Speaking at the debate in the National Assembly, he said France would have to learn to live with the threat.
"Even if these words are hard to say, it's my duty to do so," he said.
"There will be other attacks and there will be other innocent people killed. We must not become accustomed, we must never become accustomed, to the horror, but we must learn to live with this menace."
The extension agreed in the early hours of Wednesday would take the state of emergency until the end of January 2017. It is the fourth extension France's parliament has proposed and the move must be approved by the Senate.
The emergency measures give the police extra powers to carry out searches and to place people under house arrest.
Earlier this month, President Francois Hollande said he did not intend to extend the state of emergency beyond 26 July.
The last extension was to cover the Euro 2016 football tournament and the end of the Tour de France cycling race.
A recent commission of inquiry found that the state of emergency was only having a "limited impact" on improving security.
It questioned the deployment of between 6,000 and 7,000 soldiers to protect schools, synagogues, department stores and other sensitive sites.
Ian Taylor stopped proceedings for the Portland helicopter, which was retired on Friday after 22 years.
The helicopter has been axed in favour of a Hampshire-based regional service.
The coastguard said the diver was rescued within 40 minutes, but Mr Taylor said the wait for the rescue earlier was "disgraceful".
He interrupted a memorial service, which included the unveiling of a commemorative stone, at Portland harbour.
He apologised and was applauded by those who had gathered for the service as he left.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said the "unwell diver" - a man - was airlifted to hospital but did not give any further details of his condition.
"For a significant proportion of their time, coastguard helicopters are not on the ground at their base but are out conducting their duties around the UK," a spokeswoman added.
"When an incident occurs, the UK Coastguard tasks the most appropriate resources, be they lifeboats, coastguard rescue teams, helicopters or other local resources."
The memorial stone bears the names of all 46 former crew and staff.
The decision to retire the service comes despite a campaign and 100,000-signature petition to save it.
It is part of a new restructuring of the MCA that will see a fleet of search and rescue helicopters operate from 10 bases around the UK.
The MCA said it was 15 minutes flying time from Lee-on-Solent, where the new Leonardo AW189 helicopter is based, to Portland.
Heli Operations saved the Portland helicopter base at Osprey Quay last year and it will now be used as a refuelling facility.
It is the latest example of the largest local party being left in opposition.
Last week, a proposed coalition deal between Labour and the Conservatives in West Lothian was vetoed by the party's executive body.
Administrations have still to be formed in Edinburgh and Clackmannanshire.
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Rooney, 30, featured as a forward and in midfield under previous England manager Roy Hodgson during Euro 2016.
Allardyce said it was too soon to confirm whether Rooney, England's record scorer, would remain as captain.
"I still think Wayne Rooney has a massive place to play in the England side," said the 61-year-old.
"If Jose says he is not going to play him in centre midfield and he is playing up front and scoring goals for Manchester United then it would be pointless me bringing him into England and playing him in centre midfield."
With Rooney likely to face competition for a starting spot at Old Trafford from forwards Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Anthony Martial, Allardyce said a player's club form will be important in him being selected.
"I don't know until that happens with anybody, let alone Wayne Rooney," he added. "I hope there are standout players all over the place when the Premier League starts.
"I hope it's a hugely difficult task for me to pick my first squad because everybody is on really good form and playing exceptionally well."
Allardyce's first game in charge will be a World Cup qualifier against Slovakia on 4 September, and he hopes to have made contact with Premier League managers to "hear their thoughts" before choosing his squad.
"We've got to try and help each other if we possibly can," said Allardyce, who has more than two decades' worth of domestic coaching experience.
"It won't always be the case, the demands on Premier League managers and demand on me as England manager is bound to cause some conflict down the line because the pressures are far greater than ever before.
"So they are bound to want to protect their players and that is what I have to try and overcome with a little bit of give and take, hopefully."
Allardyce, who has managed clubs including Sunderland, West Ham, Newcastle and Bolton, believes England had the players to win Euro 2016 "had they all performed to their best".
Having signed a two-year deal with the Football Association, he said taking England further than they have progressed at recent tournaments is a "different level" of challenge.
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Allardyce added: "I think that this is a new challenge for me. It's outside of my comfort zone, which is what I like.
"The challenge of the Premier League is not as big a challenge to me as when I first got there because I've done it for so long. I've managed in there for such a long time that I know I can achieve at that level.
"I'm ready for this now. After 950 games as a manager there is something you want to change in your life sometimes and this was it for me."
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After resuming on 163-4, still only 73 runs in front, the hosts' initial job was simply to save the game.
Captain Ryan ten Doeschate's 109 helped to do that before Napier took over.
He hit 124, only his seventh first-class century, including three late sixes in one over, as Essex declared on 470-8 before hands were shaken.
David Masters was still there at the end on 47, while Tom Westley earlier weighed in with 44.
Essex's haul of 11 points from the match takes them back to the top of Division Two by one point from Kent, while Sussex, although still unbeaten in 10 games, are in sixth, now 41 points off top spot.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he made no apology for defending the Irish government's right to appeal.
The decision to appeal was agreed by the Irish cabinet on Friday morning.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook said he was "very confident" the ruling would be overturned on appeal.
He called the European Commission's decision "maddening" and "political".
Speaking after the cabinet meeting, Mr Kenny said: "This is about Ireland, it is about our people, it's about us as a sovereign nation, actually setting out what we consider our appropriate policies".
"A motion will come before the Dail (parliament) on Wednesday seeking an endorsement of that decision," said a government spokesman on Friday.
€13bn
demanded in back taxes. Equal to:
ALL of Ireland's healthcare budget
66% of its social welfare bill
15 million iPhones
27% of Apple's 2015 profit
The cabinet first met on Wednesday but decided to adjourn until Friday for "further time to reflect on the issues and to clarify a number of legal and technical issues".
Analysis: Shane Harrison, Dublin correspondent
This is a minority Fine Gael government that includes independents.
It is dependent on the support of the main opposition party, Fianna Fáil.
Fianna Fáil has indicated that it wants to see an appeal of the commission's ruling, if only to see who is right - Brussels, or Dublin - on whether or not the Irish government had a secret deal with Apple.
Also at stake is the credibility of the independent tax authority in the Republic, the Revenue Commissioners.
For the government to turn down 13bn euros, equivalent to the country's annual health budget, is a huge political ask.
The government's view is that it is in Ireland's long-term interest not to be seen as a tax haven, but to be seen as transparent regarding its taxation.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook said on Thursday that the European Commission's decision was "maddening" and "political".
He was "very confident" the ruling would be overturned on appeal, he added.
However, European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager rejected Mr Cook's claims.
"The is a decision based on the facts of the case, looking into Apple Sales International, how they are arranged within Ireland, and the profits recorded there," she said.
Sandra Bland died three days after a physical confrontation with a white police officer during a traffic stop.
Police say that Bland hanged herself while being held in the Waller county jail. The family have denied that she was suicidal.
In the last 12 months, the death of black Americans in police custody has caused debate and protests.
An official post-mortem examination report found that Bland had hanged herself while in her cell.
The wrongful death lawsuit was announced in Houston by the family of the 28-year-old Chicago native.
In it, they name State Trooper Brian Encinia, the Texas Department of Public Safety in Waller County, the county's sheriff's department and two jailers as defendants.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified punitive damages "for egregious acts and omissions" and alleges Mr Encinia falsified an assault allegation to take Bland into custody.
The jail is accused of being "reckless" in disregarding her safety and failing to keep her free from harm.
Dashcam video shows Bland's car being pulled over on 10 July for failing to signal during a lane change.
An argument began after Bland was asked to put out her cigarette and demanding she get out of her car.
Mr Encinia, 30, then points his stun gun at Bland, telling her "I will light you up" after she refuses his orders.
Bland was arrested for assaulting an officer. On 13 July she was found dead in her jail cell.
The Texas Department of Public Safety had previously said that Trooper Encinia had acted improperly during the stop.
Protestors from the "Black Lives Matter" movement have been holding rallies around the US to demand answers from Texas authorities.
The 29-year-old man was charged with unlawful possession of weapons and endangering the public.
Weapons, explosives and police uniforms were found in his flat in the city of Ostrava and detectives say he was using the name Breivik on the internet.
The man has five convictions, one for blowing up a wooden shack.
Neighbours told Czech media that the suspect, whose name has not been released, had mental problems but did not appear to be an extremist.
Police searched the man's apartment on 10 August but have only now disclosed details of what was found.
They raided the property after being tipped off that he was planning to detonate a large explosive device crafted from an aircraft bomb.
He was carrying a remote-controlled detonator when he was arrested last week. About 400 ammunition rounds, police uniforms and masks were also found in his flat.
At a news conference, police said they did not know the suspect's intended target, but said the explosives, weapons and ammunition were all functional.
The man had enough weapons to kill dozens of people.
The director of the regional headquarters of the Czech police, Tomas Tuhy, said they were investigating any possible connection with Breivik.
"We are working with the idea that this 29-year-old man probably sympathises with known murderer Anders Breivik from Norway," he said.
A photograph in the Czech media shows a smiling young man with a receding hairline and a neatly trimmed beard, being led away in handcuffs, the BBC's Rob Cameron reports from Prague.
On 22 July 2011, Breivik, a right-wing militant, killed eight people in a bomb attack in Oslo before gunning down another 69 in a youth camp on the island of Utoeya.
Judges are set to decide next week whether he is sane or insane, and therefore whether he will be given a long prison sentence or be sent to a secure psychiatric ward.
Broad Street, the centre of the city's nightlife, and a number of side roads were shut to traffic at 23:30 BST.
The swift response led to some speculation on social media the city was also under threat.
"We closed Broad Street purely as reassurance in response to what happened in London," a spokesman said.
Officers stopped traffic entering Broad Street, which is home to several bars, restaurants and nightclubs as well as the Symphony Hall, International Convention Centre and the city's library.
The Broad Street taxi rank was moved to nearby Sheepcote Street while the main route was cordoned off.
Rumours circulated on social media the heightened police presence was in response to a specific threat but the force was quick to dispel them.
Many praised officers for their response.
Rob Barnes, who lives in the city centre, said: "I was watching the terrible events unfolding in London on TV when I saw the police closing off Broad Street to traffic.
"The speed at which they closed off Broad Street did make me wonder if something had happened here too, but then saw tweets confirming it was just a precaution.
"I was so impressed with how quickly the police were able to do that, so grateful at how they are keeping us all safe."
Chief Constable Dave Thompson said: "We were quick to respond following Saturday's attack and purely as a reassurance move we temporarily restricted access to Birmingham's Broad Street while businesses remained as usual. The restrictions were lifted at 3am having been implemented at 11.30pm.
"Other key locations across the region also saw enhanced patrols. Again, this was simply to reassure people worried by events in the capital and not in response to any local threat."
Heightened security is taking place across the region, including at Sunday's ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between India and Pakistan at Edgbaston and in Coventry for MotoFest, which is expected to attracted 120,000 people.
In a video to sports fans, the FAA warns the stadium is a "no-drone zone".
The restrictions cover anywhere within 32 miles of the Super Bowl stadium in Santa Clara, California, between 14:00 and 23:59 PST on 7 February.
FAA regulations also advise that "deadly force" may be used if a drone is perceived as a security threat.
The Super Bowl is the climax of the football season, and a crowd of 70,000 is expected for this year's game.
"Bring your lucky jersey, bring your facepaint, bring your team spirit," the video announces, "but leave your drone at home."
No-drone zones have become commonplace in the United States at sports and entertainment events at which large crowds gather.
Furthermore, permanent restrictions are in place over sensitive buildings - such as airports and the White House.
FAA regulations state: "The United States government may use deadly force against the airborne aircraft, if it is determined that the aircraft poses an imminent security threat."
Stephen O'Brien urged the warring parties to allow the evacuation of hundreds of people who need urgent medical care.
Rebel-held front-line areas were subject to dozens of Russian air strikes overnight, observers said.
It allowed government troops to gain ground in the north of the city.
Hours later, the Syrian army offered rebel fighters safe passage if they evacuated eastern Aleppo.
"The army high command calls all armed fighters in the eastern neighbourhood of Aleppo to leave these neighbourhoods and let civilian residents live their normal lives," said a statement, carried by state news agency Sana on Sunday.
"The Russian and Syrian military leaderships will guarantee safe passage for the fighters and will give them aid as necessary."
The government made a similar offer in July, but the rebels ignored it.
Syrian government forces have been trying for months to recapture the city's eastern half, which has long been a major opposition stronghold.
"I am deeply alarmed by the ferocious pummelling of eastern Aleppo city," Mr O'Brien, UN under-secretary for humanitarian affairs, said in a statement.
"Indiscriminate bombing and shelling continues in a shocking and unrelenting manner, killing and maiming civilians, subjecting them to a level of savagery that no human should have to endure."
The healthcare system in eastern Aleppo had been "all but obliterated", he added.
On Saturday, air strikes hit Aleppo's main trauma M10 hospital for the third time in a matter of days, medical workers say.
"The hospital is now out of service completely," radiologist Mohammad Abu Rajab was quoted by Reuters as saying.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based opposition monitoring group, said dozens of Russian air strikes overnight had targeted front-line "fighting zones".
A correspondent with AFP news agency said the districts of Bustan al-Basha, Sakhur and Suleiman al-Halabi were all hit.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the strikes had helped pro-government troops to advance in the north of the city, reaching the outskirts of al-Halaq district.
"Regime forces aims to control Bustan al-Basha and Sakhur districts, to tighten the zones controlled by rebels," he said.
Ismael Abdullah, a volunteer with Syrian civil defence group the White Helmets, told the BBC: "The bombing started from the morning. There are air strikes in the al-Maja neighbourhood and rescue teams are there to get the people out from under the rubble."
Russia and the US are at loggerheads over ending the conflict in Syria, both supporting opposing sides in the five-year civil war.
A US-Russia brokered cessation of hostilities recently collapsed and the US had threatened to end co-operation with the Kremlin unless Russia halts its military campaign.
For its part, Russia accuses the US of secretly supporting the powerful jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra Front) in its attempts to unseat President Bashar al-Assad.
It has emerged that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart John Kerry talked again on Saturday about the situation in Aleppo.
But there was still no sign of any diplomatic breakthrough that might end the bloodshed.
Once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, Aleppo has been divided roughly in two since 2012.
At least 250,000 people have been killed in the conflict, with the observatory estimating the true number to be about 430,000.
More than 4.8 million people have fled abroad, and an estimated 6.5 million others have been displaced within the country, the UN says.
Despite a slowdown in recovery, firms have taken on extra staff in recent months.
The Ulster Bank survey monitors a panel of firms to give a monthly snapshot of the local economy.
It said the rate of growth in new orders remained "very weak".
The strength of the pound against the euro "is an issue affecting demand," the bank's chief economist Richard Ramsey said.
"The exchange rate is likely to remain an issue affecting export price competitiveness for the foreseeable future," he added.
Northern Ireland's recovery continues to lag behind the rest of the UK.
Mr Ramsey said: "Businesses and individuals face challenges and uncertainty in the months ahead.
"Not least in relation to what happens with tax and public spending after the forthcoming general election."
The 30-year-old Northampton Saints hooker has missed 14 weeks this season because of head injuries.
Hartley, who returned to action this month after being knocked unconscious during the Six Nations in March, will lead England against Wales at Twickenham on Sunday.
He said: "If I got another lay-off now, I'd be worried."
The New Zealand-born front-rower continued: "I'd probably start looking at other careers or maybe a long lay-off. Maybe I'll look at my tackling technique too.
"Three in one season would warrant a bit of time off and I would probably take that anyway - take a step back and have a minute.
"It's not something I fear. It's something you deal with when it happens. I won't go into the Wales game worrying about it.
"I feel confident in my head and have tested it out a few times."
Hartley, who has 71 caps, previously admitted he had no recollection of lifting the Six Nations trophy following his blow to the head in the Grand Slam-winning victory over France.
He was eventually passed fit to play in time for Northampton's last Premiership game of the season against Gloucester on 7 May.
But Hartley, who was made England captain in January by new head coach Eddie Jones, admitted he struggled with day-to-day life while he waited to begin the return-to-play protocols.
"I couldn't run or do anything and spent a lot of time on the couch," he said. "It was lethargy, constantly wanting to sleep.
"I had no urge to get on the [indoor] bike. I almost tried forcing myself to get on and I just said 'I can't be bothered', so I went back to lie on the couch and went to sleep.
"There's no lying in your recovery. I had a constant reminder of that every time you see your kid and you think 'if I hit my head again, what's that going to mean?'.
"Then I just turned the corner one week and it was great to get that run-out against Gloucester for a bit of confidence."
He beat Spain's Roberto Carballes Baena 4-6 6-2 6-3, 24 hours after being ruled ineligible to represent his adopted nation in the annual team tournament.
"I'm still shocked, to be honest," said the Slovenia-born Bedene, 26.
Britain's Heather Watson beat American Sloane Stephens to reach round three of the women's singles.
Watson won the last 11 games to record a 6-3 6-0 win and will now play Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer.
While Bedene said he respected the International Tennis Federation ruling, he said he was angry with the way it had treated him.
"Even today, the first set, I was still thinking about it," said the British number two, who next plays Spanish 17th seed Roberto Bautista Agut.
"I've been struggling. I was sad, almost crying. It's been difficult and I really wanted it. I'll still keep fighting."
Bedene is considering taking his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport but fears it could cost "six figures" and so prove impossible.
"I think the best thing is the lawyers check it and see if there is a chance," said the world number 57, who said he would consult with the Lawn Tennis Association.
"Not a slight chance, but a good chance to win. If not, I don't think it's fair on the LTA to do this."
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She has been recognised for her hard work promoting the right for girls to have an education.
Malala won it jointly with Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.
The prize judges described both winners as "champions of peace".
Martyn Poliakoff of Nottingham University estimates that a solid gold trophy of its size - 36cm (14 in) high - would weigh at least 70kg (154lb).
He concludes that the trophy, or at least part of it, must be hollow.
Fifa insisted that the metal part of the current trophy, which dates back to 1974, was "solid gold".
It told the BBC News website the prize weighed 6.175kg, including 4.9kg of "solid 18-carat gold" and two layers of the semi-precious stone malachite.
Nobody wins the coveted trophy outright as Fifa retains possession between tournaments, awarding a gold-plated replica to each World Cup champion.
Making his case on the university's Periodic Table of Videos website, Professor Poliakoff said a genuinely solid gold cup of this height would be "as much as the weight of quite a large adult".
"Gold is very heavy, it's one of the densest metals that there is," he said.
"According to my calculations, if it was solid all the way through, it would have somewhere between 70 and 80kg of gold in it."
The professor suggested the term "solid gold" might mean "the metal part is gold all the way through - it isn't that there is a thin layer of gold and the rest is steel, for example".
"However, I think - and I have no means of knowing - that perhaps the ball at the top, which is the world, is probably hollow... because I don't think that it would be light enough for people to wave above their heads, and also it would be a big waste of gold."
The professor added that he was "not very interested in football".
"I was a teenager when England won the World Cup in 1966," he said.
"I didn't watch the game then and I haven't watched a World Cup match since then, but perhaps I will watch something this year."
Items belonging to robbers Ronnie Biggs and Bruce Reynolds, who both died in 2013, are for sale at a Northamptonshire auction house.
They include a watch and a ring worn by Biggs in the robbery, as well as £1 and 10 shilling notes from the £2.6m haul.
An ignition key and petrol caps from getaway vehicles and a length of wire used to alter railway signals are also being sold off.
Bruce Reynolds planned the attack, at Mentmore Bridge in Buckinghamshire, on an overnight mail train travelling from Glasgow to London on 8 August 1963.
The gang of 15 wearing helmets and ski masks, made off with a then-record haul, equivalent to £40m in today's money.
Train driver Jack Mills was struck over the head during the robbery and never worked again. He died in 1970.
Reynolds evaded capture for five years and spent 10 years in jail. Biggs, who died aged 84 in December 2013, believed the British public saw him as a "loveable rogue". He was sentenced to 25 years jail but escaped and fled to Brazil.
It will be built on the Blaenau Memorial Hospital site in Blaenau Ffestiniog.
It is one of three to be built in north Wales, along with Flint, Flintshire, and Llangollen, Denbighshire.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said it showed "our commitment to creating community-based health facilities closer to patients moving from hospital locations, where appropriate".
The centre will include:
Stalking and harassment prosecutions between April 2013 and March 2014 rose to 10,535, up 20% on the previous year.
The Crown Prosecution Service says more than 743 of these cases were brought under new legislation and may not have previously come to court.
Meanwhile, police and prosecutors have been given guidance to improve the way stalking cases are dealt with.
Two specific criminal offences of stalking were introduced in November 2012.
Up to then people accused of stalking were prosecuted under harassment laws - but only when their actions were seen to cause a fear of violence. The new offences created under the Protection of Freedoms Act meant a charge could be brought when an alleged stalker's behaviour caused serious alarm or distress.
Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders, said: "These new offences enable us to bring people to court potentially before they risk going on to commit more serious crimes.
"The rise in prosecutions sends a message to both victims and criminals about how seriously we are taking these types of offences."
The Protocol on the Appropriate Handling of Stalking Offences, drafted and agreed by the Crown Prosecution Service and Association of Chief Police Officers, aims to see a consistent approach to the crime adopted across England and Wales.
It says victims should be consulted on bail issues and restraining orders, which are designed to stop stalkers contacting them, and always be given the opportunity to make a personal statement in court.
And prosecutors should apply, where possible, for restraining orders in the event of a conviction or acquittal.
The guidance says restraining orders on acquittal can protect victims where the likelihood of abuse may be "beyond the balance of probabilities" - a lower standard of proof than that usually required in criminal convictions of "beyond reasonable doubt".
It also says the reason for a victim withdrawing a complaint should be investigated to make sure it is not the result of pressure from others.
Rachel Griffin, director of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, the charity behind the National Stalking Helpline, said: "We often hear from victims of stalking... who need more and better support through both the investigation and trial process.
"The next steps have to be to ensure that all officers are trained to ensure that the guidance in the protocols become a reality."
Laura Richards, chief executive of support group Paladin, welcomed the guidance but suggested a lack of investment in the training of prosecutors over how to approach stalking had resulted in victims being "continually let down and put further at risk".
She added: "This must be made a reality in prosecutors' day-to-day practice to ensure stalkers are put before the courts for stalking and that appropriate sentences and treatment results."
The new guidance also addresses online stalking.
Jennifer Perry from the Digital Trust, which was set up to help organisations address internet abuse, said "the increasing volume and the technical nature are proving to be a challenge for criminal justice agencies and traditional support charities, who are struggling to cope".
The trust also suggested the CPS follow Scotland's example of appointing a lead prosecutor to deal with stalking, as well as victims' advocates.
People in urban areas are especially at risk, with around 85% exposed to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at levels deemed harmful by the World Health Organization (WHO).
These particles are too small to see or smell, but have a devastating impact.
PM2.5 can cause or aggravate heart disease, asthma and lung cancer.
It's pretty bad. Within the European Union (EU), more than 430,000 people died prematurely due to PM2.5 in 2013, the most recent year with figures available.
According to the EEA's Air quality in Europe - 2016 report, the toxic gas nitrogen dioxide (NO2) - released by vehicles and central heating boilers - has an impact equivalent to 71,000 premature deaths a year.
Ground-level ozone (O3) is also killing people - an estimated 17,000 annually in the EU.
Unlike the protective ozone layer in the stratosphere, ground-level ozone is harmful, formed when emissions like NO2 react with other pollutants and "cook" in heat or sunlight.
The European countries with the worst levels of PM2.5 are Bulgaria, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Nations like Poland where coal is a major source of electricity production tend to rank at the bottom of air quality measures, according to the EEA.
In 2013, Bulgaria provided four of the five worst European cities for high particulate matter. Costs to ill-health from coal power plants in the country are estimated to be up to €4.6bn ($4.8bn; £3.9bn) per year.
In the UK, air pollution overall costs the economy more than £20bn per year - just under 16% of the NHS's annual £116bn budget.
Technically, European air quality actually improved between 2000 and 2014. Levels of PM10 - another tiny pollutant particle - fell in 75% of the EEA's monitored locations.
PM2.5 concentrations also dropped on average between 2006 and 2014.
But EEA executive director Hans Bruyninckx says "unacceptable damage to human health and the environment" is still rife.
Outdoor air pollution contributes to about 40,000 early deaths a year in the UK, according to the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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PM particles may contain smoke, dust, soot, metals, nitrates, sulphates, water and rubber from tyres.
They can get deep into your lungs, causing irritation and inflammation, and some may make it into your bloodstream.
Heart disease and lung conditions are most commonly linked to inhaling air pollution, but your liver, spleen, central nervous system, brain, and even reproductive system can also be damaged.
PM2.5 and PM10 can increase susceptibility to viral and bacterial pathogens, triggering pneumonia in vulnerable people.
Children are most susceptible to illness from air pollution. A major study conducted over six years found that children living in highly polluted parts of cities have up to 10% less lung capacity than normal, and the damage can be permanent.
Probably not. According to WHO data released two months ago, nine out of 10 people on the planet now breathe polluted air.
Europe is less affected by indoor air pollution, which the WHO cites as a major killer in large parts of Africa and south Asia.
Around three billion people still cook and heat their homes using solid fuels like wood or animal dung on open fires, and 4.3 million a year die prematurely from illness attributable to the resulting "household air pollution" - mostly from strokes, heart disease or lung deficiencies.
Country-by-country data showed that Turkmenistan has the highest death rate connected to outdoor air pollution.
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Egypt rounded out the top five.
"Rich countries are getting much better in improving the quality of the air," Dr Carlos Dora from the WHO told the Associated Press.
"Poorer countries are getting worse. That is the overall trend."
Europe is lagging behind North America, however, mostly because it depends more on diesel fuel and farming practices that create ammonia and methane.
China, the country with the sixth-highest death rate linked to air pollution, is relatively wealthy, but is plagued by smog in its cities and polluted air from industrial sources.
India has generated the most troubling smog headlines in recent months. Smoke from fireworks set off during Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, sent Delhi's PM2.5 levels soaring to more than 90 times the level considered safe by the WHO.
Toxic air is a leading cause of premature death in India, where 620,000 people perish every year from pollution-related diseases.
Finland's defeat by Portugal ensured the Scots one of the six best runners-up spots in qualifying and a place in next year's finals in the Netherlands.
"We could have a very good competition," said Swede Signeul.
"We haven't even discussed it, but I feel we should get out of the group and go to the quarter-final."
Signeul feels a last-eight place "should be the least target we set", with the draw to take place on 8 November in Rotterdam.
"I know we are going to be in pot three of four," said Signeul, who has been in charge for 11 years. "We will be the third-ranked team in our group.
"We have a year now to prepare and to step up and really challenge the best teams.
"We have had problems when we play physical teams like Sweden, Norway and now Iceland and that is something that we need to be better at."
Scotland have one qualifier left to play in Group 1 - against leaders Iceland, who inflicted Scotland's only defeat of the campaign so far, on Tuesday.
Scotland's most capped player, goalkeeper Gemma Fay, believes reaching next year's tournament is "a positive football story" that should be applauded throughout the country.
"I absolutely hope it raises the profile of the women's game," she said. "I think it should.
"For years, we have had negativity around Scottish football and sometimes it's warranted, but sometimes I don't think it is.
"In the men's game, in the women's game, in the boys' game, everyone is doing good stuff and I would like us to celebrate that."
Fay says there is a simple answer to the secret of the success of Scottish women's football.
"Time," she explained. "We put something in place around 20 years ago with our development pathways and it has taken that time to come to fruition.
"It is time and patience and it's not going to happen overnight. You have to have the right attitude towards it and be willing to put the hard work in.
"Once you have done that, you have to be willing to fail. If you put yourself out there and try and to make yourselves better.
"So it's taking these lessons and not just accepting the way it was going to be."
Dreamland has 17 vintage fairground attractions from funfairs around the UK in its reincarnation as a heritage amusement park.
The site on Margate seafront has been closed for 10 years, with campaigners fighting to save it from development.
But it reopened without the Scenic Railway star attraction.
Revellers were due to be let into the site at 10.00 BST but the ribbon across the entrance to the park was not cut until 11.00 BST.
BBC South East reporter Simon Jones said: "Dreamland has missed its 10am opening time. It was always going to be tight."
The organisers apologised to the crowds of people waiting outside, saying they were doing a "bit of tidying up".
The wooden Grade II*-listed rollercoaster, badly damaged in an arson attack in 2008, was not restored in time but Dreamland hopes it will be ready in the coming months.
Chris Wells, leader of Thanet District Council, said it was disappointing the Scenic Railway was not ready yet but such delays were "unforeseeable".
"It's fantastic to see the culmination of so many years of hard work by so many people finally come to fruition. Dreamland is iconic and means so much to not only Margate and Thanet but Kent and beyond.
"Dreamland is synonymous with Margate's heyday and signals the continuation of this vibrant regeneration, already well under way with the Turner Contemporary and the revival of the old town."
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Dreamland holds happy memories for Margate residents as well as the thousands of Londoners who flocked there in its heyday.
Patricia Briscoe, now 85, met her husband, who was serving in the RAF at nearby Manston airport, in its ballroom in 1948.
"He was dancing but saw me and came and asked me to dance," she said.
"He was so lovely, and I went back to my friends and said, 'I like him'.
"We have been married 64 years, since 1951."
The funfair, with its weekly fireworks displays, added to the fun of Margate as a traditional seaside destination.
"When we were kids everybody was there - all the Londoners used to come down every weekend," said Jim Needham.
"They'd all be singing in the pubs and the kids would be on the beach.
"We used to to go into Dreamland for the whole day and get lost.
"It was a shame when it shut.
"I can't wait for it to open again - the grandchildren are buzzing."
1920 Dreamland opens with Scenic Railway rollercoaster
1939 Site requisitioned by the government and closed for the duration of World War Two
2002 Scenic Railway rollercoaster gets Grade-II listed status
2005 Site sold to Margate Town Centre Regeneration Company. Save Dreamland Campaign set up
2008 Scenic Railway badly damaged in arson attack.
2012 Thanet District Council approves compulsory purchase order. Wayne Hemingway becomes theme park designer
2013 Council takes over ownership of the site
2015 First phase of new Dreamland opens on 19 June
Dreamland's decline coincided with Margate's own.
The rot began to set in for many traditional seaside towns during the 1960s as holidaymakers were lured abroad by sunshine package holidays.
"The world moved on and we have now got to make this a site that moves with the world," said Wayne Hemingway, Dreamland's artistic director.
The restoration work, funded by contributions from the council, the government and the Heritage Lottery Fund, has been hit by setbacks including a fire in the roof of a two-storey building in May.
But Ms Kemsley insisted everything except the Scenic Railway would be ready on opening day.
Hundreds of workmen have been on site all week, and were still adding finishing touches on Thursday.
The park reopened at 11:00 BST on Friday, with acts including Chas and Dave - whose single Margate reached number 46 in 1982 - and Marina and the Diamonds playing to sold-out crowds in the evening.
"We will be ready to go - absolutely," chief executive Eddie Kemsley said before the park reopened.
"We're so excited. We're sold out and we can't wait to let people through the doors."
The analysis of 4,144 obese people in Yorkshire showed they fitted into six distinct categories, each of which may need a different weight-loss strategy.
One example is heavy-drinking young men, according to the report published in the Journal of Public Health.
Prof Susan Jebb, from the University of Oxford, said the study did not show if the traits explained people's weight.
Around 67% of men and 57% of women are either overweight or obese according to their Body Mass Index.
"It is just a measure of height and weight and I think it generalises everyone into this one group and that's not the case really," said lead researcher Dr Mark Green at the University of Sheffield.
The team there used the Yorkshire Health Study to analyse the health and behavioural characteristics of obese people.
They said obese people, broadly, came into one of six groups:
Dr Green told the BBC News website: "I think we need to go from a one-size-fits-all approach to acknowledging there are different groups.
"We need people to think about how to tailor messages to target these different groups, the role of alcohol on body weight needs to be aimed at young males but may not be appropriate for younger females."
Prof Susan Jebb, from the University of Oxford, said: "I am the first person to say that there is huge inter-individual variation among people who are obese.
"The big limitation is that it is a cross-sectional analysis - it does not tell us if these characteristics explain why people have become overweight and it does not tell us that a particular kind of intervention would work better to treat their obesity."
Dwayne Johnson, 29, stabbed Junior Fuller, 38, in Mill View Close, Sneinton, Nottingham, on 11 December.
Mr Fuller hosted a party for Martin Maughan, 27, who had been stabbed at a property in nearby West Walk.
Johnson, of The Meadows, Nottingham, was sentenced to a minimum of 21 years in prison at Leicester Crown Court.
He was found guilty of murder on Monday.
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At a separate trial at Nottingham Crown Court, Ben Richardson, 19, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Maughan.
The two stabbings were not directly linked, police said at the time of the killings.
Sentencing Johnson, Judge Stuart Rafferty said Mr Fuller had told everyone to leave his house, and hit Johnson - who admitted drinking heavily and having taken skunk cannabis - when the defendant objected.
"Whilst he may have struck the first blow, it was you that provoked him to do so," he said.
The fight then went into the garden, the court heard, where Mr Fuller was stabbed three times, including once through the heart.
Judge Rafferty said Johnson's response was "wholly wrong and utterly disproportionate" and described the defendant's account to the jury during the trial as "wholly untruthful".
Det Insp Justine Wilson, from Nottinghamshire Police, described the incident as a "senseless and vicious attack".
Mr Fuller's mother Anne said the family "take some comfort" from the sentence, but said "no length of sentence will ever repair our loss".
"Not only did we lose our son and brother, three young children have lost their father," she said.
"We are pleased that the jury saw through Johnson's lies and reached its guilty verdict."
Richardson of Main Road, Gedling, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the start of his trial.
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 17 October.
North west Wales senior coroner Dewi Pritchard-Jones confirmed the death of Avril Whitfield, 57, from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, who went missing in April.
Her remains were discovered by a man walking on the beach at Llanddwyn, Anglesey, in September.
"There was nothing to indicate that the foot had been forcibly removed from the leg," the coroner added.
A toothbrush, hairbrush and other materials were taken from Ms Whitfield's home and DNA tests found a "perfect match" with the bones.
Mr Pritchard-Jones said: "The samples in the boot definitely belong to the person who owned the toothbrush and hairbrush.
"It's now a matter for police to carry out their inquiries to try to find out what happened to Miss Whitfield, how she came to be in the sea."
The inquest was adjourned to a later date.
It says some of its existing maps may underestimate the risks to coastal communities.
It is updating its National Flood Risk Assessment which informs members of the public and local authorities about the likelihood of flooding.
The Environment Agency grades coastal areas at risk of flooding from very low to high.
Environment Agency flood risks:
High: Greater than one in 30 chance in any given year
Medium: One in 30 to one in 200 chance in any given year
Low: One in 200 to one in 1000 chance in any given year
Very low: Less than one in 1,000 chance in any given year
Last winter massive storms hit the South West coast with waves up to 15m (50ft) high, destroying part of the main railway line out of the region at Dawlish.
Marcus Salmon, planning liaison technical specialist with the agency, said: "The storms have definitely reflected areas where our maps are not as representative as they can be.
"That is something that we are working to address as quickly as possible.
"Last winter's storms showed the susceptibility of our coastal communities and infrastructure to flooding and erosion.
"The challenges presented by flooding and coastal erosion are expected to become more acute as a result of climate change, due to a combination of sea level rise, increased storminess and increased wave heights.
"So as to better understand the risks we are updating the National Flood Risk Assessment to take account of wave, wind and storm surge which are underrepresented in our current mapping."
The company said 105 non-essential personnel were being moved off the platform as a precaution.
Power was lost at 05:45. The Clair, which had 144 workers on board, was not producing at the time.
The winner of the award will be announced during this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year, which will come live from the Genting Arena, Birmingham, on Sunday, 18 December.
Nominations will form a shortlist, with a panel including well-known sports stars deciding the winner.
Gymnast Ellie Downie took the award in 2015 after she became the first British female to win an individual all-around medal for Great Britain at the European Championships, claiming bronze at the age of 15.
Other past winners include diver Tom Daley, tennis player Andy Murray, footballer Wayne Rooney and Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds.
You can nominate by downloading and filling in this form and emailing it to [email protected] or posting it to YOUNG SPOTY 2016, 3rd Floor, Quay House, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, M50 2QH.
Nominees must have been 17 or under on the 1 January 2016 and nominations close on Friday, 11 November 2016. Nominations are made to the BBC and by sports governing bodies via the Youth Sport Trust.
This year, BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year has once again joined forces with Blue Peter to offer one young viewer the chance to join the panel to decide this year's shortlist.
The lucky viewer will be selected from those who have applied for a Blue Peter Sport Badge.
Youth Sport Trust's assistant director of development Will Roberts said: "Every year we are overwhelmed at the achievements of our hugely talented young sportsmen and women.
"This year we have witnessed some outstanding sporting performances, so trying to shortlist them to 10 and choosing the ultimate winner will be no easy feat.
"I hope our nominees will inspire other young people to get involved in sport and create even more stars of the future."
For more details of the nomination process, and for further information on how to join the judging panel, please see the terms and conditions.
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United were denied victory over Arsenal at Old Trafford as substitute Olivier Giroud headed an 89th-minute equaliser after Juan Mata's opener.
They have now won just one of their past six Premier League games.
Mourinho said: "I have nothing to say against my players, but I feel sorry for them because we feel like a defeat and Arsenal is feeling like a victory."
He added: "If we just focus on [draws against] Burnley, Stoke and Arsenal - nine points easily. If we had those six points more we are top four and close to the top of the league."
"We all know inside that in this moment we are the unlucky team in the Premier League."
United remain sixth in the league table, five points behind fourth-placed Arsenal who are two points behind leaders Liverpool.
The draw means Mourinho remains unbeaten against Arsene Wenger in 12 meetings in the Premier League.
However, he has now faced Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal in the league this season and not recorded a win.
When leaving his post-match news conference, Mourinho added: "Finally I lost against Arsenal. That is the feeling I take home. Finally I lost against Arsenal."
Giroud's late goal, the visitors' first effort on target, saw Arsenal extend their unbeaten run to 17 games in all competitions, following an opening-day Premier League defeat by leaders Liverpool.
"I felt overall we had a serious defensive performance, offensively we have played better," said Gunners manager Wenger.
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"We had not our usual style to go forward. We were not sharp or fluent enough. Manchester United blocked us well as well, they were very organised.
"In the second half we came out in the first 20 minutes and we didn't play. Deservedly Manchester United led 1-0, but they dropped off and gave us the ball again. We were resilient and in the end I think we scored a great goal."
De Villota lost her right eye at Duxford Airfield while testing for Marussia and died a year later aged 33.
On Tuesday the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said it would take no action against Marussia for the crash.
But the family said they would analyse the report "to evaluate the next legal steps to claim the corresponding civil compensation from those responsible".
Manor Grand Prix Racing, which operated Marussia and now runs the Manor team, has declined to comment on the HSE's decision or the possible legal claims.
De Villota, the daughter of 1980s F1 driver Emilio de Villota, was injured when the MR-01 race car she was driving hit a support truck on 3 July 2012.
She had been driving at up to 200mph (322km/h), but was travelling considerably slower at the time of the crash.
It was the first time the Spaniard had driven the car for Oxfordshire-based Marussia, which folded in 2014.
Despite losing her eye, she was cleared to drive again in early 2013, but died the following October "as a consequence of the neurological injuries she suffered".
One Tuesday the HSE said its investigation was complete and "no enforcement action is being taken".
Ms De Villota's family said they had been aware of the HSE's decision, adding: "To date, we are still waiting to see the contents of the report, and therefore the findings of the investigation, which are crucial to learn from.
"As soon as we have seen the report we will analyse this in order to evaluate the next legal steps to claim the corresponding civil compensation from those responsible, in order - as Maria herself always wanted - to ensure that accidents of this type never happen again."
Hywel Dda University Health Board wants to reduce the hours of the paediatric ambulatory care unit (PACU) at Withybush Hospital by four hours a day.
It is making a recommendation in response to there being "fewer consultant paediatricians available."
The plans will be discussed at a full health board meeting on 24 November.
The PACU cares for children who experience sudden pain, high temperatures, sickness, infections, or requirements for dressings, blood tests, x-rays or scans.
If the recommendation is accepted, it would mean the PACU would be open daily from 10:00 to 1800 GMT instead of 10:00 to 22:00.
Sick children who require assessment after the new closing time would be referred or transferred by ambulance to Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen.
The health board said the move to reduce hours in the short term was the result of "longstanding difficulties in recruiting paediatric consultants across the UK".
This coincided with the retirement of a Pembrokeshire paediatric consultant and the maternity leave of another.
The health board said to do nothing would be a "risk."
There is also a recommendation to merge the on-call rota with the one operating in Carmarthenshire.
This means that if there was a paediatric out-of-hours emergency at Withybush Hospital, the on-call paediatric consultants would offer remote advice.
The health board's chief executive Steve Moore said: "It is our duty to be realistic about the availability of our consultants and to plan care around this so that it is safe, consistent and to avoid public confusion.
"Otherwise, we risk the event of having insufficient staff and having to close the unit in an unplanned and uncoordinated way, risking patient safety and public confidence."
He added that the health board's recruitment efforts are continuing.
Nearly 10,500 - mostly sea trout and salmon - passed over the fish counter at Riding Mill in Northumberland in July.
This is 1,200 more than the previous record in 2010, the agency said.
Environmental monitoring officer Morton Heddell-Cowie said: "This is good news as it indicates healthy stocks and a healthy river."
The total number of fish returning to the Tyne in 2015 is 14,466, which is 800 more than the highest number previously recorded at the same time of year, the agency said.
But it needs to raise £3m to fund the helipad, which would sit on top of a new multi-storey car park at the Queen's Medical Centre.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust said it had already received £5.5m from the government for the new Medipark research facility.
The car park will be built using £1.5m of the trust's own money.
Once grant money is secured, planning applications for the car park and Medipark will be lodged with Nottingham City Council.
The helipad, which will support the East Midlands Trauma Centre on the hospital site, will reduce the transfer time from air ambulances to between two and three minutes, the trust said.
Currently helicopters have to land at the university, 20 minutes away.
After the helipad is built patients would be moved from the new helipad, along the hospital's private road network and into the emergency department.
Adam Brooks, clinical lead for the trauma centre, said that in the two years since it opened, it had saved 103 lives.
"We have got no evidence to say we have been losing people at all but we are very keen to move people into hospital even faster," he said.
Medipark - planned to be part of the Nottingham Enterprise Zone - could create hundreds of jobs over 10 years, the trust said.
It successfully bid for £5.5m from the government and is now waiting for confirmation of a £2.5m grant from the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership.
Daniel Mortimer, the trust's director of workforce and strategy, said: "We think there are real benefits of attracting that research here to be co-located with the hospital."
The trust is selling off its existing Hooley Street car park to a developer. Mr Mortimer said the new 650-space multi-storey would increase the hospital's current parking capacity by 100, making "the world of difference" to patients.
The QMC will become the first hospital in the country with a tram stop when Nottingham's tram network extension is completed. There would be a new hospital entrance to allow access from the tram stop at the south of the site.
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The 7.8-magnitude quake, the most powerful to hit Iran for more than 50 years, caused 35 deaths in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
The National Disaster Management Authority say a further 150 people there have been injured.
The quake shook tall buildings as far away as India and the Gulf States.
It struck in the Iranian province of Sistan Baluchistan at about 15:14 local time (10:44 GMT) on Tuesday close to the city of Khash, which has a population of nearly 180,000, and Saravan, where 250,000 people live.
Its depth was about 95km (59 miles).
By Shahzeb JillaniBBC News, Quetta
The area most affected on the Pakistani side is a remote location close to the Iran border called Mashkel. Getting there from the provincial capital Quetta can take 10-12 hours.
Travelling by road in Balochistan is considered very risky because of frequent attacks and kidnappings blamed on separatist insurgents and extremist Sunni groups.
Baloch nationalists in turn accuse the Pakistani army of widespread abuses and keeping the province effectively under army occupation, with tens and thousands of paramilitary troops deployed across the country's largest province.
Since Tuesday, the army has sprung into action to fly helicopters to deliver medicines, rations and tents to the earthquake survivors. Many believe the army is keen to project its soft image in an otherwise hostile part of the country.
"The epicentre of the quake was located in the desert, and population centres do not surround it. There were no fatalities in the towns around the epicentre," an Iranian crisis centre official, Morteza Akbarpour, was quoted as saying by the Iranian news agency Isna.
Iran's Fars news agency said the depth of the quake reduced its impact to the size of a magnitude-4.0 tremor on the surface.
All communications to the region have been cut and the Iranian Red Crescent said it was sending 20 search-and-rescue teams to the area.
However, fatalities were soon reported in Pakistan, mostly in the Mashkel district of Balochistan.
Officials said homes had collapsed and army and paramilitary forces were being sent to help the relief effort.
Two military helicopters carrying medical teams were on their way and would have troops in support, they said.
The area has since been shaken by several strong aftershocks including one on Wednesday of magnitude 5.7.
Eyewitness reports
Iran's vulnerability to earthquakes
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement saying the organisation stood ready to help "if asked to do so" and the US also offered assistance.
The quake was felt over a wide area.
Tuesday's earthquake was about 180 times stronger in energy release than a 6.3-magnitude quake that struck on 10 April near the nuclear plant at Bushehr in south-western Iran. That quake killed at least 37 people and wounded 850.
The Bushehr plant was not damaged by the earlier earthquake, and an official at the Russian firm that built the plant said it had not been damaged by Tuesday's earthquake either, Reuters reported.
Scientists say earthquakes in south-eastern Iran are triggered by the clash between the Arabia and Eurasia tectonic plates, the former of which is pushing north at a rate of several centimetres each year.
In 2003, a 6.6-magnitude quake destroyed much of the south-eastern city of Bam and killed some 26,000 people. | Pakistan has sent troops to help its citizens affected by a powerful earthquake that struck just over the border in south-east Iran. | 22,178,765 | 782 | 27 | false |
South African sides Cheetahs and Southern Kings are set to join the league for the 2017-18 season.
Derbies are likely to be protected even with a split, but Williams says the league should not complicate matters.
"I think you should just go with a league. I know there's extra games to be played, but just play each other home and away," Williams said.
"It'll be so confusing if you've got two conferences, two of seven and working out who plays who.
"We've got to keep all our Welsh derbies, because they're the games that bring the crowds in."
Former Cardiff Blues open-side Williams, who won 100 Wales caps and played four British and Irish Lions Tests, admits that the Pro12 does have to change to survive.
"Ultimately it's all about money... you're up against two absolute juggernauts of league in the Aviva and Top 14, England and France respectively," the 41-year-old told The Friday Night Social.
"The Pro12 needs to look at other revenue streams because it's not quite working as it is.
"The South Africans... will be stronger than the Italian teams and in fairness the people in charge of the Pro12, it's not a knee-jerk reaction it's something they've gone through and obviously the numbers work.
"If someone is a casual supporter then it will bring a little bit more spice into the league.
"If I was a player I'd definitely be excited about that prospect, something different and another test." | Former Wales flanker Martyn Williams believes it would be a mistake to split an expanded Pro12 into two conferences. | 40,688,802 | 344 | 26 | false |
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No player is level par or under after a gruelling day played in howling rain.
United States trio Tom Lehman, Steve Flesch and Billy Mayfair are tied with Langer on one over par, along with Argentine Mauricio Molina.
Rival 2010 Ryder Cup captains Colin Montgomerie and Corey Pavin are five over par, as is the best-placed Welshman, Phillip Price.
Defending champion Paul Broadhurst is seven off the lead, but well inside the cut mark.
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The six, including three university professors, are accused of using the technology to benefit universities and companies controlled by Beijing.
One of the group, Tianjin University professor Hao Zhang, has been arrested but the rest are believed to be in China.
Alleged Chinese economic espionage has long been a concern in Washington.
According to a US Justice Department indictment, the scheme began more than a decade ago.
Prosecutors say Mr Zhang and another Tianjin University professor, Wei Pang, plotted together to steal FBAR technology from their US employers, which enable mobile phones and other devices to filter unwanted signals.
The pair and others allegedly then set up a company at Tianjin to manufacture FBARs using the stolen technology.
"The defendants leveraged their access to and knowledge of sensitive US technologies to illegally obtain and share US trade secrets with [the Chinese government] for economic advantage," said John Carlin, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
"Economic espionage imposes great costs on American businesses, weakens the global marketplace and ultimately harms US interests worldwide."
If convicted the six face long jail sentences, but the BBC's Barbara Plett says it is difficult to see how the bulk of the group will be prosecuted.
The striker retweeted two posts on his account @CarltonCole1 after his side's 3-0 defeat at Swansea on Saturday.
They questioned Cole's performance and used a racist term to describe him. He tweeted that how he plays has nothing to do with "race, creed or religion".
The man, 22, of Southend, is being quizzed on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence.
In several tweets, Cole, 28, posted: "Listen, i take racism a lot lighter than others and i do understand the banter that comes a long with it to get under peoples skin but...
"... it can sometimes be hurtful & insulting, i don't mind when people criticise me for having a bad game or they think I'm crap at football...
"...but just say that, whether i am crap or had a bad game has nothing to do with my race, creed or religion. lets just keep it FOOTBALL. Kapeesh?"
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Oxford had dominated the race in recent times but Cambridge took an early lead.
They held their rhythm through the tricky conditions on the Thames to triumph by five seconds.
Earlier, Oxford made it four wins in a row in the Women's Boat Race as the Cambridge boat almost sank in the latter stages.
The Dark Blues successfully found the shallower, calmer waters on the Thames and were able to power to a comfortable victory.
In the men's race, Cambridge - coached by 2000 Olympic gold medallist Steve Trapmore - made the most of their height and weight advantage.
"A lot of hard work goes into this - we wanted it more," said Cambridge president Henry Hoffstot, who had been part of the losing Light Blue crews in 2014 and 2015 along with cox Ian Middleton.
"Steve and I went out on the course yesterday," said Middleton. "We knew what the conditions would be like and the guys dealt with it really well."
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In the women's race, Oxford went in as favourites and coped better with the tricky conditions.
President Maddy Badcott praised cox Morgan Baynham-Williams, who engineered a move across the river, which helped give them victory.
"We are so lucky to have Morgan - she smashed it," Badcott told BBC Sport.
"Those conditions are probably the worst I have experienced on the Tideway and I'm so glad it has worked out for us and our training paid off.
"This is probably the best team I have ever been part of and that spirit got us through the race."
"That village over there will be flooded," he points. "Monkeys, birds, Indians - we'll all lose our homes."
Over the last few months some 13,000 Munduruku have been protesting against government plans to build a series of hydroelectric dams that will flood part of their land on the upper reaches of the Tapajos river.
After a week-long meeting back in April, the caciques (chiefs) from more than 60 villages issued a statement, demanding that the government listen to them before it presses ahead with the five dams planned for the river.
Women have not traditionally been fighters among the Munduruku, but now Maria Leusa Kaba Munduruku, the leader of a new group of female warriors, says that everyone must be involved.
"The government must recognise our rights, not just those of others," she stresses.
Despite vociferous opposition from indigenous and environmental groups, construction is already well under way for the gigantic Belo Monte dam on the Xingu river.
Now the new frontier for Brazil's hydropower expansion has moved to the Tapajos River - a huge tributary to the Amazon that lies further to the west.
Opposition here is fierce as the region has some of the richest biodiversity in the world.
Adrian Barnett, a British biologist working in the area, says that - even by the high standards of the Amazon basin - the Tapajos is an area of extreme biological richness.
Of the 1,837 species of bird that occur in Brazil, 613 can be found in the Tapajos, he points out.
The government plans to award the contracts for the first of these dams, Sao Luiz do Tapajos, later this year.
Along with the next dam, Jatoba, it should come on stream by 2020.
As well as flooding 552 sq km (213 sq miles) of land, the dikes will change the river flow, disrupting the lives of indigenous and numerous fishing communities.
The dams will have an installed capacity of 8,471 megawatts and will generate as much electricity as Belo Monte.
To mitigate their environmental impact, the government is copying the oil-rig system used in the North Sea, bringing in workers by boat for two-week work shifts rather than building roads.
The authorities are adamant that they need to tap into the huge hydropower potential of the Amazon if Brazil is to have the energy to fuel its ambitious development programme.
Claudio Salles, director of the Acende Brasil energy think tank, says that of the 19,000 additional megawatts the government plans to have by 2021, 16,000 will be generated in the Amazon.
"This gives you an idea of just how important this energy is for us," he says.
But some analysts believe that Brazil needs to rethink its development plans.
Celio Bermann, a lecturer in energy and the environment at the University of Sao Paulo, says Brazil is providing big subsidies for electricity-hungry sectors, such as the smelting of bauxite in the Amazon to make aluminium, without thinking whether this is really in the country's long-term interests.
"We are exporting a tonne of aluminium for $1,450-1,500 (£855-884) while importing manufactured aluminium goods at twice the cost.
"It makes no sense. I think it is absolutely undesirable for the country's aluminium output to double over the next 10 years," Mr Bermann adds.
Brazil, he points out, is going back to being a producer of primary goods, without adding value.
"And it is precisely the production of primary goods that needs a lot of energy and generates few jobs."
Preparatory work for the construction of the Teles Pires dam to be built on the Teles Pires river, a tributary of the Tapajos, has already led to the bulldozing of land around the Sete Quedas (Seven Waterfalls) - an area considered sacred by the Munduruku and other indigenous people.
In an open letter, Munduruku leaders complained: "There are funerary urns there, where our ancient warriors are buried. There is also a portal, only seen by spiritual shaman leaders, who can travel through it to another, unknown world."
"Why have they destroyed this?" one cacique asked.
For others, however, progress cannot be halted.
Joao Francisco Vieira, a local councillor in the town of Jacareacanga, told the BBC: "The Indians don't want to go back 300 years. They want to evolve, as the river flows to the sea. They want mobile phones. They want the internet."
Maria Leusa Kaba Munduruku agrees that they want modern goods.
"But we want them while conserving our culture. That is possible and we will fight for it."
Wenger, 66, celebrates 20 years as Arsenal boss next month and is out of contract in the summer of 2017.
According to L'Equipe, PSG tried to recruit him in 2011, 2013 and 2014.
Asked why he had turned PSG down, Wenger said: "I always remained loyal to Arsenal because it's a club that has the qualities I love - and that's why."
Arsenal have won three league titles and six FA Cups during Wenger's reign.
However, they have not won the Premier League since 2003-04 and some fans have called for Wenger to leave.
PSG have been crowned French champions for the past four seasons and have reached the Champions League quarter-finals four times in a row.
Beaten in the last eight by Manchester City earlier this year, they are backed by wealthy owners Qatari Sports Investments, who Wenger says he "knows well".
The Frenchman added: "PSG are a good test for us. They're a team who are, in France, the team above everyone else."
Arsenal are seventh in the Premier League, with seven points from four games. PSG are seventh in Ligue 1, with seven points from four games.
Swiss side Basel entertain Bulgarian outfit Ludogorets in the other Group A contest on Tuesday.
The 24-year-old Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder denies wounding with intent outside Atik nightclub in Windsor in the early hours of 25 December in 2015.
Reading Crown Court heard doorman Gregor Jurcic, 27, suffered a "nasty" head injury and was left with scarring.
Mr Ince denies being the person who used a bottle to attack Mr Jurcic, who was helping police control crowds.
Up to 500 people had gathered outside the nightclub, on Victoria Street, between 03:30 and 04:00 GMT that Christmas morning.
Prosecuting, Nigel Daly said: "There was trouble brewing. The police were in attendance but they were grossly outnumbered."
Security staff from the nightclub, including Mr Jurcic, were helping officers control the crowds.
Michael Zgorzalek, another member of the security team, saw a black man run towards Mr Jurcic and attack him, the court heard.
"He saw this man jump up into the air and bring the bottle down on to his head. Having done that, Mr Ince began to run from the scene," Mr Daly said.
Mr Jurcic's blood was found on Mr Ince's jacket and CCTV footage showed a bottle coming away from the footballer as he was tackled to the ground, the jury heard.
In a police interview, Mr Ince said he had punched a man who had attacked his brother, then started to run away.
"He said he had never had a bottle in his hand," Mr Daly told the court.
Mr Ince, who is currently on loan at Swindon Town, denies a single charge of wounding with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.
The trial continues.
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The defender, who has won 78 caps, was cleared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in July of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League game.
But the Chelsea star, 31, still faces a Football Association disciplinary hearing over the matter on Monday.
Terry said the FA's decision to pursue charges against him meant his position with England had become "untenable"
Date of birth: 7 December 1980
3 June 2003: First England cap as a substitute against Serbia and Montenegro
15 August 2004: Replaces Marcel Desailly as Chelsea skipper
19 August 2006: Takes over from David Beckham as England skipper on a permanent basis
5 February 2010: Stripped of England captaincy following a meeting with Fabio Capello
19 March 2011: Restored in the job by Capello
21 December 2011: Crown Prosecution Service announce Terry will be charged with racially abusing Ferdinand
13 July 2012: Cleared in court
23 September 2012: Announces his retirement from England duty after 78 caps
Terry was cleared of abusing Ferdinand following the culmination of his trial on 13 July but was subsequently charged by the FA two weeks later for using alleged "abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour" towards the QPR defender during October's game at Loftus Road.
The court heard accusations Terry had insulted Ferdinand, describing him as "black" and using extreme sexual swear words.
The prosecution had to prove beyond reasonable doubt Terry had used the words in an insulting manner, which it could not.
However, the FA, whose charge includes an alleged "reference to the ethnic origin and/or colour and/or race of Ferdinand", only has to prove its case "on the balance of probabilities".
The defender telephoned England manager Roy Hodgson to inform him of his decision before he released his statement on Sunday evening.
The FA said they would not be commenting on Terry's retirement.
Terry, who had two separate stints as England captain, played in the 5-0 World Cup qualifier victory over Moldova on 7 September. He made his debut in a 2-1 friendly victory over Serbia and Montenegro in 2003.
Terry was appointed as David Beckham's successor as England skipper in 2006 but was stripped of the position in 2010 following allegations he had an affair with then England team-mate Wayne Bridge's ex-girlfriend.
"John Terry will have been advised by his lawyers that he stands very little chance of winning this case, regardless of him being cleared by a criminal court in July. If found guilty, he will face a lengthy ban, and Roy Hodgson would have come under huge pressure to drop him from England. It is this which has proved decisive in ending one of the more remarkable England playing careers. The FA could and should have reached this point in an increasingly acrimonious saga sooner, but after being told by MPs last week they needed to do more to fight racism in the sport, it's clear they had little choice but to charge Terry. He believes the governing body has a vendetta against him, but it's hard to see what choice they had."
He was re-appointed in March 2011, but the FA relieved him of the role again in February, a decision which precipitated the departure of manager Fabio Capello.
In a statement, Terry said: "I am today announcing my retirement from international football.
"Representing and captaining my country is what I dreamed of as a boy and it has been a truly great honour. I have always given my all and it breaks my heart to make this decision. I want to wish Roy and the team every success for the future.
"I am making this statement today in advance of the hearing of the FA disciplinary charge because I feel the FA, in pursuing charges against me where I have already been cleared in a court of law, have made my position with the national team untenable.
"I now look forward to playing for Chelsea and challenging for domestic and European honours, and I want to thank the fans and the club for their continued support.
"I would like to thank the England managers who have selected me for my 78 caps. I have had great pleasure in sharing that honour with all the players that I've played with.
"I would like to thank them, the fans and my family for their support and encouragement during my international career."
England face a pair of World Cup qualifiers next month. First they welcome San Marino to Wembley on 12 October and then, four days later, meet Poland in Warsaw.
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It was 7 August 2015 and all was right in Chelsea and Mourinho's world. They were favourites to retain their crown and he spoke about building a team that would give Chelsea a 10-year dynasty.
Now 'The Special One' has been sacked by Blues owner Roman Abramovich for a second time after the most spectacular, unexpected decline suffered by any Premier League champions.
So how did it all go wrong for Mourinho in a matter of months?
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Chelsea secured the 2014-15 title with victory over Crystal Palace and with three games to spare.
They were in control of the race from almost the first kick and the eventual margin of triumph was a comfortable eight points from deposed champions Manchester City with only three defeats all season.
Did this margin lead to fatal complacency, not only within Chelsea's boardroom but from Mourinho himself?
Did Chelsea make the same mistakes as Manchester City after winning the Premier League in 2012 when they failed to strengthen their squad sufficiently, bringing in low-key signings such as Brazilian veteran Maicon, Scott Sinclair, Jack Rodwell and Javi Garcia? The title was lost to Manchester United in Sir Alex Ferguson's final season.
And did Mourinho and his paymasters fail to heed the warning signs that their rivals - especially City - would be wounded and react in a manner that meant Chelsea needed to build instantly from that position of strength?
City's response to losing the title was to bring in stellar signings, such as £49m Raheem Sterling from Liverpool, £55m Kevin de Bruyne from Wolfsburg and £32m defender Nicolas Otamendi from Valencia.
Chelsea were linked with the likes of Juventus' Paul Pogba and Real Madrid's outstanding young defender Raphael Varane. They did not arrive - City's ruthless ambition left Mourinho standing.
Instead, the pursuit of Everton's England international John Stones became lengthy, acrimonious and eventually doomed as the Merseysiders stood firm - even in the face of a transfer request from the 21-year-old defender.
Pedro did arrive from Barcelona for £21m and left-back Baba Rahman from Augsburg for £21.7m but otherwise - apart from £8m spent on Stoke City keeper Asmir Begovic to replace the departed Petr Cech - it was unimpressive.
Mourinho's squad was fleshed out but not strengthened.
Papy Djilobodji came from Nantes for £4m and Reading's Michael Hector for the same fee. Djilobodji was barely seen and Hector went straight back to the Championship club.
For all the criticism he has received, was Mourinho let down by Abramovich and Chelsea's hierarchy, who failed to deliver the signings, such as Stones, that the manager clearly wanted?
How much did he really want Rahman, hardly a priority at such a huge price with Cesar Azpilicueta doing such an outstanding job at left-back last season?
Rahman came to notice with Ghana under former Chelsea manager Avram Grant, someone who - rather mysteriously given his track record in football - has had the ear of Abramovich in the past.
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And what of Djilobodji? He came from nowhere without serious pedigree and was a player Mourinho admitted was not his choice, though he did say: "It was the choice of someone I trust completely."
Not enough, though, to actually give him a run in the first team.
The loan signing of Radamel Falcao seemed almost an attempt to prove he could succeed where Manchester United and Louis van Gaal failed. He also failed - expensively.
Mourinho's other error came from an understandable desire to renew a Chelsea team he felt was jaded at the end of last season.
For a manager who prides himself on his teams making a fast start to the season, Mourinho's decision to move in a new direction with a shorter pre-season, giving his players a month's holiday and only three matches before the Community Shield loss to Arsenal, holed Chelsea's season below the waterline even before kick-off.
Chelsea did not win any of those pre-season games, which included a 4-2 defeat by New York Red Bulls.
They looked off the pace from the first kick against Swansea City in their opening game and momentum was never gained. Fatally.
Mourinho's hopes of a smooth transition into Chelsea's title defence were derailed from the opening game against Swansea City at Stamford Bridge and a disagreement with team doctor Eva Carneiro that has provided an acrimonious backdrop to the season.
He was furious that, with Chelsea already reduced to 10 men after keeper Thibaut Courtois was sent off, Carneiro and fellow medic Jon Fearn raced on to treat Eden Hazard even though the manager felt it was not required. It was a response that led to Mourinho, angry that his side were briefly reduced to nine men, accusing the medics of being "impulsive and naive".
Both had their positions downgraded but the row with Carneiro rumbled on, with Mourinho criticised by the medical profession, including the Football Medical Association (FMA), which represents medical staff in the sport.
Mourinho was cleared of making discriminatory comments to Carneiro but Football Association chairman Greg Dyke, in a letter to FA council members, said Chelsea's manager had "made a mistake" and should apologise.
As Chelsea and Mourinho's struggles continued - along with his brushes with authority - as did the Carneiro affair.
Carneiro's lawyers are suing Chelsea for constructive dismissal while Mourinho himself is the subject of an individual legal action.
The saga has been referred to on social media as "The Curse Of Eva Carneiro", reflecting on how Chelsea and Mourinho's fortunes plummeted from the moment he crossed swords with the former club doctor.
It set the tone for Mourinho constantly being at odds with authority, particularly when he was given a one-match stadium ban and a £40,000 fine for an expletive-filled rant at referee Jon Moss which led to him being sent off at half-time in the loss at West Ham in October.
Mourinho had an appeal against a £50,000 FA fine and a suspended one-match ban dismissed following his claims after the 3-1 home defeat by Southampton in early October that referees were afraid of giving Chelsea penalties.
Mourinho was locked on course for trouble from day one of the season and it played its part in his downfall.
Sadly, and this is said as someone who has always been an admirer of Mourinho's behaviour and the flourishes he has brought to Chelsea and the Premier League, his actions this season have not been befitting of the club or himself.
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Mourinho's defiance had been one of his trademarks - but as the cracks have appeared in both his and his team's make-up this season he has crossed the border into desperation and delusion.
The first signs all was not well on the field with the champions came in the 3-0 loss to Manchester City in the second game of the season, when they were swept away at the Etihad.
Chelsea were so ill-at-ease Mourinho was forced to substitute the symbol of his methods and successes, captain John Terry, at half-time after he was cruelly exposed by City's pace - to no effect.
And in his post-match inquest, Mourinho chose to claim the result was "fake" and that his team deserved more. The remarks were met with utter bemusement as the only way in which the result was fake was that City would have won by more had it not been for Chelsea keeper Asmir Begovic.
It was perhaps a symptom of Mourinho's distraction that he repeated the trick after another comprehensive 3-1 defeat at Everton in September, claiming "the game was completely under control" even when Roberto Martinez's side were two up within 22 minutes.
If it was an act, it was an unconvincing one. If he fooled anyone it was only himself.
And for someone who gloried in describing Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger as a "voyeur" for his perceived interest in Chelsea and a "specialist in failure", were the tables finally turned? Was Mourinho becoming over-interested in Wenger?
Did he suddenly see Arsenal as a potential threat again?
The pair's frosty relationship was on show in public when Arsenal beat Chelsea in the Community Shield and, again, with the coldest of handshakes before Mourinho's side won 2-0 at Stamford Bridge in September.
In one of Mourinho's darkest moments, as he was sent off at half-time in the loss at West Ham, according to the referee Jon Moss's report: "At this point Mr Mourinho became very aggressive. He shouted that you [expletive] referees are weak… Wenger is right about you… you are [expletive] weak."
So had Wenger been playing on his mind?
Chelsea's title triumph last season was built on the reliable old cornerstones of Terry and Branislav Ivanovic in defence, protected by the midfield blanket provided by Nemanja Matic.
The key to success, however, was found in the brilliance of Belgium forward Hazard and the two summer 2014 signings that transformed Chelsea from Mourinho's first season back at Stamford Bridge, Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa.
The decline in performance of that 'Big Six' played a pivotal part in the slide that led to Mourinho's departure.
Father Time appears to have finally caught up with Terry, the former Mourinho "untouchable" who has been left out at stages this season, while Ivanovic's form has fallen off a cliff, despite the manager's continued faith.
Terry, embarrassed by his early substitution at Manchester City, suffered a similar humiliating fate in what proved to be the decisive loss at Leicester on Monday. It was almost a mercy replacement by Mourinho after the 35-year-old had been tormented by the speed and movement of Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez.
He had been at the heart of Chelsea's successes under Mourinho and to see him humbled and then taken off in such a fashion was symbolic of the wider crisis.
However, it is the failure of the other trio to produce that arguably had the biggest impact.
Hazard was world class in the title season, scoring 14 league goals and creating nine, while Fabregas was the creator supreme with 18 assists. Costa justified every penny of his £32m fee from Atletico Madrid with 20 league goals. Even defender Ivanovic scored four and had five assists.
Hazard's relationship with Mourinho has been the subject of much debate as he has struggled this season. Mourinho suggested Hazard more or less substituted himself at Leicester after the briefest attempt to run off an injury.
Costa has looked sluggish and occasionally overweight, struggling for goals and looking more in the mood for physical confrontation than tangible end product.
He even managed to embroil himself in a row with Mourinho, hurling a bib at his manager when it became clear he was only going to be an unused sub at Spurs in November.
The pair later laughed off the incident but it was the sort of open subordination that has rarely been seen during Mourinho's managerial career.
Fabregas' creative influence has been missed, but the signs were there from the second half of last season when the stats started to stack up against him. He played 18 of Chelsea's first 19 league games and created 13 goals - but in playing 16 out of the last 19 he assisted only five.
When the big players go missing, even a manager of Mourinho's calibre is struggling - and ultimately it was a fight he could not win.
Put together the crucial factors of complacency, the curse of Carneiro and big players going missing, and you concoct a recipe for trouble - and the evidence is most compelling in how Chelsea and Mourinho's infallibility at Stamford Bridge has been stripped away.
In 98 home Premier League games before this season, Mourinho had lost only once - to Sunderland on 19 April 2014. In the title-winning season of 2005-06, Mourinho's Chelsea won 18 games out of 19, a win percentage of 94.74%.
In the first eight home league games this season Chelsea lost four times - to Crystal Palace, Southampton, Liverpool and Premier League newcomers Bournemouth. The contrast was brutal as the Stamford Bridge fear factor evaporated.
Mourinho's successes have been built on that impregnability at home. Once that disappeared, along with poor form on Chelsea's travels, the rot had set in.
Mourinho came out all guns blazing at suggestions he suffers from third-season syndrome - and in his defence he won the FA Cup and League Cup in his third full campaign at Chelsea during his first spell.
What remains in question after his latest departure is whether Mourinho is ever a coach for the long term despite his talk of building for the next decade at Stamford Bridge and penning a new four-year contract at the start of the season.
Mourinho is the man for a quick, hugely successful fix but if a club is looking to build a dynasty then perhaps they should look elsewhere.
Would a manager with a more fixed long-term vision have shown more faith in Romelu Lukaku, still only 22 and sold to Everton for £28m in summer 2014? The young striker now looks what he was designed for when signed by Chelsea - a Didier Drogba in the making.
And there may well be questions about how De Bruyne developed so rapidly at Wolfsburg that the 24-year-old who left Chelsea for £18m in January 2014 ended up as a £55m signing for Manchester City in August 2015.
So is Mourinho simply a short-term strategist?
He lasted three full seasons in his first stint at Chelsea before his relationship with owner Roman Abramovich disintegrated and he was sacked with three years still left on his contract in September 2007.
Mourinho then had two seasons at Inter Milan, leaving - as he did at Porto in 2004 - after winning the Champions League, as well as Serie A for the second successive season and the Italian Cup.
He stayed three more seasons at Real Madrid, winning La Liga in 2011-12.
On 22 May 2012, Mourinho signed a new four-year contract at Real - on 20 May 2013 it was announced he was leaving.
Long-term contracts may be signed but it appears they do not mean longevity for Mourinho.
It seems absurd to be even debating the point about sacking one of the greatest coaches in world football just months after winning the Premier League - but it is symptomatic of modern football and the scale of Chelsea's fall from grace.
And for an owner accused of being trigger happy in the past, especially with the sacking of Carlo Ancelotti, all of Abramovich's instincts were to keep Mourinho and allow him to somehow dig himself out of the hole.
Ultimately, however, he had no choice as Mourinho's relationship with some players clearly became toxic and there was no sign of him being able to navigate a way out of a situation he had never been in before.
In cold terms, the decision is harsh but Abramovich gave Mourinho all the time he could as Champions League football next season - part of Chelsea's fabric - became a distant prospect.
Mourinho, as he turned on his players after the Leicester loss, suggested maybe it was his own brilliance that lifted Chelsea's players above their natural level to win the title last season. That level has dipped dramatically this season - so it can therefore be no surprise 'The Special One' has paid the price.
Vettel led for the first 35 laps only for his hopes be undone when Mercedes outflanked them on strategy.
He said: "We were a lot closer. Last year this was one of our worst circuits so there are plenty of positives.
"The team seems in good shape. We know we can up our game and we want to put pressure on these guys."
Vettel refused to blame Ferrari for their decision to stick with super-soft tyres at a re-start after the race was stopped following a massive crash involving McLaren's Fernando Alonso and Haas' Esteban Gutierrez.
That meant Vettel had to make a second pit stop, while Mercedes chose to switch to a one-stop strategy using the medium tyres.
That allowed Nico Rosberg to vault from second to first and Lewis Hamilton to move up from seventh to finish second.
Vettel said: "You can argue that the red flag didn't help us but equally, you know, one time it plays into your favour, the other time it catches you out a bit.
"We went the aggressive route - maybe with hindsight we could have done something else but I'm not willing to blame anything or anyone.
"We are a team, we win as a team and I think today we won 15 points."
Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene denied that the team's decisions had cost them the race.
He added: "You have to be a bit more aggressive and it could be right or it could be wrong.
"But at the end we were pushing like hell and Sebastian was to have a chance to be able to overtake Hamilton, which was in our strategy.
"If you want to look at the glass not half-empty, we were there, this is the news. Of course you can't be happy after this but this is racing."
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Payne made 38 League Two appearances for Blackpool last season to help them earn promotion through the play-offs.
The 25-year-old joined Blackpool in July 2016, having previously had spells with Gillingham and Peterborough.
He is Ebbsfleet's second signing since being promoted from National League South in May, following the arrival of Whitehawk striker Danny Mills.
Meanwhile, Fleet skipper Danny Kedwell has agreed a new deal with the club for next season.
The 34-year-old, who scored 13 goals to help them to promotion last term, will continue to combine playing and his youth coaching role.
The annual rise in UK property prices accelerated to 8.4% in August, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The fastest growth was a 13.3% rise in the East of England, followed by rises of 12.2% in the South East of England and 12.1% in London.
The gap in prices between regions is widening, the data shows.
On a local level, the most expensive homes were found in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, where the cost of an average house was £1.3m.
The cheapest areas to purchase a property were Burnley and Blaenau Gwent, where an average home cost £77,000.
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The figures were published as the ONS announced that the cost of living rose by 1% in the year to September. The rate of inflation rose from 0.6% in August, which was the biggest month-on-month rise in the inflation rate in more than two years.
Property prices grew at a faster rate than general inflation in most areas of the UK.
The cost of the average UK home rose to £219,000 in August 2016 - a £17,000 rise from a year earlier.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: "The idea of owning a home is still a complete fantasy for millions of families in this country.
"The new government's focus on tackling these problems is reassuring, but we hope there will be even more substantial commitments on building more genuinely affordable homes in the chancellor's Autumn Statement next month."
Property prices in August were typically at £236,000 in England, £145,000 in Wales, £145,000 in Scotland, and £123,000 in Northern Ireland.
Locally, prices rose fastest over the course of the year in the London borough of Newham, home to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where prices increased by 23.7% to stand at £373,000.
The biggest fall was recorded in the city of Aberdeen, where the effect of the lower oil price on the community is likely to have been one factor in causing prices to drop by 8.7% to stand at £176,000.
The ONS house price figures are generally regarded as the most comprehensive but are published later than other surveys.
Recent surveys by mortgage lenders, the Halifax and Nationwide, suggested that annual increase in house prices had slowed in September compared with the previous month.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) has said that demand among home buyers has seen a modest recovery following "post-referendum jitters", having risen for the first time in seven months in September.
Dina Asher-Smith, Adam Gemili and James Dasaolu will also compete but Jessica Ennis-Hill, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Mo Farah will be absent.
The squad is a mix of athletes who have already qualified for the Olympics, and others still hoping to book a spot.
Farah, Johnson-Thompson and Ennis-Hill declined selection, to prepare for Rio.
The championships in Amsterdam will run from 6 to 10 July, with British Athletics naming its final squad for August's Olympics on 11 July.
Neil Black, the performance director for British Athletics, said: "With the European Championships and Olympic Games scheduled so close together you have to take a sensible approach to selection and look at what is best for each athlete as an individual.
"With a firm focus towards Rio, we have liaised with athletes selected for the Olympics, and their coaches, before making a decision on selection."
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After Varndell crossed, Tusi Pisi was sent off for taking Warriors fly-half Jamie Shillcock out in the air.
Darren Barry's try put Warriors ahead for a short time but Varndell's second gave Bristol an 18-13 half-time lead.
Dean Hammond crossed as Worcester got within a point, but Varndell completed his hat-trick shortly after.
The win moves bottom-placed Bristol to within two points of fellow strugglers Worcester, who have lost their last five league matches in a row.
After back-to-back wins in the Challenge Cup for acting head coach Mark Tainton, this was Bristol's first victory in England's top flight since March 2009, following their promotion from the Championship last season.
In front of 16,552 - their biggest crowd of the campaign at Ashton Gate - Pisi's reckless tackle after 14 minutes caused Worcester fly-half Shillcock to be flipped in the air and land on his neck - a challenge which he was unable to return to the field from.
Varndell, who also secured a hat-trick last week against Pau, scored his tries from excellent support lines and is now only one behind the all-time record Premiership try scorer, ex-Sale wing Mark Cueto, on 89 tries.
Bristol acting head coach Mark Tainton:
"To go down to 14 men and show the character and resilience we did was fantastic.
"We are not going to get ahead of ourselves. We are still bottom of the Premiership, but we are a lot closer than we were to Worcester at three o'clock today.
"We hadn't built the game up to be the be-all and end-all, but players aren't silly. They understood what was at stake today. I am delighted with the way they responded.
"Tusi has chased the ball, his eyes are on the ball all the time, he has not got off the ground. Technically, he is below the player's hips, and he has a responsibility to bring the player down, so the referee has made that decision and we will abide by that."
Worcester head coach Carl Hogg:
"I am hugely frustrated. Losing Shillcock was pivotal for us. We lacked direction and shape.
"I didn't think we managed the game. We had plenty of ball, but we looked blunt in attack. When we have got ball in hand, we are normally a threat.
"We have obviously had a bumpy start to the season, but we have a number of significant players coming back who I think will be pivotal to the direction we take."
Bristol: Woodward; Wallace, Hurrell, Pisi, Varndell; Searle, Cliff; Bevington, Hawkins, Cortes, Tuohy, Glynn, Fenton-Wells, Robinson (capt), Eadie.
Replacements: Crumpton, Traynor, Ford-Robinson, Phillips, Sorenson, Williams, Jarvis, Palamo.
Red card: Pisi.
Worcester: Pennell; Hammond, Te'o, Willisom, Vuna; Shillcock, Dowsett; Leleimalefaga, Bregvadze, Schonert, Scotland-Williamson, Barry, Potgieter (capt), Lewis, Faosiliva.
Replacements: Singleton, Bower, Johnston, Spencer, Dowson, de Cothi, Adams, Mills.
Sin-bin: Barry.
Attendance: 16,552.
Referee: Wayne Barnes.
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The CIPS/Markit composite purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose to 54.1, compared with 53.3 a month earlier - it's highest level in 46 months.
Any reading above 50 indicates growth while a reading below 50 points to a fall in activity.
Markit said the survey pointed to first-quarter economic growth of 0.3%.
That would match the eurozone growth figure for the final three months of 2014.
It said the improvement in business output was the result of growth in new orders that had increased at their fastest rate since 2011.
Employment also grew at its fastest rate since August 2011.
Job creation in the service sector "held steady" near February's four year high, Markit said, while in the manufacturing sector it grew at its quickest pace since April last year.
Crucially, the survey showed that deflationary pressures eased in March with prices falling at the slowest rate since July. Markit said this reflected the need for some firms to pass on costs to customers
It added there was some anecdotal evidence that the European Central Bank's (ECB) stimulus measures were beginning to be felt.
Manufacturing prices rose for the first time in seven months, albeit only modestly.
Meanwhile, in the service sector, prices fell, but the rate of decline was the weakest for nine months.
Chris Williamson, chief economist at survey compiler Markit, said the survey results indicated some impetus from the ECB's economic stimulus programme, which began at the start of the month, although it was coming "at a time when there was already growth".
He added: "All the indicators are pointing to a further upturn, firms are taking on staff and it augurs well for the year ahead."
Separate PMI surveys for Germany and France, the eurozone's two largest economies, were also released.
Business activity in Germany rose to to its highest level in eight months as new orders hit a nine-month record.
German factory output was its highest for nearly a year catching up with the strong pace of growth in the service sector, which hit a six-month high.
The French economy also saw business activity increase for a second month, although at a slightly more modest pace than in February, when it hit a 42-month high.
Business output in France is still running well below that of Germany. However, new orders were at their highest level sine August 2011.
But French manufacturing output fell for the tenth month in row.
Howard Archer chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight called the latest PMI "highly encouraging" adding the improvement in manufacturing activity was welcome.
"It is not just the headline figures that are encouraging but the whole tone of the surveys. Eurozone economic activity is strengthening as very low oil prices, a weak euro, major ECB stimulus and much reduced fiscal headwinds foster an improved growth environment," he added.
Coming on top of a 38-12 home defeat by Salford and the 40-0 loss at Leeds, Wire conceded another eight tries.
After first-half tries from Ollie Roberts, Jermaine McGillvary and Aaron Murphy, the Giants scored twice more within seven minutes of the restart through Paul Clough and Jordan Turner.
Jake Mamo crossed too before McGillvary and Murphy each added a second.
Mamo also had two tries chalked off, with Warrington's only response coming through a Tom Lineham try on 53 minutes.
Former Salford, Hull and St Helens utility back Turner scored on his debut as Huddersfield's third victory in five matches moved them within a point of Catalans Dragons, who they face next Saturday.
Turner, who joined from Canberra last week, was one of two changes, coupled with the key return from a two-match ban of half-back Brough, who kicked five goals.
Warrington have now failed to win any of their last four games - and last season's beaten Grand Finalists remain in danger of finishing in the bottom four.
This was Warrington's third game in nine days, while the Giants had enjoyed a nine-day gap since their last fixture.
The Rugby Football League allowed last Monday's game with St Helens to be postponed as it clashed with co-tenants Huddersfield Town's Championship play-off final at Wembley.
Warrington head coach Tony Smith:
On not using tiredness as an excuse: "Let's not start that debate. I don't want to go and make excuses. We had two matches last weekend. That was obvious.
"I said what I needed to say last week and the whys and what-fors but well done to Huddersfield. They were the better team and I would rather say that and congratulate them than take anything away from their performance.
"If you are a Warrington fan at the moment, it's tough to watch. It's tough to participate in as well. It's hurting the boys. We haven't really recovered since Magic Weekend and it's damaged our confidence."
Huddersfield coach Rick Stone:
"We probably played too many errors in the second half and played a bit like the Harlem Globetrotters at times which frustrated me a bit but it was good to see them enjoy going in front and going in for the kill a little bit.
"I know Warrington are down a little bit on troops and they are a bit banged up with the short turnaround but I suppose through this year we have had plenty of that ourselves so it's good to see us take advantage of an opportunity for a change.
"We probably just gave something back towards our home crowd. We haven't been good to them this year. We have disappointed them several times. Hopefully they walked away with a smile on their face."
Huddersfield: Mamo; McGillvary, Cudjoe, Turner, Murphy; Brough, Gaskell; Ikahihifo, Leeming, Rapira, Roberts, Ferguson, Hinchcliffe.
Replacements: Wakeman, Clough, O'Brien, Mason.
Warrington: Penny; Russell, Ratchford, Atkins, Lineham; Brown, Patton; Hill, Dwyer, Cooper, Jullien, Hughes, Westerman.
Replacements: Sims, Savelio, Philbin, Smith.
Referee: Chris Kendall (RFL).
He already faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, which he denies.
The ICC first indicted him in March 2009, but he has not been arrested.
A member of Mr Bashir's political party labelled the new warrant "ridiculous", but rebels in Sudan's western Darfur region hailed it as "a victory".
President Bashir is accused over the conflict in Darfur, where some 300,000 people are said to have died in seven years of fighting.
The ICC had initially declined to add genocide to the indictment but this has been overturned on appeal, with the judges finding "there are reasonable grounds to believe him responsible for three counts of genocide".
Pro-government Arab militias are accused of ethnic cleansing against civilians from the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa communities after rebels took up arms in Darfur in 2003.
Mr Bashir has denied that his government armed the militias, known as the Janjaweed.
Some 2.5 million people have been driven from their homes.
Sudan's leader has been unable to visit several countries for fear of being arrested since the first warrant was issued.
Many African and Arab countries have lobbied for the UN Security Council to postpone the prosecution, but this request has been rejected by countries such as the US and the UK.
Mr Bashir is accused of "genocide by killing, genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm and genocide by deliberately inflicting on each target group conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction", said a statement from the ICC.
"This second arrest warrant does not replace or revoke in any respect the first warrant of arrest," The Hague-based court said.
A senior member of the ruling National Congress Party, Rabie Abdelatie, called the move "ridiculous" and said the ICC was targeting not just Mr Bashir but the Sudanese people.
Sudanese Information Minister Kamal Obeid said in a statement: "The adding of the genocide accusation confirms that the ICC is a political court. The ICC decision is of no concern to us."
But Ahmad Hussein, a spokesman for Darfuri rebel group the Justice and Equality Movement, told AFP news agency the development was "a victory for the people of Darfur and the entire humanity".
Despite the charges against him, Mr Bashir was overwhelmingly re-elected as president in landmark elections in April.
The opposition, however, accused him and his supporters of rigging the poll and some major groups boycotted the elections.
Mr Bashir has always said the problems in Darfur were being exaggerated for political reasons.
According to the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Unamid, 221 people were killed in Darfur in June.
This is a sharp fall since May, when some 600 people were killed - the deadliest month since January 2008, when the UN took joint control of the peace force.
Fighting intensified in May after the Justice and Equality Movement pulled out of peace talks.
It is 25 years since an Englishman won the top-flight title, when Howard Wilkinson led Leeds to the old First Division championship.
There are currently six English managers in the Premier League.
"I think in the past we've made mistakes and been labelled," McClaren, who won the Dutch league with FC Twente in 2009-10, told BBC Sport.
"I asked the Dutch coaches about the English and British coaches. They're not respected, have a bad image. They think we have an island mentality, we only know English and stick with that, we won't learn other languages.
"They feel we're rigid in our play, 4-4-2, not adaptable, not flexible, very direct.
"They only thing they really admired was our attitude and fight. But I think it takes more than that to win a championship."
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has given his backing to English managers, suggesting it would not be another 25 years before one won the Premier League.
McClaren is less confident but does at least believe processes are now in place to help them develop.
"When you look now you can't see it happening for another 25 years, but I know what's going on behind the scenes," said McClaren.
"Coaching has become a bigger profession, more respected in this country. I think we are developing.
"Twenty-five years ago our players weren't very good technically or tactically, mentality-wise and physically we were very good.
"The players now are technically far better. Intelligence-wise, tactically, that's where they need to improve."
McClaren was assistant manager at Derby, Manchester United and England before being named Middlesbrough boss in 2001.
Over five years, he kept Boro in the Premier League, won the League Cup in 2004 and reached the final of the Uefa Cup in 2006 before replacing Sven-Goran Eriksson for an ill-fated stint as England boss, which ended with failure to reach Euro 2008.
"My breakthrough was winning that first trophy and going on from that," said McClaren.
"That's what's some English manager has to do, win an FA cup or a League Cup and therefore prove his worth. They also need to get a good agent to get in contact with these new foreign owners coming in.
"I can see English managers coming through. Whether or not they're given an opportunity is a different question."
Since the Premier League began in 1992-93, nine managers have won the title - Scots Alex Ferguson (13) and Kenny Dalglish (1), Frenchman Arsene Wenger (3), Portuguese Jose Mourinho (3), Chilean Manuel Pellegrini (1) and Italians Carlo Ancelotti (1), Roberto Mancini (1) and Claudio Ranieri (1).
Antonio Conte will become the fourth Italian to win the championship if Chelsea beat West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Friday.
"Conte, Mourinho, Wenger are winners, they collect trophies and they're always going to do that," McClaren told BBC Radio 5 live.
"[But] I don't think Conte could have kept Sunderland up.
"I don't think he could have coached them the way he did and he would have [had] to adapt. "
The 20-year-old has made five appearances for the Lions this season without scoring.
"It's a great chance for me to prove myself and show the manager (Neil Harris) I'm capable of making even more appearances for Millwall," he said.
Philpot is expected to receive clearance to make his debut for the Ravens against Wrexham on Saturday.
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Kasturi Munirathinam describes the moment of the attack - and calls for India to ban migration for work to Saudi Arabia.
"No-one should go to that place. They are torturing us," she said.
The case has raised wider concerns about the treatment of domestic workers in Saudi Arabia.
Newsnight asked the Saudi Arabian government for comment but they declined. A police spokesman disputed the account in October.
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They threw smoke bombs and firecrackers on police, who responded with tear gas.
The bill aims to reduce the role of the Senate and cut powers of regional governments. Opponents say it will lead to an excessive concentration of power.
Mr Renzi has vowed to resign if he loses the 4 December vote.
He says the plan will streamline the Italian parliament, cut costs and give Italy more stable government.
But recent opinion polls suggest voters will reject it.
The young protesters were marching through the centre of Florence trying to reach a building where Mr Renzi's Democratic Party was holding its annual convention.
Demonstrators, some carrying banners reading "No to Renzi", tried to separate from the police in riot gear by dragging metal fences into the streets.
Reports said they were among a larger group of peaceful protesters against the referendum.
Florence's Mayor Dario Nardella condemned the protests, saying: "Demonstrating is a right, but the use of violence is despicable and unacceptable."
One officer was hurt in the leg during the clashes, Italian media said.
Blues are set to reveal their retained squad list in the week after Saturday's final game of the season.
"It's not an easy week but it's part of the moving forward process," 42-year-old Rowett told BBC WM 95.6.
"I've got to do it with a critical eye and a semi-ruthless mentality."
Rowett has seven players out of contract in the summer and must also make a decision on whether to agree deals for a number of loan players, including Derby defender Ryan Shotton.
"My job is to make the team better and garner some success," Rowett said. "Most of the decisions are pretty self-explanatory. The players that have been on loan with us for a vast period, they and us potentially see their future elsewhere.
"The players that are currently here and out of contract will be the first to know what decision we make."
Shotton, who has been with Blues since January, is one player who is giving Rowett food for thought.
"He's surprised me a little bit in some ways," Rowett said. "He's got a real desire to be a part of what we're doing and I genuinely believe he sees this a chance to kick-start his career.
"He needs to nail down that centre-half slot somewhere and we would have an interest in trying to keep him, but he's not our player and we don't know whether Derby see him in their plans or would want a huge fee for him."
Birmingham will secure a ninth-place finish in the Championship table if they can better Brentford's result at Huddersfield when they travel to Cardiff on Saturday.
First-time mother Kianga gave birth to the male ape at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire on 9 February.
Keepers were concerned about its health to begin with as Kianga was not holding it properly to allow suckling.
But Cheka, a more experienced mother, noticed this and showed her how to feed the baby properly.
The newborn, which does not yet have a name, is said to be developing well.
Dr Charlotte Macdonald, director of life sciences at the zoo, said: "We were astonished to find out about the wonderful intervention by Cheka, as it is unique to observe such an important social teaching behaviour."
Cheka has reared several babies, with youngest, Ndeko, born at the zoo in August.
"It is very exciting to welcome a second baby to our bonobo group in such a short space of time," said Dr Macdonald.
Both births were part of a carefully planned European Endangered Species Programme, which ensures healthy genetic lines.
Dr Macdonald said managing the breeding of bonobos has to be carefully done because of their "promiscuous behaviour".
"Bonobos use sex as a communication tool, so it is not always used for reproduction, but also to establish social hierarchies, or to avoid potentially aggressive situations," she said.
Employee Nathan Owens also alleges swastikas were drawn on toilet cubicle walls at Euro Quality Coatings Ltd.
The Cardiff hearing was told one worker was called "Eddie" because he looked like Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy.
Head of human resources at the factory Julie Hunter said it was "banter" but "nothing malicious".
Ms Hunter said the company "absolutely" took allegations of racism seriously.
But when managing director Steve Rosher was asked if banter could go too far, he replied: "I don't think banter can go too far, by its definition it is something you cannot take too far."
Another worker, Lee Hardy, told the hearing paedophile jokes were made because "Jimmy Savile was in court".
He added: "It was the general topic of the day in the newspapers and on social media, so everyone was talking about it at the time."
He also denied calling a colleague an "IRA terrorist".
The hearing continues.
It was found in Market Street in St Andrews on Wednesday. Police Scotland are now warning people to check machines before they insert a card.
Sgt Neil Johnston, of Police Scotland, said: "If you suspect an ATM has been interfered with, do not use it.
"If the cash machine is attached to a bank and the bank is open, then alert the staff who will check the machine." If not, police should be called.
Sgt Johnston added: "If you believe you may have used this ATM prior to Wednesday then check your bank account immediately and report any suspicious transactions you notice to police immediately."
A special prosecutor said there was evidence the Republican had broken the law by using a funding veto in a bid to force a local prosecutor to resign.
The potential presidential hopeful was investigated for cutting funds to a state anti-corruption unit run by District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg.
He becomes the state of Texas's first indicted governor in nearly a century.
Governor Perry, who has been in office since the year 2000, says he has violated no laws.
The 63-year-old faces two counts of abuse of power and coercion related to his decision to veto $7.5 million (£4.5 million) in funding for the Public Integrity Unit run by the office of the Travis County district attorney last year.
Governor Perry "with intent to harm another, to-wit, Rosemary Lehmberg and the Public Integrity Unit of the Travis County District Attorney's Office, intentionally or knowingly misused government property," the indictment read.
Ms Lehmberg, a Democrat, had earlier pleaded guilty to drink driving charges, but had rejected Governor Perry's calls to resign.
"The veto in question was made in accordance with the veto authority afforded to every governor under the Texas Constitution," the governor's general counsel said after the announcement was made.
•March 1950: Born in Paint Creek, Texas
•1972: Graduated from Texas A&M University
•1972-77: Spent five years in the US Air Force
•1984: Entered political life when elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat
•1988: Chairman of the Al Gore campaign in Texas
•1989: Joined Republican Party
•1998: Lieutenant Governor of Texas
•2000: Texas Governor under GW Bush presidency
•2013: Announces retirement from the governor's position
•2014: Indicted by grand jury on charges of abuse of power
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"We will continue to aggressively defend the governor's lawful and constitutional action, and believe we will ultimately prevail," Mary Anne Wiley added.
The special prosecutor, Michael McCrum, called up numerous witnesses to argue his case that the governor had broken the law.
Announcing his veto in 2013, Governor Perry said of the Public Integrity Unit: "I cannot in good conscience support continued state funding for an office with statewide jurisdiction at a time when the person charged with ultimate responsibility of that unit has lost the public's confidence."
The Texans for Public Justice, which filed a complaint in the case, said "the grand jury decided Perry's bullying crossed the line into law breaking".
Abuse of office can carry punishments of between five to 99 years in prison, while coercion of a public servant carries sentences ranging from two to 10 years.
Governor Perry is the longest-serving governor in the state's history.
His recent movements between key Republican battleground states is seen by analysts as laying the groundwork for a possible presidential run in 2016.
Mr Perry announced that he would retire from the Texas governor's office instead of seeking a fourth term in July 2013.
The 23-year-old was named in the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) League One team of the year.
Campaigner Leo Hardt said his inclusion sent out a "very troubling message".
Evans is to appeal after being found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel near Rhyl, Denbighshire.
He was jailed for five years at Caernarfon Crown Court earlier this month.
He was included in the PFA team as members had already cast their votes.
Last week PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor defended the decision, and said: "That was a football judgement by his fellow professionals, it was not a moral judgement and in no way does the PFA condone the offence for which he was convicted.
"If he had been removed from the team it would have created more of a storm and would have been manipulating the vote.
"Votes are cast on footballing ability, obviously everyone is quite disturbed about the conviction and whether that would have changed the vote we just don't know."
Mr Hardt, a school teacher, said the petition had received more than 5,000 signatures.
He said: "I started this campaign because my students see professional footballers as role models and take these awards, like this one from the PFA, as endorsements of their heroes.
"It's staggering that the PFA would chose to endorse a convicted rapist when there are many footballers who are better role models for our young people.
"I urge the PFA to remove him from the list immediately."
On the petition site, Mr Hardt wrote: "I feel that the PFA are sending out a very troubling message.
"As a professional body, they have a responsibility to ensure that the public see them upholding certain values about sports professionals.
"Sign this petition to convince them that honouring Ched Evans is tacitly condoning his behaviour."
North Wales Police investigating the alleged naming of the rape victim on Twitter last week bailed three men.
A log released by Minnesota authorities showed the 911 calls related to everything from medical emergencies to false fire alarms.
It included one call in 2011 in which an unidentified woman said she was concerned about Prince's cocaine use, but no police action was taken.
Prince's representatives have not commented on the claims.
The unnamed woman, from Germany, claimed Prince told her a year earlier that he had an uncontrollable cocaine habit and that she should advise the authorities.
It is unclear whether the woman personally knew Prince.
Other calls included reports about a woman having an allergic reaction, a fire alarm triggered by a fog machine, a trespasser banging a drum and a suspicious vehicle, which the responding officer "checked and it was Prince", according to the log.
There were also claims that Prince has at least one living son, although Prince has no known surviving children.
On the day Prince died, one woman called saying she had a 17-year-old son with Prince, and wanted him to attend the funeral.
Prince was found unresponsive in a lift at his Paisley Park complex - home to recording studios, a nightclub, rehearsal space, offices, and the singer's private residence - on 21 April.
A post-mortem examination last month discounted suicide, but a medical examiner said full results could take several weeks.
Investigators are looking into whether Prince died from an overdose and if a doctor was prescribing him drugs in the weeks before his death.
They are also trying to establish whether a doctor was on the singer's plane when it made an emergency landing less than a week before he died.
The musician was found unconscious on the plane after it stopped in Moline, Illinois, on 15 April, and detectives investigating his death have asked to see fire and ambulance records related to the emergency landing.
Staff working at the department's digital data and technology unit were told last week that some of their Twitter comments were "not compliant".
According to The Register, staff were warned to be "careful" and comply with civil service guidance on impartiality.
The US president is expected to make a state visit to the UK later this year.
Many MPs have been critical of the invitation extended by Downing Street so early in Mr Trump's presidency while Commons Speaker John Bercow has said he does not support the US president addressing Parliament during the occasion, citing his travel ban and comments he has made about women.
However, Prime Minister Theresa May - a former home secretary - has insisted that the visit is vital to cementing the long-standing special relationship between the two countries as the UK embarks on leaving the European Union.
In an e-mail obtained by The Register technology news website, and seen by the BBC, Home Office staff have been warned to "avoid commenting on politically controversial issues" in general and "giving personal opinions about the organisation".
They were reminded the Home Office's social media guidance had been updated and that they, as well as temporary employees and contractors, must observe the rules on not sharing information about the work of the department or saying they work for the Home Office on personal accounts.
It read: "A quick look through just a couple of known personal Twitter accounts of staff members shows that some are not compliant, stating that they work for the Home Office, posting HO work, whilst tweeting or retweeting negative posts about, for example, Donald Trump.
"We need to be careful here and ensure all our staff are following this guidance which reflects the Civil Service Code."
The Home Office told the Daily Telegraph that it did not comment on internal correspondence but a spokesman told the newspaper that all staff were expected to adhere to the values and standards of behaviour set out in the code.
"This includes the need for political impartiality and also applies to the use of social media," it added. "We recently updated our guidance on the use of social media by staff to make it clearer and easier to understand.
"This is in line with the Cabinet Office's guidelines and the changes have been communicated to all staff."
The Home Office employs more than 25,000 staff.
Social services documents requested by a family member from Wokingham Borough Council went missing after the delivery driver left them outside the requester's home in August 2013.
They included details of allegations of neglect and abuse carried out by the requester's ex-partner.
The council has agreed to take action.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which carried out the investigation, said the driver had not been told about the sensitivity of the information, or that the delivery required a signature or returning to the council if no-one was available.
The council had also failed to arrange a suitable delivery time with the requester, it added.
Stephen Eckersley, ICO's head of enforcement, said a "series of errors" by the council led to a social services record being delivered "with no consideration given to its content".
The council has agreed to ensure future deliveries containing sensitive personal information are carried out securely.
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None of the 26 pupils from Easingwold School were injured when the bus was driven into flood water near Newton-on-Ouse on the 5 January.
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North Yorkshire Police said the driver had been interviewed and its investigation was ongoing.
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The challenge was brought by World War Two veteran Harry Shindler, 94, who lives in Italy, and lawyer and Belgian resident Jacquelyn MacLennan, 54.
Under law, UK citizens who have lived abroad for more than 15 years cannot vote.
The pair took the case to the Court of Appeal after losing their application for a judicial review last month.
Mr Shindler and Ms MacLennan had argued the in-out vote on EU membership, on 23 June, directly affected them and brought the test case on behalf of others in their situation.
In April, they asked High Court judges to declare that section two of the EU Referendum Act 2015, which established "the 15-year rule", unlawfully acted as a penalty for their having exercised their rights to free movement.
But the judges ruled that the section did not restrict their rights and rejected their application for judicial review.
They then took the case to the Court of Appeal, where a one-day hearing took place earlier this month.
Three appeal judges - Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls, sitting with Lord Justice Elias and Lady Justice King - upheld the High Court decision on Friday, declaring the rule did not unlawfully interfere with the right of expats to freedom of movement within the European Union.
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Lord Dyson said: "The claimants say that their exclusion from the franchise is an unjustified restriction on their EU right - EU law right - of free movement and contrary to their constitutional, common law right to vote.
"The appeals against the dismissal of their claims is dismissed. The court holds first that the 2015 Act does not fall within the scope of EU law at all, so that the claim fails at the first hurdle."
He added that "the common law right to vote does not take precedence over an Act of Parliament" and refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The expats still have the right to ask Supreme Court judges to consider the case, however.
Their lawyers said a hearing had been listed for Tuesday, at which permission to appeal - as well as the substance of the appeal itself - would be considered.
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Ms McLennan, who is originally from Inverness but has lived in Brussels since 1987, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: "The refusal to allow me and others in my situation to vote is an infringement of my EU rights."
She added that the result of the vote "would have a huge impact" on both her personal and professional life, and that she often returned to the UK to visit her parents and children, and for work.
"I feel very strongly that I ought to have a fundamental democratic right to vote in my country of citizenship," said Ms McLennan.
Mr Shindler, appointed an MBE for Anglo-Italian relations in 2014, has been told he has "diminished or diluted" links to the UK after living abroad for so long. He has lived in Italy for 35 years.
The UK passport holder, originally from London, said: "The fact that we don't live there doesn't alter that fact, we were born British and we will remain that way.
"If we go and live somewhere else, it doesn't make us anything else. They work out here. People don't know who these expats are you know, think they're all on holiday."
He also said the government had agreed to scrap the 15-year rule before the referendum bill was passed.
Law firm Leigh Day, which represents the pair, argued that up to two million British citizens were being unlawfully denied the right to vote on membership of the EU.
As part of the BBC's coverage, leader Nicola Sturgeon will take part in a half-hour webcast in which she will answer the public's questions.
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The three-day SNP conference gets under way on Thursday and will be opened by Ms Sturgeon.
She will make her keynote speech to 3,000 delegates on Saturday afternoon.
You will be able to watch Ms Sturgeon's webcast, hosted by BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor, via BBC Scotland's politics web page.
He was named as Abu Daigham al-Baritani or Abu Daigham al-Britani - the suffix adopted by those who have travelled from the UK to fight in the country.
He is said to have been part of the Rayat al-Tawheed, a group of British combatants linked to the rebel Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
A statement apparently issued on the Rayat al-Tawheed Instagram account said the man was killed "a few nights ago".
The Foreign Office said it was unable to confirm the death.
Shiraz Maher, senior fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London, tweeted that the man, who was reportedly from London, has "featured regularly in Rayat Tawheed vids".
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the Syrian conflict and millions displaced.
An estimated 500 Europeans are now fighting in the country, according to the EU's anti-terror chief.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "The UK has no representation in Syria, and we are not able to provide consular services.
"While we look into reports we receive of British nationals being killed or injured in Syria, these are often very hard to verify because we have no in-country presence."
Coroner Ros Fogliani said that the woman, known as Ms Dhu, had also received "deficient" health care.
Ms Dhu, whose full name is not used for cultural reasons, was arrested in August 2014 for unpaid fines.
Her family insists someone should be held accountable for her death.
Ms Dhu's death and her family's fight for justice have become a symbol for Aboriginal rights in Australia.
Delivering a series of recommendations at Perth Central Law Courts, Ms Fogliani said the law in Western Australia should be changed to end the imprisonment of people for non-payment of fines.
She also said police officers should undergo cultural competency training to better understand Aboriginal people's health concerns.
After being arrested on 2 August 2014, Ms Dhu, 22, was taken into custody at South Hedland Police Station, near the remote mining town of Port Hedland.
She began to complain of rib pain from a previous injury and was taken to South Hedland Health Campus. A doctor found no signs of infection and had her returned to custody on the basis that her pain was due to "behavioural issues".
The next day, Ms Dhu was still complaining of pain and was returned to hospital. But Ms Fogliani said her temperature was not taken, a chest X-ray was not performed and "errors were made and there was a missed opportunity to treat Ms Dhu for her infection".
She added: "On this presentation, antibiotics would have been potentially life-saving for Ms Dhu."
The following day Ms Dhu "continued to suffer a catastrophic decline in her health" but Ms Fogliani said: "The behaviour towards her by a number of police officers was unprofessional and inhumane.
"Their behaviour was affected by preconceptions they had formed about her."
CCTV footage played at the inquest showed officers dragging Ms Dhu, who appears to be unconscious, from her cell to a police vehicle.
She was taken to hospital for a third time where she died from septicaemia and pneumonia resulting from a broken rib.
In her conclusion, Ms Fogliani says: "It is profoundly disturbing to witness the appalling treatment of this young woman at the lock-up on 4 August 2014.
"In her final hours she was unable to have the comfort of the presence of her loved ones, and was in the care of a number of police officers who disregarded her welfare and her right to humane and dignified treatment."
Speaking outside the court, Ms Dhu's family said they were not satisfied with the coroner's recommendations because no-one had been held accountable for her death, broadcaster ABC reported.
Metrolink passengers will have to use the stop at Shudehill as the platform and tracks at Victoria are redesigned for the second city tram crossing.
Trams will pass through Victoria in both directions on a single track but cannot stop for safety reasons.
The work is part of a wider £44m refurbishment of the station.
Jel Singh Nagra's shop had no name for five years after he said Sainsbury's complained, The Northern Echo reported.
He has now put up a new sign naming his store Morrisinghs, in a bid to put his village of West Allotment, North Tyneside, "on the map".
A spokesman for Morrisons said the supermarket "did not mind".
"Mr Nagra and his customers obviously have good taste so we wish him well," he added.
Mr Nagra, who commutes 50 miles from Stockton to the shop in Benton Road, spent £350 on the new sign which he said was "a talking point".
"It is just a bit of banter and fun - it's not like we get passing trade - we are not stealing customers from supermarkets," he added.
"Originally when I was away on my honeymoon in 2012, I got a letter saying that Sainsbury's was threatening to take me to court.
"My family saw the letter and took the sign down because they were so worried. My customers kept saying I needed another sign so here it is and it's a bit cheeky."
The shop had already been called Singhsbury's for two years when Mr Nagra took it over from a family member in 2011.
Sainsbury's has been contacted for a comment.
The company said it had been cleared by government officials in Senegal to launch an evaluation plan.
Cairn, which made two discoveries in the area last year, estimated fields there could contain more than a billion barrels of oil.
Its evaluation plan will start shortly with a 3D seismic survey.
Later this year it aims to launch a multi-well exploration and appraisal programme.
Edinburgh-based Cairn has a 40% interest in three blocks offshore Senegal (Sangomar Deep, Sangomar Offshore, Rufisque Offshore).
Its partners include ConocoPhillips (35%) and FAR Ltd (15%), with Petrosen, the Senegal National Oil Company, retaining a 10% interest in the exploration phase.
In its latest half-yearly report, Cairn also said that it had started international arbitration proceedings with the government of India over a tax row.
Cairn has been prevented by Indian authorities from accessing the value of its 10% residual shareholding in Cairn India Limited (CIL).
In March, the company received a tax bill for $1.6bn plus interest and penalties, covering the tax year 2006-07, when it was preparing to float Cairn India on the Mumbai stock exchange.
Cairn has contested the bill and plans to seek restitution for losses resulting from the falling value of its stake in CIL.
Due to the lower oil price, its value has dropped from $1bn in December 2013 to $526m, as at 30 June this year.
The lower valuation saw Cairn book a $177.1m impairment loss in its first half, as it reported a post-tax loss of $230m - up from $62m a year ago.
The company generates no revenue because its focus is exploration work.
However, at the end of the first half, Cairn reported a cash balance of $725m.
Cairn's share price was down by about 5% on Tuesday morning.
Ben Walker was playing with his Thrapston Town FC teammates when he collapsed on Friday.
A statement on the club's website said: "It is with great sadness we learnt that young Ben Walker passed away Friday night whilst doing the thing he loved."
Flowers and football shirts have been left outside the Chancery Lane club.
The club said its "thoughts and prayers" were with Ben's family.
Other youth football teams from across Northamptonshire have expressed their shock and sadness on Facebook at his death.
Ben also played cricket for Thrapston Cricket Club, which described him as a "promising wicket-keeper and batsman".
Government officials say this means academies will be free to hire "great linguists, computer scientists and other specialists who have not worked in state schools before".
Unions for head teachers and teachers have attacked the move, describing it as a damaging backward step.
The change is immediate.
Until now, most state-funded schools could only employ people with what is known as "Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)", meaning they have been trained and approved as meeting a range of standards.
Independent schools are exempt.
The change also brings academies in line with the new free schools, which are already free to employ people without QTS.
Academies, like free schools, are funded by the state but are semi-independent, outside of local authority control and have greater freedom over the curriculum and teachers' pay and conditions than other schools.
The government says it still expects "the vast majority" of teachers to have the qualification, but that the change will allow head teachers to bring in professionals with "great knowledge and new skills".
A spokesman for the Department for Education said: "This policy will free up academies to employ professionals - like scientists, engineers, musicians, university professors, and experienced teachers and heads from overseas and the independent sector - who may be extremely well-qualified and are excellent teachers, but do not have QTS status."
Christine Blower, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "This is a perverse decision by the Department for Education and a clear dereliction of duty.
"The NUT believes all children deserve to be taught by qualified teachers.
"Parents and teachers will see this as a cost-cutting measure that will cause irreparable damage to children's education."
The changes will apply to schools switching to become academies. Existing academies will have to apply to make the change by altering their contract (funding agreement) with the government.
About half of England's secondary schools are now either academies or are in the process of becoming academies. Only a small percentage of primary schools have made the change.
Head teachers' leaders have come out against the change too.
The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) described it a "significant backward step" which might damage the professionalism of teaching.
And Brian Lightman, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "Teaching is a skill and the idea of employing individuals who have not been given the tools to do a professional job flies in the face of the coalition government's aspiration of creating a high status profession."
The headmaster of a leading independent school, Brighton College, has supported the changes.
In a statement released through the Department for Education, Richard Cairns said: "I strongly believe that teachers are born not made and I will actively seek out teachers from all walks of life who have the potential to inspire children.
"At Brighton College, we have 39 teachers without formal teaching qualifications, including me," he said,
Some had come straight from top universities, others from careers including law, finance and science, he added.
"Once teachers are in the school, they have a reduced teaching timetable to allow them to spend time observing other good teachers and are actively mentored. By the end of the year, they are, in our view, better trained than any PGCE student."
Under rules being phased in over the next year, Food Standards Agency vets will be able to ask to see footage of all areas where livestock are held.
Slaughterhouses found to be failing welfare standards could face a criminal investigation or lose staff licences.
Environment Secretary Michael Gove said the proposals would make the UK a "global leader on animal welfare".
Currently, keepers of animals bred for meat must meet animal welfare laws and codes of practice, which cover the treatment of livestock including how they are fed, housed and transported, as well as how they are killed.
Abattoirs in England must meet welfare regulations, with separate rules in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and additional EU regulations.
Plans to make CCTV mandatory in all slaughterhouses are being considered by the Welsh government.
The government has said it plans to increase standards for farm animals and domestic pets in England by updating these statutory animal welfare codes.
Breaches would result in a welfare enforcement notice, the suspending or revoking of staff licences or referral for a criminal investigation.
The first codes to be revised will cover chickens bred for meat, followed by laying hens, pigs, dogs, cats and horses over the course of the next year.
New codes were needed to reflect modernising medicines, technology, as well as the latest research and advice from vets, the government said.
Mr Gove said: "We have some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world and the actions I am setting out today will reinforce our status as a global leader.
"As we prepare to leave the EU, these measures provide a further demonstration to consumers around the world that our food is produced to the very highest standards."
FSA chairwoman Heather Hancock said the watchdog supported compulsory CCTV in abattoirs, since voluntary adoption by slaughterhouses had reached a "plateau".
She said: "We look forward to the introduction of a comprehensive requirement for using, accessing and retaining footage from CCTV in abattoirs.
"We see CCTV as an invaluable management tool for business owners to help with compliance with official controls and to improve animal welfare standards across the industry."
British Veterinary Association (BVA) president Gudrun Ravetz said the mandatory CCTV in all areas of slaughterhouses was "essential" to safeguarding animal welfare.
"We are particularly pleased to see a commitment to official veterinarians having unrestricted access to footage, which the BVA has been calling for," he said.
"Vets' independence and unique qualifications help ensure that the UK will continue to have the highest standards of animal health, welfare and food safety."
Plans for the Strathy South wind farm have already led to a row between SSE, the company behind the scheme, and environmental charity RSPB Scotland.
It said that it was a strong supporter of most wind farms because they reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
But it said the Strathy South scheme would cause harm to the peatland habitats and the birds they support.
The proposed 39-turbine wind farm would be situated in the internationally important peatlands of the Flow Country in Sutherland.
RSPB Scotland claimed the wind farm could take at least fours years, and potentially as many as 24.8 years, to save the amount of carbon which would be released during its construction.
SSE said the public was being misled by opponents of the scheme, and pointed to what it described as strong local support for the scheme.
It said the project would help pay for the restoration of thousands of hectares of damaged peatland in the Flow Country.
The crash is believed to involve one vehicle, a black Volkswagen Golf, and happened at about 14:30 BST on the A541 Mold to Denbigh road, at Nannerch.
One of the injured men was airlifted to Stoke Hospital with serious injuries and the other was taken to Wrexham Maelor Hospital with what are believed to be minor injuries.
The road is expected to remain closed at Mold for some time.
Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to contact North Wales Roads Policing Unit.
Australia detains asylum seekers who arrive by boat at the Manus Island centre and on the nation of Nauru.
The PNG centre is due to close by 31 October. On Monday, a PNG official told detainees that the closure of one compound would begin within weeks.
It remains unclear how many will be settled in the US under a refugee deal.
The agreement, struck between Australia and the Obama administration, allows for up to 1,250 refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to migrate to the US.
Australia's offshore detention policy is controversial and has been criticised as inhumane.
Australia agreed to close the Manus Island centre in August after a PNG court ruled that detaining asylum seekers and refugees there was unconstitutional.
A PNG official on Monday told detainees they should prepare to leave, with a block in one compound to be shuttered on 28 May.
"You cannot stay at the regional processing centre. You need to consider your options," the official said in a recording heard by the BBC.
About 700 of the 800 men detained on Manus Island have been officially recognised as refugees. The others have had their claims denied, or are awaiting a decision.
The official said refugees could temporarily relocate to a "transit centre", resettle in the PNG community, return to their home country or move to another country where they were eligible for residency.
Men deemed not to be refugees should return to their home country with "reintegration assistance", he said. According to Australian media, this constitutes a A$20,000 (£11,500; $14,900) payment which is available until the end of August.
No detainee would ever be resettled in Australia, he said, reiterating Canberra's policy.
Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the Manus Island centre would be progressively shut down.
"The centre won't close drop dead on the 31st of October, they will start to decommission parts of the centre in the run up," he told local radio 3AW on Tuesday.
Although the US deal covers up to 1,250 refugees, there is no guarantee that many will be accepted.
In return, Australia has agreed to resettle people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador who have sought asylum in the US.
The agreement was the subject of a tense call between Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and US President Donald Trump, who labelled the deal "dumb" but has since pledged to honour it.
According to refugee advocates, US officials recently interviewed about 70 people on Manus Island but left and said they would return in August.
The advocates fear the process will not be completed before the PNG centre's scheduled closure.
The man, who only wanted to be identified as Ernest, was rescued after plunging 15ft (4.5m) into the river in Truro at low tide on 6 January.
He was winched across the river by fire crews using an aerial platform and taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
His vehicle was written off but he only suffered minor injuries.
More than 30 firefighters attended the incident, as well as coastguard, police and ambulance staff.
He said: "The sun got me straight in the face and I suddenly felt myself going over.
"I realised I was stuck in the mud and I couldn't move. I lost my lost shoes, glasses and hearing aid.
"I was fairly alright. I wasn't frightened."
He added: "I shan't fall in that river again, but I must get another scooter. I'm stuck here [at home] otherwise."
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said it represented the biggest shift in attitude across the criminal justice system "for a generation".
Under the guidelines, prosecutors are told to focus on the credibility of allegations, not on whether victims make good witnesses.
All suspects will also be investigated to see if they possess indecent images.
The guidelines cover how victims should be treated and how a case should be built and presented in court.
The BBC's legal correspondent Clive Coleman said it was "something of a watershed moment".
Victims have previously been disbelieved or discouraged, he said, but the new guidelines represented a move towards a "more sophisticated knowledge of psychology".
A list of "myths and stereotypes" about behaviour previously thought to negatively impact the credibility of young victims has also been included, so the use of such preconceptions can be challenged in court by prosecutors.
The list includes inconsistencies in what the victim remembers and whether they were drunk or wearing revealing clothes.
A joint protocol for information sharing in child sexual abuse cases has also been published alongside the guidelines, in which police and prosecutors are expected to share information with social services, schools and family courts.
The publishing of the final guidelines follows a three-month public consultation and takes immediate effect. The information for joint protocol will come into force in England and Wales on 1 January 2014.
Changes were sought after there were complaints that too many cases had been dropped before trial because of fears that the allegations would not stand up to scrutiny.
One of the most serious recent prosecutions of sex abuse and street grooming - in which 10 men were convicted - was initially shelved because of doubts over the credibility of the victims as witnesses.
TV and radio presenter Jimmy Savile was not prosecuted when he was alive and, more recently, a row erupted after a prosecutor called a 13-year-old victim "predatory".
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These guidelines are forged in the aftermath of the Jimmy Savile scandal and recent cases of child 'sexual grooming', where the treatment of victims by the criminal justice system was a matter of shame.
They were simply too often disbelieved or discouraged. What the guidelines amount to is the criminal justice system acquiring, some would say very late in the day, a more sophisticated understanding of the psychology underlying the sexual abuse of children.
There is a recognition that there is no such thing as a 'model' victim, and that those who have been abused may present with a raft of problems and issues born out of their experience. So, what the guidelines describe as 'myths and stereotypes' about victims will be routinely challenged.
Published alongside, and as important as the guidelines, is a joint protocol for information sharing in child abuse cases.
Police and prosecutors are now expected to share and seek appropriate information about vulnerable youngsters with and from social services, schools and family courts ie those bodies that have contact with children and where harm being done to them might be recognised and recorded, and can be shared with police and prosecutors in building cases.
For example, if a child first presents at school with behaviour or an account of events that is disturbing, it might be best recorded by a teacher and put on file. That could be crucial evidence at trial.
Mr Starmer said: "For too long, child sexual abuse cases have been plagued by myths about how 'real' victims behave which simply do not withstand scrutiny.
"The days of the model victim are over. From now on these cases will be investigated and prosecuted differently, whatever the vulnerabilities of the victim."
Mr Starmer said that because the guidelines were the result of discussions with judges, the police, experts, victims' representatives and the government, they would "stand the test of time".
He said that because "possession of indecent images of children has been found to be a common feature" of child sexual abuse cases the police would now investigate it in every case of child sexual abuse.
The guidelines will also highlight a number of ways victims of abuse can be manipulated and blackmailed to keep quiet, which include threats to publish indecent images or implicating victims in other offences.
They also seek to raise awareness of how victims in some ethnic communities are controlled by offenders who might use notions of "honour" or "shame" to deter them.
Shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry said it was not clear how much of the guidance would actually get used in practice.
"These proposals are a welcome effort to correct the over-cautious stance the CPS took in the Jimmy Savile and street-grooming cases," she said.
"However, the guidance contains a lot more 'shoulds' than 'musts' which makes it far from certain how much of this will actually get implemented."
The NSPCC's Alan Wardle said the changes "will start to make a positive difference for child sex abuse prosecutions which in the past have been dogged by difficulties".
The Deputy Children's Commissioner for England, Sue Berelowitz, said the CPS had "worked hard to improve the experiences of child witnesses and increase the likelihood of securing convictions by ensuring that judges and juries better understand the psychological and emotional impact on victims of their appalling experiences".
The Chief Executive of the Survivors Trust, Fay Maxted, welcomed the new approach. She told BBC Radio 5 Live: "It is at least now saying that we need to stop focusing on questioning whether the victim is telling the truth and actually look at what they're saying has happened and investigate that."
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Some of the women who received the procedure, which is used to ease incontinence, have suffered painful and debilitating complications.
Mr Neil told MSPs he was "deeply troubled" by the issue and was setting up an independent review.
Campaigners said his decision was unexpected, but welcome.
Several of Scotland's 14 regional health boards said they would agree to the health secretary's request, while others explained that they had not used the procedure in some time.
The Scottish government said it would hand a dossier of Scottish cases to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which would have the final say on the use of mesh implants on a UK-wide basis.
A MHRA spokesman said its research showed that while a small number of women had experienced distressing effects, the benefits of these tapes and meshes outweighed the risks and could help in dealing with upsetting conditions such as urinary stress incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
About 1,850 women have the procedure in Scotland every year.
The health secretary said he had asked Scotland's acting chief medical officer, Dr Frances Elliot, to write to health boards with a request to immediately suspend the procedures until further evidence from both the Scottish government review, and a European Commission investigation into mesh implants, became available next year.
Harrowing evidence
"I believe that is the right thing to do, and that we should base any future decisions on the evidence as presented by these two reports," said Mr Neil.
The health secretary said his suspension request extended to both tension free vaginal tape (TVT) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP) procedures.
Mr Neil's decision came after the Scottish Parliament's petitions committee previously heard harrowing evidence about women who suffered life-changing side effects after undergoing the procedure.
Some have been left in constant pain after the implants hardened, and told they could never have sex again.
Appearing before the committee on Tuesday, Mr Neil said: "We should all be very concerned to hear how these implants have affected the lives of some women in Scotland and elsewhere.
"I've personally met with women who've been adversely affected, and I was deeply troubled to hear how women affected have suffered, and they have my full sympathy and support and we'll certainly do everything we can to improve the situation.
"No one should have to experience the level of suffering that some of these women have had."
Transvaginal mesh implants are usually used to treat a prolapsed bladder and relieve incontinence, often as a result of childbirth.
Hundreds of mesh implant-related claims are due before the Scottish courts within the next year, with cases already under way in the US and Canada, where the authorities have issued warnings to hospitals.
The Scottish Mesh Survivors campaign group had previously called for a suspension, pending an inquiry.
Mr Neil said estimates over the success of the procedure indicated that most women, about 1,450, did not appear to suffer complications, but he warned the figure was "not entirely reliable", because of the under and non-reporting of problems.
One Scottish health authority, Dumfries and Galloway, has already suspended the use of mesh implants, saying it had not used them for some time and had no plans to in the foreseeable future.
The health secretary said a series of other measures were being taken, including:
An MHRA spokesman said it had asked the Scottish government to provide any new evidence it had for assessment.
He said: "We have listened to and understand the concerns that many women have about vaginal tapes and meshes.
"That's why we commissioned and published independent research in 2012 that reviewed the available evidence about the safety and adverse effects associated with vaginal tapes and meshes.
"The findings showed that while a small number of women have experienced distressing effects, the benefits of these tapes and meshes outweigh the risks and can help in dealing with upsetting conditions such as urinary stress incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse."
Campaigner Olive McIlroy, who brought the matter to the attention of the petitions committee after suffering from mesh implant complications, said: "I just didn't expect that decision today.
"It was the decision that we were hoping for and we're very glad that the minister made it, but he could have made it a year ago."
The 57-year-old described MHRA regulations as "completely flawed", adding: "We welcome that there is going to be an independent review and there will be no manufacturers or anyone with a vested interest involved.
"It has been too long. Our alternative evidence has been there for all to see, but nobody has listened."
Mr Neil said he hoped to announce the chair and remit of the Scottish government inquiry before the Holyrood summer recess.
Decision 'delay'
Lindsay Bruce, from Thompsons Solicitors, who represents many of the women who have been harmed by surgical mesh implants, welcomed the government's action, adding: "We hope the Scottish government will make sure that, in future, any surgical implant like mesh is subject to the same kind of rigorous testing that new medicines go through before they're given to the public."
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats welcomed the health secretary's decision.
Labour health spokesman Neil Findlay, added: "My Scottish Labour colleagues and I joined with the many women affected by mesh implants to call for suspension 12 months ago, so why has it taken so long for the cabinet secretary to act?
"His delay means that approximately 1,800 more women have been fitted with a product that many people believe is causing severe injury and life-changing side effects to women in Scotland."
It follows a judge's ruling that an official assurance given in error meant John Downey - who had denied murder - could not be prosecuted.
It may affect 186 people wanted for terror-related offences in the Troubles who received similar assurances.
Victims' families said they felt "devastatingly let down".
Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable Matt Baggott said the PSNI accepted the court's decision and full responsibility for the failures which resulted in this outcome.
He said the matter would be referred to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.
"I wish to apologise to the families of the victims and survivors of the Hyde Park atrocity," he said.
"I deeply regret these failings which should not have happened. We are currently carrying out a check of these cases to ensure the accuracy of information processed by the PSNI."
The public interest in making state officials keep their promises outweighed the public interest in a trial being held, Mr Justice Sweeney had ruled on 21 February.
The Crown Prosecution Service has now said it does not wish to appeal against the judge's ruling, allowing reporting of the case to go ahead.
Sue Hemming, head of special crime and counter terrorism at the CPS, said it "respected" the decision of the court.
"The legal issues in this extremely serious case were complex and it was appropriate that they should be fully argued before the court for a judge to rule upon," she said.
The Hyde Park attack killed Squadron Quartermaster Corporal Roy Bright, Lieutenant Anthony Daly, Trooper Simon Tipper and Lance Corporal Jeffrey Young on 20 July 1982.
Mr Downey, 62, who was convicted of IRA membership in the 1970s, had denied murdering the soldiers and conspiring to cause an explosion.
He became Scotland Yard's prime suspect for the Hyde Park attack - but he was never extradited from the Republic of Ireland. He was described in court as a committed supporter of the Northern Ireland peace process.
In May 2013 he was arrested at Gatwick Airport while en route to Greece and charged with the murders and bomb attack. Mr Downey had travelled to the UK on four previous occasions since 2010.
But over the course of legal argument, he asked the Old Bailey to halt the prosecution - saying he had received a clear written assurance from the government that he would not be tried.
He cited an official letter he had received in 2007 saying: "There are no warrants in existence, nor are you wanted in Northern Ireland for arrest, questioning or charging by police. The Police Service of Northern Ireland are not aware of any interest in you by any other police force."
He said his alleged offences had been categorised as one of the "on-the-run" cases that would no longer be pursued in the light of progress in the peace process.
In his judgement halting the case, Mr Justice Sweeney said Mr Downey had received an assurance in 2007 that he would not face criminal charges, despite the fact that police in Northern Ireland knew he was still wanted by Scotland Yard.
Although police soon realised they had made a mistake, the assurance was never withdrawn.
The Crown Prosecution Service had argued that the assurance was given in error - but the judge said it amounted to a "catastrophic failure" that misled the defendant. A trial would therefore be an abuse of executive power.
Responding to the decision, former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain said: "I was astonished to hear that this prosecution had been launched in the first place, because he had received a letter from the Northern Ireland Office after painstaking investigations into whether the evidence still existed to prosecute him as a suspect for this crime and he received a letter saying he was in the clear.
"This was a critical part of the peace deal that has brought Northern Ireland from horror and evil to peace and hope and the idea that it could be unravelled in his case was astonishing to me."
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said Mr Downey's arrest had been in breach of the "on-the-runs" policy decided following the Good Friday Agreement.
"John Downey should never have been arrested and this has been vindicated by the court decision," Mr Adams said.
But Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member Tom Elliott said the news was an "appalling indictment of Peter Hain and the past Labour government in their behind-the-scenes dealings".
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson called the conclusion "an outrage and a dark day for justice".
He said Mr Downey had been handed "a get out of jail free card" and urged an appeal against the decision.
"Every conceivable avenue should be exhausted. Justice should not have a sell-by date," he said.
Families of those killed said in a joint statement that the judgement had left them feeling "great sadness and bitter disappointment".
The statement read: "This news has left us all feeling devastatingly let down, even more so when the monumental blunder behind this judgement lies at the feet of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
The end result, it said, was that the "full chain of those terrible events" would never be put in the public domain for justice to be seen to be done.
They added: "With no sensible explanation from the PSNI [Police Service of Northern Ireland], this must surely now raise the question of whether there have been other errors in the issuing of other such letters.
"The families urge a thorough review of what remains of the administrative scheme to avoid a repeat of what has happened here."
The Hyde Park attack is one of the most significant unsolved IRA bombings of The Troubles. One other person was convicted in relation to the deaths before being later cleared on appeal.
The bomb that Mr Downey was accused of planting was the first of two that day in London and he was linked to the attack by fingerprints found on a parking ticket bought for the car used to transport the bomb.
In the second explosion, less than two hours later, seven Royal Green Jackets bandsmen in a Regent's Park bandstand were killed.
They wisely mixed classics like Plug In Baby and Supermassive Black Hole with new material, displaying the confident assurance of a band headlining the festival for the third time.
A crowd of almost 75,000 watched the show, on a day that also saw ZZ Top and Jess Glynne play the Pyramid Stage.
Singer Matt Bellamy said little, other than: "Thank you, merci, danke schoen."
But Uprising, from 2009's Resistance album, and Starlight, from 2006's Black Holes and Revelations, provided ample opportuny for a singalong amid the Sturm und Drang of their more uncompromising rock excursions.
Muse opened their set with Psycho, a hard driving anti-war song from their current album, Drones - a concept record about modern warfare, and soldiers "who kill by remote control".
Although the band's recent shows have featured actual drones flying over the audience, they were refused permission to use them at Glastonbury.
The group have often been compared to Queen, thanks to their multi-layered vocals and cod-operatic tendencies. But like Queen, everything that makes Muse faintly ridiculous on record works to their benefit in front of such a vast audience.
From start to end (the belting crescendo of their signature send-off Knights of Cydonia) the skyscraping scale of their songs kept the crowd entertained and on their feet - unless they were simply stuck in Glastonbury's increasingly viscous mud.
Muse are now the first band to headline the Pyramid Stage on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday night.
Coldplay will match the achievement on Sunday - their fourth time at the top of the bill - while Adele notches up her first headline slot on Saturday.
Earlier in the day, many of the acts addressed the Leave vote from Thursday's referendum.
Damon Albarn told the audience "democracy has failed us", while bands including James and Bastille voiced dissatisfaction with the result.
Preceding Muse on the Pyramid Stage were Oxford band Foals, whose frontman Yannis Philippakis has also been vocal about his positive experiences in Britain as the son of Greek / Ukrainian immigrants.
"My family have benefitted from an inclusive Britain which gave me health, education and a sense of belonging, despite the length of my name," he tweeted earlier this month.
However, he kept political messages out of the band's thrillingly visceral set, simply declaring: "Love each other. That's all we're good at."
Pop star Jess Glynne brought a party disco vibe to the Pyramid Stage, and rock veterans ZZ Top played a set full of crowd pleasers, including Legs, Gimme All Your Lovin' and Jimi Hendrix's Foxy Lady.
Grime took centre stage at the festival's Sonic Stage, whose line-up read like a who's who of UK hip-hop - Stormzy, Section Boyz and Kano all played, while Skepta made a guest appearance during Novelist's set.
BBC Sound of 2016 winner Jack Garratt packed out the John Peel tent, while Savages and Ronnie Spector drew large crowds to the Park Stage.
Meanwhile, dance duo Disclosure are currently competing with Muse for the "band with most lights" award.
The band are certainly the louder act of the two, with a pounding bass that pummels the chest.
Perched on elevated, spaceship-like platforms, brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence were joined by a number of guest vocalists during their set, including Kwabs on Willing & Able, and Aluna Francis on White Noise.
Howard also sang the band's current single, Boss, shifting the pitch of his voice down to a deep baritone with an effects unit.
"It's just me getting a glimpse into what it would be like to be Barry White," he told the BBC.
He added that the set was "the pinnacle" of their career before.
"There's something rewarding about playing at a festival like Glastonbury, where half the crowd are just passing by and stopping to see what you're all about," he explained.
"You've got to earn their respect and keep them there. There's an element of a challenge to that, as opposed to when people have come specifically to see you."
Bands who will face the challenge on Saturday include Madness, Wolf Alice, New Order and Art Garfunkel, while the night will end with an orchestral tribute to the late David Bowie.
The 90-second clip had nearly four million more views than the previous title holder Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it says.
The new film features Emma "Harry Potter" Watson as Belle and Dan "Downton Abbey" Stevens as the Beast.
The film is due out in March 2017.
Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon, retells Disney's classic 1991 animated film.
Perhaps what is most impressive about the numbers is that the trailer does not actually give much of a glimpse of the film at all.
It contains only a fleeting view of Watson and the Beast's trademark growl - and the unmistakable tones of Sir Ian McKellan, who plays Cogsworth in the film, and Ewan McGregor, who voices Lumiere.
The 20-year-old victim was found with a stab wound to the chest in Hope Street, Higher Broughton, at about 19:45 BST on Friday.
He was taken to hospital where he later died.
Three men, aged 26, 26 and 49, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Det Ch Insp Terry Crompton, of Greater Manchester Police, appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
"This was a brutal attack which occurred on the street in broad daylight and has taken a young man's life," he said.
"We understand there was an altercation which then led to this young man being stabbed.
"What we need to know is who was involved and exactly what happened."
The economy grew by 1.0%, according to official gross domestic product figures (GDP), which measure the value of everything produced in the country.
The Office for National Statistics said that Olympic ticket sales had added 0.2 percentage points to the figures.
The figures are welcome news for business and ministers, said the BBC's economics editor Stephanie Flanders.
"The positive 'surprise' in these figures is largely to be found in the service sector, which is estimated to have grown by 1.3% in the third quarter, after shrinking by 0.1% in the three months before," she said.
The data also exceeded expectations from economists, who had predicted an increase of 0.6% in the quarter.
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The economy had been in recession for the previous nine months and has still not recovered the levels of output seen before the financial crisis in 2008.
The ONS said that beyond the effect of ticket sales, it was hard to put an exact figure on the Olympic effect, although it cited increased hotel and restaurant activity in London as well as strength from employment agencies.
The GDP figures were also enhanced by comparison with the previous three months, because the second quarter had an extra public holiday as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in June, as well as unusually bad weather, which reduced growth.
"There is still a long way to go, but these figures show we are on the right track," said Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
"Yesterday's weak data from the eurozone were a reminder that we still face many economic challenges at home and abroad."
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls praised the news but said that the figures "show that underlying growth remains weak".
"A one-off boost from the Olympics is welcome," he said. "But it is no substitute for a plan to secure and sustain the strong recovery that Britain desperately needs if we are to create jobs, get the deficit down and make people better off."
The data is a preliminary estimate from the ONS, meaning that the third-quarter figures could be revised higher or lower.
"While the news is positive, the estimate must be put in context," said David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce.
"The 1% GDP figure for the third quarter is affected by distortions in the second quarter due to the Jubilee and Olympic ticket sales. Compared to a year earlier, the figures show that the economy is stagnant."
The ONS said that the economy had contracted by 6.4% between the start of 2008 and the middle of 2009, and had since recovered about half of that lost output.
The level of output in the third quarter of 2012 was almost exactly the same as it had been in the third quarter of 2011.
Social media users highlighted the moment Edwards celebrated Jamie Roberts' match-clinching try.
But the ex-rugby league international was incredulous it was that and not Wales' "incredible" defensive display which made headlines.
"I was disappointed at that. It was just a harmless hand gesture," he said.
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"I was just throwing a punch in the air and people are talking about that instead of talking about an incredible defensive performance when Ireland were kept try-less for the first time in four years.
"That was a little bit disappointing."
And a laughing Edwards added: "I'm a child of the 90s and if you're going to say something rude you stick two fingers up, not one."
Edwards said Wales' defensive display against Ireland was the best since he has been part of the coaching team - a run going back to 2008 and taking in two Six Nations Grand Slams and a championship win.
With Edwards in charge, Wales conceded just two tries during their 2008 Grand Slam, three in 2012 and four - all in the opening game - during their 2013 campaign.
Asked how the performance of the defence compared with others during his reign, Edwards replied: "I think it was the best one to be honest because of the standard of the opponent."
And Edwards added: "They've (Ireland) been averaging 30 points a game recently and I didn't think it was possible to keep a top-four ranked team to single digit points.
"Sometimes I set the boys targets of 19-20 points which I think will get the job done because our attack will cover it, but never in my wildest dreams would I have predicted nine points against Ireland.
"But we did it and I think you could see the ferocity of our frontline defence. I think the double hitting by our back-rowers in particular was absolutely outstanding."
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Edwards singled out wing George North for criticism after Wales' defeat by Scotland, and the Northampton Saints wing responded with an impressive display against Ireland, scoring two tries.
"I'm just thankful I didn't listen to all those people who said he should have been dropped," he said.
"Great players deserve another chance and George is a great player and he came out and he was really determined, stuck to the defensive systems and his attack - he scored two tries, it was awesome.
"I'm really pleased for George because not only is he a fantastic rugby player but he's absolutely a credit to his parents and is one of the nicest people you'd ever wish to meet."
The 24-year-old North's two tries against Ireland took his overall try tally for Wales to 30.
He also scored two Test tries for the British and Irish Lions during the 2013 tour of Australia.
"We've been linked with seven or eight jobs this season," Rowett told BBC WM.
"This is all testament to how well the team has been playing and the feelgood factor round the club right now."
Paul Clement was sacked by the Rams on Monday, with Darren Wassall placed in charge for the rest of the season.
"I understand the link," said Rowett, 41, who made 120 appearances during three years with the Rams. "I live in Derby and my lad goes to the games. It's always a difficult one to hear, but you can write down the list of every team I've played for in my career.
"What if the Charlton job becomes available, or Cambridge United or Everton? Am I going to get linked with them too?"
"I read an article the other day which had the headline 'We don't want another month of speculation'," said Rowett. "But, if you're going to write headlines like that, all that's going to happen is another month of speculation.
"Like I've said many times before we're incredibly focused on what we're doing here. And, after losing our last game, all we're focused on is to try and win the next one and continue this play-off charge."
After losing to Sheffield Wednesday on Boxing Day, Blues' play-off push had been progressing nicely with a six-match unbeaten league run.
But then two late Gary Hooper goals in as many minutes last Saturday saw them slump to a 2-1 defeat in the return game with the Owls, dropping Blues back to eighth in the table.
They travel to the New York Stadium on Saturday to meet a struggling Rotherham United side now under new management following the appointment of the vastly-experienced Neil Warnock.
Gary Rowett was talking to BBC WM's Adam Bridge.
It appears that the criminals used stolen personal data taken from other websites that had been hacked, to pretend to be legitimate users.
The Internal Revenue Service was warned of the potential for unauthorised access to the accounts in March.
The online IRS' Get Transcript app involved in the breach has been shut down and an investigation is underway.
The scam's perpetrators managed to set up fake tax returns and file for tax refunds. The IRS told the New York Times that it had paid nearly $50m (£32.5m) in refunds before it had detected the scheme.
The IRS says more than 200,000 attempts to view past tax returns using stolen information were made from February to mid-May with around half of those being successful.
"We're confident that these are not amateurs," said John Koskinen, the IRS commissioner.
"These actually are organized crime syndicates that everybody in the financial industry is dealing with."
Security experts are concerned that the IRS' system appeared not to use multi-factor identification, for example sending a one-off code to a users' mobile phone for them to tap into the website, so as to verify that the person giving the information has access to the phone number on record.
The cybersecurity blog Krebs on Security warned in March that the IRS' system could be breached when it reported on the case of Michael Kasper, who had tried to file his tax return only to be told that he had already done so.
In that case criminals had set up an account in Mr Kasper's name using his social security number, but with a different email address. They filed a false tax return in order to claim a tax refund and had conned the IRS into paying that "refund" into a bank account that Mr Kasper did not recognise.
"The IRS' process for verifying people ... is vulnerable to exploitation by fraudsters because it relies on static identifiers and so-called "knowledge-based authentication" — ie challenge questions that can be easily defeated with information widely available for sale in the cybercrime underground and/or with a small amount of searching online," said the security website, commenting on Mr Kasper's case.
The IRS has sent letters to the taxpayers whose accounts had been compromised, and said it would offer them free credit monitoring.
The authority said its main computer system, which handles tax filings, had not been breached.
Richard Barklie, from Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, is one of four Chelsea fans facing a football banning order over a confrontation filmed ahead of a Champions League game in February.
Footage of the alleged incident showed several fans chanting: "We're racist and that's the way we like it."
Mr Barklie, 50, denies any wrongdoing.
He told Stratford Magistrates' Court he pushed Souleymane Sylla because there was no room in the train carriage, adding: "Mr Sylla, and it's my view, was the only one using aggression".
When asked by his defence barrister, Nick Scott, if "there was any issue in relation to the colour of his skin", Mr Barklie replied "none whatsoever".
Mr Barklie served as an officer with the Royal Ulster Constabulary and as a director with the World Human Rights Forum.
In addition to Mr Barklie, of Victoria Street in Carrickfergus, three others are challenging the ban: Jordan Munday, 20, of Ellenborough Road, Sidcup, south-east London; Josh Parsons, 20, of Woodhouse Place, Dorking, Surrey; and William Simpson, 26, of Hengrove Crescent in Ashford, Surrey.
The court heard Mr Munday, who is also accused of being involved in the incident, said there was enough space for him to force himself through the carriage and see the aftermath.
However he claimed he did not see the incident and had not been chanting "John Terry is a racist and that's the way we like it, ooh ooh ooh".
Adam Clemens, representing the Met Police, said: "At the end of the ooh ooh ooh your mouth was moving and it closes at the end."
Mr Munday told the court: "There was movement - I was breathing. I have to breathe."
Both Mr Munday and Mr Barklie were in a group of about 150 Chelsea fans walking through Paris on their way to the match.
Video footage appeared to show Mr Munday "fronting up" to a black man and shoving him twice, but Mr Munday claimed he had been stalked by the man and felt threatened.
A fifth man, Dean Callis, 32, of Liverpool Road in Islington, north London, earlier received a five year banning order for his role in Paris and other incidents involving violence.
The case continues.
Huw and Jaqualine Grove, Daniel Benton, Terry Dixon, and Lisa and Wayne Hill are said to have cheated Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and NHS England out of £3m.
Prosecutors say the group conned the NHS after being given work by NHS employee Neil Wood, 41, from Leeds.
All six, who are on trial at Leeds Crown Court, deny any wrongdoing.
The jury heard that while Mr Wood, who is not involved in the trial, worked for the Leeds and York NHS Trust before moving to NHS England he outsourced work to Huw and Jaqualine Grove's company, The Learning Grove.
Prosecutor Craig Hassall said The Learning Grove would then negotiate discounts with companies before submitting inflated invoices to the NHS.
He said almost half of all the money paid to The Learning Grove was transferred to another company, whose sole director was Mr Wood's wife Lisa.
The court was told Mr Wood paid Mr Dixon, 46, an £18,000 "administration fee" for work that was not carried out.
Mr Wood is also said to have offered Mr Benton £200 to provide an invoice charging the NHS £20,000 for work that had not been carried out and then transfer the money to Mr Wood.
However, the court heard Mr Benton declined the offer.
Mr Hassall said that Lisa Hill, an actress, agreed to appear in training videos by The Learning Grove for the NHS and was paid a lump sum of about £40,000 for six DVDs.
When the Hills heard that the Woods had been arrested, they sought advice from their accountant who advised leaving the money in Lisa Hill's business account, Mr Hassall said.
But some of the money was transferred into a personal bank account and spent, the court heard.
The trial continues.
Jacob and Ursula Kokotkiewicz, of Texas, were found on Thursday by police who went to investigate a vehicle parked on the side of the road.
Police say both had been shot in the head and the man had a handgun between his legs.
Investigators are trying to determine a motive.
Mrs Kokotkiewicz, 32, who was discovered in the front passenger seat of the vehicle, was a teacher in Dallas.
She had studied education and literature at the University of Toronto, according to her Facebook page.
Mrs Kokotkiewicz and her 31-year-old husband had been visiting National Parks, according to her Instagram feed.
In a recent post from Utah, she uploaded a photo with a comment: "To me, the journey matters as much as the destination. Savor the moments and enjoy life's detours."
Tributes have been flooding in on Instagram for her.
"I can't believe Ms K is gone," read one comment.
"I should have gotten a picture, a hug or something, and I didn't because I expected to see her again."
It follows a decade-long campaign by Sikh groups to address a loophole in the law, which led to turban-wearers facing discrimination in the workplace.
Employment laws had exempted turban wearers from the requirement to wear a safety helmet on construction sites.
But the exemption did not apply to less hazardous environments, such as factories and warehouses.
The Sikh Council UK, which is the largest representative body of British Sikhs, said the 1989 Employment Act created an anomaly which allowed Sikhs to wear turbans, in place of safety helmets, in environments where there was a high risk of head injuries, but the exemption did not extend to relatively safer environments.
The Council said the rules led to a number of cases where Sikhs faced disciplinary hearings and were dismissed from longstanding employment for their refusal to remove their turban and wear a safety helmet.
An amendment to extend the exemption in the Employment Act was introduced to the Deregulation Bill last year, following lobbying by Sikh groups.
Secretary General of Sikh Council UK, Gurmel Singh said, "We are pleased that our long campaign has enabled a vital change in the law.
"It will make a real difference to Sikhs in the UK by increasing the number of workplaces that members of the community can work in whilst maintaining their religiously mandated identity."
There will still be limited exceptions where safety helmets will be required, such as for specific roles in the armed forces and emergency response situations.
Fans of Adams have commemorated his life and work by carrying towels with them every year.
Why a towel? Towels featured in chapter three of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
In the book, there's an electronic travel guide which offers a piece of advice for would-be hitchhikers. It says that a towel is the "most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have", providing warmth and warding off the galaxy's "noxious fumes".
The commemorative day was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams' death.
The hashtag #TowelDay is trending on Twitter with fans from around the world tweeting references from Adams' book and showing off their towels.
The actor Stephen Mangan has led the online tributes by tweeting a Hitchhiker's quote.
Even astronaut Tim Peake has joined in the fun.
Dr Adam Rutherford, the host of BBC Radio 4's Inside Science, is another fan of Adams' books.
Someone at Manchester City Football Club is a fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Rafinha gave Barca the lead when Luis Suarez - who had an effort ruled out - took a shot which ricocheted off two defenders to land at his feet.
Diego Godin levelled when he headed home Koke's free-kick.
But Messi pounced in the 86th minute to win the game for the champions after his initial effort was blocked by defender Stefan Savic.
Real Madrid went back to the top of the table by one point later in the day when they came back from 2-0 down to beat Villarreal 3-2. They still have a game in hand on Barca.
Atleti, the 2014 champions, are now 10 points off leaders Real.
Barca were far from their best again, but they have now followed their 4-0 Champions League humbling by Paris St-Germain with two 2-1 victories in La Liga - with Messi scoring a late winner in each of them.
Atletico dominated the first half, with Barca goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen making a multitude of saves. The visitors improved after the break but looked destined to be held until Messi's late intervention.
The Argentine, who had earlier forced a brilliant Jan Oblak save from a free-kick, pounced late on again from close range. Luis Suarez played the ball back to Messi, whose first shot was blocked by Savic. But he remained alert to poke home the rebound and send Barca top for four hours.
That was Messi's 20th La Liga goal in 21 games this season - and his 21st against Atletico in the league in as many attempts.
Atletico had looked well out of the title race at the end of 2016 but a run of eight La Liga games without a defeat, including six wins, had given them an outside chance of mounting a late challenge.
But nine points off Barca and 10 off Real, who have played one game fewer, is surely too big a bridge at this stage of the season, even for the brilliant coach Diego Simeone.
They will come to rue a series of missed efforts - with Godin driving over, and Gabi and Antoine Griezmann forcing saves from Ter Stegen in the first half, and the German again denying Griezmann after the break.
Godin's goal, his first against Barca since the effort which won the 2013-14 La Liga title, had looked enough for a point before Messi's late winner.
Now the real question is whether Atletico can hold onto the final Champions League qualifying spot, with fifth-placed Real Sociedad sitting only one point behind them.
Match ends, Atlético de Madrid 1, Barcelona 2.
Second Half ends, Atlético de Madrid 1, Barcelona 2.
Hand ball by Luis Suárez (Barcelona).
Offside, Atlético de Madrid. Sime Vrsaljko tries a through ball, but Ángel Correa is caught offside.
Goal! Atlético de Madrid 1, Barcelona 2. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.
Attempt blocked. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luis Suárez.
Rafinha (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gabi (Atlético de Madrid).
Substitution, Barcelona. André Gomes replaces Sergi Roberto.
Lucas Digne (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Gabi (Atlético de Madrid).
Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fernando Torres (Atlético de Madrid).
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Neymar (Barcelona).
Sime Vrsaljko (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid).
Attempt blocked. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sime Vrsaljko (Atlético de Madrid).
Substitution, Barcelona. Lucas Digne replaces Jeremy Mathieu because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jeremy Mathieu (Barcelona) because of an injury.
Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jeremy Mathieu (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid).
Gabi (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gabi (Atlético de Madrid).
Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fernando Torres (Atlético de Madrid).
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Ángel Correa replaces Kevin Gameiro.
Rafinha (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gabi (Atlético de Madrid).
Substitution, Barcelona. Ivan Rakitic replaces Andrés Iniesta.
Goal! Atlético de Madrid 1, Barcelona 1. Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) header from the left side of the six yard box to the top right corner. Assisted by Koke with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Sergio Busquets (Barcelona).
Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing.
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Plain clothes police officers targeted three inbound flights from countries where the practice is common.
The Met claimed the operation was educational and not stereotyping.
More than 2,000 suspected FGM victims received medical attention between April and June, but there has never been a conviction in the UK.
Det Ch Supt Ivan Balhatchet said: "This isn't about labelling, this isn't about stereotyping.
"Our focus is on targeting those communities where offences of FGM are prevalent, by engaging with passengers travelling to and from countries where the offence is practised.
"We hope to educate and prevent anyone who may engage in FGM; as well as highlighting the support available to those who may be at risk."
There has only ever been one, unsuccessful, prosecution for the practice in the UK, and three more cases are being reviewed by lawyers.
Mr Balhatchet said prosecutions were "far from being the main part of the strategy" to tackle FGM.
Chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, Javed Khan, said the health figures were "the tip of the iceberg".
"There are likely to be many more women and girls who are living with the harmful physical and emotional consequences of this outdated practice here in England," he said.
"A lack of knowledge and confidence among professionals has stalled successful prosecutions for too long."
So far 13 prevention orders have been made to stop girls being taken abroad to undergo FGM.
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Dale Bolinger, 58, bought an axe the day before he was due to meet a girl he chatted with online.
He was found guilty in July of attempting to meet a girl under the age of 16 following sexual grooming.
During online conversations, Bolinger described sex acts he wanted to perform on her and how he would kill her.
Canterbury Crown Court heard he had online chats with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old Mexican girl called "Eva", who at other times claimed to be 16, with the name Nada.
He arranged to meet her at Ashford International railway station on 18 September 2012 but she did not turn up.
He told police he was interested in children as food and that he had a computer disc containing an image of a girl on a serving plate with an apple in her mouth.
Bolinger, formerly of Davidson Road, Canterbury, confessed to having cannibalistic thoughts from the age of six but claimed his interest was all "in fantasy".
At his trial, Judge Adele Williams described his behaviour as "abhorrent, shocking and dangerous".
The former nurse at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate admitted 10 other charges, including administering a poison or noxious substance after he put a cloth soaked in cleaning fluid over a female friend's mouth in July 2010.
He also pleaded guilty to making indecent pseudo photographs of children and seven counts of publishing an obscene article.
Psychiatrists determined that Bolinger was not suffering from any form of mental illness.
The American national, who was married for 34 years and had three children, was also made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order to stop him using the internet without permission.
Kent Police worked closely with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in America to reveal his true identity.
After sentencing, Det Supt Tim Smith said Bolinger used a number of names to hide his identity on fetish chatrooms. His pseudonyms included "Meatmarketman".
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Richard McMurray has been a long distance driver with Britannia Appleyard Removals, based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, for nine years, and travelled back to the UK via ferry from Calais on Wednesday night.
"Whenever I stop, I make sure all my doors are locked, and before I set off I check under the wagon.
"We travel in pairs - one will fuel up and the other will stand outside the wagon," he said.
"The migrants are blatant in what they do, and will literally stand by the road waiting for an opportunity.
"At least four or five them. Checking for unlocked doors. They don't mess about, they just pounce straight away."
Mr McMurray recalled how he had been waiting in the so-called secure compound at Calais when he saw four people get into the back of an unattended lorry, while another shut the door on them.
"I waited for the driver to come back to tell him. He made sure they got out of the lorry and then checked it over."
If found with an illegal passenger on entering the UK, a driver and his employer can each be fined up to £2,000 per migrant and have their operating licence revoked.
"Fines could ruin people's lives," Mr McMurray said.
He told of another driver who found a migrant had climbed behind the windbreaker on top of his lorry.
"Unfortunately, he was heading into France and when the man began knocking he carried on driving for a couple of hours to teach him a lesson.
"I feel sorry for them in a way... they're obviously running from something."
Mr McMurray said there was a noticeable increase in French police along the main approach to the port compared to the last time he was there, and as a result fewer migrants.
"But the police just pull them out of the wagons, frogmarch them back to the gates, and they are left to try again," he said.
According to Home Office figures, more than 19,000 "clandestine entrants" were caught trying to enter the UK in vehicles or trains in 2013-14, compared to 11,731 in 2012-13.
Mark Horner, who works for Brian Yeardley Continental, based in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, said the number of migrants in Calais was quite intimidating.
"As soon as you stop they're on to the truck."
His final stop before reaching Calais is always three hours away from the port where it is "relatively safe", but he fears the migrants are moving further out from the town in their quest to hide onboard a vehicle.
He also avoids the notorious road nicknamed "diesel alley" - where there are several refuelling stations, and hundreds of migrants.
"Bricks and bottles are thrown at the trucks to make them stop. It's too risky," he said.
"More protection is needed - it's only a matter of time before a driver gets killed or seriously injured."
Mr Horner said migrants often jumped out in front of his lorry, but he just had to carry on driving, weaving in and out of them on the road.
"You're literally by yourself... the police presence is nothing you'd want.
"It's a game of chase for the immigrants, who run in opposite directions.
"Police move them on an hour down the road and they just walk back."
Last week the UK government pledged £12m to help France tackle the problems, with the two countries promising to work more closely.
Mr Horner said he would like to see armed police or the Army guarding the port - either French or British, although he felt that ultimately it was "a UK problem".
"We give benefits out... we offer them everything - they all want to come to the UK."
Matt Cherry has been driving through Calais at least three times a month for the last eight years with the haulage firm EM Rogers, based in Northampton.
Over the years he has seen the problem with migrants escalate.
The French government believes there are 1,500 illegal immigrants in the port town, the numbers having increased by 50% in the past year as people flee from humanitarian crises in northern and eastern Africa and the Middle East.
Mr Cherry said they were now "far more determined and ruthless".
"They're running about, trying to open the trailer, laying down in the road," he said.
"They're desperate people, they'll try anything.
"You're potentially away from home for two or three weeks - it's the last thing you need when you just want to get the boat back to the UK.
"You're just trying to do your job."
Mr Cherry said the migrants had "come from nothing, had got nothing, and had nothing to lose".
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In total, 250,000 people are expected to fly in the six-week summer holiday period - 25% up on last year.
The figure has been helped by Wales' Euro 2016 football team and fans using the airport for the tournament in France.
Over the last 12 months (July 2015 to July 2016), 1,326,923 used the airport.
He made his top-flight debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday evening against the Chicago Cubs.
Ngoepe, 27, grew up in Randburg, near Johannesburg, where his mother worked at the local baseball club.
He signed for Pittsburgh in 2008 but has been playing in the lower leagues since then, until he was recalled on Wednesday.
"You could totally see the emotion on his face, it was really a wonderful moment to be part of," MLB.com's Adam Berry told the BBC's Newsday programme.
"It's a dream come true for me because it's been my dream since I was a 10-year-old boy, but it also means so much to the people of South Africa and baseball in Africa," Ngoepe said before the game, the New York Times reports.
This is his ninth year playing baseball in the US and he started at the lowest level, in a rookie league, before making his way up to the MLB.
Talking after the game Ngoepe, said that he almost burst into tears when he took to the field.
"I was holding it back. I was like, 'You know what, you're in the big leagues. You've got to be a big guy.'… We live for this kind of moment," MLB.com quotes him as saying.
Ngoepe started playing seriously at the age of 12 and had access to the game because his mother worked at the Randburg Mets baseball club.
"The clubhouse was my house and the field was my backyard," he told South African news channel EWN.
His younger brother, Victor, has also been signed to the Pirates and is touted as the next African to get into the MLB.
Ngoepe got to first base after appearing as a batter for the first time in the game's fourth inning. He also batted in the sixth and eighth innings.
The Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs 6-5.
The 20-year-old France Under-21 international was involved in a domestic dispute, according to Spanish police.
He is due to appear in front of a judge in Madrid later on Friday.
Hernandez last played for Atletico in a 2-2 draw at Eibar in La Liga on 25 January.
The South African cardinal told the BBC that people who were themselves abused as children and then abused others needed to be examined by doctors.
He was one of 115 cardinals who took part in the conclave at the Vatican to elect Pope Francis earlier this week.
The Church has recently been dogged by scandals over clerical sex abuse.
In an interview with the Stephen Nolan programme on BBC Radio 5 live, Cardinal Napier referred to paedophilia as "a psychological condition, a disorder".
"What do you do with disorders? You've got to try and put them right.
"If I - as a normal being - choose to break the law, knowing that I'm breaking the law, then I think I need to be punished."
He said he knew at least two priests, who became paedophiles after themselves being abused as children.
"Now don't tell me that those people are criminally responsible like somebody who chooses to do something like that. I don't think you can really take the position and say that person deserves to be punished. He was himself damaged."
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier's comments triggered immediate criticism.
Barbara Dorries, who as a child was abused by a priest, works for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which is based in Chicago. She told the BBC: "If it is a disease that's fine, but it's also a crime and crimes are punished, criminals are held accountable for what they did and what they do.
"The bishops and the cardinals have gone to great lengths to cover these crimes to enable the predators to move on, to not be arrested, to keep the secrets within the church."
Michael Walsh, who has written a biography of late Pope John Paul II, said Cardinal Napier's remarks were similar to the position once taken by the Catholic Church in the UK and the US.
"They did actually at one time believe it was a condition that could be dealt with. Many bishops were simply moving priests and trying to disguise the fact that they'd been committing these crimes," Mr Walsh told the BBC.
Marie Collins, who is a victim of abuse, told the BBC: "I think it is appalling that we have a cardinal, a man at this level in the church that can still hold these views. He is totally ignoring the child."
Update 21 March: In a statement on Sunday 17 March, Cardinal Napier apologised to victims of child abuse offended by his BBC interview. He told the BBC that he fully upheld the Church's position that the sexual abuse of children was a crime that should be dealt with "according to the requirements of civil criminal law and canon law".
The cryptic card was sent to the Williams couple, whose former home in Bradninch, Devon, is being excavated by police searching for a baby's body.
It was written to the "West Williams Menagerie" in 1990 and suggests the Wests were on a canal holiday.
David and Pauline Williams lived near the Wests in Gloucester in the 1990s.
David Williams was jailed for life in 2015 and his wife Pauline for 12 years for putting 10 girls and boys through rape, sexual assault and beatings.
Devon and Cornwall Police officers are excavating at a bungalow they lived in for about two years before they were sentenced.
The postcard, made public by the Crime Through Time Collection at former Littledean Jail in Gloucestershire, was written by Rose West.
It includes the line: "Colin says the 'birds' are very friendly here. Loads of wildlife", and is signed "Mum & Dad".
Andy Jones, from the museum, said: "It shows in coded form and innuendo that the Wests ran a child sex ring and the Williams were part of it.
"They talk about the Williams menagerie - a menagerie means animals."
He said there was also a "strong reference" to an orgy.
He believes the Wests had left their children with the Williams couple, as the postcard refers to daughter Mae.
"It's compelling evidence of a strong connection between the two families," he said.
David Williams, who ran a pub in Gloucester where Fred West drank, boasted in court last year of his connections with the Wests.
David and Pauline Williams, who are both in their 50s, started abusing children in the late 1980s. One victim was seven years old.
They also ran the Victoria Inn in Exeter after moving to the city in the 1990s, where they went on to abuse a string of teenagers.
Fred West was awaiting trial on 12 murder charges when he hanged himself in prison in January 1995.
Rose West was convicted of 10 murders in November 1995 and is serving life.
The charges related to the deaths of young women over a 20-year period.
Emergency teams called to a block of flats in Charles Road in the early hours said the man had apparently fallen from a flat above.
Officers who were called to the scene at about 04:45 GMT said the man had gone through a utility room ceiling.
"Despite efforts to resuscitate him, he was pronounced dead at the scene," a spokesman for Sussex Police said.
Ministers had given universities £2.1m a year for the Financial Contingency Fund (FCF) but now say higher tuition fee income means institutions can afford to fund the scheme themselves.
The National Union of Students (NUS) said the funding was "vital".
However, £7m is still available and some universities are understood to be launching their own schemes.
The average pay-out to students who are successful in applying is about £400.
The National Union of Students (NUS) said the funding was "vital" to allow many students to stay in education.
NUS Wales President Beth Button said: "I am truly shocked that our government in Wales has taken a page out of the Westminster playbook and decided to scrap hardship funds for higher education.
"The decision to announce this just weeks before the start of the academic term will not only leave many students who rely on this funding deeply concerned about their finances but universities with no time to find alternative ways to fill this black hole."
Tim Nagle, a married student nurse from Rhondda with one child and another soon to be born, said he cried when he heard about the funding cut.
In a letter to Education Minister Huw Lewis, Mr Nagle, who studies in Cardiff, said: "When I applied to the fund this year I was, of course, aware that it is discretionary funding but did not anticipate it being scrapped without consultation.
"When I saw on social media that it had been scrapped I actually shed a tear as I instantly worried how I would be able to cope for the rest of my training without access to the fund if required."
A Welsh government spokesman said the continued squeeze on budgets imposed by the UK government meant ministers had to make difficult funding decisions, but said financial help would still be available in the further education sector.
The spokesman said higher education institutions' income would have risen by nearly £200m by 2016, through higher tuition fees paid by home students and the recruitment of more international students.
Ministers believe higher education institutions "are now able to use their own discretionary funds to aid their own students who face financial hardship", the spokesman added.
The figure was contained in a report issued by the company entitled How Google Fights Piracy.
But the BPI, which represents the UK's recorded music industry, dismissed the document as "greenwash".
It says the firm remains "one of the key enablers of piracy on the planet" and had the expertise to do better.
The term greenwashing is typically used to attack disinformation used by organisations to make out they are more eco-friendly than they actually are. The BPI said it felt the term best captured the situation.
Content ID was launched in 2014.
It is designed to detect copyright-infringing material and allow the rights holders the choice of whether to block it or make money from ads attached to the clips.
Google says it has invested more than $60m in the technology.
"The music industry, for example, chooses to monetise over 95% of sound recording claims," the report states.
"Our continued investments in Content ID have resulted in ongoing improvements to its function - from its inception as an audio-only detection system, it has grown to detect video and can now even detect melodies, helping further stymie bad actors' efforts to fool the system."
Google said that more than 50 million reference files were now contained in Content ID's database.
It added that the system accounted for the majority of the payments it had made to the music industry.
The BPI is not the only organisation to have taken issue with the report.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) described Content ID as being "ineffective".
"Record companies and publishers estimate that Content ID fails to identify 20-40% of their recordings."
It also suggested a recent change to Google Search's algorithm had failed to reduce piracy.
"Google's search engine continues to direct internet users to unlicensed music on a large scale," it said.
The row comes at a time when music labels are renegotiating their deals with Google.
Two billion dollars. It's the sort of figure Dr Evil might come up with… but it's not enough for the music industry.
It says that YouTube's business is built on music, but it isn't paying a fair price. The BPI's latest figures suggest that British labels made just £24.4m from video streaming last year, compared to the £146m generated by audio streaming sites like Spotify, Apple Music and, ironically, Google's own Google Play service.
YouTube, meanwhile, claims its users are not natural music consumers - so any money it generates is essentially a bonus. What's more, when fans upload music unofficially, it gives artists and labels the chance to turn those videos into a new revenue stream.
The rhetoric is ramping up as the labels negotiate new contracts with Google this summer.
But who holds the upper hand: The people that create the music, or the ones who broadcast it to billions of fans? We'll have to wait and see.
Some artists - including Taylor Swift, U2 and Sir Paul McCartney - have suggested US copyright law should be amended to make it easier for them to sue YouTube and other sites that host their material.
At present, services are protected if the offending clips were uploaded by members of the public.
"Protecting and fostering creativity online is a priority for Google," blogged Google's senior policy counsel Katherine Oyama.
"We remain committed to investing in efforts to address copyright infringement online, collaborating with rights holders and protecting the interests of our users."
The A$365m ($276.8m, £222.8m) offer would see Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting hold 67%, with the rest held by Chinese firm Shanghai CRED.
The bid hopes to overcome government concerns about foreign investment.
Previous Chinese-led bids were blocked by the government, which cited national security concerns.
Treasurer Scott Morrison said the sale of Kidman's vast holdings to Chinese buyers was not in the national interest.
The landholding - with its 10 cattle ranches, a bull breeding stud and a feed lot covering 101,411 square kilometres (39,155 square miles) in four states - encompasses about 1.3% of the Australian continent, about the same size as South Korea.
But it also contains the world's largest cattle station, Anna Creek. Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board said it was concerned part of that property was inside a military weapons testing range in South Australia.
Kidman has since taken Anna Creek farm out of the sale.
The new offer, led by Ms Rinehart, will also need regulatory approval.
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce said he welcomed the interest by the Australia-led consortium.
"I'm always enthusiastic when ... a majority Australian company is buying Australian land," he old Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Most Australians prefer it if a large Australian asset is majority owned by Australians as opposed to majority owned by foreigners."
101,411
sq/km of overall territory
77,300 sq/km to be sold
1% of Australia to change hands
15,000 tonnes of beef carcass shipped globally per year
Kidman was founded in 1899 and with Anna Creek accounts for about 2.5% of the country's agricultural land. It is currently 33.9% foreign-owned.
The company's chairman John Crosby welcomed the "significant investment proposed in addition to the purchase price and (we) are confident that the Kidman business will be in good hands".
The destroyer collided with a Philippines container ship in Japanese waters in June.
The deputy chief of naval operations, Admiral Bill Moran, said the commanding officer and two other senior crew would no longer serve aboard the ship.
He said the Navy had lost trust and confidence in their ability to lead.
The Filipino-flagged ACX Crystal collided with the USS Fitzgerald in the early hours of 17 June in Tokyo Bay, causing a large gash below the water line of the destroyer and flooding lower decks.
"The collision was avoidable," the US 7th Fleet said in a statement, adding that "both ships demonstrated poor seamanship".
The dead sailors, aged 19 to 37, were later found in their bunks, after divers gained access to damaged areas of the ship.
The commanding officer was trapped in his cabin by the force of the collision and five sailors had to use a sledgehammer to break down the door.
"Even after the door was open, there was a large amount of debris and furniture against the door, preventing anyone from entering or exiting easily," a report into the incident said.
The ACX Crystal sustained lighter damage to its port bow.
There were no injuries among the 20 Filipino crew members on board the container ship.
USS Fitzgerald crash: In pictures
Investigations into the cause of the crash continue.
According to maritime rules, vessels are supposed to give way to ships on their starboard side which is where the destroyer sustained damage, sparking questions over whether the US ship could have been at fault.
Striker Kane, 22, has made one start and three appearances as a substitute for Saints this season and recently signed a new two-year deal.
He scored six goals for the Perth club last term.
Central defender Kerr, 20, yet to debut for St Johnstone, spent two campaigns on loan at East Fife under Queens boss Gary Naysmith.
"He's a decent height and having played further up the park earlier in his career, he is comfortable on the ball," said Naysmith of Kerr.
"He's scored a few goals for East Fife from the back so he is a threat at set plays."
Kane has experience of the Championship, having spent time at Dumbarton on loan in 2013-14 and 2014-15 and scoring 15 goals in 30 games.
"He's a proven goal-scorer in both the Premiership and Championship," Naysmith told the club website. "He is our type of player, a young lad who wants to develop.
"Chris has become a bit frustrated at not playing every week, so to develop his career he wants to come to try to get a regular game.
"We have two experienced strikers in Derek Lyle and Stephen Dobbie that he can learn from."
Mark Chung, who officers have advised the public not to approach, was reported missing from Castle Huntly at 10:00 on 3 October.
Police described him as being of Asian appearance and speaking with a Merseyside accent.
They said he was known to have connections in both Glasgow and Merseyside.
Chung is described as being 5ft 9in tall, of stocky build and has a shaved head.
When last seen he was wearing glasses, a grey sweatshirt, grey jogging bottoms and black and grey trainers.
Low cognitive test scores for skills like language indicate less developed brains, possibly caused by too little stimulation in early life, they say.
These youngsters are more likely to become criminals, dependent on welfare or chronically ill unless they are given support later on, they add.
Their study in New Zealand appears in the journal, Nature Human Behaviour.
The US researchers from Duke University say the findings highlight the importance of early life experiences and interventions to support vulnerable youngsters.
Although the study followed people in New Zealand, the investigators believe that the results could apply to other countries.
They followed the lives of more than 1,000 children. Those who had low test scores for language, behavioural, movement and cognitive skills at three years old went on to account for more than 80% of crimes, required 78% of prescriptions and received 66% of social welfare payments in adulthood.
It is known that disadvantaged people use a greater share of services. While many of the children in the study who were behind in brain development came from disadvantaged backgrounds, poverty was not the only link with poor futures.
When the researchers took out children below the poverty line in a separate analysis they found that a similar proportion of middle class children who scored low in tests when they were three also went on to experience difficulties when they were older.
The researchers stress that children's outcomes are not set at the age of three. The course of their lives could potentially be changed if they receive support later in life, for example through rehabilitation programmes when they are adults.
Prof Terrie Moffitt, from Duke University in North Carolina in the US, who co-led the study, told BBC News: "The earlier children receive support the better.
"That is because if a child is sent off on the wrong foot at three and not ready for school they fall further and further behind in a snowball effect that makes them unprepared for adult life".
Prof Moffitt said nearly all the children who had low scores in cognitive assessments early on in life went on to fall through "society's cracks".
"We are able to predict who these high cost service users will be from very early in life.
"Our research suggests that these were people who, as very young children, never got the chance that the rest of us got. They did not have the help they needed to build the skills they need to keep up in this very complicated and fast-paced economy".
She said society should rethink their view of these people who are often condemned as "losers" and "dropouts" and instead offer more support.
Prof Moffitt conducted the study with her husband, Prof Avshalom Caspi, from King's College London. He said he hoped that the study would persuade governments to invest in those in most need early on in life.
"I hope what our study does is not feed into prejudice," he told BBC News. "I hope that our research will create the public compassion and political will to intervene with children and more importantly offer services to families of children so they can get a better start in life".
Successive governments have invested in expanding nursery education in the UK over the past 20 years. According to Josh Hillman, who is the director of education for the Nuffield Foundation, policy makers already realise the value of early years education.
"But this new research suggests that they may have underestimated its importance," he said.
"The issue now in the UK is to provide more high quality nursery provision and to consider targeting it to those disadvantaged groups that would benefit the most."
Participants were members of the Dunedin longitudinal study, an investigation of the health and behaviour of a representative group of the population of 1,037 people born between April 1972 and March 1973 in Dunedin, New Zealand.
As adults these people account for only 20% of the population - but they use 80% of public services in an analysis of a group of people in New Zealand whose lives were tracked for 40 years.
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The victim was the only person on board the plane, which came down at Turweston Aerodrome, Buckinghamshire, on Thursday.
A Thames Valley Police spokesman said the force was called at about 11:30 BST.
He added: "Sadly, the pilot of the aircraft was pronounced dead at the scene. The death is not believed to be suspicious."
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch dispatched a team to the crash site.
William Matchett, a former RUC Special Branch officer, has also advised on policing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He has written a book about Special Branch during the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Mr Matchett said the type of terrorism the UK now faces differs in some key ways to that faced in the Troubles.
"When you look at this new threat and the way it's manifested in England, particularly looking at vehicles, looking at cars and knives to kill people - it's very quick, it's very dynamic and it happens within seconds," Mr Matchett said.
"It's a totally different ball game to what I grew up with in Northern Ireland, where the terrorist essentially attacked someone. It was very short, it was sharp and then they looked to get away.
"In England, in the last three series of attacks, that's not been the case - they actually hang about and try to kill as many people as possible.
"So the quicker that it's stopped the better and, in that respect, it's very hard now to stand up against every police officer carrying a sidearm and that's through from your neighbourhood beat, your community officers, to plain clothes officers - that everyone on and off duty has a sidearm."
Seven people were killed and 48 injured Saturday night's terror attack in London.
Three attackers were shot by police from an armed response unit minutes after driving into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing people in Borough Market.
An off-duty policeman - an amateur rugby player - was stabbed after tackling one of the three attackers. He remains critically ill.
A British Transport Police officer, who faced the attackers armed only with his baton, was seriously injured but is now in a stable condition.
All police officers in Northern Ireland are armed on duty and have personal protection weapons off-duty, however, Cressida Dick, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said she does not believe this should be the case in the rest of the UK.
"I personally do not support the routine arming of every single police officer on the streets," she told BBC Five Live on Monday.
"What these terrorists want to do is completely change the nature of our society.
"I think the public and my officers do not feel comfortable with the idea of every single officer being armed.
"Secondly, I actually don't think it necessarily provides, in fact it doesn't provide, a higher form of protection for the public or indeed the officers, necessarily, and we've seen that, for example, sadly, tragically in France - a lone officer, armed.
"In other countries where you have someone armed with a sidearm who is going about his normal business as a community officer - they are also very, very vulnerable.
"So to have people who can deal with this kind of very complex terrifying threat strikes me as the right way to go."
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Researchers reporting in Nature Photonics suggest putting not one beam of light down a fibre, but a pair, each a kind of mirror image of the other.
When recombined on the receiving end, the noise that the signals gather in the fibre cancels out.
These paired beams can travel four times farther than a single one.
The team used the technique to send a signal of 400Gb/s - four times faster than the best commercially available speeds - down 12,800km of optical fibre, farther than even the longest trans-oceanic fibre link.
What limits the distance a given light signal can go is how much power is in the beam. But the higher the power, the more the light actually interacts with the material of the fibre, rather than merely passing through it.
That adds "noise" to the beam that limits the fidelity with which data can be transmitted.
What is needed is a way to undo this noise, and one idea is known as phase conjugation.
Light waves, just as sound waves and waves on the sea, consist of a pattern of peaks and troughs that can be manipulated to represent data. The "phase conjugate" of a beam is, in a sense, simply one in which every peak becomes a trough and vice versa.
This is effectively the same thing that noise-cancelling headphones do: generating the inverse of incoming sound so that the two cancel out.
Ideas exist to make use of phase conjugation to "undo" the noise that fibre links add, but they involve adding devices midway along the links' length - sometimes, in the middle of an ocean floor.
"Sometimes you may send data from London to New York, sometimes you may send it from London to Paris. The links are changing and you cannot keep sending people to the middle of the link," said lead author on the new research Xiang Liu of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, US.
What Dr Liu and colleagues instead suggest is creating a pair of phase-conjugate beams, each carrying the same data.
And as Dr Liu explained to BBC News, the noise that each gathers is equally a mirror image of that on the other.
"At the receiver, if you superimpose the two waves, then all the distortions will magically cancel each other out, so you obtain the original signal back," he said.
"This concept, looking back, is quite easy to understand, but surprisingly, nobody did this before."
If the noise on the beams can be undone, the power can be ramped up - making data go literally further.
But since fidelity can be maintained, there can be less of the repetition of information in a given beam that is used for error correction. So the phase conjugation method is also a way to get higher data speeds.
"Nowadays everybody is consuming more and more bandwidth - demanding more and more communication," Dr Liu said.
"We need to solve some of the fundamental problems to sustain the capacity growth."
That is a reflection of David Cameron's long-held belief that ministers need time to master their briefs so moving them merely strengthens the hands of those inside and outside departments who are resisting their agenda.
It would be a mistake, however, to see only the continuity and not the change.
The prime minister wants his new majority government to prove that the Tory election slogan - the real party of working people - is just that.
Hence Tory HQ's desire to highlight the appointment as business secretary, Sajid Javid, whose father was a bus driver and a new party vice chairman, Robert Halfon, who's argued for what he calls blue collar conservatism.
That, though, is not the change that really matters.
It is the fact that there are no Liberal Democrats in this cabinet, there is no deputy prime minister, there is no "Quad" - in which David Cameron and George Osborne were forced to negotiate with Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander before any important policy could be announced.
This is a Tory cabinet unbound. The question that remains unanswered is how much that will change what they want and feel able to do.
The 25-year-old Scotland lock is currently recovering from a broken arm sustained in his only club appearance this term.
"The last couple of years have been a frustration for me but I'm looking forward to being fully fit for pre-season," said Gilchrist.
"I'm really hungry to play for Edinburgh again and looking forward to giving my all."
Gilchrist fractured an arm bone playing for Edinburgh in October 2014, just days after being named Scotland captain for the autumn Test series.
He recovered in time to feature at last year's World Cup but picked up a groin injury in his second game of the tournament.
Returning for Edinburgh for the first time in 16 months in February, Gilchrist suffered his second broken arm as a second-half replacement in a Pro12 loss to Ospreys.
"I'm delighted to be staying and really excited about next season," he added.
"This is the club I have grown up with. I came through the academy here and I've now been part of the first team for over five years.
"I care a lot about the club and I really believe we've got the players and the culture at the club to have prolonged success."
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As president, Ben Ali was credited with delivering stability and a measure of economic prosperity, but he received widespread criticism for suppressing political freedoms.
Six months after he was ousted, he and his wife were found guilty in absentia by a Tunisian court for embezzlement and misuse of public funds, and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Ben Ali was born to a modest family near the city of Sousse in 1936.
After completing his education in France and the US, he rose up the hierarchy in the Tunisian security establishment, and served as ambassador to Poland in the early 1980s.
He became prime minister in 1987, shortly before ousting Tunisia's first post-independence ruler, Habib Bourguiba, in a bloodless palace coup. President Bourguiba was declared mentally unfit to rule.
Ben Ali promised a gradual transition towards democracy, though in his first two presidential polls - in 1989 and 1994 - he was elected unopposed.
When multi-party presidential elections were introduced in 1999 they were still one-sided affairs, with Ben Ali winning huge majorities.
The constitution was changed twice so he could continue to serve.
He won his final five-year term in 2009, with his share of the vote dropping just below 90%.
Under Ben Ali's rule, Tunisia saw steady economic growth.
It was praised for a progressive stance on women's rights and for economic reforms. Tunisia's beaches were a top destination for European tourists.
But unemployment among a swelling population of young people remained high, and large sections of the Tunisian interior remained poor.
In the style of many Arab rulers, Ben Ali's face became a constant presence in Tunisia, with giant posters of the president visible in public spaces across the country.
Political protest was not tolerated and human rights groups accused Ben Ali's regime of unfairly arresting and mistreating political dissidents.
Under the surface, there was resentment against the perceived corruption surrounding the ruling elite, some of which was detailed in US diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks at the end of 2010.
Ben Ali was married twice with six children. His second wife, Leila Trabelsi, played a prominent role in Tunisian public life and reportedly helped amass huge economic holdings for her extended family.
With no obvious rivals to Ben Ali, there was speculation that he was looking to pass on power to one of his relatives.
In the final days of 2010, a series of protests began in the centre of the country after a young graduate set himself on fire when stopped from selling fruit and vegetables without a licence.
The protests, advertised widely through social media networks, gradually spread.
Ben Ali initially blamed the demonstrations on a fringe of "extremists". But he changed tack on 13 January, expressing deep regrets for the deaths of protesters, pledging to introduce media freedoms, and promising not to stand in 2014.
But his offer of concessions failed to quell the unrest, and the following day, after huge crowds took to the streets of Tunis and clashed with the security forces once again, he fled the country.
Sian Blake, 43, played Frankie Pierre in the show between 1996 and 1997.
She went missing from her home in Erith with Zachary, eight, and Amon, four, last month. Her silver-beige Renault Scenic was found in Bethnal Green, east London, on Sunday.
Scotland Yard's Homicide and Major Crime Command is leading the search.
Police said this was due to concerns about the family's welfare, although they said the investigation continued to be a "high-risk missing persons" inquiry.
Officers also said they were concerned for the welfare of Ms Blake's partner, Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48.
Ms Blake, who police said suffers from a "serious, life-threatening condition", was last seen on 13 December in Waltham Forest, north-east London.
Mr Simpson-Kent has not been seen since 16 December when officers spoke to him at the family home.
Police said they did not know if the family was still together.
Scotland Yard said the Homicide and Major Crime Command (HMCC) was leading the inquiry and looking into whether the family may have been victims of a crime.
Det Ch Insp Graeme Gwyn said the couple and their children had been missing "for a considerable period of time" and police were growing increasingly concerned.
In particular, he said, police did not know if Ms Blake was "receiving the medication and treatment she requires to keep well".
She was believed to have been in the London area and also has links to Cambridge as well as Colchester in Essex.
Ms Blake is about 5ft 2ins (157cm) tall, of slim build with short black hair, police said. She often wears glasses, but may use contact lenses.
Mr Simpson-Kent is a 6ft 2in (188cm) tall.
Bu'n Brif Weinidog am bron i 10 mlynedd, cyn ildio'r awenau ym mis Tachwedd 2010.
Wrth roi teyrnged iddo, dywedodd y Prif Weinidog, Carwyn Jones: "Mae Cymru, nid yn unig wedi colli gwleidydd mawr, ond mae wedi colli ffigwr tadol.
"Fe wnaeth gymaint i frwydro dros ddatganoli ac yna sicrhau fod y sefydliad yn ennill ei le yng nghalonnau pobl ein gwlad.
"Fe fydd degawd gyntaf datganoli, a'r broses o wneud penderfyniadau a dewisiadau penodol i Gymru yn cael eu cysylltu am byth gyda'i arweinyddiaeth ef."
Mae'r Blaid Lafur yng Nghymru, Plaid Cymru, y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig a'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol yng Nghymru wedi atal eu hymgyrchu etholiadol am y diwrnod fel arwydd o barch.
Er ei fod yn fwyaf adnabyddus am fod yn Brif Weinidog Cymru, bu Rhodri Morgan hefyd yn Aelod Seneddol Llafur amlwg iawn yn ystod y 1980 a'r 90au.
Yn gyn fyfyriwr o Brifysgolion Harvard a Rhydychen, bu'n was sifil cyn iddo fentro i'r byd gwleidyddol yn broffesiynol.
Yn 47, cafodd ei ethol yn AS dros etholaeth Gorllewin Caerdydd yn 1987.
Roedd yn ffigwr poblogaidd pan oedd Llafur yn wrthblaid yn San Steffan ac yn dilyn y refferendwm ar ddatganoli, fe heriodd Ysgrifennydd Cymru ar y pryd, Ron Davies, am yr hawl i arwain Llafur yn yr etholiadau.
Fe gafodd ei drechu gan y gŵr sy'n cael ei adnabod yn "bensaer datganoli Llafur", ond yn dilyn ymddeoliad cynnar Mr Davies, daeth y cyfle eto i Mr Morgan fynd am yr arweinyddiaeth.
Pan ofynnodd y cyflwynydd Jeremy Paxman ar raglen Newsnight y BBC 'nôl yn 1998, os yr oedd yn bwriadu sefyll, atebodd: "Ydy hwyaden ungoes yn nofio mewn cylchoedd?"
Cyn Weinidog y Swyddfa Gartref, Alun Michael, gafodd ei ethol yn arweinydd newydd y Blaid Lafur yng Nghymru yn dilyn ymddiswyddiad Ron Davies, ac roedd yn rhaid i Rhodri Morgan aros ei dro unwaith eto.
Roedd rhai yn honni mai pleidleisiau bloc yr Undebau a sicrhaodd fuddugoliaeth i Mr Michael ar draul y dewis poblogaidd.
Cafodd Mr Morgan ei ethol yn Aelod Cynulliad dros Orllewin Caerdydd ym mis Mai 1999 - yr unig etholaeth yng Nghymru lle cynyddodd Llafur eu pleidlais.
Dan arweiniad Alun Michael, methodd Llafur â sicrhau mwyafrif yn etholiadau'r Cynulliad ac o'r diwedd fe gafodd freuddwyd Rhodri Morgan o arwain y blaid ei gwireddu yn 2000.
Aeth ati i sefydlu delwedd fwy traddodiadol i'r Blaid Lafur yng Nghymru, drwy osod "dŵr coch clir" rhwng y Blaid yng Nghymru a Llafur Newydd.
Cafodd yr agenda hwn ei symboleiddio gan bolisi ei lywodraeth i gynnig presgripsiwn am ddim.
Roedd Rhodri Morgan hefyd yn barod i groesawu gwleidyddiaeth glymbleidiol yn y Cynulliad er lles polisïau'r Blaid Lafur.
Ffurfiodd lywodraeth gyda'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol ar ôl etholiad 2003, a Phlaid Cymru yn 2007.
Er yr oedd hi'r "gyfrinach waethaf yng Nghymru" y byddai'n gadael y brif swydd o amgylch ei ben-blwydd yn 70 oed ar 29 Medi 2009, fe gadwodd pawb yn y tywyllwch hyd y funud olaf.
Roedd llawer yn disgwyl iddo wneud y datganiad yn ei araith ddiwetha'n Brif Weinidog i gynhadledd y Blaid Lafur yn Brighton ond roedd Mr Morgan yn awyddus i wneud hyn ar dir Cymru.
Yn hytrach na hynny, cymerodd y cyfle i ailgasglu'r blaid yn ystod cyfnod a arweiniodd yn y pen draw at golled yn etholiad cyffredinol 2010.
Dywedodd - yn ei arddull nodweddiadol: "Rwy'n gwybod ein bod ni mewn cyfnod anodd ar hyn o bryd. Rydyn ni wedi colli'r rysáit o gyfuno pys slwtsh hen Lafur a gwacamole Llafur Newydd dros dro."
Serch hynny, fe gymerodd ei sesiwn ddiwethaf yn y Senedd fel Prif Weinidog ar 8 Tachwedd 2010 gan adael y ffordd i'w olynydd Carwyn Jones.
Symudodd i'r meinciau cefn a pharhau i gynrychioli pobl Gorllewin Caerdydd tan 2011.
Mae'n gadael ei wraig, Aelod Cynulliad Gogledd Caerdydd, Julie Morgan, a'u tri plentyn.
Dywedodd Arglwydd Hain, cyn Ysgrifennydd Cymru: "Mae fy nghydymdeimlad gyda Julie a'r teulu, mae hyn yn sioc fawr.
"Fel Prif Weinidog, Rhodri oedd tad datganoli ac yn ffigwr tadol i'r genedl.
"Fe wnaeth fwy nag unrhyw un i sefydlogi datganoli a sicrhau fod y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol yn cael ei dderbyn fel sefydliad.
"Roedd e'n Gymro i'r carn."
Daeth teyrnged gan Lywydd y Cynulliad, Elin Jones wrth iddi drydar: "Tristwch mawr i glywed am farwolaeth Rhodri Morgan. Prif Weinidog a roddodd ddechrau cadarn i'n Senedd.
"Dyn a garodd ei wlad a'i phobl."
Roedd yna drydar hefyd gan arweinydd y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig yn y Cynulliad Andrew RT Davies.
"Newyddion ofnadwy am Rhodri Morgan - cawr gwleidyddiaeth ddatganoledig yng Nghymru. Mae ein meddyliau gyda Julie a'r teulu ar yr amser anodd yma."
Dywedodd Leanne Wood, arweinydd Plaid Cymru fod Rhodri Morgan yn ddyn "oedd yn cael ei barchu ar draws y sbectrwm gwleidyddol ac fe wnaeth arwain Cymru gyda chlod yn ystod cyfnod hanfodol yn ein hanes".
Yr Arglwydd German oedd y dirprwy Brif Weinidog pan fu Llafur mewn clymblaid gyda'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol rhwng 2000-2003.
"Mae Cymru wedi colli gwleidydd mawr heno. Mae ganddo le enfawr o ran datganoli yng Nghymru. Roedd yn wrthwynebydd cryf ond yn gyfaill mawr."
Hylton joined Luton on a two-year deal in May 2016 after rejecting a new contract at Oxford United.
The 27-year-old is the Hatters' top scorer this season, with 14 goals in 26 games in all competitions.
"This is a big signing for us and it's like a new one really because it secures him for us long-term," manager Nathan Jones told the club website.
"We got him in the summer and he's been a revelation, not only on the pitch but off it too with the way he is around the place."
Two good rules of life in general and politics in particular are that the frontrunner usually stumbles and the number two never gets the job.
But this may be George Osborne's week, and it will be well worth watching how he makes use of what his recent hosts might call "a period of strategic opportunity".
Indeed, his trip to China gives us a glimpse, perhaps not of "Osbornism" but of how he sees the world.
It suggests a clear-headed but not very exalted vision of Britain's place in the global reordering and a strategic sense of how to deal with this, tactically bold to the point of recklessness.
Above all, it confirms that, for Mr Osborne, economics trumps everything else, be that old alliances or any notion of a universalist, ethical foreign policy.
He seemed unhindered by the sense of pride that undid diplomats of an earlier age, such as George Macartney who refused to kow-tow before the Chinese emperor.
Of course, the chancellor's head did not touch the ground at any point, but there was part of the trip that was just as important a symbol.
The chancellor surprised his hosts by asking to visit the country's most fraught region, Xinjiang.
This shows a fine understanding of Chinese sensitivities about lectures from outsiders, but left human rights campaigners aghast.
Hundreds of people have been killed in recent years, 50 in one incident this time last year.
The Chinese call this terrorism, but human rights groups suggest even peaceful dissent is dealt with very harshly.
The Uighurs are ethnically distinct from the Han Chinese, predominantly Islamic and speaking a Turkic language.
It is difficult to judge, but it seems separatist sentiment is strong - and the very thought of a part of China breaking away strikes at that nation's concept of itself.
Those who've been there recently report that many are resentful of Beijing and feel that their distinct heritage, and particularly their religion, is being disrespected.
Many seem to feel that massive development is plundering local natural resources without improving the local economy.
The Chinese government portrays this separatist sentiment as Islamic extremism and probably genuinely worries that this is a real and growing factor.
There's another thing you need to know about the region. It is on the old Silk Road - the connection between East and West.
One recent academic tome informs me a more accurate description of this ancient trade route would be "ammonium chloride shifting unmarked paths".
But it doesn't quite have the romance and the lure.
Now the region is at the heart of the new Silk Road - the Chinese government's hugely ambitious plan for a series of road and rail links connecting the world's most important economy to Central Asia and Europe.
As "one belt, one road" (it sounds better in Chinese) grows, the region will continue to rise in importance and wealth and there could be very rich pickings for investors.
For Mr Osborne to go there, and be praised by the Chinese media for "pragmatism" in not confronting China over human rights, is hugely significant.
This was hardly a meeting of equals. Mr Osborne went to China as a supplicant, come rather late to the table in the hope of a few crumbs.
The UK is not among China's top 10 trading partners (Germany is number six), but Mr Osborne wants to raise awareness of the potential on both sides. And reassure his host he wants to make money, not trouble.
The chancellor's trip to Xinjiang coincided with a much more important visit - that of President Xi Jinping to the US.
While President Barack Obama's "pivot to Asia" continues, the administration is more cautious about China than before - concerned by its maritime ambitions and allegations of cyber-attacks.
Mutual suspicion, always high, has grown recently and there is no real meeting of minds.
It is no wonder if some in the White House look askance at Mr Osborne's delight at the possibility of the Chinese running our nuclear power stations - something that is likely to be formally announced when President Xi comes to London in October.
They were already concerned that the Treasury ignored their pleas, and those of the Foreign Office, not to take part in the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.
For years the guiding principle of British foreign policy has been to stick as close as possible to the US.
I don't think George Osborne is about to overturn that completely - but he has challenged it, suggesting that he believes the UK should hitch its wagon to the still-rising economic superpower.
His trip was almost brutal in its symbolism - not good news for those who want the UK to be a beacon for human rights.
If he does succeed David Cameron, he will have a very short time before he needs to call a general election - so any signs of what sort of a prime minister he would be deserve some divination.
Concerns that the public body could be merged with Scottish Enterprise were raised by Labour MSP David Stewart earlier this week.
Ms Sturgeon made her comments during First Minister's Questions in Holyrood.
Green MSP John Finnie had earlier asked a question on the future of the development agency.
The first minister said: "I think Highlands and Islands Enterprise does a fantastic job, and has done a fantastic job over the last 50 years.
"I can give the assurance to the member that we will make sure it is in a position to carry on with those functions and provide the excellent services it does to the Highlands of Scotland."
HIE provides support and services to businesses in the Highlands, Western Isles, Northern Isles, Moray and Argyll.
Earlier this week, Mr Stewart raised his concerns that HIE was to be wound up. Inverness-based economic consultant Tony Mackay had reported the Scottish government was considering merging HIE with Scottish Enterprise.
The Scottish government announced in May that it would carry out a review of enterprise and skills support.
The review, carried out over the summer, included an "end-to-end review of the roles, responsibilities and relationships" of Scottish Enterprise, HIE, Skills Development Scotland and the Scottish Funding Council.
Its findings have yet to be released.
Ahead of the move, ministers said they wanted to ensure that the Scottish government and public agencies were "delivering the joined-up support that our young people, universities, colleges and businesses need to increase sustainable economic growth".
In November, 12,958 new VWs were registered, down from 16,196 in November 2014, SMMT figures show.
Other VW Group marques were also hit, with Seat down 24%, Skoda down 11% and Audi down 4%. Only Bentley managed an increase, with sales up from 73 vehicles to 88.
Overall 3.8% more new cars were registered than for November last year.
Among the mass-market manufacturers, Citroen saw the biggest fall, with sales down 29%, but the company pointed out this was a result of its DS brand being separated from the main Citroen marque over the course of the last year.
Combining Citroen and DS gives a fall in sales of only 3%.
Among the big gainers, Vauxhall achieved a 26% rise.
A spokesperson for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said: "Some fluctuation in monthly registration figures for individual brands is normal, with volumes subject to a number of factors including new models and large fleet deals."
In September, it emerged that some Volkswagen diesel cars had been fitted with software that could tell when emissions tests were being conducted and alter the way the engine was running to make the cars look more environmentally friendly.
Volkswagen sales in October were down 10% from the same month in 2014.
In response, Volkswagen UK said the fall might be due to a number of factors and stressed that sales in the year to the end of November were still up 5%.
The company said that the market was very sensitive to special offers and that it was hard to call it a trend after two months of falling sales.
But Jim Holder from Autocar and What Car? magazines said he believed the sales drop was a direct result of the diesel scandal.
"There's a lot of evidence they have lost the trust of the buyers and that is starting to come through," he said.
"There is no hiding it any more. They have to take it on the chin and accept that the customers have a lot of choice of very good cars.
Figures out on Wednesday showed that the number of new Volkswagen cars registered in Germany only fell 2% in November, with the brand remaining the country's best-seller.
But in the US, where the scandal began, VW sales fell 25% last month. Much of that may be attributed to the company stopping selling its diesel models there, which accounted for 21% of its US sales before the crisis.
In the UK, sales of diesel cars overall grew 3.6% in the month.
Volkswagen's Golf was the fourth best selling car in the UK last month, and in the year to date.
It came behind the Ford Fiesta, Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus.
The firm could face penalties of up to 15% of its 2014 revenue in Russia.
The case was originally launched by Russian rival Yandex in February and comes as the EU also investigates Google's Android operating system.
Google said that it was considering its next move.
"We haven't yet received the ruling. When we do, we will study it and determine our next steps," a spokeswoman told the BBC.
In Russia, Google is less dominant in search than in other European countries with rival Yandex commanding 60% of the search market.
However, the Android operating system is on more than 80% of smartphones sold in the country.
Shares in Yandex rose on the news.
Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said it would be sending its full ruling to Google in the next 10 days requesting that it "terminate abuse of dominant position".
Among the original complaints against Google were:
Yandex welcomed the ruling.
"We believe the FAS decision will serve to restore competition in the market," the company said.
In April, EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager began formal legal proceedings against Google over accusations that the firm's promotion of its own shopping links amounted to an abuse of its dominance in search.
The firm said it "strongly disagreed" with the allegations.
Ms Vestager also revealed that she had launched an investigation into whether the way Google bundled apps and services for its Android operating system was unfair.
It is the culmination of a five-year investigation into the company. It could ultimately lead to fines of billions of euros.
Francis Whittaker, 35, took the bus from outside the city's Philharmonic Hall, where Bailey performed in October as part of a tour.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the vehicle contained merchandise worth £2,400 and the comedian's personal belongings.
Whittaker was jailed for two years after pleading guilty to burglary and two charges of vehicle theft.
CCTV footage showed two men entering the theatre through a fire door, before Whittaker was seen leaving and driving off in the van, the court heard.
An Apple laptop was also taken from inside the building.
The Mercedes Sprinter bus was found three days after the theft in a Liverpool suburb with false number plates attached, the court heard.
Whittaker, of The Lynxway, West Derby, was arrested a week later.
He also admitted taking a Vauxhall van containing tools worth £12,000 from outside the Hilton Hotel in Liverpool during an earlier theft in August.
The court heard Whittaker had 42 previous convictions for 84 offences.
Charlotte Pringle, mitigating, said his offending was linked to drug and alcohol issues, which he had tried but failed to address.
The attorney general is facing moves to hold him in contempt of Congress over the issue.
Justice officials said the privilege applied to files on how they learned of problems with Fast and Furious.
The operation saw US agents lose track of hundreds of illegal guns allowed into Mexico to trace arms dealers.
A US border agent was killed with a weapon linked to the operation in December 2010.
This is the first use of executive privilege for withholding documents by Mr Obama. Former Presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton used the privilege six and 14 times respectively during their eight-year terms.
The Department of Justice says it has denied access to the files because they contain information that could affect ongoing criminal investigations.
Its officials say they have already sent more than 7,000 documents to the Republican-led House Oversight Committee.
"I write now to inform you that the president has asserted executive privilege over the relevant... documents," Deputy Attorney General James Cole wrote to the lawmakers.
Wednesday's contempt vote looms a day after a meeting between Attorney General Eric Holder and committee chairman, Representative Darrell Issa, failed to end the impasse.
Mr Holder said lawmakers had turned down his offer to give them the documents, along with a briefing on the operation, in exchange for assurances that the panel would drop contempt proceedings.
"They rejected what I thought was an extraordinary offer on our part," he told reporters on Tuesday.
But Republican Senator Charles Grassley, who is not on the committee but attended the meeting, cast doubt on Mr Holder's version.
"The attorney general wants to trade a briefing and the promise of delivering some small, unspecified set of documents tomorrow for a free pass today," he told reporters.
On Wednesday, the office of Republican House Speaker John Boehner said use of executive privilege raised questions about the White House's involvement with the gun probe.
"The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the 'Fast and Furious' operation or the cover-up that followed," Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Mr Boehner, told reporters.
The committee's top Democrat, Representative Elijah Cummings, accused Mr Issa of having "no interest" in resolving the dispute.
"You've been holding the attorney general to an impossible standard," he told CNN.
"You accused him of a cover-up for protecting documents that he is prohibited from providing."
It is not clear what will happen if Mr Holder is held in contempt of Congress.
Historically, Congress and the White House have negotiated agreements to avoid a court battle that would limit either Congress' subpoena power or executive privilege itself.
The hosts had earlier lasted 31 balls to add a further 21 to their overnight score as they were bowled out for 332 - and a first-innings lead of 90.
After making it to lunch without losing a wicket, Notts then collapsed.
Wagner took 5-45 and Anderson 3-29 as the visitors were bowled out for 175.
In their first game since winning promotion back to the top flight, that will leave Lancashire chasing 86 to win on the final day.
New Zealander Wagner took the headlines but, from an England perspective, Anderson's efforts were perhaps more important.
While strike partner Kyle Jarvis's analysis read 7-5-4-0 at lunch, Anderson conceded just nine runs from six overs and his second spell was even more impressive.
Having bowled well without luck in 16 wicketless overs in the first innings, he this time began the rot when he bowled former Lancashire team-mate Steven Mullaney with a ball that kept low, bowling unchanged for 11 successive overs after lunch from the Pavilion End.
Having gone past the outside edge on numerous occasions, he did get further reward later, trapping Riki Wessels leg before as well as getting last man Harry Gurney caught behind. But, in between, Wagner was again doing the main damage, claiming another 'fiver-fer' to follow up his first innings 6-66 for a memorable debut.
Earlier, Lancashire's other impressive debutant Liam Livingstone had added just seven to his overnight score before he was out lbw for 70 to give Jake Ball a fourth wicket, while Jarvis was caught at slip for 37.
Lancs & England fast bowler James Anderson told BBC Manchester:
"Neil Wagner was fantastic again. To take 11-for on his debut is something pretty special. He should be really proud of that. It couldn't have gone any better for him.
"He is a fantastic guy, he loves playing, he wants to do well for the team and has so much energy on the field. He never turns down the opportunity to have a bowl.
"He may lose a few inches in height if he keeps bowling on these wickets, but he has a fantastic attitude and is someone we are lucky to have in our dressing room.
"The pitch is as good as a Test pitch. There hasn't been a huge amount there for the seam bowlers. We knew we had to work hard for our wickets but stuck at it and got the rewards."
Notts director of cricket Mick Newell told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"When we went out to bat, we knew we had to make about 300 to be competitive but we're a long way short of that and we need a minor miracle on the last day.
"We need something like a Stuart Broad 8-15 now. You feel in these situations you need to set a minimum of 130, 140, 150 but we've failed to do that.
"Throughout the game the top six have under-scored. We're disappointed with that because we had first use of the pitch and we wanted to bat first.
"Fair play to Neil Wagner. He's had a terrific game, he's run in hard and bowled bouncers and yorkers and mixed it up and been very effective."
Andrew Wilkinson, chair of governors at Newport, and Prof Julie Lydon, vice-chancellor of Glamorgan, will fill those posts at the new body in 2013.
The name of the new university is expected to be revealed in December.
Plans were abandoned earlier this month to force a three-way merger with Cardiff Metropolitan University, which opposed the idea.
The announcement from Glamorgan and Newport follows a due diligence exercise to ensure there were no legal or financial barriers to their merger.
It comes after a drive led by the Welsh government to rearrange higher education in Wales to create a smaller number of larger universities.
Officials claim the new institution will rival Cardiff University in terms of size and provide the scale to produce additional benefits for students, staff and the local economy whilst also developing a global profile.
Prof Lydon said: "Our two universities have set in train a plan to create a new and exciting institution for south Wales.
"While both institutions have strong histories in the communities of south Wales, together we will be stronger than the sum of our parts and have an opportunity to enhance significantly the educational and training landscape of south-east Wales for the benefit of its people, communities and businesses."
Independent research on suitable names for the new university is said to be almost complete, with an announcement due in December.
Education Minister Leighton Andrews announced earlier this month that he was dropping consultation on a three-way union, including Cardiff Met, in order to allow Glamorgan and Newport to press ahead with their merger.
But he stressed at the time it was still his desire to see a single "super-university" for south-east Wales combining all the region's post-1992 universities.
The 29-year-old, who is currently in Rio hosting coverage of the Olympic Games, said he was "a huge fan" of the show and "cannot wait to get started".
"I'm still waiting for someone to wake me up and tell me I'm dreaming! It's going to be so much fun," he added.
Oduba is the fourth star announced for the show, which begins in September.
He joins former shadow chancellor Ed Balls, singer Will Young and presenter Laura Whitmore, who were confirmed earlier this week.
Oduba, who also appears on BBC Breakfast, said: "I've been such a huge fan of the show for over a decade. So to actually take to the Strictly stage myself, I don't think I've been more nervously excited - aside from on my wedding day. Let's hope for fewer tears!"
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The 16-year-old left-back has agreed a two-year scholarship and made his under-18s debut in a recent 1-0 victory against Gillingham.
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Just three MHKs opposed the 2015/16 spending plan, described by Treasury Minister Eddie Teare ass the "most adventurous" in recent years.
Plans to abolish income tax for minimum wage workers on the Isle of Man were announced on Tuesday.
Liberal Vannin leader Kate Beecroft, who voted against, said the government is still "living beyond its means."
Following an eight-hour debate, Tynwald agreed to increase spending next year by £1.6m, or 0.3%, to £545.2m - equivalent to £11,100 per person.
Mr Teare said the government was on track to "balance its books" for the first time since the UK announced changes to its VAT Revenue Sharing Agreement in 2010.
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Since then, the Manx treasury said 640 government posts had been cut - about 8% of all staff.
Other budget plans include an 82.7% rise in the carer's allowance from £61.35 to £112.10 per week and the end to universal free TV licences for the over 75s.
The island's tax cap will be be increased by £5,000 to £125,000 for new entrants to the scheme and income thresholds for means-tested entitlement to child benefit reduced by £10,000.
Companies will also see a 10% increase in income tax paid on income from land and property.
The 32-year-old finished fourth in the World Superbike standings in 2015, but left the Red Devils Aprilia team at the end of the season.
Multiple World and British Superbike race-winner Haslam was British SB runner-up in 2006 and 2008 and second in the 2010 World SB series.
"I have unfinished business," said the Derbyshire rider, who will be riding for the JG Speedfit Kawasaki team.
"I have just missed out on the title in the past and so I feel really motivated to try to change that next year.
"I am really excited to be coming back to BSB because there is nothing like it and I want to be challenging to be number one every weekend."
Haslam moved to World Superbike racing in 2009, having won 16 races in the British Championship.
He won five races during his time in World Superbikes.
The specimens, housed at the University of Texas, Austin, were disposed of, not stolen as previously thought, the university said in a statment.
Initially they were said to include sniper Charles Whitman's brain and students were blamed for the "theft".
But the formaldehyde-filled jars were actually disposed of some time ago.
They were in poor condition and not suitable for research, officials said.
"We believe the workers disposed of between 40 and 60 jars, some of which contained multiple human brains, and worked with a biological waste contractor to do so safely," according to a university statement.
"We have no evidence at this time that any of the brain specimens came from Charles Whitman, though we will continue to investigate those reports."
Tim Schallert, psychology professor and co-curator of the collection, initially told the Austin American-Statesman "we think somebody may have taken the brains, but we don't know at all for sure".
The specimens were among a batch sent from the Austin State Hospital to the university nearly 30 years ago for safe keeping.
The university's agreement with the hospital required the removal of any data identifying the brain's original owner.
Kept in the school's basement, the brains went missing sometime in the intervening years.
Following the mix-up, the university pledged to appoint a broader investigative committee to examine the matter.
"As researchers and teachers, we understand the potential scientific value of all of our holdings and take our roles as stewards of them very seriously," the university statement concluded.
The film told the story of Teri Hooley, who founded the Good Vibrations record label in Belfast.
Based on a true story, the movie follows Londonderry band The Undertones, and their path to fame during the height of the Troubles.
Belfast writer Glenn Patterson said that Bowie provided the track, Star, from the album Ziggy Stardust, for a significantly smaller sum for the production.
"It was an act of generosity and was the perfect track for the end of the film," Mr Patterson said.
He was speaking as people across the world expressed shock at the news that singer David Bowie has died at the age of 69 from cancer.
Dublin guitarist Gerry Leonard performed and worked alongside Bowie for his later albums, Heathen (2002), Reality (2003) and The Next Day (2013).
Mr Leonard had just finished performing at the Dublin Bowie Festival on Sunday when he heard the news of the artist's death.
"It's devastating," he said. "At first I thought it was a hoax. It's unbelievable".
Mr Leonard moved to New York in 1994 where a mutual friend introduced him to Bowie.
The introduction was unconventional.
Bowie, looking for a guitarist, heckled him during a small gig with his solo project Spooky Ghost.
"My friend called me and said, 'Look I'm bringing David down,'" Mr Leonard said.
"We always had a little bit of banter in between songs and I knew that David loves comedy and he shares the sense of the surreal.
"He just joined in on the banter and heckled me during the show but it was all in good fun."
Mr Leonard said it was "an amazing experience" to work with the late artist.
"Bowie was an obvious master of his craft," he said.
"He's been really part of the fabric of people's lives," Mr Leonard said.
"He's saved people in the way that music does. He consoled people and exhilarated people."
John Bereton, organiser of the Dublin Bowie Festival, said that the singer gave fans permission to be "different".
"He was an icon," Mr Bereton said. "He made you feel like you weren't alone. People across the world felt that they could be themselves."
"I'll miss hearing his voice on the phone," Mr Leonard said.
"I'll miss his laugh and I'll miss playing music with him.
"It's been an unforgettable experience and there's nothing that can replace that."
Ajmal, 37, is omitted after struggling on his return to the game following a ban for an illegal bowling action.
The 23-year-old Amir is available after completing his ban for spot-fixing, but has not been selected.
Both players have enjoyed success against England, averaging less than 20 with the ball against them in Tests.
Ajmal was instrumental in inflicting a 3-0 whitewash on England in their last tour of the UAE, finishing as the leading wicket-taker in the series with 24.
But since his ban he has not been as effective and has been superseded by Yasir Shah and Zulfiqar Babar as Pakistan's first-choice Test spinners.
Left-arm seamer Amir, the youngest player to reach 50 Test wickets, has played only Twenty20 cricket since he was cleared to return to the sport earlier this year, following his ban in 2010.
Middle-order batsman Fawad Alam could play his first Test in five years after being recalled to the squad, while left-arm seamer Wahab Riaz is also included after recovering from a hand injury he sustained in Sri Lanka.
England begin their three-Test series with Pakistan in Abu Dhabi on 13 October.
Pakistan squad: Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Ahmed Shehzad, Shan Masood, Azhar Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Fawad Alam, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Yasir Shah, Zulfiqar Babar, Wahab Riaz, Imran Khan, Rahat Ali, Junaid Khan.
The Austrians, in their first European Championship, won the shootout 5-3 after the game had finished goalless.
Spain, who did not score in three matches after their opening fixture, were favourites to progress but created little, despite dominating possession.
And when Sarah Puntigam scored after Silvia Meseguer's miss, their underwhelming tournament was over.
The Austrians have emerged as the surprise package of this Euros, having topped a group featuring the world's third-best side, France.
And their path to the final looks a little easier than it might have done after Germany, winners of the past six European Championships, were stunned by Denmark earlier on Sunday.
They will now meet the Danes in their semi-final on Thursday, while hosts Netherlands will face England in the other last-four match after the Lionesses beat France 1-0.
Spain, in contrast, head home having endured a miserable campaign.
After winning their opener against Portugal, defeats against England and Scotland meant they only qualified for the last eight on goal difference.
And although they had most of the ball in the quarter-final, the lack of creativity evident throughout the competition proved costly as Austria resisted with ease before forcing the shootout.
Match ends, Austria Women 0(5), Spain Women 0(3).
Penalty Shootout ends, Austria Women 0(5), Spain Women 0(3).
Goal! Austria Women 0(5), Spain Women 0(3). Sarah Puntigam (Austria Women) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(4), Spain Women 0(3). Marta Corredera (Spain Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(4), Spain Women 0(2). Viktoria Pinther (Austria Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Penalty saved! Silvia Meseguer (Spain Women) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(3), Spain Women 0(2). Verena Aschauer (Austria Women) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(2), Spain Women 0(2). Amanda Sampedro (Spain Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(2), Spain Women 0(1). Nina Burger (Austria Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(1), Spain Women 0(1). Olga García (Spain Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(1), Spain Women 0. Laura Feiersinger (Austria Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Austria Women 0, Spain Women 0.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Austria Women 0, Spain Women 0.
Attempt blocked. Jenni Hermoso (Spain Women) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mapi León.
Verena Aschauer (Austria Women) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Amanda Sampedro (Spain Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Verena Aschauer (Austria Women).
Attempt missed. Mapi León (Spain Women) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Alexia Putellas with a cross.
Corner, Spain Women. Conceded by Carina Wenninger.
Attempt saved. Virginia Torrecilla (Spain Women) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Amanda Sampedro.
Substitution, Spain Women. Virginia Torrecilla replaces Mari Paz Vilas.
Substitution, Austria Women. Viktoria Pinther replaces Sarah Zadrazil.
Marta Corredera (Spain Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nadine Prohaska (Austria Women).
Foul by Alexia Putellas (Spain Women).
Sarah Zadrazil (Austria Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Silvia Meseguer (Spain Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Second Half Extra Time begins Austria Women 0, Spain Women 0.
First Half Extra Time ends, Austria Women 0, Spain Women 0.
Corner, Austria Women. Conceded by Irene Paredes.
Offside, Spain Women. Mapi León tries a through ball, but Jenni Hermoso is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Nina Burger (Austria Women) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Mapi León (Spain Women) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mari Paz Vilas.
Attempt blocked. Alexia Putellas (Spain Women) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Olga García.
Attempt blocked. Laura Feiersinger (Austria Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nina Burger with a cross.
Foul by Olga García (Spain Women).
Sarah Zadrazil (Austria Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mari Paz Vilas (Spain Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Virginia Kirchberger (Austria Women).
First Half Extra Time begins Austria Women 0, Spain Women 0.
Jake Ball (2-53) reduced Durham to 8-2 before career-best one-day scores from Graham Clark (92) and Cameron Steel (77) rebuilt the visitors' innings.
Collingwood hit a six and eight fours in his 47-ball innings to see Durham home with five balls to spare on 299-6.
Earlier, Alex Hales made 104 but Notts lost their last five wickets in 10 balls to be dismissed for 297.
Samit Patel - in his benefit game at Trent Bridge - made 28 before Hales, who passed 5,000 one-day runs, accelerated the innings and hit three sixes but holed out to Ryan Pringle off James Weighell (3-66), while Chris Read (61) and Billy Root (66) put on 101 for the sixth wicket.
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Durham came back strongly as Paul Coughlin (2-53) and Mark Wood (3-62) both took two wickets in two balls as Notts were restricted to under 300 after being 288-5.
The visitors then recovered from a shaky start thanks to Clark and Steel who put on 160 for the third wicket, but both were dismissed in the space of four balls.
Wicketkeeper Read took his 257th one-day catch to dismiss Ryan Pringle to equal Bruce French's record for Notts, but ex-England one-day skipper Collingwood kept his cool and hit Harry Gurney to the boundary to score the winning runs from the first ball of the final over.
Despite being deducted two points at the start of the season, Durham move up to second in the North Group table, while Notts are fourth with three wins from six matches.
They have poured into the streets enjoying basic rights they had been denied for two years, including shaving off their beards and smoking.
US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters fought 73 days to drive IS out of Manbij, close to the Turkish border.
About 2,000 civilians being used as human shields were also freed.
Reuters news agency spoke to a resident of Manbij who described a spot where people were beheaded. "For anything or using the excuse that he did not believe [in God], they put him and cut his head off.
"It is all injustice," he said.
"I feel joy and [it is like a] dream I am dreaming. I cannot believe it, I cannot believe it. Things I saw no one saw," a woman said screaming and fainting, according to Reuters.
Another woman thanked the fighters that had set them free: "You are our children, you are our heroes, you are the blood of our hearts, you are our eyes. Go out, Daesh [Arabic name for IS]!"
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The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia. They were backed in their campaign against IS by US-led air strikes on IS positions.
The roads through Manbij had become crucial to the group's ability to move fighters, weapons and supplies in and out of Syria.
Routes to Syria's embattled second city, Aleppo, and to the IS capital, Raqqa, pass through the town.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict from the UK, around 500 cars left Manbij carrying IS members and civilians.
They were heading north-east towards Jarablus, a town under IS control on the Turkish border.
The militias said their victory had cut off the IS militants' route to Europe.
"After the liberation of Manbij, IS members won't be able to freely travel to and from Europe anymore," said Syrian Kurdish leader Salih Muslim.
US officials have said that after Manbij, the coalition's intention is to move on Raqqa.
Raqqa, estimated to have a population of between 250,000 and 500,000, has become the de facto capital of the "caliphate" whose creation was proclaimed by IS two years ago after it took control of large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
In addition to the alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters supported by the US, IS militants are also under pressure from Russian-backed Syrian government forces. Two days ago, Russian air strikes cut off the city's water supply.
Mandy Chapple, 56, was exiting the cab near Leicester railway station on 27 July when her door hit Sam Boulton.
Leicester Magistrates' Court heard Mr Boulton, who had turned 26 that day, fell in front of a moving van.
Ms Chapple, of Speers Road, Leicester, admitted a charge of opening a vehicle door so as to injure or endanger another person.
She was also ordered to pay a £40 victim surcharge and £30 court costs.
Mr Boulton was a teacher in Coalville, Leicestershire.
Nigel Hallchurch, representing Chapple, said she "thinks about this all the time and is very sorry".
The taxi driver has pleaded not guilty to a related charge and will face a trial at Loughborough Magistrates' Court in 5 June.
Protesters from CND Cymru and other groups gathered at Parc Aberporth in Ceredigion and called for the end of military drone testing.
It was planned to coincide with a vigil at the Excel Arms Trade Fair taking place in London.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the UAVs only flew at designated testing areas at Parc Aberporth.
"We're trying to raise awareness that Wales is part of the war machine," said John Cox, chairman of CND Cymru.
"Most people are unaware that Wales is part of the development of drones.
"They don't have bombs on board but they are testing out drones here."
QinetiQ, which works on UAVs, is one of a number of defence contractors working at Parc Aberporth.
An MoD spokesperson said: "Watchkeeper, an unarmed Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS), only flies at the designated testing area at Parc Aberporth.
"Other UK RPAS aircraft, such as Reaper, only operate in Afghanistan under the legal authority of UN Security Council resolutions.
"These aircraft have played a vital role supporting military operations and have saved the lives of countless UK and allied forces by providing essential Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance."
Lessons would be in a dual-control car with an approved instructor - currently drivers can only go on motorways once they have passed their practical exam.
Other plans include a crackdown on dangerous drivers, by providing police forces with more money for enforcement.
The proposals will be put out to consultation next year.
There will be a £2m research project into how to improve motoring education for learner and novice drivers.
As part of a wide-ranging strategy document - some of which applies to the whole of Britain and some to certain nations only - the Department for Transport also proposes:
At present, fewer than half of learners pass their practical test first time - a statistic the government says it wants to improve.
"We will encourage a higher percentage of learner drivers to aim to pass their driving test the first time around, when they are truly ready for independent driving," the document states.
"In doing so, we will consider whether more should be done to support and reward a broader range of driving experiences, such as night driving and motorways, ahead of candidates obtaining their driving licence and whether restructuring the costs of the driving test would incentivise learners to undertake more pre-test practice."
Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, welcomed the announcement of motorway lessons.
He said: "Mile-for-mile, motorways are our safest roads but can be intimidating places for novice drivers.
"The important thing is the official seal of approval provided by the approved driving instructor who will accompany them down the slip-road.
"This is definitely not the time to have mum or dad in the passenger seat."
Neil Greig, director of policy and research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, said: "Logistically, motorway driving can never be compulsory but for the many who live close to them, this offers a step change in their confidence and safety in our most important economic routes."
The strategy also sets out plans to give £750,000 to police forces in England and Wales to improve their ability to identify and prosecute drug-drivers.
AA president Edmund King said drug driving was "the hidden killer" and extra efforts to tackle it were "welcome and overdue".
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said Britain's roads were some of the safest in the world, but more could be done to improve them.
"We are delivering common-sense proposals that balance tougher penalties for dangerous drivers with practical steps to help youngsters and other more vulnerable groups stay safe on our roads."
Northern Ireland is responsible for its own road traffic legislation, including driver and vehicle testing, road safety policy and vehicle standards.
However, Payments UK, which represents the industry, said that still represented a 13% decline on the previous year.
It said the figures showed that cheques are still valued as a means of payment.
Cheques had been due to be phased out by 2018, until MPs forced a change of heart by the industry.
Banks have promised to keep processing them for as long as necessary.
Some banks, such as Barclays, have also introduced "cheque imaging", allowing consumers to take a photograph of a cheque and send it to the bank via their smartphone.
Use of cheques peaked in 1990, when there were more than 4bn transactions a year.
Last year 546m cheques were written, an average of about 10 cheques per adult per year.
The report for Payments UK said that showed that they are "still valued as a convenient and secure method of payment by those who choose to use them".
Use of cheques is higher in the 65 and over age group. They are also still popular as a way of paying tradespeople and charities, as well as for family gifts.
The research also suggested that the use of debit cards would overtake cash payments by 2021.
However, cash was still the most popular means of paying in 2015.
Figures published last week showed that monthly spending on contactless cards hit £1.5bn for the first time in March.
Consumers over the age of 60 are the fastest-growing group using the cards, according to Barclaycard.
The 19-year-old right-back played 13 games for the Second Division club last season.
He has made three appearances for Manchester City this season - one in the League Cup and two in the Champions League.
Maffeo, who has represented Spain at U19 level, joined City in 2013 and has come through the club's academy system.
Alexander Mitroshenkov said the choice of a cub was "inspired" by Mr Putin.
In May Russian media reported that Mr Putin had released three orphaned Amur tiger cubs into the wild.
The children's TV show Goodnight Little Ones dates back to Soviet times. The tiger cub will be a 3D animation.
The new character emerged only after other choices were considered - a wolf cub, monkey, giraffe and horse - Mr Mitroshenkov said.
When viewers see Mur, "many will understand the president's connection to this story", he explained.
In 2010 Mr Putin joined campaigners at a high-profile forum to promote conservation of tigers, whose numbers have declined sharply worldwide.
The long-standing favourites starring in the children's TV show are called Khryusha, Stepashka, Filya, Karkusha and Mishutka.
In a tweet one of Mr Putin's most prominent critics, Alexei Navalny, referred mockingly to a former cat character which disappeared from the show, called Tsap-Tsarapych ("Scratchy-Scratchy" in English).
"Everyone remembers Filya, Stepashka, Karkusha and Khryusha. But Tsap-Tsarapych is forgotten. He was probably a Bandera man and killer," he tweeted, using pejorative slang used widely in Russia to denigrate Ukrainian troops.
The wager with William Hill at odds of 1-8 would make a profit of £2,500 if successful.
Macron leads in opinion polls ahead of National Front rival Marine Le Pen.
William Hill spokesman Joe Crilly said the Aberdeen bet was placed late on Wednesday evening, and was matched as the largest on Macron by another £20,000 placed in London.
Albert Newton met the women on an adult services website and on three occasions arranged to meet them before raping or attempted to rape them.
The 32-year-old, found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court in August, was sentenced to 19 years in prison.
Police called Newton, of Woodgate, Loughborough, a "sexual predator" and said there could be more victims.
The defendant was also sentenced for one offence of false imprisonment where he held one woman against her will in her home.
The court heard he carried out the offences in Loughborough and Leicester, between April 2013 and December last year.
In another incident he violently assaulted a woman, kicking her in the abdomen.
Det Sgt Neil Holden said Newton was a "persistent offender", who changed his online profile name and phone number after each offence.
"He picked vulnerable women, exploiting them for his own sexual gratification, without their consent," he said.
"He ensured that when he arranged to meet them they would be at their most vulnerable, putting him in a powerful position to abuse them."
Det Sgt Holden urged anyone else who believed they had been attacked by Newton to come forward.
The PSNI said it attended the scene of a sudden death at the Orchard Leisure Centre in Armagh on Friday night.
Police said the death is not being treated as suspicious.
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council closed the leisure centre on Saturday. It said online that the closure was down to "unforeseen circumstances".
Ana Alban said the Wikileaks founder, who is fighting UK efforts to send him to Sweden, was suffering from living "in a confined space".
Ecuador previously sought assurances he would not be arrested if hospitalised.
The UK said then it would not prevent "any medical care that he requires".
The Australian, 41, who has taken refuge at the embassy since June, was granted asylum by Ecuador in August.
Mr Assange, who has breached bail conditions by staying there, faces arrest if he leaves.
He is wanted for questioning in Sweden over rape and sexual assault allegations, which he denies, and was arrested in the UK on an extradition warrant.
"Mr Assange, as everyone knows, is in a confined space," Ms Alban said.
"Not only does the embassy have few windows but the city is also dark at this time - we have very little daylight in London.
"He is exposed to any health consequences from this lack of sunlight and lack of fresh air."
Ms Alban said Mr Assange received visitors after embassy staff finished work.
"We work until at least 05:30 in the afternoon and, afterwards, he meets with certain people who want to visit him for different reasons whether they be activists, supporters, lawyers or friends."
She said Ecuador was "waiting for a meeting" with either UK Foreign Secretary William Hague or UK Home Secretary Theresa May to discuss Mr Assange's future.
Last month, Ecuadorean ministers said Mr Assange had "visibly lost weight" and that his health was "beginning to be jeopardised".
Mr Assange's Wikileaks website has published leaked sensitive diplomatic cables involving various countries, including the US.
In 2010, two women accused him of committing sexual offences against them while he was in Stockholm to give a lecture.
Mr Assange says the sex was consensual and that he believes the case to be politically motivated.
He says he fears being passed on to authorities in the US if extradited to Sweden.
But Swedish prosecutors have dismissed Mr Assange's claims their case is part of a wider political move to see him stand trial in the US over his work with Wikileaks.
The mayor said the Republican candidate's message showed a "lack of understanding".
Mr Khan was addressing a global progress summit in Montreal with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Mr Khan was involved in a row with Mr Trump earlier this year over Mr Trump's call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.
Mr Khan told the assembled audience at the summit: "Donald Trump said that Muslims from around the world - I'm paraphrasing - would not be welcome into the United States of America.
"Not only does that show a lack of understanding and awareness of the great country that is the USA and its history and legacy, it's also inadvertently playing into the hands of Daesh and so-called Isis because it implies it's not possible to be a Western liberal and mainstream Muslim.
"I think it's important that the USA maintains her role as a beacon for tolerance, respect and diversity."
While the name "Daesh" does not mean anything in Arabic - it merely represents the letters that make up Isil (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) in Arabic (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil Iraq wa al-Sham) - it sounds similar to an Arabic verb that means to tread underfoot, trample down, or crush something.
As a result, politicians have taken to using it to refer to the so-called Islamic State group.
Later Mr Khan said he would be open to meeting Mr Trump during his trip, along with any other presidential candidate.
He also said the UK should follow Canada's lead and do more to help Syrian refugees.
Canada accepted 25,000 Syrian refugees between November 2015 and February 2016, while the UK has pledged to resettle 20,000 by 2020.
The mayor's north America tour is intended to show London is "open for business" in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the European Union. He will make further trips to Chicago and New York as part of a five-day visit.
Shaun Murphy, 38, died in hospital after was he was found injured in Greenbrow Road, Wythenshawe, on 17 June.
Lee Junior Walker, 33, of Patchcroft Road, Wythenshawe, is due to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court on Saturday.
A man, 23, previously held on suspicion of murder was released without charge.
Red alerts have been issued, highlighting the severity of the problem, and traditional media - which often shy away from reporting about the recurring scourge - say it needs urgent action.
State media have given unusual prominence to the danger, carrying moving stories about how children's lives are being affected.
Hundreds of thousands of Weibo users are venting their frustrations under the hashtag #TheMostSeriousSmog, which has consistently been one of the most used on the Sina Weibo microblog since northern cities issued red alerts over pollution on 15 December.
Users are posting air quality maps, voicing their fears about health problems and their overriding feelings of hopelessness.
"Yangxiaoqia" calls it a "tragedy", saying the problem have reached "such a serious stage, and there are no solutions to governing and solving it".
"Woyouyige Cuisansui" says she believes the government "cannot deal with the deadly haze".
In recent days, newspapers have emphasised the effect on children.
The state-run Global Times highlights the "disruption to normal life", with parents forced to bring their children to work because schools are closed.
In Beijing, the Municipal Education Bureau has required teachers to live-stream classes "to keep students from falling behind". Global Times and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post described teachers in the north conducting classes via smartphone from empty classrooms.
On social media, users were particularly shocked at the decision by a school in central Henan province to stay open and make students sit an exam, while surrounded by haze.
Tens of thousands of users posted about it using #TheUltimateTestAgainstSmog hashtag. The school's headmaster was later suspended.
"Sina Henan" shared pictures of the incident on Sina Weibo, prompting around 6,000 responses.
"Hongxiu Tianluanv" said the pictures were "crazy. The principal's head is obviously full of haze".
"Yisheng Desuming" called the headmaster "sick". "To have no regard whatsoever for [the children's] health."
While state media have upped their coverage of the pollution problem, mindful of the widespread public dissatisfaction and the disruption to daily life, they have previously been wary of carrying reports suggesting that the pollution is a government failing.
In February 2015, the central publicity department ordered that a critical documentary, Under The Dome, be removed from the internet, and comments related to it were widely censored.
The fact that the documentary was self-made by a state media journalist - as well as the censorship - attracted international attention.
Improving air quality is a key Communist Party initiative under President Xi Jinping, and the government aims by 2020 to have drastically reduced pollution, aiming to have clean air conditions for 80% of the year.
But it is uncertain whether the targets can be met given that this year, cities nationwide have issued more red alerts than ever before.
On 15 December, official media reported that 23 cities in northern China had issued red alerts.
Beijing issued its first red alert in 2015, along with the city of Tianjin and some 10 cities in northern Henan and Hebei provinces.
The four-tier system (red, orange, yellow and blue) emergency response system was introduced in 2013. During an alert, there are curbs on vehicle use and factories and schools are advised to suspend classes.
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The Finn, brought in by Mercedes this year as the replacement for retired world champion Nico Rosberg, beat Hamilton by just 0.023 seconds.
"Good things happen to good people," said three-time champion Hamilton.
"He is a great guy and it is his first pole so he will be struggling to sleep tonight through excitement."
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Bottas' lap brought to an end Hamilton's run of six consecutive poles dating back to last year's US Grand Prix.
"I've had a decent run," Hamilton said. "I'm very happy with what I've had.
"I'm genuinely very happy for Valtteri. He has done a fantastic job, been inching away at it bit by bit. He did a better job today.
"It could be his first win, and if it's not he will get a win. He's an exceptional driver.
"The first sector was my weak point but the second and third were very good. It wasn't terrible. It was very close, only a quarter of a tenth so I can't be too angry."
Hamilton added: "There's going to be lots of ups and downs throughout the year but Valtteri's definitely keeping me on my toes. He's getting stronger and stronger.
"I know how special it is to have your first pole position. It is just amazing. You dream of it as a kid and I know that he will be enjoying it.
"But obviously I will try my hardest to win the race."
Bottas has bounced back from a difficult race in China last weekend, in which he spun while warming his tyres behind the safety car and finished sixth as Hamilton won.
"It's always nice to have a good result whether you've had a good or bad weekend before but for sure if you've had a bit of a struggle in the last race it's always nice to start the weekend in a good way," Bottas said.
"The race is what matters but it's good. I'd rather be on pole than anything less, so let's see.
"There is no point to start dreaming about anything."
Hamilton fears the pace of the Ferraris in the race, with Sebastian Vettel - who is leading the championship jointly with Hamilton - starting third.
"Ferrari, in their race pace, they are very quick," Hamilton said.
Vettel added: "It's a long race, tyre management will be crucial conditions will be a bit different and a lot of things can change around.
"We were a little bit further back than we hoped. We should have a good car in the race and take it from there."
Ex-Bolton and Watford man Sordell joins on an initial contract until June.
Striker Beavon, 32, moves on an 18-month deal, while midfielder Reilly, 23, is on loan until the end of April.
Sordell, 25, who has netted seven times in 26 games for Coventry, leaves six months into a year-long deal.
Burton will be the forward's eighth club in less than eight years, having started his senior career with Watford in 2009 before moving to Bolton then Burnley, Colchester and Coventry.
Sordell, who featured for Great Britain in the London 2012 Olympic Games, also previously had loan spells at Tranmere and Charlton.
Beavon, who helped Burton win back-to-back promotions to reach the Championship this season, leaves the Brewers after almost three years with the club.
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The 44-year-old man also suffered neck and chest injuries after falling in a gully on Blencathra's Sharp Edge.
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team, which rescued the man on Sunday, said the area was a "blackspot" in wet or snowy conditions.
The Great North Air Ambulance Service airlifted the man to the Cumberland Infirmary after the six-hour rescue.
So when a series of newspaper headlines declared saturated fat is not as bad as once thought and that "butter is back" then wow that's the kind of news story I can get behind!
But they do run against decades of health advice to cut the amount of sat fat we eat.
So what's going on here and what should make it into the supermarket trolley?
One of the big problems seems to be that simply declaring saturated fat is bad or that butter is back loses all nuance.
The World Health Organization's advice is to have no more than 10% of total calories coming from saturated fat.
The argument has been that sat fat increases the amount of bad cholesterol in the blood, although it also increases the good type too.
The bad cholesterol furs up arteries and ultimately leads to a heart attack or stroke. Meanwhile trials of statins show cholesterol-lowering drugs can reduce the risk of a heart attack.
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But getting the best evidence in nutrition is always a bit of nightmare.
Some studies rely on food questionnaires asking people what they ate in the past year and then seeing what happened decades later. Now I can't tell you what I had for dinner three weeks ago and diets also change with time.
And it's ever so slightly unethical to lock people up and experiment with their diets for decades to see if they have a heart attack. So the evidence ends up being a patchwork quilt of studies that gives an overall impression that saturated fat is bad.
Public Health England, which advises people to cut down on saturated fat, says one of the key pieces of science on which they base their recommendations on is a review of 15 clinical trials which changed more than 59,000 people's diets for at least two years.
However, even this starts to show why there can be confusion about saturated fat.
It showed no impact on deaths from heart disease or any other cause of dying.
And the analysis concludes that if you cut saturated fat out of your diet and replace it with carbohydrates or protein then it makes no difference to your risk of a heart attack.
Carbs, and especially the refined ones in white bread rather than the complex ones in vegetables or wholegrains, are as bad for you as the saturated fat we've been warned off for years.
It is only when saturated fats are replaced like-for-like by polyunsaturated fats that you see a significant reduction in heart attacks.
Dr Lee Hooper, who led the study at the University of East Anglia, said: "What we've realised in the last few years is that saturated fat isn't quite as much a villain as we thought."
Saturated fat - Found in meats including processed foods such as burgers and sausages as well as butter, dairy and coconut oil
Monounsaturated fat - Found in avocados, olive oil, and many types of nut.
Polyunsaturated fat - Found in oily fish, vegetable oils and seeds.
Trans fat - Found in biscuits, cakes and margarines
Source: British Heart Foundation
I put it to Public Health England's chief nutritionist, Dr Alison Tedstone, that just telling people to cut saturated fat was too simplistic.
She was adamant that saturated fat is a bad thing in our diets but "it's a fair point that sometimes the fat message gets oversimplified".
Dr Tedstone continued: "The data over the years has flip-flopped slightly as new studies have emerged and that's because you're looking at subtle things on whether it should be monos or polys or wholegrain carbohydrate.
"I agree it's inappropriate to give the population messages to increase your carbohydrate intake without thinking about what that carbohydrate intake is."
The advice from both Drs Tedstone and Hooper is to cook in sunflower oil instead of butter and have a low-fat spread.
But some have argued that even this is wrong and that butter and other foods rich in saturated fat belong in a healthy diet.
A study by the University of Cambridge in 2014 is often quoted after it concluded there was no "clearly supportive evidence" for the guidelines that encourage cutting saturated fat from the diet.
It led to a flurry of headlines announcing that "butter is back".
"That is an oversimplification, we never said that," one of the researchers Dr Nita Forouhi, from the MRC epidemiology unit at the University of Cambridge, told me.
The review did show no significant relationship between the amount of saturated fat, monounsaturated fat or a type of polyunsaturated fat and heart disease.
But Dr Forouhi warned there needed to be a stronger focus on not what should be cut from the diet, but with what it should be replaced.
The study could not take that into account.
She said saturated fat had become a "very, very reductionist debate" and warned people to "be careful about giving oversimplified messages".
But she is at the forefront of research that might transform the saturated fat debate, bringing some saturated fats in from the cold.
Once upon a time doctors thought all "cholesterol" was bad, until they discovered it came in both "good" and "bad" forms.
Well, now there is a growing realisation that not all saturated fats are the same and emerging evidence hints that some types may be beneficial.
A saturated fatty acid is a string of carbon atoms chained together, but the length of the chain varies.
Saturated fatty acids range from those with four carbons (butyric acid) to those with 24 carbons (lignoceric acid). Common ones include palmitic acid (16 carbons) and stearic acid (18 carbons).
When you look at the levels of the different saturated fatty acids that end up in the blood then interesting patterns start to emerge.
People with higher levels of 16 and 18 carbon saturated fatty acids in the bloodstream had a higher risk of heart disease.
But those with more saturated fatty acids with a length of 15 or 17, which is linked to eating dairy, had a lower risk and the same pattern emerges in type 2 diabetes.
"These are very exciting findings and could really advance our understanding," added Dr Forouhi.
So-called "even-chain" saturated fatty acids such as those with 16 carbons come from dietary fat, but are also made by the body because of high intakes of refined carbs and alcohol.
So not only could refined carbs be having a negative effect on blood sugar levels, they could also be boost "bad" saturated fats in the blood.
The "odd-chains" come exclusively from the diet and notably from dairy products.
And Dr Forouhi added: "Our new findings may also help to explain the reports from studies that some types of dairy products may cut diabetes or heart disease risk, somewhat contrary to expectation."
But wait a minute - were all those headlines right? Should cheese, yoghurt, whole milk and butter should be firmly on the menu?
Dr Forouhi warned that it was dangerous to take her early evidence and make such pronouncements.
"We cannot assume that the beneficial effects of dairy products are solely from the 'good' saturated fatty acids, after all foods contain a combination of ingredients."
She warned there was still a "powerful link" between butter or saturated fat and bad cholesterol and more targeted studies should now take place on sub-types of saturated fat.
And specifically on butter she said that most scientific studies don't actually include it in their definition of dairy.
More research in this whole field is taking place, it could dramatically change our understanding of fat. Or equally it could come to nothing.
Dr Forouhi concluded: "While that research is going on I don't think we should just go changing everything.
"It's too premature to give the public the impression that they have a licence, based on this preliminary research, which is exciting but not yet definitive, to say butter is back."
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The force has partnered with telecoms firm EE to issue frontline officers with phones.
The devices are equipped with apps, and the force says using these will give officers more time on the streets.
The scheme is costing about £1.8m over the next three years, with funding being shared between the force and the Home Office.
Ch Supt Steve Johnson said: "We police one of the largest geographical areas in England and Wales, which covers difficult terrain.
"As a result, call and data coverage and communication quality are important factors in mobilising the workforce in order to increase the amount of time officers are able to spend in the community, keeping people safe and dealing with crime."
The force said officers would be able to fill out pre-loaded forms and share them with others instantly, without having to return to police stations.
In 2005, the Labour government announced a plan to replace the counties' fire control rooms with a single facility in Taunton, Somerset.
But now the coalition government has said the project is to be scrapped.
Devon and Somerset chief fire officer Lee Howell said the move meant it could now improve its own control rooms.
The Taunton centre was to be one of nine regional sites in a £423m scheme to replace 46 fire control centres in England.
It would have been in charge of dispatching fire crews in the Devon and Somerset, Dorset, Avon, Cornwall, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire brigade areas.
The centre was built but has been standing empty for about three years because of problems with its computers.
It was due to open in May 2011.
Critics raised concerns that if local knowledge was lost because calls were being answered in a regional centre instead of the service's two centres in Devon and Somerset, it could affect response times and risk lives.
Mr Howell said the service was now looking at how to improve its control rooms "to provide the best technology, maintain the quality of service and deliver this at an affordable price".
He added: "In the meantime, we will continue to provide the best level of service from our two control rooms until such time as we have determined our approach moving forward."
Fire Minister Bob Neill said agreement had been reached with main contractor Cassidian to end the project.
The Fire Brigades Union welcomed the decision as "long overdue".
The South African-based businessman made the purchase after his funding offer was rejected by the board.
King had previously wanted his funds to go directly to the club.
But the former Rangers director had to alter his strategy following the board's decision to take a loan from Newcastle United's Mike Ashley instead.
The shares were purchased from the institutional investors by New Oasis Investments Ltd, a company wholly owned by King's family trust.
Its transaction was completed two days after a group of three businessmen - George Letham, Douglas Park and George Taylor - purchased the 16% of shares held by Laxey Partners, which was the single largest shareholder.
However, BBC Scotland has learned that the move has prompted one large shareholder to lodge complaints with the takeover panel and the Financial Conduct Authority.
Those bodies have yet to respond, but the shareholder believes King is working in concert with the Park consortium in a bid to seize control.
Takeover panel rules dictate that, if a consortium crosses the 29.9% threshold, it must make an offer to buy the rest of the company.
Both parties together hold more than 34%, but King and Park are adamant they are separate groups.
Rangers Football Club chairman Sandy Easdale holds a little over 5% and has proxies for a further 21%, while Newcastle and Sports Direct owner Ashley has 8.92%.
When RIFC needed funding in October, the board accepted a £3m loan from Ashley - providing him with two board placements - which is to be paid back by April, despite a £16m offer of funding from a consortium including King and a £3m loan offer from Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy.
King said: "I would like to specifically record my disappointment that, if I hadn't been blocked by the present board in favour of a lesser and commercially disadvantageous offer by Mr Ashley, the money could have gone into the club and not into the pockets of exiting shareholders."
The former Rangers director had no further comment to make on the transaction, which was announced by the RIFC board in a release to the Stock Exchange.
Since Rangers accepted Ashley's loan, his long-time associate, Derek Llambias, has become Rangers' chief executive, while Sports Direct executive Barry Leach has been widely tipped for a role as finance director.
Letham, Park and Taylor, who recently offered to invest £6.5m into the club, bought 13 million shares at 20p each from Laxey, which revealed it made the £2.7m deal in a bid to stop Ashley taking control.
The Englishman had his plan to increase his stake to just under 30% rejected by the Scottish Football Association because of his dual interest in the two football clubs.
Rangers recently revealed they need £8m of new funding to stay afloat in 2015.
They have sold prize asset Lewis Macleod this week, with cash from the sale of the midfielder being used as immediate funding.
Meanwhile, manager Ally McCoist was put on gardening leave with the club unable to afford a pay-off after he tendered his resignation.
The car in question belonged to Callum Camps, who was playing in Dale's midfield when the announcement was made during the first half.
If the 20-year-old was affected by the news, he did not let it show as he curled in a shot just before the break to put the home side ahead.
His goal was not enough to win the game, though, as John Egan's 77th-minute equaliser earned the visitors a point.
Camps revealed that one of the club's backroom staff came to the rescue, collecting his keys from the dressing room and switching off the lights.
"I was listening because the ball was out of play, and as soon as I heard the reg I was thinking that's my number plate," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
"I thought I'd blocked someone in, so I said to [team-mate] Jamie Allen: 'That's my car that' and he said: 'What?' I said again: 'That's my car they've just called out.'
"I looked over to [head of sports science] Kevin Gibbins and said: 'My car's just been read out, can you sort it out?'"
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Tries from James Cronin and Ronan O'Mahony put Munster ahead, but Wales scrum-half Gareth Davies scored a scintillating try before half-time.
Munster's Tyler Bleyendaal and Wales back Rhys Patchell traded penalties, before replacement Ian Keatley kicked Munster into a 10-point lead.
Patchell missed a late kick as Scarlets failed to earn a losing bonus point.
The home side made a promising start to the game with Wales full-back Liam Williams at his all-action best.
Munster suffered an early setback when full-back Simon Zebo hobbled off on 17 minutes after appearing to take a blow to his ribs.
Prop Cronin opened the scoring against the run of play soon after, driving over from close range midway through the first period with Bleyendaal adding a simple conversion.
Fly-half Patchell sent an early penalty kick wide, but then made amends with a straightforward attempt to score his first points for Scarlets after joining from Cardiff Blues.
The game came to life on the half hour mark with wing O'Mahony running in a simple try from 35 metres after poor Scarlets defending at the breakdown.
Scarlets' Davies immediately struck back, sprinting home for a sensational individual try after taking a quick penalty deep in Scarlets' own half.
The Welsh region then allowed Bleyendaal to kick his side further ahead after Scarlets were penalised for not rolling away in front of their own posts.
The former New Zealand Under-20 fly-half missed a shot a goal early in the second half, before trading three points with Patchell soon after.
Wales centre Jonathan Davies came off the bench with half an hour to play after rejoining Scarlets from Clermont Auvergne.
But as both sides made changes it was replacement Munster full-back Keatley who kicked a decisive penalty with 15 minutes remaining to give his side a 10-point advantage.
Patchell had the chance to earn his side a losing bonus point with a late penalty, but he missed the kick.
Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac said: "To get nothing out of the game in the first round at home was pretty disappointing.
"We started very, very well... [but] we just let that pressure valve off two or three times in that first half.
"That was frustrating because I thought we played some pretty good rugby in that first half, just discipline at times let us down."
Scarlets: Liam Williams; DTH van der Merwe, Scott Williams, Hadleigh Parkes, Steff Evans; Rhys Patchell, Gareth Davies; Dylan Evans, Ken Owens (capt), Werner Kruger, Jake Ball, Lewis Rawlins, Aaron Shingler, John Barclay, Josh Macleod.
Replacements: Ryan Elias, Wyn Jones, Peter Edwards, David Bulbring, Tadhg Beirne, Jonathan Evans, Dan Jones, Jonathan Davies.
Munster: Simon Zebo; Darren Sweetnam, Dan Goggin, Rory Scannell, Ronan O'Mahony; Tyler Bleyendaal, Duncan Williams; James Cronin, Niall Scannell, John Ryan, Dave Foley, Billy Holland (capt) Dave O'Callaghan, Tommy O'Donnell, Jack O'Donoghue.
Replacements: Kevin O'Byrne, Dave Kilcoyne, Brian Scott, Jean Kleyn, Donnacha Ryan, Tomás O'Leary, Ian Keatley, Cian Bohane.
Referee: Lloyd Linton (SRU)
Assistant referees: Sam Grove-White (SRU), Wayne Davies (WRU)
Citing commissioner: Ray Wilton (WRU)
TMO: Jim Yuille (SRU)
Laidlaw, 31, suffered an ankle injury in the first half of the 22-16 defeat by France last weekend.
The Gloucester scrum-half left the Stade de France on crutches on Sunday and his injury was assessed following his return.
Scottish Rugby confirmed the 58-time capped player sustained ligament damage against the French.
"The extent of the damage is such that he will take no further part in the current championship," Scottish Rugby added in a statement.
"Laidlaw will see a specialist later in the week to determine the best course of management and estimated time out of the sport."
Laidlaw was replaced by Glasgow's Ali Price in Paris. John Barclay, who took over as captain, also departed with a head knock before half-time, only for his replacement John Hardie to suffer the same fate early in the second half.
Scotland hooker Ross Ford believes the side will be able to "shoulder the burden" without their injured captain.
"Greig's a massive part of the squad and he's a great leader," said Ford.
"But we've got a leadership group together that's been there helping Greig out.
"Whatever does happen, the boys will be able to step up and take that role on and move forward.
"We do it as a group and Greig's the focal point, but we've got a group of leaders there who can shoulder the burden and take it on."
Speaking on Saturday before he knew the extent of his injury, Scotland head coach Vern Cotter said: "Greig has a big part to play as captain and half-back, but Ali played well when he came on and the guys behind adapted well.
"These things do happen and we had trained for it. John Barclay and John Hardie both had head injury assessments so we will have to wait and see how they come through the return-to-play protocols."
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The proposed Pembrokeshire Food Park would be located at Withybush Industrial Estate, just outside Haverfordwest.
Hacer Developments said the park would provide one million square feet (92,903 sq m) of food production and cold storage facilities.
Pembrokeshire councillor Keith Lewis said it was "very exciting".
The park, which would also have a shared distribution network and transport hub, will target large-scale food producers as well as specialist outlets and start-up businesses.
Keith Lewis, deputy leader of Pembrokeshire council, said he was "hopeful" of support from the Welsh Government.
"A Pembrokeshire food park would provide a considerable boost for the local agricultural sector and food and drink industry," he added.
The body of 27-year-old Christopher Butler was discovered at a flat in Waverley Road, Southsea, Hampshire, on New Year's Day.
Brendon Michael Willis, who previously pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years in prison.
Hampshire Constabulary described it as an "unprovoked and brutal" attack.
The court heard Willis, 33, of Waverley Road, told friends before the killing he wanted to know what it would be like to murder someone.
He later claimed he had taken the legal high Spice, which he said made him violent.
Gavin Sumpter, of the Wessex Crown Prosecution Service, said it was a "tragic case" in which Mr Butler was the victim of "a premeditated, extremely violent and gratuitous attack".
He said that when Willis was in prison in 2015 he confided in a psychiatrist that he was concerned he might hurt someone.
Mr Sumpter added: "Shortly before Christopher's murder he told others that he had been wondering what it would be like to murder someone, saying: 'I want to see what it's like to kill someone. I've got an axe. I want to do it before New Year, I want to be famous. Blame it on Spice. You smoke it and it makes you go mad. It makes you violent'."
Willis was arrested and charged on 6 January following a police appeal to find him.
"This was a particularly challenging investigation because the number of people we needed to speak to and their reluctance to speak to the police," Det Supt Becky Riggs said.
The Scottish government-owned airport made a pre-tax loss of £9.2m for 2015-2016 - an increase on the £8.9m loss the previous year.
The airport said the losses reported were less than the figure forecast in its budget.
Ministers bought the airport for just £1 from owners Infratil in late 2013 amid fears it could close.
The government estimated in December that the bailout could reach £40m by 2018.
The annual report from TS Prestwick Holdco Limited - the company set up up to acquire the airport on behalf of Scottish ministers - shows the airport flew 17 routes to five different countries in 2015-2016.
Other figures in the report for that financial year show the airport handled:
In the coming months, bosses at Prestwick will set out a five-year plan designed to make the airport's profits soar. And they're under pressure to deliver. The Scottish government has pledged to give almost £9.5m in loans to the airport in the current financial year. By the end of the year, taxpayers' stake in Prestwick will have risen to £39.5m.
But ministers are determined to keep Prestwick airport open, to safeguard jobs at the cluster of aerospace firms there.
So the goal must be to attract more passengers and airlines to Prestwick. For now, Ryanair's the only airline which flies scheduled services from Prestwick. But attracting others may be difficult. Prestwick already faces intense competition from Glasgow and Edinburgh airports, which are ambitious for growth - and more convenient for central belt passengers.
There's one other stellar possibility, which could turn around Prestwick's fortunes. The airport, along with Machrihanish on the Kintyre peninsula, are on the short-list of airports vying to become the UK's first spaceport.
For now, the legislation required to enable that first commercial spaceport has been put in a holding pattern, by Brexit.
But there's a growing market for launching small or nano-satellites, which could be used for communications such as broadband. Both Scottish sites want to tap into this market, and lay down the infrastructure for future projects like space tourism.
Prestwick may fit the bill. It has a huge runway - long enough to have been earmarked by NASA for emergency landings of America's Space Shuttle, although that never happened. Its supporters say what Prestwick has is too good to waste - and that it deserves a chance to be transformed into a space hub.
Ryanair is currently the only scheduled airline flying to and from Prestwick.
The airport also handles some charter flights - including recent flights to and from the Open golf.
The number of flights include freight transport flights - and movement through fixed based operations (FBO's), for example executive, military, and general aviation.
A spokesperson for Glasgow Prestwick said the airport had a new executive team in place who were working to rebuild the business.
The statement added: "The repositioning of the business will take time. We believe we are starting to move in the right direction with passenger numbers increasing, new property leases being agreed and the securing of a US government fuel contract in financial year ending 31 March 2017.
"We had forecast increased losses in financial year ending 31 March 2016. This was primarily due to the movement of a number of Ryanair flights to other airports.
"However, the losses reported are less than what was forecast in our budgets."
Nick Norman and Moritz Korn members of Cairngorm Gliding Club at Feshiebridge, reached 28,500ft during a flight over the Cairngorms at the weekend.
The British Gliding Association (BGA) said that while it was not a new UK record, it was the highest gain to be achieved for several years.
Mr Norman and Mr Korn sought permission from air traffic control before making his climb to 28,500ft.
The pilots took advantage of a climatic condition known as a mountain wave.
They had earlier flown to Aboyne in Aberdeenshire and was returning to Feshiebridge via Corgarff when he encountered the weather condition.
The long-standing UK record height for a glider is more than 30,000ft.
Cairngorm Gliding Club made headlines in 2011 when it was used for filming a scene in Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises.
Stuntmen and a film crew made parachute jumps over the airstrip at Feshie Bridge for a scene involving an elaborate escape from a jet aircraft. | The Manx parliament has approved the island's budget for the next financial year.
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The 22-year-old wrote in an Instagram post: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger! Back on the board soon."
Daley last competed at a Diving World Series event in Canada in April.
He is next due to compete at the British Championships in Edinburgh in June, before the World Championships in Budapest in July.
Daley's bronze in the 10m platform in Windsor, Canada meant he finished third overall in the four-leg World Series, with three bronzes and a silver.
Jack Laugher won 3m springboard gold to finish second overall, while fellow Britons Tonia Couch and Lois Toulson won bronze in the women's 10m synchro for fourth overall.
Chief executive Richard Burnett said drivers faced "a desperate situation", with gangs of migrants, some of them armed, trying to board vehicles.
"Things are beginning to boil over," he added.
The Home Office said security had been stepped up in recent days.
In the early hours of Saturday, about 150 migrants tried to storm the Channel Tunnel terminal at Calais, entering restricted areas and causing disruption to services.
The situation at the port has escalated in recent weeks with about 3,000 people from countries including Eritrea, Syria and Afghanistan setting up camp nearby.
Wildcats strikes by French ferry workers have compounded the problem, causing long queues of lorries to build up at the terminal and leaving them vulnerable to attempts by migrants to stow away on board.
Mr Burnett reiterated the RHA's call for action from the French military to boost security and help struggling drivers.
"Put yourself in their situation - you are on your own trying to get through and you've got 20 migrants around your truck trying to get on, and you're on your own trying to get them off," he said.
"They are intimidating, some of them have metal bars, knives and, in one incident, a gun was pointed at a trucker."
He added: "Somebody is going to get killed."
Eurotunnel increased security on Saturday night following the earlier disruption, and a full service was able to run.
Operation Stack - in which lorries are forced to queue on the M20 in Kent while awaiting an opportunity to cross the Channel - has also been lifted.
On Saturday, Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, visited Calais and held a meeting with deputy mayor, Philippe Mignonet to discuss the crisis.
Mr Mignonet wants the UK to introduce ID cards and employment controls in an effort to deter migrants.
Mr Vaz said the UK and France must work together to find a solution, and called for much more to be done to stop people arriving "in the EU itself" via countries like Greece and Turkey.
Home Secretary Theresa May and her French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve agreed this week to increase the joint intervention fund to improve security in at the ferry port and Channel Tunnel terminal.
A Home Office spokesman said: "Law and order in and around Calais is the responsibility of the French authorities, but the UK continues to work with its French counterparts to strengthen the security of the border to stop illegal immigrants entering the UK."
Jean-Paul Laborde spoke to reporters after officials decided not to ban laptops from aircraft cabins on flights to the US from EU countries.
Such a ban currently applies to flights from eight other countries.
Mr Laborde also said Islamic State (IS) fighters returning to Europe would be "more dangerous" than previous waves.
IS has been losing territory in Syria and Iraq, and Mr Laborde said these fighters, originally from Europe, would be hardened from years of war. He said several European countries believe the rate of fighters returning has increased by a third over the past year.
"On average, these people are much more committed, more experienced and more skilled," he said.
"In spite of the travel restrictions, you will have a number of foreign terrorist fighters which will probably slip through the borders and go back, come back to these countries, especially with smuggling networks."
However the number of new foreign recruits going to the region is thought to be down.
The number of foreign fighters flowing to IS-controlled regions dropped by 90% in the past year, the US secretary of state said recently.
Mr Laborde said he did not know whether IS had the capacity to carry out a laptop bomb attack, but he was sure that organised criminal groups could.
He told a reporter from the Spanish news agency Efe that it might be "one, two or three years" but might be aided by the internet now being available on some flights.
He said he had previously identified threats two years before they occurred.
Wednesday's meeting on the matter, between US and EU officials, was requested by EU officials after recent reports suggested US authorities had new information regarding laptop parts being turned into explosives.
Details of a specific threat have not been made public.
The US restrictions, introduced in March, apply to devices "larger than a smartphone" from the cabins of flights from Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
The UK issued a similar ban on flights from six countries.
Steve Landells, a safety expert at the British Airline Pilots Association, said there was a greater risk of lithium battery fires if larger devices were kept in an aircraft's hold.
At a press conference in San Francisco, they said their ultimate goal was to "cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century".
The funds will be distributed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which they created in December 2015.
Tech leaders are increasingly turning their attention to health.
Earlier in the week, Microsoft said it intended to "solve" cancer by using artificial intelligence tools.
Google's DeepMind unit is working with the NHS to find a way to use computers to more accurately diagnose diseases.
And IBM and MIT announced a tie-up earlier this week to develop AI-based systems that could help clinicians improve the care of elderly and disabled patients.
Even so, the Chan Zuckerberg plan is marked by its ambition.
Analysis by James Gallagher, health and science reporter, BBC News
This is certainly an ambitious project, but is $3bn (£2.3bn) over the next decade enough to fulfil it?
One British charity - Cancer Research UK - is likely to spend more in that time on just one disease. Its research budget is currently $0.5bn (£404m) a year.
The Wellcome Trust - the world's biggest medical research charity - is investing significantly more: $6.5bn (£5bn) over the next five years.
And the US' medical research agency, the National Institutes of Health, spends a whopping $32.3bn (£25bn) every year.
There is no doubt that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative could make a real impact - the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given real impetus to eliminating malaria.
And advances in technology are transforming and accelerating medical research - for example, cancer drugs designed by artificial intelligence are showing success in clinical trials.
But curing, preventing or managing all disease remains a lofty and distant goal.
Mr Zuckerberg said that at present 50 times more money was spent on treating people who are sick than on curing the diseases that would stop them getting ill in the first place, and added that this needed to change.
He outlined three principles that will guide the couple's investments:
Ms Chan added that they had already committed $600m to creating a new research centre called the Biohub, which will bring together engineers, computer scientists, biologists, chemists and other innovators.
The Biohub will initially work on two projects.
The first is the Cell Atlas, a "map" that describes the different types of cells that control the body's major organs.
The second is the Infectious Disease Initiative, which will try to develop new tests and vaccines to tackle HIV, Ebola, Zika and other new diseases.
Mr Zuckerberg predicted that by 2100 the average life expectancy would be beyond 100 years.
But he cautioned that it would take years before the couple's fund led to the creation of new medical treatments and further time before they could be applied to patients.
Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates - who has funded his own health research via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - appeared at the event to praise the announcement.
He described it as "very bold and ambitious" but added that "we desperately need this science".
Mr Zuckerberg and Ms Chan announced in December 2015 that they planned to give away 99% of their shares in Facebook to fund good causes following the birth of their daughter.
The organisation's stated mission is to make long-term investments in work that advances human potential and promotes equality.
They had previously announced investments in education-related start-ups.
One expert said that dealing with all disease was "clearly ambitious" but added that deep-pocketed philanthropists were defined by the fact they could take such risks.
"The Chan Zuckerberg announcement is unusual in size but is in keeping with trends amongst today's biggest donors who want to achieve transformational change, prefer funding prevention over cure and tend to invest in causes and organisations with which they have prior connections," commented Dr Beth Breeze, director of the centre for philanthropy at the University of Kent.
"Most donations reflect the 'philanthropic autobiography' of the donor and this is no exception.
"Chan is an alumna of the University of California, San Francisco.
"So, the couple will already know and trust the people who will spend the money.
"She is trained as a paediatrician and recently became a mother so is aligning her professional and personal experiences with her philanthropic priorities."
Lawand Hamadamin came to the UK after spending a year in a refugee camp in France.
Staff at the Royal School for the Deaf in Derby where Lawand is a pupil were "heartbroken", the head teacher said.
The Home Office would not comment on the deportation, but said the family would receive asylum in Germany.
The boy and his family said they fled northern Iraq after IS threatened to kill disabled children.
They first landed in Greece, but moved on to Germany and eventually to a refugee camp in Dunkirk, France. They then hid in the back of a lorry to get to the UK.
A Home Office spokesman said: "Where there is evidence that an asylum seeker is the responsibility of another European country we will seek to return them there.
"It is only fair that we do not shoulder the burden of asylum claims that should rightly be considered by other countries.
"Asylum seekers should claim in the first safe country they arrive in," a Home Office spokesman said.
Lawand's school said his mother, father and nine-year-old brother have received notification from the Home Office that they may face deportation in January.
Head teacher Helen Shepherd said: "Lawand's family are understandably devastated that they are being deported, especially since he has made such extraordinary progress in the few months he has been with us.
"When Lawand arrived at the school in September he had no means of communicating with anyone - even his own family.
She added he has now made "exceptional progress".
He is awaiting for a hospital appointment to replace a cochlear implant after his first one broke.
Steve Crump of DeafKidz International, which helped Lawand while he was in France, said: "Disability and deafness is seen as a 'curse' [in Iraq] and it is highly likely that Lawand and his family would be persecuted or at best marginalised."
Mrs Shepherd said: "Being profoundly deaf is enormously challenging for any child, but Lawand has had to overcome so many more challenges in his short life."
The band will re-record their existing catalogue with "brand new, exact same versions" of their songs, previously released by Universal Music Group.
The Sheffield musicians
told Billboard magazine
they were at "loggerheads" with the label over download royalties.
Frontman Joe Elliott, said he was refusing to deal with Universal until "some kind of arrangement" was reached.
The 52-year-old, whose vocals grace hits such as Animal, Pour Some Sugar On Me and Rocket, said the label was "not prepared" to pay "a fair amount of money" when digital copies of the band's songs were sold.
He added that the band's contract with Universal meant the label could not do anything without their permission.
"So we just sent them a letter saying: 'No matter what you want, you are going to get no as an answer, so don't ask'.
"That's the way we've left it," he said.
While some artists re-record their back catalogue as a musical or technical endeavour, it is not uncommon for them to do it for business reasons.
By remaking their own hits, and retaining control of the master tapes, they can be more selective about where their songs end up and how much they charge for them.
Ultimately, it also allows artists to keep a much bigger share of the proceeds.
Prince threatened to re-record the 17 albums he released with Warner Brothers between 1978 and 1996, after failing to obtain ownership of his master recordings.
He split from the label around the time of the release of 1996's Chaos and Disorder, citing issues of control.
A re-release of the single 1999 followed, with a new arrangement, but no further recordings were issued.
Simply Red also re-recorded their entire Warner back catalogue to get around copyright issues.
The 25-year-old centre was forced off inside the opening eight minutes of Sunday's 16-12 defeat by Saracens.
Tigers expect to find out the full extent of the injury by Tuesday.
Bath wing Semesa Rokoduguni will replace Tuilagi when the 33-man squad meets in Brighton on Monday, with the start of the Six Nations a month away.
"It looks like a knock and a bit of swelling, but it is too early to say," Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill told BBC Radio 5 live.
Tuilagi, who has won 26 caps for England, has been beset by injuries in the last couple of years and only recently returned to action after two months out with a groin problem.
England head coach Eddie Jones was in the crowd at Welford Road on New Year's Day to see Tuilagi replaced after he damaged his knee while being tackled by three Sarries players.
"He's [Tuilagi] a bit cheesed off as you can imagine," Cockerill added. "He has hurt the outside of his right knee.
"His groin is good, his knee is a bit sore. We will assess it over the next 48 hours and we will deal with whatever comes."
Meanwhile, Saracens boss Mark McCall says England lock George Kruis will return to action "in plenty of time for the Six Nations" ahead of the first game against France on 4 February.
The 26-year-old sustained a fractured cheekbone in Sarries win over Newcastle on Christmas Eve but McCall told BBC Radio 5 live the injury was "not too serious".
England duo Chris Robshaw (arm) and Jack Clifford (concussion) were also injured and replaced before the second half of Harlequins' defeat at Worcester.
"Chris should have come off when he had the bang but bravery kept him out there as we were in a mess. Our medics will report to England, they are due down there at noon tomorrow, so he'll probably go regardless," said Quins director of rugby John Kingston.
Waseem Muflihi, 15, and Yahya Mohammed, 14, got into difficulty in the water at Barmouth beach on Sunday afternoon.
They were part of a group of about 500 visitors from the Somali and Yemeni communities in Birmingham.
The coastguard resumed a search of the shoreline on Monday evening and will start again at first light on Tuesday.
David Baily, the RNLI's lifeboat operations manager at Barmouth, said it had been stopped on Monday afternoon while teams waited for the right tidal conditions.
The coastguard said one person had been seen to "disappear under the water" and another person in the same group tried to help but managed to get out safely.
Zaid Hassan, chairman of the Yemeni Community Association in Birmingham, helped organise the trip and said there were two Somali families while the rest were Yemeni.
He said the 15-year-old is Yemeni and when his mother found out she fainted, needing hospital treatment, but has now returned to Birmingham with the rest of the group.
The other boy is Somali.
"As soon as we arrived in Barmouth, we gathered together to enjoy the day but unfortunately the happiness did not last long," said Mr Hassan.
"After one hour, two boys in the sea were struggling to get out but they couldn't.
"A number of the community were trying to rescue them but the wind and the waves were strong and they couldn't do much.
"At first we thought it was just one man struggling [in the sea]. He could not swim back to the beach.
"The emergency rescue team was called and then the man said there were also two boys.
"He said: 'I tried [to save them] but I couldn't.'
He added: "We are shocked, it's a tragedy and for the families we are so upset.
"It's like a dream. We cannot believe what's happened."
After the teenagers went missing, a coastguard rescue helicopter, lifeboats, coastguard rescue teams and police were all involved in the search.
Conditions in the area were "choppy" and searches were carried out in strong winds but the boys were not found.
A coastguard spokeswoman said: "There were a lot of people there - our report was that there were a number of people in the water and two people unaccounted for, one person had been seen to disappear under the water.
"When the group on the beach checked who they had with them and who they didn't there were two people from the group unaccounted for and missing in the water."
Catherine Campbell was giving evidence in the trial of Gail O'Rorke.
Ms O'Rorke, 43, of Kilclare Gardens, Tallaght, denies assisting the suicide of 51-year-old Bernadette Forde between 10 March and 6 June 2011.
Ms Campbell said her sister, Ms Forde, told her in 2010 that she was going to travel to Zurich to end her life.
She said she "could not be convinced otherwise" once she had made her decision.
She said that she and others, including Ms O'Rorke, had tried to talk to her about other options for her care.
Ms Forde died at her home in Dublin on 6 June 2011 after being denied travel to a clinic in Switzerland.
She was diagnosed in 2001 with progressive multiple sclerosis and her condition was compounded by a car accident in 2008 that left her using a wheelchair.
Ireland decriminalised suicide in 1993 but the jury was told assisting a suicide remains an offence.
Ms Forde's sister said when the plan to go to Zurich was abandoned she was glad but Ms Forde was not happy.
Ms Campbell said Ms Forde later told her she had got something to end her life but did not say when she was planning to use it.
She said she did not know when her sister planned to take her own life, but had obtained some anti-sickness medication for her from a pharmacy as she had told her that her new medication for MS was making her ill.
She last saw her alive on 5 June 2011, the day before her body was found in her Dublin apartment.
Earlier, a consultant pathologist told the court that a lethal amount of a medication was found in blood tests carried out on the dead woman.
The court heard that the medication, a barbiturate that is no longer sold in Ireland and has limited therapeutic use, was also found in Ms Forde's apartment when her body was found.
Consultant pathologist Dr Muna Sabah said the level of the drug found in Ms Forde's tests was 53 micrograms per millilitre of blood, which is well above the lethal level.
She said this led her to conclude that the cause of death was from the depressant effects of pentobarbitol on the central nervous system.
Dr Sabah said the drug, a short acting barbiturate, is only used in limited circumstances in the US and is no longer used in Europe due to the high potential for abuse and limited therapeutic abilities.
The case is expected to last for two weeks.
A 50-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident in Pontypridd.
A police officer discovered the body at a flat at Andrews Court, Rickards Street, at 15:00 BST.
Areas of the town have been cordoned off, including near Pontypridd Rugby Club where officers conducted a search.
Det Supt Paul Hurley said: "We would like to speak to anybody who thinks they may have information that can help our investigation. No matter how insignificant the information may seem, we would like people to contact us.
"In particular, we want to speak to anyone who noticed anything suspicious in the vicinity of Andrews Court, Rickards Street, were the body was found, and also to anyone who may have seen something suspicious near the rugby ground on Sardis Road in the past couple of days."
Police said investigations were ongoing to confirm the identity of the body.
In a statement, Pontypridd Rugby Club said: "Supporters, partners and neighbours of Pontypridd RFC are advised that the Sardis Road stadium is currently not accessible. This is due to a police investigation into a major incident in the vicinity.
"The club will keep all concerned informed regarding access to the Sardis Road stadium as further information is received from the relevant authorities."
The National Union of Teachers says schools will face "terrible cuts" if the incoming government does not deal with rising financial pressures.
Both Labour and the Conservatives say they will protect schools spending.
But agreed rises in pay, pension and national insurance contributions will place extra pressures on school budgets along with rising pupil numbers.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies has estimated that schools could face up to a 12% shortfall on their budgets.
NUT deputy general secretary Kevin Courtney said the consequences for schools would be "dramatic", with teaching jobs lost and opportunities narrowed.
Speaking as the delegates gathered for the NUT conference in Harrogate, Mr Courtney said: "We have to think there will be redundancies in schools as a result.
"We think it is a very difficult situation for schools in the next year.
"This can't be right. What we are looking for is the parties to say they will put enough money in."
The NUT said it intended to hold urgent talks with whichever party or parties form a government after the general election in May before seeking industrial action.
But a motion to be debated by the conference says that "if no progress is made in talks with the new government on the issue of funding" the union should be prepared take strike action.
The timing for the ballot is not decided, but if delegates back the motion due to be held on Sunday, industrial action seems unlikely before the autumn term.
Labour has said it would protect the schools budget, from three- to 19-year-olds in line with inflation, while the Conservative have promised to protect per pupil funding in cash terms but not accounting for inflation.
Liberal Democrats have pledged to protect school, early years and college funding in real terms.
"You can't raise standards; attract, retain and reward great teachers, and cut the attainment gap between richer and poorer pupils if schools are starved of cash," said a Liberal Democrat spokesman.
If the motion is backed on Sunday, it will require the NUT to work with other unions to "prepare for and ballot for a national campaign of strike and non-strike action" on the "impact of cuts on pay and working conditions".
Republican President-elect Mr Trump won the election by winning a majority of the electoral college votes, and he will be inaugurated in January.
But with votes still being counted, two weeks on, the Cook Political Report has his tally at 62.2m and hers at 64.2m.
It is the fifth time the winner of the popular vote has lost the election.
In 2000, Democrat Al Gore's final lead over George W Bush, who won the election after a prolonged legal challenge, was nearly 544,000.
The Supreme Court ultimately decided that election by awarding Mr Bush a win in the contested state of Florida.
This year, Mrs Clinton scored large tallies in states like California but Mr Trump won most of the so-called swing states, which ultimately decide the outcome of elections.
The electoral college system favours candidates who win by a small margin in lots of states over ones that win by a landslide in just a few.
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A group of academics, lawyers and data experts is also trying to persuade the Clinton team to join their effort to investigate the results in three states to check there was no foreign computer hacking that manipulated the outcome.
They are curious why Ms Clinton performed worse in counties that relied on electronic voting machines compared to paper ballots and optical scanners.
But her campaign has not indicated any interest in joining a fight for a recount.
The Green party candidate, Jill Stein, is raising funds to request a recount in the same states - Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, all won by Mr Trump.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has issued a Thanksgiving message in which he urged the country to join his effort to "rebuild the country" and heal after a bruising and bitter election campaign.
"Emotions are raw and tensions just don't heal overnight," he said.
"It doesn't go quickly, unfortunately, but we have before us the chance now to make history together to bring real change to Washington, real safety to our cities, and real prosperity to our communities, including our inner cities."
On Wednesday, Mr Trump made two more appointments to his new government - Nikki Haley as ambassador to the UN and Betsy DeVos as education secretary.
He was interviewed by the New York Times on Tuesday, and said his sprawling global business empire would provide no conflict of interest when he assumes power.
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"We'll have to see," said Loach, 77, noting that filmmaking requires "a physical stamina" that tails off "when you get into the wrong end of the 70s".
All the same, he added, "it's not a privilege that you give up lightly".
Loach won an Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, recognising films such as Kes and Cathy Come Home.
He was also celebrated with a gala screening of Raining Stones, a 1993 film about a poverty-stricken suburban family that Loach said was "still relevant" and, despite the subject, "quite a cheerful film".
The director has spent a lifetime battling to make uncompromising films, often focusing on Britain and Ireland's overlooked underclasses.
The Oxford University graduate began his film career in what was known as "kitchen-sink" realism.
He came to prominence in 1966 with Cathy Come Home, a Jeremy Sandford television play about a family's slide into poverty and homelessness.
Broadcast on the BBC, it sparked outrage at UK housing standards and led, indirectly, to the establishment of the housing charity Shelter.
"It contributed to changing the law," Loach told his audience in Berlin, but added: "The grander the theme the less chance you have of an immediate response. It's more like contributing to a discussion and adding one small voice to the rest of the noise that is out there."
Kes, released in 1969, was his first major feature film. The story of an abused teenager and his falcon, it remains one of the director's best-known works in the UK.
Since then, he has made more than 30 films, and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2006 for The Wind that Shakes the Barley, about Ireland's struggle for independence.
It was his seventh entry for the festival's top film prize, but his first win. He previously won the jury prize in 1990 for Hidden Agenda, about a British army shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland.
Asked in Berlin about some of his more recent films, Loach said he had particularly enjoyed Looking for Eric, a 2009 movie about a postman who idolises Eric Cantona and receives "life coaching" from the French footballer.
He said that he and his screenwriter Paul Laverty had deliberately given difficult dialogue to Cantona, who plays himself in the movie.
One example was: "He who serves thistles shall reap prickles."
"Try saying that if you speak French as your native language," Loach laughed. "It was a cruel trick on the great man but he came up smiling."
Loach's next film is Jimmy's Hall, about James Gralton, the Irish communist leader who set up a dance hall in County Leitrim, which he used to disseminate his political views.
His long-time producer, Rebecca O'Brien, told ScreenDaily last year that the movie would probably be his last.
"This is probably the last narrative feature for Ken," O'Brien said.
"It's such a huge operation and Ken doesn't sit in a director's chair, telling people what to do. He runs around. It requires a lot of physical and mental stamina."
"Realistically, I'd be very surprised if we made another feature after this one."
O'Brien continued: "There are a few documentary ideas kicking around, and that will probably be the way to go.
"I think we should go out while we're on top."
The Berlin Film Festival continues this weekend with the premiere of literary adaptation The 100 Year-Old Man who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared; and a screening of the first two episodes of Netflix's political drama House Of Cards.
It culminates with an awards ceremony on Sunday, where British actor George MacKay (Birdsong, Sunshine On Leith) will receive a Shooting Star Award.
Last year, the festival's main prize was awarded to Romanian film Child's Pose.
There had been fears the sector faced a shortage as a large number of midwives approached retirement.
But Helen Rogers, the Royal College of Midwives' director for Wales, said TV shows like One Born Every Minute had increased demand on student places.
The Welsh Government said this September's intake would be a "record high".
In September, 134 student midwives will start training after the Welsh Government commissioned a 40% increase in places as part of a £95m package to boost NHS recruitment.
The number of registered midwives working in the Welsh NHS has steadily increased since 2013, reaching 1,333 in September 2016.
But training places for students had remained static since the start of the 2014 academic year - with 93 places for the whole of Wales.
Ms Rogers said the increase in student places was great news for the profession, which the RCM had warned was on the brink of a shortage with about 35% of midwives nearing retirement.
She said while demand for midwifery had always been high, shows like Channel 4's One Born Every Minute and BBC One's Call the Midwife had led to an increase in student applications in recent years, with about 500 applications for every 20 places.
Cardiff University received 712 applications for 38 midwifery places starting in September 2017, while Swansea University had 504 applications for its 33 places.
While a bursary for student nurses and midwives has been scrapped in England, in Wales it has been maintained - provided the student remains in Wales for two years after they qualify.
Ms Rogers said the issue was now ensuring placements were ready for the influx in students and maintaining the numbers in future years.
"We have seen numbers yo-yo - even if we get loads of students, it puts a strain on the service as they need mentoring and placements," she said.
"If we are increasing the numbers in a sustainable way then that is great, we are showing we do need these midwives, we need them to be put into training now and we need these numbers maintained."
Ms Rogers said the demand on hospital departments meant women were often seen by more than one midwife, leading to continuity of care issues.
"They are often pulled out of the community to go into a busy hospital department; that is not desirable or appropriate," she said.
The Welsh Government said the number of student places for training in midwifery this September were the highest on record.
A spokeswoman said: "The numbers are decided upon following a long-established process based on robust workforce planning each year."
Robin Shahini told Vice News in a telephone interview that he had "just laughed" after hearing the sentence.
The 46-year-old graduate student from in San Diego was held in July while visiting his sick mother in Iran.
Iranian judiciary officials have so far not confirmed the sentence.
Last week, two other Iranian-Americans were convicted on similar charges.
Siamak Namazi, a Dubai-based businessman, and his 80-year-old father Baquer were given 10-year jail terms.
A British-Iranian charity worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, was imprisoned on secret charges last month.
In the interview with Vice News from prison, Mr Shahini said his arrest by Revolutionary Guards personnel in Gorgan, about 300km (185 miles) north-east of Tehran, on 11 July was a "terrifying moment".
"They blindfolded me and they took me to the custody and I did not know where I was," he said. "They were interrogating me every morning, every afternoon, and I was always by myself in my cell."
Mr Shahini, who emigrated to the US in 2000, denied collaborating with a hostile government, but admitted supporting the mass protests that broke out in Iran in 2009 after the disputed re-election of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"Whatever information they had is all the pictures I posted in Facebook, in my web blog, and they use all those evidence to accuse me," he said.
His trial took place last week, and he was convicted on Saturday after a three-hour court proceeding, the Los Angeles Times quoted him as saying on Tuesday.
Mr Shahini said he planned to go on hunger strike until he was released.
The US state department said it was "troubled" by the reported sentence.
"We reaffirm our calls on Iran to respect and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, cease arbitrary and politically motivated detentions and ensure fair and transparent judicial proceedings," it told the Associated Press news agency.
A number of Iranians with dual US, British and Canadian citizenship have been imprisoned since a nuclear deal agreed with world powers took effect in January.
The accord has yet to yield significant economic benefits for Iran, and hardliners are reportedly determined not to let it lead to greater rapprochement with the US.
The plan for the link between the A96 and Elgin's Edgar Road retail park was turned down by seven votes to six by the planning committee in November.
Officials have set out a new timetable for the road in a submission to the Scottish government.
They say construction could begin in the spring of 2016.
The road could be completed the following year.
The full council had reaffirmed its commitment to the project after the link road was rejected.
It is aimed at relieving congestion in the town.
However many residents opposed the development, on cost and safety grounds.
The group will invest £70m in the new shops, which will be spread throughout London, south-east England, Yorkshire and Scotland.
The Co-op is expecting to open five stores in London by the end of March.
The company is entering the final stretch of a three-year turnaround programme following a period of turmoil mainly involving its banking group.
Stuart Hookins, property portfolio and development director at the Co-op, said: "Whilst other retailers are scaling back their expansion plans, the Co-op continues to open new convenience stores.
"We opened 100 stores in 2016, and we plan to open hundreds more new stores over the next few years."
It means the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) would have the ability to listen to calls, read messages and view financial transactions.
But the body says the move is not about mass surveillance and is necessary in its fight against counterfeit phones.
Such handsets cannot be tracked and are often used by criminals.
The BBC's Wanyama wa Chebusiri in the capital, Nairobi, says the regulator's proposal would see more than 30 million mobile phone owners in Kenya lose their privacy and confidentiality.
The CA's action sparked outrage when news of the plan was leaked on Friday.
The Consumer Federation of Kenya (COFEK), which lobbies on behalf of customers, called the timing of the order "suspicious".
"Coming in an election year, we are so suspicious that this is bound to be politicised and it is something that has shown that the government has something to hide," said the federation's general secretary, Stephen Mutoro.
His organisation would go to "all lengths" to stop the programme, he said.
The country's biggest telecoms operator, Safaricom, also gave its reaction, saying it has "strong reservations" about the move.
Stephen Chege, Safaricom's corporate affairs director, told Reuters that the system needed to be "subjected to the relevant public debate as it touches on confidential communications belonging to our customers".
The Communications Authority has dismissed mobile companies' concerns and say that the operators had been involved in discussions about deploying the system since last year.
CA director general Francis Wangusi also condemned the circulation of what it called "misleading information" about its intentions.
The issue of counterfeit phones has been a main concern for authorities.
Many are imported from Asia, and regulators say are difficult to track as they lack authentic International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers.
In leaked letter to the three biggest mobile phone providers, Safaricom, Airtel and Orange, the regulator asks for their contractor to be allowed on to the companies' sites to install a snooping device, called a Device Management System (DMS), from next week.
The regulator has cracked down on counterfeit mobile phones in the past - switching off 1.5 million fake phones in 2012.
But it says consumers are still buying them and so this is part of its efforts to tackle the problem.
Many Kenyans have turned to Twitter under the hashtags #MobilePrivacyIsMyRight and #MobilePhoneSpying to criticise the announcement.
They were posted in Marham Close, Sneinton, advising drivers they could be fined £120 or have their vehicles removed by "a toe truck" [sic].
The letters claimed to have been sent by the council.
Nottingham City Council said it was aware of the "fake" letters and police advised the notices were "not genuine".
Nottinghamshire Police said it had also received one report of criminal damage to a car parked in the road.
David Mellen, the councillor for Sneinton, said the resident was clearly "annoyed" but should not have taken matters in to their own hands.
He said: "They've done their homework... yes, the letter might look official, but without anything on the roads, a sign and markings, then it won't be effective."
In the letters, the writer claims that double yellow lines will soon be applied to the road due to "many complaints of cars being parked and left while owners are working to avoiding paying for parking [sic]".
However, the city council said they had received "no complaints" from residents about parking in Marham Close and had no plans for parking enforcement in the area.
A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said the force had sent letters to residents informing them the notices were "not genuine" and described the reported criminal damage incident as "unacceptable".
But aside from Ian Holloway's homecoming at QPR and the sight of ex-Leeds United manager Steve Evans making structural changes at his new club, there was also the player maintaining a strong family tradition from the penalty spot.
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On the face of it, Tom Ince had a cracking afternoon as in-form Derby County treated their fans to a third successive win and a fourth victory in six games under returning head coach Steve McClaren.
Former England Under-21 winger Ince has been key to that run, scoring two goals in the win over Wolves last time out and looking like a completely different player to the one who failed to score in 11 games under former boss Nigel Pearson.
But two goals and a man-of the match display against an outclassed Rotherham side do not tell the full story.
The son of ex-England, Liverpool and Manchester United midfielder Paul managed to miss two penalties, albeit he scored on the rebound after his first spot-kick was saved.
Ince junior is only keeping things in the family though, so will probably not get too much ribbing about his penalty-taking prowess from his old man - Paul having missed a shootout spot-kick in England's 1998 World Cup loss to Argentina.
Steve Evans has been a controversial and often divisive figure during his management career.
But you cannot fault his promotion record - and you certainly cannot accuse of him being shy and unwilling to take flak. In fact, he seems to enjoy it.
Evans, who has won nine promotions during his time as a boss, started life in charge of Mansfield Town with a mightily impressive 3-1 victory over his former club Crawley Town.
His first big decision, a couple of days after being appointed, was to relocate the dugouts so the managers at the One-Call Stadium were bang in the thick of things.
Being away from the endless expertise dished out by fans was far from ideal, and Evans did not like the lack of atmosphere on previous visits - so he changed it.
And he might not need to worry about getting abuse if he carries on winning.
Another manager never short of a word or two is QPR's returning boss Ian Holloway. Surely nothing would spoil his homecoming? And so it proved with a 2-1 home win over Norwich.
But the second tier of English football is a notoriously fickle place to be. The Championship has already seen seven managers get the chop this season and we are yet to reach December.
Holloway is back at the club he left in 2006, and with the charm offensive in full swing, you can only make yourself even more popular if you win your first match.
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New Wolves boss Paul Lambert is also no stranger to the Championship and he was back in the dugout to oversee the 0-0 draw against Preston at Deepdale.
The Scot has always been far more conservative than Holloway when it comes to shouting the odds and maybe a more gentle introduction and a respectable 0-0 draw was a fittingly understated way to start his reign.
It was Ollie's day.
A journey of around 700 miles to watch your beloved team in action means it is vital to make the most of every second to get value for money on the considerable time invested.
The 150 Exeter City fans who made the long trip to Carlisle United's Brunton Park would have been even more eager to savour what looked like being a fine 2-1 victory - just their sixth in League Two this season - as the game entered the 89th minute.
As it turned out, leaving early would have been for the best and saved a whole heap of pain because it all went very wrong after that.
Those on their way would have missed Carlisle's 89th-minute equaliser - a Shaun Miller header.
But it got worse - much worse - because in the seventh minute of added time, Charlie Wyke crashed home a winner for the Cumbrians.
To add insult to injury time, the Grecians dropped to the bottom of League Two following Newport County's victory at Notts County.
If you left at 2-1 up, ignorance is bliss.
The only certainties in life are death and taxes. And now, it seems if you are a Bury fan, is losing to AFC Wimbledon.
A 5-0 FA Cup first-round replay defeat by Wimbledon on Tuesday, their third meeting and second loss to the Londoners in a month, cost David Flitcroft his job as manager.
Four days later, with Ryan Kidd and Chris Brass in temporary charge, they were at least one goal better off in a League One contest as they lost 5-1 on their return to Kingsmeadow.
That is very much the 'Groundhog Day' scenario you would be keen to avoid.
So, to take a tally of how things stand for the newest and probably most unlikely north v south rivalry, it is 14-4 after 376 minutes football spread over 33 days. Oh, and of course Bury are one manager worse off.
As for Bury's increasingly atrocious run of form, defeat was their 10th in 12 games in all competitions - a run that followed six straight wins.
Not surprisingly, Brass admits it has been a "very tough" week.
"It won't be a quick fix," he told BBC Radio Manchester. "The answers will come from the players, they are the ones that cross the white line and there was a little honesty after the match - that is what was needed.
"Sometimes it is not just me, not just the manager, not just voices - the actual voice, fight and desire has to come from within. As a player you need it."
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Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer went missing from a shower block at a New South Wales beach in 1970.
A 63-year-old man, originally from Britain, was arrested in Melbourne on Wednesday. Detectives said he would be charged with abduction and murder.
Despite the breakthrough, police doubt Cheryl's body will ever be found.
Cheryl disappeared from Fairy Meadow beach in Wollongong, a city south of Sydney, on the afternoon of 12 January 1970.
She was there with her mother, Carole, and her brothers Ricki, seven, Stephen, five, and Paul, four.
The family had only recently emigrated to Melbourne from Bristol, in south-west England.
When the weather worsened, Mrs Grimmer sent the children to shower at the public block about 100m (328ft) away.
Moments later, Ricki ran back and reported Cheryl would not emerge from the girls' change room. She was never seen again.
"She was gone in just a minute or two," Ricki Grimmer said last year.
"It's something I still live with every day."
Cheryl's parents have since died, never knowing what happened.
Cheryl's disappearance sparked a massive search at the time, but it failed to provide a breakthrough.
Last year, detectives re-examined the case and revealed they had a new clue. Three witnesses had said they saw a teenager "loitering" near the scene.
On Wednesday, detectives held a man in custody after he went to a police station in Frankston, in outer Melbourne, for questioning.
Originally from the UK, the man would have been 16 in 1970.
Det Insp Brad Ainsworth, from Wollongong police, confirmed the man "was a person of interest" in the initial investigation almost 50 years ago.
The detective said he doubted Cheryl's body would ever be found.
"I'm not going to get into the specifics, of the actual details of the offences but I can say that they are quite horrific," he said.
The man in custody is expected to appear in a Wollongong court on Friday.
Last year a total of 36 people died from fires in the capital compared with 47 fatalities five years ago.
The fire brigade said the improvement was largely down to better fire education among the public.
There were 20,770 fires in London last year down 25% on 2011/12, but eight more deaths from deliberate fires.
Deaths from deliberate fires stand at 11 so far this year compared with three in 2014/15.
London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson said: "The downward trend in fires and fire deaths is a testament to the incredible hard work of our fire fighters in carrying out almost 87,000 home fire safety visits last year."
Mr Dobson cautioned against complacency and said: "Far too many old and vulnerable people are dying unnecessarily in avoidable fires either because they have mobility issues and may struggle to raise the alarm or their home lacks appropriate fire detection."
In nearly half of fire deaths in the capital there was a delay in calling 999. He said this made fire safety systems such as automatic sprinklers, a monitoring alarm system called Telecare and flame retardant bedding extremely important.
50%
of victims were aged over 70
66%
of those who died lived alone
33% of victims had mental health issues or were in receipt of care
13 of fatal fires were caused by smoking
As part of the additional savings from last year's budget the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority approved a one-off £1m investment to install those fire safety systems in the homes of London's most vulnerable, to help reduce the number of fires and fire deaths.
Five year trend figures show that accidental fire deaths in the home are down 36% and accidental house fires are down 15% compared to 2011/12 figures.
Deaths from deliberate fires including suicide attempts have increased and although the brigade works with partner agencies to help prevent these, deaths from deliberate fires are much harder for the fire brigade to influence.
Mr Cameron has begun speaking at the party's spring forum, and is due to say more hospitals must provide top-level treatment at the weekend.
The move, aimed at cutting weekend mortality rates, builds on plans set out by health service managers.
Labour said Tory plans for "extreme" spending cuts threatened the NHS.
It has put the health service at the forefront of its own election campaign, with leader Ed Miliband promising on Friday to cap the amount of profit private firms can make from the NHS in England.
Speaking at the forum in Manchester later, Mr Cameron will warn that figures show patients are "more likely to die" if they are admitted at weekends.
Official studies suggest mortality rates for those admitted on Saturdays and Sundays are 11% and 16% higher respectively than for those admitted on Wednesdays.
While Mr Cameron will praise hospitals already providing top-level weekend services, he will say coverage is often patchy, with some key resources "not up and running and key decision-makers not always there".
Hospitals across England, he will say, should be expected to offer consultant-level services at the weekend, particularly in accident and emergency, and in supporting urgent care services such as diagnostics.
Mr Cameron will say: "Illness does not respect working hours. Heart attacks, major accidents, babies - these things don't just come from nine to five.
"With a future Conservative government, we would have a truly seven-day NHS.
"Already millions of people can see a GP seven days a week but by 2020 I want this for everyone... [to be] the first country in the world to make it happen."
This, he will say, will reduce the anxiety for patients and help the NHS to meet the growing demand from an ageing population.
By Ben Wright, BBC political correspondent
On the eve of the campaign proper, David Cameron has come to a city with no Conservative MPs to talk about a subject Labour claims as its own.
An odd choice? Tory strategists insist not.
Not far from here, the Conservatives hold marginal seats such as Bury North. Mr Cameron's hopes of returning to Downing Street hinge on keeping those and winning others.
This spring forum is about fighting back against Labour on the NHS.
Polls show a clear, large consistent lead for Ed Miliband's party on the NHS. It is the foundation stone of Labour's campaign.
But the Conservatives are desperate to chip away at it with promises of protected real terms increases in funding and an extra £2bn a year.
The Conservatives are committing to providing full weekend hospital care in England - in line with the NHS's own five-year plan.
The big question of course is 'where will the money come from?', but this is about politics.
This is an attempt to try to neutralise the NHS and enable the Conservatives to return to what they want to be talking about - the economy.
Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow health secretary, said the plans were not credible without investment in extra NHS staff.
"With the NHS in increasing financial distress, David Cameron must set out clearly how it will be paid for," he said.
"His extreme plans for spending cuts will mean they won't be able to protect the NHS."
Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's medical director, has said the case for seven-day healthcare is "absolutely compelling, both clinically and morally".
But Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the British Medical Association, said that the Conservatives' funding commitment was not even enough to maintain existing services, and that a funding gap of up to £30bn a year was scheduled to open up under current spending plans.
"The £2bn extra funding that has been pledged falls far short of what is needed to deliver existing services, let alone fund additional care," he said. "
"Without a detailed, fully-costed plan to provide the staff and resources needed to deliver more seven-day services, this is at best an empty pledge and at worst shameless political game-playing with the NHS ahead of the election."
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said government reforms of the NHS were saving £1.5bn a year but that the NHS "will need more money".
He added: "The NHS themselves have done the sums and they say if we don't change the way we work, we will need an extra £30bn a year by 2020.
"They say that sum can be reduced with efficiency changes, and we're backing that plan."
New clinical standards set out in 2013 require hospitals to provide seven-day access to diagnostic tests, such as X-rays, ultrasound, MRI scans and pathology, as well as providing access to multi-disciplinary teams, which include expert nurses and physiotherapists.
In its blueprint for services over the next five years, published last October, NHS England said hospital patients should have access to seven-day services by 2020 - "where this makes a clinical difference to outcomes".
At the same time, NHS England warned the health service could face an £8bn shortfall in funding by 2020.
The Conservatives have pledged to guarantee a real-term increase in funding for the NHS during the next Parliament, extending the ring-fence in place for the past five years.
Labour has said it will spend £2.5bn more than its opponents.
Bega said it would acquire Vegemite, ZoOSH mayonnaise and Bonox beef extract from Mondelez International.
The deal will also give the dairy producer the right to use the Kraft brand under licence.
Mondelez announced it would now focus on "core brands" in Australia and New Zealand including Cadbury and Oreos.
Vegemite - a dark-coloured, Vitamin-B rich, bitter but apparently addictive yeast extract - is a national icon.
Fans of Vegemite spread it on sandwiches or toast, and sometimes mix it with cheese, salad and peanut butter.
"The wonderful heritage and values that Vegemite represents and its importance to Australian culture makes its combination with Bega Cheese truly exciting," Bega executive chairman Barry Irvin said.
For decades, Australians bemoaned the loss the brand to the US-owned Kraft in 1935, though it is still manufactured in Port Melbourne, Victoria.
Mondelez took control of the brand in 2012 after a restructuring at Kraft.
Mondelez International vice president Amanda Banfield said: "It's been a privilege stewarding this brand, which is found in almost every Australian household and is part of the fabric of the nation."
Arnis Zalkalns was held in 2009 on suspicion of indecent assault, but faced no further action.
He became the prime suspect in Alice's murder, after she disappeared in 2014.
The inquest is examining why he was allowed to live unchecked in the UK.
It is also looking at whether failures by the government and the police contributed to her death.
Zalkalns, a Latvian national who first came to the UK in 2007, had been convicted of murdering his wife in his native country.
When he first came to the attention of UK police two years later, Det Supt Michael Forteath said, there was "no routine checking of individuals entering the UK".
Officers could have made a check, he said, but there was no policy, and the process was not widely known about.
He said there were systems in place to ask for records information and intelligence from a suspect's country of origin, but checks were only done on around 1 in 14 suspects.
"You would have to know you could undertake the check," he said. "You have to know how, what forms to use, to send to the central authority."
"You would have to believe the information you were asking for would have come back in enough time to be of use in the case you were dealing with."
During the hunt for Alice, who disappeared on 28 August 2014, police did carry out an initial criminal record check of Zalkalns' history and nothing came back.
In September, after Arnis Zalkalns had become a suspect in Alice's disappearance, an initial check of his Latvian records came back with nothing because his murder conviction was considered "spent", the court heard.
Vincent Williams, representing the Met, said the policy had now changed and the number of staff employed by the ACRO Criminal Record Office to handle criminal checks had grown from five in 2009 to 130 last year.
The jury were told that requests for criminal records had increased so that 80% of foreign suspects were now checked.
Alice's body was found by a search team in the River Brent, near her home in Hanwell, west London on the 30 September 2014.
The inquest has already heard evidence that she had been sexually assaulted and asphyxiated.
Zalkalns was found hanged a few miles from where her body was found.
On Monday Alice's mother said she was stunned Zalkalns was not being monitored.
Reading from a prepared statement at the Royal Courts of Justice, Rosalind Hodgkiss said the family wanted to "establish whether or not the systems for monitoring foreign offenders and cross-border sharing of information are robust".
She added: "We appreciate that they may have changed significantly, but we remain stunned that a foreign national with a conviction for murder was not monitored, or even known about in any way.
"This has destroyed much of our faith in our country's ability to protect its citizens.
"The Home Office and the police forces nationwide should be doing everything they can to ensure that this should not be allowed to happen again."
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch report into the collision said the driver, who had been involved in eight previous incidents, did not brake quickly enough.
But it also said the pedestrian made no effort to move away from the tram.
A Transport for Greater Manchester statement said Metrolink had an "excellent" safety record.
The pedestrian, who was "facing away" from the tram, was struck in Market Street at about 11:13 BST on 12 May 2015, despite the driver sounding his whistle.
The RAIB said: "The driver may have been distracted by his own thoughts. This is sometimes referred to as 'mind-wandering' or daydreaming."
The report found the driver had been involved in four collisions with vehicles and four other "operating incidents" since he joined Metrolink in 2003.
He pleaded guilty to driving without due care attention over the May crash and had been disciplined by his bosses.
He was found to be not at fault for three of the collisions and two of the other incidents.
The report stated that although the driver had been involved in a "relatively high" number of incidents, Metrolink had advised that his record "had not given any particular cause for concern".
However, it highlighted the importance of tram drivers' appraisals in order to identify "any issues that might affect their driving performance".
The report also recommended "improved care" for drivers involved in an accident, and further examination of "the need for additional risk control measures in the Piccadilly Gardens area".
Chris Thorpe, TfGM's safety and assurance manager, said: "We have met with the RAIB on a number of occasions throughout the investigation and continue to liaise with them on this matter."
Researchers believe that since 2010 an average of nearly 35,000 elephants have been killed in Africa every year.
Elephants are being killed by poachers who want their tusks. They contain a material called ivory which is used to make ornaments in parts of Asia.
The researchers warn that if this continues to happen, the animals could be wiped out in 100 years.
The report is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Selling ivory between countries was made illegal in 1989.
The illegal trade in elephant tusks has soared in recent years, and a kilogram of ivory is now worth thousands of dollars.
Pictures: The illegal trade in elephant ivory
Much of the demand for ivory is coming from Asia, where it is used to make specially designed ornaments and expensive gifts.
China's government says ivory carving is an ancient art it wants to keep alive.
George Wittemyer, from Colorado State University and who worked on the report, said: "We are shredding the fabric of elephant society and exterminating populations across the continent."
Conservationists say urgent action is now needed to protect the elephant in Africa.
The 21-year-old has signed for the Scottish Premiership club after being released by Peterborough United.
He has played for Ivory Coast Under-20s but has dual nationality and can still choose at senior international level.
"I am waiting for my chance, whether it is from the first team in Africa or Italy," he told BBC Scotland.
"The best thing is to work hard and score a lot of goals."
Born in Anguededou Songon, Coulibaly moved to Italy aged 13 to join his father, who had married an Italian.
But it was while representing his homeland that he was compared to compatriot and former Chelsea striker Drogba.
"They started calling me the new Drogba after the Under-17 World Cup," he said.
"But he is a legend and it would just be nice just to meet him."
Coulibaly was on the books of Seina before moving to Tottenham Hotspur as a teenager.
After a loan spell with Grosseto, he switched permanently to Bari and had another loan term with Pistoiese before signing for Peterborough last summer.
He scored five goals in 32 appearances for the League One Posh but ended the season in the division below, finding the net once in six games while on loan with Newport County.
Coulibaly was one of 11 signings announced in one day as manager Lee Clark rebuilds his Kilmarnock squad.
"It is a good challenge for me and a good adventure," he said.
Fellow new recruit Callum McFadzean has already switched allegiances, having played for Scotland Under-21s after having represented England at under-16 level.
Now the 22-year-old Waterthorpe-born midfielder is looking forward to playing north of the border for the first time after leaving Sheffield United.
"When David Weir was at Sheffield United, he asked if I had any Scottish relations and I said my grandad - and he thought I would be a great asset to Scotland and it just materialised from there," McFadzean explained.
Having come through the Blades' youth ranks, he only managed 23 appearances for the League One club and had loan spells with Chesterfield, Burton Albion then, last season, Stevenage in League Two.
"I had some disappointing seasons, missing out on promotion and it just didn't work out," he said. "I had my chances and then a new manager would come in and I had to start again."
McFadzean says that his ability to play several positions should help him win regular football at Rugby Park.
"Just a hard-working player who likes to get forward but also tracks back," he said when asked to describe himself. "A team player, but I obviously want to do well for myself as well.
"I think I am a versatile player, so you will see me in several positions over the season.
"I have played at the top of the diamond, left and right, at left-back and I've played at right-back as well."
Keith Passmore's body was found at a property in Clifton Road, Burnley shortly after 18:30 GMT on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Paul Howarth, 47, of Clifton Road and Gary Burley, 44, of Herbert Road, Burnley, are due to appear before Burnley Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
Mr Burley has also been charged with making threats to kill.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Passmore died from multiple stab wounds.
The families are staying in a special welcome centre before moving to their new homes in Londonderry next week.
Fifty-seven refugees were expected on Thursday, but ten people, made up of two families, were unable to travel.
Neill McKittrick, from the Red Cross, said they were "completely exhausted" but relieved.
"You could see the weight coming of their shoulders as they walked to meet you. They're just so grateful to be safe.
"At the last minute we found out that two (families) weren't able to travel.
"The two families that didn't come, and we're not exactly sure the reasons for that, our thoughts were with them during the day as well."
A total of 98 refugees have now arrived in Northern Ireland since the conflict in Syria. The first group of Syrian refugees arrived in December 2015.
It is expected that those original families who arrived before Christmas will meet the new families on Monday.
Mr McKittrick said the families who arrived on Thursday communicate mostly through "smiles, hugs and handshakes".
"In the main their English is quite limited but you would be amazed at how quickly they pick it up.
"Through the use of translators we can communicate very well with them."
The families are now learning about Northern Ireland, about their rights and entitlements.
They will also meet the police and find out more about Derry where they will eventually live.
Senior church leaders in Derry have already been welcoming the Syrian families.
Most of the new refugees come from the cities of Aleppo and Homs in northern Syria.
Both cities have seen some of the heaviest fighting and are key battlegrounds in the Syrian civil war.
The former army paratrooper first came to prominence as a leader of a failed coup in 1992.
Six years later, he caused a seismic shift in Venezuelan politics, riding a wave of popular outrage at the traditional political elite to win the presidency.
Since then, Mr Chavez has won a series of elections and referendums, including one in 2009 which abolished term limits for all elected officials, including the president.
President Chavez argues that he needs more time for Venezuela's socialist revolution to take root.
His supporters say he speaks for the poor; his critics say he has become increasingly autocratic.
In May 2012, Mr Chavez said he had recovered from an unspecified cancer, after undergoing surgery and chemotherapy in 2011 and a further operation in February 2012.
However, in December 2012, he announced he needed further cancer surgery in Cuba, and named his Vice-President, Nicolas Maduro, as his preferred successor should the need arise.
Since then he has struggled to recover and remained out of public view, finally returning to Venezuela in February.
In February 1992, Mr Chavez led a doomed attempt to overthrow the government of President Carlos Andres Perez amid growing anger at economic austerity measures.
The foundations for that failed coup had been laid a decade earlier, when Mr Chavez and a group of fellow military officers founded a secret movement named after the South American independence leader Simon Bolivar.
The 1992 revolt by members of the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement claimed 18 lives and left 60 injured before Mr Chavez gave himself up.
He was languishing in a military jail when his associates tried again to seize power nine months later.
That second coup attempt, in November 1992, was crushed as well.
Mr Chavez spent two years in prison before being granted a pardon. He then relaunched his party as the Movement of the Fifth Republic and made the transition from soldier to politician.
By the time Mr Chavez was swept into power in the 1998 elections, the old Venezuelan order was falling apart.
Unlike most of its neighbours, the country had enjoyed an unbroken period of democratic government since 1958.
But the two main parties that had alternated in power stood accused of presiding over a corrupt system and squandering the country's vast oil wealth.
Mr Chavez promised "revolutionary" social policies, and constantly abused the "predatory oligarchs" of the establishment as corrupt servants of international capital.
Never missing an opportunity to address the nation, he once described oil executives as living in "luxury chalets where they perform orgies, drinking whisky".
Mr Chavez has also frequently clashed with church leaders, whom he accuses of neglecting the poor, siding with the opposition, and defending the rich.
"They do not walk in... the path of Christ," said Mr Chavez at one stage.
Relations with Washington reached a new low when he accused the Bush administration of "fighting terror with terror" during the war in Afghanistan after 11 September 2001.
Mr Chavez accused the US of being behind a short-lived coup that saw him removed from office for a couple of days in 2002.
He survived this episode and emerged strengthened two years later in a referendum on his leadership. He then went on to victory in the 2006 presidential election.
Mr Chavez's government has implemented a number of "missions" or social programmes, including education and health services for all. But poverty and unemployment are still widespread, despite the country's oil wealth.
Mr Chavez is renowned for his flamboyant public speaking style, which he has put to use in his weekly live TV programme, Alo Presidente (Hello President), in which he talks about his political ideas, interviews guests and sings and dances.
Some 92% of the 225 acute hospital trusts in England did not manage to run wards with their planned number of nurses during the day.
The figures, published by the NHS, show that hospitals in England are falling short of their own targets for levels of safe staffing.
The Department of Health said staffing was a priority.
Analysis by the Health Service Journal shows average staffing levels across the 225 acute hospital sites in August was worse compared with data for January when 85% of hospitals missed their staffing targets for nurses working during the day.
The figures also showed 81% of hospitals failed to have enough registered nurses working at night.
Some 79% of hospitals missed their target for registered nurse staffing across both day and night.
Hospitals have been required to publish monthly data on whether they have enough nurses on wards since April 2014.
It followed a report into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, which was heavily criticised for failings of case that may have contributed to unnecessary deaths.
Many hospitals have had to boost their nurse numbers by recruiting overseas, and spending on agency staff has contributed to NHS deficits.
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The pair entered a house in Dorothy Road, Leicester, at about 10:30 BST on Wednesday, and attacked the man who lived there.
They stole a safe containing cash, watches and other items before leaving in a van.
Leicestershire Police said they did not believe the raid was racially or religiously-motivated.
A video filmed by a neighbour and posted on Facebook appears to show the pair arriving at the house.
Det Con Nev Walker said: "We are keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time and saw the men entering the house, loitering in the area or making off in the van.
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"Small details will help us piece together information and could prove vital in bringing those responsible for this incident to justice."
The Australia Twenty20 captain picked up the foot injury during the T20 Blast victory over Durham on Friday.
The 28-year-old, who has scored 76 runs in six T20 Blast matches this year, underwent hamstring surgery in April.
"In a worst-case scenario, it could be the end of the season for him," director of cricket Martyn Moxon told the club website.
"He set off to run for a ball in the field on Friday and he felt a little crack in his foot.
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New Zealand's Kane Williamson will join the club for the final three games of the Championship campaign.
On a summer night in January, Sofia's family took her to a restaurant in Iraja, a suburb of Rio, where she could use the play area outdoors. It had a big, colourful slide, where children could climb up some stairs and come out through a tunnel to the ground.
From inside the restaurant, Sofia's parents watched their two-year-old daughter. The play area was protected from the street by a gate so, in a city with shocking levels of crime, families felt the children were relatively safe there.
Being safe in Rio is always a top concern. Iraja, a busy middle and lower middle-class neighbourhood of around 100,000 people in northern Rio, is surrounded by some of the city's most violent areas, and criminals are quite active there.
Like on that Saturday night. Police were sent to the streets next to the restaurant to investigate a car robbery, something frequent in that area: an average of four cars a day were robbed there in 2016.
Police officers had set up a barricade after identifying a suspect, but the man did not obey calls to stop and, according to reports, tried to escape.
A chase began.
Sofia's father, Felipe Amaral Fernandes, said she was especially happy on that night. "She had told my wife: 'Mummy, I'm very happy today'. She didn't even want to eat."
Herica, the mother, was proud of her daughter, who could already count from one to 10 in English. Sofia also enjoyed dancing to music clips in front of the television, and was in love with the pink, purple and blue scooter "Papai Noel", or Santa Claus, had given her last Christmas.
"She was smart, intense. Sometimes she didn't even want to sleep because she only wanted to enjoy herself," Ms Fernandes said. One time, she said, Sofia was asked about what she loved the most in her life. Sofia replied: "Enjoy myself".
Sofia was playing on the slide when the police chase neared the restaurant. At around 22:00, a shooting started.
The sound of gunfire was loud and close, and the families who were in the restaurant went to the play area to pick up their children. Sofia's parents, now also outside, waited for her to come through the slide. "I screamed 'Sofia, Sofia!'," Ms Fernandes said. But her daughter did not answer.
Sofia's father looked inside the tunnel, but she was not there. He went to the other side of the slide, and climbed it. "That's when I saw my daughter up there, motionless, bloodied. I broke into the toy, took her from there and ran."
Sofia had been shot in the face.
"I got desperate seeing my little daughter there. I felt impotent," said Mr Fernandes, a police officer. "I'm used to violence around me but I never thought this was going to happen to my daughter. When it happened I thought: 'My goodness, not with me'."
He carried Sofia in his arms. People in the restaurant stopped a police car that was passing nearby, and it took father and daughter to the hospital. The crowd watched in disbelief.
Shootouts are part of life in Rio.
Despite Brazil's tight gun laws, rights groups say millions of weapons are in the hands of criminals. Tougher regulations were approved in 2004, banning the carrying of guns in public and controlling illegal ownership. But activists say they are incapable of curbing illegal gun trade and that bandits have been largely unaffected.
The reasons for shootouts vary. Some are the result of clashes between rival criminals; others, of armed robberies, like the one in Iraja. But rights advocates say they mainly occur during police operations against heavily armed drug gangs in impoverished neighbourhoods, where some groups are the de-facto rulers.
And civilians often find themselves in the crossfire. "These police operations are badly planned. In many times they happen at daylight, in densely populated areas, with war weaponry being used," said Antonio Carlos Costa, president of Rio de Paz, or Rio of peace, a local human rights group.
Last year, researcher Cecilia Oliveira, who works with rights group Amnesty International, was looking for reliable data about shootouts in Rio. But numbers were hard to come by as there were no official statistics.
So last July, she helped create Fogo Cruzado, Portuguese for "crossfire", an app for people to report gunfire in their neighbourhoods. Between its launch and January this year, according to Amnesty, 50,000 people downloaded it.
The numbers gave a sense of the fear that millions of people live in: there were 2,517 notifications, an average of almost 14 a day. The reports included 539 deaths and 570 injured.
I was shocked by the numbers
Most alerts came from poor neighbourhoods and shantytowns, or favelas, places notorious for their violence. "I was shocked by the numbers. This level of violence is alarming for a city that is not in a war zone. And civilians are the most affected, their freedom and human rights are systematically violated," Ms Oliveira said.
She too blamed poor police operations against criminals for most of the shootouts. Interestingly, the data showed that the hardest-hit areas shared a common profile, she said. "It's very clear that the people being affected by this violence are young and black. You don't see this type of police operation in neighbourhoods that are not favelas."
Rio's military police rejected the criticism towards its operations, saying they are all "meticulously planned" to avoid casualties among civilians.
"In order to prevent criminal actions, systematic operations are needed in places where the criminal wave is more recurrent. And shootings against policemen when they enter these areas, in many cases, result in victims on both sides," they said in a statement to the BBC.
Lives are often put on hold, as basic services such as electricity, water and transport are frequently interrupted by shootings.
Rio's train operator said last year it was planning to stop services on one line indefinitely because of gun violence next to the tracks.
Shops and hospitals are also forced to shut. In 2011, a suspected drug trafficker who was exchanging fire with police stormed a public health clinic in an attempt to hide himself, terrifying patients inside - he was later arrested and nobody was hurt. The clinic then temporarily suspended works due to insecurity.
Schools and universities in dangerous neighbourhoods have often cancelled classes, sometimes for days, affecting thousands of students. In some areas, teachers and children were being taught at school how to look for cover in the case of gun fights.
Two years ago, shootings around some schools in Mare, one of Rio's most violent areas, were so frequent that teachers decided to cut the classes short: they would start later, at 08:00, and finish one hour earlier, at 15:30. That, they said, was because shootouts often occurred at 07:00, when police officers changed shifts.
"Civilians in Rio's favelas end up in the crossfire, being victims in their own houses. They are forced to live under these circumstances, which is absurd," said Ivan Marques, executive director of human rights group Instituto Sou da Paz.
"The anti-drug policy in Brazil chose this wrong option, of militarising the issue. You have an enemy, not a criminal. And this is the collateral effect of this war between police and the organised crime."
And then there are the stray bullets.
In 2003, Luciana Novaes was in the canteen at her university in a neighbourhood in northern Rio next to a favela, when a shootout erupted between drug traffickers and police. Shops nearby had closed because of the violence, but the university had not.
It was around 09:00. Ms Novaes, who was 19 at the time, was in a break between exams when a stray bullet hit her in the jaw. She said she could not miss the exam because of the scholarship she had from the university.
The bullet went on to injure her vertebrae, leaving her quadriplegic. "It's a very difficult situation. There is no day, no time, no place. I was inside the university when it happened. People usually avoid getting out at night, but it's risky at anytime," Ms Novaes said.
She spent a year and a half in the intensive care unit of a hospital, where doctors had put her chance of recovery at 1%. If Ms Novaes managed to survive, they said, she would be in a vegetative state for the rest of her life.
That did not quite happen. She slowly recovered her speech and the ability to eat. She is still dependent on mechanical ventilation and on two nurses, day and night. She also undergoes two physiotherapy sessions every day and two speech therapies a week - the university was forced by the Brazilian justice system to pay for her treatment.
And last year, at 33, she was elected the first ever paraplegic councilwoman for Rio - it was such a novelty that the historic building had to be adapted to her needs.
"What we're living in is calamity," Ms Novaes said. "People are crying out for help."
Hers is a remarkable case of overcoming the odds, but it is an exception. Brazil was the country with the largest number of deaths by stray bullets in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2014 and 2015, according to a United Nations report.
The study, which looked into online media reports, said there were 197 incidents, 98 dead and 115 injured - someone is considered a victim when they had no involvement or influence in the shooting.
Nothing new to the people of Rio. In the 1990s, incidents with stray bullets were so frequent that then-Mayor Cezar Maia famously said in a newspaper interview that the city had become a "tropical Bosnia".
We live in an environment of fear
Rio's geography, as Ms Novaes' case shows, is an unexpected contributing factor. Numerous favelas have been built on the hills that overlook the city, meaning that the violence up there, where many of the shootings take place, is felt by those sometimes in neighbourhoods metres away.
The most recent official statistics about stray bullets publicly available are from 2011, when five people died and 41 others were injured. But Rio de Paz, the NGO, has documented incidents involving children: in the past ten years, 31 died in the city, 18 of them between 2015 and 2017 alone.
"The shootings have a devastating impact. This is a generation that lives under threat, under fear of seeing themselves in the crossfire," Mr Costa, from Rio de Paz, said.
"And this tragedy has colour and a social component: it often affects the poorest. The society ignores it because it happens, by and large, away from the richest regions."
Sofia arrived at the hospital already dead.
The senselessness of her death caused an outcry even in Rio, where residents have become so used to crime that they rarely react to violence.
"But this is not an isolated case," said Mr Costa. "We live in an environment of fear. Families live in constant mourning, looking at the picture of the victim hanging on the wall, with the face of a child that will never be seen again."
His group organised a demonstration remembering the victims of stray bullets, and signs with the names of the 31 children killed were put on Copacabana beach in January.
The car being chased by police that night in Iraja stopped only when it flipped on the street. The suspect was arrested and officials seized a gun.
Police said they were investigating how the shootout unfolded and, almost two months on, it was still unclear where the shot that killed Sofia came from.
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But activists say many cases end up unsolved, with those responsible for the deaths rarely identified or punished.
Sofia's parents are now trying to resume their lives. "We live surrounded by violence. We see it in newspapers, on television. It's a calamity," her father said.
"We don't want this to happen with anyone else, a child or an adult."
"But we're sure that our daughter is in a place better than ours. She was too good to be in this world."
The Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) took the decision after a study found residues of potassium bromate in 84% of bakery product samples collected in Delhi.
The study said the chemical "can cause cancer".
The FSSAI said a notification announcing the ban has been issued.
"FSSAI has banned potassium bromate," PTI news agency quoted the watchdog chief Pawan Kumar Agarwal as saying.
Delhi-based environmental think-tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which conducted the study, has said it was expecting the government to also ban potassium iodate, another toxic chemical, in bakery products.
"As far as potassium iodate is concerned, it has been referred to a scientific panel," Mr Agarwal said on Monday.
Both the chemicals are banned in many countries, but India continues to allow their use in bakeries.
The CSE had collected 38 bread and other baked food samples from retail stores, bakeries and fast-food shops in Delhi for its study.
"More than 84% of samples tested were found to contain potassium bromate and/or iodate," the study said.
The Paralympic-style Invictus Games will see servicemen and women take part in sports like wheelchair basketball, indoor rowing and sitting volleyball.
The prince said the competition would recognise the sacrifice made by those who fought for their country.
He has been working to bring the event to the UK after seeing something similar in the US - the Warrior Games.
"I have witnessed first hand how the power of sport can positively impact the lives of wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women in their journey of recovery," Prince Harry said.
"The Invictus Games will focus on what they can achieve post-injury and celebrate their fighting spirit through an inclusive sporting competition that recognises the sacrifice they have made."
The prince said he believed the competition would have a "long-lasting impact" on the well-being of those who have "served their nations so bravely".
Harry officially launched the Invictus Games at the former Olympic Park's Cooper Box arena - where events including handball, modern pentathlon and fencing took place during the 2012 Games - in Stratford, east London.
Ten years is the longest period without major fighting between them - a sign, perhaps, that the mutual deterrence established after 2006 is here to stay.
But earlier this year, rumour spread in Lebanon that Israel was preparing to attack and finish off Hezbollah, sparking media speculation that the summer of 2016 will see an even bloodier re-run of the war of 2006.
Back then, Hezbollah killed eight Israeli soldiers and abducted two in a cross-border raid, and demanded an exchange of prisoners with Israel.
Israel responded by launching an all-out war, beginning with a blockade and an intense aerial campaign. The war ended with a ceasefire after 33 days of fighting.
According to official figures, 1,191 people were killed in Lebanon, the majority of them civilians. In Israel, 121 soldiers and 44 civilians were killed.
Among the goals set by Israeli officials were an unconditional release of the abducted soldiers and the disarmament of Hezbollah, or at least the elimination of the "long-term" military threat the group poses to Israel. It achieved none of them.
Hezbollah issued a single demand following their cross-border raid - indirect negotiations leading to the release of Arab prisoners in exchange for the two Israeli soldiers. Hezbollah would not say whether they had survived their capture.
In 2008 the Israelis released five Lebanese prisoners, as well as the remains of 199 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters, in return for the bodies of the two soldiers.
So judging by the war aims, Israel lost and Hezbollah won. But the scale of destruction in Lebanon posed a challenge to Hezbollah's narrative of victory.
Up to a million people were displaced, and around 15,000 homes and 900 factories were destroyed, along with roads, bridges, the runway at Beirut International Airport, and other infrastructure.
Civilians in areas where there was support for Hezbollah suffered most, and Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah later said that if he had known the scale of the Israeli response, he would not have ordered the cross-border attack.
Israel laid out a strategy of deterrence, first made public by Maj Gen Gadi Eizenkot in 2008 when he was head of the Israeli army's Northern Command.
He said that what happened in Dahiya, the southern suburb of Beirut in which neighbourhoods were flattened by Israeli airstrikes in 2006, would "happen in every village from which shots were fired in the direction of Israel".
Gen Eizenkot, now Israeli chief of staff, articulated what came to be known as the Dahiya Doctrine.
"We will wield disproportionate power," he said, "and cause immense damage and destruction. This isn't a suggestion. It's a plan that has already been authorised.
"Harming the population is the only means of restraining Nasrallah."
After 2006, mutual deterrence took hold, and 10 years have passed without major confrontation.
But something else happened during that time - unexpected, unforeseen, and potentially transformative; the war in Syria.
From early on in the war, Hezbollah sent its fighters across the border to support President Bashar al-Assad.
It began in a few locations alongside the border and some Shia religious sites close to Damascus, but soon enough, they had fighters as far south as Deraa on the Jordanian border, and as deep into the north as Aleppo.
Their rationale for involvement in support of President Assad has evolved, but a dominant theme is that Syria has been the backbone of the resistance against Israel, and that the attacks on the regime are aimed at undermining Hezbollah by depriving them of an ally that has provided much needed logistical support.
According to their narrative, the war in Syria was a continuation of the 2006 war by other means, with the Americans, Israelis and Saudis trying to finish off the "axis of resistance", by destroying the glue that holds it together - the Assad regime.
In Syria, Hezbollah faces enemies more like themselves - guerrilla fighters waging unconventional warfare against a conventional army, many of them jihadists, hunted from the skies and driven underground.
Hezbollah are no longer the underdog. Allied to the Syrian army, they lay siege to rebel areas, and fight with air cover - Syrian at first, and subsequently often Russian.
Arguably, they even benefit indirectly from American strikes on some of their enemies, such as al-Nusra Front, the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
But they face new threats. They fight across an area much larger than south Lebanon, without the benefit of local support they have in their strongholds.
Could this be Hezbollah's moment of weakness, and Israel's golden opportunity?
The possibility seems to have led Hezbollah to propose a deterrence strategy of its own, articulated by its Secretary General.
In a speech in February, he fanned Israeli fears that Hezbollah is able to strike containers where more than 15,000 tonnes of ammonia gas are stored, leading possibly to the death of tens of thousands of Israelis.
"A few of our missiles plus the ammonia containers in Haifa equal the effect of a nuclear bomb," he said.
About a month later, he said Hezbollah had a full list of petrochemical factories, biological research centres, nuclear reactors and containers where nuclear warheads are stored, along with precise co-ordinates.
'If there's any war against Lebanon and its people and infrastructure, we will fight it without a ceiling, without limits, without red lines."
Can they really inflict, for the first time in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, more harm on Israel than Israel can on them?
There seems to be agreement that Hezbollah has amassed a much larger missile arsenal. Various estimates from both sides suggest they have more than 100,000 missiles, and Hassan Nasrallah insists Israeli missile defence systems are incapable of effectively neutralising them in a new confrontation.
But Hezbollah seem aware that their constituency, feeling the pain in Syria, is in no mood for a war with Israel. The aim of their threats seems to be to deter the Israelis from initiating attack.
"We are talking about a defensive war, in which we are the ones who are on the receiving end of aggression," Hassan Nasrallah said.
This reflects Hezbollah's new posture and priorities. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, they kept up a persistent guerrilla campaign against the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, and it was through attrition over almost two decades that they forced them out in 2000.
But in Syria, where they aim to subdue resistance to President Assad and enforce the regime's grip on power, attrition works the other way around. Their enemies are trying to slowly bleed them to exhaustion in places as far away from their strongholds as Aleppo, northern Syria.
Some in Israel believe it is better for them to wait and watch than wage war now.
Deputy Chief of Staff and head of the Northern Command Maj Gen Yair Golan said Israel should be in no rush to wage pre-emptive war against Hezbollah.
In a talk at Bar Ilan University last March, he said that Israel had considered Syria the central threat for decades, until it dissolved all on its own, after 'the regime used its weapons and crushed its forces in a war against its citizens."
Perhaps the Israelis hope Hezbollah too will dissolve on its own in the bloodied landscape of Syria.
The survey taken at polling stations across the UK suggests the Tories could get 314 MPs when all the results have been counted in Thursday's election.
Labour would get 266, the Lib Dems 14, UKIP none and the SNP 34, the GFK/Ipsos MORI poll for BBC/ITV/Sky suggests.
Early results are suggesting a small swing to Labour but it is too early to say if the exit poll is accurate.
Turnout is so far up by 3 points on the 2015 general election, which means it could be close to 70% by the end of the night, the highest since 1997.
Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson, who held his West Bromwich East seat, said the "hours to come look very uncertain", but added: "Theresa May's authority has been undermined by this election. She is a damaged prime minister and her reputation may never recover."
Labour saw off a Conservative challenge to hold Darlington and took Stockton South back from the Conservatives, denting Theresa May's hopes of a revival in the North East of England and a landslide victory.
Labour gained Rutherglen and Hamilton West from the SNP, with an 8.9% swing, suggesting, said polling expert John Curtice, that the SNP "are going to suffer quite substantial losses". The SNP has also lost Angus, in North East Scotland, to the Conservatives.
Labour also held Wrexham, a top Conservative target in Wales and took the Vale of Clwyd from the Conservatives, it's first gain of the night from Mrs May's party.
Labour also took Battersea, in South London, from the Conservatives, with Treasury Minister Jane Ellison losing her seat.
Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry told BBC News: "It is possible that we will form the next government."
She ruled out a coalition, saying Labour would form a minority government in the event of a hung parliament, asking the smaller parties such as the Lib Dems and the SNP to support its programme in a Queen's Speech.
But veteran Conservative Ken Clarke said he believed his party would have a "small overall majority" when all the votes have been counted, although we might not know the result until much later on Friday.
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To get an overall majority, one party needs to get 326 seats.
The exit poll suggests the Conservatives would be 12 short of an overall majority.
It suggests Labour would gain 34 seats, the Conservatives would lose 17 seats, the Lib Dems would gain six and the SNP lose 22 seats.
The Green Party would be unchanged with one seat and Plaid Cymru would still have three MPs, according to the poll.
In total, 30,450 people were interviewed as they exited 144 polling stations across the UK.
If these numbers are correct, Theresa May played a high risk political game and has lost it - she didn't have to call this election, and only did so in order to give herself a mandate and breathing space during the bumpy ride of Brexit.
Just a few weeks ago at the start of all of this she seemed unassailable, but a shaky campaign and an insurgent Labour Party may have dashed the Tories' hopes.
This exit poll result is not what either parties were predicting privately - this would be another political surprise - the public again defying the expectations of both the main sides.
The Conservatives do look set to be the largest party, it's not clear on these numbers if they will be able to govern alone - Theresa May's promise throughout was to offer her catchphrase "strong and stable leadership" - instead she may end diminished - but only of course, your votes, and the real results, will determine through the course of the night what really happens next.
Evening Standard editor George Osborne, who was sacked as chancellor last year by Theresa May, said, if borne out by actual results, the "catastrophic" exit poll figures would put Mrs May's future as Conservative leader in doubt.
SNP Deputy Leader Stewart Hosie said it would be an "extraordinary thing" for Theresa May "to call this election for narrow party advantage and then, if these numbers are correct, to blow it incredibly".
He said the SNP would still win the election in Scotland, despite the exit poll forecasting substantial losses.
A Lib Dem source said it was "too early" to comment on the exit poll, but added: "In this election holding our own is a good night."
The party ruled out going into coalition with either the Conservatives or Labour.
Green co-leader Caroline Lucas said she could "hardly dare hope" that the exit poll was right, adding: "To be clear, Greens will never support a Tory government."
UKIP leader Paul Nuttall said: "If the exit poll is true then Theresa May has put Brexit in jeopardy. I said at the start this election was wrong. Hubris."
The Conservatives could still secure an overall majority if, as the exit poll suggests, they perform relatively well in constituencies that Labour are defending where a majority of all voters voted Leave in last year's EU referendum.
They would also need to do better in marginal seats they are defending.
If neither of these patterns materialises, but the exit poll's estimate of the overall levels of support for the parties is correct, then the Conservatives could lose their overall majority.
In addition, there is some evidence from the exit poll that the Conservatives will perform relatively well in Wales.
If the exit poll is correct the SNP could suffer heavier losses than was widely anticipated in advance of polling day.
Indeed this, together with clear evidence of a Conservative revival north of the border, may yet provide the Tories with the extra seats that they might need to secure an overall majority.
A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with more than 45 million people entitled to vote.
Some votes had been cast before Thursday through postal voting, which accounted for 16% of the total electorate at the 2015 general election, when the overall turnout was 66%.
The medium-pacer claimed 3-32 as the visitors reached stumps on 186-9, 260 behind Middlesex's first-innings' 446.
They added 109 to their overnight 337-4 after losing Sam Robson early for 159.
Adam Lyth (37) and 18-year-old Harry Brook (38) put on 64 in reply but Yorkshire then collapsed despite skipper Gary Ballance's unbeaten 53.
He reached his half-century from 101 balls with a boundary off Ollie Rayner, but the odds are his side will face the possibility of having to follow-on.
Earlier, Ryan Sidebottom (3-69) and Adil Rashid (3-94) were Yorkshire's most successful bowlers as they picked up the last six Middlesex wickets in 36 overs.
The visitors soon lost Alex Lees in reply, and suffered a double blow either side of tea as Higgins had Lyth caught behind and Brook, who was selected after back-to-back hundreds for the second XI, gave a catch to short leg off Rayner.
From 119-3, Yorkshire collapsed to 146-8 in the space of nine overs, with four Yorkshire batsmen bowled, two of them by Higgins.
Middlesex's Ryan Higgins told BBC Radio London:
"To be honest, when the coach (Richard Scott) rang me to say I was going to make my Championship debut, the phone nearly dropped out of my hand.
"We've got a few boys away with England Lions so I'm not sure how long I will stay in the team but I just want to try and contribute.
"I'd have liked to have scored more than 13 because I felt good and, with the ball, it was just a case of trying to back up the big boys. I bowl wicket-to-wicket and the slope here and the pitch, with its lack of bounce, suits me."
Yorkshire batsman Harry Brook told BBC Radio Leeds:
"It's a great experience to make your Championship debut at Lord's. I enjoyed it and got a good start but, having got to 38, I really wanted to kick on, so that was disappointing.
"I have been in good form for Yorkshire seconds so I just wanted to carry on that form.
"There weren't too many demons in the pitch when I batted but towards the end it's started to keep low. We're not in the best position team-wise and if we have to bat again we will need to bat for as long as we can and hopefully get a lead."
People in a Band D home in Pendle in Lancashire can expect to pay an extra £74 in 2016-17, the biggest rise in the country.
Bills will rise in 314 out of 327 areas, even if the council is freezing its share, analysis by BBC News shows.
The Department for Communities and Local Government said £3.5bn will be raised to care for older people.
The overall bills include any precepts levied by parish councils, county councils, police and crime commissioners and fire authorities.
Figures are based on an average Band D property, in the middle of the price range for council tax levies.
Londoners in 13 of the capital's boroughs will be the only people to see their overall Band D council tax bill fall after the Greater London Authority cut its share by £19 per Band D home.
Councils are subject to a cap on rises of 1.99% unless they hold a referendum.
However, from this year larger authorities were allowed to increase bills by a total of 3.99%, as long as the additional income went towards adult social care.
Smaller parish councils are not subject to the referendum rules, meaning overall bills in areas like Pendle and Cornwall are rising 5%.
Data released by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) showed Pendle Borough Council was increasing its share of the council tax by 1.99%.
However, the average parish council increase is putting an additional £50 on the bill. Altogether, with the share paid to Lancashire County Council, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service and Lancashire Constabulary, the average Pendle taxpayer will see their bill go from £1,624 to £1,698.
Pendle Borough Council said it was the first increase in its share of council tax since 2008-9.
Philip Mousdale, its corporate director, said the authority had "no control" over the rest of the bill, which was set by other authorities.
He said: "We took the decision to increase council tax against the backdrop of significant reductions in government funding in which Pendle was one of the worst affected district councils."
Across England, Band D taxpayers in 238 council areas will see their annual bills rise by more than £50.
The Local Government Association said councils were being expected to raise council tax to make up for funding cuts, despite having previously been offered grants to freeze or reduce bills.
A spokesman said: "After years of striving to keep council tax as low as possible or frozen, town halls find themselves having no choice but to ask residents to pay more council tax over the next few years."
Communities Secretary Greg Clark said: "Our historic four-year funding deal for councils both gives them certainty to plan ahead, and meets the clear request to prioritise care for elderly and vulnerable people, with a social care funding package of up to £3.5bn.
"Today's figures show how councils are keeping council tax low, and using the freedom they asked for to set a social care precept as part of local bills.
"Even with this, council tax will still be lower in real terms in 2019/20 than in 2009/10 - and this year's increase is still lower than the average 6.2% annual increase between 1997 and 2010."
Rescuers were called out more than 1,800 times in England and Wales last year - the fourth year figures have increased, according to Mountain Rescue England and Wales.
In Wales, mountain rescue teams dealt with 422 - 23% - of those incidents.
A campaign has now been launched to promote greater safety awareness.
A checklist compiled by Ordnance Survey and Mountain Rescue England and Wales helps walkers to prepare for their trek.
It emphasises the need to plan ahead, check weather conditions, wear the right kit and carry paper maps as well as GPS devices.
John Grisdale, vice chair of Llanberis Mountain Rescue, said people needed to take responsibility for their own safety.
His team covers Wales' tallest mountain, Snowdon, which attracts about 450,000 visitors a year, and last year volunteers were called out nearly 200 times, putting pressure on their family lives.
"Usually it's a lack of preparation leading to us being called out or having poor footwear," said Mr Grisdale.
"They often get themselves into difficult situations because of a lack of planning in advance.
"Snowdon is perhaps prone to the day visitor who comes thinking that there are easy paths towards the summit. There's a cafe at the summit, there's a railway... these are unique features and [people think] it can't be a difficult mountain to get to the summit.
"Unfortunately all mountains inevitably have some sort of danger."
In April, Central Beacons Mountain Rescue - which covers the Brecon Beacons - said 2016 was the busiest year in its 54-year history,
It has traditionally not sought power through elections, but looks to use its street muscle to change Bangladesh's traditional secular culture and politics through the imposition of what it believes are proper Islamic ways.
The organisations in the Hefazat coalition are based at more than 25,000 madrassas, or religious schools, across Bangladesh.
Teachers at these madrassas belong to these organisations and all students are brought out en masse to participate in street rallies and marches.
Hefazat burst onto the scene in February following the killing of young blogger Rajib Haider.
The murdered blogger and his associates had launched the Shahbag campaign to demand the death penalty for a political leader convicted of war crimes committed in 1971.
Haider and other bloggers were subsequently accused by Islamists of being atheists who had written comments derogatory of Islam and its Prophet.
They served notice on the governing Awami League by gathering half a million supporters in Dhaka on 6 April, where the main slogan was "hang the atheist bloggers".
Since then Hefazat has launched a 13-point charter of demands. These include:
The government of Sheikh Hasina has sought to treat Hefazat softly, and preferred to engage in negotiation.
It sees Hefazat as less militant than the Jamaat-e-Islami, many of whose leaders are currently facing charges related to crimes against humanity committed in 1971.
Hefazat also has theological disputes with Jamaat, although the latter has given all-out support to Hefazat in its current campaign.
Hefazat's detractors see its activities as little more than a cover of support for Jamaat's often-violent campaign to derail the war crimes trials.
Islamists say Hefazat is campaigning to "save Islam" in Bangladesh, but its opponents fear it will throw the country back into the dark ages.
Some of the groups under the Hefazat banner played a key role in the mass demonstrations in 1994 which forced the feminist write Taslima Nasreen to seek asylum in Sweden.
They have also been relentless in their campaign - so far unsuccessful - to have the Ahmadiyas (Islamic reformists) declared as "non-Muslims", as has been the case in Pakistan.
But Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is set to become Peru's next president after winning a desperately close run-off against his bitter rival, Keiko Fujimori.
Mr Kuczynski clinched 50.1% of the votes, beating his opponent by a razor-thin margin.
Peruvians spent several days waiting for an official result from the election authorities, the slim gap between the candidates hovering around a mere 50,000 votes.
A week before election day, Keiko Fujimori was riding high with a six-point lead over the former minister, who is best known to Peruvians simply by his initials: PPK.
But just days before the polls opened, thousands of people marched through the centre of the capital, Lima, to protest against Ms Fujimori's candidacy.
She is a divisive figure in a country that is still grappling with her father's controversial legacy.
"We are here to stop Fujimori from repeating the corruption and crimes of her father," said Roxana, 55, a university lecturer who attended the march.
Ms Fujimori's father, Alberto Fujimori, was president of Peru for 10 years in the 1990s.
After fleeing to Japan and sending his resignation by fax in 2000, he is currently serving a 25-year sentence in a Peruvian prison for human rights abuses.
But many in the country also revere him as the leader who defeated the notorious Maoist insurgent group, Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), in the 1990s. He is also credited with kick-starting the revival of the country's struggling economy.
Despite her controversial father, Ms Fujimori had been the frontrunner for much of the race.
Her tough stance on crime and tireless campaigning in rural areas attracted both committed fujimoristas, as supporters of her and her father are known, and new voters to her Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party.
In contrast, with his foreign surname and background as a World Bank executive, many people see Mr Kuczynski as being out of touch with ordinary Peruvians.
"He is perceived as too old, too white and too connected to economic elites," said Steven Levitsky, a Peru expert and Professor of Government at Harvard University.
A heavily criticised trip to the United States after the first round of voting only added to this image.
But a chaotic final few weeks for Ms Fujimori's campaign sparked a dramatic comeback for the 77-year-old, who held dual Peruvian and US citizenship before giving up the latter in 2015.
First, Joaquin Ramirez, a senior figure in Ms Fujimori's team was forced to step down after allegations emerged linking him to drug trafficking.
Then her running mate, vice presidential candidate Jose Chlimper, was accused of handing doctored audio tapes aimed at clearing Mr Ramirez to the media.
"The Fujimori campaign was hit by a series of very destructive events in the final days of this election. These undermined five years of her efforts to try to create a new image for her party. For so many Peruvians, this smacked of exactly the kind of manipulative behaviour that occurred on a daily basis under her father," said Prof Levitsky.
For many Kuczynski voters, the former economist was the only alternative to a second President Fujimori in 30 years.
"I had no option but to vote for Kuczynski. The Fujimori family has a dark past. This election was a choice between democracy and authoritarianism," said 69-year-old taxi driver Victor Rios.
Such allegations about key members of Fujimori's team seem to have ruined her attempts to distance herself from her father's legacy.
"This country realised that we can't endorse a president who was going to be surrounded by people implicated in corruption," said Gonzalo Cordova, 35, a member of a local anti-Fujimori activist group.
As the momentum started to shift towards Mr Kuczynski, Veronika Mendoza also threw her support behind PPK.
Ms Mendoza, a left-wing presidential candidate for the Frente Amplio (Broad Front), came third in the first round of the election.
"To stop the advance of fujimorismo, the only option is to vote for Kuczynski," she announced just days before the election.
Despite his narrow victory in the presidential race, Mr Kuczynski is not yet done battling fujimorismo.
In legislative elections held in April, Ms Fujimori's Popular Force party won 73 out of 130 seats in Peru's Congress.
Mr Kuczynski's party only holds 18 seats.
There are also many Peruvians who are disappointed by Ms Fujimori's defeat.
"I voted for Keiko because she was going to be tough on crime. I feel defrauded by this result. It's the same politics as always," said Luz Rojas, 52, a food stall owner in Lima's San Borja neighbourhood.
While Mr Kuczynski campaigned on a platform of change - even his party is called Peruvians for Change - analysts say his centre-right fiscal policies differ little from those of his rival.
The greatest challenge for Peru's new president could well be the battle to win over a public that has grown increasingly disillusioned with politics in general.
Even among the thousands of people who took to the streets to protests against fujimorismo, there seemed to be a certain sense of despondency.
When asked about the current state of their country's politics, some simply shrugged their shoulders and said: "Es lo que hay (It is what it is)."
The major security operation began at about 14:30 GMT on Monday at flats at John Street, close to Craigavon Bridge, and ended just after 20:00 GMT.
Police said they had concerns for the welfare of a man who was in a distressed state in one of the flats but have confirmed that no weapons were found at the scene.
Residents had to be moved from their homes for several hours.
Specialist police units and other emergency services were involved in the operation.
The closure of two of the city's main streets during rush hour also caused major traffic disruption.
Ch Insp Tony Callaghan said: "This was a fluid and very delicate situation and we had real concerns for the man involved as well as the residents.
"We deployed negotiators to the scene, they talked to the man throughout this operation because our priority was to make sure no harm came to anyone. The man gave himself up to police and was arrested, we searched the property and made sure everything was safe.
"The investigation is ongoing, it is live, but we can say that the initial information which led to our response came from the individual involved."
Sinn Féin Councillor Patricia Logue, who was at the scene on Monday, said she was relieved that nobody was hurt.
"I spoke to some of those people who had to be moved from their homes and it was good to see that the council acted quickly to make sure there was temporary accommodation made available for any residents who needed it.
"Thankfully it didn't go on too late into the night and I hope this man gets the care that he needs."
David Mitchell was killed when his transit van was in collision with a lorry and a Skoda taxi, on the B5305 at Westward, near Wigton, on Friday.
In a statement the family of the 53-year-old from Waverton, in Cumbria, said he would be "sorely missed".
The lorry driver was unhurt and the taxi driver suffered minor injuries, Cumbria Police said.
It is believed the HGV was reversing when it was struck by the van, which was then hit by the Skoda, police said.
Mr Mitchell's family said: "It is with deepest sadness that David has been so tragically taken from us.
"He was hard working, family-orientated and loved life and will be sorely missed by all that knew him."
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Bridgette Forde died in December after a fall at her home in Muswell Hill, north London. Once she finally got to hospital, she waited a further 14 hours for treatment before dying of pneumonia.
Marc Ashdown speaks to her daughter Helen Forde and Dr Mark Spencer, medical director for the NHS in London.
The vote decides which 20 MPs get priority for their selected private members' bills and in what order.
Those at the top of the list get more parliamentary debating time.
Private members' bills are one of the few chances ordinary backbench MPs get to create legislation.
The vast majority of new laws originate from the government of the day.
Few private members' bills become law due to the lack of time in the Parliamentary calendar and the annual ballot is always fiercely contested.
The deputy speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, presided over the random draw, reading out the names of the top 20 MPs in reverse order.
The higher the MP is in the order, the more likely it is that their proposed legislation will be debated in the Commons in the coming months.
Mr Hoyle said 462 MPs applied.
Conservative MPs Chris Heaton Harris was second on the list, followed by Conservative Sir Gerald Howarth and newly-elected Labour MP Julie Cooper.
The first seven bills proposed normally get a full day's debate in the Commons at second reading, when the general principles of bills are considered.
The 20 MPs on the list will see their bills get a first reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 24 June and will then be debated in the Commons on Fridays when the house is is sitting.
The winner of last year's ballot was Lib Dem MP Andrew George, who lost his seat at the general election.
He introduced an Affordable Homes Bill, which would have partially overturned housing benefit changes, dubbed the "bedroom tax" by critics, after consulting his constituents about what law they would like to see introduced.
The legislation reached committee stage before being torpedoed by the coalition government, which refused to provide the money to enact it.
Conservative MP James Wharton, who topped 2013's ballot, saw his bill enshrining in law a commitment to hold a referendum on whether the UK should be in the EU pass through the House of Commons, but fall after it ran out of time in the House of Lords.
Here is the full top 20 in this year's ballot:
1. Rob Marris
2. Chris Heaton-Harris
3. Sir Gerald Howarth
4. Julie Cooper
5. Wendy Morton
6. Teresa Pearce
7. Mike Wood
8. Nick Thomas-Symonds
9. Ms Karen Buck
10. Simon Hoare
11. Dame Angela Watkinson
12. Lilian Greenwood
13. Sir William Cash
14. William Wragg
15. Heidi Allen
16. Vicky Foxcroft
17. Mark Pawsey
18. Mr Geoffrey Cox
19. James Cleverly
20. Caroline Ansell
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The 40-year-old American extended his perfect record to 50-0 having come out of retirement for what could be boxing's most lucrative fight.
After several heated exchanges in the build-up, Mayweather said the fighters gave the fans "what they wanted".
"He is a tough competitor," he said.
"He was a lot better than I thought. But I was the better man.
"I guaranteed everybody this would not go the distance. Boxing's reputation was on the line."
Mayweather, whose victory meant he surpassed Rocky Marciano's record of 49 wins without defeat, said he "looked forward to going down in the Hall of Fame".
"This was my last fight, for sure," said the former five-weight world champion. "I chose the right dance partner. Conor McGregor, you are a hell of a champion.
"A win is a win, no matter how you get it."
McGregor, 29, was making his professional boxing debut at the T-Mobile Arena.
The Irishman looked to be on top in the early rounds but Mayweather, who boasts 27 knockouts in his 50 victories, said he was unfazed.
"Our gameplan was to take our time, go to him, let him shoot his shots early and then take him out down the stretch," he said.
"We know in MMA he fights for 25 minutes. After 25 minutes, he started to slow down."
McGregor felt referee Robert Byrd stopped the fight "a bit early".
He said: "I thought it was close. I get a little wobbly when I'm tired.
"The referee could have let it keep going, let the man put me down. I am clear-headed."
Mayweather first retired after beating Andre Berto in September 2015, claiming he had "nothing left to prove".
But after beating McGregor, he said he was "not a fool", adding: "If I see an opportunity to make $300m (£232m) in 36 minutes, I will."
However, he added: "This is my last one. You won't see me any more. Any guy that's calling me out, forget it.
"I look forward to becoming a boxing trainer, helping fighters."
Mayweather admitted the fight had gone on longer than he and father Floyd Sr had expected.
"I did what I do best," he said. "I found a way to trap him and broke him down.
"Me and my father, we don't always see eye to eye but we get great results.
"My dad thought it would be the seventh or sixth. It took us a little longer than expected but we did what we said we would do."
During the fight, Mayweather seemed angered by McGregor punching him to the back of his head.
"I let the referee do his job," he said. "I'm not here to bash the referee but you know what was going on. A lot of rabbit punching.
"In 21 years I had some great fights, some boring fights, but at the end of the day I will always be seen as a winner."
A report in The Sun said the Devizes Lions May Fayre had fallen foul of council demands for an anti-terror plan.
But Lions president Roger Stratton blamed bureaucracy for the decision.
He also added he had "never witnessed" parsnip wine-induced drunkenness among visitors, despite the report's claims.
The annual event on the May Day bank holiday attracts hundreds of visitors to the Wiltshire town centre.
Wiltshire Council was reported by the newspaper as wanting the town square security strengthened after last month's attack in Westminster.
Mr Stratton told the BBC the cancellation was caused by council red tape, not "far-fetched" fears about terrorism.
"The problem is for many years we have filled in an event-management plan and this year we had an email back from the council running to three pages asking for more information about 'this and that'," he said.
"For example, we have a trailer promoting local bands during the afternoon and we were asked how we would monitor the noise, to which my last response was 'I have an ear on one side and an ear on the other'."
The Sun's article also added the only trouble in the fair's 20-plus year history had been "drinkers quaffing too much parsnip wine".
Mr Stratton insisted: "I don't think there has been one case of drunkenness, as I far as I can recall."
A Wiltshire Council spokesman said the Lions' plan "couldn't guarantee a safe event" but "would be happy to work with the club to help them plan the event in good time for future years".
The winning ticket was bought in Merthyr Tydfil or Rhondda Cynon Taff for a one-off Team GB-inspired Lotto Medal Draw on 27 August 2016.
It was one of 27 millionaires created to celebrate the number of gold medals won at the Rio Olympics.
If it is not claimed, the cash will go to charity.
Camelot said it has a code of RUBY 6863 3083.
There was another £1m ticket purchased in the area - in the Euromillions UK Millionaire Maker draw which has four winners weekly, two on Tuesday and two on Friday.
That one was successful in the 3 February draw and had a winning code of ZXPR 17675. The ticket's owner has until 2 August to come forward.
"Try checking in the pockets of clothing, in wallets, bags and down the back of the sofa. We have the champagne on ice and our fingers crossed that the lucky winner comes forward to claim their winnings," said the National Lottery's Andy Carter.
There was grumbling, there was pleading, and there were several sharp retorts.
It was sometimes hard to remember that all the leaders who turned up here professed to want the same thing: an end to the chaos that increasingly marks the migration route through the Western Balkans.
They don't agree on the way to do it.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who called the meeting, was hoping to rekindle a spirit of co-operation and trust that would allow countries to co-ordinate with each other - taking time to register new arrivals, and not simply waving them through to their next destination, or, as Slovenia has put it, "dumping" them on their border.
The pressure is real: 9,000 people a day have been crossing into Greece. And on Sunday alone, the government of Slovenia - a country of two million - said 15,000 people arrived at their border.
Without agreeing concrete steps soon, its Prime Minister Miro Cerar said Europe "will start to fall apart".
It's already splintering.
Deep rifts have opened up in the region, as the number of migrants has increased, and Mr Juncker's new proposals to strengthen Schengen's external borders in Greece and Slovenia play into national fears, as countries further along the route fear being turned into buffer zones.
In the story of Europe's migrant crisis, one nation's protection becomes another nation's problem.
In the end, he got a watered-down version of the co-operation he'd been hoping for: a commitment from countries to inform their neighbours before sending migrants and refugees their way, and to make an effort to process them properly.
In return, he promised extra border police for Greece and Slovenia, and 100,000 new places at reception centres along the West Balkans route.
Even before the meeting began, Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic labelled the plan "unrealistic", drafted by someone "who had just woken up from a months-long sleep". The solution, he said, lay in Turkey and Greece.
It's a sentiment echoed by many of the leaders here - that without action from Turkey in stemming the number of people crossing its border into Greece, anything else is just tinkering around the edges.
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, acknowledged that the meeting was about managing the situation rather than tackling the root cause; any real solution, she said, would have to involve Ankara.
So was it all worth it? The Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksander Vucic, summed it up. One of the optimists going in to the meeting, he was the first to speak after it broke up.
Standing slack-limbed in front of the microphone, he told waiting reporters that the agreement would not be "immediately helpful". We're looking at "small steps," he said.
"Hopefully, step by step, things will get a bit better."
The influx of migrants into southern Europe has escalated, driven by the wars in Syria and Iraq, as well as conflict in many parts of Africa. More than 150,000 have arrived this year - far more than in the first half of last year.
The EU is struggling with shifting migration patterns, creating particular problems for individual countries. How are they coping?
For months Italy has been on the frontline of the crisis, as boatloads of desperate migrants risk their lives trying to reach Lampedusa or Sicily.
Last year Italy controversially reduced its naval patrols off war-torn Libya, telling its EU partners that they must contribute to efforts to stop the migrant boats coming.
After hundreds of migrants drowned off Lampedusa this year, the EU agreed to launch a joint naval operation to rescue migrants in distress. But aid agencies say patrols ought to cover a wide area on the high seas - not just the EU's territorial waters.
Italy says its EU partners must also share the burden of housing migrants and processing asylum claims.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi voiced anger at East European leaders who rejected an EU plan for mandatory quotas to distribute migrants across the 28-nation bloc.
Recently France blocked hundreds of migrants at Ventimiglia, on the Italian border.
Many migrants staying at makeshift camps in Italy are desperate to move on to northern Europe.
The boatloads of migrants heading for Greek islands have increased sharply this year.
Lesvos is a particular pressure point. Many of the migrants are Syrians, and many of them will be entitled to refugee status, having fled the civil war.
But Greece's reception centres are overcrowded and some are in a deplorable state.
Heavily indebted Greece, already unable to pay its bills, cannot cope with the influx. It has a massive backlog of asylum claims to process.
There is much hostility in Greece towards non-EU migrants, and many of them quickly try to move north via the Balkans to reach other EU countries.
In the current economic crisis many Greeks fear competition from foreigners for scarce jobs.
In recent years France has sent many poor Roma (Gypsies) back to Romania and Bulgaria, after they entered France illegally.
But now the French focus is on the growing numbers of migrants entering Europe from the Mediterranean. They include many sub-Saharan Africans, some of whom have camped out on the streets of Paris.
The latest pressure point is Calais, where about 3,000 irregular migrants are sleeping rough, getting little local help. They want to get to the UK - and pictures of them jumping on to UK-bound lorries triggered fresh British criticism of lax security at the French port.
France says the UK must provide more help to solve the Calais crisis.
153,000
migrants crossed into Europe so far this year
149% increase from 2014
63,000 migrants reached Greece by sea
62,000 migrants reached Italy by sea
10,000 on Hungary/Serbia border in May
The UK's emphasis is on breaking up the people-smuggling networks - trying to tackle the problem before the migrants turn up in Europe.
UK politicians point out that the UK spends more than many other EU countries on development aid, which can help stem the flow of economic migrants from poor countries.
The UK and some other EU countries also want stronger EU efforts to send failed asylum seekers back. Last year the rate for sending migrants back was just 39%.
But the British debate has tended to focus on the Conservatives' ambition to reduce immigration from EU countries. The government wants to tighten the rules on migrants' social benefits, as a disincentive for would-be immigrants from the EU.
The UK is involved in the Mediterranean naval operation, but has opted out of the EU plan to relocate 40,000 asylum seekers from overcrowded migrant centres in Italy and Greece.
Germany has more asylum seekers than any other EU country. Its strong economy is a magnet for migrants desperate to start a new life.
But like other EU countries, Germany wants much better screening of migrants, to determine who has the skills that the German economy needs.
The birth rate in Germany, as in Italy, is low - so both countries will need immigrants to fill labour market gaps in future.
Germany has a tradition of welcoming migrants - after all, Turks, Yugoslavs and some other nationalities contributed greatly to Germany's post-war economic boom.
Germany and Austria support the EU plan for resettling asylum seekers. That contrasts with the reluctance of most East European countries to take in more migrants.
Germany has been the preferred destination of many Chechens, who fled Russia's bloody crackdown against separatist fighters.
Partly the East Europeans are worried that they could see an influx from Ukraine, where fighting continues between government troops and pro-Russian rebels.
But apart from Hungary and Bulgaria, the other eastern countries have relatively low rates of immigration.
Tensions have risen between Hungary and neighbouring Austria recently, since Hungary announced that it would not take back migrants who had moved elsewhere in the EU.
Hungary now says it is a temporary measure, because of a sudden influx - not a violation of the EU's Dublin Regulation. That rule says the country where a migrant first arrives is responsible for handling the migrant's asylum claim.
This year Hungary has experienced a surge of migrants trying to enter from Serbia. It has announced plans to fence off the Serbian border.
Many of Hungary's recent immigrants are escaping dire poverty in Kosovo, and many of their asylum claims are likely to be rejected.
Hungary and Bulgaria are exempt from the new EU plan to relocate asylum-seekers across the EU.
Bulgaria, like Hungary, says it cannot cope with any more, as its reception centres are overcrowded.
The head of Venezuela's National Defence Council, Alexis López Ramírez, said he had resigned over President Nicolás Maduro's plans for a constituent assembly.
The general said he did not agree with the way the assembly was convened and how its members would be selected.
His resignation amid a political crisis has caused waves in Venezuela.
While polls suggest that 80% of Venezuelans are unhappy with the way Mr Maduro runs the country, the military has so far expressed its loyalty to the president.
Government critics have repeatedly tried to get the armed forces to switch sides. Most recently, jailed opposition leader Leopoldo López published a video message on Twitter calling on the military to rebel.
But so far there has been very limited dissent within the armed forces.
When news of the renunciation of Gen López filtered through on Monday, speculation therefore was at fever pitch about what had triggered it.
On Tuesday, he broke his silence and published a letter on Twitter [in Spanish] in which he stated his "appreciation, gratitude and friendship for President Nicolás Maduro" before writing that the reason for his renunciation was due to "my disagreement with the procedure used to convene and elect the constituent assembly".
President Maduro first announced plans to create a citizen's assembly to rewrite the constitution on 1 May.
The move has been heavily criticised by the opposition, which says it is an attempt by the president to increase his powers by sidestepping the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
But there has also been criticism from some "Chavistas", people loyal to Mr Maduro's mentor and predecessor in office, Hugo Chávez.
They say there is no need to change the constitution, which was drawn up and passed under President Chávez in 1999.
President Maduro argues that the constituent assembly will "bring peace" to Venezuela, where more than 60 people have been killed in protest-related violence since 1 April.
The president says a new constitution will also enshrine some of the social programmes Mr Chávez introduced and prevent them from being abolished should a new government come in.
There is also disagreement over whether the way the assembly was convened was legal, with some saying the president should have held a referendum.
However, a legal challenge filed by the chief prosecutor has been dismissed by the Supreme Court, which critics say is stacked with supporters of President Maduro.
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The Sea Life Sanctuary in Oban said seal pups were being brought to them for care when they probably did not need rescued.
And it has been told of people trying to put the pups back into the water themselves.
It said seal pups are left behind when their mother goes out to sea to hunt.
But once a pup is separated from its mother and comes into contact with humans it cannot be returned.
The sanctuary said it had rescued 10 seal pups in the past week when it normally rescues only about four a year.
A spokeswoman said: "We are incredibly grateful to members of the public for alerting us to any seal pups they find that they feel may be abandoned or in difficulty.
"However we would like to stress that unless a pup is visibly injured or unwell it should always be monitored from a distance for 24 hours before action is taken.
"Seals quite often haul out on stretches of beach or rocky areas for a rest, so just because a seal is on the land does not mean it is unwell or in distress."
Sanctuary visitor numbers are up 29% compared with this time last year, and staff are concerned that the rise in tourism combined with the lack of knowledge about seal behaviour may be a reason for the increase in unnecessary "rescues".
If people come across a seal pup on land that are advised to keep their distance and not to attempt to handle the pup or put it back into the sea.
But the Sea Life Sanctuary or SSPCA should be notified if the pup looks thin, injured or seems unwell.
Rocky, the newt-hunting spaniel, has been drafted in to sniff out the amphibians alongside the route of the planned bypass to the north of Norwich.
Natural England has been overseeing the safe removal of the protected great crested newts to secure areas nearby.
Ecologists need to remove protected species and other wildlife to safe areas before building work can begin.
Specially-trained Rocky is being brought in for a week to ensure none remain along the 12-mile (20km) route.
Since the warm spring weather brought the newts out of hibernation, more than 7km (4.3 miles) of amphibian fencing has been used to steer them into bucket traps in the three areas on the route of the Norwich Northern Distributor Road.
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The buckets are checked daily by ecologists and any creatures inside are transferred to more suitable habitats away from the development site.
So far, more than 340 great crested newts have been relocated together with 450 smooth newts, about 850 toads, 90 frogs and an assortment of reptiles and mammals, including a baby hedgehog.
Two-year-old Rocky will be tasked with using his sensitive nose to sniff out any remaining newts.
Trainer Aran Clyne, from sniffer dog firm Wagtail UK, said it takes several months to train a dog to identify wildlife.
"It's all about building an association between the newt smell and Rocky's reward, the tennis ball," he said. "Whenever he finds a newt, he gets his ball."
This is Rocky's first foray into newt conservation as he is more used to sniffing out bats, another protected species, on sites designated for new windfarms.
Once he has located the wayward newts, they will be moved by hand.
Norfolk County Council, who employed Rocky, said: "Using a sniffer dog is a quick, efficient and cost-effective way of carrying out final checks of cleared areas. Without a trained sniffer dog all suitable areas would have to be laboriously searched by hand by ecologists."
The warning came from David Dobbin, the chief executive of Dale Farm, Northern Ireland's largest milk processor.
Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business programme, he said Stormont needed to put the economy at the centre of its next Programme for Government.
He also said he wanted to see a "more collective executive".
Dale Farm is part of the United Dairy Farmers Group, a UK dairy farmer co-operative.
In 2014, Mr Dobbin expressed frustration over delays in getting energy infrastructure to the west of Northern Ireland.
His firm had wanted to expand its plant at Cookstown, County Tyrone, but despite planning approval, correct electricity and gas facilities were not in place.
He told the programme that the next Northern Ireland Executive needed to get to grips with energy infrastructure.
"What we want to see this time round is an executive that is focused on bread and butter issues, not constitutional politics," he added.
"The political process here is pretty ugly to watch. It's almost a case of, we stumble forward, so the government needs to focus and set a target to bring energy costs down.
"We did lose Michelin and there are other big energy users that I think are going to struggle to survive in Northern Ireland if we don't address that."
Inside Business with Wendy Austin airs on BBC Radio Ulster on Sundays at 13:30 BST
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Commiserations to Liverpool and Chelsea, who played a massive part in making the title race so interesting for millions of fans across the country. Arsenal finish a worthy fourth having wrestled a Champions League spot from Everton, who played some blistering football this season, especially at Goodison Park.
The fight for survival at the bottom of the table was just as competitive. Sunderland retained their Premier League status in spectacular fashion, sending Norwich City back into the Championship.
Fulham also find themselves back in the second tier after a turbulent period which saw them employ three managers during a nine-month spell, while Cardiff City are also down after their early-season promise failed to last the distance.
Take a look and see who has made my team of the season.
There have been some notable performances from a number of goalkeepers this season. Julian Speroni's save from Eden Hazard against Chelsea was a turning point in Crystal Palace's season. And to think that, after all the heroic saves Cardiff's David Marshall pulled off, he still couldn't stop them going down.
However, in the final analysis it's Hart who wins my selection. After a poor start to the season and the witch-hunt that followed, he recovered magnificently and went on to produce some title-winning performances. It's not how you start that defines your season but how you finish.
Did you know? Of regular keepers, only Petr Cech (127) and Artur Boruc (99) conceded a goal less frequently than Joe Hart (every 93 mins) in the Premier League this term.
Last season, it was Branislav Ivanovic who made my team, and once again he's had a strong season. Pablo Zabaleta has produced some fine performances and would have been an easy choice to make now Manchester City have won the title.
But no-one has impressed me more at right-back, or attacked with as much purpose, as Seamus Coleman. The full-back has had a superb season. I cannot mention Coleman without acknowledging the contribution made by Everton boss Roberto Martinez, whose style of play has had a significant effect on the defender's development.
Did you know? Scored six goals this season, the most of any full-back, as well as keeping 15 clean sheets
The player Arsenal fans affectionately refer to as the "big friendly giant" has had a wonderful season. The German has played a massive part in getting the Gunners into the Champions League and to an FA Cup final.
He has played more games than any other Arsenal player this season and, without his resilience and consistency at the back, they might have been in all kinds of trouble. If he performs anything like he has this season when Germany arrive at the World Cup in Brazil, they might be one of the European sides to pose a real threat to the South American teams.
Did you know? Mertesacker played more minutes of football than any other outfield player for a Premier League club this season (all competitions, 4,605).
This young man had a better season when Manchester City won the title in 2011-12. However, what the centre-back has demonstrated during another successful season is character.
We have seen frailties in his defending - notably the error against Liverpool, when many thought he had single-handedly thrown away the title. Regardless, Kompany never lost faith in his ability to lead his team to the title, and Pellegrini clearly never lost belief in his captain.
Did you know? Manchester City won 75% of their Premier League games with Kompany this term, but just 60% without him.
I think it is telling that both Everton's full-backs make my team, and a further endorsement of the way their manager approached the season. The left-back has not just made his normal contribution to the Toffees' goal tally, he has grown into a player worthy of the captain's armband.
He has also emerged from the shadow of Ashley Cole at international level. All he has to do now to emulate Peter Reid and Howard Kendall, two Everton greats with similar pedigree, is win the league title. No pressure then.
Did you know? Created more chances than any other defender (49), as well as scoring five goals.
To think that a mere slip against Chelsea should rob Steven Gerrard - arguably the best player of his generation - of lifting the Premier League title seems outrageously unfair. He may not have enjoyed the dream finish to the season that Liverpool fans so desperately wanted, but he could not have given any more to the cause.
His sheer professionalism and dignified approach to the game makes him the perfect choice to lead England in the World Cup.
Did you know? Made more assists than any other player this season (13), as well as scoring 13 goals.
What a season this lad has had. I must admit I had some difficulty leaving Raheem Sterling out of the line-up, but while the Liverpool winger did finish the season strongly, Lallana has been brilliant throughout. Some of his performances were so complete they reminded me of former Sheffield United and Leeds star Tony Currie.
Thrilling crowds with eye-catching performances, Lallana has justified his step up to the England set-up this season. The big question now is can Southampton keep him?
Did you know? Lallana has created more chances than any other Englishman in the Premier League this term (71, seventh overall).
I thought the way Jose Mourinho singled out Eden Hazard for criticism after the defeat by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League was strange. Was it not Mourinho who said that Hazard was the best young player in the world a few weeks earlier? Of course, that was when the Belgium international was practically beating teams on his own.
Mourinho needs to be careful as it was this approach that was thought to have forced Arjen Robben away from Stamford Bridge to forge a successful career elsewhere. One thing is for sure, Mourinho will need Hazard next season if he's serious about winning the Premier League title.
Did you know? Hazard created 92 chances in the Premier League this season. No player created more.
I said halfway through the season that the contest between Yaya Toure and Luis Suarez was so close that it would take the title to decide who got my vote for player of the season. Well, the title has gone to Manchester City, and Toure gets my vote.
When you score so many goals from midfield and prove to be the most valuable member of a Premier League-winning team, you deserve recognition.
Did you know? Became only the second midfielder in Premier League history to reach 20 goals in a season (after Frank Lampard - 22 - in 2009-10).
I was asked recently if I had the choice of selecting Aguero or Suarez in my team, who would I choose? My answer was: 'Why do I have to choose one or the other?' I would make room for both.
I can't see a better striking combination in the world at the moment than Aguero and Suarez. How would they play? I'd let them work it out. Great players always do.
Did you know? Had the best minutes to goals ratio of any regular Premier League player this season (a goal every 91 minutes).
Love him or loathe him, you can't ignore him. Whatever your thoughts on the Uruguay international, Suarez has been breathtaking at times this season. There is no doubt in my mind that without Suarez, Liverpool would not have got anywhere near the title.
To see him so emotional after the draw at Crystal Palace tells you just how much the title meant to him. That's what comes with wanting to win so badly.
Did you know? Suarez was the Premier League's top scorer (31), while only team-mate Gerrard (13) made more assists than the Uruguayan (12).
The custom in the Premier League is the manager who wins the title normally wins the manager of the year award. That is not to say I don't acknowledge the success Manuel Pellegrini has had in his first season at Manchester City, or the glorious football displayed by Brendan Rodgers's Liverpool.
I only ever have a problem with that premise when the winning manager has a team with the biggest squad, or the most money at his disposal. Tony Pulis has had none of those resources. Most managers demand a budget for transfers you could run the National Health Service on, plus numerous guarantees before they even consider taking a job with far less risk to their reputation than the one that was facing Pulis.
What followed in the four months after he took the reins at Crystal Palace was one of the greatest transformations I have ever seen in a football club. We were told that his players were inferior, the fans indifferent and the stadium in disrepair. What Pulis did was inject belief into his players, a sense of real hope into the fans and turned the stadium from a dilapidated arena into a fortress - and all with little money. That is genius, and that is why he is my manager of the season.
Did you know? Had the Premier League started the day Tony Pulis managed Crystal Palace for the first time, the Eagles would have finished eighth in the table.
From 1 April, there will be a three-year ban on killing fish outside estuary limits and strict controls on numbers in inland waters.
One MSP described it as an "attack" on fishing in Dumfries and Galloway.
The Scottish government said it had to balance conserving stocks with the interests of salmon fishermen.
Haaf netting is a fishing method which dates back to Viking times and is practised on the Solway Firth in south west Scotland and north west England.
Tom Florey, who manages the Caerlaverock Estate, said the ban would affect the tradition on the River Nith.
"Haaf netting goes back to the days when employees were promised they wouldn't be fed salmon more than three times a week because the numbers were so high," he said.
"But we have all seen the dwindling numbers and the haaf netters themselves have been very good at agreeing restrictions on the hours and the times they practise this very old, ancient art.
"I can see this being a further restriction and possibly for quite a lot of haaf netters a restriction too far and they will not be taking their permit out next year, even though they can still fish for sea trout, the other migratory fish that comes into the Nith system."
He said numbers of haaf netters on the Caerlaverock Estate had fallen from 60 to under 20 in recent years.
"There are dwindling numbers partly because of the restrictions that have been put in over the years," he said.
"I can see that number going down into single figures but we won't let it die out.
"We will by one way or another keep practising, even if it is using estate staff and allowing visitors and tourists to have a go at haaf netting."
Dumfriesshire MSP Elaine Murray described the move as "an attack on the region's fishing industry".
She claimed there was no "genuine research" behind the regulations but the ban was being forced through anyway.
She said the response of local angling and fishing clubs had been "brushed aside".
Her counterpart in Galloway and West Dumfries, Alex Fergusson, said he believed the ban could have been delayed.
"I think there is going to be a huge impact on the local economy," he said.
He said a delay for a year would have helped local fishing interests to prepare for the move.
Announcing the restrictions, Environment Minister Aileen McLeod said: "Our salmon is a valuable and important asset which we must protect and balance conserving stocks with the interests of those who fish for salmon.
"It is absolutely right that we take action now to protect our salmon stocks for the future.
"The changes have been subject to extensive consultation and we have listened and made some changes to the district classifications as a result of all the feedback we have received."
She said she was confident they now had the "right package of measures" to ensure wild salmon had a "sustainable future" in Scottish waters.
They show that the £842m South Glasgow University Hospital saw 1,420 A&E patients in the week ending 31 May.
Of these, 238 waited for longer than the four-hour target for treatment with 20 waiting longer than eight hours.
The 83.2% performance rate is the lowest of Scotland's 31 A&E units and well below the 95% government target.
The 1,109-bed hospital, which began taking patients in April, was built on the site of the Southern General and is one of the largest acute hospitals in the UK.
The new campus replaces the Royal Hospital for Sick Kids at Yorkhill, the Southern General Hospital, Western and Victoria infirmaries and Mansionhouse Unit.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had the lowest performance rate for any health board, with 88.5% of patients seen within four hours.
The health board also had the highest number of people attending A&E at 6,670.
Throughout Scotland, overall performance improved slightly, with a total of 92.6% of people treated within four hours, up from 92% in the previous week.
The figures show 156 patients waited more than eight hours and 21 patients waited more than 12 hours.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "Today's figures show that our NHS staff are continuing to work hard towards delivering a first-class service for Scotland.
"This week has seen an improvement in waiting times but weekly publications will continue to show fluctuations in these figures.
"What is important now is that health boards focus on sustaining the reduced waiting times we have recently seen and make more, sustainable progress towards meeting our world-leading targets."
The Scottish government has put in place an action plan to improve unscheduled emergency care and Ms Robison said £100m had been invested to tackle delayed discharges, otherwise known as bed blocking.
Reacting to the A&E figures, Labour's Jenny Marra said it was clear that the new hospital could not cope with patient numbers.
She added: "We want to see more people treated and supported at home and in the community but the failure to resource GPs and care workers to provide this is driving patients to a hospital which is being overwhelmed by demand.
"Until we see the shift to community care that the SNP government promised, many hospitals across the country will have to ask patients to wait longer and longer for treatment and targets will continue to be missed."
It also argues the bulk of committee convenors and the presiding officer should come from opposition parties.
The proposed ban on second jobs would include paid directorships and consultancies.
An SNP spokesman said it would try to find agreement but it was up to parliament to decide its rules in a "consensual, democratic way".
Scottish Labour's democracy spokeswoman Claire Baker said the changes would improve parliamentary scrutiny.
Speaking ahead of MSPs returning to the parliament on Monday, she said: "Our manifesto contained many proposals for reforming the Scottish Parliament that received backing from all opposition parties.
"We will work with other parties to make them a reality.
"As a start, the presiding officer and the majority of committee convenerships should not come from the governing party.
"We saw in the last term that SNP-dominated committees did not provide anywhere near the level of scrutiny that the government's work required. We will work to change that - but we must go further.
"People require confidence that the politicians they elect to serve are giving them the full attention they deserve.
"Being a member of the Scottish Parliament is an immense privilege and it should be the only job that MSPs do. That is why we will push for a ban on MSPs holding second jobs, including paid directorships and consultancies."
The Scottish Conservatives - now the main opposition party after returning 31 MSPs in the Scottish Parliament election - have also called for improved parliamentary scrutiny.
The Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson also argues that Holyrood committees should have opposition MSPs as their convenors.
An SNP spokesman said: "Parliament will decide all of these issues in a consensual, democratic way, as it always has done.
"The shape of Holyrood's committees is determined by the strength of parties in the parliament - again in line with democratic principles.
"And it isn't for any single MSP or party - certainly not those who lost the election by a country mile - to try and dictate terms.
"The SNP government will seek to work with all parties to find consensus wherever possible, if it is in the interests of the people of Scotland.
"At the same time, Ruth Davidson and Labour need to respect the verdict of voters across Scotland, who have handed the SNP an overwhelming victory at this election and with it a clear mandate from the public to deliver on our manifesto commitments."
A "joined-up approach across a raft of policy areas" is needed to tackle the problem, Holyrood's Health committee has concluded.
MSPs found "well-intended initiatives" had aimed to reduce the gap between affluent and deprived areas.
However none has made "any significant difference".
They also heard from experts that the effect of "lifestyle public health campaigns" encouraging people to eat more healthily, give up smoking, exercise more and drink less was "to widen inequalities rather than to narrow them".
Committee convener Duncan McNeil said: "That your income, your education and where you live contribute to how healthy you are is an issue that as a society should bring us significant shame.
"Since devolution, successive governments have made this a political priority and invested significant amounts of public money in tackling this complex issue.
"But sadly none have made any significant difference.
"Our NHS can offer a sticking plaster, but without a new approach we will not tackle the root causes of inequality and improve the health outcomes of thousands of people across Scotland."
The committee is writing to the conveners of other Holyrood committees, urging them to consider what could be done to reduce wider inequalities, arguing this would "have a corresponding impact on health and wellbeing inequalities".
BBC Scotland understands a neighbour discovered the man dead in the driveway of his bungalow at Anchorscross.
Police Scotland said the death of the 67-year-old was being treated as "unexplained".
A spokesperson added: "Inquiries into the full circumstances are at an early stage and ongoing."
The street is currently cordoned off and a forensics tent has been erected in the driveway.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the field of foreign policy which, throughout the Fifth Republic, has been seen as a reserved presidential domain.
No wonder then that Nicolas Sarkozy stamped his personality on France's relations abroad
So if Socialist candidate Francois Hollande - consistently ahead in the opinion polls - were to win on Sunday, how would French foreign policy change?
It is a question I put to veteran French analyst Dominique Moisi.
Mr Hollande's style would, he told me, be very different "not least because his international experience is very limited".
President Sarkozy was strong on high-profile diplomacy and eager to seize upon events to propel France into a driving seat.
In the summer of 2008 he took the helm of EU efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Georgia and French warplanes were first into action against Libyan government troops in March 2011.
In both cases France was by no means acting alone but Nicolas Sarkozy sought to leverage its interventions to bolster French foreign policy goals.
Mr Hollande is not Mr Sarkozy. Indeed it is the current French president's personality, as much as anything else, that was rejected by many voters at the first ballot.
So Dominique Moisi believes that the style of French foreign policy would change under Mr Hollande but he adds one important caveat: Mr Hollande could change while in office.
Mr Hollande's chief challenge would be how to deal with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and his other European partners, says Francois Heisbourg, a strategic adviser at the Paris-based think-tank FRS.
Much has been made of Francois Hollande's desire to promote growth and his unhappiness with the European Union's whole approach to austerity, championed by Mrs Merkel.
Indeed the German chancellor has made no secret of her preference for the re-election of Nicolas Sarkozy.
But Mr Sarkozy's policy of sticking to the Germans and doing what they want has reached its limits, Heisbourg argues.
"The whole thing has been undermined by the downgrading of France's credit rating and the current state of the European economy.
"Hollande could be in a relatively strong bargaining position. The writing is on the wall and if Chancellor Merkel chooses - for political reasons - not to read it then the markets will clobber Europe."
"Given his background and history, Francois Hollande is probably at heart more of a European than Sarkozy," Moisi argues.
After all, he worked closely in his formative years with Jacques Delors - one of the great architects of the European Union.
"Hollande," says Moisi, "has an understanding for Europe, an understanding of the centrality of Europe.
"That is why he is credible when he says he wants to change Europe."
One central aspect of French defence policy over recent years has been to try to intensify co-operation with Britain - the only other country in Europe that maintains similar military ambitions.
Moisi argues that the Anglo-French understanding - especially in the defence sphere - would continue under Mr Hollande.
But he also warns against the idea that somehow Mr Hollande would seek to destabilise the Franco-German relationship.
What, though, of the more "atlanticist" accent that Nicolas Sarkozy has given to French foreign policy?
"Here, there would not be a significant shift," says Moisi.
Both he and Heisbourg agree there would probably be a return to a more traditional pattern of French diplomacy.
On the other hand, the personal relationship between Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy was highly competitive, Heisbourg says.
"Obama was the only US head of state who managed on a 48-hour official visit to Paris to spend two meals with his wife in restaurants without his French counterpart!" he recalls.
"There was an immediate mutual aloofness, to use a mild word."
On the Middle East, Heisbourg believes Hollande will maintain Nicolas Sarkozy's improved ties with Israel, albeit with a change of style.
In any case, he adds, the recent relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the French president was "very fraught".
On Afghanistan, Dominique Moisi points out, Mr Sarkozy wants a withdrawal of French combat troops by the end of 2013 while Mr Hollande has said he wants them out at the end of 2012.
But in broad terms an Hollande presidency would signal a large measure of continuity in both foreign and defence policy.
Indeed, foreign policy has not played a significant role in the presidential campaign.
"On balance," says Dominique Moisi, "Nicolas Sarkozy's record in foreign affairs is widely seen as globally positive.
"This context inevitably favours a broad continuity."
The officer, known as Vincent, told the court how he infiltrated the group, known as the Three Musketeers.
Naweed Ali, 29, from Sparkhill in Birmingham, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of preparing terrorism acts along with three other men from the West Midlands.
They were arrested on August 26 after a pipe bomb was found in Ali's car.
Both Ali, of Evelyn Road, and his co-accused Khobaib Hussain, 25, also of Evelyn Road, have previous convictions for attending a terror training camp.
The officer said he had posed as the boss of a courier firm which had employed Ali to travel around the country delivering parcels.
On Ali's first day, he left his Seat Leon at the depot in Birmingham city centre and took a van on a delivery run to Luton, the court heard.
Meanwhile, British security services searched Ali's car.
Giving evidence from behind a screen, Vincent said they found what appeared to be a pipe bomb and a handgun inside a JD Sports bag in the car.
He said he and another officer had eased the contents of the bag on to a ground sheet and carried it into a different room.
Vincent told jurors the bag contained a black self-loading pistol with an empty magazine strapped to it, chrome-coloured pipe, a hatchet knife, gunshot cartridges and a single 9mm bullet.
There were also latex gloves, a roll of gaffer tape and some napkins, he said.
Jurors have previously heard the pipe bomb turned out to be only partially constructed and the pistol was an imitation firearm.
Ali and Hussain, Mohibur Rahman, 32, of High Lane, Stoke-on-Trent, and Tahir Aziz, 38, of of Wulstan Road, Stoke-on-Trent, deny the charges.
The case will resume on Monday.
The warrants are for the Benin Football Federation (FBF) executive committee and a Caf observer who attended federation elections on 10 June.
All ignored a court injunction ordering the suspension of FBF elections, which went ahead in June despite the directive.
Football's world governing body says if the "decisions in question are not withdrawn by 18 July, the case will be referred to the Bureau of the Fifa Council, for it to take the appropriate decision."
Fifa disapproves of external interference in the running of a football association, having banned various countries in the past for such an offence.
The elections were held in the presence of Omari, with the DR Congo FA president acting as a Fifa observer, and his Ivorian counterpart Sidi Diallo, who represented the Confederation of African Football.
Holding the elections meant a ban from global football imposed by Fifa in May was lifted and allowed Benin to play a postponed Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Equatorial Guinea.
Benin won that match 2-1 to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for January's finals in Gabon from Group C.
The Fifa ban had been imposed after an earlier court ruling but stipulated the sanction could be lifted when elections had been held.
Anjorin Moucharafou was voted in as president once again by the 40 of the 42 delegates present.
His election went ahead despite a court having ruled it should be delayed indefinitely after it upheld a complaint by 20 of the country's football clubs.
The clubs argued that the current normalisation committee running the sport in the country had violated the statutes of FBF.
Fifa has warned Benin over the arrest warrants issued in the country for several key officials.
The warrants are for the Benin Football Federation (FBF) executive committee as well as the Fifa and Caf observers who attended federation elections on 10 June.
Football's world governing body says if the "decisions in question are not withdrawn by 18 July, the case will be referred to the Bureau of the Fifa Council, for it to take the appropriate decision."
The FBF held polls to choose a new president in June despite a court injunction order the suspension of the elections.
This meant that a ban from global football imposed by Fifa in May was lifted and allowed Benin to play a postponed Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Equatorial Guinea.
Benin won that match 2-1 to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for January's finals in Gabon from Group C.
The elections were held in the presence of DR Congo FA president Constant Omari acting as a Fifa observer and his Ivorian counterpart Sidi Diallo on behalf of the Confederation of African Football.
The Fifa ban had been imposed after an earlier court ruling but stipulated the sanction could be lifted when elections had been held.
Anjorin Moucharafou was voted in as president once again by the 40 of the 42 delegates present.
His election went ahead despite a court having ruled should be delayed indefinitely as it upheld a complaint by 20 of the country's football clubs.
The clubs argued the current normalisation committee running the sport in the country had violated the statutes of FBF.
The Iron took the lead through Michael Cheek's penalty on five minutes after Ross Flitney brought down Reece Hall-Johnson in the box.
Bromley's hopes were further dashed when Lee Minshull was shown a straight red card for a foul on Harry Lee just 16 minutes in.
The hosts then saw Daniel Johnson sent off for another foul on Hall-Johnson in the area on 32 minutes and Jack Midson converted the spot-kick.
Bromley also had boss Neil Smith sent to the stands before Hall-Johnson struck a third for Braintree in first-half added time.
Monty Patterson and Hall-Johnson added further gloss to the scoreline for Braintree in the second period, but the visitors had Ian Gayle sent off with six minutes remaining.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bromley 0, Braintree Town 5.
Second Half ends, Bromley 0, Braintree Town 5.
Connor Dymond (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Second yellow card to Ian Gayle (Braintree Town) for a bad foul.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Joe Maybanks replaces Monty Patterson.
Substitution, Bromley. Dave Martin replaces Bradley Goldberg.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Sam Corne replaces Chez Isaac.
Goal! Bromley 0, Braintree Town 5. Reece Hall-Johnson (Braintree Town).
Goal! Bromley 0, Braintree Town 4. Monty Patterson (Braintree Town).
Substitution, Bromley. Tobi Sho-Silva replaces Brandon Hanlan.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Lee Barnard replaces Michael Cheek.
Chez Isaac (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Bromley. Connor Dymond replaces Jordan Higgs.
Second Half begins Bromley 0, Braintree Town 3.
First Half ends, Bromley 0, Braintree Town 3.
Goal! Bromley 0, Braintree Town 3. Reece Hall-Johnson (Braintree Town).
Jordan Higgs (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ian Gayle (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Blair Turgott (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Bromley 0, Braintree Town 2. Jack Midson (Braintree Town) converts the penalty with a.
Daniel Johnson (Bromley) is shown the red card.
Lee Minshull (Bromley) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Goal! Bromley 0, Braintree Town 1. Michael Cheek (Braintree Town) converts the penalty with a.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Opposition and church groups had condemned the decision, saying the men were a security threat.
However, Mr Mahama said a Ghanaian was more likely to die in a road accident than at the hands of the Yemenis.
The men said they looked forward to living in Ghana, and had followed the national football team in prison.
Khalid al-Dhuby and Mahmoud Omar Bin Atef were held at the US prison in Cuba for more than a decade without being charged.
They are the first Guantanamo detainees that Ghana has accepted, at the request of the US.
The jail was set up following the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US to detain what Washington called "enemy combatants".
US President Barack Obama has said he wants to close the jail down before he leaves office in 2017.
Speaking at a press conference in the capital, Accra, Mr Mahama said that Guantanamo Bay was a "blot on the human rights record of the world".
"They [the men] just want to pick up the pieces of their lives and live normally. We don't have anything to fear," Mr Mahama said, adding that Mr al-Dhuby and Mr Atef were living in a security compound.
He dismissed as "absolutely untrue" allegations that Ghana had received money from the US to take the detainees.
Earlier, the influential Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference called the Yemenis "time bombs" who should be "sent back to wherever they came from".
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) said that official US documents showed the men had "violent and dangerous profiles".
"Why is government straining to paint a picture of the two detainees as harmless, misunderstood and wrongly detained persons?" it asked.
The two men were captured in Afghanistan, following the US-led invasion to overthrow the Taleban government in 2011.
Mr al-Dhuby and Mr Atef have denied belonging to militant groups.
"We have been wrongly arrested for 14 years without any charge against us," Mr Atef told Ghana's public radio station Uniiq FM.
"We have suffered but we are not looking for revenge," he said.
Mr Atef said they were huge fans of Ghana footballer Asamoah Gyan, and many of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay supported the Black Stars at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
"When Ghana beat America, we were very happy. We made some celebrations. We also told the guards that we've won," Mr Atef said.
Ghana beat the US 2-1, with Gyan scoring the winning goal in extra-time, which sent the Black Stars through to the quarter-finals.
Dozens of countries have received former Guantanamo Bay detainees, including other African states such as Uganda and Cape Verde.
A total of 780 men have been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, the vast majority without charge or criminal trial.
The US navy base now has 105 detainees, nearly 50 of whom have been cleared for release.
In addition, it said, fake technical support scams rose by 200% and crypto-based ransomware attacks grew by 35%.
Hackers also made more use of unknown software bugs to make sure attacks work, said the annual threat report.
It said the gangs behind the attacks had become more professional and now resembled legitimate software firms.
"They have extensive resources and highly skilled technical staff that operate with such efficiency that they maintain normal business hours and even take the weekends and holidays off," said Kevin Haley, director of Symantec security response in a statement.
Call centres had been set up by some gangs to make scams and cons more effective, he said.
Some of these groups were involved in tech support scams that try to trick people into paying to fix non-existent problems on their home computers. The US, UK, France, Australia and Germany were the hardest-hit by the fake support scams, it said.
Fake pop-up warnings on websites were being used by some groups to try to convince people their computer was riddled with viruses. In a small number of cases, said Symantec, people who rang to get help had ransomware installed on their computer when they let fake support staff have remote access to their PC.
Ransomware, which encrypts files on a computer that are only unlocked when victims pay a ransom, also remained popular among cybercriminals last year. The number of potential targets increased, it said, as ransomware for Apple Macs, smartphones and Linux all debuted in 2015.
Last year was also remarkable for the huge number of data breaches companies and other organisations suffered, it said. More than 500 million records of login names, passwords and other ID information went astray in the last 12 months.
In 2015, there were nine breaches that exposed more than 10 million records. By contrast, in 2014 only four breaches were this severe. One breach, of US Voter registration records, saw information about 191 million people exposed online.
Hospitals, healthcare firms and insurance companies suffered the largest number of breaches, said the report.
The ultimate number of digital identities that have been exposed could be higher, said Mr Haley, because many firms had stopped reporting exactly how much data had been lost.
"The increasing number of companies choosing to hold back critical details after a breach is a disturbing trend," he said. "By hiding the full impact of an attack, it becomes more difficult to assess the risk and improve your security posture to prevent future attacks."
Tony Gibb, 39, of Ruislip, was driving his car in Hertfordshire when he got into an argument after pulling out in front of another driver.
He was found guilty of dangerous driving at St Albans Crown Court.
Gibb, who won bronze in Manchester in 2002, was given a three-month suspended sentence and a year-long driving ban.
Gibb, who won the bronze in the Commonwealth Games 20km scratch race final and followed it up with a silver at the 15km event at the World Track Championships that year, had been on his way to a cycling event when the offence took place on Sunday, 21 June last year.
The prosecution said Gibb was in his Volvo XC90 on Cow Lane near Tring when he pulled out of a junction onto the A4251 in front of Kyle Gilroy's Astra SRI, causing him to perform an emergency stop.
After swearing and gesticulating by both men, Gibb got out of his car and took the other driver's keys from his ignition before throwing them and driving away.
Judge Andrew Bright said blocking the other man's car with his own constituted dangerous driving.
He said: "You decided to take his keys to somehow punish him.
"The Court Of Appeal has made it clear that road rage is something the courts must take very seriously and punish severely."
He told Gibb the offence "crossed the custody threshold", but he was just able to suspend the sentence for two years.
Gibb, who was described as a cycling commentator on Eurosport and businessman, will also have to pay prosecution costs of £3,500 and carry out 100 hours of community work.
With the tie at 1-1 after the first leg, Barca rested Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar but still had way too much for their opponents.
Lucas Digne broke the deadlock before Ivan Rakitic's penalty and a Rafinha strike put Barca firmly in control.
Turan's treble came in the second half, along with a Paco Alcacer header.
The Turkish midfielder's first was a stooping header from close range, with his second a powerful finish into the roof of the net after Alcacer's header had been saved.
His third was the best of the lot - a superb curling finish into the top corner after Hercules had failed to properly clear a corner.
Arguably the biggest cheer of the night, though, was reserved for the goal of Alcacer, who joined the club from Valencia in the summer for £25m but had failed to find the net in 12 previous appearances for his new club.
He could not miss from two yards out after Rafinha's cross had deflected his way.
It was ultimately the one-sided scoreline many had predicted but is a little harsh on Hercules, who claimed an impressive home draw in the first leg and frustrated Barca for over half an hour in the Nou Camp.
However, once Digne had poked in the opener and Rakitic had scored from the spot - following Fernando Roman's foul on Turan - Luis Tevenet's side were exposed allowing Barca to take full advantage.
Anas Abdalla, Mahamuud Diini and Gabriel Rasmus from Birmingham wanted to join the group, a jury was told.
But they were arrested after being discovered hiding in the back of a lorry at Dover port in April 2015.
Mr Abdalla and Mr Diini, both 26, deny preparing for acts of terror. Rasmus, 29, admits the same charge.
Somalia-born Mr Abdalla and Mr Diini claim their covert bid to get out of the UK had nothing to do with terrorism.
In a defence statement, Mr Abdalla, an IT technician and former asylum seeker, said the secret services had made his life in Britain "intolerable".
He said his university career, job prospects and financial affairs in the UK had been "adversely affected".
Part-time labourer Mr Diini, a Dutch national, said in his defence statement he had rebuffed attempts by MI5 to recruit him.
He claimed his brother Ahmed had been arrested and tortured in Egypt and he was on his way to find him in Turkey after his release.
But prosecutor Sally Howes QC told jurors "The evidence you will hear during this trial will show that their intention was to join forces with Islamic State to offer their services, together with their lives if needs be, to engage in acts of terrorism."
She went on to say how undercover officer "Muhamed" had befriended the trio and secretly recorded their conversations.
Rasmus repeatedly referred to "being out there" in Syria and said: "September 11 was so good" she claimed.
Mr Abdalla said: "Paradise, paradise, I swear to God I cannot wait," the court heard.
On 2 April 2015, they returned to Birmingham following a first failed attempt to leave in the back of a lorry and they told Mr Muhamed they had paid £900 and needed the money back, the jury was told.
Mr Abdalla, of Fox Hollies Road, Acocks Gardens, Birmingham, and Mr Diini, of Coventry Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, deny the charge against them.
The trial continues.
Yn yr un modd, mae mwy o ysgolion wedi eu rhoi yn y categori gwyrdd - lle mae angen lefelau is o gefnogaeth arnynt.
Dyma'r drydedd flwyddyn i'r system liwiau gael ei defnyddio gyda phob ysgol yn cael gradd gan ddibynnu ar nifer o feini prawf.
Mae ysgolion yn cael eu didoli i gategori lliw sy'n mynd o wyrdd, i felyn, oren a choch.
Bydd y manylion yn cael eu cyhoeddi yma maes o law.
Fe gafodd canlyniadau 2016 eu cyhoeddi ar wefan Fy Ysgol Leol.
Yn ôl y ffigyrau diweddara' mae 54 o ysgolion uwchradd yn y categori gwyrdd, a 21 yn y categori coch.
Llynedd, 39 oedd yn y categori gwyrdd, gyda 26 yn ysgolion coch.
O ran ysgolion cynradd, mae 355 o ysgolion categori gwyrdd eleni, a 22 o rai coch.
Llynedd, roedd 294 o ysgolion cynradd gwyrdd, a 32 o rai coch.
Mae'r ffigyrau yn dangos fod cyfran yr ysgolion gwyrdd wedi cynyddu 5% yn y sector cynradd a 7% yn y sector uwchradd.
Hefyd mae'r ffigyrau yn dangos fod cyfran yr ysgolion coch wedi gostwng 1% yn y sector cynradd a 2% yn y sector uwchradd.
Mae 41% ysgolion arbennig wedi'u categoreiddio'n ysgolion gwyrdd.
Dim ond 8% sydd wedi'u categoreiddio'n ysgolion coch y mae angen y gefnogaeth fwyaf arnynt.
Dywedodd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Addysg, Kirsty Williams: "Nid graddio, labelu na llunio tablau cynghrair amrwd yw nod y system hon ond yn hytrach, mae'n ymwneud â darparu cefnogaeth ac annog ein hysgolion i wella.
"Mae'r ffigyrau rydym wedi'u cyhoeddi heddiw yn dangos bod 84.4% o ysgolion cynradd a 64.6% o ysgolion uwchradd yn y categorïau gwyrdd a melyn erbyn hyn.
"Mae'r cynnydd hwn i'w groesawu, a bydd gan yr ysgolion hyn rôl allweddol i'w chwarae er mwyn cefnogi ysgolion eraill, drwy rannu eu sgiliau, eu harbenigedd a'u harferion da."
Fe gyhoeddwyd y canlyniadau perfformiad cyntaf yn ôl y drefn newydd yma yn 2015, ac ers hynny mae'r nifer o ysgolion yn y categori gwyrdd - ac sydd angen lleiaf o gymorth felly - wedi cynyddu o flwyddyn i flwyddyn.
Yn yr un modd mae'r nifer o ysgolion coch - sydd angen y cymorth mwyaf - wedi parhau i gwympo.
Ond tra bod Llywodraeth Cymru, awdurdodau lleol a chonsortia addysg yn ymfalchïo yn y canlyniadau, mae'n werth nodi bod undebau dysgu'n parhau'n amheus am y modd yma o asesu ysgolion gan ddadlau nad yw'n llwyr ystyried yr holl ffactorau all ddylanwadu ar berfformiad ysgol.
Ac wythnos yn ôl fe gyhoeddodd y corff arolygu Estyn, adroddiad a feirniadodd safon y dysgu mewn ysgolion uwchradd yn enwedig.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran UCAC fod y ffigyrau yn bositif ond eu bod yn parhau yn amheus iawn "o broses sy'n gosod ysgol yn erbyn ysgol".
"Mae'n dangos fod safonau yn codi yn y sector cynradd ac uwchradd," meddai Ywain Myfyr, sy'n Swyddog Polisi efo'r undeb.
"Mae hyn yn amlwg yn adlewyrchu gwaith caled athrawon wrth addysgu a chefnogi disgyblion o bob oedran.
"Mae yn dangos ymdrechion mawr ysgolion sy'n wynebu heriau enfawr y dyddiau yma o safbwynt llwyth gwaith, diffyg adnoddau ariannol a thoriadau staffio."
Dywedodd David Evans, Ysgrifennydd yr NUT yng Nghymru, fod y ffigyrau yn rhai positif.
"Ond ni ddylwn gamddehongli'r ffaith fod categoreiddio ond yn un fodel o asesu, ac yn ddarlun o un rhan o'r perfformiad," meddai.
"Fe fydd perfformiad ysgolion yn amrywio oherwydd sawl rheswm, gan gynnwys y cyllid sydd ar gael a ffactorau eraill.
"Beth sy'n bwysig yw ein bod yn defnyddio'r canlyniadau mewn modd synhwyrol mewn modd i gefnogi ysgolion."
4 June 2015 Last updated at 09:16 BST
The company wants to take paying passengers on tourism trips into space, but they've faced big questions over how safe this form of travel is.
Last November a Virgin Galactic spacecraft crashed during a test run.
There were no passengers on board but one pilot was killed.
It led to big questions over whether this form of travel really is safe.
The BBC's Richard Westcott sent us this special report from Virgin's spaceship factory.
Northumberland County Council approved proposals for 200 houses, shops and a school at its County Hall site.
The Home Group said it would no longer be pursuing the scheme owing to a "number of reasons" including "current market conditions".
A council spokesman said it "remained committed to progressing alternative options".
Karen Heaney, Home Group director of regeneration, said: "We've gained outline planning approval and we leave at a stage where another developer can now take over, progress the scheme and deliver homes for the people of Morpeth."
The council said it was "concerned at the loss of a significant capital receipt which would have benefited all council tax payers in Northumberland".
Maple Grove Developments said they "remain committed" to the development of shops at the site and has "not considered withdrawing its plans".
There had been criticism of the cost of council plans to relocate its headquarters.
The authority said selling off the land and erecting a new £40m building in Ashington would be more cost-effective than refurbishing the current building.
David Holden of the South Morpeth Coalition residents' campaign group, said: "This is a victory for the will and determination of Morpeth residents.
"The Morpeth Neighbourhood Plan is clear that housing is not an appropriate use for the site... the whole process was a shambles.
"The loss of a capital receipt is entirely the fault of the council and is a result of pursuing a scheme that had no merit in planning terms."
Search dogs found the bodies of an Anglo-Polish woman, 33, and a Slovak woman, 32, on Wednesday. Their German guide, 50, was located on Thursday.
They were climbing 4,100m (13,450ft) Mont Maudit, a Mont Blanc summit, when they were swept away by collapsing ice.
It took some 36 hours before the alarm was raised over their disappearance.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said an investigation would be launched into the circumstances of the incident.
Stephane Bozon, head of the local mountain rescue team, said his team had only been alerted on Wednesday evening.
Two other groups of climbers who had been in the same area had said no-one had been buried by the avalanche.
Some 15 rescuers, two dogs and a helicopter were mobilised in the rescue, and chainsaws used to free the victims from the ice.
The Mont Blanc massif is popular with walkers and climbers but is Europe's deadliest mountain range, claiming some 50 lives each year.
Mr Cazeneuve said there had been eight fatal mountain accidents in France since last Saturday alone, the Associated Press news agency reports.
A British skydiver died after his parachute failed to open during a jump near Sallanches, close to Mont Blanc, on 7 August.
David Reader, 25, suffered severe head injuries and died in hospital in Annecy the next day.
West Midlands Police said officers from its counter-terrorism unit arrested the man on Tuesday afternoon.
The arrest was made at property in the West Midlands, the force said.
The force had issued an alert to officers and staff after receiving an "anonymous but credible" tip-off and said it was taking the threat "extremely seriously".
Officers have been urged to take extra precautions, including not wearing uniform during journeys to and from work.
Staff were first told on Monday night after the force received the call.
Senior officers clearly chose to make this threat public - perhaps to get the message out there to anybody planning such a plot that the police knew what was going on.
The officers I have spoken to have said it is business as usual.
If the force is being called out to, say, a burglary, senior officers are having to say to themselves, "Is this a burglary or is it an attempt to ambush our officers?"
Officers were held on duty to be given the security reminder while others were told as they started their shifts.
Assistant Chief Constable Garry Forsyth said the information received related "to the safety of West Midlands Police officers and police staff".
"We have taken the opportunity to remind all employees of the need to be vigilant. Our priority remains serving our communities and protecting them from harm," he said.
"Officers remain on patrol and our staff continue to respond to calls for service as usual."
The force remains on a "severe" level of terror alert.
"The status hasn't changed," a representative said.
In October, the threat level to police officers across Britain was raised to substantial.
The national security level remains at severe, signifying a terrorist attack is highly likely.
Threat levels indicate the likelihood of a terrorist attack in the UK and are split into five categories:
The inspection will focus on the cable on the east side of the crossing, near the top of the south tower.
Each of the main cables is made up of almost 12,000 individual steel wires. The bridge authorities said there are "no immediate safety concerns".
Special microphones are used to identify the sound of a wire snapping.
The acoustic monitoring system was installed in 2006.
Barry Colford, Forth Road Bridge chief engineer and bridgemaster, said: "The main cable acoustic monitoring system is designed to give us early warning of potential problems within the cable.
"I would therefore stress that, while this increase in wire breaks does merit further investigation, there are no immediate safety concerns and the cables still have more than enough strength to do their job.
"The inspection that we are now carrying out is purely to determine whether the recent increase in the rate and concentration of wire breaks is indicative of a longer term problem.
"Once we know the results of this inspection we will recommend any further action that is required to ensure the bridge remains safe and open to traffic."
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles called for nationwide protests next week.
Election officials had suspended a petition needed to organise the referendum.
The move halted the recall vote that polls said the government would lose.
Henrique Capriles said the coup "had been carried out against all Venezuelans".
He said in the protests, called for Wednesday, "we will take Venezuela from end to end. The whole people will be mobilized to restore constitutional order."
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Earlier the opposition said a court order had barred eight of them from leaving the country.
Reasons for the ban were not given but the council had said fraud had been reported in the referendum process.
The opposition had planned to secure the required signatures for the recall vote next week.
Another of the banned leaders, opposition coalition leader Jesus Torrealba, said: "It's gratuitous aggression. We are the majority, in the street and in Congress.
"They cannot postpone the change that the country is demanding."
The opposition controls the country's Congress but says Mr Maduro has power over key institutions such as the electoral authorities and the courts.
The government has accused the opposition of inventing names on the first of two petitions required to endorse the recall vote.
Mr Maduro said there had been "a gigantic fraud", adding: "Their cheating is coming out."
Diosdado Cabello, also of Mr Maduro's Socialist Party, said: "We hope justice will be served and that those responsible for this swindle will be detained."
The decision to suspend the referendum process came despite intense international pressure on President Maduro from the US and other Latin American countries to allow it to go ahead.
All three judges scored the 10-round contest 100-90 at the London Olympia.
The 28-year-old younger brother of IBF world featherweight champion Lee Selby impressed ringside pundit Andre Ward as he showed off his full repertoire.
"I love seeing a fighter who is a master of what he does," the world champion told ITV.
"If he continues like that, he is going to have a long and illustrious career. He makes it look easy."
Selby, who is the most decorated Welsh amateur boxer in history, says the fight was another important step on his way to the elite level. He has won all eight fights since turning professional and has now won three titles.
"The plan was not to take him out, I had to box," said Selby, who has already won British and IBF intercontinental titles.
"The plan was to hit and move. It was strictly about winning the belt. I did move a lot.
"My aim was to get the win. I want to have a long career."
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The 24-year-old, who won 200m breaststroke bronze at the London 2012 Olympics, was given a provisional ban after testing positive for meldonium.
The International Swimming Federation (Fina) lifted the ban after advice from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).
Meldonium is the substance Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova tested positive for earlier this year.
A statement from Fina read: "Wada is to undertake further scientific research on meldonium and have therefore recommended to Fina that the suspension of the swimmer should be lifted."
However, Fina also said the case "is not closed" and a decision will be made "following the outcome of Wada's studies".
The statement added: "After that, Ms Efimova would be entitled to file an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport."
Efimova is facing a life ban having previously tested positive for a banned substance.
The American-based swimmer was banned for 16 months by Fina after traces of the anabolic steroid DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) were found in her system at an out of competition test in Los Angeles in 2013.
Wada added meldonium to its list of banned substances at the start of 2016 and recently gave those athletes who had since failed tests a lifeline with the admission it was unclear how long the substance took to clear the body.
20 October 2016 Last updated at 12:29 BST
She spoke as the SNP led a debate at Westminster asking the UK government to guarantee the rights of EU nationals in Britain following the Brexit vote in June.
Ms Appel told the BBC she hoped there would be a guarantee made for her to stay in the Highlands where she currently lives.
The BBC's Westminster correspondent Nick Eardley reports.
The death of logistics specialist Randall Smith brings to five the number of people killed by gunman Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez. The other four victims were US marines.
Abdulazeez was himself later killed in a shootout with police.
The FBI has said his motives for the shooting were unclear.
However, it says it has found no evidence that he was carrying out an international terror plot.
Abdulazeez first fired shots at a recruitment centre in Chattanooga, then drove about six miles (10km) to a Navy and Marine reserve centre, where he shot and killed the marines, and wounded Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Smith.
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Police said Saleem Shahzad's body was found in a canal in Mandi Baha Uddin in Pakistan's northern Gujarat district.
Earlier, Human Rights Watch researcher Ali Dayan Hasan said he had "credible information" that Shahzad was in the custody of Pakistani intelligence.
He recently wrote an article about al-Qaeda infiltration in Pakistan's navy.
He reported that the militant group had launched the deadly assault on the Mehran base in Karachi, the headquarters of the navy's air wing, on 22 May because talks had failed over the release of several naval personnel arrested on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda affiliates.
At least 14 people were killed and two navy warplanes destroyed.
On Monday, a former navy commando and his brother were detained for their alleged role in helping plan the raid, which embarrassed the military.
Shahzad's family said he had disappeared after leaving his home in Islamabad on Sunday evening and heading to a television station to participate in a talkshow.
They immediately issued statements saying they feared for his safety.
By M Ilyas KhanBBC News, Islamabad
Saleem Shahzad's death has shocked journalists across Pakistan. But the horror is not so much caused by the death itself - it is the widely held belief that he was in the custody of the ISI intelligence agency when he was killed.
In the past, journalists trying to poke their noses into the geostrategic games of the Pakistani intelligence community have been picked up and given a dose of what they might expect if they cross the line. Some of them gradually faded away as avenues of reporting closed for them. Others learned their lesson, quit their bases, or reverted to "responsible" journalism, as it is known in Pakistan. Though none of them spoke publicly about their ordeals, other journalists were aware of what was going on.
Those working for comparatively little known or less influential media groups - like Shahzad did - have been more vulnerable. In a country where journalists have borne the brunt of political as well as religious extremism, the thought of state institutions also joining the persecution has always been an uncomfortable one. The feeling that these institutions might actually kill journalists in cold blood is more dreadful than killings by extremists.
The 40-year-old's body was found by local residents in a canal in the Sarai Alamgir area of Mandi Baha Uddin, some 150km (93 miles) south-east of the capital. His car was found about 10km (six miles) away.
The head of Margalla police station in Islamabad, Fayaz Tanoli, told the BBC that the local police force took photographs of the body and informed his officers on Monday that it might be Shahzad's.
The photographs were shown to Shahzad's brother-in-law, Hamza Amir, who identified the remains. Police said he had cuts to his face.
Relatives later travelled to Sarai Alamgir to confirm he was dead.
Mr Hasan of Human Rights Watch said Shahzad had recently complained about being threatened by the intelligence arm of the Pakistan military, the Inter Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).
After writing one article in October, Shahzad was summoned to an ISI office, where an intelligence officer issued what appeared to be a veiled threat, he added. Shahzad sent him notes of the meeting "in case something happens to me or my family".
"The perpetrators of this murder have to be identified through a transparent inquiry and due process, and must be held accountable. However, Human Rights Watch is aware that Saleem Shahzad had claimed to have received multiple threats from the ISI, and we regard those threats as credible," Mr Hasan said in a statement.
"While it is yet to be determined who killed him, the manner of his killing is reminiscent of other incidents where there was credible intelligence of involvement by Pakistan intelligence services."
Mr Hasan said he had been told by some Pakistani government officials that they believed Shahzad was in ISI custody.
A senior Pakistani intelligence official told the Associated Press it was "absurd" to say that the ISI had anything to do with Shahzad's death.
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists said: "We are losing our professional colleagues but the government never unearths who is behind the killing of journalists."
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed his heartfelt condolences to Shahzad's family and ordered an immediate inquiry into his kidnapping and murder.
Shahzad, who had a wife and three children, worked for the Italian news agency Adnkronos International (AKI) and was Pakistan bureau chief for Asia Times Online.
Human rights groups recently called Pakistan the most dangerous place in the world for journalists to operate, saying they were under threat from Islamist militants but also Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies.
The SRA said it had intervened into the practice of Roland Cassam and Peter Lewis at Temple Law Solicitors, in Llandaff, and closed the firm.
It said Mr Cassam was suspected of dishonesty and there was a failure to comply with rules which govern how solicitors handle clients' money.
The SRA investigation continues.
BBC Wales has been unable to contact the firm for comment.
The SRA said in a statement: "An intervention means the SRA has closed a firm with immediate effect.
"We will stop the firm from operating, take possession of all documents and papers held by the firm (including clients' papers), and take possession of all money held by the firm (including clients' money).
"We are not responsible towards employees or trade creditors of firms that we have intervened in.
"The SRA has appointed an agent to deal with all matters currently held by Temple Law Solicitors. The agent will assess all on-going matters and deal with those of greatest need first.
"The SRA's archive team will take control of all documents held by the firm."
The regulator said the firm's clients do not need to contact either the agent or the SRA at this time. It will now complete its investigation and decide on the appropriate course of action.
The SRA said no further details would be disclosed unless disciplinary proceedings become necessary.
"He's a much nicer version of Donald Trump but the campaign is remarkably similar in my opinion," said Mr Clarke.
The veteran pro-EU MP was speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Vote Leave have stepped up their focus on immigration, accusing David Cameron of harming public trust in politics with his pledge to cut net migration.
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In a joint letter to the prime minister, Mr Johnson and Justice Secretary Michael Gove said Mr Cameron's promise to reduce net migration to below 100,000 at last year's general election was "plainly not achievable as long as the UK is a member of the EU".
Following the letter, a number of Conservative MPs broke ranks to call for Mr Cameron to quit even if the Remain campaign wins in 23 June's referendum on whether Britain should remain in the EU.
Nadine Dorries - a long standing backbench critic of the prime minister who says she would back Mr Johnson in any contest to replace him - predicted the PM would be "toast" if Remain won by a narrow margin.
She told ITV's Peston on Sunday she had tabled a letter seeking a no-confidence vote in Mr Cameron.
Fellow Leave campaigner Andrew Bridgen suggested more than the 50 Conservative MPs needed to trigger such a vote were ready to move against Mr Cameron.
In his Today interview, Mr Clarke said Conservative in-fighting was "damaging to the referendum".
"The public are getting fed up with Tory civil wars when they thought they were being asked about the future of this country for their children and grandchildren.
"All this stuff about whether one or two backbenchers have signed letters calling for David Cameron to resign, I think most of the public would agree, is a bit of a diversion.
"I think Boris and Donald Trump should go away for a bit and enjoy themselves and not get in the way of the serious issues which modern countries of the 21st century face."
Pressed on his opinion of Mr Johnson, he said: "He is a much nicer version of Donald Trump but the campaign is remarkably similar in my opinion and about as relevant to the real problems that the public face."
Conservative MP Maria Caulfield, who entered Parliament at the 2015 election, said she hoped hostilities between Tory MPs would cease after the referendum.
"Of the new intake, the 2015 intake, we're very much hoping that after the referendum we can get back to doing the work we set out to do and that David Cameron as the prime minister will be leading that way," she told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.
Number 10 dismissed the personal attacks as a "distraction" intended to move attention away from the economic arguments for remaining in the EU.
Republican candidate Mr Trump sparked controversy by suggesting a temporary "ban" on Muslims entering the United States and has pledged to build a wall to prevent Mexican illegal immigrants entering the country.
The game has been put back until Wednesday evening at Brewster Park.
All Sunday's other five opening round of fixtures remain on (14:00 GMT) with holders Tyrone facing Queen's at Omagh.
New inter-county managers Damien Barton and Eamonn Burns have their opening games in charge with Derry facing Antrim and Down travelling to Donegal.
Barton's Derry face the Saffrons at Owenbeg with Burns's Down taking on Donegal at Ballybofey.
GAA history was scheduled to be made in Sunday's game at Brewster Park with Cavan woman Maggie Farrelly due to become the first female to take charge of a senior inter-county game.
In Section C, Armagh host Cavan with Monaghan up against Ulster University.
Armagh's clash with Cavan takes place at Crossmaglen with Clones the venue for the other Section C opener.
Tyrone boss Mickey Harte has included Harry Og Conlon, Niall Sludden, Lee Brennan and Padraig McHampsey from last year's All-Ireland-winning Under-21 squad for their opener against Queen's.
However, the Red Hands line-up includes regulars Niall Morgan, Aidan McCrory, Conor Clarke, Peter Harte, Mark Bradley and Ronan O'Neill.
James McCartan's Queen's side may include Marty Clarke as he attempts to get back to inter-county pace ahead of his expected return to the Down squad.
Derry boss Barton has named Slaughtneil brothers Chrissy and Karl McKaigue in a strong Oak Leaf line-up which also includes Dermot McBride, James Kielt, Emmett McGuckin and Ryan Bell for the game against Antrim.
The Saffrons could include Michael McCann following his decision to return to the Antrim fold.
Antrim now have joint managers with last season's boss Frank Fitzsimons now working alongside Gearoid Adams and former world boxing champion Brian Magee operating as fitness coach.
New Down boss Burns is still waiting on Benny Coulter and Dan Gordon to rejoin the county panel while the Mournemen will also be without injured backs Luke Howard and Benny McArdle.
Donegal boss Rory Gallagher has named debutants Mark Anthony McGinley, Jack O'Brien, Eoghan Ban Gallagher, Ciaran Thompson, Stephen McBrearty and Michael Carroll for their opener against Down.
However, the side includes regulars Paddy McGrath, Martin O'Reilly, Frank McGlynn, Leo McLoone and Odhran MacNiallais.
Cavan boss Terry Hyland has handed debutants to Kingscourt player Padraig Faulkner plus Ballymachugh's Liam Buchanan and Ballinagh's Thomas Moore for their game against Armagh.
David Givney and goalkeeper Alan O'Mara also return to the Cavan line-up.
Armagh will be under-strength at Crossmaglen with the local club's contingent unavailable because of the upcoming All-Ireland Club semi-final and several other regulars also missing.
Monaghan boss Malachy O'Rourke is also expected to name a largely inexperienced line-up with Darren Hughes currently on honeymoon and several other regulars also rested.
Farney stars Rory Beggan and Ryan McAnespie are likely to play at Clones but for the university side.
The Jordanstown outfit will be without injured Kieran Hughes and Paddy McBrearty.
Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup fixtures - all 14:00 GMT
Section A
Derry v Antrim, Owenbeg
Tyrone v Queen's, Healy Park
Section B
Donegal v Down, MacCumhaill Park
Fermanagh P-P St Mary's College, Brewster Park
Section C
Armagh v Cavan, Crossmaglen
Monaghan v Ulster University, St Tiernach's Park
TEAMS
Tyrone: N Morgan; A McCrory, P Hampsey, HP McGeary; B Tierney, C Clarke, K McGeary; H Og Conlon, R Donnelly; C McShane, P Harte, N Sludden; M Bradley, R O'Neill, L Brennan.
Derry: E McNicholl; K McKaigue, D McBride, J Morgan; L McGoldrick, C McKaigue, D Heavron; Emmett Bradley, C McAtamney; C McFaul, J Kielt, E Lynn; E McGuckin, R Bell, S Heavron.
Donegal: M McGinley; J O'Brien, E Doherty, P McGrath; M O'Reily, C Ward, E Gallagher; H McFadden, C Thompson; M O'Carroll, F McGlynn, S McBrearty; O MacNiallais, L McLoone, E McHugh.
Cavan: A O'Mara; J Hayes, K Brady, P Faulkner; C Brady, N Murray, D McVeety; B Shankey, L Buchanan; C Conroy, N McDermott, C Mackey; D Givney, T Moore, M Reilly.
Russell Goreraza knocked down and killed an unidentified man in his car in the capital, Harare, in February.
"I regret and want to apologise for the incident," President Robert Mugabe's 31-year-old stepson told the court.
The magistrate said he had considered cancelling the accused's licence and sending him to jail but opted for a fine because of his remorse.
Douglas Chikwekwe said that the fact that Goreraza was a first-time offender had also affected his decision.
The BBC's Brian Hungwe in the capital, Harare, says many are shocked by the fact that Goreraza did not get a jail term.
Sentencing for culpable homicide varies depending on the magistrate and their interpretation of the circumstances, but two-year prison terms have been handed down in similar cases.
Friends and relatives of Goreraza, who did not have a lawyer to represent him, attended the hearing, but not the first lady, our reporter says.
The name of the person run over by Goreraza was not revealed in court, he says.
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After the sentencing, intelligence officers tried to prevent prison officers from taking Goreraza away to the cells to pay his fine.
Goreraza stayed inside the cells until the media outside had left, so he could avoid the cameras, our reporter says.
He is Mrs Mugabe's first son from her marriage to Stanley Goreraza, a diplomatic military attache.
Unlike his mother, he has steered clear of politics and has mining and farming interests.
Mrs Mugabe began a relationship with President Mugabe whilst working as a typist in state house in the late 1980s.
They married in 1996 and have three children.
The union said it had no other option after the failure of talks at the conciliation service Acas.
The RMT is campaigning against the increased use of trains without guards, with the driver opening and closing the doors at stations.
ScotRail has said such operations are already common on the network, particularly on suburban services.
The operator has also promised to ensure a second member of staff was onboard every train to assist the driver in emergencies.
Phil Verster, managing director of Scotrail Alliance, said: "This industrial action by the RMT is not about safety, it's not about a second person on a train and it's not about jobs or pay and conditions.
"It is about modernisation of the railway and preparing us for a railway that Scotland can be proud of for the next 40 or 50 years."
But the union claims the absence of a dedicated guard would make trains less safe.
The strike is the latest of several held during the dispute. Another one-day strike is due be held next Sunday, 31 July.
Scottish Labour has called on Transport Minister Humza Yousaf to intervene to try to reach a negotiated settlement.
Mr Yousaf, however, tweeted that he had already discussed the dispute with ScotRail and the RMT, and would continue to do so.
He also called for the suspension of strike action while dialogue took place.
Transport Scotland said it had been assured by ScotRail that over 80% of services would run as normal this weekend.
Passengers are advised to check the ScotRail strike information web page before they travel.
Jamie Vardy opened the scoring for Leicester from close range after Ritchie De Laet's cross.
Matt Kilgallon headed in an equaliser before the break for his first goal in Blackburn colours.
Leicester's last win at Ewood Park in all competitions came in the Premier League in May 1997. Blackburn have won five of the last seven home meetings against the Foxes, drawing the other two.
Leicester are 15 points clear of third-placed Derby County.
The Foxes went into the match seven points clear at the top of the table, with a game in hand, and are now unbeaten in 17 Championship games, winning 13 of them.
They boast the best away record in the division, with 11 wins from 18, while Blackburn had lost their last two home matches to lose pace with the play-off chasing pack.
Burnley's win at Charlton moves them to just five points off the leaders but Leicester are still 15 points ahead of third-placed Derby as they look to secure promotion to the Premier League.
The Foxes looked like continuing their good form on their travels as Vardy tapped in an opener from close-range, following De Laet's cross.
Jordan Rhodes was denied an instant leveller by Kasper Schmeichel's one-handed save, before the striker had a penalty appeal turned down following a challenge by De Laet.
The equaliser did come just before half-time though when Kilgallon met Craig Conway's corner to head home.
Blackburn almost took the lead soon after the restart but Rudy Gestede's goal-bound header was blocked on the line by Rhodes, before Vardy hit a post for Leicester after rounding goalkeeper Paul Robinson.
Blackburn manager Gary Bowyer:
"I thought we were excellent. They're a top team with a top manager and we've gone toe-to-toe and had a right good go.
"It's certainly one of the better performances this season.
"There haven't been too many performances where we haven't competed, but against the league leaders we've got to be pleased with that. But we can't rest on our laurels now."
Leicester assistant manager Craig Shakespeare:
"I think we had the best clear-cut chances in the game but I think if we'd taken all three [points], with Blackburn's performance, they'd have been disappointed not to take something out of it.
"They gave us as good a game as we've had all season. At the start of the second half they were on top but we probably shaded it in terms of the best chances.
"As you get to what people call the business end of the season, we have to see it as a point gained."
The replacement Cowes Floating Bridge vessel, linking Cowes and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, had been due to come into service by the end of March.
However, engineers must wait for spring tides to complete the lowest part of the slipway where the chains attach.
It is hoped the ferry will now start in early May, after staff training.
The previous vessel was taken out of service at the start of January after 40 years of service.
Drivers travelling between the west and east sides of the River Medina face a 10-mile diversion via Newport, although a replacement launch is in operation for foot passengers.
The Isle of Wight Council said the new ferry, being built in Wales by Mainstay Marine, would carry more vehicles than its predecessor and would make "faster, more regular" crossings.
The ferry office said it hoped 20 vehicles would fit on the new vessel, compared with 10 or 11 on the old ferry.
The 1-0 defeat at home by Morecambe on Tuesday, in Webb's second match in charge, extended Orient's losing streak to six matches in League Two.
"With all the things the fans have seen and gone through it is hard to have optimism," Webb told BBC Radio London.
"There is light at the end of the tunnel. There are some good youngsters coming through here."
Webb named five players aged 20 or under in the starting XI which was beaten by the Shrimps - a defeat which means the O's remain 23rd in the table, one point from safety.
The east London side face fellow strugglers Cheltenham, Notts County and Newport County in their next six games.
"I understand the frustrations of not picking up any points in the last two games," Webb, 33, added.
"I have been proud of the players and the youngsters are looking like men out there. I want to assure the fans we are going to stick at it and keep going.
"They have a lot to be hopeful for with these players coming through, and the future of the club on the pitch is looking good."
Webb is Orient's fourth manager of the season and their 10th since the summer of 2014.
The club, who have been members of the Football League since 1905, have now lost 12 of their 16 league games at the Matchroom Stadium this season.
"I've have gone into this job with my own structure for the club in my head," Webb said. "Sometimes it takes a few defeats to get your message across.
"My first thought before the first day's training was that we need to get a bit of togetherness at this place.
"We need team spirit, camaraderie and fight to get the punters on our side a bit more."
But he has plans to unpick it - and says he has been in talks with Theresa May about a new approach to tackling poverty if she is re-elected as prime minister.
"I'm expectant. I have great expectations," he says of his discussions with Mrs May about a new focus on preventing poverty before it takes root.
They might seem like an unlikely pairing - Mrs May, the clergyman's daughter and John Bird, who learned to read in prison, but he says she has engaged with his ideas on prevention.
The cross-bench peer is proposing a "prevention department" or a "prevention unit", working across health, education, social services, police and prisons.
He says successive prime ministers have been "chummy" with him about ideas to tackle poverty but Mrs May seemed particularly interested in this shift towards a systematic strategy of prevention.
Lord Bird says he wants a fence at the top of the cliff, rather than ambulances picking up pieces at the bottom.
The billions spent on the rats' nest of consequences of poverty - in educational underachievement, bad health, poor employment, drink and drug abuse and the criminal justice system - would be better targeted at prevention.
And if Mrs May returns to Downing Street, he will be knocking on her door "to put her money where her mouth is".
He says he told her a couple of "home truths" - including that he was tired of being wheeled out by ministers who wanted to be associated with what the Big Issue has achieved for the homeless, while the big underlying problems remained unresolved.
He is scathing about decades of ministerial attempts to address poverty.
"Most of them are a bit like the alcoholic that won't admit that they're a drunk.
"They don't want to admit that they're overseeing a system which at the end of their time in office will still be a failure."
He accuses governments of coming up with gimmicky pilot projects that get a few headlines but never really scratch the surface.
"They show it to you and sign a piece of paper saying they want to end poverty. But they go on spending the money in the same old way."
He also argues strongly that poverty is not just about material deprivation - and that anti-poverty efforts need to be about raising aspirations and opening up opportunities.
"I know that the poor are materially better off than when I was a boy - but emotionally, psychologically and mentally, they're worse off."
He says those at the bottom of the heap have been hurt by an economy dominated by a "horrible mix of consumerism and the financial industry".
But he says the first step has to be addressing basic need.
"If you can't feed, you can't think.
"You've got this underlying situation where many, many families in this country are just about holding on.
"What we have to realise is that the lack of material security undermines everything else.
"So when people chastise the poor for not getting off their rears, it's often because with that material lack of independence all the other lights go out, the whole tree goes out."
"My mum and dad had enormous poverty - they were never going to raise their eyes above material poverty, because they'd been destroyed."
But he is angry at what he sees as a lack of ambition in poverty initiatives.
"They don't look on the poor as the same species as themselves.
"I also want to address the paucity of education, the social engagement. And that's when you fall out with the great and the good."
He says there has been a misplaced fear of being seen as "elitist" or "paternalistic" - and that tackling poverty should be about opening up the worlds of art, history, politics and economics.
Schools should be teaching everyone about how financial markets operate, he says.
"Most capitalists don't even know how capitalism works these days," he says.
He accuses the social services system of being "vapid and ineffective".
"They're not stopping poverty. All they're doing is keeping the poor poor. Why is social security not called social opportunity?"
Whichever party wins the general election will face pressing questions about poverty, whether it's homelessness, food bank users or the out-of-sight struggles of those working but still not making ends meet.
Official figures this year showed that two-thirds of children living in poverty were now in working families, the highest levels on record.
Lord Bird, who made the journey from sleeping rough and washing up in the kitchens at the House of Lords to sitting as a peer on the red benches, will keep rattling the windows of whoever gets elected.
The fan of the League One club was given the warning in a letter, which has been widely shared on Twitter.
Charlton claimed that only one letter was sent and that they met with the fan on Thursday.
He has now been given his ticket after apologising for abusive behaviour towards the club and some of its staff.
The letter suggested the fan would need to agree not to post "derogatory or inflammatory comments" about the club on social media and sign an 'Agreed Behavioural Contract'.
But Charlton said he was given his ticket without signing the contract because of his apology.
It follows repeated protests by Charlton fans against owner Roland Duchatelet's running of the club, including disrupting matches at The Valley by throwing beach balls and stress balls onto the pitch.
Duchatelet, a main shareholder at five football clubs, took charge of Charlton in January 2014.
In that time, he has overseen six managerial changes and the club's relegation from the Championship last season.
Their first home game of the season is against Northampton Town on Saturday.
The supporter, whose identity has not been revealed to BBC Sport, was written to by Charlton's duty safety officer Cliff Eager on 2 August.
It stated: "We have identified that certain comments placed on social media websites by yourself have been not particularly constructive.
"Whilst we recognize that everyone is entitled to their own personal opinion it is not helpful when inflammatory comments are posted on such websites.
"The granting of your season ticket will be 'conditional' and subject to you receiving an 'Agreed Behavioural Contract', which will request that you refrain from posting derogatory or inflammatory comments regarding the club of people representing the club in the future on any social media websites."
A statement issued by the club confirmed the supporter had been written to about their "continued inappropriate behaviour towards members of staff on Charlton's official social media accounts and foul and abusive language captured on stadium cameras".
Charlton's head of matchday operations Mick Everett and Eager met with the supporter on Thursday.
"During the meeting, the level of abuse, which the individual has since voluntarily removed from their Twitter account, was discussed," the statement read.
"The club also discussed the video footage, after which the individual apologised on several occasions for his behaviour and assured the club that he would not continue to engage in an abusive manner."
Since Duchatelet's takeover of the Addicks, protest group CARD (Coalition Against Roland Duchatelet) has been formed from an umbrella of Charlton supporters' groups.
Organiser and lifelong club supporter Alan Davis told BBC Sport he was concerned the letter may be "the thin end of the wedge from the ownership".
He said: "It might be the start of more to come. We know season ticket sales are down this year and I have not renewed myself for the first time in more than 20 years.
"CARD are not seeking to disrupt matches during August, but we will continue to protest.
"As a group, we developed a slogan that Charlton has become 'the club that hates its fans'."
Almost 650 ballot papers were sent out across the city in April without the names of the Labour, Green and Yorkshire First candidates.
The EC said it had assessed the officer as not meeting "performance standards" as a result of printing errors.
Hull City Council said it would prevent similar incidents in the future.
Labour's Karl Turner and the Green Party's Sarah Walpole were left off 484 postal ballot packs for the Hull East constituency in the UK parliamentary election.
While Yorkshire First's Colin Worrall, who stood in the Bransholme West Ward, was omitted from 164 ballot papers for the local election.
In its report, the EC said: "...Although the errors did not affect the outcome of the election, this could have resulted in those voters concerned not having the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice.
"In addition, the errors could have affected the confidence of those standing for election in the management of the process and the result."
In a statement, the authority said the ballot papers were incorrectly cut by an external printing company and the firm had now put measures in place to "prevent such an episode occurring in the future".
"The council acted immediately on both occasions when problems with the ballot papers were identified.
"We have put our own steps in place with Presiding Officers and Inspectors to identify and prevent any similar incidents occurring in future elections."
Roads are expected to be busiest on Friday between 13:00 and 20:00 BST.
The RAC was expecting the busiest late May bank holiday on the roads in four years with "bumper-to-bumper" congestion.
And traffic information company Inrix warned some journeys could take up to four times longer.
Rail passengers are also being warned of disruption due to engineering works between Saturday and Monday.
Highways England said it would complete or suspend more than 300 miles worth of roadworks by 06:00 on Friday to help ease congestion. Some will have to stay in place because it would be unsafe to remove them.
Experts have predicted different traffic hotspots.
Inrix believes the busiest road will be the 35 miles of the M25 between Caterham (Junction 7) and Fulmer (Junction 16). It says drivers can expect a normal 30 minute journey to take up to two hours and 50 minutes, with peak traffic expected about 10:30 and 16:45.
Bank holiday events go on despite attack
The RAC says it anticipates congestion at:
• M5 Almondsbury Interchange and from Bristol to Taunton
• A303 Andover to Ilminster
• A30 and A38 Exeter to Cornwall
• M4 between Cardiff and Swansea
• M25 between Gatwick and M1
• A23/M23 to Brighton
• A34 and M3 south and south west to the south coast
• A47 Swaffham to Great Yarmouth
• A11 Thetford to Norwich
• M55 between Preston and Blackpool
• A14 between the Midlands and the east coast
• A590/A591 between the M6 and the Lake District
• A66 between M6 and the coast
• M53 between Liverpool and Chester
RAC traffic spokesman Rod Dennis said: "While we're expecting leisure journeys to reach a peak on bank holiday Monday - families setting off for a half term trip or taking a day trip to the coast - drivers should be warned that the roads are likely to see significant congestion on Friday as getaway traffic and everyday commuter traffic combines. We're expecting it to be bumper-to-bumper from Friday lunchtime onwards on some of the country's most popular routes.
"We expect the vast majority of roadworks on motorways and major A-roads to be either put on hold or completed in time for the weekend which is good news for drivers but sometimes it only takes a single incident for delays to develop on parts of the road network that are prone to congestion."
Inrix said the peak time for the roads to be busiest will be between 15:00 and 17:00 on Friday, although the RAC expects the busy period to start at 13:00 and last until 20:00.
Highways England, which manages the motorways and major A roads, said about 98% of the motorways and major A roads would be free of roadworks over the bank holiday.
That includes 35 miles worth of roadworks at seven locations along the M1 motorway between Rugby and Nottingham.
However 17 miles worth of work along the M1 between junctions 19 and 16, near Crick, will stay in place and so will about six miles worth between junctions 23a and 25, near Long Eaton.
There will also be 20 miles of roadworks left in place on the M6 between junctions 16 and 19, near Crewe.
A full list of roadworks remaining in place can be found here.
Replacement bus services will be used for some or all of the bank holiday weekend for services between:
There will also be no trains at Rotherham Central on Saturday and Sunday and no trains to or from London Charing Cross from Saturday to Monday.
Network Rail said engineering work at Seven Kings and between Harold Wood and Shenfield would disrupt travel in and out of London's Liverpool Street station.
Details are available at the National Rail Enquiries website.
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The singer's video for his track She Knows feat. Juicy J is full of semi-naked dancers, but he's told us it's not a typical "strip club video".
It's been two years since the singer released his last album and this time around Ne-Yo has taken inspiration from his fans - quite literally.
Some of the songs on Non Fiction were based on stories sent to him via social networks.
Ne-Yo was speaking to Newsbeat's Entertainment Reporter Nesta McGregor.
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The AJAX prototype platform was designed at the firm's centre in Oakdale, Caerphilly, and will be the "eyes and ears" of the British Army on future battlefields.
Squadrons will be equipped with the armoured fighting vehicle by mid-2019.
The Ministry of Defence said it would be the armed forces' first "fully digitised armoured fighting vehicle".
The unveiling, at the Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition 2015 in London on Tuesday, comes after General Dynamics renamed its SCOUT Specialist Vehicle programme to AJAX.
Kevin Connell, vice president of General Dynamics Land Systems UK, said: "We are delighted to unveil the AJAX prototype, which is another significant step in the on-schedule delivery of a family of best-in-class platforms to the British Army."
The firm said the AJAX is one of six variants to be delivered to the British Army between 2017 and 2024.
In July, the company announced plans to open a plant in Merthyr Tydfil, creating 250 skilled jobs, after winning a £390m defence contract.
The latest Markit/CIPS service sector purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 55.5 from 59.9 in November, but was still above average.
A figure above 50 indicates growth in the sector.
However, the firm warned that there were still "significant" risks to the UK economy.
UK growth had "stabilised at a solid pace" supported by "a further strong increase in new business", the firm said.
Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said: "The services sector remained the key driver of the UK's economic upturn in December, helping to offset the recent weakness seen in manufacturing and putting the economy on the starting block for another year of 2 to 2.5% growth in 2016."
The economy now appears to have grown by 0.5% in the fourth quarter, Markit said, down from its estimate last month of 0.6%.
UK manufacturing grew at its slowest pace for three months in December, a Markit survey indicated on Monday.
However, UK construction growth rebounded in December after stronger commercial building activity, the firm said on Tuesday.
Mr Williamson said that "significant downside risks" remain in the UK economy in 2016, including "the cost impact of the Living Wage, government spending cuts, a potential hike in interest rates, global economic growth jitters and... Brexit [the risk of a UK exit from the EU]."
He said the pace of hiring had already slowed in the services sector "in what might be seen as a warning shot to those taking a complacent view of economic prospects for the coming year".
The sector had the slowest pace of job creation for five months in December, Markit said, and long-term expectations for business activity were the weakest since 2013.
Ciarain Murtagh's penalty put Roscommon 1-4 to 0-1 up and that was increased to 1-6 to 0-2 after half-time.
But a Dermot Malone goal gave Monaghan hope as they began to use the wind.
The Farney men levelled the contest on 62 minutes and while Roscommon moved ahead again, Fermanagh hit a closing 1-2 including McManus' injury-time goal.
Roscommon will rue the black carding of Murtagh which came shortly after his 27th-minute goal.
Murtagh notched 1-2 of Roscommon's opening 1-4 including his 27th-minute penalty after he had been hauled down by Drew Wylie, who was black carded for the the challenge.
However, Murtagh was then black carded himself before the break for a tackle on Dessie Mone.
Leading 1-5 to 0-2 after playing with a first-half wind advantage, Senan Kilbride tagged on a further Roscommon point after the restart but Monaghan were back in the game moments later as Dermot Malone struck a goal.
Two Thomas Kerr points helped Monaghan cut Roscommon's lead to 1-7 to 1-5 by the 50th minute and after Fintan Cregg's replied for the home side, points from Daniel McKenna, keeper Rory Beggan and Neil McAdam levelled the contest in the 62nd minute.
Cregg edged Roscommon ahead again with a minute of normal time left but Malone levelled immediately and McManus' injury-time goal broke the home team's resistance as McKenna tagged on another Monaghan point despite McAdam's dismissal seconds earlier.
WEEKEND ALLIANZ FOOTBALL LEAGUE RESULTS
Saturday
Division 1
Down 0-07 3-15 Donegal
Dublin 2-14 0-14 Kerry
Sunday
Division 1
Cork 1-18 0-12 Mayo
Roscommon 1-09 2-10 Monaghan
Division 2
Derry 3-13 1-10 Fermanagh
Meath 1-10 0-08 Armagh
Tyrone 0-10 0-08 Cavan
Laois 1-10 3-12 Galway
Division 3
Clare 1-11 0-07 Sligo
Limerick 1-12 2-09 Tipperary
Offaly 0-12 0-10 Longford
Westmeath 0-11 2-09 Kildare
Division 4
Louth 2-09 0-09 London
Carlow 0-10 1-12 Antrim
Wexford 0-14 1-10 Leitrim
Wicklow 0-13 1-08 Waterford
An EU-UK deal can only be discussed once the exit issues - such as UK payments to the EU budget - are resolved, Mrs Merkel told German MPs.
The UK initiated the formal procedure to leave the EU on 29 March.
It sets a two-year deadline for completion of the exit negotiations.
EU leaders are to meet on Saturday to adopt their joint negotiating position on Brexit. They are working on the basis of draft guidelines issued on 31 March.
Official talks will not begin until after the UK general election on 8 June.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May called the early election, saying she needed to strengthen her hand in Brexit negotiations.
The EU wants the terms of the UK's exit to be decided before any discussion of a future trade relationship, while Mrs May wants the two issues to be dealt with simultaneously.
The German chancellor told German MPs it would be "a waste of time" to maintain illusions that the two sets of negotiations could be held simultaneously.
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said the EU would "for sure" reach a free trade deal with the UK after Brexit.
But Mrs Merkel warned that it would be a different relationship, saying: "A third country - which is what the UK will be - cannot and will not have the same rights as an EU member state.
"All 27 EU countries and the EU institutions agree about that," she told the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament.
Angela Merkel's priorities are clear: to preserve the integrity of the EU and to secure the rights of its citizens living in the UK.
Her speech today may have sounded tough. In truth she is simply repeating what she's said all along: Britain cannot expect to cherry-pick in these negotiations. EU unity matters here, so she's sticking - more or less - to the Brussels script.
Germany is likely to take a moderately softer stance than, say, France. Sources here indicate there might be, for example, some wriggle room over the figure of the Brexit bill. There is little appetite for a punitive approach - Germany, of course, has an eye to its economic relationship with Britain. Nevertheless even the business lobby here (including the head of the association of Germany's all powerful automotive industry) acknowledge that the EU's interests must come first.
It's also worth noting that Brexit is also not the central focus for Berlin. There is a degree of frustration among politicians who are already preoccupied - not only with other challenges facing Europe, including migration, terror, conflict - but with their own looming general election.
Mrs Merkel said the immediate Brexit priorities to decide on were the rights of EU citizens in the UK and Britons in continental Europe and Britain's ongoing financial obligations.
"We can only do an agreement on the future relationship with Britain when all questions about its exit have been cleared up satisfactorily," she said.
"The sooner the UK government is ready for constructive solutions, the sooner we can meet its wish to talk about the future relationship. But first we need to know how the UK government envisages that relationship. It can only be done in that sequence."
EU officials estimate that the UK faces a bill of €60bn (£51bn; $65bn) because of EU budget rules. UK politicians have said the government will not pay a sum of that size.
Mrs Merkel stressed the need to protect the interests of some 100,000 Germans living in the UK.
But she went on to say "we are also ready to make a fair offer to British citizens in Germany and the rest of Europe.
"They are an important part of our community and should remain so."
Mrs Merkel noted the difficulty of unpicking 44 years' worth of EU legislation that counts the UK as a member state.
The people who will negotiate Brexit
Experts have warned that it usually takes the EU many years to negotiate free trade deals with non-EU countries. The EU-Canada deal, Ceta, was concluded after eight years of talks.
The Rio 2016 Paralympic singles gold medallist and world number one was beaten 7-6 (7-3) 6-1 by world number four Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina in the final of the Melbourne Open.
But compatriot Alfie Hewett was a winner in the men's doubles.
Hewett and Fernandez beat top seeds Joachim Gerard of Belgium and France's Nicolas Peifer 6-3 6-4.
Reid and Hewett are among four British players involved in the wheelchair tennis events at the first Grand Slam of the year, which start on Wednesday, with Lucy Shuker (women's singles and doubles) and Andy Lapthorne (quad singles and doubles) also in action.
The riotous blockbuster, which follows a gang of supervillains from the DC comic stable, took an estimated $43.8m (£33.9m) between Friday and Sunday.
That was 67% down on last weekend's opening numbers.
But it was enough to put it above two new releases - R-rated comedy Sausage Party and family fantasy Pete's Dragon.
Sausage Party, an adult animation in which Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig and Jonah Hill give voice to foul-mouthed food products, raked in an estimated $33.6m (£26m).
That represented a "big win" in light of its $19m (£14.7m) production budget, according to Josh Greenstein, president of worldwide marketing and distribution for film studio Sony.
"What is phenomenal about this result is it shows if you take risks and are high-quality and original in this marketplace, it can pay off big time," he told the AP news agency.
In Pete's Dragon, based on the 1977 film of the same name, Bryce Dallas Howard and Robert Redford find a boy living wild with a dragon.
The Disney film earned $21.5m (£16.6m) in its opening weekend.
Matt Damon's latest outing as Jason Bourne was in fourth in the weekend chart, followed by adult comedy Bad Moms.
The only other new entry in the top 10 was Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant's Florence Foster Jenkins, which debuted in eighth place with $6.6m (£5.1m).
Suicide Squad, whose cast includes Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto, has now made $222.9m (£172.6m) in the US and Canada and a further $242.4m (£187.6m) elsewhere around the world.
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Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos were arrested in 2013 in the Dominican resort of Punta Cana.
Police said their plane was carrying 26 suitcases stuffed with 680kg (1,500lb) of cocaine.
The two pilots and two other Frenchmen on board were found guilty of drug trafficking. They denied the charges.
According to French news channel BMFTV, the pilots had previously worked for the French navy and were helped by former intelligence agents to leave the Dominican Republic.
The channel said that the ex-intelligence agents helped the pilots, who were under house arrest, reach a boat off the Dominican coast.
From there they sailed to the French Antilles and then flew to Paris.
The French government said it had nothing to do with their escape.
The pilots' lawyer, Jean Reinhart, told AFP news agency that Fauret and Odos had returned to France "not to flee justice but to seek justice".
Mr Reinhart said the two were not "escapees" as they had not escaped from jail.
They had been barred from leaving the country but had not been sent to prison because they were appealing against their convictions, Mr Reinhart explained.
He said that Fauret and Odos had contacted the French magistrate in charge of their case and were keen to clear their name.
Fauret and Odos along with Nicolas Pisapia and Alain Castany were about to leave the Dominican Republic on board a Dassault Falcon 50 jet when the suitcases full of cocaine were discovered on board.
Six months after the four were arrested, 22 people were detained over a massive cocaine haul found on an Air France flight from the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to Paris.
Reinhold Hanning was found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people.
He was an SS guard at Auschwitz from 1942 to 1944. He has said he knew what was going on at the camp but did not act to stop it.
The Nazis killed about 1.1 million people - mostly Jews - at Auschwitz in occupied southern Poland.
The verdict came after a trial lasting nearly four months in the western German city of Detmold.
Observers said Hanning, in a wheelchair, remained silent and emotionless for much of the trial, avoiding eye contact with anyone in the courtroom.
It could be one of the last trials of Nazi officials involved in the Holocaust.
Camp guard apologises
Will Hanning be last Holocaust-era case?
There were just four people in the courtroom today who perhaps truly understand the significance of this verdict. Hedy Bohm, Erna de Vries, William Glied and Leon Schwarzbaum sat, straight backed, in the front row surrounded by friends and family, and listened intently.
Each of them endured and survived the unimaginable horror of Auschwitz. By giving evidence during the trial and describing some of their experiences in harrowing detail, they helped to secure this conviction.
Mr Glied, a dignified man with thick white hair and a ready smile, now lives in Canada. He was accompanied today by his daughter and granddaughter.
Before the verdict he told me that the actual sentence was immaterial. "What matters," he said "is that he is convicted by a German court for what he did."
At the trial, about a dozen elderly Auschwitz survivors testified against Hanning, giving harrowing accounts of their experiences.
Prosecutors said he met Jewish prisoners as they arrived at the camp and may have escorted some to the gas chambers.
Hanning's lawyers had argued that he had never personally killed or beaten anyone.
He told the court in April: "I want to say that it disturbs me deeply that I was part of such a criminal organisation.
"I am ashamed that I saw injustice and never did anything about it and I apologise for my actions. I am very, very sorry."
German prosecutors were required, until recently, to provide evidence that defendants were directly involved in the killings.
That changed with the 2011 conviction of John Demjanjuk, when a judge concluded that his activities as a camp worker in Nazi-occupied Poland amounted to complicity in mass murder.
Last year a German court sentenced Oskar Groening, 94, to four years in jail as an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 people at Auschwitz.
Known as the SS "book-keeper of Auschwitz", Groening was allegedly responsible for counting banknotes confiscated from prisoners.
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Mark Phillips gave the home side the lead early on, converting Dan Sparkes' inswinging corner.
Matt Paine soon doubled Braintree's lead, drilling home from another testing Sparkes set-piece.
The Iron pushed for further goals, nearly geting one midway through the second half, but Taylor Miles struck over from Remy Clerima's cross.
Chester had latest free transfer signing James Alabi making his debut, but the visitors could not build on their improved performance after the break.
Steve Burr's side have slipped to within seven points of the relegation zone. having now picked up just one point out of a possible 33 on the road in a run of 10 losses in 11 National League away games.
Including next Saturday's FA Trophy third round tie at Halifax, they are now embarked on a run of five successive away matches.
Chester manager Steve Burr told BBC Radio Merseyside:
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"It's annoying, as we'd spoken all week on how to deal with their set pieces and that's how the goals came.
"We were camped in their half after the break but could not score.
"James Alabi worked hard but he was feeding off scraps and did not get the best of service.
"We're on a bad run of results in the league but we've got the FA Trophy to look forward to."
But crossing the desert can be as dangerous as crossing the Mediterranean - and a group of young men in a backstreet compound sit nervously and in silence.
In one corner of the walled yard is a pile of five-litre jerry cans, each with a sackcloth cover and strap.
When the next truck is ready to head out into the desert, the containers will be filled with water and given to the dozen migrants.
Each has paid up to $400 (£270) for the uncertain ride to Algeria. They look frightened and confused; most are unable to understand the French that is being spoken.
The place is called "the ghetto". It is at the heart of Gao's human-trafficking underworld.
Hundreds of African men dreaming of a future in Europe pass through one of Gao's three "ghettos" every month.
Some 2,000km (1,240 miles) from the Mediterranean coast, Gao is the last point of relative safety before a six-day truck journey through the desert that claims an untold number of lives.
Sardou Maiga, bus station mechanic
They may die on that journey because if there are difficulties, the drivers will just drop them in the desert along the way
''I reckon the migrants have a 10% chance of reaching where they want to go. But the way I see it, it's their choice,'' says Moussa, a 26-year-old ''coaxer''.
His job is to board the passenger buses arriving from southern Mali and earmark migrants for his ghetto boss.
''You get on the bus about 20km before Gao. You walk between the seats saying you've been sent by Abdoulaye or Ibrahim - any common Malian name will do - and you are there to look after their onward journey.
"The guys put their hands up,'' says Moussa, who receives 5,000 CFA francs ($10) for each migrant he takes to the ghetto boss.
Gao is a low-rise city with broad, dust-red streets.
Its economy is based largely on trafficking; humans are traded here like fuel barrels and boxes of noodles or fridges from Algeria.
It is a known transit point for the lucrative trade in South American drugs, to the extent that it has a suburb known as "Cocainebougou" - Cocaine Town - where two- and three-storey concrete villas rise incongruously out of the dusty surrounds.
Because so much is at stake, Gao saw some of the worst fighting when rebels under various banners - Tuareg secessionism and Islamism - swept through northern Mali in 2012, prompting a French military intervention the following year.
The touting that goes on aboard the coaches before they even reach Gao explains the relative order at a bus garage run by Sonef Transport in Gao.
I see three young men, with hardly any luggage and dressed in clothes that have clearly been slept in, being whisked into a taxi.
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Chief mechanic Sardou Maiga says the trafficking networks prey on the migrants' fatigue and ignorance of geography.
"The ones you have just seen mostly have bought bus tickets from Bamako [Mali's capital] all the way to Libya. We run a bus service to Niamey [the capital of Niger] and onwards to Arlit on the border with Libya," he says.
"But the travellers have to change buses here in Gao and that's when the coaxers divert them and sell them to Tuareg truckers going to Algeria.
"They may die on that journey because if there are difficulties, the drivers will just drop them in the desert along the way."
Theodis Windel Dennis, 26, from Liberia:
I had $1,100 when I left Liberia one week ago. It's gone now. I went to Senegal where I paid $400 for a ticket to go to Morocco. But I was tricked. There was much more to pay later. So I went to Bamako and paid for transport all the way to Algeria.
There were 15 to 20 checkpoints all the way through Mali. At each the Malian army harasses you for money - you have to pay between 1,000 and 5,000 CFA francs or they take you off the bus.
When the bus arrived in Gao I was robbed of my bag with my phone, the cream for my hair, the rest of my money and my passport. But I am going to keep moving… I need to find a job in Algeria.
I want to go to Europe; I want to work for money. I am educated; I am a high school graduate. My mother is very old, my father has died, so I found it difficult in Liberia. I don't care if it's dangerous; I am not afraid. I just need to get out of Africa.
Ibrahim Miharata, 45, runs Direy Ben, meaning "the journey to fortune is over", a hostel for migrants who are down on their luck.
It receives funding from the Malian Red Cross and the Roman Catholic Church and can accommodate up to 70 migrants.
He says he has seen a lot of Gambians lately.
"Many have backtracked after being put off by the war in Libya," the hostel manager says.
"When they come back to Gao they are often desperate and sometimes mentally disturbed.
"Imagine someone who left his family a year ago. The family sold two head of cattle to support his trip.
"He was given $800 or $1,000. And now he is facing going back without a penny. It's shameful. It's enough to drive you mad."
Mr Miharata reckons up to 900 African migrants pass through Gao each month and head out on trucks up the road to Kidal and the Sahara, bound for Tamanrasset in Algeria.
Others - those who stay on the Sonef buses - continue eastwards towards Niger and Libya.
"The reason Gao is a key transit point for trade is that it offers one of the cheapest and shortest desert crossings - about five or six days," Mr Miharata says.
"So even if you come from Eritrea you might find yourself crossing the desert from here. It all depends what advice you get along the way."
Ibrahim Miharata, Gao migrant hostel manager
If you want to make a living in Gao, the migration business is your only choice
He estimates that Nigeria, Cameroon and The Gambia are the top three countries whose young men - mainly - are leaving the region this way.
"It is hard to be categorical because migrants lie about where they come from. The majority are definitely English-speakers, though."
Although he runs a hostel for distressed migrants, he owns a green bus, which runs to and from Kumasi in Ghana.
"Direy Ben helps those in distress but I am a former migrant myself - I went to Tunisia and Ivory Coast in my time - and I am in favour of the free circulation of people,'' Mr Miharata says.
"If you want to make a living in Gao, the migration business is your only choice."
Five people aged between 21 and 47 were arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
A 30-year-old man was also arrested in the Rochdale area.
Five of the six released are part of an original group of nine family members from Rochdale.
A boy, four, and a girl, seven, both sustained "serious" leg injuries, plus back and facial injuries.
The youngsters were being walked to school by their mother in Bretforton, near Evesham in Worcestershire, when the wall collapsed.
The district council said a complaint was made about the wall last month.
It is thought the children were walking ahead of their mother when they were struck by a large section of the wall, estimated to be 10ft (3m) high.
They were pulled from the rubble and flown to hospital by air ambulance.
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Jack Hegarty, managing director of Wychavon District Council, said: "I can confirm a complaint was made to us about the condition of the wall on 22 January, 2016.
"An officer from Building Control visited the site three days later and was advised on 26 January to carry out work to repair the wall, as well as a safety inspection to ensure it posed no immediate risk to the public.
"The owner informed us on 1 February a specialist in dry stone walling had inspected the wall and confirmed there was no immediate danger to the public and repair work would be carried out as soon as the weather improved.
"We take this matter seriously and will review the case to ensure there was nothing more we could have done."
Emergency services were called to the village just before 09:00 GMT.
Station commander Steve Fox, of Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service, said: "I would suggest high winds we've experienced would have contributed to the wall collapse."
The children were initially treated at the scene while crews carried out further searches of the rubble, but no further casualties were found.
While the wall is privately owned, Worcestershire County Council - which is carrying out structural reviews of other walls nearby - said "concerns remain" over its safety .
The rescue operation temporarily closed the B4035.
King Bhumibol, 88, is the world's longest reigning monarch, but has spent much of the last year in hospital and is rarely seen in public.
He is widely revered in Thailand, where he is seen as an arbiter in the divided political arena.
His doctors said they had now sought formal permission for the king to stop performing any official duties.
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The palace statement, released late on Sunday night, said the king's blood pressure had dropped as he was being prepared for haemodialysis, a procedure used to treat kidney failure.
He was placed on a ventilator and medication helped return his pressure to normal levels, it added. Doctors are now monitoring his condition closely.
King Bhumibol has been on the Thai throne since 1946.
Amid increasing concerns about his health in recent months, the Royal Household Bureau has issued more frequent bulletins.
Earlier this month, a statement said the king was recovering from a respiratory infection.
But the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head says that this is the first time doctors have sought permission for him to stop working, suggesting that perhaps the palace is considering transferring some of his formal duties to his heir, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn.
Given the pivotal role the king has played in maintaining the balance of power in Thailand's volatile political environment, the succession will be a formidable challenge for the military government, our correspondent adds.
Thailand's strict lese majeste laws mean public discussion of his health and succession plans are not permitted, and punishable by lengthy jail terms.
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Mr Compaore issued a statement saying the presidency was now vacant and urging elections within 90 days.
Military chief Gen Honore Traore said he had taken over as head of state "in line with constitutional measures".
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Alexandra Kinova had four boys and a girl by caesarean section on Sunday, they say.
The births took place "without any complications", according to doctors at Prague's Institute for the Care of Mother and Child.
The mother and babies were placed in an intensive care unit but are believed to be in a good condition.
The Czech Republic's first quintuplets, who were conceived naturally without IVF, have a 95% chance of growing up healthy, the Associated Press quoted Zbynek Stranak, chief doctor at the neonatal section of the institute, as saying.
The boys' names are reportedly Deniel, Michael, Alex and Martin, while the girl is called Terezka.
Their mother, who is from the town of Milovice, about 20km (12 miles) north-east of the capital, Prague, already had one son.
She originally believed she was pregnant with twins, but in March doctors upped it to four - and then five in April.
The father of the quintuplets was present at the delivery despite his train being delayed, according to the newspaper Ceske Noviny.
"I was crying all the way since I feared I would not manage it," he said.
The 21-year-old joined the Potters from Birmingham City in January 2013 and had loan spells with Barnsley and Leeds last season.
Butland comes in after Lee Grant was injured in the 3-0 win over Reading.
Derby boss Steve McClaren told the club website: "We know a lot about Jack and he is someone who [goalkeeping coach] Eric Steele rates very highly."
Butland has made two competitive appearances for Stoke this season, both in the League Cup, and six in total.
McClaren added: "Jack is a promising young goalkeeper and, after Lee Grant picked up an injury on Saturday, we quickly set about identifying someone to come into the group."
Butland was part of the England Under-21 side that recently saw off Croatia over two legs to qualify for next year's European Championships.
He will be available for the Rams' league trip to Blackpool on Tuesday.
After years of restoration work and with help from volunteers, Chapel Bay Fort and Museum at Angle officially opened on Friday.
Completed in 1891, the coast artillery fort is the earliest known fort in the world constructed in concrete.
Built in the 19th Century, it the last of 12 such forts built to defend the Milford Haven Waterway.
Visitors to the fort will be able to view the biggest gun and shell in Wales; a 25-pounder gun howitzer, a 5.5 inch gun and a 10 inch, 18 ton rifled muzzle loading gun.
Yn wreiddiol roedd y coleg wedi dweud y gallai 170 gael eu diswyddo yn orfodol, ond mae'r brifysgol yn dweud fod cynllun diswyddo gwirfoddol ac arbedion eraill wedi lleihau'r nifer o bobl fydd yn gorfod gadael.
Yn ôl datganiad gan y coleg, "mae rhagolygon ariannol diweddar, sy'n cymryd i ystyriaeth newidiadau pellach i incwm a gwariant, yn dangos y bydd angen arbedion o £8.5m er mwyn sicrhau y gall y Brifysgol gwrdd â'r heriau sy'n ei hwynebu."
"Byddai hyn gyfystyr â cholli oddeutu 170 o swyddi pe na baem yn cymryd camau eraill.
"Fodd bynnag, oherwydd y camau sydd eisoes ar waith, gan gynnwys cynllun diswyddiadau gwirfoddol, mae nifer y diswyddiadau gorfodol posibl wedi gostwng i 115 fel y mae pethau'r wythnos hon."
Dywedodd Is-Ganghellor y Brifysgol yr Athro John G Hughes: "Er bod nifer y swyddi sy'n y fantol wedi gostwng, mae'n nifer sylweddol o hyd, a byddwn yn parhau i geisio ffyrdd o leihau ymhellach ar yr angen am ddiswyddiadau gorfodol." | A Pakistani journalist who was feared abducted after he went missing on Sunday has been found dead, his family has confirmed.
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A man aged 44 and a 16-year-old youth suffered serious injuries during the incident in the Castlemilk area on Tuesday.
Police said a 43-year-old woman was the latest to be detained.
Two men, aged 21 and 24, had previously been arrested on Thursday. All three were due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrat and UKIP candidates said they believed the problems stem from the lack of a strategic plan.
Lib Dem Steve Webb wanted more locally-based jobs and Labour's Hadleigh Roberts said councils should have more say in transport routes and fares.
Tory Luke Hall wanted to see an M4 link road built while UKIP's Russ Martin wanted a transport referendum.
Four of the five candidates for the constituency took part in the BBC Radio Bristol election debate.
They all agreed congestion was a problem and called for a "more joined up approach".
But, Mr Webb claimed planners do not spend money from developments to address big transport issues and road upgrades are done "piecemeal".
This, he said, meant the "big picture" of congestion was not addressed.
Labour's Hadleigh Roberts said councils should have a "greater say" over the routes public transport firms follow.
Mr Hall said he wanted a new M4 link road built and to "work with First Bus to make sure the routes we already do have are reliable and clean".
Mr Martin said the transport infrastructure in urban and rural areas needed to link together.
"We need local referenda in the affected areas so people have their say - because they are not having their say at the moment," he said.
Green Party candidate Iain Hamilton did not take part in the programme but said private companies running public transport services "should be kept on a tighter rein".
He added services, such as buses, should be run for the benefit of the public.
Candidates in the Thornbury and Yate constituency:
Steck, who was known as the "Swiss Machine", died in an accident while acclimatising for an attempt on the mountain without oxygen by a new route.
The 40-year-old had won multiple awards and was known for his rapid ascents.
His body has been recovered from the base of Mount Nupste, which shares a common ridge with Everest, after he was spotted by fellow climbers.
"He had an accident on the Nuptse wall and died. It seems he slipped," Ang Tsering Sherpa, head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, told news agency AFP.
Steck was preparing to climb Mount Everest using its West Ridge, a route which has been the cause of more deaths than successful ascents, followed by Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world.
It is believed he was alone on Sunday due to his climbing partner contracting severe frostbite.
On Wednesday, Steck wrote on his Facebook page that he had a "quick day from Basecamp up to 7,000m and back" as he believed "active acclimatisation" was the most effective way of getting used to high altitude.
The climber reached Mount Everest's summit without oxygen in 2012, and in 2015 climbed all 82 Alpine peaks over 4,000m (13,100ft) in 62 days.
Steck had returned to the world's tallest mountain four years on from an altercation with sherpas which caused him to abandon an attempt to climb Everest and Lhotse.
In a video about his Everest-Lhotse project ahead of his departure for the Himalayas, Steck said he felt super-ready and psyched. "My body is as strong as it was never before," he added.
Asked about his definition of success for the ambitious plans to traverse Everest and Lhotse via the Hornbein Couloir, Steck said: "If you have an accident or if you're going to die, that's definitely not successful, all the other things, it's a success already."
"Why do I have to attempt Everest and Lhotse? Yet again, the answer is simple: I get to stay longer in the mountains.
"And now I'll just go, and only worry about the events that lie ahead of me. Day by day, one by one. It is the here and now that counts. What comes next is uncertain in any case.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
Read more on Ueli Steck's website
Last year Steck and fellow climber David Goettler found the bodies of two American mountaineers in Tibet, 16 years after they were killed by a huge avalanche.
Veteran British mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington paid tribute to Steck, describing him as "one of the great climbers of all time". He said that Steck's reputation for speed climbing had not necessarily put him at greater risk.
"What kills most people is the objective dangers, going into an area where there is stone fall or the threat of avalanche," he told the BBC's Newshour programme.
"The longer you are exposed to that threat, statistically the more likelihood there is of you being hit by one of these things. Whereas if you are moving very fast you are exposed to that danger for a much shorter time.
"But the people who are climbing at the absolute limit, which he undoubtedly was, the death rate among the very best mountaineers is very high, particularly in the Himalayas."
British mountaineer Kenton Cool described Steck as "a true inspiration" who "showed us all what was possible in the mountains and beyond".
The British Mountaineering Council described him as a "legendary mountaineer and all-round great guy".
Ueli Steck set new standards in alpine climbing - setting a string of records for making breathtakingly quick solo ascents of classic routes.
He also played a big part in bringing the sport to a new audience through the epic films made of his exploits.
He was nicknamed the "Swiss Machine" for his ruthlessly methodical approach and his ability to keep going even after pushing himself to the limits of human endurance.
In 2015 he climbed one of the world's most famous walls, the North Face of the Eiger, in two hours 47 minutes - a time that would have been unthinkable to the early pioneers of the sport, who took days to complete it. In 2015, he improved on that feat with a time of two hours 22 minutes and 50 seconds.
The legislation came into effect in June 2015, but it is now the subject of a High Court challenge from Dublin-born sex worker and law graduate, Laura Lee.
The case was adjourned on Friday after a last-minute challenge on behalf of Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness.
The judge said there was no clear explanation for the late intervention.
The court heard Attorney General John Larkin had been instructed to launch the challenge on behalf of the Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers (OFMDFM).
Lawyers for Ms Lee complained to the judge that the "grossly late" move was a "highly improper and unorthodox" attempt to stop the case advancing to a full hearing.
Northern Ireland was the first and only part of the UK to pass a law that made it a crime to pay for sexual services, shifting criminal responsibility from prostitutes to their clients.
The legislation was brought before Stormont by the Democratic Unionist Party peer, Lord Morrow, as part of his Human Trafficking and Exploitation Bill.
Ms Lee, 38, has campaigned against it, claiming it would drive prostitution underground and put sex workers at greater risk of violence from clients.
Opponents of the law claim it makes it increasingly difficult for prostitutes to screen customers who may use fake names and disposable phones.
The judge adjourned the case until next month, but requested full reasons for the intervention, which was made on the eve of the hearing.
"I accept that this application made on behalf of the attorney general, who is acting for the first minister and deputy first minister, has not been accompanied with any clear or cogent explanation as to the course of events," he said.
Ms Lee's judicial review challenge is directed at the Department of Justice (DOJ), led by Justice Minister David Ford, who also opposed the criminalisation of those who pay for prostitution.
A barrister representing the DOJ confirmed it was not opposing Ms Lee's application for a judicial review of the new law, on the basis that an arguable case had been established.
However, Ms Lee's legal team criticised the attempt by another Stormont department to become involved in the case.
"My client is deeply concerned at the proposed, grossly late intervention on the part of the Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister," her lawyer told the court.
"We say it's highly improper and unorthodox, effectively OFMDFM are seeking to resist the grant of leave against the Department of Justice."
The court heard the OFMDFM challenge raised a potential devolution issue and the judge allowed the department an opportunity to explain the late move.
The 18th Century vase, which dates back to the Qing dynasty, was bought by a bidder based in France for 740,000 euros (£647,000).
Auctioneers, Sheppard's, said they believed it was the highest ever price for an art object at an Irish auction.
It is not known how the vase ended up in the Republic of Ireland.
Irish broadcaster, RTÉ, reported that it would have been "given as a prestigious gift by the Chinese emperor to an important visitor".
The 23cm (9in) double gourd vase was auctioned in Durrow, County Laois, on Saturday.
The item is considered to be extremely rare and it sparked an international bidding war involving collectors from more than 40 countries.
On average, 10 million people tuned in to see 19-year-old Flora Shedden leave the show after her showstopper cocoa carousel failed to win over the judges.
The audience peaked at 11.2 million shortly before the end. On average, Bake Off drew 43% of the TV audience.
Tamal Ray, Ian Cumming and Nadiya Jamir Hussain will do battle for the Bake Off crown in the tent next Wednesday.
Last week, ratings for the BBC One baking show took a dip of 1.6 million, after it was scheduled opposite a special live edition of Coronation Street.
This week, its closest rival was ITV's All Star Mr & Mrs - which also ran from 20:00-21:00 BST - drawing an average of 3.1 million viewers.
Flora was eliminated despite impressing both judges with her chocolate souffle in the technical challenge.
Her signature dish, a passion fruit and chocolate tart with macarons, failed to impress on flavour, while her showstopping chocolate centrepiece was deemed "wonky" and "bitter".
"It doesn't taste as good as it looks," said Berry, of the elaborate biscuit and cake carousel.
The university student admitted there "were moments [on the show] when I did feel my age and that I was lacking a certain experience".
"I really never expected to get to the semi-finals, but then I didn't expect to get into the tent in the first place," she said.
Nadiya was made star baker for the third time, matching Ian's earlier successes. The pair will be joined by Tamal as they compete in next week's final episode.
Last year's final drew a record-breaking audience of 12.3 million, peaking at 13.3 million.
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Mae Stonewall Cymru yn dweud bod o leiaf hanner nifer o fyfyrwyr traws yn cael eu bwlio ac nad yw'r rhan fwyaf o staff wedi'u hyfforddi i ddelio â'r hyn sy'n digwydd.
Mae Jasper Williams, sy'n astudio ym Mhrifysgol Bangor, yn dweud bod staff wedi "cael trafferth" wedi iddo ddweud yn y chweched dosbarth ei fod yn berson trawsryweddol.
Mae Mr Williams yn swyddog gydag undeb NUS Cymru.
Dywedodd: "Doedd un athro [chweched dosbarth] ddim yn derbyn fod person ddim yn wrywaidd nac yn fenywaidd.
"Roedd yr athrawon eraill yn iawn ond dal yn cael trafferth."
"Mae'r wybodaeth sydd ar gael yn ddiffygiol iawn."
Dywedodd Andrew White o Stonewall Cymru bod y rhan fwyaf o ddarlithwyr yn gefnogol ond nad oeddynt yn sicr sut oedd gwneud hynny.
"Ry'n yn gwybod bod y rhan fwyaf o staff eisiau delio â bwlio trawsffobig - ond dyw'r rhan fwyaf ddim wedi cael hyfforddiant i wneud hyn," meddai
Dywedodd Ms Tipping hefyd fod y cyfrifoldeb yn aml ar staff colegau. "Does 'na ddim hyfforddiant gorfodol ar hyn o bryd," meddai, "ac ar hyn o bryd mae'r cyfan yn ddibynnol ar ewyllys y coleg i wneud hynny.
"Mae'n bosib i ddarlithwyr gael eu rhoi mewn safle o embaras wrth iddynt gyfarch rhywun gyda'r rhagenw anghywir.
"Ry'n yn awyddus i ddarlithwyr gael hyfforddiant ac i ddeall cyfreithlondeb y mater ac i sicrhau nad ydynt yn teimlo'n chwithig mewn unrhyw ffordd. Os nad ydym yn sicrhau bod hyfforddiant ar gael mi allai'r cyfan fynd i gyfraith."
Mae Stonewall Cymru yn dweud bod dau o bob pump o bobl traws wedi ceisio lladd eu hunain.
Mae Jasper Williams yn dweud hefyd fod adnoddau fel toiledau yn anodd i fyfyrwyr traws ac anneuaidd. Dywedodd: "Mae toiledau yn ymwneud yn benodol â bod yn fachgen neu'n ferch ac mae toiled arall ar gyfer pobl anabl - a dwi ddim yn hapus iawn i ddefnyddio hwnna.
"Ro'n i yn ffodus pan o'n yn yr ysgol gan bo fi'n byw yn ymyl adre ac felly roedd modd i fi fynd adre adeg egwyl."
Ategodd Mr White o Stonewall Cymru fod addysg yn y maes yn hanfodol: "Mae'n bwysig ein bod yn addysgu pobl fel nad yw pobl ifanc lesbiaidd, hoyw, deurywiol na thrawsrywiol yn cael eu bwlio ond yn hytrach yn cael eu cefnogi a'u hannog i lwyddo."
Mae BBC Cymru wedi gofyn i'r colegau am sylwadau.
Mae BBC Cymru wedi cysylltu â 14 coleg addysg bellach a sefydliadau yng Nghymru er mwyn canfod pa hyfforddiant amrywiaeth y maent yn ei gynnig i staff. Tri sydd wedi ymateb hyd yma ac mae'r tri wedi dweud eu bod wedi gweld cynnydd yn y myfyrwyr sy'n adnabod eu hunain fel myfyrwyr traws, anneuol neu rhyweddhylifol.
Relatives of some of those allegedly killed or tortured by his militias in the 1970s and 1980s want him charged with crimes against humanity.
Mr Duvalier had filed a last-minute appeal to avoid appearing in court.
The ex-leader, who returned to Haiti in 2011 after 25 years in French exile, had already missed two hearings.
He denies all charges, with his lawyers saying the case should be thrown out.
The courtroom was packed with relatives of his victims, lawyers in black robes, human rights observers and journalists.
A Haitian human rights lawyer, Mario Joseph, said: "Duvalier is trying to control the justice system like when he was a dictator."
Human rights groups say hundreds of political prisoners died from torture or were murdered under Mr Duvalier's rule from 1971 to 1986.
His unexpected homecoming two years ago prompted the Haitian authorities to open an investigation.
In January 2012, a court decided Mr Duvalier should stand trial for embezzling public funds but ruled that the statute of limitations had run out on charges of murder, arbitrary arrest, torture and disappearances.
However, Amnesty International and the Open Society Justice Initiative said the former leader "must not evade justice" for crimes against humanity. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has also said Mr Duvalier should face justice.
The court in Port-au-Prince is hearing an appeal by victims challenging the January 2012 ruling regarding the charges of human rights abuses.
Any future trial would be a symbolically crucial moment and a potential turning point for Haiti, says the BBC's Mark Doyle.
There is a widespread feeling in that the judiciary is biased in favour of the rich, he adds.
The appeal court already ordered Mr Duvalier twice to appear to answer the charges - once on 31 January and again on 7 February.
A judge ruled the ex-leader would be arrested if he did not turn up on Thursday.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are observing the case in the capital.
Jean-Claude Duvalier was just 19 when he inherited the title of president-for-life from his father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, who had ruled Haiti since 1957.
Like his father, he relied on a brutal militia known as the Tontons Macoutes to control the country.
In 1986 he was forced from power by a popular uprising and US diplomatic pressure, and went into exile in France.
The accident happened in Dalness Street, Shettleston, at about 15:15.
The boy, a pupil at St Paul's Primary School, was taken to hospital with serious injuries where he died a short time later.
Police said the white Ford Transit van had gone in to Dalness Street from Tollcross Road. It was turning into a car park on Dalness Street at the time.
The 62-year-old driver of the van was not injured.
Sgt Jackie Dunbar, of Police Scotland, said: "It was picking-up time at the school and there were a number of people in the area at the time of the incident.
"I would ask that anyone who saw what happened, and who has not already been spoken to by police, contact officers at the road policing complex via 101."
Dalness Street at Dalness Close was closed and local diversions put in place.
The boy has not yet been named.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), funded by the US Congress, is the first organisation to be labelled "undesirable" under a new Russian law.
Russia's Foreign Ministry warned that "we will never tolerate mentoring and open interference in our affairs by foreign structures".
US officials condemned Russia's move.
The US Department of State called the blacklisting "a further example of the Russian government's growing crackdown on independent voices and another intentional step to isolate the Russian people from the world".
Russia's Foreign Ministry hit back by saying the NED's name was "deceptive" because "it is only non-governmental on paper, while in reality it has, from the moment it was set up, received funding from the US budget, including funding via the channels of intelligence bodies".
The ministry said that analysis of NED projects "shows that they are aimed at destabilising the internal situation in countries which pursue independent policies in line with their own national interests, rather than following instructions from Washington".
According to Russian official data, the NED gave financial assistance worth about $5.2m (£3.3m) to various Russian organisations in 2013-2014.
Russians can now face fines or up to six years in prison if they work for a non-governmental organisation (NGO) branded "undesirable".
Critics say it is a Kremlin move aimed at stifling dissent.
NGOs linked to politics in Russia already face restrictions under a 2012 law requiring them to register as "foreign agents".
President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party accuses some foreign governments of using NGOs in Russia as cover to engineer political change.
In a televised speech at an anti-corruption event in Tehran, he said money once "given under the table now is being given on the table".
Mr Rouhani also called for the "elimination" of monopolies.
A series of high-profile corruption cases have come to light since his government took office in August 2013.
In May, the billionaire businessman Mahafarid Amir Khosravi was executed after being convicted of being behind a scandal involving embezzlement, bribery, forgery and money-laundering that cost 14 state-owned and private Iranian banks nearly $2.6bn (£1.7bn).
And in September, former Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi was reportedly imprisoned after being convicted of corruption.
Mr Rahimi was reported to be linked to another billionaire businessman, Babak Zanjani, who has been accused of skimming up to $2.7bn (£1.7bn) of revenue generated from selling Iranian oil on behalf of the government through his companies to bypass international sanctions.
In his speech, President Rouhani called on Iranians to "apply all our power in fighting corruption.
"The continuation, the deepening and the expansion of corruption is endangering... the Islamic Revolution."
Mr Rouhani also criticised monopolies - on anything from the production of rifles to advertising - which he said were the cause of corruption.
"Anything which does not have rivalry or whose management is monopolised is flawed," he said.
"This is wrong and the problem has to be uprooted," he added.
Analysts said this might be a veiled reference to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), which has become a major military, political and economic force in Iran since being set up after the 1979 revolution to defend the country's Islamic system.
The IRGC is said to control around a third of Iran's economy through a series of subsidiaries and trusts, and is widely believed to engage in illicit and black-market activities.
The Australian, 27, was suspended by the Tigers at the end of last season and made this season's loan move to Salford permanent on Monday.
"Justin's found a new club and it's best for both parties," said Powell.
"There are certain things that you can accept in a rugby league club and certain things that you can't."
He added: "There is a lot of truth and honesty in rugby league and that's the most important thing for me."
Carney, who scored 63 tries in 62 appearances for the Tigers, accepted responsibility for the actions that led to him leaving the Jungle in an interview during pre-season, in which he also expressed his desire to make a fresh start.
"Justin has said he was wrong - and yeah, you're dead set right he was wrong, in every single way - so people take their punishment and move on. It's important he did that," said Powell, who also told BBC Sport that Salford were were the only club to express an interest in signing Carney.
"It was a rough thing to go through but it is done now and we move on. It was a difficult situation but I thought we dealt with it impeccably in my mind.
"I think it's really important now that everybody just moves on and we get on with the job of playing rugby league."
Castleford are due to host Salford in a Challenge Cup sixth-round tie on 7 May.
"We need to come out on top of that game," said Powell.
"The most important thing for me now is what we have got in front of us. We've got to move on from this."
Rescue dogs have been brought in for students to pet and play with as part of a series of stress busting activities.
Campus walks, adult colouring, and free exercise classes are also on offer.
Student welfare officer Naomi said the January exams could be "extremely stressful" for many students.
"Studies show that interactions with therapy animals can decrease stress in humans and are used in care homes, hospices, and many other establishments with great success and commendation," she said.
"Playing with an animal can increase levels of the stress-reducing hormone oxytocin and decrease production of the stress hormone cortisol."
Alpet Poundies Rescue teamed up with the students' union to bring the dogs to the campus on Wednesday, paid for using donations from Aberystwyth University alumni.
Director of student support services Caryl Davies said: "Students' mental wellbeing is all-important to us and our support services are available throughout the year.
"However, we know that exam season can be a peak time for stress in the academic calendar, so we've drawn together a special programme of activities to help ease the pressure."
The former Peterborough boss was appointed boss of the Keepmoat Stadium side, who are currently 20th in the table, on Friday.
"This club is ready to go, there is no question about that," the 43-year-old told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"There is a good blend of youth and experience. I've had plenty of time to look at them and there's a team there."
He continued: "It has been made clear that the aim is to get to the Championship. The reality of that means this season we need to get 21 wins from our remaining 35 games.
"It's an exciting challenge and one that we will meet head-on."
Ferguson, who is the son of former Manchester United boss Sir Alex, will take charge of the team for the first time in Saturday's home match against Bradford.
He has replaced fellow Scot Paul Dickov in the Keepmoat Stadium dugout after the former Oldham boss was sacked on 8 September after taking just six points from their opening six league games.
Interim boss Rob Jones won one of his six matches in charge to leave Doncaster above the League One drop zone on goal difference only.
Ferguson left Peterborough in February after four years with the London Road side and has signed a rolling contract with Rovers.
He said he had benefitted from taking some time out of the game.
"I wanted the break and I felt that I needed it in the right way," he added.
"I went straight from playing to management and then had maybe a month between leaving Peterborough and Preston and going back to Peterborough.
"There was an offer straight after I left Peterborough and in the summer, but the timing wasn't right."
Carmarthenshire developer Enzo's Homes is in the process of buying the Penllergaer civic centre site.
Money from the sale will go to build new schools and modernise council buildings.
Council leader Rob Stewart said the scheme, if approved, would provide much-needed housing in the area.
Enzo Sauro, of Enzo's Homes, said the firm was working on the finer details of the planning application.
He added the company would also gift three pieces of land to the Penllergare Trust, which manages the adjoining Penllergare Valley Woods.
The three-storey Penllergaer civic centre building first opened in 1982 for the former Lliw Valley Borough Council.
Staff at the building have been relocated.
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Edward Stevenson addressed at a rally in Twaddell Avenue in the city, where loyalists have staged a nightly demonstrations in a row over the Ardoyne parade.
The protests began in July 2013, when restrictions were placed on the return leg of the parade, along part of the Crumlin Road that separates nationalist and unionist communities.
Kevin Sharkey reports.
Margaret Vinci Heldt "peacefully" died from heart failure in Illinois on Friday, her family has confirmed.
The cone-shaped hairdo was popular among first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and actress Audrey Hepburn in the 1960s.
Heldt ran a salon in Chicago, where she was born, and first debuted the hairstyle for a magazine cover in 1960.
According to the Chicago History Museum, Heldt attended the Columbia College of Hairdressing before opening her own salon.
"She had a zest for life, the most positive attitude," her daughter Carlene Ziegler told Reuters. "She was the life of the party right up to her last days."
In pictures: Best of the beehives
The mannequin Heldt used to make the hairstyle can be seen at the Chicago History Museum.
According to the museum, Heldt wanted the hairstyle to fit under the fez hat, using the hat's shape as an inspiration.
Others who enjoyed the hairstyle including cartoon mother from TV programme The Simpsons, Marge Simpson, music group The Supremes, rock band the B-52s actress Brigitte Bardot and even Beyonce.
English singer Mari Wilson, a famous exponent of the hairstyle, told the BBC World Service that late British singer Amy Winehouse was her favourite beehive-wearer, though hers was a wig.
Wilson said she also loved the women of the 1960s who wore the hairstyle.
"There's something lovely about taking time over your appearance," she said. "It's like not leaving the house without your lipstick."
BBC World Service - The beauty of the beehive
The 31-year-old will break Michael Atherton's record of 54 Tests as captain during the first match against India, which begins on Wednesday.
In an interview with this month's Cricketer magazine, reported in The Times, he said: "Deep down I don't know how much longer I am going to carry on.
"It could be two months, it could be a year."
Cook became England captain in 2012 and has won 24 of his Tests in charge, claiming the Ashes on home soil twice and winning a series in India in 2012.
In 135 Tests, he has scored 10,688 runs - the most by an Englishman and 11th best overall - and is keen to remain as a batsman whenever he does step down as captain.
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"I do look forward to the day when hopefully I can play a Test match as just a batter, there's no doubt about that," said the Essex player.
"If that happens I am going to really enjoy standing at first slip and being the bloke who makes suggestions to whoever's in charge and not being the bloke who has to make the final decision.
"It makes me feel very satisfied that I've been able to do it for a long period of time and I've had a really good crack at it.
"There have been some tough moments and amazing moments and you can enjoy that success that little bit more because of what you go through as England captain."
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Former England captain Michael Vaughan believes Cook could step down after the series in India, or after the Ashes tour of Australia in 2017-18.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show, he said: "These next six or seven weeks are not crucial for Cook.
"He is breaking records and he has four or five years left as a batsman, if his mind wants to play that long.
"It depends on the character of the person, to be able to step away from the captaincy but stay in the side.
"He is the perfect sort of character to do that. He wouldn't want to step on the new captain's toes, he'd be a real good sounding board and be able to see when the new captain is under stress. He would be the perfect foil.
"I do get the sense that he will get to the stage, whether it's the end of India or the Ashes in a year's time, where he will say: 'I like the idea of standing at first slip and batting for a few more years.'"
Loraine Maurer of Evansville, Indiana, works two shifts per week, 44 years after joining the hamburger chain.
The nonagenarian great-grandmother first joined in 1973 after her husband retired due to disability.
"I told him we were too young to stay at home and so I went for a job," she recalled after enjoying a cake at a special party colleagues threw for her.
She never meant to stay as long as she did, Mrs Maurer told ABC News, adding that she never thought of becoming a manager because she prefers to interact with her customers.
"She is the only one here that knows how to make oats right," said one loyal customer who attended her party.
After her husband died in 1980, she began to travel more often with a friend, often visiting McDonald's wherever she went.
"I've been to Australia, Russia, Greece, Rome, and I'd always look when I could fly over the cities. I'd look for the arch."
One location even offered to serve her beer.
"That surprised me!" she said with a chuckle.
Even though she contemplates retirement every winter, she says she never plans to leave.
"I would miss it too much", says Mrs Maurer, who has four children, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
"I really and truly enjoy it," Mrs Maurer adds. "Life is what you make it. And so I'm trying."
Video showed the man, identified as Mulu Habtom Zerhom, 19, lying in a pool of blood as onlookers threw a set of chairs on him and kicked him.
It happened at the time of a deadly attack by an Israeli Arab, at the same place, in Beersheba. He was shot dead.
Israel has seen a wave of stabbings and shootings by Palestinians this month.
Eight Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in the attacks. More than 40 Palestinians, including several of the attackers, have also been killed in the growing unrest.
The upsurge in violence began last month when tensions at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims boiled over amid rumours Israel planned to relax long-standing rules to strengthen Jewish rights at the complex. Israel has repeatedly denied such claims.
Mr Mulu was shot by a security guard, apparently while it was thought the bus station was under attack by two assailants.
Mobile phone footage shows an angry crowd surrounding Mr Mulu as he is lying injured on the floor, under a stool held over him by a member of security.
A set of chairs is dumped on his head before he is kicked by at least two people.
Mr Mulu was taken to hospital, where he died late on Sunday.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said officers were working to arrest those who "aggressively beat" and kicked Mr Mulu "while he lay on the floor and posed no threat,", the Associated Press reported.
Mr Mulu worked at a plant nursery and was in Beersheba to renew his visa, his employer told Israel's Army Radio, AP said.
A man who said he took part in the beating told Army Radio he did not realise Mr Mulu was not an attacker, the Times of Israel newspaper reported.
"I saw people coming and crowding around him, I understood from them that this was the terrorist," said the man, identified as Dudu.
"If I had known that this wasn't the terrorist I would have protected him like I protect myself," he said. "In a moment of fear and pressure, you do things you're not conscious of whatsoever."
Commenting on what happened, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said: "It's terrible. It shows you what a terrible situation we are in."
The assault on Mr Mulu happened amid pandemonium after an Israeli Arab Bedouin from nearby Hula opened fire and stabbed people at the bus station, killing 19-year-old Sgt Omri Levy.
The attacker, identified as 21-year-old Mohannad al-Okbi, snatched Sgt Levy's gun and continued shooting, injuring 10 people, before he was shot dead.
It was the latest in a wave of attacks on Israelis across the country and in Jerusalem, putting Israel on heightened security alert.
Extra troops have been deployed on the streets and police in Jerusalem have erected a concrete barrier between the Palestinian district of Jabal Mukaber, where three attackers have come from, and the neighbouring Jewish settlement of East Talpiot, also known as Armon Hanatziv.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas separately this week to try to find ways to calm the spiralling tension.
There has been a spate of stabbings of Israelis and some shootings - several of them fatal - by Palestinians since early October, and one apparent revenge stabbing by an Israeli. The attackers have struck in Jerusalem and across Israel, and in the occupied West Bank. Israel has tightened security and its security forces have clashed with rioting Palestinians, leading to deaths on the Palestinian side. The violence has also spread to the border with Gaza.
After a period of relative quiet, violence between the two communities has spiralled since clashes erupted at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site in mid-September. It was fuelled by rumours among Palestinians that Israel was attempting to alter a long-standing religious arrangement governing the site. Israel repeatedly dismissed the rumours as incitement. Soon afterwards, two Israelis were shot dead by Palestinians in the West Bank and the stabbing attacks began. Both Israel and the Palestinian authorities have accused one another of doing nothing to protect each other's communities.
There have been two organised uprisings by Palestinians against Israeli occupation, in the 1980s and early 2000s. With peace talks moribund, some observers have questioned whether we are now seeing a third. The stabbing attacks seem to be opportunistic and although they have been praised by militant groups, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation.
What is driving the latest violence?
Bulk mail is collected by other postal firms from businesses and passed to Royal Mail for sorting and delivery.
Royal Mail set out the price changes in January 2014, before withdrawing them.
Rival firm Whistl, which had planned its own delivery network, claimed the price hikes were anti-competitive.
Ofcom said its specific allegations include that "changes to Royal Mail's wholesale prices for bulk mail delivery services contained a differential in pricing which meant that, in practice, higher access prices would be charged to... customers that competed with Royal Mail in delivery than to those access customers that did not".
At the time that the price increase was proposed, TNT Post - now Whistl - was proposing to launch a rival bulk letter sorting and delivery service for business customers.
Following the price hike, it complained to the regulator about anti-competitive practice on the part of Royal Mail and ultimately gave up on its rival venture.
Ofcom said the higher wholesale prices Royal Mail was proposing to charge would "act as a strong disincentive against entry into the delivery market, further increasing barriers to expansion for postal operators seeking to compete with Royal Mail in this market, and leading to a potential distortion of competition against the interests of consumers".
Royal Mail initiated two price rises for its wholesale bulk delivery customers, one in November 2013 and then another in January 2014. It suspended and then withdrew the January 2014 price increase three months later after Whistl complained to Ofcom.
Royal Mail said on Tuesday it had co-operated with the regulator's investigations and would now carefully consider Ofcom's provisional findings.
It promised to "submit a robust defence to Ofcom in due course".
The 500 year-old company added in a statement: "Royal Mail takes its compliance obligations very seriously and is disappointed by Ofcom's announcement. The company considers that the pricing changes proposed in 2014 were fully compliant with competition law.
"They were an important part of Royal Mail's commercial response to both changing market conditions and to Ofcom's statements in its March 2013 guidance document on end-to-end competition in the postal sector.
"Under the terms of our access contracts, these pricing proposals were suspended following the opening of Ofcom's investigation. Accordingly, the pricing proposals were never implemented and were withdrawn altogether in March 2015."
The Statement of Objections from the regulator into the behaviour of Royal Mail comes a fortnight after the regulator confirmed the scope of a review into the company's operations.
The review could result in a price cap being imposed on the postal operator, it said.
Ofcom's inquiry will examine the "efficient and financially sustainable provision" of the UK's universal postal service - in other words, Royal Mail's commitment to deliver to all of the UK for the same price.
The general secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), Dave Ward, accused Ofcom of "overstepping the mark" and undermining its "primary objective".
He added: "It is depressing that Ofcom seems to have learnt very little from the demise of Whistl.
"Competition for competition sake, seems more ideological than it does practical for a 21st Century postal industry. It is a 20th Century approach for a 21st Century problem.
"Their focus on competition in a declining letters market so far has shown that it risks jobs and drives down terms and conditions; as well as, further risking quality of service to the 29 million UK addresses reliant on our six day a week postal service."
Neil McEvoy's counsel, Jonathan Gwyn Mendus Edwards, was suspended for four months in 2013.
Councillor and AM Mr McEvoy previously said "I call out any abuse that I see".
On Wednesday, he said Mr Edwards's past had "no bearing" on his case.
Mr McEvoy was suspended from being a Cardiff councillor for a month on Friday, after the Adjudication Panel for Wales tribunal found a comment he made amounted to "bullying behaviour" towards a council officer.
Mr McEvoy called the tribunal proceedings a "farce".
The South Wales Central AM was later suspended from Plaid Cymru's assembly group as a party inquiry into his conduct continued.
On his decision to instruct Mr Mendus Edwards, Mr McEvoy told BBC Wales: "Jonathan's work has been pro-bono, meaning I have not employed him.
"Mr Edwards's past is a matter for him and has no bearing on my case. He is a legal barrister, permitted to practice."
Mr Mendus Edwards said his client knew the facts shortly before his tribunal hearing.
Referring to his own disciplinary matter, he said: "The facts included a miscarriage of justice in that my own barrister failed to attend my trial.
"He was disciplined for causing me prejudice. No one should have to represent themselves, but they made me do it. It is difficult to fight cases given our complaints culture.
"I support my three daughters in everything they do. And my wife supports me."
Mr Mendus Edwards stood for Plaid Cymru in Gower in the 1983 general election.
Plaid Cymru did not want to comment.
Conservative Chris Grayling said costs were the reason for his overruling of a plan for Transport for London (TfL) to take over suburban rail services.
But in a 2013 letter he sent then London mayor Boris Johnson, Mr Grayling said he did not want a potential Labour mayor to have control of trains.
He is yet to comment on the letter.
In the letter to Mr Johnson, who was in favour of having TfL take over Southern, Southeastern and South West metro services, Mr Grayling said he had "no fears" if the Tories were in charge.
Conservative MP Bob Neill, who is chairman of the select committee, said the views expressed in the letter - which was leaked to the Evening Standard - meant Mr Grayling was "unfit for office" and "acted for party political reasons".
He also said the Transport Secretary had "compromised his position and should resign".
Mr Neill added it was dishonest when Mr Grayling told MPs his decision was for financial reasons.
Labour London Assembly Member Andrew Dismore said: "It's the greatest shame for passengers that the minister's political point scoring has seemingly taken precedence over their needs.
"The fact remains that where TfL have managed services we've seen some of the best performances.
"If allowing TfL to manage suburban rail franchises will mean paying passengers get better, more reliable services, then we need to move passed this pettiness and make it happen."
Labour's Sadiq Khan, who became London's mayor in May, said giving TfL control of trains was the only way to improve "shocking" passenger service.
Minister for London and Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell said: "This is obviously a letter that was written a long time ago.
"I think the decision that was taken is about what's best for passengers in London which is to bring responsibility for running the track and the services together."
He said the decision was "democratic" as people who live in Kent did not get a say in who the Mayor of London was.
Kenya's government is trying to sound confident. The deputy interior minister assured me that the country was "safe for tourists", and that foreigners have no reason to stay away despite clear threats from the militant Somali group al-Shabab.
Let us hope he is right. Kenya's vital tourism sector has fallen victim in the past to unnecessarily shrill foreign travel advisories.
But Kenya's unexpected military incursion into southern Somalia is a dramatic development for a country that has spent years carefully trying to avoid just such an entanglement.
So was it a mistake? That seems to be the main question on the lips of aid workers, diplomats and a variety of officials I have been speaking to here over the past few days.
Some Somali experts believe this was a long-planned operation, arranged with the covert support of the US and other western allies.
The theory goes that the recent kidnappings of foreigners in Kenya were merely a convenient pretext for the invasion - that al-Shabab has been fatally weakened by its "horrific ineptitude" in the face of the famine and its dwindling foreign support, and that the next few months could see the militant group ousted from its key port of Kismayo and effectively finished off inside Somalia.
A slightly more modest theory holds that Kenya has indeed been planning for a limited military intervention to build a more effective buffer zone along the border inside Somalia - where it already co-operates with various ineffective local militias opposed to al-Shabab and into which it intends to push some of the tens of thousands of Somali refugees now camped in Kenya.
A senior western aid source told me that the UN secretary general has already called Kenya's prime minister to warn him against any attempt to violate international law by expelling refugees.
Then there is the chaos theory. Kenya - enraged by the kidnappings and the damage to its tourism industry and development plans - lashed out without warning or much planning, catching everyone off guard and sending its untested army into what could well prove to be a very dangerous trap.
My sense is that Kenya has been planning something for a while - but there is huge confusion about its tactics, goals and exit strategy.
At this stage, if feels like a potentially huge mistake for one of Africa's most dynamic economies.
Already there are concerns that Kenyan troops are getting bogged down by seasonal rains and struggling to re-supply.
Al-Shabab has offered little resistance so far, but that seems likely to change amid reports that the group is rushing experienced fighters to the frontlines.
If this is a trap, it could be sprung very soon.
As for the strength of al-Shabab - there's no question that an already fragmented organisation has been weakened.
But in recent weeks it has still managed to pull off a string of spectacular attacks in Mogadishu, culminating in the ambush and elimination of an entire Burundian peacekeeping platoon, which, despite official denials, appears to have caused the death of more than 60 soldiers.
And what if the Kenyan offensive goes well, and Kismayo falls?
Al-Shabab may retreat but the vacuum will inevitably be filled by a wasp's nest of other clan rivalries.
Or does Kenya plan to stay on, perhaps looking for an international peacekeeping mandate?
The Ethiopians - who also pushed into Somalia in 2006 - will be watching Kenya's fortunes closely.
As for what impact all this could have on Somalia's famine - I will write about that in more detail in another blog, but the UN has already expressed concern and, with planting season at hand, it is hard to imagine how an upsurge in fighting could be anything but bad news for Somalia's vulnerable population.
Four matches will be held in London in 2017, two at Wembley and two at Twickenham.
But NFL UK says Cardiff would be an ideal host, if they decided to take it beyond the United Kingdom capital.
"There's not a lot of stadia in the UK that suit our sport. But the Principality Stadium works perfectly," NFL UK managing director Alistair Kirkwood told BBC Wales Sport.
"We've been playing games at Wembley, we've now moved into Twickenham and we've also got a long-term deal with Spurs.
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"We've shown we like to play in different stadia.
"I've been to the Principality Stadium as a fan and I've had a couple of conversations with them.
"I think we'd need two teams that would want to stay for a week because of the extra travel.
"But it's certainly in the mix."
Kirkwood was speaking at an NFL UK fans' forum in Cardiff to promote the forthcoming London matches.
"Tonight's event and the passion the Welsh fans have shown speaks volumes.
"It's a really good message for me to take back to New York."
NFL UK director of marketing Charlotte Offord has said Glasgow's Hampden Park and Murrayfield, in Edinburgh, "are well equipped" to host games.
The county's force was responding after The Times said confidential police reports referred to widespread abuse of girls by Asian men.
Rotherham MP Denis MacShane said police kept secret the abuse from politicians.
South Yorkshire Police said the suggestion it was reluctant to tackle child sexual abuse was wrong.
In November 2010, five Rotherham men were jailed for sexual offences against under-age girls.
Labour MP Mr MacShane said on Monday: "The Rotherham police exposed, arrested and broke up an evil gang of internal traffickers who were sent to prison.
"But it is clear that the internal trafficking of barely pubescent girls is much more widespread and I regret that the police did not tell Yorkshire MPs about their inquiries."
The investigation by The Times - with access to confidential documents from the police intelligence bureau, social services and other organisations - alleges widespread abuse.
The newspaper said a confidential 2010 report by the Police Intelligence Bureau detailed "a significant problem with networks of Asian males exploiting young white females, particularly in Rotherham and Sheffield".
The paper claimed that in another confidential report in 2010 from Rotherham Safeguarding Children Board "there are sensitivities of ethnicity with potential to endanger the harmony of community relationships".
Mr MacShane said the sexual violation and commercial exploitation of young girls by older men was a "growing problem and needs far more public policy attention".
In a statement, the force said: "South Yorkshire Police is recognised as leading the way on what is now being recognised nationally as a problem and to suggest that the force and its partners are deliberately withholding information on the issue is a gross distortion and unfair on the teams of dedicated specialists working to tackle the problem."
It said the force was "working with local authorities, social services and NHS on several live investigations, two of which are large and likely to lead to more prosecutions; we will act when we have the evidence".
The statement added that The Times was "wrong to suggest a lack of commitment is shown towards the problem as our record shows".
In a statement Rotherham Borough Council said it was "fully committed" to tackling sexual exploitation, "a commitment that led to the conviction of men involved in this despicable crime as well as support for victims and potential victims and the education of hundreds of young people about the dangers of sexual exploitation".
"These are highly-complex cases and situations and some work with individuals did not lead to court cases for a variety of reasons, but those young people have been supported to understand the situation they have found themselves in and assisted by many services".
Unesco's executive board approved the Arab-sponsored resolution, which repeatedly refers to only the Islamic name for a hilltop complex which is also the holiest site in Judaism.
The site is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif to Muslims.
The resolution caused Israel to freeze co-operation with Unesco last week.
The stated aim of the text was "the safeguarding of the cultural heritage of Palestine and the distinctive character of East Jerusalem".
It criticises Israel's activities at holy places in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
But it is how it refers to the sites which prompted Israel to act against the cultural body.
While acknowledging the "importance of the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls for the three monotheistic religions", the document refers to the sacred hilltop only by the name "al-Aqsa Mosque/al-Haram al-Sharif" (Noble Sanctuary).
It is the location of two Biblical Jewish temples and is flanked by the Western Wall, venerated by Jews as part of the original supporting wall of the temple compound.
Haram al-Sharif is also the place where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven, and is the third holiest site in Islam.
The draft refers to the precinct in front of the wall as "al-Buraq Plaza 'Western Wall Plaza'" - placing single quote marks only around "Western Wall", giving the name as it is known to Jews less weight than the one by which it is known to Muslims.
Unesco's executive board chairman Michael Worbs said on Friday he would have liked more time to work out a compromise.
He told Israeli television network Channel 10: "It's very exceptional what happened yesterday, and I'm sorry for that."
On Tuesday, Israel's Unesco ambassador, Carmel Shama Hacohen, accused the Palestinians of playing "games".
"This is the wrong place to solve problems between countries or people," he told AFP.
But Palestine's deputy ambassador to Unesco, Mounir Anastas, welcomed the adoption of the resolution, saying he hoped it would put pressure on the Israeli authorities to "stop all their violations", particularly the excavation of sites in and around the Old City.
The resolution repeatedly denounced Israeli actions, including the use of force, imposition of restrictions on Muslim worshippers and archaeological work. Israel regards such criticism as politically motivated.
It led Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett to say Unesco was ignoring "thousands of years of Jewish ties to Jerusalem" and aiding "Islamist terror".
Unesco chief Irina Bokova also criticised the draft resolution, saying "different peoples worship the same places, sometimes under different names. The recognition, use of and respect for these names is paramount".
However, Mr Bennett said Ms Bokova's statement was insufficient. "Words are important, but they are not a replacement to the actions of the organisation she heads," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Facebook post that Unesco had become a "theatre of the absurd" in taking "another delusional decision".
"To say that Israel has no connection to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall is like saying that China has no connection to the Great Wall of China or that Egypt has no connection to the pyramids. By this absurd decision, Unesco has lost what little legitimacy it had left."
The coin is tossed. In just a few seconds the game kicks off. While running up and down the field, trying to score a goal and defend their own, Marco Glentvor and Peter Fromm sweat for their health.
They say football has changed their lives.
In Denmark, scientists have found that football can significantly improve the health of homeless and other socially disadvantaged groups.
"If I hadn't started playing football, I would either be dead or half dead," says Marco Glentvor, who admits that he used to live on the street and "take all the drugs I could get."
"My behaviour has improved," says Peter Fromm. "On the street, I could come out with some aggression. But when I'm playing a match my mood is fantastic".
Both men have been monitored closely by Prof Peter Krustrup, a sports and health specialist from Copenhagen University.
"The most important finding is that street football is a feasible, fun and social way to improve the physical capacity and health profile of homeless men," says Prof Krustrup after watching a training session in a graffiti decorated hall in an former Copenhagen brewery.
The strenuous physical nature of this game helps to start the process of purging narcotics from their bodies.
Peer pressure of team sport generates the determination that they need to stay out of the streets and transform their lives with this programme.
After just 12 weeks of training, the physical condition and capacity of 39-year-old Marco had significantly improved.
He has reduced his level of LDL or "bad" cholesterol by 19%, increased his muscle mass by 2.4kg (5.2lbs) and has been assessed as having reduced his risk of developing a heart disease by at least 50%.
These statistics are important because the life of homeless male means they die 20 years before the average Danish male and are five times more likely to be hospitalised with traumatic injuries as the result of falls and fractures.
"When I started on the (football) project, I got a lot of energy. It opened some doors and all of the sudden I thought I wanted to have goals in life," recalls Marco.
"Now, I just want to live. I want to make it better for myself. It was a hard struggle but I'm here today."
He now has a steady job as a clerk in a Copenhagen church.
Peter Fromm, a 34, is the goalkeeper of the Denmark's national homeless football team. He claims that football cured his addiction and took him out of the streets when other traditional rehabilitation methods failed.
"There's a lot of social networking with people who are on the same road as me to stay away from substances. It gives me some stability and helps me to build my self-esteem."
There's no doubt in the mind of Thomas Hye, founder of Ombold, a street football association that organises games, that this sport also has psychological benefits.
Currently, 20% of Denmark's 5.000 homeless take part in his event.
Mr Hye says: "It's about joy and to be part of something together with other people. And losing without losing your head and feeling happy because you score a goal, and try to do better next time.
"Some of our players have anger management problems; they have a lot of conflicts with society.
"On the pitch they might think the referee is an idiot, but in football they learn they can cope with things.
"Football helps people to more than they think they can do. It helps people get off drugs because of the adrenaline in the body."
Mr Hye and Prof Krustrup belief that other countries should establish football leagues for people who live on the streets.
"Society has got a responsibility towards the homeless and socially disadvantaged," says Prof Krustrup.
"And football is an easy solution. All you need is a ball and two goals. The effects are rapid and marked in relation to health profile and well-being."
Prof Krustrup has carried out similar studies on other social groups, such as the elderly and has concluded that football is perhaps the best form of physical activity of all.
His advice is to stop watching the game on television and to get out and play.
Another group who play regularly is a team of Greenlandic women who spend much of their days outside the Sundholm hostel in Copenhagen's Amager district.
They spend no more than half an hour on the pitch. But their joy for participating is transparent. No incentives are required to induce them to put down the beer cans.
At the end of the session they spontaneously break into a chant of 'Sundholm United.'
"I love football," says Katava as a smile breaks across her deeply lined face. And then she catches the bus back 'home'.
Around 20% of all those who join Denmark's street football league drop out.
The beautiful game doesn't always save, but at least it gets some of the rebounds.
Guzman is being held in a maximum security prison in New York after he was extradited last month.
The notorious kingpin escaped twice from prison in Mexico, once in a laundry basket and most recently through a tunnel in his cell.
His lawyers say he has been denied marital visits and is largely kept in solitary confinement.
The claims arose at a federal court in Brooklyn at a hearing for Guzman, who has pleaded not guilty to charges that he ran the world's largest drug-trafficking organisation during a decades-long career.
He faces life in prison if convicted.
Guzman's wife Emma Coronel, a 27-year-old former beauty queen and mother of his twins, flew from Mexico to attend the hearing.
His lawyers said it was first time Ms Coronel had seen her husband since his surprise extradition two weeks ago.
Guzman, 59, is reportedly on 23-hour lockdown in a special unit of the Manhattan Correctional Center.
"We understand the need for security but we think it has gone above and beyond," said Michelle Gelernt, one of his court-appointed lawyers.
District Judge Brian Cogan pointed out that the "history of the defendant is somewhat unusual" - a reference to his past escapes - and said the Federal Bureau of Prisons should decide what conditions Guzman faced and who he could see.
Guzman's Sinaloa cartel allegedly smuggled hundreds of tonnes of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamines to the US while waging war with other gangs.
The cartel is accused of carrying out thousands of murders and kidnappings, and bribing officials.
Guzman - widely known by his nickname El Chapo, which means "Shorty" - is believed to have amassed a billion-dollar fortune through the drugs trade.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto had initially resisted extraditing him to the US, insisting that he should face justice at home.
But after Guzman was recaptured in January 2016, Pena Nieto changed his mind on extradition and ordered officials to speed up the process.
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A diner on Sunday ordered a dish of prawns marked as 38 yuan at the Shande Live Seafood and Barbecued Home-cooked Dishes restaurant, but was given a bill for 1,520 yuan (£160; $240) after he was told the price was per prawn.
The diner tried to seek help from local authorities, but in the end still had to pay a hefty sum, causing a national furore.
Qingdao authorities said Shande was not only fined but also ordered to "correct its unlawful pricing practices". The restaurant was reportedly shut on Tuesday.
News organisations had picked up the story on Monday after the disgruntled customer went on microblogging network Weibo to complain. What followed was public outrage directed not just at the restaurant but also at local authorities for failing to help the diner.
The fine has not stemmed the wave of criticism online over the handling of the case. Many on the Qingdao authorities' Weibo pages called for local officials to be held responsible, punished, and even sacked.
Chinese sociologist Ding Xueliang said the uproar illustrated how "people, for many years, have accumulated so much distrust of consumer rights in China".
Reports said that the diner, a tourist from Nanjing named Mr Zhu, had called in the police twice. He said the first time officers told him they could not do anything as it was a "price dispute", and said he needed to consult the local trade and industry bureau - which was shut.
The second time they were called in, Mr Zhu said he was advised to give the money to the restaurant owner.
"The people who deserve the most punishment in this case are the policemen who were dispatched to help the man, what on Earth were you doing?" said Weibo user Fanny_fanxiaoqing.
Said Aleigedai: "What makes this so chilling is not just an unscrupulous shop cheating customers, but also the police's uncaring behaviour."
The timing of the row may have contributed to the outrage - it came near the end of China's "golden week" national public holiday, when many travel elsewhere in the country and have to contend with inevitably overpriced hotels and restaurants.
Qingdao is also a popular tourist destination.
But the case has also tapped into lingering unhappiness over the lack of enforcement of consumer rights, despite moves in recent years to strengthen laws and public confidence.
China has upped penalties for fraud and false advertising, made it easier for consumers to launch lawsuits, and every year on World Consumer Rights Day on 15 March, national broadcaster CCTV runs a name-and-shame blitz, with a TV special on errant companies.
Prof Ding, who is with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, notes that the government has long established a network of consumer rights bureaus in cities and towns.
"But in most places these organisations are just window dressing for local government. Officials are reluctant to enforce the laws because they are afraid of hurting local businesses," he says.
"In many cases you can complain but nothing can be done. What doesn't help is there are many layers of government and departments will push the issue to elsewhere - it's like a football game."
The Qingdao prawn case is unlikely to change the situation, but it does prove that consumers now have one way to get concrete help, he adds.
"Many people now have a smartphone and know how to use social media. The biggest thing is that they can now go online, publicise the matter, and try to get redress this way."
Sir Declan Morgan, who set out his plans for dealing with 54 Troubles legacy cases in 2015, made his remarks to the Victims and Survivors Forum.
He said a lack of political agreement and funding for his plan has resulted in a "wasted year" for victims.
He added Stormont's collapse meant the delay would now drag on even longer.
In his speech to the forum on Friday, Sir Declan said it was "simply not correct" to suggest that he has chosen to give priority to cases in which it is the State that is being held to account rather than "terrorist organisations".
His speech was delivered a day after Northern Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions, Barra McGrory QC, said he was insulted by claims that Troubles prosecution cases involving former soldiers were unfairly prioritised by his office.
Sir Declan told the forum that he wants to see outcomes delivered for all victims and survivors and that he has not sought to promote the rights of any group of victims or survivors to the detriment of others.
About 50 legacy inquests, some relating to Troubles killings 45 years ago, have yet to be heard.
In February last year, Sir Declan proposed that a specialist unit be set up that could deal with the cases within five years.
However, politicians have yet to agree to release £10m needed to fund the process.
The money to fund the new unit will be accessed as part of a government financial package addressing a range of issues related to Northern Ireland's past.
"Wasted time is something we can ill afford but it is as yet unclear to me when there may be a further opportunity to move forward on these matters," he said.
"I cannot ignore my statutory responsibilities but I do understand the fears and concerns of other victims and survivors, many of whom are also bitterly disappointed by the delay in achieving a political resolution on an overall legacy package."
He added: "It would be wrong to allow the families concerned to believe that we can somehow achieve the impossible under the existing inquest process.
"If the resources I have requested are not forthcoming, we will need to make a careful assessment of what can reasonably be achieved within the limited budget.
The DUP has said it would be unfair to proceed with legacy inquests, many of which focus on State killings, when investigations into paramilitary murders are on hold.
Former Justice Minister Mr Ford backed Sir Declan's call for political parties to show "courage and maturity" to get progress on the matter:
"With the dissolution of the Assembly and subsequent election, plus any potential talks process, it is likely we will see the needs of victims put on hold even longer.
"Those needs are far too important to be passed around like a political football. It is a matter of shame the Lord Chief Justice has had to make the speech he did today. "
But league bosses insist they are confident that the 12 clubs will know their end-of-season games by the end of Wednesday.
An announcement by the Scottish Professional Football League has been delayed by discussions with broadcasters and police.
The Premiership splits into two sections of six for the final games.
And the SPFL had hoped to have released the fixtures soon after weekend results confirmed which clubs would be in the top and bottom halves of the table.
The SPFL says it has a finalised list of fixtures ready to publish but is still waiting for final approval from all the agencies involved.
A league spokesperson told BBC Scotland that it is "confident" and "hopeful" the fixtures will be made public on Wednesday but could not absolutely guarantee it.
The first round of post-split matches will be on the weekend of Saturday, 25 April, with the final round of matches on the weekend of 23/24 May.
Holders Celtic lead the Premiership by five points from Aberdeen and have a game in hand.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Dundee United, St Johnstone and Dundee will chase a Europa League qualifying spot.
St Mirren, who are guaranteed to finish in the bottom two, and Motherwell will battle it out to avoid the one automatic relegation spot.
Ross County, Kilmarnock, Partick Thistle and Hamilton Academical will also compete in the bottom six.
A relegation play-off tie against a Championship side awaits the team finishing second bottom.
1600-1601 - The three historic principalities of Romania - Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia - are briefly united under one ruler, Michael the Brave. They had been under Habsburg and Ottoman domination.
1657 - Transylvania falls under Ottoman rule, as Moldavia and Wallachia had already done.
1683 - The Habsburgs recapture Transylvania from the Ottoman Empire.
1711 - The Habsburgs make Transylvania a province of their Kingdom of Hungary.
1715 - Phanariot Greek governors begin to rule Moldavia and Wallachia on behalf of the Ottoman Empire, and launch administrative reforms.
1821 - After a century of Russian military incursions, the Ottoman Empire cedes Bessarabia - the eastern half of Moldavia - to Moscow and allows Russia to oversee the administration of Moldavia and Wallachia. Phanariot rule ends, and native Romanian rulers steadily gain influence.
1834 - Moldavia and Wallachia adopt a unified basic constitution, the Reglamentul Organic, which provides for their eventual unification.
1856 - Russian control over Moldavia and Wallachia ends with Moscow's defeat in the Crimean War.
Independence
1859 - Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza is proclaimed prince of both Moldavia and Wallachia.
1862 - The personal union of the two Danubian principalities is consolidated into a new state - Romania. Prince Cuza launches an ambitious policy of economic, political, military, educational and social reform, encompassing a parliament, land reform and the adoption of a civil code.
1866 - Landed interests and disgruntled liberal politicians force the increasingly authoritarian Prince Cuza's abdication. Parliament invites the German prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen to succeed him.
1877-1878 - Romania wins full independence from the Ottoman Empire by siding with Russia in the Russo-Turkish War. It also acquires a coastline on the Danube delta.
1881 - Romania becomes a kingdom. Romanians in the Hungarian province of Transylvania form a National Party to campaign for their rights, but meet with repression by the Hungarian authorities.
1904 - The Romanian oil industry takes off with the opening of the first refinery.
1907 - Mass revolt by poor peasants bloodily crushed.
1914 - King Carol's death ends Romania's alliance with the Central Powers - Germany and Austria. His nephew Ferdinand takes Romania into World War I on the Allied side in 1916.
1918 - As part of the peace settlement at the end of the war, Romania acquires several territories with resident Romanian populations - virtually doubling in size and population.
1930s - Rise of fascist "Iron Guard" mass movement.
1938 - King Carol II establishes dictatorship.
1940 - Romania cedes territory to Hungary and USSR after signing of German-Soviet pact. General Ion Antonescu forces King Carol to abdicate in favour of son Michael, but assumes power himself.
1941 - Romania fights on German side against Soviet Union.
1944 - Antonescu ousted. Romania switches sides as Soviet forces close in.
1945 - Soviet-backed government installed.
Communist takeover
1947 - Romania regains Transylvania under peace treaty but loses territory to Soviet Union. King Michael abdicates. Romanian People's Republic proclaimed.
1948-49 - Soviet-style constitution, purges of dissidents in the Communist Party.
Nicolae Ceausescu fostered a personality cult and suppressed opposition
Romania exposes communist crimes
1989: Romania's 'first couple' executed
Ceausescu valuables on sale
1952 - Party leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej becomes prime minister.
1965 - Nicolae Ceausescu becomes Communist Party leader after death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. He pursues foreign policy that often runs counter to Moscow's lead, while increasing repressive rule and personality cult at home.
1968 - Ceausescu denounces Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
1975 - United States grants Romania most-favoured-nation status.
1977 - Bucharest earthquake kills around 1,500 people.
1985-86 - Austerity programme aimed at reducing foreign debt leads to food shortages and widespread power cuts.
1987 - Army occupies power plants and crushes workers' demonstrations in Brasov.
Revolution
1989 December - Demonstrations in city of Timisoara against the harassment of dissident priest Laszlo Tokes trigger bloody national uprising.
Ceausescu and his wife Elena try to flee but are caught and executed.
National Salvation Front established, headed by former Ceausescu ally Ion Iliescu.
1990 May - Government of Prime Minister Petre Roman embarks on economic and political reform programme.
June - Student and opposition protests against ex-communist leadership crushed when 20,000 miners are brought in to stage a counter demonstration.
1991 - Riots by miners on strike over soaring prices force Mr Roman's resignation. He is replaced by Theodor Stolojan, who sees through a new constitution.
1996 - Centre-right election victory sweeps aside former communists. Emil Constantinescu elected president, Victor Ciorbea becomes prime minister.
1997 - Economic reform programme announced. Securitate Communist-era secret police files opened.
1999 January - Security forces prevent 10,000 miners striking over pay from entering Bucharest.
2000 November-December - Ion Iliescu defeats far-right rival Corneliu Vadim Tudor to retake presidency. Leftist Adrian Nastase becomes prime minister in minority government.
2001 January - Parliament approves a law aimed at returning to its original owners property nationalised during the Communist era.
2003 October - Referendum approves constitution to bring Romania into line with European Union membership.
2004 March - Romania admitted to Nato.
2004 October - President Iliescu ends decades of denial by admitting Romanian complicity in Nazi-driven Holocaust when hundreds of thousands of Jews and Gypsies were sent to their deaths by the country's fascist leadership.
2004 November-December - Centrist alliance leader Traian Basescu elected president. Ally Calin Tariceanu becomes prime minister with agenda of speeding up EU-oriented reforms.
2005 April - Romania signs EU accession treaty.
2005 December - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits, signs agreement which will allow US to use Romanian military bases.
2007 January - Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union, raising the EU membership to 27.
2007 May - President Basescu survives a parliamentary bid to impeach him when he wins the backing of voters in a referendum.
2008 February - European Commission warns Romania over high-level corruption, pointing to slow pace of investigations into activities of eight serving or former ministers. It gives the country six months to correct serious failings or face sanctions.
2008 December - Democratic Liberal Party President and Mayor of Cluj-Napoca Emil Boc forms coalition government, following inconclusive general elections in November.
2009 March - The International Monetary Fund and other lenders agree to provide Romania a rescue package worth 20bn euros.
2009 December - President Traian Basescu re-elected. Emil Boc forms new coalition government.
2010 May-June - Austerity measures including large-scale cuts to public sector wages and pensions lead to wave of strikes and protests.
2010 December - France and Germany block Romania from joining Schengen passport-free zone, saying it still needs to make "irreversible progress" in fight against corruption and organised crime.
2012 January-February - Clashes over austerity and corruption prompt resignation of Prime Minister Emil Boc. 2012 May - Victor Ponta becomes prime minister when his left-wing Social Liberal Union alliance topples the interim government in confidence vote. Seeks to soften austerity terms, begins campaign to oust President Basescu.
2012 July - President Basescu survives impeachment referendum, as it fails to reach the minimum turnout figure.
2012 December - Victor Ponta wins parliamentary elections.
Social Democrats wane and wax
2014 January - Transitional curbs on Romanians' right to work and receive benefits in some EU members in place since Romania joined in 2007 lapse.
2014 November - Conservative Klaus Iohannis beats Victor Ponta in presidential run-off election.
2015 May - Government minister Liviu Dragnea receives suspended sentence for election fraud, which he denies. He becomes Social Democratic Party leader later in the year.
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2016 May - A Nato missile defence system is installed in the face of Russia opposition.
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Frankie Boyle's Election Autopsy will be available from 17 May and will be similar to his satirical analysis of last year's Scottish referendum.
The BBC said the show, to be recorded at Wilton's Music Hall in London, would see the comedian make "bold and often outrageous statements about the vote".
Matt Berry and Jo Brand will also appear in upcoming iPlayer commissions.
The former will kick off in a new topical comedy series with an "anthropologic look" at the Oxford v Cambridge boat race, available on the iPlayer from 5 April.
The latter, meanwhile, will present a "private view" of Grayson Perry's upcoming new exhibition at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, available from 23 May.
Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK would start the process of leaving the European Union next Wednesday.
The announcement will set in place a two-year negotiation process.
But Michael Russell, who is leading the Scottish government's Brexit talks with Westminster, said he only found out the date when it was reported by the BBC.
Mrs May had previously said that Article 50 would be triggered by the end of March, but the exact date was only confirmed on Monday.
Mr Russell, who is a member of the Joint Ministerial Committee (JMC) on EU negotiations, tweeted: "Thank you @BBCNews for letting JMC members like me know that #Article50 is to be triggered next week".
He added that the UK government "somehow forgot to inform us".
Fiona Hyslop, the Scottish government's external affairs secretary, also said she had not been informed about the Article 50 date.
A spokesman for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "The fact the UK government failed to properly and fully inform all of the devolved administrations on the plans for triggering Article 50 speaks volumes - and totally exposes as empty rhetoric Westminster's language about equal partnership."
Mrs May said she had discussed the Article 50 notification with Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones during a visit to Swansea on Monday morning.
She told S4C: "We have been talking with the Welsh government for the past few months and with the other devolved administrations about the process, about the timetable.
"I have always said it would be before the end of March and we will continue talking to them."
Asked later why Mrs May had not informed the Scottish government before announcing the Article 50 date, the prime minister's official spokesman said: "What we have done today is set out the date when we are triggering Article 50.
"As the PM has said, there will be opportunities between now and the actual triggering for more discussions with the devolved nations."
Scottish Conservative MSP John Lamont said the SNP was guilty of finding "any excuse to complain about a perceived slight".
He added: "It is only a week since Nicola Sturgeon announced her plans for an unwanted, divisive second referendum out of the blue with no prior notice to anyone."
Britain's ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow, informed the office of European Council president Donald Tusk on Monday morning of the prime minister's plans.
It means the UK is expected to leave the EU on 29 March 2019.
The announcement comes amid increasing tension between Edinburgh and London over Brexit after Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, announced plans to seek to hold a second independence referendum in the wake of the Brexit vote.
Scottish government ministers insist the result gives them a "cast-iron mandate" to stage a second independence referendum.
That is based on the party's manifesto for the 2016 Holyrood elections stating that the referendum should be held if there was a "material change in circumstances" from the 2014 ballot, citing the example of Scotland being removed from the EU against its wishes.
Scotland voted by 62% to 38% in favour of the UK retaining its membership of the EU. The UK as a whole backed Leave by 52% to 48%.
A majority of MSPs are expected to support Ms Sturgeon's call for a fresh referendum to be held in a vote at Holyrood on Wednesday - which will see her government formally request a section 30 order from Westminster, enabling a legally binding referendum to take place.
However, Mrs May has already said "now is not the time" for another ballot on the future of the UK to be held.
And Scottish Secretary David Mundell has insisted that the UK government "will not be entering into discussions or negotiations about a Section 30 agreement" and that any request "at this time" will be declined.
Judges are now required to give special information to jurors in some trials, including that many victims of rape or sexual assault "freeze" rather than fight back.
The move is designed to challenge any pre-conceived notions jurors may have about how a person should react when they are a victim of a sexual offence.
Rape Crisis Scotland welcomed the move.
Sandy Brindley, co-ordinator for the organisation, said: "Survivors often tell us that during a rape they froze and were unable to fight back or scream.
"This is a completely natural and common reaction, but not always one that members of the public will necessarily be aware of.
"We welcome the introduction of jury directions in rape cases as a significant step forward.
"Providing jury members with factual information on different reactions to rape should help to ensure that verdicts in sexual offence cases are based on the evidence presented rather than being influenced by assumptions about how rape victims should react."
Under the new laws, judges will give special information to juries in certain sexual offence trials, including where there is a delay in the victim reporting the crime, where there is no evidence of physical resistance by the victim and where the perpetrator has not used physical force.
The Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 also sees the introduction of a new statutory aggravation which means courts will be required to take into account whether or not an offence involved abuse of a partner or ex-partner.
The act further introduces an extension of the law concerning certain sexual offences committed against children, to allow for prosecution in Scottish courts of offences committed elsewhere in the UK.
The change is aimed at reducing the potential trauma for victims who might otherwise face more than one trial.
Powers to protect victims from further harassment are also being extended by allowing a criminal non-harassment order to be imposed in a wider range of circumstances.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "Abusive behaviour and sexual harm will not be tolerated in Scotland.
"Tackling these crimes requires a bold response and speedy and effective enforcement, which is why we have introduced new laws to improve the way our justice system responds.
"By continuing to modernise the law we can support victims in accessing justice and ensure perpetrators are properly held to account for their actions."
Second seed Murray came from a break down in the final set to win 7-6 (9-7) 3-6 6-3 in two hours and 38 minutes.
"It was a tough match," said the Scot, 28, who plays David Ferrer in his semi-final after the Spaniard beat American John Isner 6-3 6-7 (6-8) 6-2.
World number one Novak Djokovic saw off Tomas Berdych 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (10-8).
Murray faces a challenging end to the season, with the ATP Finals in London only nine days away, followed by Britain's first Davis Cup final since 1978, which gets under way in Belgium in three weeks' time.
Murray had lost just four games in winning his opening two matches in Paris, but was given a far sterner test by Gasquet - and it took its toll.
"I got a little stiff in my lower back," the Briton said afterwards.
Murray had toyed with the idea of skipping the ATP Finals - and risking the wrath of the governing body - in order to arrive in Belgium fresh for the Davis Cup final, his primary focus for the rest of the season.
However, that scenario appears less likely now and, asked if his back was a concern, Murray told Sky Sports: "I don't think so. I was moving well, it was just on the serve it gave me a little bit of trouble. That can happen, it's a long season.
"After a couple of weeks it's maybe normal to feel a little bit stiff and sore and maybe it's a good thing, to get that out of my system.
"The crowd was behind him and it was perfect preparation for the Davis Cup, in an atmosphere like that."
Murray's immediate focus remains the Paris Masters, and a real chance to make an impact at a tournament which has yet to see the best of him.
Gasquet had inflicted one of five previous quarter-final defeats on Murray, back in 2007, and the 29-year-old played well enough to threaten a repeat on Friday.
In a high-quality match, Murray edged the first set in a tie-break but made little impact on the Gasquet serve in the second, the Frenchman taking it thanks to one break.
When he moved a break up early in the third it appeared that Gasquet was on course to claim his first win over Murray since 2012, but the Scot hit back immediately and made the decisive breakthrough with a drop shot at 4-3.
Defending champion Djokovic saved set points in both sets to claim his 20th consecutive win and remained on course for an unprecedented third Paris Masters title in a row.
The 28-year-old top-ranked Serb secured a hard-fought victory in two hours seven minutes and in the semi-finals will play Stanislas Wawrinka who defeated Rafael Nadal of Spain 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (7-5).
It was a third win in four matches for the Swiss after he lost the first 12 matches between the pair.
The Roses were comprehensively beaten 61-37 by the Silver Ferns on Thursday.
Agbeze, 34, says England need to "focus on themselves" and cut out the "silly errors" when they meet the world champions at Wembley Arena on Sunday.
"New Zealand played well, but we beat ourselves," said Agbeze. "We are eager to see if we can finish on a high."
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England beat South Africa 60-55 in their opening match, but struggled against the physicality of New Zealand, who converted 61 of their 66 shots compared to the hosts' 37 from 49.
"There was a heavy mood after the New Zealand game," Agbeze told BBC Sport.
"We need to execute our gameplan. There were silly errors and we did not capitalise on the possession we had."
Sunday's game, which is live on BBC Two from 13:00 GMT, is England's last until the summer.
"We need to play well, irrespective of how they do," said Agbeze. "We have the ability to beat them, but it depends on if we can consistently do the necessary things.
"We need to focus on ourselves, be patient and calm and build consistency."
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The cheeky animal interrupted a match in Cheshire over the weekend.
Nobody was hurt and once the bull had gone, play continued.
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Using two men in a papier mache rhino of course!
Over a hundred staff took part in this bizarre drill, which tries to recreate what would happen if a rhino escaped after an earthquake.
Once keepers had surrounded the rhino with a net, it was tranquillized and captured, before the two staff inside the rhino were allowed to return to their normal duties.
The 'wrong horse' won a race at odds of 50-1 at Great Yarmouth on Thursday. The two-year-old Mandarin Princess was declared the winner, when in fact it was its three-year-old stablemate Millie's Kiss.
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Goalkeeper Michael Ingham, 35, defender Dave Winfield, 28, and midfielders Luke Summerfield, 28, and captain Russell Penn, 30, have been offered deals.
George Swan, Femi Ilesanmi, Taron Hare, Josh Carson, Kenny McEvoy, Michael Coulson, Emile Sinclair and Ben Hirst have been released.
Strikers Jake Hyde, 25, and Vadaine Oliver, 24, have been placed on the transfer list.
Researchers found that large rodents quickly ate the nuts, rather than caching them, when supplies were scarce.
When supplies were plentiful, almost twice as many nuts were buried, increasing the chance of successful germination, the team added.
The findings appear in the Journal of Tropical Ecology.
The scientists from Norway, Brazil and the UK said that very little was know about the fate of Brazil nuts under natural condition, despite it being one of the most economically important non-timber crops to come out of Amazonia.
In order to get a better understanding of how the seeds were dispersed, they tracked 1,800 marked seeds to see how seasonal food availability affected agoutis' and acouchis' - large scatter-hoarding rodents - caching rates, dispersal distances and how long the seeds were buried before being eaten.
"We basically found that the seasons had a very strong effect on the dispersal distances and what happened to the seeds themselves," explained Torbjorn Haugaasen, an ecologist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
"During the wet season (April) - when there are a lot of other fruits in the forest - more seeds were cached for later retrieval," he added.
"In the dry season (September), on the other hand, more seeds were eaten immediately because there was not that much food around and the rodents needed to draw on the food resource.
"Seeds were also taken further away during the dry season, which suggests that the rodents saw them as a more valuable resource than during the wet season," Dr Haugaasen told BBC News.
The field study, carried out during 2006, showed that 74.4% of seeds were buried during the wet season, compared with just 38.2% during the dry season.
The team suggested that collecting too many Brazil nuts from an area could replicate "dry season" conditions for the rodents.
"Reduced seed availability due to intensive harvesting could potentially create a dry-season scenario where most seeds succumb to pre-dispersal predation, thereby adversely affecting the natural regeneration of Brazil nut trees," they wrote.
The researchers said that populations of two large rodent species were responsible for the dispersal of the Brazil nut tree seeds: agoutis and acuchis.
However, they added, only the agoutis were capable of gnawing through the hard, thick outer casing of the fruit and releasing the seeds (Brazil nuts).
Agoutis, which can weigh up to 6kg, are found throughout the same range as the Brazil nut trees in South America.
"The (trees) therefore rely almost entirely on these large terrestrial rodents for the release of their well-protected seeds," the team explained.
"Those seeds not consumed within the germination period (12-18 months) may germinate, and seeds may remain viable for at least six years."
Scatter-hoarding also benefits plants in a number of ways, such as transporting seeds away from the parent plants and increasing the probability of reaching a site more suitable for germination.
Dr Haugaasen explained that the team decided to carry out the study in order to build on the findings of a 2003 paper published in Science, which first identified the link between intensive harvesting and the lack of young Brazil nut trees.
Writing in the 2003 paper, researchers said: "Persistently harvested stands were characterised by larger (and presumably older) trees and few or no juveniles.
But, they observed: "Juveniles were most common in unharvested and lightly harvested stands."
However, Dr Haugaasen said, the people harvesting the nuts could unknowingly be contributing to the regeneration of the trees, as some nuts were accidentally dropped as they were carried out of the forest.
"We actually found seedlings along the path used by the collectors. However, this does not mean that they are all going to reach maturity because they are in (vulnerable) places."
But he warned that restricting nut collecting could prove to be counterproductive because the harvests were a key source of income for local communities.
"Alternative possibilities, such as managed planting of seedlings in natural gaps in the forest might be a better solution," he suggested.
Dr Haugaasen said that the next step for the researchers was to look at the "management implications" of their findings.
"We also need to know how the hunting of these rodents can effect the natural regeneration of these trees," he added.
"You can have a negative impact by reducing the number of these rodents.
"However, if you have a large number of seeds already buried by a rodent before it is shot, other agoutis or seed-eaters will not know where those seeds are located.
"The seeds may therefore have a higher chance of survival, which could arguably have a positive impact on regeneration."
Further studies on the ecology of Brazil nut trees are expected to be published in the coming 12 months.
Anthony John McDonnell, 45, of Whitebridge Avenue, Leeds was bailed and is to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 20 November.
Andrew Batten, 42, died in hospital after he was attacked at a taxi rank in Vicar Lane, Leeds, on 13 October 1995.
Detectives had launched a fresh appeal last month.
Mr Batten, who lived in Beeston, had gone out after finishing work and was still wearing his Royal Mail uniform.
He was found on the pavement by an ambulance crew after an anonymous call and was taken to Leeds General Infirmary with a fractured skull. He died two days later.
The men went to "homosexual parties" together and were "hunters" of young men, declassified MI5 files claim.
Allegations in 1964 about the pair's relationship caused such concern within Downing Street that the then head of MI5 was summoned to the Home Office.
The government feared a scandal greater than the so-called Profumo Affair.
Rumours that notorious gangster Kray and Lord Boothby - a popular TV presenter and former MP for East Aberdeenshire - were having an affair were published in 1964.
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The Sunday Mirror - which did not name the pair - claimed to have a photo of Kray and Boothby together with the bisexual peer's chauffeur and lover, Leslie Holt.
The men were later identified in a German magazine.
Lord Boothby publicly denied having a homosexual or any other close relationship with Kray.
At the time, he said the photograph showed them discussing "business matters", dismissing rumours about his personal life as a "tissue of atrocious lies".
The Sunday Mirror ended up paying £40,000 in damages to Boothby.
But the papers - released as part of 400 declassified files by the Security Service (MI5), Foreign Office and Cabinet Office - reveal new information about their association.
They show how home secretary Henry Brooke was so concerned about the matter he summoned the head of MI5, Sir Roger Hollis, to ask what the security services knew.
Brooke feared the allegations might erupt into a scandal to rival the Profumo affair, which helped to bring down the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan.
Sir Roger told the home secretary how MI5 had received reports that Lord Boothby was bisexual and had contacts with the Krays.
But, since he had no access to official secrets, MI5 concluded that Boothby's private life was of no concern, the papers reveal.
According to an MI5 source, Lord Boothby was in a relationship with Holt - his chauffer and ex-boxer who also went by the name Johnny Kidd.
Holt told the source how Lord Boothby and Kray had "been to a couple of (homosexual) parties together".
The report suggested the Sunday Mirror was tipped off about the "affair" between Lord Boothby and Kray by the rival Nash gang.
The MI5 report said: "Certainly the suggestion that Boothby has been having an affair with the gangster Kray is hardly true."
Dr Richard Dunley, records specialist at the National Archives, said the story was "one of the greatest scandals that never was".
"If this had come out in 1964 it would have been a huge scandal," he said.
Dr Dunley said the files do not mention well-known claims that Lord Boothby had a long-term relationship with former prime minister Harold Macmillian's wife.
"As tabloid headlines go, you can imagine what would have happened," he said.
"The Mirror did effectively get hold of the story but couldn't publish it, they got sued for libel."
The Australian actress will play scientist Rosalind Franklin in the UK premiere of Photograph 51, directed by Michael Grandage.
The play, by Anna Ziegler, will open at the Noel Coward Theatre on 14 September and run until 21 November.
Kidman's work in The Blue Room at the Donmar Warehouse in 1998 was famously described as "pure theatrical Viagra".
In Photograph 51, Kidman will portray British scientist Rosalind Franklin, the only woman involved in the discovery of DNA's double helix in 1953.
Her name was left out of the history books and she only received recognition years after her death.
The production will reunite Kidman with Grandage, with whom she recently collaborated on the feature film Genius.
It marks the return of Grandage's company to the West End, following an acclaimed run in 2013 and 2014 that saw Jude Law play Henry V and Daniel Radcliffe appear in The Cripple of Inishmaan.
'Nervous'
In 2001 Kidman spoke to the BBC of her desire to return to the London stage, calling The Blue Room "the best experience I've ever had".
But she admitted then that she was "nervous to come back as there will be such expectation".
Kidman received rave reviews for her role in The Blue Room alongside co-star Iain Glen.
The pair were the only people on stage in an erotic comedy - written by Sir David Hare and directed by Sam Mendes - that saw both stars appear naked during the performance.
Last year Kidman told the Daily Mail she was in discussions to appear in two plays in London, with one reported to be Turgenev's A Month in the Country.
"I'm determined to make at least one of the proposals work," she said. "Who knows? Both of the proposals might come together."
Emergency services were called to the scene on Govan Road, outside Govan Cross Shopping Centre, at about 13:25.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said the woman was taken to hospital by ambulance. No information has been released on the woman's condition.
Police said inquiries into the crash were continuing.
Rangers' 2-0 win at Hibs means Robbie Neilson's men, 23 points ahead, cannot be caught by the chasing pack.
Neilson had stated his preference for his side to secure the title in front of a home crowd at Tynecastle.
Hearts tweeted: "Championees you beauty. Congratulations to everyone connected with the club, especially our fans #wedidittogether"
The Edinburgh club have lost only one of their 29 league games this season and, speaking before clinching the title, Neilson said his players were prepared to work hard for their success.
"As a coach, you just want guys who are prepared to work hard to make the best of their ability, and we definitely have that," he told his club website. "All the coaches and I can do is prepare training, and hope the boys buy into it, which they all have done.
"Even when we've won the league, it's important that we continue to win games. We have to play Hibs and Rangers, and it's vital for us to beat these sides.
"Our mindset is that we must win every game, a club of this stature must not accept less."
The US rock band had to pull out of their headline slot after Dave Grohl fractured his leg in a stage fall.
It's not the first time the festival has had to book a last minute replacement - U2, the Stone Roses and Kylie Minogue have all cancelled appearances due to illness or injury. It's almost as if the Pyramid Stage is cursed...
But who is likely to step in for the Foo Fighters on 26 June?
Already on the bill, and basking in the afterglow of their third number one album, Florence and the Machine are the most likely choice.
Proven festival headliners with a set of earthy, mystical songs they fit neatly with the Glastonbury ethos.
Hits like Kiss With A Fist and Shake It Up will sound perfect as the sun sets in Somerset, and their promotion up the bill would help settle a gender imbalance.
But singer Florence Welch should be wary of the curse of the Pyramid Stage - she broke her foot while playing Coachella in April.
Never bad at Glastonbury, the Britpop survivors played the gig of their lifetime at the 2009 festival. The set was so emotional, Damon Albarn even broke into tears after To The End.
A brilliant new album, The Magic Whip, would stop a 2015 set being a repeat performance with songs like Ong Ong and Lonesome Street going down particularly well at the Isle of Wight Festival last weekend.
Albarn also has form in helping Glastonbury out of a crisis - he brought his animated hip-hop collective Gorillaz to the main stage when U2 dropped out in 2010. Although it was a poorly received set.
A natural substitute for the hard-rocking riffage of the Foo Fighters, AC/DC were widely rumoured to be in the frame for Glastonbury earlier this year.
But the band poured cold water on the story, with frontman Brian Johnson describing the festival as "wellies and corporate".
But after hearing Metallica had played in 2014, their attitude softened. "If they ask… OK," said guitarist Angus Young.
Detractors say the band has been writing the same exact song over and over for years - but it's a pretty good song, and Glastonbury would be a perfect place to air Highway to Hell and Back in Black.
Luckily, they're between dates on their European tour on 26 June.
Emily Eavis probably has Chris Martin on speed dial. The band are a reliable Glastonbury stalwart, with anthems aplenty.
Glastonbury also gave the band a considerable leg up in 2005, when they were booked to lead the Pyramid Stage while still relatively untested. Nevertheless, they were the talk of the festival afterwards, thanks to a particularly heartfelt rendition of The Scientist.
A headline slot would give fans a rare chance to hear last year's well-received Ghost Stories album live - the group only played two UK dates on their brief world tour.
But they might want to hold fire until next year. Chris Martin has hinted the band's seventh studio album could be their swansong.
Assuming Dave Grohl, the nicest man in rock, doesn't want to leave Glastonbury in the lurch, he could put in a call to his good friends Queens of the Stone Age.
Josh Homme's band played a blistering headline set on Glastonbury's Other Stage in 2013, drawing a sizeable crowd despite being scheduled against Beyonce.
They're currently in the recording studio, but have scheduled to play Rock in Rio this September, which means they could be battle ready.
A popular suggestion on social media, Swift is certainly riding a wave this year, thanks to the unassailable pop of her new album 1989.
Handily, she's in the UK next week and has Friday night off before playing the BST festival in Hyde Park the following day.
But it's been a long time since Glastonbury booked such an unashamedly commercial act as its headliner - and while the crowd would undoubtedly lap up Shake It Off and Blank Space, they might find the country elements of her set unpalatable.
Maybe she could win the crowd over with a headbanging cover the Foo Fighters' Best of You?
Every year, a rumour sweeps around Glastonbury that Daft Punk are "definitely" playing a secret set over the weekend.
Why should this year be any different?
See above.
He's been listed as a potential headliner for years, and at one point looked set to sign up for 2015. For whatever reason, negotiations fell apart but a last-minute booking would suit the star's hit-and-run philosophy.
If the Minneapolis musician did pop, it would undoubtedly go down as one of Glastonbury's legendary performances. He's at the top of his game, thanks to his muscular, perfectly-drilled new band 3rd Eye Girl - and, as he's fond of telling audiences: "I got so many hits we don't have time to play 'em all."
But even just the staples of his set - Raspberry Beret, Purple Rain, Let's Go Crazy, Kiss, Little Red Corvette - would be the envy of any headliner.
The Chain, Don't Stop, Tusk, Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac have no shortage of hits to supply to the Pyramid Stage. But, it seems, they're not that keen on travelling down to Somerset.
Their Isle Of Wight set last weekend was billed as a "worldwide festival exclusive", and organiser John Giddings claimed Glastonbury bosses were green with envy.
"Michael Eavis said, 'How did you get Fleetwood Mac?' I said, 'I paid them!'" he told Music Week.
If the band were to capitulate, though, they'd have to cancel or postpone a show at London's O2 Arena, which is booked for the same night.
Muse last headlined Glastonbury in 2010, welcoming The Edge on stage in the year that U2 were forced to pull out.
Their star has waned in the intervening years (with the critics, at least) but they are still a thrilling, compelling live act.
On their new album, Drones, they've ditched the frilly faux-operatics of their more recent work in favour of proto-metal riffs and Matt Bellamy's soaring vocals.
The opportunity to hear Knights of Cydonia charging over the fields of Worthy Farm again is not one to be be missed - but there's one small problem. They're already headlining the Bravalla Festival in Sweden that night.
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Have a few drinks and, before you know it, you're puffing away again.
Now it seems ex-Prime Minister David Cameron - who has previously spoken of his battle to give up nicotine - is also no stranger to this predicament.
In a snap from the weekend's Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, Mr Cameron was photographed by art consultant Lucy Edwards holding a drink and a cigarette.
Back in 2011, Mr Cameron described himself as a "former smoker" at Prime Minister's Questions when responding to a question about a ban in cars when children were present.
Four years later, he spoke in the Commons about his "relatively successful" battle to give up smoking.
He was responding to a question about e-cigarettes and whether he could highlight the role they play in helping people give up smoking.
Mr Cameron said: "Certainly as somebody who has been through this battle a number of times, eventually relatively successfully, lots of people find different ways of doing it and certainly for some people e-cigarettes are successful."
Two years on and now out of the public eye, it seems Mr Cameron has turned to tobacco once again.
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of charity ASH (action on smoking and health), said: "Quitting smoking can be difficult but getting the right support throughout the process makes quit attempts much more likely to succeed.
"It's vital that smoking cessation services are properly funded and available to all who need them, whether plumber or former prime minister."
But Mr Cameron is far from being the only politician who has talked about smoking or their struggle to give up.
In 2010, then Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg confessed to being a secret smoker.
On BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the Liberal Democrat leader said his luxury item, if stranded alone on an island, would be a "stash of cigarettes".
And former US President Barack Obama started smoking as a teenager but promised his wife he would give up if she would allow him to run for president.
"Look, I've said before that as a former smoker I constantly struggle with it," Mr Obama told reporters in 2009.
"Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No. I don't do it in front of my kids. I don't do it in front of my family. And, you know, I would say that I am 95% cured."
Mr Obama has acknowledged using nicotine gum. And in 2013, he was quoted as saying he hadn't had a cigarette in six years.
"That's because I'm scared of my wife," he added.
Maybe he could give Mr Cameron some tips.
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Having banked the biggest cheque of his career as Scottish open runner-up, a tie for fifth at the Open at Royal Troon earned him a further £235,557.
He now heads for Springfield, New Jersey for the US PGA in 10 days' time.
Hatton admits he still needs to work on keeping a cool head, saying: "It's something I needed to get better at and I'm slowly getting there."
His finish at Troon was the best by an Englishman at the Open since Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood tied for third behind Phil Mickelson at Muirfield three years ago.
He acknowledges, however, that his emotions can still get the better of him on the course.
"The fire is still burning inside and I'll show that from time to time," said 24-year-old Hatton, from Marlow, who plays at Harleyford.
"I try my best not to, but I'm only human, and I'm going to make mistakes every now and then.
"I'm so passionate about wanting to do well, and sometimes that just overspills."
As well as the support of his father, who is his coach, this year's change of caddie, when he brought in the calming influence of a new bagman in Chris Rice, has been a big factor.
"We started working together at the beginning of this year, and it's been a great year for me so far," added Hatton, who has risen a further 13 places to 55th in the world rankings.
"We make a good team. He's helped me a lot."
As well as earning 429,468 Euros at Castle Stuart, prior to moving on to Troon, he also secured a place in the field for the USPGA for the second year running, giving him a chance to build on last year's tie for 25th at Whistling Straits.
"I can't wait," Hatton told BBC Sport. "I really enjoyed my time at Whistling Straits. I'm going to enjoy a week off to get ready for a return to the States.
"I got a lot of confidence from last week and I took it into the Open and it's great that I now don't have to try and qualify again (following his Top 10 finish) for Royal Birkdale next year."
Hatton's surge in form also means he is now within reach of a Ryder Cup place, but after the USPGA his main interest is the holiday he has planned afterwards in New York with his girlfriend.
Aside from a double bogey on the par-five 4th on the second day, Hatton only dropped four other shots all week at Troon, fewer than champion Henrik Stenson.
"My best performances are on links courses," points out Hatton, who had not previously made the Open cut in four attempts.
"I played a lot of links as an amateur. When conditions get tough, I can grind out a decent score and thankfully my short game helped me out and was the reason why I finished as well as I have.
"I holed a lot of putts out there. That was the only downside from the previous three rounds but this time the big thing was the par putts I holed.
"I holed a really good par putt on the eighth after pulling it left into the bunker. Then I holed a really good par putt again on nine, and that sort of just kept the momentum going. The only blip was on 11, but that was the hardest hole on the course."
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Lawyers said Chris Gard and Connie Yates want to spend the "maximum amount of time they have left with Charlie".
The couple ended the case after a US doctor told them it was now too late to treat Charlie's rare genetic condition.
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has not said when life support will end.
However, Mr Gard and Ms Yates, from Bedfont, west London, said Charlie would not reach his first birthday on 4 August.
In its statement to the High Court, the hospital said it was "increasingly surprised and disappointed" the US doctor, Professor Michio Hirano, "had not read Charlie's contemporaneous medical records or viewed Charlie's brain imaging or read all of the second opinions about Charlie's condition".
GOSH said Professor Hirano had not taken the opportunity to see Charlie until last week, despite being offered the chance to do so by the hospital in January.
Even though the professor gave written evidence at all the court cases, the hospital said it only emerged last week that he had not read the judge's ruling following the first High Court hearing in April.
The hospital added it was concerned to hear the professor state in the witness box at the High Court hearing on 13 July that he had a financial interest in some of the treatment he proposed prescribing for Charlie.
Charlie has encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. He has brain damage and cannot move his arms or legs.
His parents had asked Mr Justice Francis to rule that their son should be allowed to undergo a trial of nucleoside therapy in New York, a move opposed by London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, which argued it would be "futile".
The Family Division of the High Court heard on Monday that US neurologist Dr Michio Hirano was no longer willing to offer the experimental therapy after he had seen the results of a new MRI scan last week.
Speaking outside court, Mr Gard said: "We are now going to spend our last precious moments with our son Charlie, who unfortunately won't make his first birthday in just under two weeks' time.
"Mummy and Daddy love you so much Charlie, we always have and we always will and we are so sorry that we couldn't save you."
Mr Justice Francis said he hoped lessons could be learned from the "tragic" case.
He has suggested that parents and hospital bosses who disagree over life-or-death treatment for children should be forced to mediate in a bid to avoid litigation.
"I recognise, of course, that negotiating issues such as the life or death of a child seems impossible and often will be," he said.
"However, it is my clear view that mediation should be attempted in all cases such as this one, even if all that it does is achieve a greater understanding by the parties of each other's positions."
Mr Gard's and Ms Yates's five-month legal battle started after doctors at Great Ormond Street had said the therapy would not help and that life-support treatment should stop.
They subsequently failed to overturn rulings in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in London, and also failed to persuade judges at the European Court of Human Rights to intervene.
The couple made the "most painful of decisions" on Monday after reviewing new scan results which showed Charlie had deteriorated to the "point of no return".
In a statement, Great Ormond Street said: "The agony, desolation and bravery of their decision command GOSH's utmost respect and humble all who work there."
Mr Gard and Ms Yates hope to establish a foundation to ensure Charlie's voice "continues to be heard".
They had raised more than £1.3m for the treatment in the US.
Timeline of legal battle
He was being investigated for gross negligence manslaughter and misconduct in a public office over Andrew Pimlott's death in Plymouth last year.
Mr Pimlott, 32, who had poured petrol over himself, appeared to being holding a lit match at the time he was Tasered.
There was "insufficient evidence" to prosecute the officer, the CPS said. He still faces police disciplinary action.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said there was a case to answer for gross misconduct. If this was proved, the officer would lose his job.
IPCC associate commissioner Tom Milsom said: "This has been a complex investigation.
"We felt there was sufficient evidence to refer a file to the CPS but, in light of their decision, we have informed Mr Pimlott's family of our findings."
Sally Walsh, of the CPS special crime division, said: "Whilst we cannot know whether Mr Pimlott intended to set himself alight, seeing him douse himself in petrol and holding what appeared to be a lighted match, it was reasonable for the officer to conclude that he intended to.
"It appears from the evidence that the officer did the best he could in what were clearly very difficult circumstances and that he was faced with a choice of either standing back to allow Mr Pimlott to set himself alight or taking the somewhat lesser risk of applying the Taser in an effort to stop him doing so.
"We have advised the IPCC that no further criminal action should be taken."
Two Devon and Cornwall officers were called to the house at about 21:00 BST on 18 April 2013 after reports from a member of the public about a man with a can of flammable liquid.
The IPCC said a Taser, which delivers a 50,000-volt electrical charge into targets to incapacitate them, was fired during the incident. Mr Pimlott died in hospital five days later.
Nigel Rabbitts, chair of Devon and Cornwall Police Federation, said: "Every police officer has to make split decisions. It's always better to do something, than nothing."
Devon and Cornwall Police said it would "progress an internal disciplinary procedure".
The vote was aimed at ending months of political deadlock but was boycotted by opposition parties.
Pavel Filip, from the main pro-European coalition, has been appointed prime minister.
The previous government of the former Soviet republic was dismissed by lawmakers in October amid a corruption scandal.
Thousands of people had gathered outside parliament in the capital, Chisinau, against the appointment of Mr Filip, a former technology minister.
The anti-government camp includes two pro-Moscow groups and one pro-European group.
A group of protesters broke police lines and forced their way into the building, local media reported.
Tear gas was reportedly used and policemen were seen wearing gas masks. It was not clear if there were any injured.
The protesters chanted "Cancel the vote!" and "Thieves", the AP news agency reported, and demanded early elections.
Protesters say that the new prime minister has close links to Vladimir Plahotniuc, one of the most powerful businessmen in Moldova.
President Nicolae Timofti last week refused to nominate Mr Plahotniuc for the post of prime minister and Mr Filip's opponents say he will now just be a proxy for vested business interests.
For his part, Mr Filip has pledged to form closer ties with the European Union.
Moldova is one of Europe's poorest countries and has been locked in political turmoil since the disappearance of some $1bn (£710m) from the banking system in 2014.
The missing money is equivalent to an eighth of the ex-Soviet republic's entire GDP.
The scandal caused a rapid fall in the value of the national currency, the leu, hitting Moldovans' living standards.
Through his black-and-white photographs, he captured the world around him, primarily in his native France, and was one of a handful of photographers who helped define what is now called street photography.
Yet until his 60s he was unknown, simply taking pictures for his own pleasure.
His affluent background allowed him to pursue his hobbies and indulge his passion for motorcars and sport, recording the modern age with his camera.
His photographs exude an air of freedom and are seemingly composed with little effort, each frame spontaneously conveying the emotion of the moment.
It was 1963 when Lartigue's work was seen by John Szarkowski, curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, who offered him a solo exhibition on the spot, propelling his work to the highest level.
Yet his colour photography is virtually unknown, save for a few autochromes exhibited alongside his more familiar work.
Lartigue was undeniably a fan of experimentation with the camera - a pioneer who used the camera to record life as he felt it, not just as a reflection of itself.
He was also a painter, so his adoption of colour photography should not be a surprise.
Yet the early process had its limitations.
He shot colour pictures from 1912-27 before abandoning it due to the bulk of the equipment required at that time and because the process was too slow to record a spontaneous moment.
But by the 1950s, those limitations had long since passed, and his Rolleiflex and Leica were no strangers to colour film.
He wrote at the time: "How can one not be moved by the harmony of colours nature offers us?
"As long as neither is too harsh nor too sharp, colour photography seems to me, because of a certain blurriness, to best be able to express charm and poetry - a poetry that can very well accommodate a touch of humour."
His love of colour was years ahead of its time, as it was not until the mid-1970s that colour photography began to make inroads in to the serious art market.
In 1979, Lartigue donated his entire photographic collection to the French state.
He died in Nice in 1986, leaving behind more than 100,000 photographs, 7,000 diary pages and 1,500 paintings.
All photographs courtesy Jacques Henri Lartigue / © Ministere de la Culture - France / AAJHL from Lartigue: Life in Color by Martine D'Astier and Martine Ravache, published by Abrams.
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The 15-year-old from Pontypool, British all-around junior champion, is one of 39 young athletes and coaches who will experience the Olympic environment.
Methuen hopes it will stand her in good stead as she targets future Games.
"It's going to really prepare me for further down the line, so you know what's coming the next time," she said.
"It's absolutely amazing going to Rio, I can't wait. I know some of the gymnasts going already and I just can't wait to be there supporting them and cheering them on.
"It's to get the experience, to know what's happening and to see all the different sports. I'm not just going there to see gymnastics, I'm going to see rugby which is completely different to gymnastics!
"We're going there to see what the atmosphere is like."
No Welsh gymnasts have been selected for Rio, so Methuen has a unique opportunity to get a taste of the Olympics as part of the BOA's "ambition programme".
The scheme, which was first launched for Beijing 2008, is designed to replicate a first Games experience for young British athletes and coaches.
They will visit the facilities at Team GB's preparation camp in Belo Horizonte before flying to Rio to visit the Olympic Village, as well as seeing Team GB in action.
Of the 105 athletes on the Beijing 2008 programme, 43 went on to compete at London 2012.
While acknowledging that Tokyo 2020 is a long-term aim, Methuen hopes to first earn a place at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
"I'd love to go there, that's one of my main aims," she said.
"I can't wait to go there because instead of competing for Great Britain, I'd be competing for Wales."
Methuen says being selected for the BOA's programme gives her added confidence and motivation as she builds for the future, with Welsh Gymnastics chief executive Rhian Gibson tipping her to make it to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
"It's good that they believe in me and they know that I can do it," said Methuen.
"Being selected for this is amazing and has made me push even harder."
Teenager Methuen lives in Cardiff with eight other gymnasts after moving away from Pontypool to pursue her ambitions.
"We've got this house in Cardiff, it's like five minutes away from my gym which is really good, instead of an hour [from where I used to live]," she said.
"We all have fun and it's nice, we're all in it together and we can all push ourselves.
"I'm not really away from my mum because I only stay there at night so then I come to gym and then my mum picks me up from gym to take me back to my school."
Methuen was part of Great Britain's junior women's team at the European Championships in Switzerland earlier this summer and says one of the challenges she faces is keeping up with her school work when she is competing.
"When I did the Europeans I had three weeks out, so it was quite hard then, but now I've all caught up," she said.
"My school is behind me, they always make sure I've got work when I go away so it's actually quite easy for me to catch up."
With Alex Revell on loan at Wigan and Idriss Saadi out with a hamstring injury, Slade is "confident" of boosting his striker resources.
Slade has also set his sights on two more recruits in January as the club targets a Championship play-off finish.
"If we possibly can, we will look to strengthen," Slade said.
"The important thing is between now and that window is to maintain some momentum that keeps us right in the hunt for promotion.''
Slade is already looking to the January transfer window to bolster his resources to sustain a play-off challenge, with his side currently seventh in the Championship.
"From my point of view it's always been a top-six finish and the players have definitely been buying into that," he added.
"If we can find the right couple of players and get the support in January that can add to that and keep us in there, we will do so.
"We talk openly about what we need with the owner [Vincent Tan] and the chief executive Ken Choo going into the January window.
"You never stop building your list between window to window."
Slade confirmed striker Kenwyne Jones will be in the squad for Saturday's game at fifth-placed Derby County,
The 31-year-old's fitness will be assessed on his return from international duty with Trinidad and Tobago.
Midfielder Peter Whittingham returns from a one match ban, while Kigasho Dikgacoi is back from a hamstring injury.
Fellow midfielder Joe Ralls will play against Derby having signed a contract extension and Slade believes it will be good business for Cardiff.
"I still think there is so much more to come from Joe," Slade said.
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Sadiq Khan has pledged to increase the number of taxi ranks from 500 to 600 over four years and to open up 20 more bus lanes for use by cabbies.
He wants the Knowledge to be accredited as a formal qualification, allowing applicants to benefit from study loans.
In 2017 £5,000 grants will be available to scrap old and polluting taxis.
Transport for London (TfL) is also to feature taxi information in its online journey planners by summer 2017.
The plan demonstrates his intention to push ahead with new rules for private hire drivers such as Uber, the mayor's office said.
These include requiring drivers to pass an English test and more robust insurance regulations.
This would mean all drivers undergoing reading, writing and listening tests.
Earlier this month, Uber - which allows users to book and pay for a cab through a smartphone app - was given the green light for a High Court challenge against TfL over the language rule.
Uber, which is used by about two million Londoners, claimed the proposals would pile "extra costs and red tape" onto licensed private hire drivers.
Mr Khan said he was "determined to drive up standards and improve safety for every passenger in London, while protecting the future of our iconic black cabs that provide a unique and invaluable service for London".
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Matthew Cryer, 17, from Killamarsh, sustained head injuries outside a bar in Laganas on 21 July 2008.
A UK coroner concluded Matthew had been unlawfully killed and criticised the Greek authorities for failing to find out how he was hurt.
It was initially claimed his injuries had been caused by excessive drinking.
Matthew had gone to Greece after completing a college course. He had worked at a Burger King branch in Sheffield to fund his education.
The teenager, from Killamarsh, died outside the Cocktails and Dreams nightclub in Laganas.
Post-mortem examinations were carried out both in Greece and by a Home Office pathologist in Britain.
Matthew had sustained 20 separate injuries and bruising was found on his body.
Witnesses told an inquest in Chesterfield in 2009 that Matthew had been violently thrown on to the street by doormen.
Matthew's mother, Jo Froud, said she was pleased the Greek police were finally re-opening the case.
"The coroner was very critical at the inquest. He said it beggared belief how the investigation was treated in this case," said Ms Froud.
"In this country we would have been looking at a prosecution, there would not have been all these issues."
Matthew's family and friends have campaigned for the case to be re-investigated since his death in 2008, even writing to the Greek ambassador for help and staging a protest outside the Greek Embassy in London.
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The robot will help to welcome customers who visit the shop, and offer directions.
Mio Sakai has been working as the store's human receptionist for two years now, and says she feels honoured to work alongside the robot-lady.
The new robo-receptionist will be welcoming visitors to the store for the next few days, before working elsewhere in the store as a guide.
Martin's got more on the artificial assistant!
Beyonce's was entirely scripted (she read it from a folded piece of card), making a bold statement about the beauty of being black.
Perhaps aware that she would be beaten in the best album vote, the star delivered it early into the ceremony, as her album Lemonade was named best urban contemporary album.
Here it is in full.
"Thank you so much. Hi baby [waving to her daughter, Ivy Blue]. Thank you to the Grammy voters for this incredible honour, and thank you to everyone who worked so hard to beautifully capture the profundity of deep southern culture. I thank God for my family, my wonderful husband, my beautiful daughter, my fans for bringing me so much happiness and support.
"We all experience pain and loss, and often we become inaudible. My intention for the film and album was to create a body of work that would give a voice to our pain, our struggles, our darkness and our history. To confront issues that make us uncomfortable.
"It's important to me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty, so they can grow up in a world where they look in the mirror - first through their own families, as well as the news, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the White House and the Grammys - and see themselves, and have no doubt that they're beautiful, intelligent and capable. This is something I want for every child of every race. And I feel it's vital that we learn from the past and recognise our tendencies to repeat our mistakes.
Thank you again for honouring Lemonade. Have a beautiful evening. Thank you for tonight. This is incredible."
Adele, on the other hand, spoke off-the-cuff as she won the prize for album of the year.
The star, who had only just sat down after being awarded song of the year for Hello, had seemingly expected Beyonce to take the next prize.
She lost her composure as she spoke, even appearing to concede victory to her idol.
Here's what she said.
"Thank you. Hi guys. Hi, everyone. Hi, hi, hi.
"As you can see it took an army to make me strong and willing again enough to do it [make this album], but thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
"Five years ago, when I was last here, I also was pregnant, and I didn't know. And I was awarded that shortly after. I found out shortly after, which was the biggest blessing of my life. And in my pregnancy and through becoming a mother I lost a lot of myself. And I've struggled, and I still do struggle being a mom. It's really hard. But tonight winning this kind of feels full circle, and like a bit of me has come back to myself.
"But I can't possibly accept this award. I'm very humbled and I'm very grateful and gracious. But my artist of my life is Beyonce. And this album to me, the Lemonade album, is just so monumental. Beyonce, it's so monumental, and so well thought out, and so beautiful and soul-baring and we all got to see another side to you that you don't always let us see. And we appreciate that. And all us artists here [expletive] adore you. You are our light.
"The way that you make me and my friends feel... The way you make my black friends feel, is empowering. And you make them stand up for themselves. And I love you. I always have and I always will.
"Grammys, I appreciate it. The academy, I love you. My manager, my husband and my son. You're the only reason I do it. Thank you so much. Thank you very much to everybody."
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Officers were forced to leave after 30 years' service under regulation A19, used by 15 forces to make savings.
A police source told the BBC's Simon Hall it has "no choice" but to ask the government for help.
The force has not commented. The Home Office said it was not in discussions with individual forces about A19.
More than 1,000 former senior police officers across England and Wales are seeking compensation after being forced to retire.
An employment tribunal in February 2014 decided there had been age discrimination, but police forces appealed against the ruling and judgment is expected by the end of May.
The source told the BBC the sums involved in the case "could run into tens of millions of pounds", depending on the details of the judgment, adding it would be "completely unaffordable given how forces have already suffered severe budget cuts".
Officers from Devon and Cornwall, Nottinghamshire, West Midlands, North Wales and South Wales took part in the legal challenge.
The officers concerned tend to be among the highest paid and many would have been forced to retire aged around only 50.
If they could show they wanted to work for several more years, that suggests a total compensation bill of tens of millions of pounds.
The actual calculation a tribunal would carry out is complex, but even such rough guesses illustrate why - given the context of the budget cuts police forces have already implemented - there is so much concern amongst senior officers about the outcome of the A19 case.
Devon and Cornwall Police said, "We are not commenting on any specifics at this stage following the hearing and await an announcement from the tribunal appeal before making any further statements."
BBC News has also learnt the Police and Crime Commissioner in Devon and Cornwall has been approached about using reserves to fund any potential claims.
In a statement, Tony Hogg's office said, "The PCC has been kept informed at all stages of this matter. The case is currently under appeal and it would inappropriate to comment further."
The Home Office said it was, "not in discussions with any individual police force about providing financial assistance in relation to the tribunal on regulation A19".
Nigel Rabbitts, chair of the Devon and Cornwall Police Federation, said: "We always said A19 was unfair. Its use has caused a great deal of damage to the lives of many dedicated officers."
Baltasar Garzon said the Valley of the Fallen should instead be converted into a victims' memorial.
The move comes on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Franco's death.
He defeated the Republicans in Spain's bloody 1936-39 civil war, ruling until 1975.
Spain made the successful transition to democracy afterwards, but Franco's legacy remains painful, with families still searching for the remains of loved ones.
Political parties at the time agreed to amnesty for crimes committed during and after the civil war, meaning that no trials have been held.
In the petition, Mr Garzon calls for the removal of Franco-era symbols from the site and says there should be an official apology.
"We have a serious problem with coming to terms with what was done and find solutions. It's very Spanish to wait for the storm to pass," said Mr Garzon.
The Valley of the Fallen was built largely by prisoners of war. More than 30,000 dead from both sides in the civil war were moved there on Franco's orders in a bid to promote reconciliation.
Instead, it became widely seen as a divisive reminder of the years of dictatorship.
There have been previous appeals for the removal of Franco's remains but they have been resisted by the governing Popular Party.
Mr Garzon is best known for helping to secure the arrest of the former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998.
Walcott opened the scoring in the first half when he chased a long ball over the defence from Mesut Ozil before firing low beyond Jack Butland.
Substitute Giroud sealed victory late on with a header.
Stoke, who have not won at Arsenal since 1981, rarely looked like scoring, Joselu going closest with a shot at Petr Cech.
Arsenal are third in the Premier League but defeat for Stoke - their second of the season - means they are bottom after five games.
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Arsenal's attacking strength, or perhaps lack of, has come under scrutiny during the early stages of the season, with Arsene Wenger's side having managed just three goals in their four league games prior to the visit of Stoke.
It has been at Emirates Stadium in particular where they have struggled, failing to score in a 2-0 defeat by West Ham and a goalless draw with Liverpool.
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Wenger is keeping his faith in Walcott and Giroud to score the goals this season but, despite both netting, there were still some areas of concern as the pair spurned good opportunities to seal a victory by a bigger margin.
Walcott shot wide early on when he should have scored, and later directed a weak effort straight at Butland. Giroud, meanwhile, missed a near open goal before heading in the decisive second.
In the end, Arsenal had 29 shots on goal, 12 of those on target, and their general wastefulness in the final third could be of greater concern against more attack-minded sides.
Former England midfielder Jermaine Jenas on Final Score: "It was a good finish from Theo Walcott for the goal but I still have doubts about him playing as a striker.
"He missed two big opportunities before that. For one of them, from six yards out he couldn't get his feet right and smashed the ball over the bar.
"I just think he'd get just as many goals as he does playing on the right wing."
Stoke, who finished ninth last season, had not won at Arsenal in 34 years, making Emirates Stadium a far from ideal venue for them to try to record their first win of the season.
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Having developed a reputation for being a physical side in previous years, Mark Hughes is trying to re-invent the Potters and brought in technically gifted players such as Xherdan Shaqiri and Ibrahim Afellay in the summer.
Afellay was suspended for Saturday's game but Shaqiri had little opportunity to show what he is capable of, with Stoke rarely venturing out of their own half.
The Potters have yet to get going this season, having now lost three and drawn two of their five games so far, and a more direct approach might be necessary to start getting the wins they need.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger: "In the first half our movement was outstanding and we created a lot. In the second half our pace dropped maybe a little bit in our passing, but we continuously created chances and overall it was a strong performance.
"My only regret is that there is too big a difference between the number of chances we made and the number of goals we scored but that will come."
Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "We wanted to make it difficult for Arsenal and get good numbers of bodies around the ball and try to condense play because we know they are very good in wide areas where they look to overload you and look for one-twos around your box.
"Unfortunately our defensive play was a bit too passive in terms of getting out to affect what Arsenal were trying to do, especially in the first half."
Arsenal's attention switches to the Champions League as they travel to Croatia to play Dinamo Zagreb on Wednesday. Stoke, meanwhile, host Leicester in the Premier League next Saturday.
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The 17-year-old boy was attacked as he walked along a ginnel between Dixon Lane and Henry Avenue in Wortley, Leeds, on Monday.
West Yorkshire Police said the attack was "frightening" and "particularly cruel".
The force has appealed for witnesses to come forward.
The suspect is described as white, aged 19 to 20, slim and about 5ft 11ins (1.8m) tall, with a spotty complexion and a scruffy beard.
He was wearing a black coat with a hood, black tracksuit bottoms and had a black rucksack with a white Newcastle United logo.
Det Con Grant Lee said: "The victim is currently undergoing treatment for leukaemia and has been left understandably distressed at being targeted in this way.
"The phone was given to him by a children's cancer charity to support him during his treatment, so for it to be taken from him in such frightening circumstances is particularly cruel."
Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate said during question time that he remembered dining on Craster kippers while travelling on the East Coast Mainline.
The Former Durham Police chief superintendent asked the transport minister to use his influence to bring them back.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon said he would suggest it to the rail minister.
Lord Mackenzie said: "I remember regularly dining on Craster kippers from Northumbria.
"Could you use your undoubted influence to bring that menu back?"
To laughter, Lord Ahmad described contributions to the Lords as "an education in terms of history, and rail history in particular".
He said: "I'll certainly take that back and suggest to the rail minister that he puts it on his list to do."
The fishing village of Craster is famous for its kippers.
The North sea herrings, known locally as "silver darlings", are soaked in brine then cured over oak shavings for 16 hours.
When Lord Mackenzie was raised to the peerage in 1998, the East Coast rail franchise was held by GNER. It is now held by Virgin.
The production has been playing at London's Shakespeare's Globe but will move to the Apollo in February.
The play charts the rise of the 17th-Century actress from the slums to the stage - and into the heart of the king.
Arterton, best known for screen work, has proved herself in plays such as the Globe's The Duchess of Malfi.
Most recently, Arterton starred as Rita O'Grady in the West End musical Made in Dagenham, for which she won the Evening Standard best newcomer in a musical award.
Her other theatre credits include The Little Dog Laughed, The Master Builder and Love's Labour's Lost, again at the Globe.
She takes over the Nell Gwynn role from Gugu Mbatha-Raw whose Globe performance earned her a best actress nomination at the Evening Standard awards.
On screen, Arterton most recently starred in the romantic comedy Gemma Bovery, in which she plays a young bride who becomes the fixation of the male residents when she and her husband try to establish themselves in a rural French village.
Prior to that, Arterton made her name in the 2007 St Trinian's movie, for which she won Empire and National Movie Awards.
She went on to become a Bond girl in Daniel Craig's second outing as 007 in Quantum of Solace.
She has since starred in The Boat that Rocked and as Thomas Hardy's tragic heroine Tess of the D'Ubervilles in a BBC drama TV adaptation.
The story of the real-life Nell Gwynn is one of an unlikely heroine who pulled herself up from her impoverished roots in London's Coal Yard Alley to become Britain's most celebrated actress, and the mistress of King Charles II.
Jessica Swale's story has been described as "blissfully entertaining" by the Globe and focuses on how Nell has to keep her wits about her and play to her charms in order to survive at Court at a time when women were seen as second-class citizens.
Swale directed playwright Nell Leyshon's Bedlam at The Globe in 2010, while her first play, Blue Stockings, was performed in 2013.
The Globe theatre has a tradition of championing new writing and seeing works that began life on its stage make successful transfers to the West End.
It most recently saw Farinelli and the King starring Mark Rylance make such a move, to great critical acclaim.
The Disappeared were people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republicans during in the Troubles.
Kevin McKee, 17, and Seamus Wright, 25, went missing from Belfast in October 1972.
Their remains were found together in a single shallow grave in County Meath during a dig in June 2015.
The discovery was made in a bog in Coghalstown by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR).
On Thursday, the Coroner's Court in Dublin was told the skeletal remains were examined by Irish State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy.
She said the results of the post-mortems indicated that both victims had died from gunshot wounds to the head and had been dead for about 40 years.
Geoff Knupfer from the ICLVR told the court that in 1999, the IRA admitted its involvement in the deaths of nine men, including Mr McKee and Mr Wright.
The commission later received information that their bodies had been buried in the Coghalstown area.
Several unsuccessful digs took have taken place in the area since 1999, but their remains were not discovered until last year, during a search for another of the Disappeared, Joe Lynskey.
Mr McKee's sister, Philomena McKee, told the inquest that when the IRA abducted her brother, they had also taken her mother, who later suffered mental health issues.
Mr Wrights's sister, Breige Wright, said her family searched everywhere for him when he disappeared in 1972, including contacting the British army and MPs.
The inquest recorded verdicts of unlawful killing.
The ICLVR has searched for 16 people who were officially listed as the Disappeared.
The remains of 12 of the victims have been recovered and formally identified to date.
After the inquest, both families urged anyone with information about the fate of the remaining four to come forward.
The maid can be heard screaming "hold me, hold me" just before her hand slips and she falls onto a roof below.
She was subsequently rescued by paramedics and treated in hospital for a broken arm and other injuries.
The Kuwait Society for Human Rights said the employer had a duty of rescue.
The organisation noted that emirate's penal code decreed that anyone who deliberately refrained from coming to the aid of a person in peril was liable to be sentenced to up to three months in prison.
The Kuwait Times meanwhile cited a lawyer, Fawzia al-Sabah, as saying she would file a complaint against the employer with the public prosecutor.
The newspaper said it was believed the maid initially climbed out of the window because she was suicidal.
In the 12-second video posted online, she is seen hanging outside a block of flats in the Sabah al-Salem district of Kuwait City, with one hand gripping the window.
The woman holding the camera is then heard telling her: "Oh crazy, come back."
The maid pleads with the woman to help her shortly before she loses her grip and she falls onto the metal roof of an adjoining one-storey building.
Another video posted online by the Alanba newspaper on Thursday appears to show the maid being helped to climb down a ladder by paramedics and a fireman.
Alanba cited the employer as saying that she had filmed the incident and shared it because she did not want to be accused of the maid's murder if she had died.
The 32-year-old won by two shots from now six-time runner-up Phil Mickelson and Jason Day on a gripping final day.
Rose, also the first Englishman to win a major since Nick Faldo in 1996, fired a level-par 70 to end one over as overnight leader Mickelson carded 74.
Australian Day took 71 as England's Luke Donald (75) collapsed to six over on the treacherous Merion course.
Rose led by one going up the difficult 18th and hit a stunning four-iron approach to set up a par four.
After tapping in his final putt, he looked up to the sky with tears in his eyes, and admitted later to thinking of his father and long-time mentor Ken, who died from leukaemia in 2002.
Mickelson, celebrating his 43rd birthday, needed to birdie the last to force an 18-hole play-off on Monday, but the four-time major champion could only make a bogey five.
"It wasn't lost on me that today was Father's Day," said Rose of his gesture when he was presented with the trophy on the 18th green.
"A lot of us come from great men and we have a responsibility to our children to show what a great man can be.
"For it to all just work out for me, on such an emotional day, I couldn't help but look up to the heavens and think that my old dad Ken had something do do with it."
Rose, who was born in Johannesburg but brought up in Hampshire, burst onto the wider scene as a 17-year-old amateur when he finished in a tie for fourth in the 1998 Open at Royal Birkdale.
He went on to miss 21 consecutive cuts when he joined the paid ranks, before winning his first professional event in 2002. His biggest victory to date was the WGC Cadillac Championship last March.
Rose's previous best major finish was tied-third in the US PGA behind Rory McIlroy last year, while he has had six other top-10s in majors.
He becomes the third UK winner of the title in four years after Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy (2011) and Graeme McDowell (2010).
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The last Englishman to lift the US Open was Tony Jacklin, who won by seven shots at Hazeltine, Minnesota, in 1970. Five other Englishmen won the US Open pre-war, while a host of Scotsmen won early editions of the event.
Rose first hit the front at the eighth hole as the lead changed hands countless times on a tumultuous final day.
Mickelson was seemingly finished after two double bogeys in his first five holes, but the mercurial home favourite holed his second shot for an eagle at the 10th to regain top spot and reignite his challenge.
The pair duelled down the notorious final stretch - with Hunter Mahan also sharing the lead at one point - but Mickelson was unable to avenge his Ryder Cup singles defeat by Rose last year and clinch a first US Open title.
"For me, it's very heart-breaking," said Mickelson, who had previously finished second at the event in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2009. "This was my best chance on a golf course I really liked. I felt like this was as good an opportunity as you could ask for and to not do it hurts."
2013: Justin Rose (Eng)
2012: Webb Simpson (US)
2011: Rory McIlroy (NI)
2010: Graeme McDowell (NI)
2009: Lucas Glover (US)
2008: Tiger Woods (US)
2007: Angel Cabrera (Arg)
2006: Geoff Ogilvy (Aus)
2005: Michael Campbell (NZ)
2004: Retief Goosen (SA)
Former world number one Donald, who played alongside Rose, fell away early with three straight bogeys from the third and then a double bogey on the sixth.
Open champion Ernie Els (69) and Americans Jason Dufner (67), Hunter Mahan (75) and Billy Horschel (74) ended tied-fourth.
World number one Tiger Woods's challenge was already over before the final round and he ended 13 over after a 74, while second-ranked McIlroy took 76 for 14 over.
"I did a lot of things right. Unfortunately I did a few things wrong, as well," said Woods, chasing a 15th major title and first since 2008. "I struggled with the speed (of the greens) all week."
Australia skipper Steve Smith was seen looking up to his side's dressing room when pondering whether to ask for a review after he was given out lbw.
India captain Virat Kohli said Smith had "crossed the line".
The International Cricket Council confirmed no action would be taken against either captain.
Sutherland said of Smith: "We have every faith there was no ill-intent in his actions. Steve's an outstanding person."
Smith, 27, admitted his error and described it as "a bit of brain-fade".
The laws of the game forbid players from consulting with anyone off the field about whether to use the Decision Review System (DRS), given that support staff have access to television replays in the dressing room.
Kohli, 28, said it was not an isolated incident and alleges he saw Australian players looking to the dressing room for DRS assistance on two other occasions while he was batting.
"I pointed that out to the umpire as well that I had seen their players looking upstairs for confirmation," Kohli added.
"We observed that, we told the match referee and the umpire that it's been happening for the last three days and it has to stop."
However, Sutherland replied: "I find the allegations questioning the integrity of Steve Smith, the Australian team and the dressing room, outrageous.
"We reject any commentary that suggests our integrity was brought into disrepute or that systemic unfair tactics are used, and stand by Steve and the Australian cricketers who are proudly representing our country."
The Indian cricket authorities responded with a strong rebuttal, insisting they "steadfastly stand" with Kohli and his team.
"Virat Kohli is a mature and seasoned cricketer and his conduct on the field has been exemplary," said the the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
"BCCI has requested the ICC to take cognisance of the fact that Smith admitted to a 'brain fade' at that moment.
BCCI sincerely hopes that the rest of the matches are played in the true spirit of cricket."
India's victory levelled the four-match series at 1-1 and the penultimate Test begins in Ranchi on 16 March.
Meanwhile, all-rounder Mitchell Marsh will return home from the tour of India with a shoulder injury and a replacement is expected to be announced in due course.
A headline in The Sydney Morning Herald read: "Kohli all but accuses Australia of cheating after epic Indian Test win".
And Andrew Wu wrote that the series has become a "no-holds barred, bare-knuckle fight after a spiteful finish to the second Test".
"Relations between the two sides are now at its lowest point since the Monkeygate scandal of 2007-08", he adds, referring to an incident when India's Harbhajan Singh was accused of a racial slur aimed at Andrew Symonds. He was later exonerated.
Writing in The Age, Greg Baum says the DRS has been a "nightmare" for everyone.
"Now it [DRS] has become Frankenstein, a man-made mechanical monster. If more sensible protocols cannot be developed, it should be scrapped altogether", he says.
A headline in the Herald Sun described the Indian captain as the "cricket's ultimate bully" while The Australian says "Cricket war of words flares again".
The report in The Australian said: "Cricket Australia chief launches an extraordinary attack on Indian skipper Virat Kohli, as strained relations explode again".
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The suspect, Jerome Antoine Dennis, was approached in the town of Clearwater on Sunday evening by an officer who noticed the smell of marijuana.
Police said the man tried to escape by hoverboard, but was arrested. He has yet to enter a plea to two charges.
Hoverboards are wheeled devices with a top speed of just over 10mph (16km/h).
"When a visibly marked officer attempted to make contact with the defendant he attempted to flee on his hoverboard and then on foot before being apprehended," the affidavit reads.
"A strong odour of marijuana was on the person as well."
Mr Dennis was charged with possession of marijuana and resisting an officer.
Zach Kibirige, of Premiership team Newcastle Falcons, denies subjecting the woman to a series of sexual offences at her home, in November.
But, Mr Kibirige told Newcastle Crown Court that nothing happened that was "against the woman's will".
Earlier, the woman said the player, 21, gripped her throat before raping her.
Mr Kibirige denies four counts of rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and another serious sexual assault over a period of about an hour.
Beginning the case for the defence his barrister, Nicholas Lumley QC, asked the player: "Did you rape [the complainant]?"
The 5ft 10ins tall defendant, who has also played for England Under-17s and Under 20s, replied from the witness box: "Absolutely not."
Mr Lumley then asked: "Did you do anything with her against her will?"
Mr Kibirige replied: "No, I did not."
Mr Lumley asked: "Did you go round to her flat to rape her?"
Mr Kibirige, who was born in Middlesbrough and brought up in Yarm, Teesside, replied: "No."
He told the court he had never been sent off, had no previous convictions, cautions or police reprimands.
In November, he was not playing for the Falcons as he was still recovering from an ankle injury, the court heard.
Mr Lumley asked Mr Kibirige: "Do you respect women?" He replied: "Absolutely."
He said he met the complainant at her home for the first time after they swapped WhatsApp messages, having initially matched on Tinder.
He said he was sober on the night he went to her home and claimed they started to watch a film in her bedroom.
The trial continues.
Ahead of a speech in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, on Friday, Mr Jones said a "progressive alliance" of voters was building to "kick out the Tories".
Meanwhile, the chief executive of Flintshire-based Iceland has explained why he is backing the Conservatives.
Malcolm Walker warned a change of direction "could risk all that has been achieved in growth and job creation".
He will meet Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb at Iceland's headquarters in Sealand later.
Mr Walker was one of the 100 business leaders who signed an open letter backing Conservative economic policies earlier this month.
Speaking before the meeting on Friday, he said he needed a UK government that "understands and supports business needs, provides the country with economic stability, puts growth at the heart of its plans and creates conditions that help businesses to flourish, such as lower taxes.
"I believe that a turn away from the direction we have pursued for the last five years could risk all that has been achieved in growth and job creation."
But Mr Jones said a change of direction was what most people in Wales wanted and many voters were moving to Labour.
"The vast majority of voters, up to 75% of them in Wales, will be going to the polls in less than two weeks with one big thing in common - they want an end to Tory rule at Westminster," he said.
"But, many of them are going to wake up disappointed if we let Tories in the backdoor by splitting the progressive vote where Welsh Labour can win."
Analysis by political correspondent Daniel Davies
With the SNP on the rise in Scotland, every Welsh seat becomes all the more important to Labour.
In the final two weeks of the campaign, where does Labour find those votes that could be crucial to help Ed Miliband into Downing Street?
Carwyn Jones's intended audience is voters tempted by Plaid Cymru and people who sympathise with Labour, but who have not voted in recent elections.
Last week, Plaid leader Leanne Wood told me on BBC Wales' Sunday Politics that her MPs might, in some circumstances, not support a minority Miliband government.
It prompted warnings from Labour that voting Plaid risked letting in the Conservatives.
The first minister is developing the theme today, with his attempt to put himself at the head of an "anti-Tory majority".
Also on Friday, Ms Wood called on young people to make their voices heard and join her party.
Ms Wood, who will be campaigning in Aberystwyth, said she had "witnessed at first hand the democratic revolution" of Scotland's independence referendum.
"I spoke to a number of 16 and 17 year olds in Scotland who had the right to vote for the first time," she said.
"I know that young people here in Wales have the same yearning to shake up the system as they had there."
It is among several aims the ferry operator has set itself for the first two years of its new Clyde and Hebrides Ferries Services contract.
The firms, along with social enterprises, are to be encouraged to bid for supply contracts.
Most fresh produce offered on CalMac ferries is also to be locally sourced.
Earlier this month, the ferry company formally signed a new £900m contract to continue operating the Clyde and Hebrides Ferries Network.
State-owned CalMac had competed with private firm Serco Caledonian Ferries Limited for the Scottish government contract to run the services.
CalMac already operates the routes on the west coast of Scotland, which include the inner and outer Hebrides.
It was named the successful bidder of the new contract in May.
The contract, which was awarded by the Scottish government's Transport Scotland, covers an eight-year period from 1 October.
The deal includes a separate contract which sees CalMac taking responsibility for ferry operations at 24 ports on behalf of Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL).
CalMac has now set out aims it wants to achieve in the first two years of the new contract.
Other targets include continued investment in officer cadets and rating apprenticeships.
CalMac plans to work with local maritime training organisations, such as the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) and City of Glasgow College, to further to develop it workforce.
The company also plans to invest £6m in "onboard, port and passenger area improvements". These include piloting a drinks trolley service which would allow passengers to buy beverages while they are seated.
Managing director Martin Dorchester said: "The new contract marks the start of a new era in ferry services on the west coast which we are delighted to be introducing.
"The last nine years have seen significant improvements to ferry services and we look forward to building on this work by taking our services, and the benefits they offer to our customers and the communities we serve, up to a new level."
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Leicester's squad was assembled for £57m, the cheapest of any currently in the top half of the table.
"Big money makes big teams and usually big teams win. Now we can say only 99% of the time," said Ranieri.
"Next season will be the same and for the next 10 or 20 years, it will be the same."
The cost to assemble Leicester's squad is dwarfed by that of the Premier League's elite.
A recent study showed nearest challengers Tottenham had a squad built at the cost of £159m, while Arsenal (£231m), Liverpool (£260m), Chelsea (£280m), Manchester United (£395m) and Manchester City (£415m) had invested significantly more.
Ranieri suggested a surprise title winner only comes along roughly once every 20 years, pointing to the examples of Nottingham Forest in 1978 and Blackburn Rovers in 1995.
Forest won the league a year after finishing third in the second tier, while Blackburn, themselves heavily backed financially by Jack Walker, were champions three years after winning promotion to the Premier League.
"How many years after Nottingham Forest and Blackburn have another team won?" said the Italian. "The richest, or the team who can pick up the best players to make a team, will win."
Leicester are owned by Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who spoke in 2014 of his readiness to spend £180m to secure the Foxes a top-five finish in the Premier League within three years.
Next season, they will receive between £99m and £150m in prize money as a new television deal worth £5.136bn over three years begins.
Ranieri's argument, though, is other clubs in the Premier League still have more money to spend on players.
"Maybe now is too early to think what we have done," said the 64-year-old. "Maybe in one or two years it will be easier to understand, but now it is important to stay high in the world."
Ranieri does not believe the Foxes' Premier League rivals will have an easy job taking his key players away from the King Power Stadium.
His star trio - midfielder N'Golo Kante, forward Riyad Mahrez, the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year, and striker Jamie Vardy, who was named Football Writers' Footballer of the Year - are likely to attract interest over the summer from Europe's biggest clubs.
"My phone will ring this summer but I will say: 'Do you have enough money to buy my players?' I would like to maintain all of them," said Ranieri.
"But if one of my players says to me, 'I want to go there', I try to keep him. If you go away you don't know what happens, here you are the king."
And the former Chelsea boss said he will not rush into spending big money on a squad that faces a first Champions League campaign.
"We don't need superstars, we need our players," said Ranieri. "I want to improve the squad without big stars but the right players."
Leicester, champions of England for the first time in their 132-year history, will receive the Premier League trophy after Saturday's final home game against Everton (17:30 BST kick-off).
New snooker world champion Mark Selby, who is from Leicester, wants to join the club's open-top bus parade after missing the moment they sealed the title because he was winning his second crown.
When the Foxes clinched the Championship in 2014, Selby missed the team's bus parade through the city because he was beating Ronnie O'Sullivan to win his first world title.
"They had the open-top bus tour on the day of the Crucible final but I hope they can hold it back for me this time and I can be on there with them," he said.
Selby has revealed the part Leicester's England striker Vardy played in his Crucible success, encouraging him to overcome Marco Fu in the semi-finals.
"He was texting me through the semi-final, saying 'good luck' and hopefully I'll get a few more messages from the boys," said the 32-year-old.
The rise in regulated fares, including season tickets, is capped at no more than July's RPI inflation rate of 1%.
However, unregulated fares, such as off-peak leisure tickets, can go up by as much as train companies like.
It is the smallest rise in six years, but campaigners said some passengers would be "amazed" by any rise because of the "dire" quality of some services.
Punctuality figures published by Network Rail show more than one in 10 trains (10.7%) arrived at their final destination at least five minutes late in the past 12 months.
Anthony Smith, from independent watchdog Transport Focus, said passengers were "paying their part" and it was now time for the rail industry to deliver on the basics.
Bruce Williamson, of campaign group Railfuture, claimed fares were "increasingly divorced from reality".
"High street prices have remained stagnant for more than a year, with the official CPI inflation figure hovering around zero, yet the government thinks it's fair to make rail travel even more expensive," he said.
Under government rules, the rise in regulated fares was restricted to no more than the Retail Prices Index measure of inflation over the year to July, which was 1%.
Over the long term, RPI has tended to record higher inflation than the other measure of rising prices, the Consumer Price Index, which was 0.1% during the year.
The increases, which were announced in December, cover fares in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland is treated separately.
Commuters with annual season tickets can find out how much their fare has gone up by on the National Rail Enquiries website.
A 12-month pass from Basingstoke to London will cost £4,196 in 2016, up by £40 from £4,156.
Workers travelling from Gloucester to Birmingham will have to pay out £36 more than the 2015 price of £3,860 for a ticket.
Passengers making daily journeys between Liverpool and Manchester will see their season tickets rise by £28, up from £2,960 to £2,988.
Paul Plummer, of the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) which represents train operators and Network Rail, said on average 97p in every pound from fares was spent on trains, staff and other running costs.
"We know that nobody likes to pay more to travel by train, especially to get to work, and at 1.1% this is the smallest average increase in fares for six years."
Labour said commuters would be paying on average 25% more for rail season tickets since David Cameron took office.
Some were paying a "truly staggering" rise of almost £2,000 in cash terms since 2010, shadow transport secretary Lilian Greenwood said.
The analysis compared costs on over 200 routes between when the Conservatives came to power and the new prices for 2016.
The highest increase found was on a Virgin Trains season ticket between Birmingham and London Euston which has risen by £1,984 and now costs more than £10,000 for the first time.
Action for Rail - a campaign by rail unions and the TUC - said privatisation of the railways was to blame.
It claimed £1.5bn could be saved over five years if routes with franchises up for renewal were returned to the public sector.
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is a monthly survey of a panel of firms. It tracks indicators such as new orders, employment and exports.
In April, it showed the fastest rate of expansion in business activity and new orders since the survey began 12 years ago.
The data is produced by Ulster Bank.
The survey also points to increased levels of employment as companies responded to increasing workloads
Richard Ramsey, the bank's chief economist, said the survey shows Northern Ireland outperforming the UK on some key indicators but that it needed to be kept in context.
"It should be remembered that Northern Ireland's economic recovery, in terms of both output and employment, has lagged significantly behind that of the UK.
"Therefore, the local economy still faces a prolonged period of catch-up in the months and years ahead.
"However, it is encouraging to see that the recovery is gaining momentum."
Services, which are the largest part of Northern Ireland's private sector, showed the best performance.
Some of the companies surveyed said that higher salary payments had been a driver of increased input costs.
The construction sector posted the fastest rate of input price inflation for the fourth consecutive month, while inflation also picked up in the manufacturing and service sectors.
Despite the rate of cost inflation remaining strong, Northern Ireland companies raised their output prices at only a slight pace in April.
His Nobel certificate as well jewellery and other personal items were also recovered.
Three people have been arrested.
Mr Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his work to combat child labour and child trafficking in India.
He shared the award with Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai for her work on female education.
Mr Satyarthi said no-one was home at the time of the burglary last week.
"I had complete faith in the government, the police and the people of this great nation. I thank the Delhi police for the brilliant and speedy recovery of the items stolen from my residence," Mr Satyarthi was quoted by India Today website as saying.
The 63-year-old founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or the Save the Childhood Movement, which campaigns for child rights and an end to human trafficking.
Mr Satyarthi has long campaigned against child labour and rescued children from servitude.
His efforts have seen tens of thousands of children rescued from hazardous industries and rehabilitated.
Jamie Donoughue is one of five nominees shortlisted in the best live action short film category for his movie Shok.
Set during the run-up to the Kosovo War, the 21-minute film is the true story of two boys whose friendship is tested to the limits.
Donoughue said being nominated was like being in a "whirlwind".
A former student at Ashville College in Harrogate, Donoughue said the film came about after he found himself unexpectedly stranded in Kosovo in 2010.
"I was a music video director for many years and wanted to move into drama so I went out to shoot a commercial in Kosovo and knew absolutely nothing about the country.
"I went for three days and during that time the Icelandic volcano erupted and I got stuck in the country for five weeks and couldn't get a flight out."
He added: "I met some incredible people who brought me into their families and lives and began to show me what happened and what went on over there.
"I felt I really had to do something to tell some of the stories."
Alongside fellow Leeds producers Harvey Ascott and Howard Dawson, Donoughue spent four years travelling back and forth to Kosovo, finishing the film last year.
The trio have been in Los Angeles since the beginning of the month preparing for Sunday's awards ceremony.
Donoughue said: "It's a bit like a presidential election. You have to lobby the film, go and screen it at events and do meetings and press conferences."
He said he had not had time to think about the prospect of winning and his thank-you speech.
"You only get about 50 seconds and if I had to do all the thank-yous there's no way I could fit it all in.
"I've got all my family ringing saying you're going to have to mention me."
Botham played for the county in their inaugural first-class season in 1992 and ended his career there the following year.
Durham were relegated to Division Two of the County Championship last month over financial issues.
"It is important that we all recognise the size of the task ahead," the 60-year-old said.
Durham finished fourth in Division One of the County Championship this summer but were relegated after accepting a £3.8m financial aid package, which was approved by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
The north east club also agreed a deal with Durham County Council over their debts, which will see £3.74m of loans from the council converted into shares, and will start next season with a 48-point deduction.
Durham also face a four-point penalty in the 2017 T20 Blast and a two-point deduction in the One-Day Cup, and have lost the right to stage Test cricket at their Riverside ground.
"As someone who lives locally it is an honour to have the opportunity to contribute to the club's future, to look forward and to continue to produce the talent that will serve both the county and England well in the years ahead," added Botham, who will take on the role when he returns from his media duties on England's forthcoming tour of India.
"We will work closely with the ECB and Durham County Council in the months ahead as we develop a plan to ensure continued success for this great club."
Botham, who also played for Somerset and Worcestershire, was England's leading Test wicket-taker, with 383 victims, for almost 30 years before being overtaken by James Anderson in April 2015.
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
The accidents happened within a mile-and-a-half-stretch between the B4047 and the A415 at Witney, three days after Christmas.
Debbie Blood, 54, from Gloucester, was in a car that crashed into the back of a stationary lorry.
Four other people were taken to hospital and 15 people treated at the scene, the ambulance service said.
The driver of the lorry, Sauklius Gajauskas, had activated his hazard lights because he had seen a collision ahead.
Ms Blood's partner, Shane Giles, was driving the car and told her inquest he saw the outline of the lorry, but not the hazard lights.
PC Ross Clarkson was called to the scene and said he saw debris on the road from several collisions.
He added that visibility was only about 50m and driving conditions were "treacherous".
His statement read: "The enormity of the collision dawned on me. I could see people sat in vehicles, walking around and slumped on the ground in shock."
Oxfordshire Coroner Darren Salter said black ice and dense fog led to "awful" driving conditions.
However, he said he was satisfied the Highways Authority had acted responsibly in salting the roads on 27 December, the evening before the crash.
He concluded that Ms Blood had died as a result of a road traffic collision.
While not everyone hated the sequel to 2015's Fifty Shades of Grey, the vast majority of critics were not impressed.
The New York Times said the film was "Fifty Shades Darker and only half as watchable" as its predecessor.
"What an incredibly, indelibly idiotic movie," is how Rolling Stone's Peter Travers summed it up in his 0.5-star review.
"Fifty Shades Darker is an ordeal to watch not because of its gothic eroticism but because of its utter blandness," wrote The Independent's Geoffrey Macnab.
"When the inevitable spanking scene takes place, it is tongue in cheek (although not quite literally so)."
"Buff, bland, bonking machines are possessed of prodigious libido but bereft of personality," The Daily Mirror's Chris Hunneysett wrote.
"If you want to watch a movie about a billionaire playboy with a penchant for darkness, inflicting violence and dressing up in masks, you're far better off seeing The Lego Batman Movie."
But Variety liked it a little more, writing: "For all its structural and psychological deficiencies, it's hard not to enjoy Fifty Shades Darker on its own lusciously limited terms."
"It sure ain't boring," observed Deadline's Pete Hammond, who also gave the film a more positive review.
"Best of all, like the first film, this one has a killer soundtrack that makes Fifty Shades Darker sound just as good as it looks."
"There's one significant problem with both Fifty Shades movies that's impossible to ignore: [Jamie] Dornan is just a dud," said Time's Stephanie Zacharek.
But, she adds: "It's all fantasy, so what's the harm? There isn't any. And if millions of girls or guys go out to see Fifty Shades Darker with their friends for a giggle or two, then the world is a happier place."
Other publications who didn't quite consider the film a masterpiece included The Guardian, The Telegraph and The New Yorker.
To be fair - we're fairly confident everyone involved in making the film wasn't pinning their hopes on critical praise.
Like the first film in the franchise, Fifty Shades Darker will still likely be a huge box office success.
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Klopp, 48, missed seeing his side lose a 2-0 lead before drawing 2-2 with Sunderland at Anfield.
The German's coaching staff, including Zeljko Buvac, Peter Krawietz, Pepijn Lijnders and John Achterberg took over.
Liverpool say Klopp "or a member of the first team coaching staff" will hold a media briefing on Monday ahead of the FA Cup fourth round replay at West Ham.
You can read a full report of Liverpool's game with Sunderland here.
Mr Gambaccini was arrested on suspicion of historical sexual abuse and placed on bail for a year before the case against him was dropped in October.
He told a Commons committee that lost earnings and legal fees had cost him more than £200,000.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) denied there was a "witch-hunt".
Home Secretary Theresa May announced in December that she was consulting on a 28-day bail limit in all but exceptional cases.
Giving evidence to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, the former Radio 1 DJ said he believed he was used as human "fly paper" to encourage other people to come forward and make allegations against him.
He said he suspected his bail was repeatedly extended until the end of high-profile cases involving other celebrities because police did not want juries to hear a former Radio 1 DJ had been cleared of sexual wrongdoing.
Mr Gambaccini, who has since returned to work on BBC Radio 2 and 4, was arrested by detectives from Operation Yewtree - the police investigation into historic sex offences launched in the wake of the revelations about former DJ and TV presenter Jimmy Savile.
He said that he and other celebrities falsely accused of historical sex crimes had been the victim of a "witch-hunt" to divert attention from the failure of the authorities to deal with Savile while he was still alive.
"Someone whose identity we do not know, who I call the Wizard of Oz, the person sitting behind the curtain, pulling the levers, setting off smoke and light shows, decided 'I've got a great idea, let's have a witch-hunt, let's divert the attention of the public from the police who knew about but failed to stop Jimmy Savile in his lifetime and shine that spotlight instead on his contemporaries and we'll get perverts from show business in the 1970s and 1980s'," he said.
He said that by opening a website and phone line so that people could accuse celebrities of sexual offences "you are going to get some people who are responding to the offer of money and attention".
Mr Gambaccini was arrested on 29 October 2013 and police handed papers to the Crown Prosecution Service on 10 February 2014.
But it was not until 10 October 2014 that he was told no case was being brought against him, he said.
Mr Gambaccini told the committee that during that time his bail was extended on seven occasions with only "vague" explanations from police.
He said he gradually realised the dates often coincided with important developments in the Yewtree investigation.
Bail was extended on 2 May, when publicist Max Clifford was sentenced for historic indecent assaults, on 30 June, hours after the conviction of Rolf Harris, and on 12 September when former Stoke Mandeville doctor Michael Salmon appeared in court charged with rape, he said.
When his bail was extended to 15 September, he suspected a link to the trial of Dave Lee Travis, which was due to end on that date.
Mr Gambaccini said the BBC suspended him without pay immediately after his arrest became public and he was "shunned" by other employers.
Asked if he would support anonymity for those arrested, but not charged, over sexual allegations, Mr Gambaccini said: "Absolutely. I do realise that there are people of good faith who say people who have been arrested should be named because then people who have been victimised will come forward.
"These people of good faith don't realise that it isn't only people who have actually committed offences who are arrested and named - there are some innocent people in the mix."
He said he would "enthusiastically" support a 28-day bail limit, adding: "There is no possible excuse for further delay in leaving somebody out to dry.
"The only reason for the delay is to try to get somebody else to accuse you.
"It's not a proper use of the criminal justice system, it's the misuse of a power they happen to have for other reasons."
But DPP Alison Saunders - the most senior prosecutor in England and Wales - said the 28-day limit was "too short" because decisions on whether to press charges take substantially longer in a minority of cases, often involving fraud, corruption or historical sex offences.
She insisted that the CPS does not release the names of suspects before charge and stressed that a decision not to press charges is not a determination of innocence or guilt, but a judgment on whether there is sufficient evidence to secure a conviction.
Ms Saunders made clear she did not believe the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) owed Gambaccini an apology.
She also denied claims made by Conservative MP Michael Ellis that the bail the system was "broken" and told the committee: "We are not conducting a witch-hunt against anyone, be it journalists or celebrities."
They said gunmen had attacked a convoy of construction workers building a security fence along the vast border along the Sinai desert.
Two workers were injured and one later died of his wounds, Israeli media said.
Separately, in two Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, four other militants were killed.
Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the attack near the Egyptian border was a "disturbing deterioration".
The gunmen appeared to have crossed from Egypt's turbulent Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel.
The attack took place about 18 miles (30km) from the Gaza Strip, near the border villages of Kadesh Barnea, Nitzana and Beer Milcha, AFP reported.
Israeli officials said at least three gunmen had opened fire at the convoy of vehicles and also detonated an explosive device.
By Wyre DaviesBBC Middle East correspondent
The incident along the long border between Israel and Egypt may have been over within a few hours but it underlines increasing concern about the security situation in this vast, sparsely populated region.
To put it bluntly, Israel says that in the year or so since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has taken its eye off the ball in the Sinai.
That, says Israel, has allowed Palestinian militants to move relatively freely from Gaza into Egyptian territory.
From there, and sometimes with the help of sympathisers based in the Sinai, they launch rocket attacks against Israel.
Israel is now anxious to complete the construction of the long border fence. It was commissioned, initially, to keep out illegal migrants from Africa and to curb the smuggling of weapons and contraband into Israel.
But, for Israel, the border fence has taken on a new significance in the fight against Gaza-based militants.
The Egyptian and Israeli armies are said to maintain regular contacts and have a shared interest in avoiding an escalation of violence in the desert but, all the while, Israel is watching political developments in Egypt with concern.
"A terrorist squad opened gunfire and possibly also fired an anti-tank rocket at an area where [Israel] is constructing the border fence," Israeli military spokesman Yoav Mordechai told army radio.
"Soldiers arrived on the scene and killed one terrorist."
They said that a second militant had been killed when the explosive device he was carrying detonated and the body of a third was found at the scene.
The workman who died was an Arab citizen of Israel, according to Reuters news agency.
The entire border area, including a major road near the coastal resort town of Eilat, was closed for a few hours after the attack and roadblocks were set up.
Military officials said they believed other militants involved in the attack had escaped back across the border into Egypt.
The US condemned the militants' actions and said it was concerned about the security situation in the Sinai peninsula.
Washington highlighted the need for political stability in Egypt, where upheaval after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak last year led to a wave of unrest in the Sinai.
Later on Monday, Israel carried out an air strike on Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians on a motorcycle. Islamic Jihad said the dead men belonged to the militant group. Israel's military said they were planning to attack Israel across the border from Gaza.
An hour later another Israeli air strike killed two more men in Beit Hanoun and wounded three others, a hospital official in Gaza told AFP. Israeli officials confirmed the air strike and said it was targeting was a squad of Palestinians launching rockets.
Military sources said neither of the incidents in the northern Gaza Strip were related to the attack along the Egyptian border, which came just 48 hours after rockets were fired into southern Israel from the Sinai desert.
According to AFP, Israeli police said a rocket had been fired in the Hof Akhkeon area of southern Israel, to the north of the Gaza Strip. No injuries or damage were caused.
"Only yesterday, two rockets were fired towards the southern Negev," Mr Barak said, demanding Egypt tighten control of the area.
"We await the [Egyptian presidential] election results. Whoever will be elected, we expect him to take responsibility on all of Egypt's international commitments, including the peace accord with Israel and the security arrangements inside the Sinai and to swiftly put an end to these attacks," he said.
In August last year, gunmen crossed the border into Israel and attacked buses near Eilat, killing eight people.
Israeli sources said the latest cross-border attack showed a relatively sophisticated degree of planning and co-ordination and bore many similarities to the August incident.
The frontier fence will run most of the length of the 165 miles (266km) from Eilat, on the Red Sea, up to the Gaza Strip, according to Reuters.
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The country's governing Fidesz party pushed the law through parliament in April after winning a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections.
Opponents say it threatens democracy by removing checks and balances set up in 1989 when Communism fell.
The EU and US had also asked for the law to be withdrawn.
The dispute has cast doubt over talks on a new financing agreement with the EU and IMF, seen as vital for market confidence in the central European country.
But the economic crisis facing Hungary overshadows both the government's policies and the opposition protests, says the BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest.
Fidesz won the elections promising to create a million workplaces - but there has been no growth so far.
And as the public mood worsens, so do the country's ratings, and the chances of attracting foreign investment, and creating more jobs, our correspondent says.
Several centre-left opposition parties joined in the protests on Monday evening, held near a gala event organised by the government to celebrate the new constitution.
By Nick ThorpeBBC News, Budapest
The governing Fidesz party controls 68% of seats in parliament, but the streets now belong to the opposition.
Nearly every day there are new demonstrations against one aspect or another of government policy - the new constitution, economic policy, the centralisation of the state media, or the closing of an opposition radio station.
One of the main speakers at Monday night's rally, Peter Konya, likened the government to the Titanic ocean liner, and the protesters to the iceberg which sank it.
But the economic crisis facing Hungary overshadows both the government's policies and the opposition protests. Fidesz won a landslide victory in 2010 promising to create a million workplaces.
But their attempts to generate growth have so far ended in failure. And as the public mood worsens, so do the country's ratings, and the chances of attracting foreign investment, and creating more jobs.
Protesters chanted slogans denouncing the centre-right Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, and carried placards denouncing his "dictatorship" as officials arrived for the event.
"Viktor Orban and his servants turned Hungary from a promising place to the darkest spot in Europe," said Socialist MP Tibor Szanyi, quoted by AFP news agency.
Aspects of the new constitution and accompanying laws which have come in for criticism include:
But Fidesz says the new constitution, or basic law, improves the legal framework of life in Hungary.
"Despite political debates we think it is an important value that for the first time, a freely elected parliament created the Basic Law," said Fidesz MP Gergely Gulyas, quoted by the Reuters news agency.
Mr Gulyas co-wrote the new law and shepherded it through parliament.
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Police said at least 20 fighters from the Maute group had turned up at the Lanao del Sur jail in the southern city of Marawi, but no shots had been fired.
A military source told the BBC they believed the men had been allowed to escape.
The militants were held last week after being caught with homemade mortars.
At least 15 other inmates - who faced murder and drugs charges - also walked free, but it is not clear whether this was agreed.
The Maute group has carried out several bombings and kidnappings in the southern Mindanao region.
The Philippines has faced Muslim separatist movements for decades in Mindanao, which has a significant Muslim population - the Philippines is mainly Catholic.
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The militants kidnapped the two workers and made them wear orange shirts similar to those worn by IS beheading victims before they were killed.
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Figures from 120 prisons suggest children make 500,000 visits to parents in prisons in England and Wales and the charity says these visits can cause them "long-lasting distress".
It says the children are in a "policy black hole", with little government effort to monitor or identify them.
The government says prisons "encourage offenders to maintain family links".
But the children's charity is calling for a minister to be appointed with responsibility for prisoners' children.
Jake is eight-years-old. He sees his father, who is serving a 24-year prison sentence, once a month. Visiting his dad involves an eight hour-round trip.
''I don't really like it that dad's so far away and it's a really long journey.
"It feels like you're there for the whole day because you're up so early. The first time I went it was scary because there were loads of officers round me.
"I was searched and we had to stand up like a star. There's these Alsatians that are really big and scary.
"Sometimes we're allowed to sit on his lap and do stuff like that, but he's not allowed to stand up and it's quite sad.
"We're not allowed to take pens and paper to the table. I would like to be able to go into the sports hall and play basketball with him.
"The part that I don't like is that I used to see him every single day of my life but now I don't really see him anymore.''
Jake's name has been changed.
Barnardo's chief executive Javed Khan said: "Every week, thousands of innocent children pay the price for crimes they did not commit.
"The distress of a prison visit can be long-lasting; a child should not be left to pick up the pieces on their own.''
The charity says it is estimated that there are 200,000 children of prisoners in England and Wales, though it is unclear how many of them get to see their imprisoned parent on a regular basis.
However, figures provided to Barnardo's by 120 public prisons in England and Wales following a freedom of information request suggest they make 500,000 visits in total.
This is the first time these figures have been collated - a sign, says Barnardo's, that the problem is being overlooked.
The Ministry of Justice says prisons "encourage offenders to maintain family links through on-site visitor centres, family days and help from voluntary organisations".
It adds: "We are also introducing family engagement workers at most female - and a number of young adult - establishments".
The rules governing each visitor centre vary greatly. In some prisons, physical contact is discouraged, meaning a child might not be allowed to give a parent a hug or sit in their father's lap.
Often prisoners are prevented from moving from the visiting room table to interact or play with their child. The experience can be traumatic says Barnardo's.
A report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman earlier this year found that some prisons "fail to achieve an appropriate balance between supporting family ties and ensuring security," and that many are failing to apply procedures in "a fair and consistent way".
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Barnardo's is calling for a minister to be appointed with responsibility for the children of prisoners. This is a matter of urgency, says the charity, because so many of these children feel isolated and need support.
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Trwy Brydain mae 15 o fabanod yn cael eu geni yn farw-anedig bob dydd ac i nodi hynny yn ystod mis Mehefin mae Sands yn hongian 15 gwisg babi ar lein ddillad gan obeithio cynyddu ymwybyddiaeth y cyhoedd.
Bu Cymru Fyw yn siarad ag un fam sydd wedi mynd drwy'r profiad erchyll hwn:
"Mae'n brofiad dychrynllyd," meddai Amelia Davies o Aberystwyth. Cafodd ei hail fab ei eni yn farw-anedig yn ystod Awst 1983.
"Es i'r ysbyty ddydd Iau, gan feddwl nad oedd pethau'n iawn ond 'naeth y meddygon ddweud fod popeth iawn ac erbyn i fi fynd nôl dydd Sadwrn roedd y babi wedi marw.
"Fuon nhw'n hir yn dweud wrthai. Dyna oedd yr hunllef waethaf. Roedd rhaid geni'r babi wedyn fel petai e dal yn fyw - 'nathon nhw wrthod rhoi llawdriniaeth.
"Ro'dd hi'n broses deg awr i eni babi a oedd wedi marw. Ar ddiwedd y cyfan fe ofynnon nhw i fi a oedden i am weld y babi - allen i ddim edrych arno fe ond ar waelod y gwely weles i ben bach melyn - ro'dd e wedi marw ers oriau, falle ers y dydd Iau.
"Wedyn pan o'n i'n barod i fwyta ro'dd rhaid i fi gymysgu â phobl oedd wedi cael plant - ro'dd y cyfan yn erchyll.
"Ddoth 'na rywun rownd hefyd yn gofyn a oeddwn i eisiau llun o'r plentyn ond gwrthod 'nes i. Ro'n i mewn stâd ofnadwy.
"Yn sicr, does dim digon wedi cael ei wneud i baratoi teuluoedd," ychwanegodd Amelia. "Ro'n i yn mynd adre' i wynebu llond airing cupboard o ddillad babi.
"Pan es i gofrestru'r farwolaeth do'dd dim enw 'da ni - ond ateb y cofrestrydd oedd 'Baby Gilbert (dyna fy nghyfenw ar y pryd) will do'.
"Does gen i ddim tystysgrif na dim byd - dim cofnod bod yr un bach wedi bod. Ma' rhywun yn edrych 'mlan am naw mis ac yna mae'r cyfan yn cael ei dynnu oddi wrthoch.
"Dyw'r drefn ddim yn rhoi dim gwerth ar fabis marw-anedig. Petai'r babi wedi marw yn ddiwrnod oed mi fuasen wedi cael tystysgrif i gofnodi ei farwolaeth ac i gofnodi ei fodolaeth.
"Does 'na ddim proses chwaith i addysgu'r cyhoedd. Yn aml mae pawb am anghofio, ddim moyn siarad am y peth neu mae eraill yn dweud pethau fel 'Paid poeni, ti'n ddigon ifanc i gael un arall' - ond nid dyna'r pwynt, dyw plentyn arall ddim yn cymryd lle yr un bach sydd wedi marw.
"Do mi gathon ni fab arall ac ro'dd Rhys 'da ni yn barod - ond fyddai wastad yn dweud mai Rhys yw'r mab hynaf a Michael yw'r mab ieuengaf - rwy' wedi cael tri o fechgyn, fydd dim yn newid hynny a dyw'r ieuengaf ddim yn substitute i'r un a gollwyd."
Yr ysbyty a drefnodd gladdu ail fab Amelia ond roedd yn gryn sioc iddi ddarllen mewn papur newydd yn ddiweddarach bod nifer o'r babanod a anwyd yn yr ysbyty y bu hi, sef Ysbyty Brenhinol Gwent, wedi cael eu llosgi mewn llosgydd yn yr ysbyty rhwng 1983 ac 1984.
"Ro'n i eisiau gwybod beth oedd wedi digwydd i fy mab bach i wedi iddo farw ond roeddwn i'n ofni'r gwaetha'," meddai Amelia.
"Ond bron i chwarter canrif ar ôl ei enedigaeth ffindies i mas ei fod wedi cael ei gladdu mewn bedd i fabis marw-anedig yn eglwys Sant Gwynllyw yng Nghasnewydd.
"Ro'dd hynny yn rhyddhad ac ers hynny rwyf wedi rhoi croes ar y bedd ac wedi mynd i roi blodau ar y bedd.
"Cyn hyn ro'n i'n teimlo'n euog - teimlo bo' fi ddim wedi 'neud dim i'r un bach. Dim enw, dim bedd."
Mae Amelia hefyd yn gwau dillad i elusen o'r enw George's Legacy - elusen sydd wedi'i sefydlu gan fam o Preston a gollodd fabi.
"Dwi wedi cael cysur mawr," meddai Amelia yn gwau dillad bach addas i deuluoedd roi babanod bach marw-anedig ynddyn nhw.
"Yn sicr mae hyn yn rhoi urddas i fabi marw-anedig - ac mae hynny yn hollbwysig. Mae'r gwau hefyd wedi fy helpu i - teimlo bo' fi'n gallu 'neud rhywbeth.
"Mae cael diwrnodau fel heddiw yn help - mae unrhyw ymwybyddiaeth yn help. Does neb yn gwybod beth yw poen y fam sydd wedi rhoi genedigaeth i fabi newydd-anedig." | Mae elusen Sands yn ymweld â Chymru ar 15 Mehefin gyda neges bwysig - i beidio anghofio am fabanod sydd wedi'u geni yn farw. | 40,278,355 | 2,468 | 80 | false |
Wales finished their first major tournament in 58 years at the semi-finials of the European Championships, losing 2-0 to Portugal on Wednesday.
Mr Jones said the "big change" was that people in continental Europe no longer do not know where Wales is.
The years of having to explain Wales is not in England have ended, he said.
Mr Jones, who was speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Wales programme, said: "The big change is instead of people saying in Europe 'Wales where's that?'
"It's going to be 'Wales, oh yes, we know where that is, the semi-finalists of the European Championships'.
"When I was in Paris last night, I didn't get to the game but I watched the game in Paris, all people could talk about was Wales.
"I was hearing people talking about Wales on the streets. The sort of profile that it's given us has been incredible.
"We've really got to cash in on this now.
"All those years when you go abroad and you have to explain where Wales is, that it wasn't part of England. In the space of a month, five weeks, all of that has turned on its head."
Launching his party's campaign for May's local elections in Cardigan, he promised to bring "fresh talent, new ideas and passion" to councils.
The party is defending 75 of Wales' 1,254 council seats, having gained councillors since the 2012 poll.
It is currently part of the Tory-led coalition running Monmouthshire.
The Lib Dems won 72 council seats in Wales five years ago - down from 165 in 2008 - in the first set of national elections held after the party formed a coalition with the Conservatives at Westminster in 2010.
Since 2012, the party has made a net gain of three council seats as a result of by-elections and defections.
But this year's local elections, on 4 May, follow disastrous polls in the previous two years.
In 2015, the Liberal Democrats lost two Welsh seats at the general election, leaving Mr Williams as the party's only Welsh MP from Wales.
In 2016, Kirsty Williams returned to Cardiff Bay as the party's only AM in the May assembly election after four of her colleagues lost their seats.
Soon after, she was appointed to the Labour-led Welsh Government as education secretary.
At the campaign launch on Wednesday, Mr Williams said "our politics has never been more divided" following last June's Brexit vote.
"These elections offer people and communities across Wales the opportunity to stand up for decent, tolerant values and for ideas that will make our communities stronger, more open and more prosperous," he said.
"We need fresh talent, new ideas and passion in our local county and city halls to get things done.
"No more should communities have to accept the complacency, arrogance and laziness rife in our local councils. We won't accept it."
Mr Williams said he would fight "tooth and nail" to make local authorities in Wales more transparent, and was optimistic about the party's chances ahead of polling day.
"Five or six years ago we were leading some of the principal authorities in Cardiff and Swansea, in Bridgend and Wrexham and in other places as well," he told BBC Wales.
"It's been a hard few years but we need to build on our position," Mr Williams added.
"I'm confident at the end of this process we'll have more councillors elected."
The Liberal Democrats hope that, as a consistently pro-EU party, they can boost their levels of support at these local elections by being seen to speak up for voters who wanted to remain in the European Union.
Banks closed, shops shut and revellers took over the streets of Suva dancing, singing and cheering.
Fiji claimed the gold medal after defeating Great Britain 43-7 in the rugby sevens final at Deodoro Stadium.
Thousands of people across the island nation had stopped what they were doing to watch the history-making match.
Many supporters dressed in Fiji colours and rugby jerseys, carrying the national flag to cheer on the team.
At the final whistle blew, excited revellers took to the streets cheering and dancing.
"Some people even stopped their vehicles on the busy streets of Suva and got out with Fiji flags to join the celebrations, not paying much heed to the slight traffic jam they cause," the Fiji Times reported.
"The celebrations will definitely continue into the weekend and the week ahead."
Videos of the funeral procession, which took place on Tuesday, have been circulating online showing skimpily-clad women gyrating on top of jeeps in the southern city of Chiayi.
The funeral was for local politician Tung Hsiang, who died last month.
His family said they wanted to honour Mr Tung, who loved "having a lively fun time", local media reported.
The procession, featuring the convoy of colourful jeeps blasting loud music, brought traffic to a standstill in the city centre.
It also had a drumming troupe, a marching band, performers dressed as deities and giant puppets.
Mr Tung, a local councillor, was a well-known figure in the city and was active in politics for decades.
He died from an unspecified illness at the age of 76 in December.
"He told us he wanted this through a dream two days before the funeral," his brother Tung Mao-hsiung told Taiwanese broadcaster CTS.
Since Tuesday, videos of the procession have been circulating on Chinese media and social network Weibo, generating much interest.
"Now this is what I call a funeral!" said one user, while another wrote: "Looks like when it comes to funeral matters, Taiwan still comes first."
Others praised Mr Tung and his family for providing an entertaining afternoon for the city's residents. "This is what it means to be the 'people's councillor'!" said one netizen.
Another person joked: "The city's residents are asking: please die one more time!"
But hiring dancers and even strippers for funerals is not that unusual in parts of Taiwanese society, in which some practise a folk religion that believes in "entertaining" spirits.
One expert wrote that the practice combined old customs of using professional female wailers at funerals and holding processions for religious holidays with a desire to celebrate the deceased with a big, bustling public event.
Inu has scored two tries in nine games this term for Catalans, who are second in the Super League table.
The 29-year-old joined the club from French rugby union side Stade Francais in June 2015.
"He is a strong player mentally and will come back stronger," head coach Laurent Frayssinous said.
A year on from losing in the final over to Gloucestershire, Surrey suffered an eight-wicket defeat by Warwickshire.
But Batty, who got a Lord's final duck for the second year running, told BBC Sport: "The club have made progress.
"We're not the finished article yet but when we are, we'll be it for a long time because of the age of the squad."
Of Saturday's team, seven are under 30 years of age - Stuart Meaker (27), England one-day opener Jason Roy (26), Rory Burns (26), Zafar Ansari (24), Ben Foakes (23), Tom Curran (21) and Sam Curran (18).
"We dropped off a cliff today. We didn't turn up," said Batty, just a day after earning an England recall at the age of 38, 11 years on from his last Test appearance.
"But we've played good consistent cricket in this competition. In the Championship we had a real purple patch in the middle when we challenged the best teams in the country. And, in the Twenty20, we missed out (on a quarter-final place) by a point, so we're not a million miles away.
"When these young lads do get picked for England they'll be ready to go."
Surrey have had Foakes, Meaker and both Curran brothers selected by England Lions duty as part of the England and Wales Cricket Board's International Pathway, a programme that involves training camps at Sandhurst, Loughborough and Dubai in November and December, followed by white-ball matches against the United Arab Emirates and a three-day match against Afghanistan in Sharjah.
That followed the selection of Surrey skipper Batty for England's Test squad for the tour of Bangladesh, along with fellow spinner Ansari, as well as the selection of opening batsman Roy in the one-day squad.
If any dressing room knows how to deal with the comparative unimportance of a defeat it is Surrey's, who had to go through much worse dealing with the death of team-mate Tom Maynard four years ago.
"I spoke to the boys in the changing room," added Batty. "Some of the group went through some horrible times a few years ago, and you can be relatively philosophical at times.
"Sometimes it can be straightforward. A bit more bat and ball, but it doesn't feel like that right now.
"Fortunately we've now got six months to analyse exactly where we're falling down. The crux of what was said at halfway needs to remain between the group, but I just wanted the boys to go about their disciplines properly.
"You can lose with dignity and I hope we did that. We allowed Warwickshire to enjoy what was a very fine performance. Hopefully we become better people and men because of that."
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Richard Cornock, 46, said he was "chuffed" the British War Medal was back in the family after 45 years.
The medal, presented to Pte WI Cornock, who served in the Gloucester Yeomanry, was sold after his death in 1970.
A spokesman for the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, said finding it had been an "incredible coincidence".
Mr Cornock, who has a dairy farm near Tytherington, South Gloucestershire, said he discovered the medal after typing the name "Cornock" into the auction site search engine.
"Up pops this medal from Gloucester Yeomanry, so I clicked on the description and it said: 'Medal presented to William Cornock,'" he said.
"I thought 'that's my great uncle' - I couldn't believe it."
Having bought the medal for £40 after a "nail-biting wait", Mr Cornock said it had been "emotional" seeing it return to the house where his great uncle grew up.
"They made 6.5 million of these medals so the chances of me finding his medal on the internet were pretty slim," he said.
"I don't know where it's been floating around for 45 years but I just feel so lucky because it's come back to the place where he was born."
William Cornock served as a private in the Gallipoli campaign, which was fought between April 1915 and January 1916 in what is now Turkey.
More than 100,000 personnel died in the conflict and Chris Chatterton, from the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, said only two in 10 members of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars survived.
"He [Pte Cornock] was one of the very lucky ones. It was a horrendous place to have to go," he said.
"But it's an incredible coincidence his medal has been found. Millions and millions of these were pressed so the likelihood of finding one specific one - is just astonishing."
The rare bird, which had been 'adopted' by pupils at Ballyclare High School, in County Antrim, was found in the Katesbridge area in May.
The current population of red kites in Northern Ireland is thought to stand at around 14 breeding pairs.
Pupils had given the bird the nickname Fawkes and were supporting an RSPB red kite re-introduction scheme.
Teacher Adrian Witherow said: "We are extremely disappointed about what has happened to Fawkes.
"Both the staff and pupils were fully behind the red kite re-introduction scheme and it is a real shame that the bird which we have followed for a number of years has been deliberately targeted."
He added: "RSPB NI has offered us the chance to adopt a chick born this year, which will be doing to show our ongoing support for the project."
The bird was found near a nest site usually occupied by a male and female known as Black K and Black M.
Worryingly, they have not been seen in recent months and their nest, which was freshly lined in preparation for breeding, has not been active for weeks.
Claire Barnett from RSPB NI said: "To lose any of our small red kite population is a real setback, but to find out that someone deliberately killed this magnificent bird of prey is beyond belief.
Ms Barnett added: "Like all wild birds, red kites are protected by the law and it is an offence to injure or kill one.
"We would also encourage the public to keep an eye out for Black K and Black M.
"Look for the tags on the underside of the wing and report any sightings to: [email protected]"
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The Israeli side battled back from 3-0 down to trail 3-2 in the first leg in Glasgow, but two further goals put the Scottish champions in control.
At the same stage last season, Celtic lost a late goal in their 3-2 home win over Malmo before losing 2-0 in Sweden.
"I think last year, we would've crumbled," said striker Griffiths.
"They would've probably got an equaliser. I was thinking, 'it's going to happen again'.
"I'm sure the boys who were here last year were thinking that.
"But the manager [Brendan Rodgers] has instilled in us an attitude to keep going and it's made a massive difference.
Griffiths, who scored a thumping header and a sublime free-kick as well as setting up two more goals, said he would have "snapped your hand off" for a three-goal advantage beforehand.
"It was great for me to get two goals but I want to fire us into the group stages," he added. "Hopefully, I can get another couple of goals next week."
Team-mate James Forrest agrees Rodgers has improved the side since replacing Ronny Deila in the summer.
"We're a different team," said the winger. "We showed that we could dig in and we've got a good result to take over there."
Defender Mikael Lustig, who was taken off injured in the second half, insists the Scottish Premiership champions will not sit back in next week's return leg in Beersheba.
"We're going to go there and try to win the game," he said. "We know that we perform the best when we are on the front foot."
One journalist, from a paper generally seen as supporting Labour, opened by suggesting that the party's policies, as leaked a week back, had proved relatively popular with the focus groups, before whom all politicians bow.
On stage, Jeremy Corbyn beamed, beatifically. This, you could see him thinking, was the stuff to give them. That'll teach my critics.
However, his interlocutor wasn't quite finished. The snag, he said, was that those same members of the public didn't seem to favour Mr Corbyn as leader and PM in waiting.
During an election, politicians are programmed to smile. But it has to be said that, with this addendum, Mr Corbyn's grin faded a mite; only fractionally but perceptibly.
The content you will have read. Either today or, as Mr Corbyn drily noted, in the leaked version. Some £48bn of extra spending, funded by tax on companies and higher earners. Public ownership of rail and mail. Scrapping tuition fees south of the border.
A Constitutional Convention for the UK, to build upon Scottish devolution. A Scottish investment bank. Scrapping the so-called "rape clause" in tax credits, lately highly contentious in Scotland. Supporting the North Sea oil and gas industry. Renewing Trident.
Labour describes the package as "radical and responsible". Focusing upon the many not the few. It is perhaps instructive to consider also the response from political opponents. Which varies, according to taste and partisan hue.
The Tories say the package is unaffordable and would wreck the economy. By contrast, the SNP tend to highlight areas - like ending tuition fees - where they say Labour are aping ideas from the Scottish government.
Both parties, though, coalesce around a comment also evinced by the Liberal Democrats. To the effect that, regardless of content, Mr Corbyn will not win and cannot deliver.
As for Jeremy Corbyn, he argued at the launch that opinion was changing, moving towards his party. The voters, of course, will choose.
That was the quickest I have seen United move the ball around for a long time and there was so much energy, pace and desire in their team, particularly in the final third.
United were so sharp going forward, with exactly the kind of attacking play I was expecting and that led me to tip them to win the Premier League title last week.
Jose Mourinho's side did not have much defending to do, because West Ham offered such little resistance - but part of the reason the Hammers were poor was because United made them look it.
Last season, United's problem was failing to finish off the opposition in games like this, particularly at home, when they often dominated but did not get the win.
Drawing at Old Trafford was their Achilles heel but, once they went 1-0 up on Sunday, it was only a matter of how many goals they were going to get.
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Nemanja Matic fully deserved his man-of-the-match award because he bossed the game from start to finish on his Old Trafford debut for his new side.
He was the outstanding player out there. Nobody else was going to take the glory but him, and he was brilliant.
It was the kind of complete midfield display that his former side Chelsea were badly missing in their defeat by Burnley on Saturday - someone who was able to stamp their authority on the game.
Matic was aggressive when he had to be, and put in the tackles, but his distribution was also top class. He kept it simple when he had to, but played more ambitious passes when the time was right.
Matic was forward thinking too, something he was not known for at Chelsea, and showed it with his part in United's first goal.
He won the ball back then bombed forward to provide an overlap for Marcus Rashford on the left when he played Lukaku in down the middle to score.
I also saw Matic beat three or four men down the right wing in the first half, which is not something he did too much of in his time at Stamford Bridge.
But on top of that, he influenced the players around him too. He definitely brought more out of Pogba, which was one of the reasons I assumed Mourinho wanted him so much.
You could see his presence freed Pogba up a little bit to go forward more and, although that is always a lot easier when you are two or three goals up in a game, they linked up well even before that too.
How that partnership progresses as the season goes on is definitely something to keep an eye on, because it could be a key one for United.
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United's biggest summer signing was not far behind in the man-of-the-match stakes - Lukaku's display was everything you could ask for from a centre-forward.
Whether it was his strength, his link-up play or his finishing, he was just unplayable.
His performance was exactly what I expected of him in this United side.
He was aggressive and good in the air, and his movement in coming short or making runs behind the Hammers defence meant he was constantly asking different questions of the West Ham back line. They simply could not handle him.
The most important thing though, was he got two goals, and not just because they helped his side to such a convincing win but because it got him off the mark at the first attempt.
Whoever you are playing for as a centre-forward, if you are playing for a non-league side or, like Lukaku, you have just joined one of the biggest clubs in the world for £75m, you are absolutely desperate to get off to a good start in your first game for your new team.
I was the same after I had joined Blackburn for a British record fee ahead of the first Premier League season in 1992, and scored two goals on my debut against Crystal Palace.
It gave me great confidence and Lukaku will be the same. He will now believe he belongs on that stage.
I am sure Lukaku would have been nervous before the game, but all that will have settled down with his first goal. He is off and running now and he will guarantee United 20 to 25 goals this season if he stays injury free.
Mourinho said in his programme notes before the game that, during his managerial career, he has never worked with a group of players he likes as much as this United side. They showed exactly why that is the case.
He is optimistic, as he should be, because he has got what he wanted in the transfer window and might still get one or two more players before it shuts.
You can see there is an air of confidence about Mourinho and his players, and like Manchester City they seem better equipped than anyone else to mount a serious challenge.
I picked Manchester United to be champions before the season started and I have not seen anything on the opening weekend to change my opinion that the title race is between the Manchester clubs.
Alan Shearer was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
The firm said that growth in 2014, forecast at around 2.2%, is being largely driven by consumer spending.
However, it predicted consumer spending will dip, bringing growth down to 1.9% in 2015.
That is below the forecast UK average of 2.5% and the lowest predicted growth for any UK region.
The firm said that consumer spending growth has been relatively strong for the past two years despite weak earnings growth.
That is attributed to more people being in work, increased income tax personal allowances and low mortgage interest rates.
However, PwC said it expected the proportion of household spending on essentials like housing costs and utilities to rise steadily and account for more than a quarter of total consumer spending by 2020.
The report also said that while Northern Ireland has "performed remarkably well" in job creation since the economic crisis, that has not translated into improved economic output.
After London, Northern Ireland was the second best-performing region in terms of absolute employment growth.
Between 2009-2014, the region's employment grew by 8.3%, well ahead off the south-east at 5.4% and Scotland at 4%.
However, the overall performance of the economy, as measured by Gross Value Added (GVA), is weaker.
GVA is a measure of income generated by businesses, minus the cost of goods and services used to create the income.
London delivered a 15.4% GVA increase in cash terms between 2007-2012.
Over that period Northern Ireland's GVA actually declined by 1% - the only region to show a fall.
Esmond Birnie, PwC chief economist in Northern Ireland, said that pointed to structural weaknesses in the economy.
"While we are creating jobs, those jobs aren't creating wealth, increasing wages, improving household disposable incomes and that makes closing the prosperity gap with the rest of the UK next to impossible," he said.
The black cockapoo called Sophie, belonging to a woman from Buckinghamshire, went missing from a pub in Bournemouth.
Police issued an image of a woman they want to speak to over the theft at the Moon in the Square pub in Exeter Road on 27 November.
Following the appeal officers tracked down Sophie in Poole.
"It's great to know that Sophie will be spending Christmas at home with her family," said PC Steve Lea, of Bournemouth police.
The dog was found outside Hamworthy Library on Blandford Road on Friday. She was identified by her micro-chip.
A Dorset Police spokesman said there had been many leads from the public.
PC Lea said: "I would like to pass on my thanks, along with those of the owner, to everyone who has contacted us about this case.
"The public's response to my appeal has been overwhelming and all the help we have received is very much appreciated.
"Without the public's help it would not have been possible to reunite the dog with its owner."
Mustafa Abu Shagur had called for the formation of an "emergency government", consisting of just 10 ministries.
The General National Congress (GNC) voted 125 to 44 against the proposal. Seventeen members abstained.
Mr Shagur was Libya's first elected prime minister following last year's overthrow of Col Muammar Gaddafi.
He had served as deputy prime minister for more than a year under interim leader Abdurrahim al-Keib.
The GNC now has three to four weeks to elect a new premier.
Mr Shagur's second and final offer consisted of just 10 ministries, as opposed to the 29 he offered last week.
Before the vote he told the GNC it was a proposal to lead Libya with no regionalism, and urged members to "assume its responsibilities at this historic time".
By Rana JawadBBC News, Tripoli
Libyans got a taste of party politics on Sunday, or so it would appear. In what was to become Mustafa Abu Shagur's last stand to get his emergency cabinet approved, he indicated as much when he spoke of pressures from political blocs.
There is a lot of talk here now of backdoor alliances being formed between the country's two biggest parties - the liberal camp of the National Forces Alliance and the Justice and Construction Party, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Together they form a vote that is difficult to overcome in the Libyan assembly.
Overall though, many Libyans don't much care for who is in power, so long as they get the job done. Issues like security, placating brewing tensions between some Libyan cities, and the economy are key concerns.
The latest event is not seen as the end of the road that will plunge the country into chaos, but rather one that will prolong a semblance of tangible progress that can be felt across the board.
"In face of the dangers threatening the country, I present to you a crisis government restricted to 10 ministers, rejecting all geographical considerations," Mr Shagur earlier told the GNC.
His first cabinet line-up was rejected late on Thursday on the basis that it was not representative of important regions and lacked qualified members.
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says some cities like Zawiya, Benghazi, and Misrata, lost a lot of fighters during the battle to overthrow Gaddafi, and are demanding greater representation in the new government.
During the assembly debate, protesters - mostly from Zawiya - stormed the Congress building in the capital Tripoli, calling for the prime minister's resignation.
Mr Shagur had initially aimed for a unity government and what he described as "people with merit" to work with him.
However, he said that when he consulted with political parties, some had pursued their own agendas. He said one party had demanded 11 seats, and another nine.
Mr Shagur has said he would not give in to pressure and political games.
He studied at the University of Tripoli before moving to the US, where he earned a PhD and worked as an academic and optical engineer.
Mr Shagur returned in 2011 to become an adviser to the National Transitional Council, which was formed during the revolt that ousted Gaddafi.
In September, he was elected by the national assembly to be the country's next prime minister, in a run-off vote in which he narrowly beat Mahmoud Jibril - who served as interim prime minister following the overthrow of the regime.
The Insolvency Service names former chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh, Alan Yentob and seven others.
Kids Company - which provided support to deprived and vulnerable children - closed down in August 2015 following allegations of mismanagement.
The bans would be for up to six years.
The list of nine directors includes Mr Yentob, who was creative director at the BBC at the time of the charity's collapse.
The proceedings name all nine former directors; Sunetra Devi Atkinson, Erica Jane Bolton, Richard Gordonn Handover, Vincent Gerald O'Brien, Francesca Mary Robinson, Jane Tyler, Andrew Webster and Alan Yentob," said the Insolvency Service statement.
"The former chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh was not formally a director at the time the charity collapsed. However, the proceedings will allege that she acted as a de facto director and should therefore also be disqualified from running or controlling other companies."
"We can confirm that the Insolvency Service has written to the former directors of Keeping Kids Company informing them that the Business Secretary intends to bring proceedings to have them disqualified from running or controlling companies for periods of between two-and-a-half and six years.
"As this matter will now be tested in the Court, it is not appropriate to comment further."
Founded in 1996 in south London, Kids Company employed more than 600 people, with high-profile supporters including former Prime Minister David Cameron.
The charity relied heavily on public money. In its last set of published accounts, for 2013, the government provided £4m, about one-fifth of its annual £20m funding.
When it closed in August 2015, the charity said its finances had become stretched because of the number of children "pouring" through its doors for help. But donors had been steadily withdrawing support, alarmed by stories of alleged mismanagement.
Earlier that summer, the charity had said it wanted to restructure and had sought new funds from the government and donors.
But it closed, with ministers saying they wanted to recover a £3m grant they had given to the charity a week before.
June 2015: Local authorities in London are warned the charity is having financial difficulties
29 June: Ministers Oliver Letwin and Matthew Hancock approve a £3m government grant despite concerns being raised
2 July: It emerges the charity has been told it will not get more public funding unless its chief executive, Ms Batmanghelidjh, is replaced
3 July: Ms Batmanghelidjh announces she is to step down, but denies the charity has been mismanaged
31 July: The BBC learns an investigation into allegations involving Kids Company has been launched by the Metropolitan Police
4 August: Sources tell BBC Newsnight the charity is to close and the Cabinet Office is to try to reclaim the £3m
5 August: The charity confirms it has closed
6 August: Former staff allege it failed in its handling of allegations of serious incidents, including sexual assaults
7 August: David Cameron says the closure is "sad" but defends the £3m grant
14 October: Documents suggest the problems at Kids Company were raised with trustees as early as 2002
15 October: Ms Batmanghelidjh and chairman Alan Yentob give evidence to MPs and again deny the charity was badly run
3 December: Mr Yentob resigns as the BBC's creative director in the wake of controversy over his role at Kids Company
28 January 2016: The Met Police investigation into allegations of abuse is closed
24 April 2017: The Insolvency Service reported to have written to lawyers acting for Kids Company's former board members to warn them that it is minded to pursue disqualification proceedings against them
31 July 2017: The Insolvency Service announces it plans to bring proceedings against former directors of the collapsed charity
The park authority has proposed measures including bylaws banning camping without a permit at some popular loch shores, alongside a £10m investment in campsites.
A meeting of the board warned parts of the park are being "severely damaged" by over-use and anti-social campers.
The consultation runs until 12 January.
There has been a marked reduction in problems at East Loch Lomond since similar measures were introduced there three years ago, with an 81% drop in antisocial behaviour recorded.
However, littering, fire damage, abandoned campsites and summer-long caravan encampments setting up in laybys remain an issue in other parts of the park.
To combat this, seasonal bylaws have been proposed for the west side of Loch Lomond, the north-east tip of Loch Long and many lochs in the Trossachs.
These would make it an offence to camp outside of authorised sites without a permit, or to cause damage to the area or wildlife.
Kevin Lilburn, chairman of the East Loch Lomond Visitor Management group, said the scheme in place there has made a huge difference.
He said: "Previously we suffered some sort of incident at my home pretty much every weekend in the summer, including litter, theft, vandalism and verbal or even physical intimidation.
"Since the bylaws have been introduced, there have been none. Not one. That speaks for itself and official statistics tell a similar story.
"We have gone from a situation where my neighbours and I dreaded sunny days to one in which we can relax, enjoy where we live, and happily share the area with responsibly behaved visitors."
The two proposed "management zones", combined with the existing one at East Loch Lomond, would amount to less than 5% of the 720 square miles the park covers.
Fiona Logan, chief executive of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority, said the plans being put out for consultation were "unashamedly ambitious".
She said: "The park is within an hour's drive of more than 50% of Scotland's population, and this gives us specific problems, which, despite our best efforts, have been escalating.
"The package of measures we are proposing has been developed in conjunction with partners and local communities and reflects our wholesale commitment to dramatically improving the experience of the Park for both residents and visitors."
The "Your Park" consultation will begin on 13 October and run until January.
The authority is seeking input from "individuals, landowners, businesses, community enterprises and charities" who may be interested in setting up or running new facilities.
This would be supported by £10m from the park authority, which has already identified potential sites for additional camping, campervans and motor homes.
Three parcels of the suspected drug were found hidden behind a panel of a toilet on a decommissioned plane by Air Salvage International (ASI).
The 2Kg (4.4lb) packages were discovered at Cotswold Airport in Kemble, Gloucestershire, on 18 October.
Wiltshire Police said they were waiting the results of forensic analysis.
A police spokesman said the hidden packages, each measuring 20 cm by 13 cm (8 in by 5 in) were found "well wrapped in plastic and black gaffer tape".
"We searched the rest of the plane and put a drugs dog through but actually the dog didn't seem overly interested in the packages," he said.
"But they were well wrapped and with the test we did on the powder at the station - we decided to send it for forensic analysis.
"We're waiting for the results before we start trying to trace where the plane came from."
Air Salvage International (ASI) has declined to comment.
20 July 2017 Last updated at 06:54 BST
There are even international competitions where people compete to complete a cube as fast as possible.
Henry here is a British competitor who has got some nimble fingers and can complete a 3x3 cube in around 20 seconds. Wow!
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Officers found the body of Peter Stuart in Weybread, near Diss, on Friday night, after he and his wife Sylvia were reported missing.
Suffolk Police said a 61-year-old man from Leicester was arrested by officers at 08:30 BST.
Police are still searching for 69-year-old Mrs Stuart.
Officers said the arrested man was taken from Leicester to Suffolk to be interviewed by detectives.
Search teams will continue their work in the vicinity of the couple's home at Mill Lane, and police said officers were also continuing their inquiries to determine exactly what occurred.
A post-mortem examination of the body, believed to be that of Mr Stuart, was due to be held on Sunday.
Det Ch Supt Simon Parkes said: "While we have made an arrest, our investigation continues.
"We are absolutely committed to finding Sylvia and this remains a priority for us. We would ask anyone who may have information that may help to come forward."
The Reverend Susan Loxton, rector of St Andrew in Weybread, held a special service at the church on Sunday morning.
"Prayers were said in the church for the family of the couple, for friends and neighbours, and for the police," she said.
"In these rural villages there is little crime so when something like this happens there is shock. We did not think something like this happens here."
Det Ch Supt Parkes said: "We are still exploring the possibilities. We hope to find Mrs Stuart alive, but we can't dismiss the possibility we will find her dead. The post mortem [of Mr Stuart's body] is ongoing."
Just a third of Americans felt the Fed was doing a good or excellent job, according to the last Gallup poll to check on the bank's popularity. The only US federal agency with a consistently lower approval rating was the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service or tax collector.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle have taken swipes at the Fed.
Republicans chastise the bank for its prolonged policy of low interest rates. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused the Fed of keeping interest rates low to protect President Obama.
Democrats, meanwhile criticise attempts to raise rates.
In August, activists from the liberal-leaning Fed Up campaign protested outside a Fed meeting in support of low interest rate, saying that they say help low income families.
"There is no question that [the Fed's] reputation has taken a hit from the extreme left and the extreme right," says Donald Kohn, a Federal Reserve governor from 2002-2010.
It wasn't always like this though. Under the tenure of Alan Greenspan - who served as the Fed's chairman from 1987 to 2006 - many felt the central bank was a positive force for the economy.
During the 1990s US unemployment reached 4% while inflation remained low.
Mr Greenspan's approval rating was 72% when he left the Fed. According to Allan Meltzer, author of The History of the Federal Reserve, Mr Greenspan's tenure was "the best period in Federal Reserve history".
He wasn't without critics.
President George HW Bush and Republican members of Congress criticised Mr Greenspan and the Fed for raising interest rate in 1994. President Bush even accused Mr Greenspan's policy of costing him the election against Bill Clinton.
Experts say many of the policies that helped the economy grow under President Clinton can really be credited to Mr Greenspan.
However, since the financial crisis politicians and economists have pointed to the loose monetary policies he championed as a factor leading to the crash.
Mr Greenspan also believed it was the Fed's duty to "to serve as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system."
This policy was a precursor to the 2008 bank bailouts.
According Mr Meltzer, the Fed's decision to bailout the banks has shaped many Americans' current distrust of the central banking system more than the prolonged period of low interest rates.
"The public doesn't think the government should be in the business of bailing out banks," he says.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle have criticised the bailout, saying it helped banks at the expense of the American tax payer.
"If big financial institutions know they can get cheap cash from the Fed in a crisis, they have less incentive to manage their risks carefully," says Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat who has built a reputation for challenging Wall Street.
Supporters of the Fed's bailout action argue it was necessary and see the anger it created as a symptom of the suspicion that already existed.
"The perception that expanding the discount window bailed out the big banks at the expense of Main Street comes from a long history of distrust a lot of Americans have in New York and Washington," says Mr Kohn.
America's distaste for central banks is not new. The country's founders fought over whether a central bank was necessary.
Alexander Hamilton - America's first secretary of the treasury - urged the creation of an institution to help manage a single currency for the new country and stabilize the states' credit.
Opponents, including Thomas Jefferson - the third president of the US - saw the central bank as an unnecessary consolidation of power.
They argued it benefited investors, banks and businesses above the wider population.
The US had two central banks before the Fed. Both only lasted 20 years.
President Andrew Jackson, who opposed renewing the charter of the second US central bank, famously referred to it as "a den of vipers and thieves".
The Federal Reserve itself was founded in 1913 in response to several financial crises.
Despite surviving 102 years the bank has been regularly flogged for failing to prevent financial crises, including the Great Recession.
The recent criticism of the Fed is not that different from the criticism central banks received at the country's founding - favouring bankers and too much centralisation of power.
"The US already had a strong culture of freedom and it sees central banks as an opponent of freedom and a source of centralization that many dislike," says Mr Meltzer.
To raise interest rates this time around the Fed will use a new method that has been criticised as benefiting banks.
Traditionally, the Fed increases the amount of securities it sells to banks. This forces banks to charge higher interest rates to bring in revenue to pay for the securities they are buying.
This time, the Fed will pay banks a higher interest rate for storing reserves at the central bank. If banks make more money holding reserves at the Fed they have no incentive to charge low interest rates.
Critics say the Fed should not be in the business of funding banks' profits.
It is difficult, given America's history, to say what might make the Fed more appealing.
In 2013, 74% of American supported auditing the Fed's decisions and finances. A new bill to increase the amount the Fed is already audited has been proposed by Republican Senator Rand Paul.
At this point the only thing that might improve the Fed's reputation is time and an improving economy.
But regardless of whether the Fed gets the decision right on Wednesday the critics will still be out there.
Victoria Harrison, 17, was found dead the day after an appendix operation at Kettering General Hospital in 2012.
An inquiry uncovered 43 errors, but bosses refused to release full details.
The BBC has now learned routine observations were discontinued and nurses' conduct was unprofessional.
Miss Harrison's mother, Tracy Foskett, who had seen the report, said all hospitals should publish details of their mistakes.
"I asked the hospital 'did my daughter die as a result of the NHS not providing funding?', and I was told 'no, it was human error'," she said.
"So let the public know what that was - there needs to be more transparency."
The findings of the hospital's serious incident investigation were not published over claims that it would put staff under "additional stress and pressure in addition to that already experienced during the investigation and inquest".
The BBC challenged the refusal under the Freedom of Information Act, with an internal panel agreeing that revealing the mistakes, oversights, errors and recommendations were "in the public interest".
The report - with names redacted - also reveals 10 members of staff were disciplined.
Among the 43 mistakes, oversights and errors were:
The teenager, from Irthlingborough, was given an emergency referral by her GP on 14 August 2012, when she appeared to be suffering from appendicitis.
An artery was damaged during surgery, with the surgeon rectifying the issue.
But Miss Harrison texted her boyfriend from her hospital bed to say she was in pain and bleeding later that day.
Following the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal, the Francis Report emphasised the importance of openness, transparency and candour:
Source: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry
Not all nursing staff were aware of the bleed and some did not routinely read medical notes and could not always decipher surgeons' handwriting, an inquest in December heard.
Her last written formal observations were taken at 20:15 BST on 15 August, nine hours before she was found unresponsive by nursing staff.
Coroner Ann Pember criticised the hospital over missed opportunities and said, had these been acted upon, "the outcome may have been very different".
"I believe her chances of survival would have significantly increased," she said.
Peter Walsh, from the patient safety charity Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA), said the hospital's original decision to "suppress" the report "did not help public confidence".
"The trust's original decision to withhold the report was wrong in so many ways," he said.
"It runs against the spirit of openness and transparency when things go wrong, the need for which was made so apparent by the Mid Staffordshire scandal.
"How could the public and bodies responsible for monitoring the trust know whether lessons really had been learnt and acted upon?"
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said: "It is vitally important that trusts disclose information about things that have gone wrong so that we can learn from mistakes.
"The tragic death of 17-year-old Victoria Harrison is a clear example of lack of communication between staff leading to a catalogue of errors and unacceptable care.
"It is essential that lessons are learnt and practices modified so that there is no repeat of such cases.
"It is the relatives who have to live with the consequences and the sad loss of a young life that could have been avoided."
Following the hospital's initial refusal to release its report, Ms Foskett set up a Facebook page to gauge public opinion and said she was amazed at the support she received.
"I know the hospital has put changes in place, but the public needs to be aware of what those are," she said.
"These changes have come about because of the death of my daughter, a vibrant young girl. They should have already been in place."
In January, the hospital's chief executive, Fiona Wise, said: "We have a right to withhold that information... where we feel it is appropriate to prevent further damage to individuals who have already been through a thorough investigation process."
It has set up a programme of improvement measures and, as a result of the BBC's request, has disclosed its detailed action plan relating to each of the 43 errors.
These include:
The rival teams will face off at the Azadi (Freedom) Sports Complex, which can accommodate up to 12,000 spectators, all of whom on a normal day will be men.
It is the same story in the adjacent Azadi Stadium, Iran's biggest football venue.
The stadium attracts crowds of over 80,000 but its doors have been firmly closed to women since the Islamic revolution more than 36 years ago.
Iranian women are also banned from watching men's wrestling and swimming.
Sensitivities towards female spectators also extend to television broadcasts of Iranian away matches. State television always shows them with a delay so it can cut out shots of female spectators.
Typically a recorded sequence of male spectators is shown instead of the actual feed from the host country's broadcaster.
The reasons for these restrictions lie in the strict codes of behaviour enforced in Iran since the 1979 revolution.
Because some sports involve players in outfits that expose lots of flesh, some people consider it inappropriate for women to be watching, says Hassan Fereshtian, an Iranian cleric based in Paris.
"Another reason may be the danger of men and women mixing, especially during the post-match celebrations," he says.
This is exactly what happened at a volleyball match in 2013.
Until then volleyball had been a marginal sport and women were allowed in because matches were not popular enough to attract the attention of religious conservatives.
However, as the national team began to make a mark on the international scene it drew growing numbers of fans at home.
"Two years ago there was a match in the Azadi Sports Complex that was packed to the rafters," says Mehdi Rostampour, an Iranian sports journalist based in Copenhagen.
"Half the spectators were women, and although they sat in specially designated areas, chanting quickly developed into a rally back and forth between the male and female sections, with the men completing the women's chants and vice-versa. At that point I knew it was not going to be tolerated."
After this volleyball was ruled strictly off-limits for female fans.
In June 2014 things came to a head when Iran played Italy at the Azadi Sports Complex.
A group of young female protesters who gathered outside the ground were swiftly arrested.
The case made international headlines when one of them, British-Iranian Ghoncheh Ghavami, was held in jail for the next five months.
The Iranian authorities maintain Ms Ghavami was spreading anti-regime propaganda and that her case had nothing to do with watching volleyball.
However, the publicity prompted the International Volleyball Federation to call for Iran to open up all games to women or lose the right to host international tournaments.
The federation confirmed to BBC Persian that this year's international matches would not be affected as they had already been agreed.
But last week female fans' hopes were raised when Iran's vice-president for Women and Family Affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi, announced that a limited number of women - mainly from the families of the players - would be allowed into upcoming volleyball matches.
Ms Molaverdi also indicated that women spectators would be allowed into other similar sports too, and in fact in Tehran some female fans did get in to watch a basketball game.
But Ms Molaverdi's comments prompted fury from conservatives who strongly resist any attempts by President Hassan Rouhani's moderate government to loosen social restrictions in Iran.
The religious vigilante group Ansar-e Hezbollah issued a rallying call to its supporters to come to the Azadi Sports Complex to stop women entering.
"We are taking a stand against legalising the presence of prostitutes… in stadiums," the group said in a flyer distributed in Tehran. "This Friday there will be blood."
A number of senior clerics and officials have also denounced the move.
"We didn't rise up in an Islamic Revolution for the right of women to enter sports stadiums," said Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Alavi Gorgani.
And Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli told local media that there had been no change to the current rules banning women from sports stadiums.
Female fans who have tried to buy tickets for the two matches this week have contacted BBC Persian to say they have been unable to do so.
Observers say it is still possible that a select few women could be quietly ushered into the match on Friday, and that other female fans might protest outside. But the situation in general looks unlikely to change any time soon.
"One of the main problems is that there are no written rules," says sports commentator Mehdi Rostampour.
"So the authorities can ban women from any sports event whenever they wish."
Bijan Ebrahimi, 44, was killed in a vigilante attack in 2013 after he was falsely accused of being a paedophile.
Bristol Crown Court was told PCs Kevin Duffy, 52, Leanne Winter, 38, Helen Harris, 40, and PCSO Andrew Passmore 55, saw Mr Ebrahimi as "a nuisance".
They each deny a charge of misconduct in public office.
The trial follows an investigation by the police watchdog into his death.
Opening the case for the prosecution, Crispin Aylett QC described the events leading up to the murder.
Mr Ebrahimi called the police on 11 July 2013 to report he had been attacked by his neighbour Lee James, 26, who suspected him of being a paedophile.
James, who later admitted murder, was described at the time by PC Winter to be "foaming at the mouth" and vowed he would "do time to protect his children", the court learned.
Mr Aylett said James was with a crowd who all took his side and "vigilantism was in the air".
Following the episode, Mr Ebrahimi was arrested but James' threats were overlooked, the court heard.
Mr Ebrahimi was released by police the following day, 12 July, and after returning to his home on Capgrave Crescent, Brislington, Bristol, made 12 calls to the police in the hope PC Duffy, the local beat manager, would intervene.
The prosecution claimed the officer regarded Mr Ebrahimi as a "liar and a nuisance" and the defendants were "not interested" in his complaints.
The court heard PC Duffy asked PCSO Passmore to patrol the area and Mr Passmore claimed to have spent an hour in the area.
"The truth is that he can only have driven up and down the road," Mr Aylett said.
"Had something been done, Lee James would have at least known the police were keeping an eye.
"This was a toxic situation that required proactive policing," he added.
"Instead we allege that these individuals failed Mr Ebrahimi. It's not just incompetence - we suggest they disliked Mr Ebrahimi."
Two days later James attacked Mr Ebrahimi outside his flat then, with help, set fire to his body.
He pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence. Accomplice Steven Morley was sentenced to four years in prison for assisting an offender.
Earlier, PC Duffy told the court Mr Ebrahimi's complaints about various neighbours were always met with counter-allegations.
After Mr Ebrahimi's death, the police watchdog interviewed PC Duffy. He told them his "experience" of dealing with Mr Ebrahimi "taught" him to "evaluate all information" and "seek other accounts" before filing a report.
Prosecuting, Mr Aylett added that PC Duffy's "starting point" was to "disbelieve" Mr Ebrahimi unless it was corroborated.
The trial continues.
Amy Webster, 24, flew into Belfast on Monday afternoon to spend time with her parents.
Ms Webster was in a village three miles from Everest base camp when the earthquake struck.
"A lot of people were killed at base camp - I was so relieved that my boyfriend fell ill and we'd left there," she said.
More than 7,000 people died in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake. More than 10,000 people were injured.
The epicentre was in the Gorkha region, and many roads to the hilly district are impassable due to landslides.
Ms Webster said the moment when the earthquake struck was terrifying.
"The ground started shaking and someone shouted 'avalanche'," she told BBC Radio Foyle.
"We looked up and just saw a wall of snow coming towards us.
"It was terrifying. You don't know how solid it is when you see it coming towards you in a distance.
"At one point I thought that was it.
"The walk down the mountain was scary because we knew we were going down a path we weren't familiar with."
Ms Webster said they were relieved to have left the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on Monday "because aftershocks were still happening".
"We felt awful leaving the Nepalese people but we aren't the volunteers they need," she said.
"They need doctors to help them rebuild their lives.
"It's really nice to be back home to see my parents."
Forget the rest of it, all he needs to figure out right now is what he's going to do with himself at the weekend, or more to the point, what he is going to do on Saturday evening when Munster come to town for a Champions Cup match that's probably the pick of round five of European rugby's pre-eminent tournament.
He rubs his eyes when talking about the importance of this contest and rubs them again when speaking of the first meeting in Limerick back in October.
That was the weekend when Munster buried their coach, Anthony Foley, on the Friday afternoon, and then, on a wave of brilliance and togetherness, dismantled Glasgow at Thomond Park 24 hours later.
A red card for Keith Earls after just 19 minutes and, yet, four home tries - it could have been more - 38 home points - it could have been higher - 61% home possession, 63% home territory, 100% home joy - with 14 men.
"In a week, you saw the best of Glasgow rugby, when we could do nothing wrong against Leicester (they walloped the Tigers 42-13), and the worst, when Munster came out and put us in our place," says Swinson.
"I'd played there before, but it was never like that. It felt like the supporters knew all the players personally. It was a cauldron. It was very powerful. In the atmosphere, Munster got on the front foot and when that happens they're exceptionally good at putting that foot on your throat. We were really angry that we let that happen to us."
Glasgow were over-powered in Limerick in every single aspect, an inferiority that was as emphatic as it was rare, almost freakishly so. The pack were coursed around Thomond Park. Swinson admits to feeling "a little bit off" even before the first whistle sounded.
They are now approaching the crossroads of what has been an otherwise excellent campaign.
If they win on Saturday they are in contention for a place in the quarter-finals for the first time in their history.
Lose and they would need to go to Welford Road and win in the hope of bagging one of the three best runners-up slots. The head-wrecking aspect comes with the fact that Leicester have lost just one European match at home since 2006.
"We need to win both of them, ideally," says Swinson. "That's what we're looking at.
"Munster will be very physical and very passionate. They don't really want to trick you. They won't have many surprises. They'll do what they do and they're pretty good at it.
"Big ball-carriers (CJ Stander has 15 more carries than any other player in the competition), excellent defence (they've shipped fewest points of any side and are the only team to concede less than one try per game), very direct, loads of aggression, good leaders. They know what they're going to do and they're going to back themselves to do it well enough so that we can't stop it.
"It'll be a physical, defensive game, all about contact. That's what we've talked about this week. It's not just about the personal match-ups, it's about getting momentum, it's about really putting pressure on them rather than trying to absorb their pressure."
In Swinson's words and body language you can see the longing at Scotstoun to finally make a breakthrough to the holy land of Europe's last eight. They're good enough. They just need to show it now that the heat is truly on.
"You see the work that's gone on here over the years, the work put in by [head coach] Gregor [Townsend] and the coaching staff," says Swinson. "It's detail, detail, detail. Because of my surname I end up sitting beside Gregor and Matt [Taylor, his assistant] on away trips and it's just amazing the work they do.
"Matt has a bag full of hard drives and I'm certain he could pull out a Super Rugby game from whatever year and tell you all about it.
"Himself and Gregor are constantly reading books about coaches and coaching techniques. John Wooden, the great UCLA coach, Bill Parcells in the NFL, any top American coach, they've read their book. Every away trip, there's a new book. They have a huge thirst for information and ideas.
"Europe is a tough place. The Champions Cup is the elite. It's not supposed to be easy, it's as close as you can get to international rugby with your club. The game against Munster will have the intensity of a Test match. There's so much at stake. Both teams are desperate for it."
Swinson's life so far has taken him from London, his place of birth, to Peterborough, where he went to school and discovered rugby, to Sydney, where he worked in a coffee shop for a year, to Newcastle, where he played for the Falcons and studied politics.
That's a degree he may fall back on and, boy, there's an interest there. Swinson would merrily talk about Brexit or the breakdown, take your pick. He'll talk about Trump or the new tackle law, whatever tickles your fancy.
Before the UK went to the polls in June, Swinson sent an email to his team-mates at Glasgow containing information - for remain and for leave - that he pleaded with them to read before the referendum. He didn't care much how they voted, but stressed the importance of voting.
Before the Scottish independence referendum two years earlier he hung on every word of the politics professor that Glasgow brought in to address the squad and explain the key points for the yes and no campaigns.
"We would have had a vote among the squad, but the feeling was that it would be too divisive," explains Swinson.
"Politics is an area I'm interested in, but it's a very polarising world and I don't know where I'd fit in. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about it for while yet, until I'm too old for rugby - and too broken."
He can't break on Saturday, not if Glasgow are to hold out hope of bringing down one of Europe's form teams and motoring on to fulfil the dream they've all held for so long.
The 25-year-old forward put the hosts ahead at the County Ground on the stroke of half-time, tapping in following a swift counter-attack.
With 20 remaining the Robins doubled their lead as Obika was sent clear by Fabien Robert and calmly slotted home.
Doncaster midfielder Richard Chaplow was then sent off for two yellow cards.
James Tobin, 21, has been jailed for 12-and-a-half years after admitting the manslaughter of Kellie Gillard, 25.
Swansea Crown Court heard Tobin, of Port Talbot, slapped Miss Gillard, causing her to fall out of bed and hit her head on 24 April 2015.
Detectives caught him after the secret recording device heard him admit to his father he had killed her.
Miss Gillard died from a ruptured artery in hospital but Tobin denied being to blame for her fall in the bedroom at his home.
The court heard police installed the bug which heard him tell his father he "put her to sleep".
Prosecutor Vincent Coughlin said: "Officers recorded a conversation between Tobin and his father in which he said his partner had been 'chopsy' to him and so he had 'put her to sleep'.
"The device also picked up on his father saying: 'You sparked her?' Tobin replied: 'Yes'."
Mr Coughlin said the couple had a row after having sex - Miss Gillard kicked Tobin, who responded by slapping her.
"He concedes that in a short exchange of violence, after he had been kicked in the head, he must have delivered a number of forceful blows with an open hand."
Miss Gillard was put on a life-support machine before her organs could be donated - the court heard this helped save the lives of six others.
Her mother Tracey Gillard, 54, said: "She didn't stand a chance with James Tobin. I am no longer capable of smiling, let alone laughing, all my happiness is gone."
Mrs Gillard received The Order of St John UK Award for Organ Donation in memory of her daughter after allowing her organs to be transplanted.
Tobin said in a statement: "I cannot blame anyone else for what happened that night or how I conducted myself after it.
"I cannot begin to tell you, and more importantly Kellie's family, how sorry I am."
Judge Keith Thomas said: "You are a trained boxer and have previous convictions for violence. You pose a significant danger to the public of serious personal injury."
Tobin was also ordered to serve an extended licence period of four years after being released for prison.
Olly Martins told the Home Affairs Select Committee the force's "desperate financial plight" left him "no option".
The Bedfordshire commissioner said he was "actively looking" at ways to generate more money.
The Alliance of British Drivers called his comments "utterly obnoxious".
Mr Martins said the county's force was "stretched to the limit" with 169 officers per 100,000 population against a national average of 232 and 388 in London.
The county has the fourth highest level of gun crime per head, fifth highest level of burglary, robbery and vehicle crime, seventh highest level of knife crime, and a high terror threat, he said.
The commissioner has already lost in a council tax referendum asking for the public's permission to increase the police precept and launched a petition calling on the government to ensure the force is adequately funded.
He told the committee that unless the force's grant funding was "realigned to the reality of the county's policing challenges" he would have to use his powers to permanently turn on the cameras between junctions 10 and 13, one of the busiest stretches of the motorway.
Asked whether easyJet could sponsor the county's "panda cars", Mr Martins said: "I'd welcome it because that's an alternative to reducing our police numbers below a level that I think is already putting our force in a position of not being viable."
The speed cameras are linked to variable limits, which can be reduced to below 70mph when there is congestion, a crash or bad weather.
The majority of speed fine revenue goes to the government, but Mr Martin's office said a proportion goes to the local force.
"Strict enforcement of the speed limit could raise £1m and to me that's better than losing 25 more police officers," Mr Martins said.
"I am running out of levers to pull to keep Bedfordshire Police financially viable," he said.
Hugh Bladon, from voluntary lobby group group the Alliance of British Drivers, criticised the idea of making money from speed cameras.
"These cameras are alleged to make roads safer, they are not to make money for the police or government or anyone and to suggest that it is... I'm lost for words," he said.
"It is completely contrary to anything to do with road safety and utterly obnoxious."
The work and pensions secretary says that the current system is too "binary" - with claimants deemed either fit or unfit for work.
Instead, claimants should be made to take up any work they can, even if it is just a few hours, he will say.
Labour says cutting benefits for people who are not able to work is punishing the disabled for government failures.
Mr Duncan Smith insisted that the "most vulnerable people in our society" will be protected under his latest reforms.
And despite the "scaremongering" of critics, he said, the UK spends more on the sick and disabled than the average of the other nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Mr Duncan Smith has also made his first public comments about revelations his department had used made-up stories from fictional sickness benefit claimants to demonstrate the positive impact of benefit sanctions.
The work and pensions secretary said the online examples were "drawn as a summary from real life cases but it wasn't a real life case".
He added: " It was quite wrong, those individuals [responsible] ultimately will face some form of disciplinary procedure."
Mr Duncan Smith's speech did not contain any policy announcements but aims instead to start a "conversation" about the next phase of welfare reform, according to DWP officials.
Mr Duncan Smith focused on the Employment Support Allowance, which is paid to those unable to work on health grounds. Those who receive the payment have their fitness to work tested under the Work Capability Assessment.
He believes those assessments should be more personalised, so if someone is able to work for a few hours they are helped to do so.
"It is right that we look at how the system supports people who are sick," he said.
Mr Duncan Smith argued what is needed is "a system focused on what a claimant can do and the support they'll need, and not just on what they can't."
He added: "Nearly 11 million adults in the UK have a common mental health condition and people are much more likely to fall out of work if they do.
"We also know that being out of work for four weeks or more can actually effect people's mental health, even if the original reason for ill health was a physical one."
Labour has condemned the proposals.
The shadow health secretary and Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham is set to condemn the approach.
Speaking at a campaign rally, he's expected to say: "It's clear that Iain Duncan Smith is now preparing a new attack on disabled people".
"Talk of cutting support for people who are simply not able to work will strike fear into the hearts of many vulnerable people.
"The cruel and crude approach of the Tories has already driven many people to despair and this new drive will cause even more anxiety."
The Work Capability Assessment has been controversial since it was introduced under Labour.
It was planned to reduce the number on incapacity benefits by one million, but since 2010 there has been a fall of just 90,000.
Warren East, 51, is to step down on 1 July and will be replaced by Simon Segars, the current group president at the Cambridge-based company.
Mr East joined Arm in 1994 to establish its consulting business and became chief executive in 2001.
He said that now was the time for a change at the top.
"Arm is a great company with a strong market position and a unique culture," he said.
"We take a very long-term view about our business, and we believe that now is the right time to bring in new leadership, to execute on the next phase of growth and to plan even further into the future."
Under Mr East's tenure Arm has become the provider of processor technology for nearly all mobile phones and many other consumer and industrial electronic devices in use today.
The company develops designs that are licensed to customers and receives royalty payments every time devices with its chips are made by its clients.
In the last 12 years it has received royalties for over 40 billion Arm chips and the company's share price has risen threefold.
Arm chairman John Buchanan said: "Warren has transformed Arm during his time as chief executive."
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There may not be many tears shed for the 28-year-old athlete, by those who question that he was convicted of manslaughter, not murder but an appeal on that matter is due in November and it will be up to the judges to decide.
But what happens in the next few weeks, possibly months, regarding the release of the world famous athlete into house arrest, could have far reaching consequences for thousands of other inmates.
It could also create an administrative nightmare for the 52 parole boards, charged with deciding the fate of prisoners in South Africa's packed jails.
An overwhelming number of experts agree that the minister has a "valid legal point" in challenging the timing and mechanics of how the decision to release Pistorius was reached.
But how much did political expediency play a part?
Was the minister merely political point scoring by announcing his objection three days before Pistorius was due to be released, making himself available to the press on what would have been Reeva Steenkamp's 32nd birthday?
It begs the question: if Pistorius was not a high profile prisoner, would the minister have bothered?
At stake is whether the champion athlete nick named the "blade runner" was given preferential treatment over more than 3,000 other inmates considered for correctional supervision.
Was the decision, made in June - two months before he had served his mandatory one sixth of his sentence - premature?
It has emerged that the demands of a women's lobby group, (with close links to the ruling party's African National Congress (ANC) Women's League) who presented a petition to review the decision on the grounds of "sensitivity", were initially ignored by South Africa's justice department.
They then resurfaced just days before Pistorius was due for release on 21 August.
Did the minister spot a photo opportunity, some mutter, cynically?
Jacqui Mofokeng, one of he leaders of the Progressive Women's Movement of South Africa, told me it was not a political move on the part of the minister, and played down any suggestions of political leverage her group had applied.
"It was a petition, but it doesn't mean that it was lobbying," she told me.
She said she had spoken to the Steenkamp family the evening the justice minister had made his decision, and said she had their "blessing".
There is no doubt South Africa has a deplorable record when it comes to domestic violence and women's groups have worked tirelessly to raise the profile of what is often a silent issue.
Some 1,024 women were killed in domestic violence incidents last year.
Reeva Steenkamp's family, who are setting up a foundation to draw attention to this form of crime, have found an unlikely ally with the ANC - South Africa's ruling party.
But some fear there is a real danger that the Pistorius case is being used as a political tool with the unintended consequence of causing a log jam in South Africa's already stretched prison system?
Do we care?
Perhaps we should when South Africa's prison population is the eighth highest in the world, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies, and like in many other countries, alternatives to incarceration are being considered by penal authorities in South Africa.
When sentencing Oscar Pistorius last year, Judge Thokozile Masipa explicitly said she wanted to dispel any impression that the champion athlete was being treated differently from other prisoners and that "there was one law for the poor and disadvantaged and another for the rich and famous".
However, the events of last week seem to indicate that the politicians have done exactly the opposite.
Mannie Witz, a barrister who has been watching the Pistorius case closely, says in practice, for inmates who are considered for correctional supervision, the process begins several months before their "time is up".
This is in accordance with regulations.
"If you are going to be released on a particular date, there are a whole load of checks and balances that need to be carried out.
"In practice the way it has always worked is that you have to have this done, before the actual day."
If the review team, called upon by the justice minister to review the decision, finds that in the athlete's case it was premature, "then they will have to review every other case", warns Mr Witz.
That could cause delays of months, in some cases years.
Excessive delays could also prompt human rights challenges in the constitutional court.
The creeping of party politics into legal cases is not a uniquely South African issue, but the Pistorius case has revived concerns among defenders of the country's democratic credentials.
"Politics is not sneaking into South African law it galloping in thunderously," is the view from retired Judge Johann Kriegler, who heads up the lobby group Freedom Under Law, which has repeatedly sounded warnings about "political interference" .
The stalling of Pistorius' release happened on the same week as charges against a senior figure in South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), appointed by President Jacob Zuma, were dropped.
The case of Nomgcobo Jiba occupied hundreds of column inches in the South African newspapers.
It is a complex case, filled with political intrigue which consequently received very little attention from the international media.
But it is an important example of what some see as a worrying trend and the elephant in the corner which the Oscar Pistorius obsession eclipsed.
David Lewis, of the monitoring group Corruption Watch, is among those increasingly concerned about the blurring of lines which separate party politics and state machinery.
He agues that whilst there may have been "gross interference in the organisation and composition and decisions made by prosecuting authorities (such as the NPA) miraculously the judiciary have managed to assert themselves and remain independent".
That should give some comfort to those monitoring the Pistorius "correction supervision" decision, on the look out for political meddling.
A judge leading up a panel of four other experts will review the circumstances of him getting the green light to leave prison on 21 August.
No-one is questioning the independence of that body.
The justice minister's actions in the Pistorius case may have been variously described to me by critics as " distasteful", "clumsy", "crass" and "crude", regardless of where they stand on the murder versus manslaughter verdict.
However, those who watch these matters closely say the spotlight really needs to be refocused on those who - unlike Pistorius - have not yet entered the judicial system, and who may never get their day in court, thanks to friends in high places.
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Leanne Wood said if Plaid wins power in Thursday's election ministers could call a public vote if the UK government refused to negotiate on devolution.
Plaid wants new powers that include policing, income taxes and reforms to the way the Welsh government is funded.
UK ministers' have delayed their further devolution proposals until the summer, after criticism of the plans.
In February, the previous Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb promised "significant changes" to the draft Wales Bill, after claims it was confusing and would leave Welsh ministers with fewer powers.
Plaid Cymru's manifesto states that within days of winning power its ministers would begin urgent talks with the UK government seeking "immediate progress" on implementing constitutional changes.
Speaking on the BBC Radio Wales Good Morning Wales programme, Ms Wood said: "We have a whole raft of things that are yet to be implemented that have got cross-party agreement.
"If people vote for a Plaid Cymru government next Thursday than they will be voting for a mandate for us to implement all of those policies and recommendations, from the Silk Commission and so on, that have already been agreed cross-party.
"The point is that if the UK government refused to consider to negotiate with us - we've got an unwritten constitution [and] all constitutional changes are done by negotiation.
"And we reserve the right to hold a referendum on the principle of making sure that we get the powers we need in this country."
Plaid's manifesto says independence "remains our long-term aspiration" but it can only be achieved "stage by stage".
The last devolution referendum was held in Wales in 2011, in which 63.5% of voters backed giving the assembly direct law-making powers, 14 years after the referendum that established the institution.
The party's 14 MLAs have signed a petition of concern on the measure which is to be debated next Tuesday.
Combined with the 28 signatures already collected by Sinn Féin, the SDLP move means the welfare reform bill will be blocked as it will not get the necessary cross community support.
First Minister Peter Robinson said the move would not help welfare recipients.
"Contrary to the comment in the SDLP's u-turn statement this is not an artificial deadline. If they had the least knowledge of the statutory budgetary timetable, they would know that next week is the deadline," Mr Robinson said.
"Nothing in the SDLP's actions changes the legal timeframe. The budget still looms with Sinn Féin and the SDLP indicating that they will do nothing to avoid £600m of cuts to our public services."
He said the debate would go ahead on Tuesday.
Alliance leader David Ford described the move as "reckless" and says the assembly faces its worst crisis in five years.
"We cannot continue to go around in circles on this issue. The future of Northern Ireland's economy and political institutions are at stake," he said.
Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said Northern Ireland could not "afford to keep on lurching from one political crisis to another on a regular basis if we want this country and its people to prosper".
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan urged all of the parties in the executive "to redouble their efforts in the immediate days ahead to resolve the current impasse over welfare".
Dr McDonnell said his party has tried to be as constructive as possible over the past three days.
"It's over to others now, we have made our views clear.
"Next Tuesday's deadline was artificial and should have been avoided," he said.
It now looks certain that the assembly will reject the welfare reform package negotiated as part of the Stormont House Agreement, unless DUP Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey withdraws the bill.
The DUP has warned that this would lead to a £600m black hole in the budget and a scenario in which the First Minister Peter Robinson believes the Assembly may collapse.
Sinn Féin has welcomed the SDLP's support for a petition of concern. Conor Murphy called on the DUP to withdraw the bill.
Conor Murphy said the DUP should "re-engage" with other executive parties over welfare.
One case is in a man and the other in an older woman. Both have recovered from the infection.
They both have a history of travel to a Zika affected country. The Republic of Ireland's Health and Safety Executive has said the cases are unrelated.
The World Health Organization has declared Zika a global health emergency as it spreads through the Americas.
Zika is carried by mosquitoes and has been linked to thousands of suspected cases of underdeveloped brains.
The HSE said neither of the confirmed cases in Ireland is "at risk of pregnancy".
It said that infection usually results in a mild illness lasting between two and seven days.
The HSE statement advises people who become ill within two weeks of their return to Ireland from an affected area to contact their doctor for assessment.
"The finding of Zika cases in Ireland is not an unexpected event as many other European countries have reported cases as a result of travel to affected areas," it said.
"The Zika virus is a mosquito-borne infection, which isn't harmful in most cases.
"However, it may be harmful for pregnancies, as it's been potentially linked to birth defects, specifically, abnormally small heads [microcephaly]."
The virus is primarily transmitted through mosquito bites, although it can also be sexually transmitted.
The US confirmed the first case of Zika contracted through sexual transmission in Dallas on Tuesday evening.
The 35-year-old was hit on the head by a man who attacked him from behind on Scott's Street in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway.
The victim was taken by ambulance to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary following the incident at about 23:00 on Friday.
He was released from hospital after receiving treatment.
Police have appealed to anyone who has information to come forward.
Sgt Alan Dillon, of Annan police office, said: "From our inquiries so far, two men were seen running away from Scott's Street through Newington Park after the attack.
"Officers are currently checking CCTV in the area and carrying out door-to-door inquiries."
Gillings-Brier, 30 and her husband and coach Dan Brier are due to become parents in August.
Qualification for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, starts in December.
Fellow Briton Ennis-Hill, also 30, became world champion just 13 months after the birth of her son Reggie.
"To see how Jess came back after pregnancy was awesome and hugely inspiring," said Gillings-Brier.
The Isle of Man-born snowboarder is taking advice from Olympic silver medallist and friend Shelley Rudman, who won skeleton World Championship gold for the first time after becoming a mother.
"There's a lot of research being done about how women can potentially come back stronger after pregnancy because of hormones," she said.
Gillings-Brier made her Olympic boardercross debut at the 2006 Games in Turin and achieved her best result at Vancouver 2010, where she was eighth.
She was ninth at the Sochi Games and spent much of the 2014-15 campaign practising freestyle snowboarding techniques to help her favoured event.
Ciaran Thomas Morris was arrested after the incident in the village of Cynwyd, near Corwen.
He admitted possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and affray via video link at Mold Crown Court.
Armed police and negotiators were deployed during the incident in March.
Morris was remanded in custody for sentencing on 5 May.
At the hearing on Friday, he pleaded guilty to possessing an air pistol with intent to cause fear of violence to a police officer and affray between 24 and 27 March.
Defending Morris, Simon Mills stressed that the air pistol was not a prohibited weapon which required a licence.
Prosecutor Emmalyne Downing said that the prosecution was not proceeding with charges of threatening to kill a police officer and damaging a police car.
Judge Philip Hughes warned Morris to expect a custodial sentence.
They will be provided with a "disclosure pack" which "they may consider undermines the conviction in a specific case," a spokesperson said.
Three live cases where Mr Mahmood - dubbed the Fake Sheikh - was due to give evidence have also been dropped.
Mr Mahmood has previously said he used legitimate investigatory methods.
The decision to contact defendants was made after the CPS reviewed prosecutions following the collapse of the trial of former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos in July.
The judge in that case said there were strong grounds for believing that Mr Mahmood had lied at a hearing before the trial started.
Subsequently, in a BBC Panorama investigation, one of Mr Mahmood's former colleagues at the News of the World claimed that they created elaborate stings to target celebrities unfairly.
As a result, former attorney general Lord Goldsmith told the same BBC programme that Mr Mahmood's record needed to be re-examined.
Lawyer Mark Lewis has been contacted by 16 people over possible civil claims against Mr Mahmood, including some not convicted of a crime.
He predicted that payouts to alleged victims if convictions are overturned could be "in financial terms, bigger than phone hacking ever was" because people have "lost their livelihoods, their homes and their incomes".
Mr Mahmood has previously said he has spent his career investigating crime and wrongdoing through legitimate investigatory methods, bringing many individuals to justice.
He said any criticism of him usually came from those he had exposed or people he had worked with who had an "axe to grind".
He is currently suspended from the Sun on Sunday following the collapse of Ms Contostavlos's trial.
A spokeswoman for the Sun said: "We are aware of the CPS statement. Mr Mahmood remains suspended and we are continuing our internal investigation into the matter."
A CPS spokesman said on Thursday that no defendants were currently in custody in cases involving Mr Mahmood.
In three live cases, prosecutors decided there was not a realistic prospect of conviction.
The spokesman added: "We are now considering past cases which resulted in a conviction in criminal courts in England and Wales based on evidence provided by Mr Mahmood, and have identified 25 cases.
"As part of this process, over the coming weeks, CPS Areas will be contacting representatives of the defendants - or defendants themselves as necessary - convicted in these cases in order to provide them with a disclosure pack - details of material which they may consider undermines the conviction in a specific case."
In September, several cases involving evidence from Mr Mahmood were halted.
The CPS offered no evidence against Dr Majeed Ridha and pharmacist Murtaza Gulamhusein, who were accused of illegally supplying an abortion drug.
Leon "Starino" Anderson and co-defendant Ashley Gordon also had drug charges dismissed.
There was no confirmation from the PA. But President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened "unprecedented steps" to end the political division with the rival Hamas movement, which dominates Gaza.
Hamas called Thursday's move "a grave escalation and an act of madness".
Gaza's 1.9 million inhabitants already endure lengthy blackouts.
The United Nations says there is no electricity in the coastal territory for up to 20 hours per day, meaning that basic services are "grinding to a halt".
On Thursday, the Israeli military's Co-ordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat) announced that it had been notified by the PA that payments for electricity supplied to Gaza would stop immediately.
Israel currently provides Gaza with 125MW, which accounts for 55% of the territory's usual electricity supply. Israeli media say the cost is about $11m a month, which Israel deducts from tax revenue collected on behalf of the PA.
Israel does not deal directly with Hamas, which it considers a terrorist organisation.
In 2006, Hamas won Palestinian Legislative Council elections. It reinforced its power in Gaza the following year after a violent rift with Mr Abbas' Fatah faction.
The rival groups agreed to the creation of a unity government in 2014, but it never got off the ground in Gaza.
On 12 April, Mr Abbas said Palestinians faced a "dangerous and tough situation" and that he was "going to take unprecedented steps in the coming days to end the division".
He did not elaborate, but the PA has already cut the salaries of civil servants based in Gaza and taxed Israeli fuel for Gaza's sole power plant.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said the salary cuts would stay in place until Hamas moved towards reconciliation.
"I think there is a golden and historic chance to regain the unity of our people," he said. "Hamas should relinquish control of Gaza."
On 17 April, the Gaza Power Plant, which produced about 30% of the territory's electricity supply, was forced to shut down completely after exhausting its fuel reserves and being unable to replenish them due to a shortage of funds.
Days later, malfunctioning power lines coming from Egypt, which accounts for 15% of the supply, exacerbated the outages.
That left Gaza totally reliant on electricity purchased from Israel.
The UN has expressed particular concern about the impact of the blackouts on Gaza's hospitals, which already rely on back-up generators and whose fuel reserves are expected to be exhausted within days.
The frequency of water supplies to homes has also been reduced, with desalinisation plants operating at a third of their capacity, and wastewater treatment has largely halted, resulting in the discharge of some 110m litres (24m gallons) of raw or poorly-treated sewage into the sea.
Gaza's electricity supply has been also affected by restrictions on the import of goods imposed by Israel as part of a land, sea and air blockade that is now in its 10th year. Egypt is meanwhile blockading Gaza's southern border.
Israel and Egypt maintain the blockades as a measure against attacks by Islamist militants based in Gaza.
Among other issues, it will look at how well sites such as Moneysupermarket, Uswitch and Gocompare can be trusted by their customers.
The CMA says it will look at whether consumers should be made more aware of how such sites earn their commission.
The study will look at all price comparison sites, including broadband, energy, insurance and banking.
Consumers are not always made aware of the cheapest deals on price websites, and usually they cannot switch to such deals immediately.
Companies often pay a fee of about £30 to a site for each new customer they gain.
Analysis: Brian Milligan, personal finance reporter
The CMA study will be seen by many as an opportunity to revisit one of its most controversial decisions. Back in June, its inquiry into the energy market ruled that price comparison sites would no longer be under an obligation to show consumers the cheapest deals.
In other words, such sites only need to show deals on which they are making a commission.
That decision reversed a previous ruling by the energy regulator Ofgem, which said consumers should see all the deals on offer. MPs on the Energy Select Committee have already complained about the U-turn.
While the CMA claims this new inquiry is completely separate, it says it will "see what issues it throws up".
It is now asking for evidence. There will certainly be no shortage of people willing to give it.
Andrea Coscelli, CMA acting chief executive, said: "Digital comparison tools have played a big part in changing markets for the better, bringing new ways of doing things and forcing businesses to up their game.
"Consumers have benefited as choice and access to goods and services have grown."
He said they had been more successful in some sectors than others.
The CMA said it wanted to understand why this was the case and whether more could be done to ensure consumers and businesses can benefit from them more widely.
It will examine four areas:
One energy provider said the CMA was clueless about comparison sites.
Luke Watson, GB Energy managing director, said: "This latest investigation shows that the CMA has no idea what it thinks when it comes to comparison sites.
"It makes a farce of the CMA's energy market review, which handed more power to the comparison sites only a few months ago. Let's not forget some of those sites are also being investigated for anti-competitive practices. I think this is beyond a question of trust; these sites are profit-making machines posing as consumer champions, and they need proper regulation."
A MoneySuperMarket spokesperson said: "We look forward to working with the regulator to provide information and support as its work progresses."
The CMA must announce within six months whether it intends to refer the market for a more in-depth investigation and must publish its report within 12 months.
Margot James, the consumer minister, said: "The government welcomes this market study, as consumers deserve to have access to the best deals and the clear, reliable information they need to make the best decisions."
Two people were seriously hurt and 31 others injured in the explosion at New Ferry, Wirral, on 25 March.
Police have held a 62 year-old from North Wales and 55 year-old from Wirral on suspicion of conspiring to commit arson with intent or recklessness.
More than 100 people were evacuated from their homes after the blast. Ten properties that were badly damaged may have to be demolished.
Youlgrave in Derbyshire was crafted by villager Lynne Nolan in icing with neighbours baking 35 cakes.
Organisers said they had been surprised but delighted by the national media attention the story inspired.
The auction of the cakes raised £3,000 on the night with another £2,000 coming in from donations. All proceeds are going towards the church roof appeal.
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The model consisted of 16 detailed buildings including a pub and church, with the icing alone taking 387 hours to apply.
The cakes have been soaked in whiskey which preserves them for months.
Mrs Nolan, who is a keen cake maker, said: "I think the butcher is my favourite.
"I did it first and it has got black puddings and pork pies and cuts of meat in it."
Ian Bright, one of the team behind the project, said: "We have had a lot of media attention. We have had reporters from lots of papers, TV cameras and of course it has travelled the world on the internet.
"One man who paid £1,000 for some of the cakes promptly donated them back and they will be divided up for elderly and needy people.
"As well as the cake auction money we have had donations from all over the country."
The commission says the EU needs its real economy now more than ever, to underpin growth and boost jobs.
Over the past decades, European companies have moved production to cheaper, developing countries.
It now says it needs to explore ways of boosting EU manufacturing or future competitiveness will be compromised.
The commission hopes to improve the EU's performance in industry by helping to iron out differences within the 27-country single European market that hinder the free movement of goods.
Its says too much of the internal market is regulated either by national technical regulations or not at all.
The commission plans to improve financing for small and medium-sized companies by making it easier for private investors to back them.
One of the sectors it hopes to expand is clean technology, where it says Europe has a dominant world market share in automatic waste separation, where materials can be sorted and recycled by machine.
But Och! I backward cast my e'e.
On prospects drear!
An' forward, tho' I canna see,
I guess an' fear!"
I am uncertain as to whether there is much of the poetic in the soul of the Chancellor. But, still, Gideon was casting both backward and forward in his Budget statement today.
The backward bit came when he transformed an announcement of support for the North Sea oil industry into an excoriating attack upon the SNP.
In a prolonged section - to the sound of his backbenchers jeering in the general direction of the Nationalists - George Osborne said that the tax support announced for the North Sea was only feasible because of "the broad shoulders of the UK."
Reflecting back to the independence referendum, Mr Osborne argued that Scotland was better together with the rest of the UK. Cue growling from said SNP benches.
But there was a look forward as well - to the EU referendum due on June 23. Much of Mr Osborne's budget was aimed at strengthening support for the PM's position in that plebiscite - or, more precisely, avoiding issues which might see that position deteriorate.
The Chancellor is a keen backgammon player. (As am I. Maybe I should challenge him to a match.) He will be aware of the tedious debate as to whether backgammon is a game of skill or chance.
The answer is that, in a single game, chance can allow the beginner to triumph. Over a prolonged series of games, skilled judgement will generally favour the experienced player.
Mr Osborne was playing the long game today. Nothing much to frighten folk - or, again to deploy precision, Conservative back-benchers and supporters. Those who will figure largely in the already fractious EU referendum.
So no increase in fuel duty. No increase in beer, cider or spirits duty. A series of individually tailored announcements, even to the level of a leisure centre in Helensburgh (credited to Ruth Davidson.) Keeping the local lieges happy.
The only exception to that policy would appear to be the sugar tax. Tory folk are wondering whether such a move is intuitively Conservative. Weren't they against new taxes? Weren't they against prescribing for individual lifestyles?
Certainly, sundry naughty MSPs are recalling that Ruth Davidson expressed such views rather forcibly in a previous interview in which her essential "libertarian" soul railed against taxing sugar. Would it, she demanded, be the Curly Wurly next?
Mr Osborne set the announcement in the context of encouraging a healthy outlook. This aspect was reinforced by the plan to divert any revenue raised to school sport in England, with a Barnett consequential chunk for Scotland.
More cynical observers saw the move as a way to mask a tax rise. "It is all about the spondulicks", said one senior politician. Either way, the industry now has two years in which to respond before the tax kicks in.
More generally, though, the Budget was calibrated - at least in part - to enthuse supporters of the PM and thus underline the case for backing him in the EU referendum.
Indeed, Mr Osborne made this point explicitly when he cited the Office for Budget Responsibility as warning of the disruption which might attend Brexit, while stressing that the OBR remained politically neutral.
The income tax moves are particularly intriguing here in Scotland, coming on a day when the Scottish Parliament will endorse the new tax powers en route to Holyrood. Those tax powers will be in play from April 2017.
That means it is open to MSPs to decline to implement the Chancellor's plan to increase the threshold at which higher rate income tax kicks in. Labour and the Liberal Democrats have criticised the scheme - and pointed to their own distinctive tax plans.
The Scottish Conservatives back the Chancellor in line with their argument that Scotland should, at a very minimum, keep pace with the UK tax levies.
And the SNP? John Swinney, the Finance Secretary, told me he was not persuaded of the need to cut the levy upon higher earners at this point - which will be the result of the Chancellor's move. However, he stressed we had to await the detail of his party's proposals.
As forecast, today's Holyrood debate on new powers was relatively tame, although notably consensual. There were even tears, mostly from the presiding officer, as departing MSPs Alex Salmond and Duncan McNeil delivered their final speeches.
Mr Salmond, as is his cheeky way, had a little sting in the tail. It was, he said: "Goodbye from me. For now." He explained later that he meant that he would hope to return in the event that Holyrood became an independent parliament.
PS: I will be conducting a webcast interview with Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, at the end of this week. Could use loads more questions for her. Please respond.
PPS: On the subject of the EU referendum, I chanced this morning to be casually re-reading Roy Hattersley's elegantly droll memoir, Who Goes Home? (Little, Brown, 1995)
Mr Hattersley was a minister, frequently dealing with European matters, when Britain last voted in a European referendum in 1975.
On divisions within Labour, the then governing party, he notes: "The referendum which followed was not an attempt to hide the divisions in the party's ranks. The gulf was too wide and deep to be hidden by any contrivance of that sort."
On the choice confronting voters, he argues: "They put a cross against their prejudices and - most important of all - supported the position taken up by the politicians they supported.
"A referendum campaign with Harold Wilson, Ted Heath, Roy Jenkins, David Steel and (rather reluctantly) Margaret Thatcher on one side and Enoch Powell, Tony Benn, Barbara Castle and Jack Jones of the Transport and General Workers Union on the other can only have one result.
"If we ever have another referendum in this country, it will be decided on much the same, irrelevant and inadequate, considerations".
Liam Lyburd, from Newcastle, was jailed for life for possessing an arsenal of weapons including pipe bombs and a gun.
He had written graphic messages about a planned attack on Newcastle College in 2015, in which he had said "people will die".
A tip-off suggested "potentially harmful items" could be buried in the garden of the house he rented.
Lyburd, then 19, was jailed for a minimum of eight years after a trial heard he was a "significant risk" to the public.
A jury heard he had a "kill bag" containing overalls, a mask, boots and pipe bombs, a Glock pistol and ammunition at his home in Hamilton Place.
In a deleted file recovered from his computer, he had written: "People will die, there's no question about that."
Northumbria Police said they had begun a search of the garden after receiving information that two potentially harmful items may be buried.
A spokesman said: "Officers from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit are currently searching the garden of the property.
"The safety of the public is our priority and so as a precaution police have cordoned off the garden while the search is safely carried out.
"The occupant of the address has been temporarily moved, however no other residents in the area are affected at this point."
Lyburd claimed he had not intended to hurt anyone at Newcastle College.
But sentencing him in September 2015, judge Paul Sloan QC said it could be "a very long time" before he was considered safe enough for release.
After being thrown out of college in 2012, Lyburd retreated into a reclusive online world, rarely leaving his bedroom, and amassed his arsenal using the Dark Web to buy illicit items.
Police said the search of the garden, which includes the use of metal detectors, would continue for several hours.
Friends of 20-year-old Macauley Campbell, known as Mac, have raised £14,000 for the cause in 24 hours.
David, who is from Southampton, said: "My heart goes out to Macauley's family. I sincerely hope I can be part of any tribute put together."
Candlelit vigils have been held at the site of the accident near Romsey.
The campaign to host MacFest in memory of Mr Campbell has been discussed using #MacFest.
Rob da Bank, who set up Bestival, has said he will support the event, as well as BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ Charlie Sloth.
Mr Campbell was driving a Volkswagen Lupo which collided with a BMW on the A3057 between Nursling and Romsey. He was pronounced dead the scene.
Fleur Gollogly, Mr Campbell's girlfriend, said they loved going to festivals together.
She said: "We were really looking forward to seeing Craig David in May.
"We thought we would tweet him and we never thought we would get the response we have had. It's unbelievable.
"To see the support makes it that little bit easier.
"Just like everyone else, I adored him.
"It does give me comfort to be at the flowers and be around his friends and family."
Flowers have been laid at the scene of the accident, as people visit for the vigils.
A family statement said he was "a truly loving and active young man in the prime of his life."
He worked as an apprentice fitter with Sparkes of Totton and he loved sport, especially rugby, his family said.
His brother Luke said: "The support from his friends has been amazing, just goes to show what a much-loved young lad he was."
Patrick Flinders, from Jersey, suffered a fractured skull and was flown to the UK on Sunday with fellow survivor Scott Bennell-Smith, 16, from Cornwall.
Patrick's father said he was a "hero" for trying to fight off the bear that killed Horatio Chapple, 17, on Friday.
Two expedition leaders with "severe" injuries will be flown home later.
Michael "Spike" Reid, 29, from Plymouth and Andrew Ruck, 27, who is from Brighton but lives in Edinburgh, are said to be in a "stable" condition.
The British Schools Exploring Society, a youth development charity which organised the expedition, said in a statement they would be admitted to hospital on arrival.
Mr Reid shot the bear dead, but was also mauled himself.
All four survivors injured in the attack on Spitsbergen island, Norway, had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Tromso.
Patrick's father Terry Flinders said his son was being treated at Southampton General Hospital, while he believed that Scott, from St Mellion, was taken to a hospital in Plymouth.
Mr Flinders said doctors in Southampton had told him that his son suffered a fractured skull and that some of the polar bear's teeth had to be removed from his head during surgery in Norway.
His parents had previously thought he had only been bitten on the arm and swiped in the face by the bear.
Patrick is said to be conscious and lucid and under observation by the medical team at the hospital.
Mr Flinders had earlier said his son had attempted to defend the group, saying he "tried to jump on it and smash the polar bear's nose" when the animal attacked the boys in their tent.
Scott shot but did not kill the bear, which then "went for Patrick, he bit his arm and then just swiped his face and top of his head. And then the same with Scottie," Mr Flinders said.
Referring to a conversation he had with his son, he said: "I told him 'you're a hero here mate, the way you attacked that bear'.
"He said he can't remember doing it, but I suppose it might come back to him later."
Doctors are set to assess Patrick on Monday in a bid to ascertain when he can be transferred home to Jersey.
Scott's father, Peter, said in a statement that Friday was the worst day of his life.
"It will never leave me to think how close Scott came to being killed that day," he said.
"I am so sorry for the loss of his new friend and fellow adventurer, Horatio. It is every parent's worst nightmare."
The family of Horatio paid tribute to him in a statement, describing him as "strong, fearless and kind".
They said Mr Chapple had been "so excited about his plans to be a doctor" and praised his "amazing sense of humour and ability to laugh at himself".
Eton College, where Mr Chapple was a pupil, expressed its deep sadness at the schoolboy's death and offered its condolences to his family and friends.
The attack on the campsite near the Von Post glacier about 25 miles (40km) from Longyearbyen, took place early on Friday.
The BSES, based in west London, organises scientific expeditions to remote areas to develop teamwork and a spirit of adventure. There were 80 people on the trip to Spitsbergen, which had been scheduled to run until 28 August.
Its statement said the eight uninjured members of the group involved in the incident had returned to the UK and were with their families.
The other groups would return on Tuesday, it added.
The search will now shift south to focus on an area 1,800km (1,100 miles) off the west coast of Australia, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss confirmed.
Flight MH370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March with 239 passengers on board.
Officials said they believed the plane had been on autopilot when it crashed.
A 55-page report released by the Australian government concluded that the underwater search for the plane should resume in the new 60,000 sq km area.
An extensive search of the ocean floor was conducted in April after several acoustic pings, initially thought to be from the plane's flight data recorders, were heard. However, officials now believe the pings were not caused by the plane.
"It is highly, highly likely that the aircraft was on autopilot otherwise it could not have followed the orderly path that has been identified through the satellite sightings," Mr Truss said.
Analysis: Refined analysis drives new move, Jonathan Amos, science correspondent, BBC News
The new search area focuses on the "7th arc" - a line through which the analysis suggests the jet had to have crossed as it made a final, brief, connection with ground systems. The interpretation of the data is that this "electronic handshake" was prompted by a power interruption onboard MH370 as its fuel ran down to exhaustion. As auxiliary power came on, the jet tried to log back into the satellite network.
In normal circumstances following such a logon request, there would usually have been additional "chatter" between the network and MH370. That these connections are not seen in the data log are a very strong indication that the jet was in its crash descent.
Several teams within the investigation have been running the numbers; this is not the sole work of the satellite system's operator - Inmarsat.
The collective opinion of several independent teams has therefore arrived at a zone of highest priority covering some 60,000 sq km. Once the ocean floor there is mapped, the investigation team can then summon the best - but also the most appropriate - submersibles in the world to go hunt for sunken wreckage.
The underwater search for the plane was put on hold to allow more time for survey vessels to map the ocean floor.
The new search is due to commence in August and is expected to be completed within a year, Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) chief Martin Dolan confirmed.
Submarines will scour the ocean floor to look for signs of the missing Boeing 777. The area has already been searched by air, and officials say any floating wreckage will have sunk to the ocean floor.
Several teams working independently of each other have reached similar conclusions relating to the new search area, the BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos says.
The search for the missing airliner is already among most expensive in aviation history.
After more than 100 days since the disappearance of the airliner, many of the relatives of the missing passengers have continued to express frustration at the lack of progress in the search.
The firm is accused of giving donations to several non-profit foundations operated by Choi Soon-sil, a confidante of President Park Geun-hye.
The donations were allegedly made in exchange for political support of a controversial merger.
The scandal has led to President Park being impeached last December.
"I deeply apologise to the people for failing to show a positive image because of this incident," Mr Lee told reporters upon arriving on Thursday morning.
Earlier this week two other Samsung executives were interviewed by the special prosecutors, but were treated as witnesses rather than suspects.
The claims against the company circle around a merger between the electronics giant's construction arm, Samsung C&T, and an affiliate firm, Cheil Industries.
Prosecutors allege that Samsung gave €2.8m euros ($3.1m; £2.5m) to a company co-owned by Ms Choi and her daughter, in return for Ms Park's support for the deal.
Lee Jae-yong, also known as Jay Y. Lee, has already given evidence to politicians over the scandal, but this is the first time he has been quizzed as a suspect by investigators.
Connoisseurs of the apology will study this case for years to come. There has now been a string of important people saying they are deeply sorry, even as they profess their innocence of wrong-doing.
On his way into the investigator's office, Jay Y. Lee said he was sorry for portraying a bad image. In the past, President Park said she was sorry - for being too trusting.
And her mentor, Choi Soon-sil, also apologised, saying she had "committed an unpardonable crime". What crime that was though remains unclear - since she also said she was innocent!
Incidentally, Mr Lee has a record of apologies. Four years ago, he took his son out of a school after it was revealed that the boy had a space there meant for the underprivileged (which the son of the acting-head of Samsung clearly is not - in the land where the son always rises, the lad may well end up as the head of the company himself).
There will be more apologies before the current saga is over.
- Grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul, son of current chairman Lee Kun-hee.
- Aged 48, he's spent his entire career in the company and is vice chairman of Samsung Electronics.
- Last year was nominated to join the board of Samsung Electronics - an appointment confirmed on 27 October.
- Widely expected to take overall control of Samsung once his 74-year-old father steps down.
- Critics say his position on the board is due to his birth, not his business experience.
At the parliamentary hearing in December, Samsung admitted giving a total of 20.4bn won (£16m; $17.46m) to the two foundations, but denied seeking favours.
And Mr Lee also confirmed the firm gave a horse and money to help the equestrian career of Ms Choi's daughter, Chung Yoo-ra, something he said he now regretted.
Mr Lee is currently vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics. But since his father, Lee Kun-hee, suffered a heart attack in 2014, he is considered de facto boss of the entire Samsung Group conglomerate.
Politicians voted on 9 December to impeach President Park over the scandal - a decision South Korea's constitutional court has six months to uphold or overturn.
Until then she remains formally president but stripped of her powers, which are handed to the prime minister, a presidential appointee.
Ms Choi is on trial for charges including corruption and coercion.
Ms Park's position began to unravel in October last year when details of her friendship with Ms Choi began to emerge.
They included revelations that the president had allowed her old friend - who holds no government role - to edit political speeches.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of protestors have gathered every weekend in Seoul to demand Ms Park stands down.
Ms Park denies wrongdoing but has apologised for the way she managed her relationship with Ms Choi, who also denies committing criminal offences.
Her mother's home, where Natalia lives, is usually in half-light, because sunlight is not good for burns.
She suffered them twice - serious ones.
When she was three years old, she went to pick up a ball on the road, and got stuck under a car exhaust. Her face was badly burned.
The second one took place 30 years later. A man she had barely even seen before threw a litre of acid over her, burning her face, her arms, her abdomen and one of her legs.
She does not understand why he did it.
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Natalia spent weeks in hospital. She had to go through dozens of operations, and much more surgery lies ahead of her.
She was the victim of one of the most savage acid attacks ever recorded in Colombia - and it has one of the highest number of cases in the world.
On 27 March 2014, Natalia's neighbour Jonathan Vega pretended to be an ex-boyfriend to make her come to the door so he could pour sulphuric acid on her.
"It felt like water", she says of the moment when the acid touched her skin.
"I didn't know what it was. I don't remember a smell, or anything.
"My clothes started to dissolve - then I felt the burning. I went into the house screaming."
Natalia's mother, Julia Gutierrez de Pineres, says: "I almost died that day."
Mrs Gutierrez was with her daughter when she was just three and had to spend five months indoors after the car exhaust burn.
She was also with Natalia through her long recovery after an acid attack that shocked Colombia.
Natalia's main fear was that she might become blind.
"Light bothered me. I couldn't close my eyes because I didn't have eyelids.
"I had to wear some cones so that my eyes got hydrated and to protect my corneas from damage," she says.
Doctors operated on her eyelids about four times and in that process she had to learn how to blink again.
She did not go blind, but even the idea that she could have makes her still very anxious.
She reflects on the case of an Iranian woman who had the chance to blind her attacker in retaliation for taking her eyesight in an acid attack.
The talion law, meaning an eye for an eye, is valid in Iran.
Ameneh Bahrami pardoned the man instead.
Had Natalia been in Ms Bahrami's place, she says, she might have acted differently.
"Revenge is not a way to heal," she says.
But then she says: "If I had been blinded and then given the chance of making that man live through the same suffering I had gone through, I would do it."
She did not have to face that choice.
But having kept her eyesight did force her to face her new self in the mirror - not an easy encounter, by her own account.
"The first time I looked at the mirror I almost died," she says. "I didn't recognise myself. I was a monster.
"I told myself: 'There is no point in going on like this.'"
Natalia suggests she thought about suicide many times.
But with time and repeated operations her face improved, and Natalia got used to looking at her new self.
"My aunt gave me a small magnifying mirror and I always keep that mirror with me.
"We are best friends now," she says with a smile. "I've lost my fear of the mirror."
For some time now, Natalia has been comfortable moving around the streets.
She is an elegant woman and before the interview, she insists I should wait until she has finished applying her make-up.
Before the attack, she did not wear make-up.
The house is full of beautiful masks - on walls, on tables, in Natalia's room.
There are also medical masks, part of her treatment.
She wore them in public for a long time.
But she stopped doing that when a law that toughened the sentences for acid attacks was brought into being. The law is named after her.
She made the decision that same morning.
She was just back from a trip to New York after "spending too much time indoors".
She told herself she looked pretty and it was time to show her face to the world.
Natalia still wears the masks as a treatment.
Not even two years have passed since the attack and she has achieved a remarkable recovery, thanks to the doctors and her willpower.
"I decided to come through and the result of the evolution is visible," she says.
"I have an expression, I've got skin, I've got my features, my eyes, my nose, my mouth.
"Fortunately I didn't lose anything; my neck wasn't burned, which could have been very hard, my chest didn't get burned either; I didn't lose my hands, fingers, ears."
She says than when we see her next year, once she has completed the remaining surgeries, she will be much better.
Advice from Natalia's surgeon in Bogota, Jorge Luis Gaviria:
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There was never more than a frame between the two before Higgins produced a break of 85 to move into a 5-4 lead.
Liang missed a green along the cushion to allow Higgins, who had made three centuries of 119, 104 and 133, to win.
UK Championship winner Neil Robertson had an easier victory as he thrashed an out-of-sorts Marco Fu 6-0.
Fu was ill with a virus on Tuesday and nearly pulled out of the match.
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Robertson will now play world number five Judd Trump in the quarter-final on Friday, which starts at 13:00 GMT.
Higgins faces world champion Stuart Bingham from 19:00 GMT on the same day.
"A lot of players will think it was an easy shot on the green, but I knew it was difficult," said Higgins after his win over Liang.
"It was great to come through. We all know he is a great player. He played great today, stuck in there and potted some unbelievable balls."
He added: "If I play like that I have got a chance against anybody."
It is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Wales, with the Eurocare study ranking Wales 28 out of 29 countries for survival rates.
A cancer centre, a charity and a pharmaceutical firm have joined forces to highlight the importance of early diagnosis.
The Welsh government said an extra £1m will be spent on lung cancer projects.
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, the Cardiff Velindre Cancer Centre and Boehringer Ingleheim have teamed up to increase awareness and to call on the Welsh government and Public Health Wales to improve survival rates.
Welsh rugby legend Jonathan Davies, president of Velindre's fundraising arm, said of Wales' Eurocare ranking: "Just reading that smacks you in the mouth and makes you say: 'Right, we have got to deal with this and sort it'."
Mr Davies, who lost his first wife to cancer, said it is vital people get an early diagnosis.
Symptoms can include shortness of breath, coughing, chest pains and sudden weight loss.
About half of all people with lung cancer in Wales die from the disease within six months of diagnosis and almost three-quarters within a year, the campaign group said.
Lorraine Dallas, director of information at the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, said some people avoid getting checked out as they fear a diagnosis is an inevitable death sentence.
"We have to be really honest in health messaging, we have to be positive. We have to see more that there are incredible, inspiring people who are living with lung cancer and living well," she said.
"It was a life-changing experience," she said. "I stress the importance of following up if you do have a persistent cough or any other symptoms."
She did not even realise at the time that she had been coughing and ended up having half of her lung removed.
"You do get these people who have got this strange attitude of 'I would rather not know'," she added.
Ms Dallas added that, while Wales had a historically high level of lung cancer due to industrial exposure, the progress of other European countries in terms of early diagnosis had not been matched.
Dr Jason Lester, of the Velindre Centre, said e-cigarettes are "undoubtedly" a safer alternative for heavy smokers but added vaping has not yet been shown to be "completely safe".
He said he was "comfortable" with the data cited by the Welsh government in its ban on e-cigarettes in public spaces.
The Welsh Government said more people than ever are surviving cancer in Wales, but acknowledged "more needs to be done to reduce mortality from lung cancer".
"Smoking remains the biggest contributor to death from lung cancer and we all have a responsibility to reducing tobacco use," a spokesperson said.
"As a government, we are making significant efforts to tackle the effects of smoking through our Tobacco Control Action Plan and through measures set out in our Public Health (Wales) Bill.
"Earlier this year, we announced that an additional £1m will be invested in the cancer delivery plan to support projects to improve outcomes for people with lung cancer, including improving public awareness of the disease and a programme of 'pre-habilitation' to get people ready for surgery, helping to maximise the benefits of their treatment."
Andrew Coates, 41, died alongside Polly Connor, 46, after a shed where the fireworks were stored went up in flames on Saturday.
A display was to be staged at a house in Ecclerigg near Windermere following a wedding earlier in the week.
Inquiries into the cause of the explosion, which is not being treated as suspicious, are continuing.
About 70 people had gathered to celebrate the wedding of local insurance boss John Simpson and his partner Nicole Rothwell.
Witnesses said they heard a loud bang at 15:15 BST, followed by smaller explosions.
The fire spread to a neighbouring shed and parked vehicle.
Police said they were working with the fire service, the Health and Safety Executive and Trading Standards to investigate.
Both victims were from Kendal.
Dozens of off-road motorcycles, quad bikes and scooters brought Kirkstall Road, a major route into Leeds, to a standstill.
Riders were also filmed driving on some of the city's busiest shopping streets in scenes likened to the Mad Max films.
West Yorkshire Police has released images of ten men believed to have been involved.
Six men, aged between 22 and 26, and a 29-year-old woman were held on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance after early morning raids across Leeds.
Four motorbikes were seized, with items of equipment also taken.
Videos posted online show bikers riding in convoy, with some pulling wheelies. Others can be seen riding on the pavement during the event, which was organised on social media.
The force said it wanted to identify ten males pictured on security cameras, with inquiries also identifying about 80 registration plates of vehicles involved in the ride.
Leeds City Council has gained an injunction at the County Court which bans anyone from "participating in anti-social driving of motor vehicles" in a group of two or more in a public place in Leeds.
The interim order, which grants power of arrest, also forbids people promoting or organising the anti-social driving of motor vehicles, officers said.
Ch Supt Paul Money, Leeds district commander, said: "The behaviour that was witnessed in the city that night put people's safety at risk, caused unnecessary fear to the public and created an image of lawlessness that we simply cannot allow to go unchecked.
"We hope today's operation and our continuing investigation will send out a very clear message to anyone who is considering arranging or taking part in any such event in the future."
Lord Ahmad said he did not want to "kill merriment", but that he would "look at" the times alcohol was on sale, and passenger screening.
Figures show 442 people were held on suspicion of being drunk at an airport or on a plane in the last two years.
The government said there were no plans to specifically address the issue.
In one recent case a female passenger punched an Easyjet pilot in the face after being ordered to leave an aircraft before take-off from Manchester.
In February, six men on a stag party were arrested by German police after a mid-air brawl caused a Ryanair flight from Luton to Bratislava, Slovakia, to divert to Berlin.
Lord Ahmad said: "If you're a young family travelling on a plane you want to go from point A to B, you don't want to be disrupted.
"I don't think we want to kill merriment altogether, but I think it's important that passengers who board planes are also responsible and have a responsibility to other passengers, and that certainly should be the factor which we bear in mind."
He went on: "In terms of specific regulations of timings of outlets [which sell alcohol] and how they operate, clearly I want to have a look at that."
He also highlighted the value of screening travellers before they boarded planes.
Glasgow and Manchester airports have trialled a scheme with shops selling alcohol in sealed bags in a bid to reduce problems on flights.
Police statistics obtained by the Press Association through Freedom of Information requests showed at least 442 people were held on suspicion of being drunk on a plane or at an airport in the UK between March 2014 and March 2016.
Trade bodies representing UK airlines and airports said such incidents were "a very rare occurrence", but warned they could lead to "serious consequences".
They pointed out that disruption on board an aircraft was an illegal offence which could carry a heavy penalty - including a travel ban, fine, or prison sentence.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority's most recent passenger survey, some 238 million passengers passed through UK airports in 2014.
Earlier this week budget carrier Jet2.com published a code of practice on disruptive passengers following collaboration between airlines, airports, the police and retailers.
The "zero tolerance" approach includes airport shops advising passengers not to drink alcohol they have purchased before or during their flight, and training staff in bars and restaurants to limit or stop the sale of alcohol to prevent or manage disruptive behaviour.
A Department for Transport spokeswoman said: "Airport security is always under review, however there are no plans to specifically address the issue of alcohol at airports."
He moved to Leyton Orient in July 2014 and made 40 appearances for them before leaving in the summer following their relegation from League One.
The 26-year-old had loan spells at Plymouth, Leeds, Sheffield United and Millwall before signing permanently for the Lions in January 2012.
Australia international Lowry had a successful pre-season trial with Blues.
Tomasz Bachta, 29, was found near his home on All Saints Road, Burton upon Trent, on Wednesday and later died.
The men, all from Burton, are due before magistrates in Cannock on Saturday.
Police said the accused are aged 35, 29, 31 and 29. A 33-year-old man who was also charged with murder appeared before magistrates on Friday.
Eight other people arrested in connection with the incident have been bailed pending further inquiries.
The aim is to try to tackle global problems by discussing big issues and planning what action to take.
The leaders of the countries meet every year in a different member country.
G8 stands for Group of Eight and is made up of leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the United States of America.
The leaders of these countries take it in turns to be president of the G8, with the leader of the host country acting as the president that year.
In 2013 David Cameron is president as the summit is being held in Northern Ireland, part of the UK.
The first summit was in 1975 - but back then it was just six countries, known as the G6.
It was formed because of big worldwide money troubles in the early 1970s, which prompted the US to form something called the library group, a meeting of senior financial officials from Europe, Japan and the US.
In 1975, heads of governments became involved and they agreed to meet every year.
The G6 was made up of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and America. It then changed to G7 when Canada joined in 1976 and G8 with Russia in 1998.
The G8 summit is a busy schedule of meetings, statements and photographs for the press.
On the second day of the summit, leaders gather for an informal talk without lots of officials or the media. In the past leaders have discussed issues such as peace in the Middle East, aid for the developing world and how to stop terrorism.
The G8 members can agree on plans and set objectives but they can't force anyone to agree with them. However, the wealth and power of the G8 members means they are often listened to by other countries.
The G8 summit lasts for two days.
Recent summits have seen big protests and sometimes violence, meaning security is very high.
Critics say it's wrong that big countries like China and India are not represented.
There are also no African or Latin American members and some says that the G8 leaders ignore the needs of the wider world.
The 27-year-old is Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's third signing of the summer and the deal includes the option to be made permanent.
Viviano has won six caps for Italy, but is not in their squad for forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.
The signing will provide competition for Arsenal's current keepers, Wojciech Szczesny and Lukasz Fabianski.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will be the happier after they extended their unbeaten league run to 24 games, a feat achieved without Fellaini in the closing stages after he was dismissed for a senseless headbutt on Aguero.
Argentine Aguero came closest for City when he hit the post early on and manager Pep Guardiola was left with an injury concern when keeper Claudio Bravo was taken off on a stretcher after injuring his calf catching a cross in the second half.
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City substitute Gabriel Jesus had a later header correctly ruled out for offside as they remain in fourth place, with United a point behind in fifth as both sides have five games remaining.
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United had 30.8% possession - their lowest figure in a Premier League game since Opta started recording possession in 2003-04.
But Mourinho's side showed all the qualities that have ensured they have remained unbeaten in the Premier League since October to battle their way to a point here.
United spent much of the game on the back foot and almost the entire second half camped in their own territory, but showed the reserves of resilience, organisation and defiance that compensates for their current lack of stardust.
Michael Carrick provided the solid platform and for the most part City were frustrated, with too many efforts off target or lacking the power to trouble United keeper David de Gea.
United carried real threat in the pace of Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial but their midfield lacked the guile to provide the right service.
This result keeps United right in the hunt for the top four as they stand in fifth place, one point behind City and two points behind third-placed Liverpool with a game in hand.
The biggest minus on their night was the crass stupidity of Fellaini, needlessly involved in the incident that saw him thrust his head into the face of Aguero.
Fellaini had been booked 19 seconds earlier for another foul on the City forward and after his red card the Belgian had to be encouraged to leave the field by his team-mates.
This was deja vu for City and Guardiola - so much possession and territory, too little end result.
City created the best chances and effectively spent the second 45 minutes camped in United territory but as on so many occasions this season, including the FA Cup semi-final loss to Arsenal, possession and territory was not turned into scoreline supremacy.
It is a puzzle Guardiola must solve and one which will cause him disquiet given the range of attacking talent at his disposal.
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City are still having to fight for that top four place and Guardiola must hope his side discover a ruthless edge, with the return to fitness of Gabriel Jesus sure to help. The Brazilian, signed last year but unable to play until January, was making his first appearance since he was injured playing against Bournemouth on 13 February.
Vincent Kompany's return to form and fitness has been massive bonus for Manchester City and Guardiola - and the 31-year-old who has captained the club to two Premier League titles looked back to his imperious best against Manchester United.
Kompany gives City's defence added power and assurance, as well as leadership, and illustrated again how much he has been missed as he has battled a succession of injuries.
He played only 33 games in 2014-15 and 22 last season, a total that included only 14 league matches, and this was only his 10th appearance this term as the campaign moves into May.
This was the first time in more than a year Kompany has put together a sequence of three successive games and came after a tough 120 minutes in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final defeat by Arsenal at Wembley.
Kompany is providing quality for the present and may also give Guardiola food for thought when he makes his summer transfer plans, which are almost certain to include a move for another central defender, with Southampton's Virgil van Dijk and Burnley's Michael Keane among those linked with a switch to Etihad Stadium.
Manchester City will climb above Liverpool, who don't play until Monday, if they win at relegation-threatened Middlesbrough on Sunday (14:05 BST), while Manchester United host struggling Swansea City at Old Trafford on the same day (12:00 BST).
Match ends, Manchester City 0, Manchester United 0.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 0, Manchester United 0.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Jesse Lingard.
Foul by Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City).
Eric Bailly (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Substitution, Manchester United. Ashley Young replaces Marcus Rashford.
Offside, Manchester City. Sergio Agüero tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.
Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City).
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ander Herrera (Manchester United).
Substitution, Manchester City. Gabriel Jesus replaces Raheem Sterling.
Substitution, Manchester United. Timothy Fosu-Mensah replaces Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Substitution, Manchester United. Jesse Lingard replaces Anthony Martial.
Substitution, Manchester City. Jesús Navas replaces Leroy Sané.
Substitution, Manchester City. Willy Caballero replaces Claudio Bravo because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Claudio Bravo (Manchester City) because of an injury.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Pablo Zabaleta.
Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Leroy Sané.
Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marcus Rashford (Manchester United).
Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Fernandinho (Manchester City) because of an injury.
Delay in match Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) because of an injury.
Foul by Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City).
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Eric Bailly.
Attempt blocked. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Leroy Sané with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Ander Herrera.
Foul by Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City).
The resolution of a labour dispute in key West Coast ports and the strength of the US dollar pushed imports up.
The dollar, which has risen around 12%, also had an impact, as it makes imports cheaper and exports more expensive.
Food, capital and consumer goods' imports reached record highs in March, while petroleum imports fell to the lowest level on record.
US imports jumped 7.7% while its exports rose by less than 1% in March.
Miguel Rodriguez said rooting out corruption was the only way for the police to regain public trust.
Police corruption is seen as one reason why Venezuela has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
His comments come amid public anger after the murder of Monica Spear.
The popular former beauty queen and her ex-husband, Thomas Berry, were gunned down in their car in front of their five-year-old daughter, who was wounded.
Seven people have been arrested in connection with the crime.
"New police officers will always have some great superiors, well-prepared ones," Mr Rodriguez said at an official ceremony in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
"But they also are going to get some bad eggs. Report them fearlessly because their (corruption) undermines police authority for the Venezuelan people.
"Just give me the information right away, and we will rip the head off that immoral police superior," the minister warned, after giving the officers his mobile number.
The BBC tried to ring the number but calls were not immediately answered.
The murder of Ms Spear, thought to have been a botched robbery, has reignited debate about insecurity in Venezuela.
Experts often cite police corruption as part of the crime crisis; most homicides go unpunished.
Last year, nearly 25,000 people were killed in the South American country, according to the Venezuelan Violence Observatory, a non-governmental organisation.
The government disputes these figures.
On Wednesday, President Nicolas Maduro met the governors of all 23 states and mayors from the most violent cities to co-ordinate action against crime.
He urged all politicians to put their differences aside and work together to end rising violence.
He announced he would act "with an iron fist," saying that the full weight of the law would be brought to bear on the perpetrators of the crime.
The Venezuelan opposition leader and former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles also met Mr Maduro - the first time since last year's disputed election.
Ms Spear and her former partner were buried on Friday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
Hundreds of fans, fellow artists and relatives formed long queues at the cemetery to pay their respect.
The high-tension cable fell on a crowded shack showing the Europa League quarter-final against Anderlecht in the southern city of Calabar.
At least 30 people were taken to hospital by local ambulances and police who arrived quickly at the scene.
English football has a large and passionate following in Nigeria.
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Eyewitnesses describe hearing a loud explosion from an electrical transformer which caused the cable to fall.
One man told local media that the venue had a roof made out of zinc, which transferred the electricity to those inside.
An eyewitness told the BBC he had counted at least 16 bodies at the scene of the accident.
It has been reported that scores of fans managed to escape.
Manchester United has responded by tweeting its condolences to the victims and their families.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has also sent his condolences.
A statement from State House said Mr Buhari was "shocked and saddened" to learn of the tragic event.
The death of "the mostly young victims" the statement adds, "is a big blow not only to their families, but also to the football-loving nation".
Officers across 10 London boroughs are currently involved in a trial using about 1,000 devices, to boost transparency and speed up convictions.
Boris Johnson said he planned to buy another 20,000 body-worn cameras for most officers in the capital by March next year.
The Met Police said the devices would "improve public scrutiny" of officers.
Mr Johnson said: "This is exciting technology that will build trust, help the police do their jobs, and allow the public to hold officers more accountable."
The trial, which started in May 2014, has seen about 6,000 videos uploaded each month, with participating officers saying the cameras demonstrated they could reduce complaints and increase the number of early guilty pleas.
Officers store material from each incident and keep it on file for a month unless it is required for evidential purposes.
Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, said: "For too long our equipment has lagged behind the technology almost everyone has in their pockets to capture events as they unfold.
"Soon, more of our officers will be able to make a record of the very challenging circumstances they are asked to deal with on a daily basis and then demonstrate, more effectively, the reality of policing our capital."
A report from the London Policing Ethics Panel with guidelines on how officers should use the cameras, is due to be published in September.
The new devices will be funded with money raised through the sales of underused police buildings, City Hall said.
The introduction of body cameras followed criticism of the Met over the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot by armed officers in August 2011, sparking riots across England.
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Maldini and doubles partner Stefano Landonio lost 6-1 6-1 to Poland's Tomasz Bednarek and Dutchman David Pel.
The 49-year-old earned a place at the tournament with Landonio, who is also his coach, by winning a qualifier.
The Milan event is part of the Challenger Tour, one tier below the top-level ATP World Tour.
Landonio, 46, was once ranked 975th in the world, and has coached Maldini since he retired from football.
Maldini, capped 126 times by Italy, made his AC Milan debut in 1985, and played his final Serie A match for them in May 2009, a month before his 41st birthday.
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Roseann Browne and Stacey Duff went to the woman's Dundee home looking for Browne's son.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told the victim was bundled into a car after the pair threatened her.
Browne and Duff were each placed on supervision for two years by Sheriff Alastair Carmichael.
They were also given restriction of liberty orders and ordered to carry out unpaid work.
The court heard previously that the victim had managed to dial 999 as the two women broke into her flat but then her phone was taken from her.
Depute fiscal Saima Rasheed told the court: "Neighbours could see and it was clear she did not want to go with them.
"She was put in the middle seat in the back of the car and all the other seats were occupied by the two accused and two males.
"Police asked for the complainer to get out of the car and when she did, she told them to 'get me away from them'.
"Officers entered the building and could see the mortice lock on the door was damaged and found the mobile phone smashed inside on the floor."
Browne, 41, of Cupar, and Duff, 30, of Kirkcaldy, pleaded guilty to a charge of abduction committed on 29 July last year in Dundee.
Not guilty pleas from two male co-accused were accepted by the Crown.
Defence solicitor Gordon Stewart, for Browne, said: "This incident was brought about by her desire to try and trace her son.
"Drink fuelled the situation."
Dewar Spence, representing Duff, said: "The only link between her and this matter was she recently became friendly with the other accused and there was discussion about her friend's son and she was dragged in to it."
Browne was ordered to carry out 210 hours of unpaid work and placed on a 19:00 to 07:00 curfew for nine months.
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The ex-West Yorkshire Police officer was accused of contacting Surrey police before they questioned Savile in 2009 over alleged sexual offences.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said on Saturday that the officer had "no case to answer".
After his death, it became clear Savile was one of the UK's most prolific sexual predators.
West Yorkshire Police was ordered by the IPCC in 2013 to refer the conduct of the officer.
On Saturday, an IPCC spokesman said: "An IPCC investigation has concluded that a former West Yorkshire Police officer has no case to answer over allegations that he "acted on behalf" of Jimmy Savile by inappropriately contacting Surrey Police ahead of a police interview in 2009."
West Yorkshire Police said it had no comment.
Savile was one of Britain's biggest stars, best known for TV favourites like Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It as well as stints on BBC Radio 1.
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A gunman was killed at the scene. Police were initially searching for two additional "potential" gunman but one has since been ruled out.
Shots were reported at 08:20 local time (12:20 GMT), and authorities have sealed off a swathe of south-east Washington DC.
President Barack Obama said he mourned "yet another mass shooting".
Police responded to reports of two additional suspects in the shooting at Washington Navy Yard, but have since cleared one of them, a white male in a tan short-sleeve military-style outfit.
A black male, 40-50 years of age and wearing olive kit and seen carrying a long gun, was still being sought.
Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said 12 people were deceased. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray said four people were wounded in the shooting.
One police officer was shot in the legs and other police officers were injured in other ways.
At least three people including the shot police officer were brought to Washington Hospital Center by helicopter with "severe" gunshot wounds, said chief medical officer Janis Orlowski.
A female civilian was shot in the head and hand, and another woman was being treated for a shoulder wound, she said.
All three were in critical condition but their chances for survival were "very good", Dr Orlowski said.
Authorities said no motive was yet known for the shooting.
The FBI has taken control of the scene and the investigation, Ms Lanier said.
Security around the US Capitol was bolstered following news of the shooting. The US Senate adjourned for the day earlier than scheduled.
The shooting occurred at a building on the Navy Yard campus that serves as the headquarters for the Naval Sea Systems Command, which engineers, purchases, builds and maintains ships and submarines for the Navy.
Eyewitness Patricia Ward reported hearing at least seven shots from inside a cafeteria on Monday morning.
"It just happened so fast… I just ran," she said.
'Unimaginable violence'
Cmdr Tim Jirus was on the fourth floor of the building when he heard shots, he said.
"It sounded like a cap gun as opposed to a real gun," he said. "I feel very lucky to be alive. Someone standing there talking to me got shot. I didn't."
The Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department has instructed family members to reunite at the car park of a nearby baseball stadium.
President Barack Obama has been briefed on the matter by senior aides and has directed federal agencies to co-ordinate their response and investigation efforts.
At the White House, Mr Obama said he mourned "yet another mass shooting" and sent his thoughts and prayers to the victims.
"These are men and women going to work and doing their job," he said. "They know the dangers of serving abroad, but today they face the unimaginable violence that they wouldn't have expected here at home."
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The woman, 19, was found at City Warehouse ApartHotel on Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, at about 06:30 GMT.
Greater Manchester Police said they are concerned about any others who may have taken the pills and have advised them to seek medical attention.
Supt Stephen Howard said: "Even if you took it some hours ago this pill could be seriously harming your health."
The charges relate to alleged "historical" incidents, police in the Australian state of Victoria said on Thursday.
The allegations were made by more than one person, said Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton.
Cardinal Pell has consistently and vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
The Vatican treasurer, who is based in Rome, will be required to face the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on 18 July, police said.
Representatives for the Catholic Church in Australia did not immediately return a request for comment.
Victoria Police made the decision to charge Cardinal Pell after receiving advice from prosecutors last month.
Deputy Commissioner Patton said police "process and procedures" had been no different from any other investigation.
"Cardinal Pell has been treated the same as anyone else in this investigation," he said.
Details of the allegations were not revealed.
The charges were served on Cardinal Pell's legal representatives in Melbourne on Thursday.
Smith's debut In The Lonely Hour passed one million sales in the UK in the past 24 hours, according to the Official Charts Company.
Nielsen Music confirmed that Smith had sold a million copies of his record in the US on Wednesday.
In America, only Sam Smith, Taylor Swift and the Frozen soundtrack have passed the million mark this year.
In The Lonely Hour is the second album to pass a million sales in the UK this year after Ed Sheeran's X, which achieved the figure in November.
Sam Smith told OfficialCharts.com: "Officially sold one million copies of In The Lonely Hour. To say I am ecstatic is a huge understatement.
"Thank you so much to every single person who has purchased my album."
2014 is also the first year since 2011 when more than one album has passed one million sales in the UK.
In 2011, Adele's 21 and 19, Michael Buble's Christmas and Bruno Mars' Doo-Wops & Hooligans all passed the mark.
In The Lonely Hour became the fastest-selling debut album of the year in the UK when it went straight in at number one on the Official Albums Chart in May with first week sales of 102,000.
It spent a second week at the top before returning for another fortnight 12 weeks later.
Sam Smith's album includes number one singles Money On My Mind and Stay With Me, as well as Top 10s I'm Not The Only One (number three) and Like I Can (nine).
Tracks downloaded from his album total 2.48 million, have been streamed 87 million times and viewed on video streaming sites in the UK 48 million times.
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Weeks after details of the US Prism programme first leaked, some of the details of what it entails have been confirmed but others have yet to be clarified, and may not do so for years to come.
What is Prism?
A surveillance system launched in 2007 by the US National Security Agency (NSA).
A leaked Powerpoint presentation, dated April 2013, states that it allows the organisation to "receive" emails, video clips, photos, voice and video calls, social networking details, logins and other data held by a range of US internet firms.
One of the slides names the companies as: Microsoft and its Skype division; Google and its YouTube division; Yahoo; Facebook, AOL, Apple and PalTalk - a lesser known chat service owned by AVM Software.
The presentation says the programme costs $20m (£13m) a year to run and is designed to overcome earlier "constraints" in the NSA's counterterrorism data collection efforts.
Details of the initiative were first published by the Guardian and the Washington Post newspapers on 6 June.
Late that day the US director of national intelligence confirmed the initiative's existence and declassified some information about it.
James Clapper said that there were "strict, court-imposed restrictions" on how the data was handled and that only a "very small fraction" of the information was ever reviewed as most of it was not "responsive" to anti-terrorism efforts.
A 1978 law - the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (Fisa) - had set out the conditions under which a special three-judge court would authorise electronic surveillance if people were believed to be engaged in espionage or planning an attack against the US on behalf of a foreign power.
Following the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration secretly gave the NSA permission to bypass the court and carry out warrantless surveillance of al-Qaeda suspects and others.
After this emerged in 2005, Congress voted to both offer immunity to the firms that had co-operated with the NSA's requests and to make amendments to Fisa.
The relaxation to the rules, introduced in 2008, meant officials could now obtain court orders without having to identify each individual target or detail the specific types of communications they intended to monitor so long as they convinced the court their purpose was to gather "foreign intelligence information".
In addition they no longer had to confirm both the sender and receiver of the messages were outside the US, but now only had to show it was "reasonable" to believe one of the parties was outside the country.
Details of the programme were leaked by Edward Snowden, a 30-year-old who had formerly worked as a technical assistant to the US Central Intelligence Agency.
He has since been charged in the US with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence.
Mr Snowden initially moved to Hong Kong, but its government says he left the city voluntarily on 23 June. There have been conflicting media reports about where he has gone.
Officials say that Prism cannot be used to "intentionally target any US citizen, any other US person, or anyone located within the United States".
According to the Washington Post, the NSA identifies suspect communications using search terms designed to give it a 51% confidence rating that the target is foreign.
The paper says the queries are then checked by the FBI to ensure no US citizen is named as a target.
Once this is done and a suspect identified, it says that anyone that person has contacted or been contacted by can also become subject for review and then, in turn, everyone in the inbox and outbox of this extended group may also be targeted.
On 20 June the Guardian published a document spelling out the precautions the NSA is supposed to take to minimise the risk of inadvertently examining data about US citizens and residents.
It says that if officials discover details about US persons they should either pass them onto domestic law enforcement or destroy them "at the earliest practicable point". The exception to this is if the data is encrypted.
But some experts have questioned whether such safeguards are effective.
"The only way you can be reasonably be sure that somebody is a resident of a particular country from their email is to go and read all of their stuff," says Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory.
"The NSA appears to be claiming magical powers for itself with claims it can search automatically through large numbers of webmail inboxes and pull out the right material, because even the webmail companies have said in most cases they can't figure out the nationality, residence and domicile of a user without getting a person to look through their stuff."
Even assuming the NSA checks are adequate, that still leaves overseas residents who use services provided by the named tech companies as potential targets.
President Barack Obama has sought to offer reassurance by saying US security services are not "rifling through the ordinary emails" of German, French or other citizens, but are rather following a "circumscribed, narrow system".
One of the leaked slides says that "collection [of data was] directly from the servers" of the US tech firms.
Initial reports suggested that the NSA did in fact extract the data via special equipment they had installed on the companies' computers which acted as a "back door".
However, the tech firms issued statements denying that they provided "direct access".
The New York Times then suggested that the companies had created the digital equivalent of "locked mailboxes" - secure areas on their networks onto which they copied the requested files for the agency to inspect.
However, Google later denied this in an interview with Wired magazine.
It said it had complied with court-ordered requests by either sending data over secure FTP (file transfer protocol) - an encrypted transmission sent from its computers to the authorities' - or by physically handing over the information "in person".
The other tech firms have not been as specific.
Although several of the tech firms involved said they had never heard of Prism before the newspaper reports, they have provided limited information about how they handle national security requests.
Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Facebook have all published figures giving a rough indication of the total number of requests they have received from law enforcement agencies over a period of time.
However, they say they are not able to provide a figure for Fisa-related requests alone as this data remains classified.
By contrast, Google declines to provide an aggregated figure saying this would mark a "step back" for its users.
The firm already sub-divides the different kinds of government requests it receives into different groups - including the number of national security-related letters received from the FBI.
Its figures do not include requests from the NSA. It says to do so would involve "lumping together" the Fisa requests with those related to other cases which it says would be less transparent.
Security researcher Ashkan Soltani has posted a blog saying there are still five key unanswered questions about Prism:
NSA director Keith Alexander says that his agency's communication surveillance programmes have helped prevent more than 50 "potential terrorist events" since 9/11.
He adds that at least 10 of those had been set to take place in the US, but says that some details need to remain classified to ensure the efforts remained effective.
President Obama adds that: "You can't have 100% security, and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience."
The Guardian says it has obtained official documents that state "special programmes for GCHQ exist for focused Prism processing" - suggesting that spies at the UK's Government Communications Headquarters are making use of data sourced from the US tech firms.
The newspaper says that in the year to May 2012, the British agency was able to generate 197 intelligence reports as a result. These would normally be passed on to the MI5 and MI6 intelligence agencies, it says.
Foreign Secretary William Hague says that law-abiding citizens have "nothing to be worried about".
The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg adds that there are "exacting checks and balances in the way in which all intelligence agencies access information".
But Labour's shadow defence secretary Douglas Alexander says the government needs to be more open about the subject.
Professor Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity consultant who has worked for the UK government, suggests at the very least it should put limits on how long the information can be stored.
"Regimes do change and you don't want your data to be misused by any future government," he says.
"The key to that is how long the data is kept for. The reassurance needs to be that the data is not kept for any more than a reasonable amount of time - perhaps a couple of years."
Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee says it will receive a full report on the matter from GCHQ shortly and will then decide what action to take.
The EU's justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, says she has concerns that firms complying with Prism-related requests might be handing over data in breach of European citizens' data privacy rights.
As a consequence the US has agreed to set up a joint working group to examine the issue.
China's government says it is "gravely concerned" by other recently disclosed US "cyber attacks" on its citizens. The country's official news agency, Xinhua, says the affair proves the US is the "biggest villain in our age" while the South China Morning Post accuses Washington of "hypocrisy".
However, Russian President Vladimir Putin says that this kind of surveillance is "becoming a global phenomenon" and a practical way to fight terrorism.
Freedom Watch, a Florida-based activist group, is suing various government agencies and the tech companies involved, claiming that Prism violates the US constitution.
But the White House says that the programme is legal under the Fisa amendments first passed by Congress in 2008 and then renewed in 2012. These are not due to expire until 2017.
There have, however, been suggestions that US firms could face lawsuits in the EU for complying with the requests.
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has issued a statement saying: "Aspects of US law under which companies can be compelled to provide information to US agencies potentially conflict with European data-protection law, including the UK's own Data Protection Act."
Finland's communications minister Pia Viitanen has also raised concerns.
However, researchers at the University of Amsterdam suggest that national security exemptions mean the firms have a valid legal defence.
Far from it.
The Guardian has published details of another Fisa-sanctioned programme which demanded US phone network provider Verizon hand over phone records belonging to millions of its customers to the NSA. The US director of national intelligence says this was limited to "telephony metadata" including the numbers dialled and length of calls but not the contents of the conversations. Even so, the American Civil Liberties Association has filed a lawsuit against the government claiming it was in breach of the US Constitution.
The leaked Powerpoint slides also point to a separate effort to collect "communications on fibre cables and infrastructure as data flows past", in other words as it travels across the internet. The Guardian has reported that GCHQ is doing something similar as part of a project codenamed Tempora, and says the agency is storing collected data for up to 30 days. Germany's justice minister describes the claims as "nightmarish".
And Reuters has reported that the US government is now the biggest buyer of malware, noting that the NSA declines to comment on its own role in buying such tools because of the "sensitivity" of the topic.
Richard Cox - a security specialist who previously worked in the UK's telecoms industry - warns the appearance of being over-zealous could prove self-defeating.
"Trust is vital - if the intelligence agencies appear to be overstepping the bounds of trust then there will be distrust," he says.
"We need greater oversight of the mechanisms being used so that we know they are being used in accordance with the law and so that we don't have to restrict officials' capabilities which might harm our security."
Several websites have published advice on how to avoid Prism's reach. Suggestions include:
But the University of Cambridge's Prof Anderson says the NSA can still overcome such measures.
"It won't break the encryption, but will put malware on your phone or laptop," he says.
"If you come to the attention of the NSA it will simply compromise the end devices."
Security consultant Prof Woodward agrees a certain amount of paranoia is justified, but adds that concerns need to be put in context.
"You should assume other countries are trying to spy on you - that's what they do," he says.
"Because of the way the internet has developed much of it is based in the States, so Americans have a prime opportunity.
"One of the comforts that the British have about the Americans and vice-versa is that we've been working hand-in-glove since 1946 sharing the material.
"But this doesn't mean the British intelligence services can get round local legislation and go to the Americans for information they've gathered on a UK citizen.
"That is still illegal. If they want information collected by an ally they still have to go through the legal process."
The 23-year-old has made 19 appearances in all competitions for Michael Appleton's side this season, scoring one goal.
Ruffels, a former Coventry City trainee, was previously out of contract this summer.
The U's travel to Luton Town on Wednesday in the last four of the EFL Trophy.
The proposals for North Wales Hospital in Denbigh have been put forward by Prince's Regeneration Trust.
Denbighshire council won a compulsory purchase order earlier this year from the site's owners amid concerns about the Grade II-listed building.
Freemont (Denbigh) Ltd is expected to retain ownership until early 2017.
Subject to the change of ownership, Denbighshire council plans to hand over the former Victorian asylum to North Wales Buildings Preservation Trust.
It will operate as a not-for-profit organisation raising the money to preserve the listed buildings on the site via its "enabling development" plans, with profits made from the sale of new properties elsewhere on the site.
Freemont bought the hospital site in 2003 following its closure in 1996.
Planning permission was granted in 2006 for a redevelopment scheme but it has since expired and no work was carried out.
In 2015, the council spent £900,000 on emergency repairs in a bid to protect it from deterioration.
Freemont, which is based in the British Virgin Isles, had opposed the compulsory purchase, while Ayub Bhailok, speaking on the company's behalf, called the latest plans "flawed and unsustainable".
On Wednesday, Denbighshire council's planning committee approved the latest proposals.
Ward councillor Colin Hughes said the development would "be very good for the town", bringing an increase in residents and visitors.
"The importance of this development to the future of Denbigh is immeasurable," he said.
"Nothing has happened here apart from deterioration in the last 21 years," he added, referring to the building itself which, he said, had played a large part of people's lives in the past.
"As it is now it is absolutely useless to us."
The killings by members of the Parachute Regiment took place in Ballymurphy over a three-day period in August 1971.
A preliminary inquest hearing has been scheduled for 30 November.
But it will not be completed unless the Coroner's Courts service is given additional funding.
The decision to prioritise the Ballymurphy deaths follows a review of more than 50 so-called legacy inquests, involving more than 90 deaths in some of the most controversial incidents of the Troubles.
They include killings by police officers and soldiers, and others where there are allegations of collusion.
The Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, has written to the families of the Ballymurphy victims informing them that their inquest is deemed to be at an advanced stage of readiness.
Those killed included a mother-of-eight and a priest.
A solicitor representing the families has welcomed the scheduling of a hearing date, but stressed that this does not mean the inquest will be completed at this time.
"The families have received notification that the inquest has been prioritised by the Lord Chief Justice," said Padraig Ó Muirigh.
"However, he was very clear that this doesn't mean that the inquest can be completed at this time.
"He warned earlier this year that legacy inquests can't be completed unless extra funding is made available and that position hasn't changed."
The decision means the Ballymurphy inquest will be among the first to be heard if the Stormont Executive or Westminster government agree to a request from Sir Declan Morgan for additional funding for the coroner's court service.
The Lord Chief Justice has drawn up a five-year plan to hear all outstanding legacy inquests.
It has been estimated that the cost would be at least £10m.
His request for additional funding has been blocked by First Minister Arlene Foster.
The BBC revealed on Thursday that lawyers acting for families of more than 30 people killed in some of the most controversial incidents of the Troubles have launched legal action in an attempt to have the funding released.
They are seeking a court order instructing the Stormont Executive, department of justice and Westminster government to give the Lord Chief Justice the resources he has requested.
A hearing for a judicial review application has been listed for 14 December.
The impressions were made when some of our distant relatives walked together across wet volcanic ash.
Their makers, most likely Australopithecus afarensis, appear to have had a wide range of body sizes.
Scientists say this gives clues to how this ancient species of human lived.
Australopithecus afarensis is one of the longest-lived and best-known early human species.
The fossil of "Lucy", a young adult female who lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago, is perhaps the most famous individual.
The newly discovered footprints may have been made by a male walking with smaller females.
"This novel evidence, taken as a whole with the previous findings, portrays several early hominins moving as a group through the landscape following a volcanic eruption and subsequent rainfall. But there is more," said lead researcher Prof Giorgio Manzi, director of the archaeological project in Tanzania.
"The footprints of one of the new individuals are astonishingly larger than anyone else's in the group, suggesting that he was a large male member of the species.
"In fact, the 165cm stature indicated by his footprints makes him the largest Australopithecus specimen identified to date."
In 1976, preserved footprints thought to be made by Australopithecus were discovered at a site in Laetoli, Tanzania.
At 3.66 million years old, they are the oldest documented bipedal footprint trails.
Now, the discovery of a second set of footprints has been revealed in the journal, eLife.
"Now that we've found a new set of footprints it opens up a completely different window and there could be a number of new possibilities to study what is a photograph in time of the everyday life of this species," said Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi of the University of Florence.
The tracks were found during excavations for a museum only 150m south of the original discovery.
The researchers, based in Italy and Tanzania, think the two sets could belong together, giving clues to the lifestyle of Australopithecus.
"A tentative conclusion is that the group consisted of one male, two or three females, and one or two juveniles, which leads us to believe that the male - and therefore other males in the species - had more than one female mate," said Dr Marco Cherin, director of the school of paleoanthropology at the University of Perugia.
The finding of a male perhaps walking with several females could mean their social structure was "closer to a gorilla-like model than to chimpanzees or modern humans".
In gorillas, one male and a number of females form a mating and child-rearing group.
The study also raises questions about how human feet were made for walking.
Australopithecus were capable of walking upright on two legs, but we don't know how much they resembled modern humans in the way they walked.
Prof Robin Crompton of the University of Liverpool, who is not connected to the study, said the latest footprints will give more information, once statistical work is done.
"Some people have argued that they have a slightly different gait, but I don't think there's any good evidence for that," he told BBC News.
"If humans have been walking the same way as we do now for more or less 3.65 million years, and human ancestors - in another genus - Australopithecus - then that's really fairly exciting."
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Witnesses said the militants opened fire on soldiers after arriving in pick-up trucks. Other reports said they came on motorbikes and on foot.
One report said Malian soldiers fled the attack; another said troops fought back and clashes lasted several hours.
The militants have been fighting the Malian army for a number of years.
The latest phase of the insurgency began after a French-led military intervention in January 2013, aimed at driving out Islamist militants from towns they had seized in northern Mali and declared to be an "Islamic state".
The French military action dispersed but did not destroy the extremists and sporadic attacks have continued.
Nampala is about 550 kilometres (340 miles) north-east of the Malian capital, Bamako.
A defence ministry spokesman said the army had sent reinforcements to Nampala, following the latest attack.
There were conflicting reports on whether the militants had subsequently been expelled or were still present in the town.
The mayor of the neighbouring district of Diabaly, Oumar Diakite, said seven soldiers had been killed.
A military source at the United Nations mission in Mali put the number of deaths at five.
He said the identity of those killed had not been confirmed but "they were all wearing military fatigues".
The attack came less than a month after Mali confirmed it had freed four Islamist militants in exchange for the release of a French hostage, Serge Lazarevic.
Mr Lazarevic was seized by armed men in Mali in 2011 and had been the last French hostage in the region being held by al-Qaeda-linked militants.
Those released in the prisoner exchange included two Malian members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) who allegedly took part in Mr Lazarevic's abduction.
The other two militants released were believed to be a Tunisian and a man from Western Sahara.
Amber Rudd told the Home Affairs Select Committee the inquiry must "look at the historic element of these abuses".
She also said that criticisms from the inquiry's former chairwoman, who wrote to the committee, were "not correct".
Justice Lowell Goddard's letter said the inquiry should focus on current child protection and future changes.
The inquiry was set up in 2014 and announced that 13 initial investigations would look into allegations against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces, public and private institutions and people in the public eye.
It has been beset by problems, and last month Dame Lowell became the third chair to quit the inquiry.
Giving evidence to the committee, Ms Rudd said there would be no review of the inquiry's terms of reference.
"Understanding what happened is so important to getting right what we think is going to help now and in the future," she said.
Asked why she thought Dame Lowell had stepped down from her role, Ms Rudd said she believed "ultimately she found it too lonely, she was a long way from home".
"I never met her, so I can only conclude from what she set out in the letter that she knew what she was doing, because I thought that the letter was pretty well informed about what the issues were and really show that she cared about the issues.
"But she did set out in the letter that she didn't feel she could actually deliver on it," she said.
MPs raised a number of questions about the truth of some of Dame Lowell's criticisms, which included saying the inquiry was under-resourced and that she had felt she did not have enough independence in her role.
Ms Rudd said it was "incorrect" of Dame Lowell to suggest that the inquiry had suffered from "operational difficulties" and a lack of resources, because the inquiry had spent less than it was allocated last year and returned about £2.5m to the Home Office.
"The Home Office and the now-prime minister were always determined to ensure that there were sufficient resources available," she said.
Ms Rudd was also asked to respond to Dame Lowell's comments that she had been "handicapped by not being given a free hand to recruit staff".
The home secretary said the chairperson could "appoint who they want to the inquiry" and encouraged the committee to put the issue to Dame Lowell "if you feel it is of such importance".
Professor Alexis Jay, Dame Lowell's replacement, will be able to reassure the public and survivors, Ms Rudd said, because she is confident the chairwoman aims to "proceed with pace, clarity and confidence" and does not want the inquiry to "go on endlessly".
Ms Rudd added Prof Jay would be paid "substantially less" than the £500,000 a year paid to Dame Lowell, and she promised to disclose the new chairwoman's salary to the committee as soon as it was finalised.
The BBC understands Apple removed the products as part of a wider switch to favour smart home devices compatible with its own HomeKit platform.
However, Apple continues to sell the Thermostat in the UK and across Europe.
Nest is owned by Google, which is developing rival technologies to link "internet of things" kit together.
The search firm announced in May that it was working on Weave - a library of common commands - and Brillo - an Android-based operating system for IoT machines.
Nest's Thermostat can already be controlled via its own iPhone or Android app. The division also promotes its own "Works with Nest" programme, which allows third-party products to communicate with the devices.
Mercedes, LG, Whirlpool and Philips are among firms that have taken advantage of the access this grants to Nest's application programme interfaces (APIs) - the code that controls how different software programmes interact with each other.
By contrast, Apple is promoting HomeKit - its own platform that lets users control and co-ordinate the use of smart home devices via its voice-activated virtual assistant Siri.
The firm requires accessory-makers to prove they have adopted tough encryption standards before it will certify them, and has designed the system to limit the collection of data about who used what and when.
"HomeKit introduces a new way for you to control supported devices in your home... and we've taken great care to make sure that the convenience this enables doesn't come at the expense of your privacy," Apple's website states.
The first products to support the standard began going on sale recently, including a thermostat made by Ecobee and a light dimmer switch from Lutron.
A spokesman for Apple declined to comment about its US sales restrictions, which were first reported by Mashable.
Nest's Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector has also been removed from sale.
But a spokesman for the firm said it expected Apple to stock a next-generation version soon, despite the fact it would not be HomeKit certified. This may be because there are no similar alarms yet available for Apple's platform.
In an interview before Apple's move, Nest's chief executive told the BBC he was confident his firm was already doing enough to protect people's privacy.
"We're taking very much a cross-platform approach," said Tony Fadell.
"Through the Works with Nest programme and the protocols that we use inside, it's going to be a very robust thing.
"At the end of the day though, customers do not buy platforms, they buy products first and foremost.
"So, anybody who is selling a product-like platform or trying to convert you on a platform, they're not going to be successful because that's not where customers start."
Read more of Tony Fadell's interview with the BBC
Buchanan, 25, joined the Scottish Championship club after being released by League One outfit Dunfermline.
He made 36 appearances for Athletic after joining from Airdrieonians last summer.
Gallagher, 24, follows Aitken from Stranraer, where he has spent his whole career, playing 44 times this term.
Both players have signed one-year contracts with the Sons, who appointed Aitken on Wednesday to succeed Ian Murray, who moved to St Mirrern last week.
A 36-year-old male cyclist was thrown from his bike after being struck from behind while travelling west through Eaglesham onto Moors Road on Monday.
He was treated in hospital for back and leg injuries and later discharged.
Police said a 78-year-old man had been reported to the procurator fiscal in connection with alleged road traffic offences.
Tripp was born in Canada but represented Germany, where he coached Eispiraten Crimmitschau before agreeing a deal with the Glasgow outfit.
And he has ambitious plans to make improvements to his pool of players.
"I've had a lot of conversations with friends and people I know - I've got a big list, but there are still plenty of players out there," Tripp said.
"I've got an idea of who I want but whether I can get them or not will be the story at the end. You can't always get what you want, but if we can, then it's a bonus."
Tripp, 40, spent 12 years in Germany and is excited by what awaits him in Glasgow.
"Braehead wanted someone young with good hockey knowledge and I was looking for another challenge," he said.
"I had some opportunities in Germany as well, but when this one came up, it was one I wanted to jump on and take advantage of."
Hampshire, 14 points adrift at the bottom of the table, closed on 319-6 after new opening pair Jimmy Adams (86) and captain Will Smith (67) shared 160.
Michael Carberry, batting at four, made 48, while Barry McCarthy took 2-73.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes, on his return from knee surgery, was named in the Durham side but did not bowl.
For the hosts, in the chasing pack behind leaders Lancashire, a disappointing day that began with asking Hampshire to bat after winning the toss was compounded by the loss of opening bowler Chris Rushworth to a hamstring injury.
In his absence, the medium pace of Keaton Jennings made the breakthrough, enticing an edge from ex-Durham skipper Smith, leading Hampshire in the absence of James Vince on England duty, to end the opening stand.
Adams drove McCarthy to mid-wicket five overs later, but Hampshire continued to progress - Tom Alsop and the recalled Adam Wheater also passed 40, the latter in a stand of 74 in only 15 overs with Carberry.
They took 28 off five overs delivered with the second new ball, but three wickets for 21 runs at the end of the day gave Durham some late solace.
He told MPs this would be "an appropriate means of indicating our sentiments" during the occasion.
There was a "profound dignity through silence," Mr Bercow added.
The silence will last throughout events on Wednesday, covering the procession from Westminster and the ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral.
The chiming of Big Ben, the name often used to describe the Great Bell, the Great Clock and the Elizabeth Tower - clock tower - in the Palace of Westminster, is one of London's most famous sounds.
It has not been silenced as a mark of respect since the funeral of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill in 1965, although it was out of action for repairs for a period during the 1970s.
In a statement to the Commons, Mr Bercow said he had received "direct and indirect representations" over the best way for Parliament to mark the funeral of Lady Thatcher, who died last week aged 87.
He added: "I've considered all of these, but I concluded that the most appropriate means of indicating our sentiments would be for the chimes of Big Ben and the chimes of the Great Clock to be silenced for the duration of the funeral proceedings."
Mr Bercow also said: "I believe there can be a profound dignity and deep respect expressed through silence."
Responding for the government, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said it was a "very dignified and respectful gesture on behalf of Parliament".
"As you know, Lady Thatcher held Parliament in very great reverence in her time both in this House and in the Lords," he said."
Lady Thatcher's children, Sir Mark and Carol Thatcher, said they appreciated the "great honour".
The former prime minister has been accorded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral.
A military rehearsal of the procession took place in central London during the early hours of Monday morning.
On Wednesday, Lady Thatcher's coffin will travel by hearse from the Palace of Westminster to the Church of St Clement Danes - the Central Church of the RAF - on the Strand.
It will then be transferred to the gun carriage and taken in procession to St Paul's Cathedral.
The film - in which Sir Anthony Hopkins made his first appearance as serial killer Hannibal Lecter - was one of 25 new additions announced.
Others include Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, classic Disney animation Bambi and Charlie Chaplin's The Kid.
The titles were chosen from 2,228 films nominated by the public.
Every new addition must be considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant in order to be added to the registry.
Other additions include the 1979 Sally Field film Norma Rae, Robert Rodriguez's 1992 debut feature El Mariachi and the 1953 version of War of the Worlds.
They are joined by such lesser-known titles as A Computer Animated Hand - a one-minute film made in 1972 that is one of the earliest examples of 3D computer animation.
The oldest entries are silent films dating from 1912. One documents the pre-World War I child labour reform movement, while the other is a farce starring comic actor John Bunny.
Gump, which in 1995 won Hanks his second Oscar for best actor, is the most recent of the new additions.
"These films are selected because of their enduring significance to American culture," said James H Billington, who has been the US Congress librarian since 1987.
"Our film heritage must be protected because these cinematic treasures document our history and culture and reflect our hopes and dreams."
Its demise was approved by MPs without a vote this afternoon. The lockstep, for those among you who have better things to do than focus on fiscal devolution, was the clause of the Wales Bill that would have ensured any change in the basic rate of Welsh income tax had to be mirrored by a similar change in the higher or top rate. Our devolution dictionary is here, should you require further assistance.
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb told MPs: "By removing the lockstep we are removing what was widely seen as a deterrent to the Welsh government accepting the devolution of income tax in Wales."
He accused Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones of hiding behind "the self-imposed barrier of funding" in opposing the partial devolution of income tax until Wales gets a better financial settlement from Westminster. Mr Crabb suggested only Colin Jackson was capable of clearing all the hurdles Labour wanted to erect over income tax.
His Labour shadow, Owen Smith, said the UK government had performed a hand-brake U-turn on the lockstep months after it opposed its removal. He suggested that in the light of the Smith Commission report in Scotland there was now a case for going further with the devolution of income tax to Wales.
Mr Crabb said the tax powers transferred by the bill - and the full devolution of income tax - could see the Welsh government becoming responsible for raising around a quarter of the money it spends.
That share will only be reached after a referendum Carwyn Jones appears to be in no hurry to hold. Montgomeryshire Tory MP Glyn Davies suggested Mr Jones was now adding the non-devolution of air passenger duty to the list of hurdles stopping him holding a referendum.
Mr Davies's solution? Ditch the referendum and devolve tax powers if they're proposed in the winning party's (or parties') manifesto in next May's election. Wales Office Minister Alun Cairns gave a non-committal response to Mr Davies's suggestion.
There is sympathy in UK government circles for the tax referendum being a general plebiscite on a wider package of devolved powers but - if the Conservatives are still in power after the election - the more resistant Welsh government ministers appear to the idea of an early referendum the more chance there is of Mr Davies's campaign to scrap the vote being successful.
Its parliamentary journey over, the Wales Bill is expected to receive royal assent and become law early in 2015.
The force area saw one of the biggest increases in England and Wales with 6,491 fined in 2013, compared to 2,181 three years earlier.
The numbers of Dyfed-Powys and Gwent motorists fined by magistrates doubled.
A speed camera in Cardiff generated more than an estimated £800,000 worth of fines in just six months.
According to road safety partnership GoSafe Wales, the speed camera on the junction of the city's Newport Road and Colchester Avenue caught 13,624 speeding motorists and a further 146 running red lights between January and June.
The camera was installed in 2012, but only went into fully commissioned operation earlier this year.
Meanwhile, the number of drivers fined by the courts in the Gwent Police area has almost doubled in five years to 2,486.
In Dyfed-Powys, the number more than doubled to 2,540.
But in North Wales, the number of motorists fined by magistrates almost halved to 1,744 - although this is the highest number for three years.
In total in Wales, 145,892 notices were sent out in 2013, according to Go Safe Wales' annual report.
A total of 41,596 motorists paid fines and nearly half of these involved drivers ending up on speed awareness courses.
The MoJ figures deal with the cases which end up in court and after an initial fall have risen since 2011.
The 115,000 fined for speeding by magistrates is the highest since 2009.
While London saw the most people fined last year, the figure for the Metropolitan Police area has fallen to 7,736 - its lowest level in five years.
In other force areas, the number of offenders has grown by almost 1,000 in both South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and by close to 2,000 in Staffordshire since 2009.
A Department for Transport spokeswoman said: "Speeding can have devastating consequences and it's right that drivers should abide by the speed limit.
"These fines were issued at the discretion of the magistrates and show the number of fines issued is in decline across many police force areas."
The Hangover star plays the physically deformed John Merrick in the play, the true-life story of which inspired David Lynch's Bafta-winning 1980 film.
According to Variety, the actor "gives expressive voice to [a] sensitive human being imprisoned in his own body".
The Hollywood Reporter's critic agreed, calling Cooper "tremendously moving".
According to The Independent, the 39-year-old's work, together with his performance in upcoming Iraq war drama American Sniper, "confirms [his] acting ascendancy is merited".
"What he brings to this production is the weight of years of being stared at as an adult," wrote Ben Brantley in the New York Times.
The role of John Merrick is an important one for Cooper, who has often spoken of how John Hurt's performance in Lynch's film inspired him.
"When I saw the Elephant Man movie that David Lynch directed when I was a kid, it solidified my need to become an actor," he told the BBC last year.
Cooper, who was Oscar-nominated for his roles in Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, previously played Merrick at the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts.
The Broadway staging of that production, wrote David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter, gives "ample evidence of Cooper's personal connection to the material, which goes far beyond technical craft to a place of wrenching empathy".
According to USA Today, Cooper "approaches [the role] with total commitment, not only to reflecting Merrick's physical challenges but also to capturing the character's great sensitivity and wit".
Yet while the actor's "bravura acting" drew praise in Time Out New York, its reviewer felt it did not stop Bernard Pomerance's play being a "clunky chestnut".
Billy Crudup and singer David Bowie are among others to have played Merrick in the piece, which was first staged at the Hampstead Theatre in London in 1977.
The current production, which also stars Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola, runs at New York's Booth Theatre until 15 February.
The demonstrators in Minnesota temporarily closed the international airport and interrupted Christmas shopping at the Mall of America.
Police said a total of 15 people were arrested at both places, mostly for trespassing or obstructing justice.
Protesters are angry over a police shooting of a black man in Minneapolis.
Jamar Clark was shot dead last month by officers responding to an assault complaint, in one of a number of recent incidents around the US.
Hundreds of people took part in the protest at the mall, one of the largest in North America, where Black Lives Matter organisers promised to congregate in defiance of a judge's warning that the shopping centre's owners could legally block the demonstration.
Police and mall security staff were speedily deployed against the protesters, warning that any who did not depart immediately would be arrested. For a while the area surrounding the mall was on lockdown, but most stores were only closed for about an hour.
At one point police described the situation as "very, very dangerous".
The San Francisco Chronicle separately reported that eight protesters blocking southbound traffic on the 101 freeway near the California city's international airport were arrested on Wednesday.
Pictures of the demonstrators on social media showed them holding a sign demanding justice for Mario Woods, a black man shot dead by police who is suspected of a San Francisco stabbing.
Black Lives Matter is a loosely organised movement which was formed following protests over police killings of black men in Ferguson, Missouri, New York and other cities.
Police use of force against African Americans has been an ongoing issue.
Protests have been held nationwide for more than a year after a series of incidents, some of them fatal.
In the first case of its kind, Ofsted is challenging a High Court ruling clearing Al-Hijrah school in Birmingham of unlawful sex discrimination.
The school is resisting the appeal and has sought to block Ofsted's report.
But lawyers for the watchdog say segregation leaves girls "unprepared for life in modern Britain".
In a report last summer, Ofsted ruled that the mixed-sex school was inadequate, saying that its policy of separating the sexes from the age of 10 was discrimination under the 2010 Equality Act.
But in November, High Court judge Mr Justice Jay overruled the inspectors, saying that they had taken an "erroneous" view on an issue "of considerable public importance".
He allowed Ofsted to publish the rest of its inspection report which placed the school into special measures, after inspectors found books in the school library giving tacit approval to domestic violence.
Amanda Spielman, England's Chief Inspector of Schools, who is in court in person, is appealing over the segregation ruling.
Representing Ofsted, Helen Mounfield QC, asked the three appeal judges to rule that Mr Justice Jay "erred in concluding the gender segregation observed in this school is not discriminatory".
She argued that the judge had taken the wrong approach by only considering whether girls at the school were treated less favourably than the boys "as a group".
Instead, he should have asked "whether individual pupils suffered particular detriment which pupils of the opposite sex would not suffer", she said.
"If boys and girls in a school which is registered as a mixed-sex school lose the opportunity to work and socialise confidently with members of the opposite sex, as Ofsted says they should do, they will go into the world unprepared for life in modern Britain where they are expected to be able to work and socialise in mixed-sex environments," she argued.
She said that this type of segregation puts girls at a particular disadvantage because they are "part of a group with the minority of power in society".
It also puts girls and women at a psychological disadvantage in the workplace where "there are more powerful men than women", said Ms Mountfield.
The voluntary aided school, which was maintained by Birmingham City Council at the time of the inspection, admits boys and girls aged four to 16 but completely separates them from Year 5 for lessons, breaks, school trips and school clubs, the court heard.
The original Ofsted report was amended in August last year to reflect the fact that previous inspections had not commented adversely on the segregation.
Lawyers for the school's interim executive board said in a statement they were resisting the appeal, adding: "The board says, as the High Court judge found, that boys and girls are treated entirely equally at the school and there is no bar on separating boys and girls as it has done.
"It points out that Ofsted did not claim that separation was discrimination until 2016."
Martin Chamberlain QC, appearing for the education secretary, said the minister supported Ofsted's application for judicial review.
And Dan Squires QC for the Equality and Human Rights Commission said it was very difficult to ensure in a complex area like education that, where there was segregation, facilities were "separate but equal".
Sir Terence Etherton, Master of the Rolls, who is sitting with Lady Justice Gloster and Lord Justice Beatson, said that if the appeal succeeded "a number of schools" could find themselves operating an unlawful system.
The Department for Education said that the Appeal Court ruling would apply to all schools, not just state schools, as the case is based on the Equalities Act.
A spokesman said: "Mixed schools should only separate children by gender where there is a good reason to do so and they can demonstrate that pupils are not disadvantaged by virtue of gender. We are working with Ofsted on this case to ensure there is clarity on the law on gender segregation in schools."
The case continues on Wednesday.
Cook has not played a one-day international since he was sacked as limited-overs captain in December 2014.
The 32-year-old has scored 503 One-Day Cup runs for Essex this season putting him third in the MVP Rankings.
The top four England-qualified players from both groups get automatic slots.
It is not known if Cook will accept the invitation for the South team, as the dates for the tournament have not been confirmed and it could clash with his England Test commitments.
But the England and Wales Cricket Board said the series would "be watched closely by the England selectors and management in their planning for the 2019 World Cup".
Cook was replaced by Eoin Morgan as England one-day captain less than two months before the 2015 World Cup, after averaging just 27.52 in his final 20 one-dayers.
However, he has been in fine form for Essex this summer, scoring two hundreds and three half-centuries in leading his county side to the top of the One-Day Cup South Group.
Hampshire captain James Vince, who guided South to a 3-0 series victory in the United Arab Emirates in March, has again qualified automatically along with Kent and England Lions opener Daniel Bell-Drummond and Cook's Essex team-mate Ravi Bopara.
Derbyshire all-rounder Shiv Thakor, Durham and England opener Keaton Jennings, Warwickshire batsman Sam Hain and Yorkshire captain Gary Ballance are the automatic picks for the North team.
The 13-man North and South squads will be confirmed at the end of the English domestic season in September.
What is the North v South series?
The three-match series is designed as a warm-up for county cricket's 50-over competition - the Royal London One-Day Cup - as well as helping players prepare for international cricket.
Eight players earn an automatic place on each team - with North represented by players from northern counties and South from southern counties - through the Professional Cricketers' Association's Most Valued Player ratings formula, while the remaining players were chosen by the England selectors.
The PCA MVP rankings system identifies the match-winners and key influencers of games throughout the domestic season.
It takes into account conditions, quality of opposition, captaincy and strike rates as well as runs scored and wickets taken.
Kayden Dunn, of Sneyd Green was on Repington Road on 14 April 2016 when he was struck by a Volvo XC90. He died in hospital five days later.
Shakeeb Zamir, 21, also of Sneyd Green, admitted causing death by careless driving at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court and was sentenced to 12 months in prison.
Following his death, Kayden's mother Tonie said her son was "much loved".
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They were the group's deputy minister of war, who oversaw Mosul's capture in 2014, and a senior military commander, spokesman Peter Cook said.
US-led air strikes have helped Iraqi forces and its allies to push IS back.
An offensive to retake Mosul is seen as the next battle for Iraqi forces.
Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari was a former al-Qaeda member who also led an IS battalion known for using homemade explosives, suicide bombers and mustard gas in its attacks, Mr Cook said in a statement.
Hatim Talib al-Hamduni was a military commander in Mosul and the head of military police in the region, he added.
"Their deaths, along with strikes against other ISIL leaders in the past month, have critically degraded ISIL's leadership experience in Mosul and removed two of their most senior military members in northern Iraq," Mr Cook said, using another acronym for IS.
They were both killed as a result of a "precision strike" on 25 June, he said.
IS launched a sweeping offensive in June 2014, overrunning large areas in northern and western Iraq and eastern Syria, establishing a self-declared "Islamic Caliphate" in the land it captured.
But the Sunni jihadist group has recently lost large parts of the territory it once controlled, including the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi.
Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, has been under IS control since 2014 and the Iraqi army launched an operation in March aiming to retake it.
Two million people lived there before the group took it over.
Researchers estimate Wales only has has around half of the manufacturing capability needed.
There is also concern it faces competition from other big projects like HS2 and Hinkley Point C for construction workers.
A UK Government review is currently being held.
It is looking at the project's feasibility and level of subsidy required and is expected to report in the autumn.
Plans for the huge tidal energy project, with 16 turbines providing power for 120,000 homes for 120 years, were put forward two years ago.
It would involve a five-mile (9.5km) causeway being built out to sea.
This latest report has been put together by Miller Research, Whole Life Consultants and the Construction Industry Training Board and was commissioned by the Welsh Government.
Altogether it forecasts that the lagoon could bring 2,200 jobs in the five years it would take it to be built.
Of these, 1,200 would be in manufacturing but at present, Wales is equipped to provide only 54% of what is needed to make and assemble the lagoon's main components.
However, the report says with sufficient investment to fill the gaps, Wales could, in theory, provide 92% of what is needed.
Another 1,000 construction jobs are forecast as being needed involving 28 different types of work.
But there are concerns "occupational pinch-points" in terms of numbers and skills are "a real risk" in the medium to long term because of competition from other major infrastructure projects.
These include HS2 rail, nuclear power projects Hinkley Point C and Wylfa Newydd and possibly the M4 relief road.
There are also demands for new housing expected in areas including Cardiff and Flintshire.
1,225 manufacturing assembly jobs
54% current capability in Wales
92% potential capability
1,000 construction jobs
0.9% of total Welsh construction demand
Potential skills gaps for the project include plant operators, specialist building repairers, labourers, carpenters, project managers and those with specialist marine skills.
The current estimate is that the construction sector in Wales will need an additional 5,440 workers each year over the next five years to meet expected demand.
The report says this represents 4.7% of employment in Wales, "well above" the 1.7% in the UK as a whole.
It also says the sector has struggled to attract younger people.
It was "critical" there was collaboration and planning over skills which needs to be led by Welsh Government.
Working with colleges and training providers and highlighting needs was "essential to address the risk of skills gaps and shortages that will fuel a rise in project costs and over-runs", it said.
The report adds: "Projects tend to always be built but if the Welsh Government and its stakeholders want to mitigate against the cost of labour rising or over utilisation of imported labour it is important to consider the recommendations," said the report.
On the manufacturing side, the study looks in detail at the turbine and lagoon components needed and how some of it is expected to come from China as well as Wales and the UK.
But there are no Welsh companies currently capable of making large steel castings, such as runner blades and hubs, which are expected to provide work for nearly 200 people for up to 18 months.
There are also no firms in Wales to make forged steel shafts with the potential for 130 jobs.
Just under half of firms interested in supplying the lagoon are in Wales - 35 in the Swansea area.
While investment in the right machinery is "essential", potential workforce gaps include skilled metal fabricators, where there is an "acute shortage" and metal forging.
It says to meet the Tidal Lagoon plans "more people with the right skills are needed in Wales".
"To meet future demand that could arise from not only the Swansea Bay lagoon, but also future lagoons around the Welsh coast, there is a need to start training individuals now, so that they are suitably qualified and experienced to be able to capitalise on the opportunities," it said.
The Welsh Government is expected to respond later.
Tidal Lagoon Power said it was working in partnership with Welsh industry, education and government "to ensure that Wales is ready to squeeze every last drop of opportunity from this for the UK."
The Shrimpers won for the first time in four matches as Jack Payne turned a defender before finishing in the left hand corner after just five minutes.
Conor Hourihane missed a chance to level for the hosts, as his penalty went wide after visiting goalkeeper Daniel Bentley fouled Ashley Fletcher.
Michael Timlin wrapped up Southend's win with a stunning 25-yard strike.
It was a first loss in six league games for the Tykes, who are three points behind Bradford in sixth.
The report on HMP Bedford found almost twice the number of prisoners said it was "easy" to access drugs, compared to a previous inspection in February 2014.
It also discovered incidents of self-harm had almost doubled from 67 to 121.
The Prison Service said it was taking action to address the level of substance misuse at HMP Bedford.
The critical report sets out the findings made by the HM Inspectorate of Prisons in May.
It found that of 72 recommendations made after the prison was last inspected more than two years earlier, only 12 had been achieved and four partially achieved.
The report found the use of drugs previously known as "legal highs" was having a "serious impact" on safety at the prison.
The use of the psychoactive substance Spice - which mimics cannabis - was prevalent, inspectors found.
Details of damaged furniture, graffiti, shortages of clothing and dirty, unscreened showers were also noted.
Peter Clarke, chief inspector of prisons, wrote: "The stark reality is that prisoners told us it was easier to get illegal drugs in the prison than it was to get clothes or sheets.
"Standards in the prison have declined to unacceptable levels.
"I am not suggesting that staff at HMP Bedford are not working hard - they clearly were, and some important things had been put in place to improve things in the future."
The prison held just under 500 male prisoners at the time of the inspection.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said Bedford was "a good example of everything that is wrong with the prison system".
She added: "It is unsafe, overcrowded and understaffed. Prisoners can obtain drugs easily but cannot get essentials such as clothes and sheets."
A Prison Service spokeswoman responded: "Safety in prisons is fundamental to the proper functioning of our justice system and a vital part of our reform plans.
"There are a number of factors, including the availability of psychoactive substances, that must be tackled. We are rolling out mandatory nationwide testing of synthetic drugs, which will help to end the flow of these dangerous drugs into our prisons."
The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a first round pass for the plan to create a safe home for Glasgow's city and university museum collections.
The city council said it would provide access to the city's cultural legacy.
The HLF also confirmed almost £4m in funds for the Battle of Bannockburn visitor centre.
The Kelvin Hall scheme would house a combined 1.5 million treasures from Glasgow's civic collection and from The University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.
Kelvin Hall was home to the city's Museum of Transport, before it moved to its new home at the Riverside Museum.
The hall's international athletics track is also due to close with the opening of the Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. The Glasgow Club leisure facilities would remain at the site.
Councillor George Redmond, chairman of Glasgow Life, which runs arts, sport and leisure services for the city, said: "Glasgow is blessed with an abundance of cultural treasures and by working with our partner organisations, we now have an opportunity to safeguard these collections for future generations.
"At the heart of everything we do is a deep desire to ensure that the public can access their cultural legacy, investing in our shared heritage to increase knowledge and the city's reputation as a global cultural capital."
Prof David Gaimster, director of The Hunterian, said: "Kelvin Hall will deliver The University of Glasgow's strategic vision for The Hunterian as a leading global university museum service setting benchmarks in collections research, teaching, training and public engagement. This ambitious partnership between city and university is a first in the UK cultural sector."
Having been awarded a first round pass, the project now has up to two years to submit fully developed proposals for the grant of £4.8m.
The Battle of Bannockburn project has now received its funding of £3.9m for a state-of-the-art visitor attraction to commemorate the battle's 700th anniversary and its place in the history of Scotland.
National Trust for Scotland chief executive Kate Mavor said: "We are creating a stimulating experience that does this historic place justice and tells the complex story of this crucial battle as accurately as possible.
"It will bring visitors face to face with the realities of medieval warfare as well as setting the battle in the context of conflict in the 21st Century."
A defective immune system in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome leaves people vulnerable to infections and bleeding.
A British and French study, published in JAMA, used tamed HIV to correct the defects.
One child who needed a wheelchair can now move freely, while symptoms have improved in the other patients.
The syndrome affects up to 10 children in every million born and almost exclusively affects boys.
Even tiny bumps and scrapes can lead to wounds that are slow to close in patients. Eczema is common, they face repeat infections including pneumonia as well as some cancers and autoimmune diseases.
It all stems from an error in the genetic code that contains the building instructions for a key element in the immune system - a protein called WAS.
The main treatment is a bone marrow transplant - but that is an option only when the donor is a close tissue match, such as a sibling.
The trial at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in London, and Necker Children's Hospital, in France, removed part of the children's bone marrow.
It was purified in the laboratory to find the cells that regenerate the immune system and a tamed version of HIV was used to "infect" the cells with the correct DNA.
The corrected bone marrow cells were then put back into the children.
In six out of seven boys, the therapy was a success. It reversed symptoms and massively cut the number of nights spent in hospital. One French child with severe autoimmune disease no longer needs a wheelchair.
Another died from a drug-resistant herpes infection acquired before the therapy started.
Daniel Wheeler, who is now 15 and from Bristol, was the first British patient.
His older brother died from the same condition when he was two-and-a-half.
Their mum Sarah told the BBC News website: "Daniel was in and out of hospital, he had frequent infections of ear, chest, flare-ups and bruised joints, lots of operations.
"He was in education as much as we could, we didn't wrap him in cotton wool, but his sickness rate was very high.
"We were anxious. We never knew what would happen in the long-term, we still don't really but, touch wood, it has been a success."
Prof Adrian Thrasher, from Great Ormond Street Hospital, told the BBC News website: "I think it is very significant, it is another clear and powerful demonstration that a gene therapy approach is an effective one.
"And that we can begin to think of these, alongside conventional transplantation, as alternative options particularly where transplant is going to be complicated.
"What we hope, and the evidence is certainly suggestive of this, is that the therapeutic effect will last for a very substantial amount of time, such that the patients should not need another treatment and so therefore we hope that it will be lifelong."
Prof Ian Alexander from the Gene Therapy Research Unit at Sydney's Children's Medical Research Institute in Australia said although the work was promising, it was "still early days".
"The gene therapy field remains in its infancy, with the vast majority of its genuine promise yet to be realised."
By James Gallagher, Health editor, BBC News website
The promise of gene therapy being able to cure a wide range of diseases has never been realised.
All medicine, even paracetamol, has risks and the early days of tinkering with the genetic code threw up huge dangers.
Several trials were abandoned as patients developed leukaemia when the modification turned healthy cells cancerous.
But those trials did show one thing - the underlying principle worked.
Safer methods, such as using modified HIV, have been developed in the past decade. There is now hope that some of the early optimism could soon be justified.
The first commercially available gene therapy was approved in 2012 for people who are unable to properly digest fats.
Gene therapy could be about to come in from the cold.
The biggest tour group to visit the country was welcomed in the southern resort of Nice on Saturday.
Tiens Group president Li Jinyuan booked up 140 hotels in Paris and more than 4,700 rooms in Cannes and Monaco for their trip.
Their holiday included a private viewing of the Louvre museum and a mass visit to the Moulin Rouge cabaret show.
On Friday, Guinness World Records' inspectors watched the group line up on a beach to break the record for the longest "human-made phrase".
Local media say that the group is expected to spend some €13m ($14.6m; £9.5m) in total.
"We have mobilised public services as well as tourism professionals, hotels, restaurants, shops and designer brands," said Christian Mantel, head of tourism development agency Atout France.
"So far everything has gone smoothly, the feedback has been extremely positive," he said, as quoted by the Agence France-Presse news agency.
The tourists have hired 146 buses to drive them around for the duration of their holiday.
The Tiens Group has business interests in a number of fields, including tourism, trade and cosmetics.
He was one of a number of defendants accused of passing documents to Qatar.
Morsi's lawyer told AFP that he had been acquitted of spying in this case, but convicted of leading an illegal organisation.
Six others on trial, including two journalists for the broadcaster al-Jazeera, were sentenced to death.
The two journalists were not in court and were sentenced to death in absentia.
Morsi was deposed in 2013. He has already been given a life sentence and condemned to death in earlier, separate court cases.
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All of the rulings can still be appealed.
They come against a background of scathing criticism of the Egyptian judicial system by international human rights activists.
Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been jailed by Egyptian authorities, most of them supporters of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, since the former president was overthrown following mass protests against his rule.
Al-Jazeera says Ibrahim Helal, its former head of news in Arabic, and Alaa Sablan, who was employed by the news organisation until last year, were among those sentenced to death.
The Doha-based channel also said a journalist with the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Rassd News Network was given a death sentence.
Egyptian authorities have accused al-Jazeera of serving as the mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood and for Morsi. Qatar backed the Brotherhood, and its ruling family partly funds the news channel.
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Matilda, eight, was in a witch's costume when it brushed against a candle at a house in London last year.
"We couldn't put her out," Winkleman told BBC One's Watchdog programme. "Her tights had melted into her skin."
Matilda has had several operations. Her surgeon is calling for tougher fire safety laws on fancy dress outfits.
Winkleman said: "She went up, is the only way I know how to describe it. It was not like fire I had seen before."
She added: "Like if your shirt caught fire or anything I could put it out.
"It was the tights that... they came back to life.
"It was like those horrific birthday candles that you blow out and then they come back."
Accident statistics show that 94 people in England were admitted to hospital as a result of their clothing either igniting or melting last year, of which 21 were children under 18.
Jorge Leon-Vallapalos, who treated Matilda at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, said there was "a mini epidemic" of paediatric burn injuries "in certain periods of the year".
As part of an investigation to be screened on Thursday, Watchdog intends to highlight a legal flaw which classes fancy dress costumes as toys, rather than clothes.
In her interview, Winkleman described how she had bought Matilda the witch's costume in a local supermarket for "five quid" last October.
It caught fire at a neighbour's house while the family were out trick-or-treating.
"I was talking to somebody, and then I just heard her scream," Winkleman said.
"She just screamed 'Mummy' and I turned round and that was that, she was just on fire.
"Everyone was screaming. She was screaming, all the kids there were screaming," Winkleman continued, her voice catching in her throat.
"It feels like she was on fire for hours but the surgeon said that definitely wasn't the case and it was probably just seconds."
Winkleman missed part of last year's series of Strictly Come Dancing following the accident.
Asked if Matilda's injuries were life-threatening, Winkleman replied: "It's life-changing but not life defining.
"It was definitely life-changing for me. I can't remember life before it."
Watchdog has tested the flammability of several costumes bought on the High Street, "with shocking results".
Winkleman said she hoped speaking about her experiences could prevent similar accidents.
"I would like parents to - just on Halloween, just to think about what they're going to put their kids in because I didn't, and it cost us".
Watchdog is on BBC One from 20:00 BST on Thursday, 14 May.
The party said the event was not needed following a decision to hold the main UK conference in Llandudno next spring.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage is still due to visit Swansea on 23 October, as part of his Say No to EU tour.
A ticket website said the conference was cancelled due to a lack of sales, but a UKIP official said the message was incorrect and caused by an administrative error.
An anonymous artist painted gates of the former Muhammad Ali Centre in Birmingham, opened by the former boxer in 1983.
The site is council-owned but managed by community group the Kajans Womens Enterprise in Aston.
The artwork was reported missing on 17 June, said West Midlands Police.
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The painting, that appeared after Muhammad Ali's death, featured the three time world champion with a butterfly, echoing his renowned catchphrase: "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Hermin Macintosh from Kajan Womens Enterprise said: "The creativity of the artist was fantastic so we wanted to save it.
"Ali was a world-class fellow and his contribution went across all cultures and communities, so the mural was for everyone and welcomed by everyone."
The centre had been boarded up since 1998 and Kajans are sifting through ideas from the public about how it should be developed.
"The artist could have gone anywhere but they specifically chose this site because Ali opened it," said Ms Macintosh.
"If there is an opportunity for it to be returned it would be welcomed by everyone."
"They destroyed us," he says. "I'm not going to lie. They smashed us. We got pumped. Getting done by 60 points hurts big-time. It's an experience I don't ever want to feel again. A thing like that sits in you. It's like a rot. It's a rot in the pit of your stomach. You move on to the next game, but you never really forget. Nor should you."
In the aftermath of a horrific defeat you sometimes have to coax the words out of the players who were on the wrong end of it. Not Reid. Destroyed. Smashed. Pumped.
There were others as well. No English language scholar could have been as prolific as Reid was in coming up with different ways of saying thrashed or hammered. The prop could have gone head-to-head with thesaurus.com and he'd have beaten it out the gate.
He wasn't short of perspective either. These Scotland players can't afford to mope - and they're not moping.
They know that a good season is still in their gift if they take care of Italy on Saturday. Not just good, but great - in a Scottish context. We all know the numbers from Twickenham, the stats that will, alas, stand the test of time. But there are others.
Scotland can achieve their highest ever place in the Six Nations if results go their way on the weekend - a bonus point win in Edinburgh, an England win in Dublin and a non-bonus point win for Wales in France. That sequence of events would put Scotland second.
Scotland have never been second in the Six Nations. They've never even had a chance of being second.
They need five points against Italy to pass their all-time Six Nations points total (118 now and 122 last season) and they need two tries against Italy to pass their all-time Six Nations try total (10 now and 11 last season.)
They've scored as many tries in their last nine championship matches as they've done in their previous 20.
England's brilliance tends to obliterate all of that, but it shouldn't. Scotland got it horrifically wrong and England got it thrillingly right. A perfect storm when you add in the injury woes that befell the visitors on the day and in the weeks before.
Scotland travelled south without six players who would have made the 23 and probably five of them would have made the 15. Then they lost more players. It was the rudest awakening for everybody.
Scotland are making definite progress but it's only in the cold light of Saturday that you properly realise that they have a long road to go before they can go toe-to-toe with a fully-loaded England in their backyard. That's not just Scotland either. That's most teams. It was the Scots misfortune to run into a juggernaut last weekend.
"Nobody wants to feel that again," says Reid, but the fact is that most teams that ever achieved anything went through days like that.
In 2001, France lost to Wales and England and shipped 43 points to the former and 48 points to the latter. In 2002 they won the Grand Slam.
We all remember the desperate angst England experienced in trying to win a Slam before they finally did it in 2003. They beat Ireland 42-6 in Dublin to clinch it. That was a sobering day for Irish rugby. They learned from it. The following season they went to Twickenham and won. Ireland went on to win their first Triple Crown in nearly 20 years.
The 2004 season saw Wales concede six tries to Ireland in a thumping defeat. A year later they beat Ireland to win a Grand Slam. Ireland were a mess in 2008 but won a Slam in 2009. They won one match in the 2013 Six Nations - Italy beat them on the final day - but won the championship in 2014 and 2015.
Teams grow up. They develop. They nurse their disappointment and turn it into motivation. That's where Scotland are at now. The final day fireworks will be in Dublin on Saturday, but there's a game to be won and progress to be made at Murrayfield.
If Scotland win - and win well - then this season will be declared as their best in Six Nations history, even allowing for the unmerciful beating in Twickenham. Three wins and a six-point loss in Paris would represent a significant step forward.
"Hopefully we can go out on Saturday and do the whole of Scotland proud," says Reid. "It's not just the players who felt the disappointment after the England game. When you walk down the street and people are pulling you up and telling you they feel gutted it brings it home to you how much this matters.
"Everybody needs to see a reaction. Italy are no mugs at all. They put it up to England, they made life hard for France for a while.
"Everybody saw an England reaction after the Italy game. Everybody saw a Wales reaction after we beat them. Now it's our turn to react. You have to let Twickenham simmer away. You still think about it in the back of your head. You want to forget it, but you also want to keep it there.
"We can't let this season just be frittered away. We've beaten Ireland, we've beaten Wales, we've done OK in Paris on a very difficult day with injuries.
"We need to finish on a high or else we're at the wrong end of the table and that's no good. We know how big this is. Italy have nothing to lose and they have good memories of Murrayfield having won there two years ago. We owe it to the country to perform."
The pastor told the RUC in the 1980s that he abused a boy who was being cared for at the former Bawnmore children's home in north Belfast.
The inquiry also heard from counsel Christine Smith that the former care worker told the RUC in the mid-80s about "other sexual incidents involving other people in the various places" where he worked.
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was told that the police wanted to pursue a prosecution against the man who cannot be named.
However, prosecutors decided against it because the incidents linked to the Bawnmore boy happened 17 years previously.
The man now lives in another part of the world.
The victim only heard about that decision on Monday, more than 30 years later.
He told the inquiry: "I found out today the truth has been told. Thank God I can now put my head to rest with it. Just happy at that."
Another man, a Catholic, also told the inquiry of how a staff member subjected him to sexual and sectarian abuse at Bawnmore.
Clearly distressed on the witness stand, the man wiped away tears and held his head in his hands as details of the alleged abuse he suffered were outlined to the inquiry.
A friend who accompanied the witness shook his head in disbelief as the extent of the abuse was presented.
When asked what should happen now, the witness replied: "I'm not the only one, there are thousands. Just say sorry."
Former Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball was jailed last year after he admitted sexually abusing teenagers and young men.
The Diocese of Truro is working to find out what evidence it has that Ball conducted services in the area.
Bishop Ball's brother, Michael, was a former Bishop of Truro in the 1990s.
An independent review is under way into the way the Church of England responded to the case.
Ball, who has been jailed for 32 months for abusing young men in the 1970s and 1980s, was investigated by police in 1993 and given a caution.
Ball promised to resign as Bishop of Gloucester and "immediately leave the country", but instead continued to officiate as a priest in the Church of England until 2010.
The Bishop of Truro, the Right Reverend Tim Thornton said there was no evidence that the Diocese of Truro gave Peter Ball permission to lead services in Cornwall in the 1990s.
The Bishop said: "We have one or two bits of evidence now where it does appear as if Bishop Peter went and did things which Bishop Michael should have been doing.
"It might be that Bishop Peter thought it was clear that he was being Bishop Peter, and on some occasions might have made it very clear at the beginning that he was there in place of his brother, but it might not have been evident to everybody."
He added that it would have been "a limited number of services in a limited number of churches".
Umpires Paul Baldwin and Nick Cook decided to take an early lunch, but called it off at 14:30 BST.
Middlesex were 419-5 overnight, in reply to Lancashire's 513 all out.
Having started the game joint top with reigning champions Yorkshire, Lancashire now lead the Tykes, who have a game in hand, by nine points.
Middlesex picked up two extra batting bonus points to climb to third, above Durham.
With the match seemingly a stalemate anyway, even without the weather, the overwhelming odds had been on hands being shaken on a draw.
Lancashire, who face Yorkshire at Headingley in the T20 Blast on Friday night, are in Championship action again on Sunday when they play a Nottinghamshire side likely to be strengthened by England fast bowler Stuart Broad, fit-again captain/wicketkeeper Chris Read and new overseas signing Imran Tahir.
Middlesex go to Hove on Friday night to play Sussex in the Blast before heading to Scarborough on Sunday to face Yorkshire in the Championship.
Middlesex coach Richard Scott told BBC Radio London:
"It's frustrating again to lose a day and a bit out of this game. We've had a lot of those this season. But we're really pleased at how we've played. Especially the way that both Nick Gubbins and Stevie Eskinazi batted on Tuesday. They epitomise the skill and spirit in the side at the moment.
"Stevie didn't look at all out of place at number three. He's earned his opportunity because of his performances in the Second XI. He will play again at Scarborough, and he will get a real belief that he can compete at first-class level from this innings.
"Nick looks the real deal and has been very consistent this summer in partnership with Sam Robson at the top of the order.
Lancashire coach Ashley Giles told BBC Radio Manchester:
"That was the flattest wicket we have played on this year. We were heading for a draw here anyway. But, overall, we've got something out of the match and we'll move on.
"With the division very bunched up due to all the weather-affected games we've had, it looks like being an exciting Championship run-in.
"To play here in only his second first-class game was great experience for Matt Parkinson. On a flat pitch like this, the margin for error is so much less. But, ff he is to go on and play at the highest level - and I know he has aspirations to do so - then he's got to learn how to bowl on surfaces like this."
Stung by criticism of its failure to deal with a huge backlog of asylum claims, the then Labour government wanted to demonstrate how it was getting to grips with the problem, by locking up rejected claimants and immigration offenders before sending them back to their home countries.
So we toured the rooms, which looked more like basic student accommodation than anything you would find in a prison, and noted the soft furnishings, library and courtyard.
Some of the tabloid journalists on the trip thought the £100m centre, on a former Ministry of Defence site, was rather cushy.
But the thousands who have been held there since, behind fences and barbed wire, tell a very different story.
Within three months, Yarl's Wood went up in smoke, as fire partially destroyed the building during an outbreak of violence by a group of detainees.
In the years that followed there have been protests, including hunger strikes; allegations of abuse and inappropriate sexual activity by staff; repeated concerns about healthcare; and most recently, examples of the contemptuous attitude which some guards have allegedly shown towards those in their charge, highlighted during undercover filming by Channel 4 News.
Emma Mlotshwa, of the detainee rights group, Medical Justice, says: "It's been a continual cycle of horror stories that have been disbelieved."
Yarl's Wood was the third immigration detention centre to open in 2001, after Dungavel, in south Lanarkshire, and Harmondsworth, near Heathrow Airport.
But unlike Dungavel and Harmondsworth, both of which have had their difficulties, it is Yarl's Wood that has been a consistent source of controversy.
Originally designed to hold 900 immigration detainees, the fire, and subsequent safety concerns, have meant that it has never operated at full capacity: it currently has space for 410 people, the vast majority of them women.
Many of those held at Yarl's Wood have suffered abuse in the past, at the hands of trafficking gangs or in violent relationships, and most are fearful of the future - of the possibility of having to return to their homeland.
In October 2013, the plight of the female detainees prompted Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons, whose remit extends to monitoring conditions in immigration centres, to describe Yarl's Wood as a "sad place".
Following a snap inspection that year, Mr Hardwick said it was "the progress, or lack of it" of the detainees' immigration cases that caused them most stress.
Yarl's Wood detainees aren't there because they have been charged with a criminal offence: they are people, many of them vulnerable, whose claims for asylum or right to stay in Britain have been rejected or are being challenged.
As visitors to Yarl's Wood testify, the centre is filled with an air of uncertainty and anxiety.
Mr Hardwick pointed out that seven women had been detained for more than 12 months, while their cases were processed, including one detainee who'd spent almost four years at Yarl's Wood, due to legal delays and problems obtaining travel documents.
Indeed, Yarl's Wood is far more than a departure lounge before the flight home, as ministers perhaps intended it to be.
The legal battles and procedures that are being played out while the detainees are there are very real.
In the six months before Hardwick's 2013 inspection, only 38% of those detained there were removed from the UK.
A further 9% were transferred to other detention units. The majority, 53%, were released - raising the question as to why they'd been incarcerated at all.
That sense of grievance about being locked up appears to fuel the anger of detainees and undoubtedly contributes to their distress.
Stephen Shaw, a former prison and probation ombudsman, says it is an area he is focusing on in his review of the health and wellbeing of detainees at institutions across the immigration estate, which was commissioned in February by Theresa May, the Home Secretary.
"One of the issues I'm looking at is the impact of the fact of detention, the length of detention and the indeterminacy of detention on physical and mental health," says Mr Shaw.
"There's significant evidence that we've been given which indicates that detention affects physical and mental health in a damaging way."
Shaw's report won't be completed until September, but it's understood he's already been struck by the very high numbers of women in detention who have health problems.
A separate inquiry is looking specifically at Yarl's Wood.
The private firm Serco, which has been awarded an eight-year, £70m contract to continue running the centre, established the review in March when allegations against its staff emerged following the secret Chanel 4 filming.
In a statement at the time, the company said: "Serco works hard to ensure that the highest standards are maintained at Yarl's Wood.
"We recognise that the public needs to be confident that Yarl's Wood is undertaking its difficult role with professionalism, care and humanity.
"This is why we have asked the highly respected former barrister, Kate Lampard CBE, to conduct an independent review of our work at Yarl's Wood."
Lampard's review is also likely to be finalised towards the end of the year, by which time Nick Hardwick will have published his latest Yarl's Wood inspection report.
The findings are keenly awaited, particularly whether his previous recommendation that more female staff be recruited has been acted upon.
September 2003: Inspector of prisons found provision was "not safe".
March 2004: Prisons and probation ombudsman found evidence of a number of racist incidents.
October 2004: Prisons and probation ombudsman found use of sprinklers could have prevented fire damage that resulted from a disturbance among detainees in 2002.
February 2006: Chief inspector of prisons found substantial gaps in services.
2006: Legal Action for Women found that 70% of women had reported rape, nearly half had been detained for more than three months, 57% had no legal representation, and 20% had lawyers who demanded payment in advance.
April 2009: Children's commissioner for England found children held in the detention centre are denied urgent medical treatment, handled violently and left at risk of serious harm.
April 2014: UN's special rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, was barred from Yarl's Wood by the Home Office when she tried to investigate complaints as part of her fact-finding mission into violence against women in the UK.
In 2013, when 58% of custody officers at the mainly female Yarl's Wood were male, Hardwick said the issue needed addressing as a "matter of urgency".
In the meantime, a campaign to close Yarl's Wood is gathering momentum.
Last weekend, several hundred protestors, most of them women, staged a noisy rally outside the centre, tearing down outer fencing, waving placards and shouting: "Shut it down."
The move has high-profile backing - from Lady Helena Kennedy QC; Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty; Natalie Bennett, leader of the Greens - as well as from Conservative MP Richard Fuller, who represents Bedford and Kempston.
But the campaign has broader aims - to improve the overall treatment in Britain of asylum seekers and immigrants: Yarl's Wood has become a symbol for it, which is not what government ministers can have envisaged when we were shown around the gleaming new building back in 2001.
Ms Fernandez, 64, is accused of fraudulently administering state funds in 2015.
The former economy minister, Axel Kiciloff, and the former head of the central bank have also been charged.
Ms Fernandez, who governed from 2007 to 2015, said the case was politically motivated.
The former president already faces unrelated investigations into alleged corruption.
Judge Claudio Bonadio said a total of 15 people would go in trial in connection with the case.
Ms Fernandez is accused of ordering the central bank to sell dollars on the futures market at artificially low prices ahead of a widely expected devaluation of the Argentine peso.
This, the allegation goes, caused Argentina to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
The former leader is also being investigated over alleged corruption but the dollar futures case would be the first to reach the trial phase.
Ms Fernandez won the presidential election in 2007, succeeding her husband, Nestor Kirchner, in the top office.
In 2011 she was re-elected by a landslide.
Unable under Argentine law to stand for a third consecutive term, she backed Daniel Scioli in the 2015 election campaign.
But voters chose the conservative mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, instead.
Ms Fernandez says she has been the target of "political persecution" since Mr Macri came to power.
Using computer-generated augmented reality, the patient can see and move a virtual arm controlled by their stump.
Electric signals from the muscles in the amputated limb "talk" to the computer, allowing real-time movement.
Amputee Ture Johanson says his pain has reduced dramatically thanks to the new computer program, which he now uses regularly in his home.
He now has periods when he is free of pain and he is no longer woken at night by intense periods of pain.
Mr Johanson, who is 73 and lives in Sweden, lost half of his right arm in a car accident 48 years ago.
After a below-elbow amputation he faced daily pain and discomfort emanating from his now missing arm and hand.
Over the decades he has tried numerous therapies, including hypnosis, to no avail.
Within weeks of starting on the augmented reality treatment in Max Ortiz Catalan's clinic at Chalmers University of Technology, his pain has now eased.
"The pain is much less now. I still have it often but it is shorter, for only a few seconds where before it was for minutes.
"And I now feel it only in my little finger and the top of my ring finger. Before it was from my wrist to my little finger."
Mr Johanson says he has noticed other benefits too. He now perceives his phantom hand to be in a resting, relaxed position rather than a clenched fist.
"Can you imagine? For 48 years my hand was in a fist but after some weeks with this training I found that it was different. It was relaxed. It had opened."
Mr Johanson has also learned to control the movements of his phantom hand even when he is not wired up to the computer or watching the virtual limb.
Max Ortiz Catalan, the brains behind the new treatment, says giving the muscles a work-out while being able to watch the actions carried out may be key to the therapy.
"The motor areas in the brain needed for movement of the amputated arm are reactivated, and the patient obtains visual feedback that tricks the brain into believing there is an arm executing such motor commands. He experiences himself as a whole, with the amputated arm back in place."
He says it could also be used as a rehabilitation aid for people who have had a stroke or those with spinal cord injuries.
He had spent 15 days walking the Pennine Way from Edale in Derbyshire and was near the finish in Kirk Yetholm in the Borders when he was injured.
The Borders Search and Rescue Unit (BSARU) was called out to the incident on Saturday night.
One member who lived nearby found the pensioner and he was then taken on a stretcher to safety.
"He's one of that stoic generation," said BSARU's Damon Rodwell.
"Immediately he realised that his walk had come to an abrupt end, he dragged himself into a hollow to escape the blustery wind, wrapped himself in all the spare layers he could muster, took some pain-killers from his first-aid pack and summoned help.
"He was able to give us an accurate grid-reference, which is always a huge help."
Mr Rodwell said the rescue operation had not been a straightforward one.
"The weather was pretty nasty and worsening," he said.
"It took some extremely deft driving by one of our members to get a Landrover as high onto the hill as he did, from where a party of four set off with a light-weight stretcher, followed shortly after by another group of four.
"It was a fairly long and bumpy ride for the casualty over this rough and boggy section, which he bore in good spirits, exchanging banter with the nine BSARU and one Northumberland team members who were doing their best to keep the stretcher moving while trying to avoid sinking into the bog themselves."
Team leader Stuart Fuller-Shapcott described it as a "text-book job".
"We've been busy providing first-aid cover at the various ride-outs that are taking place across our area through the summer, but a genuine life-or-death hill callout reminds us why we all volunteered for mountain rescue in the first place.
"We've done a fair bit of training recently around the Heatherhope Valley, so we knew exactly the best routes onto the hill and the challenges we'd be dealing with in getting our patient down to valley level in safety and relative comfort where we could hand him over to an ambulance crew."
The incident happened on a stretch of motorway between junction 15 at Northampton and the junction 19 M1/M6 interchange on Saturday morning.
The section of road is undergoing work to replace the central barrier.
Northamptonshire Police Safer Roads Team tweeted it was processing offences for the area and the vehicle averaged 113mph over a 1.8-mile stretch.
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A BBC team and some tourists were on the mountain when the explosion happened.
BBC science reporter Rebecca Morelle described the experience of "Running down a mountain pelted by rocks, dodging burning boulders and boiling steam."
Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, it's been erupting for the last three weeks.
Mount Etna erupts a few times a year.
Tyrone Henry, 31, of Phoenix Close, Hackney, has also been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
The detective was shot in the shoulder on Thursday afternoon in Hackney.
Mr Henry is due to appear at Thames Magistrates' Court on Saturday morning.
Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe paid tribute to the officer saying he had shown "great bravery" and that colleagues had described him as "exceptional".
He remains in a stable condition in hospital.
The European Union's latest measures target 12 people involved in Russia's annexation of the peninsula.
Earlier, Ukraine and the EU signed an accord forging closer political ties.
Separately, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe has agreed to send monitors to Ukraine, after Russia dropped objections.
The six-month mission will initially consist of 100 international civilian monitors, who will be employed in nine regions of Ukraine - including the south-eastern areas rocked by violence between pro-Ukraine and pro-Russian activists.
The observers will not go to Crimea but German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the decision was "a step that helps to support our de-escalation efforts".
Western diplomats had blamed Russia for several failed attempt to agree such a mission to help defuse the tense situation.
In Brussels, EU leaders also said they would step up efforts to reduce energy dependency on Russia.
The EU's new sanctions add to an existing list of 21 officials affected by travel bans and asset freezes.
They include Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and two close aides of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Glazyev and Vladislav Surkov.
The speakers of Russia's two houses of parliament, Valentina Matviyenko and Sergei Naryshkin - both at Mr Putin's side as he signed the Crimea law - are also included.
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While the list targets several figures close to the Russian president, it does not hit his inner circle as hard as the sanctions announced by the US on Thursday.
Shares fell sharply in Moscow on Friday as investors assessed the impact of Western sanctions on Russia's economy.
Two credit-rating agencies have now downgraded Russia's outlook from stable to negative.
Visa and Mastercard have also stopped providing services to two Russian financial institutions, Bank Rossiya (hit by US sanctions) and SMP Bank.
The accord signed by the EU and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Brussels on Friday contains the political part of the EU Association Agreement rejected in November by Viktor Yanukovych, who was then Ukraine's president.
That decision triggered violent protests, Mr Yanukovych's eventual overthrow and Russia's subsequent move into Crimea.
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, visiting Kiev the day after meeting Mr Putin in Moscow, urged Ukraine and Russia to hold talks to prevent the crisis spreading.
Ukraine's interim President Olexander Turchynov, after meeting Mr Ban, said Ukraine would never accept "the seizure of its territory".
In a separate development on Friday, Ukrainian police detained the head of the Naftogaz state energy firm, Yevhen Bakulin.
He is accused of embezzling $4bn (£2.4bn) during Mr Yanukovych's time in power.
Officials investigating corruption at Ukraine's agriculture ministry are reported to have seized tens of thousands of dollars in cash.
In Crimea itself, forces allied to Russia have been seizing Ukrainian ships and taking over military bases.
The new authorities in Crimea have invited those serving in the Ukrainian forces on the peninsula to switch sides and join the Russian military.
Mr Putin ordered fireworks displays for Moscow and Crimea on Friday night to celebrate the region becoming part of the Russian Federation.
Russia has put in place travel bans and asset freezes for nine prominent US officials and lawmakers in response to Thursday's announcement of sanctions targeting Mr Putin's allies by President Barack Obama.
Senator John McCain, one of those targeted, joked in a tweet that he would have to cancel his spring break in Siberia.
Mr Putin said Moscow would not retaliate for the latest EU sanctions - although the Russian foreign ministry said there would be a response.
The Tigers slipped into the relegation zone with two games to play following a 2-0 defeat by Sunderland last Saturday.
Maguire has a year left on his current deal, but is said to be interesting Tottenham, Everton and Liverpool.
"Obviously every footballer wants to be playing in the Premier League, myself included," said the 24-year-old.
The former Sheffield United centre-back has featured 28 times in the league this season for Hull, who visit Crystal Palace on Sunday.
"It's probably the greatest league in the world at the moment," he added.
"But I'm totally focused on Hull City staying in the Premier League, so new contracts etc - I'll be discussing those at the end of the season when the football has finished."
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Because of a condition in her legs, Josie, who is a rough collie, was starting to lose the use of her back legs and couldn't go for walks.
A fundraising page collected enough money to buy Josie a frame with wheels.
She's now getting used to moving around with the frame and is enjoying walks again with her owner Kate.
Claire Hitier-Abadie, from Westminster, was hit by near Victoria station on 19 February 2015. She died at the scene next to the Victoria Palace Theatre.
Alan Warwick, 61, from Rayleigh in Essex, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to causing death by careless and inconsiderate driving.
He is due to be sentenced on April 18 at the same court.
French national Mrs Hitier-Abadie, 36, moved from Paris to London last year with her husband Pierre.
Would-be US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may know that better than anyone. She has faced scandal around her husband's affairs, the terrorists attacks in Benghazi, and the use of a personal server to store her emails when she was secretary of state.
Liberals accuse her of being too close to big business, conservatives says she is more liberal than President Obama.
She has always had one steadfast group of supporters though - Wall Street.
The 2016 presidential election is proving a trying time for this longstanding relationship. Wall Street-hating and banker-bashing has been a theme raised by Ms Clinton's Democratic opponent and Republican rivals.
Public disapproval of Wall Street connections is placing her between a rock and hard place; to turn away from money she needs to run her campaign, or risk losing voters fed-up with the Washington/Wall Street bond.
Hillary Clinton's Wall Street ties date back to when her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was in politics.
"She and her husband have been in politics a long time and Wall Street is a big donor for all parties," says Larry Sabato, director of University of Virginia's centre for politics.
Reaching out to Wall Street's deep pocket in the 1990s and early 2000s was seen as a necessity - not a potential blemish.
That changed after the financial crisis. Being seen as friendly with the individuals and institutions that brought down the economy and were never held accountable has been toxic.
"These connections have been a liability since 2008," says Mr Sabato. "President Obama got plenty of Wall Street money too and that wasn't an issue."
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, between 1999 and 2016 Mrs Clinton raised a total of over $400m (£278m) from all donors for her four campaigns (two for senate, two for the president).
The biggest group supporting her throughout that time have been lawyers - many of whom represent big banks and retirees - who are the largest group of donors to nearly every campaign in 2016.
But three of her top five individual donors have been Wall Street banks - Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and JP Morgan.
And throughout her career, donors from the securities and investment sector have donated over $14m, while those classified as working in the finance and commercial banking industry have added another $7.8m.
Her Democratic primary competitor Bernie Sanders relies far more on small donations from individual donors. Nearly three-quarters of Senator Sanders's donations have been under $200, while only 17% of donations to Hillary Clinton have been under $200.
Wall Street does not just donate to Mrs Clinton's campaigns, it also pays her for speeches.
Senator Sanders has raised the issue of speaking fees regularly to argue she has been bought by Wall Street.
"Can you really reform Wall Street when they are spending millions and millions of dollars on campaign contributions, and when they are providing speaker fees to individuals?" he asked during a debate.
Mrs Clinton's recent tax returns and detailed press reports suggest she earned substantial sums giving speeches to big banks up until she launched her presidential campaign. In 2013 she typically received $225,000 per speech.
When asked why she had accepted $675,000 from Goldman Sachs for three speeches, the Democratic front-runner said that was the amount the bank had offered.
Not only does Mrs Clinton have the financial support of Wall Street, she has a lot of personal support from major players.
Goldman Sachs chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, has been a big supporter of hers in the past. Mr Blankfein has not publically endorsed any candidate in the 2016 campaign, saying he fears it might hurt their chances.
JP Morgan chief Jamie Dimon has been a regular contributor to Hillary Clinton and other Democrats for years. Mr Dimon donated the maximum amount to her presidential run in 2008. He and his wife also donated to both Hillary Clinton's senate runs and to Bill Clinton's presidential re-election campaign in 1996.
This time around, Mr Dimon has taken the same approach as Mr Blankfein and has not publically endorsed or donated to a campaign.
Mrs Clinton has argued Wall Street donations never influenced her voting record as a senator, and would not as president.
"You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received," she said during a debate.
That claim is hard to verify because as a senator from New York, Wall Street was one of her constituents.
She has put forward proposals to increase oversight of banks and other financial institutions, including closing a loophole that allows banks to trade taxpayer backed money through hedge funds.
In 2008 she voted for the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform laws, and wrote in an opinion piece that she believed bailout money needed to be accompanied by new stricter regulations.
"The American people deserve to know that this isn't a blank cheque," she wrote.
But in 2008, then Secretary Clinton also said that she supported the bailout because she knew it would help banks and keep jobs in New York.
"I think the banks of New York and our other financial institutions are probably the biggest winners in this [bailout], which is one of the reasons why in the end, despite my serious questions about it, I supported it," she said in a radio interview.
She has the support of former Senator Barney Frank - namesake of the Wall Street reform laws - and also former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Gary Gensler, who made himself unpopular with Wall Street by supporting stricter regulation of derivatives, an investment tool that fuelled the financial crisis.
Mrs Clinton's biggest problem is making the case that she has been, and will continue to be, tough on Wall Street while still relying on them for donations.
So far her criticism of Wall Street behaviour and calls for more regulation have not stopped donations from coming in. Wall Street banks have said they prefer her calm middle of the road attitude to the extreme approaches of other candidates.
Likewise, Mrs Clinton has continued to fundraise from Wall Street donors because she knows the campaign will need the money as the election stretches out.
The question for both is will the relationship put off voters, or can they maintain it all the way to the White House?
Known in Egypt as the black cloud, the dense smoke first appeared over Nile Delta cities and Cairo in 1997. It spread rapidly and now it accounts for 42% of the country's air pollution, according to the Egyptian Environment Ministry.
The smog is partially caused by farmers piling up rice straw and burning it, because they lack the means to transfer the rice straw from their fields to recycling centres.
Over the years, there have been several attempts to tackle the problem.
Amal Taha, head of the environmental awareness department, says the ministry has struck a deal with a local company to use rice straw in cement production.
In a video produced by the ministry, it said that 1.7 million feddans were planted with rice in six governorates that left 3.4 million tonnes of straw. A feddan is an Egyptian unit of area equivalent to 1.038 acres (0.42 hectares). In at least four regions, the ministry is collecting the waste and recycling it into fertiliser and fodder.
"We teach farmers how to deal with the waste to make sure the solutions will be sustainable," Taha says.
The ministry is now also using satellites to locate the spots where the farmers burn the straw. It has increased its ability to receive complaints and information about violations through a host of platforms including WhatsApp, Facebook, its website and a hotline.
Farmers who break the law could face a fine ranging from 5,000-100,000 Egyptian pounds ($316-6,300) and could be jailed in the case of a repeated violation.
But other more creative solutions are yet to be picked up.
An Egyptian teenager who won first place in 2015 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is currently developing her project to utilise the massive amounts of agricultural waste.
"I am trying to put an end to the black cloud and to benefit from it at the same time," Yasmeen Moustafa told the BBC. "I believe that the only way to get rid of the massive amounts of rice straw that we produce is to burn it; this is the fastest and the cheapest way. But the problem is in the polluting gases. So I found a way to use these gases to produce biodiesel, fertilisers, vitamin B and hydropower."
In recognition of her project "Rice Straw Power", Nasa named an asteroid belt discovered in 2000 after her.
Yasmeen says her project began as an inquiry into low-cost techniques for water purification. Along the way, she found that the main material used in the biological filtration process was rice straw.
"We burn the waste with heat levels reaching 1,200 degrees Celsius, with which we can distillate water," she explains. "The emitted gases are then treated separately."
Yasmeen says all the materials needed, like rice straw and algae from stagnant water, are considered natural waste and are cheap. But one limitation to the project's success is the cost of building a plant where the process can take place.
"I am working now on a design to shrink its size so it could be easily used by farmers," she says.
Yasmeen is developing her project to sell it to private companies, and she hopes the government will also adopt her idea.
"I am sure there are several new and creative initiatives. If the government works on the execution of one per year, they would save effort and money and would encourage young inventors," she adds.
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They met Belfast City Council on Wednesday morning in an attempt to allay fears that a dispute over the centre could mean job losses.
The centre is currently closed following the discovery of asbestos.
A legal row over liability began as it was due to be transferred from Castlereagh to Belfast council.
Responsibility for the 38 staff who worked there also transferred to Belfast City Council.
Belfast City Council won leave for a judicial review of the transfer on Tuesday evening.
Belfast council believes its ratepayers should not take on the running of a centre which, it claims, is not fit for purpose.
Representatives from Nipsa and Unite met with the chief executive of Belfast City Council and other senior management on Wednesday.
The union representatives said they had been assured there would be no compulsory redundancies for Robinson centre staff
The unions also said staff have been given leave over Easter on full pay.
Unite's regional officer Davy Edmont said: "All members of staff that were employed directly by Castlereagh council are receiving full jobs and full employment within Belfast City council.
"That's a guarantee we've received this morning from the chief executive."
Alison Morris from Nipsa said: "There's been a commitment that no staff will be made compulsorily redundant.
"All areas will be explored, not just in terms of leisure but across all the new council areas to seek to reassure these staff that they do have a future in Belfast City Council."
Meanwhile, it is understood that Belfast City Council is planning to build a new leisure centre on the site.
At a council meeting on Wednesday evening, it emerged that councillors are considering knocking down the existing centre to build a new one.
About £19m has been set aside for the project, but it is believed that it has not yet received full council approval.
In February, a survey carried out at the Robinson centre found that there was asbestos.
It is that discovery that has led to the wrangle over who should be responsible.
The Robinson leisure centre was part of Castlereagh Borough Council, which under the council changes has become merged with Lisburn to form Lisburn and Castlereagh Council.
The judge on Tuesday ruled that Belfast would not be liable for any claims prior to 1 April 2015.
He also ruled that the new Lisburn and Castlereagh super-council would be responsible for any claims of negligence prior to the handover.
The centre will stay closed until the legal wrangle is resolved.
Lameiras played 69 times for the Sky Blues after joining them in July 2015, scoring seven goals.
The 22-year-old moved to England at the age of 10 to join Tottenham's academy, and signed a professional deal in 2014.
He left Spurs the following year without making a senior appearance and had a short spell playing in Sweden.
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Up to £500,000 is to be cut from North East Lincolnshire Council's library services by 2014/15.
Closures, reduced opening hours or transferring control to voluntary groups are options being considered.
The authority said a two-month public consultation would take place before a final decision was made.
The Labour-run council said the service had been making efficiency savings for several years but more needed to be done to "balance the books".
Councillor Mick Burnett, portfolio holder for tourism, leisure and culture, said: "We need to consider all options and most importantly we need to seek the views of the local community.
"We have a duty to provide a good quality library service, but the stark facts are that we can't afford to provide the same level of financial support for the libraries as we have done in the past."
The consultation runs until the end of January.
Steve Rowe, who took over as chief executive last month, says he intends to lower clothing prices and improve style, fit and quality.
He also wants to reduce the number of sales promotions, and increase the number of staff in stores.
But the warning of lower profits sent shares in M&S down by more than 10%.
The turnaround plans were announced as M&S reported its annual results, with underlying profits in the year to 2 April rising 4.3% to £689m.
However, statutory profits, the measure all companies must provide, fell 18.5% to £488.8m after taking into account one-off costs of £200m.
These costs included about £50m to cover PPI mis-selling at M&S Bank, as well as costs resulting from store closures in its international business.
In the retailer's results statement, Mr Rowe said: "Our results last year were mixed. We continued to outperform on Food but we underperformed on Clothing & Home sales."
Underlying sales in the troubled clothing and homewares division fell by 2.9% during the year.
Mr Rowe said he had already cut the price of 3.5 million clothing items in the past couple of weeks.
In addition, there are plans to reduce the number of sales promotions in the stores.
Mr Rowe said: "These actions, combined with the difficult trading conditions, will have an adverse effect on profit in the short term."
The new strategy also includes a review of its shops, which could lead to some of the stores closing. The outcome of this review will be announced in the autumn.
Mr Rowe told the BBC's Today programme that he would move the emphasis away from fashion to "stylish contemporary clothing".
He said M&S now had a very clear idea of who its customers are: "We've got a very clear idea who our customer is - and Mrs M&S, we need to cherish and celebrate her and make sure we're giving her exactly what she needs at the right time."
But while he says he is determined to return homeware and clothing to growth he warns the sectors are seeing "pretty tough" trading conditions.
Selling clothing in the UK is a highly competitive business and M&S faces tough competition from Next and Zara, among others. Next has also warned recently its profits would not match expectations.
Marks and Spencer is the biggest clothing retailer in the country by sales and has 32 million customers.
Steve Clayton, from Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers, says that gives it "plenty of relationships to strengthen". But, he says, there is little he can see in the review that has not been tried before at the company.
Mr Rowe, who took over from Marc Bolland, is the latest in a line of bosses at Marks and Spencer spending their first weeks and months pledging and making changes.
He has already announced plans to cut the size of the top management team in an attempt to bring the company closer to its customers, and is also promising to invest in his staff in the stores.
M&S also announced changes to pay for its 70,000 store staff. Pay will rise by 15%, although some workers will see pay for Sunday and night shifts cut.
The base pay for qualified shop workers will be increased from £7.41 an hour to £8.50 an hour outside London and will be increased to £9.65 within Greater London.
However, the retailer also announced it was planning to close its final salary pension scheme to new contributions from existing members, affecting 11,000 staff. The scheme has been closed to new members since 2002.
Existing members of the final salary scheme will be moved to a defined benefits scheme - which does not guarantee a set pension on retirement - in April next year.
M&S said it was consulting with its staff on both the pay and pension changes.
Revenue for the M&S group as a whole rose 2.4% over the year to £10.6bn.
The company said that its food business, which accounts for about half of its profits, continued to perform well.
Underlying sales grew by 0.2% over the year, and M&S said it had increased its share of the market
M&S opened another 75 of its smaller Simply Food outlets over the year and said these were doing even better business than it had hoped.
The plans have been approved in principle by Thailand's telecommunications regulator, which denies it is an invasion of privacy.
The body says it is intended to catch those who overstay their visa.
More than 19 million foreigners have visited Thailand this year, says Thailand's Tourism and Sports Ministry.
The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) said the special Sim cards would come with tracking enabled, which the user could not turn off.
As well as visa overstayers, it said it could also be used to find those on the run from police. But it said authorities would need a court order to track a phone.
While the proposal has been approved by the NBTC, Secretary General Takorn Tantasith said the organisation would consult with police, tourism authorities and tour operators before deciding whether to implement it.
He added that foreigners working in Thailand would not be required to use the special Sim cards, although some local reports have quoted him saying they would.
The proposal has been backed by other parts of Thailand's military government.
"It will be helpful, if any foreigner comes and commit crimes, because in the past they have been able to flee or it can be difficult to find them," said Pongsathorn Chansri, an official in the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.
Stewart Greene, 65, killed Alex Robinson in what a psychiatrist described as "one of the most callous killings" he had ever seen.
Greene had denied murder on the grounds of being mentally ill, but changed his plea to guilty during his trial.
The judge, Mrs Justice Thirlwall, told him he will serve a minimum of 22 years in prison.
Sentencing him at Lincoln Crown Court, she said: "The callousness cannot be overstated."
Greene, who had never disputed killing Alex, changed his plea following evidence from psychiatrist Dr Philip Joseph.
Dr Joseph, who has dealt with more than 800 homicide cases, told the jury: "In over 30 years, this is one of the most callous killings or murders I have been involved with."
He diagnosed Greene as having a psychopathic personality disorder, characterised by a "callous unconcern for the feelings of others" and an "incapacity to experience guilt".
But despite his mental condition, Dr Joseph said Greene understood what he was doing and his ability to form a rational judgement was not impaired.
"Although his judgement was abhorrent, immoral and illegal, it was rational," he told the court.
The trial heard Alex had stayed at home in Lincoln to play on his Xbox while his mother, grandmother and four-year-old sister went out to buy a turkey two days before Christmas 2014.
While they were out Greene double-locked the doors, ran a bath, walked his grandson into the bathroom and drowned him.
Michael Evans QC, prosecuting, said the bath was the last place Alex would have willingly gone because he was very wary of water, and even hated water on his face.
"The defendant forcibly drowned Alex in the bath," Mr Evans said.
"His intention was clear and he did so in the most brutal way."
Alex's mother, Joanne Greene, told police how she returned to her home in Pennell Street to find her son dead.
In a video played to the court, Ms Greene said her father was calmly sitting on the sofa and told her: "I've drowned Alex in the bath."
Ms Greene told the interviewing officer she did not believe him at first, but then desperately began looking for her son.
She rushed to the bathroom, where she saw Alex in the water, surrounded by his sister's toys.
Mr Evans told the court: "She dragged Alex out of the bath and remembers his lips were blue and he was lifeless."
The court heard Greene had been angry with his daughter, who refused to let him live with her following his discharge from a mental health unit just 12 days before.
He had a history of mental health problems stretching back to his twenties, with various diagnoses including depression, bipolar affective disorder and personality disorder.
Giving evidence, Ms Greene said she had pleaded with staff at the mental health unit not to let her father out, and warned them: "He will do something to get himself put in somewhere."
Alex's family thanked well-wishers for their support.
"We were privileged to have had Alex, if only for a short time," the family said in a statement.
"Nothing will ever make up for the loss of Alex and this has left a huge hole in our lives.
"Alex's sister has been left without her brother whom she idolised and we will continue to keep his memory alive in everything that we do. Shine bright little boy."
Det Insp Helen Evans said the case would stay with her for a very long time.
"I didn't know Alex but through this investigation I feel I have come to know him and what a lovely little boy he was," she said.
"What is stark in this case is the heartbreak and devastation that has been caused to one family.
"The sadness of losing Alex cannot be put into words and for that to have happened at the hands of his grandfather is more than one family should have to bear."
In recent days at least 16 people have been killed in violent protests by the Jat community in the state of Haryana. They are demanding the reinstatement of caste quotas for government jobs and education places.
The land-owning and relatively affluent community makes up 27% of the voters in the northern state and dominates in a third of 90 assembly seats.
Last year, the Supreme Court turned down quotas for Jats in nine states, including Haryana, saying they did not belong to a backward community.
In western India's Gujarat, the native state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an upstart leader from the 15 million-strong Patel community led huge protests last year, demanding quotas in government jobs for his community, despite their relative prosperity. Hardik Patel is now in prison, battling charges of sedition.
And down south in Andhra Pradesh, a violent agitation by the Kapu community, again seeking backward caste quotas, has spread to 13 districts - the community makes up some 26% of the state's 50 million people.
All the three communities are demanding they should be categorised as what India's complex terminology of castes defines as Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
They are placed between the traditional upper castes and the lowest. Two surveys have estimated that OBCs make up anything between 41-52% of India's population.
Like race in America, says sociologist Dipankar Gupta, caste in India can "neither be ducked or dodged".
Caste constitutes the primordial identity of the citizen and has spawned a complex social order which assigned people a place in the social hierarchy based on their occupation.
It has also turned out to be the most regressive feature of India's social system, perpetuating a hideously hierarchical social order which sanctioned repression of the lower castes by the privileged upper castes.
In 1950, the federal government announced seat reservations in educational institutions and government to the scheduled castes and tribes, the lowest in the caste hierarchy, to correct historical injustices.
Much later, in 1989, quotas were extended to lower castes in education and government jobs - 27% of all educational seats and government jobs were reserved for the OBCs.
This was, according to Dr Gupta, the beginning of large-scale caste politics.
"This is how the clock was steadily being turned back," he says.
As with almost everything in India, the opening up of caste politics was a mixed blessing.
In many ways it eased the social stranglehold of the upper castes and deepened democracy: the latest parliament, for example, has MPs from more than 35 parties, many of them regional and birthed in the battle for empowerment of castes.
But a controversial and tricky methodology for deciding whether a community would be eligible for backward status ended up, believe academics like Dr Gupta, "carefully shielding the OBCs who are educationally and economically well-endowed".
What was originally intended to be temporary move in affirmative action to provide a level playing field to unprivileged communities has now become a vote-catching ploy for India's politicians.
No wonder there are more than 5,000 castes who officially count themselves as OBCs today.
"At election time, politicians now promised, in the name of equality, to extend the proportion of reserved places, and to make them available to newly defined 'backward caste' categories," writes Sunil Khilnani in his seminal book The Idea of India.
"Caste groups, meanwhile in a curious inversion of the ideal of social mobility, competed to be defined as 'backward' in order to corner the benefits of reservation."
But there are other factors in the recent caste mutinies.
The uprisings are also linked to declining farm incomes and lack of private sector jobs across India.
Two years of drought and lack of irrigation has led to large scale migration from the farms to the cities in search of unskilled urban jobs.
The largely jobless growth that India is experiencing means many of the communities are not able to get work in the cities as well.
In these difficult times, these communities who, according to Professor Khilnani, "exist in the homeless world of modern politics", are desperately looking for a secure government job which will bring a regular income and make them eligible grooms in the dowry-driven marriage market.
"I missed the civil services exam by one mark last year. If I had reservation [quota], I would have got through," Om Prakash, an agitating Jat student, told a newspaper at the weekend.
The chequered story of the declining fortunes of India's relatively affluent farming communities is one of political betrayal, and of a struggle against the forces of globalisation.
Strident identity politics, pursued by politicians and others to extract concessions from a weak state, can only help perpetuate the scourge of caste, which the quotas sought to end in the first place.
More troubling is the withering away of any imagination to initiate a new conversation on quotas and the apparent ineptness of India's political class, as the latest incident in a BJP-ruled state shows, at dousing these mutinies.
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Klinsmann tweeted his support for the midfielder after he completed his move from DC United.
"My wife told me about that. It's great to have his support, and his acceptance makes me feel good about the move," Kitchen said.
"I think it's a huge move."
Klinsmann, who enjoyed two successful spells in British football with Tottenham Hotspur, tweeted regarding Kitchen's move to Hearts: "Congrats to Perry to his new adventure: @PerryKitchen23 @JamTarts."
Kitchen, capped three times by his country, believes experiencing football outside of the United States will be invaluable for his career progression.
"Getting into a European environment is huge," the midfielder told BBC Scotland.
"The ability to progress and continue bettering myself is very much a possibility here and I'm looking forward to that."
Hearts manager Robbie Neilson thinks the move will benefit both the player and the club.
"I think he's just desperate to get to Europe and he sees this as a great opportunity, so it's going to work well for both parties," Neilson said.
"We had been looking for somebody in the summer in that position. Perry became available because of the MLS season. It's important to get a player of that calibre in and to get him in at this point of the season is good for us."
Kitchen says he was aware of his new club before the opportunity arose to move to Hearts.
"When you think of Scottish football, Rangers and Celtic always come to mind but I always had heard of Hearts, the passion their fans have and obviously the great city of Edinburgh.
"It's a great city, everything you'd want in a city. The castle, the history, the shopping for my wife, so it's got everything you'd want.
"I just want to better the club and do what I can to help the team win games. Hopefully I'm capable of doing that.
"They've created a great environment from what I've seen with the guys in the dressing room, and I definitely think that talent is there as well."
***SPOILER ALERT - If you don't want to find out about Broadchurch series 2, don't read any further***
There were a few major twists, new characters and we learnt more about detective Alec Hardy's past and the Sandbrook case.
Where will the remaining seven episodes go and what pointers did we get from the first episode of series two?
Here are 10 things we learnt.
Hotel manager Becca Fisher (played by Simone McAullay) is seen kissing Rev Paul Coates (played by Arthur Darvill) outside Wessex Crown Court after Joe Miller's appearance.
Mark Latimer admitted to having an affair with her in the first series.
How did that happen?
After appearing in court, Joe Miller tells Rev Paul Coates in prison: "Nobody's innocent. Everyone's hiding things."
What does he know?
She doesn't like being in uniform in Devon though and is having counselling after her husband was arrested for the murder of Danny Latimer.
Oh and just to make it worse - Beth Latimer still blames her for her son's killing.
When did her own son decide he didn't want to live with her?
After losing his own son, Mark turns up in Susan Wright's caravan next to the beach playing a football console game with Tom Miller.
What's going on there?
Susan (played by Pauline Quirke) has obviously disappeared with her dog Vince.
But where has she gone?
In the first series DS Miller's sister Lucy Stevens bribes her into giving her £1,000 in return for evidence about Tom Latimer's murder.
She had her TV repossessed but now has custody of her nephew Tom.
She seemed like an all-round bad egg in series one.
Now, she has custody of her nephew Tom. How did that happen?
Turns out Di Hardy's been offering unofficial witness protection to the acquitted man's wife Claire Ripley, played by Eve Myles of Torchwood fame.
She's hiding from her husband, Lee (played by James D'Arcy), who DI Hardy accused of being responsible for the Sandbrook murders.
Alec Hardy reveals he moved to Broadchurch to keep her whereabouts a secret.
Hardy also opens up about the case.
Turns out his wife, a detective on the case, had vital evidence (including that pendant) stolen from her car while she was having an affair with another man.
DI Hardy kept it silent to stop his teenage daughter finding out about her mother's infidelity.
Are we ever going to meet his daughter? And where is the Sandbrook murder plot going? What have bluebells got to do with anything?
We find out that Jocelyn Knight (played by Charlotte Rampling) will take on the Latimer murder case.
Handily she lives in Broadchurch but hasn't tried a case for three years.
But that's only after she sees that Sharon Bishop, who she used to work with, is defending alleged killer Joe Miller.
Jocelyn Knight warns the Latimer family that she'll play dirty.
Her fears turn out to be true when Bishop orders another autopsy on Danny Latimer's body, meaning it has to be exhumed.
What will they find? What will the murder trial throw up?
He has an NHS letter titled "Your Procedure" and still can't drive after his heart scare from series one.
The top of his letter reads: "I am writing to you on behalf of South Wessex NHS Trust regarding your fast approaching procedure.
"I am pleased to confirm your test results came back positive so we are able to continue this process.
"As you are already aware this is a very important issue which we believe needs to be addressed now to stop the condition from getting worse."
What issue has he got apart from his heart condition?
The shock (or not?) of the first episode was Joe Miller pleading not guilty to Danny Latimer's murder.
The producers needed to extend the storyline past the first series, so maybe this was inevitable.
But what does he know?
There are some obvious ones here, like David Tennant (the 10th Doctor), Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams - companion of Matt Smith) and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper in Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood and appearances in the main show).
You may not know that James D'Arcy (Michael in the Big Finish audio adventure Paradise 5), Carolyn Pickles (Lady Meera in Army of Death Big Finish audio adventure), Jonathan Bailey (Psi - cyber-augmented gamer who helped Peter Capaldi in Time Heist), Meera Syal (voiced audio story The Gemini Contagion and the audiobook release of the Borrowed Time novel) and Olivia Colman (she played Mother in 2010's The Eleventh Hour) have also all appeared in Doctor Who.
The judge in Joe Miller's trial, played by Daniel Hill, has also had a role in Doctor Who. He was Chris Parsons in Shada and was also on The Stuff of Nightmares audio story.
Matthew Gravelle (Joe Miller) played a Doctor in the Torchwood television story End of Days.
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Doxa Gikanji gave DR Congo the lead after just 10 minutes of the game at a packed Amohoro stadium in Kigali.
Rwanda equalised 12 minutes after half-time with a goal from Ernest Sugira.
Padou Bompunga found the winner in the second period of extra-time and it means DR Congo will face either Zambia or Guinea in Wednesday's semi-final.
DR Congo, who won the inaugural CHAN title in 2009, took the lead when Rwanda failed to clear the ball properly and fell to Gikanji outside the area whose fierce shot left the Rwanda keeper Eric Ndayishimiye rooted to the spot.
Nine minutes later, with the Leopards dominating, Jonathan Bolingi's shot hit the post.
Rwanda's second-half equaliser from Sugira was his third of the tournament.
He managed to get behind the DR Congo defence, which was a man short with a player down injured, and neatly finished past keeper Ley Matampi.
He had the chance for second later in the match as he beat the the Congolese defence and Matampi but his lob landed on the roof of the net.
Both sides pushed for the winner before the final whistle but it remained deadlocked after 90 minutes.
With time running out and the match heading towards a penalty shootout a cross was swung in to the Rwandan area and headed back across the six-yard box for Bompunga to head past Ndayishimiye.
South Yorkshire-born Blessed spent his youth exploring the region, describing it "as his jungle" and is helping the national park - which has lost more than a third of its funding - in its first major fundraising campaign.
"We all need the wilderness ... it's incredibly important - it wakes us up, it opens up the brain, heart and soul," said the actor, who has attempted to scale Mount Everest three times.
"I'm here to protect all that, it's our birthright."
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But, how did the Monsal Trail - originally built as a Victorian rail route - go from being a divisive eyesore to a much-loved visitor attraction?
In the mid-19th Century, Victorian Britain was at the peak of a rail-building bonanza, fuelled by competing private companies.
Midland Rail, which had a large network centred around Derby, wanted a direct line from London to the industrial north west and it wasn't going to let hills get in its way.
It smashed its way through, carving deep cuts and building six tunnels under tonnes of limestone, eventually opening its route from Bakewell to Buxton in 1863.
One of the tunnels was constructed so the railway did not spoil the Duke of Rutland's view from Haddon Hall.
The route was later connected to Manchester after a deal was struck with a rival firm, which had a line from Buxton in the opposite direction.
For 100 years, trains carried passengers to the towns and villages of White Peak, while freight was taken to and from the factories and mills.
Like many modern industrial developments, the route - which includes the picturesque Headstone Viaduct, at Monsal Head - was not always considered a good thing.
At the time, critic and writer John Ruskin said: "The valley is gone - and now every fool in Buxton can be in Bakewell in half an hour and every fool at Bakewell in Buxton."
Now, it attracts thousands of visitors a year to walk, cycle or just enjoy the view of the Victorian structures.
It was purchased by the national park, along with three others, after the route was closed as part of the swingeing cuts to the railways in the 1960s.
The authority converted it into a path suitable for walkers, wheelchair users and cyclists but for many years four impressive tunnels remained sealed off, opened only for the occasional guided tour.
In 2011, after two years of work and a grant of £2.5m, they were reopened and the whole route is now accessible.
There are still dim hopes the line will be reopened to rail, but a study in 2004 concluded the estimated £100m cost of the project was too high.
To help towards the cost of all 34 miles of trails - including former rail lines Tissington, High Peak and Thornhill - the Peak District National Park Authority is holding its first major fundraising campaign, with a family walk on 20 August.
Mr Woolfe left hospital on Sunday morning, with a UKIP spokesman saying he was now "focused on continuing his recovery".
He was taken to hospital on Thursday after an altercation at a meeting of UKIP MEPs at the European Parliament.
The fracas is being investigated both by the party and the parliament.
Alex Forsyth, BBC political correspondent, said Mr Woolfe left the hospital via a back entrance and was understood to heading out of Strasbourg.
A party spokesman said Mr Woolfe would not be making any further statements on Sunday.
The 49-year-old is among the favourites to be the party's next leader following the resignation of Diane James just 18 days after she was elected to the role.
Meanwhile, fellow MEP Bill Etheridge has announced he will stand in the leadership election.
He told BBC's Sunday Politics he would not be supporting Mr Woolfe's leadership bid, adding: "And yes, I will be standing."
Raheem Kassam, former leader Nigel Farage's chief of staff, has already declared he will stand for the leadership.
Mr Woolfe collapsed after the altercation had taken place at the MEPs' meeting over whether the leadership favourite had been talking to the Conservative Party.
Mr Woolfe had a row with fellow UKIP MEP Mike Hookem at the meeting, before the pair went outside together.
On Saturday, a spokesman for the UKIP MEP said medical examinations suggested Mr Woolfe had bruising on his face that was not consistent with just a fall or seizure.
Mr Hookem - who has admitted the pair had a "scuffle" - has since tweeted a photo of his "unbruised" hands, saying he did not punch Mr Woolfe.
Conservative MEP Sajjad Karim will lead the parliamentary probe.
Following his collapse, Mr Woolfe had a precautionary scan which revealed there was no blood clot on his brain.
Mr Woolfe's spokesman said on Saturday: "A team of experts independent of the hospital staff were called in to examine physical injuries to Steven's face, head and body that were inconsistent with just a seizure, or a fall as a result of a seizure.
"The team of experts also examined other pieces of evidence including clothing and images relating to those injuries.
"Their report will shine a different light on claims currently being made in the media."
In an interview with BBC Radio Humberside on Friday, Mr Hookem acknowledged the pair had had a "scuffle".
But, he added: "I am innocent. I never threw a punch. I never assaulted him. I will stand my corner."
There have been varying descriptions of what happened and Mr Hookem has said only that he and Mr Woolfe knew precisely what went on.
Mr Woolfe objected to remarks which he made, he said. "He then stood up in front of everybody and said 'if it's that, let's take it outside of the room', I think his words were 'mano a mano'."
"When I walked in he approached me to attack me. He came at me, I defended myself.
"There were no punches thrown, there was no face slapping, there were no digs, there was nothing."
"It's (what) people in Hull would term 'handbags at dawn'. A bit of a scuffle."
Mr Woolfe has not spoken in public about the episode, but the Daily Mail quoted him as saying Mr Hookem "came at me and landed a blow" after they left the meeting room.
Another UKIP MEP, Nathan Gill, said there had been no police involvement and Mr Woolfe did not want any police involvement.
The row comes amid division in the party over its future direction following the vote for Brexit.
The party is split between those loyal to interim leader Nigel Farage and former Conservatives who support broader policies.
MEPs are said to be angered by reports Mr Woolfe had considered defecting to the Tories.
Mustafa Ugurlu had been on a posting to a Nato base in Virginia at the time of the 15 July botched coup.
Turkey has purged its military ranks of some 100 generals accused of being part of a shadowy movement that follows a US-based Turkish preacher.
Rear Adm Ugurlu disappeared on 22 July, a week after the coup.
US officials told Reuters news agency that an unnamed rear admiral was seeking asylum, and he was later named by Anadolu Agency as Mustafa Ugurlu.
It comes at a difficult moment in relations between the two Nato allies as Turkey is seeking the extradition from the US of the cleric accused of masterminding the coup, Fethullah Gulen. He denies involvement.
Two US officials told Reuters the rear admiral had been working at Nato's Allied Command Transformation headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, where 26 Turkish military are posted.
In April he took part in a Nato conference in Poland and was identified as the Western military alliance's Assistant Chief of Staff for Command and Control, Deployability and Sustainability based in Norfolk.
A Turkish embassy official in Washington told Reuters that the rear admiral had failed to report for duty after a detention order was issued. "He left his badges and his ID at the base and after that no one has heard anything from him," the official said.
Rear Adm Ugurlu was named by prosecutors in the western Turkish city of Izmir, according to Anadolu, as part of a military espionage case involving the leaking of information.
Some 18,000 people have been placed in detention in response to the failed coup, including many from the military. The government said on Monday that more than 200 soldiers suspected of involvement in the coup, including nine generals, were still at large.
Many more have lost their jobs or been suspended across Turkey's public services, on suspicion of being Gulen followers.
Turkey has criticised the response of its Western partners to the events of 15 July and their aftermath.
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Tuesday that if the US failed to hand over Mr Gulen "it will have sacrificed Turkey to a terrorist".
And Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned the European Union on Wednesday that it was making "serious mistakes" in its response to the failed coup. "They have failed the test following the coup attempt," he was quoted as saying in a broadcast interview.
An EU-Turkey deal to halt the influx of migrants and refugees via Greece may already be in jeopardy. Another minister has warned that the agreement will be over if the EU fails to provide a date for allowing visa-free travel to EU states in the Schengen border-free area.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will back the return of the death penalty in Turkey if parliament votes for it. Such a move would automatically end negotiations for Turkey's entry into the EU, let alone the migrant agreement. Capital punishment was abolished under the European Convention of Human Rights.
Two Austrian ministers have already cast doubt this week on Turkey joining the EU in the next few years.
Luaty Beirao was arrested in June with book club members discussing a book about nonviolent resistance.
Mr Beirao recently ended his five-week hunger strike in prison.
Their arrest prompted protests in Portugal and condemnation from human rights groups.
Human Rights Watch's Zenaida Machado urged Angolan judges to "show independence and not permit this trial to be used as an instrument to silence the government's critics".
The rapper, also known by his stage name Ikonoklasta, has been an outspoken critic of the government, calling for a fairer distribution of the country's oil wealth.
Since the end of the conflict in 2002, Africa's second-largest oil producer has witnessed an economic boom, but critics of the elected government say the wealth has only benefited a small elite.
The detained activists, who belong to a youth movement, had previously held demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has been in power for 36 years.
Their book club had planned to discuss the 1993 book by Gene Sharp called From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation.
The June arrests were defended by Angola's deputy state prosecutor who accused them of planning an uprising among students and workers "with incalculable consequences".
The group face up to 12 years in jail if convicted.
Who is Gene Sharp?
Gene Sharp is a US academic who researches non-violent revolution.
He is credited with the strategy which led to the toppling of Egypt's long-time Hosni Mubarak leader in 2011.
His most translated and distributed work, From Dictatorship to Democracy, was written for the Burmese democratic movement in 1993, after the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Gene Sharp: Author of the nonviolent revolution rulebook
Tristram Hunt, for Remain, told the West Midlands EU referendum debate that to trade with the EU the UK would "have to accept the free movement of labour".
But in an angry exchange, Lord Digby Jones said the MP was "lying" as no-one knew the conditions of any trade deals.
The Leave campaigner told the MP: "You are peddling 'maybes' as fact".
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Mr Hunt, MP for Stoke, demanded an apology from the former head of the CBI, saying: "I will not let you sit there and call me a liar about the facts."
He said the UK would be "like Norway" in having to accept the free movement of labour as part of EU trade deals, but Lord Jones insisted the UK could not be compared to other countries.
"Just because they have done a deal like that, doesn't me that we would do a deal like that. And actually I don't know the deal we will do and with great respect neither do you," he said.
Mr Hunt later told the TV debate his constituents in Stoke, such as those working in ceramics in particular, were "heavily dependent on the European Union for business", adding people who wanted to leave were walking towards a "DIY recession".
But Lord Jones argued "The challenge before all of us is we have to fashion our economy so our grandchildren have healthcare, welfare and pensions that the economy can afford.
"The status quo will not deliver it for anybody and you [Remain] want the status quo."
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Scott Kouebitra, 22, was attacked in Croydon, south London. Four others also suffered knife wounds.
Police said they were searching for a group of about seven males who fled the scene in two cars and were wearing masks, scarves and balaclavas.
The 16-year-old boy was also arrested on suspicion of robbery and is in custody.
Scotland Yard said the group of males arrived at Gloucester Road in two vehicles and entered St George's Field Park carrying weapons.
Det Ch Insp Sam Price said there were "a large number of people in and around the park" at the time and appealed for witnesses to contact the force.
A post mortem examination found Mr Kouebitra died of multiple stab wounds.
The four other men suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Newshub reported that their owner, Derrick Millton, dug a track and herded them down to a safer area.
A geologist told the news portal that the Herefords may have "surfed" the land as it crumbled and left them marooned several metres above ground.
The two adult cows and one calf are now safe, but "quiet... they've had a terrible ordeal," said Mr Millton.
He added: "You're a clever cow to skip and dance while the land beneath you is disappearing down the hill."
The cows were among 14 which were rescued after the land collapsed. Mr Millton told Newshub that he had lost other cattle.
The rescued cows "desperately needed water, cows don't like living without water so that was the first requirement, and I think one or two had lost calves in the earthquake so they were a bit distressed," he said.
The incident took place at a farm near Kaikoura, northeast of Christchurch and the town hardest hit by Monday's 7.5-magnitude earthquake. Rescues are ongoing at Kaikoura.
Fr Paul Symonds stepped aside from ministry in County Antrim in 2009 to facilitate a police investigation.
After a decision was made to not to prosecute him, the Catholic Church resumed its internal inquiry.
The Down and Connor diocese said this concluded he will "live as a retired priest without any public ministry".
Fr Symonds is originally from England, but was working as a priest in Ballymena, County Antrim, when the police investigation began.
The BBC tried to contact Fr Symonds on Friday, but without success.
In a statement, a spokesman for the Diocese of Down and Connor said: "In 2011, after statutory investigation, with which the Diocese and Fr Symonds co-operated fully, and during which Fr Symonds was never charged with a criminal offence, the determination of the Prosecution Service was not to prosecute.
"Thereafter the Church's own internal canonical inquiry resumed.
"The canonical investigation has reached the decision that Fr Paul Symonds will live as a retired priest without any public ministry."
Ecologists found more than one in 20 households in the town have fed red kites, helping to boost their numbers.
A new study will look into how their feeding patterns have subsequently changed.
Prof Mark Fellowes said: "Red kites owe both their decline and resurgence to humans."
After centuries of being hunted, only a handful of pairs survived by the 1930s, but red kites have enjoyed a resurgence since a successful reintroduction programme began in 1989.
There are now thought to be around 2,700 breeding pairs across the country.
Research in Reading which began in 2011, found the equivalent of more than 4,300 households put food out for the birds.
The next study will examine people's attitudes to the birds and how the birds' feeding patterns have changed.
There is a debate in conservation circles about whether urban feeding should be encouraged.
Prof Fellowes said: "A little extra human interaction should not do them too much harm, if done sensibly,
"People regularly feed robins, blue tits and blackbirds in their gardens, and their input is crucial in helping birds to survive the harsher winter months in particular. Red kites may benefit in a similar way."
Mark Hetherington, from Blackpool, was given a 12-month community order after admitting falsely claiming more than £5,000 Disability Living Allowance.
Hetherington, 51, of Woolman Road, was ordered to do 150 hours unpaid work and pay £85 costs and £60 victim surcharge.
Blackpool Magistrates heard Hetherington performed under the name Ian Kognito while claiming benefits.
Hetherington pleaded guilty to claiming £5,018.80 worth of DLA between May 2012 and August 2014.
He took off his clothes for cash as a "boylesque" dancer, despite telling the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) his anxiety left him unable to cook or leave the house.
Among his routines was one dressed as Batman and another as a Ninja fighter.
A DWP spokeswoman said: "Only a small minority of benefit claimants are dishonest, but cases like this show how we are rooting out the unscrupulous minority who are cheating the system and diverting taxpayers' money from those who really need it."
Three others were injured in a stampede of people fleeing the scene. The youngest victim was said to be 16.
The exchange of gunfire took place at about 02:30 local time (07:30 GMT) at a concert, but there was no immediate information about a suspect.
Police and local officials said the incident was not terrorism-related.
The mayor of Little Rock, Mark Stodola, said it was the result of a disagreement involving a number of patrons at the Power Ultra Lounge nightclub, which quickly escalated because of "the presence of rivalries and weapons".
"I want to reassure our public that this was not an act of terrorism, but a tragedy... It does not appear to be a planned shooting," Mr Stodola told reporters.
He said that all of the 28 people injured in the incident were expected to survive.
Little Rock police chief Kenton Buckner said the authorities were investigating whether a longstanding rivalry between gangs was to blame.
Special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also assisting local police.
The 48-year-old, who played 54 Tests and 127 one-day internationals, joined the club before the start of the 2012 campaign.
Kent finished second in Division Two of the County Championship this year, missing out on promotion.
"I've enjoyed my time at Kent which has been a great learning experience for me," he said.
"I wanted to be involved in a club that was seeking to grow and I am fortunate to have found that here at Kent over the past five seasons."
Kent's second-placed finish in Division Two is their highest since Adams' first year in charge, when they ended the season third in the table.
With Division One being restructured for the 2017 season onwards, only one promotion place to the top flight was available.
However, Kent are currently calling for arbitration with the England and Wales Cricket Board as Durham were relegated for financial reasons, allowing Hampshire a reprieve from the drop rather than Kent being promoted.
Kent's best performance in the One-Day Cup under Adams came when they reached the semi-finals in 2014, while they progressed to the last eight of the T20 Blast in 2015.
Kent chairman George Kennedy said: "Jimmy's commitment to developing Kentish cricket talent is shown by the core of home-grown players now at the heart of our professional squad."
Daniel Thomas, 28, will be the subject of an internal investigation into a tweet sent to Daley, Welsh Premier League Port Talbot Town FC says.
It has been reported a homophobic message was sent to Daley's Twitter page.
Club officials said their player had been the victim of a "misguided prank" after leaving his phone unattended.
The tweet came from the player's account, which has since been deleted.
In a separate incident earlier this week, a 17-year-old was arrested over a malicious tweet relating to Daley's late father and was given a warning.
Police said the teenager was given a harassment warning before being bailed pending an investigation into other communications on his Twitter account.
Daley and his diving partner Pete Waterfield came fourth in the 10m synchronised dive on Monday.
Port Talbot chairman Andrew Edwards confirmed midfielder Thomas had been suspended while officials investigated the incident.
Mr Edwards said he was due to meet the player on Thursday and a further statement would be issued then.
A club spokesman said: "Port Talbot Town Football Club can confirm Daniel Thomas has been suspended from all involvement with the club until we have carried out a full internal investigation.
"We were made aware to an offensive comment appearing on the Twitter feed of one of our players.
"Upon being informed of the matter, we immediately distanced ourselves from any offensive messages whilst investigating the matter further.
"Having spoken at length to the player in question, we believe he regrettably left his phone unattended and was the victim of a very misguided 'prank'."
The club said it and Thomas apologised "unreservedly" and in no way condoned the views in the tweet.
"All footballers at Port Talbot Town will also be briefed on the appropriate use of social media and ensuring it is used securely and responsibly," the spokesman added.
The agency was particularly critical of the Saudi defence minister.
Officials in Berlin reacted after the Saudi government reportedly complained about the BND's frank assessment.
"The published assessment does not reflect the position of the German government," a spokesman said.
Saudi Arabia was an important partner "in a crisis-ridden world" and had great significance "especially on the way to peace in Syria", the spokesman insisted.
Anyone seeking a regional solution needed constructive relations with the Saudis, who were supporting rebel groups in the fight against the militant Islamist State (IS) group, he added.
The BND briefing, which emerged in German media, assessed changes in Saudi foreign policy since King Salman took power in January, including its military intervention in neighbouring Yemen and its decision to ramp up support for rebels in Syria. Saudi policies in Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq were also cited.
"What was previously a cautious diplomatic stance of the elder leaders in the royal family is being replaced by an impulsive policy of intervention," the briefing said, adding that the Saudis were losing faith in the United States as a guarantor of regional peace.
It also singled out the king's son and defence minister, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom it suspected of holding ambitions of securing the royal succession.
Relations between Germany and the Saudis have become tense in recent years, analysts say, because of Berlin's decision to tighten restrictions on arms contracts and to speak out on human rights.
The German coalition government agreed this week to take part in a supporting role in the fight against IS militants in Syria.
A vote in the Bundestag on Friday is expected to back the mission, which involves Tornado reconnaissance aircraft, a naval frigate and a 1,200-strong force.
His pay fell from £7.5m in the 2014/15 financial year, to £1.9m in 2015/16, according to Burberry's annual report.
The fashion brand has been hit by lower spending in key Asian markets such as Hong Kong, while Chinese tourists have been spending less in Europe.
Last month, Burberry reported a 10% fall in annual profits.
Over the past 12 months, the share price has dropped by 35%.
Last year - in better times - Mr Bailey earned more than £1.7m in bonus payments alone.
In 2015/16, his base salary remained flat at £1.1m. On top of that, he earned £464,000 in allowances and pension payments of £330,000.
However, he earned no bonus or incentive payments.
"Our overall approach to incentive structures for all staff, including senior management, is based on performance," said Burberry's chairman, John Peace.
"When the business does not perform as well, this has an impact on what we pay to our staff."
Six ex-military personnel have been walking for 72 days since starting the journey in Moray in August.
They have twice been joined by Prince Harry for different sections of the route, and by other wounded personnel.
The challenge was aimed at raising money for the Walking With the Wounded charity.
The charity supports injured members of the armed forces trying to regain their independence through employment.
The Walk of Britain has seen the veterans reach the summit of four peaks - Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, Snowdon and Pen Y Fan.
They walked along The Mall in London towards Buckingham Palace for the final leg of the journey, and were joined by their partners and children.
The veterans were greeted on the forecourt of the palace by the prince, who described the walk as "formidable" and "epic".
In September Harry joined the team of four Britons and two Americans for a 17-mile leg which took them through Shropshire.
Among the group are victims of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan, two of whom suffered traumatic brain injuries and another who lost an eye.
One of the group, Alec Robotham, is a 29-year-old former Royal Marine who was left with arm and leg injuries after being struck by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan in 2010.
He welcomed Harry's presence on the walk and said the pair had enjoyed "everyday chat" about military life.
Harry has supported the charity since it was formed, taking part in a trek to the North Pole in 2011 and South Pole in 2013. He was also patron of its Everest expedition in 2012.
Whatever might be said about the career of Truro City captain Jake Ash, it certainly has not been uneventful.
The 32-year-old has just celebrated a testimonial at the Cornish club, where he has played for 10 years.
"I've been inordinately lucky," Ash told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"I've enjoyed unbelievable success and some of that's down to playing with great players."
He joined Truro from Falmouth Town in 2005 as the club began an incredible rise up the English football pyramid.
They were runners-up in the Cornish South Western League in that season, but backed by their then-owner Kevin Heaney, won four more promotions to join the Conference South in 2011 - as well as winning the 2007 FA Vase at Wembley.
But the nationwide financial crisis started to bite on their property-developer owner.
The club went into administration in 2012 and were only saved from going out of existence after the club's new chairman, Peter Masters, stepped in at the last minute.
They were relegated to the Southern Premier League at the end of that season, but last term won promotion via the play-offs and are set to return to the second-tier of non-league football, with Ash still in the centre of their defence.
"I've worked with him for the last 18 months, first as a player and than as a manager, and he's been a different class for me," said manager Steve Tully.
"He's been there, done it, seen it all before and he definitely helps out with all the young players and he's always welcoming new players in and he makes them feel at home.
"He is a true gentleman both on and off the pitch."
Ash managed to miss a penalty in his testimonial game against Torquay United, but after more than 350 games for the club, he now has his sights set on helping Truro reach the top tier of the National League.
"I'm 32 and I still feel alright, so I'm hoping there's still a few more seasons in me yet," he added.
"The league we're going up to is harder, so we won't won as many games as we did last year, I think that's fair to say, but if we can consolidate this year and have a good go in the cups and see where we end up and then maybe build towards having another go at it next year."
Saints, who finished top last season, are 10th in the table following Saturday's 12-6 home loss to Saracens.
"It's not as if we're a disaster and getting thrashed by 50 points every week," Mallinder commented.
"We have made a few mistakes and not played as well as we can, but we know we're a good team, we know we can get better and we know we can win games."
He told BBC Radio Northampton: "We're still positive, we're going to stick together, not panic. It's very disappointing to start this way but we have a good chance to get it right next week."
Saints lost in last season's Premiership semi-finals, and their only victory so far this term came against bottom club Newcastle Falcons.
However, director of rugby Mallinder hopes a change in competition for Saturday's European Rugby Champions Cup opener against Scarlets will also change their fortunes.
"We look back at some of the games - we shouldn't have lost to Worcester, we shouldn't have lost to Sale because we're not quite playing well enough," he added.
"If you're not playing well enough, you don't quite gel, then you do lose games. It's probably nice for us that we go to another competition next week and hopefully that will give us a chance to get some momentum."
Symons, 24, joins older brother Matt, 26, at the Exiles after three years with Worcester Warriors.
Leicester Tigers' Sebastian de Chaves, Saracens' Dave Porecki and Bath's Max Northcote-Green have also agreed deals.
Northampton prop Danny Hobbs-Awoyemi, 22, is the other player to agree terms with the Premiership's bottom club.
Porecki played against London Irish in the first Premiership game to be played overseas earlier this month.
"Andy [Symons] is a very talented centre, who has proven his worth to Worcester during his three seasons," said London Irish's head of operations Glenn Delaney.
"He gives us strength in depth in our backline, and we are looking forward to having him at the club."
Speaking at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, Izzy Sim told the BBC: "We were supposed to be on that flight".
The plane, carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed near the Russian border.
Nine Britons are now known to have died when flight MH17 crashed.
The Boeing 777-200 was apparently shot down over the war-torn country.
Barry Sim, originally from Methlick in Aberdeenshire but who lives in Malaysia, had tried to board the Malaysia Airlines flight with his wife and baby son but could only get one seat.
Instead, they booked on a KLM flight.
After hearing of the crash, Mr Sim told the BBC: "You get this sick feeling in the pit of your stomach. We started getting butterflies. Your heartbeat starts going."
He said he was "philosophical" about continuing to "go about your life", saying he believed the couple should take the KLM flight, despite his wife's misgivings about the danger of another crash.
"In my mind, lightning never strikes twice in the same place so I am still philosophical that you get on the flight and you go about your life.
"I know my wife doesn't feel like that. Probably the last thing she wants to do now is fly, especially to Kuala Lumpur."
Mrs Sim said: "There must have been someone watching over us and saying 'You must not get on that flight'.
"We are very loyal to Malaysia Airlines and we always want to fly with Malaysia Airlines."
She added that her husband usually disliked flying with KLM.
"But, do you know what? At this moment we are so glad to be on that KLM flight rather than that Malaysia Airlines flight," she said.
He is in hospital with non life-threatening injuries after the car flipped on to its roof in the middle lane of the westbound carriageway.
The incident happened at about 06:30 BST between junction 11 for Fareham and junction 12 for Portsmouth, causing two-hour delays.
Roads are now clear after the crash, which also affected the A27 for Hilsea.
A spokeswoman for South Central Ambulance Service said it was called to reports of one vehicle overturning and the man had been taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital.
But they've been matched by social media users using sarcasm and wit to promote the cause of women.
Women will for the first time be able to stand for office as well as vote in municipal polls.
However, a group of conservative Saudis recently visited the country's Grand Mufti to urge him to intervene and "prevent" women's involvement in elections.
He turned down their request and said such "enemies of life" should be ignored.
A hashtag on social media provides a platform for those opposed to women's participation in elections. #The_danger_of_electing_a_woman_in_municipal_elections has been active for three months and has been used over 7,500 times in the past month.
But what started as an attempt to galvanize public opinion against the female vote was soon hijacked by pro-women's rights individuals with many using sarcasm to make their point.
The view that fielding women candidates "is dangerous and unacceptable," is widespread. It was expressed in a tweet by Saudi user @MohtasbTaif, which was retweeted over 110 times.
He also criticised Saudi Arabia's ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 2001. The treaty requires signatory countries to take action to end discrimination against women in all its forms.
Another Saudi user said the municipal council in its new form was "a gateway to implementing the Westernization project". "We demand that it be prevented," @ahmed5629 tweeted.
Some tweets expressed concern that women's participation in elections would threaten a woman's role in the family and ultimately "threaten the nation". User @1mosleh1 tweeted: "If you want to destroy a nation, you should destroy the family (the woman)."
"Liberals don't care about municipal elections, all they care about is getting a woman out of her house, corrupting her and throwing her among men," said @saadhmd11 tweet which was was retweeted over 45 times.
It was not long before the hashtag was taken over by Saudi men and women who supported women's participation in elections.
"A woman does not just give birth, she raises children, teaches and produces. She poses no danger by being elected," @abduilaziz_ tweeted.
"The danger of electing a woman in municipal elections is the same danger of your mother raising you to become a man and a member of the municipal councils," said @jamilfarsi's tweet which was retweeted more than 200 times.
User @anawint2 added: "The real danger is not that a woman is shameful, the danger is that a woman succeeds! And with that success she might expose her enemies' [wrong] beliefs."
In response to a tweet that claimed "a nation fails if their leader is a woman", user @Fanunx responded sarcastically: "So Britain and Germany failed, and the Arab states were victorious with their men." Her tweet was retweeted over 200 times.
Also popular was a photo (meme) of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel with the words "Please say that again, I liked it".
Several users also tweeted photos of successful women and politicians in response to those who were "degrading" women.
"Of course it's dangerous! Elections mean a voice and an opinion, and the voice of the other sex (which they silenced) scares them. Proving her existence terrifies them," user @haunted2012 tweeted.
Overall, there appeared to be slightly more tweets supporting women's participation in the polls than ones expressing opposition.
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Linda Tomos said the organisation would "lead the way" in promoting sustainable farming practices as well as innovative ways of generating energy.
She will become the first woman to chair the NT's Wales advisory board.
The charity is Wales' largest private landowner and also looks after 157 miles (252km) of coastline.
Ms Tomos said she was concerned at the loss of landscape and biodiversity in Wales and shared the view of the trust's director general Dame Helen Ghosh that climate change posed "the biggest challenge" to the charity in the future.
Coastal erosion, more frequent storms and an increase in bugs in the charity's stately buildings during warmer, wetter winters are having an impact.
45,000 hectares of countryside
157 miles of coastline
8 houses and castles
120,000 members in Wales
The charity owns and manages several historic sites and their gardens in Wales, including Powis Castle, Penrhyn Castle, Tredegar House and Llanerchaeron.
The organisation, which describes itself as Europe's biggest conservation charity, has a plan to cut its energy use by a fifth by 2020 and generate half of it from renewable sources by the same year.
It has already installed a solar hot water system at Chirk Castle while Plas Newydd on Anglesey is home to Britain's largest marine heat pump, using water from the Menai Strait for its heating instead of oil.
The houses and their heirlooms require "very controlled environments" so finding new and innovative ways to ensure that any energy use is sustainable is vital, Ms Tomos explained.
She also said she wanted to prioritise the work of attracting new audiences to the trust's attractions and increase its offering in the Welsh language.
Recent initiatives have seen the charity offer tenancy of a farm on Llandudno's Great Orme for £1 a year, with the aim of promoting a conservationist approach.
Meanwhile its scholarship programme for young farmers at Llyndy Isaf in Snowdonia's Nant Gwynant Valley is entering its fourth year.
Ms Tomos told BBC Wales the organisation's work with farmers was "absolutely vital" if it was to succeed in preserving "even more of our wonderful country".
"We're bringing back some natural farming practices which I think a lot of farmers in Wales are very comfortable with."
"A major challenge for us is that we have to look after the land we manage in perpetuity. We are unique in that respect - governments come and go, but the NT has to have strategies which ensure these wonderful places are secure forever in Wales."
Ms Tomos is currently chief executive and librarian for the National Library of Wales and will move to the NT at the end of June for a three-year term.
She replaces former chairman Keith James who said he had "enjoyed enormously working for the Trust in Wales", an organisation which "plays such an important part in Welsh life".
The cat, named Phoenix by rescuers, had severe burns to her face and body after being spotted trapped under blazing rubble in Sunderland in June.
She has been cared for by RSPCA staff at Felledge, near Chester-le-Street and is expected to make a full recovery.
Phoenix, now 14 weeks old, still needs daily treatments but is now playing with other kittens, centre staff said.
No-one knows how she came to be trapped in the fire or if she had a previous owner.
Luka Atkinson, reception supervisor at RSPCA Felledge, said Phoenix was in a "really sorry state" when she arrived.
"The skin on all four of her pads was burnt off and the fur on her face, tummy and legs was singed - she was lucky to be alive," he added.
"It's definitely been tough seeing Phoenix go through her recovery and she's not out of the woods yet, but the whole time we have had her here she has been eating really well, drinking, and has loved cuddles and playing, so we knew we had to keep going with her treatment and give her a chance.
"She is such a happy little thing and runs riots with the other kittens at our centre... She really is the luckiest kitten in Britain."
Sebastien Thinel gave the Scottish visitors a first-period lead on Saturday night but Belfast hit back with three goals in the second period.
Steve Saviano, Chris Higgins and Derrick Walser netted for the Giants.
Chase Schaber pulled one back early in the final period before Walser fired in the fourth goal for the hosts.
Fife took the initiative in a closely fought first period which saw both netminders kept busy.
The decisive moment came in the 16th minute when Giants defenceman Ryan Martinelli was caught in possession by Thinel, who was able to race clear through on goal and slotted past Stephen Murphy.
The Giants turned the tie around midway through the second period, scoring twice in the space of 48 seconds.
Saviano equalised on a power play and Higgins gave the home side the lead with his 29th goal of the season.
Player-coach Walser then fired through a crowd of players five minutes later to extend Belfast's lead to 3-1.
Fife reduced the deficit to one goal courtesy of Schaber five minutes into the final period.
But Walser was the Giants' hero on the night as he scored for the second time with another fine shot with just two minutes to go.
13 January 2016 Last updated at 12:20 GMT
But there are calls for him to extend his time in office, with some supporters saying that the Ebola outbreak interrupted his government programme.
So who is campaigning for an extended term?
The BBC's Freetown reporter Umaru Fofana put that question to the government's spokesman, Alpha Kanu - and discussed the issue further on the BBC's Newsday programme.
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Knight, 25, vice-captain since August 2014, has played five Tests, 55 one-day internationals and 33 Twenty20s.
"I'm hugely proud and honoured to be named England captain and can't wait to face the challenges ahead," she said.
Head coach Mark Robinson praised Knight's "superb work ethic, integrity and commitment, along with good instincts and cricket intelligence".
Seamer Anya Shrubsole, 24, has been appointed vice-captain.
Edwards, captain since 2006, ended her 20-year England career in May after being told by Robinson her place in the side was no longer secure.
Edwards tweeted her congratulations to Knight, adding: "It's a wonderful honour and the best job in the world. I wish you every success and enjoy every minute."
Knight said it would be "no easy task to follow the remarkable success and impact" of Edwards,
But she added: "It's a fresh, exciting time for the team and I'm looking forward to seeing how we can develop together."
England play Pakistan in three ODIs and three T20s between 20 June and 7 July before heading to the West Indies for a five-match ODI series in October.
The shift towards youth follows England's semi-final defeat by Australia at the Women's World Twenty20 in March, when Robinson said his players "weren't fit enough" and he wanted "players who can play under pressure".
Joining Edwards in international retirement is experienced batter Lydia Greenway, while opener and wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor has announced she is taking an indefinite break from cricket.
Berkshire captain Knight, who made her England debut in 2010, is a right-handed top-order batter who has also enjoyed success as an off-spinner since switching from seam in 2014.
The BBC Sport columnist made 157 in the 2013 Women's Ashes Test at Wormsley and was the top scorer in that series as England won the first of two back-to-back Women's Ashes titles.
This year, Knight captained Hobart Hurricanes to the semi-finals of the inaugural Women's Big Bash League in Australia,
She was also named player of the series in England's ODI success in South Africa but managed only 19 runs in four matches at the World T20 in India.
The three ODIs against Pakistan and the final three matches of the West Indies series count toward the ICC Women's Championship, the qualification tournament for the 2017 Women's World Cup in England.
England are currently in sixth position on 13 points.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew
"Heather Knight has a big act to follow, succeeding Charlotte Edwards after 10 years in the job.
"While Pakistan, the visitors this summer, aren't the toughest of opponents, Knight's team will be rebuilding.
"Mark Robinson has come from county cricket into the women's game determined to introduce discipline and a more professional approach."
Stephen "Greg" Fisk was found by his son on Monday, just weeks after taking office. Results of an autopsy are expected within days.
Police have dismissed rumours that he was assaulted as "speculation" and said there was no evidence of forced entry.
Fisk defeated the incumbent, Marrill Sanford, in October's mayoral elections.
The Juneau Police Department said in a statement: "Detectives are actively investigating facts of the incident, and all evidence is being preserved and documented."
Police Chief Bryce Johnson told a local newspaper that an attack is "one of the possibilities out there, but there's others that could have happened".
"There could've been a fall. There's lots of things that would cause it."
Mary Becker has been named acting mayor in light of the 70-year-old's death.
Juneau is the state capital of Alaska and has a population of 32,600 people.
"This was a terrible day for all of Juneau," said Jill Ramiel, president of the Downtown Business Association.
"He was never afraid to say what he thought."
Fisk's campaign chairman, Bob King, added that "for that potential to be snuffed out is just a crushing loss".
The 23-year-old had been training with the Ayrshire club after being released by Aberdeen in the summer.
He spent the second half of last season on loan at fellow Scottish Premiership side St Mirren, making 13 appearances.
Kilmarnock manager Allan Johnston has also added former England youth international Tope Obadeyi on a three-year deal after he left Bury.
Magennis has been capped three times by Northern Ireland and was recently in the squad for the matches against Uruguay and Chile in South America.
Tope is a left winger and started his career at Bolton Wanderers, but only made three appearances in his four seasons at the Reebok Stadium.
Capped by England at under-19 and under-20 level, he has had loan spells at Swindon Town, Rochdale, Shrewsbury Town, Chesterfield and two spells at Plymouth Argyle last season, as well as a year in Portugal with Rio Ave.
The duo take Johnston's summer signings up to six, with Magennis set to play up front with another former Aberdeen striker, Lee Miller.
Irish defender Mark Connelly also penned a three-year contract on Friday, joining fellow new signings Jamie Hamill and Paul Cairney at Rugby Park.
Research and DNA tests identified the remains of David Williams, 22, from Colwyn Bay, Conwy county.
He drowned during a military operation near Waalwijk, North Brabant, on 5 February 1945.
He was buried at a nearby cemetery in the presence of Royal Marines and the Dutch Marine Corps on Wednesday.
His remains were found in a shallow grave during an explosives-detection project on land occupied during the war at Overdiepse Polder.
Four allied nations were known to have fought in the area and it was recorded that three marines died in a boating accident, and one body was missing.
Through DNA testing, the Recovery and Identification Unit in the Royal Netherlands Army (RIU/RNLDA) found his half-sister, Sheila Clough.
They shared the same biological mother but Ms Clough said she had been unaware of her half-brother until last year as her mother had never spoken about Mr Williams - who had been given up for adoption.
Ms Clough said: "This past year has been unbelievable, a complete emotional rollercoaster.
"I am extremely proud of David and his service with the Royal Marines and am grateful to everyone who has helped to finally lay him to rest in such a proud and dignified manner."
The British No. 41 Royal Marine Commando had been operating in the area when three marines drowned trying to recover a collapsible canvas assault boat from the enemy side of the river.
But the body of Mr Williams, who joined the marines in 1940 and could not swim, was not found until 2010.
Lt Geert Jonker, from RIU/RNLDA, said: "Identifying a WWII victim is giving them back their identity, making them real people again, linking them to real people and making them human."
The Lego Foundation has provided the university with £2.5m to fund a Lego Professorship of Play in Education, Development and Learning.
It has also provided £1.5m to support a play research centre in the education faculty, which will be led by the Lego professor.
Last year, Cambridge University advertised for a doctor of chocolate to study how and why the substance melts.
The Lego professorship post would be "open to all those whose work falls within the general field of the title of the office", the university said.
The successful candidate will lead the work of the Research Centre on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDaL), which studies the role of play in young children's learning and development.
The Lego Foundation was created to "build a future where learning through play empowers children to become creative, engaged, life-long learners".
The carnival, which has been organised by Reading's Caribbean community since 1977, was due to take place on Sunday.
Reading Borough Council said it discovered in February the committee's chairwoman had resigned and has had no response to its inquiries.
In 2013, the carnival was cancelled due to lack of resources. Organisers have not yet responded to the BBC.
Last year, organisers cut the carnival back, limiting it to four floats in the parade and no costumes.
A previous highlight in Reading's event calendar, the carnival attracted up to 5,000 people in past years.
Yvonne Fitzgerald, editor of the Reading Caribbean Express magazine, said she was "disappointed for the people who started this event with the hope that it would continue in growth for the local Caribbean people of Reading".
She added "an official apology to the Caribbean people of Reading is the least" the committee could do.
A Reading Borough Council spokesman said the carnival was "an important event in Reading's cultural calendar which the council has supported since it began in 1977 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee".
"The council wrote to the chair of the committee in February this year and was informed she had resigned.
"There has been no response to date from the forwarding email address for the committee."
"Indies" will be able to create their own games, publish to the Xbox when they like, and set their own pricing, the computer giant has confirmed.
Microsoft had previously said it would only allow games from recognised publishers on the new console.
The Xbox One, the successor to the Xbox 360, is to be launched in November.
Announcing the policy change Marc Whiten, corporate vice president of Xbox, said: "Our vision is that every person can be a creator. That every Xbox One can be used for development. That every game and experience can take advantage of all of the features of Xbox One and Xbox Live. This means self-publishing."
Microsoft plans to make further announcements about self-publishing in August at the Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany.
The self-publishing U-turn is the first major announcement since Don Mattrick, former boss of the Xbox division, left to be head of games maker Zynga in July.
Reacting to the announcement, Will Freeman, editor of Develop, a magazine for the games developer industry, told the BBC: "This is certainly an exciting move by Microsoft and will help democratise games development.
"But making a game is one thing, getting it played by lots of people is another. What really matters is Microsoft's policy towards distribution."
Barry Meade, commercial director of Fireproof Studios, a British Bafta-award-winning games maker, said: "This will be great for diversity, good for Microsoft and good for consoles in general.
"There hasn't been enough innovation in the console sector because of the high costs of development."
Fireproof has been highly critical of console makers in the past, principally because of the high costs and bureaucracy involved in creating games for them, preferring to focus on the cheaper mobile and browser platforms.
Creating a blockbuster console game from scratch and getting it promoted in stores and online can cost tens of millions of dollars, whereas Fireproof's popular mobile game, The Room, cost up to £80,000, says Mr Meade.
Microsoft's original policy contrasted with that of console rival, Sony, which is seen by many developers as more "indie-friendly".
In May, Sony announced that it would introduce an indie game section in its PlayStation Store and allow self-publishing on the Playstation 4 console, also due for its UK launch in November.
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His televised arrest in September 2014 helped spark pro-democracy protests that would continue for 79 days, paralysing the heart of the city.
But they ultimately failed to win any concessions from the Chinese government on greater voting rights for the territory's residents.
Mindful of that failure, Mr Wong is stepping into an unfamiliar role: general secretary of a new political party called Demosisto.
"Street activism is not enough if we want to fight for a better future," he tells me. "We have to enter the system, create a political party and shape the political agenda, in order to drive forward our movement for self-determination."
Mr Wong recently disbanded his student activist group Scholarism to pave way for the new party.
Its first goal is to contest, and hopefully win, seats in the Legislative Council election in September.
Mr Wong himself, not yet 21, is still too young to run. Three fellow party leaders will stand for election in two districts.
The current council - whose main function is to enact or repeal laws - has 70 lawmakers, of which 27 belong to the pro-democracy camp.
One of them - Sin Chung-kai, a stalwart of the Democratic Party - has expressed concern that Mr Wong's party may "fragment" the pro-democracy vote.
"We anticipate there will be more pan-democratic candidates," he says. "But I'm afraid that won't necessarily translate into more seats elected."
Demosisto shares basic values in common with the traditional pro-democracy parties.
But it does differ on key issues: its emphasis on self-reliance and self-determination, and its insistence on a legally binding referendum allowing voters to determine Hong Kong's political future.
Demosisto is the latest political party established by Hong Kong's new breed of youth demonstrators, known as "umbrella soldiers", but it is hardly alone.
Hong Kong Indigenous, led by Ray Wong and Edward Leung, also intends to field candidates in September.
The group is best known for leading intense clashes with police in the Mong Kok district during the Chinese New Year in February.
Afterward, Mr Leung won a very respectable 15% of the vote in a closely watched by-election, despite facing a rioting charge.
Youngspiration, whose leader is Baggio Leung, is an umbrella soldier party founded last year.
One of its members succeeded in defeating a heavyweight incumbent in a closely fought district council election last year.
Another group, Civic Passion, plans to nominate candidates to run in five districts in the September election.
If they win, they have promised to resign immediately, triggering a referendum on rewriting the Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution.
The most extreme among the new groups is the Hong Kong National Party, which has promised to fight for Hong Kong independence from China.
The group has received much criticism from officials in Hong Kong and Beijing, which believes its goal is illegal.
On the whole, these groups take a more aggressive, confrontational approach in their dealings with the Hong Kong and Chinese governments than traditional pro-democracy parties.
Mr Sin, the lawmaker, admits it is tough for them to attract younger supporters.
"The traditional political parties won't be able to represent the younger generation. That's why the younger generation wants to form parties of their own," he says.
He says three long-serving legislators from the Democratic Party - Emily Lau, Albert Ho and himself - will not stand for re-election in September to give younger party members a chance.
David Zweig, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, believes the rise in "umbrella parties" is a direct consequence of the Chinese government's failure to respond to protesters during the 2014 protests.
"In a report to Chinese officials, I warned them that a lack of response will push groups to become more extreme, and that this could result in violence," he says.
For his part, Joshua Wong says his party rejects violence, but will continue to engage in street politics.
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Bell, 33, hinted he could quit Tests after winning the Ashes but has since had "a really good talk" with the coaches and captain Alastair Cook.
"Deep down I probably knew I wasn't ready to call time on my Test career," Bell wrote in the Metro.
He is England's record ODI run-scorer, with 5,416 runs in 161 matches.
However, the Warwickshire player was not selected in the two most recent England ODI or T20 squads.
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Bell has played 115 Tests - only four Englishmen have played more - and scored 7,569 runs at an average of 43 with 22 centuries.
He managed only 215 runs at an average of 26.87 in the 3-2 series win against Australia, a record-equalling fifth Ashes triumph for an Englishman.
"I've a huge amount still to give in the Test arena and still have so many ambitions left to achieve, both from a personal and a team perspective," said Bell, who says he was not pressured into a decision by England coach Trevor Bayliss or Cook.
"I would love nothing more than to go to Australia in two years' time and right the wrongs of our last Ashes tour there.
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Gayle flicked in the opener after fine play from Matt Ritchie on the break.
Burton quickly levelled when Lloyd Dyer slotted in Jackson Irvine's cross.
But Diame showed great strength to go through on goal and coolly slot the away side's second, and the Magpies just about edged a calmer second half.
Ritchie and Gayle both missed decent chances to extend Newcastle's lead, while Lucas Akins did blaze a great chance over the bar for the Brewers, who also had a late spell of pressure.
But Newcastle, who move four points clear of second-placed Brighton prior to the Seagulls' evening kick-off against Birmingham, had their extra quality up front to thank for their victory.
The Brewers had a daunting task trying to contain the team with the best away defence, best away points tally and most goals scored on the road.
They were unfortunate to trail at the break, and could easily have been ahead had Magpies defender Paul Dummett not made a wonderful last-ditch clearance.
But ultimately, with Jonjo Shelvey dictating play from midfield, Newcastle's extra quality told in the final third to ensure the hosts remain in 21st position, having one just once in their last eight league matches.
Burton boss Nigel Clough:
"A couple of errors in the lead-up to their goals has cost us, but apart from that I thought our lads were outstanding today, in everything that they did.
"Their effort and honesty shines through to us, but alongside that today they played with quality.
"We have put two great performances together in the last four days and got no points, and I think that will change in the second half of the season."
Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez told BBC Newcastle:
"We have shown the team is strong enough and showed that we have confidence in ourselves. This is really good for the future.
"Now, we enjoy Christmas, our fans will be happy and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I'm really pleased, they can spend time with their families and watch the table and enjoy."
Match ends, Burton Albion 1, Newcastle United 2.
Second Half ends, Burton Albion 1, Newcastle United 2.
Attempt missed. Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Tom Naylor following a corner.
Attempt missed. Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jamie Ward with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Jamaal Lascelles.
Attempt saved. Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lloyd Dyer.
Attempt saved. Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Ward.
Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Burton Albion. Will Miller replaces Matthew Palmer.
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Karl Darlow.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Yoan Gouffran replaces Matt Ritchie.
Offside, Newcastle United. Isaac Hayden tries a through ball, but Mohamed Diamé is caught offside.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Kyle McFadzean.
Attempt missed. Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Chris O'Grady with a headed pass.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle United) because of an injury.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Jamie Ward replaces Lucas Akins.
Attempt missed. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Attempt missed. Lucas Akins (Burton Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Chris O'Grady.
Chris O'Grady (Burton Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United).
Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Jamaal Lascelles.
John Mousinho (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Attempt blocked. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross.
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Paul Dummett.
Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by DeAndre Yedlin.
Attempt blocked. Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Chris O'Grady (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United).
Foul by John Brayford (Burton Albion).
Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Second Half begins Burton Albion 1, Newcastle United 2.
This month the NFL and RFU unveiled a partnership for the home of English rugby to stage at least three regular-season games over a three-year period.
The Rams will play the first of those against opponents yet to be decided.
Also as part of the 2016 International Series, the Jacksonville Jaguars will return to London for a fourth consecutive year to play at Wembley.
The NFL's scheduling formula will see St Louis face the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants or Washington at Twickenham in south-west London.
At the national stadium in the north-west of the capital, the Jaguars will face Indianapolis Colts on 2 October, and Wembley will also be the venue for the Cincinnati Bengals' first game in London, against the Washington Redskins on 30 October.
Wembley hosted three NFL matches during 2015, with October's fixture between the Buffalo Bills and the Jaguars played in front of an 84,021 crowd.
London will also play host to regular-season games at Tottenham's new stadium from 2018.
Fans have been gathering outside the singer's London and Oxfordshire homes following his death on Christmas Day.
Amid the tributes, tales of his philanthropy have emerged - including how he funded a couple's IVF treatment.
The 53-year-old's publicist thanked "those who, rightly, have chosen to celebrate his life and legacy."
Michael secretly paid £15,000 for a stranger's IVF treatment, former Deal or No Deal producer Richard Osman revealed.
Osman, who now co-presents Pointless, tweeted: "A woman on 'Deal Or No Deal' told us she needed £15k for IVF treatment.
"George Michael secretly phoned the next day and gave her the £15k."
There was "no more fitting tribute than the many, many kind words that have been said", Michael's publicist said.
Other stories of the star's benevolence, including a £50,000 Sport Relief donation, have emerged on social media.
In a string of tweets celebrating the singer's music and humour, comedian and author David Walliams said the star had supported his 2006 cross-Channel swim to the tune of £50,000.
The woman who received IVF treatment was later named as Lynette Gillard, 38, from Bolton, whose partner Steve Davies had appeared on Deal or No Deal in 2008.
She told the Telegraph: "For many years I wondered who would have been so generous and now I know. What more can I say other than 'Thank you George'."
At the time, Mr Davies had told the Manchester Evening News: "Thank you is not enough. It restores your faith in humankind.
"All the bad news you read about and then something like this happens."
Michael's donations ranged in scope from major charities and appeals to individual acts of kindness.
The proceeds from sales of Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me, his 1991 live duet with Sir Elton John, were donated to HIV and children's charities, including the Terence Higgins Trust.
It tweeted: "Thank you to George Michael for all he did for the LGBT community and to educate about HIV. RIP George."
Wham! royalties from Last Christmas went to Ethiopian famine relief efforts, while the founder of the children's helpline charity Childline, Dame Esther Rantzen, said Michael had donated royalties from the song Jesus to a Child to the cause.
"He really wanted to keep his help secret, it was an intensely personal gift," Dame Esther told BBC News.
"It meant we could answer more children."
She said Michael, who donated about £2m to Childline over the years, "completely understood" the importance of helping children.
Children's charities were also at the fore when he donated each year to Capital Radio's appeal.
Former presenter Mick Brown tweeted: "Every Easter at Capital when I was on air with Chris Tarrant for help a London child, George would call in at 3.30pm with a £100,000 donation."
The star's mother died of cancer in 1997 and in 2006 he played a free concert at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London, for NHS nurses to thank them for their care.
He also gave his time to Macmillan Cancer Support, as one of their ambassadors.
Alongside major charities, individuals on Twitter shared their accounts of his kindness.
Journalist Sali Hughes said: "I wrote in a piece ages ago about a celeb I'd worked with tipping a barmaid £5k because she was a student nurse in debt. Was George Michael."
And Emilyne Mondo said he had worked anonymously at a homeless shelter where she volunteered.
Michael's partner Fadi Fawaz, says he found the singer dead when he went to his home in Goring on Christmas Day.
He told the Telegraph: "We were supposed to be going for Christmas lunch.
"I went round there to wake him up and he was just gone, lying peacefully in bed. We don't know what happened yet.
"George was looking forward to Christmas, and so was I. Now everything is ruined.
"I want people to remember him the way he was - he was a beautiful person."
Michael's music has been climbing the charts since his death.
On iTunes, Ladies & Gentlemen became the number one album and Careless Whisper went to 12 in the singles chart.
Hull, 20, was two shots off the lead going into Sunday's final round, but 18-year-old Ko finished one stroke ahead on 12 under par to add the title to last year's Evian Championship.
Hull, whose previous best major result was a tie for seventh at the 2014 ANA Inspiration, shared second place with South Korean Gee Chun.
"I can't wait for the next tournament," said Hull. "I am happy because I played some great shots on the back nine.
"I feel like I know I can play well under pressure, making birdies when I'm down. I have done that today and I am proud of myself.
"But Lydia hit a great shot into the last and she should be proud of herself."
Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn was fourth on 10 under, while overnight leader Lexi Thompson of the United States was a shot further back in fifth.
Scotland's Catriona Matthew was six under after three days but her challenge was derailed by a costly eight at the par-three second hole, with the 46-year-old finishing on three under in a tie for 32nd place.
"It was always my dream to play on the LPGA," said world number one Ko, who started the final round one shot behind Thompson.
"For these amazing things to be happening is unbelievable, but it also motivates me to work harder."
BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter:
"Ko's victory provided her with back-to-back majors. At just 18, the New Zealander is an astonishing sportswoman and she needed a birdie at the last to claim the title.
"A brilliant approach meant a mere tap-in was enough to emerge from a pack that included Hull, who joined the clubhouse leaders with a nerveless birdie putt on the final green.
"It wasn't quite enough, but still provided the best major finish of her career."
He decried "extraordinary" foreign interference in his country's affairs and December's election.
Regional leaders have been unsuccessfully trying to persuade Mr Jammeh to hand over power to Adama Barrow, who won the polls.
The move comes after Nigeria deployed a warship to put further pressure on Mr Jammeh to step down.
Regional bloc Ecowas, the Economic Community of West African States, has prepared a Senegal-led force but maintains that military intervention would be a last resort.
In his televised announcement, Mr Jammeh said "any acts of disobedience to the laws The Gambia, incitement of violence and acts intended to disturb public order and peace" are banned under the state of emergency.
He said security forces were instructed to "maintain absolute peace, law and order".
Earlier, the National Assembly passed a motion condemning what it called the "unlawful and malicious interference" of the African Union and the country's neighbour, Senegal, in The Gambia's affairs.
Mr Barrow, a property developer, is meant to be inaugurated as the new president on Thursday. His spokesperson expressed shock and sadness at the declaration, says the BBC's Umaru Fofana in Banjul, the capital.
It is remains unclear if a curfew is being imposed, our correspondent says.
Mr Jammeh initially accepted the election results but then decided he wanted them annulled after the electoral commission admitted some errors, although it insists this did not affect the final outcome.
The Supreme Court is unable to hear the challenge until May because of a shortage of judges, and Mr Jammeh has said he will not step down until then.
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At least three Gambian ministers, including the foreign minister, have resigned in recent days. Thousands of Gambians have also fled to Senegal, and further afield to Guinea-Bissau, amid fears of violence.
BBC Africa security correspondent Tomi Oladipo says the Nigerian warship is being deployed to put on a show of strength rather than to launch an attack.
A military source says that the vessel - the NNS Unity - is currently sailing off the coast of Ghana.
Senegal is leading Ecowas' standby regional force and is also preparing its ground troops ahead of Thursday's deadline.
The Gambia's small army is not expected to put up a fight in the event of an intervention, but even if it did, its forces would be quickly overrun, our security correspondent says.
In the December polls, Mr Barrow won 43.3% of the vote compared with Mr Jammeh's 39.6%. A third candidate, Mama Kandeh, got 17.1%.
Yahya Jammeh seized power in the tiny West African country in 1994 and has been accused of human rights abuses, although he has held regular elections.
The African Union has said it will no longer recognise Mr Jammeh's authority after his term ends. Mr Barrow is currently in Senegal.
There has been an outpouring of grief over the death of Mr Barrow's eight-year-old son - and many Gambians on social media have been changing their profile photos to his image to show their sympathy.
Habibu Barrow died in hospital after being bitten by a dog on Sunday at his aunt's house in Fajara, a coastal resort near Banjul. He was mauled by the dog and sustained a head injury.
Many residences in Fajara, an upmarket area, have security dogs to ward off intruders.
Mr Barrow was unable to attend Monday's funeral as he intends to remain in neighbouring Senegal until his return on Thursday for his swearing-in. But his second wife Sarjo, Habibu's mother, was there along with her two other children.
Since Mr Jammeh announced he was contesting the vote on 9 December, Mr Barrow, a devout Muslim with two wives, moved his children to stay with relatives for safety.
It is hoped the US technology could become an easier way of screening people for a condition called Barrett's oesophagus, which can lead to cancer.
Unlike current imaging techniques, the device can be used while the patient is conscious and takes only a few minutes.
The device has been tested in a small number of patients so far, Nature Medicine reports.
Although researchers at Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston say the device has potentially wide application, it could be particularly useful for Barrett's oesophagus where many people do not realise they have it, but there is no easy way to screen for it.
In those with the condition, the cells in the lower gullet become abnormal due to chronic acid reflux, which puts them at a higher risk of developing cancer of the oesophagus.
Doctors can screen those at risk using an endoscope - a flexible tube containing a tiny video camera - but this is unpleasant and usually has to be done under sedation.
The new device is contained in a capsule about the size of a multivitamin pill connected by a thin wire.
Within the capsule is a rapidly rotating laser tip which emits infrared light that is then reflected back from the lining of the oesophagus.
The image doctors see on the screen is a 3D landscape showing far more microscopic detail than can be seen with endoscopy.
When the patient swallows the capsule it is carried down the oesophagus in the same way any piece of food would be then once it reaches the stomach it can be pulled back out using the wire.
Images are taken the whole time the device is moving up and down the gullet and the whole process takes a matter of minutes.
Testing the equipment in six patients known to have Barrett's oesophagus and seven healthy volunteers, the researchers said the images clearly showed the cellular changes that occur in those with the condition.
Prof Gary Tearney, one of the research collaborators, said the technology is cheaper than endoscopy and avoids the need for sedation, specialised equipment or special training.
And the microscopic detail shown in the images means a biopsy can be avoided.
"The images produced have been some of the best we have seen of the oesophagus," says Prof Tearne, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School.
"We originally were concerned that we might miss a lot of data because of the small size of the capsule, but we were surprised to find that, once the pill has been swallowed, it is firmly 'grasped' by the oesophagus, allowing complete microscopic imaging of the entire wall."
Prof Tearney added that the device could help doctors work out who is at risk and detect cancers at potentially more treatable stage.
Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald, a specialist on Barrett's oesophagus at the Cambridge Cancer Centre, said: "It is elegant technology. The downside is that you will have to endoscope anyone with suspected Barrett's as you will have no way of sampling and detecting dysplasia [abnormalities] with this technology."
An engineer by training, she had been working in the oil industry.
But now she has left all that behind.
When we met up in the city of Adana in southern Turkey, she had just fled across the border from the Syrian city of Aleppo after a mission with rebel forces that went wrong.
Two male colleagues who were acting as her minders, were killed.
At the end of June she joined the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and was given a particularly dangerous role to fulfil.
As a woman she has able to move more easily around the streets of Aleppo than the men.
"Lots of women are working with me and we do a lot of spying work," she says.
"We usually check the locations of regime people [military forces] and check where would be the best points to locate the Free Syrian Army.
"We also spy on high-ranking people in the government so we can help the FSA arrest and capture them."
In the midst of all this, she speaks on the phone with her family every day to reassure them she is fine.
"I wonder why I am not afraid of being shot through the head," she says pointing to her forehead.
"But sometimes when you face death, you lose your fear."
Thwaiba Kanafani is one of a growing number of Syrians without any previous military experience who have joined the rebels.
There is a special training programme based in Turkey at secret camps run by the Turkish military, she says.
"The Turkish people are really helping us. Lots of people are getting training in those camps."
"The training is really professional. You can only sleep four hours a day.
"You have to climb mountains, you get weapons training. It's hard work."
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are also reported to be providing assistance for what has been described as a secret nerve centre for military aid and communications for the Syrian rebels.
This is reported to have been set up in Adana.
None of these countries has confirmed the existence of the base.
Separately, Syrian opposition sources have told the BBC they have been called to meetings with foreigners in Istanbul in recent weeks to discuss recruiting volunteers from different cities in Syria to staff an "operation room" in Turkey.
The aim is to co-ordinate and plan rebel actions and the supply of weapons.
Turkey has denied supplying weapons to the Syrian rebels.
The failure of the United Nations to reach agreement on how to resolve the Syrian crisis seems to have spurred a number of countries to step up unilateral assistance to rebel forces.
It has been reported in recent days that US President Barack Obama has given the go-ahead for covert help to be provided, although it is not clear what kind of assistance is being considered.
On Friday the British government confirmed it would provide more communications equipment to the rebels next month.
The rebels themselves have been asking the international community for many months for much more sophisticated weapons, including portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.
This, they believe, would turn the tide of the conflict decisively in their favour.
At the moment helicopter gunships and fighter jets of the Syrian armed forces are able to carry out frequent attacks on rebel positions and tanks are being used in all major operations.
But so far countries backing the rebels have been reluctant, fearing the consequences of such weapons getting into the hands of jihadi groups now operating inside Syria.
Two-year-old Jacob Jenkins reportedly stopped breathing for 30 minutes after swallowing the fruit on Friday.
Parents Abigail Wilson and David Jenkins chose to turn off his life support on Wednesday, at the moment well-wishers released balloons.
A Pizza Hut spokeswoman said it had "removed grapes from the menu with immediate effect".
The firm was "devastated to learn of Jacob's tragic death", she said, and added the Hartlepool Hut would be closed on Thursday as a "sign of respect".
Jacob was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, where he was put into an induced coma.
On Wednesday night, hundreds of yellow balloons were released on Seaton Carew seafront in his honour.
A statement on a fundraising page set up in support of his family announced his "heartbreaking" death.
"Baby Jacob gained his Angel Wings at 7PM tonight. The exact time everyone set off their yellow balloons in Hartlepool and far beyond," it said.
The page has raised more than £9,000 toward's the toddler's funeral costs.
Audio:What to do if your child is choking
Source: St John Ambulance
Joanne Thompson, who set up Millie's Trust after her nine-month-old daughter choked to death on shepherd's pie, said choking incidents can be difficult to prevent.
She said: "A lot of people don't understand the dangers of just simple foods, or that children can pick things up off the floor... you've got to be vigilant all the time.
"Things like this happen, they're accidents and it doesn't matter how much effort you put into making sure your children are safe, unfortunately just like Jacob, this was a complete a tragic accident."
Iain Johnstone, a consultant in paediatric intensive care at the Great North Children's Hospital, in Newcastle, said a number of factors make youngsters susceptible to choking.
He said: "Toddlers are at an age when they pick things up and put them in their mouths.
"They also have smaller airways than adults - narrowing as they go down, like a funnel.
"Unfortunately, a grape is the perfect shape and size to block the airway and cause choking."
Tributes have been left to the toddler on a Facebook page set up in his memory.
Jaki Rutherford said: "Gone too soon little Jacob, sleeping with the angels, thinking of your mam, dad and all your family xx"
Nikki Jones said: "Cannot imagine the pain his whole family must be feeling, such a tragic end to what was meant to be a simple family meal. RIP little one x"
Sharon Mitchell said: "R.I.P gorgeous little man. Sweet dreams. Thoughts are with his family at this very sad time. Fly with the Angels xx"
The McIlvanney Prize - previously known as the Scottish Crime Book of the year - was presented at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling.
Brookmyre took the £1,000 prize for his novel Black Widow.
The other short-listed authors were Doug Johnston, Val McDermid and ES Thomson.
Judges described Brookmyre's novel as being "like watching Olympic diving", adding: "Just when you think the plot can't twist again, it takes a new turn. Even the twists have twists."
William Mcilvanney, who died last year, is regarded by many as the founder of tartan noir, a particularly Scottish style of gritty crime writing.
His brother, renowned sports journalist Hugh McIlvanney, presented Brookmyre with the inaugural award.
Sharp, 22, was second in her heat, running in 2:01.41 to advance, as American Alysia Johnson Montano and Kenyan defending champion Pamela Jelimo also all comfortably qualified.
"I just tried to concentrate on my race. I am in great shape," said Sharp.
"I have to thank my coach. He has prepared me so well and I have really grown as an athlete."
Sharp, who was chosen to represent Team GB ahead of four other British athletes who had run faster qualifying times, said the crowd had inspired her.
"I came to watch a couple of nights ago to get used to the crowd but I don't think anything can prepare you for it," she said.
"I had this ringing in my ear because the crowd was so loud but it was good because it made me forget everything else."
In March, Jacques Rudolph's men will visit Taunton to play a two-day match against Somerset. The format of the game is yet to be decided.
The Somerset game will be followed by home matches against Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire.
The first-class season starts with a three-day fixture against Cardiff MCCU also at the Swalec Stadium.
Glamorgan will fine tune their preparations before the County Championship campaign with a two-day match at home to Nottinghamshire in early April.
Their first County Championship clash sees them travel to Northamptonshire.
The club have announced admission for all three preseason games in Cardiff will be free of charge for spectators.
GLAMORGAN 2017 MARCH/APRIL FIXTURES
March 23-24: Somerset - Taunton.
March 27: Gloucestershire - The Swalec Stadium, Cardiff.
March 28-30: Cardiff MCCU (first class) - The Swalec Stadium, Cardiff.
April 2-3: Nottinghamshire - The Swalec Stadium, Cardiff.
April 7-11: Northamptonshire (Specsavers County Championship) - The County Ground, Northampton.
April 14-18: Worcestershire (Specsavers County Championship) - The Swalec Stadium, Cardiff.
April 21-25: Leicestershire (Specsavers County Championship) - Fischer County Ground, Grace Road.
April 27: Gloucestershire (Royal London One-Day Cup) - The Brightside Ground, Bristol.
April 30: Surrey (Royal London One-Day Cup) - The Swalec Stadium, Cardiff.
Robert and Christianne Shepherd, aged six and seven, of Horbury, West Yorkshire, died from carbon monoxide poisoning in October 2006.
Neil Shepherd told Wakefield Coroners' Court he was "paralysed by guilt" over their deaths.
He sobbed as he described his "perfect son" and "feisty, loving" daughter.
The children were staying at the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel with their father and stepmother when they complained of feeling unwell, the inquest heard.
They were found dead the following day by a maid and Mr and Mrs Shepherd were found in a coma.
Post-mortem tests revealed carbon monoxide levels in Robert and Christianne's bloodstreams were 56.8 and 60.7% respectively - levels above 50% are fatal.
An inspection of the boiler found it had been incorrectly installed and a safety cut-off device had been deliberately short-circuited.
Mr Shepherd said: "I firmly believe my children would be here today if Thomas Cook had carried out an inspection of those boilers."
Torbay-born Moore, 22, has joined on a 28-day loan while McCoulsky, 19, will be at Plainmoor until mid-January.
Manager Kevin Nicholson hopes the strikers will arrest Torquay's poor form, which has seen the side not win for seven matches in all competitions.
"The boys that are here already need to see this as a challenge now," Nicholson told BBC Sport.
"They've had my backing the whole time I've been here and I will do everything in my power to help them improve as people and players and help us get the results we should be getting."
Moore, who has spent time at Yeovil Town, has scored six goals for the National League leaders since joining from Norwegian Premier League side Viking FK in January.
Highly-rated youngster McCoulsky made his Bristol City debut in their EFL Cup defeat by Hull City in October.
"Kieffer's proven at this level and higher, he's a very hard-working guy and the chance for him to come here, play some football and push some of our lads was something that he wanted to do," added Nicholson.
"Shawn is a young boy with bags of pace and bags of energy, he's been knocking on their first-team door for a little while."
The woman's body was found in August 1974 on a heath at Cockley Cley near Swaffham in Norfolk.
Rope and a plastic found at the scene suggested connections with Dundee.
Twelve students in Dundee trawled through local newspaper archives, which police said resulted in "a couple" of new lines of inquiry.
The woman was found wearing a 1969 Marks & Spencer pink nightdress, while post-mortem examinations concluded she was aged 23-35, had given birth and was from central Europe.
The body was wrapped in a plastic cover bearing the National Cash Registers (NCR) logo which links it to Dundee, where the computer firm employed hundreds of people in the 1970s.
Jute rope, used to tie up the plastic, was also believed to have been manufactured in Dundee.
Psychology and forensic biology students at the city's Abertay University spent April looking for stories about the case and reports of other missing people or murders and attacks in the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph from January 1973 to January 1975.
Dr Penny Woolnough, course tutor, said: "It's a really valuable way for students to put into practice what they learn on their course.
"They've submitted their findings to the police and now it's in their hands."
A Norfolk Police spokesman said: "The students' work has generated a couple of leads, which detectives from the major investigations team are now following up.
"At this stage of this part of the inquiry, it's too early to say how important these leads will be."
It follows a report by the Head of Internal Audit at the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and the Department of Education.
She said the claims were distinct from those made by safety expert Paul Scott.
He had claimed he was bullied.
Ms Nί Chuilίn said: "The Head of Internal Audit in the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) and Department of Education has completed a report setting out a range of serious allegations and concerns in relation to the leadership, management and the overall culture within Sport NI.
"I have today written to the chair and board members of Sport NI, and asked for an urgent meeting with the members of the board of Sport NI to urgently consider the report of the Head of Internal Audit and to hear their response to the issues that have been raised by their staff.
"I will be making no further public comment on this issue until I have the opportunity to hear from Sport NI, considered their response and decided on the best way forward.
"I would also wish to make it clear that these allegations are distinct from those which were raised by another member of Sport NI staff at the CAL (Culture, Arts and Leisure) Committee on 30 April and which are the subject of another investigation process."
On 30 April, Mr Scott told Stormont's Culture, Arts and Leisure committee that he was put under "undue pressure" to approve plans for the new Casement Park Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ground by officials from the minister's department.
He also said he had made a complaint of bullying against them.
He said it was made in December 2014.
Mr Scott said he raised a complaint of bullying and harassment against DCAL officials, with the chief executive of Sport Northern Ireland.
He also said he made a formal protected disclosure to the board of Sport NI, where he is safety compliance unit manager.
The chief executive of Sport NI, Antoinette McKeown, was suspended from her role earlier this year.
Last month, she turned up at a Stormont committee where two of her Sport NI colleagues were giving evidence about the stadium.
She sat in the public gallery as the officials spoke to the Culture, Arts and Leisure (CAL) committee.
John McCormack drove for a further 30 miles in the articulated lorry after hitting the vehicle on the A9.
Perth Sheriff Court was told there were three children in the car at the time of the incident.
The 46-year-old was ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work and banned from driving for two years.
Prosecutor Rebecca Kynaston said motorists heading north near the House of Bruar shopping complex saw McCormack driving straight towards them.
She said: "To their horror they saw the lorry coming south. He was on the wrong side of the road.
"They managed to get off the road onto the verge.
"The lorry missed them, but unfortunately it continued on and a couple with three children in their car weren't so lucky."
Ms Kynaston said that the lorry hit the offside of the car and scraped along it.
She said: "One might have hoped that would bring this to an end. The impact was forcible and bent the truck onto the wheel.
"Police managed to pull over the lorry further down the A9. This had been going on for quite a few miles."
McCormack, 46, from Kilmarnock, admitted driving dangerously on the wrong side of the road on 11 April last year.
He also admitted failing to stop after an accident, and driving a vehicle which posed a danger due to its condition.
Defence solicitor David Holmes said McCormack had decided to stop driving in the wake of the incident.
He said: "He has no recollection of the accident or how it could have taken place.
"He remembers sneezing and that's as far as it goes."
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said: "He has no recollection of what happened but was aware of a sneezing episode prior to the crash.
"Five vehicles had to take avoiding action.
"To go into the other carriageway of the main trunk road north, it doesn't take much imagination to work out what could have happened."
The music company Warner/Chappell had claimed the rights to the song but earlier this year a judge ruled that the lyrics could be used without the need to pay royalties.
A group of artists and filmmakers had sought to claim back the money collected by the firm over the years.
The terms of the agreement have not been revealed.
Warner/Chappell is thought to have made $2m (£1.3m) a year by charging every time the song was used in a film, television episode, advertisement or other public performance.
It acquired the copyright in 1988 but a judge ruled it was only granted for specific arrangements of the music, not the song itself.
In a statement the company said: "While we respectfully disagreed with the court's decision, we are pleased to have now resolved this matter."
The lawyer for the artists, Mark Rifkin, told Reuters he was pleased with the agreement but did not give any further details.
The tune was composed by two Kentucky sisters in 1893.
Mildred and Patty Hill called their version Good Morning To All, which later evolved into the song that is popularly sung at birthday parties around the world.
Offensive words and symbols were painted on the buildings between Friday evening and Saturday morning.
The Conservative office in West Mount Street was vandalised with the word "scum", a swastika and the letter "Q" in white spray paint.
The letter "Q" was also painted on the door of the Labour party office in nearby Rosemount Place.
Ross Thomson, Scottish Conservative candidate for Aberdeen South, said he believed the "Q" was intended to stand for quisling, or traitor.
"Once again we see the ugly side of nationalism on display," he said.
"People should engage in healthy democratic debate but attempts like this to try and intimidate and bully political opponents are utterly disgusting."
A Police Scotland spokesman said inquiries were ongoing and asked anyone who saw any suspicious activity in the area to contact them.
Bafana Bafana, who have played at global football's showpiece event three times, were paired with fellow southern Africans Angola during a ceremony in St Petersburg.
South Africa's coach Ephraim 'Shakes' Mashaba said he was not afraid to meet Angola in the qualifiers.
We have played Angola on a number of occasions, although the outcomes were close, we have had the upper hand
"I think in all fairness, it was a fair draw," said Mashaba from Russia.
"One could not have asked for a better draw than this one.
"We have played Angola on a number of occasions, although the outcomes were close, we have had the upper hand."
Angola will host Bafana Bafana in Luanda on 11 October with the return leg expected in South Africa two weeks later and Mashaba is not contemplating an early exit.
"It [the draw] was more or less what we expected; you cannot reach the World Cup finals without facing tough teams." he said.
"One thing for sure, we will prepare thoroughly against Angola; we won't underestimate them."
Angola versus South Africa is the only one of 20 second-round ties featuring two former qualifiers with Angola shock participants in the 2006 tournament.
South Africa reached the 1998 and 2002 competitions via the qualifying route and were automatic 2010 World Cup contestants as hosts.
Only seven African rankings places divide Bafana Bafana and the Palancas Negras and the clash is a highlight of the draw.
Another fascinating match-up is the tie between four-time qualifiers Morocco and 2015 Cup of Nations semi-finalists Equatorial Guinea.
Morocco pulled out of hosting the last Africa Cup of Nations because they feared visiting supporters could bring the Ebola virus into their country.
Last-minute replacements Equatorial Guinea used home advantage to good effect, reaching the last four before bowing out to Ghana.
The Moroccans have not featured at a World Cup since 1998, but boast a squad that includes Bayern Munich defender Mehdi Benatia and Granada striker Youssef El Arabi.
Cameroon will begin their campaign for a record-extending eighth appearance by an African team with an away game against Somalia or Niger.
Nigeria, the second most frequent African qualifiers, look set to tackle Swaziland, who should eliminate bottom-of-the-rankings Djibouti in a first round confined to the weaker nations.
Cup of Nations title-holders Ivory Coast and Ghana, the team they defeated on penalties in the final last February, are chasing fourth consecutive World Cup appearances.
The Ivorians begin with a visit to Liberia or Guinea-Bissau while Ghana travel to the Comoros Islands off the south-east coast or Lesotho.
Highest-ranked African team Algeria, who took eventual 2014 world champions Germany to extra time in a last-16 clash in Brazil, play Tanzania or Malawi.
Egypt are winners of the Cup of Nations a record seven times but have repeatedly struggled to qualify for the World Cup. They have drawn either Chad or Sierra Leone.
Debutants South Sudan face Mauritania and Mauritius play Kenya in the first round.
The two-leg first-round ties are scheduled between October 5 and 13 with the second-round fixtures between 9-17 November.
Places in the group stage await the 20 second-round winners with the five table-toppers going to Russia.
Under the system, treatment and conditions in Scotland's 15 prisons are monitored by trained volunteers.
About 150 volunteers have been trained up as prison inspectors around Scotland.
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland David Strang commended the "commitment and motivation" of the volunteers.
The new system of independent monitoring was introduced at the end of August 2015 and replaced Prison Visiting Committees.
The monitors have full access to prisons and can investigate matters brought to their attention by prisoners.
In the last year, the monitors received more than 1,000 requests from people held in prison custody.
The monitors' findings will be included in HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland's Annual Report.
Halfpenny, 27, has not played since injuring an anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in a World Cup warm-up match for Wales in September.
The Toulon man is expected to miss the Six Nations, but Wales forwards coach Robin McBryde values his insight with France in Cardiff on 26 February.
"He's good to have in the environment. He's very honest and very humble."
"Someone had to point him out the other day because they didn't realise he was here!
"It's good to have Leigh back, he's a quality player. The knowledge he can share amongst the squad with regards to the French mindset - that's invaluable as well, with regards to how they perceive us and some of the challenges they think we possess.
"In fairness to Leigh, he's with us sharing that knowledge. It's great to see Leigh taking great strides in his rehab."
Halfpenny joined European champions Toulon from Cardiff Blues in 2014 and looks likely to trigger a clause in his contract which will keep him in France for another season.
The Blues had said they wanted him back, while Scarlets and Wasps both expressed their interest in the British and Irish Lions Test player.
Devon MP Gary Streeter's tweet was in reply to a post by political commentator Paul Mason.
Ex-England footballer Gary Lineker is one of thousands who have replied to the comment.
Mr Streeter told the BBC: "I believe in freedom of speech and expression but I'm asking for a grown up debate rather than people being so jolly rude."
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Mr Streeter tweeted: "This is why i (sic) hate social media. It gives a voice to people who dont (sic) deserve one."
The tweet has had about 3,800 responses so far including one from Lineker who retorted: "This is why I love social media. It gives a voice to people who deserve one."
Mr Streeter was responding to a tweet by Mr Mason which criticised one of his fellow Conservative MPs Johnny Mercer over the public sector pay gap.
"Someone was abusing one of my colleagues," the MP for Devon South West said.
"I am saying people don't deserve a voice if that voice is just to attack and be rude and abusive."
Mr Streeter said that "as an elected representative you want to hear from everyone" but "let's have that conversation in a civil manner".
"There's no such moderation at all on social media you just rip into people and I think it's a very unpleasant part of modern life," he added.
Mr Streeter admitted that he used Twitter "very rarely".
He said: "I'm not sure I want to continue using Twitter.
"Perhaps it's something for the younger generation."
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BBC Sport NI analysts and former Ulster players Tony McWhirter and Maurice Field assess their prospects of ending their 10-year trophy drought.
T McW: "Charles Piutau speaks for himself in terms of the quality he brings from New Zealand and what he did for Wasps last year while on loan.
"I know there was quite a lot of interest from Wasps with regard to him staying there so Bryn Cunningham and everyone else at Ulster will be relieved he stuck to his agreement.
"Marcell Coetzee is again a proven world class player. He will add a big, big dynamic to the Ulster pack in terms of replacing Nick Williams. He is having a second knee reconstruction so from an Ulster point of view, everyone is hoping he gets fit soon.
"Prop Rodney Ah You has a point to prove after moving from Connacht. With Wiehahn Herbst missing the opening five or six weeks of the season through injury, and Ricky Lutton also out, that should give him a chance to impress and make his name.
MF: "The absence of Coetzee until January is a big blow, but Piutau showed the qualities he has while playing at Wasps and it would be good to get the chance to see him as an attacking full-back.
"The only thing I would question is whether it is a 15 that we needed, or perhaps a 10 or 9 to cover for Paddy (Jackson) or Ruan (Pienaar) may have been preferable.
"With injury problems mounting before the season has even properly begun, strength in depth among the forwards in particular may be an issue.
"If you don't have a strong pack to front up, it doesn't matter if you have seven Charles Piutaus in the back line, because you will never get to see the best of him."
T McW: "It's an interesting one. Andrew Trimble wears his heart on his sleeve, leaves nothing on the pitch and is a crowd favourite. He deserves this chance as he has been at Ulster his whole career and I think it is a job he will grow into.
"I think the dynamic will work well, the trouble is if they are both selected for Ireland.
"Rob Herring has matured as a player and I was really impressed with him last year. His line-out throwing is as good as anyone and he gives you a lot around the park. With Rory coming to the end of his career, the captaincy may be a bit of bait to keep him here as I imagine there is quite a bit of interest from other clubs."
MF: "I find this set-up quite strange as both Andrew and Rob will have aspirations of being involved with Ireland for the periods surrounding the autumn internationals and the Six Nations, with Rob possibly deputising for Rory Best at hooker with Ireland.
"That could rule them both out of half the Pro12 games. I understand that they are both senior leaders in the team but if they are away representing Ireland where does that leave the captaincy?"
T McW: "They have strengthened the squad in some regards. Personally I would have liked them to sign a couple more forwards. The problem is they are allowed two or three marquee signings and the rest have to be Irish qualified.
"The academy is starting to produce, but generally it is the outside backs who come through quickly. It takes another two or three years for the forwards to mature physically and get more game time. If the players aren't out there then there is no point spending the money on them.
"The problem for me is the way that they have started in recent seasons. They have frittered away points that have come back to haunt them at the end of the year, meaning that they have ended up with away semi-finals.
"Les Kiss will be looking for consistency, by winning at home with bonus points and getting a couple of early victories on the road, which will stand them in good stead."
MF: "There is no doubt Ulster have the desire and ambition, although there is a slight question mark over their physicality and a lack of dynamic impact off the bench.
"Our initial starting XV is strong but have Ulster the replacements to come off the bench and make an impact that the other top teams posses.
"Consistency of selection and belief are key, while the future looks bright from a youth point of view with a lot of good young talent coming through."
T McW: "It will be tough. Two French teams and Exeter, who have just got better and better over the last couple of years. Clermont have the best home record in the competition and then Bordeaux, who are the new kids on the block and have been getting better year by year. Ian Madigan going to Bordeaux adds a bit of spice to his competition with Paddy Jackson as two of Ireland's fly-half options.
"They have to make sure that the last home game at home to Bordeaux doesn't become a dead rubber and they still have something to play for. You must win your home games, look to pick up an away win and some bonus points along the way. If you do that, you give yourself a chance.
"If you lose any of your home games, realistically you have no chance.
"The Irish internationals have to continue their good form and drag the Ulster team kicking and screaming forward this year. The Ulster performances have to go up a level if they are to challenge for silverware."
MF: "Progression to the quarter-finals in Europe is going to be a major, major ask but if they stay relatively injury-free, have a bit of luck along the way and get some momentum going, then who knows?
"You would expect to get a good result against Bordeaux in the opener, then it will be a big game at home to Exeter the week after. Clermont have not been beaten in nearly three years in their own stadium so they will be very tough.
"The reality is that the top European clubs all have squads containing 25 to 30 internationals. That is down to pure finance and Ulster can't compete with that."
T McW: "This is Les's first full year. He has had a good six to nine months to get his feet under the table and put his ethos and game plan across. There is always pressure on Ulster as they are seen as a successful side. The problem is that they have been the bridesmaid team for the past number of years.
"Ulster must win the tight games - it's important that they don't lose matches by the odd point here or there.
"If they want to challenge for silverware, realistically they are going to have to finish first or second in the league. That's not going to be easy.
MF: "For Les and the coaching staff, it's all about working with the experienced players and nurturing the young boys coming through.
"Ulster's disciplinary record let them down last season, but Les addressed that.
"It will be his first full season and he is obviously going to come under scrutiny. There is always pressure. If the product fails, then the ticket sales and crowds go down and with that the revenue to bring in players."
T McW: "I can't see there being a massive change so you would expect Glasgow, Leinster and Ulster to be well up there. Munster are the ones everyone will be looking to to turn things round after a disappointing season.
"The Welsh sides have a bit to do bur Cardiff have recruited quite well, so they may be worth watching.
"The big question is whether Connacht can carry on in the same vein as last year and I think they probably can. They haven't had a big turnover in terms of playing personnel, apart from the loss of Aly Muldowney, who has move to Grenoble and will be a big loss."
MF: "You would like to think Ulster have the ability, along with Leinster, and Glasgow, who will want to send Gregor Townsend out on a high before he moves on to become Scotland coach.
"I think Connacht will continue to grow, the Scarlets won't be too far away, and Edinburgh will be in contention too."
Tony McWhirter and Maurice Field were talking to Andy Gray and Richard Petrie.
Marie Rimmer denies assaulting Patricia McLeish at Shettleston Community Centre, Glasgow, on 18 September 2014.
A previous trial of the 68-year-old MP for St Helens South and Whiston collapsed because the word Glasgow was not included on the charge.
The Crown Office re-raised the case, which will be heard in April next year.
The MP also faces a charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by repeatedly approaching volunteers and pointing in the face of Dennis Ashcroft.
She is alleged to have repeatedly approached Ms McLeish in an aggressive manner.
The case against Ms Rimmer called at Glasgow Sheriff Court where she was not present but was represented.
A not guilty plea to the charges was tendered on her behalf and a trial was set for April next year.
Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant said it would help them build on the "very positive start" they had made on new rules which oblige local authorities to prevent homelessness.
The Welsh Government budget sees total funding for day-to-day council spending in 2017/18 rise by £10m to £4.1bn.
Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said it was a "good settlement" for councils to plan for harder choices ahead.
As promised in October's draft settlement, no council will see its cash funding fall by more than 0.5%, and many authorities will see their first cash increase for three years.
However, the effects of inflation will result in a real terms cut.
The Welsh Local Government Association said it welcomed the fact that some of the "additional pressures" it had identified were "beginning to be addressed", such as an extra £10m for social care.
However, deputy finance spokesman Anthony Hunt said: "The announcement today will still mean that cuts to local public services will continue as we shoulder the heaviest burden under austerity."
He backed calls by the RSPCA for a log of those convicted and disqualified from keeping animals.
The charity said 11 people were prosecuted for breaching a ban in the last three years - and they believe the figure could be higher.
The UK government said it feared a public register could help vigilantism.
But the RSPCA said it would allow pet shops and rehoming centres to carry out a simple background checks on prospective buyers.
Mr Kinnock said he backed the RSPCA's calls following a case in his constituency where a teenager was sent to a young offenders institute after he stole cats from an animal sanctuary to use as "live bait" for his dogs.
It came two weeks after the 18-year-old was sentenced in a youth court for killing a sheep.
Mr Kinnock said: "I think it would be useful to have a register, perhaps something at least that pet shops would have access to, so someone like this would be prevented from having a pet and from buying an animal to keep as a pet in the future."
He said he had written to the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to ask why there was not already a register.
"They told me that they don't have a register because they're worried about data protection issues," he said.
"Well, quite frankly, I don't think that's good enough."
He added: "I believe people who abuse animals are, I think, more likely to potentially go on to commit crimes - violent crimes - against a person, against people.
"And so, therefore, it would be very good from a crime prevention point of view to keep a register so that we can have zero tolerance of abusing animals and also as a way of then tracking people who could potentially go on to commit violent crimes against other human beings."
Jenna Satterley told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales she approached politicians with the idea of a register after being shocked by news stories of animals being abused in Wales.
Her petition calling for action has received support from more than 224,000 people.
"Somebody needs to stand up and say something publically and work on getting new laws implemented or old laws updated," she said.
Defra said people convicted of animal cruelty or abuse were already logged on the Police National Computer but added the UK government felt there needed to be better sharing of information on existing databases.
"The government agrees with the police that a publicly available register of animal abusers could facilitate vigilantism," a spokesman said.
"Instead, if a person has concerns about another individual they can approach the police who can check their records on the Police National Computer. The police may then take the most appropriate action.
"We consider that this is the best arrangement."
The mainland benchmark Shanghai Composite finished the day up 1.7% at 2,733.17.
On Monday, the People's Bank of China unexpectedly lowered its Reserve Rate Ratio, cutting the amount of cash the country's lenders must hold in reserve.
The move was designed to boost liquidity and provide more stimulus to China's slowing economy.
It was the first such cut since October and comes after a string of volatile days on the mainland's stock markets.
Fresh economic data out on Tuesday though gave little grounds to reassure investors.
The closely watched Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a gauge for the manufacturing sector, shrank more than expected in February.
The PMI index stood at 49.0, down from 49.4 the previous month. Any reading below 50 indicates a contraction of the sector.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index closed up 1.55% at 19,407.46.
In Japan, shares edged higher despite fresh economic data suggesting the eagerly awaited recovery remains elusive.
The Nikkei 225 index closed 0.4% up at 16,085.51.
Earlier, official data showed that household spending was down 3.1% in January, compared to a year earlier.
Along with disappointing company spending, it suggests that efforts to boost investment and domestic spending have so far failed to take effect.
In Australia, the ASX/200 index closed up 0.85% at 4,922.30, boosted by the country's big lenders and some energy firms.
Commodity giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto rose 2.95% and 2.7% respectively on hopes for a recovery in oil and commodity prices.
Gold mining company Newcrest climbed more than 4.5% on the strengthening price of the precious metal.
The country's central bank left its lending rates on hold on Tuesday, marking the 10th month in a row the cash rate has remained at a record low of 2%.
Shane Oliver, head economist at AMP Capital in Sydney, said the Reserve Bank of Australia continued "to sound less upbeat" on the global economic outlook.
"Our view remains that the RBA will cut interest rates again this year reflecting the risks around the global economy, weaker than expected commodity prices, still subdued growth in Australia ... a more dovish Fed threatening a higher Australian dollar and continued low inflation," he said.
"However, this may not come till May," he added.
In South Korea, the stock market remained closed for a national holiday.
He has told BBC Sport the matter is now over despite not being paid in full.
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) however said it "finally managed to raise the funds to pay all his outstanding bonuses on Saturday."
He had been refusing to leave his Accra hotel since the end of the Africa Cup of Nations in early February.
"Thanks to all people of Ghana. Great memories always from this passionate football country," Nus posted on his Twitter feed.
The Spaniard finally returned home from Ghana on Monday.
"All of this was more about having principles and claiming for the right things more than the money itself," he explained.
"I'm just happy to see my family now."
According to the GFA statement there were disagreements over who should settle payments to the hotel where Nus had been staying.
The situation was resolved between and the hotel on Sunday enabling him to return home.
When Nus started his protest in February the GFA had explained "that at the end of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations the entire technical team could not be paid their bonuses on time because of financial difficulties.
"The GFA engaged the staff to explain the difficulties, urging them to go home and be paid later when the money is available.
"Along with head coach Avram Grant, they all agreed and went home but Nus insisted on staying for as long as it takes to receive his money."
Coleman suffered a double break of his right leg during Friday's draw with Wales, and O'Neill said the injury had put a "dampener" on Tuesday's friendly with Iceland, who won 1-0 in Dublin.
"He's getting out tomorrow, I think," said O'Neill after the game on Tuesday.
"Seamus is doing much better. I went to see him again. He's in better spirits."
He added: "It's as much to do with he's still got the family around - his brother, his wife, his mother and the youngster all keeping him pretty busy."
The Republic captain fractured both the tibia and fibula in his leg when he was tackled by Wales defender Neil Taylor, who was sent off.
O'Neill said Coleman's "strong character" increased his chances of making a full recovery.
"If anybody is going to come roaring back from this injury, it will certainly be him," he added.
Coleman was not only the only Republic regular missing from Tuesday's friendly, as O'Neill fielded four debutants against the Euro 2016 quarter-finalists.
Brentford defender John Egan and Aston Villa midfielder Conor Hourihane both started, while O'Neill introduced Preston pair Daryl Horgan and Andy Boyle from the bench.
Egan's concession of a free-kick was punished as Bristol City full-back Hordur Magnusson curled in Iceland's winner in the 21st minute.
Despite that, O'Neill praised Egan and his fellow debutants.
"John Egan, I thought, did fine. He got a cut head after a couple of minutes - we bandaged him up - and Hourihane played for the first time," he said.
"Horgan's dribbled between players and he's put in a couple of really great balls. For the length of the time he was on the pitch, that was an excellent contribution."
In Caracas, police used tear gas to prevent demonstrators reaching the offices of the national ombudsman.
Saturday's protest came after a week of anti-government demonstrations.
They were initially sparked by a Supreme Court ruling to curb the powers of the national assembly, a move which was later overturned.
Security police fired tear gas on one major avenue in Caracas while in the city of San Cristobal they shot rubber bullets towards protestors.
Many people carried signs reading "No to dictatorship!" and "Capriles for President".
In the Caracas protest there was a moment of silence in memory of a young man shot dead on Thursday by police during demonstrations.
Mr Capriles has been at the forefront of demands for a recall referendum on President Nicolas Maduro.
A former presidential candidate who has run twice, he is seen as the oppositions's best hope of defeating Mr Maduro in elections scheduled for next year.
The ruling by the Venezuelan comptroller said the ban on Mr Capriles was due to "administrative irregularities" in his role as governor.
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Henrique Capriles is the latest in a series of prominent opposition politicians to be put out of action.
Two years ago, Maria Corina Machado, a former congresswoman was banned from office as was a former mayor, Daniel Ceballos.
In 2015 another prominent opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez, was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison on charges of inciting violence during anti-government protests in 2014.
Venezuelans are dealing with the effects of a harsh economic crisis that has millions skipping meals, unable to afford soaring prices for basic goods and facing long lines for scarce products.
Mr Maduro's socialist government have said that a US-backed business elite is responsible for Venezuela's economic downturn and that it is trying to organise a coup to impose right-wing rule.
Avon and Somerset Police has received a number of complaints over the secretive street artist's offer.
Applicants from six Bristol constituencies have to send him a ballot paper photo showing a vote against the Tories to get the print.
Police said anyone taking part in the offer could also be prosecuted.
A police spokesman said: "We've received a number of complaints about an offer of a free Banksy print to people living in six Bristol constituencies in exchange for them voting in a certain way in the forthcoming election and we can confirm we're investigating the offer.
"It is a criminal offence under the Representation of the People Act 1983 for any voter to accept or agree to accept a gift or similar in return for voting or refraining from voting.
"Any person participating in an offer to receive a gift is at risk of being prosecuted."
The offer has been made to voters in the Bristol North West, Bristol West, North Somerset, Thornbury, Kingswood and Filton constituencies in and around Banksy's home city.
The artist wrote on his website: "Simply send in a photo of your ballot paper from polling day showing you voted against the Conservative candidate and this complimentary gift will be mailed to you."
The artwork, which he has also put on his Instagram page, reprises his well-known "girl with a balloon" motif, but with a Union Jack in the balloon.
It will be released on 9 June, Banksy said on his website.
A disclaimer states the print was "a souvenir piece" which was not in any way intended to influence voters but was for "amusement purposes only".
Newcastle City Council announced last year that the pool could close as part of a bid to save ??90m from the council's budget for 2013 to 2016.
As part of a lobby against the cuts, more than 100 people filled the pool to its maximum capacity in a 'swim-in' on Saturday afternoon.
They were watched by hundreds of spectators with banners.
Newcastle Amateur Swimming Club, which has 200 members, said closure would leave them without a base.
Louise Graham, head coach at the club, said: "I find it hard to believe that the council is planning to evict the club and all the other pool users.
"If the pool closes, Newcastle will have lost a crucial sporting asset as well as a building of major historic importance in the heart of the city."
The club, created in 1977, has started a social media campaign, Save Newcastle City Swimming Pool and an online petition which has nearly 2,000 signatures.
The council said the combination of the investment needed, plus a nearby alternative pool, led them to propose the closure which is predicted to save ??275,198 in 2013 and ??285,198 in 2014.
More than 171,486 people used the pool in 2011/12.
Newcastle City Pool employs 23 members of staff.
Historic England also discovered the remnants of a Roman military camp and medieval settlements.
Aerial pictures have been made public to mark the Festival of Archaeology.
Discoveries were made in Cumbria, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, East Yorkshire, Buckinghamshire, Suffolk, West Sussex and West Midlands.
Roman camps were temporary enclosures dug by troops on manoeuvres. The line marking out the buried camp can be seen as different colours in the crops across several fields.
The distinctive playing card shaped enclosure is indicative of a camp and raises the question of whether it could be part of an early Roman military campaign against the local population, Historic England said.
A dry summer in 2015 revealed crop marks in Comberton, which helped experts see the extent of an Iron Age/Roman settlement with ditched enclosures, round houses and trackways.
Crop marks are caused by buried archaeological remains, which hold more moisture than the surrounding undisturbed soil.
Traces of a Second World War air raid shelter in Coventry's Radford Road recreation ground are visible as dark rectangles in the grass, despite being partly demolished after the war.
It is a poignant reminder of the aerial bombardment the city endured during the conflict, the heritage agency said.
Photographs taken last year show five or six circular ditches, which would have surrounded Bronze Age barrows.
They would have been used by the living for ceremonies and as burial sites.
Low winter sunlight revealed details of this Iron Age/Roman settlement in Killington, showing two round houses as well as the remains of medieval ploughing.
The settlement is depicted by the parallel ridges and furrows which shows the area was used for agricultural purposes for centuries.
A dry summer also helped the aerial reconnaissance team to identify a rare and unusual prehistoric site with a central feature thought to be a "henge" - a circular or oval-shaped bank.
The site, which dates back between four and five thousand years, is surrounded by a field system which suggests it was reused as a settlement from the Bronze Age.
It is considered so important it has since been protected as a scheduled monument.
Crop marks in this picture reveal a late medieval farmstead showing the farm's field boundaries and tracks linking it to neighbouring farms.
The farms were abandoned after changes in farming practice but it shows how generations of families lived on the land, experts have said.
This image shows the remains of a lime kiln, which produced quick lime for building and fertiliser.
It also reveals earth-covered ruins of buildings and walls from before the kiln, thought to be a medieval monastic farm called a grange.
Historic England said the elongated capsule shapes in the field were Neolithic long mortuary enclosures, thought to be where the dead were placed before burial.
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The tie ended 3-3 on aggregate after both sides scored in extra time, but Sunderland won a penalty shoot-out 2-1.
A save by Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone sent the Wearside club to the 2 March final against Manchester City.
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"It's been a difficult season, they deserve that," said Poyet. "Let's see if we can go one more and win it."
Sunderland, who were bottom of the Premier League when Poyet was named as manager in October following the sacking of Paolo Di Canio, are currently one place better off.
"The things that happened today, it's incredible, but the players have been outstanding. Credit to them," said Uruguayan Poyet.
Trailing 2-1 from the first leg, Manchester United levelled the tie in the first half when Jonny Evans turned in.
However, Sunderland stood less than two minutes from Wembley when United keeper David De Gea hopelessly fumbled Phil Bardsley's shot in the dying moments of extra-time.
But the Black Cats could not hold out and Javier Hernandez's goal seconds from the end sent the match to penalties.
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Kyle Bennett, Danny Rose and Carl Baker scored first-half goals before Kal Naismith added a fourth shortly after the interval.
Pompey find themselves just four points shy of second placed Plymouth following a third straight win.
The home side took the lead after 12 minutes when Bennett struck a shot from outside the area, which took a heavy deflection as it looped over visiting goalkeeper James McKeown.
Their lead doubled midway through the first half when Gareth Evans' pass was dummied by Bennett, leaving Rose to find the net with a deflected strike from distance.
Pompey added another goal on the stroke of half-time when Evans and Baker linked up down the right before the midfielder smashed his effort into the roof of the net.
Less than a minute into the second half the home side got their fourth after McKeown could only parry Baker's long-range shot into the path of Naismith, who made no mistakes completing the rout.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Portsmouth 4, Grimsby Town 0.
Second Half ends, Portsmouth 4, Grimsby Town 0.
Attempt missed. Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Danny Andrew.
Danny Rose (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Luke Maxwell (Grimsby Town).
Attempt missed. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Conor Chaplin replaces Eoin Doyle.
Attempt blocked. Jamal Lowe (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Adi Yussuf replaces Akwasi Asante.
Foul by Carl Baker (Portsmouth).
Zak Mills (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Eoin Doyle (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Eoin Doyle (Portsmouth) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Zak Mills.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by James McKeown.
Attempt saved. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Jamal Lowe replaces Kal Naismith.
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Matthew Clarke.
Attempt saved. Gareth Evans (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Luke Maxwell (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Doyle (Portsmouth).
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Danny Rose.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Brandon Comley replaces Jamey Osborne.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Craig Disley replaces Sam Jones.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Zak Mills.
Attempt blocked. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Scott Vernon (Grimsby Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Gareth Evans.
Attempt blocked. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Sam Jones (Grimsby Town).
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Jamey Osborne (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Goal! Portsmouth 4, Grimsby Town 0. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Carl Baker.
Attempt saved. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Second Half begins Portsmouth 3, Grimsby Town 0.
First Half ends, Portsmouth 3, Grimsby Town 0.
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Last term I was only 19 places out with my prediction for champions Leicester City, although I suspect I was not on my own getting that one badly wrong.
After a summer of change in the top flight - with a whole host of new managers and top-quality players - it is a task that remains as painful as ever.
But with the new season starting on Saturday, here is how I think the season will look at the very end - with the caveat that what happens in the remainder of the transfer window could yet have a significant impact.
The arrival of the world's most celebrated coach, Pep Guardiola, is the fulfilment of a long-held dream for Manchester City's owners - he is the man they have always wanted at the head of their football organisation. The Etihad house has been built waiting for him to move in.
City's run to the Champions League semi-final and a Capital One Cup final win barely covered up a campaign of Premier League under-achievement with Manuel Pellegrini in charge last season. They were left hanging on until the last game of the campaign to secure a Champions League place.
Guardiola is the perfect choice to get more out of a quality squad that has too often seemed short of inspiration and motivation. He is a fiercely driven perfectionist who will not let standards slip.
Midfielder Ilkay Gundogan will add guile when he is fit while winger Nolito is a shrewd capture from Celta Vigo.
Now that City have signed defender John Stones from Everton, responsibility will lie with him for curing the defensive ills caused by the poor form of Eliaquim Mangala and Nicolas Otamendi, as well as captain Vincent Kompany's injuries.
I'm backing a Guardiola-inspired City to reclaim the Premier League title.
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Manager in: Pep Guardiola.
Players in: Ilkay Gundogan (Borussia Dortmund), Nolito (Celta Vigo), Oleksandr Zinchenko (FC Ufa), Leroy Sane (Schalke 04), Aaron Mooy (Melbourne City), Gabriel Jesus* (Palmeiras) *will join in January 2017, Marlos Moreno (Atletico Nacional), John Stones (Everton).
Manager out: Manuel Pellegrini.
Players out: Martin Demichelis (released), Seko Fofana (Udinese), Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town on loan), Marlos Moreno (Deportivo La Coruna on loan).
Manchester United are a club with something to prove - and they have appointed a brilliant, albeit highly-divisive manager who also has something to prove in Jose Mourinho after his sacking at Chelsea just seven months after his team won the title.
Dutchman Louis van Gaal may have won the FA Cup but his was a joyless reign and this superpower needed an X Factor on and off the pitch to renew their damaged status.
The Portuguese will provide it as manager and striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will do the job on the pitch - although there is an element of "Hollywood" about signing a 34-year-old at the end of his career who has never played in the Premier League. Will it be more style than substance?
The shining symbol of United's new future is the return of Paul Pogba from Juventus for a world-record £89m - although this was the same player allowed to escape for about £1.5m four years ago.
The creative spark provided by former Borussia Dortmund midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pogba will arguably be of greater long-term significance than Ibrahimovic's short-term sparkle.
There are, though, still questions to be answered.
Where will Wayne Rooney fit into Mourinho's grand plan? And what about United's defence? How will £30m Eric Bailly from Villarreal adapt to the Premier League?
Despite this, expect United to be back in the title shake-up.
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Manager in: Jose Mourinho.
Players in: Eric Bailly (Villarreal), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG), Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund), Paul Pogba (Juventus).
Manager out: Louis van Gaal.
Players out: Tyler Reid (Swansea City), Victor Valdes (Middlesbrough), Jimmy Dunne (Burnley), Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic), Joe Rothwell (Oxford United), Ashley Fletcher (West Ham United), Guillermo Varela (Eintracht Frankfurt), Paddy McNair (Sunderland), Donald Love (Sunderland).
Stamford Bridge's revolving door spins again and in steps Antonio Conte as manager.
The charismatic, combustible Italian created a huge impression at Euro 2016 in France as he guided his nation to wins over Belgium and Spain based on superb tactics and fierce organisation before they lost to Germany on penalties in the last eight.
Conte will need all of this at Chelsea as they recover from a desperate 10th-place finish last season following their implosion under Mourinho after winning the title the previous term.
The superb N'Golo Kante will provide the legs and energy needed in midfield after he played a huge part in Leicester City's title win while Conte will hope Belgium's Michy Batshuayi will provide goals - with the possibility of more firepower arriving before the deadline.
Everton's Romelu Lukaku remains a target but the Merseysiders are in no mood to sell the striker they brought from Stamford Bridge for £28m two years ago.
This squad and team was so much better than it showed last season. Expect Conte, who will not suffer fools or any political manoeuvring in the dressing room, to flourish.
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Manager in: Antonio Conte.
Players in: Michy Batshuayi (Marseille), N'Golo Kante (Leicester City).
Players out: Lewis Baker (Vitesse Arnhem), Nathan Ake (AFC Bournemouth), Jeremie Boga (Granada), Tomas Kalas (Fulham), Kasey Palmer (Huddersfield Town), Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra), Mohamed Salah (Roma), Tammy Abraham (Bristol City).
How do you even start to work out Arsenal?
The temptation is to simply put them in the top four because they always finish there.
No chance of the title, but they always seem to win enough games to keep qualifying for the Champions League. Granit Xhaka's arrival from Borussia Moenchengladbach for a reported £35m will add steel to midfield.
Manager Arsene Wenger will need to reach for the chequebook to buy class in attack and in central defence. If he does, the outlook may be brighter. If he doesn't, expect more of the same - or even less.
And will be that be enough in the final year of his contract?
Fourth place prediction...but with doubts and with fingers crossed.
Players in: Granit Xhaka (Borussia Monchengladbach), Takuma Asano (Hiroshima Sanfrecce), Rob Holding (Bolton Wanderers)
Players out: Mikel Arteta (released), Tomas Rosicky (released), Mathieu Flamini (released), Isaac Hayden (undisclosed), Dan Crowley (Oxford United), Jon Toral (Granada), Wellington Silva (Fluminense), Wojciech Szczesny (Roma).
Tough call this one as Mauricio Pochettino's side were excellent last season and were right in the title shake-up for so long.
In reality, you could throw a blanket over the likes of Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal in the battle for top-four places. But when you think about Spurs, will a hangover from England's Euro 2016 fiasco in France effect the likes of Harry Kane, Eric Dier and Dele Alli?
Midfielder Victor Wanyama will provide power and energy after his arrival from Southampton while striker Vincent Janssen, the powerful 22-year-old bought from AZ Alkmaar for £17m, will give Kane support.
At this stage fifth, but they will be a danger to everyone they play.
Players in: Victor Wanyama (Southampton), Vincent Janssen (AZ Alkmaar).
Players out: Filip Lesniak (Slovan Liberec), Grant Ward (Ipswich Town), Federico Fazio (Roma), Alex Pritchard (Norwich City).
This is Jurgen Klopp's first full season in charge and he has spent the summer putting his imprint - ostensibly tactical awareness and intense fitness demands - on a new-look squad.
Last season was mixed as Liverpool reached the Capital One Cup and Europa League finals but lost them both- now Klopp can attack on the domestic front without the extra pressure of European football.
Winger Sadio Mane and Gini Wijnaldum have been the biggest buys from Southampton and Newcastle United respectively with a total expenditure of about £50m, so there is plenty to be optimistic about. But will old frailties such as Simon Mignolet in goal and a vulnerable central defence let them down?
The biggest plus will be that Klopp now has the squad he wants.
The first title since 1990? No - but a good bet for a cup.
Players in: Joel Matip (Schalke), Loris Karius (FSV Mainz 05), Sadio Mane (Southampton), Ragnar Klavan (Augsburg), Alex Manninger (Augsburg), Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle).
Players out: Joao Carlos Teixeira (Porto), Jerome Sinclair (Watford), Kolo Toure (released), Lawrence Vigouroux (Swindon Town), Jordan Rossiter (Rangers), Danny Ward (Huddersfield Town), Jose Enrique (released), Samed Yesil (released), Sergi Canos (Norwich City), Martin Skrtel (Fenerbahce), Jordon Ibe (AFC Bournemouth), Adam Bogdan (Wigan Athletic), Joe Allen (Stoke City), Brad Smith (AFC Bournemouth), Jon Flanagan (Burnley).
West Ham's biggest challenge may be settling into new surroundings at their new London Stadium. Yes, they will be watched by bigger crowds and the environment may be more luxurious, but Upton Park had an atmosphere that could win points. Can it be replicated at a new home?
The Hammers have shown plenty of ambition with striker Andre Ayew signing for £20m from Swansea City, to go along with additions such as former Valencia striker Toni Martinez, exciting winger Sofiane Feghouli from Valencia and Gokhan Tore from Besiktas.
Slaven Bilic has proved an inspired choice as manager and he will elevate his reputation even more if he can finish higher than last season's seventh. This a talented squad so watch out for a cup run.
Players in: Toni Martinez (Valencia), Havard Nordtveit (Borussia Moenchengladbach), Domingos Quina, Sofiane Feghouli (Valencia), Gokhan Tore (Besiktas), Ashley Fletcher (Manchester United), Arthur Masuaku (Olympiacos), Andre Ayew (Swansea City).
Players out: Joey O'Brien (released), Elliot Lee (released), James Tomkins (Crystal Palace).
This prediction comes with a warning attached after forecasting relegation for the eventual champions last season - but it will be neither a title nor relegation for Claudio Ranieri's side this time around.
I do not expect another run at the Premier League title but there is good reason to believe the momentum and confidence gained from one of the greatest sporting stories ever told will lead to another very good campaign.
And what a prospect Champions League nights will be at The King Power Stadium.
The loss of N'Golo Kante to Chelsea is a real blow but keeper Kasper Schmeichel and 24-goal top scorer Jamie Vardy have signed new long-term contracts, the latter rejecting Arsenal in the process.
And no-one can accuse the champions of standing still, with Nigerian striker Ahmed Musa a potentially exciting addition from CSKA Moscow for a club-record £16m plus highly-rated former Nice midfielder Nampalys Mendy arriving as a £13m acquisition to strengthen midfield.
If the Foxes can fight off any late moves for Riyad Mahrez then top 10 is very attainable.
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Players in: Ron-Robert Zieler (Hannover 96), Luis Hernandez (Sporting Gijon), Raul Uche Rubio (Valencia), Nampalys Mendy (Nice), Ahmed Musa (CSKA Moscow), Bartosz Kapustka (KS Cracovia).
Players out: Andrej Kramaric (Hoffenheim), Mark Schwarzer (released), Paul Konchesky (released), Ryan Watson (released), Dean Hammond (released), Harry Panayiotou (released), N'Golo Kante (Chelsea), Joe Dodoo (Rangers), Michael Cain (Blackpool), Hamza Choudhury (Burton Albion).
Everton's new ambition under major shareholder Farhad Moshiri was proved when manager Ronald Koeman was lured away from Southampton after taking them into the Europa League last season. And Leicester's influential Steve Walsh was taken from the champions and appointed director of football.
It is yet to materialise on the pitch as the collection of expected big signings have yet to arrive. On this basis Everton will just make it into the top 10.
Koeman, however, is a shrewd and ruthless operator. It should also be remembered he inherited a debacle from his predecessor Roberto Martinez, with a squad that had clearly lost faith in its manager and almost unprecedented levels of discontent among supporters.
John Stones left for Manchester City for £47.5m, making him the world's second most expensive defender, while Wales captain Ashley Williams has arrived from Swansea for a reported £12m. But keeping Romelu Lukaku is essential. Who could Koeman buy to replace a virtual guarantee of 20 goals a season?
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Manager in: Ronald Koeman.
Players in: Bassala Sambou (Coventry City), Chris Renshaw (Oldham Athletic), Maarten Stekelenburg (Fulham), Idrissa Gana Gueye (Aston Villa), Ashley Williams (Swansea City).
Manager out: Roberto Martinez (sacked on 12 May).
Players out: Steven Pienaar (released), Leon Osman (released), Tony Hibbert (released), Tim Howard (Colorado Rapids), John Stones (Manchester City).
Manager Mark Hughes built on the work of Tony Pulis to make the Potters genuine top-10 material and it should be no different this time around.
Joe Allen was an excellent signing at £13.5m from Liverpool after an outstanding Euro 2016 for Wales and Marko Arnautovic has agreed a new contract to provide threat along with Xherdan Shaqiri.
Stoke are still in the market for West Bromwich Albion's Saido Berahino so Hughes is determined to have plenty of firepower.
The excellent Jack Butland will be back in goal after injury so I expect another very decent season for Stoke.
Players in: Ramadan Sobhi (Al Ahly), Joe Allen (Liverpool), Ryan Sweeney (AFC Wimbledon).
Players out: Peter Odemwingie (released), Steve Sidwell (Brighton & Hove Albion).
Pretty much in keeping with the boom and bust nature of some of manager Alan Pardew's managerial career, expect a better season to follow a disappointing one last time out.
Palace have done some ambitious work in the transfer market, with highly-rated goalkeeper Steve Mandanda arriving from Marseille on a free transfer and Andros Townsend a £13m capture from Newcastle United.
Pardew has also spent £10m on central defender James Tomkins from West Ham United and has a long-standing interest in Liverpool's Christian Benteke, so Palace are looking in an upward direction.
Do not expect any relegation fears but a comfortable mid-table finish.
Players in: Andros Townsend (Newcastle United), Steve Mandanda (Marseille), James Tomkins (West Ham United).
Players out: Emmanuel Adebayor (released), Marouane Chamakh (released), Brede Hangeland (released), Adrian Mariappa (released), Patrick McCarthy (released), Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United), Jake Gray (Luton Town), Alex McCarthy (Southampton), Jerome Binnom-Williams (Peterborough United).
It has been a groundhog summer for the Saints as their manager and various players left St Mary's.
They lost boss Ronald Koeman to Everton, having lost Mauricio Pochettino to Spurs before him in 2014, while striker Sadio Mane followed the path to Liverpool that was previously taken by Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren, Rickie Lambert and Nathaniel Clyne.
Victor Wanyama also went to Spurs to continue the pattern that has characterised their recent history.
And yet Southampton have not simply survived but flourished despite key losses in recent years.
The experienced 54-year-old Claude Puel is now manager, having a reputation forged at Lyon, Nice, Lille and Monaco. Nathan Redmond is in from Norwich City and midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, from Bayern Munich, brings real potential.
The question is how long can Southampton keep pulling off this same trick? Expect another solid season but not another top six.
Manager in: Claude Puel.
Players in: Nathan Redmond (Norwich City), Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (Bayern Munich), Alex McCarthy (Crystal Palace), Jeremy Pied (Nice).
Manager out: Ronald Koeman
Players out: Gaston Ramirez (released), Kelvin Davis (retired), Juanmi (Real Sociedad), Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur), Sadio Mane (Liverpool), Jason McCarthy (Walsall), Graziano Pelle (Shandong Luneng), Paulo Gazzaniga (Rayo Vallecano).
Sunderland's reward for Sam Allardyce guiding them to safety last season was to see their manager succeed Roy Hodgson with England after their Euro 2016 failure.
David Moyes seems to be the perfect fit as replacement, especially as he is on a mission to repair a reputation damaged by successive sackings at Manchester United and Real Sociedad.
Moyes will have the Black Cats well-drilled and hard to beat. The Scot will also feel at home at a club where a finish away from the relegation zone and in the comfort of mid-table would be regarded as success and greeted with gratitude. Expect this outcome.
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Manager in: David Moyes.
Players in: Papy Djilobodji (Chelsea), Paddy McNair (Manchester United), Donald Love (Manchester United).
Manager out: Sam Allardyce.
Players out: Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers), Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday), Wes Brown (released), Mikael Mandron (Eastleigh), Emanuele Giaccherini (Napoli), Santiago Vergini (Boca Juniors), Adam Matthews (Bristol City), Will Buckley (Sheffield Wednesday).
Will the Chinese takeover bring new ambition or turbulent waters after the stability of the Jeremy Peace era?
If stability and Premier League status is what is required then expect Pulis to deliver again, but there was not much to excite at The Hawthorns last season.
Will more of the same be enough for the Baggies' new owners and their supporters?
Players in: Matt Phillips (Queens Park Rangers)
Players out: Victor Anichebe (released), Stephane Sessegnon (released), Anders Lindegaard (released).
Swansea have confirmed Francesco Guidolin will remain as manager and an American consortium now has a controlling stake in the club - so this should ensure the Welsh club cement their reputation as a permanent member of the Premier League.
Whether this means they will improve on last season's 12th place remains to be seen.
Fernando Llorente will hope to enjoy an Indian summer to his career in South Wales after the 31-year-old Spain striker arrived from Sevilla, while Atletico Madrid's Borja Baston is the man lined up to replace Andre Ayew, who has moved to West Ham.
The loss of captain Ashley Williams to Everton is a serious blow but still expect a solid, if unspectacular, season from Swansea.
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Players in: Leroy Fer (Queens Park Rangers), Mike van der Hoorn (Ajax), Tyler Reid (Manchester United), George Byers (Watford), Mark Birighetti (Newcaste Jets), Fernando Llorente (Sevilla).
Players out: Matthew Grimes (Leeds United), Eder (Lille), Alberto Paloschi (Atalanta), Kyle Bartley (Leeds United), Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town), Matt Grimes (Leeds United), Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town), Bafetimbi Gomis (Marseille), Andre Ayew (West Ham United), Ashley Williams (Everton).
Eddie Howe did brilliantly to ensure Premier League safety for the Cherries last season - now he will be looking to build on that.
The reality, however, is that Premier League status is success in itself for Bournemouth.
This has not stopped Howe making his summer moves. The £15m signing of Jordon Ibe from Liverpool is intriguing as the 20-year-old was regarded only last summer as good enough by some at Anfield to compensate for Raheem Sterling's £49m sale to Manchester City.
Lewis Cook from Leeds United is another good deal and if they can avoid the serious injuries that sidelined the likes of Tyrone Mings, Max Gradel and Callum Wilson last season, then they will be secure again.
Players in: Emerson Hyndman (Fulham), Nathan Ake (Chelsea), Lys Mousset (Le Havre), Mark Travers, Mikael Ndjoli (Millwall), Lewis Cook (Leeds), Jordon Ibe (Liverpool), Brad Smith (Liverpool).
Players out: Sylvain Distin (released), Tommy Elphick (Aston Villa), Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United), Stephane Zubar (released), Glenn Murray (Brighton & Hove Albion), Lee Tomlin (Bristol City), Harry Cornick (Leyton Orient).
It is great to see Middlesbrough back in the top flight - reward for an outstanding supporter of his football team and town in chairman Steve Gibson.
Gibson is fiercely ambitious and loyal but this season will be about consolidation.
Manager Aitor Karanka has injected experience in the shape of former Barcelona keeper Victor Valdes and loan striker Alvaro Negredo, who flourished briefly in the Premier League while at Manchester City.
Karanka will hope Marten de Roon, the 25-year-old Dutch midfield man bought from Atalanta for £12m, will provide midfield solidity.
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Players in: Viktor Fischer (Ajax), Bernardo Espinosa (Sporting Gijon), Marten de Roon (Atalanta), Jordan McGhee (Heart of Midlothian), Victor Valdes (Manchester United), Antonio Barragan (Valencia), Alvaro Negredo (Valencia), Gaston Ramirez (Southampton), Brad Guzan (Aston Villa).
Players out: Jonathan Woodgate (released), Damia Abella (released), Rhys Williams (Perth Glory), Connor Ripley (Oldham).
Watford slumped badly in the second half of last season and will hope new manager Walter Mazzarri can re-ignite the optimism of the first part of the campaign after the departure of Quique Sanchez Flores.
The experienced Italian will lean heavily on the goals of captain Troy Deeney and his partnership with Odion Ighalo. Jerome Sinclair has arrived from Liverpool with a big reputation but is unproven.
Watford will also have high hopes for the wonderfully-named Isaac Success, the young Nigerian striker signed from Granada for a reported club record fee of £12.5m.
It will be a dogfight near the bottom. Can The Hornets survive? I'm not sure they can.
Manager in: Walter Mazzarri
Players in: Jerome Sinclair (Liverpool), Christian Kabasele (Genk), Isaac Success (Granada), Juan Camilo Zuniga (Napoli), Brice Dja Djedje (Marseille).
Players out: Joel Ekstrand (released), Gabriele Angella (Udinese), George Byers (Swansea City), Jose Manuel Jurado (Espanyol), Almen Abdi (Sheffield Wednesday), Daniel Pudil (Sheffield Wednesday), Steven Berghuis (Feyenoord).
Burnley is another exemplary club that it is a pleasure to welcome back to the Premier League under the management of Sean Dyche.
This will not be the only place where their hopes of survival are written off and it is a prediction made in the hope it will be proved spectacularly wrong.
The Clarets' difficulty is competing in an increasingly fierce transfer market but they have struck a significant blow by so far rebuffing the interest of champions Leicester City in defender Michael Keane.
It will be a long hard season but perhaps, helped by the atmospheric surroundings of Turf Moor and the excellence of Dyche, Burnley can make this forecast go astray.
Players in: Jimmy Dunne, Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Charlton Athletic), Nick Pope (Charlton Athletic), Jon Flanagan (Liverpool).
Players out: Joey Barton (Rangers), Matt Gilks (Rangers), Matt Taylor (released), Michael Duff (retired), Josh Ginnelly (Walsall).
The loss of manager Steve Bruce and the instability around Hull City has robbed the club and its fervent supporters of the optimism that should surround their return to the Premier League.
Bruce has experienced relegation and promotion with the Tigers - and he was as well equipped as anyone to navigate this campaign. It is now hard to see them surviving in their current state after his disagreement with vice-chairman Ehab Allam.
There is still takeover talk and Hull fans are planning a protest against the running of the club at the opening Premier League game at home to Leicester City. Not the ideal start.
Long, hard season ahead and the signs do not look good.
Players in: Will Mannion (AFC Wimbledon).
Players out: Sone Aluko (released), Ryan Taylor (released), Mohamed Diame (Newcastle United).
All transfers sourced from the Premier League website. All transfers correct as of 10:00 BST on 10 August.
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Nearly 98% of those who took part supported the government's call to reject the EU plan.
But only 40.4% cast valid ballots - short of the required 50% threshold.
A government spokesman said the outcome was binding "politically and legally", but the opposition said the government did not have the support it needed.
Mr Orban urged EU policymakers to take note of the result and said he would change Hungary's constitution to make the decision binding.
The controversial EU plan to relocate 160,000 migrants across the bloc would mean Hungary receiving 1,294 asylum seekers.
Ferenc Gyurcsany, leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition, said the low turnout showed that most people did not support the government.
"According to this result with such low turnout, the people do not support the government. And this is good."
There were 220,000 spoilt ballots. The number rejecting the EU scheme was 3.3 million, while 55,000 backed it.
But a government spokesman said the result could not be regarded as invalid.
"The government initiated the referendum, so both politically and legally the outcome is binding," he said.
"The 50% would have made a difference because parliament could have no alternative but to make a decision. But parliament is behind the government regarding the decision. This is a reinforced mandate for the government."
The referendum result is both a crushing defeat and an emphatic victory for Hungary's prime minister.
On the one hand, Viktor Orban led a prominent, expensive and relentless anti-EU and anti-migrant referendum campaign but failed to persuade most Hungarians to vote.
On the other hand, those who did vote sided with him almost unanimously, allowing him to trumpet that a higher percentage of Hungarians voted against EU migrant quotas than voted for EU membership 13 years ago.
Mr Orban says he is leading what he calls a counter-revolution against EU centralisation, a pushback against Brussels bossiness. He views himself as the man of the moment, speaking for the people of Europe.
He had hoped other countries would follow suit and hold their own referendum on migrant quotas. In fact other EU countries are simply ignoring the quotas.
What Hungary's prime minister is not calling for is "Huxit" - a Hungarian exit from the EU. Mr Orban is all too aware the his economy relies on EU subsidies.
During last year's migrant crisis, Hungary became a transit state on the Western Balkan route to Germany and other EU destinations.
In an effort to curb the influx, it sealed its border with Serbia and Croatia. The measure was popular at home but criticised by human rights groups.
Voters were asked: "Do you want the European Union to be able to mandate the obligatory resettlement of non-Hungarian citizens into Hungary even without the approval of the National Assembly?"
The EU proposal was meant to ease pressure on Greece and Italy, the main entry points for migrants and refugees into the bloc.
In December Hungary filed a court challenge against the EU plan, which would see relocations over two years.
Labour's James Kelly will begin work on a Member's Bill to repeal the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act.
The Glasgow MSP said it was time to axe the "hated" law now that the SNP no longer had a majority at Holyrood.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was a "strange priority" for opposition parties but she would discuss concerns.
She said: "I think it's a strange priority for opposition parties to almost have as their first objective to get rid of legislation which is about tackling sectarianism.
"That's not something which I think should be the priority of the opposition parties.
"But of course we are happy to discuss how legitimate concerns can be addressed, and that constructive approach is one that I will seek to take on any issue."
Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens all pledged to repeal the Act in their manifestos for the recent election.
With the SNP returned to government as a minority administration, there is now a majority in the chamber which would back repeal.
Glasgow MSP Mr Kelly will meet with officials at the Scottish Parliament later to begin the process of drafting his Members Bill.
He said: "Today I'll take the first steps to repeal the SNP's hated Football Act. The law has become a symbol of the SNP's arrogance in government and it is time for it to go.
"The Football Act was bulldozed through parliament by the SNP with not a single other party voting for it and everyone from football fans to academics and lawyers opposing it.
"The SNP still won't admit they got it wrong on the Football Act, but they have lost their majority in parliament and I will work constructively with the other parties to abolish the Football Act."
The Act was introduced in 2012 in an attempt to crack down on sectarianism and other football-related offences.
Critics have argued there was already sufficient legislation in place to deal with disorder at football matches. They have also claimed the new law has unfairly targeted law-abiding football supporters.
The Fans Against Criminalisation campaign group also claimed the legislation had eroded trust between supporters and police and had failed to tackle bigotry.
A report published earlier this year revealed there were only 79 convictions in 2014/15 under the legislation, with opposition parties stating the figures demonstrated the law was unnecessary.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said the Act had "delivered real improvements".
"Since its introduction, religious crimes, race crimes and crimes in relation to individuals' sexuality are down and we've seen a decrease in crimes of offensive behaviour at or in relation to regulated football matches in Scotland," she said.
"Statistics show a steady decline in offences at stadiums and a YouGov poll shows 80% of Scots support the Act - a view shared by the overwhelming majority of those in the sample who follow Scottish football.
"Any move to repeal the Act would send entirely the wrong signal and would undermine progress in driving all forms of prejudice from the game."
In 1986, Simon Thwaites was ordered into a meeting with the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) special investigative unit. Investigators questioned the then-naval officer about his HIV status - positive, but asymptomatic.
Then they asked him to identify friends and other military members who were gay.
After the meeting, Thwaites' security clearance was downgraded and he was re-assigned to menial tasks. His commanding officer recommended he be let go from the military because of his sexual orientation. In 1989, he was released for medical reasons.
Thwaites is one of hundreds of Canadian military and government employees who were drummed out of careers because of their sexual orientation, but the now 55-year-old's case is one of the most well-documented.
That's in part because he challenged his dismissal, and in 1994 a Canadian human rights tribunal found the military should have accommodated him, regardless of his HIV status.
He received compensation, but no pension or medical coverage. He had lost his job, his home, his car.
Decades later, he says it still makes him angry.
Later this year, the Canadian government is expected to apologise to Thwaites and all those in the federal civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the CAF who were subjected to a campaign of interrogation and harassment from the 1950s to the 1990s because of their sexuality.
In doing so, Canada will join countries like the UK, Australia and Germany in issuing official mea culpas for past injustices to their LGBT citizens.
If the apology does come, says Thwaites, it will be significant.
It "reaffirms the fact that we're not broken, there's not something horribly wrong with us", he says from his home in Halifax. "We didn't do anything wrong by just being ourselves."
In the heat of the Cold War, gay men and lesbians in the civil service and the military were believed to pose a security risk, vulnerable to blackmail by Soviet agents.
Official figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of people are believed to have lost their jobs over the course of some four decades. Others were demoted, transferred or denied promotions.
Some were given the choice between being dismissed or undergoing psychiatric treatment.
In one bizarre effort in the 1960s, the government tried to develop an instrument dubbed the "fruit machine" by the RCMP.
The brainchild of researcher Frank Robert Wake, it was a crude detector built to identify homosexuals by monitoring pupil dilation when a person was exposed to pornography. Plagued with problems, the project was eventually mothballed.
In 1992, former army officer Michelle Douglas helped bring an end to discriminatory policies towards gays and lesbians.
After being discharged from the army because she was a lesbian, Ms Douglas launched a legal challenge and on the eve of the trial the military settled the case and changed its practices.
Four years later, the Canadian Human Rights Act was amended to include sexual orientation. This month, Canada added gender identity and gender orientation to the Act.
Thwaites is part of a class action lawsuit against the federal government for discrimination.
Lawyers representing those suing say an apology and redress are long overdue.
One of those lawyers, Douglas Elliott, estimates up to 10,000 people across the country could eventually be part of the class action, which combines three related cases.
Given the compensation requested in those previous lawsuits, "a fair figure would be C$1bn" ($757m; £594m), Elliot says. He hopes to settle with the Liberal government within the next two years.
Activists and others who have lobbied the government for years on this issue say the shame of being forced out of careers has left many with emotional scars.
Like Thwaites, "Bernie" is part of the class action lawsuit. He asked his real name not be used to protect his family's privacy.
In 1984, the ex-sailor had just celebrated his 23rd birthday when military police asked if they could search his apartment. At first, he thought they were looking for drugs.
What they found were birthday cards sitting on his dining room table, many "gay oriented", he said.
He was repeatedly interrogated by military police, asked detailed questions about his sexual activity. He was told to give up the names of other gay people in the military he knew.
He refused. Within months he was discharged.
"They considered me a security risk. They called me a sexual deviant. They offered me rehabilitation. I said: 'I'm not sick.'"
He says his unit - all straight men - took him out to a gay bar on his last day.
"The ones who actually had an issue with gay people were outnumbered, they really were," he says.
"But since it was such a powerful charge, such a powerful thing, it didn't matter. All you needed was an accusation."
He moved back to his home province and went back into the closet soon after, including a brief, failed marriage.
At 56, he is still struggling to come to terms with his sexuality.
"Life was good until they found out I was gay," he says.
He plans to be in Ottawa for the apology because he wants it publicly recognised what happened to him was wrong.
"I want them to know what they did to us," he says. "Even though it happened 33 years ago, it's like it happened yesterday. The pain is still there. And I don't think they appreciate it. This is a lifelong punishment."
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government will not only issue the formal apology but will expunge the records of people criminalised for their sexuality.
Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault, Trudeau's special advisor on LGBTQ2 issues, says he has heard many "heartbreaking" stories like Thwaites and Bernie's and says it is "critical" for the government to acknowledge past wrongs.
"It's the right thing to do," Boissonnault says. "People's lives and careers were turned upside down."
The apology is planned for this year, as many civil servants and former military personnel who were targeted are advancing in age.
Boissonnault says the government wanted to take time to consult broadly to ensure it is done right.
"We can't move forward as a country, we can't move forward as a community, until this is done," he says.
The Giants trailed four times in the early stages but were never headed after levelling at 5-5 and went on to win the free-scoring match comfortably.
Ryan Martinelli, Colin Shields and Mike Forney grabbed two goals apiece for Belfast in the bronze medal game.
The Giants had lost 2-0 to Sheffield Steelers in Saturday's semi-final.
The Stars went down 4-2 to Elite League champions Cardiff Devils in their last four encounter at the National Ice Centre.
Both sides set out to entertain in what was essentially a dead rubber on Sunday and the teams were level at 4-4 after the first period.
The Giants, who finished second in the league standings, pulled away to lead 9-6 by the end of the second period, then further extended their advantage.
The two teams sent out their back-up netminders - Ballymoney's Andrew Dickson for the Giants and Craig Holland for the Stars.
The Giants' other scorers were Blair Riley, Matt Towe, Chris Higgins, Michael Quesnele, Jim Vandermeer and Adam Keefe.
Justin Faryna (2), Vinny Scarsella, Mikael Lidhammar, Craig Moore, Kevin Bruijsten, Matt White and Joey Sides were on target for Dundee.
The 13-month-old girl was sexually assaulted by her father before her sudden death in 2012, a judge ruled.
Paul Worthington, 48, was arrested but later told he would face no charges. He denies any wrongdoing.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report says the investigation into her death was "not conducted diligently and expediently".
A judge criticised Cumbria Police for the way it handled the initial investigation into Poppi's death, with evidence lost.
The report states it took acting Chief Constable Michelle Skeer, who was then assistant chief constable, more than one month to hold a meeting to discuss those criticisms, and when it was held, it lasted 30 minutes and they did not go through the judgement.
The IPCC said this "would not have been time to go through the all the points raised in the judgement".
Paul Worthington's sister Tracy said: "That [the lost evidence] would probably exonerate him, he has been accused of something he hasn't done. How can he clear his name when the evidence has gone?"
Mrs Skeer is also criticised for instructing another officer to "carry out an internal assessment into the Poppi case rather than refer her concerns to the Professional Standards Department".
The report points out that she had previously been the head of professional standards and should have known a referral was the "most appropriate action".
John Woodcock, Labour MP for Barrow, told the BBC said he wants the police commissioner or the home secretary to look into how Mrs Skeer is temporarily running the force.
"This report is nearly a year old and the decision for the deputy chief constable to step up to be acting head of the whole force, it is really concerning given the scale of the criticism of her personally within this report, which still remains hidden from public view."
The report concludes that "there is substantial evidence available to support the contention that the reason this case has still not reached a resolution… is because of the unstructured and disorganised approach."
In a statement, Cumbria Police said: "In April 2014 ACC Skeer asked the new temporary head of crime to assess the adverse judgement from the family court.
"Following completion a referral was made to the IPCC in conjunction with Professional Standards.
"Mrs Skeer provided a witness statement to the IPCC as part of this investigation.
"In June 2014 Mrs Skeer arranged for a second investigation into Poppi's death."
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An archaeological excavation in Clones, County Monaghan, had failed to uncover the castle but, unknown to experts, it was standing nearby.
County heritage officer Shirley Clerkin took BBC News NI's Julian Fowler on a tour.
The 30-year-old has agreed a deal until the end of the season after cutting short a spell with Botosani in Romania.
Robertson moved overseas in July after two seasons with Hibs but failed to settle and has been training with the Kirkcaldy side since mid-September.
He goes straight into the squad for Saturday's Championship match at home to Morton.
The deal is being funded by sponsorship from local business owners Colin and Margaret Smart.
Robertson, who started his career with Dundee, was capped twice by Scotland during his four-year stay at Tannadice, which ended in 2012 with a move to Blackpool.
Polls have already opened in the Republican primary vote in South Carolina, where frontrunner Donald Trump will try to fend off Ted Cruz.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders could face a close race in the Democratic Party caucus in Nevada.
The votes could be key ahead of the "Super Tuesday" round on 1 March.
On that day, about a dozen states will choose their candidates for the 8 November presidential election, with about a quarter of all nominating delegates up for grabs.
Before that, the two parties swap around in these two states - Republicans holding a Nevada caucus on Tuesday and the Democrats a South Carolina primary on 27 February.
These rounds could be crucial in particular for Republican candidates who have been lagging behind the leading pair.
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Polls opened in South Carolina at 07:00 local time (12:00 GMT).
The leading Republican pair split the first two rounds - Mr Trump winning in New Hampshire, a week after Mr Cruz had triumphed in Iowa.
Mr Trump has continued his colourful campaign this week with a public spat with Pope Francis on Christian values.
At a rally in North Charleston on Friday, he told supporters: "It's crunch time, folks."
Referring to his self-funded campaign, he added: "I don't want your money. We want your vote."
He called for a "big mandate", aware that a win in South Carolina could propel him to victories in important southern states that vote on Super Tuesday.
Mr Cruz has enlisted an army of volunteers to try to haul back Mr Trump's lead in the state - put at about 28% to 23% in an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll of Republican voters.
That poll suggested Senator Marco Rubio was third on 15%, followed by Jeb Bush on 13%.
Both are under massive pressure to generate support for their campaigns. Whoever loses this personal battle could face tough questions about the future of their candidacy.
The lagging John Kasich and Ben Carson face even tougher fights to rouse support.
In Nevada, Democrats will gather at about 200 caucus meetings across the state from 11:00 local time (19:00 GMT) to show their support for Mrs Clinton or Mr Sanders.
The pair also split the first two rounds - Mrs Clinton winning narrowly in Iowa, before being soundly beaten in New Hampshire.
Nevada represents the most racially diverse battleground so far, though, with both candidates trying to court the vote of African-Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans, who make up about 50% of the state's population.
Veterans of the first Obama campaign in 2008 painted a picture of an inspirational candidate who had gone astray once in power.
"Where he failed is not sustaining that movement. He just dropped the ball on that," said Debra Mayes of Los Angeles.
Sanders supporters focused on what they see as the shortcomings of the Obama administration, and of moderate Democrats beholden to their corporate donors.
The establishment Democrats, they said, essentially wasted the majorities the party had built during the years leading to Mr Obama's sweeping victory.
If Democratic leaders, including Mr Obama, had been more ambitious, they would have been able to establish a lasting congressional majority, the argument goes.
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Mrs Clinton had hoped to use the strength of her support among minority communities to pull away from Mr Sanders.
She has accused him of "pie in the sky" ideas on immigration reform.
However, although the caucus system makes accurate opinion polling difficult, the contest could be closer than initially thought.
Mr Sanders' socialist message has generally energised the youth vote and a win here, or even a narrow loss, could be a huge boost ahead of Super Tuesday.
Burke, who also appeared in The Musketeers, will play private detective Cormoran Strike in the BBC One adaptation. He described the character as "complex" and "larger than life".
Shooting on the seven hour-long dramas will begin in London in the autumn.
Rowling has written three novels about the war veteran-turned-detective.
The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil will all be adapted and will be screened as separate dramas.
Burke, who appeared as Fedor Dolokhov in the recent BBC adaptation of War & Peace, said: "I'm overjoyed to be immersing myself in the role of Cormoran Strike, who is as complex as he is larger than life.
"I know I'm joining an extraordinary team of people on a series that for me is peppered with moments of real emotional depth and meticulously grounded in the page-turning momentum of these novels."
Rowling, best known for the Harry Potter series, said: "I'm thrilled about the casting of Tom Burke, a massively talented actor who'll bring the character to perfect life. Cormoran Strike is pure joy to write and I can't wait to see Tom play him."
The first Cormoran Strike book, The Cuckoo's Calling, was published in 2013 under the guise of Robert Galbraith. It was later revealed that Rowling was in fact the author.
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The centres are at Oakhill, Buckinghamshire, and Medway, Kent. The sale - as part of a business review - includes its 13 children's homes.
A BBC Panorama investigation uncovered claims relating to the treatment of 10 boys at the Medway unit near Rochester.
The director of the facility stepped down at the end of January.
Undercover footage showed staff mistreating and abusing inmates, and boasting about using inappropriate techniques to restrain youngsters.
Other allegations included claims staff tried to hide their actions by ensuring they were out of shot from CCTV cameras.
Five men were arrested by Kent Police on suspicion of either child neglect or assault and bailed until April.
G4S sacked five members of staff. Three others are currently suspended.
The company runs residential children's homes through its children's services division, Homes2Inspire, in six English counties: Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Staffordshire.
It also has a contract to run Rainsbrook secure training centre in Northamptonshire, which is currently being transferred to a new provider, MTC Novo.
A G4S spokesman said there had already been "a number of expressions of interest from parties" interested in buying the children's services business.
The company hopes to complete the process by the end of the year.
He said it would consider selling off the secure training centres individually or as part of a package with the children's homes.
The BBC's Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said: "It's thought three of the providers that are expected to be in the running to take over the children's service contracts from G4S are Diagrama, originally founded in Spain; Ingeus, which runs probation services; and MTC Novo, which is taking over the Rainsbrook contract."
The announcement was welcomed by Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform.
"These child jails have been the focus of much controversy... there is now an opportunity developing to close the secure training centres down completely.
"These centres are a failed model and this wise withdrawal from the market by G4S should not be followed up new private security companies coming in to replace them, with dubious track records abroad in the treatment of people in custody," he said.
The bodies of Tim Newton, 27, and Rachel Slater, 24, who both lived in Bradford, were found on Britain's highest mountain in March, five weeks after they went missing.
On Saturday, a service of remembrance was held in Tim's hometown of Hinckley in Leicestershire.
Tim and Rachel were buried side-by-side in Glen Nevis at a private funeral.
The couple were last seen on 15 February and are thought to have been caught in an avalanche on the north face of Ben Nevis.
At the memorial service, his brother Ed Newton gave what he hoped would have been a future best man's speech.
"The beautiful thing about Tim was not that he was intelligent or that he always won, but it was the grace, the kindness and modesty that he had in his achievements," he told the celebration.
"In fact I know that right now he would be digging me in the ribs, telling us to stop. He would be embarrassed at us bragging about all he has accomplished."
Mr Newton told the hundreds of mourners about his brother's successes as a climber, leading exhibitions on Everest, K2, El Capitan in Yosemite and more.
The former Twycross House School pupil had trained as an actor before qualifying as a mountain leader and, more recently, studying physics at The University of Manchester.
It was there that he met Ms Slater, with whom he shared a passion for climbing.
The Reverand Gary Weston, who led the service at St John's Church, said: "It is a tragedy - a young life that shouldn't have been lost right now. But he has done so much and we just want to give thanks to God in front of his family for all that he has done and celebrate him as an individual."
Mr Newton said his brother packed more into 27 years than most could hope to in 100.
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The number of paramedics leaving the profession in London has almost trebled in the last three years, and Jason Killens of London Ambulance Service says he cannot employ paramedics quickly enough from the UK's universities.
There will be another recruitment drive in Australia in September.
Sarah Harris meets the recruits marking their national day in their new home.
John, who grew up in Pembrokeshire, died in September 1939, aged 63.
The sister of Augustus John whose paintings initially overshadowed hers, she is now regarded by critics as the superior artist.
John's final resting place in Dieppe is revealed in the S4C programme presented by Ffion Hague on Sunday.
Gwen John studied art in London before leaving for France in 1904.
In Paris she met the much-older Rodin. Their relationship lasted a decade and shaped the remainder of the Welsh artist's life and work.
Some of her work is kept at the National Museum in Cardiff and Tate Britain in London.
But the site of her grave had remained uncertain - until now.
Llinos Wynne, series producer for the history programme Mamgwlad gyda Ffion Hague said: "I was a little bit obsessed with the fact that no-one knew where Gwen John was buried, bearing in mind that she wasn't poor, and was quite famous in her day.
"I thought it was strange and a bit sad, and I knew that Sara John, Gwen's great niece, was also decidedly interested to find where Gwen was buried.
"For years she's wanted to have a memorial plaque in place for Gwen at her final resting place.
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"We met up with Sara and she shared the research she had done so far with us. There were gaps in the research but her information led us to Dieppe.
"Here, after speaking to the locals and following various trails we finally found the record of Gwen's grave in Dieppe's Janval Cemetery documented as Mary John.
"Her Christian names were Gwendolyn Mary John. Her final resting place has been a mystery all these years because there was no headstone, and at the time of her death many graves were being dug up and the bodies burned and re-buried to make space for the bodies of soldiers from the war."
As well as tracing John's life, the programme reveals previously unseen sketches by her and letters she wrote to Rodin.
Sara John has approached the authorities in Dieppe about placing a plaque at the burial site.
"I'm delighted that they've made this programme about Gwen and her life and that her final resting place has been rediscovered.
"Now I'm hoping we can look forward to having the Welsh slate plaque in place for Gwen," she said.
Artist Mary Lloyd Jones said: "I'm very proud that a Welsh woman succeeded in creating work of such great standing, and found her own voice."
Mamwlad gyda Ffion Hague is broadcast on S4C on Sunday 2 February at 20:30 GMT with English subtitles available.
PC Nicholas Pool, of Cumbria Police, did not realise he was communicating online with an undercover officer.
A disciplinary hearing in Penrith dismissed the 29-year-old, of Newton Rigg, Penrith.
At Carlisle Crown Court last month, Pool admitted attempting to incite a girl to engage in sexual activity. He will be sentenced at a later date.
The hearing was chaired by Chief Constable Jerry Graham who said Pool's offences "undermined public confidence" and "brought discredit" on the force.
He added: "In light of all the evidence, it is clear PC Pool's moral compass is so distorted he is unfit to be a police officer and I have no hesitation in dismissing him."
The offences happened on 22 November and 11 and 12 December 2016 while Pool was off-duty.
He did not attend the hearing and is remanded in custody.
Cardiff council said it faced a budget shortfall of up to £56.4m next year.
Councillors have been advised to plan for council tax rises of at least 4.5% for the next three years.
One idea being discussed is setting up a company to run council services such as highways and waste, which could also bid for work from other authorities.
Tax rises will be decided when the council sets its budget next February.
Cardiff council leader Phil Bale came under pressure over a package of cuts and a 5% council tax rise to balance the 2015-16 budget, surviving a vote of no-confidence from the council and a leadership challenge from his own Labour group.
A strategy report says the council faces a shortfall of £47.4m in 2016-17, expected to add up to £117m three years later.
It is based on an expected 3% cut in funding from the Welsh government.
But the report says a worst-case scenario could see the budget gap rise to £56.4m next year and £145.7m by 2018-19.
Finance director Christine Salter said there was "real potential" for the council to fail to balance its budget "unless radical policies and strategies are adopted".
Graham Hinchey, the council's cabinet member for services, said work was already under way on "alternative delivery models" to cope with budget pressures.
"Cardiff is the fastest growing city in the UK and consequently demand for the services we provide is growing while funding is reducing," he said.
"We can't be under any illusions that we face some very tough choices."
The report recommended the council urgently considers how to reduce its assets as a way to bring in money and cut repair and maintenance costs.
One idea is to set up an "arm's length" company owned by the council to run services such as highways, parks, and waste collection, which it is claimed could save or raise £4m a year.
Welsh Local Government Association chief executive Steve Thomas said the "harsh reality" is that too many councils in Wales are being "forced to financial breaking point".
He added: "Cardiff council should be commended for proactively exploring all the options that are available, to ensure their communities will benefit from more sustainable and affordable services in the future."
Nobel prize laureate Sir Christopher Pissarides's comments at a conference in Norway attracted fierce criticism.
He told the BBC he apologised for upsetting people and his comment was meant to be "light-hearted".
"It's a mistake and I'm sorry, but the audience was laughing."
Sir Christopher was part of an all-male panel taking part in a Q&A audience discussion at the Starmus Festival in Trondheim about the future of humanity.
During the conversation, he took out his iPhone and asked Siri a question about the temperature.
The answer was given in a male voice and when moderator Larry King pointed out that Siri is typically voiced by a woman in the US, Sir Christopher replied: "I chose a man because you trust the voice of a man more, I was told."
His comments were strongly criticised as being sexist by both the audience and later on Twitter.
However, he defended himself, saying: "I'm not trying to make excuses for myself, After I demonstrated Siri, the audience was laughing, I was being teased.
"I said it at the beginning of the panel and someone only raised it one hour later at the end of the session. It was the last comment made in a session lasting 70 minutes and my comment was the first comment. No one raised it at the time, but when the woman did raise it, I apologised."
Sir Christopher, who jointly won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics, said that earlier in the day, he had given a lecture about the future of work, in which he discussed two policies to empower more women in the labour force.
These were education for girls and government-subsidised elderly care centres so that instead of caring for family members, more women could enter the workforce and get jobs better suited to their talents.
"My work, over the last 40 years, has been dedicated to equality in the labour market. When people ask me what is the greatest problem in the labour market, I tell them equality between men and women and races. Of course I believe in equality," he said.
The prestigious festival had already attracted negative comments for lacking invited female speakers.
Mr King and another moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, were also criticised for failing to stop Sir Christopher's comments, according to news site Motherboard.
Several high-profile attendees, including physicist Jim Al-Khalili (winner of the 2016 Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication), astrobiologist Sara Seager and the renowned astronomer Jill Tarter decided to walk out as a result.
The event's organisers later issued an apology, saying: "Starmus deeply regrets the sexist comments made by Chris Pissarides during a panel discussion and we accept the outrage that this has sparked.
"Our programme consists of incredible women and men from all over the world and we have made it clear that comments of this nature will not be tolerated at our festival."
The gender and accent of Apple's voice assistant across iPhone, iPad, Mac and other Apple devices has historically been dependent on regional settings. However, recent software updates have allowed users to change both the gender and accent via a menu.
"The comments made do reflect consistent results that people make social judgements about computer speech outputs, and those seem to relate to gender stereotypes that exist in the wider world," Dr Kate Hone, a computer science academic at Brunel University, told the BBC.
Dr Hones carried out a study in 2003 looking at which voices older adults would prefer to listen to on smartphones. Out of the 15 male and 17 female participants interviewed, the participants mainly preferred male voices because they found the voices to be more reassuring.
Other studies have produced similar results, with one in 1997 by Stanford University finding that people were more comfortable getting technical advice from a male voice, but preferred a female voice for tips on emotional issues.
However, Prof Aaron Sloman, an artificial intelligence and cognitive science expert at the University of Birmingham said he was not bothered how these voices sounded.
"It sounds completely idiotic to me," he said.
"The voice of a computer-generated chatbot is something that can be arbitrarily changed. I cannot see how gender would have anything to do with the reliability of the content or the quality of the engineering that went into the AI system."
Prof Sloman, who is 80, said that he has problems with his ears and some radio programmes feature male voices that for him are more penetrating and easier to hear rather than female voices.
"I don't understand why we are gendering our AI at all - it's a computer program, not a person," said Phoenix Perry, a lecturer in computing and researcher for feminism in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at Goldsmiths, University of London.
"When we use search, we don't think of Google or Safari as having a gender. I'm not sure why when we interact with it using voice command, it needs a gender. Microsoft Word, which can read out documents to you, definitely does not have a gender."
Bydd y swyddfa bresennol yn Nhŷ Moelwyn yn cau, gyda staff yn symud i Dŷ Thedford ble mae canolfan waith y dref wedi'i lleoli ar hyn o bryd.
Roedd y ganolfan i fod i gau, fel swyddfeydd y corff yn Wrecsam ac Abertawe, wrth i ganolfan ranbarthol newydd gael ei sefydlu yng Nghaerdydd.
Ond mae'r penderfyniad yn golygu y bydd gwasanaethau iaith Gymraeg HMRC yn parhau i gael eu darparu o'r dref.
Dywedodd Gweinidog Swyddfa Cymru, Guto Bebb AS: "Rydw i wrth fy modd ein bod ni wedi llwyddo i ddiogelu'r swyddfa bwysig hon, sydd yn darparu gwasanaeth hanfodol i siaradwyr Cymraeg.
"Mae sawl adran o fewn Llywodraeth y DU yng Nghymru wedi gweithio'n galed i sicrhau hyn ac mae'n dangos beth allwn ni ei gyflawni wrth weithio gyda'n gilydd i ddod i ddatrysiad.
"Mae hyn yn profi ymrwymiad Llywodraeth y DU i'r iaith Gymraeg ac i sicrhau ein bod ni'n elwa o gyd-leoli swyddfeydd llywodraeth er mwyn sicrhau gwerth i'r trethdalwyr."
Mae AS Plaid Cymru dros Ddwyfor Meirionnydd wedi croesawu'r newyddion, gan ddweud ei bod yn "falch" bod y llywodraeth "wedi ymateb yn gadarnhaol i bryderon pobl leol".
Ychwanegodd Liz Saville Roberts bod Porthmadog yn le "perffaith" i weithwyr HMRC, er mwyn "denu a chadw siaradwyr Cymraeg yn yr ardal lle mae Cymraeg yn iaith gymunedol a phroffesiynol".
Dywedodd cadeirydd Cyngor Tref Porthmadog, Simon Brooks, ei fod yn "hapus" fod y swyddi wedi'u diogelu.
"Mae hyn yn newyddion ardderchog i'r gweithwyr a'u teuluoedd, ac i'r gymuned gyfan," meddai.
"Mae hefyd yn hwb i'r iaith Gymraeg yn ardal Porthmadog."
The foot was discovered by a walker on Tal y Foel, near Dwyranh, on 6 April.
North Wales Police said DNA testing has confirmed it is that of Richard Thomas, who was reported missing from his Bangor home on 31 December 2013.
Mr Thomas, who was then 47, was last seen in the Bangor area on seven days earlier.
Police carried out inquiries, searches and media appeals at the time but he was not found.
Det Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: "Mr Thomas's death is not being treated as suspicious and HM Coroner for north west Wales Mr Dewi Pritchard-Jones has been notified.
"Mr Thomas's family have been informed and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time."
Parents received a letter saying the Something Special centre was being wound up and replaced by a new group, and its gates were locked on Monday.
The charity has not responded to several requests for information.
Based outside Eglinton, it was founded in 2007 and currently teaches 30 students with learning disabilities.
The centre uses music to aid learning and social interaction.
Two letters received by parents recently and purporting to come from management appear to contradict each other.
The first letter, dated 11 April, states that Something Special was not closing but going through a process of transferring its activities from an "association" to an "academy".
On 20 April, families received a second letter saying the charity was closing down and the new academy would be taking it over.
Mary Lynch - whose son John attended the charity four times a week - says parents "need answers".
"There are 30 students with learning disabilities with no place to go," Mary Lynch told BBC Radio Foyle.
"We just want somebody to talk to us. John is very distressed.
"Confusion creates anger and distress."
John Lynch, said he had learnt about music and art as a student at Something Special since 2007.
"Something Special means I always get to learn something new and make new friends," he said.
The charity grew rapidly in recent years and at one stage had a craft shop in Eglinton selling products that had been made by the students.
Robert Cooke's daughter Louise, who is 23 and severely autistic, has been attending the group for the last five years and loves the social interaction it offered.
"We have been left in the lurch," said Mr Cooke.
"For the past four weeks nearly now Louise has been in the house with us with no schemes or anything to go to.
"She's missing her friends now and she loves everybody that works in it. She's been asking when she can go back."
There is no suggestion of any wrong doing on anyone's part.
The Dunbar-based May Queen was moored in Eyemouth harbour when it developed a severe list causing sea water to pour in on the rising tide.
The lifeboats were called out at 02:18 on Friday and the vessel was made safe and pollution booms put in place.
At high tide, the vessel was towed upright and water removed from the trawler with two salvage pumps.
In the meantime, an angling boat was also spotted drifting in the harbour.
The inshore lifeboat was diverted to that vessel and checked nobody was on board before securing it alongside the pier and returning to the stricken trawler.
Choristers arriving for rehearsal at the West Flanders church were met by a cloud of smoke when they opened the door, Belgium's Nieuwsblad reports.
They were unable to control the fire on Thursday evening with extinguishers.
Emergency services suspect that a heater may have exploded inside the recently renovated church.
Dozens of people were evacuated from the area around the church of St John the Baptist, but were allowed home later on Thursday evening, Nieuwsblad adds.
The prime minister and her husband Philip stood up and took part in a singalong of God Save The Queen at the Villa Cortine Palace Hotel in Lombardy.
The story, first reported by the Sun, has been confirmed by Downing Street.
The newspaper reported that the PM was so pleased by pianist Davide Foroni's performance that she gave him a pair of No 10 cufflinks.
The prime minister and her husband, who are on a three-week walking holiday in Italy and Switzerland, are believed to be regular guests at the five-star hotel on Lake Garda.
The Sun reported that Mrs May was among several guests to stand up when the pianist played the national anthem in the hotel bar.
The newspaper quoted Mr Foroni as saying: "As soon as the first notes started, she was on her feet with her husband proudly singing along. Everyone stood. There was a mixture of nationalities. The British guests sang the words as well and at the end everyone clapped."
Mr Foroni said that afterwards he had discussed music with the PM, revealing that her tastes were "more classical than contemporary".
"She likes Whitney Houston, The Beatles and Elton John and classics like Mozart," he added.
The director of the hotel, located in the town of Sirmione, told the newspaper that Mr Foroni was a "firm favourite" of guests.
Officers are looking into alleged improper electoral campaign spending returns in the region.
Nine other forces are investigating whether expenses should have been filed by MPs' agents as local spending.
The West Midlands force said it was working with National Police Chiefs Council and the Electoral Commission.
Blaenau Gwent and other parts of the south Wales valleys were singled out by research into official government questions on 'wellbeing'.
Analysts found Blaenau Gwent had one of the biggest overall differences between those who are content and unhappy - a term dubbed 'wellbeing inequality'.
Researchers hope the findings can help steer government policy in the future.
"These findings show us that what matters to people is more complex than most policymakers realise, or measure," said Nancy Hey, director of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, who carried out the study.
"Income alone only tells us part of the story about how we may be struggling, or thriving, in our daily lives.
"Wellbeing gives us a more nuanced picture, and allows us to see why and how different groups in society are affected in different ways.
"The evidence shows us that large differences in wellbeing is not inevitable. We are going to be looking for more clues as to what local authorities can do to understand and reduce the gap in upcoming research."
The parts of Wales ranked highest for wellbeing equality - where the gap between those happy and unhappy is smaller - were places like Flintshire, Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Monmouthshire.
But those with a wider inequality gap included Torfaen, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot - and Blaenau Gwent.
Across the UK - the wellbeing gap was smaller in places like Enfield and Harrow in London, Cheshire, Warwickshire, and Shetland - and wider in locations such as Liverpool, Sunderland and Rotherham.
The research looked at a series of questions asked to 160,000 people across the UK by the Office for National Statistics.
The questions were:
The questions were given a score out of ten, depending on how people felt, giving an overall wellbeing score. It meant researchers could then look at how big the gap was between the 'happiest' and 'least happy' in every individual local authority.
Researchers said the analysis might be a useful tool in the future too - after using the details to see if there was any relationship in feelings on wellbeing and those areas that voted Leave in the Brexit referendum.
The study discovered that while the average wellbeing of any area did not appear to have any connection to the way that authority's area voted - the measure of wellbeing inequality did.
Simply put - council areas like Blaenau Gwent with the widest gap between those satisfied and those who are not - voted to leave the EU.
"This research shows the deep divides in communities, with some people's experiences falling far short of the life they want to lead, while others flourish. Understanding these inequalities is the first step towards taking action," added Annie Quick from New Economics Foundation, which supported the research.
On 30 December 2015, Storm Frank brought about half a month's worth of rain in 24 hours and heralded new year misery for thousands.
In Carsphairn, residents awoke to find the A712 through the village transformed into a river after the Water of Deugh burst its banks.
Properties along the western side of the street flooded and some people were only able to move back in very recently.
One of the affected premises was the village shop and tea-room run by Lindsay Duncan, and her adjoining house.
"My alarm went off at a quarter to six in the morning to get up to open the shop," she recalled.
"There was a big bang at the door - locals trying to warn us that the village was flooding. The street was like a raging river.
"We got some possessions upstairs and about half an hour later the water started to come in."
The shop and house were flooded to a depth of about a foot which Lindsay thought initially would drain away and dry out quite quickly. She was wrong.
"I didn't honestly think it was going to be as bad as what it was," she said.
"I thought we'd clean up and it would be business as normal. But when the loss adjustor came out he said we could be closed for six months."
He was almost spot-on.
The business eventually reopened in July after operating out of temporary accommodation in the village hall as Lindsay kept locals supplied with vital provisions.
The shop has been revamped and the tearoom part expanded. A roaring open fire adds to the warmth of the welcome and bright Christmas decorations are a sign of optimism that this year's festivities won't be cut short.
Recovery, however, has taken its toll.
"People struggle to sleep and every time it rains you're on edge," said Lindsay. "You're constantly going to the window and checking the street to see if it's flooding. It's not a nice feeling.
"You see it all the time on the news and you just don't understand the impact until it happens to you. Words can't explain how it feels."
On the same day that Carsphairn was hit, 20 miles to the south west the River Cree burst its banks in Newton Stewart causing the town's worst flood in half a century. The water reached shops in Victoria Street, including the outdoor clothing store owned by Ross Cunningham.
He was having a bad winter, with two other shops flooded in similar circumstances in Cumbria. But it enabled him to compare the authorities' responses north and south of the border.
"In Cumbria, after an initial slow response, they got on to it very quickly and things have been happening," he said.
"In Dumfries and Galloway a lot of people, myself included, have been pushing for things to happen including repairing the river wall before winter, which has only just been completed."
Mr Cunningham said he had also encountered different attitudes to dredging, which he raised with the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon when she visited Newton Stewart in the aftermath of the flood.
"Myself and many other people in the town have been pushing them to dredge the Cree which I think definitely needs doing but it seems to be that's not going to happen," he said.
"Over the border in Cumbria there's been a lot of dredging going on and I can't quite understand why it can happen only, as the crow flies, 70 miles away but on this side of the border it can't happen for some reason."
Dumfries and Galloway Council has just finished rebuilding the river wall where it was washed away a year ago.
It has also removed the Sparling footbridge which cleared the Cree only by a few feet and effectively acted as a dam, trapping vegetation and debris washed downstream when the river was in spate.
But more permanent flood prevention measures are still some years away, and that is a concern for many.
The Belted Galloway Café and Visitor Centre is one of the closest premises to the river and owner Craig Andrews is worried that it might be hit again.
He finds himself constantly monitoring the river level every time there is heavy rain.
"There is supposedly money available for a flood defence for us, but we are not really any further forward," he said.
"We have built some flood defences round our own place, hopefully to try to mitigate the risk, but we really just have to keep our fingers crossed."
And that is what communities all across the region hit by Storm Frank will be doing this festive season: watching weather forecasts with concern, and praying that this new year is a lot better than last.
At an open event in Gorseinon, Gower, Carwyn Jones promised a "fresh and exciting" manifesto for 2016 to answer claims the party had run out of ideas.
Labour lost Gower to the Tories at the general election in May after holding the seat for more than 100 years.
Some activists told Mr Jones the party was not listening to its grassroots.
The warning came on Friday as Welsh Labour held the first in a series of question-and-answer sessions open to the general public and party members.
"We want a fresh and exciting manifesto," Mr Jones said.
"To get to that point, you go through a testing process, sometimes an uncomfortable process in order to get there.
"That's how you end up with a good offer to people."
But Gareth Phillips, a Labour councillor from Bridgend, said party officials in Cardiff failed to heed warnings that Gower was under threat, preferring to focus campaign efforts on attempts to capture the Vale of Glamorgan from the Conservatives.
"You are not listening to grassroots activists," he told Mr Jones.
"Consultations are great, but they're only great if people are listened to. I don't think [Welsh Labour HQ] Transport House are listening - that's your starting point."
Mr Jones said later: "There is a need to change the party structure, that's true, but I don't think it causes us to lose elections."
The first minister was joined in Gorseinon by Deputy Culture Minister Ken Skates, who has been given the job of preparing the manifesto.
Ministers have defended a separate Welsh government "Carwyn Connect" tour against Tory claims that taxpayers are funding Labour's re-election campaign.
"Our antenna broke," a Welsh Labour spin doctor says, reflecting on the general election.
In other words, Labour lost contact with the people and places who have traditionally kept its campaigns on track.
The outcome was that Labour not only failed to take ground from the Tories, it lost ground.
Take Gower, for example. A Labour campaigner there told me he went to the count on election night expecting to retain the constituency by about 1,000 votes.
Instead, the Conservatives won the seat - a seat Labour had held for more than 100 years - by just 27 votes.
The result surprised Labour. So, no surprises that Carwyn Jones and Ken Skates, the deputy minister writing Welsh Labour's 2016 manifesto, were in Gower today to hear what people have to say.
They're on the road to meet the public - not just Labour members - and make sure Labour's offer in 2016 matches voters' concerns.
It's a genuine listening exercise, we're told.
But we've heard that before. Didn't Ed Miliband say his party would hold millions of conversations with voters earlier this year?
And I remember the same spin doctor - he of the broken antenna - telling me in the run up to the 2011 assembly election that Labour really was consulting widely to deliver a fresh manifesto.
Will things be different this time?
The intention isn't just to learn lessons from the general election, but to convince the world that Labour wants to learn those lessons, even if it means locking horns with voters who think the Welsh government has made a hash of running public services.
There's no doubt the party's antenna needs repairing. Until it's working again, Labour can't be sure it's hit the bottom: it can't be sure the general election was as bad as it gets, or whether there's worse to come.
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Laurent Fabius was among a number of negotiators at the Vienna talks expressing hopes for a historic deal.
The agreement would impose limits on Iran's nuclear programme in return for relief from economic sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said talks would not be extended beyond Monday, but there was still work to do.
US Secretary of State John Kerry also warned that "major issues" remained, but said he was hopeful.
Mr Fabius, who cancelled a trip to Africa to stay at the talks, said: "I hope we are finally entering the final phase of these marathon negotiations. I believe it."
A German government source said it was still possible for the negotiations to fail but a deal could be reached quickly if Tehran was ready to take the final steps.
"Negotiations are currently in the absolute final phase and are running intensely through the night," the source, quoted by Reuters, said.
On Sunday afternoon, two diplomats at the talks said details of the deal were still being worked out and that it would still need to be reviewed by Iran and the so-called P5+1 - the US, UK, Russia, France, China and Germany.
But then the agreement could be announced on Monday.
One remaining task was to re-read the whole document, which spans 100 pages, an Iranian diplomat told AFP news agency.
"Sometimes a country demands that we change a word, sparking several hours of discussions because the meaning can change completely," he said.
Later on Sunday, a top US state department official cautioned: "We have never speculated about the timing of anything during these negotiations, and we're certainly not going to start now - especially given the fact that major issues remain to be resolved in these talks."
An Iranian official was also quoted by the Isna agency as saying that it would be "logistically impossible" to reach a deal on Sunday and that "hard work continues".
And the top Republican in the US Senate, questioned whether President Barack Obama would then be able to win approval in Congress.
Mitch McConnell told Fox News Sunday: "I think it's going to be a very hard sell, if it's completed, in Congress.
"We already know it's going to leave Iran as a threshold nuclear state."
The failure to reach an agreement by last Friday means the US Congress will now take twice as long - 60 days - to decide whether to accept or reject any eventual deal, keeping sanctions in place until then.
Western powers suspect Iran of seeking nuclear weapons, but Iran says its programme is for purely peaceful purposes.
The sides have been holding marathon negotiations to reach a long-term agreement and have missed successive self-imposed deadlines.
The main sticking points for the P5+1 and Iran have been international inspections of Iran's non-nuclear sites, sanctions relief and how Iran's compliance will be verified.
Iran also wants a UN Security Council arms embargo to be scrapped - something the US has ruled out.
Imran Shahid is serving a minimum of 25 years for murdering Kriss Donald in 2004.
He had raised an action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh claiming that his segregation violated his human rights.
But judge Lord Malcolm rejected this, agreeing that segregation was necessary for safety reasons.
Shahid was recently attacked in prison after being returned to the mainstream population.
The 34-year-old, his brother Zeeshan Shahid and Faisal Mushtaq were all sentenced to life in November 2006 after being found guilty of murdering the 15-year-old.
Kriss Donald was abducted in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, stabbed several times, then set on fire.
During his time in the Scottish jail system, Shahid has spent four years and eight months in segregation.
He claimed this amounted to inhuman or degrading treatment and was contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
He also maintained that there had been interference with his right to respect for private life under the ECHR.
As part of the action he raised a claim for compensation of £6,000, although his counsel Simon Collins QC accepted that any damages award would be modest.
In his judgement Lord Malcolm said: "Given the nature of his crime there was a high level of feeling against him in the prison population.
"The relevant officials, charged with making decisions concerning his management, considered that he would be at substantial risk of serious harm if returned to the mainstream population.
"Given the information which they had, they would have been open to very serious criticism, and indeed legal action, had he been placed in mainstream and come to harm.
"While such a lengthy period of segregation is a cause for concern, its purpose was legitimate. It was directed towards the petitioner's own safety and protection from the potential for serious injury or worse."
Lord Malcolm added: "The response was proportionate. Throughout the ultimate goal of reintegration was maintained."
The SPS maintained that within the prison population there had been a high level of feeling against Shahid because of the murder and at the time the view was taken that to place him in with mainstream prisoners would leave him at serious risk of attack.
The Scottish government regularly granted applications to governors for the renewal of his segregation.
Colleagues reported smelling alcohol on PC Wendy Bruce's breath.
A Northamptonshire Police disciplinary hearing heard PC Bruce, 49, would have been over the limit in the early morning, although she passed a test later in the day to avoid criminal prosecution.
However, the force argued she had "undermined" the drink-drive message.
PC Bruce admitted she had the two bottles before 22:30 BST on 20 October before getting up for work at 05:30 the next day and driving to Rushden Police Station.
A colleague reported her after she had been driven to Wellingborough and she was made to take a roadside breath test, which she failed.
However, when she was tested using legally-accurate equipment at about 09:22 BST, she was just under the limit.
David Ring, Northamptonshire Police solicitor, said: "It is commonsense from the roadside reading [that] she would have been above the legal limit.
"Police work hard to impress upon the public a consistent and clear message this conduct [drink-driving] cannot be tolerated - the officer who transgresses undermines this message."
PC Bruce, who had served with Northamptonshire since 2004, admitted misconduct, but argued it was not the sackable offence of gross misconduct.
Jim Kirkbright, representing her, said: "She did not disguise the intoxicants on her breath.
"She did not believe she had consumed so much alcohol [to be over the limit] by the time she was on duty."
Chief Constable Simon Edens found she had committed gross misconduct and said her actions were the "antithesis of what she, as a police officer, was on duty to do".
"Had she been asked to answer a 999 call, I can only assume she would have been driving a police car under the influence with all the obvious risk to life that entails," he said.
The Office for National Statistics said it will be ready to make the change to its monthly announcement on price increases by the end of the year.
It would give prominence to a measure called CPIH, which has tended to show the cost of living rising faster.
The Consumer Prices index, or CPI, would be pushed down the pecking order of inflation measures.
CPI is used for the Bank of England's 2% inflation target,
It is also the figure used across Europe to show how fast prices in the shops and elsewhere have been rising or falling in different countries.
But while it reflects changes in rents, it does not show how families are affected by the rising cost of being owner-occupiers.
CPIH does not directly include house prices or mortgage payments. Instead, statisticians adjust the rate by estimating how much it would cost owners to rent their own homes.
But as a result the broader measure has been 0.3% higher for most of the last year. In January CPI was 0.3%, while CPIH was 0.6%.
The ONS has promised to make CPIH more reliable, after it was criticised for not being robust enough and lost its status as a National Statistic.
However, even if it becomes the headline inflation figure around the turn of the year, there seems little prospect that the Chancellor will direct the Bank of England to use it for the UK's inflation target any time soon.
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1821-1829 - Greek War of Independence from Ottoman Empire.
1832 - Prince Otto of Bavaria is chosen as the first king of independent Greece.
1863 - King Otto is deposed; Prince William of Denmark becomes king of the Hellenes.
1913 - Greece gains Epirus, Macedonia, Crete and the North Aegean Islands from the Ottomans in the First Balkan War, and then West Thrace from Bulgaria in the Second Balkan War.
1919-22 - Greco-Turkish War - Greek invasion of Asia Minor prompted by the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War 1 is defeated by Turkish forces.
1924 - Greeks vote for the abolition of the monarchy, country becomes republic.
1935 - Monarchy restored.
1936 - General Ioannis Metaxas appointed prime minister, establishes right-wing dictatorship.
1940 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's forces attack Greece from Italian-held Albania, but are repelled.
BBC History - Greeks
1941 - Metaxas dies. Greece falls to Germany. More than 100,000 die in famine.
1942 - 1944 - Fierce resistance to the occupation by communist and royalist factions alike.
1944 - British and Greek forces combine to force Nazi withdrawal. With backing from Britain, Georgios Papandreou becomes prime minister. Communists protest. Tensions rise and there is sporadic violence.
1946 - 1949 - Royalist parties win elections. Ensuing civil war ends with defeat of communist forces.
1952 - New constitution declares Greece a kingdom ruled by parliamentary democracy. Greece joins Nato.
1955 - Konstantinos Karamanlis becomes prime minister.
1964 - King Constantine II succeeds his father, Paul.
George Papadopoulos led 'regime of colonels'
1973: Army deposes 'hated' Greek president
Greek dictator dies
1967 - Group of army officers seize power in military coup. Elections are postponed indefinitely and Col George Papadopoulos takes office as prime minister.
Hundreds of political activists are arrested under a regime characterised by brutality and repression.
1973 - Greece declared a republic, the monarchy is abolished and Papadopoulos assumes the presidency.
Opposition to military rule leads to increasing unrest. Papadopoulos overthrown in bloodless coup by Brigadier-General Demetrios Ioannidis, commander of the military police. He partially restores civilian rule but retains large measure of power.
Konstantine Karamanlis came out of exile to become PM
1974 - A Greece-backed coup against President Makarios of Cyprus is followed by Turkish invasion and occupation of north of the island.
Ioannidis government collapses. Mr Karamanlis recalled from exile and sworn in as prime minister. Referendum rejects restoration of monarchy.
1975 - New constitution declares Greece a parliamentary republic with some executive powers vested in a president.
1980 - Conservative Constantine Karamanlis elected president.
1981 - Greece joins EU. Andreas Papandreou's Socialist Party (Pasok) wins elections.
1985 - President Karamanlis resigns in protest at government plans to reduce powers of president. Christos Sartzetakis becomes head of state.
1986 - Constitutional amendment transfers some of president's powers to the legislature
1990 - Centre-right New Democracy party forms government under party leader Constantine Mitsotakis
1991 - Yugoslav former republic of Macedonia declares independence. Greece objects to name and flag of Republic of Macedonia on grounds they imply territorial claims to the Greek province of Macedonia.
1993 - Election returns Papandreou to power.
1995 - Relations with Macedonia normalised.
1996 - Tension flares between Greece and Turkey over disputed Aegean islet.
Papandreou resigns through ill health and dies shortly afterwards. Succeeded by Kostas Simitis.
1999 September - Earthquake hits Athens - dozens killed, thousands left homeless.
Radical leftist group November 17 aimed to overthrow capitalism
2000 June - Senior British diplomat Brigadier Stephen Saunders shot dead in Athens by left-wing guerrilla group November 17.
2002 January - Euro replaces drachma.
2002 March - Greek, Turkish governments agree to build gas pipeline through which Turkey will supply Greece with gas.
2002 July - Suspected leader and members of November 17 terror group arrested after one of them is injured, allegedly by his own bomb, and provides information to police.
2003 December - Trial of November 17 suspects ends with their conviction. Head of group and its main hitman jailed for life.
2004 February - Kostas Simitis calls March elections and stands down as Pasok leader.
2004 March - Conservative New Democracy party led by Costas Karamanlis wins general election, ending over a decade of Pasok government.
2004 August - Athens hosts Olympic Games.
Ancient site of the Olympic Games
2004 December - European Commission issues formal warning after Greece found to have falsified budget deficit data in run-up to joining eurozone.
2005 April - Parliament ratifies EU constitution.
2005 December - Amid protest strikes by transport workers, parliament approves changes to labour laws, including an end to jobs for life in the public sector. The plans sparked industrial action in June.
2006 March - Public sector workers strike over pay and in protest at government plans to scrap job security laws and intensify privatisation.
2006 May - Greek and Turkish fighter planes crash into the Aegean after colliding in mid-air.
2006 September - Greece, Russia and Bulgaria back a long-awaited deal to build an oil pipeline which will carry Russian oil to Europe via Alexandropoulis in Greece.
The Acropolis Museum opened in 2008 with a lavish ceremony
2007 August - Wildfires sweep through tinder-dry forests across the mainland and islands, killing dozens of people.
2007 September - Despite criticism of his government's handling of the fires, Prime Minister Karamanlis wins a narrow majority in the poll. He says he now has a mandate for more reforms but also pledges to make national unity a priority.
2008 March - Greece blocks Macedonia's bid to join Nato because of unresolved dispute over former Yugoslav republic's name.
Parliament narrowly passes government's controversial pension reform bill in face of general public sector strike and mass protests.
2008 December - Students and young people take to city streets in nationwide protests and riots over the police killing of a 15-year-old boy in Athens. Major public-sector strikes coincide to increase pressure on the government over its economic policies.
2009 August - Around 10,000 people are evacuated from their homes as wildfires sweep across the country.
Greece's 300bn-euro debt plunged the country into crisis in 2009
Q&A: Greek debt crisis
2009 October - Opposition Pasok socialist party wins snap election called by PM Karamanlis. George Papandreou takes over as new prime minister.
2009 December - Greece's credit rating is downgraded by one of world's three leading rating agencies amid fears the government could default on its ballooning debt. PM Papandreou announces programme of tough public spending cuts.
2010 January- March - Government announces two more rounds of tough austerity measures, and faces mass protests and strikes.
2010 April/May - Fears of a possible default on Greece's debts prompt eurozone countries to approve a $145bn (110bn euros; £91bn) rescue package for the country, in return for a round of even more stringent austerity measures. Trade unions call a general strike.
2011 June - 24-hour general strike. Tens of thousands of protesters march on parliament to oppose government efforts to pass new austerity laws.
2011 July - European Union leaders agree a major bailout for Greece over its debt crisis by channelling 109bn euros through the European Financial Stability Facility.
All three main credit ratings agencies cut Greece's rating to a level associated with a substantial risk of default.
2011 October - Eurozone leaders agree a 50% debt write-off for Greece in return for further austerity measures. PM George Papandreou puts the deal in doubt by announcing a referendum on the rescue package.
2011 November - Faced with a storm of criticism over his referendum plan, Mr Papandreou withdraws it and then announces his resignation.
The deep recession and spending cuts have put Greek society under strain
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Mourning the lost Greece
Lucas Papademos, a former head of the Bank of Greece, becomes interim prime minister of a New Democracy/Pasok coalition with the task of getting the country back on track in time for elections scheduled provisionally for the spring of 2012.
2012 February - Against a background of violent protests on the streets of Athens, the Greek parliament approves a new package of tough austerity measures agreed with the EU as the price of a 130bn euro bailout.
2012 March - Greece reaches a "debt swap" deal with its private-sector lenders, enabling it to halve its massive debt load.
2012 May - Early parliamentary elections see support for coalition parties New Democracy and Pasok slump, with a increase in support for anti-austerity parties of the far left and right. The three top-ranking parties fail to form a working coalition and President Papoulias calls fresh elections for 17 June.
The far-right Golden Dawn party based its 2012 election campaign on hostility towards immigrants
Alarm at Greek police 'collusion' with far-right
Greek coalition split by racism bill
2012 June - Further parliamentary elections boost New Democracy, albeit leaving it without a majority. Leader Antonis Samaras assembles a coalition with third-placed Pasok and smaller groups to pursue the austerity programme.
2012 September - Trade unions stage 24-hour general strike against government austerity measures. Police fire tear gas to disperse anarchist rally outside parliament.
2012 October - Parliament passes a 13.5bn-euro austerity plan aimed at securing the next round of EU and IMF bailout loans; the package - the fourth in three years - includes tax rises and pension cuts.
2013 January - Unemployment rises to 26.8% - the highest rate in the EU.
2013 April - Youth unemployment climbs to almost 60%.
2013 June - Government suspends state broadcaster ERT in effort to save money.
2013 August - New state broadcaster EDT is launched.
2013 September - Government launches crackdown on far-right Golden Dawn party. Party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos and five other Golden Dawn MPs are arrested on charges including assault, money laundering and belonging to a criminal organisation.
2013 December - Parliament passes 2014 budget, which is predicated on a return to growth after six years of recession. Prime Minister Samaras hails this as the first decisive step towards exiting the bailout.
2014 February - Greek unemployment reaches a record high of 28%.
2014 March - Parliament narrowly approves a big reform package that will open more retail sectors to competition, part of a deal between Greece and its international lenders.
2014 April - Eurozone finance ministers say they'll release more than 8bn euros of further bailout funds to Greece.
Greece raises nearly four billion dollars from world financial markets in its first sale of long-term government bonds for four years, in a move seen as an important step in the country's economic recovery.
2014 May - Anti-austerity, radical leftist Syriza coalition wins European election with 26.6% of the vote.
2014 December - Parliament's failure to elect a new president sparks a political crisis and prompts early elections.
2015 January - Alexis Tsipras of Syriza becomes prime minister after winning parliamentary elections, and forms a coalition with the nationalist Independent Greeks party.
2015 February - The government negotiates a four-month extension to Greece's bailout in return for dropping key anti-austerity measures and undertaking a eurozone-approved reform programme.
2015 June-July - European Central Bank ends emergency funding. Greece closes banks, and imposes capital controls. Voters overwhelmingly reject EU bailout terms in July referendum.
2015 August - Greece and its creditors agree a third bailout worth 86bn euros, imposing further spending cuts on the country to avoid bankruptcy and exit from the eurozone.
2016 March - Macedonia closes its border with Greece to migrants, leaving thousands of people stranded at the Greek border village of Idomeni.
2016 May - Rapidly deteriorating conditions at makeshift Idomeni migrant camp prompt government to evacuate the camp and transfer its occupants to purpose-built processing facilities near Greece's second city, Thessaloniki.
Eurozone finance ministers agree to unlock a further 10.3bn euros in loans - a tranche of cash that Athens needs to meet debt repayments due in July. They also agree on debt relief for Greece, extending the repayment period and capping interest rates. | A chronology of key events: | 17,373,216 | 3,017 | 8 | false |
The visitors, whose starting XV had a combined total of 60 senior caps, led 22-3 at half-time thanks to tries from Alec Hepburn, Semesa Rokoduguni and Dan Robson.
South Africa went over three times after the break, but Ollie Devoto's late score made sure of the Saxons win.
Danny Cipriani also contributed two penalties and three conversions.
Francois Brummer, Piet van Zyl and Sikhumbuzo Notshe all scored tries for the hosts in Bloemfontein.
The second game between the two sides takes place Outeniqua Park in George on Friday, 17 June.
South Africa A: Leolin Zas; Travis Ismaiel, Francois Venter, Howard Mnisi, Courtnall Skosan; Garth April, Nic Groom; Thomas du Toit, Scarra Ntubeni, Vincent Koch; JD Schickerling Stephan Lewies; Sikhumbuzo Notshe, Oupa Mohoje (c), Nizaam Carr.
Replacements: Malcolm Marx, Lizo Gqoboka, Coenie Oosthuizen, RG Snyman, Jean-Luc du Preez, Piet van Zyl, Francois Brummer, Lukhanyo Am.
England Saxons: Mike Haley; Semesa Rokoduguni, Nick Tompkins, Ollie Devoto, Alex Lewington; Danny Cipriani, Dan Robson; Alec Hepburn, Tommy Taylor, Kieran Brookes; Dave Attwood (c), Charlie Ewels; Don Armand, Matt Kvesic, Sam Jones.
Replacements: George McGuigan, Ross Harrison, Jake Cooper-Woolley, Mitch Lees, Dave Ewers, Micky Young, Sam James, Christian Wade.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | England Saxons staved off a second-half comeback to beat South Africa A 32-24 in the first of their two tour matches. | 36,503,809 | 439 | 32 | false |
As early as Thursday morning it will announce it has now put nearly $10bn in the kitty to pay a monster fine from the US Department of Justice.
It relates to the bank's role in the selling of risky mortgages - the so called subprime crisis - which was at the epicentre of the financial crisis.
This will plunge RBS, 72% owned by the taxpayer, further into the red.
It will make 2016 the ninth year in a row that RBS has lost money.
To be clear, this is not unexpected, nor is it a final settlement. The urgency to settle once and for all which existed around the beginning of this month (before the change of the guard in the US administration with a Trump presidency) has eased as a new administration and a new attorney general are now in place.
Guesses on the final bill from the US vary widely from $12bn-$20bn. If this $10bn did prove to be enough for the final bill, that would be considered a good result.
It remains to be seen whether the new US administration takes a tougher or more lenient approach to misconduct by European banks.
Barclays recently walked away from negotiations, preferring to fight the top US lawman in court, rather than pay what the bank considered a fine that was disproportionate to its involvement in the subprime market.
For RBS it is yet another of the "big bumps in the road" that chief executive Ross McEwan has previously warned lie between the RBS of the last nine years and the RBS he hopes it will one day be. Exclude the fines, and RBS is churning out a £1bn profit every three months.
But the sins of the past are grave, as are the penalties. The bank has paid well over £50bn worth since the financial crisis - more than the £45bn the UK taxpayer put in way back when.
RBS and the taxpayer will hope that as painful as this is, it is one step closer to the light at the end of the tunnel. | Royal Bank of Scotland will take another financial hit when it sets aside a further $4bn (£3bn) for fines. | 38,751,849 | 451 | 30 | false |
The move has raised concerns that the conflict could spread in the oil-rich Middle East and possibly disrupt supplies from the region.
Brent crude climbed nearly 6% to $59.78 a barrel, but then dipped to $57.88.
West Texas Intermediate crude futures, the US benchmark, rose to $50.68 a barrel.
Pressure on the oil price eased after it became clear there was no immediate threat to Middle East oil shipments. However, fears remain that Iran could be drawn into the conflict, and these concerns weighed on European share markets on Thursday.
In Germany, an economy heavily dependent on oil imports, the Dax share index was more than 1.3% lower by mid-afternoon. Paris's Cac 40 index and London's FTSE 100 were both more than 1.2% lower.
In the US, the Dow Jones was down 0.6%, and the dollar also fell against the Swiss franc and the yen, traditionally seen as haven currencies in times of uncertainty.
Yemen is located along an important international shipping route for global energy producers. But the country is sliding towards civil war.
Houthi rebels receiving support from Iran have marched on the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, where Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi took refuge after he was forced him to flee the capital, Sanaa.
Saudi Arabia, supported by regional allies the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, launched airstrikes on Thursday aimed at halting the rebel advance.
Iran and Saudi Arabia are both members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the group that produces about 40% of the world's oil. Oil exports to Europe pass through the narrow Red Sea strait between the port of Aden and Djibouti.
However, the current glut in global oil stocks, built up in part thanks to US shale production and plentiful output from Russia and other producers, means there is unlikely to be an acute crisis in supply.
"Just because Saudi and others conducted air strikes doesn't mean the oil market becomes suddenly tight," said Masaki Suematsu, manager of the energy team at brokerage Newedge Japan in Tokyo. | Oil prices rose and shares fell after Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest crude exporter, and its allies launched airstrikes on rebel targets in Yemen. | 32,062,571 | 469 | 35 | false |
The 14-time major winner, who first moved into the top 100 in 1996 and then spent a cumulative record 683 weeks as world number one, has dropped to 104.
The 39-year-old American has not played since withdrawing from the Farmers Insurance Open on 6 February.
Woods has said he is "hopeful" of a return for the first major of the year, the Masters, starting on 9 April.
After withdrawing from February's event at Torrey Pines with back problems, Woods announced he would be taking an indefinite break from the sport, describing his performances this year as "unacceptable for tournament play".
Woods, who carded an 82 at the Phoenix Open in January - his worst round as a professional - added that he won't return until he can "compete at the highest level".
The last time Woods was outside the top 100 in the world was in September 1996 when he was ranked equal 221 and on his climb to the top.
The following week, he jumped to 75th by winning the Las Vegas Invitational as a 20-year-old for the first of his 79 PGA Tour victories.
Woods first become world number one after finishing 19th at the 1997 US Open.
When authorities responded to an emergency call about an 18-wheel vehicle stuck in a muddy lay-by, they found the elephants hard at work.
The Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office said the truck had been hauling three elephants from New Orleans to Dallas when it got into trouble.
Officials were "astounded" by what they saw, a spokesman said.
The truck became stuck when it pulled off the highway and onto a lay-by near Powhatan, Louisiana, shortly after 07:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on Tuesday.
"When deputies arrived on scene, they were astounded to find two elephants keeping the eighteen wheeler from overturning," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
As the truck began to lean towards a ditch, the owner led two of the elephants out of the trailer and corralled them into preventing the truck from falling further.
Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office Capt Tony Moran told the BBC that his colleagues had presumed the story "would be of only local interest" but was surprised by the wider interest.
Recent rains have caused the ground surrounding the highway to become soft, the sheriff's office said.
Eventually a tow-truck pulled the lorry to safety, and the elephants were able to rest.
It is not clear who owns the elephants or the truck.
Bosses at Durham's high security Frankland prison have been urged to take "prompt action" to tackle a rise in assaults.
The report noted a recent increase in levels of violence involving prisoners.
But inspectors concluded the prison offered a "safe and decent" environment for inmates, many of whom are classed as vulnerable.
The jail holds more than 800 men, many of them Category A inmates.
The report said there had been an increase in assaults on prisoners - up from 11 in the five months to September 2015 to 40 in the five months to February 2016 - some of which were "serious".
It also said there had been one assault on a staff member in the previous six months.
Peter Clarke, Chief Inspector of Prisons, said: "The outcomes for prisoners at Frankland were reasonably good or better. Staff managed considerable ongoing risk every day, while maintaining a safe and respectful regime in which prisoners had good learning opportunities."
Michael Spurr, chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, said: "The prison holds a long-term population including some of the country's most dangerous prisoners, but provides a humane, purposeful environment and manages risk proportionately and effectively.
"The challenges presented by prisoners held at Frankland are considerable but the rehabilitative approach helps provide purpose which helps reduce risk and ultimately protects the public.
"They will continue to build on their successes and build on the recommendations raised in the report."
More than 1,000 fish died as a result of what is believed to have been a slurry leak in the Tregaron area.
NRW said the majority of fish up to six miles (9.6km) downriver had also died.
The environment body said an investigation was ongoing and enforcement action could follow.
NRW teams have been working to ensure control measures are in place to prevent further pollution, and staff are carrying out surveys to assess the impact on other river life.
Gavin Bown, south west duty manager for NRW, said the Teifi was one of the most important recreational and net fisheries for salmon and sea trout in Wales and was vital to the tourism industry.
"The fisheries of Wales are iconic and highly valued so it's devastating when pollution incidents happen," he said.
"We'll work with our partners and do all we can to restore the river as quickly as possible."
Councillor Rhodri Evans, Ceredigion council's cabinet member for lifestyle services, said there were concerns among anglers about the impact of the pollution.
But he added he was hopeful the measures put in place to prevent further contamination would be successful.
Conservationist and presenter Iolo Williams described it as "an environmental disaster" and said it would take decades for the river to recover.
Strange's side must now go on to defeat New Zealand in their group, a feat Wales achieved in the 2012 tournament.
"Even though it is going to be more difficult, we've got a fighting chance," said Strange.
After Wales' 26-25 defeat to the Irish, New Zealand beat Georgia 55-0.
Wales took two losing bonus points from the match, and face Georgia in Manchester on Saturday, 11 June, before tackling the top seed All Blacks in Salford on Wednesday 15 June.
"That's not impossible by any means, we'll be preparing well and looking forward to the challenge," Strange said of the New Zealand match.
Grand Slam winners Wales took a 17-point lead against Ireland but were stunned by an Ireland fight-back, while Keelan Giles' 78th minute corner try went unconverted as replacement Jarrod Evans sent a difficult kick wide.
Fly-half Dan Jones created two of the early tries but could only land two kicks from five attempts at goal.
"It's painful after an outstanding first 25 minutes with everything going to plan. But Ireland frustrated us and we gave some soft penalties away, so the momentum quickly changed," Strange told BBC Wales.
"We left [goal-kicking] points out there, but I don't think we lost because of the goal-kicks. There were a number of reasons. We lost composure, we conceded soft penalties and to be fair to Ireland, their recycling game was very good."
It represented a turn-around in fortunes from the Six Nations, when Wales came from behind in the second half against Ireland, France and Scotland to win the title.
"It's all part of their learning, much as you enjoy winning. They'll stay tight, you have highs and lows in rugby but how we respond now as a group is important" Strange added.
Scotland pulled off the surprise of the opening round, beating Australia 15-10.
The navy said the plane, a Dornier surveillance aircraft, was on a routine flight when it went down late on Tuesday. The cause is not known.
One crew member was rescued and a search operation has been launched for the missing two, navy spokesman Rahul Sinha said in a statement.
It is the latest in a series of mishaps for the Indian military
Last November, one crew member died and four were missing when a navy ship sank during exercises off the coastal city of Visakhapatnam.
In March 2014, a navy officer died in an accident on board a ship being built at a dockyard in Mumbai.
A month earlier, a fire on board a nuclear submarine off Mumbai left two sailors dead. The navy chief resigned in response.
And in August 2013, 18 sailors died in one of the navy's worst disasters when a submarine sank after a fire at the same dockyard in Mumbai.
The veteran star won the 8m krona ($900,000, £727,000) prize in October but did not collect the award until the end of March at a private event.
And it has taken him until now to issue his taped lecture, which cites Buddy Holly as an influence.
Dylan had until 10 June to deliver the lecture or forfeit the prize money.
The singer mentioned three influential books - Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Homer's The Odyssey and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front - in his lecture.
It has been posted on the Nobel website.
"The speech is extraordinary and, as one might expect, eloquent. Now that the lecture has been delivered, the Dylan adventure is coming to a close," Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, wrote in a blog post.
Dylan said: "If I was to go back to the dawning of it all, I guess I'd have to start with Buddy Holly... He was the archetype. Everything I wasn't and wanted to be."
Dylan said he "had to travel a hundred miles to get to see him play" and "wasn't disappointed".
Describing the encounter, he said Holly "was powerful and electrifying and had a commanding presence".
"Out of the blue, the most uncanny thing happened. He looked me right straight dead in the eye, and he transmitted something. Something I didn't know what. And it gave me the chills.
"It was a day or two after that that his plane went down… somebody handed me a Leadbelly record with the song Cottonfields on it. And that record changed my life right then and there."
This lead him on to other Leadbelly artists including Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, the New Lost City Ramblers and Jean Ritchie.
"By listening to all the early folk artists and singing the songs yourself, you pick up the vernacular. You internalise it."
He then went on to talk about his literary influences.
"Specific books that have stuck with me ever since I read them way back in grammar school - I want to tell you about three of them: Moby Dick, All Quiet on the Western Front and The Odyssey."
He described Moby Dick as "a fascinating book, a book that's filled with scenes of high drama and dramatic dialogue".
"All Quiet on the Western Front is a horror story. This is a book where you lose your childhood, your faith in a meaningful world, and your concern for individuals.
"The Odyssey is a great book whose themes have worked its way into the ballads of a lot of songwriters: Homeward Bound, Green, Green Grass of Home, Home on the Range, and my songs as well," he said.
Dylan also spoke about the meaning in songs.
"If a song moves you, that's all that's important. I don't have to know what a song means. I've written all kinds of things into my songs. And I'm not going to worry about it - what it all means. "
He concluded: "Our songs are alive in the land of the living. But songs are unlike literature. They're meant to be sung, not read. The words in Shakespeare's plays were meant to be acted on the stage. Just as lyrics in songs are meant to be sung, not read on a page.
"And I hope some of you get the chance to listen to these lyrics the way they were intended to be heard: in concert or on record or however people are listening to songs these days. I return once again to Homer, who says, 'Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story.'"
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Surjit Takhar, 37, was reported missing from his home in Oldbury, West Midlands, in October 2008.
His skull and other skeletal remains were discovered near the M54 in Telford, Shropshire, last August by maintenance workers.
The cause of his death remains unexplained but detectives are treating it as murder.
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His family - including son Harry, 21, and 22-year-old twin girls Sohnia and Sohnay - have joined detectives in launching a fresh appeal for information about the case.
Mr Takhar's ex-wife Lavina Sohl said the family "need justice".
She said: "We just need answers.
"There must be someone who feels guilty, somebody knows something."
Mr Takhar's brother-in-law Jasvir Sohl said the family was "heartbroken".
Det Insp Jim Munro from West Midlands Police said: "We particularly want to speak to someone who called police in January this year saying they had information about Mr Takhar, but the call was cut off before the caller's name could be taken.
"I would urge that person to contact us again."
An estimated 170,000 birds were culled after the disease emerged at a farm in Preston in July.
Farms within 10km (six miles) of the premises were not allowed to move poultry, captive birds or other livestock, except under licence.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) said the bird flu was "contained to a single farm".
The movement restrictions at the Goosnargh farm - which produces table eggs - were lifted 21 days after initial cleaning and disinfection of the premises was completed.
It was the earliest point allowed under EU rules to end the controls, Defra said.
Chief vet Nigel Gibbens said: "Protecting our country from animal disease is vital for our economy."
He added the UK "remains at a constant low risk of an incident of avian influenza and this latest case should serve as a reminder for the poultry industry of the importance of maintaining strict biosecurity to minimise the risk of infection".
The high severity H7N7 strain of the disease was confirmed in chickens on 13 July but posed a very low risk to human health, a spokesman said.
Investigations suggested the most likely source of infection was contact with infected wild birds.
It was not linked to the strain found at a Hampshire farm earlier this year.
It comes after BAE Systems announced plans earlier this week to cut 1,775 jobs at its UK yards.
Lord Reid said the Type 26 vessels earmarked for the Glasgow yards would not be built in "a foreign country".
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has insisted the Clyde is the only place where the ships can be built.
On Wednesday BAE confirmed job losses at its sites across the UK.
Shipbuilding will end at Portsmouth in the second half of next year and hundreds of jobs will be lost in Scotland at the Govan and Scotstoun yards in Glasgow, as well as at Rosyth in Fife.
The firm also announced work on the new Type 26 vessels was earmarked for the Glasgow yards, giving workers there a vital lifeline.
Writing in the Scottish Sunday Express newspaper, Lord Reid said: "The wider lesson from the last few days is that the only way to secure the future of Scotland's shipyards is to remain in the UK.
"This is not a matter of political opinion, it is a matter of fact.
"It is a fact that since the Second World War no UK government of any political stripe has ever commissioned the building of a warship in a foreign country.
"It is a fact that for security, as well as economic and political, reasons we build these ships here at home in the UK."
He added: "In short, we don't build warships abroad now - and what's left of the UK wouldn't do so if Scotland separated."
The Scottish government has dismissed suggestions that a "Yes" vote would put future shipyard orders in doubt and has said joint procurement of Type 26 vessels could be possible.
Writing in the Sunday Herald, Nicola Sturgeon, said: "The current UK government has just agreed with BAE Systems that Portsmouth will cease building ships in 2014, and that Glasgow is 'the most effective location for the manufacture of the future Type 26 ships'. That will remain true, whether there is a 'Yes' next year or not."
Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael has called on the deputy first minister to "admit she is wrong" on the assertion that an independent Scotland could still build UK warships.
He said: "Nicola Sturgeon is looking pretty isolated on this.
"Is she really saying that everyone else is wrong and she is right? Is she telling us that the people who build the warships and the people who place the contracts know less about this than she does?"
He added: "The future of the Clyde yards is sustainable as part of a large and successful United Kingdom. Brilliant workers and the best complex warships in the world, it is a great combination and we should not break it."
Ms Sturgeon rebuffed suggestions that Scottish yards would not get the work if the country became independent.
She said: "Our support for the Clyde is unconditional, whatever the people decide next year - as the shop steward of the Govan yard has demanded it should be - but the support of Mr Carmichael and his colleagues seems conditional on Scots doing what Westminster wants.
"The Scottish Secretary needs to tell people - does he support this work staying on the Clyde whatever the result of next year's referendum or is he actively engaged in undermining the future of one of our great industries?"
The UK's chief of defence staff, General Sir Nicholas Houghton, stepped into the debate when he was asked by the BBC's Andrew Marr if the newly announced Clyde contract would have to be revisited in the event of Scottish independence.
He believed there might have to be "some reconsideration".
But the general added: "I think that we live in a world now where it is not the purpose of the defence budget to underwrite elements of industry. We will go and get our ships in the place where it makes the most sense for the British taxpayer in terms of getting the right capability for the armed forces."
Sir Nicholas also told the Marr Show: "I certainly don't hold to the view that the decision on the future of British ship building was one born of a political mandate.
"It was very much a matter of a business rationalisation. In terms of raw business sense it makes sense that the place that they have the greatest capacity and the best depth of skills, which is on the Clyde, that is driven by a business decision."
Mr Al-Essaie was either in, or close to, a black Mercedes car he had been driving when he was shot in Daniel Hill in Walkley, Sheffield, on Saturday.
He was taken to hospital but died from a gunshot wound to the chest a short while later.
A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder and remains in police custody.
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South Yorkshire Police said it was still appealing for witnesses and was exploring a number of lines of enquiry in relation to Mr Al-Essaie's death.
The 85-year-old German artist said the concerts "will mark the end of this chapter" in his life, and comes after he was seriously ill in September.
"The main thing is that my fans have the best concerts of their lives and we will make this our 'happiest' concert yet," he said.
The tour will include two dates at the Royal Albert Hall, with the final concert on 26 April in Cologne.
Last said he had given it much thought and it was a decision he "regrets very much" having to make.
His serious illness which took a "life-threatening" turn last September apparently forced him to face the fact that "a man full of plans, needs to not just slow down but give up his life on tour altogether".
But he said the tour will give him a welcome opportunity to bid farewell to his fans
Last, who is thought to have sold in excess of 100 million albums with his trademark "happy music", will play the Royal Albert Hall on 31 March and 1 April.
They will be his 89th and 90th concerts at the venue.
Last started his music career in the 1960s with instrumental music recordings with his orchestra James Last & His Orchestra, a big band with strings and choir added.
He composes work and rearranges works of others, with a repertoire ranging from swing to pop, polka, rock and roll, waltz, jazz, folk and classical music.
Mainland women will be prevented from giving birth in Hong Kong unless they have a Hong Kong husband.
While the proposal would only apply to public hospitals, private hospitals have also agreed to follow suit.
Increasing "birth tourism" from the mainland has caused tensions.
Soaring numbers of mainland women have sought to give birth in Hong Kong to ensure that their child receives Hong Kong citizenship.
Almost half of all babies born in Hong Kong in 2010 were the children of mainland couples, according to government figures.
The "zero quota" proposals were made by Chief Executive-elect CY Leung, who takes office on 1 July.
Under the proposals, pregnant women from mainland China will not be eligible for obstetrics services from next year, unless their husband is from Hong Kong.
Furthermore, children born to mainland parents will not be guaranteed residency unless one of their parents is a Hong Kong resident.
The new proposals are likely to be popular in Hong Kong, whose residents have said that "birth tourism" from mainland China has strained resources and put lives at risk.
Ethnic Chinese babies born in Hong Kong currently automatically receive the right to live and work there, as well as the right to carry a Hong Kong passport, which makes international travel easier.
Some mainlanders also choose to give birth in Hong Kong to skirt the one-child policy, which can result in heavy fines for violators.
Mr Leung, who was elected with the weakest mandate of any chief executive to date, has been trying to rally political support with populist policies, says the BBC's Hong Kong correspondent Juliana Liu.
The Hong Kong government has already imposed quotas on the number of mainland mothers allowed to give birth in local hospitals, but residents say the quotas do not go far enough.
Alan Lau, head of Hong Kong's Private Hospitals Association, told the BBC that its members felt they had no choice but to comply with Mr Leung's wishes.
He confirmed that the hospitals would stop taking bookings from mainland mothers from 2013.
Many private hospital chiefs had initially opposed the proposals, citing financial and ethical issues.
Hong Kong has seen a surge in anti-China sentiment in recent months, due to resentment over "birth tourism" and claims that tourists from mainland China get preferential treatment.
In a surprise announcement, the company said it would end exploration off Alaska "for the foreseeable future".
Shell said it did not find sufficient amounts of oil and gas in the Burger J well to warrant further exploration.
The company has spent about $7bn (£4.5bn) on Arctic offshore development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
"Shell continues to see important exploration potential in the basin, and the area is likely to ultimately be of strategic importance to Alaska and the US," said Marvin Odum, president of Shell USA.
"However, this is a clearly disappointing exploration outcome for this part of the basin."
Lord Browne, former BP boss and government adviser, told the BBC that the Arctic "is a very risky place [to explore] and very expensive to develop, so there are probably easier places to go".
Indeed some analysts suggested Shell might give up on the Arctic completely.
"It is possible that Shell might almost be relieved as they can stop exploration for a legitimate operational reason, rather than being seen to bow to environmental pressure," Stuart Elliott from energy information group Platts told the BBC.
"With the oil price around $50 a barrel, it was a risky endeavour with no guarantee of success.
"You could argue that this has been bad for Shell's reputation and it wouldn't be a big surprise if they abandoned Arctic drilling altogether."
Shell's investors were regular recipients of long and detailed presentations on the potential for the region.
So, what changed?
Certainly, the first findings from the Burger J exploration well 150 miles off the Alaskan coast were not promising.
Second, although President Barack Obama had given the necessary permissions for drilling to start again following the problems of rig fires in 2012, Mrs Clinton's tweet revealed that political risks were still substantial.
Mr van Beurden also has plenty of other issues weighing on his in-tray.
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Shell is not the only company to explore for oil offshore in the Arctic region - Italian energy group Eni could soon start producing oil from a field in the Barents Sea within weeks.
There is also one field in operation in the Russian Arctic owned by Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom. Last year, a joint drilling project between Rosneft and Exxon was stopped due to sanctions placed on Russia.
A number of additional exploration permits have also been issued by Moscow, but none have yet been taken up due to the current low price of oil, which has halved in the past year.
The US Geological Survey estimates that the Arctic holds about 30% of the world's undiscovered natural gas, as well as 13% of its oil.
According to Shell, this amounts to around 400 billion barrels of oil equivalent, 10 times the total oil and gas produced in the North Sea to date.
However, environmental groups oppose Arctic offshore drilling, saying it will pollute and damage a natural wilderness largely untouched by human activity. They also argue that fossil fuels such as oil and gas must be left in the ground if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change.
Over the summer, protesters in kayaks unsuccessfully tried to block Arctic-bound Shell vessels in Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
"Big oil has sustained an unmitigated defeat," said Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven.
"The Save the Arctic movement has exacted a huge reputational price from Shell for its Arctic drilling programme, and as the company went another year without striking oil, that price finally became too high."
Shell had continued to explore for oil despite the slump in the price of oil. Other oil and gas majors have shelved expensive exploration projects but, having invested billions of dollars in its Arctic project, Shell persisted, believing that Arctic oil would be competitive in the longer term.
This is why the announcement came as such a surprise.
Shell said it would take financial charges as a result of halting exploration, which it would disclose during its third quarter results. The company has existing contracts for rigs, ships and other assets.
And similar has now happened to Northampton Town, as a delivery delay with the suppliers has left them without enough home kit to wear for their first match of the season at their Sixfields Stadium.
Instead, Rob Page's side will have to start their first campaign back in League One following promotion last year in their away kit.
That on top of a lack of retail kit ahead of the game against Fleetwood, and it is fair to say that Cobblers chairman Kelvin Thomas is not best pleased with the suppliers.
"We are so disappointed it is hard to really put into words," he told the club website.
"There were a few reasons we made the decision that we did in terms of kit supplier and aside from the quality, the timing of supply was one of the main reasons for it and we have been really let down.
"Not only will there be a financial impact for the club, but also a reputational hit and worst of all fans will be disappointed.
"We will be having further discussions with Just Sport and Nike about why and how this has happened, to get a firm date of delivery and to discuss next steps."
As a gesture to fans, Thomas confirmed the club have agreed with suppliers Just Sport that anyone who has pre-ordered the shirt would receive a free Northampton Town T-shirt.
On the final day of the 2013-14 season Bristol Rovers faced Mansfield Town in a match the Gas needed a draw from to save them from relegation out of the Football League.
However, the Stags arrived at the Memorial Stadium without any kit of their own, meaning they had to wear Rovers' away shirts.
And with their new threads Mansfield defeated their hosts 1-0, meaning Rovers were sent down by a goal from a man in their own kit. Ouch.
More recently, in this summer's European Championships, four Switzerland players had their shirts ripped off their backs against hosts France.
Sportswear manufacturer Puma blamed faulty material for the incidents, but it gave us one of the quotes of the tournament from Switzerland winger Xherdan Shaqiri: "I hope Puma does not produce condoms."
Famously, Manchester United, losing 3-0 at half-time at Southampton, changed out of their infamous grey kits during the break.
Why? Because manager Sir Alex Ferguson thought his players were unable to see each other on the pitch. United lost 3-1.
Scientific studies have shown that Nepalese UN troops were the source of the disease - but the UN repeatedly denied responsibility until now.
An internal report seen by the New York Times is said to have led to the shift.
But the UN still says it is protected by diplomatic immunity from claims for compensation from victims' families.
On Thursday, Farhan Haq, a spokesman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said that "over the past year the UN has become convinced it needs to do much more regarding its own involvement in the initial outbreak and the suffering of those affected by cholera".
However, Mr Haq reiterated that the UN's legal position in on diplomatic immunity and possible compensation "has not changed".
His comments came after the confidential internal report stated that the epidemic "would not have broken out but for the actions of the United Nations," according to the New York Times newspaper.
It says the report was sent to Mr Ban last week by long-time UN adviser Philip Alston, a New York University law professor who consults the world body on human rights issues.
The cholera outbreak has been blamed on leaking sewage pipes at a UN base.
The US courts have rejected claims for compensation filed by victims' families.
No cases of the bacterial infection, which causes diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and muscle cramps, had been recorded in Haiti for a century until the outbreak in late 2010.
Cholera is spread through infected faeces. Once it enters the water supply it is difficult to stop - especially in a country like Haiti which has almost no effective sewage disposal systems.
Flying high above farmland, photographer Josh Smith captures colours and patterns not usually associated with rural Australia.
Net profit for the final three months of last year was $2.89bn (£1.83bn), up 7% on a year earlier. Revenues were up by more than a third at $14.4bn.
Google shares rose by almost 5% in after-hours trading, following the better-than-expected results.
Separately, computer maker IBM reported a modest rise in profits.
In the third quarter of 2012, Google's profits fell sharply from a year earlier. The final three months of the year marked a return to profit growth.
"We ended 2012 with a strong quarter," said the internet giant's chief executive Larry Page.
"And we hit $50bn in revenues for the first time last year - not a bad achievement in just a decade and a half.
"In today's multi-screen world we face tremendous opportunities as a technology company focused on user benefit. It's an incredibly exciting time to be at Google."
The fourth quarter figures are not directly comparable with a year earlier, as they include Motorola Mobility, which Google bought in May 2012. The subsidiary made a loss in the latest three month period.
Analysts were impressed by Google's performance.
"Business looked really strong, especially from a profitability perspective - they really grew their margins in the core business, which is quite amazing," said Sameet Sinha from B Riley.
"Most of that strength seems to be coming from international markets, which grew revenues quite substantially - up 23%, year-over-year."
Google's strong performance came as another technology giant, IBM, revealed its earnings grew 6% in the fourth quarter, as it benefited from lucrative software businesses, such as internet-based computing.
IBM earned $5.8bn between October and December, compared to $5.5bn over the same period a year earlier.
It is the 40th consecutive quarter that IBM has enjoyed growth in earnings per share, compared to a year earlier.
Developing such a treatment is one of the biggest challenges in medicine.
But serious scientific questions remain as the drug - LMTX - inexplicably works only in patients not taking other dementia pills.
The data on 891 patients was presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Toronto.
Overall, the trial - which treated patients for 15 months - was a flop, as there appeared to be no benefit to taking LMTX.
However, an analysis on just the 15% of the patients who had not already been taking drugs to help manage their symptoms showed a benefit.
In this tiny subset of patients, tests showed thinking power was maintained and MRI scans found the death of brain cells was reduced.
Yet there are certainly too few patients in the sub-group to be certain of the drug's effect.
Dr Serge Gauthier, the director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit at McGill University in Canada, said: "It is both encouraging to see improvements of this magnitude in the standard cognitive and functional tests and reassuring to see the supporting brain scan evidence of a slowing in disease progression.
"In a field that has been plagued by consistent failures of novel drug candidates in late-stage clinical trials and where there has been no practical therapeutic advance for over a decade, I am excited."
Even the company that manufactures LMTX, TauRX, cannot explain why it might work only in patients not taking other dementia drugs.
Dr David Reynolds, the chief scientific officer at the Alzheimer's Research UK charity, told the BBC News website: "It does worry me as a scientist why it doesn't work with other therapies."
Possible explanations include:
Dr Reynolds added: "The data suggests it is slowing down the disease, but the important caveat is these small numbers.
"It is encouraging, but we need more data and will have to run a study with it as just a monotherapy [on its own].
"It will still be a years from reaching patients even assuming it works."
The drug targets one of the key characteristics of Alzheimeir's disease - the build of of tangles of the protein tau inside neurons.
It is thought these tangles may be the final stage that leads to the death of brain cells.
The study was eagerly awaited as it was the first to present large-scale data in patients on a drug that prevents tau tangles building up.
Dr Doug Brown, director of research and development at the Alzheimer's Society, said: "While it's disappointing to see another large clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease fail to meet its goal, there appear to have been some striking improvements for the subset of people who took the drug on its own.
"After years of failure, we are now starting to see glimmers of hope for dementia drug trials.
"The headway being made through research is starting to give a real sense of the possibility that we could one day stop dementia in its tracks."
The decision has spurred hopes that Casamance's beaches will attract French holiday-makers, giving the tourist industry a boost.
Improved security meant that French citizens could now visit the region, France's embassy in Senegal said.
Casamance had been hit by unrest linked to a separatist group since 1982.
Once home to a thriving tourist industry, Casamance is separated from the capital, Dakar, by The Gambia.
It is home to numerous ethnic groups, including many Christians, while northern areas are dominated by three, largely Muslim communities.
Violence has waned since a 2014 ceasefire agreed between the government and separatist rebels.
There has been a push to clear land mines from the region over the last few years.
The BBC's Abdourahmane Dia in Dakar says the French decision will be welcomed by the government of Senegal, which has long called for France to scrap the travel warning.
Northern Ireland Water (NIW) had to shut down five hydrants in the New Lodge and North Queen St areas on Saturday evening because of vandalism.
NIW received about 20 reports from residents who had lost water supply.
It appealed to the community and public representatives to stop children and young people from damaging hydrants.
"Some may see it as 'harmless fun' by kids," the company said in a statement.
"The reality is, as they play in the water, homes and businesses are suffering low water pressure or no water at all."
The firm added: "The whole community needs to help us put a stop to this behaviour before the unthinkable scenario occurs where a fire breaks out and there is no water for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service to deal with the fire."
Last week, SDLP MLA Nichola Mallon told the BBC disruption to supply began on Sunday, 18 June.
She said it was "particularly hard" for elderly people and parents with young children "when there is no access to water to bath them".
At the time, Ms Mallon called on NI Water to find a "more robust way of securing the hydrants to prevent this abuse".
She asked: "Surely, in this day and age, there must be a way of securing them so they cannot be tampered with?"
However, NI Water replied it had used "vandal-proof" hydrant lids but insisted "if someone has the time and the resources, they can eventually break these open".
The relegation-threatened Championship side had been without a manager since sacking Steve Cotterill on 14 January.
Johnson, 34, played for the Robins from 2006 to 2012, scoring 11 goals in 199 games for the club.
He left Oldham in February 2015 to replace Danny Wilson at Barnsley, who reached the Football League Trophy final on Thursday.
Johnson, who was given permission to speak to the Robins on Friday, will watch Saturday's game against Charlton from the directors' box.
The former Yeovil and Kilmarnock midfielder is the son of Cheltenham Town boss Gary Johnson, who was in charge at Ashton Gate from 2005 to 2010.
His former assistant Tommy Wright and coach Paul Heckingbottom have been put in temporary charge of the Barnsley first team, with the Yorkshire club saying that "proper compensation" has been agreed for Johnson.
Bristol City chief operating officer Mark Ashton told the club website: "Lee is a very bright, intelligent young man who is highly motivated and very detailed in his approach. He's well-known to the club; fans, stakeholders and staff.
"He is one of the up and coming coaches in the country and having interviewed him, I had no hesitation in recommending to the board that Lee is the right fit for this football club."
Barnsley were 22nd in the table in November after losing eight straight games, but have since climbed to 12th, and reached Wembley by beating Fleetwood on Thursday.
He was named League One Manager of the Month for January after guiding his side to victories in all five league games.
City are currently 22nd in the Championship, having won just one of their four five matches under interim manager John Pemberton, who will remain at the club as first team coach.
In proposals put forward by the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, some A&E patients could be treated at the Worcestershire Royal.
The trust has stressed all three of its hospitals in Kidderminster, Worcester and Redditch will remain open.
Campaigners and Redditch MP Karen Lumley have criticised the proposals.
In a statement, the trust said stroke, major trauma and surgical emergency patients would be affected and the A&E department at Worcester would be enhanced to deal with more serious cases.
About 75% of current urgent and emergency care cases would continue to be treated at the Redditch site.
Children's and women's services at Redditch may also be affected under plans to centralise care at Worcester.
The trust said high risk and complex obstetrics cases will be treated at the Worcestershire Royal, as will the sickest children.
It added most children's emergency services would continue to be delivered at the Alexandra Hospital.
In June the trust had considered closing Redditch's A&E as one of six proposals to save £50m by 2015, but has since refined its options to just two.
A second of which could see the Alexandra Hospital being run by an alternative NHS provider.
In January, the Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group (RBCCG) confirmed it had been talking to three Birmingham-based trusts about a possible takeover of some services at Redditch.
NHS Worcestershire chief executive, Lesley Murphy, said: "We are finalising options at this stage and not making a decision on who runs which hospital.
"The second option, to work with alternative local NHS providers, requires more work and we are also seeking advice, including from the Department of Health, on NHS competition policy on how we do this."
By Tom TurrellPolitical reporter, BBC Hereford and Worcester
For people in the north of the county who find themselves seriously injured or suffering from a stroke there is a good chance they will have to wait longer and travel further for treatment.
In future the most serious of emergencies could be dealt with by specialists at Worcestershire Royal.
But Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust argues that while journeys may take longer, the treatment will be worth the wait.
When the patients arrive the Trust assure us they will be treated by a larger team of the best clinicians keen to work for a centre of excellence.
Last year thousands of people signed a petition opposing the closure of the A&E unit in Redditch.
Neil Stote from the Save The Alex Campaign said: "I'm not happy about what they're proposing about the A&E. It's very one sided and they've ignored what a take over by a leading foundation trust could do.
The Conservative MP for Redditch, Karen Lumley, also said the take over option has been overlooked by the trust.
Shoppers in Redditch were concerned at having to travel further for emergency treatment.
Retired couple Robert and Catherine Daniels, 81 and 77, from Redditch said: "What if one us has a stroke when time is of the essence?
"It's very disappointing. Every town should have its own fully serviced and equipped hospital."
And Aaron Pinfield, 31, said travelling to Worcester or Birmingham would be too far with his two young children.
"Would we have to rely on public transport which makes the distance even more difficult?" he said.
But Andy Rogers, 37, from nearby Studley, Warwickshire, said he thought the option of a Birmingham trust taking over some some services "could work".
The trust has a legacy of debt and a £1.9m funding deficit needs to be met by April.
A three-month consultation is due to take place later in the year.
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At least two blasts were caused by car bombs. Health and security officials said more than 20 people had died.
A building reportedly used as the headquarters of Houthi rebel officials was also hit.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group, which has carried out attacks in Sanaa before, said it was behind the blasts.
In a statement posted online, IS said that four car bombs targeted two areas of worship, as well as a house and an office belonging to what it called "Houthi apostates", referring to the Shia Houthi rebels.
In March, IS attacks on mosques used mainly by Houthis left more than 130 people dead.
Pictures posted on Twitter showed flames leaping from the site of one of Wednesday's blasts, and residents said ambulances were rushing to the scene.
The bombs exploded as people arrived for evening prayers, witnesses said.
Attacks on a house belonging to one Houthi official and the workplace of another official were also reported.
Yemen has been in turmoil since Houthi rebels overran Sanaa last September, forcing the government of President Mansour Abdrabbuh Hadi to flee.
In late March, a coalition led by Saudi Arabia began targeting the rebels with air strikes. Since then, more than 2,000 people have been killed in the conflict, including at least 1,400 civilians, according to the UN.
It has warned of a "catastrophic" humanitarian situation, with an estimated 20 million Yemenis in need of aid.
UN-brokered talks are under way in Geneva, but there have been no reports of progress. Mediators had been hoping to broker a ceasefire during the holy month of Ramadan, which starts on Thursday.
On Wednesday, a senior representative for Mr Hadi who is currently in Geneva, Abdelaziz Jubari, said his house had been blown up by the Houthis.
The port of Aden has seen particularly fierce fighting between rebels and Hadi loyalists. Earlier on Wednesday, authorities said at least 31 people were killed when an air strike hit civilians fleeing from the southern city, the Associated Press reported.
The Houthis, who are from the Zaidi branch of Shia Islam, have also been battling militants from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
AQAP executed two men it accused of spying for the US on Wednesday, tying their bodies to poles and hanging them from a bridge in the south-eastern city of Mukalla, residents said.
They said the men were accused of planting chips on AQAP leaders, allowing them to be located by US drones.
AQAP confirmed on Tuesday that its leader, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, had been killed in a drone strike.
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Nora Al-Daher, whose husband is the foreign minister of Oman, tried to sue the casino in July after losing £2m in one night.
Cheques she handed over were not honoured and she later claimed the casino had a duty of care and should have stopped her from gambling.
But a High Court judge rejected her claims and backed the casino.
Mrs Al-Daher had also argued that the Ritz's claim against her could not succeed because it was based on "illegality" and the unlawful giving of credit.
But Deputy Judge Seys Llewellyn QC said he had no doubt that if Mrs Al-Daher had not been allowed to keep on gambling at the Ritz casino, she "would have been eager and inclined to gamble at other casinos thereafter, and very probably during her stay in London during the days or weeks after 3 April 2012".
Mrs Al-Daher had already suffered substantial losses at other casinos earlier the same day, on 3 April 2012.
The judge added: "It is striking that she and her family gambled away $5m US dollars in Las Vegas in June some two to three months later."
Mrs Al-Daher lost £2m within hours and said the casino should have refused to give her extra credit, but instead took advantage of her.
She told the court that staff stood behind her encouraging her and increased her facility when she reached her credit limit.
In December 2012 she paid £1m to the casino but left £1m outstanding and it was that amount, plus interest, the casino was entitled to recover, the court ruled.
Former Baggies boss Megson, 58, has not been involved in management since being sacked by Sheffield Wednesday in 2012.
But he has taken up the offer to work alongside Pulis, 59, who he has known since the pair trained together at Bristol Rovers as teenagers.
"I'm here because of Tony and hopefully for Tony," Megson told BBC WM.
"I see my role as like a caddie for a golfer. If I am asked I will give my opinion, but Tony makes all of the decisions. He will pick the team and the way we play.
"Do I need a six or a seven iron here? The caddie might say something but ultimately the player decides what he wants to do and the caddie has to back it. That's how I see my role."
"We have got very similar ideals. I am not saying we play and see everything the same, but we believe in fitness, organisation and honest players, and trying to get the best of the players we have got."
Megson has returned to the Hawthorns 13 years after the end of a four-year stint as manager that saw him take the club into the Premier League for the first time.
Spells with Nottingham Forest, Leicester, Bolton and Wednesday followed but he said it was only the lure of working with Pulis that drew him back to Albion.
"When Tony rang it wasn't a case of dropping everything - it needed a bit of thinking about," Megson added.
"I would have done it at some of the really huge clubs in the Premier League but I wouldn't have done it for a similar sized football club with somebody that I didn't know."
The Baggies finished 10th in the top flight last season and Pulis is eager to make several new signings before the new campaign gets under way on Saturday at home to Bournemouth.
Apart from the top-five clubs, the rest of the Premier League "will be looking to stay up first and foremost", according to Megson.
"That will be the starting point and that's not being negative. That is what everybody is trying to do," he continued.
"Tony wants to move it on from 10th but we need players and better players than we have got at the moment - and we have got very good players so it's not easy.
"Tony knows the players he wants and I have seen the list. There are five of them, so if we can get them it will be exciting times."
The two sides meet in Saturday's World Cup Pool A match at Twickenham, kick-off 20:00 BST.
League convert Burgess, 26, has played only 112 minutes of international rugby union and will line up opposite Jamie Roberts, who has 70 Wales caps.
"We won't be trying to single out Sam Burgess at all," said Gatland.
"We will be going out there to smash him like everyone else," he added.
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Bath's Burgess bowed out of the 13-man code in 2014's NRL Grand Final. He put in a man-of-the-match performance when South Sydney Rabbitohs won their first title in 43 years. And Gatland believes that sort of experience will serve Burgess well.
"He's got inexperience at rugby union, but not at big occasions," said the Wales coach.
"We're not rubbing our hands together about one player thinking there's a weakness there - that is not the way we look at it.
"When you underestimate a player, it comes back to bite you."
Wales' second-row Bradley Davies, who plays his club rugby for Wasps, says he is looking forward to facing Burgess, having been a fan of the centre in the 13-man code.
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"I watched him when he played rugby league and he's a great athlete," he said.
"I think he's very similar to Jamie Roberts in the way they play.
"It's going to be fantastic to see them running at each other and hopefully I'll get a chance to run at him before he can run at me.
"You want to play against the best. He's a world-class rugby league player and he's transferred to rugby union now and hopefully we can make it an uncomfortable day for him and we can win."
England coach Stuart Lancaster says Burgess's selection - along with Saracens' Brad Barritt in midfield - is designed to deny Wales front-foot ball and momentum, but thinks that the former Bradford Bulls man also offers attacking threat.
"We need to have good defenders to stop Wales on the gain-line," said Lancaster.
"Sam's a good and powerful defender. But also I think he offers us a threat in attack. We don't always have to use the threat that he is. Sometimes you can bypass him.
"The game will be judged a success if we win. If we lose I will be questioned. Clearly my selection heightens it."
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The country goes to the polls on Thursday to decide the future of the UK's European Union membership.
The five first ministers released a statement saying the EU is "vital for jobs and investment in Scotland".
But the Leave campaign said the only way to protect Scotland from EU integration was to quit the union.
A Scottish Vote Leave spokesman said the first ministers were "out of touch" with ordinary voters over "uncontrolled EU migration".
Polls have suggested a tight contest in Thursday's referendum, although Remain has had the advantage north of the border in most surveys.
Serving First Minister Nicola Sturgeon came together with her predecessors Alex Salmond, Jack McConnell, Henry McLeish and Jim Wallace - who filled the role on a caretaker basis following the illness and then death of Donald Dewar and the resignation of Mr McLeish - to call for a Remain vote.
The group released a joint statement saying they were "proud to come together to urge our fellow Scots to vote Remain, in this unprecedented display of unity in the history of the Scottish Parliament".
They continued: "The stakes could hardly be higher. Staying in the European Union and its single market is vital for jobs and investment in Scotland, and also enshrines key protections for workers and consumers.
"We must vote to keep our EU rights, and by maximising the Remain vote in Scotland we could make the difference in keeping the UK in the EU.
"Our message to the people of Scotland is to unite as a nation, turn out on Thursday and vote Remain."
Ms Sturgeon later told BBC Scotland that if the UK votes to leave the EU but Scotland votes to remain, it would be "vital" for "Scotland's voice to be heard directly and for Scotland to be talking directly to our European partners about how we protect our place in Europe and in the single market".
Meanwhile, the leaders of all five Holyrood parties also united to call for a Remain vote.
Ms Sturgeon put her name to a joint statement with Labour's Kezia Dugdale, Tory Ruth Davidson, Lib Dem Willie Rennie and Green Patrick Harvie, saying the referendum issue "transcends party politics".
The Leave campaign are also planning campaigning across the country for the final day before the referendum.
A Scottish Vote Leave spokesman said: "The former first ministers are out of touch with ordinary voters by saying we shouldn't worry about uncontrolled EU migration.
"Yet for for millions of Scots that is the real concern. Uncontrolled EU migration depresses wages, pushes up rents and puts pressure on our NHS.
"In this referendum we are being asked to give away our ability to influence decisions and govern our country.
"Outside the EU we will have control over our borders, we will have more powers for our Parliament and more money to spend on our public services."
The joint message from Holyrood's party leaders describes the EU as "Project Peace", calling peace in Europe "a precious legacy and a powerful example to the rest of the world".
Speaking on BBC Radio Five Live, Scottish Vote Leave campaigner Tom Harris dismissed this idea.
He said: "This idea that the EU or its predecessors has managed to keep the peace in Europe, I'm sorry, but there's just no evidence that that's the case.
"What stops wars is if you democratise countries. Germany hasn't gone to war since 1939 because it's a democracy, and democracies tend not to go to war with each other.
"What kept the peace in Europe after the end of the second world war was the Cold War and the role played by NATO.
"I'm not one of these people who will say everything about the EU is bad, I think they have done a very valuable job in bringing closer to democracy the former Communist block countries of Eastern Europe, and I think that's a very good and positive thing, but I do think that's a role that Britain doesn't need to be involved in.
"Our time with the EU, whether its been productive or not, I think is past now. The EU is past its sell-by date, it's not necessary any more."
Payne is likely to be back in action at Allianz Park after suffering a broken foot in Ireland's World Cup pool victory over Romania in September.
The 30-year-old could play at full-back as regular number 15 Louis Ludik is struggling to overcome a groin injury.
Payne was added to Ulster's squad for the competition last week.
The anticipated comeback of the Irish-qualified Kiwi will also come as a boost to Ireland coach Joe Schmidt, with the start of the Six Nations just three weeks away.
Payne played in Ireland's opening two games at the World Cup and scored a try on his tournament debut against Canada.
After sustaining his foot injury against Romania, he was ruled out of the side which went on to defeat France the day before the game.
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Centre Darren Cave has recovered from a shoulder injury suffered at the start of December and could occupy a place on the replacements' bench as the Ulster coaching team are likely to retain Luke Marshall and Stuart McCloskey in midfield.
Lock Alan O'Connor and prop Wiehahn Herbst, who missed last week's dramatic win over Oyonnax, are expected to return, along with winger Andrew Trimble, who was rested.
Number eight Nick Williams is likely to miss the match after suffering a blow to the head late in the game in France.
The 32-year-old is being assessed under the normal concussion protocols but the expectation is he will miss the Pool 1 contest.
Ulster retain hope of qualification for the quarter-finals, with the weekend trip to the Premiership leaders and a home game against Oyonnax on 23 January still to come.
The Irish province's long-term injuries include Iain Henderson, Tommy Bowe and Peter Nelson.
Centre Stuart Olding is nearing a return to fitness after being out since March because of a knee injury while another Ireland player, Dan Tuohy, is expected to be available again next month after breaking a leg in early December.
Breast surgeon Ian Paterson is accused of causing wounding with intent to nine women and one man at two West Midlands hospitals.
It is alleged he exaggerated or invented cancer risks and claimed payments for more expensive procedures in some cases.
But the 59-year-old described the allegations as "abhorrent".
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His statement from a police interview in January 2013 was read to jurors at Nottingham Crown Court by prosecutor Nicholas Barraclough.
He said: "He has never pressured any patient to undergo surgery. He gave patients time to make their decision.
"All surgical procedures taken by him were appropriate and necessary and he denies any allegations of unnecessary surgery or bad faith."
Mr Paterson, from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, worked at hospitals run by the Heart of England NHS Trust and Spire Healthcare.
He was asked about an apparent "unjustified" mastectomy he carried out on GP Rosemary Platt in 1997.
The prosecution has previously alleged there was no evidence of abnormal cells in her milk glands, something the father-of-three denies.
Giving evidence, Mr Paterson said Dr Platt's medical background "massively" had an effect on how he treated her, and his actions were justified.
"We all do our best to treat every patient the same, but it's impossible to treat a doctor colleague the same as another lady of the same age and intelligence or whatever," he said.
"Because she brings to the table medical knowledge and, with that medical knowledge, preconceptions - some of which are wrong - and these preconceptions may actually be throwbacks to what she learnt at medical school.
"It can be a challenge to treat a colleague; it's a privilege to treat a colleague because they have chosen you."
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But all that changed, according to the government, when new controls on spending were introduced. Now it seems that the bad old days could be coming back with reports that one major department has a huge IT overspend.
Back in 2010 the GDS, the Government Digital Service, was given the task of sprucing up the way the Civil Service provided online services.
It was also given oversight of any digital project spending more than £100,000, and set about questioning a Civil Service philosophy that had seen hugely expensive long-term contracts signed with major providers like Fujitsu and Microsoft, along with massive overspends on government websites.
One former GDS executive describes this way of thinking as "government doesn't do tech, let's buy it in from big IT suppliers." Instead, the new approach was to encourage smaller, more adaptable projects, which involved bringing expertise inside government.
The £100,000 threshold - which applied to digital services not big hardware projects - might seem rather low, but the former executive explains: "you can do a lot of harm with a poorly designed service, even if it's cheap."
But this approach, and the perceived arrogance of GDS, has caused huge resentment across Whitehall.
Over the last year or so, there has been a fight-back, with departments demanding more control over their own IT plans. At the same time, there's been an exodus of many senior GDS staff, including the founding director general Mike Bracken and his successor Stephen Foreshew-Cain.
Now the new boss Kevin Cunnington, who came from a senior job at the Department for Work and Pensions, has started to give a flavour of some of his thinking. What he has said about spending limits confirms the fears of some former GDS staff that the organisation is being emasculated.
He told Computer Weekly that the £100,000 threshold for digital projects to be examined by GDS looked too low and said there needed to be a more collaborative approach with spending departments.
"We are more comfortable that departments have created their own capability. It's about having a proper grown-up discussion around roadmaps in the future," he said.
The former GDS executives who are disturbed by this change of tack would not go on the record. But Simon Wardley, an influential advisor to governments on IT departments and co-author of "Better for Less" - seen as the manual for the original GDS approach - told me this:
"Spend control is a point of learning and co-ordination that is essential to stopping self harm in IT. Relaxing such controls can be a dangerous path that leads to an abyss of profligate waste"
Other critics point to two recent examples of what they see as a return to the bad old days.
First, Mr Cunnington's old department seems to have run into more problems with its IT programme. I'm told that in the last week DWP staff have been called into meetings to be told of a massive overspend - as much as £250m in the current year.
The result, they learned, is that work on a number of projects is being halted and hundreds of freelance contractors have been laid off.
One contractor who is being let go told me: "civil servants will not take responsibility for anything and there seem to be no consequences for actions. Good contractors have been let go, It will take a long time to recover from the reputational damage this has done."
A spokesman for DWP denied there was any overspend, and said: "We routinely review our work to ensure that we focus our resources on the most viable options and deliver the best value for the taxpayer.
"This year we are on track to deliver record digital transformation on a scale larger than most FTSE 100 companies."
Of course, there is no actual overspend until the sums are done in March 2017 - and by then that process of focussing on "the most viable options" could have brought the DWP back within budget.
The other case that critics of the new GDS regime point to is the renewal of the Home Office's contract with the giant IT supplier Fujitsu,
This contract, first signed in 2000, is just the kind of deal the old regime at GDS wanted to end.
"As technology changes these kind of contracts become less effective," the former GDS executive explained to me.
"So we don't strike 10 year deals any more."
The Home Office gave me a statement saying: "we are ending the culture of awarding large IT contracts to single suppliers and instead working towards smaller, more flexible agreements with a broader list of companies. As we make this change, it is important we ensure a smooth transition to these new services."
Nevertheless, there are concerns that the pace of change is slowing - or even coming to a halt.
Changing the course of the super-tanker that is government IT spending was always going to be a long and arduous task.
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The former Hannover and Hertha Berlin keeper has been signed to help Bremen avoid relegation from the Bundesliga.
The 37-year-old has not played a Swans game this season as Swedish international Kristoffer Nordfeldt is preferred back-up to Lukasz Fabianski.
Swansea have also confirmed Diego Bortoluzzi will be added to new coach Francesco Guidolin's backroom staff.
Bortoluzzi worked under Guidolin at Palermo, Parma and Udinese and was most recently at Verona.
The 49-year-old becomes the third Italian on the Swansea coaching staff, which also includes former Chelsea midfielder Gabriele Ambrosetti.
Goalkeeper Tremmel first signed for Swansea from Red Bull Salzburg in 2011 and was part of the 2013 League Cup-winning side.
After being released by Swansea in May 2015 he returned at the start of the current season.
But Tremmel hasn't featured this season as Polish international Fabianski has been an ever-present for Swansea in the Premier League with Nordfeldt playing the cup games.
Dockrell, 23, made his Championship debut for Somerset in 2011.
Dibble, 24, has played four first-class matches between 2009 and 2015, while 21-year-old Regan made only one first-class appearance.
"It is always tough to release young players," said Somerset director of cricket Matt Maynard.
"But ultimately we do have to make the types of judgments that are in their long-term interests, as well as the club's.
"In the cases of Adam, George and James, that task is made all the more difficult because they are outstanding young men. I am sure all of them will have a promising future in whatever direction life takes them."
Dockrell, who has taken 126 first-class wickets, spent time on loan with Sussex this season.
He said: "I first came over to Somerset when I was 15 years old. Since then I have enjoyed all of the time that I have been involved with the club.
"I would like to thank Brian Rose for signing me in the first place and giving me the opportunity to play for the county where I have felt so at home."
Ms Mayawati, an icon to millions of low-caste Dalits, has demanded the arrest of Dayashankar Singh for his outrageous comments.
Within hours of making the remark, Mr Singh was expelled from PM Narendra Modi's BJP party in the northern Uttar Pradesh state, reports say.
He has now apologised for his remark, but Ms Mayawati says it is not enough.
Ms Mayawati has been the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, four times and is an MP now.
The state is getting ready for key regional elections early next year and Ms Mayawati is leading her Bahujan Samaj Party's campaign there.
Mr Singh was one of the vice-presidents of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) in the state.
"Mayawati is selling tickets [to candidates seeking to contest polls]... She gives tickets to anyone who gives her 1 crore rupees [10m rupees which is $148,786 or £112,992]," Mr Singh told reporters on Wednesday.
"If someone comes with 2 crores in the afternoon, she gives him a ticket. If somebody comes with 3 crores in the evening, she dumps the previous candidate and picks him. Her character is worse than that of a prostitute," he added.
An angry Mayawati hit back in the parliament.
"Everyone calls me behenji or sister even in the parliament," she said. "What that BJP leader has said, he has said to his sister and his daughter. The country will not forgive the BJP for this."
In an attempt to do damage control, senior BJP leader and India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley apologised to Ms Mayawati in the parliament.
"It is not right and I condemn the use of this word and if a person has said this, we will investigate. I express personal regret. I associate with your dignity and stand with you," he said.
The party also quickly sacked Mr Singh and ordered him to apologise.
Ms Mayawati, however, appears far from pacified and has demanded the arrest of the BJP politician.
The Dalit politician, who is famous for building statues of herself and other icons from her community, has a huge following.
In two parks in the state capital, Lucknow, and Noida, a suburb of Delhi, there are nearly a dozen statues of Ms Mayawati and more than 75 stone elephants - the symbol of her party.
The stickers on the Tencent-owned platform featured images of elderly women from Twenty-Two, a recent TV documentary about women who were kidnapped and forced to work as sex slaves for the Japanese military.
They had captions such as "Speechless and choked up" and "At a loss", and were apparently intended to be humorous.
QZone has apologised for the offence caused by the images, which have now been removed, and says it is investigating.
Estimates suggest up to 200,000 women from South East Asia were forced into sex slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War Two, many of them Korean.
QZone users noticed the stickers appearing around 20 August, a week after Twenty-Two was aired to coincide with the annual International Memorial Day for Comfort Women on 14 August.
Thousands took to the popular Sina Weibo microblog to vent their fury, with some calling for a boycott of Tencent mobile applications.
"What brutes produced these stickers?" asked 'OhThisBrainA'. "How would you feel if this was a member of your family? If it was your mother?"
"The people who made these stickers are heartless, using other people's pain for their own entertainment," another user added.
"There are some things that should remain a serious issue, and that's the bottom line, I don't know what those packaging these images as stickers were thinking," said one user, receiving more than 18,000 likes.
"I hope they [Tencent] issue a serious apology. This kind of thing is not 'entertainment'. Absolutely not," added 'Cherry_Tiffany'.
Following the online outcry, QZone pulled the images from its platform.
It issued a statement on 21 August saying: "We are deeply sorry for the impact this incident has had," and said that it would carry out an investigation.
It said that the images were "provided by a third-party".
"We have learnt a lesson and will resolutely ensure that such an incident does not happen again," it said.
But many social media users appeared dissatisfied with the explanation.
"This third party has magically appeared," said 'QinYouDuZhong' in a post liked by over 1,500 users.
Some users even went as far as to suggest that this was Tencent's own government "propaganda" to plug the show.
State media have been heavily promoting Twenty Two over the past week, and have highlighted the endorsements it has received from Chinese celebrities.
According to Global Times, the film grossed 3.5m yuan ($524,000; £409,000) at the box office on the first day of its release.
Government media often highlight the involvement of China's "comfort women" in World War Two around the 15 August, which marks the anniversary of Japan's surrender in the conflict.
There are 14 known "comfort women" still alive today in mainland China.
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No more than three Scots have been included in each original Lions squad for the past five tours.
Only two - Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour - were chosen for this year's initial party to New Zealand.
"There's not much respect from players in the English Premiership for the Pro12," Grant told BBC Scotland.
"They think it's a lesser standard of rugby. Less so now, but definitely in the past, and I guess it's the same for international rugby.
"I'd be lying if I said that other unions didn't think Scottish teams weren't that good. There were four Scots on the last Lions tour, five on this tour, so even though boys are putting up results against Ireland and Wales, they're not getting the recognition, and that can only be because they're perceived to be not as good."
Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw replaced Ben Youngs before the 2017 Lions left for New Zealand, with Finn Russell and Allan Dell two of six controversial mid-tour call-ups sent for by head coach Warren Gatland to provide injury cover.
Fly-half Russell and prop Dell were restricted to brief cameos from the bench, to accommodate a head injury assessment and a sin-binning respectively.
Former Glasgow loose-head Grant, who spent the latter half of last season at Worcester Warriors, believes mind-sets are changing.
"The players are obviously not happy about [the perception] but I think they're going about it in the right way - let the results do the talking," Grant, 31, told BBC Scotland.
"That's quite an old perception of things - the respect for Scottish rugby is growing and deservedly so, the results speak for themselves. Glasgow have done a great job of competing and Scotland recently have put up some great results.
"I think perceptions are changing, but there's not an England team that won't be favourites against Scotland for a while until we can prove otherwise. They believe they're better than us, which to a certain degree they are, but the respect still needs to be there.
"I think in the next tour possibly we'll see a Scottish coach in there, and we'll definitely see more Scottish players involved. I think the future's bright for Scottish rugby and that can only serve the Lions well to have more Scottish players in there and take it back to that kind of evenness, if you like, of a 1997 tour as opposed to a 2017 tour."
Grant, a member of Glasgow's Pro12-winning squad of 2015, was called up by Gatland to join the victorious 2013 tour of Australia, after rivals Cian Healy and Gethin Jenkins suffered injuries.
The Scot was named as a substitute for the second Test - which the Lions lost - but with starting loose-head Mako Vunipola tiring, he was not introduced, and left out of the squad for the series-deciding third international.
"It's a tough pill to swallow even now, to be so close and to really feel like the team could have benefited from me coming on," Grant added. "Mako was clearly wrecked and we were under the pump, and a bit of fresh legs would have benefited the team. It kind of made it a bit worse that the scrum wasn't going particularly well.
"I kind of avoided [forwards coach] Graham Rowntree for a few days after that because I was bitterly disappointed and if we spoke sooner, I would probably say something stupid.
"So I let it cool down for a couple of days, went and spoke to him, and he just kind of said to me that he hadn't seen enough of me and he wasn't sure he could trust me in a Test match like that, and it was the one they lost.
"I just had to say, 'listen, I totally disagree with you, and if you'd watched any of the Six Nations games you'd know I could handle myself, so we'll agree to disagree' - I don't think we've said a single word to each other since.
"Mako was cramping up and he was down every two minutes, so it was kind of an extra kick in the face. But it is what it is - it was four years ago now."
This is despite the fact the company launched a device during the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
He was responding to a question during the firm's analyst summit in Shenzhen, at which he was asked if smartphones are dying because of wearable tech.
Mr Xu said: "I've never figured out why we need to wear smartwatches when everything we need is on our phones."
Mr Xu, who is one of three rotating CEOs at Huawei, each serving six months at a time, is also reported by Forbes to have said: "I'm not a man who wears watches, and I've never been optimistic about this market."
His comments have not come as a surprise to some in the industry.
"Smartwatches are a solution looking for a problem, rather than being a game-changer," Ben Wood, an analyst at tech consultancy CCS Insight told the BBC.
Mr Wood also praised Mr Xu's honesty, saying: "It's one view of just one of the three chief executives at Huawei."
The smartwatch sector has been dominated by tech firms such as Apple and Samsung.
However, fashion and luxury watch manufacturers also announced their interest in the devices at the recent Baselworld trade show.
Brands such as Guess, Montblanc and Movodo, all revealed plans for new Android Wear smartwatches during the event.
They join TAG Heuer and Fossil, which operates a portfolio of watch brands including Michael Kors, Skagen and Armani Exchange.
Mr Wood said there has been a lot of progress since the early offerings created by "middle aged engineers" in what he described as a "sea of sameness."
He added: "2017 is a pivotal year for smartwatches with lots of new launches at the end of this year. That doesn't guarantee success, but with a lot of them, we'll see if people want them."
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Campus Party, one of the biggest technology events in the world, is being held in the capital for the first time.
Ronan Dunne, chief executive of O2 UK, claims London is the epicentre for technology and innovation in Europe.
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It is the first time he has been named in connection with official investigations into the affair.
His predecessor, Martin Winterkorn, and the current VW chairman, Hans-Dieter Poetsch, are also under scrutiny.
Mr Mueller became VW chief executive after the scandal broke.
However, at the time he was a board member of Porsche SE, the holding company which owns a majority of voting shares in the Volkswagen Group.
He was also chief executive of the Porsche sports car business, a subsidiary of the VW Group and Porsche SE.
The investigation is not looking into the causes of the scandal itself, but at how the board of Porsche SE, including Mr Mueller, responded to it.
Prosecutors suspect that executives deliberately delayed releasing information to investors about the scale of the scandal, as well as its financial consequences.
A similar investigation, into possible market manipulation by executives within the VW Group, was launched in Volkswagen's home state of Lower Saxony last year.
In the wake of the scandal, Volkswagen's share price dropped dramatically. Investigators are examining whether executives knew about the magnitude of the unfolding scandal - which began in the US - but failed to inform the markets in a timely manner.
As a rule, executives are expected to keep investors updated as soon as potentially price-sensitive information comes to light.
Porsche SE said the allegations were unfounded, adding it had complied with disclosure rules.
The holding company is based in Stuttgart. It is owned by the Porsche and Piech families - descendants of Ferdinand Porsche, the man who designed the Volkswagen Beetle and founded the sports car business that bears his name.
The site is believed to contain thousands of copies of a video game called ET The Extra-Terrestrial.
A company called Atari made the game in 1982 but it was a flop and is famously thought of as one of the worst video games ever made.
It's thought Atari could have dumped millions of unsold copies in a landfill site in September 1983.
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1. Cassette 50, Z50 Spectrum published by Cascade Games Ltd
2. Rise of the Robots, Amiga published by Time Warner Interactive
3. Superman, Nintendo 64 published by Titus Software
4. Busby 3D, PlayStation published by Accolade & Telstar
5. ET The Extra-Terrestrial, published by Atari Inc
ET was one of the first video games to be based on a feature film.
The ET movie was so successful that everybody expected the video game would be popular too.
But the graphics were poor and the game was frustrating to play.
Game reviewer Aqualung said: "It's impossible to follow without the manual."
"The real reason so many people hate it is that they have no clue what to do."
Atari was desperate to get the game out in time for Christmas and rushed to produce it in just five weeks. It simply wasn't long enough to make an excellent game.
Atari produced millions of copies because it thought the game would be a huge hit.
When the game was released it got terrible reviews and some customers even returned their copies for a refund.
Shortly afterwards the entire video games industry experienced a huge drop in sales and Atari ended up with millions of unsold copies.
Xbox Live's Larry Hryb told the BBC the games were probably buried "out of shame".
James Heller, who used to work for Atari, told the Associated Press news agency that he was asked to get rid of of 728,000 game cartridges in 1983.
They were sent to the landfill and James decided to pour a layer of concrete over the games to stop them being discovered.
The site is now being dug up by Fuel Entertainment and Microsoft, who are making a documentary about it.
They've already found some copies of the game and there's a lot more digging to do.
Councillors at the Green-led authority voted to extend the scheme, which was introduced in the city centre in April, at a meeting on Tuesday.
The council said the limit had brought a fall in traffic speed on 74% of roads.
The new areas include parts of East Brighton and West Hove, and outside the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
Duncan Blinkhorn, from the cycling group Bike Train, welcomed the new limit.
"I think anything that makes the roads safer and feel more civilised and calmer is a great thing for the city, for cyclists but also for everyone else," he said.
Brighton council said 15,000 people took part in the consultation.
Some respondents said the lower limits were unnecessary, and that the city centre limits were being ignored.
It stands at 23.3 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 17, which experts say is more in line with the rest of Western Europe.
There were 5,740 pregnancies in girls aged under 18 in the three months to June 2014, data from the Office for National Statistics shows.
This compares with 6,279 in the same period in 2013 and 7,083 for the June quarter the year before that.
Historically, the UK has had one of the highest teenage pregnancy and abortion rates in Western Europe.
In recent years, the government put a series of strategies in place in an attempt to get these figures down.
There are no comparable rates for conceptions across Europe, but the under-18 birth rate suggests England is closing the gap.
The under-18 birth rate in 2012 in England and Wales was 9.2, compared with an EU average of 6.9.
However, the UK birth rate has fallen by almost a third (32.3%) since 2004 compared with a fall of 15.6% in the EU.
In 2004, the UK rate was 13.6 births per 1,000 women aged 15-17 compared with an EU average rate of 7.7.
A spokeswoman for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service said: "Contrary to popular perception, this data shows that the teenage pregnancy rate is falling dramatically in England and Wales. While the UK has historically had a high teenage conception rate, it is now at its lowest level on record and not significantly out of step with other European countries.
"We have seen a huge decline in the number of babies born to teenage mothers over the last decade, in part due to the improvements we've seen in contraception advice and services for younger women, with straightforward access to abortion services when their chosen method lets them down. But it also reflects broader societal shifts, with younger women quite rightly expecting and able to pursue educational and professional ambitions."
Paulo Dybala curled in off the inside of the post for his 14th goal of the season to ruin Sassuolo's hopes of a league double over the champions.
The win - against the last team to beat them in Serie A - strengthens Juve's pursuit of a fifth straight title.
Second-placed Napoli travel to Palermo on Sunday.
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The Investigative Committee said no crime was committed against him. He was detained in 2008 after revealing alleged an embezzlement scam by interior ministry officials.
His family and the Presidential Human Rights Council say he was badly beaten and denied medical treatment.
Despite his death, he is himself being put on trial for fraud.
The Investigative Committee, the Russian equivalent of the FBI in the US, said Magnitsky had been legally arrested and legally detained and that he had not been tortured.
"Based on the preliminary investigation's results, a decision was taken to end the criminal case due to a lack of evidence of a crime," the Committee said.
Magnitsky, who died at the age of 37 in pre-trial detention after developing pancreatitis, was arrested after testifying that interior ministry officials, with organised criminals, had used the UK-based investment fund Hermitage Capital to embezzle $230m (£150m) by filing false corporate tax returns.
In December, a Moscow court acquitted a prison doctor accused of negligence over the lawyer's death. Dmitry Kratov had argued that he was unable to ensure medical care because of a shortage of staff.
Magnitsky himself was accused of helping Hermitage Capital evade $17.4m (£11.7m) in taxes and is now being tried posthumously. The next hearing is due on 22 March.
It is said to be the first posthumous trial in Russian legal history and has sparked criticism from the European Union and the United States.
The executive director of Hermitage Capital, Bill Browder, who employed Magnitsky, is also being tried, in absentia. He has described fraud charges filed against him as an "absurdity".
The case has strained relations between Russia and the US, with Washington passing the Magnitsky Act, which blacklists Russian officials accused of involvement in his death.
In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a Russian law barring Americans from adopting Russian orphans.
A lawyer for Magnitsky's mother said he intended to appeal in court against the decision to drop the investigation into her son's death.
The decision will cause outrage among Sergei Magnitsky's supporters, who are already disgusted that he is being put on trial, says the BBC's Daniel Sandford in Moscow.
Police and paramedics were called to reports of a disturbance at Western Cemetery in Ely at about 12:45 BST on Monday.
Three men received non-life threatening injuries in the incident between groups "known to each other", South Wales Police said.
Cardiff council said staff were assisting police but no damage had been done to the cemetery.
Two men were taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, while the other was taken to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.
There have currently been no arrests, police added.
Sally Shalloe, 52, of Barton Lane, Attenborough, died after her bicycle and a motorbike collided in Middleton Boulevard on Tuesday morning.
The 31-year-old male motorcyclist remains in a serious condition at the Queens Medical Centre.
Rush hour traffic had to be diverted and the southbound carriageway did not reopen until early afternoon.
Ms Shalloe worked as a research fellow at the University of Nottingham and had been worked within the Human Factors Research Group since 2006.
Paying tribute, Sarah Sharples, professor of human factors, said: "Sally Shalloe was a great friend and a very much-loved, respected and valued team member.
"Sally was the heart of the team - always positive and caring, ready to work through any problem and the first to roll up her sleeves to get a job done.
"She was compassionate, supportive, hard-working, tolerant, enthusiastic, great company and an excellent listener.
"Sally was always well-liked and able to communicate and work with everyone. Words cannot express how much she meant to us and how much we will all miss her."
The 22-year-old was part of the Hornets' youth set-up before signing a five-year contract in 2012.
He spent time on loan at Wigan Athletic last season, scoring once in eight appearances in all competitions.
The former Republic of Ireland Under-21 international made a total of 50 league starts for Watford.
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The Claim: Vote Leave campaigners say if the UK left the European Union a points-based immigration system could be introduced.
Reality Check verdict: The UK already has a points-based system for non-EU migrants and it is not clear why inventing a different system - with less flexibility - would be a good idea.
The UK already has a points-based system for most migrants coming from countries outside the EU. But instead of just starting to treat EU citizens - who currently enjoy freedom of movement - in the same way, campaigners say all migrants should be subject to a new, simpler system.
While details are sparse, the proposal is that by 2020 migrants would only be let into the UK "on the basis of their skills", and that those moving for work reasons would "have to be suitable for the job in question". For some, that will mean being able to speak good English.
In Australia, applicants for skilled visas must score enough points for youth, qualifications, and superior English-speaking ability, among other things. Unless they're being sponsored by an employer, they must also have a job from a list set out by the Australian government. There are caps for each job - this year there are plenty of spaces left for nurses, plumbers and secondary teachers, but auditors are out of luck.
In theory, if the UK left the EU and stayed out of the European Economic Area (which, like the EU, requires freedom of movement between member states), it could introduce a similar system, but would it?
Vote Leave hasn't said that it aims to cut migration through this proposal. Instead it talks about "control" and allowing "politicians to keep their promises on migration", which is a reference to David Cameron's 2010 and 2015 manifesto pledges to cut net migration to the tens of thousands, which have not been met.
It's not clear what the effect has been in Australia itself. Migration figures have fluctuated since the points system was introduced, and the permanent skills visa - with its complicated points system - accounts for only a small proportion of arrivals.
Migration Watch - a think tank calling for reduced levels of migration to the UK - has dismissed the idea of introducing a points system in the UK, saying it's designed for a country like Australia that wants to boost immigration, and criticising it for its inflexibility.
Oxford University's Migration Observatory, on the other hand, says campaigners refer to an Australian-style points system more as a byword for toughness on immigration than because they want to copy their rules exactly.
So the UK could design its own points-based system, which could look very different to the one they have in Australia.
While Vote Leave says an overhauled system would "end discrimination" against immigrants from outside the EU, it's unclear whether it would be worth the cost and effort of essentially replacing one points-based system with another.
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Hill, 17, cut 0.08 of a second off the 2002 mark set by Douglas as she clocked 25.94 seconds in Bangor.
Her Larne team-mate Conor Brines, 21 set his first Irish long course record in the 100m butterfly at the Swim Ulster Dave McCullough Memorial Gala.
Brines' time of 53.34 took 0.25 off Brendan Hyland's previous mark.
Curtis Coulter completed a 50m and 100m freestyle double with him comfortably holding off Loughborough's Sam Irvine (23.63) to win over the shorter distance in 23.29 seconds.
Mona McSharry completed a hall of five wins at the meeting as she triumphed in the 50m breaststroke (31.56).
The Sligo woman had earlier taken breaststroke gold over the 100m and 200m in addition to victories in the 100m freestyle and 200m individual medley.
Stirling's swimmers Charlie Boldison and Kathleen Dawson both completed backstroke clean sweeps at the Bangor meeting as they won the 50m, 100m and 200m events.
Another visitor, Loughborough's Charlotte Atkinson ducked under 60 seconds in the 100m butterfly as she took victory in 59.09 ahead of Ards' Emma Reid (1:01.77).
The next major home meeting for Ireland's swimmers will be the Irish Open Championships in Dublin from 6-9 April.
Eastern European media were particularly irked by the suggestion. They noted that despite the UK government's subsequent "backpedalling" on the plan, such proposals could "irreversibly damage" the UK's image as a liberal and open country.
The German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine expressed its concerns over the UK's "increasing anti-foreign and protectionist rhetoric" and described Ms Rudd's proposal as the "shrillest reaction… to the growing resentment against foreigners in Great Britain so far".
In an article entitled "Goodbye, world", another German paper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, observed that "this is not just about visas and fees. This is a new spirit since the Brexit vote".
Some media outlets in other European countries noted that the home secretary's initiative had sparked an "angry and indignant" reaction, even among Brexit supporters in the UK.
The French business daily Les Echos said that the sense of outrage was so strong that the British government had been forced to row back on the proposal in a bid to put an end to the controversy. This was in reference to the British government's later statement suggesting that UK companies would not be told to list or name foreign workers they employ after all.
Similarly, Belgium's RTL Info radio said that Britain had no choice but "to backpedal on the plan to list foreign workers".
Media in Eastern Europe were equally indignant in their condemnation of Ms Rudd's proposal, which Poland's TVN24 channel described as "controversial".
The Romanian paper Adevarul noted that "London is creating obstacles for foreign workers" and predicted "hard times for foreign students and doctors" in the UK. The Digi24.ro website was even more blunt. "Brexit: London wages a war against migrants," it said.
The Czech website iDNES.cz warned that Ms Rudd's plan exposed "the ugly side of Britain".
Another Czech news website, Denik.cz, predicted that the proposed practices would "irreversibly damage the reputation of Britain as an open and liberal economy".
This view was echoed by the Hungarian news website Index, which said that "many people, including British employers, have baulked at Rudd's plans, and some are already saying that the government intends to make racism almost compulsory in Britain".
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The racing world's finest horses and jockeys competed across 28 races for a share of the £4.1m prize money.
Celebrities mixed with royals at jump racing's most prestigious meeting, which organisers described as "an unbelievable occasion".
And Ladies Day and St Patrick's Thursday saw the most colourful and quirky outfits worn.
The Indicative Research Excellence Grant was calculated from information compiled from the Research Excellence Framework.
The SFC said the money would keep research at Scottish universities "amongst the world's best".
This latest funding follows recent investment in eight innovation centres.
The £120m Innovation Centre programme was announced in 2012 and has brought together industry, healthcare and university researchers to work in collaboration to accelerate product and service development.
Chief Executive of the Scottish Funding Council, Laurence Howells, said: "Research in Scottish universities impacts on almost every aspect of daily life, from the way we treat patients in hospital to the way we communicate with smartphones.
"Today's announcement of almost £700m will mean Scotland carries on being a winner in the competitive world of university research."
Mr Howells added: "It will mean that Scotland can continue to attract and develop the best research talent and it will mean that organisations such as Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust continue to invest in Scottish universities."
Simonetta Sommaruga said a "foreign authority" provided the information, but did not disclose which one.
She said there was no indication that an attack was planned.
Geneva police have said the raised alert is linked to the Europe-wide investigation into the Paris attacks.
However, Switzerland's federal police said they were not connecting the current operation in Geneva to the attacks.
A report by the Tribune de Geneve newspaper on Friday said (in French) that police had arrested two men of Syrian origin and that traces of explosives were found in their car, but there was no official confirmation of the report.
"The Swiss government received information from a foreign authority regarding a potential IS cell in the Geneva area," Ms Sommaruga told a news conference.
"Federal authorities examined this information and shared it with the local police. There is currently no indication that there was a concrete attack planned."
Reports in Swiss media said the intelligence had originally come from the United States.
Daily newspaper Le Temps, quoting a source close to the investigation, said US intelligence had identified three jihadist cells in Chicago, Toronto and Geneva.
Pictures of four individuals had been circulated to police, the source said, adding: "We do not know their names, we do not know where they came from. They apparently are using noms de guerre."
On Thursday, security was stepped up outside synagogues, the UN building and the French ambassador's home, as well as train stations, the airport and similar places.
The number of police on the city's streets has been increased.
UN spokesman Michele Zaccheo said there was "no specific threat to the UN in Geneva or its personnel".
The border with France runs through the outskirts of Geneva.
IS said it carried out the attacks in Paris on 13 November which killed 130 people.
Two men linked to the attacks - Salah Abdeslam and Mohammed Abrini - are still on the run and investigations have been launched in several European countries.
Pennie Davis, 47, was found dead in a field near Beaulieu on 2 September. Justin Robertson, 36, denies murder.
Summing up at Winchester Crown Court, Mr Justice Andrew Popplewell reminded the jury there was "no forensic evidence" linking Mr Robertson to the killing.
Benjamin Carr, 22, and Samantha Maclean, 28, deny conspiracy to murder.
Mr Robertson is accused of murdering Mrs Davis in a remote field near Beaulieu as part of a conspiracy to "silence her" orchestrated by Mr Carr, her former stepson.
Mr Carr allegedly recruited the defendant to kill her over fears she would go back to police with sexual assault allegations made against him.
The prosecution told the court Mr Carr had wanted to stop her disrupting his father's wedding.
Jurors were told Mr Robertson left keys for the car he was driving, which belonged to Ms Maclean, next to the body of Mrs Davis.
But Mr Justice Popplewell told the jury "no fingerprint evidence was found on the keys".
Mr Robertson had offered no explanation as to how they got there, he added.
The jury also heard that despite police searches, no DNA from Mr Robertson was found on Mrs Davies' body.
Mr Robertson did not deny being in the area at the time and was given a lift by his friend Emily James when he realised he had lost the keys to the Vauxhall, the judge said.
"Emily James picked him up and she said in evidence there was nothing unusual about his clothing," said Mr Justice Popplewell.
"Her car was seized on 5 September and she said it hadn't been cleaned out... It was examined for DNA but again nothing was found."
After he was driven to Ms Maclean's house he asked another friend to take him back to the Vauxhall parked close to the crime scene, the judge added.
The pair stopped off to buy cigarettes and chocolate.
Witnesses had described Mr Robertson as "on edge" after the killing, the court heard.
Jurors were later sent home for the night.
Stephen Port, 41, should die in prison, the judge Mr Justice Openshaw said.
The former chef, who was also convicted of a string of sex offences, lured his victims to his flat before plying them with GHB.
Port, who had denied 29 charges in total, was found guilty of the murders after a trial at the Old Bailey.
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Relatives of the victims cheered and clapped as Mr Justice Openshaw told Port he would never be released.
The judge told Port that he had carried out the murders to "satisfy his lust" for sex with young men who were rendered unconscious.
He highlighted Port's attempt to cover up two of his murders with fake suicide notes as "wicked and monstrous".
One fake note planted on the body of a victim alluded to responsibility for another of Port's killings.
Between August 2014 and September 2015, Port murdered Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, and Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, east London.
By a majority verdict, the jury also found him guilty of murdering Anthony Walgate, 23, from Dagenham, in June 2014.
The victims met Port via dating websites such as Grindr and were taken to his flat in Barking, east London, for sex.
Their bodies were all found dumped in or near a graveyard within 500m of his home.
During sentencing Mr Justice Openshaw referenced the police investigation into the deaths, which has been criticised by the victims' families.
"It is not for me to say whether the seeming bizarre coincidence of these three gay young men being found dead so close together might have given rise to suspicions that these deaths were not the result of ordinary self-administered drug overdoses," he said.
"The competence and adequacy of the investigation will later be examined by others."
Before the sentence was handed down, statements from the victims' friends and families were read by prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC.
The mother of Mr Walgate said the death of her son had "devastated and broken the family".
Mr Kovari's brother Adam spoke of the difficulty in telling their mother of his death, saying "there is no pain greater than losing a child".
Daniel Whitworth's father Adam said he had been given "a life sentence of grief".
Outside court, Mr Taylor's sister Donna said: "We finally have justice for Jack and the other boys.
"A sick and twisted scumbag will never be able to hurt or destroy any other family's life.
"Jack can finally rest in peace. We will always be completely heartbroken."
Lead investigator Det Ch Insp Tim Duffield said Port was "one of the most dangerous individuals" he had encountered during his 28-year career.
The initial handling of the case has provoked fierce criticism from friends, families and campaigners, who accused police of failing to act on earlier concerns about Port.
It has also emerged that the coroner at Daniel Whitworth's inquest expressed concerns about the suicide note found in his hand, and did not rule out the involvement of another person.
Scotland Yard has admitted it missed "potential opportunities" while investigating the deaths.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is examining the initial police response to the deaths of the four men.
Grace Jacobs suffered a broken leg and wrist when she was struck by a car as she crossed Hangingwater Road in 2015.
The group set up a mock zebra crossing to highlight their campaign.
Calls for a crossing at the junction of Hangingwater Road and Whiteley Wood Road have been backed by 6,500 people.
Martin Jacobs said: "Children are crossing this road every day and it's very dangerous.
"Somebody is going to have another accident before long."
He said a 6,500-signature petition calling for a crossing and safety improvements at the junction will be presented to Sheffield City Council on Wednesday.
Grace said: "I suffered bad enough injuries and for anybody else to get injured would be horrible."
The awkward encounter saw each grip the other's hand so firmly that their knuckles turned white .
Mr Macron told French media he had wanted to "show he would not make small concessions, not even symbolic ones, but also not overdo things".
The leaders met in Brussels on Thursday ahead of a Nato summit.
As their vigorous handshake continued over several seconds, Mr Macron and Mr Trump also looked each other fixedly in the eyes until the US president attempted to disengage.
Mr Macron told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper his approach to the encounter had been about getting respect.
"Donald Trump, the Turkish president or the Russian president see things in terms of power relationships, which doesn't bother me," he said.
"I don't believe in diplomacy through public criticism but in my bilateral dialogues I don't let anything pass. That is how you get respect."
Mr Trump's hand contact with foreign leaders has been closely scrutinised since he took power.
Northamptonshire Police issued details about the order stopping Denise Wheeler going into a number of Daventry shops.
However, the post received over 400 comments, many of which suggested 47-year-old Ms Wheeler "needed help" rather than criminalisation.
The post, which police defended as an "appropriate response in the circumstances", has been taken down.
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As soon as it appeared online, the post, with the headline, "Nuisance woman served with criminal behaviour order" received a glut of replies.
Some people commented that the police should "be ashamed", and one that the situation had been "made 10 times worse".
One said: "How typical of Northants Police for posting this, so compassionate as usual, no mention of the cry for help time and time again... you've gone and made her situation 10 times worse".
Another said: "Shame on whoever posted this."
The order stated that "nuisance woman" Ms Wheeler should not enter certain shops for two years, or act in a manner that was likely to "cause nuisance, harassment, alarm or distress" to any other person not of the same household in Daventry.
It states she must not throw items at people, property or vehicles, and she is banned from contacting, directly, or indirectly, specific named individuals.
Northamptonshire Police said although the post had sparked a wider debate on mental health, the criminal behaviour order was issued by a court and it was important the public had knowledge of it.
"A decision was made to take it down... because the vast amount of comments on Facebook - many of them negative and entirely without merit - were proving too difficult to manage.
"This was an appropriate response in the circumstances," it said.
Mr Ashley was quoted by The Times as saying "we can't make the same profit we made last year".
It also comes after he confirmed he would not give evidence in Parliament about how his workers are treated.
At close of trade in London, shares in Sports Direct International were down by 10.52% at 379.20 pence.
Mr Ashley was also quoted in the The Times as saying: "We are in trouble, we are not trading very well."
In July 2015, Sports Direct said profits for the year to 26 April were £300m, up from £249m the year before.
Meanwhile, MPs have repeated their call for Mr Ashley to be questioned by the House of Commons Business Select Committee in London.
Mr Ashley, owner of Newcastle United football club, has repeatedly refused to appear before the committee on 7 June, and offered instead to give MPs a tour of his head office in Shirebrook, Derbyshire.
Committee chairman Iain Wright said on Tuesday: "We expect Mr Ashley to attend on 7 June and to take this opportunity to respond on public record to the serious concerns regarding the treatment of workers at Sports Direct.
"We are still to receive a formal response from Mr Ashley to our invitation to attend. Select Committees rightly expect witnesses to attend evidence sessions."
He added: "Business leaders and others regularly appear in front of select committees when invited and we see no reason why Mr Ashley should expect to be exempt from the normal parliamentary process.
"Among other issues, we are keen to question Mr Ashley on the progress of the review he is leading on working practices at Sports Direct."
The committee now needs to decide whether to raise a complaint of contempt, and the House of Commons would then decide whether a contempt had been committed.
A BBC investigation in October 2015 found that ambulances were called out to the headquarters of Sports Direct 76 times in two years.
Many of the calls, for workers at the firm's complex at Shirebrook, in Derbyshire, were for "life-threatening" illnesses.
Former workers said some staff were "too scared" to take sick leave because they feared losing their jobs.
Sports Direct said at the time that it aimed to provide safe working conditions for all.
Fareham Borough Council voted to impose Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs) to speed up the planned Welborne development.
Principal landowner Mark Thistlethwayte said he was "gobsmacked" by the move.
Council leader Sean Woodward said it was due to "frustration" at no planning application being submitted.
Fareham Borough Council formerly adopted the Welborne Plan last year.
The authority has more than 1,300 families on its housing waiting list and nearly a third of the homes due to be built are classed as "affordable".
Ten parties own land earmarked for the Welborne development, with two private parties currently owning 90% of the 1,000-acre site. The landowners are responsible for bringing forward a plan for key infrastructure issues.
Mr Woodward said: "Welborne's been talked about for over a decade, we've been through the planning process, public inquiries, we've had the plan adopted - everything has been agreed
"We'd have reasonably expected development to be starting - it isn't and we need to help the process along.
"We want to get on with delivering the much-needed Welborne by whatever means."
Speaking at a council meeting on Thursday, Mr Thistlethwayte said the landowners had been "working in harmony" over Welborne and had spent £5m advancing detailed plans with developers.
"We committed to Fareham Borough Council we would jointly put in our conjoined planning applications to the council by 31 March.
"We were absolutely gobsmacked when we were informed of the council's plans."
The landowners said they would continue with their own planning application.
Residents in nearby villages have protested against the plans, claiming they would have a detrimental effect on the countryside.
If the CPO plan is agreed by the council's executive, building work would start in 2017 at the earliest.
The new town is due to be completed by 2038 with an eventual population of 15,000 people.
An elaborately decorated gourd was thought to contain a handkerchief that had been dipped in the king's blood after he was killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries in 1793.
But scientists have now sequenced the genome of the sample and say it is unlikely to belong to the monarch.
The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Instead, the team thinks the gourd and its contents were probably the work of an 18th Century fraudster hoping to make some money from a revolutionary souvenir.
Prof Carles Lalueza-Fox, from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, Spain, said: "In the French revolution, the guillotine was working every day - and probably it was much more easy to approach the scaffold when non-important people were being beheaded.
"Maybe that was one of the occasions. They thought nobody was going to be able recognise whether the blood was from the king or not."
The blood-stained cloth was stored in a hollowed-out gourd, which for the last century was in the hands of an Italian family.
The squash is decorated with images of revolutionary heroes and inscribed with text that says: "On January 21, Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in the blood of Louis XVI after his decapitation."
Early forensic tests suggested it was possible that this was the blood of the French king. But this latest research casts doubt on its royal provenance.
To investigate, the scientists examined stretches of the sample's genome that relate to physical appearance.
Portraits of Louis XVI depict him with blue eyes, but this sample belongs to a person who was far more likely to have had brown eyes.
"The probability of this guy having blue eyes is very low - it is about 3%," said Prof Lalueza-Fox.
Historical records, including correspondence from Louis XVI's wife, Marie-Antoinette, also state that the king was very tall.
While the average height was about 167cm (5ft 5in) at this time, the King was thought to be at least 185cm (6ft 1in) in height.
Prof Lalueza-Fox said: "Not all the genetic basis of height is known. However, we do know the genetic markers in extreme cases for very tall people or very small people.
"But this sample doesn't have an excess of markers that could be related to a very tall person. It really looks like we don't have the king here."
The scientists also looked at genetic ancestry, which shows which parts of Europe a person's ancestors came from.
The DNA from the sample suggests the individual had roots that traced mainly back to France and Italy, while many of Louis XVI's ancestors came from Germany and Poland.
The team concludes that it's extremely unlikely that this is Louis XVI's blood.
This supports another study published last year that compared the sample to two living relatives of Louis XVI, and cast doubt on its authenticity.
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The test looks for a unique signature of chemicals in exhaled breath.
Small studies in volunteers have begun and early findings suggest the test can identify those with the debilitating brain condition.
Larger trials are now planned to see if it could truly be a useful test, particularly for picking up Parkinson's in its earliest stages.
Currently, no test can conclusively show that a person has Parkinson's.
Instead, doctors reach a diagnosis based on a person's symptoms and test results - such as brain scans to rule out other diseases.
At this stage, Parkinson's may already be fairly advanced.
Identifying it earlier would be beneficial because it would mean treatment could be given sooner.
Parkinson's disease is a progressive condition where there is gradual loss of nerve cells from the brain.
And it is thought that this degradation leaves a chemical footprint in the body that could potentially be used in diagnostic tests.
Scientists have been exploring different ways of finding such biomarkers, including looking in blood, spinal fluid, and exhaled breath.
The breath analyser was developed by Prof Hossam Haick and his team at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology
It looks for traces of volatile organic compounds or VOCs in the air we exhale.
In a small trial in Israel with 57 people, some with Parkinson's and some without, the test could identify the individuals with Parkinson's by looking for distinctive patterns of VOCs.
It also appeared to distinguish between different sub-types of the disease based on the presence and quantity of different VOCs.
The charity Parkinson's UK and experts at the University of Cambridge were intrigued by these early findings and are now setting out to do a bigger study involving 200 volunteers from England.
Dr Simon Stott, who is part of this UK team and will be working alongside the scientists from the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, said: "We would like to find biomarkers that can identify patients early.
"A breath test would be really appealing because it's non-invasive, non-painful and can be done in seconds.
"While it wouldn't replace what doctors already do, it could be a useful diagnostic tool to help them."
The biggest hope is that there may be molecules in the breath of people with Parkinson's which throw up new options for drug targets.
The researchers say they have many years of work ahead of them before they will know if the test can be used in clinics.
The patent describes a smartphone camera receiving coded infrared signals beamed from emitters in public places.
The handset could then offer on-screen information or disable the camera functionality to stop pictures being taken.
One technology journalist said the technology could frustrate consumers.
"It could harm Apple in the eyes of some people," said Stuart Miles, founder of gadget site Pocket Lint.
"People like freedom of speech - and who is Apple to tell me I can't record something?
"But Apple patents stuff all the time, a lot of big companies do that. It might be created for one purpose, but end up used for something else."
The patent was first filed in 2011 and details a variety of scenarios in which the technology could be used.
One example shows an infrared emitter placed next to a museum exhibit, which the smartphone can identify to give visitors more information about the artefacts on display.
However, other methods of augmenting museum exhibits - such as location-based data sharing and scanable QR barcodes - already exist.
It is also possible that a system using coded infrared signals to disable a smartphone camera could be defeated with an inexpensive infrared light filter, or by modifying the handset's software. Consumers could also switch to rival devices that do not use the technology.
"I think the idea would resonate more with event organisers than consumers," said Mr Miles.
"You can see why some music stars would like people just to concentrate on the music, since they've paid to see it. You're also not supposed to record football games and share clips of goals, as there is money involved and the clubs sell broadcast rights.
"But it would probably harm Apple, for some people. Nobody likes to be surprised when you want to record a video but can't."
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He told Fox News "dishonest" reporters had twisted his remarks, which appeared to suggest that gun rights advocates could stop Mrs Clinton if elected.
The businessman-turned-politician denied incitement and said he was exhorting his supporters to vote.
The comments on Tuesday afternoon sparked a firestorm of criticism.
Some interpreted his comments as a dark suggestion that gun owners could take up arms against Mrs Clinton, while others said they were at the very least irresponsible remarks that could have violent consequences.
The highest-ranked Republican, House Speaker Paul Ryan, said it was an inappropriate joke.
And Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said it was a death threat by a "pathetic coward" who was sore because he was trailing in the polls to a woman.
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The controversial remarks were made at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, and refer to a future president's power to nominate a judge to fill a vacancy on the US Supreme Court.
The Republican presidential nominee said of his Democratic opponent: "Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment, by the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.
"But the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."
The Second Amendment enshrines the right to bear arms in the US Constitution, and there is no evidence that Mrs Clinton wants to abolish it, although she does want to tighten some restrictions.
Within minutes of him uttering the words, the criticism began to mount and Mr Trump issued a statement saying he was referring to the political power of gun rights advocates.
Hours later, Fox News host Sean Hannity told him the media had been "spinning it" differently.
Mr Trump answered by saying there could be no other interpretation of his words other than the one he had given.
"Even reporters have told me, I mean give me a break. But they're dishonest people.
"What it is is there's a tremendous power behind the Second Amendment.
"It's a political power, and there are few things so powerful, I have to say, in terms of politics."
Mr Trump's remarks come after eight days of negative headlines and falling poll numbers.
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Kobe Bryant's 1,566th and final game for the LA Lakers, bringing to an end a career spanning two decades, was a big deal.
Here are the numbers which tell you why:
The number of Most Valuable Player awards Bryant has won. The accolade given the best-performing player in a regular season, Bryant won it in 2007-08.
The number of NBA Finals MVP awards won by Bryant, in 2008-09 and the following year. It is also the number of Olympic gold medals he has won, helping the United States to the top of the podium in 2008 and 2012.
All-Star MVP Awards won - in 2001-02, 2006-07, 2008-09 and 2010-11. He is tied with Bob Pettit for the most in NBA history.
Bryant has won five NBA championships - only one other current player has won as many (Tim Duncan of San Antonio Spurs).
Just four players in NBA history - Bryant, Michael Jordan, Kevin Garnett and Gary Payton - have been selected for the NBA All-defensive first team nine times.
And only one other player, Karl Malone, has ever made the All-NBA First Team selections 11 times.
That is how many starts Bryant has made in the NBA's annual All-Star Game - the most in NBA history.
And 16 is the number of times Bryant has played on Christmas day - again, the most in NBA history.
As well as making 15 starts, Bryant has been picked for the All-Star Game 18 times in a row. That is the longest streak in NBA history and only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with 19, made the All-Star Game more times.
No other player in NBA history has spent 20 seasons with just one club. Bryant is a Lakers man through and through.
The number of games in which he has scored 50 points - only Wilt Chamberlain (118) and Michael Jordan (31) have scored 50-plus points more times.
The number of points scored against Utah Jazz in his final game. It was only the seventh time he had scored 60-plus points and the first time he had achieved the feat since 2009.
When the Lakers beat Toronto Raptors 122-104 on 22 January 2006, Bryant scored 81 of his side's points. Only Wilt Chamberlain, with a 100-point game in 1962, has scored more.
Bryant's 5,640 points scored in the NBA playoffs is the third highest total in NBA history behind Jordan (5,987) and Abdul-Jabbar (5,762).
Since his rookie season in 1996-97, Bryant has scored 33,643 regular season points, putting him third on the all-time scoring list behind Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) and Karl Malone (36,928).
Only five other players have played more NBA minutes than Bryant. He was given 42 minutes in his final game - the most he has played since November 2014.
As the conference in the Saudi capital began, one of the most powerful rebel groups struck an uncompromising tone.
Ahrar al-Sham insisted President Bashar al-Assad would have to face justice.
It also criticised the presence of Syria-based opposition figures tolerated by Mr Assad and the absence of al-Qaeda's affiliate in the country.
World powers want peace talks between a unified opposition delegation and the government to start by 1 January, and a transitional government to be formed within six months.
The two-day conference at a heavily secured hotel in Riyadh is taking place under the auspices of the Saudi government, which has provided political and military support to the Syrian opposition.
One delegate told the AFP news agency the first day would focus on political questions, including the outline of a potential political settlement, while the second would be dedicated to discussing "terrorism, a ceasefire and reconstruction".
Among those attending are representatives of the Western-backed National Coalition, whose leaders are based mainly outside Syria, and the more moderate National Co-ordination Committee, which is tolerated by Damascus.
Most of the main rebel factions are taking part, including Ahrar al-Sham, an ultraconservative Islamist group that operates mainly in north-western Syria.
Notably absent are Kurdish groups, which control large parts of the north, and the powerful al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, which is part of an alliance with Ahrar al-Sham but is regarded internationally as a terrorist organisation.
The BBC's Hanan Razek in Riyadh says there is a keen sense of optimism that a common position will be found.
The president of the National Coalition, Khaled Khoja, said many of those attending the meeting were already in broad agreement.
The main Western-backed political alliance, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, supports the implementation of the 2012 Geneva Communique, which calls for the establishment of a transitional governing body in Syria. Its Turkey-based leadership insists that President Assad must go
The Syria-based opposition grouping, the National Co-ordination Committee for Democratic Change, calls for negotiations on a peaceful transition. It is tolerated by the government, though its members have been harassed and detained.
Ahrar al-Sham is a ultraconservative Islamist, or Salafist, rebel group that aims to topple Mr Assad and build an Islamic state, though it vows to achieve the latter through the ballot box and not force. It is part of Jaysh al-Fatah, an alliance that includes the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front.
Jaysh al-Islam, a Islamist rebel group active mostly around Damascus, previously called for the establishment of an Islamic state. Its leader now says he favours allowing Syrians to decide what sort of state they want.
The Western-backed Southern Front alliance, which operates in the south, describes its self as "the moderate voice and the strong arm of the Syrian people".
But Ahrar al-Sham - whose founders had links to al-Qaeda - criticised the "lack of representation of jihadist factions" at a level reflecting their presence on the ground in Syria. Some of those invited were "closer to representing the regime than the people and the revolution", it added without elaborating.
The group also warned that it would "not accept the results of this conference" unless they included "the complete cleansing of the Russian-Iranian occupation of Syrian land, and the sectarian militias which support it".
It called for the "overthrow of the Assad regime with all its pillars and symbols, and handing them over for fair trial".
Security and military institutions would also have to be dissolved, Ahrar al-Sham said, rejecting last month's statement by 17 world powers - including the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran - that called for them to be kept intact initially.
They see a political solution to the four-and-a-half-year conflict as an important step in a process that will eventually lead to the elimination of the self-styled Islamic State (IS), which controls large parts of northern and eastern Syria.
Rory Kleinveldt smashed 71 not out, reaching 50 off just 23 balls in the evening sun as Northants reached 268-6, 167 runs ahead.
Adam Rossington's 58 was the hosts' other main contribution of the day.
Earlier, Ben Sanderson, Kleinveldt and new recruit Nathan Buck all bowled tightly as wickets tumbled, with only Aneurin Donald (34) passing 20.
Glamorgan's decision to bat first was a brave one under cloudy skies, and their batsmen never showed the necessary application against an accurate Northants seam attack, supported by smart catching.
Klienveldt and Buck both took 3-35 while Sanderson matched their three-wicket haul with figures of 3-20 to ensure Glamorgan were all out in just 31.3 overs.
Later, the visitors' newly-signed South African paceman Marchant de Lange trapped England batsman Ben Duckett lbw for 12 as Northants lost three early wickets, but recovered well as batting conditions eased in the final session.
Kleinveldt then launched into the Glamorgan bowlers, striking eight fours and four sixes in a brutal display of power-hitting worthy of a T20 match.
Northamptonshire all-rounder Rory Kleinveldt told BBC Radio Northampton:
"I wanted to bowl first and thankfully we did. We were relentless with the ball and put them under massive pressure and kept them under the pump.
"The guys worked hard with the bat early on to set up the situation for me and Crooky coming in. I tried to back myself to clear the ropes and use the short boundary.
"From here, if we can bowl as well as we have done today in the second innings, we should have no trouble in winning this game."
Glamorgan captain Jacques Rudolph told BBC Wales Sport:
"We were a bit in between batting and bowling first, they've left some grass on it but we felt that underneath the surface was quite good, and to be honest we got it wrong.
"There was more lateral movement than we accounted for, but their captain was unsure whether he would bat or bowl first.
"We've got to try and find ways back into this game. Once the wicket flattens out, and the ball becomes older, it becomes a lot easier to bat so we have to try to go big when we get our opportunity again.
"This pitch has got the potential for one of our batters to get a double hundred and get us back into the game."
John O'Hagan, 75, had been told he would have to wait 18 months for an appointment at Musgrave Park Hospital.
On Wednesday he said he feared he might die before his appointment next year.
The benefactor said, after watching him talk about his pain and being unable to walk or play with his grandchildren, they wanted to reach out and help.
They added: "We have heard John's story on the BBC. Sadly, this is becoming an increasingly common and very regrettable situation for many people in Northern Ireland.
"We can't help everyone, but having heard John talk so touchingly about his difficulties, we are arranging to meet with him and will do our very best to offer him a more satisfactory resolution."
The pensioner and his family have expressed their gratitude to the benefactor but also expressed concern for other families in a similar position.
Mr O'Hagan told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme that the offer of help was "totally unexpected" and would be "life-changing".
However, the pensioner, who reluctantly went to the media this week because he felt he had become a "burden" to his wife and family, said he was also embarrassed by his situation.
"I'm just very embarrassed by it all. There are a lot of other people out there who need help," Mr O'Hagan said.
His daughter, Lucy, said: "We're all a bit shocked and just incredibly appreciative, it's not what we expected or we hoped for. My father worked his whole life, six days a week. When I was growing up I didn't see him, he was at work.
"He paid into the system that he thought would be there when he was older and that we'd get something back, and the system has failed him.
"We're all really thankful for everybody who has written in and we're still all a bit in shock and we don't know what to say," she added.
Shot in spectacular locations, directed by an Oscar-winner and shown before screenings of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Black Angel had it all. Then the film was lost.
Black Angel is an Arthurian tale of a knight who rescues a princess while he is returning home from the Crusades.
Shot in Scotland on a shoestring budget in 1979, it was shown the following year in cinemas in the UK, Scandinavia, Japan and Australia as part of screenings of The Empire Strikes Back.
Black Angel's director, Londoner Roger Christian, had won an Academy Award for his set decoration on the first Star Wars film to be made, Episode IV - A New Hope.
Christian's friend, Star Wars' creator and director George Lucas, had given him free rein to make Black Angel as the short to accompany Empire.
In the US shorts were no longer shown ahead of feature films but the tradition still continued in Europe and elsewhere.
Christian had written a script for Black Angel after going back to film school following his work on A New Hope.
Given the green light to make it into a film, he went north to the Highlands and Argyll with a crew of 11.
They brought with them Cinemascope lens cameras, used for shooting wide-screen films, and a couple of leftover rolls of film from Empire.
Backed with a £25,000 grant from the UK government, the crew headed into the hills in a Volkswagen campervan, a horse trailer and a small van.
"I already had an idea for locations in Scotland," said Christian.
"With just the vans and a horse trailer we were able to get right into these beautiful locations.
"For me Eilean Donan Castle is the ultimate romantic castle, while the landscape of Kyle of Lochalsh is spectacular.
"We went in September and October because the light in Scotland then is fantastic. But in the back of my mind I knew that at any time winter could come and end the filming."
While in the Highlands, the crew got wind of a school that was being closed down in Dunoon. It had a swimming pool and Christian saw an opportunity to use it for an underwater scene.
He said: "We managed to get the draining of the pool delayed by a week."
And while in Argyll, they also came across locations on and around Loch Eck where tall Scots pines with twisting, exposed roots offered a surreal backdrop for other scenes.
With everything shot and the crew preparing to return home, it started snowing.
Christian's nerves were fraught when it finally came to showing the finished 25-minute film to Lucas, Empire's director Irvin Kershner and 20th Century Fox executives.
Black Angel's cinematographer Roger Pratt was so worried about how they would react, he ran off to be sick. But the pair had nothing to fear as the film went down a storm among those watching it.
Christian said: "Kershner said to me that it was okay for me to come out from under the table."
After Empire had completed its run in cinemas worldwide, the original film prints of Black Angel were lost.
Unsuccessful efforts were made to track down the prints at Lucas's Skywalker Ranch.
Christian said: "I had my own copy, but it was a degraded copy. I preferred Black Angel became a myth rather than show a poor quality version of it."
While Black Angel was lost, it was not forgotten. Christian was frequently asked by fans at science-fiction conventions and also friends such as Peter Briggs, who wrote the script for 2004's Hellboy, to re-release it.
Christian had almost given up on the original prints when he received a call in 2012 from a Universal Studio's archivist who told him he had found them.
They had ended up in the US following the collapse of UK studio Rank which, it turned out, had stored the prints along with other film negatives in World War II bunkers.
Californian visual effects company, Athena Studios, painstakingly restored the Black Angel prints frame by frame. The firm's bosses then convinced Christian to let them show it at last year's San Francisco's Mill Valley Film Festival.
It was the first time Black Angel had been shown to the public in the US. In the audience watching it was Guy Veale, a fan from Scotland.
Christian said: "Guy was five years old and living on Shetland when his dad took him to the cinema to see The Empire Strikes Back.
"He saw Black Angel but was never quite sure if what he saw was a film, or something he had imagined. He got some funds together and went to the Mill Valley Film Festival to confirm what he had seen."
Through efforts by Mr Veale, who saw Empire at the North Star cinema in Lerwick, Black Angel is set for a homecoming when it is shown at the Glasgow Film Festival later this month ahead of screenings at Dundee DCA, Inverness's Eden Court and Edinburgh Filmhouse.
Toronto-based Christian is excited about the looming tour and returning to Scotland.
He is also looking forward to next year's release of the new Star Wars film, with a script written by Lawrence Kasdan and JJ Abrams.
Christian is part of the "Star Wars family" - writers, directors, cinematographers and crew who have been involved in and have continued to support Lucas and the franchise.
He worked on Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace after the first movie gave him what he calls his "big break" in cinema.
Christian has fond memories of A New Hope. Its low budget required the crew to innovate when it came to making props and the set.
As well as making lightsabers from bits and bobs, he used scrap metal from aircraft in the set designs.
"I invented the use of airplane scrap in films," he said.
"Scrap back then could be bought by weight and airplane parts are light, so truck loads of scrap metal and jet engines could be bought," said Christian.
"When the prop master and other members of the crew - these people were giants having previously worked with David Lean - thought I was mad bringing in these truck loads of scrap planes.
"The prop master told me: 'You know you're mad boy'. But I knew it was going to work."
Looking ahead to next year's release of the new Star Wars, Christian said there was a determination to return to the feel and look of the original movies. Scenes are being shot in the UK again and on film, and not digital cameras.
Christian said: "George Lucas's genius was that he made a space film that people got, it was gritty and dirty, and also this fantastic mythology he created around the films.
"I hope with the new film they don't just go for the ride and forget the mythology."
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Dalian, Mr Li reassured global business leaders that China's economy is "shock resistant and resilient".
He said China was not a source of risk but a source of growth for the world.
His comments come as data showed deflation fears are growing in China.
Inflation figures for August showed that manufacturers in the country often considered the "workshop of the world" cut prices at the fastest pace in six years as commodity prices and demand fell.
The producer price index (PPI) fell a more than expected 5.9% from the same period last year - marking the 42nd consecutive month of declines.
Consumer prices, however, rose 2% in the same period to a one-year high, but the rise was mainly due to higher food prices and not an improvement in economic activity.
Despite this, Premier Li said there was no risk of a hard landing in China, because the government is capable of supporting growth.
"If there are signs that our economy is sliding, we have the adequate resources to deal with it," he said.
China has already cut interest rates five times since November to encourage lending and spur economic activity, along with other measures to boost growth.
Premier Li added that China would take more steps to boost domestic demand and implement more policies to lift imports.
Data from earlier this week showed a steep fall in imports last month on the back of lower commodity prices, particularly oil.
China also revised down its 2014 growth figures from 7.4% to 7.3% - which was its weakest showing in nearly 25 years.
For this year, the government is targeting annual economic growth of about 7% - marking its slowest expansion in a quarter of a century.
The crash happened on the Rock Road near Lisburn on Friday morning.
A picture posted on the PSNI Lisburn Facebook page shows that the post came through the windscreen close to where the driver would have been sitting.
Police said there were no serious injuries, but that the driver was "very lucky to walk away unscathed".
"Police would like to take this opportunity to remind all road users of the need to drive with due care and attention at all times," the PSNI added.
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Former England boss Taylor, who had two spells at both clubs during a 31-year managerial career, died in January at the age of 72.
Watford plan to face one of Taylor's former clubs annually, competing for the Graham Taylor Trophy.
The match will take place at 15:00 BST on Saturday 29 July, with profits split between two charities.
The National Memorial Arboretum and the Watford FC Community Sports and Education Trust - two organisations with which Taylor had a close connection - will benefit from the fixture.
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Federer, 34, a seven-time Wimbledon champion, looked to be heading out of the tournament after losing the opening two sets to the Croat on Centre Court.
However, Federer recovered to win 6-7 (4-7) 4-6 6-3 7-6 (11-9) 6-3.
"Marin is such a wonderful player and I was in so much trouble in the third set and in the fourth," the Swiss said.
"I played super great at the end so I am very, very, pleased. Marin is one of the nicest guys on the tour so I feel sorry for him but for me the dream continues."
Federer last won Wimbledon in 2012 and is aiming for a record eighth title.
He had not dropped a set in his first four matches but lost the opener on a tie-break against the ninth seed, who then broke Federer's serve early in the second.
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The former world number one took the third set but had to save three match points before he won a thrilling fourth-set tie break and then the decider.
Federer admitted he was unsure that he could win after losing the opening two sets.
"You hope you do, but you don't know," he told BBC Sport. "I wasn't seeing his serves, he had one chance, took it and I was down 2-0. He was playing very well and reading my serve and I couldn't read his.
"It wasn't going well for me so I just tried to stay in the match, hope for his level to drop and get a bit lucky. That is what happened and the (tie) breaker was crazy.
"It's really encouraging to see I was improving and able to sustain a really high level. Mentally this will give me a hell of a boost and I'm really ecstatic to make it into the next round."
Federer will now play sixth seed Milos Raonic in the semi-finals on Friday after the Canadian beat American Sam Querrey 6-4 7-5 5-7 6-4.
"It will be very tough, but I've got the rest of today and tomorrow to recover," Federer added.
"He's had a wonderful year and is improving every day so I'm excited to be playing against him."
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Amer Sajed, the chief executive of Barclaycard, gives BBC personal finance reporter Kevin Peachey his vision of the future.
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Norman Sharp, 91, from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, was the first person to get an NHS hip operation in December 1948, aged 23, after suffering from septic arthritis as a child.
He now holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-lasting replacement hip replacement - and is still dancing.
BBC Points West's Fiona Lamdin put it to the test.
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) commissioned an investigation of the use of false colour infrared stereo aerial imagery interpretation.
The small trial looked at an area of Glenfeshie in the Cairngorms.
The imagery involves using different colours, textures, layers and other indicators to show habitat such as woodland and also geology.
The method of interpreting landscapes is new to the UK, according to a report for SNH on the results of the Glenfeshie trial.
The report has recommended that the public agency examine the potential for a large scale pilot of the technique.
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Bruno Zamborlin is the brains behind Mogees - a vibration sensor and associated app that can make music out of any surface thin enough to resonate when it is tapped.
Watch his stunt in the video above and listen to BBC World Service's Click to hear him explain more.
Kelly Matthews took the sunset image looking between branches and leaves on Darwin Esplanade in the Northern Territory.
The emergency services phone operator travelled to Darwin from Western Australia for a wedding.
"I put it on Facebook and straight away all my friends said 'that looks like a map of Australia'," she told the BBC.
The photo was praised on social media, although some noticed a conspicuous omission.
"Tasmania absent as usual," William Lehmann said.
Elle Chicoli replied: "Mate, just go there and cut a hole in the bush."
He was a passenger in a Ford Fiesta carrying five people which hit a tree near Mintlaw on Saturday night.
The 17-year-old male driver, two 17-year-old females and an 18-year-old man were injured.
Mr Sangster's family described him as a "larger than life character" and said he would be "sorely missed."
Police want to speak to people who either witnessed the accident or saw the red Ford Fiesta before the crash.
The vehicle had been travelling along Station Road in Mintlaw.
William Sangster's family, including his mother Tracey Marshall and her husband Paul Marshall, father Philip Sangster and his wife Sarah Sangster and sister Nicole, 17, and brother Lewis, six, released a statement paying tribute to him.
They spoke of his love of farming, saying "it was what he lived for".
"Farming was in his blood," they said. "He was brought up in a farming environment and always adored tractors from a young age.
"He much preferred to be outside working with his hands than being indoors. Latterly he was working at Blackhills Farm at St Fergus but he worked for many of the local farmers."
The family also spoke of the "close" relationship he shared with them, particularly his sister Nicole, 17, saying: "William came from a big extended family and he will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
"He was well-known as a larger than life character and always had a big smile on his face. He was very close to his sister, they did everything together.
"You would just always hear him laughing, he was popular with everyone, had lots of friends and was a devoted partner to his girlfriend."
Pellegrini - who will be replaced by Pep Guardiola - saw Sergio Aguero gather a deflected cross to coolly finish with the outside of his foot.
Sunderland rallied, debutant Lamine Kone heading wide before Billy Jones hit the post just before the break.
Jones forced a Joe Hart save late on as City - sluggish on the night - held on.
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They remain three points adrift of leaders Leicester City, while Sunderland stay four points from safety in 19th.
Sam Allardyce's side can, however, take pride in their display, and only a Nicolas Otamendi header on the goal line in injury time denied them a deserved point.
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City's backs-to-the wall display in the second half was surprising for a team unbeaten in six league games before kick-off.
The home side had more possession after the break and played the game almost entirely in the away half as City looked happy to take what Aguero's well-taken effort had earned them.
So was this a City hangover from Monday's news of Pellegrini's future exit? "We're here to win titles," said City keeper Hart afterwards. "Yesterday's news was never going to be a distraction."
Hart's key save from Jermain Defoe before the break saw Jones strike the woodwork from the follow up as Sunderland seized momentum in the match.
They ran 6km further than Pellegrini's side and had five more shots on the night, falling short as they lacked a player with the instinct Aguero showcased.
City's attitude will remain under the microscope after a defiant, if somewhat unconvincing display. Sunday's meeting with Leicester should provide an ideal environment to see if minds are on a future under Guardiola.
Sunderland manager Allardyce said he had to act in the January transfer window in order to battle the drop, and he gave debuts to signings Kone, and substitutes Dame N'Doye and Whabi Khazri.
In return he got what he says was the "best performance since I've been here".
The Black Cats have conceded more goals than anyone in the league, but Kone seemed to add some steel and should have levelled affairs when he headed wide while unmarked.
Another January acquisition Jan Kirchhoff impressed in a holding role - touching the ball more than anyone on the pitch - so on early inspection, supporters should feel buoyed by the new blood.
In contrast to their usual issues at the back, it was at the other end where shortcomings were exposed. Chances largely fell to defensive players, with John O'Shea guiding an effort over from 10 yards late on.
Perhaps most encouraging for home fans was the spirit and belief in their side as attacks flowed in a frantic finale, and Otamendi brilliantly blocked an N'Doye effort before clearing from the line.
The result may be in keeping with Sunderland's season but the display seemed to show the January window could prove a welcome turning point.
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "It was a tough game. This is a team who are fighting relegation. They will play every game like a final. It is not our style to play with nine defenders but it was our third game in a week and it was impossible to have a high pace with all our injuries. It was better to defend well and concentrate."
Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce: "We missed too many chances today and when you play a Manchester City side and have better chances than them, it shows the level of our performance. There's no result for us, the points aren't there, but the positives are. While this performance was the best since I've been here, we're in big trouble now when you look at the other results tonight."
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City's home fixture with Leicester on Saturday lunchtime looks key as the title race enters its closing stages, while Sunderland know defeat when they host Liverpool hours later could see them slip further away from safety.
Fletcher, 24, a qualified chartered accountant, has decided to commit full-time to the club until June 2018.
The Wales international has been with Reading since the age of eight and scored two goals in 12 WSL 1 appearances last season.
"I couldn't be happier to have extended my time here and I look forward to the challenges next season," Fletcher said.
The men, aged 34 and 56, have been held in connection with the death of Sian Roberts, 36, in Salford on Sunday.
Greater Manchester Police said a 36-year-old man arrested on Monday had been bailed until 28 January.
Ms Roberts was found at a property in St Helier's Drive. A post-mortem examination found she had been stabbed in the chest.
Det Ch Insp Terry Crompton said officers were making "significant steps" in their investigation.
He added: "We are still keen to speak to anyone who came into contact with Sian in the lead-up to her death."
Labour's Keith Vaz said the claims were "chilling" and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper demanded an inquiry.
According to The Guardian, GCHQ had access to data covertly gathered from leading internet firms in the US.
GCHQ said it operated within a "strict legal and policy framework".
The Guardian says it has obtained documents showing that the secret listening post had access to the Prism system, set up by America's National Security Agency (NSA), since at least June 2010.
The documents were said to show that the British agency had generated 197 intelligence reports through the system in the 12 months to May 2012 - a 137% increase on the previous year.
By Gordon CoreraSecurity correspondent, BBC News
Britain's GCHQ has an incredibly close relationship with its US counterpart - and that is now drawing it into controversy.
At issue is whether America's Prism programme has been used to cast a significantly wider surveillance net over communications.
Is Prism simply a means of accessing forms of communication information in a more streamlined way (by directly accessing servers) or does it involve collecting whole new categories of information? And about whom?
Critics will ask whether GCHQ could have used this to get round existing restrictions on whom it collects on.
That's something the spy agency seems to be pushing back against by saying that everything it does is within a legal and policy framework to make sure it is authorised, necessary and proportionate.
It should come as no surprise that spy agencies spy - and that they don't like talking about how they spy or on whom.
But this revelation will lead to questions from the public about whether those agencies might be spying on them.
The newspaper said that the Prism programme appeared to allow the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to circumvent the formal legal process required to obtain personal material, such as emails, photographs and videos, from internet companies based outside the UK.
Mr Vaz, the chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said: "The most chilling aspect is that ordinary American citizens and potentially British citizens too were apparently unaware that their phone and online interactions could be watched.
"This seems to be the snooper's charter by the back door. I shall be writing to the home secretary asking for a full explanation."
Ms Cooper called on the prime minister to ask the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), which oversees the work of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, to investigate "the UK's relationship with the Prism programme, the nature of intelligence being gathered, the extent of UK oversight by ministers and others, and the level of safeguards and compliance with the law".
"It is important for the UK intelligence community to be able to gather information from abroad including from the United States particularly in the vital counter terror work they do," the Labour frontbencher added.
"However there also have to be legal safeguards."
The UK's data protection watchdog, the information commissioner's office (ICO), has raised its concerns with its European counterparts.
It said there were "real issues about the extent to which US law enforcement agencies can access personal data of UK and other European citizens".
"Aspects of US law under which companies can be compelled to provide information to US agencies potentially conflict with European data protection law, including the UK's own Data Protection Act."
A GCHQ statement did not deny the Guardian's story.
A spokesman for the agency, based in Cheltenham, said: "Our work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight, including from the secretary of state, the Interception and Intelligence Services Commissioners and the Intelligence and Security Committee."
US spies have been accused of tapping into servers of nine US internet giants including Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google in a giant anti-terror sweep. All deny giving government agents access to servers.
But the Prism programme has been strongly defended by James Clapper, director of US national intelligence.
And President Barack Obama said it was closely overseen by Congress and the courts and that his administration had struck "the right balance" between security and privacy.
He also stressed that the surveillance of phone call "metadata" did not target US citizens or residents and government agencies were not listening to telephone calls.
Civil liberties campaigners in the UK have said they are deeply concerned.
Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert, a long standing campaigner against the government's proposed Communications Data Bill - dubbed a "snooper's charter" by critics - said he would "raise the issue as soon as possible in Parliament".
The data bill, which would have authorised the retention of every UK citizen's web browsing records, was dropped because the Lib Dems did not support it.
But the home secretary has talked of its importance to national security, following the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich.
The director of civil rights group Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, said the reports "suggest a breach of trust on the grandest scale... showing contempt for privacy, legality and democracy itself".
She added: "Have those who failed to persuade in the Parliament chamber decided to smuggle blanket surveillance in through the back door?"
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, said the revelations were "deeply concerning".
He said: "I call on all web users to demand better legal protection and due process safeguards for the privacy of their online communications, including their right to be informed when someone requests or stores their data."
Nick Pickles, director of campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: "There are legal processes to request information about British citizens using American services and if they are being circumvented by using these NSA spying arrangements then that would be a very serious issue."
Tragedy all too often casts a dark shadow over the sternest test of man and machine on the world's most unforgiving circuit.
However, Hutchinson's sensational comeback victory in Monday's Supersport race evoked a palpable 'feelgood factor' among road race fans around the famous 37.73-mile Mountain Course and beyond.
For good measure, the Bingley rider added to that success by taking a second victory of the week in Tuesday's Superstock race as he overhauled Michael Dunlop to take a 10th career TT triumph.
The Yorkshireman's story is one of unwavering mental resolve and belief, a burning passion and fighting spirit to return to the pinnacle of a sport which dealt him a cruel blow when most mere mortals would have drowned in a sea of self-pity.
The 35-year-old secured his place in the TT history books by achieving an unprecedented five-timer at the 2010 event, but three months later his elation over his record-breaking exploits turned into a nightmare.
During a British Supersport race held in wet conditions, Hutchinson fell and was then struck by another rider as he lay on the track, sustaining compound fractures to his tibia and fibula in his left leg.
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The initial prognosis suggested that the lower part of his leg might have to be amputated but a combination of his own powers of persuasion and the skill of the surgeons meant that course of action was ultimately discounted.
Even at this stage, the racer's mindset had set in as thoughts of an eventual return to the track came to the fore.
Sixteen operations and skin grafts later, Hutchinson signed for the Swan Yamaha team but was forced to sit out the 2011 TT after suffering continuous setbacks in his battle against his ongoing injury.
Despite being in obvious pain and discomfort, the 2003 Manx Grand Prix Newcomers winner did however manage to complete a number of exhibition laps at the annual speed festival.
The following year 'Hutchy' underwent further surgery in the off-season as part of his recuperation, before he suffered another blow when he twisted his leg awkwardly while riding an off-road bike.
Undeterred, he had an external fixator fitted, and remained focused on returning to compete in the Isle of Man races, eventually racking up three top-10 finishes despite his difficulties.
An 18-month-long recovery period ensued and in September 2013, Hutchinson went under the surgeon's knife for the 30th and final time.
An early indication that he may return to something like the level of performance he attained prior to his horror crash came in November of that year when he romped to victory at the Macau Grand Prix, held over the 3.8-mile Guia circuit.
The Englishman, also an accomplished short circuit rider in his pomp, was Milwaukee Yamaha-mounted for the 2014 road racing season but his TT campaign failed to yield the results or lap speeds he had hoped for, leading to a subsequent switch to the Paul Bird Motorsport Kawasaki team.
Two podium finishes at this year's North West 200 sent out a signal to his rivals that the 'Bingley Bullet' was back in the big time and a runner-up place behind Bruce Anstey in the Superbike TT provided further evidence of his breathtaking revival.
His success in Monday's Supersport event brought his tally of Isle of Man TT career wins to nine, drawing him level in the TT roll of honour with his early mentor, the late David Jefferies, before Tuesday's success moved him into double figures.
"It has been a long road back but I never stopped believing that I would win here again one day," said an emotional Hutchinson after the race.
"The bike was so good that I felt I was out there delivering pizzas.
"I put a lot of pressure on myself for the Superbike race but I was just cruising out there in that one.
"I'm so grateful to everyone who has helped me get back to where I want to be."
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When the re-formed club return to the capital for the first time since this Sunday, it will be to take part in a much happier occasion, playing at Wembley in the FA Vase final.
Hereford FC play Northumberland side Morpeth Town in the first of the two matches to be staged on Wembley's first double-billed Non-League Finals Day, prior to promoted Grimsby Town taking on relegated National League rivals Halifax Town in the FA Trophy final.
And the chance to play at the national stadium will be the fulfilment of a dream that never came true for most Bulls fans.
During the old club's previous 90-year history, they might have famously beaten Newcastle United in the FA Cup back in 1972, but they never managed to make it to Wembley. And yet Hereford FC will be going there in their first season.
Perhaps that is only due reward for all that the long-suffering but inspiringly stubborn Bulls fans have had to go through to get to this day.
They saw the former FA Cup giantkillers slip into financial difficulty, be taken over by London businessman Tommy Agombar, then relegated two divisions in June 2014 for failing to pay their bills, just weeks after completing a near miraculous final-day escape to avoid relegation from the Conference Premier.
A tortuous power struggle between the fans and Agombar ensued, with the old Hereford United languishing in the Southern League - the seventh tier of English football - when they were finally wound up with debts of £148,000 in December 2014.
By that point crowds were down to around 500, while most fans stayed away in protest at the way the club was being run.
But it was the indefatigable spirit of the supporters which kept them going - and the newly-formed "phoenix" club overcame all the administrative, political and financial hurdles in their way to be accepted into the Midland League, the ninth tier of the English football pyramid.
Now they will go to Wembley on the back of a season in which they have not only won the Midland League, but two other trophies too, and have regularly been watched by crowds of more than 4,000 people back in their revitalised Edgar Street home.
A following of 19,500 Herefordians will make the journey to the capital for Sunday's final, knowing that this will hopefully be their only chance to win the FA Vase. Next season, their elevation in rank means that they will only be considered for the FA Trophy.
Hereford FC have three players in their current line-up who turned out for the Bulls in their former guise.
Captain Joel Edwards made a handful of substitute appearances, while midfielder Rob Purdie is now into his fourth spell at Edgar Street. But former Wales international Ryan Green has the fondest memories of all.
The Cardiff-born former Wolves youngster capped the end of his first stay there 10 years ago by scoring the winner at Leicester's Walkers Stadium to take the old Hereford United back into the Football League after a nine-year absence.
Having left for Bristol Rovers, he was playing at Wembley just 12 months later in their win over Shrewsbury Town in the 2007 League Two Play-Off final - one of the first games to be played at the rebuilt stadium. And now he has the chance to return.
"It's every kid's dream to play at Wembley, even for a Welshman," Green told BBC Hereford & Worcester. "This is the icing on the cake for a fantastic season.
"It's not the best of levels but it's the club I love. As soon as I took the call, my decision was made to come back.
"I've had my footballer's pension from the PFA now I'm 35 and looking to start my own business, but I also want to play as long as I can.
"I coached at Cardiff City for a year and a half and then I had a job doing maintenance work on the railways. That's not great, having to get up at half past four in the morning, finishing at half four, then training after.
"But, once it's over, it's over. I'd like to play until I'm 40."
Peter Beadle was Hereford United's manager prior to the old club being expelled from the Conference, just six weeks after staying up.
But, when the old club finally expired and the new club was formed by their passionate fans, Beadle was the man they immediately turned to.
He had been promoted from being the club's director of youth football to take charge as caretaker manager when Martin Foyle left the club in March 2014.
And he thought he had saved them when the Bulls won three of their final five games to supposedly avoid relegation. Hereford scored a late final-day winner at Aldershot, at almost precisely the same second that a Salisbury equaliser was going in 210 miles away at the Deva Stadium to send Chester down instead.
Six weeks later, Chester were reprieved. But it was almost a year later before Beadle's Bulls reprieve came, during which time he had been off to coach Sutton United.
It was on 17 April 2015 that he was appointed as the reformed Bulls boss. And, now a season which began with a friendly at Malvern Town last July, and saw the Bulls score 138 goals in winning 35 of their 42 Midland League games, will conclude for him at Wembley.
"We're just nine months into our first full year as a football club," he told BBC Midlands Today. "And to achieve what we've done already is pretty much a fairytale, to be where we are.
"The players have been phenomenal. They've bought into what we've tried to do. And it will be a very proud day for me to watch them go out and express themselves in the national stadium."
Hereford are up against north-east side Morpeth, who needed a 93rd-minute winner to see off Essex League side Bowers & Pitsea in their semi-final.
Morpeth represent the Northern League, a division with a near-perfect monopoly on the FA Vase since Whitley Bay lifted the trophy in 2008-09.
The league has contributed six of the past seven winners, and a finalist in each of those Wembley showpieces, putting the pressure on the Highwaymen to keep up the tradition.
"The club's never been here in 100-odd years," manager Nick Gray told BBC Look North. "Who knows if we'll ever come back again?
"We've got to treasure these moments and look forward to it. The last thing I want is people saying to us "at least you got there", it doesn't wear with the players. We've come to win it.
"I'm confident the lads won't let themselves, their families or the north east down."
They include in their ranks 45-year-old former Ipswich Town, Bury and Rotherham United defender Chris Swailes, who has won the Vase twice before, in 1993, with Bridlington Town, and in 2012, with fellow north-east side Dunston.
Despite having had four heart operations and a six-inch screw inserted in his heel, the seemingly indestructible Geordie is bidding for a third triumph.
Additional reporting by Matt Newsum.
Fire crews and South East Coast Ambulance were called to the complex in Tannery Lane, Ashford at about 09:45 BST on Wednesday.
The centre was evacuated as a precaution while firefighters ventilated the building and removed a leaking container.
Three people were treated for the effects of inhaling chemicals.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service said first aid was also given to three other people at the scene.
The leak is being treated as accidental.
A spokesman for Ashford Borough Council said: "We will be working with the Ashford Leisure Trust to investigate the cause."
The force said 300 officers carried out 14 simultaneous warrants in Newport at 05:00 GMT on Tuesday, after three hours of briefings.
Four people have been charged with the supply of class A drugs, with 25 arrested in total.
It followed information from the community about the supply of drugs.
Ch Insp Matthew Williams said the force had noticed a rise in Newport the last year or so.
Marc Budden, of Gwent Police, said: "This is the largest scale drugs operation we've seen in Gwent.
"[The operation] involved specialist method of entry officers utilising chainsaws and drills to ensure rapid entry."
The 38-year-old Notts captain, who made 52 international appearances, is to take up the role of director of cricket at Uppingham School in Rutland.
Read has played 677 games for Notts so far, with 1,329 dismissals and 20,776 runs across all forms of the game.
"I feel very content with my career. All good things must come to an end," he said.
"I'm going to really enjoy this last six months of my playing career. I've set myself high standards throughout my career and this season is no different."
Read was first capped by the Trent Bridge club in 1999 and has been skipper since 2008, helping Notts win the County Championship title in 2005 and 2010.
Notts were relegated to Division Two of the Championship last summer after finishing bottom of the top division.
"I'll be putting everything into Nottinghamshire, into driving us forward and making sure that, when I do leave at the end of September, the club is in the best possible position," he added.
Angelique Kidjo performs in Nigeria's main city Lagos on Sunday. She sang some of her popular hits at an event to honour budding African writers. South Africa's Songeziwe Mahlangu won a prize for his debut novel Penumbra, focusing on the life of a mentally ill person.
A day earlier, young South Africans dance to house music at a nightclub in Soweto, outside Johannesburg. They are members of a "commando" of skhothanes, a subculture characterised by their love of expensive clothes and competitive dance. A BBC team followed them for its A Richer World series.
A day earlier, a woman takes part in the annual carnival hosted in South Africa's coastal city of Cape Town...
An elephant formed one of the floats at the carnival - a major attraction for both local and foreign tourists.
On Sunday, a model presents a creation by Angolan designer Nadir Tati at the Moda Lisboa fashion week in Portugal's capital, Lagos.
While in Libya's capital Tripoli on Tuesday, women shop for scarves...
On the same day in the city, this man walks past graffiti depicting Muammar Gaddafi being tortured. Militant Islamists have caused havoc in Libya since Nato-backed forces killed him in 2011. He had warned that his overthrow would lead to militant Islamists emerging like "rats" in Libya.
In northern Nigeria the next day, militant Islamists were in retreat, following an offensive launched by regional forces. Here, soldiers from Niger hold up a flag of Boko Haram after retaking the town of Damasak from the insurgents...
On Friday, these elderly men share food at a refugee camp in Niger. Thousands of Nigerians fled to Niger to escape the six-year insurgency which has left more than three million people homeless.
In this photo released on Wednesday, a man drives a tractor in western Kenya to transport sugar cane to a factory. Sugar cane farmers in the region have been complaining that falling prices mean they can barely make ends meet.
As part of the global campaign on St Patrick's Day, the Axum Obelisks in Ethiopia went "green" for the first time. The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are listed by Unesco as a World Heritage Site. The obelisks are about 1,700 years old and are said to mark the burial chambers of the Kings of Aksum.
This photo released on Monday shows a scale model of a planned new city in Egypt. It will lie half way between Cairo and the Suez canal, and will become Egypt's administrative capital with government buildings relocated to the new city...
While on Monday, women stand in front of their homes at a slum in the Cairo - one of Africa's most congested and poor cities.
General Lord Richards told the BBC "thousands" more soldiers were needed.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said while IS was a "serious threat to our way of life", the response was not as straightforward as "ramping up" troops.
A video showing the apparent beheading of aid volunteer Alan Henning, 47, was released by IS on Friday.
He was the second British hostage to be murdered, following the death of David Haines.
Lord Richards said the plan to cut the regular army and bolster numbers using reservists could be made to work - but added that we were "in a different era" to just two or three years ago.
"This needs to be put right quickly," he said. "My instinct is it can't be and we need to go back to the drawing board and revise the size of the regular Army back up again.
"If we are talking about a generational struggle, as I think the prime minister is and he's absolutely right to talk about, then we need an army that can sustain a demanding operation, not just in Syria and Iraq potentially, in a largely support role, but think of all the other places where Muslim extremism is causing havoc."
He told the Andrew Marr Show he wanted the UK to play a role in the aerial campaign over Syria, describing the move as a "bit of a no-brainer".
"I'm very clear that that is the view of the prime minister and most of his party," said Lord Richards. "His problem is delivering the politics that enable us to do that.
"But air power alone will not win a campaign like this.
"It isn't actually a counter-terrorist operation, this is a conventional enemy."
The UK will either have to put "boots on the ground at some point" or "very energetically and aggressively train up those who will do that with us and for us".
He added: "My worry at the moment is that the scale of the challenge isn't being met by the right scale of response.
"I am worried that without more intensive use of Western boots on the ground in a support role then we won't do it in the time we need to get on and do this in."
Mr Clegg said it was not a case of increasing forces as Lord Richards suggested, however.
He told the show: "I don't think it's a question of simply ramping up conventional armed forces again as if we were fighting state-to-state conflicts.
"Increasingly what you are having is states co-operating together in a jigsaw operation where different countries bring to the effort different capabilities against stateless mobile groups."
The Lib Dem leader said he would not advocate extending the current air campaign over Iraq into Syria, adding: "We need to persuade the British people and Parliament as well that every time we put servicemen and women in harm's way, we do so with a clear strategy in mind, and I think the combination of air strikes and ground forces needs to be properly thought through."
Senior military figures have said the UK government must put pressure on Gulf states not to fund terrorist groups.
Former head of the British army Lord Dannatt told the Sunday Telegraph those regimes had to put a stop to fundraising terror networks before they could invest in the UK.
He said: "It is completely unacceptable that some individuals in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere see advantage in channelling large sums of money to the so-called Islamic State."
Former defence secretary Liam Fox told the newspaper: "Isil is well funded. Money has been flowing from rich individuals in the Gulf states, if not their governments, to finance them and their Sunni allies in their battle against the Assad regime."
Lord Richards told the Marr Show this approach was "part of solution" but not a "total solution by any means".
A police officer was slightly injured during the 27-year-old's arrest but no members of the public were hurt.
Witnesses said the man was wearing a balaclava and running back and forth by St Aloysius College on Hill Street.
He was arrested for alleged breach of the peace and carrying two offensive weapons.
There were reports the man threatened a lollipop man and tried to attack a janitor at the Glasgow School of Art during the incident which happened at about 08:30.
Ch Insp Mark Sutherland, of Police Scotland, said: "I would like to thank the many members of the public who acted quickly to ensure the safety of others.
"Through their quick and decisive action my officers were on scene within minutes and acted immediately to ensure this incident was brought to a swift conclusion.
"From our investigations so far we do not believe that the 27-year-old man's actions were targeting any particular individual or premises in the area and a full investigation is currently ongoing to establish the full circumstances that led to today's events."
A report will be prepared for the procurator fiscal.
Privately-run St Aloysius has both primary and secondary school pupils.
A school spokeswoman said: "All pupils and staff are safe as the situation was identified and quickly defused by police.
"The safety and wellbeing of our pupils is, as always, paramount and staff have met with pupils to reassure them.
"The college, along with other local businesses and residents, are now assisting Police Scotland with their inquiries."
A Glasgow School of Art spokeswoman said: "The Glasgow School of Art can confirm that a member of our staff did encounter the individual described, whilst parking his car near to a GSA building.
"The member of staff is shaken, but unharmed."
The advert read: "Show your boyfriend's mum you're the girl to take care of her little prince in beautiful dresses that scream marriage material".
Subscribers took to Facebook to tell the chain they found the email "awful" and "insulting".
The company apologised saying it had meant to be "satirical" but it had made an "error in judgement".
The chain store said the email entitled "Meet the Parents" was based on customer's insecurities over meeting a partner's parents for the first time.
Featuring a picture of a black and blue bird print dress, it read: "Knee length skirts exude class while respectable necklines mean father-in-law won't have a heart attack when you lean across the table for a second helping of roast potatoes."
But customers writing on Joy's Facebook page described how they were not impressed with the campaign.
Leslie Gold wrote: "Your 'Meet the Parents' marketing email is incredibly offensive, outdated and ill-conceived. What were you thinking? You've lost me as a customer."
Ceri Smith wrote: "Since when did you think this kind of crass everyday sexism was a legit way to market yourselves to women? This isn't the 1950s and women wear your clothing to look smart at work, not bag a man and get married. Grow up."
Joy issued a statement on its website apologising for the advert, which it said it had wanted to "set to a satirical backdrop," but admitted the act had "back-fired".
The statement said: "We acknowledge this error in judgement, and, as such, we would like to apologise to anyone who felt offended.
"We're also aware there are many truly amazing parents who make you realise none of these things even matter (which they don't, and shouldn't, especially not in the 21st century, and especially not when our focus should be how many rounds of food we can fit in before it runs out).
"Also, as a quick aside: we don't actually believe having the right dress/shirt/glass slipper will make someone want to marry you."
Daniel Stocks, 42, was discovered when customs intercepted a preserved veiled chameleon from the US.
Stocks, of Vale Road, Kingskerswell, admitted fraudulently evading the restrictions on importing and exporting endangered species and two counts of keeping and selling specimens.
He was jailed for six months at Exeter Crown Court.
The court heard Stocks' work includes props for films including The Smurfs, American Horror Show and Moby Dick, and one of his creations turned up as a curiosity on the BBC quiz show QI.
His other taxidermy included a bloodstained stuffed duck named Quack the Ripper.
Stocks was making up to £20,000 a month by selling shrunken heads on eBay and other online sites.
The court heard he was importing skulls, hands and feet from a contact in Indonesia and misleading buyers by saying they were not covered by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
National Crime Agency wildlife investigators found emails showed he had tried to buy bat penises and inquired about acquiring real human skulls from a contact in Portugal.
Sean Brunton, prosecuting, said Stocks' home and his business in Newton Abbot were both searched in May 2015 where investigators found 3,203 advertisements on eBay and other online sites.
Stocks told buyers the trade was legal, when it was not, the court heard.
Nicolas Gerasimidis, defending, said Stocks was confused by Latin names of species on the CITES list and his own research on the internet suggested the monkeys he was buying were not endangered or protected.
Judge Erik Salomonsen said: "Those who trade in animal parts, particularly those who have a knowledge of the existence of the restrictions, have an obligation to understand and comply with them."
John Pottinger, 21, admitted causing 39-year-old George Armour's death by dangerous driving.
It happened on the B9074 at Hamnavoe in June last year. The victim was thrown up and over the bonnet of the car.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Pottinger was also banned from driving for five years.
The court heard that he had been "pretty drunk" after attending a disco at the Burra Hall.
Pottinger decided to go to a party on a nearby island, and was persuaded to drive his Volkswagen Golf, taking four teenage friends with him.
He drove off in the direction of Scalloway with "smoke billowing" and bouncing his car over speed bumps.
Two of his friends told him he was going too fast, and shouted at him to slow down as they approached the brow of a hill, immediately before the collision.
When police later approached him, Pottinger asked them: "Just tell me is he dead?"
David Moggach, defending, said Pottinger was "truly sorry" for what happened.
Lord Turnbull described the case as "utterly tragic" resulting in the death of a "man in his prime".
The judge said: "This must serve as a warning to all drivers - particularly young men - of the dangers of drinking and driving.
"This is a crime in rural areas as much as it is anywhere else. The reality of drinking and driving is the same wherever it occurs."
Many retailers have slashed prices on the device - some as low as £89 - after the company announced it would stop producing them.
The Touchpad was launched less than two months ago, with models starting at £399.
HP has said it is looking at ways to continue development apps for its WebOS platform which the Touchpad runs.
Online retailer Dabs.com sold its stock of 500 Touchpads in just 15 minutes.
Dixons retail, which owns PC World, Currys and Dixons.com, described demand as "unprecedented".
Similar discounts began to appear in the United States over the weekend.
It is understood that HP contacted UK retailers on Monday evening to notify them of a drastic reduction in the wholesale price.
However, some sellers were clearly hoping to make a higher margin.
On Tuesday afternoon, resellers on Amazon.co.uk were selling the 16GB model for £250, with the 32GB model priced at £279.
Tesco direct was selling the 16GB model at £349.
Despite the fire sale prices, it is unclear how much support Touchpad users will receive in future.
HP has promised to honour product warranties. It also suggested that the operating system will receive some ongoing attention.
In a statement, the company said: "We expect that HP TouchPad owners can look forward to an over-the-air update that will enhance the platform and add functionality and a growing applications catalogue."
However, it seems unlikely that there will be much incentive for developers to continue creating applications for WebOS, given the limited number of devices that run it, and the fact that no more are likely to appear.
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The bank blamed the negative effect of $2.4bn in fines and settlements and UK customer redress for the sharp fall.
The results follow allegations, which emerged earlier this month, that HSBC had helped people evade UK tax using hidden HSBC accounts in Geneva.
HSBC chief executive Stuart Gulliver saw his overall pay for the year fall to £7.6m from £8.03m in 2013.
The lower total reflects a smaller bonus of £3.4m for the year, compared to £5.5m in 2013. Mr Gulliver said the lower bonus reflected "failures" linked to foreign exchange manipulation.
Chairman Douglas Flint's total pay increased to £2.5m from £2.4m for the year, but he did not receive a bonus.
Pressed after the results on whether he should have received a bonus, Mr Gulliver said his bonuses were subject to 100% clawback by the bank for seven years, enabling the bank to demand repayment "if anything turns up later that happened on my watch".
Mr Gulliver was also asked about the bank's policy on placing advertising in newspapers.
It follows an allegation made by the former chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph who said that the newspaper avoided writing negative stories about HSBC, so as not to lose its advertising.
Mr Gulliver confirmed that HSBC does withdraw advertising from companies that publish negative editorial content.
But he said it was not an effort to influence newspapers' editorial decisions.
Mr Gulliver said: "We advertise in order to sell more banking products. We don't put adverts alongside hostile editorial coverage because we won't get any value for spending that advertising dollar."
And Mr Gulliver went on to describe the move as "just common sense" for HSBC's marketing team.
"There's nothing sinister to it at all. Genuinely, there is nothing beyond a commercial decision as to where we put our advertising."
HSBC's shares fell more than 5%, hitting their lowest level for two-and-a-half years, after it reported its fall in profit, which was larger than analysts had expected.
The drop in profitability was driven by $2.4bn in fines and customer compensation costs, largely connected to fines in connection with traders' attempted manipulation of foreign exchange rates and compensation for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.
The bank has been streamlining its business in an attempt to boost earnings, and Mr Gulliver said it had now closed or sold 77 businesses and lost 50,000 jobs since he took the helm in 2011.
"For all the recent media furore around potential conduct issues, it is the 'underlying' performance which, we believe, should be the greatest cause of investor concern," said Investec analyst Ian Gordon.
In all the coverage of HSBC's Swiss private banking arm and Stuart Gulliver's banking arrangements (channelled through Switzerland and Panama), it is easy to miss the fact that HSBC has more broadly had a torrid year.
Its return on equity (the key marker of the return a bank is making on the money it invests) has fallen from 9.2% to 7.3%. Its earnings per share are down. Its operating expenses - the amount it costs to run the bank - are up 6.1%.
Fines and "redress" (in the main payments for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance) total £2.4bn. The bank has also raised significant concerns over Europe, saying that reform is "far less risky than going it alone".
No wonder HSBC's share price is down 5% this morning.
On Monday, HSBC reiterated its recent apology for the conduct of its Swiss private bank, saying the historical practices and behaviour were "unacceptable".
The bank said restoration of trust in the industry "remains a significant challenge as further misdeeds are uncovered but it is a challenge we must meet successfully".
"When commentators extrapolate instances of control failure or individual misconduct to question the culture of the firm, it strikes painfully at the heart of our identity," it added.
On Sunday, Mr Gulliver himself was dragged into the Swiss tax furore, with HSBC confirming he used a Swiss bank account to hold his bonuses.
The bank was responding to a report in the Guardian that Mr Gulliver has £5m in the account which he controls using a Panamanian company.
HSBC said he opened the account in 1998 when he was living and working in Hong Kong and full tax was paid in Hong Kong on the bonus payments.
On Monday, Mr Gulliver said he had never paid below the highest rate of UK tax on all his earnings since becoming chief executive.
"I'm UK tax resident, Hong Kong domiciled. I've paid full UK tax on the entirety of my worldwide earnings. It's not surprising as a 35-year HSBC veteran that I should be Hong Kong domiciled. I would expect to die abroad, which is a test of domicility," he added.
He said HSBC's computer system in the 1990s let everyone in the bank access the bank accounts of every other member of staff. As a result, he opened a bank account in Switzerland to hide his compensation from prying colleagues. He said he then used a Panamanian company to ensure HSBC staff in Switzerland also could not access his account.
"Really it was to enable me to have confidentiality in my own firm. There was no tax advantage," Mr Gulliver said.
The Financial Conduct Authority, HMRC, Swiss prosecutors and MPs on the Treasury Committee are looking into the allegations that HSBC helped people evade UK tax using hidden HSBC accounts in Geneva.
The former director of public prosecutions, Lord Ken Macdonald, has warned that HSBC has left itself open to criminal charges in the UK over the tax-dodging scandal.
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It was taken to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow at the Weald and Downland Museum by Henrietta Wilson from Hampshire.
The campaign case contained a Coutts cheque from Wellington to the equivalent value of £100,000 today.
Expert Clive Stewart-Lockhart said the chest "would be worth tens of thousands" if it had been at Waterloo.
Ms Wilson said the case had been in her family for a number of years after being bought as a job lot at an auction by her great grandfather.
The box had always been a mystery as it was locked until her father decided to open it with a screwdriver.
Ms Wilson said: "He decided to have a look at the bottles, as he picked one up, something fell to the floor and when he looked down, there was a piece of folded paper on the floor.
"When he opened it out, he couldn't believe his eyes, because actually it seemed to be signed by the Duke of Wellington."
The family contacted Coutts Bank, who wrote back and confirmed that the Duke of Wellington did hold an account with them.
The cheque is dated March 1823 made out for £195.
Clive Stewart-Lockhart said: "If you use an average earnings index - nowadays is in excess of £100,000. So this is a cash cheque.
"In other words, he was going to Coutts to cash a cheque for £100,000. What on earth for?"
Mr Stewart-Lockhart told Ms Wilson the campaign decanter case was worth about £600 and the cheque £50.
"But if we could ever prove that this was taken to the Battle of Waterloo, then it's worth tens of thousands."
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Stokes, in his 21st Test, resumed on 74 and raced to 200 in 163 balls to beat Ian Botham's 220-ball record.
Jonny Bairstow (150) struck his maiden Test century and shared in a stand of 399, a sixth-wicket world record.
Stokes made 258 as England added 312 within 39 overs and declared on 629-6, South Africa reaching 141-2 in reply.
Only New Zealand's Nathan Astle has reached a Test double hundred more quickly than Stokes, off 153 balls against England in 2002.
Listen - Jonathan Agnew descibes the moment Stokes reaches his double century
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England, 1-0 up in the four-match series and resuming on 317-5, added 196 in 25 overs in a thrilling morning session.
Driving the ball fluently when given width outside the off stump and ruthlessly pulling anything short, 24-year-old Stokes hit five fours in the opening two overs of the day and smashed spinner Dane Piedt for 16 in three balls.
He plundered 130 in the morning, the most by any batsman in a pre-lunch session, moving from 150 to his double century in just 28 deliveries, before beating Virender Sehwag's landmark for the fastest Test 250.
Attempting a third successive six to equal Wasim Akram's record of 12 for the highest number of maximums in a Test innings, Stokes lofted to AB de Villiers at mid-on, who fumbled the catch but ran out the left-hander with a direct hit.
Bairstow would have dominated the headlines on any other day, displaying impressively powerful hitting of his own.
The 26-year-old Yorkshire wicketkeeper hit five fours and a six in the space of nine balls and now averages 104 in three matches against South Africa.
Having made six half-centuries, the wicketkeeper recorded his maiden Test hundred in his 37th innings.
Standing tall at the crease and dispatching the ball to all quarters with a high backlift, he reached 150 from 191 balls and with that the declaration came.
As so often happens after a team replies to a mammoth total, South Africa lost an early wicket, Stiaan van Zyl run out by Nick Compton after being sent back by Dean Elgar as he went in search of a single.
The current number one Test side, who have lost four of their past five matches, rallied before Stokes returned to the action and had Durban centurion Elgar superbly caught for 44 by a diving Compton at point.
De Villiers (25 not out) was dropped on five by Joe Root at second slip off James Anderson and began to look more assured in favourable batting conditions at a cloudless Newlands, sharing an unbroken 56 with Hashim Amla, who ended a run of 11 innings without a fifty in reaching 64 not out.
Two of the three wickets to fall on a day when 453 runs were scored - a record in South Africa - were run-outs, so a straightforward second successive victory for England is by no means guaranteed.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "What an astonishing innings. This man has played an innings that no-one here will ever forget.
"They are all standing and applauding something that has been absolutely magnificent."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on Test Match Special: "That was phenomenal. You've seen something special. You don't get 200s like that very often - very rare. It's been a memorable day."
Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith: "Even as a South African you have to enjoy this. It's been both gut-wrenching and electric to watch.
"You've got a appreciate this. Everyone is witnessing something special."
As Stokes blasted boundaries at will, we asked you to compare him to some comic-book heroes...
Rodrigo Janot, told the Supreme Court Mr Cunha was using his political position to avoid investigation for alleged corruption.
Mr Cunha is being investigated over a massive kick-back scandal at the state-run oil company, Petrobras.
He is also the driving force behind impeachment proceedings against Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff.
She faces accusations of breaking budget laws last year.
The Supreme Court has yet to rule on Mr Janot's request over Mr Cunha.
Mr Cunha is facing mounting pressure to resign. State prosecutors accuse him of lying about owning Swiss bank accounts and about having allegedly receiving bribes.
On Tuesday two of his properties, his official residence in Brasilia and a property in Rio de Janeiro were raided by federal police searching for evidence.
BBC Brazil correspondent Julia Carneiro quotes local reports as saying prosecutors have evidence that Mr Cunha received 52 million reais ($13m, £8.5m ) in bribes from companies paid into accounts in Switzerland and Israel.
Mr Cunha has responded by saying the investigation against him is an attempt to divert attention from the impeachment proceedings.
The Congressional ethics committee has also tried for months to begin investigations against Mr Cunha which he has blocked.
On Wednesday, the committee voted again to initiate its inquiry - an initiative, our correspondent says, that may now gain some impetus with the prosecutor general's request to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court is meanwhile due to vote on Friday on whether to allow impeachment proceedings against President Rousseff to begin.
The move comes as rallies in 23 cities across Brazil began to show support for President Rousseff.
The budget chain said it removed packs of the Chinese-made foam eggs after trading standards warned children could swallow them by mistake.
The decorations are the same size and shape as small confectionary eggs.
Trading standards officers alerted the firm after it received a complaint about their sale at a shop in Surrey.
The eggs were likely to contravene food imitation safety rules, according to Surrey and Buckinghamshire Trading Standards.
Investigations and enforcement manager, Steve Playle, added: "These products could very easily be mistaken for Cadbury Mini Eggs by young children and swallowed, leading to dire consequences.
"They could be particularly difficult to remove if lodged in a child's throat because they are made of polystyrene and could mould to the shape of their airway making them difficult to remove in an emergency.
"We welcome the actions of Poundland in taking a potentially dangerous product off the shelves and would urge any parent who has already purchased a pack to keep it away from children."
A spokeswoman for West Midlands-based Poundland said: "Poundland is the first retailer to recognise these concerns and has taken every step to ensure this product could not be bought as food by mistake.
"The packs have been removed as an extra safety precaution."
The offences are alleged to have taken place at the former Thorp Arch Grange Children's Home in Wetherby.
The men - from Leeds, Burnley and Linlithgow - are due to appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on 2 October.
They were arrested as part of Operation Polymer, an inquiry into abuse at children's homes in Leeds in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Roy Leonard Allen, 71, from Burnley, Lancashire, is charged with 17 offences including indecent assault.
Anthony Gordon Poles, 77, from Boston Spa, Leeds, has been charged with five including indecent assault.
Mark Walker Wyllie, 59, from Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, has been charged with indecent assault.
Staff, students and the public are being warned about the activity so no false alarms are raised.
It is being held between 10:00 BST and 15:00 at one of the Cwrt Mawr halls of residence on the Penglais campus.
The aim is to provide the emergency services and university with a scenario to test major incident plans.
It is the first time such an exercise has been done at Aberystwyth University, and police said it had been chosen because the location serves well - not because there was any suggestion the university was under threat.
The volunteer hostages staged a fake protest, chanting about free education, before a "gunman" staged a rampage across the campus.
Phil Maddison, director of health, safety and environment at Aberystwyth University, said: "We realise that it is vital for Dyfed-Powys Police force to carry out training exercises.
"It is also a way to test the effectiveness of our procedures within the university, and to adapt and update where necessary."
The 25-year-old's wages will equate to 45m euros (£40.3m) a year before tax.
Barcelona have told the French club they must pay his 222m euro (£198m) fee "in full" and they are understood to be ready to meet his release clause.
It means PSG's total outlay across the initial five-year deal will come to £400m.
The Brazil international arrived at training on Wednesday with his father and representative, and told the Spanish club he wanted to leave.
He was then given permission by Barca manager Ernesto Valverde not to train and to "sort out his future".
The latest development comes two days after it emerged Barca were ready to push for a Financial Fair Play investigation if PSG signed Neymar.
That came after La Liga president Javier Tebas threatened, in an interview with Mundo Deportivo, a legal response against the former Ligue 1 champions if European football's governing body failed to take action.
He also said PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi had been made aware of the Spanish league's intentions.
According to Forbes' rich list, the Brazilian is currently the only footballer to earn more from his off-field endorsements than his playing contract at Barcelona.
Neymar's sponsors include global brands such as Nike, Gillette, Panasonic and Beats by Dre and bring the 25-year-old in $22m (£16.6m) on top of his $15m (£11.3m) salary.
"He was the first soccer player to have his own custom Air Jordan sneakers made by the Swoosh," says Forbes.
However, that will change when he completes a world-record move to PSG and collects a pre-tax weekly wage of 865,000 euros (£775,477) or 45m euros (£40.3m) a year.
That is more than current Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi, who signed a new deal worth a reported £500k per week in July, and Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo's £365,00-a-week deal.
It looks set to make the Brazilian the best-paid player in the world, overtaking Carlos Tevez who is said to earn £615,000 per week at Shanghai Shenhua.
Here is how Neymar's deal shapes up to bumper contracts in other sports:
Team-mate Messi has paid tribute to the 25-year-old. He wrote in an Instagram post: "It was a great pleasure to have shared all these years with you my friend Neymar. I wish you good luck in this new stage of your life. See you tomorrow."
Neymar responded to the post saying: "Thank you brother.. I will miss you uncle!"
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Neymar moved to Barcelona from Brazilian club Santos in 2013 for £48.6m, and signed a new five-year deal with the 24-time Spanish champions in 2016.
His representative Wagner Ribeiro, who on Wednesday tweeted he was in Paris, said last year that his client had been offered a tax-free £650,000 a week to sign for the French club.
He also said the forward "was close to a move to Manchester United".
Rumours of Neymar's potential departure resurfaced recently, but club president Josep Maria Bartomeu told the BBC the player would be staying.
Neymar played for the Catalan side in the recent International Champions Cup in the United States, before travelling to China to fulfil commercial commitments.
He travelled back to Spain on Tuesday and returned to the club's training ground on Wednesday.
The Brazilian has scored 105 goals for Barcelona, helping them to two league titles, three Copas del Rey and a Champions League crown.
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BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway
"Revons plus grand"
PSG's motto is hard to avoid at their stadium, Parc de Princes.
The translation? "Dream bigger"
PSG's owners, Qatari Sports Investment (QSI), are the upstarts within the European game and determined to disrupt the old order.
QSI is an arm of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund - so PSG's ambitions are backed by the enormous natural gas wealth of the Gulf state.
Qatar is locked in a bitter dispute with its Arab neighbours - so this transfer has a distinct political overtone as it seeks to show it will not be diminished or cowed by an ongoing trade blockade and a diplomatic war of words.
Having secured the World Cup in 2022, Doha sees PSG as one of the ways through which the state can achieve its ambitions.
Uefa's Financial Fair Play regulations have certainly tempered PSG's elaborate spending in recent seasons, and Neymar's arrival would represent a serious challenge to the club in this respect - but there's confidence within PSG's boardroom that it will not be a significant issue.
Ultimately this deal will not be judged in the governmental salons of Doha nor on a spreadsheet. Instead, success must be delivered through PSG capturing arguably the club game's greatest trophy, the Champions League.
Neymar is one third of Barcelona's 'MSN' strikeforce, which also includes Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.
In the past three seasons, they have scored 250 goals between them in 299 appearances.
But they do more than just score...
Olms are blind salamanders, a type of amphibian, and live in caves. They're thought to live for more than 100 years but reproduce just once or twice every ten years.
Scientists are excited because a female olm in the Postojna Cave has laid 50-60 eggs - and three of them are now showing signs of growth.
It takes eggs around 120 days to hatch and nobody knows how many of them will survive.
Roy Vickerman proposed to 89-year-old Nora Jackson on his 90th birthday.
The couple, from Stoke-on-Trent, met at school in 1940 and got in engaged in 1946, but plans were halted when D-Day veteran Roy suffered post-traumatic stress from his wartime efforts.
Now, after being reunited through Graham Torrington's BBC radio show, they will finally tie the knot.
Romance blossomed again when Roy went to visit his former fiancee and hand her flowers, but as soon as Nora saw him on the door she threw her arms around him.
He proposed with exactly the same ring from their original engagement and said he could not be happier.
"I always thought a lot about Nora," he said.
"I still love her just the same as I did before."
Nora, who has been widowed, said she never expected to see Roy again, and was looking forward to their wedding.
"It's so wonderful, because I've been on my own here [for] 14 years," she said.
"Everything has been so happy for me to see him and be with him."
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The Dragons' coaching staff were jeered at times during their loss against Ospreys, following a seventh successive defeat.
"We need to be tough enough to get on with it. If people boo, they boo and if they cheer, they cheer," he said.
"People are entitled to show their appreciation or lack of. But there is no pressure on the players."
Jones insists the Dragons are not panicking even though they are 10th in the Pro12 table, only ahead of Zebre and Treviso.
"If anyone said coaching the Dragons was an easy job, then there would be a queue of people wanting to do it," he explained.
"But it is not an easy job. It is a very difficult job trying to turn this around, as a region we have never been successful, we have always been a bottom-four side and we are trying to stop that, to change it.
"To do that we need to develop our own people as we can't buy great big stars.
"Sometimes the process can be quite difficult and hurtful, but that is what we have to do."
Jones feels that a negative reaction from supporters is simply part and parcel of modern day sport.
"If you are winning, you don't get jeered," he said.
"There is unsocial media on Twitter and things, when nasty people write nasty things, but it is just the business we are in.
"I will just get on with making players better, that's my job."
Speaking at a security conference in Slovakia, he also stressed the importance of tackling radicalisation at its source.
Mr Cameron highlighted the role families and communities can play in countering such radicalisation.
His comments came as a UK family were reported to have travelled to Syria.
Bradford sisters Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood crossed the border into Syria with their nine children earlier this week, an Islamic State (IS) smuggler has told the BBC.
And Talha Asmal, 17, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, is thought to have become the UK's youngest-ever suicide bomber when he reportedly blew himself up in Iraq on Saturday.
The prime minister said IS was "one of the biggest threats the world has ever faced".
He said the police and intelligence agencies were not responsible for people deciding they wanted to go, and that recent cases show how young people from Britain are at risk of sliding towards violent extremism.
Mr Cameron said: "The cause is ideological. It is an Islamist extremist ideology, one that says the West is bad, that democracy is wrong, that women are inferior, that homosexuality is evil.
"It says religious doctrine trumps the rule of law and Caliphate trumps nation state and it justifies violence in asserting itself and achieving its aims. The question is: How do people arrive at this worldview?"
He said one reason was members of the Muslim community who "don't go as far as advocating violence, but who do buy into some of these prejudices".
Mr Cameron said it "paves the way for young people to turn simmering prejudice into murderous intent", and to "go from listening to firebrand preachers online to boarding a plane to Istanbul and travelling onward to join the jihadis".
He acknowledged there were other factors that contributed to radicalisation, "not least questions of national identity and making sure young people in our country feel truly part of it".
A number of the families of men and women known to have travelled to Syria and Iraq - including the parents of 20-year-old Aqsa Mahmood from Glasgow - have said online grooming played a part in their decision to leave the UK.
However others, such as a friend of Talha Asmal, have said the idea that a teenager would cross borders solely because of online grooming "doesn't fit".
There was criticism of Cameron's speech from some quarters.
Former government minister and Conservative peer Baroness Warsi accused the government - and both previous coalition and Labour governments - of "disengagement" from the issues, because they considered some British Muslim groups to be "beyond the pale".
Labour MP for Bolton South East Yasmin Qureshi said Muslims were tired of constantly being called on to apologise for the actions of extremists.
"It feels absolutely awful. In Charleston you had a white man who went and killed nine black people in a church. I don't hear anybody saying that the whole of the white population has to apologise for the action of one white man," she said.
Massoud Shadjareh from the Islamic Human Rights Commission said it was "misguided and dangerous" to suggest that the solution was to tackle the ideology of Islam.
"The government for a very long time had associated barbaric groups like ISIS with not just Muslims, but the ideology of Islam - that they are somehow inter-tangled. The reality is that's not the case," he said.
But former radical Muslim recruiter Abu Muntasir agreed with Mr Cameron that families play a vital role in stopping young people from becoming radicalised.
He told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "There is grooming, no doubt - I know how we used to convince people by ignoring a lot of facts on the ground, ignoring reality and alternative views amongst Muslims and Muslim teaching."
Dr Shuja Shafi, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain said he agreed with the prime minister that "finger-pointing when it comes to radicalisation is wrong and dangerous".
Kalsoom Bashir, director of counter-extremism organisation Inspire, said older generations needed to show young people "it is possible to be a devout and true Muslim and to live a free and fulfilling life here in the UK".
Jonathan Russell of the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think tank, said moderate Muslims "can be part of the solution" and must "take a role in a civil society response to extremism".
In his speech, Mr Cameron also said the UK would work with the UN to "modestly expand" the numbers of Syrian refugees it takes.
The UK has previously committed to take in 500 migrants from Syria over three years. Sources indicated that the government was now prepared to accept "a few hundred more".
He also talked about work being done to tackle online propaganda used by IS, with a British police officer being seconded to a new EU internet referral unit working with the industry to remove jihadist content.
Representatives of a number of faiths met at a mosque in Leeds earlier to discuss combating radicalisation.
The stories of those who have died, been convicted of offences relating to the Islamic State conflict or are still in Syria or Iraq.
A storytelling app, Traces, has been launched at St Fagans National History Museum.
The bilingual app focuses on characters who might "have lived and experienced" the castle and grounds in the early 20th Century.
The project hopes to offer visitors to the museum "something different".
Traces is a partnership between Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff University, and Cardiff Bay-based company Yello Brick.
Dafydd James, head of digital media at National Museum Wales, said: "We hope it captures the visitors' imaginations."
Flankers John Barclay and John Hardie, plus hooker Fraser Brown, suffered head knocks in the 22-16 defeat by France.
Loose forward Ryan Wilson is free from the illness that ruled him out of the trip to Paris.
Meanwhile, backs Sean Maitland and Mark Bennett have recovered from weekend knocks picked up with their clubs.
Saracens wing Maitland trudged off clutching his ribs midway through Gloucester's 31-23 win over Saracens on Friday, while centre Bennett had a possible concussion during Glasgow Warriors' 37-17 defeat by Ulster in Belfast the following day.
Speaking on Monday, defence coach Matt Taylor said: "They've all come into training and are being looked at by the medical staff.
"Neither Mark nor Sean trained today, but we hope they will be right tomorrow."
David Denton made his return for Bath at the weekend after five months out with a hamstring tear.
The number eight will not be considered for the match against Wales but could return next month when the Scots round off their campaign against England and Italy.
Scotland head coach Vern Cotter is having to deal with the loss of captain Greig Laidlaw and back-rower Josh Strauss for the remainder of the tournament.
Scrum-half Laidlaw's pinpoint goal-kicking and cool-headed decision-making have made the Gloucester scrum-half a key figure for the Scots in recent years.
However, Taylor insists there no shortage of contenders ready to take on the mantle of leadership.
"We haven't made a decision on the captaincy yet, but we have a number of leaders within the group," he said.
"Jonny Gray captains Glasgow and John Barclay captains the Scarlets, so we have a lot of guys who help Greig out.
"We will be looking for that again this weekend."
Laidlaw's number nine jersey is now up for grabs, with Glasgow pair Ali Price and Henry Pyrgos the two leading candidates.
Price came off the bench at the Stade de France when Laidlaw limped off, but that was only his second Test appearance.
Pyrgos has 18 caps and experience captaining Warriors in domestic and European competition but is only just back to full fitness after a troublesome knee injury.
"We have a plan we want to execute, but Henry and Ali have different strengths," added Taylor.
"Ali is very exciting with ball in hand, while Henry is good with his organisation and kicking. Both will have big parts to play.
"Vern has sat down with the leaders and talked about their roles.
"Rugby is a game where people get injured and the next person has to step up. We are looking to them to come to the fore.
"Both nines have been in the squad since the start, so they know the systems and they know the rest of the guys well.
"Both will be important whether they start or finish."
The paper leads with the news that the woman at the centre of the abortion pills raid will not face charges.
Helen Crickard's workplace was searched on 8 March by officers with a search warrant. But she told the Telegraph she had received a phone call from police saying no further action would be taken against her.
Ms Crickard lays the blame for the raid at the feet of Stormont's politicians, who, she said, "completely failed to protect women in Northern Ireland by denying them the right to the same healthcare women in the rest of the UK can access".
The paper also reports on a series of arson attacks in Larne, quoting former Sinn Féin councillor Oliver McMullan who says the town is "getting more like Beirut every day".
There's a Cinderella story to go with the Telegraph's front-page picture of a dog who has found "his forever family".
Shadow was once a starved puppy who was so malnourished he struggled to stand up.
His owner at that time was banned for life from keeping animals because of the suffering caused to Shadow and his mother.
But his tragic story has a fairytale ending, the paper reports: He is now running rings around his dog sister Storm and living the dream with a new adopted family.
The Irish News leads with the headline: "Councillors fail to pay rates - but Stormont won't name them".
The paper says that despite being responsible for spending ratepayers' money, four councillors did not even get their own rates bills paid on time in recent years.
One faced legal action for owing almost £2,000, the paper says and, in the other three cases, the amounts were smaller and were eventually settled.
The paper quotes Alex Wild from the Taxpayers' Alliance.
"There is a clear public interest in the names of councillors not paying their bills being made available so residents can make a better decision next time they vote," he said.
The paper also got its hands on an internal police document advising officers on words they should never use.
There is a list of all the words that should never be used to describe Catholics, Protestants or the elderly. Among the taboo terminology is the word "spongers" for Catholics.
SDLP MLA John Dallat said its inclusion on the list was surprising.
"In many ways, to suggest that it can apply to Catholics is ancient and, I suggest, may spring from the old days when unionists liked to create the impression that they were all hard working whilst the Catholics were on the dole," he said.
The paper quotes a police spokesman who said the document was guidance for officers and was published "with good intentions".
Politics take centre stage on the front page of the News Letter.
The paper's headline stresses that talks on parades "must be key" in any political deal at Stormont. Orangeman Darryl Hewitt tells the paper that parades are as important as legacy issues and "anything else on the agenda."
"Until it is addressed, tensions are always going to be high around the marching season," he said.
The paper notes that he was speaking as the 2017 marching season got under way in Northern Ireland on Monday.
Inside, a series of photographs mark the Apprentice Boys of Derry Easter Monday parade in Ballynahinch.
The News Letter also carries photographs from a dissident republican parade in Londonderry and quotes DUP MP Gregory Campbell who calls them an "unwelcome throwback" to the past.
The Daily Mirror features "popular Aussie blogger" Constance Hall, "a mum on a mission" who is heading for a gig in Belfast.
The Mirror says her blog following rocketed from 2,000 to 70,000 followers overnight after she posted her thoughts on "parent sex".
But those hoping to catch a few pearls of wisdom may think again: Her Belfast gig is already sold out.
The state prosecutor in Salzburg told the BBC that the men - Moroccan and Algerian nationals - were suspected of being accomplices of the attackers.
Salah Abdeslam, the only known surviving member of the jihadist team, has appeared in a Paris court for a third time, but again refused to speak.
The co-ordinated attacks were claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS).
The state prosecutor in Salzburg told the BBC that one of the suspects was a 26-year-old Moroccan and the other one was an Algerian citizen aged 40.
The pair, who have not been named in keeping with Austrian privacy laws, have been charged with being part of IS. They were reportedly arrested at a refugee centre last December.
They are suspected of helping two other suspects - whom Austria extradited to France this year - with "logistics as well as through gathering information and arranging contacts".
Those two extradited suspects have been identified by a number of media outlets as Algerian-born Adel Haddadi and Muhammad Usman, a Pakistani national.
They are believed to have been part of the same cell that carried out the Paris attacks.
In Paris, Salah Abdeslam again refused to answer questions from French anti-terror judges.
"He exercised his right to silence," Mr Abdeslam's lawyer Frank Berton told reporters.
Mr Abdeslam is believed to be angry about a 24-hour video surveillance of his prison cell in the high-security Fleury-Merogis jail just outside Paris.
In France, judges are responsible for investigating the case and questioning suspects ahead of any trial.
Salah Abdeslam is being investigated over charges of terrorism-related murder and attempted murder.
Arrested in Brussels in March after months on the run, he was transferred to French custody the following month.
His arrest took place just four days before bombings at Brussels airport and metro station, and he has been linked to several of the suspects believed to have carried out those attacks.
Belgian authorities have been accused of failing to connect him and his brother, Brahim Abdeslam, to ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Brahim Abdeslam blew himself up on 13 November, while Abaaoud was killed during a police raid in Paris days afterwards.
The Belgian authorities have already admitted making serious blunders in the months leading up to the Paris and Brussels attacks.
That statement means the launch today by the SNP of a somewhat delayed "summer offensive" on independence, an offensive that was initially promised as long ago as last March, has gained an added importance.
It is now potentially a launch pad for a second attempt to persuade a majority of Scots to vote for independence.
One of the implicit assumptions behind Nicola Sturgeon's "highly likely" remark is that enough of those who voted No to independence two years ago are sufficiently unhappy about the prospect of Scotland being required to leave the EU that they would now vote Yes.
But it is far from clear that there has been a post-Brexit increase in support for independence.
Since 23 June five polls have asked people how they would vote now in response to the question that appeared on the September 2014 ballot, "Should Scotland be an independent country?".
Three of these polls were conducted in the immediate wake of the Brexit vote. All three showed a small, but potentially crucial, swing to Yes.
Two were conducted by Survation. In one case 54% said they would vote Yes (after Don't Knows were left to one side), while in the other 53% did so.
When earlier this year Survation had on a number of occasions posed the referendum question, a little less than half - between 47% and 49% - then said they would vote for independence.
The third poll to be conducted soon after 23 June was done by Panelbase. It reported that 52% now backed independence. In polls the company conducted earlier this year it had consistently put support at 47%.
In short, all three of these immediate post-EU referendum polls suggested the Brexit vote had stimulated a small but potentially decisive swing in favour of independence.
Instead of there still being a small majority in favour of remaining in the UK, as most polls had suggested was the case hitherto, there now appeared to be a small majority in favour of independence.
If those poll figures were right, there was some realistic prospect that the SNP could win a second referendum, albeit holding such a ballot would still represent a considerable risk for the first minister.
However, two more recent polls, taken after the dust of the EU referendum had settled somewhat, have painted a different picture.
Conducted by YouGov, these polls have found little or no evidence of a swing in favour of independence.
One taken at the end of July put support for independence at 47%, while a second undertaken at the end of last month and published today, puts the figure at 46%.
These figures are more or less exactly in line with four polls YouGov conducted in advance of the Scottish Parliament election in May, all of which put support for independence at 45%-46%.
If these polls are correct then, whatever might have been the immediate reaction to the result of the EU referendum, it appears that over the longer term the outcome has failed to change the balance of opinion on independence after all.
Doubtless the first minister will be looking anxiously to see if any further polls in the coming weeks confirm YouGov's picture.
But at present it looks as though she cannot presume that she will be in a position to hold a successful second independence referendum any time soon.
Consequently, she needs the "summer offensive" being launched today to succeed in persuading more voters of the merits of independence.
To do that, the offensive will need to do more than reiterate the arguments in favour of Scotland staying in the EU.
YouGov's poll in July found that only 18% of those who voted No in the September 2014 referendum said they would rather live in a Scotland that was in the EU but not part of the UK than in a Scotland that was part of the UK but was outside the EU.
This suggests that most No voters have a stronger commitment to the Union with the rest of the UK than to the European Union headquartered in Brussels.
The SNP need to focus instead on persuading more voters that the case for independence makes economic sense.
In March this year - when the SNP envisaged Scotland would have become independent if it had voted Yes two years ago - as many as 49% said that they thought Scotland would now be worse off financially if it had voted for independence. Just 22% thought it would be better off.
Crucially, amongst those who voted No in September 2014 only 5% felt the country would now be better off, while as many as 81% reckoned it would be worse off.
The SNP's failure so far to persuade most voters of the economic case for independence is underlined by today's YouGov poll, which finds that as many as 49% believe that Scotland benefits economically from being part of the UK, while just 23% believes being part of the UK is harmful.
Whatever voters feel about the rights and wrongs of the vote on Brexit, persuading a majority of them to vote for independence is always likely to be an uphill task for so long as so many of them are doubtful that the proposition makes economic sense.
Jayden Stockley looked set to open the scoring for Exeter but Ryan Haynes made a vital aerial interception to clear .
Cambridge's Ben Williamson then fed James Dunne, whose rasping effort from the edge of the box was palmed wide by visiting keeper Bobby Olejnik.
Watkins struck the winner when his effort from the right side of goal deflected in off Haynes.
Match ends, Cambridge United 0, Exeter City 1.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 0, Exeter City 1.
Attempt missed. Leon Legge (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Robbie Simpson (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordan Moore-Taylor (Exeter City).
Foul by Zeli Ismail (Cambridge United).
Jordan Moore-Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Ryan Harley (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Foul by Ben Williamson (Cambridge United).
Matt Oakley (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Attempt blocked. Jake Taylor (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Haynes (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Darnell Furlong.
Substitution, Exeter City. Jake Taylor replaces David Wheeler.
Robbie Simpson (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Oakley (Exeter City).
Attempt blocked. Robbie Simpson (Cambridge United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Goal! Cambridge United 0, Exeter City 1. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ryan Harley.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Craig Woodman.
Attempt blocked. Robbie Simpson (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
James Dunne (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matt Oakley (Exeter City).
Robbie Simpson (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Moore-Taylor (Exeter City).
Attempt missed. Jayden Stockley (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by James Dunne.
Josh Coulson (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by David Wheeler (Exeter City).
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Jordan Moore-Taylor.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Robbie Simpson replaces James Spencer.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Will Norris.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Josh Coulson.
Foul by Ryan Donaldson (Cambridge United).
Christian Ribeiro (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Zeli Ismail replaces Harrison Dunk.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Ryan Donaldson replaces Ryan Ledson.
Attempt missed. Jayden Stockley (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Luke Berry.
Attempt missed. Craig Woodman (Exeter City) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Premier League
Manchester City 5-0 Crystal Palace
Bournemouth 2-2 Stoke City
Burnley 2-2 West Bromwich Albion
Hull City 0-2 Sunderland
Leicester City 3-0 Watford
Swansea 1-0 Everton
Scottish Premiership
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2-1 Hamilton
Celtic 4-1 St Johnstone
Kilmarnock 0-1 Dundee
Motherwell 0-1 Ross County
Premier League
Liverpool 0-0 Southampton
Arsenal v Manchester United (16:00)
Scottish Premiership
Partick Thistle 1-2 Rangers
Hearts v Aberdeen
Championship
Aston Villa 1-1 Brighton
Brentford 1-3 Blackburn Rovers
Bristol City 0-1 Birmingham City
Burton Albion 2-4 Reading
Huddersfield Town 0-3 Cardiff City
Newcastle United 3-0 Barnsley
Norwich City 4-0 Queens Park Rangers
Nottingham Forest 3-0 Ipswich Town
Rotherham United 1-1 Derby County
Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Fulham
Wigan Athletic 1-1 Leeds United
Wolves 1-0 Preston North End
Oliver Blume told German newspaper Westfalen-Blatt that people wanted "to drive a Porsche by oneself".
He added that Porsche did not need to team up with any tech firms.
Analysts Boston Consulting Group predict that by 2025, 13% of cars will have autonomous features.
Porsche does, however, intend to launch electric vehicles, and a plug-in hybrid of the 911 model with a range of 50 km (31 miles) will hit the market as early as 2018, Mr Blume said.
Porsche also plans to spend about 1bn euros ($1.1bn) on production facilities to build the Mission E, its first-ever all-electric model, a move reflecting parent VW's growing commitment to increase its electric offerings as it struggles to overcome an emissions scandal.
VW, along with most of the big carmakers, has signalled its intention to work on driverless cars and at tech show CES revealed a partnership with Mobileye, which produces real-time image processing cameras. It plans to put the cameras in future cars to create high definition maps of roads and environments as a basis for driverless cars.
Meanwhile rival Ford is expected to announce a tie-up with Google to work on its driverless cars.
Tesla boss Elon Musk predicts that it will have a fully self-driving car by 2018.
The 20-year-old from Bournemouth, in her first European Tour appearance of the 2017 season, finished with a six-under 67 for 11 under overall.
South Korean duo Hae Rym Kim and Seon Woo Bae contested a play-off after both finished on 14 under over three rounds, with the former holding on for victory.
"I played well and my long game was really good," Hall said.
"If I had reached the hole with more of my putts then I might have been in a play-off, but I'm joint third and I'm very happy with that."
Also tied for third were South Korea's Lee So-young and Min Sung Kim.
Scotland's Kylie Henry, 31, finished 13th on six under par.
The package was agreed with the eurozone on Monday and requires Greece to introduce severe austerity measures.
Without the deal, the country would have faced default and an exit from the euro currency, sparking fears of volatility in international markets.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.5% to 20,562.82 points in morning trade.
It marks the fourth consecutive day of the Nikkei climbing.
Investors were also taking cues from US Federal Reserve Chief Janet Yellen reiterating that US interest rates were likely to rise by the end of the year.
In her semi-annual testimony to Congress, she also said there were "favourable" prospects for more improvements in the jobs market and the economy as whole, but warned that continued uncertainty in Greece and China posed risks to US growth.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 index rose by 0.9% to 5,688.30 points leading the region's gains.
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto was down 0.7% after the company on Thursday trimmed its outlook for 2015.
Bad weather from cyclones affecting its mines in Australia led to a cut in its lower its production outlook for the year by nearly 3%.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index traded flat at 2,076.02 points.
Two high-tech cameras have been set up in farmers' fields in Conwy county and Ceredigion to show sheep and lambs roaming in the countryside.
It is part of a campaign in Denmark to highlight the traditional methods of producing Welsh Lamb.
It means Danes can now enjoy Wales at its best via "Lamb Cam".
Hybu Cig Cymru - Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) also hope the cameras will show the high level of animal welfare at farms producing Welsh Lamb as they promote the meat in Denmark.
One camera has been set up on sheep farmer Llyr Jones' land at Derwydd, near Corwen in Conwy county, with the other located at Mynydd Gorddu near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.
The video links are being promoted in Denmark as part of a marketing campaign and in supermarkets, where the live-stream will be broadcast.
Mr Jones said the camera had been placed at the highest point on his farm's mountain, which gave views of Snowdonia.
"I'm very excited to be able to share my untouched, special corner of the world with the people of Denmark," he added.
"It would be impossible to fly the good people of Denmark to see my lambs here at Derwydd so this is an effective way of sharing our product with them."
Annual sales of Welsh Lamb in Denmark have risen by as much as 25% year-on-year with an import of over 120 tonnes, according to HCC.
Alex James, market development export executive for HCC, said that made the country a target market for the product.
"Wales is perfect for producing quality Welsh Lamb with its unspoilt, luscious landscape, clean air, a temperate climate and mineral rich soils, all fed by a myriad of streams and rivers," he added.
"The aim of the Lamb Cam is to share the excellence of this environment with the Danes so that they can also understand and appreciate what makes Welsh Lamb so special."
Researchers compiled post-mortem test results for the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths.
Designed to mimic the effects of illegal drugs, "legal highs" are chemically different enough to not be covered by the law.
They are on sale openly on websites and high streets across the UK.
The chemicals - known as New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) - are made on an industrial scale in countries like China and India and then packaged and distributed throughout Europe.
Suppliers can sell many of them legally as long as they write "not for human consumption" on the packets. They are often sold as plant food or bath salts.
The government says it is leading the way globally by banning new drugs quickly.
But often new versions are then cooked up and come on sale almost immediately after a ban comes into place. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction identified 73 new substances in 2012 alone.
Richard Phillips, 26, has been left severely brain damaged after taking the now banned LSD copycat drug N-Bomb at a party. He had been drinking and tiny traces of cocaine were also found in his body.
Doctors told his family that it was probably the cocktail of alcohol and N-Bomb that triggered a series of fits.
His brother Byron Phillips said: "He was intelligent, fun loving and had a great sense of humour. He had a massive heart. He was a loving father and was loved by everyone he met."
His family believe he got the so called "legal high" from a friend who had bought the substance online back in May last year, just a month before the government banned N-Bomb.
"He's dependent on 24-hour care. He can hold his head up and move his arms but that's about as far as it goes. He can breathe for himself but he is fed through a peg in his stomach," said Byron.
"I know for a fact that with everything Rich had in his life he would not have taken this if he knew the risks."
Researchers at St George's University of London compiled the post-mortem test results from across the UK. They did not include all post-mortem examinations, so the authors say the number of deaths linked to NPS is probably higher than the 68 recorded in 2012. The reporting system is voluntary, and while most coroner regions provide data, not all do.
However, there is often more than one drug found in someone's system.
John Corkery, co-author of the report, said: "In a fair proportion of cases, for example (the now banned) mephedrone, we are aware there was only one substance taken and it's quite clear that's caused the effects which led to death.
"But in many cases it's a combination of other substances including alcohol but particularly stimulants like cocaine amphetamine and ecstasy."
The government said it was leading the way globally in dealing with the fast moving industry but drugs minister Norman Baker admitted it was a challenge keeping up. He has ordered a review into current laws which is expected to report back in the summer.
"The reality is we are chasing the chemists," he said.
"There are people elsewhere in the world who are busy creating drugs which mimic illegal drugs but are designed to be just outside the legal controls, in order to produce a product which is temporarily legal until we ban it.
Source: National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths
"But maybe as dangerous, or more dangerous, than the drugs that are already controlled.
"Eighty-eight per cent of the legal highs associated with deaths have been already been controlled and are banned. So the phrase "legal highs" is a misnomer."
For Byron though, more needs to be done to warn people of the risks of these completely untested substances.
"I'm heartbroken that it is something my brother could get so easily, that could have such a devastating affect," he said.
"I wish that day never happened. I wish he just had a few beers, and I wish he hadn't taken that extra step. I don't know why he did and I will never know, because I can't ask him - or at least he can't tell me why."
Michael George is a community safety officer in the Colin area.
The campaign was launched after the death of mother of three, Valerie Armstrong.
She died after being hit by a scrambler in Colin Glen Forest Park last July.
The Republican Network for Unity (RNU), called on black taxi bosses to withdraw the advertisements from their vehicles and claimed that drivers were being forced to "advertise the PSNI" on their taxis".
In a lengthy post on Facebook, the RNU called on the wider west Belfast community to "demonstrate their opposition to the PSNI attempting to integrate into our communities".
The advertisements have since been removed from the taxis, however it is not clear if the RNU position is the reason why the Black Taxi Association have decided to scrap the campaign.
Mr George, said he was desperate not to see another scrambler death.
He said: "I'm deeply frustrated. People shouldn't be playing politics with this.
"What is RFU's alternative? I would like it to hear it. What's next? Will they now be telling victims of domestic violence and burglaries not to report them?"
The Republican Network for Unity said: "This is a small victory for the people of West Belfast and beyond who overtly displayed their disgust at this insensitive practice."
Valerie Armstrong died after she was hit near Mila's Lake in Colin Glen Forest Park.
Mrs Armstrong was walking her dog along a pathway near the lake when she was struck by the scrambler.
She had three young children.
Her husband, Seamus, has spoken out in favour of the advertising campaign on the RNU Belfast Facebook page.
Dominic Bernard, 18, from Epsom in Surrey, arrived in Guyana last October but went missing soon after landing.
His badly decomposed body was discovered on 8 January in a shallow grave in the Berbice region.
Two men face a murder charge, while a man and two women are accused of helping bury the body.
Post-mortem examinations revealed Mr Bernard had suffered a fractured skull and a broken neck.
Police were reported to have recovered a hammer, thought to have been one of the murder weapons.
The investigation has been led by the Guyana Police Force but Surrey Police has been liaising "with all relevant agencies as inquiries continue".
Mr Bernard's parents Andrew and Linda said their son had travelled to pursue a dream of studying film-making.
They said he was "chasing his dreams, exploring his heritage and doing the things that brought joy to his heart."
He "tragically encountered those who do not share his values", they added.
Some 1,200 delegates from the recently demobilised group have attended the first day of the congress in Bogotá.
By the end of the congress on Friday the delegates will have chosen a new name for the Farc.
The rebel group will become a political party and it will take part in next year's general elections.
"At this event we are transforming the Farc into a new, exclusively political organisation," said its leader, Rodrigo Londoño, known as Timochenko.
The delegates will also select the names of the main candidates who will run for office at the 2018 poll.
Under the terms of the agreement, the new party will have a number of guaranteed seats in Congress after the first election they contest.
"We are going to define the character of the political party that we aspire to build," former commander Carlos Antonio Lozada told the AFP news agency.
The Farc, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, was formed in 1964 as a Marxist group to defend the rights of landless peasants.
It became Colombia's largest rebel group and one of the main parties in a bloody conflict involving other left-wing guerrillas, paramilitaries and the armed forces.
The rebels signed a peace accord with the government in November last year, after four years of comprehensive negotiations that were held in Cuba,
They agreed to give up their weapons and join the legal political process, after more than five decades of conflict.
In June the disarmament process was completed.
The rebels handed all its 7,000 registered weapons to the United Nations mission in Colombia.
More than 7,000 rebels in total have been granted amnesty or released from prison as part of their reintegration into Colombian society.
President Juan Manuel Santos won last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to reach a peace deal with the Farc.
The Colombian government is now engaged in negotiations with the ELN, or National Liberation Army.
Talks with the smaller left-wing rebel group are being held in neighbouring Ecuador.
The incident happened near the Hand Hotel, Llangollen, on Saturday.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said an assessment was made over the telephone before the taxi was arranged.
Sonia Thompson, head of operations in north Wales, said the use of taxis in "appropriate cases" allowed ambulances to be deployed elsewhere.
"We are sorry for the wait this patient experienced and for any discomfort it may have caused him," she said.
The wait for ambulance assistance prompted criticisms from people on the Facebook group, Llangollen notice board.
It is understood the man had been on holiday with a group of off-road bikers when the incident happened as he was loading his bike on to a van.
The Dow rose 45 points, or 0.2%, to 19,216, with shares in Goldman Sachs up 2.3% and JP Morgan rising 2%.
Nike was among the top risers on the Dow - up 2.7% - after HSBC raised its rating on the company's shares.
Confidence was boosted by data showing activity in the US services sector rose to a one-year high in November.
Many economists expect that the strengthening US economy will prompt the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, when it meets next week.
"We have a situation where the Fed is probably going to raise rates next week and this time raising rates is being viewed as a positive, mainly because of its impact on the financial stocks, which are all doing quite well today," said Peter Tuz, president of Chase Investment Counsel.
The wider S&P 500 index was up 12 points, or 0.6%, at 2,204, while the Nasdaq rose 53 points to 5,308.
US shares have been gaining ground since the election on 8 November, on hopes that polices under a Donald Trump administration will boost the economy.
"A lot of people were negative going into the election, or cautious, so now they're scrambling year-end to own stocks," said Alan Lancz, president of investment advisory firm Alan B Lancz & Associates.
US markets followed the lead of most of the European indexes by shrugging off the results of Italy's referendum on changes to the constitution.
"We're back in a rally mode," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities.
For the first time an annual census of Catholic schools has collected information on the number of pupils from other religions.
The biggest group of non-Catholic pupils are from other Christian denominations - but almost a tenth are from Muslim families.
The government has plans to encourage more Catholic free schools to open.
This analysis shows that, overall, nearly a third of the more than 850,000 pupils within the Catholic school system are not Catholic - a total of almost 290,000.
This can reflect local demographic changes and migration - with Catholic schools serving areas with a declining number of Catholic families.
The Muslim pupils are the biggest non-Christian group, apart from the 63,000 who are from non-religious families.
Finnuala Nelis, head of St Patrick's Catholic Voluntary Academy in Sheffield, is in charge of a school where about half the pupils are not Catholics.
She says there have been changes in the local population - and that the school is now popular with parents who choose a Catholic school, even though they are not Catholics.
This includes Christians from a number of African churches and also Muslim pupils.
She says there are Muslim pupils who regularly attend their local mosques, but who will go to Catholic religious services at school.
Muslim parents are able to withdraw their children from religious celebrations at the school, says Mrs Nelis, but they want their children to participate.
"It's not an uncomfortable zone" to talk about these subjects with children or parents, she says.
Muslim parents are also able to take their children out of school on Muslim festivals, such as Eid.
She says that non-Catholic parents choose the school because of the ethos and "value system", as well as Catholic schools' reputation for a "good standard of education".
The government wants to change the rules for free schools to encourage more Catholic ones to open.
At present, free schools run by faith groups can only allocate half of their places on grounds of religion - a limit that the government has announced it will remove.
The government argues that Catholic schools combine ethnic diversity with high standards. In Catholic primary schools, 37% of pupils are from ethnic minorities, higher than the national average.
But opponents have warned that expanding faith schools will encourage social segregation.
The appeal of Catholic schools to Muslim families might also reflect the fact that there are relatively few Muslim schools in state system.
Among more than 6,800 faith schools in the state school system, only 28 are Muslim, with two more in the pipeline.
Paul Barber, director of the Catholic Education Service, said Catholic schools were "beacons of diversity and integration up and down the country".
"Often, parents of different faiths and none value the distinctive and unapologetically Catholic ethos of the Church's schools."
Helena Happell, 41, and her co-accused Mary Hawthorn, 32, allegedly attempted to kill Lorretta Happell on Friday.
The incident is said to have taken place at a property on Great Western Road, Glasgow.
Both women appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court where they made no plea or declaration and were remanded in custody.
Ms Happell is also charged with sending text messages that were "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character" to the 58-year-old between 15 October 2016 and 27 October 2016.
Prosecutors claim that on 17 February 2017 Ms Happell and Ms Hawthorn repeatedly hit Mrs Happell with "a knife or similar instrument" then wrapped a wire around her neck and attempted to strangle her.
Both women will appear for a full committal hearing next week.
PrimEvil's poster for its Halloween attraction near Norwich was displayed around the city, including near schools, in September and October.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints about it.
Goymour Properties, which ran PrimEvil, has apologised.
More on this story and other updates from Norfolk
The 6ft-high adverts featured the head and shoulders of a white-faced clown under the heading "PrimEvil. Screaming won't help!"
Some of the 23 complainants reported their children became "very distressed on seeing the image", the ASA said.
The watchdog's findings noted the clown's "menacing expression", red glowing eyes, blood-soaked face and the fact it was "leaning towards the camera".
"The overall presentation of the image was likely to distress young children, particularly but not only in combination with the text - which was presented as though it was written in blood," it said.
It concluded the advert was likely to cause fear or distress without justifiable reason and had been irresponsibly targeted.
The ASA ruled the advert must not appear again, and said Goymour Properties must ensure its marketing does not cause fear or distress without justifiable reason.
It acknowledged one poster, outside a shop in Rackheath, had been removed and 12 others replaced after complaints were received.
Mother-of-three Johannah Martin, of Rackheath, had faced a backlash on Facebook when she complained about the advert and urged others to do the same.
"I got so many negative comments from lots of parents saying I was really over-the-top and my daughter was a sissy for being scared," she said.
"I'm really glad an external body that sees that kind of imagery all the time has agreed with me."
Martin Goymour said his firm would submit adverts to the ASA before distributing them.
The firm had previously said the poster did not contravene advertising standards.
The attraction, for over-12s, featured themed zones, such as a haunted hotel, at the Lenwade Dinosaur Park.
23 January 2017 Last updated at 06:11 GMT
The final Land Rover Defender rolled off the production line in January 2016 - the NFU Mutual insurance company says since then there has been a surge in theft claims.
Some Land Rover owners are now fighting back by using social media to track down their vehicles.
You can see more on this story on Inside Out South East on BBC One at 19:30 GMT on Monday.
Councillors confirmed the closures alongside increasing the cost of adult social care services and cutting back on street lighting during the night.
Twelve paddling pools are to be closed over the summer but a decision on the future of leisure services was deferred.
The council needs to make ??70m budget savings over four years.
Although the Muni is to close, the Coliseum in Aberdare and the Park and Dare in Treorchy will be retained, which the council says is more than many other local authorities operate.
And while the Cynon Valley museum will close with , the Rhondda Heritage Park will be retained and developed into a heritage hub.
Bus route subsidies for services that are not commercially viable are to be nearly halved to ??0.4m a year.
Councillors also voted for part-night lighting of all streetlights in non residential areas and part-night lighting of alternate streetlights in residential areas.
Paul Cannon, deputy Rhondda Cynon Taf council leader, said: "There is no easy solution in these tough financial circumstances.
"Our funding has been dramatically reduced by the government in London, and this will mean that difficult and unfortunately unpopular decisions were necessary today and will be required in the future.
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The near miss involving two Airbus A400s in March happened when an air traffic controller instructed the wrong aircraft to descend.
The controller at RAF Brize Norton had not received a handover from the radar controller, due to "a very high workload", the report found.
It said this was "a contributing factor" to the near miss.
One of the planes was leaving RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, as the other was descending to land at the base.
The pilot of one of the planes said without taking avoiding action there was a "definite possibility of a mid-air collision".
The UK Airprox board, which investigates near collisions between aircraft, has recommended RAF Brize Norton's air traffic control reviews how tasks are assigned.
It classified it as a category C incident, which means "no risk of collision has existed or risk was averted".
The report said some members of the board felt it should have been assessed as category B because safety "was much below the norm".
An RAF spokesman said it welcomed all the recommendations made in air proximity reports.
He added that such cases were rare in comparison to the "millions of military and civilian flights" made in UK airspace each year. | Two military transport planes came within 1,700ft (520m) of colliding near an RAF base, a report has said. | 40,703,227 | 262 | 31 | false |
The 25-year-old is among 13 British men in Ukraine for the championships, which will be held from 16-24 June.
"I've been sparring with Anthony for a long time; it gives you real confidence," said Clarke.
"If I can compete with Joshua, the best heavyweight in the world, I can compete with anyone else on the planet."
World heavyweight champion Joshua, a 2012 Olympic gold medallist, trains at GB Boxing's base in Sheffield - where his coach Rob McCracken also oversees the GB Olympic programme.
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"I've been on the programme eight years now, but only now am I ready to go to the major championships and win a gold medal," said Clarke.
"By no stretch of the imagination is it going to be an easy task to win these Europeans.
"But the years of sparring with Joshua and Joe Joyce have put me in a great position to compete and go and be the number one."
The tournament in Kharkiv is also an opportunity to qualify for August's World Championships in Hamburg.
And although the 10 English boxers and three Scottish boxers will fight in their home nation's vest in Ukraine, top-eight finishes will claim quota places for Great Britain in Germany.
Only two Rio Olympians - Pat McCormack and Galal Yafai - are in the team, with most of their fellow Olympians having switched to the professional ranks.
For 10 of the British boxers in Ukraine, this event is their first taste of senior major international competition.
"We're looking for the experienced boxers to go and show that experience and we want the new boxers to show they have potential for the Tokyo Olympics," performance director McCracken told BBC Sport.
"There's some good talent coming through and this is how we develop them - by exposing them to the best in Europe and then the world.
"It's very early in the Olympic cycle, but we're trying to strengthen across all 10 weights."
GB boxers at the European Championships from 16-24 June:
Galal Yafai - Light-flyweight - 49kg - England; Niall Farrell - Flyweight - 52kg - England; Peter McGrail - Bantamweight - 56kg - England; Lee McGregor - Bantamweight - 56kg - Scotland; Calum French - Lightweight - 60kg - England; Luke McCormack - Light-welterweight - 64kg -England; Pat McCormack - Welterweight - 69kg - England; Ben Whittaker - Middleweight - 75kg - England; John Docherty - Middleweight - 75kg - Scotland; Tom Whittaker-Hart - Light-heavyweight - 81kg - England; Cheavon Clarke - Heavyweight - 91kg - England; Scott Forrest - Heavyweight - 91kg - Scotland; Frazer Clarke - Super-heavyweight - 91kg+ - England. | Super-heavyweight Frazer Clarke believes sparring with Anthony Joshua can propel him to a gold medal in the European Boxing Championships. | 40,262,796 | 701 | 32 | false |
John Mappin from Cornwall said he knew two years ago Trump would win the US election.
He said he placed 35 bets over the course of the last eighteen months staking around £20,000.
The businessman says he only made his original bet so people would believe him when he said he knew it would be a Trump victory.
More on the Trump gambling story, plus more Devon and Cornwall news.
The odds of Donald Trump becoming President were 33-1 when Mr Mappin, 51, owner of Camelot Castle at Tintagel placed his first bet.
The businessman from Tintagel who said he had never gambled before claimed he was "absolutely certain" that Trump was going to win and "never wavered from that position".
He is yet to receive his winnings but expects to take home around £110,000. | A hotel owner is more than £100,000 better off as a result of Donald Trump's presidential victory. | 37,924,437 | 185 | 24 | false |
The Rt Rev David Walker criticised the "Kafkaesque" workings of the welfare system which he said produced too many wrongly imposed sanctions and delays.
The Bishop of Manchester made the remarks at a Conservative Party conference fringe event in the city.
He claimed innocent people are trapped in the drive to catch fraudsters.
The bishop said: "The way that policy is being implemented - there are too many delays, there are too many wrong decisions and that does lead to too many innocent people effectively being punished.
"We have to let a few manipulative people get away with it if we're not going to have too many innocent people punished," he added.
"I don't think we can put the burden of proof so far over to making sure nobody ever pulls one over our eyes that we trap lots of innocent people."
The bishop backed Universal Credit but was not confident poor people would not continue to bear the burden of inefficiencies in the system.
Criticising the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) he said: "My first priority would be to drive down the unacceptable delays in benefit payments and the wrongful or overzealous imposition of sanctions.
"I think they have got out of hand and at times it's almost Kafkaesque to have a situation that is dysfunctional, [which] dissuades people from getting involved with it - is that in itself meant to be a disincentive?"
A DWP statement: "Our vital reforms are restoring fairness to the system for claimants as well as the taxpayer."
While a spokesperson also stressed that fraud is unacceptable as the money needs to go to those in need. | Benefit cheats should be allowed to get away with fraud to stop innocent people being punished with sanctions and late payments, a leading bishop has said. | 34,449,325 | 362 | 31 | false |
Geoff and Terri Hudson tied the knot at St Peter's Hospice in Bristol on Tuesday with only 36 hours' notice.
The couple, who met nine years ago, said they always planned to marry but the diagnosis brought things forward.
Mrs Hudson said the ceremony organised "in a whirl" had been "wow, wow, pow, pow".
The couple had to apply for a special licence to marry at the hospice as a register office would have been impractical for Mr Hudson.
Mrs Hudson, 68, said: "Yesterday I was Terri King and today I am Terri Hudson. The celebration has been absolutely wonderful - St Peter's has been absolutely fantastic - it's just been a whirl."
She said her 65-year-old new husband had proposed to her just a few weeks after they met and "I said ,'oh, all right' and then he didn't mention it for years".
However, she added he did buy her an engagement ring.
"Last August he asked my father permission to marry me and he said 'yes, of course you can'. Sadly Dad passed away in October.
"We just decided to get married now and because he [Geoff] wasn't well enough to go to the registry office, Neil at the hospice said we could get married here and today it happened - wow, wow, pow, pow."
"It's difficult because he is ill but the people at St Peter's Hospice have been lovely, amazing," she said.
Johnny Flanagan, from the hospice, said: "It was an absolute honour to be a part of Geoff and Terri's special day at St Peter's Hospice.
"The whole team at the hospice worked incredibly hard to make it happen, and for it to be a memorable day for Terri, Geoff and their family."
The image was taken using mirrors, enabling the photographer to capture full-length pictures of the Queen from the front, back and sides.
Prince William and the Duchess of Cornwall have also posed for similar shots.
All of the images, taken over the last few years, will be used in the exhibition The Queen's People.
Mr Rittson-Thomas, who has photographed people including the Dalai Lama and David Cameron, spoke of technical problems during his session with the Queen.
"The camera had a digital seizure but luckily I was about two-thirds of the way into the shoot. She was very calm and cool and put me at ease," he said.
Mr Rittson-Thomas said he captured the Queen's smile after he asked the passionate horse-owner how she would feel if one of her horses won the Epsom Derby - the only classic to have eluded her.
The photographs were taken in 2013 at Windsor Castle.
Prince William, Colonel of the Irish Guards, was photographed in 2012 when he and wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, joined the regiment to celebrate St Patrick's Day.
He was wearing his Irish Guards frock coat for the occasion.
The exhibition features members of the Royal Household and senior ceremonial figures in their traditional uniforms depicted using the same quadruple portrait effect.
Others featured in the exhibition include the Bishop of London Richard Chartres, who is Dean of the Chapel Royal, and Lieutenant General David Leakey, who is the senior House of Lords officer Black Rod.
The Duchess of Cornwall's picture was taken earlier this year wearing formal attire, designed by Bruce Oldfield, together with family jewellery.
The project was inspired by 16th and 17th Century paintings of monarchs such as Elizabeth I and her court, often painted against a black or dark background which emphasised the rich colours of the outfits worn.
The Queen's People exhibition will be held at Eleven Gallery in London from 19 August to 19 September.
Rivers died days after she suffered a cardiac arrest while undergoing a procedure to examine her throat.
Her family had claimed the Yorkville Endoscopy centre performed unauthorised procedures on the comedian.
It also alleged the clinic failed to take appropriate action when her vital signs weakened.
The family said it was pleased with the settlement but did not reveal the amount of compensation.
Joan Rivers's daughter, Melissa, filed a malpractice suit in January 2015, alleging doctors posed for selfies with her mother while she was unconscious.
In a statement, she said the settlement allowed her to "put the legal aspects of my mother's death behind me and ensure that those culpable for her death have accepted responsibility for their actions quickly and without equivocation".
The Rivers' lawyers said the doctors had not denied responsibility.
Shortly before the lawsuit was filed, a government health agency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, cited the Yorkville clinic for failing to follow standard protocols during its treatment of Rivers.
After the settlement was announced, the Yorkville clinic said: "Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the Rivers family.
"We remain committed to providing quality, compassionate healthcare services that meet the needs of our patients, their families and the community."
In a light, airy office on the ground floor of Europol's brutalist headquarters in The Hague, David Ellero, one of its senior officials, is reflecting on how the organisation has changed since he joined in 2007. In those days, some people confused Europol with Interpol and others thought it was just an annoying part of the EU's bureaucratic machinery.
"Our counterparts, or the investigators in the member states, didn't really know what we did," Ellero says.
Now, the European Police Office, to give it its official title, is recognised across the law enforcement world, with a budget of almost £100m, and a workforce of more than 1000, to match.
Its effectiveness certainly isn't lost on the UK government, which is preparing to start negotiations about Britain's role in Europol after the country leaves the EU. Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, has said that the agency plays an "incredibly important role in keeping us safe in Europe".
"The phone rings quite often," says Ellero, with typical understatement.
A former detective - much of his career was spent in Italy investigating Mafia killings - he now heads a department tackling the top organised crime groups across the Continent.
"For a criminal to communicate with his counterparts across Europe it takes a second on WhatsApp.
"We need to make sure that... police (can act) at the same speed even if they have different judicial set-ups and and even if they speak different languages," adds Ellero, pointing out that "even pickpockets" operate transnationally.
The main function of Europol, which started work in 1999, is to act as a hub for the exchange of intelligence between 750 global agencies. It also oversees databases containing tens of millions of pieces of information on criminals, offences and suspect vehicles, and it helps co-ordinate crime-fighting operations against drug dealers, human trafficking gangs and terrorists.
Forty countries - including the EU member states and others such as the US and Australia - communicate via a system called Siena - hundreds of thousands of encrypted operational messages are sent every year.
The agency's main intelligence database - Europol Information System (EIS) - keeps track of crimes, suspects and convicted criminals, including terrorism cases. Only Europol members have direct access to the EIS; other countries must put in a request.
Europol uses a unique database known as the Analysis Work File (AWF). More than 100 specialists based in The Hague use AWF to help investigators across the EU better understand and tackle crime and organised crime groups - the system has more than 33 million active entries.
Outside Europol, other pan-European intelligence systems help in the fight against crime including the Schengen Information System (SIS). Although the UK is not among the 26 countries that have open borders under the Schengen agreement it can access the database which records cross-border movements and associated intelligence.
In 2015, the SIS was interrogated three million times by law enforcement officers across Europe with 64 million "alerts" placed on the system every day relating to stolen vehicles and missing children to foreign fighters returning to Europe from Syria and Iraq.
Indeed, one of the fastest-growing areas of work at Europol involves countering the spread of propaganda from terrorist groups and extremists. A 26-strong team in the Internet Referral Unit spends each day combing the web for material and then persuading social media companies and service providers to remove it.
The head of the unit, Vincent Semestre, likens it to "emptying the ocean with a spoon". He says they've identified 91 internet platforms that have contained extremist content, more than 50 of which have co-operated with Europol in deleting the material.
Over the past 18 months the team's most intense periods of work have come after terror attacks in Europe, when it's had to act quickly to prevent the spread of extremist images, videos and postings.
"You need to have capacity in-house, which is understanding this ideology in its original language: which means staff speaking Arabic, speaking Russian, speaking Turkish," says Semestre, who worked for the French judicial police before joining Europol.
"Multiplying these resources needed by all the member states would be quite difficult.
"You need to have continuous monitoring of the technological environment so it made sense to have this centralised in Europol in order to provide these centralised services to all the member states," he adds.
Despite the serious nature of their work, there's a relaxed and friendly atmosphere inside the Europol building - it looks more like an art college than a police station.
Nevertheless, security is tight: everyone is searched on entry, bags are X-rayed, identity documents are taken away to be checked. Around the atrium, blinds are drawn on the windows of meeting rooms, signifying that confidential briefings are taking place.
On the second floor, there's another layer of protection, with extra ID checks and access possible only via a palm print scanner. It's known as the "secure zone" and it's here, and on the floors above, that each of the EU's member states, plus 14 other countries, have their own staff.
In total, there are more than 200 of them - they're called liaison officers - and they specialise in crimes such as gun-running, trafficking and drug smuggling.
The main benefit is that representatives of each country can meet in person to sort out the complexities of cross-border police work. For Britain's 17 liaison officers, who work from an office which neighbours the bureaux of Luxembourg, the Republic of Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands, an added advantage is that the language of Europol is English.
Kenny Dron, who's in charge of the UK office, says there's no need for long-distance phone calls, texts... or emails.
"Emails just don't work when you've got people to protect and lives to protect back in the UK," says Dron, who's spent 30 years in border policing and intelligence work.
"So you've got to have that face-to-face contact to ensure that the other country and your colleagues understand the severity of the situation."
Although Britain will almost certainly continue to have liaison officers at Europol after Brexit (America isn't in the EU and it has more than 20 staff based there) what's far less clear is the future of the 50 other UK law enforcement employees in the Hague. They're currently overseeing a range of cross-border policing operations, on child sexual exploitation, excise fraud and heroin trafficking, among others.
One of the British officers, Laura Clark, seconded from the National Crime Agency to work in Europol's migrant smuggling centre, says it would be a "real shame" if Britain can't continue to play a major part in the organisation.
"We would miss a lot of the intelligence that goes through. There's a lot of juicy intelligence that I see that wouldn't be able to get given to countries, a lot of support for investigations wouldn't happen," she says.
In January, reflecting on Britain's likely relationship with Europol after Brexit, Amber Rudd told the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: "I expect and hope us to have an active role going forward," pointing out that the UK was "one of the largest contributors" to the EU agency's database.
Rob Wainwright, Europol's director since 2009, goes further, saying Britain is "rightly regarded as a natural leader" on security issues.
"There is no doubt that if you look over the last 20 or 30 years the evolution of police co-operation in Europe, not just at Europol, there is a heavy British footprint around that," says Wainwright, who declares himself to be a "proud Brit".
But he says the "fullest benefits" of the organisation go to EU-member states, and if, after Brexit, Britain has an arrangement with Europol akin to that of non-members such as the USA or Norway, Wainwright says there'll be "some diminution" in the UK's rights and responsibilities. They have limited access to intelligence and less say over operations and decisions.
"The opportunity therefore to share that experience, the opportunity to leverage that influence, is going to change and maybe diminish and I think those in charge of running that in Britain will need to find alternative ways therefore of making sure that Britain can still have a real voice in European security affairs," he says.
By then, Rob Wainwright, who's credited with introducing reforms to Europol that have enhanced its standing and effectiveness, will have left the Hague headquarters, as his contract expires in April 2018.
His successor will inherit an organisation in good shape - but one that will have to adjust to a different relationship with the UK.
The Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange fell 5.4% on Sunday, while the Qatar Exchange closed down 7% and Dubai's stocks dropped 4.6%.
Those exchanges are dominated by energy firms who fear oil will fall further from its current 12-year low of $29 when Iran resumes oil exports.
Iran has said it will sell up to 500,000 extra barrels of crude oil.
Economic sanctions, in place for nearly 40 years, were lifted after inspectors confirmed on Saturday that Iran had taken the required steps to limit its nuclear programme.
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Investors reacted immediately in the first day of trading in the Muslim week.
The Saudi Tadawul All Share Index, the largest market in the region, dropped during trading to its lowest level since early 2011, closing at 5,520 points.
Share prices in all six of the other Gulf stock exchanges also dropped, as investors weighed up a stronger Iranian economy and extra oil in an already over-supplied market.
Saudi Arabia's oil minister Ali al-Naimi said it would take "some time" to restore stability to the global oil market, but added that he remained optimistic.
It's a bit surprising that markets are surprised - Iran has promised since the Vienna agreement was signed in July to pump 500,000 additional barrels of crude per day when sanctions were lifted.
Most oil traders have accelerated their sell-off of oil, gas and energy companies in the run up to Saturday's well flagged announcement by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).
And yet there's been a rout on Gulf stock markets today (Sunday is a full trading day in the Middle East).
In fact, the Tadawul All Share Index in Riyadh has halved since the summer of 2014 when oil prices started their precipitous fall from $115 to $29 per barrel.
Although Gulf nations are petroleum-based economies, listed companies in most sectors were down - apart from Iran of course. That's because Iran is now expected to be the main beneficiary of billions of dollars of new investment from the West - money which might have previously been spent in other Gulf nations.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that the deal was "a turning point" for Iran's economy.
The lifting of sanctions also enables Iran to use the global financial system for trade.
Estimates say close to $100bn (£70bn) of Iranian assets will be unlocked under the nuclear deal.
Fans will flock to the ExCel centre for the latest in comics, graphic novels and related memorabilia.
Talks and autograph sessions are also held with comic book creators.
Jaw-dropping costumes can be seen at the event, although organisers stipulate they must have "enough body coverage to be worn in public".
Mr Ghomeshi was fired in October after media reports detailing sexual assault allegations made against him surfaced.
The CBC said it was severing ties with Chris Boyce and Todd Spence, who were previously suspended.
The report, created by lawyer Janice Rubin, was released on Thursday.
Mr Ghomeshi, who hosted a popular radio show called Q, faces seven counts of sexual assault and one count of choking.
He has denied the allegations and said that they originated from consensual "rough sex". His lawyer says he will plead not guilty to all charges.
Ms Rubin's report said that CBC management knew about Mr Ghomeshi's behaviour, or should have known. It said the members of management did not take steps to stop it.
The lawyer spent five months compiling the report and interviewed 99 people during the process.
A majority of witnesses said Mr Ghomeshi engaged in "a pattern of behaviour and conduct" that was "deeply disrespectful to employees".
That behaviour included playing pranks and cruel jokes, yelling, humiliating and belittling others, and in a small number of cases, sexually harassing colleagues.
"We saw no compelling evidence that Mr Ghomeshi was ever told his behaviour would have to improve, or he would have to refrain from certain types of behaviour, or else face disciplinary action including termination,'' the report said.
Hubert Lacroix, the president and CEO of company, and Heather Conway, an executive producer, apologised to the company's employees and all Canadians during a conference call on Thursday.
Ms Conway said the company will be working with the Canadian Media Guild to review the report's nine recommendations and to "implement as many of those as we can, as quickly as possible".
Mr Ghomeshi is expected in court on 28 April. He is currently free on a bail of 100,000 Canadian dollars (£54,720).
For decades now, these two cities - and the surrounding states that collectively make up the "rust belt" - have been aching reminders of industry's decline, and of the devastating impact that outsourcing and globalisation wreaked on those living and working in manufacturing in the heart of the US.
Yet over the past five years, a curious thing has been happening in one of those rusty states: Indiana.
Look away from the abandoned mills in Gary, and draw your eye a little further south down the map of the state and you'll notice that there are factories in almost every industry imaginable, spread across Indiana's vast cornfields.
It's not Michigan or Illinois or Ohio, but this relatively unassuming flyover state that has become the nation's leader in manufacturing.
"When we moved, I couldn't believe that there was that much manufacturing activity going on here," says Ball State University economics professor Michael Hicks.
"It is shocking."
The reality is that beyond Gary, manufacturing never really left Indiana - which first saw its fortunes rise during the turn of the 20th century, when the state's young men who had previously been subsistence farmers suddenly found themselves on hard times as agriculture became more mechanised.
Manufacturers recognised that Indiana had an able and willing workforce and set up across the state, building mostly small and medium factories that primarily served US car manufacturers.
"We didn't have a single concentration of factories - we didn't have a Detroit or a single-industry town," explains Professor Hicks.
"That means that Indiana has been able to maintain its manufacturing presence - primarily because it wasn't as susceptible to the downward shocks that the steel industry was to Pittsburgh, or that the car industry was for Detroit."
Now, manufacturing makes up an astounding 30% of the state's economic output - compared to 12% of overall US gross domestic product (GDP) - and produces almost everything from cars and motor homes to pharmaceuticals and biomedical devices.
When indirect and induced jobs (that is, the retailers that choose to open up in a town to cater for manufacturing workers) are factored in, nearly two-thirds of the state's economic activity is due to manufacturing.
Cummins is a nearly 100-year-old maker of engines and power systems that first started in Indianapolis when - along with 100 other companies - Plessy Cummins imported a license to make diesel engines.
Since then, the Cummins firm has focused relentlessly on improving engine performance and innovation, growing to a global business with over $20bn (£13bn) in sales and 50,000 employees. It is typical of manufacturers in the state, employing around 7,000 workers at various sites.
At the firm's engine plant in Columbus - about a 45 minute drive south of Indianapolis - nearly 700 employees work six days a week assembling 600 engines a day that primarily go into Chrysler's RAM trucks.
Dana Sims - whose mother, brother, and cousin all work at the plant - says that she was attracted to the facility because it was a good job, and then fell in love with the engineering.
As she wanders around the plant, she points out machines nicknamed Big Igor and Mega Torque, and then stops in front of the company's latest robotic arm.
"That machine takes 51 seconds to do what we used to do in five minutes," she says. When asked if she was worried it would one day take her job, she laughs and says it simply makes her job easier, relieving workers like her of repetitive tasks that can cause injuries.
It is this combination of advanced manufacturing as well as educated, knowledgeable workers that has kept Cummins profitable - and in Indiana.
Chief executive Tom Linebarger, who is only the sixth leader the company has ever had, says that these factors, in addition to the changing nature of supply chains, were one reason the firm chose to invest $200m (£130m) in another plant further south, in Seymour.
"We did a global study of manufacturing - costs of efficiency and for global supply - we looked at plants in India, China, even the UK, and Seymour came out the best from a total point of view," says Mr Linebarger.
He chalks up the firm's success not only to its relentless pursuit of global opportunities, but also to its roots.
"There is no question that the company's culture is a Midwest culture - it's modest and it's one that wants to support communities," he says.
It's not just Cummins that is expanding: General Motors has promised to invest $1.2bn (£670m) in a plant in Fort Wayne, and the state has managed to lure businesses such as steelmaker T&B Tube and shelving firm Edsal Manufacturing away from Illinois over the border to Gary.
This growth is even more surprising because during the recession, economic forecasters had been predicting that the state's unemployment rate would rise as a result of the susceptibility of manufacturing to economic downturns (most consumers first cut back on big purchases like home appliances and cars, which often disproportionately affect manufacturers).
This didn't happen mostly due to a series of prescient actions by Indiana's state government.
"Indiana is seen as an island of reasonability," says Brian Burton, the incoming head of the Indiana Manufacturers Association.
"We have made major regulatory and tax structure changes over the last 10 years which have helped our competitive advantage."
In a move that some have credited to Midwestern prudence, Indiana funded its pension plan for state workers - unlike many other states like Illinois - allowing it to enact a series of tax cuts prior to the recession that made the state attractive to businesses.
Furthermore, the state passed "right to work" legislation in 2012, which meant that unions could not force everyone in a unionised plant to pay dues - a move that is potentially crippling to organised labour, but that is viewed favourably by firms.
Although some academics - including Professor Hicks - have questioned whether or not right to work legislation truly drives manufacturing growth, a study by the Indiana Economic Development corporation found that after the law was changed, 12,000 jobs and more than $1.2bn (£670m) in investment were added to the state by companies said they chose Indiana because it was a right-to-work state.
Industry participants express concern that a coming wave of retirements could impact the workforce, as nearly 40% of the state's current manufacturing employees are expected to retire in the next few years.
That's why politicians, companies like Cummins, and local schools are investing in educating yet another wave of potential employees - to ensure that an industry that has powered the state since those agricultural days continues to provide an economic engine.
The long-expected move comes on the day senior team Red Bull announced they would continue with Renault.
Toro Rosso are to use 2015-spec Ferrari engines, while the factory Ferrari team and customers Sauber and Haas will use the new 2016 design.
Toro Rosso will continue with drivers Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr, who impressed in their debut seasons.
The drivers' positions were not announced by the team along with the engine deal on Friday but were confirmed by Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko in an interview with the drinks giant's Speedweek website.
Identical joint statements from Toro Rosso and Ferrari were not completely clear on the specification of the engine the team would use, referring only to the "current Ferrari power-unit".
However, a Toro Rosso spokeswoman confirmed that the team would be using the specification of engine that Ferrari used at the end of this season.
The deal raises the intriguing possibility of the junior Red Bull team out-pacing the senior outfit.
That's because the Ferrari engine was this year significantly more powerful than the Renault and the Toro Rosso car was not far off the Red Bull in terms of chassis performance.
Renault has found it difficult to make progress with the performance of its engine since the introduction of the turbo hybrid formula in 2014 - a development version of the engine introduced at the penultimate race of the season in Brazil proved to have less power than the previous version.
However, Marko has expressed confidence in the developments planned by Renault, who will be assisted by British engineering company Ilmor.
"The concepts presented by Renault look good," Marko said. "Now they need to be implemented and respected in practice what they promise in theory. The question is how quickly that will be possible."
The costume is available on the store's website for $27.44 (£17.90) ahead of Halloween this Saturday.
Some users of social media expressed outrage at the costume. It comes at a time of spiralling violence between Israel and the Palestinians.
The store's "Sheikh Fagin nose", also available on its website, has likewise drawn criticism.
The latex prosthetic nose is described on the website as being "perfect for an Arab Sheik".
Its large, hook-nosed appearance and the use of the name Fagin - referring to a character in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist - appear also to play into anti-Semitic stereotypes.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) costume was also heavily criticised by many on Twitter. Walmart has not as yet reacted to the criticism.
More than 40 Palestinians have died in unrest in Israel and the Palestinian territories this month, many killed carrying out attacks on Israelis. Nine Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in stabbings and some gun attacks.
Earlier this year, an outfit inspired by transgender reality star and former athlete Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover was condemned as "transphobic" and "deplorable."
Another costume based on famed Zimbabwean lion Cecil, who was shot by an American dentist, was criticised by an animal welfare charity.
In 2013 UK supermarket chains Tesco and Asda - which is owned by Walmart - withdrew outfits for a "mental patient" and for someone from a "psycho ward" after they were criticised for stigmatising people with mental health issues.
The attack on Mr Karpeles seems to have been motivated by growing frustration over the actions of MtGox.
Last month MtGox stopped trading and filed for bankruptcy after finding out that $465m (£279m) in bitcoins had been lost via a security bug.
Many have called on the exchange to release more information about what happened to the lost bitcoins.
The attacks were mounted on the personal blog and Reddit account of Mr Karpeles and left the hackers in charge of both social media accounts.
The attackers used their access to grab detailed information about trading activity at MtGox. They then shared their findings by posting a 716MB file containing much of what they had found.
The material posted included an Excel spreadsheet of more than one million trades, entries from MtGox's business ledger and information about its back-office administration software.
"It's time that MtGox got the Bitcoin community's wrath instead of [the] Bitcoin community getting Goxed," wrote the hackers in a message accompanying the data dump. The word "Goxed" has been used to describe the sudden interruptions in trading MtGox imposed when it was going through technical problems before its final closure.
It was not yet clear whether the information dumps were real or shed new light on what had happened at the exchange, said Forbes staff writer Andy Greenberg.
He pointed out that although $465m in bitcoins (approximately 744,000 coins) had supposedly gone astray from MtGox, no activity suggesting they had been traded had been seen in the blockchain - the central list of buying and selling that underpins the entire Bitcoin network.
Hospital bosses said it was "an important milestone" in a £3.2m project to cut patient handover times at Queen's Medical Centre (QMC).
Nottinghamshire University Hospitals NHS Trust said the helipad could reduce patient transfers by up to 10 minutes.
It is hoped the helipad, which is set to be built on stilts, will be in use from early 2018.
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The hospital trust had plans to build the helipad on top of a new research building approved in 2015, but that project was deemed unviable and was never completed.
The helipad will now be built on stilts on top of one of the hospital's car parks.
Patients will then be transferred from the helipad to a lift and then a land ambulance, which will take them for treatment.
Helicopters currently land at a helipad at Highfields Park a mile away and patients are transferred by road ambulance.
Andrew Chatten, from the trust, said: "There remains much to do but this formal planning approval is an important milestone.
"This facility will help improve the care to the most critically injured patients from across the region helping them to be treated more quickly, reducing the transfer time from 15 minutes to less than five minutes from helicopter to our major trauma centre."
The helipad is being funded by a £2.5m donation from the Nottingham Hospitals Charity and a £700,000 investment from the hospital trust.
The ex-work and pensions secretary said "uncontrolled migration" drove down wages and increased the cost of living.
He appealed to people "who may have done OK from the EU" to "think about the people that haven't".
But Labour's Alan Johnson said the EU protected workers and stopped them from being "exploited".
The former Labour home secretary accused the Leave campaign of dismissing such protections as "red tape".
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Mr Duncan Smith's speech came after he told the Sun Germany had a "de facto veto" over David Cameron's EU renegotiations, with Angela Merkel blocking the PM's plans for an "emergency brake" on EU migration.
Downing Street said curbs it negotiated on in-work benefits for EU migrants were a "more effective" way forward.
In his speech in London, Mr Duncan Smith said EU migration caused a "downward pressure" on wages.
He singled out the Olympic Park in the capital, saying workers from Eastern Europe had undercut UK workers.
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He warned of an "explosion of have-nots" and an increasing divide between "people who benefit from the immigration of cheap nannies and baristas and labourers - and people who can't find work because of uncontrolled immigration".
His speech was dismissed by Mr Johnson, who leads the Labour In campaign.
"For Iain Duncan Smith to suggest that those rights that actually help workers and stop them being exploited is part of the problem… many of the people in Iain Duncan Smith's camp call that red tape," he said.
"When they say they want to get rid of red tape they want to get rid of the right for part- timers to be paid the same as full-timers etc."
He also rejected the "haves and have-nots" argument, saying major trade unions were backing Remain because the EU had a "social dimension that's protected workers".
Mr Johnson also said it was an "extreme view" to believe there was "nothing right at all" about the EU.
Asked about "being called extremist", Mr Duncan Smith responded: "Those people in Remain really need to stop throwing threats and ridiculous terms like that around."
Launching Labour's EU referendum battle bus alongside Mr Johnson, party leader Jeremy Corbyn said immigration was "not necessarily" affecting wages or putting a strain on services.
"We actually don't need to start blaming people, we need to work together to deal with the issues of minimum wages and conditions," he added.
Mr Duncan Smith faced questions after his speech about his comments about the PM's renegotiation, telling reporters the EU was "absolutely point blank refusing to change what they do".
He echoed Boris Johnson in seeking to expose what he said was the gulf between the goals Mr Cameron set for himself in his "Bloomberg Speech" in January 2013 - when he announced plans for the referendum - and the reality of what he subsequently achieved.
In the Sun, Mr Duncan Smith, a former Conservative leader who resigned as work and pensions secretary last month in a dispute over disability benefit cuts, described the concessions gained as "very marginal" and suggested that, in return, the UK had lost its veto on future fiscal and political integration within the eurozone.
"The EU knew that our veto was very powerful and we have given it away," he told the newspaper.
"The reform failed. We got nothing on border control at all. We are now in a worse position than we were before.
"We have gone from wanting to lead in Europe to being on the end of a lead in Europe."
Mr Duncan Smith's remarks are considered preposterous in Berlin where there is a real sense of frustration at the direction in which the Brexit debate is heading.
The notion that Germany in effect sat on David Cameron and forced him to change his speech at the 11th hour is completely rejected here.
It's true that Germany wouldn't have supported an all-out brake on migration.
But that wouldn't have come as news to the British; Angela Merkel had always made clear she was unprepared to support any changes that undermined the European principle of freedom of movement.
For the Germans, this was always about compromise. German support was considered vital but, of course, David Cameron had 26 other member states to persuade and many here feel Mrs Merkel went out on a limb to help him with his renegotiation.
The Brexit referendum really matters in Berlin; Germany doesn't want to lose an important economic and ideological ally within Europe. And there is a degree of despair here at the tone of the debate in Britain.
Mr Duncan Smith suggested that Mr Cameron dropped calls for an emergency brake on all EU migration from a speech he gave in November 2014 - setting out in broad details his reform demands - amid German opposition.
"I saw the draft. I know that right up until the midnight hour, there was a strong line in there about restricting the flow of migrants from the European Union - an emergency brake on overall migration.
"That was dropped, literally the night before. And it was dropped because the Germans said if that is in the speech, we will have to attack it.
"The whole thing was shown to them. The Germans said from the outset, you are not getting border control. Full stop."
Mr Cameron told MPs last week that his renegotiation package - which included limits on access to tax credits and child benefits for new EU migrants, an opt-out for the UK from ever-closer union and safeguards for countries outside the eurozone - was substantial and an "additional reason" to stay in the EU but should not be taken in isolation when weighing up the broader benefits of EU membership.
But Mr Duncan Smith said the limits on in-work benefits would be "very complex" to implement and their impact would be limited as most EU migrants coming to the UK were doing so to find work not to claim benefits.
Responding to Mr Duncan Smith's claims, a Number 10 source said: "The prime minister made clear at the time that the government had looked at an emergency brake but he decided it was not the most effective way forward.
"That is why he decided to impose restrictions on benefits instead to end the something-for-nothing culture."
A Pittsburgh federal judge dismissed the case "with prejudice" meaning it cannot be amended and refiled.
Renita Hill filed the claim saying she had been "emboldened" by the actions of Mr Cosby's other alleged victims.
Seven women are suing him, claiming he portrayed them as liars when they went public with their accusations.
Mr Cosby filed a counterclaim, alleging their claims were only for financial gain.
The 78-year-old is also seeking unspecified monetary damages and said the women inflicted emotional distress.
Ms Hill's defamation case said she was made out to be a "liar" and "extortionist" when the comedian, his wife and his lawyer issued blanket denials.
But judge Arthur Schwab agreed with Mr Cosby's legal representatives that the statements were opinions protected by the First Amendment.
"Even considering these three statements together as a combined, single statement, this newly 'conjoined' statement does not lead to an inference that the plaintiff is a 'liar and an extortionist'," he said.
Ms Hill's legal representative, George Kontos, said he would be appealing the decision, adding he strongly disagreed with the judge's reasoning.
"The basis of his opinion is these are constitutionally protected, 'pure' opinions,'' said Mr Kontos.
"But, looked at as a whole, they contain all sorts of innuendo and undisclosed facts."
Mr Cosby has not responded specifically to Ms Hill's allegations that he drugged and assaulted her several times after they met on the TV show Picture Pages in 1983.
She claims she was 16 at the time and the abuse continued for four years. She also says Mr Cosby helped pay for her college fees and travel to cities where he was performing.
Mr Cosby has repeatedly denied all accusations against him made by more than 50 women.
He has, however, admitted in court proceedings that he obtained and gave women sedatives over the years, but he maintained the women took the drugs willingly.
At the end of 2015, prosecutors in Pennsylvania charged the comedian with an alleged sexual assault in 2004. It was the first time Mr Cosby had been charged with any offence after months of accusations.
He is currently on $1m (£675,000) bail.
The world champions avoided a third straight loss as Toni Kroos opened the scoring before reported Liverpool target Mario Gotze doubled the lead.
Left-back Jonas Hector, another rumoured Liverpool option, then scored a header with a Mesut Ozil penalty making it 4-0 with 15 minutes left.
Stephan El Shaarawy grabbed a late consolation for Antonio Conte's team.
Upper Coll grazings committee was dismissed last month by the commission amid a row about its accounts.
Former committee members say they have done nothing wrong and are preparing to challenge the dismissal in court.
A constable is a person appointed by the commission to administer common grazings in the absence of a committee.
The Crofting Commission, crofting's regulatory body, said it would not be commenting further on live cases and has urged shareholders in common grazings to work together to resolve any disputes.
A spokesman added that shareholders and committees which adhere strictly to their own grazings regulations need not be concerned.
The Scottish Crofting Federation, a group that represents crofters' interest, said the commission's behaviour in the row was causing "widespread resentment and bewilderment".
Common grazings are areas of land shared by crofters and others who hold a right to graze stock on that land.
There are more than 1,000 common grazings covering at total of 500,000ha across Scotland, according to the Crofting Commission.
Grazing committees manage these areas of land and their members are elected by crofters.
As of October last year the country has 127.1 million people, 0.7% fewer than in the last census.
Demographers have long predicted a drop, citing Japan's falling birth rate and a lack of immigration.
The rapidly ageing population has contributed to a stagnating economy and worries of increasing health costs.
Japan now has 947,000 fewer people than when the last census was conducted in 2010, figures released by the internal affairs ministry show.
Only eight prefectures, including the capital Tokyo, saw a population increase, national broadcaster NHK. reported.
The remaining 39 all saw declines, including Fukushima which saw the largest drop of 115,000 people.
Fukushima, site of the doomed nuclear power station, was hit especially badly by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Japan has seen population growth for much of the past century, but this has been slowing rapidly in recent decades. The last census showed the population had completely stopped growing.
Friday's numbers mark the first time a decline has been recorded in the census, which has been taken every five years since 1920.
Researchers are predicting a sharp drop-off in the working population and a simultaneous rise in the number of elderly in coming decades.
According to government projections, by 2060 about 40% of its citizens will be sixty-five or older, and the general population will be one-third smaller than it is now.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made it a priority to boost the birthrate from 1.4 children to 1.8 children per woman, including improving childcare and tax incentives. Advanced economies usually require a rate of at least 2.1 for a stable population.
They played drums and bass, respectively, with Caribbean comedy outfit The Cuban Brothers at the Big Feastival in Oxfordshire.
Wearing baseball caps and shades, the musicians claimed to have formed the "supergroup of the Cotswolds".
The festival, now in its second year, is held at James's farm in Oxfordshire. About 14,000 attended the event.
James told the BBC: "I've had a great time and so have my children. We've been blessed by the weather. Let's do it again next year."
The Blur star, who charged £150 per head, repeatedly turned his back to the crowd to show off his low slung jeans which exposed his black underwear.
Cuban Brothers frontman Miguel Mantovani, aka Scotsman Mike Keat, told the BBC: "It was unrehearsed. They jumped on stage with us and they can hold their own.
"They're great guys and it was nice to have them join us. They have many, many talents. Jamie is a very impressive young man. Not only is he a stick man, he's cooking. Alex is doing his cheese making. He's hanging out with guys like Jeremy Clarkson. It's a Cotswolds thing."
The Feeling closed the festival, with Mark Owen, KT Tunstall, Lianne La Havas and Dodgy among the other performers.
The Cuban Brothers had flown back into Britain early on Sunday morning for the Big Feastival from Moscow where, they said, they had performed at an "oligarch's party".
Mantovani would only say: "He was called Dmitri. I can't reveal or pronounce his other name." But he added: "My pockets are considerably fatter now."
Their, at times risque, show included daredevil break dancing and was one of the best received performances at the weekend's festivities.
The Cuban Brothers are currently promoting their new album Yo Bonita, which includes collaborations with Mica Paris, KT Tunstall, Omar and Kurtis Blow.
Last year, James and Oliver played together in a one-time-only band called The Farm Lovin' Criminals.
Jonny Evans recorded his first United goal, from a corner, before Ronald Zubar saw red for two yellow cards.
That handed the impetus to the visitors with Antonio Valencia scoring on the break and Danny Welbeck tucking in.
Javier Hernandez then headed in and finished Valencia's cross with Steven Fletcher going closest for Wolves.
The Scotland striker's headers either side of half-time were all the hosts could muster in a game that might have proved a daunting enough challenge even before Zubar's dismissal left them a man short with more than half the match remaining.
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Wolves have now won once in 14 league games and, having put Terry Connor in charge four games ago to try to lift them out of trouble, they now sit bottom of the table.
This was Connor's third defeat in four since taking charge and they have conceded 12 goals in their last three games without scoring.
For Sir Alex Ferguson's side, the emphatic scoreline had the additional benefit of reducing the goal difference between City and themselves to just three goals.
A perfect pick-me-up after Thursday's Europa League exit, the win means United's title rivals face Chelsea on Wednesday with a four-point gap to close.
Last February, Wolves beat United at Molineux to end the visitors' long unbeaten start to the season, and Connor had spoken before the game of aiming to replicate that upset.
If that rallied the troops, the effect lasted only until Evans put Ferguson's side ahead, whereupon Wolves lost all momentum.
It was a poor goal to concede, Michael Carrick being given plenty of space at the back post from Wayne Rooney's corner to set up the Northern Ireland defender.
The hosts' plight was made worse when Zubar followed his booking for a lunge on Rooney on 28 minutes with another yellow card for a similar challenge on Welbeck 12 minutes later.
Ferguson had named Rooney, Welbeck and Hernandez in an attacking line-up and once Wolves were down a goal and a man, the visitors' attacking trio clearly sensed an excellent opportunity to get on the scoresheet.
Valencia's goal came from a Wolves corner, Rooney setting clear the Ecuadorian who, with no covering challenge, steered the ball into the corner after a break down the right.
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And Wolves' fate was as good as sealed before half-time when Rooney switched the ball out to the right and Welbeck tucked in Valencia's cutback.
Any hope that United might take their foot of the gas in the second half soon disappeared when Hernandez headed in from close range from Rafael's clipped cross following a short corner.
And his finish after neat work from Valencia completed a miserable afternoon for the hosts.
Wolves did rally with Michael Kightly and Fletcher testing David de Gea, but on a straightforward afternoon for United the only surprise in the end was that leading scorer Rooney did not join the party.
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Thousands of job cuts have recently been announced in Teesside, Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire, with unions fearing more to come.
The TUC-organised rally urged the government to stem the influx of cheap steel from China.
Business Minister Anna Soubry said her department was doing all it could.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "The crisis in British steel isn't over. One in six steelworkers face losing their jobs.
"Britain desperately needs a long-term industrial plan, but ministers have refused to commit to one.
"The closure of factories will devastate surrounding communities, and cause jobs losses throughout the supply chain. The chancellor's 'Northern Powerhouse' has to be more than a slogan for a party conference."
The banners on the streets of Sheffield told the story as the march snaked through busy streets towards the city hall.
Angry steelworkers and their families have come from as far afield as Scotland, Wales, Teeside and Scunthorpe to add their voices to those from South Yorkshire.
They feel the government is standing aside as their their once mighty industry rapidly heads towards meltdown.
They blame Chinese dumping of steel on European markets for plummeting prices and high energy costs for making the UK industry uncompetitive.
The result has been the heartbreak hitting thousands of families as the consequent economic squeeze has led to the forced loss of plants and jobs in recent weeks.
And unions warn there is more to come unless action is taken now.
The Save Our Steel march was in part a protest over last month's announcement by Tata Steel that it is cutting 1,200 jobs at plants in Scunthorpe, Motherwell and Cambuslang.
Sarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, said the demonstration was a warning to ministers to help save the steel industry.
"Today's rally in Sheffield brought together steel workers, Labour MPs and unions from across the UK to try and make the government understand that unless it acts now, British steel has no future.
"We're not asking for a bailout, just a level playing field for British steel to compete on."
Rob Middlemiss, chairman of the Multi Union Tata Steel at Skinningrove in North Yorkshire, took part in the rally and said the scale of job losses would be devastating for communities.
"For every steelworker that loses their job, two or three more people lose it in the supply chain," he said.
"If there's 30,000 people left in steel, we're talking 100,000 affected, so the economy is those areas is going to be decimated."
Ms Soubry said the government was "working tirelessly" to help.
"It was the UK that helped persuade the European Commission to launch an investigation into steel rebar imports and the UK that secured an emergency EU council meeting this month," she said.
"We will continue to do all we can to achieve a level playing field for our steel industry and workers."
The Mandika-language phrase can be translated as "chief bridge builder" or "conqueror of rivers".
A statement from the presidency said Mr Jammeh should now be known as "His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh Babili Mansa".
He had taken the title once before, in 2014, only to drop it four months later, the Point newspaper reports.
President Jammeh seized power in 1994 as a young army lieutenant and has won four widely criticised multi-party elections since then and faced down several coup attempts.
He told the BBC in 2011 that he would rule for "one billion years... if Allah says so".
The BBC's Mamadou Moussa Ba says that since President Jammeh has been in power, The Gambia has been transformed with the building of numerous infrastructure projects, including bridges.
However, he says there is some frustration in Senegal that The Gambia seems reluctant to build a bridge over the River Gambia to link the southern Casamance region of Senegal to the capital, Dakar, as Senegal has long requested.
Instead, travellers have to queue for many hours for a ferry across the river.
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The Year 11 pupil brought a BB gun - an airgun firing lightweight pellets - to Pembroke School on Tuesday and fired a pellet across a PE changing room.
The council said it struck another pupil in the face causing what are believed to be superficial injuries.
Staff at the school called the police and helped to track down the pupil and recover the weapon.
The injured student was taken to hospital.
He retained his seat in South Belfast with 9,560 votes.
Mr McDonnell was first elected to the seat in 2005.
The South Belfast MP told the BBC's Sunday Politics Show he would talk to party colleagues and "set processes in train" to find a replacement.
"I will be talking to the party about the process of moving now that I have secured the Westminster seat for the third time and that's a major achievement," he said.
"South Belfast is still a unionist majority constituency."
The SDLP also held onto its Westminster seats in Foyle and South Down.
The DUP won the largest number of seats in the general election securing eight.
Sinn Féin won four seats, the UUP two and Lady Sylvia Hermon retained her seat in North Down as an independent.
In 2014, the Northern Ireland Office passed an act banning MPs from double-jobbing.
The section of the law banning double-jobbing comes into force "the first day after this act is passed on which the Northern Ireland Assembly is dissolved".
Barring an early election, the next Stormont dissolution should be in March 2016, ahead of assembly elections in May 2016.
Mr Karamouzis confirmed to me that the European Central Bank (ECB) has agreed to keep Greek banks alive today.
But he warned there was a genuine risk of Greek banks being forced to close their doors tomorrow and cease dispensing cash for days, if the Greek government led by Alexis Tsipras fails today to convince eurozone finance ministers and government heads that it is taking credible steps to balance its books.
He said that because of the pace of withdrawals of cash from Greek banks by anxious savers - which he said was running at €700m (£501m) a day - all the banks can only keep going thanks to life-saving loans to them made by the Bank of Greece, with approval of the ECB, under the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) scheme.
There was a serious risk, he said, that the governing council of the ECB would end ELA, and terminate Greek banks' full access to the eurosystem payments arrangements, if there was no sign today that Greece is back on a path to solvency.
In that dire eventuality, all the banks would have to cease trading, as soon as tomorrow. And they could only reopen as and when the Greek government passed legislation to restrict cash withdrawals, or introduce capital controls, which - he said - would take days.
Mr Karamouzis said the imposition of capital controls in that way would inflict desperate misery on Greece.
Which is why he is hoping upon hope that there is a deal in Brussels later today to rescue his country.
In 2013/14 it took 73.3 weeks to decide on projects like wind farms or large-scale housing developments.
Its latest annual report showed that was reduced to 27.6 weeks in 2015/16.
Councillor Ron Smith said it had taken a "great deal of work" to bring down the timescales but added that further improvements were planned.
Shots started brightly and thought they had taken the lead inside 10 minutes only for Scott Rendell's close-range effort to be ruled out for offside.
The home side's constant pressure finally reaped dividends in the 17th minute as Shamir Fenelon got in front of a marker to convert Bernard Mensah's cross with a neat flick.
Aldershot doubled their lead seven minutes before half-time after Nick Arnold swung in a deep cross for Mensah to sweep home from three yards.
The Daggers pulled one back in the second half as Aldershot failed to clear a deep 57th-minute corner and skipper Scott Doe looped a header inside the far post, but Matt McClure's 25-yarder into the bottom corner made the points safe seven minutes from time.
Daggers keeper Elliot Justham prevented a fourth with a brilliant save to keep out Arnold's free-kick.
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Match ends, Aldershot Town 3, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 3, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jonny Giles replaces Idris Kanu.
Goal! Aldershot Town 3, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Matt McClure (Aldershot Town).
Paul Benson (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Anthony Straker replaces Cheye Alexander.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Matt McClure replaces Bernard Mensah.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Paul Benson replaces Oliver Hawkins.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Luke Howell replaces Fejiri Okenabirhie.
Goal! Aldershot Town 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Scott Doe (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Elliott Romain replaces Jordan Maguire-Drew.
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 0.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 0.
Goal! Aldershot Town 2, Dagenham and Redbridge 0. Bernard Mensah (Aldershot Town).
Frankie Raymond (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Aldershot Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 0. Shamir Fenelon (Aldershot Town).
Joe Widdowson (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Will Evans (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The Italian coastguard, which is conducting a search, said eight bodies had been recovered from the water, and four people had been rescued.
But dozens were still believed missing after darkness fell, in difficult search conditions.
The boat sank between Libya and Italy, about 30 miles (50km) from the Libyan coast.
A French naval ship, two trade vessels, and aerial support are involved in the search.
It is unclear what the nationalities of the migrants involved are.
The number of migrants travelling to Europe by land have dropped since the height of the migrant crisis in late 2015, but sea crossings remain both popular and dangerous.
On Friday, the Italian coast guard rescued about 550 migrants making the journey across the Mediterranean.
Doctors Without Borders, which was involved in the rescue, said that in once case it found 123 people crammed on to a single inflatable dinghy.
More than 1,000 people have arrived in Europe by sea in the first two weeks of 2017, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) estimates. Before this incident, it estimated 11 people had died or were missing.
In 2016, the UNHCR said 5,000 people died trying to reach Europe by Mediterranean routes - the highest number yet.
The agency said the increase was due, in part, to human traffickers loading more people on to each craft, many of which were not suitable for the crossing attempt.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
North Yorkshire Police sergeant Ed Simpson said the mother's screaming reaction "completely destroyed" him and left him feeling helpless.
The officer's health deteriorated considerably until four years later when he was diagnosed with depression.
He is now leading a scheme to tackle mental health problems.
The Blue Light programme, set up by mental health charity Mind, was introduced after research showed thousands of emergency service workers were struggling with depression or similar problems.
Latest figures from the charity found out of 3,500 blue light workers surveyed, 55% had had mental problems during their career compared with 26% in the general workforce.
The national initiative is now being introduced at North Yorkshire Police.
Recalling his encounter, Sgt Simpson said he had taken the parents of a 17-year-old boy who had been killed in a car crash to identify his body.
"His mum's reaction was what I can only describe as horrific.
"She let out a scream which sounded like nothing I had ever heard before.
"She was desperately trying to wake him up, telling him to open his eyes, asking him why he was so cold and what he had done to himself."
Up until that point Sgt Simpson had been working as a family liaison officer and had dealt with many traumatic experiences.
But he said from that moment in 2008 something changed inside him.
"I can only describe that I felt as though the person I thought I was just completely evaporated in that room.
"I cried for the first time as a police officer, I cried with the family and I cried on my way home."
Sgt Simpson put his reaction down to recently becoming a father until, in 2012, while working as a custody sergeant, things came to a head.
The 39-year-old said: "At the lowest points, I was driving to work each day wishing I was dead."
As he went to start a shift one Friday night, Sgt Simpson said it was "as though my fuse had blown and I shut down".
He said: "I no longer cared about anything or anyone, including my wife and daughter... that is the reality of what depression can do to you when it reaches its peak."
He was signed off work and after taking medication and working with Mind, he returned a year later.
He said: "I genuinely believe that I am in a privileged position as a police officer with a lived experience of mental illness and I don't see this as a weakness anymore."
In addition she pledged more choice to parents over pre-school childcare.
The SNP leader's keynote speech also focused on Europe and what she termed Scotland's "home-rule" journey.
Ms Sturgeon said that those in the Tory Party, "intent on a hard Brexit", had caused "insecurity and uncertainty".
During Ms Sturgeon's address to the 3,000 delegates, she set out a four-point plan to boost trade and exports. This will include:
She told members: "Let me be crystal clear about this - Scotland cannot trust the likes of Boris Johnson and Liam Fox to represent us.
"They are retreating to the fringes of Europe, we intend to stay at its very heart where Scotland belongs.
"We are in a completely new era. A new political era and a new battle of ideas.
"A new era for our parliament, with new powers and responsibilities, and a new era for our relationship with Europe and the wider world."
Scottish independence is a theme of all SNP leader speeches, but Ms Sturgeon was keen to emphasise a different "i" word.
She said: "If you remember just one word from my speech today, I want it to be this one.
"It begins with an 'i'. No, not that one. Not yet. The word I want you to remember is this - inclusion. Inclusion is the guiding principle for everything we do.
"It encapsulates what we stand for as a party and it describes the kind of country we want Scotland to be. An inclusive country."
It was on devolved policies where she received some of the biggest cheers.
She talked of the ambition her government had to improve the lives and education of the country's children.
And in an emotional address, Ms Sturgeon added: "Recently, I've been spending some time with young people who have grown up in care.
"Some of them are here today. Their stories have moved me deeply.
"These young people have challenged me to accept Who Cares? Scotland's pledge to listen to 1,000 care experienced young people over the next two years.
"And then to use what they tell me to help make their lives better. I've accepted that challenge."
Analysis by BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor
Nicola Sturgeon advised delegates that the big theme of her speech was a word beginning with I.
No, not that one, she swiftly told the packed hall. The word she had in mind was "inclusion". Ms Sturgeon then deftly contrived to deploy that word in a range of ways.
Firstly, she sought to contrast the Scottish government and Scotland with what she characterised as the emerging xenophobia of the UK Conservative administration. It is a dichotomy which sundry speakers - including the FM in her Thursday address - have sought to project. It is, needless to say, challenged by said UKG.
Secondly, she turned it into a policy function. Her voice close to breaking, her countenance close to tears, she referred to audience members in the front row who had been through the care system.
Too often, she said, the system was about stopping things - while she acknowledged the need for controls and safeguards. She described the problems which sometimes confront those in care while promising a full scale review of the system to enhance social inclusion.
Then, more subtly, she deployed her I word with regard to Brexit and the prospect of indyref2. Those who supported independence, she said, must understand and respect those who took a different view.
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The body, which represents 1,000 county officers, has placed adverts on buses and in local papers warning traditional policing could be abandoned.
Wiltshire Police has lost 153 officers since 2010, the federation said.
Chief Constable Mike Veale said he "recognised the impact" of cuts but it remained "committed to local policing".
The federation's Cuts Have Consequences campaign claims the Wiltshire force "already has the lowest number of officers per member of the public" in the UK.
It warns, with the workforce slashed by 16%, there are not enough response officers to "rush to help", communities are being left unsafe at night and drink-drivers are "getting away with offences".
The federation says the force has had to slash £17m from its budget and there are "at least" £10m in cuts "to come".
Federation chairman Mike White said: "In reality, 80% of our policing budget is down to staff and staff wages. Yes, you can do things better and, yes, you can increase efficiencies but there comes a point when you can't do that any more.
"And officers are telling us that they are finding it increasingly hard to carry on giving the level of service they want to give."
But Mr Veale said he "fully recognises" the impact the budget cuts are having on the force's officers and staff.
"We estimate that we will have to save a further £3m per year over the next three years," he said.
"But Wiltshire is one of the safest counties in the country and I know that the talent and relentless public service commitment from our dedicated workforce will make sure the force responds to the challenges in a high quality and professional way."
It says all seven crew members safely left the aircraft after the incident at 08:30 local time (22:30 GMT Wednesday) at Andersen Air Force Base.
The US Air Force told the BBC it was treating the incident as a "mishap".
The bomber was deployed to the US island territory from North Dakota as part of the military's continuous presence in the Pacific.
Local news site Kuam quoted the Guam governor's office as saying: "We assure the public this does not appear to be an attack."
The B-52 bomber: Long-standing symbol of US strength
America's iconic war machine
The crew members from the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron were on a routine training mission, the Air Force said in a statement.
It said steps were being taken to minimise the environmental impact, without providing further details.
B-52s are still going strong after 60 years in service in the US military - from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
Their main function is to provide the US with immediate conventional and nuclear global strike capability.
Guam is a US territory in Micronesia in the western Pacific, about 6,000km (3,700 miles) west of Hawaii.
The US Army's bases there are considered among the most strategically important in the region.
In 2008, six crew members died when a B-52 crashed into the sea near Guam.
Circuit owner the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) is considering giving notice to exercise a contract break clause at the end of 2019.
A letter written by BRDC chairman John Grant - seen by ITV News - says a decision will be made by "mid-year".
Silverstone does not want to lose the British Grand Prix any more than do the 140,000 fans who went there to watch it last year
The BRDC's contract with Formula 1 runs until 2026.
Silverstone first hosted the British Grand Prix in 1950 and has been the event's permanent home since 1987.
Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone told ITV News: "If they want to activate a break clause, there is nothing we can do.
"Two other tracks have contacted us and we are keen to keep a British Grand Prix, there is no doubt about it, we want to have one."
Three-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart added: "I think it's a credible threat, not impossible for it to happen. I would be very sad if it did.
"There's no other race track that would be able to host the British Grand Prix."
BBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson
For anyone who has followed Formula 1 for the last decade or two, another story questioning the future of the British Grand Prix is about as surprising as cold weather in winter.
There is no doubt Silverstone's owners the British Racing Drivers' Club mean it when they say they are considering activating a break clause in their contract with F1 which would end the race after 2019.
But equally there is no doubt that it fundamentally amounts to posturing - Silverstone does not want to lose the British Grand Prix any more than do the 140,000 fans who went there to watch it last year.
The issue is the cost of the 17-year contract - £12m in 2010; a 5% annual escalator means the race will cost nearly £17m this year and more than £26m by 2027.
This is small by comparison with Russia, which pays $50m (£40.3m) a year. It's not that far out of line with the new deal signed by Italy for €68m (£58m) over 2017-19, which averages out at £19.3m a year. But Silverstone - almost alone among grands prix - receives no government funding of any kind.
No other circuit in Britain is even remotely close to being able to replace it - so ignore any suggestions from F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone to that end.
The solution lies in new F1 owner Liberty Media, which has made it abundantly clear it wants to retain and nurture the historic European races, home of the sport's core audience, as a bedrock of its new-look F1.
Liberty will complete its takeover deal before the end of the first quarter of this year. So expect some time between then and this year's British Grand Prix on 16 July a compromise deal that revises the terms of the contract and secures the race's future. | A man diagnosed with terminal cancer a few weeks ago has married his long-term partner at a hastily-arranged wedding at a hospice.
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The Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) was set up in 2011 to help patients in England access certain drugs before they get approval for widespread NHS use.
The scheme was due to end next year, but David Cameron has pledged £400m to keep it running.
Cancer charities have welcomed the move, but Labour accused the prime minister of "letting down" patients.
Head of policy at Cancer Research, Sara Osborne, praised the valuable role the fund would play in battling the disease and highlighted the tens of thousands of people who received treatment because of it.
She said: "There's about 30 drugs that are available on the Cancer Drugs Fund, and over the last three years about 34,000 patients have had treatment that they would not have otherwise had, had the fund not existed."
The aim of the CDF was to make it easier for medics to prescribe treatments even if they have not yet been approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice).
By Nick TriggleHealth correspondent
An extension of the Cancer Drugs Fund in England means a radical overhaul in the NHS drugs pricing system is now unlikely.
Next year was meant to mark the start of value-based pricing, a system proposed by former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to promote a closer link between the price the NHS pays and the value a medicine offers.
It could have led to higher price thresholds for medicines for diseases with a greater burden of illness or in areas where there is un-met need, or if it could be demonstrated that there would be wider benefits, such as getting people back to work.
Some of these elements are to be incorporated into the work of the drugs advisory body the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence from January.
But this announcement effectively signals a light-touch version of what was first envisaged.
The scheme was set to run until 2014 and campaigners raised concerns about where patients would turn for help when the funding ceased.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the CDF had been a "massive success" and added that should he be re-elected he would recommend that it be continued beyond 2016.
"People have lived longer and in some cases it has saved people's lives," he said.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the government had made an exception for cancer because they considered it "the number one killer"
"And we do think that we had a particular problem with a lack of access to these drugs," he added.
Andrew Wilson, chief executive of the Rarer Cancers Foundation, said: "This is a compassionate, common sense announcement which will be warmly welcomed by many thousands of cancer patients."
The Rarer Cancers Foundation estimates that 16,500 extra patients will benefit each year as a result of the extension.
Mr Cameron said the government would also be partnering with Cancer Research UK to conduct new research into the effectiveness of cancer drugs.
"It is only because we have protected health spending that we can afford these life saving treatments," he added.
But another charity, Target Ovarian Cancer, said while the news was "positive", it warned it was "just a stop-gap".
It highlighted the case of Jenny Bogle who failed to meet CDF criteria for Avastin, a drug shown to delay recurrence.
Ms Bogle said: "I have a wealthy friend and an oncologist who are determined to keep me going for as long as possible so I was able to access Avastin privately in the end.
"I'm lucky to be here but it's just not fair.
"It shouldn't be a matter of luck. If I were living in a different postcode, were vulnerable or less pushy or didn't have the support, I would have probably died years ago."
BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said the move also raised questions about the introduction of a new way of assessing drugs that had been expected to start next year.
Next year was meant to mark the start of value-based pricing, a system proposed by previous health secretary Andrew Lansley to ensure there is a closer link between the price the NHS pays and the value that a medicine offers.
There will now be no full blown overhaul although drug advisory body NICE will be looking to make some changes to improve the assessment process from January.
Shadow health minister Liz Kendall highlighted the fact that expert cancer networks - set up to improve access to high quality services - were scrapped during the reorganisation of the NHS earlier this year.
She added: "David Cameron should also stand up to the tobacco lobby rather than caving in to them over standardised cigarette packaging, which experts say would be a powerful weapon in the long-term fight against cancer."
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